Criminal investigation in ancient times

Tianjiao took the bank note without looking at it, and stuffed it directly into her chest and said, "I have news about him, but before that, I will give you another message. If he wants to find something, he will be at..." pointing to the door.

Feng Xuan was puzzled: "Outside? On Du Yuan's body?"

Tianjiao shook her finger, walked up to Fengxuan and sniffed, "Do you know Du's Jade Practice?"

Feng Xuan nodded and took a step back calmly, "You know, the biggest jade line in Dazhou, does that kid have something to do with Du's jade line?"

Tianjiao raised her eyebrows, went to the chair next to her and sat down, "That child is Du Ruoheng's only son. This kid is a real golden boy, and he was lucky enough to meet you."

Feng Xuan understood that if Qi Ming wanted to get such a thing, he would probably sneak into Du's house, "Thank you." He got up and wanted to go out.

Tianjiao said quietly: "Why are you doing this? If he wanted to see you, he wouldn't be unable to hide for so many years..."

Feng Xuan paused and said: "You don't need to worry about this, take the money and do what you should do." After speaking, he opened the door and went out.

Walking to the hall, Du Yuan saw him coming out and hurried forward: "Hey, where were you just now?!"

Feng Xuan said coldly: "Is it related to you?"

Du Yuan: "..." It seems that it really doesn't matter, but...why do you feel so awkward.Du Yuan followed behind him with his head down, his mind was full of thoughts that he just entered the Tianxiang Tower, what was he doing there?What can a man do... Thinking about it this way, Du Yuan only felt annoyed and confused.

Tianxianglou Fengxuan, who left the two one after the other, remembered what Tianjiao said. If the news is reliable, then Qi Ming is likely to appear in Du's house. If he wants to find him, he can only rely on this person in front of him.

Feng Xuan stopped and turned around and said, "What are you always following me for?"

Du Yuan was taken aback and hurriedly said, "I...I just...just want to ask what your name is?"

"Fengxuan"

Du Yuan: "Feng Xuan...Feng Xuan, your surname is Feng? This name sounds nice! Hero Feng, thank you for saving your life!"

Feng Xuan laughed and said, "When did I save your life? I just killed one of your horses."

Du Yuan said: "Huh? You can't say that. That day the horse was frightened and ran wildly. If Hero Feng hadn't rescued me, I would have died if I fell and hit my head."

Feng Xuan turned around and continued to walk forward: "It's a little effort, since you have already thanked me, you don't have to follow me anymore."

Du Yuan put on a bitter face and didn't know what to say, should he tell him that he actually likes to look at you?Will he be stabbed to death with a hidden weapon?

Walking to the entrance of the inn, Feng Xuan stopped, and Du Yuan also stopped, and the two looked at each other for a while.Feng Xuan shook his head and went upstairs.

As soon as he saw this kid, he had a sense of déjà vu as his little apprentice, staring at him with innocent eyes.A deep sense of guilt rose in my heart at the thought of trying to lie to him.It's just Qi Ming... Will it really appear this time? Will it be as empty as before.

***

dark night

Duan Xiaobai stood on the roof and shivered, it's so cold at night!

"Meow~~" A stray cat passed by the house, and when it saw the frightened fur of the two, it hurriedly turned and ran to the other side.

Zhan Qing stood beside him, touched him with his arm and pointed to the room.Duan Xiaobai looked down, and sure enough the rabbit came!

He saw a sneaky figure walking into the backyard.

"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow."

Zhang Rui and Zhou Yin were sitting in the room and hurriedly got up when they heard the voice, but no candles were lit, and no wax was lit in other rooms.The voice kept calling.

After listening carefully for a while, Zhang Rui said: "This cry is hard enough, sometimes soft and low, sometimes high-pitched, I don't know which theater troupe it is from."

"Ah..." The crying suddenly stopped like a cat whose tail was stepped on.

After a while, a man in a robe with his face tightly covered was brought up.Zhanqing tore off the cloth scarf on his face twice, revealing a delicate little face.I saw him pale with fright, with tears in his eyes, as if he had been greatly wronged.

Zhang Rui frowned and said: "Who are you, you don't sleep at night, why are you pretending to be a ghost and crying behind this inn.

The man was terrified and hurriedly said: "My family didn't intend to do this, someone paid me to cry."

Seeing his appearance, Zhang Rui's mouth twitched and said, "Who paid you to come here to cry?"

"Yes...it belongs to the shopkeeper of this inn."

Zhou Yin and Zhang Rui looked at each other, and said in unison, "Is this inn's shopkeeper?"

The man said: "My family is just a female character in the theater troupe. A few months ago, the owner of this inn suddenly came to me and said that he would give me five taels of silver every month if he had a business. I heard from him that as long as he hides in the You can just cry in the backyard, and this matter has been accepted."

Zhang Ruidao: "You were the one who cried in the backyard a few days ago?"

The man nodded and raised his fingers and said: "My family thinks that I won't pick up this month after crying. One is that the night is too cold these days and my voice is a little hoarse from crying, and the other is that I can't bear to cry like this all the time. I don't know why. Why did the shopkeeper ask me to do this?"

Seeing his enchanting appearance, Zhou Yin stood in front of Zhang Rui calmly and said, "Since this matter has nothing to do with you, you should go back first."

The actor leaned over and said, "This... the shopkeeper's money for this month has not been settled with me yet, so will I come to cry tomorrow?"

Zhang Rui didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "No more, you can ask the shopkeeper for the money tomorrow."

After the man went out, Zhang Rui said: "What is this called? Hiring someone to cry at the back of the inn and scaring away all the guests is good for him?"

Zhou Yin stretched his waist and said: "Perhaps there is something unspeakable. Now that I have figured out that it is not caused by others, I will talk about it tomorrow. I can sleep well today." As he spoke, he stretched out his arms to hug Zhang Rui, and the two entangled on the bed... …

***

A good night's sleep, woke up in the morning and saw the shopkeeper wandering downstairs, saw a few people coming downstairs hesitant to talk, sighed several times before coming over and said: "Guest officers, did you sleep well last night?"

Zhang Rui looked at him with a half-smile and said: "Okay, although the crying sound is a bit harsh, but it's not bad when you listen carefully. It's ups and downs, which makes people feel sad when they hear it."

The shopkeeper's old face blushed and knelt down and said: "To be honest, I invited the man who was mourning that night." Early this morning, the actor hurried to the inn and asked the shopkeeper to pay the money, and said nothing. Ken came to cry again.The shopkeeper suspected that his identity had been discovered.There are only these few people in the store, so they must be right. Since they already know that they are responsible, they might as well recruit them.

"I don't know why the shopkeeper did this. After crying for three consecutive months, can you still do business in this store?"

The innkeeper's face is full of doubts: "This...the small one is really difficult. This inn was originally passed down to my father by my grandfather, but my father died early, and I was handed over to my uncle to take care of it when I was still young. I am getting older and older. Growing up, my uncle’s family became greedy for the inn and refused to return it to me. Later, after negotiation among the clan, my uncle agreed to let me take care of the inn, but the deed of the house was still refusing to give it to me.

Some time ago, I heard that his son was going to get married, and the family wanted to renovate the house, so my uncle came up with the idea of ​​an inn, and wanted to sell the inn behind my back.I was really unable to spend money to hire people to cry at the back of the inn to scare away the guests and spread the news that the inn was haunted, and those who wanted to buy this inn gave up their ideas.Now I am also in a dilemma. If I don’t pretend to be afraid that he will sell my inn, and make the inn’s reputation dirty, I am really sorry for my grandfather. "

After listening, Zhang Rui said: "Then did you ask for a house deed with him later?"

The shopkeeper nodded: "Yes, my uncle pretended to be deaf and dumb and said that the deed was lost long ago."

Zhang Rui: "You can go directly to the government to make up a copy."

The shopkeeper sighed: "It's so easy to make up for it. Let's not talk about how much money it costs. The government doesn't allow anyone to enter the government. Besides, there are so many troublesome things. I really don't want to deal with the government."

"Since this is the case, then we will do it to the end. If you call the neighbors here, you can prove that this inn was passed down by your ancestors, and it can also prove that the deed was indeed taken over by your uncle. I will issue a new deed for you. ,what do you think?"

The shopkeeper was overjoyed when he heard it, kowtowed and said: "Then I will thank you, I will go and call all the neighbors here. They are all old neighbors for decades. Everyone knows the situation in my house."

After a while, the shopkeeper who sells woodwork next door, the shopkeeper who runs a teahouse in front, and the households behind were all called to the inn. Everyone said that his uncle was a black-hearted man who had occupied his inn for more than ten years. Waiting for the shopkeeper to get married before returning it to him, and now the house deed is still in his hand and he will not give it back.

Zhang Rui asked Uncle Han to take the pen and ink, set up a house deed on straw paper, and noted that the previous house deed is invalid, and only the new house deed shall prevail, stamped the official seal and handed it to him: "If your uncle sells the inn without authorization, you will Take this to the government, they will definitely not embarrass you."

The shopkeeper choked up when he took over the new house deed, kowtowed three times to Zhang Rui and said, "Young one...the little one really met a noble man! If it wasn't for the help of the adults, the last time I was in the government, I would have suffered a catastrophe." , This time, the adults helped the little ones to set up the papers, so I don’t have to worry about my inn being bought by others in the future.”

Zhou Yin said: "Get up now, just remember not to do these pretentious things in the future. We can help you once or twice, but we can't help you for a lifetime. The inn needs to be managed carefully to get better and better."

The shopkeeper quickly nodded and said, "I understand, this time I have a solid foundation in my heart, so I don't have to worry about anything else. I'll call someone to repair the inn first." After speaking, he ran out happily.

Duan Xiaobai shook his head and smiled: "I didn't expect that the crying sound similar to a woman was actually made by a man. It is really eye-opening. It's strange for a man to pretend to be a woman. Look at the way he talked yesterday. It’s the same as usual, it’s ridiculous to call yourself a slave.”

Zhang Rui took a sip of tea and said: "Most opera actors are like this. The male plays the female role, and the voice is more mellow than the female." Although he didn't like listening to Chinese operas in his previous life, many friends around him loved listening to them. Understand a little bit.

Duan Xiaobai said: "So that's the case, I thought those little ladies who sang operas were all girls."

Zhan Qing: "That's what they dressed up. If they take off their makeup, they all look like men."

Zhang Rui put down the tea bowl in his hand and suddenly remembered the actor, one of them pretended to be another...a groom and a butcher...two appearances.

"Go! Let's go to the Yamen!"

Hurrying to the yamen, Xu Chang hastily welcomed him in.In the past few days, the frightened beard and hair have lost a lot, and I don't know when it will be a hair.Now that the groom has been identified as the murderer, why did the lord and the prince never convict him?

Zhang Ruidao: "Send someone to investigate the groom's village and ask him how he is normally."

Xu Chang: "This... my lord, hasn't this groom been confirmed as the murderer?"

Zhang Rui: "But he didn't plead guilty. I suspect there are other problems."

Xu Chang nodded and sent two yamen servants to the village to investigate.

Zhang Rui ordered the groom to be brought up. The groom was locked up all night. He was shocked and afraid that when he came to the court, his hair was messy, his eyes were bloodshot, and his body still smelled like yesterday's urine. It was really hard to see.

"Cheng Er, I want to ask you, is there anyone else in your family?"

Cheng Er knelt on the ground and said tremblingly, "No...there's never been anyone else."

Zhang Rui was puzzled, this Cheng Er looked like a big man, he used to be a butcher, if nothing else, at least he married a wife.

"The official asked you, have you ever had a wife?"

Cheng Er was silent for a while, then wiped his face with his sleeve and said, "There was... one of them was disabled, she... she ran away with someone."

After interrogating for a long time, there was no useful news, so he withdrew, and Cheng Er was taken back again.

Two hours later, the two yamen servants who were sent to investigate came back and gave a general account of Cheng Er's affairs: Speaking of which, Cheng Er did it on his own. Children beat and scold, mothers-in-law and children are terrified of him.When he was a butcher in the early years, the family still had a little savings. Since his parents died, no one in the family could take care of him, so he began to drink too much, and his wife and children were beaten to death. double-minded.

Later, Cheng Er accidentally cut off half of his hand while slaughtering a pig while he was drunk. Since then, he couldn't do butchering work, so he had to spend all his savings to buy a carriage to pull jobs in the city.

But not only did he not work hard, but he drank more and more. He couldn't earn a penny every day, and he bought wine on credit everywhere. His wife couldn't bear it, so she secretly packed up her clothes and ran away with someone at night.Cheng Er was so angry that he almost beat his two children to death.

His two children were even more miserable, their mother didn't want them, their father didn't care, they were like wild children every day, eating two bites if anyone had food, and starving if they didn't. Later, they both died at home because of the cold and thin clothes in winter.It wasn't until spring that the neighbors found out that the bodies of Cheng Er and his two children were still on the mass grave without any mats.

Gradually, Cheng Er's temperament suddenly changed drastically. Sometimes when he saw people without saying a word, he put on an angry face with no one, and sometimes he was laughing and joking. He looked enthusiastic when he saw everyone. Everyone thought he might have lost his mind. Crazy.

Zhang Rui suddenly realized after listening, isn't Cheng Er's symptoms the same as modern split personality!No wonder Cheng Er didn't admit that he killed those two people. It may be that he split into two personalities, one tough and the other weak.The tough personality killed the two passers-by, so the weak Cheng Er said that he didn't kill anyone at all.But how can he call out his second personality?

Zhang Rui thought for a while and said to Zhou Yin: "If you are Cheng Er, under what circumstances would you suddenly be particularly angry?"

Zhou Yin rubbed his chin, "This...it varies from person to person, I'm not Cheng Er, but if someone touches you, I will definitely be very angry."

Zhang Rui clapped his hands and said, "Yes! His wife! His wife should be his biggest obsession, but how can he find her after his wife has eloped with someone?"

Zhou Yin: "You might as well ask someone what his wife looks like, and find someone to dress her up."

Zhang Ruidao: "This is possible, but how could a woman from a good family agree to do such a thing."

Duan Xiaobai: "My lord, wasn't that little actor last night pretty good, let him try to dress up."

Zhan Qing couldn't help laughing: "Well, I think it's okay."

After discussing it well, I asked the villagers about the appearance of Cheng's second wife. Duan Xiaobai went to call the little opera singer, but the opera singer thought he was brought to the government because of the crying incident, so frightened that he burst into tears. This man was really good at crying, and his tears flowed like he didn't want money.

Duan Xiaobai had no choice but to tell him the matter, if he dressed up well, he would not be held accountable for crying in the inn.

The little actor rubbed his red eyes and nodded half-understanding, pointing at the orchid: "Don't lie to me, otherwise I will kill you."

Duan Xiaobai rubbed his head and regretted noticing this, is this kid reliable?Don't mess up your master's plan!

When I arrived at the government office, I got an ordinary woman's clothes to put on the little actor, and dressed him up carefully. After finishing it, several neighbors said that they looked almost the same from the back.

Zhang Ruidao: "Seven or eight points is enough. What we have to do now is to irritate Cheng Er. Once he gets angry, that tough Cheng Er will come out!"