Anecdotes about the Seine

([-]) Evidence

When Mo Han woke up, it was already noon.As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Li Xiaoyan sitting at the table, playing with the fake golden swallow dart.

"Don't touch that, it's an important piece of evidence." Mo Han sat up, feeling dizzy, which seemed to be the sequelae of last night's hard work.She got up and put away the golden swallow dart, patted Xiaoyan on the shoulder and said, "Have you eaten yet?" Xiaoyan shook her head.So Mo Han ordered the housekeeper Mo Da to go to the kitchen to order some food.The two ate briefly in the room, and Mo Han was ready to go out to investigate the case.

"Sister Mo, let me go with you, I can help you get things." Li Xiaoyan volunteered.

Mo Han wanted to refuse at first, but after thinking about it, his original assistant Xiao Gao was checking the household registration in the capital. He was really tired after running all day yesterday, and it would be nice to have a helper, so he agreed.The two went out together, but happened to meet Xiao Gao running over in a hurry.Mo Han asked him what's wrong, he frowned and said, "Mo arrest, Mr. Fan Zhongren invites you to go to the Ministry of Punishment."

When the three of them arrived at the Ministry of Criminal Justice, they realized that something serious had happened—another person had been killed, and this time it was a small civil servant from Dali Temple.Sure enough, just like last time, this petty official was killed at home, the property in the house was stolen, and the iconic object was still stuck on the body: the Golden Swallow Dart.

Sitting in the hall of the Ministry of Punishment with a livid face was not only Fan Zhongren, the servant of the Ministry of Punishment, but also another person—Prime Minister Sun Qi.Mo Han is very familiar with this Prime Minister Sun. She has heard from her father many times that this person is his political rival, and he often sings against him on major decisions of the court.Mo Han secretly groaned in his heart: This prime minister, I'm afraid he didn't come here to make trouble.

Sure enough, when Prime Minister Sun saw Mo Han walking in, his face became more serious.He coughed lightly and said slowly: "This case has not been solved for a long time. Liuqiu has sent a message to urge the case to be solved as soon as possible and the murderer should be severely punished." He turned around and pointed to the corpse placed in the hall: "Who knows One wave is not settled, and another wave is raised! If this case is not solved for a day, it will be a day of trouble. Your Ministry of Criminal Justice, can you do it?"

Although the words pointed to the Ministry of Punishment, it obviously implied that Mo Han was not good at handling the case.Mo Han kept his composure, walked forward, cupped his hands and said in a loud voice: "It takes time to handle a case, Mr. Sun must understand this truth. I already have important clues in hand, as long as I follow the clues, I will definitely find out the truth as soon as possible."

Prime Minister Sun asked, "What important clue?"

Mo Han bowed slightly: "Handle the case independently. Before it is solved, I am sorry that I can't disclose it."

"Hmph!" Prime Minister Sun's expression changed, he flicked his sleeves, and said loudly, "Okay, I'll give you three days. If after three days, the case still hasn't progressed, I'll hold you accountable!" and go.

Seeing Prime Minister Sun walking away, Fan Zhongren frowned and said, "Hanhan, this time is really tricky."

"It's okay, Uncle Fan." Mo Han smiled.She walked to the corpse and saw the No. 15 Golden Swallow Dart as evidence. She picked it up and examined it carefully. Sure enough, the two scratches were not there.

She put the dart back to its original place without showing any emotion, stood up, cupped her hands to Fan Zhongren and said, "I'm going to investigate the case first."

Fan Zhongren asked, "Do you have any clues?"

Mo Han didn't answer, but smiled and said, "I'll find out when I come back."

Walking out of the punishment department, Mo Han said to Xiaoyan: "Let's go, let's go to the gold shop."

The two of them began to visit gold shops, big and small, inside and outside the capital one by one.Mo Han believed that since the murderer forged the Golden Swallow Dart, he must go to a gold shop to make it, because it is impossible to buy it in stock.Then the Jinpu, which is relatively close to the inside and outside of the capital, is very likely to have seen the protagonist who asked to make darts.The two went to four gold shops in the capital first, but found nothing, so they continued to search the counties and villages outside the capital.It wasn't until Wu Village in the western suburbs was found that there was a clue.It was already evening.

There is a goldsmith's shop near the market in the center of Wu Village, and the business is very good.The owner of the shop, Old Wu, looked carefully at the Jin Yan dart, thought for a long time, and finally thought of a person.He said: "As far as I remember, I have made such darts, and I have made quite a few."

Mo Han was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly asked: "Who is going to build this Jin Yan dart?"

"This, I really can't remember." Old Wu showed a look of embarrassment.

"Why can't I remember? It shouldn't be long." Mo Han was puzzled.

"Wow." Old Wu replied, "It was at least 20 years ago that I built this Golden Swallow Dart."

Mo Han was stunned.She was completely confused, and asked several times if someone had rebuilt a new batch of Jinyan darts recently, but the answer she got was no.Mo Han was not reconciled, and asked if it was possible for this person to go to another place to remake a batch, but he still got a negative answer.Old Wu firmly said that the craftsmanship of this Jinyan dart is very difficult, and it must have a template to make it almost exactly the same, but the template, of course, only he, Old Wu, has it.No matter how much Mo Han asked, he couldn't get more information—then Old Wu just couldn't remember who built the Jinyan Dart 20 years ago.

The clue ends here.Mo Han felt great disappointment and frustration.She walked out of Old Wu's gold shop dejectedly, only to see Li Xiaoyan standing at the door, looking at a house from her original place.

She followed her gaze and found that it was a temple, and there was an open space in front of the temple, where several children were playing.Mo Han was about to ask her what she was looking at, but Xiaoyan turned her head quickly.At that moment, Mo Han saw her eyes seemed sharp and mature, but it was only for a moment.Xiaoyan, who turned her head, still had an innocent and indifferent expression on her face.

"What's wrong?" Mo Han asked her: "Your mood doesn't look very good."

"It's nothing." Xiaoyan said lightly, "It's just hurting the scene. I told you, you know, I'm an orphan."

The two walked out of Wu Village, seeing that it was getting late, and after another day of busy work, they were really hungry, so they sat down at a small restaurant at the head of the village and ordered some dishes and a jug of wine.The two ate slowly, chatting with each other, and gradually, the topic of conversation turned to Li Xiaoyan's life experience.

"What's the matter with your injury?" Mo Han asked.

"Ah, blame me for being too stupid. When I was in Li's house, I always made mistakes, so I was always beaten." Xiaoyan said lightly.

"No, I said those old injuries, they look like they were left when I was a child." Mo Han said, observing her expression. "You said you were an orphan. You must have suffered a lot when you were young."

Li Xiaoyan's hand holding the chopsticks to pick up vegetables obviously paused for a moment, and then returned to normal. "Actually, that's what's going on, look for food everywhere, as long as you can survive." She took a bite of food, and when she saw Mo Han looking at her, she smiled: "You probably don't understand that kind of life. "

Since then, this topic has not been continued, and Li Xiaoyan has also returned to her innocent nature.She enthusiastically asked Mo Han what life was like as a police officer. After thinking about it, Mo Han talked about a few unsolved cases he had handled before, which was very interesting and attracted the other party's attention.But as he talked, Mo Han couldn't help but think of the case in front of him, and he started to worry again-how should we investigate next?

When he got home, Mo Han was too tired and had no energy. After a simple wash, he planned to take a nap first.When she arrived in the room, she saw Xiaoyan sitting on the bed with her legs crossed, her eyes dazed, not knowing what she was thinking.Mo Han walked over.Seeing Mo Han coming, she moved in to make room for her.Mo Han wanted to fall asleep on the chair at first, but when he saw her big eyes staring at him eagerly, he thought to himself, it wasn't that he couldn't sleep, so he went to bed too.

The two lay down and turned off the lights.Mo Han was still thinking about the case, but he heard the person next to him say quietly: "It's really not easy for you."

In the darkness, she couldn't see the other person's expression, nor could she hear the emotion in the words, so she asked, "What's wrong?"

Xiaoyan's voice was very low, as if she was talking to herself: "You are obviously a son of an official, and you can live a life of luxury without hard work. But you just want to run around, exhausted to death, and You will be made things difficult by your superiors." She turned over and faced Mo Han, who could feel her breath.She went on to say, "Tell me, is it not easy for you?"

Mo Han smiled, and then she suddenly realized that in the dark, the other party couldn't see her smile, so she replied: "I prefer freedom more than the so-called rich clothes and good food."

"Freedom." She seemed to hear the person on the other side laughing too. "Freedom is a false proposition." The other party murmured.

Then the two of them stopped chatting.

In the early morning, Mo Han woke up from his sleep, only to find that Li Xiaoyan had disappeared.She searched around the mansion, but found nothing.Both people and luggage disappeared without a trace.She suddenly realized something and hurried back to her room.Then she discovered that the fake Jinyan dart she secretly brought out as evidence was gone.

She slowly sat down on the stool by the table, put her hands on her forehead, and flashed scenes in her mind from the moment she first met this girl until now.The precise and powerful impact, the broken waist card, the seemingly inadvertent questioning, the interest in the evidence, the fleeting eyes, the strange dialogue...

Then she smiled, wryly.

I should have found out sooner, she thought self-deprecatingly.That golden swallow has always been by my side.