Chapter 5 Butcher Zheng, Thousands of Steelmaking!
Back at the county government office, Li Mu wrote notes and the process of the case, and then looked out the window, recalling, thinking, and thinking about what else he had missed.
There is no such thing as a detective in the world. He is more of a careful observer, looking for clues, making bold assumptions, careful verification, and psychological deterrence.
"Who is the murderer?"
Li Mu recalled.
Suddenly, there was a sound of wind and a black figure appeared.
Li Mu was slightly nervous, and subconsciously wanted to pull out the sword next to him to defend himself, but he was just a scholar, just a level of acquired knowledge. He was just a little more powerful than the untied chicken. The power was limited. It was better not to draw the sword than to draw it.
He said calmly: "Who is coming?"
"Back off, it's me!" At this moment, a man in black appeared and took off the black cloth on his face, revealing the face of a beautiful woman.
"It's you! Sister Qingchan!"
Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief.
"Are you hungry?" Li Mu asked.
"Back off, no need!" Liu Qingchan asked.
"How is the mountain lately?" Li Mu asked.
"I have a glass workshop, and my business has been good recently. Here is the ledger!" Liu Qingchan said, taking out the ledger and handing it over.
Li Mu took the account book, briefly looked through it, and put it aside without paying much attention to it.
Money is not everything, power is everything. He believes that the Liu family brothers and sisters are not that short-sighted. In fact, except for some newcomers, most people in the world are extremely shrewd, and those who are not smart will be early.
Just died.
"You came just in time. I encountered two murder cases. But what did you do on the mountain?" Li Mu asked, with questioning and murderous intent in his tone.
Once a murder case occurs, the local gangsters, bandits, etc. are the first to be suspected, and they will not let go of the wrongdoer.
Black Fox Ridge has a criminal record.
"No! No!" Liu Qingchan said in a panic: "Our village usually mainly farms on the mountain village to make a living. We occasionally hunt and collect some mountain products to make a living. Or we set up checkpoints on the roadside to collect money.
A little protection money rarely hurts human life!"
Black Fox Ridge has been able to survive to this day because of its low profile.
If officials are not immobilized and murders are caused, Liumen is too lazy to take action. In other words, after taking action, the harvest will be very small and it is not worth taking action.
Li Mu observed with micro-expressions and breathed a sigh of relief. It really wasn't them.
"There have been two murder cases recently!" Li Mu said the details of the case, and then asked: "Qingchan, what do you think?"
Liu Qingchan said: "Let's go see the body first!"
"Okay!" Li Mu nodded and said that action is action. Without any delay, he held a lantern and took Liu Qingchan to the morgue. The body had been enshrined, but without a head, the identity could not be determined and the investigation could not be carried out.
After opening the coffin, Liu Qingchan stepped forward and inspected it with a silver needle.
"The deceased was a warrior, about the fourth level of the day after tomorrow. He practiced Iron Sand Palm and Tiger Roaring Golden Bell!" Liu Qingchan stepped forward, looked at the corpse, and finally said.
Li Mu said: "How can you tell!"
Liu Qingchan said: "Rei Zhi is not a warrior, so naturally you can't tell. Look at his hands, they are glowing dark red, which is formed by practicing iron sand palm. Also, his body is much stronger than ordinary people, and he has martial arts skills on his body.
Traces of practicing the Tiger's Roaring Golden Bell. The Tiger's Roaring Golden Bell is divided into four layers, iron body, bronze body, silver body, and gold body. In front of me, the deceased's body was different from that of ordinary people, and he had condensed into a small iron body.
Got it!"
Li Mu was silent: "Warrior! Is it a vendetta among warriors? Are there many warriors in this world?"
"It's hard to say!" Liu Qingchan said: "The big hermit lives in the wild, the small hermit lives in the city. Maybe a singing man is a master, maybe an old farmer is a great master, maybe a civil servant is an innate warrior, maybe a scholar
He is an innate warrior. Everything is uncertain!"
Li Mu said: "What are the characteristics of the roaring tiger golden bell!"
Liu Qingchan said: "The Tiger Roaring Golden Bell is a yellow-level skill. It is not high-grade and easy to get started. It has low requirements for martial arts qualifications and is widely circulated among warriors. From this skill, you cannot tell the sect of the deceased!
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"Is there a tiger's roaring golden bell technique?" Li Mu asked.
"have!"
After leaving the morgue and entering the study, Liu Qingchan wrote down the technique of the Tiger Roaring Golden Bell on the spot, which was only a few hundred words.
Li Mu looked at the technique and frowned slightly.
The Tiger's Roaring Golden Bell is a very low-level exercise. It is just a yellow-level exercise. The biggest advantage of the yellow-level exercise is that it is easy to get started and has low qualification requirements. With the Tiger's Roaring Golden Bell, you can practice to the golden body state.
, condensed into an indestructible body, no less powerful than any heaven-level technique.
The shortcomings are also obvious: it is easy to refine but difficult to refine.
When they woke up the next day, Li Mu and Liu Qingchan had just finished breakfast when news came from the yamen that the missing head had been found.
"Head, where is it?"
Li Mu asked.
The inspection officer said: "Tell the county magistrate to conduct a search with the crime scene as the center and a radius of hundreds of miles, and then found it in a ravine!"
"Who is the deceased?" Li Mu asked.
"He is from this county. He is a butcher, known as Zheng Butcher. He has three shops at home, a wife, and three concubines. He is a good man and often helps his neighbors!" said the inspection inspector.
Li Mu said: "Now, go to the scene of the crime and stop by Butcher Zheng's house to learn about the situation!"
An hour later, we arrived at the crime scene.
The scene of the crime was a valley with a river in the valley. The head of Butcher Zheng was found among the grass in the valley. Fortunately, it was not carried away by a wolf, otherwise the identity of the deceased would never be found.
After all, in this era, the household registration system is too crude and there is no ID card.
The imperial court also counted tens of thousands of households in a county in household registration statistics, rather than tens of thousands of people.
The inspector said: "Here, I found a butcher's knife, which belongs to Butcher Zheng!"
With that said, he presented the butcher's knife.
Li Mu stepped forward and observed for a moment but couldn't figure out why.
Liu Qingchan stepped forward and flicked it, then held it again, feeling the weight and said: "Good knife, good knife! This pig-killing knife is made of thousands of steel!"
"Thousands of steels are a rare treasure for innate warriors!" Liu Qingchan said: "The grade is far higher than ordinary steel!"
Li Mu grabbed the butcher's knife and immediately felt it was extremely heavy. "The density is a bit high, it's not ordinary steel...it can't be compressed steel!"
It suddenly occurred to me that this world is lagging behind in many aspects, but in terms of smelting and weapon manufacturing, it is leading. It has alloy steels that are comparable to those of later generations, or even surpass them.
I took out the water basin and conducted a simple and rough density test. The result was that the density of the butcher's knife was 10.5.
Recalling the knowledge of steel in my previous life, the density of steel is 7.9. It may be carbon steel or other alloy steel, but the floating rate is only a few percentage points, and it rarely rises directly to 10.5.
Compressed steel!
In essence, steel can be compressed, and compressed steel has excellent performance in terms of hardness and other properties.
The so-called Qian Steelmaking is essentially compressed steel.
Liu Qingchan said: "Beyond a hundred steelmakings, there are a thousand steelmakings; above a thousand steelmakings, there are ten thousand steelmakings. It is said that there are better steels, but they are rare in quantity and only a few of them have them!"
There were not enough tools, so he could only conduct a simple test. Li Mu took out a piece of hair, put it on it, blew on it, and the hair broke immediately. He took out another iron ingot and waved it lightly, and the iron ingot broke immediately, like cutting tofu.
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"Qingchan, what do you think?" Li Mu asked.
"Butcher Zheng is from the fifth level of the day after tomorrow. He arrived with weapons. Then he fought with the murderer and his neck was cut off with a knife. Then his body was kicked into the river and his head was randomly discarded here... This was a murder. It's just that
There is no concealment on the battlefield here, and it is obvious that you are extremely confident...I am afraid that if you leave here, you will miss a hit and escape thousands of miles away."
Liu Qing Zen Tao.
Li Mu fell silent, thinking of Li Bai.
Kill someone in ten steps and leave no trace in a thousand miles.
After the murder, if the murderer misses a single hit and escapes thousands of miles away, trying to catch the criminal, he will be in big trouble.
"I also overlooked one thing. It may be an acquaintance of Zheng Butcher who led him here!" Li Mu said: "Ordinary warriors do not have weapons forged by Qian Steel. Without special channels, it is impossible to obtain such weapons!"
In any world, weapons are controlled.
Special steel is impossible to obtain without special channels.
"Butcher Zheng's identity is not simple, not simple!" Li Mu said, leaving the scene of the crime and heading to Butcher Zheng's home.