Dali Temple Small Dining Room

  Chapter 334 Roasted Pepper Preserved Eggs (4)

Liu Sanqing, who travels to and from the mine and often fights with others for rough stones, is not weak, but the murderous beggar. Seeing how trembling he was held there by the guards of Jingzhao Mansion, how could it be Liu Sanqing's opponent?

  The murder weapon was a long knife with a notch in it. The wounds drawn by such a murder weapon are difficult to imitate, so it was thrown beside Liu Sanqing's body at this time. Wu Bucai, who followed, checked the wound carefully, and nodded to indicate that the murder weapon was indeed the knife.

Liu Yuan knelt down, picked up the long knife with the gap in it, and weighed it in his hand: This long knife is very light, and its style is very common. Among the finished long knives sold in the blacksmith shop on the street, it is the best. It is such a long knife.

   It’s not because of how good the long knife is, it’s because the material of this long knife is “saved”, so it’s sold cheap.

  For most families that recruit servants and guards, the reason of "cheap" is enough.

  The guards guarding the home and guarding the courtyard are mostly used as a deterrent for ordinary people. Most of them are to catch one or two small thieves and local hooligans. When arresting this type of person, most of the time you don't need a knife, because you may not need a knife once or twice a year, so naturally you pick the cheapest one, and you don't feel bad about throwing it away.

  The long knife in front of him should be a long knife thrown by others, but it was picked up by the beggar and used for self-defense.

"I have inquired. Liu Sanqing went to drink flower wine last night, drank a few more glasses, and left the brothel in the middle of the night drunk. When he passed by here, he was recognized by the beggar." The numb beggar said, "Look at Liu Sanqing wearing gold and silver and living a good life, but he just begged for a rotten steamed bun all day yesterday, and the hatred for many years rushed to his head."

"Liu Sanqing was so drunk that he couldn't even walk steadily, and he didn't bring the guards who followed him with him on weekdays. He didn't resist at all and was directly chopped down by him." The guard couldn't help shaking his head when he said this, " This cut, how can you hold back the hatred?"

"I hacked a lot of knives, and I don't know when Liu Sanqing was hacked to death." The guard said, "It was only when he lost his strength and fell to the ground that he came back to his senses. Afterwards, he sat there without moving again. "As he said, the guard couldn't help looking at the beggar again, seeing the beggar's numbness, he couldn't tell if it was sympathy, disgust, or any other emotions, but he felt mixed feelings in his heart, complicated and tense. After a pause, he continued, "When someone passed by at dawn, he asked someone to watch the scene, and he surrendered himself."

  The guards of the Jingzhao Mansion explained the whole matter very clearly, and the cause and effect were also smoothed out, but they couldn't find the problem for a while.

   It's just that the timing of Liu Sanqing's death was too coincidental. He died suddenly during the investigation of the case.

Bai Zhu and Liu Yuan fell silent, looked at Liu Sanqing who was lying on the ground with knife marks all over his body, paused for a while, and after thinking about it, they turned to the numb beggar, Bai Zhu said, "You are not fully clothed now. It is a time when life is difficult. This Liu Sanqing is very likely to be related to the case we are investigating. Such a sudden death really makes people wonder if someone is afraid of him talking. You have a lot of enemies with him For ten years, if you don't kill sooner or later, but if you kill Liu Sanqing at this time, it's hard to guarantee that the two of us won't think about whether someone instructed you to do this, and promised some benefits."

As soon as the words fell, the beggar who had drooped his head and looked numb suddenly laughed aloud, and after laughing twice, he said: "My lord, let alone the murder, I surrendered to the case. According to the law, I cannot escape the death penalty, so let me say that my time is running out, so what good can I do to bring me back from Lord Hades?"

Bai Zhu and Liu Yuan couldn't help being taken aback when they heard the words, and the guard who spoke first nodded, and said, "I asked the doctor, that's right. He has been begging for years, and his body can't bear it anymore. At that time, no one saw him, if he wanted to escape, he might not be able to escape, there is really no need to sit there and wait for someone to pass by."

  As soon as these words came out, Liu Yuan immediately said: "What if he is not a murderer but just a scapegoat? He..."

  Before he finished speaking, Wu Bucai, who was squatting beside the corpse, interrupted Liu Yuan: "Judging from the knife wounds on the surface of the corpse, he is most likely the murderer, and it is not easy for others to imitate."

  Paused, before Bai Zhu and Liu Yuan could ask, Wu Bucai pointed to the knife wounds and said, "The murderer's knife was not deep and powerful, which is consistent with his condition."

"Furthermore, these knife wounds, judging from the angle of cutting in and out, should be left-handed," Wu Bucai said, pointing to the beggar's hand, "Looking at the callus on his hand, we can tell that he is left-handed .”

   On this point, the guard of Jingzhao Mansion also nodded and said: "I have asked people who know him, and it is indeed true."

   "More than that, although the knife marks are a bit messy, judging from the location of the distribution, they match his height, so he is very likely to be the real murderer." Wu Bucai said.

  Of course, whether it is true or not depends on the reconfirmation of these investigators. He is just an assistant and is in charge of the autopsy.

  After listening to what Wu Bucai said, Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu fell silent again. The situation of this beggar...is really hard to get through.

As for the beggar's family... the servant of the Jingzhao Mansion shook his head and said: "Back then his wife was separated and his child died of illness. Although his wife remarried, she had already died a few years ago. Even the relatives who made trouble for him all those years ago Therefore, this person really has nothing to be manipulated now."

At this moment, a voice came from not far away: "The place where you beg on weekdays is in the suburbs of the city, and the officers and soldiers there will not easily expel you unless it is absolutely necessary, so a large number of beggars and refugees have gathered. Why are you here today?"

  This voice... Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu were stunned, turned their heads and looked over, and saw Zhao You shouting "Let's go" to push away the crowd, followed by Lin Fei and walked in from outside the crowd.

After raising his hand and saluting "Lin Shaoqing", Liu Yuan, who was reminded, immediately turned his head to look at the beggar: "Lin Shaoqing is right, this place is less than a moment away from Jingzhao Mansion, you have been begging for many years How can you not know that the closer you are to the government, the easier it is to bump into guards or officers and soldiers, and the easier it is to be expelled?"

  Begging is not allowed on all the avenues in Chang'an City. Once the guards or officers and soldiers see beggars begging on the main road, they will be expelled.

  This place...Looking at the wide road, I can't see a beggar at a glance, obviously knowing the rules and regulations.

  Liu Sanqing may indeed have died at his hands, but he never met him by chance. This beggar lied.

  (end of this chapter)