Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 181
"Raise your head and answer!" Li Canghai yelled sharply, scaring the three of them almost to the ground.

The three raised their heads tremblingly, but they did not dare to meet Li Canghai's gaze. In their view, Li Canghai's eyes were as sharp as a blade, making it difficult for them to look directly at them.

"I'll ask you again, how long have you known Scar?" Li Canghai asked calmly, staring at the three of them with his eyes full.

The three communicated with each other out of the corners of their eyes, and they were all caught in a tangle.

There have also been many officials in Zhengyang County. When those officials tried the cases, they either beat them into tricks or threatened them, but there were always traces to follow.

However, the seemingly elegant young county magistrate in front of him has maintained a calm face from beginning to end, and his inscrutable appearance is unpredictable.

"Hui, Hui lord, the younger ones did meet him in Damiao Village, Lin Lao San was killed by him, and has nothing to do with us!" Broken Finger kowtowed to him continuously, weeping.

Li Canghai stared at the severed finger intently, seeing his erratic eyes, he knew he was lying.

With a slight sneer, Li Canghai said flatly, "Duanzhi, do you think I'm such an easy-to-deceive person? When you recalled Lin Laosan's murder, your eyes moved to the right, but when I asked you and How long have you known Scar, your eyes always move erratically to the left. Others don’t know the reason, but I know it very well. Your eyes move to the right, which means you are not lying. It is true that Lin Laosan was killed by you. But the eyes moved to the left, it was obvious that when answering the question of the official, he was thinking about how to deal with the official, this is an obvious lying behavior, do you think the official can't see it?"

Everyone who heard Li Canghai's words was stunned, but he continued to snort coldly: "Although you didn't kill Lin Laosan, you are Scar's accomplices. Capital crimes can be avoided, but life crimes are inevitable. , Eternal slaves, you have to think about it yourself."

Li Canghai's words caused the three of them to fall into panic. After a while, the severed finger kowtowed and said, "My lord, please forgive me. We do know Scar, but because Scar committed the murder, we are afraid of being implicated. Only then did I categorically deny it. The little ones dare not lie to the adults, and beg the adults to spare their lives."

Li Canghai snorted coldly, and said in a deep voice: "Don't try to deceive this official, I know far more than you. If there is any more deception, the crime will be aggravated, and you will definitely be executed!"

The three of them were so scared that they trembled all over, they almost fell to the ground. In their eyes, Li Canghai was a monster who held their lives in his hands. How dare they lie?
"The little ones don't dare, the young ones don't dare." The three knelt on the ground, kowtowed like pounding garlic, trembling and authentic.

"Let me ask you, do you know if Scar and Steward Wang Buquan know each other?" Li Canghai nodded and asked.

"Know...know."

"Then is there any enmity between them?" Li Canghai continued to ask.

"My lord, there is no enmity between them. On the contrary, the housekeeper even asked Scar for help." Broken Finger replied honestly.

A gleam suddenly flashed in Li Canghai's eyes, and he asked calmly, "Do you know what the housekeeper can do to find a scar?"

The severed finger shrank his neck, and said, "This...we don't know."

"You'd better think about it carefully. If you are found out and you have concealed something, the consequences will be very serious!" Chang Feng's face was full of flesh and blood, and he pointed at several people and shouted.

Li Canghai didn't stop Chang Feng, for interrogation, it often takes a combination of kindness and force to be effective, with Chang Feng, a seemingly vicious guy, in the presence, it's a pity that he will play a bad face again.

The severed finger was trembling with fear, and he quickly thought back: "My lord, although we don't know the purpose of the housekeeper looking for the scar, but the scar revealed some information to the little one."

Li Canghai asked Chang Feng to step back, staring at the severed finger, and asked, "What news?"

"He gave the little boy twenty miles of gold, and asked the little boy to buy some explosives for opening the mountain. He also said that after the event is completed, there will be more money for the little boy." Severed Finger said hastily.

"Did he ever mention the purpose of those explosives?" Li Canghai asked with a slight frown.

Severed finger shook his head: "No, he only let the little one buy explosives, but he is very cautious about other things."

Li Canghai fell into deep thought, this is getting more and more bizarre, what exactly is the butler asking Scar to help?Even the explosives for opening mountains were used.

Gunpowder was a contraband in the Tang Dynasty, and it was not allowed to be purchased without an official official document. Moreover, gunpowder was usually used to blow up mountains, and it was not very useful for other purposes.

"During this period, is there anything unusual about the scar?" Li Canghai asked after pondering for a moment.

"It's not abnormal, but during that time, he often went to Damiao Village." Broken Finger recalled.

"Damiao Village?" Chang Feng was a little surprised, "Why did he go to Damiao Village?"

"I don't know about this, he never told us." Broken Finger shook his head and replied honestly.

Li Canghai rubbed the center of his brows, closed his eyes, and went through the clues he got in his mind.

First, the housekeeper poisoned them to prevent them from blocking the Yellow River breach, and then killed the scars to kill them, and now he found the scars to buy explosives for opening mountains, and at the same time, he also went to Damiao Village...

All this seems to point to one direction - the Yellow River.

"Yellow River, Yellow River..." Li Canghai muttered a few words, he suddenly figured out the key point, opened his eyes suddenly, and said deeply: "I see."

"My lord, what do you know?" Chang Feng asked in surprise.

"It's just my guess now, and this guess needs to be verified. Chang Feng, how is the flood in Damiao Village receding now?" Li Canghai asked in a deep voice.

Chang Feng didn't understand why he suddenly asked about the flood. He scratched his head and said, "My lord, the Ministry of Industry sent people to dredge the flood. The flood in Damiao Village has receded a lot, and the weather has improved these days. The place where the embankment broke has basically been repaired."

Li Canghai stood up from his seat and said in a deep voice, "Let's go to Damiao Village."

He didn't take a few steps, and the violent movement suddenly pulled the wound, and he leaned against the cell door in pain, gasping for air.

Chang Feng followed behind him in a daze, and said cautiously: "My lord, your injury has not recovered yet, so tired, I'm afraid it will damage your body!"

Li Canghai suddenly coughed a few times and spit out a mouthful of bloody sputum. He secretly cursed, "Damn it, this is much worse than the injury he received in the Underworld."

At that time, it was just some skin trauma, but this time it almost killed him.

"It's okay, I can still hold on." Li Canghai took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and walked forward.

Seeing this, Chang Feng had a look of worry on his face.

(End of this chapter)