Criminal investigation in ancient times

The people next to Lao Hanchao inquired about it, and it turned out that they had just heard the groom who was watching the carriage shout, and when everyone came out, they found that there was something missing in the carriage.

The linoleum on the car was not removed, nor was the rope untied.A small piece collapsed at the rear of the car, and the driver said that the two lost boxes contained precious herbs, and the entire truckload of goods was not as valuable as those two boxes.

The team boss looked a little ugly, frowning while touching the thumb on his thumb, and looked at the two kneeling on the ground.

One is the guy who helps to watch the car, and the other is the driver who drives the car.Neither of them admitted that the two boxes of herbs were taken by themselves.

The groom who was driving the carriage knelt on the ground and shivered and shouted: "Boss, the herbal medicine was really not taken by the little one. Just now the little one called Goudan helped me watch the carriage, and went out to urinate and came back to see the linoleum. Once you get a piece, you will know that it is not good, so call someone to come immediately. I beg the big boss to learn from you!"

Another boy named Goudan turned red with anger, pointed at the groom tremblingly and said, "You you...you spout blood! When did I get the medicinal materials?! The linoleum has never been opened, and the rope has never been opened. Untied it, how could I take it! Big boss, don't listen to his nonsense..."

"Okay!" The team owner waved his hand impatiently and said, "I don't care who you two got it from, hand it over quickly, those two boxes are full of century-old ginseng, even if you sell them, it's not worth that old ginseng Price!"

Both of them trembled, lying on the ground not daring to breathe.

"Old... Boss, a few days ago I heard... I heard that Goudan's mother was seriously ill, and this time I went to the capital to earn money for his mother's medical treatment... Could it be... Goudan, if you took it Just call it out, the boss will not send you to the official."

It was another groom who was talking, and the guy named Goudan was about to tear his eyes apart after hearing his words: "Yang Ershuan, don't fart! My dog ​​is doing the right thing, even if my old lady dies of illness, I won't do that sneaky thing." It’s because you lost so much money in the gambling house, you’re not afraid of being broken when you go back!?”

The groom became annoyed, pointed at Goudan and said, "He took it. I saw him stealing something from the car just now. He must have hidden it!"

The groom lying on the ground also insisted that Goudan took it.The team owner asked the two attendants to set up the dog egg and said: "If you take it out by yourself, I will let you go home. If I find it, I will send you to the police."

Goudan's eyes were red, with tears and snot streaming down his face, he said, "Master, I really didn't take the little one, I really didn't take the little one..."

As soon as the boss waved his hand, several people reached out to search him.

"Wait a minute!"

Everyone was taken aback, and the boss turned around and saw that the person speaking was actually a teenager, so he snorted and ignored it.

Zhang Rui frowned and said, "I know who stole those two boxes of herbs."

Boss: "Oh? You know? Did you see it?"

Zhang Rui smiled, walked out of the crowd, looked at Goudan, then at the groom who was kneeling on the ground, then suddenly turned his head and pointed at the groom who spoke just now: "Although I didn't see it, I know that this person stole it." of."

As soon as this remark came out, there was an uproar everywhere.Everyone looked at the person he was pointing at.

The groom named Yang Ershuan was taken aback, his face turned pale and he said, "You...you fucking fart! Why do you say that I stole it?!"

Zhang Rui smiled slightly and said, "You will know if you listen to me or not." He called the groom who was kneeling on the ground, "Just now you said that you asked this little brother to watch the carriage for you?" The kneeling groom nodded head.Zhang Ruidao: "Why are there so many guys, why do you let him watch for you?"

The groom said: "It's not just a dog. When I called for someone just now, everyone else was eating and had no time. He was the only one who was packing up the hay. He could take care of it for me."

Zhang Rui nodded, and then asked the crying dog with red eyes: "Why do they ask you to pack the fodder when they are all eating?"

With tears in Goudan's eyes again, he said, "Because...because the younger one is young, and Yang Ershuan relied on his seniority, he should have picked up the fodder, but he pushed it to the younger one."

Zhang Rui smiled and said: "Yang Ershuan asked Goudan to pack the fodder for him, and the groom who guarded the medicinal materials wanted to find someone to replace him, so he could only call Goudan. If the medicinal materials were lost on the cart, the first person to be suspected would be It's Goudan. Just now Yang Ershuan said that Goudan's mother was seriously ill, so Goudan had another motive to steal herbs. Once someone finds that the herbal medicine is lost, even if the herbal medicine can't be found on Goudan, it can be found elsewhere. The herbal medicine, the dog egg will also be handed over to the government. What if the herbal medicine can’t be found, or no one finds that the herbal medicine is missing? Then this person can sell the herbal medicine for money and get away with it?”

After listening to Zhang Rui's analysis, the owner of the team also understood that this was probably just a trick, and this little guy named Goudan was probably just covering for someone else.

After hearing this, Yang Ershuan was already in cold sweat, and said in a stuttering voice, "You...you, what you said...even if...that's the case...that doesn't prove...that I took it..."

The boss also frowned and said, "The linoleum on the carriage hasn't been removed, and the rope hasn't been untied, so how did he steal it?"

Zhang Rui said with a smile: "Although the linoleum has not been lifted, there are more than one places where the medicinal materials can be taken out. This coachman, you might as well get under the car to see if the board holding the medicinal herbs can be disassembled."

The groom who was kneeling on the ground hurriedly ran under his car, and sure enough, the board moved away with a slight push. He was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt down and said, "Boss, this car has been tampered with, but it's really not a villain." Ah... the villain remembered! The day before yesterday, Yang Ershuan went home in the team's carriage in private!"

When he said this, the coachman named Yang Ershuan's legs gave way, and he knelt down on the ground and stopped talking.

The boss snorted angrily, and the attendants around him picked him up, tied him with a rope, and handed him over to the yamen in the next county.

In the end, the two boxes of top-quality old ginseng were found in Goudan's package, and Goudan turned pale with fright.He didn't even know when there were two more pill boxes in his package.Fortunately, Zhang Rui had already pointed out the real thief, otherwise Goudan would really have become a scapegoat.Goudan hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed several times to Zhang Rui, saying: "Young master, thank you for your life-saving grace! I will repay you for being a cow and a horse! After the little one finishes this trip, he will follow the young master." Serve as a slave!"

Zhang Rui looked embarrassed: "Little brother...don't, don't knock it down, you have to take good care of your mother, and if there is fate, we will see you again."

Goudan thanked him with tears in his eyes and then went to the convoy.The coachman just now was also a little embarrassed. It was obvious that he was kind enough to help watch the car, and he almost framed the good man himself.After going back, I took the initiative to watch the car in the middle of the night for Goudan.

Back in the temple, He Min showed surprise and said, "Little Brother Zhang, how did you know that the carriage was tampered with?"

Zhang Rui smiled: "I didn't know that the carriage had been tampered with. It's just that there were no traces of it being lifted, so we had to start from other places."

He Min: "What if there is no tampering with the bottom of the car?"

Zhang Rui shrugged and said: "Impossible, as long as he takes something, it will leave traces, and the things will not disappear out of thin air, or the coachman is guarding and stealing himself, otherwise it will be difficult for others to get close to the carriage."

"Then how did you know that the murderer must be a groom named Yang Ershuan?"

Zhang Rui said with a smile: "If he doesn't speak, I don't know. As soon as he speaks, I notice him. When the owner of the team grabbed the dog's egg, his face was quite ugly. I thought, obviously he launched it." Goud, why does he look like this? Later, the team owner said that he would search his body, and seeing that his expression relaxed, I thought that he must have hidden the herbal medicine on his body, but somewhere else."

He Min nodded and said: "Brother Zhang is quick-witted and has little observation, which is really admirable! If you hadn't stood up and caught the real culprit just now, the guy who watched the car for others would have been killed. Those two boxes The young master said it was worth 500 taels of silver, if the boy was sent to the government, it would be enough for a meal..."

Zhang Rui was silent. If he hadn't judged the real culprit today with his many years of censorship methods and observation skills, wouldn't innocent people be imprisoned as criminals?

Just because this is in ancient times, only pay attention to evidence, as long as a little evidence can harm people, if they didn't stand up just now, they will definitely find the herbal medicine in the bag of that little boy who is called a dog, and the witness and material evidence With all of them present, he couldn't argue with a hundred words.

With the professional belief of a criminal policeman for many years, he absolutely forbids this kind of thing to happen!It's just that today's incident is probably not uncommon in this dynasty, how many people died of injustice?

Maybe I can work hard in this direction... At least I have a not-so-clear goal in ancient times.