Great Lawyer

Chapter 353 Dam silver tael ([-])

"Drowning and drowning, I can confirm it." After the corpse was sent away, the cadaver inspected it again. "The deceased had some abrasions on his arms and back, which may have been scratched somewhere when he rolled down the river."

"Apart from these accidents, there is nothing else for the time being." The corpse said.

The atmosphere is under pressure.

I thought it was an accident, but now I just checked it roughly and found something suspicious.

"Are you sure about the knot?" King Gui looked at Du Jiuyan.

"Let some craftsmen come and see if they can tie this knot." Du Jiuyan said: "It is said that the way sailors tie knots is different from the way ordinary people tie knots."

King Gui nodded slightly, and said, "That's true. Back then, the sailors on our ship had a very special way of tying knots."

"I can do this knot." Gu Qingshan came forward, pointed and said: "This knot is not authentic, but it should be a sailor's knot."

As he spoke, he untied his belt, wrapped it around his shoulders obliquely on his chest like a burden, and tied his head in a knot.

At first glance, the knot of Li Er's burden is the same.

"The difference is the orientation of the end of the rope," Du Jiuyan compared for everyone to see, "If you are left-handed, it is easy to explain, if not, then this knot was tied by someone else."

Gu Qingshan agrees.

Frog found Li Shuang, Yao's man, and Li Ying, the oldest man with a hunchback.

King Gui asked about the knot, and the two of them looked at it and said, "This knot is different from ours. Our knot in the water is like this." Li Ying stood up and tied the knot casually, "My lords look."

"This knot is the first skill to be learned as a river engineer. This knot becomes tighter and tighter, and it will not be loosened no matter how much it is pulled outside." Li Yingdao.

Everyone came up to talk about it, and it really is.

But when Li Ying found the end of the rope, it was easy to untie it.

"This knot cannot be tied by the river worker. He made a wrong twist, but it still works," Li Ying said.

Du Jiuyan played with the belt in his hand, thoughtfully.

Li Ying said it was wrong, because this is a sailor's knot, so it is different from the ones commonly used by river workers.

"You are all surnamed Li, are you from the same village?" she asked.

"Yes, we are all from Li Family Village in Changde," Li Yingdao said, "Li Er paid homage to Master in the early years, and after he opened the door, he brought us out to do things. We have followed him all these years."

Du Jiuyan nodded.

"What do you think, if someone kills him, will it be a vendetta or a love?" Du Jiuyan asked suddenly.

Li Ying and Li Shuang's expressions changed, and Li Ying stammered: "No, I don't know, we don't know if he has any enmity with others."

"Understood. Go back." Du Jiuyan said.

King Gui and Du Jiuyan looked at each other, and the cripple went out of the shed to look at the backs of Li Ying and Li Shuang, and didn't come in until they were far away.

"Keep things safe." King Gui handed over the evidence to Jiao San, "I'll investigate tomorrow, everyone go back to sleep first."

Everyone should pack up their things and leave two policemen guarding Li Er's body in the shed.

On the way back, King Gui squeezed into the carriage and sat opposite Du Jiuyan, "I'm weak, I'm cold!"

"Well, my lord, you are weak." Du Jiuyan leaned against the wall of the car, frowned slightly, and sighed, "It's my second day, and Southwest's exam is about to start, I'm the president, I'm not competent. "

"Guilty, guilt!" Du Jiuyan said.

"You want to go back?" King Gui asked.

"A guilty conscience makes one work hard." Du Jiuyan said, "I'm too lazy and need to stimulate my potential."

King Gui nodded in agreement.

Outside the car, Jiao San almost fell off the horse, pointed at the cheeky man and the lame man and said in a low voice, "Isn't Jiuyan's morality and deeds getting deeper?"

The lame man kept a straight face and said nothing.

"To investigate the murderer, from which direction?" King Gui looked at Du Jiuyan, and he trusted her wholeheartedly in investigating the case.

Du Jiuyan frowned and said: "No ordinary people can't tie knots. You can ask the third master to lead someone to check, whoever is a sailor on this river dam, or someone in the family is related to sailors."

"The two river workers just now will interrogate when they come tomorrow." Du Jiuyan said,
As she spoke, she suddenly remembered something, "How much did you spend on the 40 taels allocated by the imperial court?"

"I don't know," King Gui said, "I didn't pay attention to this matter. The government sent people down, and they are doing everything."

"I am a county magistrate who has been forgotten. On this river dam, there may be merit plaques built in the future without my name." King Gui said.

Du Jiuyan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Then why are you bothering now?"

"Things are different from things. When everyone is safe in normal operations, it's the same with me. But now something has happened, of course I want to come. The 40 taels are the memorials I handed over, and the money is also sent to the county government." Gui Wang Dao: "With less money, I don't know who will give me what hat."

Du Jiuyan snorted, "Do you care about this reputation?"

"I don't care if others label me. I did it. I did it. I didn't do it. No one wants me to be blamed." Gui Wang said: "I'm an idle prince, and I have a reputation for rebellion. I just feel that I am black. If I am black, I will not care if I draw black spots."

King Gui sneered, "Those who don't care are idiots. I made it up to me to be black, and I can't do it passively."

Du Jiuyan cupped his hands, admiringly, "You are quite principled, Du Jiuyan admires you."

"Yanyan," King Gui said with a smile on his face, "Do you think we are alike?"

Du Jiuyan shook his head, "It's different, I'm more principled than you."

King Gui choked on the saliva, coughed, and pointed at Du Jiuyan, "I admire you! Zhao has a thick skin, and Zhao is willing to bow down."

Du Jiuyan nodded.

The group returned to the inn. Chen Lang and the others were waiting for dinner in the lobby below the inn. Taoist Mao was playing chess with Xiaoluo, and the two quarreled while playing chess.Mao Daoshi blushed and had a thick neck, as if he was going to fight.

"Father," Xiaoluobo rushed over and hugged Du Jiuyan's thigh, "Are you hungry? Let's have dinner tonight."

The sweet potatoes I ate last night were delicious, but I got hungry after a while.

He also secretly farted several times.

Stinks.

"Why don't you guys eat earlier." Du Jiuyan patted Xiaoluobo's head, looked at the chessboard, and laughed, "What kind of chess are you playing?"

She remembered that Xiaoluo couldn't play chess, and no one taught him.

"Gobang," Xiaoluo said, "I won!"

Daoist Mao patted the table and said: "What kind of broken chess has no connotation at all. Do you dare to play decent chess?"

Little Carrot said with a smile, "I'll find you when I learn Go. Chess is also fine. Master will teach me when I get home."

"Pindao is waiting for you." Mao Dao's morale was extremely high, he put away all his chess pieces, looked back at everyone's hands, and found no sweet potatoes, he was relieved, "I heard that the body was found today, do you want to catch ghosts? "

King Gui waved his hands, "It's really a ghost, I'll catch you first."

You can blow it once, and you can blow it every day.

Taoist Mao touched his nose.

The back kitchen brought the food, opened three tables and everyone sat down, Silver Hands came in from the outside.

For the past two days, Du Jiuyan refused to let him continue to sleep in the work shed. After all, he was dead, so she was worried.

Not afraid of ghosts, but afraid of people.

"I've seen the corpse of Foreman Li." Yinshou sat down and took two mouthfuls of rice. "Eat by water, and finally died in the water."

Taoist Mao stuffed a piece of meat and asked, "Have the three skeletons in front found their owners?"

"You didn't even ask, so we don't know." Yinshou shook his head, "It happened a few years ago, so we can't find out."

Du Jiuyan paused for a moment, then resumed eating.

"Ninth Brother," Yinshou asked, "When I came back, I heard Uncle Li Ying and the others talk about knots in Wada-sama. What kind of knots?"

Du Jiuyan told Yinshou about the matter, "Where did they say it and how did they say it?"

"It's in the shed where Foreman Li is housed. They were chatting at the door. I greeted them before I left, and I heard them all over the place. There's no beginning or end, so I'll ask." Yinshou asked: "So Say, do you suspect that he killed him?"

Du Jiuyan nodded.

"It's a little unreasonable for him to kill." Yin Shou said: "He still has the money on his body, so it must not be a robbery. Foreman Li is so ugly, it can't be a love murder, then it can only be a vendetta."

"If it's a vendetta... I don't feel like it either, I can't tell what it doesn't look like."

"What about silence?" the lame man suddenly asked.

Yin Shou looked at him with a mouthful of food in his mouth, "Why did you keep your mouth shut?"

"The dam," the lame man asked, "do you know how much silver was used for this dam?"

Yinshou shook his head, "I don't care about this matter, I don't know."

"What about the material, what are you using?" the lame man asked.

Silver hand swallowed the meal, "The material is impossible. I look at it every day. It's just a large piece of stone. From the wooden piles at the bottom of the water to lay the foundation, to the iron ingots for compaction... There is no problem at all."

"Reinforcement on both sides of the strait is also true." Yin Shou said: "No, you suspect that Foreman Li was silenced because of the dam. Did he know something he shouldn't?"

No one speaks.

There are such speculations, but there is no evidence so far.

Things are hard to say.

"If you know anything, I'm here," Yinshou said, "If you want money, you can ask Mr. Tian from the Ministry of Industry and Mr. Wu from the government office. a cashier."

"There are a lot of people working on the dam. If you want to silence them, you should kill Mr. Cao Guantian. He must know the most." Yin Shou said.

They have been here for two days, and they have not questioned Mr. Wu who came from the government office, nor have they asked the two accountants. First, all three of them have gone back temporarily. Second, they have not found Li Er before today, and they have no direction to ask. .

"Check it out," Du Jiuyan said, "Don't be afraid to check something good!"

King Gui nodded and said, "Check!"

The next day, King Gui asked Gu Qingshan to check on the former foreman of Changde and verify who had been here four years ago.Jiao San led the people to find out among all the people living on the dam, who had worked on the ship or was a sailor, or who was a sailor in the family.

The cripple checked the accounts with Chen Lang.

Du Jiuyan and Tian Mao sat on the ridge and chatted.

"Is this the first time Mr. Tian has come to Shaoyang? Are you still used to eating and living?" Du Jiuyan asked chatting.

　It feels so cold now, especially when I sit here at night and shiver from the cold!Winter is coming, and I am most afraid of winter, because I am not afraid of heat but cold.

　　Every winter, my hands suffer from frostbite, which is not only uncomfortable but also ugly!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)