Leng Yi said: "Is this why you left last time?"

Cheng Luojie said: "Yes. The jade was pawned by a beggar. The local government has already taken control of the beggar. After interrogation, it was confirmed that a stranger lost the object on the roadside and the beggar picked it up.

, However, because it was dark at the time, the beggar could not recognize the appearance of the man. He only knew that he was a man of medium build. We immediately searched the whole city, but could not find the man. We continued to expand the search for a long time, but still did not find him.

At this time, we received news that one of the stolen palace treasures, Ruyi, had appeared in Bazhou, and we immediately returned to Bazhou for investigation. At the same time, Queen Kaibao also promoted you to be the general judge of Bazhou to preside over the investigation.

.That's it."

Leng Yi nodded: "I understand, go on."

Yin Jiu said: "After the Bazhou pawnshop discovered that this jade Ruyi was the object of the imperial court's drawing and investigation, while holding the scholar steady, he immediately sent someone quietly to report to the Yamen. After the people from the Yamen arrived, after inspection, it turned out that it was indeed the imperial palace.

One of the stolen treasures. So the scholar was arrested and interrogated. Later, the rest of the stolen treasures were found from the scholar's house. However, the whereabouts of the fellow countryman who the scholar told him to entrust him to keep the things was missing. After repeated interrogations,

All available methods were used, but there was no progress. The person who asked the scholar to keep things was just a fellow from his hometown. The two of them had a normal relationship. They didn't even know the person's specific address. They thought they were from the same hometown just because they had the same accent.

The two of them have not known each other for a long time. I only know this and cannot find out anything more."

Cheng Luojie added: "We have drawn a portrait of this client to pursue him. But there is currently no news."

Leng Yi said: "That means that all the clues have been cut off?"

"Yes."

"Since there are no clues, there is nothing I can do."

Yin Jiu said: "We guess that Queen Kaibao also knows that this case is difficult, so instead of asking you to help investigate the case, she directly promoted you to the post of Bazhou Tongjian. It is to take this difficulty into consideration so that the elder can keep track of the progress at any time.

.In order to investigate the case.”

"Yeah." Leng Yi thought for a moment and said, "However, clues don't fall from the sky. When there are no clues, you can take the initiative to look for clues. Since none of the six of you can find more clues from that scholar,

It only shows that the scholar really doesn’t know much.”

Yin Jiu nodded and said, "How should we look for clues?"

Leng Yi said: "Start with the people around the scholar, especially his relatives and friends."

Cheng Luojie was a little puzzled and said: "Why are you checking his relatives and friends? He doesn't even know the person who keeps things with him. I'm afraid his relatives and friends are even less familiar with him. I'm afraid there won't be anything after checking.

usefulness."

Leng Yi said: "Think about it, since the person who deposited the things is not familiar with the scholar, why would he deposit such valuable things with this friend? There must be a reason!"

Cheng Luojie said: "We checked, and the scholar said that the man's accent was very similar to his, so he recognized him as a fellow villager. He didn't know why the trustee deposited such a valuable thing with them all of a sudden."

"Finding out why this person wanted to store things in this scholar's house will help us solve the case. And if the scholar can't explain it, we can investigate his peripheral personnel. New discoveries may be made."

Cheng Luojie nodded and said, "Okay! Then we will immediately conduct an investigation on the scholar's relevant personnel."

Leng Yi said: "All relatives and friends must be checked, including friends of these friends. - Since there is currently no clue about the client, we can't wait empty-handed, so we can only go out to look for clues. In this way, we can always find clues.

It’s better than doing nothing and waiting for clues.”

Yin Jiu and the other three people all nodded in agreement and immediately started investigating.

At the same time, Cheng Luojie took out the drawings of the stolen palace treasures and showed them to Leng Yi. Leng Yi read them carefully and remembered them one by one.

Yin Jiu and the others' investigations were all accompanied by forced confessions. From time to time, shrill screams could be heard from the scholar's house, which made Leng Yi regret letting six men like Yin Jiu arrest heads to investigate the scholar's family.

However, before he could stop him, a major breakthrough was made in the case on the day he was investigating the scholar's family!

This breakthrough did not come from the scholar's family, but from the mysterious man. He finally appeared, but in the form of a corpse.

Leng Yi was working in the Yamen that day. Cheng Luojie rushed in and said with cupped hands: "Sir, the corpse found by the river in the city has been identified by us based on the portrait and is one of the eunuchs who stole the treasures from the palace! At the same time, he also

It was the man we captured at sea who kept things at the scholar's house. He was stabbed in the upper abdomen and died."

Leng Yi suddenly became excited and found one of the eunuchs who had stolen the royal treasures, which meant that the stolen royal treasures were probably nearby!

Leng Yi asked anxiously: "Where is the body?"

"Still by the river, my subordinates have given orders to stop the onlookers. I'm waiting for you to go and investigate."

Leng Yi quickly ordered the sedan to be set up and set off for the river.

The Ba River runs through the city and is an important water transportation route in Bazhou. Due to heavy rains for days, the river water surged and the turbid waves surged, making it very fast.

The corpse lay quietly on the grass by the river, probably a few steps away from the rising river water. His whole body was soaked by the rain.

After taking off his clothes and performing an autopsy on the spot, it was found that his lower body had indeed been castrated and he was a eunuch.

After checking the whole body, it was found that there was a deep wound in the upper abdomen of the corpse, just below the heart pit. The wound wall was smooth, there was no inter-tissue bridge in the wound cavity, and the wound angles at both ends were sharp, and one end was pulled open, forming a

Horizontal, rhombus-shaped wounds that are large on the outside and small on the inside, parallel to the shoulders.

No murder weapon was found at the scene. How was such a wound formed?

Leng Yi reached in and felt around, and felt that the flat wound cavity inside was located up and down. However, the triangular wound at the entrance was indeed diamond-shaped, and the left corner was extended laterally.

After observing it for a long time, he felt that this wound was a bit strange, because the elongated corner of the triangular wound was parallel to the shoulders, but the inside was indeed flat up and down, with almost no horizontal wounds.

That is to say, the entrance was shaped like a rhombus with one side extended, but when it went deep into the body, it was shaped like a straight line in the up and down direction. Leng Yi couldn't figure out what such a lethal weapon was.

Leng Yi told his doubts to Yin Jiu and Cheng Luojie.

Yin Jiu pondered for a moment and said: "To cause such an injury, unless the murderer stabbed the sword with the blade vertically, pulled it out, turned the blade, and pulled the sword out flat, then it would be like this.

hurt."

Cheng Luojie shook his head and said: "This is against common sense. If he wanted to cause serious damage, he would immediately pull out the sword after piercing it, enlarging the wound, instead of pulling out the sword after it was almost out."

Cheng Luogu also said: "That's right. Moreover, since it is pierced into the upper abdomen vertically and dragged downwards, it can disembowel it. Wouldn't it be simple? If you turn the sword blade and drag it horizontally, it will hit you immediately.

If it reaches the ribs on one side, the wound cannot be expanded."

Yin Jiu laughed twice and said: "What you said makes sense. I also think this man's sword use is really strange and not in line with common sense."

After listening to their analysis, Leng Yi still had no more clues, so he continued to examine the body.

Judging from the degree of rigor mortis, body spots, and body temperature, the murder occurred in the evening of the night before.

After examining the body, we began to search the scene.

Soon, they found an empty brocade box next to a big stone not far from the body. After Yin Jiu inspected it, he determined that it was one of the royal items they were tracking.

Leng Yi immediately said to Yin Jiu: "The things have probably been stolen by his people. Immediately set up four gates for interrogation! At the same time, keep the progress of the case secret to the higher ups!"

Yin Jiu and Cheng Luojie quickly agreed and made arrangements immediately.

Leng Yi was relieved that although it was cloudy in Bazhou these two days, it did not rain. The continuous rain in the past few days had soaked the river beach very soft, and it was likely to leave marks.

Sure enough, after Leng Yi carefully searched the riverside, he found several shoe prints on the sand by the river. They were very scattered. After carefully observing these footprints, Leng Yi said: "The murderers who surrounded and killed this man were three people.

Moreover, one of them is a lame, with his right foot lame outward. Another one is very tall, a head taller than an ordinary person. The third person is a big fat man."

Cheng Luojie and others looked at him in surprise: "How did the eldest master know?"

"From the footprints!" Leng Yi said: "Careful observation of the footprints can help us give us a lot of useful information. - This place is remote and there are no roads passing through it. And the corpse appears here again, and there are some footprints on the surrounding sand.

, indicating that they were probably left by the murderer. Because the soles of our shoes are all handmade with needlework, the patterns and colors cannot be exactly the same. After comparing the footprints, I found a total of three different footprints. This means that the people present may be

Three. And I found that one of the pair of footprints was strangely tilted outward. It is impossible for a normal person to have such footprints, which means that this person's feet are disabled and he is a lame."

Cheng Luojie knelt down and checked the footprints, nodded and said, "Yes, it's very strange. - Then how did you know the other two were the tall man and the fat man?"

"You can infer a person's height from the length of his footprints. There are certain rules for this. Based on this rule and through observation of the footprints, I deduced that this person is very tall, about a head taller than an average person.

As for the other fat man, the calculation is simpler. You only need to observe the footprints next to this footprint to know that this footprint is deeper. The reason is very simple. A heavier person will leave deeper footprints in the same sand.

"From the comparison of the depth of the footprints, I judged that this person was much heavier than an ordinary person, because the length of the footprints is similar to that of an ordinary person, which means that he is not tall. That can only mean that he is a fat man." (Unfinished)

to be continued..)
Chapter completed!