Detective Di Renjie's legend of Wu Dynasty

Chapter 146 Headless Murder
It was already noon, and the official road leading to the capital of God had been completely blocked by the government officials in Yongchang County.

The atmosphere seemed very tense.

On the wall of the carriage, there is an eagle painted in blood. The eagle is lifelike and ready to fly.

It's just that the dark red color pervades the entire pattern, which is shocking and creepy.

Di Renjie and Wang Mang looked around, the carriage was clean and there was no sign of a fight.

Wang Mang turned around and got out of the carriage, looking into the distance...

After a while, Di Renjie also got out.

Zeng Tai who was outside the car hurried forward and asked, "Men, what did you find?"

Di Renjie shook his head: "Where is the body of the deceased named Jiang Xiaolang?"

Zeng Tai hurriedly said: "Oh, I know my teacher's habit of adjudicating cases, so I ordered the guards to strictly protect the scene. The corpse is still where the crime happened, and I dare not move it."

Di Renjie nodded: "Okay! Let's go and have a look."

With that said, several people came to the scene.

Di Renjie walked slowly to the headless corpse and observed carefully...

After a long time, Di Renjie turned his head, his gaze met Wang Mang, and he asked, "Jing Yang, what did you find?"

Wang Mang said: "The left arm of the deceased seems to have been cut off specially!"

Di Renjie nodded: "It's what I think!"

The county magistrate standing aside asked Zeng Tai in a low voice, "My lord, who are these people?"

Zeng Tai glanced at Di Renjie, and said softly, "This is the case-solving master I invited."

"Case-solving master?"

The county magistrate was taken aback.

Zeng Tai smiled and nodded.

At this moment, Di Renjie turned around and called out, "Zeng Tai."

Zeng Tai hurried forward.

Di Renjie asked: "You once said that the ID card was found from the deceased?"

Zeng Tai replied, "Exactly."

Di Renjie said, "Bring it to me."

Zeng Tai hurriedly made a gesture to the county magistrate behind him, and the county magistrate presented the document, and Di Renjie took it.

The words on the cover of the document were blurred by the rain and could not be read.

Di Renjie gently opened the document, and saw a few lines written on the homepage, and he read it out slowly: "Jiang Xiaolang, born in the seventh year of Sui Daye, from Jiangjiazhuang, Henan County."

Suddenly, Di Renjie raised his head abruptly, and said softly: "Sui Daye was born in the seventh year..."

Wang Mang's eyes lit up, and he looked at the headless corpse on the ground. He knelt down slowly, lifted up the sleeves of the deceased, and touched the bones of the deceased's hand.

Di Renjie also knelt down slowly, reached out and pressed lightly on the right arm of the deceased.

The two raised their heads at the same time, looked at each other, and exchanged glances.

Wang Mang frowned: "No!"

Di Renjie also murmured: "That's weird!"

Zeng Tai and the county magistrate looked at each other, Zeng Tai asked: "Men, Jing Yang, what did you find?"

Di Renjie pondered and didn't answer.

Wang Mang raised his head and asked back, "Didn't Brother Zeng find out?"

Zeng Tai was taken aback, looking at the county magistrate beside him, the magistrate shook his head inexplicably.

Wang Mang said: "According to this document, this Jiang Xiaolang was born in the seventh year of Daye in the former Sui Dynasty, and now it is the first year of Shenlong, so he should be over 90 years old!"

As soon as the words fell, a burst of muffled thunder rolled across the sky, making a loud "rumbling".

"Ah! What?"

Zeng Taihe's county magistrate was taken aback.

Di Renjie stood up slowly, and handed over the document: "Jing Yang is right, please take a closer look!"

Zeng Tai hurriedly took over the document, and sure enough it said "Sui Daye was born in the seventh year of Sui Dynasty".

Zeng Tai gasped, raised his head, and looked at Di Renjie and Wang Mang.

Di Renjie said: "According to the law of this dynasty, elders who are over [-] years old should be awarded honorary officers and increased salary. Could it be that there is no record in the county?"

Zeng Tai looked at the magistrate.

The county magistrate was dumbfounded, and stammered: "There are six old men over [-] years old in Yongchang County, all of them are recorded in the register, but there is no one named Jiang Xiaolang."

Di Renjie said: "Look at the deceased's body again. The skin is smooth, moist and elastic. How can this be the skin of a person who is nearly a hundred years old! In my opinion, the deceased is not even 40 years old."

Wang Mang continued: "Sir, according to my judgment, the deceased was only 27 or [-] years old."

"Oh?"

Di Renjie was surprised.

Wang Mang squatted down, picked up the right hand of the deceased, and said, "Sir, Brother Zeng, look, this man's skin is smooth and his muscles are strong, and he seems to know that this is definitely not the hand of a ninety-year-old man."

Di Renjie asked: "Jing Yang, where did you find out that this person is 27 or [-] years old?"

Wang Mang said: "Sir, Brother Zeng, have you noticed the growth rings of trees?"

Zeng Tai nodded: "Of course I know, but what does it have to do with this person?"

Wang Mang continued: "The reason why the annual rings of a tree are called annual rings is because every year a tree passes, its annual rings will increase by one."

Di Renjie's eyes lit up: "Jingyang, do you mean that people also have annual rings?"

Wang Mang nodded: "Of course, our bones grow with age, and I have dealt with patients for many years. Naturally, I can roughly judge a person's age from the bones of his hand by touching it. It's bone age."

"So it is!"

Di Renjie and the others suddenly realized.

Zeng Tai said: "Jing Yang, you are really an expert!"

Wang Mang smiled: "I just deal with patients more often, it's nothing!"

Zeng Tai shook his head: "If everyone knows how to do this, wouldn't everyone be a master at solving cases?"

Wang Mang shook his head: "What kind of master am I, the real master is still sir."

As he spoke, Wang Mang looked at Di Renjie who was on the side.

At this moment, Di Renjie was looking at the identity document in his hand and began to think.

Zeng Tai walked over slowly, and said: "Master, according to Jingyang's words, is this document, this..."

Di Renjie waved his hand: "Don't jump to conclusions yet. Let's go and have a look on the official road!"

Wang Mang followed Di Renjie onto the official road. His eagle eyes searched around for the ruts on the official road, rows of horseshoe prints...

Wang Mang walked forward slowly following the rut. After a while, the rut changed direction and headed for the wheat field beside the official road.

Next to the ridge of the wheat field, the soil turned up, and a line of footprints extended to the depths of the wheat field. In the distance, there was the stone tablet, which was where the dead died.

The eyes of Wang Mang and Di Renjie fell on a row of huge horseshoe prints beside the footprints at the same time.

The two looked at each other and looked into the distance, only to see that the direction of the hoofprint was the same as the direction in which the footprints extended.

Suddenly, Wang Mang squatted down slowly, staring at the huge horseshoe prints on the ground, groaning.

Di Renjie asked: "Jing Yang, did you find anything?"

"Sir, look at this horseshoe print!"

As he spoke, Wang Mang opened his palm and put it into the hoof print, only to see that the horse's hoof print was more than twice the size of his palm!

At the same time, Li Yuanfang looked at a row of horseshoe prints that were as big as a sea bowl on the official road. He squatted down and put his palm into the hoof prints. The horseshoe prints were more than twice the size of his palm!

Li Yuanfang was taken aback, and muttered softly: "Impossible! There is no way there are such big horses in the world!"

He looked very nervous, and a drop of cold sweat rolled down his forehead.

"Boom!"

A muffled thunder rolled across the sky, and Li Yuanfang suddenly raised his head...

(End of this chapter)