Go to ancient times to catch fast

On the second day when they went to the yamen, Chu Xiaoyun brought Su Wen to the county yamen, and Yu He greeted him.Chu Xiaoyun arranged another morning drill for the police leader, and said to Yu He, "Talk while eating."

The three felt the dining room and asked the cook to serve them breakfast first, talking while eating.

Yu He said: "Going to Baishui Village yesterday was very fruitful. After leaving Baishui Village, I went to other places to investigate, so I came back late."

Chu Xiaoyun said: "Don't be afraid of being late if you have something to gain, hurry up and tell me what you found."

"Okay." Yu He replied seriously, talking about his investigation results in Baishui, "I went to the village chief and asked him to organize people from the village who were 17 years old and different ages 7 years ago to come and ask questions. I learned that in the case of eating by mistake, the first person who discovered the deceased was not a villager, but a refugee friend of the deceased..."

"Who was the first to discover the body of the deceased?" Yu He asked, looking at the dozen or so villagers who had been invited to ask questions.

"It was also discovered by someone who fled from the north."

"A resident from another village discovered it."

"My friend Dunzi discovered it."

The villagers chattered.

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"Who is Dunzi?" Yu He asked, rubbing his temple.

The villagers looked at each other, and some of the older villagers said: "It's that dead fellow from a foreign country. The big guys call him Dunzi, but I can't remember what his name was."

"Oh." Yu He nodded, and finally figured out after a long time that the villagers said "the one who fled from the north", "a guest from another village", and "Dunzi's friend" were all referring to the same person.It is a good friend who escaped from the north with Dunzi and came here, a good friend Dunzi met on the way to escape.

"In your village, why didn't anyone find out that someone died?" Yu He asked the opposite villager who was invited to talk.

The villagers chattered again and again, and Yu He had a headache from the noise, so let them speak slowly one by one.But this is a waste of time, and because many people are too old, they can't speak a word for a long time;In the end, Yu He didn't know what to do, and asked them to choose someone who was a bit organized and could speak well to answer his question.Whether you agree with the content of what he said or not, other people can express their opinions after that person has finished speaking.If there are omissions in what that person said, others will add.

An older man, quite prestigious among the villagers, and more eloquent, was elected by the group of villagers and replied: "Hey, you house arresters have also seen that Dunzi lives far away from the big guys. He said he lived in our village, but in fact it was already on the edge of the village. Before he moved here, it was considered out of the village. Dunzi is usually very shy. I didn't get close to anyone, and the big guy didn't have much contact with him. Besides, it was always raining at that time. Unless it was unavoidable, the big guy seldom went out to work, and he couldn't pass by his house. How could he find out? If He raised animals, and when people died, those animals screamed a few times without being fed and hungry, so maybe he could know a thing or two. He didn’t raise any animals, even if he passed by his house, he didn’t make any noise. No one knows!"

"Yeah yeah."

"That's what happened."

After the old man finished speaking, the rest of the villagers who were invited for questioning also nodded in agreement.

"Then after he found out that Dunzi was dead, how did you know?" Yu He asked again.

"When he found that Dunzi was dead, he ran into the village crying and shouting, 'Dead man, dead man...' People in the village heard that something happened in the village, and all the men and big guys in the village were holding bamboo hats and wearing Coir raincoat and umbrella, went out to Dunzi's house to see what was going on. When I arrived at Dunzi's house, I found that the person was indeed dead. He fell down in the kitchen, bleeding from all seven orifices, and his face was so rotten that he couldn't see clearly. It seemed that he had died several times. God.

Yu He frowned and thought for a while: "Since the face can't be seen clearly, how do you know that person is Dunzi?"

The villagers look at me and I look at you.After communicating with everyone, the old man replied: "The clothes he wears are Dunzi's clothes. Dunzi is a foreigner who escaped from a refugee, and he is not rich. There are only two pieces of clothes for washing. We saw him wear them and work. .Besides, you can tell by looking at the figure, they are all so burly, unmistakable. Dunzi is about eight feet tall. In our village, even in Hejing County, there are very few people of this height, and you can't forget it at a glance."

The old man was very sure.

"Head, have you read that file? There should be records of the deceased's height and other characteristics on it. Is that Dunzi eight feet tall?" Yu He asked.

Hearing Yu He's question, Chu Xiaoyun stopped the spoon in his hand and recalled the relevant records in the dossier for a moment.The deceased was converted into a modern person with a height of about 180 and a length of eight feet. According to Dacheng's weights and measures, the modern length should be about 190.It is slightly different from the height described by the villagers.

Chu Xiaoyun told Yu He about the records in the dossier: "However, what the villagers said makes sense. Hejing County is located in the south of the Central Plains. People here are generally not tall. Even if they are tall, they are not big enough..."

Yu He looked at Chu Xiaoyun and said with a giggle, "Is it like you, boss?"

"Stop talking..." Chu Xiaoyun scolded with a smile, "If you meet a person whose height is close to eight feet, but who is relatively burly, he will feel tall, and the error of eight feet is within the acceptable range."

Yu He put away the hippie smile just now, and continued to talk about the investigation findings in Baishui Village.

"And then? You went to the Yamen to report to the officials?" Yu He asked.

The villagers were a little embarrassed to hear this question, and in the end it was the old man who was elected to answer the question: "Dunzi, that friend in distress, if you cry enough, you will ask us why no one found out about Dunzi's accident, did we murder him, and threatened to report it to the Yamen?" Officials, sue our villagers for poisoning foreigners who live here, against the imperial court's laws and regulations. How can we ordinary people bear such a big hat, for fear that he will report nonsense to the officials? Our villagers are the former old village chief. Under the auspices, a few young men in the village who are able to read, write and speak have been sent to the Yamen to report to the officials."

Seeing Yu He's bewildered look, the old man explained again: "Young man, you may not understand what that fellow sufferer from Dunzi said. 20 years ago, Hu people always harassed our border. Our court couldn't bear it. There was a fight at the border. Then many people from the north fled to our Central Plains area. The imperial court ordered the resettlement of refugees everywhere, so as not to cause riots. So at that time, every village had resettlement tasks. Our Baishui Village too He was poor, and the refugees didn’t want to come, so only Dunzi came. The county government gave some money to Dunzi’s house, and the big guys in the village raised funds to build it for him.”

Hearing this, Chu Xiaoyun understood.In the previous life, there were various relocations and resettlements in the modern society, all of which were government tasks. If they were not handled properly, it would easily lead to group confrontation, so those villagers were more afraid of the words of that friend in distress, Dunzi.From this point of view, not only modern society, even in ancient times, has the imprint of the times.For example, Yu He, who is about the same age as himself, can't understand the language of the old man's time.

"That's why the villagers of Baishui Village went to the Yamen to report to the officials first, in order not to be accused of being against the imperial court." Chu Xiaoyun said.

"That's right." Yu He drank the porridge in the bowl and said, "It doesn't seem to be completely like this. Because the villagers said that Dunzi's friend in distress said that if he didn't sue the government, he would have to pay him a large sum of money." A penny of money. The people in Baishui Village are poor and cannot afford that much money, and they are afraid of endless troubles after using money to solve the matter, so under the auspices of the old village chief at the time, they decided to take the initiative to report to the government and let the government make a decision."

"Then the yamen sent a policeman to Baishui Village with Wuzuo to investigate the case. The villagers said that the autopsy result of Wuzuo was that Dunzi was poisoned to death. According to his usual behavior, Dunzi didn't seem like a suicidal person. , it can only be concluded that it was homicide. Dunzi’s friend became even more excited when he heard this conclusion, and clamored that the villagers must pay Dunzi justice and lose money.”

"Because the refugees were involved, the yamen also wanted to settle the matter. But there must be a reason for every money coming in and out of the yamen, and if the money is taken by the yamen, it has to be recorded. Once it is submitted, it means that the local parents and officials Ineffective management, isn’t this a self-destructive thing? The money is not easy for the Yamen to get, so they think that the person died in Baishui Village, so the villagers are asked to pay the money. The villagers said that they have never done anything, and the other party’s asking price is too high. Gao, I can't accept this condition, and then several parties will start a tug-of-war. The villagers probably mean this, the case will not go forward, and the case will not be closed. So the county government had to intensify the investigation of the case..."

Chu Xiaoyun nodded: "The meaning of the county government is to find someone who can pay the money..."

Yu He chuckled, and said in a tone that wanted to be recognized: "Boss, do you also think that's what you mean?"

Chu Xiaoyun said: "It's hard to say the real situation, but it sounds a little bit like this at the moment. Let's not talk about this unproven thing, and then we found the pharmacy where Dunzi often sells medicine?"

Yu He was quite surprised: "Yes, boss, why do you know everything?"

Then he suddenly realized: "Is it all written in the file?"

Chu Xiaoyun said: "Yes. It is said that when the arresting house was arresting the shopkeeper of the pharmacy, the shopkeeper stumbled and fell to the cliff and died. Later, it was found that Dunzi's bones had not changed color, so he re-investigated the case and found that Dunzi was not killed by poison, but by food. Kill each other."

Yu He nodded: "It's roughly similar to what the villagers said. The villagers said that there was a rumor from the county government that the shopkeeper absconded in fear of crime, and fell off the cliff to die while escaping. But I don't understand, isn't Dunzi just selling money?" Give the medicine to the shopkeeper, isn’t the shopkeeper of the pharmacy just buying his medicine, can this also be counted as a crime?”

Chu Xiaoyun shook his head when he heard the words: "It is not recorded in such detail in the file, it is indeed a mystery."

Yu He also nodded in confusion: "The villagers also said that they didn't know what happened later. Some people found that Dunzi's bones hadn't turned black after several days, and some people suspected that Dunzi died of poisoning. Then the county government sent another officer I went to the autopsy and found that Dunzi died of food poisoning, not poison. It was said that Xiangke food was also found in the food on the table before Dunzi died. Dunzi’s friend didn’t believe it at first, but later passed It was seven days before Dunzi's body turned black, so his friend accepted the reality, and he didn't dare to ask for compensation. He just kept urging Dunzi to be buried in the ground. Dunzi was buried on the tenth day after his death. After Dunzi was buried, the friend He never appeared in Baishui Village again."

"In a case of being poisoned to death, in the end, Dao ended up eating food with opposite attributes and dying. Boss, don't you think this is too strange?" Yu He felt that this matter was particularly absurd.

Chu Xiaoyun nodded: "That's right. If this is the truth, then the co-author of this case committed a serious crime of dereliction of duty. But the file did not mention the punishment for this co-author."

"That's right, how could a full-time office worker of the county government make such a mistake. As a half-baked person like me, I dare say that the inspection would not be so outrageous." Yu He said with a sneer, "It's just unbelievable."

After hearing this, Chu Xiaoyun said after a long while: "This matter seems strange now, but the last page of the dossier was torn up, and we have no way of knowing the original investigators of this case, nor can we find the original author who came here. Ask."

"Ah, that's it. So what should we do now?" Yu He asked in surprise, "I heard about the shopkeeper from the villagers, and according to the description of the pharmacy by the villagers, I rushed to the place where the pharmacy originally opened overnight. Compare and check. But it is a pity that the pharmacy is now a shop dealing in fabrics. The owner said that when he took over the store, he was in the cloth business, and he and the people around him said that they did not recognize the shopkeeper who opened the pharmacy."

"It's no wonder you couldn't come back yesterday before releasing the yamen." Chu Xiaoyun sighed, "After all these years, it's normal not to know each other. For the current plan, we have only one way, and that is to make sure that we will stop now." Could this dead bone in Dunzi's house be Dunzi himself?"

"You mean..." Yu He was a little unsure.

"Open the coffin for an autopsy. Didn't the villagers say that Dunzi's tomb is still there? Let's go and see if there are any bones in the tomb!" Chu Xiaoyun said firmly.