Ding Tian's Ancient Life

"No, we just bought his pork today and thought it was unclean. We want to scare him, so you call the door open quickly." Bai Zhanfeng said with a smile: "Just beat him up. Such a butcher will not be clean in the future." Don't sell meat." The eldest brother believed it a little bit, because Bai Zhanfeng's mouth smelled of alcohol, probably because he had drunk some alcohol, and the butchers in Lian really don't pay much attention to hygiene.

He went to knock on the door, and An Tuhu's voice came out: "Who is it?"

"An Tuhu, I'm your Brother Yang, I've run out of salt in my house today, so I'll borrow a bowl from you, and I'll buy it and return it to you tomorrow!

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"Oh, here we come!" Butcher An did not suspect him, because the Yang family next door was indeed pickling vegetables today, and the radish and cabbage farmers in the yard were pointing at the pickles for dinner in winter.

He opened the door without thinking too much. Fortunately, Jin Buhuan and the others did not light a torch, and the sky became much darker, because it was going to be dark soon.

Farmers always eat while the sky is still light, and it is estimated that the neighbors are also.

If it is completely dark before eating, except when there is a moon, you need to light oil lamps, but the farmers live frugally, and lamp oil also costs money.

So eat before dark, and when it gets dark, they are all sorted out, and then they can go to sleep.This is the so-called "work at sunrise and rest at sunset".

With the sun, you can save money on lamp oil.

Butcher An is also a commoner, so he opened the door without thinking too much... Two black shadows jumped up, followed by two more black shadows with ropes in their hands, and quickly tied him up stand up.

"What are you doing?" An Tuhu was shocked: "Let me go!"

He is a butcher, with great strength, he struggled endlessly, but unfortunately, this gang of arresters is usually good at catching murderers, the four of them worked together, surrounded him and quickly exchanged the ropes in each other's hands, trapping him in minutes It became a dumpling.

Other yamen servants rushed into the gate, and immediately searched the small courtyard, and found that there was no second person in An Tuhu's house.

There was no second door, so the torches were lit one after another.

"Okay, you go back!" Bai Zhanfeng let go of the big brother who called the door.

Track and Field very kindly rewarded him with ten copper coins: "Thank you!"

The elder brother held the copper plate nervously, ran away in a frenzy, returned home, closed the door with a "bang", ran into the house and closed the door again, shivering with his wife and children in his arms.

It's really "official words with two mouths", what they say is deceptive....

Besides, Ding Tian was calmed down inside, so he and Jin Buhuan were allowed to come in. They were both standing at the back just now, and they would never be allowed in before they were stabilized.

Tian Jing couldn't afford to take this risk. Once Ding Tian was injured, he couldn't guarantee that His Highness King Ning would make trouble for him.Even if His Highness doesn't care about him, what about Prefect Du?

There is also Master Du, who talks to Ding Tian with a smile on weekdays.

Anyone can get rid of him as a head catcher, so Jing Tian is also responsible for bringing Ding Tian and the others out this time.

The yard was already brightly lit, and the other houses, whether they were businessmen or residences, were told not to go out for the time being, the government was handling the case.

So everyone is at home, looking out through the cracks in the windows.

In the brightly lit courtyard, a man tied up into a rice dumpling was yelling, his voice was terrible, but Bai Zhanfeng went over, pulled out a cloth scarf from his waist, and blocked his mouth. The sound disappeared.

"Don't move, I'll search!" Jin Buhuan put on his outfit again. During the day, it's okay to wear this outfit, but at night, you are dressed in white... This was very taboo in ancient times. What's more, under the light of the torch, Jin Buhuan looked very... permeable.

But he doesn't care about these, there are only three rooms here, and as soon as he enters the middle, there is a large pot, a small pot, a haystack and firewood, and some pots and pans, which are obviously a combination of a firewood room and a kitchen. The house is a place for people to live, and the west house is for storing sundries. It is a place for a rough man in the north to live alone. It is good to be sloppy, but the key is that there is still a smell of pig hair here.

child.

It's really like a pigsty, but after Jin didn't trade in, he took off his mask and took a deep breath...

Ding Tian's face turned pale, he was disgusted.

"That's the smell!" Jin Buhuan sniffed the dog's nose for a long time, and said with certainty: "I'll go to the bedroom to have a look."

The other yamen servants watched Jin Buhuan survey the suspect's residence as if they were watching a western scene.

The residence is also like a pig's nest, the pit mat on the pit is new, the bedding and so on are also new, only the pit cabinet is old, first check the bedding, pillows, all are ok, and then the pit mat , The pit mat is new, but the pit is old, no problem, open the pit cabinet, there are more than a dozen sets of clothes in it, stuffed in random, some have not been washed, a smell, so that Ding Tian also hurried out Jin Buchang took out a mask from his medicine box and put it on for himself.

Jin Buhuan searched inside, and finally found a piece of dirty clothes in the corner next to the wall outside the pit cabinet. The clothes hadn't been washed and had a strong smell, but the clothes were torn.

The clothes looked like old clothes, and they turned white after washing, and the gray color was quite familiar.

I don't know where the hem of the clothes was scraped or scratched. It's not a big piece. He lives alone, and no one washes, sews and mends him, plus this clothes , it is indeed too old, probably not worth mending

But Jin Buhuan felt as if he had found a treasure, so he took a small piece of cloth and gestured for it.

"Is it this one?" Ding Tian's eyes widened.

"Yes!" Jin Buhuan wrapped the clothes in a kraft paper bag.

This is evidence!

"I'll dig it out for you." Ding Tian didn't care about the dirt anymore, and together with Jin Buhuan, he also turned the other pit cabinet upside down.

day.

"Why not?" Jin Buhuan scratched his head, because there was no stolen goods in the pit cabinet.

"There's another room next door for storing sundries, what are you afraid of!" Ding Tian pulled him, "Let's go, go to Westinghouse to search, we're not fruitless, if we can find this, it'll be great."

That was probably the clothes the murderer was wearing when he committed the crime.

Then Jin Buhuan and Ding Tian went to the room where the sundries were kept and continued to search.

The other yamen servants were not idle either. The two of them rummaged in the house, while the others lit torches and dug three feet in the yard to find them.But An Tuhu's house was not big, and the yard was not big, so the search was quickly finished, and nothing was found except for the clothes.

"Shouldn't it?" Jin Buhuan scratched his head: "There must be a lot of stolen goods, and they are all gold and silver, so it is impossible for him not to keep them at home."

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"That's right!" Ding Tian said, "That's stolen goods. Even if you take it out and pawn it in a pawn shop, it will attract attention. He must not have sold it yet. He won't do it until the Yun Huaqing case is over."

But in such a big place, no stolen goods could be found.

"How is it?" Two head catchers came in.

"I couldn't find the stolen goods, but I found a piece of clothing that can be used as evidence." Jin Buhuan said, "I'm continuing to look for it."

Bai Zhanfeng scanned around: "It's such a big place, why can't you find it?"

"Yes!" Ding Tian was also worried: "What about outside?"

"Dig three feet into the ground, but found nothing. He probably still keeps one or two pigs in this place, and there is a pig tied to a wooden shelf outside. It needs to be slaughtered and sold tomorrow." Bai Zhanfeng said: "Still There are butcher's knives, all of them are there."

"Huh?" Ding Tian ran out after getting off the kang, "I'm going to see the pigs!"

"What are you looking at?" Bai Zhanfeng was confused.

"He wants to see...a pig?" The corner of Tian Jing's mouth twitched: "At this time, Tian'er, don't mess around, what are you looking for? See if you can find the stolen goods!"

Said, also ran out.

It turned out that Ding Tian was really looking at the pigs.

This is a big fat pig, fat and fat, at least more than 200 catties, tied with ropes, especially afraid of the pig screaming, the pig's mouth is strangled.

There is also a noose around the neck. When slaughtering, the pig can be hung up so that it can be disemboweled.

But Ding Tian was looking at the rope buckle.

Ordinary people may know some popular rope buckles, but butchers, woodcutters, etc. are different, because they use ropes to tie heavy objects, such as pigs and cows and other large animals, charcoal, etc. It's a big thing, so their rope buckles are all skillful, they can be pulled apart with one pull, but after being tied, they can bear a lot of weight, and the most important thing is that they won't fall apart halfway.

"What are you looking at?" Jing Tian came out and saw that Ding Tian had been staring at the big fat pig, and suddenly became angry: "Why don't you come in and look for something?"

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"No, come here!" Ding Tian greeted them instead: "Look at this rope buckle."

"What's so interesting about this animal?" Bai Zhanfeng heard "rope buckle" as "animal".

It was Jin Buhuan who understood Ding Tian's meaning: "He's talking about the knot, go and have a look."

Several people gathered together, Ding Tian pointed to the rope buckle and said: "This one is exactly the same as the rope buckle tied with the rope on the beam.

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This rope buckle is two bottom ropes, which are wrapped eight times around the outside, and there is a small rope root. As long as you pull this small rope root, the whole rope can be disbanded in an instant, but if you don’t pull this small rope root , This rope can bear a thousand catties.

It's a trivial matter to hang a big fat pig weighing more than two hundred catties.

"Sure enough!" Jin Buhuan said, "Not many people know how to use this kind of rope buckle."

This rope buckle is in the shape of a long strip, and most people tie the rope in a round shape, with a big ball tangled together.

"That's right, that's the rope buckle!" Bai Zhanfeng also recognized it: "It's really him? My God!"

I always thought that Miss Cai's death was not honorable, the Cai family was secretive, and hated Yun Huaqing to the bone, and even bribed the jailer to torture him.

Yun Huaqing pleaded guilty in a daze. If he hadn't been suppressed by the superior, he would have been executed after the autumn harvest.

what.

Such an ironclad case can have new breakthroughs, which is so exciting.

"The stolen goods are missing!" Jin Buhuan slapped his thigh: "Go, go to the house, and dig three feet for me too."

Several yamen servants ran in, and sure enough, they dug the ground three feet.

But there is nothing in this house except a cellar. There are half a bag of potatoes, a few Chinese cabbages, and a bag of radishes in the cellar.

The Na'an butcher had no strength left to struggle, Jin Buhuan pulled out the cloth towel from his mouth: "Tell me, where are the stolen goods?

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"What stolen goods? What are you guys doing?" An Tuhu looked at them with crazy eyes: "What's the matter with bullying me, a foreigner?"

"Bullying you?" Jin Buhuan smiled: "If you bully you, it will not tie you up with a rope, but strip you naked and hang you

On the gate of the city, people who come in and out can see it, so that's interesting! "

Everyone gasped and looked at Jin Buhuan in shock.

"You really have a serious taste." Ding Tian said to Antuhu dumbfounded: "Don't think about luck, since we are here, there is naturally evidence to prove that you are the murderer of Miss Cai's family, you should be honest. .”

"I don't know what you're talking about, Miss Cai...wasn't Yunhua Qingyun scholar killed?" Butu An said: "He has confessed himself, and I heard that he was driven out of the village by the villagers , Even the house and the land have been divided by his two brothers-in-law!" "You know this kind of thing very well." Tian Jing snorted coldly: "If you don't tell the truth, just keep talking hard, I won't Mind, I'll let you have a taste of what Yun Huaqing suffered back then."

Butcher An shivered, and the fierce light in his eyes dimmed a bit: "I was wronged!"