ancient criminal minds

Ma County Magistrate's actions were very strong, and soon, the news that Hongyi had stolen the seal of the county lieutenant spread throughout Qingxi County.There was a lot of discussion among the crowd, some people marveled at the audacity of the red-clothed thief, while others laughed at Lu Zheng for stealing chickens for nothing.

Compared to the uproar outside, the inside of the county government office was eerily quiet.

Sitting in the study, Lu Zheng wrote a picture of the relationship between the characters.The name of Lu Enguang is written in the center of this picture. Lu Enguang's identity has basically been determined. No matter whether he is on the court side or someone else, he can be regarded as the party of justice.The person who killed Lu Enguang can be regarded as someone from the Sea Dragon King's faction. Lu Zheng originally thought that Mrs. Lu would be a member of the Sea Dragon King. A question mark was drawn, and a question mark was also drawn on the name of the murderer who killed Lu Enguang.

Except for these two opposing people, the red-clothed thief is considered neutral, even according to his performance so far, he should be on his side, and if the information of the red-clothed thief is correct, Lu Enguang killed Li Si, Then someone else cut off Li Si's head, and this force does not know whether it is an enemy or a friend. He cut off Li Si's head to hide Li Si's identity. Why?

Lu Zheng thought about it from a different angle. If Li Si died, who would the government think was the murderer?Red Robe?No, no, why do you think it's a thief in red!Lu Zheng suddenly came to his senses, why did they all think that the murderer was a red-clothed thief at first, and who was misleading them?

Lu Zheng recalled the initial impression of Li Si's case. Li Si had no grievances with anyone, but he died suddenly, naked, and his head was chopped off. But since this person was trying to cover up Li Si's identity, why didn't he put His arm with the birthmark and mole was chopped off too?

Lu Zheng was taken aback for a moment, he suddenly realized that he had entered a misunderstanding, this is not a modern society, there is no DNA test, their so-called confirmation that this person is Li Si is only from An Zicheng's statement.

Thinking about it carefully, why did they think that Li Si was killed by the red-clothed bandit, and the source was An Zicheng's testimony.

Lu Zheng suddenly felt shuddering. An Zicheng's move almost kept them all in the dark. Why did he do this? Whose body is that?And where is Li Si's body now!

Lu Zheng rushed out of the door, and said hurriedly to the doubtful crowd, "Go find An Zicheng!"

An Zicheng fled.

Although he had already thought of this possibility, Lu Zheng still beat the wall in frustration. He couldn't bear that he would make such a low-level mistake.The professor once said, let them not regard criminal psychology as an omnipotent subject, and the so-called criminal psychology is also inferred from various evidences.The professor also said that they should pay more attention to evidence than testimony, because "the human heart is the most elusive."

Lu Zheng's favorite movie ever was Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon". It was a movie with extremely interesting human nature. It was because of this movie that Lu Zheng decided to study criminal psychology.

This is the end of the matter, and it's no use getting depressed.

Lu Zheng forced himself to calm down and think about An Zicheng's intentions.He can now be sure that An Zicheng is a member of the so-called third-party force. He is neither willing to side with the Sea Dragon King nor to disdain the side of the court. He is both similar and different from the red-clothed bandit.

The reason why he wanted to take advantage of Li Si's death was because he wanted to hand over the chart to the imperial court, and he wanted to use this to trigger a war between the imperial court and the Sea Dragon King.And that corpse...

Lu Zheng turned his face to the side and asked Shi Hu: "Tell me the details of the previous corpse again."

Dendrobium froze for a moment before realizing that he was talking about Li Si. He was a little puzzled, but he replied honestly: "The deceased was tall and fat, about five and a half feet (about 1.9 meters), he should be If he died within one to two hours after the meal, and judging from the meat in the meal, his family should be in good condition, at least not poor, and judging from the calluses on his fingers, there were bruises and joints on his left hand. A lot of calluses, but the right hand is much better. His nails are grayish yellow..."

"No." Lu Zheng said suddenly, "When did he die?"

"He should have been killed three days before we found the body."

"Wait a minute, are you sure it was three days ago, not four?"

Dendrobium was stunned, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Based on the degree of decay of the corpse, it should be three days, but if the corpse is stored in ice after death, it is hard to say, and the corpse is soaked in water. It's been a long time, and it's hard to tell."

"Ice?" Lu Zheng frowned, "Where is the most ice?"

"Why do you ask this?" You Xiaowu just came over, "I don't know where the most ice is, but every big family has a special cellar for ice storage."

Lu Zheng thought of something, and grabbed Bao Zheng: "Go, go to Lu's house!"

When the two of them arrived at Lu's house, the place was completely empty, Mrs. Lu and her personal maid had disappeared, even the old butler of Lu's house disappeared, leaving only a bunch of dazed and panicked servants.

Lu Zheng's heart sank, and he immediately grabbed someone: "Where is the cellar used to store ice in the house?"

The servant was startled, but when he saw Lu Zheng's official uniform, he quickly swallowed back the scolding, and said courteously: "Over here, come with the young one, my lord."

Lu Zheng and Bao Zheng held up the oil lamps, followed the servant, and went down a few steps. The servant pushed open the door forcefully, and a cold breath overflowed immediately.

Lu Zheng and Bao Zheng quickly went up to help and opened the door. The servant wanted to say something, but the two had already walked in.

It was chilly in the ice room, in stark contrast to the bright spring weather outside, and in the whole ice room, there was only a small light source in the hands of Lu Zheng and Bao Zheng. Fortunately, what they were looking for was not difficult to find, they A small piece of skin and several rags were soon found in a corner of the ice room.

Lu Zheng handed over the oil lamp in his hand to Bao Zheng, shoveled these things off the ice with the crossbow arrows he carried with him, wrapped them in oil paper, and said to Bao Zheng, "Go out."

When the two came outside, they felt that their frozen limbs were slowly regaining consciousness.

Lu Zheng handed the paper bag to Bao Zheng: "Let Dendrobium find a way to determine whether it belongs to the same person, and whether there are any clues for these fabrics."

Bao Zheng took the paper bag, but asked, "What about you, my lord?"

"I still have something to do." Lu Zheng left in a hurry after finishing speaking.

Lu Zheng went to Lu Enguang's study room. He did not understand many things. At that time, he and Bao Zheng had not searched Lu Enguang's study room carefully. , but it was Li Si's case, but he made things more complicated, plus the sachet he got later...

Lu Zheng's pupils shrank slightly, he finally knew what was wrong.

That sachet!

His guesses about Master Lu's identity are all based on the chart in that sachet, but if that sachet is fake!That chart is also fake!

Assuming that Li Si was really killed by Lu Enguang, why did Lu Enguang kill him? It was because Li Si made Lu Enguang feel threatened. What could make Lu Enguang feel threatened? It was his identity!

Lu Zheng pressed his forehead, panting heavily.

wrong!All wrong!

Lu Enguang is not a spy of the imperial court, he is a member of the Sea Dragon King, and he is the pirate's informant on land!He married Mrs. Lu because the Sea Dragon King didn't trust him and sent spies to monitor him. That's why he rejected his younger brother from getting close to Mrs. Lu, because this was his only weakness, and it was enough to threaten his existence!

That chart was fake, Lu Enguang was not killed by the Sea Dragon King, he should have been killed by An Zicheng and his gang, because they got what they wanted, Lu Enguang lost its value, and the reason why he used Such a plan full of loopholes to blame Lu Enshan is because they counted on Lu Zheng, and they introduced themselves step by step into the plot they designed, just to bring disaster to the sea and make the court and the pirates go to war!

Lu Zheng gritted his teeth, it was too coincidental to think about it this way, why did he meet An Zicheng in the street, why did An Zicheng give him the sachet, and why the sea dragon king's name was clearly printed on the sea chart. The logo was easily recognizable by Liu Zhi, and it was all arranged. The black hand behind the scenes thoroughly investigated him and the people around him, and designed such a meticulous plan.

The only loophole in this plan is Li Si's death.Perhaps they never thought that Ma County Magistrate would use Li Si's case to embarrass him. Perhaps in their plan, this case should have been closed as an unresolvable unsolved case, but who knows Ma County Magistrate's move By accident, the case has been left until now.

Lu Zheng shook his head, not allowing himself to think again, but began to search carefully in Lu Enguang's study.

After searching in this way, he finally found a problem with a floor tile under the desk. He lifted the floor with a crossbow bolt, and sure enough, he found a hidden compartment underneath, in which a dozen pieces of gold were neatly stacked. bricks, and next to the gold bricks were some letters.

Lu Zheng hurriedly put everything aside, opened the letter roughly, and scanned the contents of the letter at a glance.

The contents of the letter confirmed Lu Zheng's guess, and it also revealed the real reason why Lu Enguang was killed.

The Sea Dragon King has been wreaking havoc on the sea for more than ten years, and he has innumerable wealth in his hands. However, he is extremely suspicious. He hides most of his treasures on a small island. No one knows where this island is except himself. .

And Lu Enguang managed to find out the true location of the island, and drew it into a treasure map, but he accidentally aroused the suspicion of the Sea Dragon King, who sent someone to monitor him. He had no choice but to use this Zhang Zangbao map was used as bait, and he cooperated with others. He didn't expect the other party to cross the river and demolish the bridge, which directly killed him.