Tibet

Yang Jian frowned slightly. Of course he knew that Zhang Huan was Zhang Jun's cousin and came to Heyang on behalf of the Zhang family, but he had nothing to do with him and they both went their own ways. Why did he come to him?

Yang Jian pondered for a moment, then nodded, "Let him in!"

Not long after, Zhang Huan and his staff Jiang Quan walked in and bowed. Yang Jian had met Jiang Quan and knew that he was Zhang Jun's confidant.

"Please sit down, both of you!"

Yang Jian asked the two of them to sit down. He saw the gauze bandaged on Jiang Quan's hand and was startled, "Why is Mr. Jiang injured?"

Zhang Huan sighed, "That's why I came to see Yang Zuoshi. Li Ye knocked on the door, maimed all my men, and stabbed Mr. Jiang in the hand. I escaped as fast as I could."

Yang Jian was stunned. He asked in confusion: "Why did Li Ye come to the door?"

Zhang Huan glanced at Jiang Quan, and Jiang Quan said slowly: "It was to fight for a list of the dead and injured. We got this list, but Li Ye came to the door and snatched the list away."

Yang Jian’s heart went ‘Bang! ’ In a blink of an eye, he also had a list in his hand!

"What's he doing to steal the list?"

"He definitely wants to find these people and eliminate the negative influence on Li Yu in advance. What we have to do is to fight against him."

Yang Jian really doesn’t know what he should do? There is no counselor like Jiang Quan around him.

"What do you think we should do, sir?"

Jiang Quan pondered for a while and said: "The first thing we have to do is to join forces between the two families. The Yang family has warriors and we have connections. Only by joining forces can we compete with Li Ye. Then I will come up with a specific plan."

"Joined forces?"

Yang Jian smiled and looked at Zhang Huan, "I wonder what Mr. Zhang has on his hands?"

Zhang Huan said calmly: "Now the county magistrate Wu Ju and the county captain Wang Shan of Heyang County are all our people, and the Sizhi Cheng Xiao who represents Dali Temple is also our people!"

The county magistrate and the county lieutenant were both from each other. Yang Jian was immediately impressed. He smiled and nodded, "Then we will make an agreement!"

In the afternoon, Peng Haiyan also arrived in advance with several of his subordinates. He was a technical officer who was good at solving crimes and doing autopsies. With Peng Haiyan joining, Li Ye immediately decided to start the investigation the next day.

Early the next morning, Chen Huan led everyone to Qiligou where the conflict occurred. It was about ten miles away from the county seat, with mountains on both sides. Next to the official road was a gentle slope, leading to the ravine below, which was only ten meters deep. It is more than ten feet wide, but at least one mile wide. People can walk directly down the gully. There are large wheat fields in the gully, and a small river flows through the middle of the wheat field.

But it was winter at this time, and the ravine was covered with thick snow.

Chen Huan pointed to the distance and said to Li Ye: "This ditch is called Qiligou, and there is a village in front of it, called Qiligou Village."

Li Ye smiled and said, "If it rains heavily, won't you get flooded if you live down here?"

"No, this ditch is very open in front and rainwater will not accumulate."

Everyone urged the horse to move forward for a while. Peng Haiyan suddenly turned over and dismounted, and carefully looked at the soil on the ground.

Li Ye also discovered that the soil was dark brown, which was caused by a large amount of blood seeping into it.

Peng Haiyan walked around and came back and said to Li Ye: "This should be the death scene. More than sixty people died here together. There are also some scattered blood stains around, which were left by the injured people when they fled. "

Li Ye looked at the mountain to the left. There was a large bamboo forest more than twenty steps away. "The murderer must have rushed out of the bamboo forest!"

Peng Haiyan nodded, "Actually, this case is very obvious. The real conflict with the catcher was one mile to the south. The catcher should have used water and fire sticks to drive away the people. The people were frightened and fled back. The road here is relatively narrow, and there are a large number of people. They gathered here, so suddenly a large group of killers rushed out from the bamboo forest, and the number of casualties was very high."

Li Ye discovered another important point, "And this seat is just around the corner. Neither the county magistrate nor the catcher in front can see the situation here, so it is understandable that they don't know there is a killer here!"

"The general is right!"

Chen Huan added: "The catchers did not see the situation here. Several catchers said that they thought people trampled on each other and fell into the ravine to death."

Peng Haiyan smiled slightly and said: "This case is actually easy to judge. As long as we interview the injured people, they all saw who did it, and it must have nothing to do with the catcher!"

Chen Huan pointed to the vaguely visible Qiligou Village in front of him and said: "It seems that there are also casualties in Qiligou Village. Let's go find out!"

Leaving a few of his men to watch the horses on the official road above, Li Ye led everyone down a path into the ditch and walked forward along the river. The river had frozen over and was covered with a thick layer of snow. Not long after, a small village appeared in front of them. At the entrance of the village, two old men were sitting chatting, enjoying the warm winter sunshine.

Li Ye walked up and clasped his fists and said, "Two old men, did anyone in the village die during the party some time ago? It was on the official road in front."

"Yes! Someone from the Liang family and the Zhang family have died. The first and second families are in front." The old man pointed to the front.

"What's the name of the deceased?" Chen Huan asked.

"One is named Liang You and the other is named Zhang Qi."

"Thank you, husband!"

Li Ye found these two names on the subsidy list, the second and third were them.

Everyone continued to walk forward, and soon they came to the end of the village. This should be the Liang family. In the yard, there was an old man drying pickled vegetables.

Li Ye stepped forward and asked, "Excuse me, father-in-law, is this Liang You's home?"

The old man glanced at them and said coldly: "He is already dead. What's the matter?"

"Let's ask, how did he die?"

"The crowd was chaotic and he was trampled to death while running!"

Everyone was stunned and couldn't help but look at each other. What happened to the one who was trampled to death?

At this time, an old woman came out from the yard next door and said, "My Zhang Qi was the same, he tripped and was trampled to death!"

Li Ye didn't realize it immediately. This was obviously the same caliber. Could it be that they had been bribed?

At this time, Peng Haiyan asked: "Where is your son buried?"

The old man immediately turned his back, ran to the corner, picked up a hoe, and rushed out, shouting: "Get out! If you dare to touch a hair of my son, I will fight you to the death!"

"let's go!"

Li Ye led everyone out of the village and said, "I guess the Yang family has already come and bribed them, so they unified their voices."

Chen Huan worriedly said: "If he is trampled to death, the blame still lies with Li Yu. He ordered the suppression to cause chaos, which is very detrimental to us!"

Peng Haiyan smiled and said: "It is useless to use the same caliber. Once the injury is examined, the flaws will be revealed."

"But it's impossible for them to allow an autopsy. People in Guanzhong believe that the dead should be buried in peace, and they generally don't allow the body to be dug out to examine injuries."

Peng Haiyan shook his head and said: "It's normal for the government to dig up corpses. No one dares to stop it. I'm worried that these guys will switch the corpses and pretend to be an uninjured corpse. And it's impossible to examine every corpse. Generally, If only a few corpses are examined, there is a possibility of fraud."

"What about the injured person?"

Li Ye said from the side: "It's impossible for them to bribe the injured people!"

"It's hard to say!" Peng Haiyan shook his head and sighed: "According to the normal process, the various selection lists are formulated by the local government and the investigation team through consultation. I am afraid that Yushitai, Dali Temple and the local government jointly formulated the list. , if the attitude of the Ministry of Punishment is a little more ambiguous, it will be useless for Guangjing Zhaofu and his family to object, they must obey the majority."

Li Ye said coldly: "Yang Jian only came yesterday afternoon. Wang Chenghua has been monitoring them. Zhang Huan only went to see Yang Jian in the evening last night. As of last night, the Yang family warriors had not left the city. So they are The bribery started this morning, which means they are walking ahead of us, half an hour at most."

Li Ye then said to Zhang Ping: "I took the money and went to ask the two old men if anyone had been here before? If so, when did they leave?"

"I'll ask right away!" Zhang Ping ran towards the entrance of the village.