The rise of the poor

Chapter 1613 Bold Guess

When Zhao Zhixian’s brain was in a mess, Zhu Ping’an said, “Master Zhao, how many people are engaged in the funeral business in Yiwu County, including making coffins, setting acupoints, funerals, moving graves, playing and singing, etc. Be sure to make a detailed statistics, please send someone to invite them all to the county government now, so that no one will be left behind."

Although Zhao Zhixian did not understand Zhu Pingan's purpose of asking about the funeral business, he still opened his mouth and answered: "My lord, there are eight coffin shops in Yiwu County, including three in the county town and five in the township below; There are quite a lot of people who visit the graves, including all three religions and nine streams. This has been recorded in the county government, and there are about 30 people. Most of the funerals are people from Yizhuang. There are five Yizhuangs in Yiwu County. In addition to Yizhuang, Zhalou The Zi Shroud Store is also responsible for the funeral, there are about a dozen Zhalouzi Shroud Stores in Yiwu County; there are about a dozen of them playing and singing, and most of them do red and white things.”

It can be seen that Zhao Zhixian's work in Yiwu is still very solid, and he basically knows all aspects of Yiwu.

Zhu Pingan's evaluation of Zhao Zhixian was a little higher. There are not many magistrates who can do this.

In the future, Zhao Zhixian's achievements are definitely not limited to magistrates.

"My lord, these people are not a minority, do they all have to be invited to the county government?" Zhao Zhixian asked uncertainly.

"Yes, don't leave any behind." Zhu Ping'an nodded heavily.

"Lord Zhao, after inviting them to the county government, send scribes to inquire in detail and record whether they have undertaken funerals and grave relocations in the two months before and after the incident last year. If they have undertaken funerals and grave relocations during this period, It is necessary to record in detail who they have undertaken for, and ask them whether there are any suspicious or strange things during the undertaking, no matter how outrageous, they must be recorded in detail, and finally ask them to sign and pledge."

Zhu Pingan continued.

"I will follow orders." Zhao Zhixian nodded vigorously, then turned around and arranged for officers to go to the county government office to retrieve the funeral business files, compare the files, and invite all the funeral business people to the government office.

After Zhao County magistrate arranged the matter, he finally couldn't hold back the doubts in his heart, and asked Zhu Ping'an for advice, "My lord, the lower officials are dull, and I don't know what is the purpose of asking the funeral personnel?"

Chen Dacheng and the others were also at a loss, not knowing what Zhu Ping'an's intention was.

"Look for the victim's head." Zhu Ping'an said surprisingly.

"Ah?" Zhao Zhixian was indeed taken aback, the confusion in his mind became more blurred, and there were more question marks.

"Master Zhao, I suspect that the victim in this case is not Chen Erlang's wife Zhang, but someone else."

Zhu Pingan whispered in Zhao Zhixian's ear.

If the murderer is Chen Erlang, there is absolutely no need for Chen Erlang to cut off the head and discard it after killing his wife. Even if it is to vent his anger, it is unreasonable to just discard the head; The lower head is hidden, the murderer must have a purpose in doing so, to collect the head?This can basically be ruled out. If such a perverted collection habit is really the case, there must be more than one victim whose head was cut off in Yiwu County, but Zhu Pingan also understands that there is only one case of cutting off the head after being killed in Yiwu County. ; Therefore, Zhu Ping suspected that the murderer cut off the head and hid it. He definitely didn't want everyone to see the victim's head. He didn't want everyone to see the victim's head. made a bold guess.

Zhu Pingan's first reaction was that the murderer might have concealed the victim's identity, and perhaps the victim was not Chen Erlang's wife, Zhang Shi.So if the victim wasn't Chen Erlang's wife Zhang, who was it?
This question will be answered when the victim's head is found.

"Ah?! What?!"

Zhu Ping'an's words were more shocking than thunder, and Zhao Zhixian almost jumped up in surprise.

"Shh, keep your voice down, don't say anything, so as not to startle the snake." Zhu Pingan patted Zhao Zhixian's shoulder lightly.

"Yes, yes." Zhao Zhixian nodded again and again, but still couldn't help whispering in Zhu Ping'an's ear, "But my lord, in the two months before and after Chen Erlang's wife murder case, there was no murder in Yiwu County." Case."

"It is precisely because there is no homicide that I am more sure of my guess." Zhu Pingan said.

When Zhao Zhixian heard the words, he was thoughtful, and was stunned for a long time. A light seemed to flash in his mind, as if he understood something.

If the victim was someone else, it would make sense to cut off the head and hide it.

If the victim is someone else and no one reports the crime.

Then this real murder case was buried normally by the murderer in the form of a non-homicide case.

After all, if a person dies, the fire cannot be covered with paper.Only a normal funeral can calm down.

The body was at Chen Erlang's house, and there was only one head. How could the murderer be buried normally?It must be covered up.But no matter how you try to cover it up, it's impossible to cover everything, and there will inevitably be some strange things when it comes to funerals.

That's why Mr. Zhu asked himself to send someone to ask the person in the funeral business whether he had undertaken funerals, grave relocation and other matters for a period of time after the case happened, and specifically asked if there were any suspicious or strange things during the undertaking period.

"My lord, I seem to understand." Zhao Zhixian looked at Zhu Ping'an.

"It's enough to understand it, and you don't need to say it, so as not to startle the snake." Zhu Ping'an nodded slightly.

"Yes." Zhao Zhixian nodded.

"Let's go, let's go back to the county government and wait for news." Zhu Pingan said to Zhao County Magistrate, "There are some questions that need to be asked further by then."

When Zhu Ping'an and Zhao Zhixian left, Chen Dacheng also took several tribesmen to the county government office.His younger brother's case finally had hope again. How could he sit at home? First, he was worried and didn't want to miss any details, and second, he wanted to contribute their strength to the case.

The efficiency of the Yiwu County Government was very high, and soon all the people engaged in the funeral business in Yiwu County were invited to the county government by the guards.

The county magistrate Zhao checked and confirmed that all the funeral and interment workers in Yiwu County had arrived, and nothing was missed.

According to the instructions, the clerks of the county government asked them one by one whether they had undertaken funeral matters within a period of time when the case occurred, and whether there were any suspicious or strange things during the undertaking period, and recorded them in detail.

Because there are many people in the funeral business and there are not enough clerks in the yamen, in order to improve the efficiency of handling cases, Zhu Ping'an and Zhao Zhixian also went to the court to ask and record.

Zhao Zhi County asked five people at the end, two of them had been engaged in funeral affairs for a period of time when the case happened, but after careful recollection, they all said that there was nothing suspicious or strange during the funeral.

Zhao Zhixian noticed that other scribes in the field did not seem to have recorded, and there were suspicious and strange funeral matters.

Could it be that Master Zhu is going in the wrong direction.

Just when Zhao Zhixian had doubts again, he saw a scribe with a slightly excited expression get up and walk towards him with the transcript.

(End of this chapter)