Daqing Criminal Division

Because the combination of the stone bodhisattva and the two autopsy certificates can clear all suspicion of murder from Lan Chunlian's original body.

In order to save the life of that girl.

Knowing the ins and outs of this incident, Zha Keshan hurried down the mountain to go to the yamen, and planned to find his superior, Sima County Magistrate, to release him from prison.

But I heard that they were going to go to the government together, but a certain person who had pushed it once before just couldn't go on, and even left without saying hello again on the way.

"Hey! Fucha Erji, you really don't want to go to the government with us to see Lan Chunlian and Na Ruiqiong's household registration case?"

But the person who got out of the carriage as soon as he lifted the curtain and left without even looking at others waved his hands, but turned his back and said this sentence.

"It's not like I'm a police officer. What happened to Lan Chunlian has nothing to do with me."

Fucharzi said.

"Besides, do you still need my guidance when you go back to the government? The sun is too strong outside. Come to me when you have clues about the real murderer. I'll go first."

It's puzzling that he just left with all the physical evidence around him.

Duan Xiao didn't say anything about it.

Looking at the back of the weird guy who has quickly disappeared on the streets of the county town for a while, it once again made him feel that the other party is really a weird person.

But he didn't often take the initiative to make friends with people.

Since the two didn't hit it off at first, any more friendship would be more troublesome. It's better to stay away from each other, and it's better to go back to the yamen with Zha Keshan and deal with Lan Chunlian first.

Because of this inner thought, Duan Xiao didn't bother too much about his business, and went down the mountain with Zha Keshan to the yamen first.

Speaking of which, the Songyang County Yamen was his first visit to this place.

This is located in the west of the city, and the small county government office does not occupy much land, and there are still some red drums with two sides, tiger head cards, and water and fire sticks piled up in front of the door.

All the people who tell the people can go directly to the hall to beat the drums. In front of the hall, there are several yamen servants who are waiting at the door with their early meals. They wear red feathered caps on their heads, and their clothes are somewhat different from those of the policemen.

At this moment, I saw Mr. Zake returning to the yamen.

In twos and threes, the little yamen servants who were sitting on the ground eating breakfast with water and fire sticks got up and forgot to come, and the policeman only waved his hand to signal them not to follow.

Zach Shan was the second-in-command of the Songyang County police, and he could come in directly without a special notification to the small yamen servant in front of the hall.

"Hey, Detective Liu! Quick Detective Liu, it's just right that you're here this morning! I need to find you!"

With a wave of his hand, another arrester at the gate of the yamen, who was bending over to feed the dog with the meat in the bowl, also looked up and looked this way.

At the gate of the yamen, in front of the man was a short-tailed black dog.

He was eating two pieces of raw meat with his head down. The black dog was strong and ferocious, with thick hair and a bright red tongue.

There are many dogs in the yamen of this dynasty, one is for prevention, and the other is for investigation, this is also a common scene.

Although Duan Xiao saw this person for the first time, he could guess that this was roughly the Liu Cen mentioned earlier.

Seeing that the arrester Liu Cen, who is Zha Keshan's superior, looks very mighty, with a pair of tiger eyes and a heavy beard, he is not rough compared to Zha Keshan, but he is also a solid northern man.

He was more than eight feet tall, wearing a gray-blue shirt with one corner tucked into his belt. He was stopped by Zakshan who came running suddenly, but he spoke politely and had a very good temper.

"Oh, Zha Keshan? What's the matter? Didn't you go to collect the physical evidence of Lan Chunlian's murder this morning? Besides, this is...?"

When he opened his mouth, he first asked the person next to him.

Liu Cen and Duan Xiao looked at each other, and Duan Xiao didn't speak because they didn't know each other, but Zha Keshan, the mad man, quickly introduced him.

"Oh, I forgot to mention, this is the new Duan Zuo, Duan Xiao."

"I'm new here, I've met Liu Cen."

Seeing that he is really Liu Cen, Duan Xiao clapped his hands and said.

"Ah, it turned out to be Duan Wuzuo, but we missed it. Yesterday Zhao Fuzi and the others told me that next time we can ask Zha Keshan to treat you to a drink..."

Seeing this, Liu Cen greeted him in the same way.

"Hey, hey! There's no need to worry about the drinking. I still have other things to ask Magistrate Ma. Can you help me go in and call him?"

Liu Cen seemed a little surprised when he asked this.

"What's the hurry?"

"We have now found the evidence that Lan Chunlian is not the murderer who killed Ruiqiong, there is someone else who killed the stone Bodhisattva temple!"

"...What? Are you serious, Zakshan?"

The other party's arrester was also stunned.

"It's absolutely true, we've even brought the physical evidence! What Ruiqiong saw that night was not a woman at all, because Lan Chunlian would never have had sex with Ruiqiong, and the witness and her were the same person, so it was a woman at all. A man pretending to be a Bodhisattva!"

Zach was good at saying this, but Liu Cen, who was caught off guard by this incident, was shocked again.

This time, the stone bodhisattva case had already captured the murderer Lan Chunlian.

Now it is said that the murderer is not a five-year-old woman, and she has to reverse the case for her, the matter is a bit strange, and immediately, I don't have the time to say anything else, so I suppressed Zha Keshan's words and hurriedly said this.

"You, you two, wait a minute, I'll go and report to Magistrate Ma, and I'll come as soon as I go."

"Okay, I'm sorry to trouble you!"

With Liu Cen's help to communicate, many other things after this will be much easier.

At a quarter of noon, the county government prison.

In the dark prison, this time, Duan Xiao and Zha Keshan saw Nalan Chunlian with their own eyes once again.

This girl with pigtails was dressed in filial piety, her eyes were red with tears.

I thought that this time I couldn't argue with my mouth, and I was going to be wronged and sentenced to death, but I didn't expect that the disaster of prison for many days was about to be wiped out just like this.

"Many, thank you... Lord Qingtian for redressing the grievance of the girl, thank you Lord Qingtian for redressing the grievance of the girl, the girl is really innocent... Woooo—"

These words, Lan Chunlian who was kneeling under the hall, said every word that was full of tears.

Usually, except Shengtang, he rarely appeared in front of people. He was only thin and not very energetic. Ma County Magistrate was dressed in a gray official uniform.

Hearing that the murderer who murdered Rui Qiong that night was most likely a man, the conservative county magistrate was also dumbfounded, with a look of astonishment on his face.

"—Man, man? So it's not a woman who killed Rui Qiong that night?!"

"Yes, my lord, this physical evidence proves that what the witness saw that night was not Lan Chunlian, but a man in disguise. It was the man who slashed Rui Qiong's neck open in the mountains and threw his body into the wilderness. He is the real stone bodhisattva."

Because in this dynasty, there has never been an unsolved case where such a man disguised himself as a woman and killed another man in the temple in the middle of the night.

This is so strange that it is really incredible.

As for who the murderer was in the Stone Bodhisattva Temple in the middle of the night, and what was the motive for the murder, I am afraid that the government will have to continue to investigate clearly within the 'bi'.

"My lord, looking at the current situation, I'm afraid I need to investigate thoroughly. If Lan Chunlian didn't kill Rui Qiong that night, the murderer must still be haunting Songyang County. I'm afraid it's not appropriate."

As a Yamen arrester with a knife, it should be said at this time, Liu Cen suggested cautiously from the side.

"Then, then... what should I do? Well, who is this murderer?"

"Then why don't you let Detective Liu and I check out the men who are related to Ruiqiong first?"

Zha Keshan hurriedly said the same thing to Ma County Magistrate.

"Okay, okay, you two go, and since the five women have been proved innocent, let her be released from prison first, but the case needs to be investigated as soon as possible. Such murderers... must not Stay in Songyang County for a long time, otherwise I am afraid that even the superior and the magistrate will punish me!"

Saying this, he showed worry, fearing that if the case was not solved and the Ma County Magistrate who knew the government would be furious, he would slap the table and make a final decision.

In the next few days, the case also made new progress.

The autopsy evidence that Duan Xiao gave that day was passed on to everyone in the yamen afterward.

Although Wu Zuoxing originally collected the evidence of the dead.

But like Duan Xiao, it is rare for a dead person to really speak again by stripping away the vital evidence.

Others were just surprised for a moment, and they even looked at this newcomer from Yanzhou Mansion with a son and a scarred face.

In this regard, Duan Xiao, who has long been used to being alone, doesn't feel much.

Only on the same day, he left the yamen after delivering the physical evidence, and he did not intervene in the subsequent pursuit of the real culprit of the Stone Bodhisattva case.

Because the original assumption that the murderer was a woman was overturned in one fell swoop, then the only way to find it was from a man.

Ke Ruiqiong is a child student who lives in the academy all day long. If it is said that the men he sees the most around him are the children in the Songyang Academy.

After a preliminary investigation by the government, two students who were preparing for the exam at the academy came into the government's sight.

These two boys were named Zhang Bing and Wang Pin.

The former and Ruiqiong seem to have an enmity, and it is said that in the academy they once fought each other because of a disagreement.

But that night, it is said that he was not in Songyang, but went to Lin County to drink with his friends who were going to participate in the autumn round together, and a group of friends can testify for him.

Another boy named Wang Pin.

There were rumors that he and Rui Qiong had been in close contact and had a good relationship, and they often had private contacts, but when the government went to find him, they found that there was no one in his house for four or five days.

"You are his classmates, you know, where is Wang Pinren now?"

"No, I don't know, sir, he suddenly disappeared the day before yesterday, and he was not at the academy the day Ruiqiong died...I'm afraid, I'm afraid that he hasn't come back these days at all, and we won't see him..."

In connection with the cause and effect, Wang Pin disappeared strangely before the incident, and this incident may have a great relationship with Ruiqiong's death.

The case seems to be one step away from being solved.

During this period, because Wang Pin had not yet been brought to justice, the original deadline for solving the Stone Bodhisattva case at the Yamen was extended by two days.

But the news of Lan Chunlian's release was already known in the city, and it was widely spread because of it. It became a mystery to everyone about where Wang Pin, the suspect in the Stone Bodhisattva case, was hiding.

June thirteenth.

It is Ruiqiong's life sacrifice after death.

According to the local customs in Songyang County, his rather elderly aunt would come to Yizhuang to help her with the aftermath, bring some meatballs, chickens and ducks, and cook some good wine and dishes. Give some silver taels for sealing the coffin.

That day, the old woman knocked on the door on time.

When Duan Xiao saw her in Yizhuang, she had already prepared new clothes for her nephew, paper money, and meals for the life sacrifice. Because the body still needed to be cleaned up, she could not be buried until the next morning.

But these were common things before the dead were laid to rest, but because the old woman had a sentence, Duan Xiao who was beside him stopped for some reason.

"Is there any oil soap for washing hair here?"

"Yes, what do you want oil soap for?"

Duan Xiao asked.

"It's like this. My nephew is a scholar, and he values ​​filial piety the most. His parents left early. Usually, he takes care when removing and washing his braids. He feels sorry for his parents even if he loses a single hair. This body, hair and skin are even worse. She never wanted to hurt herself, he died so disgracefully now, as an aunt, I always have to wash his hair well before sending him to be buried."

Because of this sentence, Duan Xiao finished changing Rui Qiong's coffin for the burial one day, sent the old woman away, and sat alone for a while.

It was also for this reason that he thought about it for a while, and then let Duan Yuanbao stay at home and went out alone.

But just when Duan Xiao walked to Songyang Street, he heard a voice coming from above a restaurant.

It was a storytelling that can be seen everywhere on the street.

In the past, most of the talk is about the Three Heroes and the Five Righteousness, folk tales and monsters, which are really common in this dynasty.

But today in that small restaurant, there was a case among the diners.

There is a rectangular gavel on it, an old scholar in a mandarin jacket with a gray beard and cloudy fish eyes, holding a piece of silver.

Three or five square tables filled with fish skin peanuts and various kinds of wine and vegetables were placed upstairs and downstairs, and the pawns walking on the bottom were also listening to the stories told by the old man above.

"My lords, the old man's surname is Chen, and today I will tell you a story about this dynasty. When talking about this talented person, I want to talk about Duan Yuheng, the last imperial scholar of Sejong's dynasty.

"He is the only son of Duan Qingshan, a famous scholar from Lu, and his ancestors once gave birth to great scholars in the previous dynasty."

"By the time of the holy ancestor, he was still granted the fourth-rank Taoist platform. In this dynasty, it is very difficult for a servant who is a Hanchen to climb to this high position in the officialdom. It is also difficult to climb to the top. This family is this family. One of the fallen literati."

"A noble family, a scholarly family, Ludi has a great Confucian family since ancient times, and the Duan family are all great literati in the present, because the ancestors made a vow that from the time their descendants enter the court, they will be honest officials, and they must not be cruel officials or corrupt officials. "

"However, in his generation, this person plunged headlong into the officialdom, and never returned from the ups and downs of the court."

"He has been in the dynasty for ten years and has not returned to Yanzhou for ten years. In Sejong's ten years, when he left Beijing to repair the river in Hebei, he walked in through the house. His old mother just stood in front of the ancestral house in Yanzhou mansion and said angrily... ...Duan Yuheng, if you really take this step, I, a mother, will never recognize you again in this life."

"However, this Yuheng kept his words true, forcing his old mother to cry bitterly, cruel official! Cruel official! Do you still think of me as your mother... Duan's family is full of unfilial descendants like you, you really have a cruel heart... ...In your eyes, there are no other people or parents, you only want to be your official..."

"Speaking of this paragraph of Yuheng, it can be said that he is a real husband who is full of sages and sages, and has a cruel heart—"

The voice of the storyteller drew cheers from the spectators below.

Duan Xiao, who was dressed in civilian clothes and listened with his head up, stood at the bottom and stopped for a while, but then he did nothing and left without hearing anything.

But just as Duan Xiao continued to walk forward, and unknowingly walked to a place by instinct, under a familiar teahouse, he suddenly saw a person not far away.

Duan Xiao didn't recognize this person at first.

Because this guy is dressed like this at the moment, I'm afraid I can't even recognize him.

No matter who sees such a ragged 'bald', 'hemiplegic' and 'leprosy' lying under a pile of beggars' nests, he will hide as far away as possible, but whoever tells him that he has no other problems, that is, he has a good memory.

So... He recognized who this person was at a glance.

"What are you doing?"

Duan Xiao narrowed his eyes, seemingly puzzled.

"As you can see."

A certain 'beggar' collapsed unkempt under the teahouse, drunkenly lifted off his dirty clothes, looked at Duan Xiao, yawned and replied.

"I'm pretending to be a beggar and begging for food."

Duan Xiao: "..."

Suddenly, it was a bit like pretending not to see the beggar, ignoring this person and leaving directly.

But before Duan Xiao could say anything else, Fuchaerzi, the bastard detective who had been unable to find anyone for three days, seemed to have finally woken up, and said to him as if he got up again and stretched himself.

"Would you like to go up and have a cup of tea? This time I will invite you."

"..."

"Don't say no to drinking again, or I will lose face. Are you going or not, old Duan?"

Duan Xiao: "..."

——?Who is the old man?