Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2841 Closed

   Among Maoling.

  Inside the inn.

  Sima Yi stood outside the door, listening to the case report.

   Zhangcun's body was first discovered by the waiter in the inn.

  『Small, small...』The shop waiter swallowed a mouthful of saliva, showing lingering fear, "The small one just saw Zhang Langjun's door was ajar, thinking... wanted to take Ye Xiang away, but unexpectedly saw... saw..."

  The waiter in the inn needs to be responsible for collecting the night incense in the guest room every morning, and then put it in the fat field car in the backyard alley, and wash the chamber pot by the way, and then send it back to the guest room in the evening.

  If you miss this time, or if there is something wrong with your temporary stomach, of course, there are also temporary ones, but you need some extra tips.

  The waiter in the store said, he couldn't help but trembled, his face showed a bit of fear, "I saw... Zhang Langjun lying on the ground..."

  Si Mayi frowned slightly as he listened.

  I heard about Sima Gang, who stood behind Sima Yi and said in a low voice: "This person is surnamed Wang, from Zuo Fengyi. He has been in this inn for many years. He is honest and hardworking. He has done nothing illegal... He was on duty in the inn last night, and there are witnesses." 』

  Si Mayi nodded, then stared at the waiter.

  The waiter in the shop was a little flustered, his eyes wandering.

"you are lying! ’ Sima Yi asked in a low voice, ‘What are you hiding? ! 』

  The waiter in the shop turned pale immediately.

  The shopkeeper at the side also looked confused, and cursed at the waiter: "Shangguan asked, you are not honest!" Do you want flesh and blood? idiot! Say what you have! 』

  Si Mayi glanced lightly at the shopkeeper.

  The shopkeeper hurriedly apologized, and didn't dare to say anything more.

  The inspector Li Er, who was in charge of public security here, took a step forward, and shouted with a dark face, "How dare you!" How dare you lie to Shangguan! come...'

  Before Li Er called someone to carry out the punishment, the waiter in the shop was already paralyzed on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly, "Little one, little one is wrong!" The little one said everything, everything...」

  The inspection team led Li Er to look back at Sima Yi, seeing Sima Yi nodding slightly, he shouted: "Honestly speaking!" But half of the sentence is false, hum, be careful of your own life! Say it! 』

  The shop waiter obviously lied.

Because Yexiang is generally held by customers and left at the door, generally speaking, the waiter will not take the initiative to collect Yexiang in the room, unless the customer orders, there is a tip or something, the waiter will enter the room to collect, so the waiter said He went straight in when he saw the concealed door, which was obviously unreasonable. But Sima Yi didn't think that the murderer was Xiaoer Dian, so there was no need to spend more time on Xiaoer Dian. Sima Yi just wanted to know what the shop Xiaoer was hiding, and whether there were any clues related to the real culprit.

  『Damn the small ones, **** the small ones! ’The waiter fell to his knees and kowtowed again and again, ‘The little one just saw that the door was ajar...the little one thought that Mrs. Zhang escaped at night and didn’t pay the room fee, so she opened the door to check...then I saw...the little one really didn’t deliberately deceive the Shangguan! really not! 』

  Si Mayi narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the waiter in the shop, noncommittal.

  Li Er glanced at Sima Yi's face, then asked, "What did you see when you entered the door?" Have you turned over items in the room? In detail, if there is even the slightest concealment, be careful of flesh and blood! 』

  The shop waiter was trembling with fright, and repeated what he did.

  Li Er grasped some of the details and asked several times, and then basically confirmed that Xiaoer Dian was not the murderer. Most of the lying before was to cover up that his act of entering the guest room without authorization was not in compliance with the rules. And the traces in the room also proved that Xiao Er did not

  Sima Yi nodded, ordered Xiao Er to be taken into custody first, and then looked into the house.

  The house in the inn is not big.

   Beds, tables, mats and shelves basically fill up the entire house.

  Zhang Cun's body was lying on the side of the table, and next to his hand were the words "Hussars Killing X" written in blood. I don't know if the last word was exhausted, or some other reason, but I stopped after writing the first two strokes.

  Sima Yi sneered at the incomprehensibility.

   Is this to write "Hussars hurt me"?

  What kind of person are you, and you are worthy of a hussar?

   It's just ridiculous.

   But the problem is that ordinary people don't care about these things, they are more often just looking for fun.

   As for what the truth is, they don't ask much.

   Or sustained attention is not enough.

   When the truth comes out, they often turn to another scene.

  The blood has basically solidified, and the smell of blood is very strong.

  Sima Yi looked at those words, "Who else came in?" 』

  Li Er replied from the side: "In addition to Xiaoer, there is also the shopkeeper. In addition, there may be other nearby tenants... When I brought people here, there were already many people around here...』

  Si Mayi nodded. As expected, this matter cannot be concealed at all, and many people will see these words.

  Sima Yi turned his head and looked at the shelf on the side of the bed. The items seemed to have been flipped and messy.

   Around the shelf, there seems to be some tread marks...

Um?

  Sima Yi frowned suddenly, where is his robe?

  Sima Yi was a little excited.

   At least it is a kind of excitement that Sima Yi finds more challenging than trying those corrupt officials.

  Trialing those corrupt officials is too boring and not challenging.

These corrupt officials seem to be all from the same template. At the beginning, they expressed their innocence. They were deceived, seduced, deceived, etc. by a certain relative, a certain subordinate, a certain tribe, etc. It made him finally embark on a road of no return. Yunyun, and then in the process of repenting, he vaguely mentioned that he did something more or less when he was in office, or tried to pay off his merits. , or expressing that mistakes can be corrected, or buying with money, etc., anyway, most of them are corrupt, the amount of money is different, and the place is different. similar.

   They are much more similar, which naturally made Sima Yi a little boring after a period of trial.

  Now Sima Yi suddenly found some interest in hearing cases...

  『Where is this son’s coat? 』

  Sima Yi suddenly pointed at the hanger.

  There are only one or two small clothes hanging on the hangers.

  People in the Han Dynasty wore three layers of clothes, small clothes, middle clothes, and outer robes. But now Zhang Cun's body only has a middle coat on it, and no outer robe can be seen.

  Li Er hurriedly walked to the clothes hanger in two steps, bent down to look carefully, and suddenly said: "There are imprints here!" 』

  There seemed to be some faint bloodstains on the side of the hanger, but it was not too obvious, and then went around to the back of the hanger.

  Li Er immediately pulled out the waist knife, turned around the hanger, checked the marks on the ground, followed the marks, and then went to the rear window, "The thief is out from here!" 』

  There are some blood-stained scratches on the window.

  Because the inn house is not a new house, the window sills are also old, and the imprint on the paint surface is not very obvious. Only veterans like Li Er who have been on the battlefield are more sensitive to some clues.

Sima Yi nodded, then gave a signal, and immediately his guards and the inspectors brought by Li Er either went out through the window, or walked around the house, followed the traces on the window to continue their investigation, and soon found another The sound of scolding and fighting came from somewhere...

   After a while, Li Er excitedly escorted a person outside the house, "Report to Dali Qing, the thief has been caught!" 』

   so easy?

  Si Mayi raised his eyebrows slightly.

  『Woooo...┭┮﹏┭┮』The thief was tied up, a rag was stuffed in his mouth, and his limbs were tied together, like a sheep being thrown on the floor.

  『This was found in his house! This is the robe of the dead! jade belt! ” Li Er obviously felt that he was able to catch the thief so quickly, and he was somewhat excited, “And this one, the gold-painting fan! It's all here! This is all physical evidence! 』

  『Mmm…』Sima Yi looked at it, thought for a while, then nodded, 『Take it back to Dali Temple…』

   Li Er happily took the thief away.

   But Sima Yi still stayed where he was, looked at the window, then at the door, and then at the crowd of people watching the bustle outside the door, and then he also left.

   After returning to Dali Temple, when the captured thief was tried, he realized that he had been caught wrong.

   Strictly speaking, it is not wrong, but this guy is not killing people, but stealing things...

When this guy arrived at Dali Temple, he collapsed on the ground, crying bitterly, emphasizing again and again that he was only the first time, and confessed in every possible way that he should not be obsessed with ghosts and make a fortune, but this did not get the slightest sympathy from Sima Yi and others. The thief drew a charge, and then locked him in a prison.

  『Your Majesty Dali...is this thief getting away with a small crime? 』Li Er didn't catch the real thief, so he was somewhat disappointed, but he still had a little hope...

  Sima Yi nodded slightly, "It can't be said that this possibility is completely impossible..."

   After a moment of silence, Li Er said nervously, "Dare to ask Mr. Dali... I don't know where the hussars are... do you have any rules?" 』

   Before there was any fingerprinting, bloodstain theory, and related criminal investigation disciplines, the efficiency of solving such murder cases was extremely low.

Throughout the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, even the Qin Dynasty, and even the Han Dynasty, the major cases recorded in the history books basically required eyewitnesses, such as the strong case of Dong Xuan, and the case of Li Ying's law enforcement killing of Zhang Shuo, etc. etc. Strictly speaking, they are all political cases, not pure homicide cases.

  As for most murder cases, even in the feudal dynasties of later generations, there are still not many cases that can be successfully solved. More than half of them are cases of torture, and many of them are unsolved cases. At most, only 10 to 20% are real reasoning cases.

  So Li Er was a little worried, because this "involved" the hussars, so in case the hussars were ordered to solve the case within a few days...

   Then the game is over.

  Sima Yi glanced at Li Er, "What advice does Inspector Li have?" 』

  『The little one dares to see the word Jiao...' Li Er hurriedly bowed his head and cupped his hands and said, 'The little one wants...if the hussars are in a hurry, I can...can I report the thief first...」

  Li Er glanced at Sima Yi's expression.

  Sima Yi was expressionless, "You mean... to treat this as murder?" 』

  Li Er quickly waved his hand, "I don't mean that, I just said, if the hussars are eager, it can be regarded as an excuse... As for the others, it's all up to Dali Qing..."

  Sima Yi was noncommittal and didn't say anything. He just lowered his head and reviewed the case records and related statements.

  In many cases in the Han Dynasty, whether there was actually any confession was sometimes not as strict as in later modern times, but after all, hussars were involved at the moment, so Sima Yi didn't think it was a good idea to fool the past.

  Li Er wiped the sweat from his brow in embarrassment.

  This thing...

   Obviously not simple.

  If he knew this was the case, he should have pretended to be sick, no, maybe he should have stabbed himself...

  But this involves hussars, can it be pretended? He is the inspection captain of Maoling, and this matter will come to him no matter what.

  Damn it, why did you start in Maoling? Can't we go out of Maoling...

   Forget it, it’s useless to think about it, now it’s time to catch this **** thief earlier!

  Clues, which side has more clues?

  There are only two entrances and exits to the house where Zhang Cun died, one door and one window.

  On the other side of the window is the trace of the thief, but on the other side of the door...

  Even if there were any traces, they were wiped out by the people coming in and out. Even if they went back to investigate, they probably wouldn't be able to find anything. While Li Er was thinking hard, footsteps sounded outside the Dali Temple, and Ma Gang from Youwen Division came again, bringing some latest information that Youwen Division assisted in the investigation.

  Information 1, Zhang Village has no enemies in Chang'an now.

  The definition of "enmity" is the kind of personal grievance worthy of killing Zhang Cun.

  The only enmity may be that Zhang Cun is suspected of insulting the hussars...

   Is insulting worth killing?

   It was worth it in the Han Dynasty.

  The concept of enmity and enmity in the Han Dynasty was very straightforward. Maybe just insulting other parents would be killed by their sons. Those who have the catchphrase of grass-mud horses in the later generations may not survive a chapter in the Han Dynasty, or even in the feudal dynasty for a long time after that. Moreover, in the laws of the Han Dynasty and subsequent dynasties, because of the influence of Confucian loyalty and filial piety, they often took a positive attitude towards this kind of killing for blood relatives.

For example, in the case of Zhu Qianzhi's revenge in the Southern Qi Dynasty, the cause was simply that when Zhu Qianzhi from Qiantang was young, his biological mother died and was buried next to a field. Burned…

   This may not be an intentional behavior, but it led to the revenge of the two families.

  Zhu Qian came later with a sharp knife and killed Zhu Youfang, expressing his filial piety for his mother and revenge, and then surrendered himself to the county jail. When the matter got serious, the emperor of Southern Qi praised Zhu Qianzhi's act of revenge very much, but feared that the Zhu clan would kill each other, so he asked Zhu Qianzhi to serve as an army and go to Xiangyang with the general Cao Hu. As a result, when Zhu Qianzhi was about to leave, Zhu Youfang's son Zhu Yun hid in the middle of the road and waited for an opportunity to assassinate Zhu Qianzhi.

   And Zhu Qianzhi’s elder brother Zhu Xuanzhi, when he found out about this, he assassinated Zhu Yun again…

  The grievances are reciprocated, endlessly.

  But at that time, the Southern Qi emperor pardoned Zhu Qianzhi first, so naturally he couldn't punish the people behind him, and they all pardoned them.

  So it can roughly be said that if the killing was for vendetta, then the only "vengeance" was attributed to Zhang Cun who insulted the hussars and pushed the responsibility of the Western Regions to the hussars?

  Information 2, Zhang Cun's resume is very simple, even "clean" to some extent.

  Heluo native, Zhang Xiaozong.

The previous experience cannot be checked, but later he went to Chang'an with the refugees from Jingzhou and participated in the imperial examination, but his ranking was not high, because the Western Regions needed officials, so he lowered the standard and was selected to the Western Regions, but he did not hold any important positions. He didn't stay in the Western Regions for long, so he resigned from illness and returned to Chang'an.

   Then there is the incident of admonishment.

  During this process, Zhang Cun did not set off the alarm bell of Youwen Division.

  Of course, it cannot be ruled out that there is something lurking in a place that Yuwen Division has not noticed...

After all, Chang'an is already a big city now, not to mention the main urban area, the surrounding tombs have a large population, coupled with the frequent flow of people, even with customs clearance, household registration control, and Lifang registration, etc., Still can not avoid some loopholes. So from this aspect, Zhang Cun doesn't seem like a spy.

To take a step back, even if Zhang Cun is a spy, as the handwriting left behind shows that he was killed by the hussars, then the person who did it should be Youwen Division or the inspection department. Yes, but after Ma Gang asked around, no one had received relevant instructions, and no one said they had done anything to Zhang Cun.

  Then if it was spies from other aspects, what was the purpose of attacking Zhang Village?

  Information 3, no witnesses have been found in the inn and its surroundings.

Maoling is not too small. There is a lot of people in it. In addition, there are a lot of people coming and going in the inn on weekdays. There are all kinds of food, drink and lodging. Naturally, I will not pay special attention to observe every person in the inn. people in and out. Moreover, the sound of the inn is usually very mocking. When Zhang Cun died, even if there were any noises, no one paid attention to it, so no relevant witnesses were found at all.

  There are no witnesses, which means that anyone may have killed Zhang Cun.

   After all, Zhang Cun is just a very ordinary Confucian scholar. It may be a bit exaggerated to say that he has no power to restrain a chicken, but it is really not too difficult to kill Zhang Cun. So there are so many people capable of killing him that it's hard to have an exact suspect.

   Ma Gang looked at Sima Yi in embarrassment.

  One of the reasons for the embarrassment, this is the situation that Youwen Division can find in the shortest time, but obviously, these situations have no direct direction.

  As for the second reason of embarrassment...

  Sima Yi looked at the information in hand, then raised his eyes and landed on Ma Gang, "I already know what Director Kan means." Please also reply to Director Kan, thank you for your hard work. 』

   Ma Gang was taken aback.

   Could it be that Kan Ze said something extra in the information?

No? Ma Gang himself also read the information sent to Sima Yi, and there was nothing extra written in it?

  Then why did Sima Yi say that?

  But it is impossible for Ma Gang to ask Sima Yi in detail at the moment, he can only respond in a daze, and then go back to report to Kan Ze.

  Sima Yi watched Ma Gang leave, smiled slightly, then turned to Li Er and said, "Leader Li, the case is closed." 』

"ha? ’ Li Er’s eyes widened.

  (end of this chapter)