Detective in the Red Chamber

Sun Shaozong ignored it and just looked down at the files.

Those at the top of the list are basically not fatal cases, or incidents that violate human relations and cause public outrage.

Sun Shaozong first scanned it briefly, wrote his initial judgment on the blank appendix, and circled some doubtful points with Zhu Zhu, for the second time to read it carefully.

In this way, he reviewed seven cases in a row, and when he reached the eighth case, it was a missing person case.

The missing person is a 36-year-old middle-aged woman. About seven days ago in the evening, she went out to buy vegetables with a basket, and then disappeared without a trace.

This woman has never found any mental problems, and her husband and children are quite harmonious, and the family has not encountered any recent changes. In addition, she only brought a dozen cash for groceries, so the preliminary judgment is, It should be unlikely that he ran away from home on his own initiative.

However, the traffickers usually trafficked young women, this middle-aged woman...

Could it be that it is well maintained, just like Aunt Xue?

Sun Shaozong turned to the column of sketched portraits, and immediately rejected this idea—although the facial features on the portraits may not be very accurate, there is no mistake in the bucket-like figure.

In this way, the chance of abduction is not high.

As for the vendetta...

Sun Shaozong turned the page back, tapping lightly on the woman's livelihood with his fingers.

Wen Po, this profession can be regarded as being kind to others nowadays, and it is not as easy to encounter medical troubles as a doctor. It stands to reason that the possibility of causing hatred should not be high.

seek money?

Wen Po is really a well-paid profession. According to the information in the file, she is a handicraft handed down from her ancestors. She is also considered a small celebrity in the capital, and she should have accumulated a lot of net worth.

However, it was also written in the information that this woman is a real estate madman, and has bought several houses and two shops successively, so there should not be much spare money left on hand.

So why did she disappear?

What ulterior motives were discovered, so they were silenced?

Or was he accidentally involved in something?

Perhaps someone should be sent to investigate whether she has delivered a baby to a wealthy family recently—ordinary family, even if some dirty things are leaked, it may not lead to murder.

"what?!"

Sun Shaozong frowned, marked all these doubts, and was about to continue reviewing other files, but suddenly discovered a detail that had just been ignored.

This woman's home seems to be not far from Shuntian Mansion, and it is located at the side and rear...

Is it her?

A person flashed in Sun Shaozong's mind, and he quickly opened the file again, found the column of portraits, and compared the short and fat woman in the portrait with the image in his memory, they were indeed [-] to [-] percent similar.

Seeing this, Sun Shaozong immediately raised his voice to call Lin Delu in, threw the missing file to him, and ordered, "Bring this woman's husband and children, and call Zhou Da and the female prisoner from the house arrest." come over."

Lin Delu quickly agreed, glanced at the case file, wrote down the home address of the lost woman, and respectfully sent it back to Sun Shaozong's desk, then hurried to Dongkua courtyard to assign the task to the yamen servants below.

Because the house of house arrest was burnt to the ground, and it is still under reconstruction, several female prisoners in the house of house arrest were also temporarily transferred to the government prison to work in front of Zhou Da.

So after a while, Zhou Da rushed over with a few female prisoners in the rain. He didn't even have time to put on a coir raincoat, and they looked like soaked rats.

Worried that the official documents inside would be dirty, Lin Delu didn't dare to let them in, so he rushed inside and invited Sun Shaozong out.

When Sun Shaozong went outside, he first threw a towel to Zhou Da, and after he thankfully wiped off the rain on his hands and face, he threw the file over and asked, "Who is the lost woman up here?" The one who gave birth to the kinky nun in the house of confinement when the dog swallowed the sun?"

Zhou Da opened it for a few glances, but he didn't dare to be 100% sure, so he hurriedly held it up for several female prisoners to pass on to read it again.

After summarizing the opinions of several subordinates, he finally said firmly, "This is Mrs. Wang, she was the one who gave birth to that evildoer!"

Sure enough it was her!

Could it be that she discovered something at the time and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity, so she was killed and silenced?

Miaoyu's character shouldn't be like this, but there is Wei Ruolan mixed in here - and Wei Ruolan's elder brother Wei Rusong is not a cheap lamp!

Chapter 513 Check

Should we investigate the case thoroughly?

After temporarily focusing on the focus of suspicion on the Wei family, Sun Shaozong found himself in trouble.

There is a saying that pulls out the radish and brings out the mud. If the Wei family killed the Mrs. Wang to silence the truth in order to cover up the truth, once he came forward to thoroughly investigate the case, the three of them conspired to save the child at the beginning, and I am afraid that it would also be exposed.

You know, this is the crime of bullying the king!

Just as he was struggling, he saw a few people hurrying up from the rain curtain, the leader rushed to the corridor, bowed and said, "I would like to report to Lord Zhizhong, Wang's husband Liu Changsheng, eldest son Liu Fugui, and daughter Liu Huilan have all been brought here. "

It turned out that Mrs. Wang's family had arrived.

Sun Shaozong glanced back, and saw a middle-aged man with a simple and honest face, leading a pair of sons and daughters, each curled up in a bamboo hat and coir raincoat, his lowered head occasionally raised secretly, his eyes were full of panic and expectation.

Originally, Sun Shaozong was already inclined to give up the case, but when he saw the terrified but hopeful eyes of these six, his heart suddenly softened by three points.

Forget it.

Let's ask the specifics first.

"Bring it in."

After explaining, Sun Shaozong cautiously entered the living room, sat down behind the koan in the middle, and waited for about half an hour before seeing the Wang family, who had taken off their rain gear, walked in under the leadership of Lin Delu.

"I haven't seen Master Zhizhong yet."

Lin Delu reminded, and the father and son immediately knelt down on their knees, kowtowed like pounding garlic, mouthful of 'Master Qingtian'.

Sun Shaozong threw the dossier on the table, and asked calmly, "Liu Changsheng, according to the confession, you once told the officer that your wife, Mrs. Wang, had nothing unusual before she disappeared, but is it the truth?"

Liu Changsheng hurriedly lowered his body again, and said excitedly, "Back to Master Qingtian's words, my mother-in-law was very well-behaved before, but when she went out, she said that she would cut half a catty of dog meat back, so that she could put autumn fat on her son, who would have known her?" This walk...it lasted for several days, but no one was alive or dead!"

As he spoke, Liu Changsheng whimpered a little, and the son and daughter behind him also sobbed after hearing this.

Seeing that the family of three was about to burst into tears, Sun Shaozong hurriedly said, "I want to ask you some inside information just to find out the trace of Mrs. Wang. You father and son don't need to panic, just speak slowly."

As he said that, he gave Lin Delu a wink, and Lin Delu immediately said, "Liu Changsheng, Mr. Sun has personally intervened in this case, why are you crying? If you want to see your mother-in-law, just answer honestly!"

How can Liu Changsheng, a mere riser, stand up to the one who sings the red face and the other who sings the bad face?

Quickly wiped away tears with his sleeve, kowtowed and said, "The villain is guilty, the villain is guilty, the master Qingtian just asks, the villain will know everything!"

"Well, let me ask you, in the past two months, has your wife ever delivered a baby in a rich family?"

"Never!"

Without thinking about it, Liu Changsheng shook his head and said, "In the past two months, the neighbors in the neighborhood have asked her to deliver the baby, but I have never been to any big family."

Hearing this, Sun Shaozong suddenly became suspicious. Although the husband and wife are one body, but this involves Wang's behavior in the past two months, it stands to reason that Liu Changsheng should recall it first, and then answer his own questions. It was blurted out without any hesitation.

Either, he knows everything about Wang's affairs like the back of his hand; or, he has already prepared the answer in his heart!

Sun Shaozong still asked calmly, "You are so sure, you must remember exactly which family Wang has been to deliver babies?"

"No no no!"

But Liu Changsheng shook his head and said, "Little people seldom ask about such things. My mother-in-law said it herself - she said that since she gave birth to that evildoer, all the big families in the vicinity have taboos and would rather travel from afar." Invite another stable woman, and refuse to ask her to deliver the baby!"

"That's why I said that she hasn't taken over business from a big family recently."

Sun Shaozong originally wanted to ask a few questions first, and then gradually transition to the main topic, but Liu Changsheng took the initiative to mention this matter.

So Sun Shaozong also followed suit and asked, "What's the matter? Mrs. Wang once told you about the day the dog swallowed the sun and delivered the evildoer?"

"I've said it several times..."

"Then repeat it to me, what exactly did she say?"

As Sun Shaozong said, he raised his voice again, "Lin Delu, take these two young men outside first."

Lin Delu knew that he was worried about the collusion of the Liu family and his son. Although he didn't understand what Sun Shaozong had experienced, what was the point of asking the Liu family and his son, but obediently took Liu Fugui and Liu Huilan outside.

Because of the torrential rain outside, there is no need to hide too far, just order their siblings to wait under the porch.

When Lin Delu returned to the hall, Liu Changsheng was under the guidance of Sun Shaozong, recalling and repeating his wife's words.

Lin Delu listened for a long time, except for the blue-faced fangs that the child said, and the monks wearing Buddha's light to protect their bodies, there was nothing new and strange.

Sun Shaozong, however, took the matter seriously and repeatedly asked many details, such as Wang's tone at the time, or whether there were any pauses and stumbles.

It wasn't until Lin Delu had almost memorized that set of rhetoric that Sun Shaozong let Liu Changsheng go, and then called Liu Fugui's brother and sister in, and asked them to repeat Wang's remarks in the same way.

These two brothers and sisters were far less courageous than his father, they stumbled when they spoke, and the time it took to say it once was more than three times that of Liu Changsheng!

I could only hear that Lin Delu wanted to tear out their tongues and straighten them with an iron before speaking.

However, Sun Shaozong was extremely patient. After listening to the question, he asked Liu Changsheng's question one by one. After the two finished answering the question, the heavy rain outside had stopped.

Seeing a round of red sun breaking through the clouds, most of the gloom in Sun Shaozong's heart also disappeared.

Although it is not completely certain at the moment, according to the testimony of the father and son, Mrs. Wang's disappearance should have nothing to do with the Wei family.

The content recounted by their father and son is roughly the same, and some details that are not easy to make up can also be matched, so it can be basically concluded that these words are indeed from Wang's mouth.

And these words are coherent, and it sounds like there is nothing missing.

The three of them unanimously said that in the process of telling these things, Mrs. Wang has always been eloquent and vivid, and there was no stumbling block in the middle.

If it was said that the Wang family was able to hide secrets in front of her family, Sun Shaozong would still believe it reluctantly, but it is really unbelievable to say that her eloquent narration of what happened that day was still impeccable.

Besides, if she really had this kind of scheming, she wouldn't end up in a situation where no one was alive or anyone was dead!

But if she wasn't murdered to silence her, why did she disappear?

"Lin Delu."

"I'm humble."

"Pass my order, this case will be led by Zhao Wuwei to investigate in person, don't miss any possible clues!"

In fact, it has been five or six days since the case was reported, but there has been little progress before.

This is mainly because there are only two ordinary yamen servants and a few white servants in charge of investigating the case—after all, although this disappearance case is a matter of life, it is far less important than a murder case.

The manpower is insufficient, and the attitude of handling the case is not correct. What kind of clues can be found to be a ghost!

Now that Sun Shaozong issued an order, the manpower resources in the mansion suddenly turned over—Zhao Wuwei led dozens of subordinates, and almost trampled the road from Wang's family to the vegetable market.

Residents and businessmen on both sides of the road, no matter they were suspected or not, were interrogated at least twice one by one. After this blanket search, some relevant information soon surfaced.

The first is Zhao Mazi, the sugar blower. He said that he once saw two people wearing bamboo hats, hanging behind Wang.

Then Xu Erniu, who bought Yangchun noodles, said that she had seen two people in bamboo hats, but she didn't know that they were following Mrs. Wang.

Then there is the nine-year-old son of Qian Laoji's family in Xixiang, who said that when he was playing with the local dog Ahuang on the street, Ahuang suddenly chased two people wearing bamboo hats and barked, and one of them stopped and scolded. After a few words, it didn't sound like a local accent.

In addition, according to Qian Laoji's confession, his native dog is very humane, and has always been raised outside, and has never caused trouble to the neighbors in the neighborhood. This is the first time he chased and barked.

"An outsider with a bamboo hat?"

After hearing these reports, Lin Delu sucked his teeth and wondered, "My lord, this sounds like a group of human traffickers. If Mrs. Wang was really photographed by them, I'm afraid she would have been sent out of the city after several days of work."

"Human traffickers?"

Sun Shaozong rolled his eyes at him, "If you were a human trafficker, would you choose the Wang family?"

Without waiting for Lin Delu to reply, he raised his hand and said, "Go, send someone to bring Qian Laolan's son and his dog here."

Lin Delu is already used to Sun Shaozong's various strange behaviors when he solved the case, so he didn't ask much, and was ready to go out to deliver orders.

"return!"

But Sun Shaozong stopped him again, and ordered, "Go and inform Zhou Da again, and ask him to pick a few prisoners from the prison..."

The book does not go into details.

But he said that about two quarters of an hour later, Qian Laolan's son and the yellow dog were brought to the criminal justice department, followed by the anxious Qian Laolan and his wife.

As soon as they saw Sun Shaozong's light red official robes, the two couples fell to their knees with a thud. It was the child whose nickname was A Bao, who had a tiger head and a tiger brain. Head to look at Sun Shaozong.

Sun Shaozong showed him a warm smile, pointed to the yellow dog wagging its head and tail, and said, "Is this Ah Huang who chased the bad guys all the way? He really is a good dog!"

Listening to Sun Shaozong praising his pet, and saying that Ah Huang was chasing two bad guys, Ah Bao suddenly became proud, and said with a shy chest, "I have been chasing after them too, the way they curse is scary, but me and Ah Huang is not afraid at all!"

"So, you are also a brave and good boy."

Sun Shaozong stretched out his hand to pull Ah Bao up from the ground, rubbed his prickly hair, and said with a smile, "When uncle asks you and Ah Huang to help later, you must not be stage fright."

A Bao raised his head, and said happily, "Do you want me and A Huang to help you catch the bad guys?!"

Although this child is a newborn calf and is not afraid of tigers, he already has a concept of status, so he didn't go ahead and call Sun Shaozong uncle.

"Haha, I was really confirmed by the little hero."