ancient criminal minds

Back in Houya, several people were still angry, not only because of Ma Yanbai's shameless behavior, but also because of his attitude towards the murderer.

However, after calming down, Lu Zheng said again: "Even so, we still need to find out."

"What else is there to investigate? Doesn't the one surnamed Ma mean that the murderer has been identified?" Bao Zheng was still angry.

You Xiaowu didn't go with them. Hearing what they said, he said: "During the process of your investigation, the old man also went outside to find out the news. This red-clothed thief is indeed both good and evil, but his actions It can also be called a grand thief." You Xiaowu paused before continuing, "The interesting thing is that although many people love and fear him, as far as I know, he has never killed anyone."

Dendrobium also said: "The deceased was beheaded by someone with a knife. The murderer must have been very strong. If he used light kung fu, he might not be able to do so."

"Since that's the case, let's investigate the social situation of this butcher separately." Lu Zheng made the final decision.

Lu Zheng and Dendrobium are in a group, Bao Zheng is in a group with You Xiaowu.What Lu Zheng and Dendrobium were looking for was the butcher's friend, a scholar named An Zicheng.It sounds unbelievable that a butcher and a scholar should be friends, but in fact, when they saw An Zicheng, they knew why he, a scholar, became friends with a butcher.

An Zicheng lived next door to Li Si. He was also a bachelor. He liked to drink and gamble, and he lived by writing scripts on weekdays.

The first time Lu Zheng and the others saw An Zicheng, the boy took out a dusty notebook from his arms, and said in a low voice, "Did you two come here just because of their reputation? It just so happens, next time This is the last one."

Lu Zheng took the booklet without knowing why, and was immediately blinded by the name on it. This kind of title would definitely be talked about in modern times, and the four big characters below the title—— Real person Yuding.

Lu Zheng recalled the posture that was popularized by various old and young men in Qingxi County in the tavern, and said with mixed feelings: "Your Excellency is... the real Yuding?"

"Exactly." The old boy was quite complacent, straightened his dirty clothes, and said, "Young master must also admire me, so I did everything possible to find it. In order to thank you for your love, I can give you a gift." This book has been treasured for a long time, I don’t know which story book the young master likes to write down?”

"..." Lu Zheng had a sense of déjà vu when he saw You Xiaowu.

Seeing that Lu Zheng didn't speak, An Zicheng thought he was embarrassed, and said with a meaningful expression: "This is normal, you don't have to be shy."

Lu Zheng said speechlessly: "Mr. An, you misunderstood, we are here to ask you about Li Si."

"Oh..." An Zicheng's warm expression immediately faded. He sniffed, stretched out his hand and scratched his neck, and said idly, "Ask."

Lu Zheng didn't care about his attitude change, and asked: "It is said that the last person Li Si saw before his death was you, what can you say?"

An Zicheng said "Oh": "That's right, we drank together that night, at that Hongchang Restaurant."

Lu Zheng asked again: "Do you remember what you ate?"

"I remember. Pork head meat and peanuts, we always order this every time we go, paired with the sweet-scented osmanthus wine made by the proprietress, it's really... tsk tsk."

Lu Zheng and Dendrobium glanced at each other, this was in line with their autopsy results, at least the time of Li Si's death could be determined.

An Zicheng said: "My lord, I think it's the new county lieutenant, so don't ask, no one can catch the murderer in this case."

Lu Zheng narrowed his eyes. This is the second person who said that they couldn't catch the murderer. He asked, "You also think the murderer is a thief in red?"

"I don't think so, but this case was committed by the robber in red." An Zicheng said lazily.

“How come you see?”

An Zicheng sighed: "This Li Si is a good man, but he is full of nonsense after drinking two cups of yellow soup. Since you have found Li Si, you should know that Li Si has always liked the tofu Xishi on the street, but you don't know, this The man of Tofu Xishi was killed by the thief in red. Tofu Xishi once told Li Si that she would never marry again unless the thief in red was brought to justice. Li Si drank that night and shouted to be arrested The red-clothed thief, later... ah."

Lu Zheng and the others did find this tofu Xishi, and You Xiaowu's eyes lit up as soon as he saw the name, and he insisted on taking on this job, so he and Bao Zheng went to investigate the tofu Xishi. Lu Zheng and Dendrobium came to check An Zicheng.It's just that I didn't know there was such an inside story before.

Lu Zheng quickly asked: "But I don't know what's going on?"

"Everyone in Qingxi County knows about this, but since you asked, I will tell you about it." An Zicheng scratched his head and said, "Tofu Xishi's surname is Jiang, and her name is Sanniang. Her husband's surname is Chai. Two years younger than Jiang Sanniang, she and her mother lived in our Qingxi County, so they rented the yard of Jiang Sanniang's house. After going back and forth, they saw each other, but Jiang Sanniang's family only had three sisters, and both of her older sisters were married. , she was the only one left, but his parents insisted on recruiting a son-in-law. Originally, this boy Chai would not agree, but his mother suddenly fell ill, and he was a dutiful son, so he agreed for this. After that, the days were quite peaceful, Chai The Jiang family's parents were also satisfied with the kid's diligence. Later, Chai's mother died of illness. He said that he wanted to bury his mother's ashes at home. .”

Lu Zheng frowned: "Even so, he doesn't deserve to die!"

"Don't worry, I haven't finished yet." An Zicheng's expression also became serious, "At the beginning, the two elders of the Jiang family also regarded him as unwilling to be a son-in-law, so they ran away, and they didn't want to be married anymore. Obsessed with the matter of recruiting a son-in-law, she planned to marry off her daughter, but Jiang Sanniang refused, and insisted on waiting for Boy Chai to come back, which lasted for three years. And just three years later, the two elders of the Jiang family were suddenly killed by someone. Killed, and at the first seven of the two elders, guess what?"

Lu Zhengzheng listened enthusiastically, but he didn't expect that he would be betrayed. He said speechlessly, "Why don't you just say it, this is not writing a storybook."

"Oh oh oh." An Zicheng smiled shyly, "I'm used to it, don't be offended." He coughed, and became serious again, "At the seventh head of the two elders, this brat Chai's head was directly hung At the door of Jiang Sanniang’s house, a small red arrow was stuck on his forehead, and there was a note on the arrow, with four words written on it—karma.”

"So, this person surnamed Chai is the murderer who killed the second elder of the Jiang family, so Jiang Sanniang should be grateful to the red-clothed robber?" Lu Zheng asked puzzled.

An Zicheng shook his head and said: "We thought it was Chai Boy who committed the crime, but who knew that two years later when the bandits were suppressed, one of the crimes confessed by the bandit leader was to kill the second elder of the Jiang family, and because of this, Jiang Sanniang knew I have wronged Chai Boy, and I vowed not to remarry until the Red Clothes thief is brought back to justice."

From what he said, it seemed that the red-clothed thief had done something bad with good intentions.But Lu Zheng still couldn't agree with this so-called vigilante's behavior. His profession told him that this kind of people who judge good and evil based on their own subjectivity, especially those with extremely high IQ or extremely high force, will be extremely dangerous in the end. may become a criminal.

An Zicheng sighed: "Li Si was drinking too much at the time, I knew it was going to be bad when I heard him say that, and sure enough, I didn't see him the next day. Later, I heard that the government found a dead body, so I went to see it too. , He has a birthmark the size of a copper coin on his arm, and a mole grows next to the birthmark, I knew it was him at a glance, presumably it was his actions that angered the red-clothed robber, and that's why he got murdered."

His words were reasonable and logical, but Lu Zheng couldn't tell what was wrong, he was still thinking about it, when he saw An Zicheng leaning over in a wretched way: "Does your lord really need a book?"

Lu Zheng looked at the brochure in his hand, his face darkened immediately: "No need." Then he took Dendrobium and left.

When Lu Zheng and the others returned to Houya, You Xiaowu and the others hadn't come back yet, only Liu Zhi was leading Yuan Bao and Tie Dan to tidy up the yard. Although Lu Zheng had planned to build a grape shelf, it was just a hands-off shopkeeper, but Liu Zhi With Zhi in mind, taking advantage of the fact that it was spring, he took them to plant the grape vines. Although there would be no grapes for a short time, at least the shelves would be full of greenery in summer.

Just as Lu Zheng changed his clothes and was about to go to help, he saw the door was pushed open, You Xiaowu and Bao Zheng were drenched, Bao Zheng still had a bright red slap mark on his face.

Everyone was immediately shocked by their looks.

Dendrobium hurriedly greeted him: "Brother Bao, what's the matter with your face?"

The grievance on Bao Zheng's face was almost overflowing: "My lord, you must talk about this old fritter, he is too much!"

"What's wrong?" Lu Zheng looked at Bao Zheng, then at You Xiaowu, "What's wrong with you? No, what's wrong with you two, went out to swim?"

You Xiaowu spread his hands: "I can't blame this old man... Hey, hey, don't hit, don't hit!"

You Xiaowu flinched and hid behind Lu Zheng, looked at the angry Bao Zheng and said, "You have something to say, you have something to say!"

Bao Zheng sat down: "Okay, tell me, I'll see what you can come up with!"

"That's what..." You Xiaowu rolled his eyes, patted his thigh and cried, "My lord! You have to decide for us!"

Bao Zheng stared, he probably didn't expect him to be so shameless, he didn't know what to do for a while.

On the contrary, Lu Zheng already knew the virtue of this old boy, so he sat down very calmly: "What do you want me to do?"

"The people in Qingxi County are dishonest! If you say it's a bean curd beauty, it's clearly an ugly nightshade!" You Xiaowu was angry and regretted, "It's okay to be ugly, but I'm still a tigress. We just walked in, and we haven't even asked yet After a few words, she poured out a basin of water!"

Lu Zheng looked at him suspiciously: "Didn't you do something that caused people to misunderstand?"

You Xiaowu immediately said righteously: "I swear!"

Bao Zheng sneered at the side and said, "As soon as he saw that tofu beauty, he immediately backed away. What can he do to cause people to misunderstand?"

"In that case, what's the matter with that slap on your face?"

You Xiaowu hurriedly said: "It's all my fault, my fault, thinking that there are many gossips in front of the widow's door, it's really shameful to ask questions at the door of the widow, so I asked Lao Bao to climb over the wall and ask, who would have thought..."

As soon as these words came out, everyone saw that Bao Zheng's expression was wrong, and Bao Zheng suddenly became anxious: "Don't listen to his nonsense, it is clear that he climbed the wall by himself, and ran away as soon as he was discovered. I stood where I was. When I turned around, I was slapped in the face!"

Stared at by all the contemptuous eyes, You Xiaowu said with a smile: "It's all a misunderstanding..."

Lu Zheng didn't want to say anything more, and asked again: "Then what did you find out?"

You Xiaowu immediately became proud: "Of course, otherwise why would we come back so late."

A pair of hatchbacks, and what An Zicheng said was roughly the same. The murderer simply pointed at the robber in red.

Lu Zheng pondered for a moment: "It seems that we can only know the truth after meeting this red-clothed thief for a while."