Sima Yi stood outside the door, listening to the intelligence report.
Zhang Cun's body was first discovered by the waiter at the inn.
"Little, little..." The waiter in the shop swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and seemed to be thoughtful, "I just saw Zhang Langjun's door ajar, thinking... I wanted to collect the night fragrance, but unexpectedly...
see……"
The waiter at the inn is responsible for collecting the night fragrance from the guest room every morning, and then carries it to the cart in the alley in the backyard. After washing the chamber pot and other things, it will be sent back to the guest room again in the evening.
If you miss this time, or have a temporary stomach problem, of course there are temporary services available, but you just need an extra tip.
As the waiter said this, he couldn't help but tremble, with a look of fear on his face, "I saw... Zhang Langjun lying on the ground..."
Sima Yi listened and frowned slightly.
Hearing this, Sima Gang stood behind Sima Yi and whispered: "This man's surname is Wang, from Zuofeng Yi. He has been in this inn for many years. He is honest and diligent and has done nothing illegal... He was on duty in the inn last night, and there are witnesses."
Sima Yi nodded, then stared at the waiter.
The waiter was a little flustered and his eyes wandered.
"You're lying!" Sima Yi asked in a deep voice, "What are you hiding?!"
The waiter's face suddenly turned pale.
The shopkeeper on the side also looked confused, and cursed at the waiter: "Shangguan asked, why don't you tell the truth! Do you want to be tortured? Idiot! Just say whatever you want!"
Sima Yi cast a dull glance at the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper quickly apologized and didn't dare to say anything more.
Li Er, the inspector in charge of public security here, took a step forward and shouted with a dark face: "How brave! How dare you deceive Shangguan! Someone..."
Before Li Er could call someone to carry out the punishment, the waiter had already collapsed on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly, "Little boy, little boy is wrong! Young boy says anything, says anything..."
Li Er, the leader of the inspection team, looked back at Sima Yi. When he saw Sima Yi nodded slightly, he shouted: "Tell me the truth! But there is half a lie, huh, be careful of your own life! Say it quickly!"
The waiter obviously lied.
Because the night incense is usually carried by the customer and placed at the door, generally speaking, the waiter will not take the initiative to enter the room to collect the night incense. Unless the guest has ordered it and there is a tip or something, the waiter will enter the room to collect it, so the waiter said
When he saw the ajar door, he went in directly, which was obviously unreasonable. But Sima Yi didn't think that the murderer was the waiter, so there was no need to spend more time on the waiter. Sima Yi just wanted to know what the waiter was hiding.
Are there any clues related to tracking down the real culprit?
"Damn it, damn it, damn it!" The waiter knelt down and kowtowed, "I just saw that the door was ajar... I thought Zhang had escaped at night without paying the room fee, so he opened the door to check... The result was
See... I didn’t mean to deceive Shangguan on purpose! It’s really not the case!』
Sima Yi narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the waiter, noncommittal.
Li Er glanced at Sima Yi's face and asked, "What did you see when you entered the door? Did you turn over anything in the room? To be more specific, if you hide anything, be careful!"
The waiter was so frightened that he recounted what he had done.
Li Er grabbed some of the details and asked several more times, and then basically confirmed that the waiter was indeed not the murderer. He lied before, mostly to cover up that his unauthorized entry into the guest room was illegal. And the traces in the room also proved it.
The waiter really didn’t
Sima Yi nodded, and asked someone to take the waiter into custody first, and then looked into the house.
The inn house is not big.
Beds, tables, mats and shelves basically fill the entire house.
Zhang Cun's body was lying on the side of the table. In his hand, there were four words written in blood, "Husband harmed X". I don't know if the last word was because of exhaustion of strength or some other reason.
I stopped after writing the first two strokes.
Sima Yi sneered because he couldn't find it.
Are you going to write "The hussar harmed me"?
What kind of person are you, and are you still worthy of Qingqi's action?
Simply ridiculous.
But the problem is that ordinary people don't care about this. Most of the time they just want to watch the fun.
As for what the truth is, their requirements are not high.
In other words, sustained attention is not enough.
When the truth comes out, they often turn to another excitement.
The blood has basically solidified, and the smell of blood is very strong.
Sima Yi looked at those words and asked, "Who else has come in?"
Li Er replied from the side: "In addition to the waiter, there is also the shopkeeper. There may also be tenants from the surrounding areas... When I brought people here, there were already a lot of people around here..."
Sima Yi 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 turned over and were a bit messy.
There seem to be some trampling marks around the shelf...
Um?
Sima Yi suddenly frowned, where is his robe?
Sima Yi was a little excited.
At least it was a more challenging excitement for Sima Yi than trying those corrupt officials.
Trying those corrupt officials is really boring and unchallenging.
These corrupt officials seem to be all created from the same template. At the beginning, they claimed that they were innocent, and they were deceived, seduced, deceived, etc. by a certain relative, a certain subordinate, a certain tribe, etc.
As a result, he finally embarked on a path of no return, and then in the process of repenting endlessly, he vaguely mentioned that he had done something when he was in office, or tried to offset his merits.
, or it means that the mistakes can be corrected, or they can be redeemed with money, etc. Anyway, most of them are corrupt, the amount of money is different, the location is different, and the other methods, whether it is the method of corruption or the ugly appearance of being arrested, are almost the same.
similar.
They were much more similar, so naturally this made Sima Yi feel a little bored after going through a period of trial.
Now Sima Yi suddenly found some interest in trying cases...
"Where is this man's coat?"
Sima Yi suddenly pointed at the clothes hanger.
There were only one or two small clothes hanging on the hangers.
People in the Han Dynasty wore three layers of clothing, the small garment, the middle garment, and the outer robe. But now the corpse in Zhangcun only has the middle garment and no outer robe.
Li Er walked to the clothes rack in two hurried steps, bent down and took a closer look, and suddenly said: "There are marks here!"
There seemed to be some faint blood stains on the edge of the clothes hanger, which were not too obvious, and then went around to the back of the clothes hanger.
Li Er immediately pulled out his sword and turned around the clothes hanger. He looked at the marks on the ground and followed the traces. Then he reached the back window and said, "The thief went out from here!"
There were some bloody scratches on the windows.
Because the inn is not a new house, the window sills and other items are also old, and the marks on the paint are not very obvious. Only veterans like Li Er who have been on the battlefield will be more sensitive to some clues.
Sima Yi nodded and then gestured. Immediately, his bodyguard and the inspection team brought by Li Er either climbed out of the window or walked out of the house and continued to trace the traces on the window. Not long after, they were in another room.
There were sounds of scolding and fighting...
After a while, Li Er happily escorted one person outside the house and said, "Report to Dali Qing, the thief has been caught!"
So easy?
Sima Yi raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Woo...┭┮﹏┭┮" The thief was tied up with a rag in his mouth, and his limbs were tied together, like a sheep thrown on the floor.
"This was found in his house! This is the deceased's robe! The jade belt!" Li Er was obviously a little excited that he could catch the thief so quickly, "And this, the gold-painted fan! They are all here! These are all
It’s physical evidence!』
"Hmm..." Sima Yi looked at it, thought about it, nodded, "Take it back to Dali Temple..."
Li Er happily took the thief away.
But Sima Yi still stayed where he was, looking at the window, then at the door, and then at the crowd of people watching the excitement outside the door, and then left.
After returning to Dali Temple and interrogating the captured thief, I realized that I had caught him wrong.
Strictly speaking, it's not wrong, but this guy is not a murderer, but a stealer...
When this guy arrived at Dali Temple, he collapsed on the ground, cried bitterly, and repeatedly emphasized that it was only his first time. He confessed in every possible way that he should not be obsessed with money, but this did not get the slightest sympathy from Sima Yi and others. Let this guy first
The thief took him into custody and put him in prison.
"Dali Qing...is this thief getting away with a big crime with a small crime?" Li Er was a little disappointed because he failed to catch the real thief, but he still held on to a little hope...
Sima Yi nodded slightly, "I can't say it's completely impossible..."
After a moment of silence, Li Er said with some anxiety, "I dare to ask Dali Qing... I don't know where the Hussar is... what are the regulations?"
Before the development of fingerprint science, bloodstain theory, and related criminal investigation disciplines, the efficiency of solving such murder cases was extremely low.
Throughout the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, even the Qin Dynasty, and even the Han Dynasty, major events recorded in history books basically required witnesses, such as the forced order of Dong Xuan, and the execution of the law by Li Ying to kill Zhang Shuo, etc.
, in fact, strictly speaking, they are all political cases, not simple murders.
And most of the murder cases, even in the feudal dynasties of later generations, were still not many that could be successfully solved. More than half of them were beaten into submission, and many of them were suspended, hanging there and letting nothing go. At most, there was only one.
20% are the ones who really reasoned and broke the truth.
So Li Er was a little worried, because this "involved" the Hussar, so if the Hussar ordered it to be solved within a few days...
That's the end of the ball.
Sima Yi glanced at Li Er, "What does Inspector Li have to say?"
"How dare you pretend to be a disciple..." Li Er quickly lowered his head and raised his hands and said, "I just want... if the hussar is chasing after me in a hurry, I can... can I report this thief first..."
Li Er glanced at Sima Yi's face.
Sima Yi had no expression on his face, "You mean... you think this is a murder of a thief?"
Li Er quickly waved his hand, "That's not what I meant, Xiao... I just said that if the hussar is eager, there is some excuse... As for the rest, it all depends on Dali Qing's orders..."
Sima Yi was noncommittal and didn't say anything. He just lowered his head and looked through the records and related confessions again.
In many cases in the Han Dynasty, whether there was any oral confession was sometimes not as strict as in later generations. However, after all, Hussar was involved at the moment, so Sima Yi did not think that it was a good idea to go over there.
Li Er wiped the sweat from his head in embarrassment.
This matter...
It's obviously not simple.
If he had known this was the case, he should have pretended to be sick, no, maybe he should have given himself a knife...
But this involves hussars, can you just pretend? He is the inspection captain of Maoling, so this matter will always happen to him.
Damn it, why did you start it in Maoling? Couldn't you leave Maoling and then...
Forget it, it's useless to think about this, now we should catch this damn thief earlier!
Clues, which side has more clues?
The house where Zhang Cun died had only two entrances and exits, one door and one window.
There are only traces of this little thief on the window side, but on the door side...
Even if there are any traces, they have been wiped out by the people coming in and out. Even if they go back to investigate, they will probably not be able to find anything. While Li Er was thinking hard, footsteps sounded outside the Dali Temple.
, Ma Gang from the Youwen Division came again, bringing some latest information that was assisted in the investigation by the Youwen Division.
Information one: Zhang Cun has no enemies in Chang'an now.
The definition of "vengeance" is the kind of personal grudge that is worthy of killing Zhang Cun.
The only grudge may be that Zhang Cun is suspected of insulting Qiusi...
Is insult worth killing?
It was worth it in the Han Dynasty.
The concept of grudges in the Han Dynasty was very direct. Perhaps just by insulting other people's parents, they would be killed by their sons. Those in later generations often had the catchphrase of grass and mud horses. In the Han Dynasty, and even in the feudal dynasties for a long time afterwards
, I'm afraid he won't survive even one chapter. Moreover, the laws of the Han Dynasty and subsequent dynasties, because of the influence of Confucian loyalty and filial piety, often have a positive attitude towards killing people for blood relatives.
For example, in the Southern Qi Dynasty, Zhu Qianzhi's revenge was only caused by the fact that when Zhu Qianzhi from Qiantang was a child, his biological mother died and was buried next to a field. Then Zhu Youfang, a fellow tribesman, set fire to the field, and the flames burned Zhu Qianzhi's mother's grave.
Burned……
This may not have been intentional, but it caused the two families to stage blood revenge.
Later, Zhu Qian came with a sharp knife and killed Zhu Youfang, saying that he was taking revenge for his mother's filial piety, and then surrendered in the county jail. When things got serious, the Emperor of Southern Qi greatly praised Zhu Qian's act of revenge, but he was also afraid of the conflict between the Zhu family.
The mutual vendetta meant that Zhu Qianzhi was sent into exile and followed General Cao Hu to Xiangyang. As a result, when Zhu Qianzhi was about to set off, Zhu Youfang's son Zhu Yun hid in the road waiting for an opportunity to assassinate Zhu Qianzhi.
When Zhu Qianzhi's brother Zhu Xuanzhi found out about this, he assassinated Zhu Yun...
There is no end to the retribution of injustice.
But at that time, the Emperor of Southern Qi made the first move and pardoned Zhu Qianzhi, so naturally he could not punish the people who followed him, and they were all pardoned.
Therefore, it can be roughly said that if it is for vendetta, then the only "vengeance" is that Zhang Cun once insulted the Hussar and put the responsibility for the Western Regions on the Hussar?
Information two: Zhang Cun’s resume is very simple, even “clean” to a certain extent.
Heluo people, small clan of Zhang family.
My previous experience is unknown, but I followed the refugees from Jingzhou to Chang'an and took part in the imperial examination, but my ranking was not high. Because the Western Regions needed officials, I lowered my standards and was selected to the Western Regions, but I did not hold any important positions.
He didn't stay in the Western Regions for long before he resigned due to illness and returned to Chang'an.
Then came the admonishment incident.
During this process, Zhang Cun did not trigger the alarm bell of the Youwen Division.
Of course, it cannot be ruled out that there is something lurking in places that Yuwenji has not noticed yet...
After all, Chang'an is now a very big city. Not to mention the main urban area, the surrounding Lingyi has a large population. In addition, there is frequent movement of people. Even with the means of customs clearance, household registration control, and village registration, etc.,
There are still some loopholes that cannot be avoided. So from this aspect, Zhang Cun does not seem like a spy.
To take a step back, even if Zhang Cun was a spy and was really killed by the hussar as shown in the handwriting left behind, then the person who did it should be the Youwen Division or the Inspection Department.
Yes, and after Ma Gang asked around, no one had received relevant instructions, and no one said they had taken action against Zhang Cun.
So if it was a spy from other sources, what was the purpose of attacking Zhang Cun?
Information three: No witnesses have been found in the inn and its surroundings.
Maoling is not a small place and has a large population. In addition, there are many people coming and going in the inn on weekdays. There are all kinds of food, drinks and accommodation. Naturally, I will not pay special attention to observing every person in the inn.
People coming in and out. And the noise in the inn is usually very noisy. When Zhang Cun died, even if there was any noise, no one paid attention to it, so no relevant witnesses were found at all.
There are no witnesses, which means anyone could have killed Zhang Cun.
After all, Zhang Cun is just an ordinary Confucian scholar. It may be an exaggeration to say that he has no power to restrain a chicken, but it is indeed not too difficult to kill Zhang Cun. So there are too many people who are capable of killing him, so it is difficult to have one
Accurate suspect.
Ma Gang looked at Sima Yi with some embarrassment.
One of the reasons for the embarrassment is that this is the situation that Yu Wensi can find in the shortest time, but it is obvious that these situations have no direct direction.
As for the second reason for embarrassment...
Sima Yi looked at the information at hand, then raised his gaze and fell on Ma Gang, "I already know what Director Kan means. Please reply to Director Kan. Thank you for your hard work."
Ma Gang was stunned.
Could it be that Kan Ze said something extra in the intelligence?
No? Ma Gang himself also read the information sent to Sima Yi, and there was nothing extra written in it?
So why did Sima Yi say this?
However, it was impossible for Ma Gang to ask Sima Yi in detail at that moment. He could only respond in confusion and then go back to Kan Ze to report his orders.
Sima Yi watched Ma Gang leave, smiled slightly, then turned to Li Er and said: "Captain Li, it's over."
