Daqing Criminal Division

The four people's secret hideout was destroyed by the Jiangning government in one fell swoop, and at the same time, Liu Cen, who had been missing for so long, was finally rescued together.

For several days, they were locked under the drained well.

As the hostage being rescued now, Liu Cen, who has not yet woken up, can only be sent to the hospital in this way.

He was in poor condition in all aspects, but fortunately there was no danger of his life.

Therefore, the government can only bring back the four suspects who were involved in murder and illegal possession of fire nitrate, and immediately began to interrogate them separately.

About why the four of them killed their accomplice Zhang Santong that night, and cut off his head cruelly, and why they kidnapped Liu Cen in the first place, all these mysteries have not yet been solved.

It is also the skill of a criminal chamber on this side to try the Master first.

After Sima Zhun, Fuchaerji, and Duan Xiao asked their basic identity information such as their names and places of origin, the real purpose of this group of melon sellers who came to Jiangning this time gradually surfaced.

"Name?"

This one-person interrogation took place in the gloomy prison on the side of Jiangning Mansion.

Across a huge koan, Duan Xiaozheng and the mental state of the prisoner, one of the four, were in front of him with a pen lying aside, and while questioning and recording his confession from time to time.

On all sides, there was only this very nervous and restless criminal looking at him through the iron fence.

Opposite him, the sweat dripping from the neck of the prisoner who bowed his head and bit his tongue silently dripped to the ground.

It's really rare to face a prisoner who is interrogating Lu Qi by himself so soon. If it's not really a guilty conscience, it's just cowardly.

As Duan Xiao thought about it, a pair of hands resting on the table also tapped thoughtfully.

His face was a bit cold, and when he looked at people through the iron fence, he had a chilling feeling.

In this public case, there are also some physical evidence such as Zhang Santong's death.

The saltpeter powder and the watermelon seeds that were pulled out of the head's throat, as well as the horrific scene of the wound when the head was cut off, the general murderer would definitely feel guilty when he saw it.

He deliberately took these things out again to show the prisoner.

Just because Duan Xiao had realized that this group of people might not be the same group of pigs as he remembered from the moment they were captured by them.

It was completely different from what he had thought at first.

The age and appearance of these four people are not only incompatible with the pig man case, but even the basic method of committing the crime is quite clumsy.

Regardless of their actual use of the hole under the well, in the dangerous environment of lack of ventilation inside, how crude and ignorant the environment and method of making the slow gun here are.

It's just that simple, and the undefended appearance of being caught by the government's break-in is completely different from the mysterious gang that was able to commit the strange case of Shuntian Mansion back then.

But it is very strange that the deceased Wang Tianxiao was involved in the suspects back then, and his identity as a wanted man for many years is unquestionable. This also caused a lot of inexplicable clues to be revealed in this case where he was clearly arrested. Doubtful.

And last time in the middle of the night, when they went out together by the river, Fuchaerji and Duan Xiao had a private discussion about the true purpose of this 'Southern Anhui people' group.

At that time, Fucharzi also had a word with him, saying that there was something suspicious about this group of people.

Although they used the same method as the pigmen in the old Shuntian Mansion case, they didn't look like the same group of people.

Because judging from the many cases in the past, a group of gangs who have committed major crimes will not suddenly appear and commit crimes many years later if it is not necessary.

"Look, criminals who really escaped from Ascension and are good at hiding will not come to places like Jiangning. A sum of official money is no worse than the crime of losing their heads. It is not worth taking another risk for this official money. It's not worth it, so this incident is more likely to be the personal work of Wang Tianxiao in the year of the 'Hai Pig'."

"But Zhang Santong is dead. If you want to know what evidence remains in the pigman case, you can only get it from this group of people, so they are the only witnesses who can know the truth."

——Who would have thought that what Fucharzi said that night was verified again in today's interrogation.

"I, I say, people on the road call him Aji, but his real name is Sun Chaoji."

Aji, one of the inmates in the "Southern Anhui" den who was caught in the prison with his upper body shirtless and wearing only a pair of trousers, replied with cold sweat all over his head.

He was one of those who tried to hurt people with a watermelon knife outside the door earlier.

After Duan Xiao asked someone to escort him in, the first time he was caught by the government, he was basically unable to hold on, and intermittently explained what happened to him.

For example, he was twenty-one, and he used to be a pawn in Yangzhou and learned juggling.

Because all he earns from juggling is life-saving money, and he is often deducted by the troupe master. He also learned pickpocketing from people in the past two years before he got to know this group of people one after another.

In addition, the thin man arrested at the door with him was named Xiao Ding, the middle-aged man in the room was named Sun Hu, and the other accomplice who crawled out of the well was named Liu Jiabang.

The four of them have just admitted that they were in the same group as Zhang Santong, the waiter at the Meixiang Inn.

They also stole the famous painting hanging in the Inspectorate.

Because Zhang Santong had good friends with several old shopkeepers of Riyuesheng Bank, and Wu Erzi, one of the master's apprentices, was very stupid, so Zhang Santong took people in for a walk on the pretext of introducing Xiaogong to work.

During this period of time, the inspectorate was full of foreigners who paid taxes and banks, and there were frequent people coming in and out of the inspectorate. Zhang Santong led Xiao Ding and Liu Jiabang who pretended to help with work that day to remove the painting. It was stolen.

——The old shopkeeper and Wu Erzi.

Duan Xiao and the others met before when they had breakfast at the Meixiang Inn, so I am afraid that this matter is true.

And the method they use is very simple.

Two of the three were very short, and only Liu Jiabang was tall. The three of them only used the method of stacking arhats to turn over the house and put the painting in a sack and rolled it away.

The portrait was lost afterwards, and once the government finds out who might have stolen the painting that day, they will find the three of them.

At first, the Jiangning Mansion also suspected that some people stole the famous painting by relying on a group of people, but the place where the inspectorate hung the "Qingyuan Riverside Picture at Qingming Festival" was very high, and the arm length of three normal people would not be able to hold this painting. The painting is completely removed.

The combination of these two short guys plus one tall guy was bound to be ruled out from the start.

Because if the tall one is at the bottom, even if there are two short ones stacked on top of each other.

The short man's arms are short, and the arm length of a single wheel cannot be said to be able to take down the painting, so how did the three of them steal the painting from the Inspectorate that day?

"Stacking Arhats?"

These words were confessed by Liu Jiabang in Fuchaerji's execution room.

The progress was about the same as that of Duan Xiao, and he just happened to interrogate how they stole the painting from the Supervisory Court.

"Yes, that night, they only asked me to climb up next to the wall and stand on the shoulders of Aji and Zhang Santong."

"I'm the tallest, with the longest arms. The same three people are stacking arhats together. The two of them stand on my shoulders. I'm sure my arms won't reach the painting in the end. I can just reach the painting by standing on top of them."

"Afterwards, the government questioned, and I must have felt that the combination of the two short arms could not steal the painting... In fact, we let the tall one stand on the shoulders of the other two. Suspected, took away this famous painting..."

Across the wall on Duan Xiao's side, Fucharzi, who was sitting alone, heard this immediately, but also glanced at the prisoner's arms and stature.

Seeing that he was born tall, with long arms.

He also briefly and roughly measured it with his own eyes, and it was indeed just right for the hanging portrait in the inspectorate.

Among the three, two are short and one is tall.

In the way of stacking arhats on each other, the two short men sent the tall one with longer arms to pick up the painting.

This method really sounds simple, but it just managed to steal the famous painting without leaving the possibility of committing the crime in the end.

After talking about this, why would they rent a house together under Jubaomen together, and then dare to jointly build a slow gun under the well, with the intention of attacking Jiangning Mansion and robbing the official bank.

One of the four suspects also had a strange face, and it took a long time before he hesitated to speak.

It turned out that they were not from the same hometown as the fake Zhang San, but the real Wang Tianxiao.

The four of them are not genuine Anhui people, but a gang of scammers and pickpockets who have been living in the Huaiyang area all year round.

The reason why he would think of making fire together to do this case is because he has been outside for many years and has no reputation at all, and he wants to take advantage of the opportunity to make a lot of money when the bank notes of Jiangning Mansion are out of the warehouse.

At this moment, they met Zhang Santong.

On the surface, Zhang Santong is an inconspicuous shop waiter.

But this time, it was he who took the initiative to ask someone to find Aji and the four of them who were used to doing things like looting money.

The four of them, except for Xiao Ding and Liu Jiabang who are relatives, are all rascals who have been taking Jianghu away from the Huaiyang area all the year round. few.

At first, the four of them didn't believe Zhang Santong's words, because the waiter who looked like a child actually told them that he had a way to get pure fire nitrate.

——Fire nitrate.

This word scared the four of Aji very much at the time, but Zhang Santong spoke with certainty, even in a loud tone, but he also told them a plan.

He said that four years ago, he and another group of people once robbed a sum of gold and silver that was larger than the bank of Jiangning Mansion.

Afterwards, due to the unequal distribution of spoils and the fact that he escaped slowly by himself, he benefited the least back then, and the accomplices who abandoned him at that time now all agree to commit crimes with him again.

But he has his own way to help a few of them make a final fight in Jiangning, and then get high-purity fire nitrate.

So now he has a plan, which is to repeat the old trick in Jiangning Mansion, install side-mounted slow guns they made everywhere, this time, kidnap another arrester, and put pressure on Jiangning Mansion in public.

The hostage catcher mentioned in this daring hostage-taking scheme.

It should be Liu Cen.

Because Liu Cen happened to be in Jiangning those few days, and he happened to be investigating some matters about the smuggling at the dock in private during that period, so he fell into the eyes of this group of criminal gangs who were looking for hostages.

The suspect, Xiao Ding, said that before they managed to kidnap Liu Cen, they had been quietly following him for a few days.

Seeing that Liu Cen was a tall, burly adult man with a saber on his body, he was still a serious official.

Everyone was a little apprehensive at first, but Zhang Santong said that if he is not caught.

Afterwards, the policeman who had been eyeing the Meixiang Inn was afraid that they would expose their whereabouts.

So seeing that Liu Cen was being followed all the time, he seemed to be aware of it, and wrote a letter on the way, not knowing who to send it to, so he decided to arrest Liu Cen and lock him up in the den.

That night, they knocked Liu Cen unconscious from behind with a long-frozen melon, and then tied him up on the fourth floor of the Meixiang Inn and smuggled him away.

But although the four of them had hostages in their hands, and a detailed plan to commit crimes and hijack official banks.

However, it is not a non-governmental organization that has been professionally producing fire guns all year round, and it is also ignorant of basic ammunition knowledge, and it is purely the first time that it is the first time to gather a crowd to make a slow gun here.

"First time doing this?"

Duan Xiao narrowed his eyes when he heard this.

To say that he had previously believed that a group of people would have the courage to commit such a serious crime for the first time, it was absurd to the point of inconceivable.

"Yes, it's really the first time for the few of us to do it. We have learned a lot of things and are not very good at it. It was Zhang Santong who told us that it is not difficult at all..."

"In the beginning, we relied on the words he told us every night. He taught us how to purify saltpeter with wooden barrels and well water, and told us how to mix fire saltpeter and sulfur. There is also a way to put the lead wire in the bamboo tube..."

Next, they also gave their own explanations about how the "Southern Anhui people" group learned how to make side-mounted slow guns and grid positioning.

As the group said, it was Zhang Santong who taught them how to make side-mounted slow guns.

Because the four of them and most of the common people are generally illiterate.

Apart from being able to memorize some basic formulas, he doesn't even know numbers, let alone understand any ancient books.

So they even taught them the basic process of making fire nitrate during this period when Zhang Santong was still alive.

Zhang Santong, a seemingly young and short waiter, is not only literate and proficient in the principles of this type of shell, but also extremely good at the knowledge of various types of gunpowder ratios, and a series of side-mounted slow guns.

In addition, he also taught how they use the grid to locate the origin on the map.

Zhang Santong said that there was a capable man named Pei Xiu in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

The grid positioning method he is using now is seen in this person's book. They only need to remember the "six bodies of drawing", the scale and the aiming method, and the method of using Daoli, and they can blow up this with him afterwards. The Jiangning bank treasury robbed all the bank notes handed in by the governments.

Based on this, they marked the stolen map with various numbers in advance.

This method was flawless so far. If these five people really followed this original plan to commit crimes, the government bank targeted by Jiangning Mansion and Sun Moon Sheng Bank might not fall into their hands.

But when I heard this, I also had a doubt, that is why Zhang Santong was the organizer of the plan to hijack the official bank at the beginning, but this group wanted to kill him and cut off his head?

But the most bizarre and inconceivable thing about this case so far is the words among these four people.

Because, that first brought the government's attention to their head watermelon case.

The bizarre death of the fake Zhang Santong was not intentional, but was originally caused by an explosion accident after a private gunpowder product——

"You said that Zhang Santong's death was actually caused by an accident when the five of you were experimenting with explosions outside the city that night?!"

Let alone Sima Zhun and Zha Keshan, who looked astonished and couldn't believe it.

Even Duan Xiao and the others felt that this was abnormal.

But this statement was unanimously confessed by four prisoners who had been imprisoned in the county government of Jiangning Prefecture.

At that time, they did not have the opportunity to collude with this matter, so the testimony given now is completely based on their own judgment at the first time.

"…right."

"Because, because of the production of fire nitrate, it takes several experiments before it can be detonated without hurting ourselves. At first, the few of us planned to conduct a total of four experiments under the well before officially starting the hijacking plan, but Just, that night, when we ran all over the city to do the last ignition experiment, for some reason the fuse failed to ignite."

"..."

"In order to save time, Xiao Ding and Zhang Santong bent over with matches in a hurry before burning. Zhang Santong is usually the most cautious, but this time he was forced to be impatient, and only scolded us for delaying his important business. I also want to go forward and bury the bomb as soon as possible to facilitate the robbery of official silver."

"But at this moment, one of the side-mounted slow guns detonated due to the leakage of saltpeter and sulfur. In order not to cause too much commotion, we surrounded the detonated notch with frozen watermelon in advance, so that the ice The sound was blocked, but at that moment, a watermelon was exploded by the bomb, and it exploded onto Zhang Santong and Xiao Ding."

"Xiao Ding's leg was broken, and his body was covered in blood. Zhang Santong's neck was broken in a hurry...Blood sprayed all over the ground, and when his head almost fell off, the bloody Some people are still yelling in pain with their eyes wide open, let us save people."

"But he was completely dead within two sounds. We were terrified when we saw the dead body whose head was almost separated, but in the middle of the night, everyone was killed, and we were also dumbfounded. The head and those watermelons were left in the distance, and the other half of his body was picked up and brought back to the Meixiang Inn to hide..."

The ins and outs of this incident can be regarded as clarifying the ins and outs of the head watermelon case and the theft of famous paintings in Jiangning Mansion.

Huo nitrate production is extremely dangerous, Zhang Santong is impatient and greedy.

So at the most critical moment, he lost his way and personally sent his life to Huangquan Road, because the other four people were not kind and loyal people.

In addition, as long as it is a person, it will definitely be afraid of death.

They didn't want to keep this matter on fire, so they simply used their tricks, smashed his head off, discarded the two places separately, threw the stolen map into the water tank and destroyed it, and then took the fire and those who took possession of it. for oneself.

But they were illiterate, and it would take time to rearrange the hijacking and hostage threat plan, which allowed the government to find the plan again and capture them in one fell swoop.

But now another problem came, if they had been forced to change their crime plan halfway.

Then the only thing Duan Xiao and the others couldn't find on the map was the three unknown bombs that had been preset.

Why not mark the exact location?

But in the next second, the four suspects in the 'Headed Watermelon Case' who had come to the end of the road and had to confess each fell silent, and finally gritted their teeth and confessed,

"Because those are not three fixed points... but three living creatures that we have loaded with time bombs."

"We made the final adjustments last night. In another three or four hours, according to the length of the wires we buried initially, the bombs on these three 'living creatures' are about to explode in Jiangning Mansion."

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