ancient criminal minds

Li Si's family is poor, and An Zicheng helped collect his body.His cemetery was on a small hillside outside the city. An Zicheng spent all his money to buy a thin wooden coffin and buried him hastily.Although it was a bit bleak, there were still friends like An Zicheng who were worrying about his afterlife, so at least he didn't end up in the wilderness of corpses.

After An Zicheng bought the coffin, he didn't have any money, so he had to find a piece of wood, write Li Sizhi's tomb on it, and put it in front of the grave.

Paper money was sprinkled and incense was lit, and several people solemnly performed the worship ceremony. An Zicheng poured the wine in front of the grave, and babbled: "I met you once, and I thought I would leave earlier than you. I know you'll go down first, but it's fine if you go down, you're so bad that you don't even have a wife, and after you go down, find a female ghost to keep you company... You also know that my brother has no money, so he can't sacrifice with big fish and meat Please, prepare a glass of beer wine, don't blame me, if you want to be a brother, you can do something to give him some gold and silver, and forget everything else, don't use it to see me..."

Lu Zheng wanted to leave at first, but he didn't know that An Zicheng didn't stop talking after saying this: "...you are also suffering, and you didn't eat well at the last meal. If I had known that night, I wouldn't have argued with you, and let you buy a The duck is so good to eat, hey, but if you walk slowly, there will be Lu Dashan to accompany you, he has done so many good deeds, he may be able to be a city god or something, and you may be able to follow him Get some kind of official position, but you have to remember not to leak your words. If he finds out that you picked up his sachet and didn't return it to him, he will definitely look down on you. Then you will be unlucky, maybe you will just I can go to the animal road..."

Hearing that his words became more and more outrageous, and Lu Enguang was involved, Lu Zheng couldn't help but asked, "What sachet?"

An Zicheng wiped away his tears, and muttered, "It was the night before Li Si's death. When we returned after drinking, I went to the river for convenience. When Li Si was waiting for me, he happened to bump into Mr. Lu Dashan. Dashan was in a hurry and dropped a sachet, and Li Si picked it up when he saw the sachet was pretty."

Lu Zheng focused his eyes: "Where is the sachet now?"

An Zicheng said "oh", took out a dirty sachet from his arms and handed it to Lu Zheng, and said: "Li Si was afraid that Jiang Sanniang would see him and misunderstand that he had a lover, so he threw it to me. .”

Lu Zheng looked at the sachet over and over again, but didn't see anything, so he asked again: "Which direction did Lu Enguang come from, and in which direction did he go?"

An Zicheng thought for a while before saying, "He seems to be coming back from outside the city, but judging by the direction he's walking, it doesn't look like he's going home."

"Did you and Li Si go home directly? Did you run into anyone else after that?"

"Yes." An Zicheng said with certainty, "Because it was a bit late at that time, and there were no people on the street, so we walked faster."

Lu Zheng pondered for a moment, and then said to An Zicheng: "Leave this sachet here for now, if I have anything else I want to ask you, I'll come back to you."

"As you please, please."

When they got back to Houya, everyone had already started eating.Seeing them, Liu Zhi quickly stood up and said, "My lord, why did you come back? I've warmed up the food for you." Then he went to bring out the hot food on the stove.

Lu Zheng weighed heavily in his heart, shook his hand and said, "Don't worry about eating." Then he asked You Xiaowu, "How's your investigation going?"

You Xiaowu's complexion was also a bit ugly: "There is no news yet."

Lu Zheng sighed.

Seeing this, Liu Zhi handed the chopsticks into his hands: "My lord, don't worry, this kind of matter can be resolved overnight, the world is the biggest meal, let's talk about it after eating first."

"That's right." You Xiaowu also said, "Although there is no news about Huang Jiu, the old man has heard about something else."

Lu Zheng's spirit lifted: "What news?"

"Master Lu has traveled far away twice in winter. Although he used the excuse that he was running a business, the season for collecting medicinal materials is mostly autumn or early winter. How could it be possible to collect them at the end of the year?" You Xiaowu said, "Besides , even if you go to collect medicinal materials, how can you go alone without a buddy?"

Speaking of this, Lu Zheng took out the sachet, said An Zicheng's words again, and then smiled wryly: "I think this timing is too coincidental, so I'm worried that this sachet has other secrets, but no matter how you look at it, it's just It’s just a simple sachet.”

You Xiaowu didn't eat anymore, took the sachet to look at it, and poured out the medicinal materials inside, but there was nothing in it, besides, the sachet was made of single-layer fabric, and it didn't look like it had a layer.

The sachet was turned around in everyone's hands, and finally it was placed on the table.

Lu Zheng rubbed his forehead: "I feel like this case is getting more and more complicated."

You Xiaowu also sighed: "The water in Qingxi County is really too deep."

But at this time, Liu Zhi suddenly said: "My lord, I probably know the mystery in this sachet."

Liuzhi took out the sewing basket from her room, opened the sachet, and untied the webbing that wore the sachet, and then untied the webbing lightly, revealing a folded tiny piece of silk-like paper. out.

You Xiaowu was amazed, and was about to take it, but was stopped by Liuzhi.

"This is called fish intestine paper. Although it is very tough, once it gets oily, the words written on it will fade away. It's better not to touch your oily hands." Liu Zhi said, and took a clean piece. Slowly unfold this piece of fish intestine paper.

To everyone's surprise, this fish gut paper turned out to be a sea chart.

Lu Zheng asked Liu Zhi: "Liu Zhi, do you understand?"

Liu Zhi hesitated for a while before saying, "Understandable."

All eyes were on the willow branches.

Lu Zheng didn't ask her why she could understand it, but asked, "Do you know where this place is on the chart?"

Liu Zhi nodded: "The location on this chart should be in the South China Sea. This is an island. This..." she whispered, "This should be the old nest of the Sea Dragon King."

Sea Dragon King was a notorious pirate in the Yongning period. His fleet was elusive, and his methods were extremely cruel. Looting caused the residents along the coast to have no peace, and also caused many righteous men to grit their teeth against him.

Liu Zhi lightly tapped a snake-shaped symbol above the island, and said: "This is what is painted on the flag of the Sea Dragon King. I will never forget this pattern." At the end, her eyes were red, full of hatred. meaning.

"Willow branches..."

Liu Zhi bit her lips and said: "I am a resident of Qingzhou, my parents are present at home, although I am poor, my family is happy, but these pirates have destroyed our village, they wantonly killed in the village, my sister and I were killed My mother hid in the cellar to save her life, but they..." Her tears rolled down, and she shook her head sadly, "My sister and I left home, and now my sister died in another country, I have nothing else to ask but I want these demons to kill and pay for their lives!"

Lu Zheng nodded: "Don't worry, I will definitely make this chart work." He carefully folded the chart and put it into a small wooden box, but he was worried when holding the wooden box , the role of this chart is beyond doubt, and the identity of Lu Dashan is also ready to be revealed. He is very likely to be a secret agent of the imperial court, in order to find out the lair of the Sea Dragon King, but now that he is dead, this chart is like a hot hand. Sweet potato, what should I do.

After much deliberation, Lu Zheng had no choice but to take this wooden box with him, and hand it over to the court when he found a suitable opportunity.

But now, now that Lu Zheng knew that Lu Enguang's death was related to Sea Dragon King, Lu Zheng didn't know how to investigate further. On the one hand, the case became more and more complicated, and on the other hand, Sea Dragon King was cunning and cruel. For me, I'm afraid I can't keep my little life, not only my life, I'm afraid even Bao Zheng and the others will be implicated.

Now that I think about it, I can only put the crime on Lu Enshan according to the person who set the blame, temporarily close the case, and wait until the rumors pass before handing over the chart to the court.But Lu Zheng couldn't convince himself no matter what he thought, but he couldn't send anyone to take the chart to Yanjing, otherwise, according to Sea Dragon King's cautious temperament, even the slightest disturbance at this time would attract his attention. Sometimes I'm afraid that this chart will not be able to reach Beijing safely.

Lu Zheng couldn't think of a perfect solution after thinking about it. At this time, he suddenly missed Rong Zhen very much, as if nothing could stop him, no matter how difficult it was, as long as he was there, he could solve it.And this thought is like a switch, pouring out all the memories about Rong Zhen.They are like glass beads hitting the heart, causing the originally quiet heart to suddenly ripple round and round.

Lu Zheng sighed softly, he thought he could face everything with strength, but he was always weak, and the source of his weakness was Rong Zhen.

Stopping his flood of thoughts, Lu Zheng still has to return to reality.At present, he can only let everyone keep a secret, and must not reveal the slightest word to anyone, otherwise it will be a disaster.

Everyone knows the seriousness of the matter, not to mention Dendrobium and willow branches, You Xiaowu is most afraid of death, knowing that this matter is life and death, his mouth is probably tighter than a clam shell, although Tie Dan is small, he has great ideas Don't worry, everyone's eyes turned to Bao Zheng in the end.

Bao Zheng's eyes widened: "What do you mean?! Do you mean I'm not tight-lipped?"

You Xiaowu looked at the sky and whispered, "Hmm, I'm pretty self-aware!"

Bao Zheng couldn't care less about getting angry, and looked at Lu Zheng with aggrieved face: "Does your lord think the same way?"

Lu Zheng coughed: "Well... I know that talking in sleep can't be controlled, but it's related to our safety. You can only plug your mouth when you sleep."

Bao Zheng's expression changed from shock to lovelessness, and Liu Zhi, who was still wiping away tears, couldn't help but burst out laughing, and the rest of the people also laughed, sweeping away the heavy atmosphere.