My Lady Is Not A Demon

From the Yangchun restaurant, it was already around Shen Shizhong (four o'clock in the afternoon).

The sun fell diagonally.

The pale golden light overflowed from the jagged clouds, as if inlaid with a circle of shiny gold edges.

Hu Cat's head was flushed, and he was obviously drunk.

After a frank conversation in the restaurant, his attitude towards Chen Mu changed a lot, and he put his arms around his shoulders and smiled:

"Brother Chen, should we have some fun?"

The so-called fun is nothing more than playing shooting games.

Chen Muwan refused: "It's getting late. It's important to investigate the case first. If I have time in the future, I will take Brother Hu to Ju Chunlou and have a good time."

"That's a deal. I heard that the girls in Ju Chunlou are all first-class."

Hu Catou showed a pure smile that a man only understands.

Zhang Awei came out of the restaurant with a few notes in his hand: "The head of the team has basically asked everyone who can ask, and the shopkeepers in the shop are very cooperative."

"Thanks for your hard work."

I learned from Meng Yanqing that she met Mu Xianger for the first time in this'Yangchun' restaurant.

So Chen Mu easily asked Zhang Awei to make a transcript.

Chen Mu turned over at random and said to Hu Catou: "Brother Hu, what does this Mu Xianger's family do."

Hu Tau sneered: "There is no serious work. When Mu Dahe was not married, he was a bully. After marriage, he did not change his nature, often stealing other people's things, and blackmailing with some local evil forces.

After being detained a few times, I became more honest, but from time to time I did some sneaky activities, or went to the casino. "

Chen Mu frowned: "What about his son?"

"It's not a good thing, just like his father, he became the dogleg of some rich kids at a young age, biting people everywhere."

Hu Toutou ordered a bowl of hangover soup from the stall next to him, and said while drinking.

"Later, Master Zhao was severely punished for almost insulting the Liang family's women, and he almost chopped off that thing. After being released from prison, I worked for a while, went to the dock to work, and also spent three days fishing and two days drying the net."

Chen Mu wrote down the information in his notebook and continued to ask, "Where is Mu Xiang'er's mother?"

"Just an ordinary woman, who has no status in the family, is often beaten by her own husband, and works in the field on weekdays."

"How much do you know about Mu Xianger himself?"

"This girl rarely goes out on weekdays, and she rarely talks to each other. Sometimes she goes out with her mother to do some chores."

Speaking of this, a bit of sadness appeared on Hu Catou’s face.

"Look at Brother Chen, Hu, I am actually a little bit interested in this girl, but I have a yellow face at home. Now this girl is dead, I am still very sad."

"understand."

Chen Mu asked a few more questions before closing the notebook.

Mu Xiang'er's family situation is very different from what he expected, but there is nothing surprising.

After all, such families are very common, not to mention ancient times, even modern ones.

Especially domestic violence.

"Brother Hu, there is one more thing to trouble you."

Chen Mu took out a piece of paper and handed it to the other party, "I want your brothers to make a transcript, mainly for people who come into contact with Mu Dahe's family on weekdays. Just answer these questions on the paper.

In addition, make a copy of the transcript of the people who participated in the fire fighting that day. "

Hu Catou glanced at the question on his eyeballs, seemingly hesitant, and then smiled: "It's a trivial matter, I'll let the brothers do it."

Soon, Hu Coutou summoned more than twenty catchers.

Everyone copied a copy.

Under Chen Mu's careful explanation, the arrests began to look around for people who had contact with Mu Xianger's family to make notes.

Maling County is not big, so finding people is easy.

...

Half an hour later, Chen Mu and the three came to Mu Xianger's residence.

As he had predicted before, the location of Mu Xianger's house was indeed remote, almost surrounded by two low mountains.

There is no water source nearby.

The nearest neighbors must be ten minutes away.

At this time, Mu Xiang'er's home could no longer distinguish the appearance of the house, except for the broken walls and some incomplete wooden beams.

The pungent smoke smell is still strong.

Some furniture only burned the corners and contours, and there were still a few damaged buckets on the ground, which should have been left during the fire fighting.

"They only have this house?"

Chen Mu asked.

Hu Toutou sneered: "Before the court allocated the money, the adults also specially gave them a new house. Who knew that Mu Dahe changed hands and sold it. He took the money to the gambling shop and lost so much, hehe."

I see.

Chen Mu stepped on the scorched earth and carefully observed the burned house.

Hu Catou sighed, "Generally, homicides are rare in such small places, and once homicides occur, it is a major event.

We are not as fast as the arrests in those large places, with the investigating department at the top and the criminal department at the bottom, and the methods are very clever.

It's okay for us to make small cases. If we encounter big cases, it will be a headache.

Especially when this is more than the deadline, no one can be confused. "

Faced with Hu's head catching complaints, Chen Mu also expressed his understanding.

In the Great Yan Dynasty, if a case occurred in a local area, the arrest was given a time limit for solving the case. This is called "comparison."

For small cases, five days are a "comparison", while for major murder cases, three days are a "comparison."

The above will supervise.

After this time limit, the arrest will soon be punished.

The county magistrate will also be reprimanded.

This is why after Mu Dahe's family was burned to death, the Maling County government quickly "solved" the case.

"Brother Hu, how did you infer that this fire was caused by spontaneous combustion of coal?"

Chen Mu asked curiously.

Hu Catou smiled and did not answer, but led Chen Mu up to a low mountain on the right.

What you see is a devastated coal field.

There are a lot of broken cinders scattered on the ground.

Hu said, "This was a mining coal mine. It was abandoned five years ago. After being filled by the government, it was ignored. There was a spontaneous combustion of coal in March last year. It was extinguished by my brothers and myself. of……"

Hu Catou pointed to a landslide covered by sand and said:

"After the fire broke out that day, I noticed that there was smoke coming from here, so I went up to check it, and I saw that coal was spontaneously combusting again."

Chen Mu walked to the edge of the cave and gently placed his palm on the ground.

Can feel the obvious heat.

It shows that this place has indeed been burned.

But when he looked around at his surroundings, he frowned. Poke the sand on the ground with his hand, looking at the exposed weathered inferior carbon stone, he fell into thought.

Hu Toutou continued: "Mudahe's house happened to be located at the bottom of the mountain. A lot of coal ash and slag were found around the haystacks.

So I guess that the wind assisted that day that caused this accidental fire...

Of course I didn't know that Mu Xiang'er was dead at that time. "

Chen Mu patted his hands on the sand, stood up and smiled: "Brother Hu's ability to judge cases is still very strong, and he may not have such insight when he is replaced by other catchers."

This flattering is very useful.

The smile is also blooming like a chrysanthemum.

"So Brother Chen also thinks it was an accidental fire caused by spontaneous combustion of coal?"

However, Chen Mu shook his head slightly: "On the contrary, I think the fire at Mu Dahe's house was caused by man, and... the spontaneous combustion of coal and rock you saw was also caused by man deliberately!"

As soon as he said this, Hu Catou's smile froze on his face.

"How did you judge?"

It wasn't just a head catcher who asked this, but a sweet and indifferent woman's voice.

I don't know when, there is a woman beside Chen Mu.

Like a ghost.

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