Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 464 Chapter 475: Investigation
Li Hao also arrived in Youzhou when Xue Rengui sent a cavalry team to ride around Qinghai Lake for a surprise attack.

Due to Li Hao's distinguished status and high official position, and now he is still holding the post of deposed envoy of Hebei, Sun Bowang, the governor of Youzhou, came out of the city to greet him in person. Not only that, the people in the city had long heard that Li Hao was coming, and they lined the road to welcome him. There was a bustling scene of thousands of people emptying the streets. Li Hao's implementation of the new tax system was still known to the common people. Naturally, the common people praised Li Hao. Now these common people are looking forward to the implementation of the new tax system throughout the country, so that they can Being able to pay half of the agricultural tax is simply a blessing for all the people in Datang.

After entering the city, Li Hao wore a white robe, rode a white horse and paraded through the streets, waving to the common people frequently, so unhappy, he looked like he had seen all the flowers in Chang'an for a while, and Di Renjie and other Dali Temple officials felt honored to follow him Yan, the waist is straight.

Looking at the back of the proud Li Hao, Di Renjie was quite envious, and secretly swore: "I will also work for the people like King Qiongnan, if one day I can be praised by the people like this, even if I live 20 years less, it will be worth it. "

Finally arrived at the Governor's Mansion, Li Hao got off his horse, and under the guidance of Sun Bowang, he came to the Government Office of the Governor's Mansion. Sun Bowang wanted to serve tea, Li Hao asked directly, "Master Sun, where is the body?"

Sun Bowang immediately understood that King Qiongnan was quick-tempered and also a practical person, so he hurriedly replied, "Return to Master Li, all the corpses are parked in the Houya morgue, and they are preserved in ice."

"Well, very good." Li Hao nodded appreciatively, and said, "Take us to have a look."

"Yes." Sun Bowang immediately took Li Hao and the others to the back office.

Arriving at the Houya morgue, he opened the door, and a stench came over his face. Li Hao waved his sleeves and took several steps back, feeling that the smell could rot his lungs. After a long time, He took out the handkerchief Qin Su gave him, covered his nose, and led everyone into the morgue. He saw seventy or eighty corpses neatly parked in the huge morgue, and the corpses were all covered with white cloth. , but it still looks creepy.

Although it is spring, the temperature in the morgue is very low, because there are many large or small ice cubes placed on each corpse, some ice cubes melted, and water flowed all over the ground, so the ground in the morgue is very cold now. Humid and uncomfortable.

Li Hao picked out a corpse and lifted the white cloth, and saw that the deceased was an old man in his 50s, with no clothes on his body, and the corpse had already begun to rot. After all, it had been too long. Even if there were ice cubes, it would only slow down the decay of the corpse. Well, unlike the future world, the corpses are all put in special freezers, and it will be fine for a few years.

"Huaiying, come and see." Li Hao called out, Huaiying was Di Renjie's name.

Di Renjie was a little puzzled when he heard the words. He didn't tell Li Hao his own words. How did Li Hao know? The legs of the corpse, and then opened the mouth, eyeballs, ears, hair, fingers and other hidden parts of the corpse, and examined them carefully.

After a long time, Li Hao asked: "Huaiying, did you find anything?"

"Yes." Di Renjie replied, "Although there are strangle marks on the neck of the corpse, the strangle marks are different from the cause of the strangle marks. They should be caused after death. It is certain that it is not a suicide, but a premeditated murder. The skin color of the corpse is abnormal. , the possibility of poisoning cannot be ruled out."

Li Hao nodded when he heard this. This discovery was nothing, because he had already guessed that this was not suicide.

Sun Bowang who was on the side interjected: "During the autopsy, I tested the abdomen of the deceased with a silver needle and found that the abdomen of the deceased was highly poisonous."

Li Hao heard the words and said: "That is to say, this group of people were poisoned to death first, and then hung up with ropes, pretending to be hanged."

Sun Bowang said: "Yes, my lord, we found that there was poison in the well of Hu Zhao and his family. These people should have died after drinking the poisonous well water."

Upon hearing this, Di Renjie said, "Master Sun, do you know where your official post-mortem records are? I want to take a look."

Sun Bowang glanced at the young Di Renjie suspiciously, and then looked at Li Hao questioningly.

Li Hao smiled and said, "Give it to him."

"Yes." Upon hearing this, Sun Bowang immediately ordered someone to fetch the autopsy report.

The autopsy report was brought, and Di Renjie took the autopsy report to read it, and then checked several corpses, and then returned the autopsy report to Sun Bowang. Li Hao asked, "Huaiying, is there any new discovery?"

Di Renjie shook his head thoughtfully: "Not yet, I need to go to the scene of the crime." He was so absorbed in the case that he even forgot the honorific title for Li Hao.

Seeing this, Sun Bowang looked at Li Hao in surprise. After all, even he, the governor, was very respectful to Li Hao. Di Renjie had even forgotten to call him his honorific title. How could he not be surprised.

Unexpectedly, Li Hao didn't care at all, but turned his head to Sun Bowang and said, "Master Sun, take us to the scene of the crime."

"Yes."

Sun Bowang responded respectfully, and sent a government servant to clear the way to the scene of the crime.

The residences of Hu's merchants and Zhao's merchants are both in the city. They went to the Hu's residence first. After entering, Di Renjie frowned and said in a low voice: "You have moved the crime scene a lot, I'm afraid it will be destroyed. Lots of clues."

Sun Bowang was ashamed when he heard the words. After all, he is not a professional detective, so he doesn't know much about this aspect, and now he is very curious about Di Renjie's identity. Li Hao thinks highly of him at such a young age. , he dared not refute.

Di Renjie turned his head to face the other twelve Dali Temple colleagues, bowed his hands, and said, "Seniors, I'm counting on you."

Although they were a bit dissatisfied with the leader Di Renjie, work is work, and they dare not be sloppy about this, and Di Renjie was well-mannered and not arrogant at all, which made them very comfortable. Start gathering evidence.

Di Renjie, led by Sun Bowang, came down to the Hu family's hall. Sun Bowang opened the door and said, "At that time, there were nearly [-] corpses hanging in this hall. Sun has only seen that scene in his life, and he still feels ashamed."

Di Renjie first looked at the ground, then looked up at the roof and surroundings, then stepped in and asked, "Master Sun, were all the corpses hanging on the beams at that time?"

"Yes." Sun Bowang replied.

Di Renjie asked again: "Is there a stool under their feet? How high are the corpse's feet from the ground?"

Sun Bowang thought for a while, and replied: "There are more than a dozen benches that fell to the ground, and the corpse's feet are about the same height as the benches. It looks like hanging himself."

"It seems that the murderer is a veteran." Li Hao said after hearing the words.

Di Renjie nodded in agreement: "My lord is right. It seems that they have done such things a lot. Later, we may ask Mr. Sun to help us look up all the murder files in Youzhou in the past ten years."

Li Hao couldn't help being speechless when he heard the words. Looking through the murder files in Youzhou for more than ten years, his scalp tingles just thinking about it. It seems that investigating the case is really not an easy job.

Di Renjie paced slowly in the hall, looked up at the beam, and asked after a while, "Master Sun, how did you get the corpse down when you put it down?"

Sun Bowang said: "Cut all the ropes and let them down."

"That's great." Di Renjie's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and he rushed forward, stepped on a pillar twice, jumped up, and landed firmly on a square beam. He carefully observed the beam, Soon he discovered that they were two faint footprints, which had been obscured by dust. He took out two pieces of white paper from his pocket and gently placed them on the footprints. After a while, he gently touched them again. He picked up the paper calmly, then took out a porcelain bottle from his pocket, unplugged it, sprinkled some black powder on the paper, and shook the paper gently in his hand, the powder went over all the corners of the white paper, when he put the black powder from the When shaking the white paper, clear footprints appeared on the paper.

After finishing all this, Di Renjie jumped down, handed the white paper to Li Hao, and said, "My lord, these are the footprints of the murderer."

Li Hao glanced at it, and couldn't help laughing and praised: "Good job, you really have a skill."

"Small skills are nothing to worry about." Di Renjie said indifferently, then turned his head and asked Sun Bowang, "Master Sun, where did you take the rope used to hang the corpse?"

Sun Bowang said: "It's kept in the Evidence Hall in my back office."

"After we go back, please ask Mr. Sun to show us the rope, maybe there will be clues." After Di Renjie said, he continued to collect evidence in the main room.

When they came out, a special soldier suddenly came to Li Hao's side, whispered something in Li Hao's ear, Li Hao nodded with a smile.

Seeing this, Sun Bowang was surprised and asked: "Master Li, could it be that your personal guards have also discovered something?"

Li Hao smiled secretly, nodded and said: "That's right, Dali Temple has Dali Temple's investigation method, and this king has my king's investigation method."

Di Renjie also looked at Li Hao suspiciously when he heard the words. He really wanted to ask Li Hao how he investigated the case, but he also knew that this was too abrupt, so he suppressed his curiosity.

After checking the mansions of Hu's merchants, they went to Zhao's mansions.

In a village twenty miles north of Youzhou City, there is an extremely large mansion with two large characters written on the gate of the mansion - "Lu Mansion". One of the surnamed Qiwang, a powerful family leader.

While Li Hao and Di Renjie were investigating the case at the house of Hu's merchant, a shabby-clothed knight-errant with a big sword appeared in front of the side door of Lu's mansion. Seeing the long and big hilt of the sword, which was half a foot higher than his head, Lu Qin, the housekeeper of the Lu family, went out to meet him. Under Lu Qin's guidance, the knight-errant came to the living room of Lu's mansion.

Lu Qin pointed to the living room door of Lu Mansion, and said, "Our master is waiting in the hall, Mr. Ye, please come in."

The shabby-clothed knight-errant looked up at the living room of Lu's mansion, squinting his eyes slightly. He clearly felt that there were no less than a hundred masters of the rivers and lakes hiding in the living room, so he couldn't help sneering: "Master Lu really thinks highly of me, Ye Mengqiu." Lift your feet and step on the stone steps in the corridor, ready to enter the living room.

　This should be the last knight-errant in this book, and I don’t want to write about masters of the rivers and lakes in the future. Of course, if readers need it, you can add one temporarily.

　　
　
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