From Kowloon's Inheritance

The inspector said: "Report to the county lord, search the scene of the crime in a radius of a hundred miles, and find it in a ravine!"

"Who is the deceased?" Li Mu asked.

"It's from this county. It's a butcher. It's called Zheng Butcher. There are three shops in his family. He has a wife and three concubines. He is a good person and often helps his neighbors!" said the inspector.

Li Mu said: "Now, let's go to the scene of the crime and go to Zheng Tuhu's house to find out the situation!"

An hour later, we arrived at the scene of the crime.

The scene of the crime was a valley, and there was a river in the valley. Zheng Butcher's head was found in the grass in the valley.Fortunately, he was not taken away by wolves, otherwise he would never be able to find the identity of the deceased.After all, in this era, the household registration system is too simple, and there is no ID card.

According to the statistics of household registration by the imperial court, there are tens of thousands of households in a county, not tens of thousands of people.

The inspector said: "Here, I found a pig-killing knife, which belongs to Butcher Zheng!"

With that said, he brought a butcher's knife.

Li Mu stepped forward and observed for a while, but couldn't see why.

Liu Qingchan stepped forward and flicked it, then picked it up again, feeling the weight and said: "Good knife, good knife! This pig-killing knife is made of thousands of steels!"

"Thousands of refined steel is a rare treasure for innate warriors!" Liu Qingchan said: "The grade is far above ordinary steel!"

Li Mu grabbed the butcher's knife and immediately felt extremely heavy, "The density is a bit high, it's not ordinary steel, it's compressed steel!"

It suddenly occurred to me that this world is backward in many aspects, but in terms of smelting and weapon manufacturing, it is in the lead, with alloy steel comparable to or even surpassed by later generations.

The water basin was taken out, and a simple and rough density test was carried out, and the density of the butcher knife was 10.5.

Recalling the knowledge of steel in the previous life, the density of steel is 7.9, maybe carbon steel, other alloy steels fluctuate up and down, and the floating rate is only a few percentage points, and it is rare to directly rise to 10.5.

Compress steel!

In essence, steel is compressible, and the compressed steel has excellent performance in terms of hardness and other properties.

The so-called thousand-smelting steel is essentially compressed steel.

Liu Qingchan said: "Above a hundred steels, there are thousands of steels; above a thousand steels, there are ten thousand steels. It is said that there are better steels, but the quantity is scarce, and only a few big trends have them!"

There were not enough tools, so we could only do 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, waved it lightly, and the iron ingot broke immediately, just like cutting tofu .

"Qing Chan, what do you think?" Li Mu asked.

"Butcher Zheng is on the fifth floor of the day after tomorrow. He came with a weapon, and then confronted the murderer. His neck was cut off with a knife, and then his body was kicked into the river, and his head was thrown here. This is a murder. It's just here On the battlefield, there is no cover-up, and it is obvious that the extreme confidence is afraid of leaving here, missing a single hit, and fleeing thousands of miles away."

Liu Qing said.

Li Mu was silent, thinking of Li Bai.

Ten steps, one kill, never stay a thousand miles.

After the murderer killed someone, if he missed a single blow and fled thousands of miles away to arrest the criminal, he would be in serious trouble.

"I also overlooked one point. It may be an acquaintance of Zheng Tuhu who led him here!" Li Mu said, "Ordinary warriors do not have weapons forged by thousands of steel refiners. Without special channels, it is impossible to obtain such weapons!"

In any world, weapons are controlled.

Special steel materials cannot be obtained without special channels.

"The identity of Butcher Zheng is not simple, not simple!" Li Mu said, leaving the scene of the crime and heading to Butcher Zheng's home.

Chapter 6 Tangram Lock

Talking about action is action.

The action was fast, and soon arrived at Zheng Tuhu's house.

Walking along the way, Li Mu asked about the inspector, and the inspector talked about Zheng Butcher's experience.

Butcher Zheng is not a pig killer. To be precise, Dad is a pig killer.Later, Zheng Tuhu left home to join the army as a young man, and when he came back a few years later, he was rich. He then settled in Yong'an Town, bought hundreds of acres of good land, opened a butcher shop, a cloth shop, a grain shop, etc. , I had a good time.

Soon, we arrived at Yongan Town.

The house where Butcher Zheng lived was gorgeous and elegant.

"Meet the Inspector!"

Butcher Zheng's wife came to welcome her with three concubines and a dozen servants.

The inspector is the director of the police station, who controls local security and belongs to the current management, and the authority is still higher than the county magistrate.

"This is the parents and officials!" The inspector stepped forward and said.

"Greetings, parents!" Zheng Tuhu's wife and three concubines came forward and said, a little fearful.Most of the county magistrates in this era are not close to the people, but they are daunting characters.

"Butcher Zheng is dead!" Li Mu said, with three concubines and a dozen servants.

"How is it possible, isn't Xianggong going out to visit friends!"

Butcher Zheng's wife couldn't believe it.

"Impossible, how could Master die!" A concubine said, "Master died like this?"

The other two concubines seemed to be stupefied with fright, unable to accept all this, trembling all over, unable to speak.

Walking into the house, the courtyard is very large, with three entrances and three exits, and there are peonies planted. Li Mu observed every corner, not letting go of a trace, and said, "Madam, my condolences! Mr. Zheng died very badly, his head was crushed. It was cut up on the spot and the body was thrown in the river, where it was not found until a few days later."

"Just confirmed the identity of the corpse!"

Li Mu talked about the case, observed a wife and three concubines, and suddenly said: "As long as a murderer commits a crime, he will leave clues. With the source of the corpse as the center, there must be a murderer within a radius of a hundred miles. A murder is nothing more than a few There are two types, one is vendetta, killing people because of grievances; the other is financial killing, killing people because of money. These two types occupy as many as eight layers of cases!"

"What are the other two floors?" Liu Qingchan asked.

"There are two levels, accidental killing and intentional killing!!" Li Mu said, "It's like a millionaire who robbed a farmer of five taels of silver one day, and was sentenced to ten years of criminal detention and exiled for thousands of miles. Besides, why do you say!"

Liu Qingchan said: "Needless to say, the official word has two mouths, whether there is reason or not, it all depends on two mouths. It must be a dog official who fabricates witnesses and physical evidence in order to obtain money!"

"Cough, cough, cough!" Li Mu said in his heart, scolding the bald man in front of the monk, please show me some face!

Li Mu said: "But the court, no! Under the county magistrate's judgment, the reason is that the person is mentally ill, and it is normal for a mentally ill person to do anything. It is not a crime for a mentally ill person to kill someone! In the eyes of a mentally ill person, everything in the world is possible !"

"What else?" Liu Qingchan asked.

"No way!" Li Mu said.For example, honorable people murder people, court dignitaries kill people, and no one dares to judge.It's just that these things can't be said, they are said to destroy the harmony of the court.

Observing everything, Li Mu walked to the middle of the study and said, "Madam Zheng, I want to look at your account books. If you kill people for money, it must be related to the account books!"

"Yes, my lord!"