Shen Lian has finished reviewing all the files, and now he has nothing to do and can go directly to the scene.
When the two walked out of the yamen, they saw a yamen servant from Jing Zhaoyin waiting at the door.
Shen Lian asked: "Where did the murder occur?"
The Yamen servant said: "Go back to Mr. Shen, in Yonglefang."
"Yonglefang?"
Information about Yongle Square quickly appeared in Shen Lian's mind.
Yonglefang is not far from Dali Temple Yamen, but it is not too close either, with a distance of five streets.
Yonglefang is within the scope of the Evernight City.
It is one of the busiest markets in Chang'an.
Most areas in Chang'an have curfews at night.
But there are also a few areas where there is no curfew at night.
Yonglefang is the area where there is no curfew.
This information flashed through Shen Lian's mind in an instant.
He immediately got on his horse and said, "Let's go."
Everyone rode fast horses and quickly arrived at Yongle Square.
There was no need for the yamen servant to tell Shen Lian where the murder took place, Shen Lian saw it at a glance.
Because in front of a store.
There are many people watching.
The people were pointing and talking.
This was obvious and pointed the direction for Shen Lian.
As soon as Shen Lian got closer, he heard the voices of these people.
"Why did another murder happen?"
"I heard that more than ten people died."
"Who did this? This is too much!"
"Is it revenge? Or something?"
"I don't know. The government officials are guarding me and won't let me in."
"What's going on? Why are there so many murders recently!"
"This is different. Last time it was people from the evil organization Beidou Society. They died well, but this time I don't know."
Shen Lian listened to their words and glanced at these common people.
He is thinking about a problem.
That is, the murderer who killed these people.
Could he be among these people at this moment?
Are you going to watch the fun with a smile?
This possibility exists.
When Shen Lian was a detective in his previous life, he encountered many murderers who would come back to watch the fun after killing people.
However, there were too many people in front of him, so it was difficult for Shen Lian to find out who had problems.
While he was thinking, he squeezed through the crowd and walked towards the crime scene.
Shen Lian squeezed through the crowd and came to the front.
Jing Zhaoyin's yamen officer saw Shen Lian and quickly bowed to Qin Wenyuan: "Master Shen."
Shen Lian nodded slightly and asked, "Where is Jing Zhaoyin?"
"Return to your lord, Sir Han is inside surveying the scene."
Shen Lian nodded slightly and said, "I'll go over and take a look."
He and Si She entered the cordoned off area of the Yamen.
As Shen Lian walked, he observed the situation outside.
I saw that the place where the crime occurred was a restaurant.
The restaurant is not small in size, with two floors high.
It is very difficult to open a restaurant in Yongle Square without some connections and enough money.
In the front of the restaurant, everything looks normal.
There were no signs of damage outside the door.
There was no sign of violence opening either.
It seems that the murderer entered the house openly and openly.
Shen Lian entered the restaurant.
As soon as I entered, I saw several corpses lying in the lobby on the first floor of the restaurant.
Tables and chairs overturned.
It looks like there was a fight here last night.
"Master Shen, you are here."
Jingzhao Yin Hanmin saw Shen Lian arriving and hurriedly came over to greet him.
Shen Lian nodded slightly.
He said: "What's going on?"
Han Min said: "Half an hour ago, someone came to report a murder."
"After the official learned about it, he immediately came to investigate and found that eighteen people were dead."
"Wu Zuo just made a simple inspection and found that the time of death of these eighteen people was between Chou Shi and Yin Shi."
Between Chou time and Yin time.
That is between one and three o'clock in the morning.
It is the time when people are most tired and sleepy.
It is also the time when sleep is deepest.
Although there is no curfew in Yonglefang at night, there are not many pedestrians outside at this time, and restaurants are also closed at this time.
After all, not many people would go out to eat in the early morning.
Of course, those who drink flower wine are another matter.
But Huajiu is a special situation after all, different from what is happening now.
Shen Lian said: "Who reported the case?"
Han Min hurriedly asked the Yamen servant to call someone.
Shen Lian looked at this man and saw that he was in his forties and was wearing coarse linen clothes. He looked like an ordinary farmer.
This man had a nervous look on his face. When he saw Shen Lian, he bowed hurriedly and said, "I've seen Mr. Shen before."
Shen Lian looked at him with a gentle smile and said, "You don't have to be nervous. I just want to understand the situation and tell me what you know."
The man nodded quickly.
He said: "Xiaomin are farmers outside the city. They mainly grow vegetables and usually supply vegetables to this restaurant."
"Originally, according to past habits, there should be a waiter from the restaurant to pick up the food from me during Chenshi, but today they never came."
"I don't know if they forgot or if they were delayed by something, so I thought of delivering the food to them."
"But when I arrived at the restaurant, the door was closed and it looked as if it was not open. This aroused my doubts."
"Because it's almost noon and the restaurant must have been busy. There's no way it's not open yet."
"I just wanted to knock on the door and ask if something happened."
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"Unexpectedly, as soon as I knocked on the door, I found that the door was unlocked. I pushed it lightly and it opened."
"Then I walked in and saw this scene in front of me."
"I was so frightened that I didn't dare to delay, so I quickly reported it to the official."
The farmer looked sincere and there were no obvious problems in his words.
Shen Lian initially judged that he was not lying.
Shen Lian thought for a moment and asked, "This restaurant has been buying vegetables from you?"
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The farmer nodded: "Yes, he has been with me for the past two years."
"Every time, they pick up the food in person instead of you delivering it?"
Shen Lian asked: "For regular buyers like them, I think you should be able to deliver the goods, right?"
The farmer nodded hurriedly: "I can indeed deliver the goods, and I have mentioned many times that I will deliver it to them, saving them the trouble of running back and forth."
"But they didn't agree. They had to take whatever they wanted."
Shen Lian narrowed his eyes.
This is a bit strange.
In a normal restaurant, if you always buy food from the same restaurant, you must have them deliver the food.
Instead of picking it up myself.
After all, that's a waste of time.
But this restaurant, in two years, has never had a farmer deliver food.
You have to pick it up yourself every time.
This is really strange.
unless……
A flash of light flashed in Shen Lian's eyes.
Unless this restaurant doesn't want the farmer to come near it.
In other words, I don’t want a fixed person to come over often.
So, why?
Shen Lian looked at the farmer and said, "Have you never been here once in the past two years?"
The farmer shook his head and said, "I did come here once."
"When? Why did you suddenly come?"
Shen Lian asked.
The farmer said: "Half a year ago, they ordered a lot of food that day and they couldn't bring it home, so they asked me to deliver it to them. However, they only let me deliver it to the door. They themselves carried the food in." , didn’t even ask me to help.”
At this time, even Han Min noticed something was wrong.
He wondered: "Are there any restaurants that are so conscientious? They are not willing to spare the efforts of farmers?"
Shen Lian smiled and said, "What do you think?"
Han Min shook his head: "I don't think there is such a conscientious restaurant."
Shen Lian said: "Indeed, and this has nothing to do with conscience. It is a normal thing for farmers to deliver vegetables."
"But they all arrived at the door and didn't let the vegetable farmers in. This is obviously a problem."
"I suspect they are hiding some secrets here."
"They don't want to be found out!"
"As for the vegetable farmers, they are in contact with their people almost every day. If the vegetable farmers come in, they might find something, so they don't dare to let the vegetable farmers come here to avoid exposing anything."
Han Min wondered: "What could it be?"
Shen Lian shook his head.
He looked at the vegetable farmer and asked, "Do you feel anything wrong about this restaurant?"
"Something's wrong?"
The vegetable farmer thought about it carefully and then said: "I didn't find anything wrong. To be honest, maybe the kitchen in this restaurant is a bit small."
"I have also delivered food to other restaurants, so I know that the kitchens of other restaurants are larger. I just took a look at the kitchen of this restaurant and it is a little smaller."
"Other than that, I don't know. After all, as a vegetable seller, the only place I can go in is the kitchen, and this restaurant is too luxurious and I can't afford it. You don't know what's wrong. "
When Shen Lian heard this, he looked directly at Han Min and said, "Go and search in the kitchen."
Just as Han Min was about to leave, Shen Lian added another sentence: "Just like the secret room in the pawn shop before, see if there are any traps."
Han Min's eyes flashed and he said hurriedly: "I understand, I will give the order right away."
With that said, Han Min quickly gave the order to the Yamen servant.
Shen Lian looked at the vegetable farmer and said: "There is no problem now. You go and have a rest first. If there is no problem, you can leave. But don't go far away for the time being, because we may have questions to ask you at any time."
The old farmer nodded quickly: "Yes, I understand."
After the farmer left, Han Min came over.
Han Min said: "Master Shen, Zuo Zuo has already tested the most basic situation."
Shen Lian's eyes flashed and he said: "Let Wu Zuo come over."
Soon, a widower about forty years old came over.
"Master Shen." He bowed to Shen Lian.
Shen Lian smiled and said: "We are all acquaintances, so there is no need to say anything more. Let's talk about the situation."
Wu Zuo said: "The deceased are all men, aged between 25 and 40 years old."
"They all had wounds on their throats. They should have been killed by a single blow from a sword or other weapon."
"Before they died, they struggled, and they should have fought with the murderer, but there was obviously a huge gap, and they were no match at all..."
Shen Lian narrowed his eyes.
Said: "The cause of death is similar to the death of those members of the Beidou Society."
Wu Zuo nodded: "It's certain that it was done by the same person or the same group of people."
Shen Lian's eyes flashed and he said, "Are you sure?"
Wu Zuo smiled and said: "The wounds don't lie, of course... if someone imitates the murderer and makes the same weapon as the murderer, and the skills are the same, then let's talk about it differently."
Shen Lian knew that this possibility was basically zero.
After all, even they don't know who the murderer is, and the probability of others knowing is even lower.
Not to mention, similar skills are required.
This is even more difficult.
Shen Lian said: "Can't we tell whether it was killed by one person or several people?"
Wu Zuo shook his head and said, "It's hard to say."
"Because the wounds are relatively similar, but some of the deceased also had wounds in the heart, which were pierced. Although they used the same weapon, we can't tell whether the kung fu was the same."
"After all, weapons can be mass-produced."
Shen Lian nodded slightly.
Although I can't be completely sure, there is a high probability that it was done by the same person!
One person, facing so many enemies, did not let anyone escape, and all of them were killed directly.
And he himself should not have been injured.
This person's strength is quite strong!
If these people are also members of the Beidou Society.
So, why was the person who took action so familiar with the Beidou Society's stronghold?
Who is he?
Eradicate the Beidou Society stronghold in one fell swoop?
While Shen Lian was thinking, a government servant suddenly ran over quickly.
He said: "Master Shen, Master Han, there is something discovered in the kitchen."
When Shen Lian and Han Min heard this, their eyes flashed.
Shen Lian said: "Let's go and have a look."
The two quickly came to the kitchen.
The restaurant's kitchen is located at the back of the hall.
Separated by a long corridor.
There are two doors on both sides of the corridor.
Very secretive.
After the two entered the kitchen.
Then I found that the kitchen was indeed not that big.
Of course, it's not small either.
It is much larger than the kitchen of ordinary people's homes.
But compared to a restaurant of this size, the kitchen is slightly smaller.
At this time, a small door was opened on the wall behind the kitchen. This door was not big and could only accommodate one person.
The yamen servant said: "Master Qin, Mr. Shen, when we just knocked on the wall, we found that the sound behind the wall was very hollow, so we suspected that there was something empty behind the wall."
"It's just that we couldn't find the mechanism, so we just smashed it open."
"I discovered that there is another room behind this wall."
Shen Lian narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "The secret room?"
"No wonder this kitchen is much smaller than other restaurants of the same size."
"It turns out that it contains a special secret room."
"This secret room takes up space in the kitchen, making the kitchen look a bit small."
When Han Min heard this, he suddenly realized.
He said: "No wonder the farmer said he was young, it turns out that's the case!"
Shen Lian smiled and said: "The people in this restaurant do not allow farmers to enter the restaurant. Even if the farmer delivers the food to the restaurant, he will not be allowed to enter."
"This shows that they are worried that farmers will notice that there is a problem."
"And this farmer is just an ordinary person. He has no special abilities. What can he discover?"
"This shows that they are worried that farmers will notice that there is a problem."
"And this farmer is just an ordinary person. He has no special abilities. What can he discover?"