Dezhen looked at the headless male corpse and thought: "Who is he? He was probably a member of the underworld. He was chased by his enemies and was seriously injured. He jumped into the river to escape and was rescued by my second brother.
His enemies came and took his head away. But why did his enemies kill all my family members? Where is my second brother?"
Li Dali said: "My eldest nephew, people cannot be resurrected after death. Please forgive me and obey."
Dezhen wanted to find the dagger and take a look. He touched the headless man's body for a while, but couldn't find it. He asked, "Uncle Li, where is the dagger you mentioned? Why is it gone?"
Li Dali said: "After the accident, I looked for it but couldn't find it. I guess the murderer took it away."
Dezhen also felt that this was possible. He found that the seven dead bodies were all killed by a knife in the heart. He thought: "The murderer's technique is clean and neat. He must be a martial arts master." He said: "Uncle Li, my brothers.
They sleep in the east wing and the two sisters sleep in the west wing, why are their bodies here?"
Li Dali said: "I asked people to carry them here."
Dezhen asked: "Who first discovered that something happened to my family?"
Li Dali said: "It's your neighbor Zhao Lao'er. He goes to work with your father in the fields every day. The morning after the incident, Zhao Lao'er came to your house to look for your father and shouted a few words outside the courtyard gate.
When I heard the sound, I saw that no one at your house answered the call. I felt puzzled, so I climbed over the wall and looked into the yard. I found your big yellow dog lying on the ground with blood at the corner of its mouth, as if it was dead.
"Zhao Laoer guessed that something might have happened to your home, so he climbed over the wall and came in to take a look. Only then did he find that your family members had been killed. He was frightened and called me over. When I saw it, I was also very frightened, so I hurried
Go and report to the official."
Dezhen asked: "Were all my family members killed while lying on the kang?"
Li Dali said: "When I came that morning, I saw your family members lying on the kang, and everyone's chest was full of blood."
Dezhen said: "It's strange, when the murderer attacked my family, why didn't my family struggle? They shouldn't all be lying on the kang, why didn't they run away?"
Li Dali said: "That's right, I also think it's quite strange."
Dezhen said: "Did the neighbors hear my family's cries that night?"
Li Dali said: "I've asked the neighbors nearby, but I haven't heard any movement at your house."
Dezhen said: "This shouldn't happen. Are they all sleeping so deeply? No one found the murderer?" He thought to himself: "Did the murderer use incense to stun them all?"
Thinking of this, Dezhen checked the window paper of each house and found a small hole in the window paper of the main house and the east and west wings. He thought to himself: "This should be poked with the sharp tip of the incense box. It seems that the murderer used
The incense made them all faint, so they did not resist."
Li Dali said: "Eldest nephew, let's go to the town to buy some coffins so that your family can be buried in peace."
Dezhen nodded.
The two walked to the town and met Li Dali's wife on the way. She stopped Li Dali and said, "Master, you are back. Where are you going?"
Li Dali said: "I went to town with my eldest nephew to buy a coffin."
Li Dali's wife said: "A few days after you left, the third son of the old Sun family came. He said that Er Leng's body was found in the woods outside Liaoyang City. He wanted you to help transport Er Leng's body back."
Dezhen and Li Dali were both startled. Dezhen said: "What? My second brother was also killed?"
The third son of Lao Sun's family worked as a police officer in Liaoyang City, and everyone in the village called him Sun Laosan. Dezhen and Li Dali went to the Yamen of Liaoyang City to find Sun Laosan. After meeting, they went to the morgue with Sun Laosan.
A male corpse was lying on his back on the straw mat. Dezhen recognized it as his second brother Er Leng.
Sun Laosan said: "Some time ago, someone reported to the police that a male body was found in the woods to the east of the city. The police officer took us to check it out. I recognized it as Er Leng."
Dezhen did not notice any injuries on his second brother and asked: "Brother Sun, where is my second brother's fatal injury?"
Sun Laosan said: "At the back of his head, the back of his skull was broken."
Dezhen helped his second brother's body sit up, touched the back of his head, and found that the skull was indeed broken. He thought: "This should be caused by the strength of his palm. He can crush the skull with his palm. The murderer's martial arts is not weak. He killed the second brother."
Could it be that my brother’s murderer and the murderer of other people are the same person?”
Dezhen transported his second brother's body home and took care of his family's funeral. He searched around Liaodong for the whereabouts of the dagger. He believed that the dagger must have been taken away by the murderer. If he found the dagger, it would be possible.
Find the murderer.
In addition, Dezhen also tried to find out the identity of the headless male corpse. He asked some people in the Liaodong underworld. None of those people in the underworld had ever seen a man with two tigers and four dragons tattooed on his body. No one knew about the headless body.
Who is the male corpse?
Dezhen spent more than a year in Liaodong, but could not find any clues, so he had to give up.
After Dezhen told Mou Rongtian and Shi Yi about the tragedy at home, he drank a glass of wine and sighed: "I'm afraid I won't be able to find the murderer of my family in my lifetime."
Mou Rongtian was grateful for Dezhen's help many times, but he was worried that he would not be able to repay him. After hearing this, he said: "Taoist priest, don't be discouraged. I am not talented. I am willing to help you investigate this case, and maybe I can find the murderer."
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Dezhen was overjoyed and said: "Pindao has long heard that Master Mou is an expert in solving crimes. There is no case that you can't solve. If you are willing to help, then my family's great revenge will hopefully be avenged. Pindao would like to thank you in advance."
It’s Master Mou.”
Mou Rongtian said: "Taoist Priest, there is no need to be polite. You have helped me several times, and I should help you once. However, it has been sixteen years since the incident, and I am not sure that I can find the real culprit. I can only try my best."
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Dezhen said: "Just try your best, then there will be Lord Lao Mou."
A few days later, Mou Rongtian returned to the capital and went to the General Administration of Health to report to Luo Sigong. Luo Jiagong was overjoyed when he saw the red-leaf snow lotus. He praised Mou Rongtian a few words, took the brocade box containing the red-leaf snow lotus, and went to Hospital No. 13 to hand it over to Dr. Wang.
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Luo Sigong returned to the office and saw that Mou Rongtian hadn't left yet. He said "Hey" and asked, "Rongtian, you haven't left yet. Is there anything else?"
Mou Rongtian said: "Sir, I want to ask you something?"
Luo Sigong sat down and asked, "What's the matter?"
Mou Rongtian said: "Do you know who in the world has four dragons and two tigers tattooed on his body? There is a dragon tattooed on each arm and leg, and a tiger head tattooed on the chest and back."
Luo Sigong was startled, thought of a person, and asked, "Why do you ask this?"
Mou Rongtian told the story of the murder of the Kong family.
Luo Sigong was shocked and said: "The dagger is inlaid with seven gems, it is probably a seven-star knife. The headless male corpse is probably Li Rusong, General Li."
Mou Rongtian was startled and said: "General Li? How could it be him? Could it be that he has four dragons and two tigers tattooed on his body?"
Luo Sigong nodded and said: "Exactly. The Seven-Star Sword is Mr. Li's favorite thing. The scabbard of that sword is inlaid with seven gems. In addition, it is also a sword that can cut iron as well as clay."
Li Rusong was a famous general in the Ming Dynasty. During the first Ming Dynasty's war to aid Gao and resist the Japanese, he served as the admiral of the Eastern Expedition, and the Japanese pirates fled. In the second Ming Dynasty's war to aid Gao and resist the Japanese, Li Rusong was once again appointed as the admiral of the Eastern Expedition. During the battle to defend the city, Li Rusong took the lead in the charge, but was seriously injured and could no longer direct the battle, so he was escorted back to Beijing to recuperate.
In the 25th year of Wanli, Li Rusong was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong. In April of the 26th year of Wanli, the Tatars in the Hetao area invaded Liaodong. Li Rusong took command of Shenyang City and launched a self-defense counterattack against the Tatars. .
On that day, the vanguard of the Tatar cavalry came to the city of Shenyang to challenge the enemy. Li Rusong ordered his troops to fight. The Tatars were defeated. Li Rusong led 3,000 Liaodong cavalry to pursue them. They were attacked by tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry in Caijiagou, Tayu Town. After being ambushed, trapped in a tight siege, and almost the entire army was wiped out, Li Rusong's whereabouts are unknown since then, with no one alive or dead.
Luo Sigong said to Mou Rongtian: "Go to the archives and check the specific location of Hejiaxin Village and its relationship with Caijiagou in Tayu Town."
Mou Rongtian went to the archives and found out that Hejiaxin Village is on the south bank of the Hun River, between Shenyang City and Fushun Acropolis, more than fifty miles away from Shenyang City, more than forty miles away from Fushun Acropolis, northwest of Caijiagou, Tayu Town More than twenty miles away. Return to the office and report to Luo Sigong.
Luo Sigong said: "I expected that after General Li was ambushed in Caijiagou, he must have broken out to the north, fell into the water in the Hun River, and drifted to the vicinity of Hejiaxin Village, where he was rescued by Kong Erleng."
After a pause, he asked: "Did Dezhen say what kind of clothes the headless man's body was wearing at that time?"
Mou Rongtian said: "Dezhen said he was wearing underwear."
Luo Sigong said: "It seems that General Li wanted to jump into the river to escape, so he removed all his armor."
Mou Rongtian said: "General Bing Li has always used his troops like a god. I have always been wondering, how could he fall into an ambush?"
Luo Sigong said: "The vanguard of the Tatars faked defeat and deliberately wanted to lead our army into an encirclement. General Li has experienced hundreds of battles. What kind of person is he? How can the Tatars' tricks be hidden from him?"
"Commander Li saw that the Tatars were faking defeat and that there must be an ambush. He wanted to use his plan to annihilate the main Tatar force.
"Before the pursuit, Commander-in-Chief Li ordered his soldiers to light war incense and made an agreement with the Deputy Commander-in-Chief. After the stick of incense was burned, he asked the Deputy Commander-in-Chief to take the rest of his troops to support him. Commander-in-Chief Li wanted to lure out the main Tatar force, and then Cooperate with the reinforcements inside and outside to annihilate them."
Mou Rongtian said: "It turns out that General Li knew that the Tatars were ambush early, so why did he wipe out his entire army in Caijiagou? Was he careless and miscalculated the time? A stick of incense takes too long. Reinforcements arrived too late."
Luo Sigong said: "General Li has experienced hundreds of battles, how could he miscalculate the time? If the reinforcements come to support as promised, General Li will definitely not be wiped out, and the Tatars will definitely be defeated."
Mou Rongtian said: "So the reinforcements did not go to support on time. Why?"
Luo Sigong sighed and said, "It's a shame that the deputy commander suddenly fainted just when the incense of war was about to burn out. The three armies did not dare to move without his order. By the time the deputy commander regained consciousness, an hour had passed. , how can it be too late if we go to support you again?”
Mou Rongtian was startled and said, "Why did the deputy commander faint at this critical moment?"
Luo Sigong said: "I think that guy deliberately wanted to kill Mr. Li."
Mou Rongtian asked: "Is it possible that the deputy commander-in-chief has a grudge against Commander-in-Chief Li? Who is the deputy commander-in-chief?"
Luo Sigong said: "He is Tian Feng."
Mou Rongtian was shocked and shouted: "It's him!"
Luo Sigong said: "If nothing happened to Mr. Li, how could Tian Feng be the Minister of War? In the eyes of others, Tian Feng and Mr. Li are as close as brothers, and they will definitely not harm Mr. Li. But I don't think so.
, I feel that Tian Feng must be pretending to be faint on purpose. This guy looks loyal on the outside but is cunning on the inside. He is a complete hypocrite. He can deceive others, but he cannot deceive me."