When a passerby becomes a princess

Everyone was taken aback by the expression on the old man's face, especially Huang Shu, the housekeeper who was standing the closest, was so frightened that he took several steps back. Sit on the ground.

"Strange..." Liang Xi couldn't help muttering as he watched the two yamen servants put the white cloth on.

The county lieutenant next to him happened to hear it and asked, "What's so strange, my lord?"

Liang Xi shook his head in a daze, and didn't know what he was wondering about. He just felt that the old man seemed to be telling him something, and there was an indescribable weirdness in his heart.

The county lieutenant didn't wait for Liang Xi's answer, instead he asked Wu Zuo, "Did you find anything?"

Wu Zuo opened the paper bag in his hand, and inside was a blood-stained dagger, and said: "Master, the deceased was stabbed from behind with this dagger by the gangster, and died on the spot. The deceased did not fight with anyone during his lifetime, nor was he killed. The traces of moving can basically confirm that this is the scene of the crime."

Liang Xi took the paper bag and took a closer look at the dagger. The blade was three fingers wide, and the black and greasy wooden handle was wider than the blade. It seemed that it had been used all year round.

Wu Zuo saw that Liang Xi had been looking at the dagger, and said: "This kind of dagger is often used by fishermen to kill fish, and it is rare in Beimo County."

Liang Xi thought for a while, pointed to the dagger and said, "The blade is so wide, could it be inserted into the body horizontally?"

A person's back is protected by ribs, and the difference between the ribs is no more than a finger's width. How can such a wide dagger be inserted into it?But if it is inserted into the body horizontally, and the handle is flat, wouldn't it be inconvenient for the murderer to hold it?

Wu Zuo replied: "It was indeed inserted horizontally into the body, and pierced straight to the heart, killing him with one blow."

When he said this, the county lieutenant also reacted. He took the dagger, wrapped the handle with paper and tried to swing it a few times. It was exactly as Liang Xi thought. To insert it, the elbow must be raised as high as the shoulder, and the forearm must be pushed forward, but the force available in this way is much less, and it is very uncomfortable.

The county lieutenant returned the dagger to Zuo Zuo and asked, "When was the approximate time of death?"

Wu Zuo said: "It should be between the ugly time and the Yin time."

The county lieutenant frowned, turned his head and asked the catcher, "Are there any candles around for lighting?"

The head catcher replied: "I haven't found it."

Choushi and Yinshi happened to be the darkest time, and last night was the end of the month, and there was no moonlight. How did the murderer stab the dagger into the dead man's back in the dark, or did he just stab it between the ribs that were one finger wide? And straight into the heart, killed with one blow?

"Could it be an acquaintance?" The county captain thought of this, and called the steward of the nursing home to ask.

The steward came over and said, "Uncle Chang lost his wife in his early years and only had one son, but his son was ill when he was a child, his mind was broken, and he couldn't marry a wife. Seeing that Uncle Chang was alone and lonely, he was taken to a nursing home to take care of him. Erbo Chang didn't like to deal with people on weekdays, and no one came to visit him in the past few years, except for other people in the nursing home. And never speak."

The road of acquaintances will not work, is the villain a martial arts master?But what do martial arts masters do to kill an old man in a nursing home?

Seeing everyone standing in the alley and thinking, Taifu Li sighed in his heart, and said to Liang Xi: "My lord, why don't you go back to the Yamen and ask again."

Only then did Liang Xi come to his senses, and asked the county captain to take everyone back to the yamen for detailed questioning. He and Taifu Li went to pick up Lin Qiu before returning to the yamen.

Regarding Liang Xi's practice of taking his wife to manage the government, although Taifu Li disapproved in his heart, he did not say it out.In the past dynasties of Daliang Kingdom, there are many examples of the harem meddling in politics. Empress dowagers, empresses, favored concubines...even the emperor's wet nurses are all famous for a while, but there are only a few who do not interfere in politics like Queen Chu.Moreover, Mrs. Li had heard the empress praise the princess for being smart and capable many times, so he was really curious as to how this skinny little princess got the queen's favor.

Mrs. Li had heard a little about the waterwheel. After all, in order to promote the waterwheel to the whole country, Liang Honglie also dispatched several officials in the court.However, Li Taifu and many officials have similar ideas. The waterwheel must have been designed by the learned eldest daughter-in-law Sun of the Lin Mansion. Outsiders don't know much about the people in the silver building.

Along the way, Conghui didn't notice it, he was so bad that he could tell at a glance, just a few slices of bacon almost killed him, and it was fortunate that the Lin family was able to raise him so well.

Taifu Li looked at the two people walking in front holding hands, and thought that when he went to pick up Lin Qiu from the teahouse just now, he and Chen Fan were sitting opposite each other, one with a cold face and the other in a daze.

Liang Xi has never cared about other people's gazes. As the crown prince, he has the confidence, even if he is only a county magistrate now, he is also the highest officer in the county, so he still doesn't need to care about other people's gazes.He kept holding Lin Qiu's hand, and walked all the way into the three halls under the searching eyes of everyone in the county office.

The county office is divided into three halls, the lobby and the second hall to hear cases. Generally, major cases are tried in the lobby, and small cases are heard in the second hall. The third hall is where the county magistrate works. Room.

The area of ​​the third hall is very large. In addition to the tables and chairs of the county magistrate and the master, there are also a lot of bookshelves, which are full of files, local chronicles and some materials.Liang Xi called the yamen servant to bring a small table and chairs for Lin Qiu, and put it next to his long case, then nodded in satisfaction.

The table was set, and before we had time to speak, people began to come to ask the magistrate to use his seal, and there were also matters that the magistrate needed to deal with, one after another, endlessly.Fortunately, Chen Fan and Li Taifu were there to help him, one helped him classify, and the other analyzed for him how to deal with it, at least there was nothing wrong.

Although he said he asked Lin Qiu to come to the Yamen to help him, but since he didn't understand anything when he first arrived, he really didn't know how he could help. I handed a local chronicle to Lin Qiu, and said to him proudly: "If you don't know anything, you can't help, you can read these materials first, and get familiar with the situation in the county before helping. Look at the following I have also read a lot of files, so I know how to do things, am I very good?"

Chen Fan and Li Taifu who were processing official documents: "..." This kind of mood wants to give Shangguan a break.

Lin Qiu took the thick local chronicles, not only nodded, but also said "um", which made Liang Xi smile happily.

The corners of Chen Fan and Li Taifu's mouths twitched, thinking, in fact, the "hmm" of the Crown Princess was to agree to read the information, not to agree that you are good?What are you having fun with?

But the corners of their mouths hadn't finished twitching yet, and the corners of their eyes twitched again at the speed at which Lin Qiu read the local chronicles.

Most people read a book line by line, and some people can read ten lines at a glance, but few people can "scan" a book like Lin Qiu. Every time he turns over a page, he converts the text inside into an image and enters it into his brain. Convert the image into text in your mind for memory.It sounds like there is one more step than the average person reading a book, but in fact it is surprisingly fast.

There is a kind of person called "Rain Man", and modern medicine calls them "children with autism".Due to abnormal brain development, these people often cannot understand others, cannot communicate with others, and even have language barriers.But they often have amazing reading, memory, calculation, music, and painting abilities.Lin Qiu was like this in some respects, but he didn't even know if it was the original owner himself, or because he was originally an npc made of data.

By the time we met at the inn at night, Lin Qiu had already "scanned" most of the materials and files.Mrs. Li didn't believe this at first, but on the way back, he "accidentally" asked a few small questions, Liang Xi was stunned and didn't know what to say, until Lin Qiu answered all of them, he really recognized it After listening to the queen's words, the princess is indeed smart, but she is a little abnormal.