Anecdotes about the Seine

([-]) Thief

When Mo Han returned home, he saw his father sitting in the main hall, sipping tea one after another.She murmured in her heart that it was not good, probably the old man was waiting for her here.But he couldn't avoid it, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go forward.

"Father." She saluted respectfully.

Madam Mo Da did not raise his head, and said, "Sit down."

Mo Han sat down aside, waiting for his father to speak in a polite manner.Sure enough, Mo Dongsheng put down his teacup and started talking.

"Hanhan, my good daughter, have you had enough fun? It's time to go back to work in the capital." The father's tone suddenly softened.

"Father, that's why you called me back in such a hurry." Mo Han rolled his eyes and said unhappily.

"You said you didn't want to take the imperial examination, but wanted to investigate cases and be a head arrester. Well, I've arranged for you a job in Dali Temple. After working for a month, you don't want to. You have to go to some grassroots to investigate real cases..."

"Come on dad, Dali Temple is used to investigate officials. It's full of corruption and bribery all day long. I memorized the process in a week. It's the same every time. What's the point? I just want to investigate the murder case. The more bizarre and challenging the better." Mo Han said impatiently.

"Okay, Dad knows your temper, and it doesn't matter what you think, alas." Madam Mo sighed.

"I don't want to be called 'the daughter of Master Mo' all the time." Mo Han said with a smile.

"Then what do you want?" Madam Mo asked.

"I hope people call me God Catcher Mo Han!" Mo Han said energetically.Seeing her so excited, Master Mo couldn't help being happy.A bit of me in my youth, he thought.

"Father, if you have nothing else to do, I'll go back first. There are still several cases waiting for me to investigate." Mo Han saw that it was almost done, and thought it would be better to leave as soon as possible, so as to save the old man from nagging all the time. nagging.

"I knew that you stayed at home for a long time, and you left within two days every time you came back." Madam Mo suddenly looked serious, "I asked you to come back this time because I want you to help investigate a big case."

"What kind of case?" As soon as Mo Han heard that there was a case to investigate, he immediately regained his energy.

"Look at you, once you talk about the case, you will be energetic." Madam Mo was very helpless, "There was a theft and murder case in the capital, and the deceased was not an ordinary person, but a visiting envoy from Ryukyu."

"The envoy was killed. This is a big event, and it might turn into a diplomatic accident." Mo Han pondered.

"Yes." Master Mo said, "In fact, someone is already investigating this case, but I won this opportunity for you to exercise. If you can solve this case, it will be of great benefit to your reputation—" —" He paused, and then said: "Probably not far from being called a god catcher."

"Father, you are so kind to me!" Mo Han rushed up, kissed her father a big mouth, and gave her a big hug. "You still know what I want best!"

Master Mo patted his daughter on the back, and said lovingly: "Okay, if you have fun this time, stay in the capital and don't leave. There are also many major cases in the capital!"

"Okay, okay, let's talk about the future." Mo Han giggled.She asked, "Who should this case be referred to?"

Bachelor Mo: "I see you are in a hurry, don't you want to take a break?"

"No, no, no, every second counts!" Mo Han was more excited than anyone else when he mentioned the case.

Bachelor Mo was helpless: "Let's go find you, Uncle Fan, he is in charge of this case now."

After Mo Han arrived at the scene, she realized that the case was not as simple as she had imagined—it was not just a case of theft and murder.The Ryukyu envoy died at home, to be precise, in his bedroom.From the distribution of blood at the scene and the wound of the deceased, it can be seen that the murderer pierced the throat with a sword and pulled it out immediately. Blood gushed out and splashed all over the wall.The house was turned into a mess, and several pieces of valuable jewelry were missing.But the strange thing is that the few ingots of silver hidden in the drawer are still there.

Mo Han keenly noticed that the opened quilt by the head of the bed, the opened drawers, and the messed up books all had bloodstains only on the outside, but not on the inside. Only then did I open the drawer to search, so the blood was only left outside, but not splashed inside.

Fan Zhongren, the servant of the Ministry of Punishment, walked in at this moment.He greeted Mo Han: "Han Han, you are here." Mo Han nodded.The Mo family and the Fan family are family friends, and Uncle Fan watched her grow up, and the two of them couldn't be more acquainted.With his hands behind his back, Fan Zhongren said to Mo Han, "Did you find anything?"

"This is not an ordinary theft and homicide case." Mo Han replied, opening the drawer containing the silver ingots. "If an ordinary thief sees his master at home, he will not take the risk, kill and steal. If he takes a step back, the thief ran into his master by chance and killed him in a panic. There is no way to explain why there are still a lot of valuables left in the house, but they have not been taken. Let's go." She paused for a moment, and continued: "So I think that murder is the main reason, and theft is just a means to conceal the real purpose!"

"You speak very well." Uncle Fan nodded approvingly, but then said seriously: "But there is one thing that makes this case even more extraordinary. Do you know what it is?" He took out a bag from behind him A golden dart was placed in front of Mo Han.

Mo Han took the dart and looked at it carefully.The golden dart was polished very delicately, as if it was made of pure gold into the shape of a flying swallow.There was a little blood on the tip of the dart, as if it had been inserted into the corpse.Mo Han felt that the Jinyan dart looked familiar, and frowned for a while, searching secretly in his mind.Suddenly, the shadow of an old file flashed in her mind.

"Ah! I remembered. Could this dart be the one of that series of unsolved cases..." Mo Han hesitated.

"Not bad." Fan Zhongren said in a deep voice. "This dart is the symbol of the famous thief 'Golden Swallow'!"

Mo Han had heard of the "Golden Swallow Case".Two years ago, when she first came to Dali Temple to report for duty, she read all the files of outstanding cases out of boredom.Among them, there are about a dozen cases from the same mysterious perpetrator.These cases all have some common features: they usually occur in rich families, and the thieves stole a lot of valuable property in a short period of time, and left a dart in the shape of a golden swallow at the scene, which seemed to be a demonstration to the investigators.However, no matter how hard the people in the Ministry of Criminal Justice tried, they could not find the slightest trace of the thief—in a total of thirteen cases, the investigators did not find any clues about the thief—the age, gender, appearance and identity of this person were all mysteries. Therefore, it was known as the "Golden Swallow Case", one of the top ten unsolved cases in Beijing, and the thief also used this name to refer to it.However, after the No. 13 case—that is, before Mo Han entered Dali Temple—the Golden Swallow suddenly disappeared and has never committed a crime since then.But the unsolved case has really become an unsolvable death case, and no one has ever asked about it since then.

Unexpectedly, today, the "Golden Swallow Case" once again appeared in people's field of vision.

"It looks like the Golden Swallow has returned to the arena." Mo Han said slowly, "But there is one thing that is very strange: Although the Golden Swallow has stolen countless times, it has never hurt anyone. It is really inappropriate to have such a heavy hand this time." sense."

"It's just the nature of thieves, which is not surprising." Fan Zhongren said with some contempt: "This is often the case with criminals. From small crimes to serious crimes, it's just a few thoughts." He said After finishing speaking, he asked Mo Han again: "How do you plan to investigate this case?"

Mo Han pondered for a while, then replied: "Since the biggest suspect in front of us is Jin Yanzi, then we should start with this clue."

She paced slowly in the room, with one hand behind her back, and the other hand was clenched against her own chest—this was her habitual action when she was thinking.After a while, she suddenly remembered something, and said to Fan Zhongren: "I remember, the No. 13 case was different from the previous twelve cases: what was lost that time was not a thing, but a person." Her eyes slowed down. A light flashed slowly, it was the excitement of discovering clues: "If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. Starting from this case, we will definitely be able to find out the mystery of the Golden Swallow's retreat and reappearance!"

An hour later, Mo Han was already standing at the gate of the Zhou Mansion, and showed his badge to the guard, who then saluted respectfully and went in to report.Zhou Yicheng, the owner of the Zhou Mansion, is a well-known wealthy businessman in the capital.Two years ago, the "lost" person was none other than his youngest daughter, Zhou Xiaodie.Of course, rather than being "lost", it would be better to say he was kidnapped.When the nanny who took care of the child was inattentive, Xiaodie disappeared.Zhou Yicheng was so anxious that he searched everywhere, and he tried all the white and black people, but there was no result.However, just three days after Xiaodie disappeared, she suddenly reappeared in her room unharmed.When the adults found her, she was smiling, showing no signs of being abused or hurt at all, but as happy as if she had gone out to play.

The only thing that went wrong was that something suddenly appeared in the room: a dart in the shape of a golden swallow.

"Xiaodie." Mo Han squatted down, smiling at the seven-year-old girl in front of him. "Tell me what you told the police brother two years ago, please?"

Xiaodie looked at her, tilted her head and thought for a while: "Are you talking about what happened when I was five years old? It was because I was still young, so I don't even remember clearly."

"It's okay, just say as much as you can." Mo Han gently patted her head.

So the little girl started talking intermittently.Mo Han listened carefully, but he couldn't help being a little disappointed, because there was no difference from what she said two years ago recorded in the file.Xiaodie recalled that she fell asleep in the room, and when she woke up again, she found herself in a strange cabin.She cried out in terror, but a veiled man appeared, and brought her some toys to play with, and bought her a great deal of good food.After eating, she was sleepy again, so she fell asleep again.So she wakes up and eats, eats and plays, sleeps when tired of playing, wakes up and eats again, and she is so happy that she forgets to go home.When she woke up for the last time, she found that she was already at home.

"Do you remember what that person looked like?" Mo Han asked eagerly.

"Tall, thin, with a veil, never speak." Xiaodie recalled, "She doesn't say anything when asked, it's really rude."

This reply was no different. Mo Han felt that his expectations had failed, so he sighed and stood up slowly.But the little girl suddenly added: "Miss sister taught me how to write."

Mo Han was shocked, grabbed the little girl's hand, and asked, "How do you know she's a girl? Have you seen her appearance or heard her voice?"

"No." The little girl said innocently.

"Then how did you know?"

"I just know it," replied the little girl.

Maybe it's the children's sixth sense, Mo Han thought to himself.But in any case, this is a new clue point that must be grasped.She asked Sui Xiaogao to ask for a pen and paper, and said to Xiaodie, "What words did Miss Sister teach you?"

Xiaodie grabbed the pen in a strange posture and began to draw seriously on the paper.She drew slowly, thinking.Finally, two crooked characters appeared on the paper.

Mo Han held the paper, not knowing why: "'Hand in hand'? What does hand in hand mean?"

"Oh, that's not right." Xiaodie patted her head suddenly: "I remember wrongly, why did I turn the wrong corner?"

She thought for a long time, then changed a few strokes on the paper, and handed it to Mo Han again.It was only then that Mo Han saw clearly that there were two words written on the paper: "Maomao".

Could this be the name of the "Golden Swallow"?Mo Han's first reaction was this.Suddenly there was a clue, and her heart brightened. "Go and check whether there are any women under the age of 30 in the household registration files in the capital and nearby counties who have ever been called by this name." She instructed Xiao Gao.Xiao Gao took the order and went.

Just as she was about to say goodbye to Xiaodie, the little girl suddenly said: "When my sister was teaching me to write, I heard ducks crowing."

etc.A flash of lightning flashed in Mo Han's mind.Where can you hear ducks?Could it be... by the moat?

"Xiaodie, thank you." Mo Han hugged her, and the little girl showed an innocent and lovely smile, which made Mo Han's heart soften.

"Such a cute child, no matter how cruel the thief is, he won't be able to bear it." She thought so, and started the real investigation.