After Master Pei finished speaking, he left in a hurry.A few people left to look at each other.Jingzhao Mansion came to send the cases to two young men with unfamiliar faces. After exchanging a few words of pleasantries, they parted ways.

After getting the case file, Gao Xinli acted like an ordinary Shuling (official position, one level lower than An Shaohua's), holding the case file and taking a step back to walk beside An Shaohua, babbling where others didn't pay attention.

Didn't Xiaoyulou say that she hired a coachman for one or two renminbi?According to her own statement, the price was negotiated that morning.

Xiaoyulou first went to a carriage dealer, and there were quite a few carriages, but the cheap ones were not cheap, and the ones that looked cheap were not cheap.In the end, I picked a car that looked bright on the outside, but was quite dilapidated on the inside. It cost one, two or five dollars.After Xiaoyulou came out, a coachman followed her and said that he had a car that he could rent to her cheaply. After looking at the car, it was more stylish than the one that cost one, two or five dollars. The horse was pure black with a pinch on its right hind hoof. white hair.Xiao Yulou remembered the horse, but didn't remember what the coachman looked like. He only said that his hair seemed to be all white, covering his face in a mess, and he only kept his head up.Xiao Yulou also specifically said that the coachman should clean up the car before leaving the car.

The two finally agreed on one or two money.Because it was a price that had already been negotiated, after she went back, she asked the maid to find an ordinary purse, and filled it with a tael or two of broken silver.A total of eight yuan, the largest one is about three yuan, two yuan for two yuan, and five yuan for one yuan.When the driver came to pick her up in the afternoon, he asked her to pay first, and she took a special look at it. It was pink, no embroidery, no logo, and it didn't look fancy. The usual purse was not worth much, so Xiaoyulou even gave the purse and silver to the coachman.

The coachman has not been found yet.I did find the carriage she had been to, but the carriages in that carriage belonged to the carriage. Three of them were rented out on the afternoon of the day of the incident, and each of them had a definite destination. There was more than one witness, and they did not go to the suburbs of Beijing. of.I also checked the nearby carriage and horse dealers, but there was no such dark horse.Therefore, the coachman and the carriage cannot be traced.

The guards at the city gate didn't remember either. After all, there were so many cars entering and leaving the city gate every day. Compared with the carriages of those small households, that one looked a bit bigger, and it was no different from the carriages of noble families Than, there is nothing special about it.So... Gao Xinli pouted as he spoke.

When Jingzhao Mansion was alarmed by the appearance in front of the Jingzhao Mansion, and then people from Jingzhao Mansion came to Zhuangzi, it was already dark.All those who were panting on Zhuangzi were arrested and interrogated overnight.

During the course of the incident, the confession was still very consistent.

Xiao Yulou said that there were four suspects, but he was only impressed by two of them, and he also cooperated with the artist to draw portraits.

That Zhuangzi had a total of four nursing homes, three died and only one remained.The nursing home said that the four suspects entered Zhuangzi in broad daylight, rushed in without saying a word, and those who blocked them died, and they didn't look at anyone who didn't stop them or call for help.About two quarters of an hour later, Xiao Yulou came in with two servant girls.That Zhuangzi didn't have many people, and now there are only three or four people who can talk, but they all agree that the four male suspects didn't rob money or sex in the beginning, and they didn't block the way or shout. No matter, these survivors are hiding.The murderer went straight to the outer room, and the two maids who served the outer room, one woman, died defending the master.When Xiaoyu's main servants went in and what they did, they don't remember.Therefore, Xiao Yulou's statement that she did not know the murderer and that she was ruined by the murderer was all her family's opinion.

The painter also followed the surviving people on Zhuangzi to draw portraits of the four suspects, basically no difference.The figures, appearances, and accents of the four people were determined. Early the next morning, that is, yesterday morning, the sea arrest papers were completed, and after the procedures were completed, they were brought to the Secretary of the Ministry of Criminal Justice in the afternoon (see the author's words for details. ), ready to send out today.

"Have you posted it? Why haven't I seen it?" An Shaohua wondered.I came all the way by myself, but I didn't see the sea arrest document.

"No." Gao Xinli took a sip of water.

Last night, that is, the second day after the crime happened, on the night of February [-], a watchman in Fulefang heard a strange noise from a house at the second watch, but he didn't take it to heart.At the time of the fourth watch, which was the quietest time, the watchman passed by the door of this house again, but saw that the door was open with a palm-width gap.

The watchman felt something was wrong, so he went to the head of Li Fang, and the head of Li Fang took a few men from his family, and followed the watchman to this house, when he walked to the door, he heard the screams of someone inside, and a group of people went to the house. Hulala rushed in.

After entering, the house smelled of blood.Someone wanted to run away from the door, and everyone jumped up and held it down. When the lights were turned on, they found that the person who was caught was a habitual thief in his 40s and [-]s. There were five dead people in the house, four men and one woman. .There are four out of fifty square heads here, and they have been on the battlefield when they were young, so they can still hold the scene.He knew that this was a big case, so he immediately reported it to the police with a token.

At first, this case went back to the patrol case on South [-]th Street of Jingzhao Mansion, and the stolen goods were seized. Apart from some scattered silver taels, the habitual thief also had an ingot of ten taels of gold.

"Twelve taels of gold?"

Gao Xinli looked through the case file, and soon found it in the evidence column, ten taels of gold, the official silver supervised by the Jingzhao Mansion in the 35th year of Kailong.

An Shaohua thought in his heart that official banks are usually made once or twice a year, and the quantity varies slightly according to the annual production of that year.Last year's official bank, I vaguely remember that it was only built once, and the time should be around the time of the winter festival.Most of them should have rewarded nobles and meritorious officials. At the end of last year, the eldest brother Shaoguang returned to Beijing to report on his work. Today, he stayed for dinner and rewarded the elder brother with 50 taels of gold.

The patrol on South [-]th Street of Jingzhao Mansion originally thought that since the case was caught on the spot, they didn't pay much attention to it.The body was taken to Yizhuang, and the habitual thief took it for interrogation as a murderer. Probably because of so many witnesses, there was no deviation, so I didn't examine it carefully.After hastily going through the procedure, he waited for the review safely.Unexpectedly, at dawn, the four sea arrest documents were received.

"Sea arrest documents?" An Shaohua was suspicious, "Could it be..."

Gao Xinli met An Shaohua's eyes and opened the case file.The sea arrest document was put together with Wu's autopsy record.

The five dead were four men and one woman. These four men were exactly the four murder suspects in the Zhuangzi of Hou Jingjing's Mansion.This woman is Xiaoyulou's personal maid.Didn't you just say that Xiaoyulou has two maids? This is the older one.The little one on February [-] had already died in Zhuangzi at the time of the incident.

The four male victims were all poisoned to death, and all had stab wounds on their necks.Gao Xinli said, pointing to the autopsy record written by Wu, and explained in detail to the picture on it.The knife in the neck, the bone can be seen deep, it guarantees that the person is completely dead, and the dead can't die again.The knife wiping her neck was finally found under the table, and the bloody fingerprints matched the bloodstains on the dead woman's hand.The dead woman was killed by being hit in the back of the head. The murder weapon was in the courtyard. It was a stone used for pickling vegetables.

The five deceased died at about the same time, probably between the second watch and the third watch.There were too many people on the scene, and there was a fight when the habitual thief was caught.Footprints and bloodstains are all in a mess, so there are not many that can be used as evidence in court.However, after a short investigation, the suspicion of the habitual thief was ruled out.

As Gao Xinli said, he turned the case file to a place and pointed it to An Shaohua.

The habitual thief said that he was spending time in the gambling house that night, and that gambling house was in charge of a meal on the second day of the day, and he ate there until he was full.He went to the casino to find a "white chicken" to kill, but he didn't find one.He didn't have any money to gamble, so he wandered out of the casino, and it was about a quarter of an hour after the second watch.

Baiji is a slang word for pickpocketing, and it refers to those single rich men who seem to be ignorant of the world, especially those who are well-dressed, have no one to follow, and some avoid people.Like those young masters who played truant from the academy, the ladies without guards, especially the rich children who seemed to have something on their minds.This kind of people are stupid and have a lot of money, and they can't react for a while when they are stolen, and those who react generally don't dare to speak up.

This habit stole not far from the gambling house, and met a white chicken.He was wearing a dark suit and had nothing on.He looks about forty, but his hair is all white, and he lowers his head to avoid people hurrying.In the words of that habitual thief, "It's the first time a young child who has done bad things at first glance, for fear that others will recognize him."I used to follow a few steps stealthily, relying on my familiarity with alleys and dark alleys, I went to a place where there were no lights and no lights to strike.I didn't expect this single business to be very rewarding.He touched a purse on this man, which contained a few scattered pieces of silver.This habitual thief is a cunning head. At first he said that it was three or four yuan, a total of three or four yuan. After a bit of trouble, he said that seven or eight pieces of silver were more than one or two pieces of silver. There was also a piece of jade. I don’t remember what it looked like. very expensive.

This habit got the money secretly, threw away the purse, turned around and went to the gambling house to try his luck, who knew that his luck was not very good, after trying the water a few times, he could only lose but not win, so he didn't want to fight.He exchanged that jade for five taels of silver, and deliberately turned it into broken silver, and then prepared to go home.

Passing by a tavern when leaving, the little widow who opened the tavern smiled at him for the first time.The habitual thief followed in dazedly, had some wine, and ordered a plate of peanuts.When the widow was serving wine, he tipped a small piece of silver and touched her hand.The widow took the silver and touched his face, making him so beautiful.

Gambling shop, tavern, at these two points of time, there are witnesses among the staff and regular customers, and there is no way to fake it.

Habitually left the tavern, he heard the watchman beating the fourth watch's clapper.Seeing the watchman walking around the door of a house and then leaving, the habitual thief took a closer look and found that the door of this house was not closed.I was used to stealing and thought that this family was doing something shameful, maybe it was a scandalous thing like stealing people, so I didn't close the door because I was afraid of alarming others.After he entered the house, he groped around where most people hid their private houses. He found a cloth bag behind the water urn in the courtyard. The bag was heavy. , and did not open it directly into the bosom.Turn around and want to leave.

When he turned around, he saw that the door of the main room was wide open. You must know how cold it is at night in February, and the door was open in the middle of the night. The thief became curious and wanted to take a look. Who knew that the room was full of dead people at a glance. .

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The author has something to say:

There are four divisions under the Ministry of Punishment, which are the Division of the Ministry of Punishment, the Division of Dusu, the Division of Bibu and the Division of Simen.This is copied by imitating Mingqing's settings.Simensi is in charge of gates, bridges, ferries, bans on chariot roads and repairs and changes of roads and bridges.I wanted to link the sea arrest document with the Ministry of Punishment, so I thought of Simensi.Don't worry about it~

Old Wei was too lazy to write the terms of reference of the other three divisions, and it was not important anyway.Maybe I'll mention it in passing when I get to it.

An Shaohua and Gao Xinli belonged to the Department of Criminal Affairs, which was in charge of the detailed review and restoration of official ranks and rehabilitating unjust cases.

The Lifang system in this article is derived from Tang Changan's Lifang system.Not as strict as (absolutely, yes, no, yes) the Tang Dynasty.In the Lifang system of the Tang Dynasty, those who were not allowed to wander the streets at night, let alone wandering in other squares, would be beaten to death on the spot.There is also a record in the history books that "the Chinese envoy Guo Limin got drunk and spent the night, and killed him with a stick".Officials will be killed if they don't go home in the middle of the night, let alone civilians.

But this is a novel after all, and it’s still a fiction. I used the security system of the Lifang system, but I don’t need such a strict management system, otherwise I’m not allowed to go out at night... It’s so difficult to unfold.

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