The first dude in the Qing Dynasty

Although there are portraits, it is still not easy to find a few people in the big capital, so Yinhu went back to Beijing with Li Butou that night, coordinated the personnel of the Ministry of Punishment, Shuntian Mansion and the infantry yamen, and set up a net to search closely.

This is Yinhu's strength. In this respect, even if three Yinzuo are tied together, they may not be better than one Yinhu.

Early the next morning, Yinzuo walked around the fire scene again, asked some questions, and then packed up and returned to Beijing - this Zhuangzi couldn't find anything more for the time being.

Yin Zuo went to the Ministry of Criminal Justice after returning to Beijing. The corpses of the dozen or so people were still in the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Yin Zuo didn't go to check the corpses. First, he didn't know how to do an autopsy. Second, he was burned and released in such a hot day. One can imagine the situation of the dead body that had been buried for four or five days. If it was not really necessary, he would never go to see it.

However, Wu Zuo had to ask more questions.

"Has the corpse been verified?"

Wu Zuo replied affirmatively: "It has been tested."

"The body was burned, how did you identify it?"

Wu Zuo said: "Actually, the firefighting was done in a timely manner. Most of their deaths were caused by inhaling too much smoke and dust... If they were awake at the time and covered their mouths and noses with wet wipes, there is a good chance they would have survived."

He paused, and then said: "Thus, although the deceased had burns on his body, most of his faces were still vaguely discernible. Although the rest had facial burns, the small ones had been carefully identified through teeth, bones, birthmarks or personal belongings. confirm."

"Has everyone's cause of death been confirmed?"

Wu Zuo nodded, and said: "The villain has carefully checked each one. They are all stunned by drugs, suffocated by inhaling too much smoke, or burned to death, without exception."

Yin Zuo nodded: "Does anyone have other signs of trauma?"

Wu Zuo shook his head and said, "Only one person was injured by the beam."

"Is there any financial loss?"

Wu Zuo shook his head: "Probably not... Sifujin's jewelry box is still full, the gold hairpin on the night girl's head, and the jade bracelet on Granny Wen's hand are all missing."

After a moment of silence, Yin Zuo waved him back.

After sitting alone for a while, Yinzuo went to Yinzhen's mansion again, and was led directly to his study this time.

When Yinzuo entered the door, Yinzhen was practicing calligraphy, and Yinzuo called out: "Fourth brother."

Yinzhen didn't lift his head: "Sit."

Yinzuo sat down on the grand teacher's chair and said, "fourth brother, do you know why I'm here?"

After Yinzhen finished writing the last few strokes, he got up and sat down with Yinzuo a few moments later, poured him a cup of hot tea, and said, "Say it."

"Fourth brother won't ask me about my progress?"

Yinzhen is still: "You say."

Yinzuo rubbed his brows and sighed: "Fourth brother, this case has been strange to me from the very beginning. There are two problems that I have never figured out."

"First, what are those murderers doing? They dispatched so many people and set up tricks to lure Laizi and Li Sixi into the urn. Could it be that they really wanted to set a fire? If they were talking about killing people, everyone would be killed Dazed, it is easy to kill them, why bother? If it is to eliminate traces, there is no need to cover up the identity of the deceased, and looking at the scene, they have no intention of covering up."

Yinzhen nodded and said, "What about the second one?"

Yinzuo said: "The second question, who is the inner ghost?"

"Everyone in the yard was drugged and stunned, but the fourth sister-in-law has always been suspicious. She is extremely careful about her diet. Except for the people in the yard, who has the ability to drug them to stun everyone? Everyone thought she was missing. The doctor did it, but if the fourth brother said it wasn't him, then it wasn't him. But if it wasn't him, who else could it be?"

Yinzhen said: "Then you come here now, do you want to understand?"

Yinzuo said: "I just thought of a possibility."

Yinzhen said in a deep voice, "Say it."

Yinzuo said: "I want to see my sister-in-law first."

Yinzhen stood up and led the way without saying a word.

Yin Zuo followed behind him, stopped after walking for a while, and said, "Fourth brother, what I want to see is not the fourth sister-in-law in the mourning hall."

Yin Zhen paused, and Yin Zuo looked at each other for a long time, and finally changed direction silently.

Yin Zuo walked more and more sideways with him, and finally came to a very inconspicuous small courtyard. Outside the courtyard, there were two stout women guarding him. Seeing Yin Zhen brought someone over, he opened the lock from the outside, bowed and retreated.

The inside of the courtyard is not as dilapidated as it looks outside, and of course it is not exquisite. Inside, there are only a few servants working quietly. Yinzhen did not bring Yinzuo into the house, but went to the window and opened a door. window.

Then Yinzuo saw Tong Jiashi, a Tong Jiashi he almost didn't dare to recognize.

Tong Jiashi, who was originally very thin, lost a lot of weight, so that she looked a little weird with a big belly. She was lying on the bed with loose hair, sunken eye sockets, and blue lips.

Her situation was obviously very wrong, her eyes were wide open in horror, her neck shrank and trembled, and she said timidly: "Xiaocui, Xiaocui...it's not me...it's not me, I don't know...don't come here... ...It's not me... Nanny, nanny save me... Erniang, Erniang, my daughter is afraid... Erniang..."

At this time, a servant woman came in and helped her sit up from the bed, and she finally calmed down.

Only then did Yinzuo see clearly that her arms were tied up with ribbons, and she ate whatever the maid fed her, without the slightest sign of resistance. No sound came out.

Yinzuo felt a cold breath spreading up his spine, making him feel uncomfortable all over.

Yinzhen closed the window silently, and said calmly: "If she is not tied up, she will try every means to kill herself when she is awake occasionally."

Yinzhen took Yinzuo to leave, and the door was locked again from the outside.It wasn't until he was far away that Yin Zuo felt his body gradually warming up.

The two went back to the study and sat down. Yin Zhen poured him a cup of hot tea. Yin Zuo held the teacup and sat silently for a while before saying, "Fourth brother, how did fourth sister-in-law become like this?"

He admits that he doesn't like a sensitive and suspicious woman like Tong Jiashi, but no matter how many shortcomings she has in her body, she is also fresh and vivid, but now Tong Jiashi is filled with a strong lifelessness, which makes people feel Just looking at it gives me chills.

Yinzhen didn't answer but instead asked, "How do you know she's here with me?"

Yinzuo didn't want to talk a little bit, said: "Guess."

Yinzhen looked at him and didn't speak.

Yin Zuo couldn't beat him, and said with a wry smile: "It's still those two questions. I thought about it. Wu Zuo said that he verified the identities of everyone, but in fact there is one person. He didn't verify, and it is impossible to verify."

"Tong Jiashi?"

Yinzuo nodded and said: "Except for the fourth sister-in-law, everyone in the yard was confirmed to have been drugged and burned to death in the fire. Thinking according to this logic, then if the person who administered the drug was not the missing doctor, only Maybe it's the fourth sister-in-law."

Yinzhen bowed his head and drank his tea without speaking.

Yinzuo continued: "And only in this way can we explain why we need to set a fire, and why it is not the inner ghost who prescribes the medicine to kill people and set fire directly, but to go in outsiders. The purpose of setting fire is to conceal that the corpse is not the fourth sister-in-law. , because besides setting fire to it, they also wanted to bring in a fake fourth sister-in-law's corpse, and brought out the corpses of fourth sister-in-law and the doctor."

"I've thought about it for a long time, and I think it's the most possible thing for the fourth sister-in-law to live, and it's also the most in their interest. Otherwise, what's the use of them burning the fourth sister-in-law to death? To make the fourth brother sad? To make Huang Ama angry? Let the fourth brother be stigmatized? I am not boasting, no matter what the final investigation result is, I am sure that Huang Ama will close the case in the most harmless way to the fourth brother, so the other party is busy? But, if After Huang Ama closed the case against the rumors all over the sky, Tong Jia suddenly appeared and sued the fourth elder brother that you killed your wife and children, and ignored human lives?" Yinzuo said: "So, in fact, it is the most normal thing for the fourth sister-in-law to live. "

If after the case is closed, Tong Jia's family will come forward to sue Yinzhen, no matter what the truth is, Yinzhen will be ruined, the court's reputation will be ruined, and Kangxi will be furious... The result will be that Yinzhen will no longer be in that position, and even prompt Kangxi to close the case Kangxi's Yinzuo would also be angered and even disgusted by Kangxi.

With the handwriting of this case, I am afraid that only this kind of result can meet the expectations of the people behind it.

Yinzuo continued: "I followed this line of thinking and thought, if the fourth sister-in-law is really alive, where is she now? There are many possibilities, but I don't have the ability to verify them one by one."

"Because all my guesses are based on the fact that the missing doctor is not an insider, but a substitute for the murderer, so I dare not tell Lao Ba and them this. Because if the real murderer is not found in the end , the fact that the doctor belongs to your fourth brother will only make your suspicion even bigger."

"Without the cooperation of Lao Ba, there is very little I can do. I think that the fourth sister-in-law is pregnant and has limited mobility, so she is likely to hide in the nearby Zhuangzi, or simply enter the city. So I went to the city in the morning When I was at the gate, I called the soldiers guarding the city and asked them. I asked them if any pregnant women or women with disabilities entered the city on the morning of May [-]th, accompanied by two or three people—— Sister-in-law looks timid, pretending to be a man is impossible under any circumstances."

"Those soldiers answered quickly. Some villagers once carried a sick old woman in, and there was a slow-moving woman sitting in a mule cart, etc... So I asked again, May [-] On the day of May, did any similar people pass by? But they recalled it for a long time, and first counted on their fingers whether May [-]th was the day before yesterday or the day before yesterday..."

"I can't even remember what happened three days ago, but why do I still remember what happened six days ago? There are only two possibilities. One is that what they said was fabricated, and the other is that before this incident It's already been asked once, so they're fresh in their memory. The former is completely unnecessary because they don't have to make up anything, just say they don't remember and they can respond to all inquiries."

"If someone really asked about this matter, there is only one person I want to ask, and that is you, fourth brother." Yinzuo smiled and said: "If I can think of it, fourth brother can naturally think of it, but I can't do it." But the fourth brother can do it. I think, since the fourth brother went to look for it, then the person must be in the hands of the fourth brother."

Yinzhen shook his head and laughed, and said: "I have fallen into such a big somersault, but you still have confidence in me."

Yinzuo said: "Facts have proved that I am right, isn't it? It's just that I don't understand, although the fourth sister-in-law...is a little bit of that, but she has a good heart. Why did she become an accomplice for these people? "

Yinzhen smiled wryly, and said: "I used to think that it's better for women to be stupid, but now I realize that it's really not a good thing for women to be too stupid."

In the previous life, she had no good results with the shrewd Wulanara family. At this moment, she married a Tong Jia family by mistake, and the end was even more dismal.

He shook his head, stopped thinking about it, and said: "That day you and Yinzhen talked with Tong Jiashi in the palace, do you still remember what Yinzhen said?"

Yin Zuo thought for a while, then smiled wryly.

"...That is to say, she is pregnant with a child, and when it is born...Hmph!"

This sentence came out of Yinzhen's big mouth and fell into the ears of the suspicious Tong Jiashi. It was more useful than a hundred sentences instigated by others.

Yinzhen sighed: "Although you have already explained it, after all, the farce of May [-] has been added. Because of Yinzhen's words, Tong Jiashi believed that we would not let her go, and was guided by someone who cared about me. She will definitely not be allowed to live...'just' at this time, a so-called old servant of her father found her and advised her to make her charm everyone at night and 'escape'."

"She was taken away in advance, and those people told her the so-called 'truth' the next day—I knew that after she escaped, in order to cover up the scandal of Fujin's escape, everyone in the yard was burned to death... She was sad Desperate, in order to avenge the people around her, she is going to 'bear the humiliation' after giving birth to a child, and then go to court."

This kind of thing is simply dumbfounding, Yinzuo can only sigh slightly.

"I interrogated those people in front of her. They couldn't bear the torture and said everything. Tong Jia was frightened by my methods, and knew that she was the accomplice. It can be said that she was killed by her own hands, and she couldn't bear it for a while, so she went crazy."

After a long time, Yin Zuo asked, "Who did it?"

The teacup in Yinzhen's hand was broken into pieces, and the thin lips that looked a little bit mean spit out a few words: "Suo'etu... Hesheli Suo'etu."

No wonder.

Yin Zuo smiled wryly: "Compared to the prince, this is the real smart man."

Among the three brothers, Yinzuo seemed the most beautiful, but the really smart people knew that among them, the most important one was Yinzhen.As long as Yinzhen doesn't fall, it's useless to hit anyone. Conversely, as long as Yinzhen falls, they want to stand up, and they have to wait for the day when Yinzhen stands up, and whether he can stand up is still another matter.

This time, if Yinzhen hadn't reacted quickly and found Tong Jiashi in time, they would have really fallen in.

The truth has been revealed, but the case still has to be "investigated".

Yinzuo first returned to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to interrogate the doctor's family, then found a few dogs with a keen sense of smell, searched around Zhuangzi, and found the missing doctor's body half a day later.

After verifying the time of the doctor's death, it proves that the doctor is not a ghost.Yinzuo successfully elicited the proposition that "Tong Jiashi may still be alive", and then a few people sent out their hands to find Tong Jiashi, and at the same time checked for any pregnant women who had recently died or disappeared.

The whereabouts of Tong Jia's family can't be found, but there are several pregnant women who have died. I found the one with the most similar appearance and the nearest one to Zhuangzi and forced to open it. As expected, it was empty inside.

So Yinhu and Yinzuo went to Yinzhen's mansion again and asked for the body of "Tong Jiashi" to be examined.

Yinzhen remained silent.

Even if the person lying in the coffin had the slightest chance of being Tong Jia's real body, no one dared to make him profane. What Yinhu found was a bold woman.The Wen woman only touched the scorched "Tong Jia's" feet, and found that the bones were deformed and there were traces of bound feet, which was clearly a Han woman.

So "Tong Jia's" body was quietly moved to the Ministry of Punishment. After inspection, it was confirmed that the body was burned after death.

At the same time, Catcher Li also made progress. All the people drawn by Yinzuo were arrested, and they also gained a lot of colleagues.

But Tong Jia's whereabouts are still a mystery. When searching around, the city gates naturally have to ask. The abnormality that Yinzuo noticed was also noticed by Yinhu. Yinzhen.

So Yinzuo was dragged by Yinhu to Yinzhen's mansion to force the palace. Yinzhen "in desperation" led them to meet the crazy Tong Jiashi.

Yinhu patted Yinzhen's shoulder very understandingly: With such an accomplice to murder, who spent several days with the murderer outside, and finally went crazy, it's no wonder that the fourth brother would rather bear the crime of killing his wife and son than Tell the truth.

Therefore, in the eyes of the courtiers, the well-known Yin Zuo took over the case and found out the truth in just seven days, which is really good for gaining the limelight.

After being severely scolded by Kangxi, Yinzhen was promoted back to the county king again.

Yinhu was greatly praised by Kangxi and bestowed many things.

As for Yinzuo, because of the exhaustion of investigating the case, he was "ill" for a few days, which made many people feel relieved.

Two days later, this big and noisy case was finally closed. The reason was that the bandits colluded with both inside and outside to attack the villagers. As for Si Fujin—a joke, would the majestic county king Fujin go to such a small village?I don't know which ignorant person is talking nonsense all day long!I didn't see that when the sixth elder brother invited all the brothers to play in Jingming Garden, it was Si Fujin who helped the fourth elder brother get into the carriage himself!

So more than 30 heads were beheaded at Caishikou, and the matter was considered over, but those who knew the matter knew well that those who died were nothing more than small pawns.It's just that Kangxi didn't speak, and no one dared to continue the investigation. Even if he spoke, not many people were willing to investigate.

More than three months later, Tong Jia gave birth to a baby boy and "died in childbirth". In fact, he was sent to a remote village, and he would never be able to set foot in the capital again.

Kangxi rejected Yinzhen's request to make his son the eldest son, and asked concubine De to give him Zhang Luo's concubine, but Yinzhen strongly refused in the name of restraint, which made the relationship between father and son and mother and son, which had finally improved somewhat, tense again.

These are things to say later, what Yinzuo is worried about right now is his supermarket, which is finally about to open.