Criminal investigation in ancient times

The two twins froze, Zhou Yin thumped the bed angrily, Zhang Rui couldn't help laughing, reached out to wipe the corners of his mouth, got up, tidied his clothes, opened the door, and saw the little girl outside the door with a flattering smile: "Guest officer, you are going to have dinner in the guest room Do you use it in the lobby or use it in the lobby?"

Zhang Rui looked back and lay on his back on the bed, Di Ma said: "Use it in the guest room."

Xiao Er said with a smile: "Okay ~ Xiao Di will bring you any food the guest officer wants."

Zhang Rui: "Two vegetarian, two meat, two bowls of rice."

Xiao Er hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Then don't disturb the guest officer, Xiao Di will go to the kitchen and tell the guest officer to serve it in a while." Generally, the boy who eats in the guest room can get a few cents for running errands, which is considered consumption.

Zhou Yin: "Huh~~~" sighed and said, "Rui, don't you have any words yet?"

Zhang Rui nodded and said, "I haven't added words yet."

Zhou Yin got up: "How about I name you a word?"

Zhang Rui smiled and said, "Okay, my lord is knowledgeable and talented, so it's not bad to give me the word Di."

Zhou Yin nodded his head and said: "Let me think about it, and I will talk to you when I think about it."

Not long after Xiaoer brought the food, Zhang Rui paid him some silver, and gave him more than a dozen large coins. Xiaoer smiled and made several bows to him, and ran down the stairs.

After dinner, the sky was completely dark, the county town and Tongzhou city couldn’t be compared, the streets were pitch black at night, and there were basically no row, so the couple walked around the inn before going back to their room to sleep.

Because they were living together for the first time, both of them were a little embarrassed. They took off their clothes and only rolled up their obscene clothes. Zhang Rui was lying on the bed, and Zhou Yin was lying sideways beside him.There is a short distance in the middle, and no one dares to cross it easily.

Zhang Ruidao: "Last time you told me about detoxification and didn't tell me, what is that medicinal material?"

Zhou Yin was stunned for a moment, wondering why he suddenly remembered this, and said helplessly: "The medicinal material is called sea keel. It is said that it lives in the depths of the sea, is hundreds of feet long, and has the power of a kunpeng. It is impossible to capture it. Besides, can it be captured?" I don’t know how to cure Di poison on my body, so I don’t have any hope.”

Zhang Rui listened to his description and frowned. This thing seems to be a whale?If it is really a whale, there is no way... It's just that in ancient times, catching whales at sea was relatively risky and difficult, so it's no wonder that it is said that a piece of sea keel is hard to find.

"Is there no other way?" Zhang Rui lowered his eyes and felt disappointed.

Zhou Yin reached out and rubbed his head: "Forget it, you don't have to worry, I know my own body, and I will be fine for a while."

Zhang Rui grabbed his hand, put it on his lips and kissed his fingertips lightly, the love spread, without any words, the two twins already understood each other's mind.

Zhou Yin held Zhang Rui in his arms, stroked his back lightly and said, "It's the first time I've shared a bed with Ma when I grow up so big."

Zhang Rui buried his face in his chest and said in a muffled voice, "You don't grind your teeth and snore, do you?"

Zhou Yin laughed loudly: "It's hard to say, I don't know what to do when I fall asleep."

Zhang Rui put his arms around his waist and said, "Then I'll sleep first."

Zhou Yin said softly: "Okay, I'll sleep when you sleep." The two hug each other quietly...

"Ah!!!!" A sudden scream startled both of them, and Zhou Yin hurriedly got up and lit the candles on the table.

Zhang Rui: "What's going on?"

Zhou Yin: "I don't know, I'll go and have a look."

Zhang Rui put on his coat and said, "Let's go together."

As soon as the two couples opened the door, they saw Zhan Qing and Duan Xiaobai standing outside the door and asked, "Where did you make that sound just now? What happened?"

Zhan Qing also shook his head and said, "I don't know, my two twins were just about to go to bed when I heard screams from downstairs, and I was going to have a look."

The four boys went downstairs together, only to see that the lights had been turned on in the lobby downstairs, surrounded by many girls.Zhan Qing went forward to inquire, and it turned out that everyone only came out when they heard the cry.

The guy in the inn said: "The voice seems to be coming from Room No. [-], Xuanzi." These two decided to go and have a look.

Walking to the door of the room, one of them said, "Huh? No, I'm right next door to this room, but I heard the voice coming from a distance." Another fellow living with him also said, "That's right. , I also feel that the voice is coming from afar.”

Zhang Rui: "Open the door and have a look first."

Everyone nodded, one of them knocked on the door, but they didn't open it after waiting for a while, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.I had to ask Xiaoer to knock the door open.

After the door was knocked open, everyone was stunned, the room was actually empty!Only the half-open window creaked in the night wind.

Zhou Yin said: "Where is Di Ma in the house?"

Xiao Er: "Here, Di Ma has never come out inside, and Xiao Di doesn't know where Ma is?"

Zhang Ruidao: "Xiao Bai Zhanqing, your two twins, go outside the inn to see if there is any trace of this twin. Zhou Yin, you come with me, and the other twins go back to their own rooms. You are not allowed to leave the inn without authorization. Those who violate the order will be punished with thirty sticks. "

The girl next to him shouted: "Who are you? Why do you order us?" "Yes, it has nothing to do with us if the girl in this room is gone. If you let us stay here, do you?"

Duan Xiaobai said: "Bold! This is the magistrate of Tongzhou! If you are told to just hang out at the inn, what a lot of nonsense!"

Suddenly everyone fell silent, the magistrate is here? ? !Although he was a little confused, he still consciously went back to his room, after all, no one dared to pretend to be the magistrate!

Zhang Rui walked into the room and saw that the things in the room were neatly arranged, and it didn't look like there had been a dispute.I looked around, and saw that the quilt on the bed was unfolded as if I was about to go to sleep, and there was a pair of shoes on the ground...the pair hurried away without shoes?What happened to make him so panicked that Di even jumped out of the window without his shoes on to escape?

Zhou Yin also looked around and said: "I didn't take the soft ones, there are 200 taels of silver bills in the bag."

Zhang Rui frowned: "200 taels... so much money is not taken, what happened?"

After a while, Gong Dama, the magistrate of Zhaoshui County, hurried over with a few yamen servants. Seeing Zhang Rui, he hurriedly knelt down and said, "I am frightened, please move to the government office to rest, and the next official will order you to find Zhang Rui." Di Ma is in this room."

Zhang Rui waved his hand and said: "Get up, since you have met this official, you can't just sit idly by, but the whereabouts of this pair are unknown, and life and death are unknown. Although I intend to investigate, but there is no shortage of hands, you immediately send Di Ma from the county government to look for it. Maybe you can find it after walking for a while."

Gong Dama hastily raised his hands and said yes, and asked the county magistrate to call hundreds of people to follow up and investigate overnight. At Yinshi, it was Duan Xiaobai who found the body of the master Di in the room in the wilderness outside the city.

The body was brought back to the government office, and it was seen that the two were covered in mud. After running for an unknown amount of time, their feet were cut by stones.His eyes were wide open and his whole body was stiff. The deceased was the big man who was telling jokes in the lobby yesterday. Who knows what happened to him and he would be frightened to death!

Duan Xiaobai: "I went out of the inn to look around, and found that there were strange footprints on the ground in the direction of the city gate in the early morning. After a closer look, it turned out to be blood, so I followed the footprints and found his body a few miles outside the city. , when I found him, he was already dead."

Zhang Rui stepped forward to take a look at the sin in his heart, stretched out his hand to caress those eyes and said to Gong Yuan: "This is Di Shangke who lives with us in the inn. Last night, I suddenly heard someone screaming. When I came out, I was already dead." Can't find him."

County magistrate Gong wiped the cold sweat off his head and his heart was pounding. While hating the killer, he sighed and nodded.Why do you have to be good on weekdays, and you have to wait for a routine inspection from above to have an accident!If this case can't be solved, there will be no hope of promotion in three years!

All the merchants in the inn were taken to the yamen. Seeing Zhang Rui sitting in the hall, they knew that this man was really the magistrate of Tongzhou. They were so frightened that they knelt down and kowtowed.

Zhang Rui said: "Get up, all of you, the reason I called you here today is to ask you about when you heard the scream, and where is Di Fang when you heard the scream.

One of them clasped his hands together and said, "Xiao Di is Di Shangke who lives next door to this one. My two twins ran with the deceased before, and both of them knew each other. I was taking a bath in my room last night when I suddenly heard a voice in the distance. There was a scream, I hurriedly put on my clothes and came out, only to find that many people heard the scream when I got to the lobby."

Zhang Rui frowned and said, "You said that the scream came from afar?"

Na Ma nodded and said, "That's right."

The other stood up and said, "Da Ma, I live in Room No. [-] Tianzi, and I clearly heard that voice coming from downstairs!"

Zhang Rui and Zhou Yin looked at each other, and sure enough they heard it right, the voice came from downstairs.But why did Di Ma, who lived in the room on both sides, say that the voice came from afar? !

"But we heard that it's coming from far away..." Di Ma, who lives with him, also asked doubtfully.

Then he called the owner Di and the servant of the inn to ask, and they both said that the voice came from Di from the Xuanzi room.

This is strange, unless someone is lying, how can the voice change? !

Zhang Rui knocked on the gavel and said: "Are you lying! I clearly heard the voice coming from downstairs! Why did your second son say that it came from a distance?!"

The two couples knelt down and kowtowed: "The older brother, Xiao Di, dare not lie, and besides, when the crime happened, Xiao Di was with the elder brothers, so there was no time to commit the crime."

That's true, everyone went to the lobby when they heard the voice, and then went outside Xuanzi's room together, and they didn't have time to commit crimes at all.Since you can't tell the difference, why not go to that room and try to see who is lying.

When a group of twins came to the inn, Gong Yuan asked a yamen servant to stand in the Xuanzi hall and shout loudly, Zhang Rui went to the next door, and Zhou Yin went upstairs.After a while, Zhang Rui walked out of the room with a dark complexion and said to Zhou Yin: "Sure enough, it sounds like Di's voice is coming from a distance."

What's going on?A few friends checked in the room, only to find that the wall of the room next to the original brand name is very thick, it looks like two walls, so the sound sounds like it is coming from a distance.But why is this wall so thick, while the walls in other rooms seem much thinner?

Zhang Rui stepped forward and tapped lightly with his hand, the sound was "empty", the wall was actually hollow!No wonder the sound insulation is so good!No, why is the wall of this inn hollow? !

Hastily called Di Zhanqing to the side and said, "Help me break down this wall!"

After hearing this, Zhan Qing nodded in surprise, picked up a solid wooden chair from the side, and started smashing it against the wall. After a while, the lime plaster on the wall fell off, revealing the green bricks inside.

Zhang Rui said: "Keep smashing!"

Zhou Yin stood beside and nodded, Zhan Qing picked up the chair and continued smashing until the brick fell off.

"Boom..." The entire wall collapsed, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Zhang Rui covered his mouth and nose and slapped his sleeves. In front of Di Fuhui, he took a closer look, and saw a naked mummy curled up in the wall!

Zhan Qing herself was startled, and hurriedly jumped to the side and said, "Da Ma, what should I do?"

Zhang Rui settled down: "Notify Gong Yuan to order Ma to bring the inn boss Di's guy to the Yamen, and this mummy... Let's also send it to the Yamen."

When the innkeeper saw the blood on the mummy's face faded, he trembled and muttered, "Please forgive me... Please forgive me..."

When you were escorted to the yamen, the shopkeeper Di knelt down and kowtowed, "Dear Ma, this real Di is not Xiao Di killing Di, I beg you to investigate clearly."

Gong Yuan only felt his head roaring. He was really afraid that something would happen. If one stick wasn't enough, he would hit another stick until he was beaten dizzy and turned around.

Zhang Ruidao: "This dead man is He Ma, you must quickly recruit him!"

The shopkeeper Di said: "The deceased was a girl from Zhaoshui County who passed by five years ago."

The matter had to start five years ago. Although there was still banditry in Tongzhou at that time, it was not as rampant as in recent years. Occasionally, some large caravans of dozens of people still dared to pass through Tongzhou.

One day a girl suddenly came to the inn, she was very beautiful.No one knew where she came from, nor why she went on the road alone.I stayed in the inn for two days, and I went out every morning and didn't come back until sunset.

Later, another caravan came to the inn. When a dozen big men saw the girl, their eyes were straightened. Some of them came up to strike up a conversation, but the girl ignored her.As a result, tragedy happened...

Four or five guys agreed to sneak into this girl Di's room at night, use drugs to stun the girl, and then did something like a beast!It may be that the girl is weak, and before a few sisters have finished their work, she has already vented more and breathed less.

These boys were startled, they hurriedly hid them under the quilt, ran out hastily, and set off for Mobei the next day.

In the inn, Di Ma didn't know that the girl Di was dead, so after a few days he didn't see the girl coming out, so he knocked on the door and went in. Unexpectedly, he saw the girl lying naked on the bed, she had been dead for a long time!

The shopkeeper Di was so frightened by this incident that he wanted to report to the official, but the clerk secretly said that if he reported to the official, the inn would inevitably be affected in the future. There are no relatives or friends around her, and now that she has died and has not collected the body, it is considered unlucky for her, so it is better to bury this body.

Just when the corpse was about to be moved, there happened to be guests. These business travelers may have to stay in the inn for a while. If they were taken out and buried, if they were found, they would be speechless. But if the corpse was left in the room for a long time There is a smell, but I have no choice but to build the corpse in the wall and declare that the room is decorated.I thought it was over like this, maybe I didn't know it in this life.Who would have imagined that such a thing would happen!The mummy was found together with it, and the innkeeper couldn't explain why this time.

After hearing what he said, Zhang Rui always felt a little suspicious, but he didn't know for the time being, so he ordered the shopkeeper Di and the shopkeeper Di to be taken into prison, and the other brothers left them to live in Zhaoshui for a while. The case is still pending. They are not allowed to leave when they are cleared.

After getting out of the hall, Zhou Yin said, "How do you know that there is something wrong with this wall? I thought the innkeeper built two floors for sound insulation."

Zhang Rui recalled that in his previous life, he uncovered the case of hiding a corpse in Di Qiang. It was also the body of Di’s wife who had been killed for many years and was hidden in the wall by her husband. Later, the house was rented out. Water leaked upstairs and the wall was wet, and the bricks collapsed. Discover.This time, Di naturally thought of that case, but he didn't expect that there was actually a dead body hidden inside the wall.

Zhang Rui: "When I knocked on the wall, I found that the wall was hollow, but the other walls were not, but this one was the only one. I suspected that there was something wrong with this wall."

Zhou Yin said: "But I don't understand why that brother ran so far, and was frightened to death in the end. Is there really a ghost?"

Zhang Rui frowned: "Impossible, it can't be ghosts and gods, it must be a twin..."

Zhou Yin said: "When you said that, I suddenly remembered that the Di story told by the shopkeeper Di was somewhat similar to the story told by the dead businessman. They were both in business. During the period, they met a beautiful Di girl, but the result was different. That The story says that Di was the girl who was a mountain spirit, but this girl died in the inn..."

Zhang Ruidao clapped his hands and said, "That's right! I just couldn't figure out why after hearing what the shopkeeper Di said, I always feel familiar!" After speaking, he reached out and hooked Zhou Yin's neck, kissed him heavily on the face, and said, "You say it Just wake me up, I know what's going on with this case!"

Zhan Qing and Duan Xiaobai looked up at the sky, the weather is really nice today.

Zhou Yin rubbed his face and smiled, "Tell me about it."

Zhang Ruidao: "It's not the time yet, follow me back to the inn!"