Daqing Criminal Division

The accented question came down.

A strange man hiding in the depths of the small courtyard walked quickly to the door, then lowered his body and put his head against the door to take a look outside.

The four courtyards are quiet, usually each family attends to each other, there is no unnecessary movement at all.

As far as the eye can see, the brown old-fashioned nanmu door has a very small gap. This is how this person carefully looks at him from the inside.

From his perspective of looking out, he only saw two strangers vaguely standing at the door.

They don't look very old, but they are all tall, thin and straight, just like two door gods blocking the door of his house and not leaving.

These two are Fuchaerzi and Duan Xiao.

At this moment, the rest of the people who gathered at the door and waited to rush in to arrest people stood still, and only the two of them were the 'bait' to come to the door.

"There's someone there, man, open the door."

As soon as someone opened the door, Fuchaerzi leaned forward and folded his sleeves to make a fool of himself.

"who are you."

"Business, do you have a good deal?"

Fucharzi smiled again as he spoke.

"What business?"

Looking at each other, the tone of the interrogation of the man inside the door is obviously not friendly.

In fact, this is a small courtyard of a local residential house in Jiangning.

Usually, the doorknobs of the two animal rings face outward, and they will not be locked on the inside, but the door of this house was deliberately removed from the outside, and locked repeatedly from the inside and outside to prevent people from entering.

The four walls are protected with a particularly tough iron ring, probably for fear that people outside will climb over the wall and enter the yard to see something.

But for the people in the Yamen of Jiangning Mansion who have already found this place, all this just proves that everyone's hard work in the past few days has not found the wrong place.

But the bunt man inside didn't open the door for the idlers at the first time, on the contrary, he hid himself in the doorway on the contrary, and acted as if he would make countermeasures anytime and anywhere.

This series of abnormal actions made the officials of the Jiangning Mansion outside also dare not break in without authorization.

After all, no one knows exactly how many "Southern Anhui people" are in this small courtyard, and whether they have weapons and knives in their hands, or have made fire nitrate, or put slow guns on the side to hurt people. thing.

Seeing this, a group of officials holding iron rulers, sabers and disguised as ordinary clothes were surrounded by the outer wall.

On the other hand, Fucha Erji, who was standing at the door, waved his hand to signal to everyone behind him to block the back door of the whole yard, and then exchanged glances with Duan Xiao, and then pretended to have a Huaiyang accent to talk to the people inside. stand up.

"Hey, man, it's so hard for you that this isn't a place for selling melons?"

"Where did the melons come from? Who did you hear that there are melons here?"

The 'Wannan man' who refused to open the door in the yard said coldly,

"Hey, then why did my friend and I hear from the food stall in front that you brought a lot of cheap Anhui pumpkins in your yard the day before yesterday, and you wanted to buy some. My mother was sick in the dog days, so I wanted to eat melons... You say, Did it say that there are melons for sale here?"

As Fucharzi said this, he also gestured to Duan Xiao with his eyes in a 'commodity style' manner.

Hearing this, he calmly cooperated with Duan Xiao, who he played here, and then simply looked around and "put his face on" and replied back,

"There must be melons, people just say this courtyard, if not, you can knock on the door and ask, shopkeeper, we really brought money, just want to buy two Anhui pumpkins and leave, please open the door, There is no reason not to do the business that is on the door."

"Yes, I carry all the money with me. I only buy melons and do nothing else. After buying this good melon, we will leave! If we can't buy melons, we can only stay here forever! Who made it so hard for us to find this Where is it! You can do it!"

As he said that, Duan Xiao, who was standing at the gate, only took the money bag from a small policeman next to him who saw the situation and quickly threw it over. With a trembling voice, Fucha Erji asked who asked us to hold the courtyard inside. .

Because the Huaiyang accents of the two are very similar, no one can easily find them here.

In addition to the two of them coming and going, it seems that they really brought a lot of money.

As a result, the man from outside who was hiding in the yard at first and was unwilling to open the door was probably afraid that the two of them would continue to hang around at the door, so he was silent for a while, and then suddenly said something in a very impatient tone.

"Okay, okay, I suddenly remembered that there is still a sack in the back room. You wait at the door, I will go to the back room to get two watermelons, and leave quickly after buying, but you are not allowed to come in."

"Ah! Thank you very much. It would be even better if you could cut a piece for us to taste."

This means that he is willing to open the door for them later.

But by accident, Fuchaerji and Duan Xiao, who had long been accustomed to such villains, had already noticed the change in this person's words.

The so-called trade melons for them.

I'm afraid they heard the movement in the money bag and wanted to take the opportunity to catch the two of them and kill them and rob some gold and silver.

Seeing this situation, the officers and servants who had already surrounded the group held their breaths silently. They only saw Fucha Erji and Duan Xiao blocking the door, and then secretly stared at the knocker and waited for the other party to come out again.

During this process, the 'Wannan people' there were about to go to the inner courtyard to explain the matter carefully.

So after a while, there was another man's footsteps and voice, and he came out dragging the heavy bag of watermelon with him.

The two pretended to find the knife quietly and took it in their hands, squatting on the ground behind the door to untie the sack together.

The several round green watermelons rolled out and rubbed on the ground, making rolling sounds, and the sound of the two people coughing and spitting on the ground before starting to count was very clear.

They were counting melons one by one, and then they used a knife to break half of them symbolically to see if they were ripe.

In the yard, the sound of well water sloshing up from some buckets can be heard. It seems that there is really a well in this yard.

At this moment, pinch this last opportunity.

Duan Xiao, who just waited to break through the door and capture the group of people inside, unconsciously recognized the voices of the two of them.

He was wondering if this group of people were the other two co-conspirators in the Shuntianfu pig man case that he had personally experienced back then, and if so, could he really catch them this time through this door? .

But at this moment, Duan Xiao didn't have time to think about other things.

Of the two melon sellers who came out together in the inner courtyard, one of them opened half of the courtyard door with his hand, and the other cautiously stretched out his hand to ask them to hand over the silver before giving the melons. .

"Bring the silver."

"Bring it here first, and then give you a piece of melon to taste."

A pair of eyeballs in the crack of the door looked at him at this moment.

Duan Xiao could tell that this was a thin bearded man who could speak a few official words, but the face behind the crack of the door was completely unfamiliar to him.

But the forces on both sides inside and outside the door silently looked at each other.

While Duan Xiao, who was standing in the middle, made a gesture and stretched out a hand to give the other party the money bag in his hand, at the same time, Fuchaerzi, who had been waiting for this opportunity since just now, suddenly moved with him like this.

"—!"

"bump!"

This accident came suddenly.

With a bang, the doors and windows of the backyard were also smashed open from the outside by the servants who were bumped in by Zha Keshan and his gang.

The accomplices in the group in the inner room seemed to be preparing to escape because of this, but the front and rear doors were blocked, and immediately there was the sound of iron rulers and knives unsheathed to grab people.

The two 'Wannan people' standing at the main entrance were also caught off guard.

One of them wanted to jump over the earthen wall and escape, but was forced to retreat by the servants who jumped down with knives surrounded by the walls on the other two sides.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the two adult men wearing sleeveless undershirts with their chests exposed showed fierce eyes, picked up a hemp rope and a watermelon knife that were thrown on the ground in the yard next to them, and were about to slam the table to attack them. To people—

These two people are not like ordinary people at first glance.

Moreover, a commoner who is used to rough and powerful work almost cuts a knife on a person's body, but it's only strange that several watermelons thrown on the ground in the yard will inevitably get in the way.

While they were restrained by one side, a small policeman picked up a big watermelon and smashed it with a 'hoo'.

As soon as the watermelon was thrown over, it shattered in mid-air, and the red juice splashed everywhere.

One of the 'Southern Anhui people' also 'bumped' their heads, before the two men yelled and disturbed the other accomplices who were also being arrested in the back room and caused more commotion.

Fucharzi, who was standing at the door just now, flew neatly, stepped on the wall next to him and slammed in with his foot, blocking the door to prevent the two of them from closing it.

As soon as he broke in, the thin, short-bearded man who was better at it was stuck half his body against the door and couldn't move.

Seeing this, Fucharzi stepped forward and grabbed an arm of one of them, and while restraining him, he punched the opponent directly on the cheek, making him continue to take half a step back.

At this moment, there was no smile on his face.

Only the black eyes with a little light revealed a chilling ferocity.

At the same time, Duan Xiao, who used violence to force his way in with him, only used his hand to hand out the money bag to the two people, and elbowed one of them away fiercely, and rushed forward. The offensive, and together with Fucharzi, they backhanded one by one and took off their arms with a 'click' sound.

The two of them were really violent.

In the past, the two of them were always inconspicuous, but when it came to the critical moment, this cooperation was incomparably tacit.

The two "Wannan people" whose arms were directly pinched and pressed under the dirty door panel were pale, but their mouths were covered in mud and watermelon pulp, unable to utter a word.

The watermelon knife that was intended to hijack them was overturned and smashed to the ground, and several loops of hemp rope were scattered around the well, together with the watermelon in the well water that had been poured all over the floor.

Seeing all this, Fuchaerzi and Duan Xiao, who broke in together and started arresting people, glanced at the ground aside for a moment.

I saw that the entire rental was piled up in the courtyard of Wengcheng Village except for a few smashed watermelons.

Other than that, there was nothing else, so he quickly waved his hand and ordered everyone to search.

Taking advantage of this effort, behind them, the yamen servants from the other side of the yard broke in to search and occupied the small courtyard as quickly as possible, and searched again.

Inside, outside.

Zero zero is always such a big place, it is still very easy to find out what they want to hide.

But after a while, the physical evidence that should be found in the yard has been found.

These include the customs clearance documents they carried when they entered Jiangning, a map, some scattered silver, some cold meals packed when they went to a nearby restaurant for dinner, and a large number of watermelons used as melon farmers to enter the city.

But among them, the only thing that was missing was the most critical evidence - saltpeter, and the hostage who should have been with them for almost half a month.

And within half a moment, plus the one guarding the back room, and the two people at the door, the three people in this yard were already handcuffed together with shackles.

three people.

After the search inside and outside the temporary den, not only physical evidence was missing, but also the last of the four "people from southern Anhui" mentioned by the witnesses was missing.

This can feel a little bad.

The three accomplices, who were immobilized by the shackles and shackles of the other police officers, squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands and said nothing, but no matter what they said, they realized that there must be something hidden in their mouths.

But they all kept their mouths tightly shut and refused to speak.

In addition, under the temporary raid of the government today, there is nothing in the yard except these sundries and watermelons, it seems that their move today is a bit wrong.

"Fucha, Duan Xiao...we searched, and there is really no saltpeter inside or outside the house, and we can't find where Liu Cen is."

Zha Keshan, who ran out from the back room alone, was a little suspicious about what he said.

They have been found here but Liu Cen has not yet been found. It is very likely that the last fish that slipped through the net will take the hostage away.

His voice close to the ears of the two was extremely soft.

But in the eyes of the prisoners hiding in these three dens, they knew that the gang of officials who came to the door today probably didn't find any evidence to prove that this was their "den".

"Is there another person?"

Fucharzi lowered his head and asked,

"Why is there another person, we have never met before, my lords, my lords, did you find the wrong place, or listened to the nonsense from outside and misunderstood something... We are a small business, and we work hard every day to buy and sell watermelons from other places. The official government barged in to get someone?"

This sophistry was said by the 'Wannan man' who was in the room before, squatting on the ground with his head in his arms.

He is the oldest among the three.

He has a lean body, about 41, slightly fair complexion, disheveled hair because he was trying to escape just now, and his body is dirty. He didn't wear trousers on his legs because of the dog days. He only dragged a braid on his legs. He looked extremely embarrassed with his bare legs. He said with a dry smile.

Cold sweat rolled down his face and chest.

But upon hearing his words, the other two 'Southern Anhui people' who had just resisted with the officials echoed that they were just ordinary melon sellers.

But if you think about it carefully, they have been staring around for a day or two.

During the period, except for one person who went out to buy food in the small courtyard during the day, none of the four people went to other places. How could it be that after them, only one of them and the hostage were missing.

The most important thing is that when standing in front of the three suspects with shackles around their necks, Duan Xiao glanced at the pile of half-rotten food and the man's neck, but he said this.

"The three of you still eat five meals a day?"

"..."

"Besides, if the three of you are melon sellers, if you really work hard to sell melons every day, why don't you even have a sunburn on your neck? What kind of melons are you selling in Jiangning?"

Duan Xiao asked two sentences in succession.

But it silenced the three 'Wannan people' who were squatting on the ground and trying to deny it.

But the matter has come to an end, I am afraid that we have to find out the real evidence in this temporary den before we can arrest this group of people, so while talking, Fuchaerji and Duan Xiao also stood in this small courtyard Glanced outside.

In their eyes, there are all kinds of large wooden barrels in the yard, and there are many wells.

There is also a lot of well water on the ground in the side room. It is normal for these well water to be used to keep cool, but it is not normal to put so much in this room, especially at this moment when they contact Liu Cen to send them the first call for help. letter.

——['The water in the Qinhuai River is deep, and the little girl in Meixiang Inn also fell into the water. ']

At this moment, according to the content of the letter that day, Fuchaerzi and Duan Xiao, who had something in their minds at the same time, quickly looked at each other.

They may have guessed where the gang hid the evidence and hostages.

And at that moment, under the gaze of everyone in the yard, the two of them borrowed a handy tool and walked to the well in the middle of the small yard.

When one person was helping at the side, the other used a stick to pry open the iron cover covering the outside. Duan Xiao and Fucharzi leaned down together and lifted the sealed iron sheet outside the well, and then saw the bottom There is also a temporary lock and small door.

It turned out that there was actually a hiding place down the well.

What's more, it was a secret door that was only made after the water was drained!

Seeing this, Duan Xiao, who had seen through all this with Fuchaerzi just now, was not surprised, and knocked on the secret door in the well that was probably used as a temporary hiding place with his expert hand.

"Boom-"

This time, the inside sounds hollow.

In the quiet surroundings, the people who had been hiding at the bottom of the well did not make any movement, but the three "Hunan people" who were still squatting in the yard turned pale instantly, but they were also sweating profusely and did not dare to act. Voice.

"come out."

"Jiangning government, your accomplices are already up there, don't let us say it a second time, and this dog days, if you continue to hide below, you will be suffocated to death."

These two warnings immediately caused the last "Wannan man" down the well to have a psychological breakdown, but he still has hostages in his hands, so the confrontation is still going on for a while.

Also at this very moment, a hand that was suffocating and suffocated with blue veins burst open the secret door first, and then a short-skinned man with a pale face and sweaty head couldn't hold it for a while. Those who went down climbed out.

He crawled out as if fleeing for his life, and the officers who had been waiting all around quickly surrounded him and caught him. The short-skinned man fell to the ground dripping with sweat, panting heavily, but he was powerless to fight back.

Because there is not enough air in the well, he had been hiding for so long just now, and he thought he could escape, but unfortunately, he fell into the hands of the government because of a bad move.

It was also this time, Zha Keshan and the others quickly went down to the well to save people while living there.

After throwing a rope, they climbed down one by one, and when they got down to the bottom, everyone saw that the only thing dark inside was white saltpeter powder scattered everywhere on the ground.

The saltpeter was still packed in large wooden barrels one by one, part of which was soaked in a large amount of water to extract crystals, and some scattered saltpeter had been packed in simple round bamboo tubes with other khaki powder .

These are completely handmade and scattered all over the place. It looks like a crudely made bamboo tube and a khaki powder with a strong sulfur smell inside. It is self-evident what they are used for.

Kneeling down and smelling the scent, Duan Ou, who was sure it was correct, hurriedly ordered to collect all the remaining evidence that was extremely dangerous in itself.

At the same time, just as Zakshan lifted the mat that the group used to make the slow cannons by hand, a cloth towel was stuffed in his mouth, and the face of the unkempt man in official uniform was also exposed.

After stretching out his hand to check his breath, he helped him up who had suffered a lot in the past few days in the hands of this group of gangsters. Duan Xiao, who had been in Jiangning for many days, met this man's face, and finally confirmed it.

Because, the one who was thrown down the well and was about to die was none other than Liu Cen, the hostage who had been missing for many days and fell into the hands of this group of 'people from southern Anhui' before!

The author has something to say: It took a lot of effort to change the name and copywriting, and it bothered my editor for a long time.

Because the previous name was first started last year, and now the more I write it later, the more I feel that it does not fit the main line, so I changed it to the present, I know everyone must think it is friendly at the beginning, but if the title of an article is not relevant, Not too good either.

Therefore, I hope that everyone will not be affected by my self-assessment. The content of the follow-up article remains unchanged, and it is still a thrilling adventure of solving ancient crimes!

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