I'm a detective for Dongchang

Chapter 139 Clues
Lu Xizhi and Yuan Yanxi glanced at each other, and saw something in each other's eyes.

Wang Yuanzhi bent down and inspected the appearance of the corpse, while Lu Xizhi walked around the corpse, staring at the corpse.

Yu Jinshan couldn't help asking: "Girl, you... don't you look disgusting?"

Lu Xizhi shook his head, and said casually, "It's just a severed head. I've seen corpses that are a hundred times more disgusting than this, but it's just a little strange..."

At this time, Wang Yuanzhi suddenly said: "The deceased was beheaded alive."

Hearing Wang Yuanzhi's words, the faces of the police officers changed. They all avoided the headless man's corpse from a distance, their eyes were erratic, and they dared not stop looking.

"What's the matter with you! Are you still going to handle the case!?" Yu Jinshan yelled at those people.

But Lu Xizhi noticed his expression. The weather wasn't too hot, but his forehead was covered with bead-sized beads of sweat, and his hands and legs were trembling slightly.

"Master Yu, are you hot?"

"Ah?" Yu Jinshan avoided looking at her, "Yes, the south wind in Hong County is a bit stuffy today."

"Look, don't your lords look familiar with the dead man's shoes?"

Yu Jinshan's sensitive nerves were completely broken at this moment. He couldn't care about anything else. He approached the corpse tremblingly, searching for something around his waist. His trembling hands still couldn't untie the complicated belt. He took out a waist card, and after seeing it clearly, he sat down on the ground suddenly, his eyes lost focus, staring at the distance blankly, and kept saying: It's him, it's him...

Donghai took a step forward and took the waist card, and handed it to Yuan Yanxi, on which it was written: Lord Bo Wei
This person turned out to be Hong County Lord Bo Wei Qianzhou.

"In the distance, more and more people are leaving the city. Let's transport the corpses back to the county government first. I'll let people continue to search for heads here." Yuan Yanxi said.

Wang Yuanzhi looked at the crowd not far away, nodded, covered the corpse with a black cloth, and went back to the yamen with the two policemen.

"Magistrate Yu, the governor knows that Jia Dafu left a letter before his death. You must have read it. You must also know that the destruction of Jia's family is related to my purpose. Now Wei Zhubo is also dead in the mountains. So many people have died in a few days, as the food and clothing official of Hong County, how do you explain to the emperor, I don’t need to explain it clearly.”

Yu Jinshan's eyes gradually regained clarity, he stood up in a daze, and bowed his hands: "Please follow me back to the county government, the factory superintendent."

At this time, Bei Xue came over to report the situation to Yuan Yanxi. Two hunters went to the city to sell wild goods today. They passed by here early in the morning and suddenly heard the cry of a woman. They thought that there were gangsters doing evil to bully good women, so they left with weapons. He came over, but he didn't expect to find such a terrifying scene, so he quickly ran into the city and reported to the city gate guards.

"A woman crying?" Lu Xizhi asked.

Bei Xue replied: "Yes, they saw a woman in red dress passing by."

"The girl in red... the female ghost." Dagui shouted in panic.

Several common people nearby heard Dagui's voice, and all showed expressions of fear.

Lu Xizhi was furious: "Dagui! It's not the first time you've lost your composure. You keep talking about female ghosts. Don't confuse people with your gossip. As a yamen catcher, why are you so timid and fearful? If you do this again, how about you?" Let’s go home and sell sweet potatoes.”

Yuan Yanxi patted her on the shoulder to calm her down.

He whispered to her: "Unfortunately, I'll go to the yamen to get Jia Dafu's letter. Wei Qianzhou's death is too coincidental. You can go to his house and see, there may be some clues."

The two soldiers set off in two directions.

Wei Qianzhou's home has become a mess. It turned out that Yu Jinshan's late arrival in the morning was due to the news from Wei Qianzhou's wife that she woke up when she was born and her husband was gone. I thought it was because she went to my concubine in the middle of the night to steal Huan, she was so angry that she finally found out that Wei Qianzhou was missing in the morning when she was ready to go to Xingshi to question him.

"So he was at home, but he went out in the middle of the night?" Lu Xizhi asked Mrs. Wei.

"Yes, my master and I went to bed early. If we didn't want to relieve ourselves in the middle of the night, we wouldn't know when he left." Mrs. Wei said weepingly.

Lu Xizhi looked around the bedroom, except that the door was locked from the inside, and the windows were also in the same situation. The room is not big, there are only two windows in total, and the latches of the windows are tightly fastened. She immediately thought that this is a typical secret room escape.

She asked Bei Xue and several men in black to search the periphery of the room carefully, including the corners of the courtyard, while she continued to collect evidence in this room.

However, after an inspection, the results did not seem to be very great. Except for a few drops of blood on Wei Qianzhou's sleeping side, nothing suspicious was found at the scene, let alone the tools used to commit crimes.Lu Xizhi is a little troubled, this is not the first scene of the crime, why is there blood, if there is a fight, how could Madam Wei not notice it?The county captain's mansion is also considered a downtown area. If it was held hostage, why didn't Wei Qianzhou call out?
Therefore, the only explanation is that Wei Qianzhou went out by himself.She asked the servants in the mansion again. At first, these people were shy and unwilling to answer. It was not until Lu Xizhi revealed his identity and put pressure on Wei Qianzhou's wife that they said something strange happened last night. matter.

At about five o'clock in the ugly hour, they heard a woman's mournful cry. At first they thought it was the master and his wife who were arguing, and the lady was crying because of something, but the more they heard the cry, the more frightening they were The girl got up and took a look in the yard, but the lights in the main house were off, so there was no quarrel.

None of the servants had ever studied, so they were inevitably superstitious, and became more and more afraid. They locked the door and dared not come out until the madam found out that the master was missing in the morning.Yuan Yanxi assigned Lu Xizhi a female entourage, and she wrote the transcript of the on-site interrogation verbatim, and Lu Xizhi also kept all the clues in her heart.

There are only two valuable things. One is that Wei Qianzhou met the murderer and walked out of the house by himself. The other key point is the crying of a woman in the middle of the night.At this time, Bei Xue, who was collecting evidence outside, also came back, she seemed to be holding something in her palm, and only nodded to her.

Lu Xizhi understood, and offered to leave. Mrs. Wei sobbed and asked the nobles to give her husband justice, so that he would know in the world and die with peace in his eyes.

Lu Xizhi curled his lips, disapproving, Wei Qianzhou was also very likely involved in the case of framing Lu Zhonglian, if he was silenced, he really deserved to die.However, this also means that his whereabouts and every move are controlled by the planner in the dark.

Lu Xizhi vaguely heard someone calling her, and someone patting her shoulder, asking her what's wrong.

It's Beixue.

She tried her best to keep herself awake, and the deadline given by the emperor was running out, and she couldn't be overwhelmed.

After leaving the county captain's mansion, she returned to the county government office.

Yuan Yanxi had already seen her pale and dejected.

"It's a pity."

"How, do you have a clue?" Lu Xizhi's anxiety was self-evident.

(End of this chapter)