Qin Official

At noon that day, Heifu was already sitting in the county prison office. Together with the two Ling Shi Le and Nu, and the Wei Shi "An Pu" sent by the county captain, he formed a four-person case-solving team to discuss the murder in Liushuli. Case comes.

As for the leader of this crime-solving team, he is naturally the prisoner.

At the county level in Qin State, cases are often handled jointly by the county magistrate and the county jail. The county lieutenant provides armed support, and the county jail provides professional crime-solving personnel, but who has the final say depends on the official position at the scene. Only a few days ago, it happened that because the rural officials in the county captain system were bigger, they led the crime-solving team in the wrong direction.

So at the beginning of today, Xi said bluntly that he does not determine his right to speak based on his official position and title, and everyone can speak freely.

"Gentlemen, I thought that Jingguan was just a cover, and the criminal wanted to deceive us."

Heifu, as the person with the smallest official position and the lowest title present, was very courageous to speak.

First of all, the county right lieutenant supported him and temporarily transferred him to the county to participate in solving the case. You must know that the pavilion chiefs are all working from below, and they are rarely treated so favorably.

Secondly, Heifu has solved major cases in succession since he took office, and his achievements are obvious to all. As for criminal investigation and solving cases, Lian Nu praised Heifu for "knowing the art of making history".

After hearing what Heifu said, Ling Shile, who was opposite him, immediately laughed: "Heifu Pavilion Chief, weren't you the one who discovered that thorn coupon?"

Heifu did not hesitate to admit: "It's true that I discovered it, but after thinking about it, I felt that there were many doubts about the fact that the coupon was found at the murder scene."

"I deeply believe what the pavilion chief said."

Annu, who had been silent for a long time, answered. He had been very angry with Xiangyou Shuwu these days. For the sake of performance, that guy had an unbalanced mentality and wanted to solve the case as soon as possible. He actually ordered the torture and interrogation regardless of Orion's innocence. Then he ignored it and jumped into the trap set by the thieves. He tried to persuade her angrily but in vain for several days.

Then, Heifu explained the suspicious points about the Jing Guan one by one: "First, the time of the crime should be after sunrise. At that time, all the men in the village went to work in the fields, and the female family members also went to deliver meals. The whole place seemed empty. The deceased couple took this opportunity to commit adultery, and the murderer also took advantage of this time to break into the house and kill people. At that time, the deceased may have screamed for help, but no one heard him."

"The murderer killed the deceased in a grand manner. He did not go through the window, but opened the door and left. Since he was so orderly, how could the murderer be so panicked that he dropped the thorn coupon? This is the first doubt."

"Secondly, although merchants are humble, they are often rich. Why would they become murderers and thieves? Just to make money? According to Orion and the family members of the prison gate, some money was indeed missing at the scene, but it did not exceed 600 yuan. , killed someone for these six hundred dollars, and actually gave up eighteen hundred dollars in coupons, there is a conflict between the two, this is the second doubt."

He said happily: "So, do you think this Jing coupon is a forgery? Was it deliberately left at the scene by a thief?"

Heifu said: "Of course, the thief is extremely cunning. He knows that Ling Shi handles the case in detail and strictly. He wants to deliberately lure us into being fooled, so that the government will waste their efforts in tracking down those merchants who sell silk and silk."

He nodded angrily and said: "What Chief Heifuting said makes sense. We were ordered to investigate for many days in the townships, counties and cities, but we could not find the right certificate of this Jing Guan, and there was no record of it at the city official's office. This Jing Guan was not found at all. There is no right certificate, but a forgery, so our work has been in vain. It is impossible to find the culprit through the certificate, so we have to think of other ways."

This case has now reached a bottleneck, but Heifu has no despair. According to the principle of material exchange that he learned in criminal investigation class: if you enter a crime scene, there will definitely be material exchange with the scene, which means that criminal evidence will be left behind. Therefore, perfect crime does not exist.

Although the criminal was very cunning, and even knew how to leave thorn coupons to mislead the government, and had certain anti-reconnaissance capabilities, he was a thief from more than two thousand years ago after all. In Heifu's eyes, he left too many flaws!

The people present were all officers who had investigated many cases, especially Nu and Le. They had felt that the direction of the investigation was wrong these days, so they screened out other evidence and prepared to change the direction.

"Perhaps we can start by looking at the knife used by the murderer!" Heifu and Nu said in unison.

…

Le picked up the murder weapon placed on the case and showed it to everyone. It was a small knife with a handle about a foot long and a slightly protruding spine. The wooden handle was very short, less than two inches. It was wrapped with some linen strips and had a dull color. , the end is an iron ring, has cracked.

As for short weapons these days, the army mainly uses swords, while the civilian population uses both swords and swords. People with a certain status wear long swords, while people with humble status but who like force can only carry short swords like daggers. There are also short swords like this that hang on the waist and shake when walking around, so they are called It's called "shooting the eyebrows".

Wei Shi Anpu questioned: "The county officials and the head of Guizhou are all fond of martial arts. Every year, they will buy weapons for the training of soldiers. It is cheap to take pictures, and the price is only a few dozen yuan. Therefore, everyone has one, and no less than hundreds of people wear it. How can we find this thing?"

"Of course not just with a knife."

Nu also put forward his own thoughts: "According to Li Jianmen's family members, Li Jianmen did go out with a sword, but the sword was found to have been taken away at the scene, leaving only the scabbard."

"The murderer is a smart man. He also knew that if he left with the knife, the blood stains on it would cause trouble, so he abandoned the knife and took the sword, but did not take the scabbard with him. Chief Heifu Pavilion, why do you think this is happening?"

Heifu, who had been listening silently just now, immediately responded: "Because the scabbard has a conspicuous pattern on it, it is too conspicuous to wear on the body."

"Then why do you have to take away the sword?"

"If you only carry the scabbard and the scabbard is empty, you still can't escape the eyes of Ling Shi."

"good."

He nodded angrily: "We have tried it, and the scabbard can just hold the sword. On the contrary, the criminal's scabbard can also put down the sword! In other words, now, the scabbard on the criminal's waist should contain The sword of the Prison Gate!"

"But what if...the murderer threw away the scabbard and sword together?" Wei Shi Anpu was worried. In this case, their direction would be wrong again.

"Is Wei Shi from a school?"

At this time, Xi suddenly spoke. This Anpu was only in his twenties, with fair skin and a family name. It seemed that he had had enough food and clothing since he was a child.

Therefore, he could not understand the thoughts of the poor leaders at the lowest level.

I'm glad that I can tell you about some of the cases he has handled without asking anyone to search the bamboo slips.

"In the seventh year of the present king's reign, I was serving as an official in Yan County. At that time, a robbery occurred in Yan County. The perpetrator was an unworthy Guizhou leader. He robbed a wealthy household in Luyou with a broken bow and a stone, and robbed him of a thousand dollars. The remaining money was filled with clothes. But when he was escaping over the wall, the bow slipped from his shoulder. The Guizhou leader was reluctant to part with the bow, which was not worth thirty coins, so he jumped off the wall to pick it up, and finally picked up the bow. The money fell again. This was repeated twice, which wasted time. Finally, he was caught by the neighbors who came after hearing the news, and he was sent to the official to behead his toes and became the Dan of the City."

"In the twelfth year of this king's reign, I became the warden of Yan County, and I saw with my own eyes a criminal who was captured and sent to prison for the same thing. There was a man who dug a hole into a house and stole his clothes. When he came out, he accidentally dropped the cloth shoes he was wearing. Logically speaking, the cloth shoes cost only twenty yuan. Since the clothes and silk shoes had been stolen, they could be discarded. But the gentleman went back to look for them. , but was caught on the spot by his master, who sent him to be tattooed as Chengdan."

After talking about these two cases, he said happily: "These two thieves are stupid enough, but it's not that they don't know high and low, but they are used to being poor. Even if it's just a straw shoe, they won't be able to part with it. In my opinion, the murderer in this case is also A man from a humble background and a poor family, he wanted to make money after killing people, ransacked the house, and took away hundreds of money. He obviously didn't have to take the sword, but he had to take it. Now that he had the sword, he would not throw it away easily... …”

"What the prisoner said makes sense!"

After listening to the case described by Xi, Wei Shi Anpu no longer had any doubts, stood up and asked for orders: "In that case, I hope that the prisoner will issue a document, I will also go to the county captain to ask for instructions, and immediately arrest all the people wearing swords in the county, and lock them up one by one for examination." , you will definitely gain something!”

Hei Fu heard this and immediately objected: "In this case, the number of arrests will be too many, hundreds of people at times, and the county's jails can no longer accommodate them."

As he spoke, Heifu also glanced at Xi. It had only been a few months since the last incident in Blind Mountain. The blood stains at the market entrance were still fresh in the memory of the county people. If there were another large number of arrests, it would definitely cause panic. If he is not careful, he will force the sword-wearing youths in the county to oppose him.

If this group of people were bewitched and violently resisted arrest, killing officials and fleeing for their lives, the matter would become a big deal.

So he said tactfully: "It's just a robbery and murder case. It won't be so loud and have a bad impact. The county magistrate, county magistrate, and county lieutenant will definitely be in trouble. I think it's better not to make it public and interrogate each one privately. "

Wei Shi Anpu said: "Then you have to ask when. Maybe the criminal was alerted and he ran away."

Heifu smiled at this time: "I have an idea. I can continue to narrow down the group of people who need to be interviewed. Can Xijun let me try it?"

Xi nodded: "Please tell me and listen."

Heifu stood up, came to the center of the hall, smoothed up his lower clothes, pointed to his feet wearing square boat-shaped shoes and said: "To be honest, I can calculate the height of the criminal based on the length of the footprints!"

PS: I got up late, haha