Daqing Criminal Division

On the second day, it was just dawn.

Fucha Erji and Duan Xiao went to the government office together after they had just returned home to take a break from fighting on the street.

Last night, Duan Xiao didn't go back all night, and in the early morning, Duan Yuanbao wasn't even worried about where his father went. It's really strange to think about their father and son.

But for the matter of going to the government, last time, someone just ran away halfway.

This time, he didn't want to go, but he had to.

Duan Xiao saw that this person was only going to a government office, so it was a bit inexplicable why he insisted on being so sneaky, but Detective Fucha kept secrets and kept a secretive look.

"Oh, because the people in the officialdom I respect the most in my life, do you have any objections to Duan Wuzuo?"

Duan Xiao didn't say anything about this, as a person in the officialdom who couldn't be more authentic, but it's not too normal for a person who has not violated the law and discipline to hide from the government like this.

But that's the man's business.

This has nothing to do with him, so the two who decided to cooperate temporarily put down this sum for the time being, and get busy with serious business first.

It was also when the rooster crowed three times and the gongs and drums on the bronze gate of the city gate sounded.

Zha Keshan, the policeman with a knife in the yamen, appeared in the yamen with his servants. It just so happened that Fucha Erji and Duan Xiao were coming to the government to look for him. Here comes the place.

When I first came to the door, I saw that Duan Xiao was not there.

The outside door was not locked either, and Zakshan, who wanted to carry Ruiqiong's coffin to the mountain for burial, searched around inside and outside the Yizhuang, but found no one, and felt a little strange.

He didn't know what happened last night.

He only thought that Duan Xiao had gone out early in the morning because he was afraid of something, but he turned around and was about to come out, but he happened to see a familiar figure from those days coming.

"Hey! Fucha Erji! Duan Xiao, I just went to Yizhuang and no one responded, I want to ask where you are going-you, what happened to your injuries?"

As soon as he saw someone appear, Zha Keshan ran over quickly, beckoning and yelling.

But they are usually neither big nor small, and they are used to calling others brothers and sisters.

Zha Keshan made a gesture to go up and pat him, but was startled by Duan Xiao's different appearance from the past.

To say that he looks the same today as he did in the past.

But after all he stayed in the capital for ten years, just standing like this and not speaking, his posture was still scary.

Zha Keshan saw him raise his head for a moment, his face was expressionless, but he stared at people with a trace of coldness all over his body, a little bit trembling.

Seeing that Zakshan seemed to be frightened, Duan Xiao, who was not in the mood to explain so much at the moment, took out the dossier and notes he had prepared earlier in the morning, and then calmed down a bit, and slowly replied.

"I'm fine, just a little trouble."

He didn't take the initiative to mention what happened last night, he just added an extra layer of clothes outside to cover the wound, as if he had survived the whole night.

"Oh, good, it's fine, it's like this, I'm looking for you two right now! Isn't this the limit for 'competition'! The county magistrate is waiting there, so I want to tell the witnesses, the yamen servants, Wu Zuo and a group of other witnesses have arrived before the court session, and then notify the various governments that the missing murderer, Wang Pin, must be arrested and brought to justice."

Because he didn't react a bit, Zakshan still stumbled in his speech.

But knowing that they must have something to come to the government, they hurriedly answered without thinking too much.

Today is the day when the murder case of the Stone Bodhisattva Temple officially opened for trial, and the 'bi' limit has come. As an arrester, Zach needs to hand over all the criminal evidence currently in hand to the government, and then issue a final verdict.

Based on all the evidence collected so far, the most likely real culprit is the Tong Sheng Wang Pin who has been missing for many days.

So yesterday, the yamen had finalized and repaired the murder case in their hands, and was preparing to hand it over to magistrate Ma in the hall this morning.

The strangeness and strangeness of this case is rare in Songyang and even Songjiang Mansion over the years.

As for where Wang Pin is, it is still an unsolved case.

But now that the case has come to this point, I am afraid that justice must be given to the deceased before the matter is finalized.

But what no one expected was that they thought that there would be nothing more to be found out in this case, but the next moment, everyone heard a word from Fuchaerji who was on the side.

"You don't have to find a way to find Wang Pin."

The Fucha next to him suddenly spoke.

"Huh? Why, Fuchardhi?"

Zakshan was also stunned.

"Because Wang Pin is dead, the real murderer is not him at all."

Duan Xiao just added a sentence from the side.

"You, what do you mean by that, Duan Xiao, Wang Pin is also dead?"

"Correct."

The two spoke in unison.

"—!"

The words of the two startled Zha Keshan and the gang of small policemen in the yamen for a moment.

The yamen servants standing behind watching the fun whispered to each other, as if they thought that Fucha Erji and Duan Xiao were crazy, and they just said out of thin air that Wang Pin, who was probably the real murderer of Ruiqiong, was also dead.

But the two of them seem to be very sure, and they didn't explain too much.

He only asked Zha Keshan to borrow the short-tailed black dog that Liu Cen quickly raised, saying that it would be useful later, and Fucha Erji directly made such a strange request to him.

"Zakshan, do you know where most of the bricklayers in the city who have experience in repairing and repairing tiles live?"

Holding hands together, he was thinking about something, and Fucharzi, who was standing aside, said something like asking questions.

He didn't have a pen and paper in his hand, but the thoughts in his mind were obviously moving fast.

"Bricklayer?"

Zakshan asked back with a look of astonishment,

"Yes, tell us if there is such a one among the masons in the city."

Duan Xiao asked.

"But there are more than ten bricklayers in Songyang, I don't know... What kind of bricklayer are you looking for?"

"It's very simple, this person is very inconspicuous."

"Generally, no one will take the initiative to notice him. He has never been involved in this case from the beginning to the end, but he is about 24 five years old."

Fucharzi helped remind him.

"He should still be unmarried this year, and he usually lives with another relative in the family. When the Stone Bodhisattva thunders and rains, he will send him to repair the temple from time to time."

"His appearance is just an ordinary face."

"But he is tall, strong, and works harder than others, but he doesn't like to talk to others. He is a very shy and honest person in private. He never initiates disputes with others. He will carefully hide some money, but Every now and then, I will suffer some bullying, and I will often swallow my anger."

"The most important thing is that his ears are very big. They look much bigger than ordinary people's ears at first glance, like...a Bodhisattva."

The person Fucharzi slowly described in his mouth is very wonderful.

But it's strange to say that when the previous murder happened, no one had any impression of this stranger who had never heard of it.

At this moment, after his description as if he had seen the person's true face.All the government servants present still racked their brains to think about it one by one.

It was also at this time that a newcomer this year who used to work under Liu Cen, a small yamen servant who lives in the east of the city, suddenly clapped his hands, and exclaimed from the side, saying,

"Yes! Zake is good at catching fast! It's true! It's true! Among the masons in this county, there is really such a similar person! Isn't this person the old Guan Pengguan who lives in the east of the city? What!"

The turning point of this case is really amazing. The people present did not know this person named Guan Peng at all.

Previously, they had investigated people who had various interests with Ruiqiong Wangpin for so long.

But in the end, it was such an unknown bricklayer who was not noticed at all, and it was for this reason that Zakshan, who stared at him with two mighty eyes, immediately yelled,

"You're not talking nonsense? Is there really such a person?!"

"Yes, there really is such a person! He and his sister live in the east of the city, and I saw him in person two days ago!"

Quickly nodded and answered, the little policeman also looked surprised and couldn't believe it.

"No, I can take you to his sister's house right away. He doesn't go out very often, and he might not be able to escape anywhere at home right now!"

As soon as these words came out, the people in the government could not sit still.

Since Fuchaerji and Duan Xiao helped, they were naturally called up by Zakshan who led seven or eight yamen servants to go to the east of the city to find the bricklayer Guan Peng that the little catcher said.

Today happens to be the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar.

In the middle of the month, Songyang County and other counties will invite people to perform ceremonies, and some aunts will be invited to burn incense. During the day, there will be dancers on the street, selling noodle balls, and those who knock and beat may disturb people.

On the street, there is a case of guillotine.

Baogong was in the case and severely punished the wicked. Everyone in the hall clapped their hands and exclaimed.

On the street, when the black and white officials were dispatched, they naturally wanted to drive back the common people all the way. Ordinary people didn't know what was going on, so they just kept their heads on the side of the road to watch the bustle.

When Zha Keshan and Fuchaerji Duan Xiao came to the door together, in broad daylight, the door of a small house in the courtyard in the east of the city was closed.

This is a very remote wooden door, and the far door is facing the shadows.

Next to it is a dog hole blocked by two brick and stone slabs at the door. It seems that this family also has dogs.

Beside this yard, there are several bags of rice milk and moldy soybeans used for pasting walls.

As soon as Duan Xiao saw those moldy soybeans that had been stored for a long time, he lowered his head to check the smell, and then took out physical evidence to compare.

At this time, the dog led by the yamen servants barked twice as soon as it arrived at this place.

The dog seemed to smell something, barking at the door all the way.It was also because of knocking on the door to find someone that a woman came out.

This rather savage-looking woman is fat and fat, her hair is combed in a bun, her cloth gown is worn out, and she looks quite old.

She was holding a basket in her hand, and the basket was not a purse made by an ordinary woman, but a basket of cattle fodder. It was also at this time that Zakshan who was standing outside the door noticed that the yard raised a calf.

Killing cattle and raising cattle for others is probably the family's livelihood.

Although this dynasty strictly prohibited the private killing of cattle, many officials would send some cattle as tribute to private breeding.

This woman used to help the government raise cattle, her hands were very rough, and there was another male in the family who was working as a bricklayer outside, and it was not bad to support the two of them.

But if this is not an ordinary family, all this would not be surprising.

Because Duan Xiao clearly remembered that the last wound on Ruiqiong's body was a wound caused by an unknown bone-crushing knife, and the other wound was a bug bite wound.

A bull knife for slaughtering cattle.

Ticks are only found on cattle, so this is the case.

But at this moment, the woman who opened the door was a little flustered when she saw that it was an official servant. When she asked Fangzhi to find another person in her family, she immediately thought that the person in the house had caused the trouble, and she raised her eyes in a rage and turned around and cursed. .

"You useless crooked bastard! You bastard! Come out sooner! What kind of trouble did you cause outside? It's going to piss off my sister to death! You actually made all the officials from the government come to your door! Day Ri is hiding in the house and acting like a ghost! Get out quickly!"

The vulgar abuse of these women who seemed to crawl out of tongue-pulling hell was really ear-piercing at first, but when she turned her head, she changed her face and talked nicely to Zach in front of her, not wanting to cause trouble He said something with a dry smile.

"Master Guancha, please tell me, did this kid do something outside? He is an honest man. He can even help me with such things as killing a cow. He will never do those things that are outrageous..."

This sounds really ironic.

But the man in the house was personally approached by the government, but he didn't show up right away.

Instead, after a while, he pushed the door and came out with his back bent like a puppet. He moved like a wooden board and Zakshan stood outside the door, as well as Fucha Erji and Duan Xiao just met this man's mediocre and weak face.

Seeing this ordinary life, with shrunken shoulders, he seemed extremely timid.

The earlobes are huge and drooping down, but it really doesn't make people see any vicious murderer's breath.

He was obviously tall and big, but he didn't have any normal masculinity at all. On the contrary, Fucharzi caught a glimpse of his extremely neatly trimmed hands and nails that had been greased.

Such hands do not belong to a mason.

Just like a man, he shouldn't be a Bodhisattva.

"You are Guan Peng?"

"..."

"Do you know Rui Qiong and Wang Pin? Where were you last night?"

Zakshan asked coldly again.

But Guan Peng, who was approached by the government, did not answer a single word of these two questions.

He seemed to be deaf already, he just stood where he was, no matter what others called him, he would ignore him.

Seeing this, Fuchaerzi and Duan Xiao who were on the side didn't say much after seeing everything.

It was also in such a situation, because Zac Shan had already found this place, so he was caught first with a wave of his hand, and he searched the house thoroughly.

Si Mo Mo

Yamen of Songyang Prefecture

The suspect, mason Guan Peng, has been brought to the government by Zha Keshan.

Around his neck was a manacled shackle.

Ruiqiong's aunt, Lan Chunlian, and Zhang Bing were also invited to open the room for questioning, and in this room, there were also physical evidence from Duan Xiao's previous autopsy. .

First, there was ascites in the stomach of Ruiqiong's corpse, the package of moldy soybeans left in the mountains, and the durian flower earring in the cardia.

The second is the bone-crushing knife that was just searched from Guan Peng's sister's house.

As for the third, it was the stone bodhisattva that Ruiqiong pointed at at the scene of the crime.

This stone bodhisattva that was originally placed in the temple was brought down by that guy Fucha Erji who asked Zakshan to find someone to carry it down.

He didn't explain why he did this, but it was useful to testify in the court later, and it was the same, so this tattered stone Bodhisattva statue suddenly appeared in the court.

And since it was decided to hold a trial of this case together, at dawn, the Songyang county government office became lively again.

Because there is a walking street not far from the court, there are many people passing by.

It has been almost eight or seven days since the Stone Bodhisattva case happened, and the people in the city heard that the murderer has not been caught yet, and now that this happened, everyone rushed over to see it.

The traffickers and pawns, most of the women were well-dressed, each of them gathered their sleeves and gathered around the yamen outside the yamen with some novelty, but they wanted to see who the real culprit in the Stone Bodhisattva case was.

Today is the day when Ma County Magistrate and his master are on official errands.

Both of them were dressed in public uniforms, and they rose up under the watchful eyes of the common people outside.

In the hall, there were three mighty sounds, the sound of water and fire sticks hitting the ground, and the ground of the yamen court was so solemn that even a needle could not fall down.

It was also the gavel that was snapped, under the watchful eyes of everyone, this first case, the Stone Bodhisattva case, is finally about to start, and the interrogation will begin!