Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Guo Shao was on his way to Tokyo when he heard a report that a suspicious corpse was found on Ruzhou Road. Wang Pu and others escorted the criminal Li Mazi to identify the corpse. Guo Shao immediately rushed to the place with his people.

They rode fast horses, and they arrived earlier than Wang Pu and others. He saw a green-robed county magistrate and a group of servants in the woods. Guo Shao rode his horse and saw a pit in the woods. New soil had been dug out beside it, and a corpse covered in mud had been dug out.

Then I heard a kneeling farmer say: "Because the grass-roots people were delayed going to the neighboring village, they came home in the dark last night. I passed here... Then I saw a lamp on the road, and one of them smashed something."

"Have you seen what that man looks like?"

The farmer said: "In the middle of the night, how could the grass people dare to look forward? They hid in the grass and did not dare to come out. They thought to themselves to wait for him to leave before returning home. Early this morning, I thought something was wrong, so I went to the forest here to find out what happened. I saw a place covered by a tree branch with newly dug soil. I wanted to know what was buried. When I dug it up, I found a dead person. I went to the village to report to the elders..."

Guo Shao looked at the corpse, ten strong men, the skin on the head was discolored and damaged in many places. The worker was cleaning the coagulated blood and the dirt on the head of the corpse. Because the farmer said that he saw movement on the road in the middle of the night last night, Guo Shao had to guess that this person might be Li Xia'er; but he didn't know Li Xia'er, so he had to wait for Wang Pu and others to bring Li Mazi up to identify the body.

Later in the evening, Wang Pu and others arrived and told Li Mazi to recognize it, and it was indeed Li Xia'er.

An official confirmed: "This person is very important, you read that right?"

Li Mazi said: "I've known him for a few months, he looks good, I don't look at the face, but I can recognize him seventy-eight percent from the back."

Wang Pudao looked at the corpse and said, "It's been collected and transported back to Kaifeng Mansion for a detailed autopsy."

Seeing that Guo Shao was also here, he walked over. Guo Shao didn't shy away from it either. He was originally intended to be assassinated, so it's human nature to show concern about the progress of the case. Immediately salute to Wang Pu.

Wang Pu said: "Obviously he was murdered and silenced."

Guo Shaobai said: "Vice Envoy Wang's words are very true, I'm afraid it's true. But when I looked closely, the man's head was covered with scars and seemed to be poisoned, but his face was not completely changed. After cleaning up, he could still see his face. Just ask the painter to take a portrait of the corpse, but it looks more similar than listening to Li Mazi's dictation."

Wang Pu nodded in agreement.

Seeing that they couldn't make it back to Tokyo tonight, they went to a neighboring county to spend the night. The important witness, Li Mazi, would naturally be under strict surveillance, and even Guo Shao sent some personal soldiers to set up guards nearby in rotation.

Now that this matter has been handed over to Wang Pu, and it is handled by various departments of the Kaifeng Prefecture, Guo Shao is inconvenient to intervene directly. After all, he is only a general of the Imperial Army, and handling cases is not his job. Wang Pu is the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and he does not handle the case, but because this matter involves a general, he was sent by the emperor to preside over the various divisions.

Guo Shao had never been a policeman or a civil servant in ancient times, but even so, as a person with no experience in handling cases, he felt that if he could fully investigate this case, it would be a piece of cake...to control and investigate the places where the deceased Li Xiaer was active, and to find out his interpersonal relationship...and he already suspected that Li Xiaer often went to Zhao's house and used the servants of Zhao's house to identify Li Xiaer's appearance;

It can basically be determined that the main culprit in this case is Li Xia'er; then the relationship between Li Xia'er and Zhao San will be cleared up. Even if the case is not ironclad, Zhao San's dislike is obviously the greatest... Detaining and interrogating the most suspected suspects is a necessary method no matter in the past or present, and it may be difficult for Zhao San to justify.

Zhao San may be able to argue that although Li Xiaer has a relationship with him, he cannot prove that Zhao San is the chief envoy; but such sophistry is useless. During the interrogation, he must be asked where he was last night and what evidence of his alibi... There are other methods.

Believe it or not, Guo Shao is now sure that Zhao San is the mastermind! According to the motive of committing the crime, only Li Chongjin and Zhao San were the only ones who might have gone to such lengths; but there was no credible clue that Li Chongjin was related to this... On the contrary, there are countless clues related to Zhao San!

What else is there to say about this |mother|?

But in some cases, the key is not how to investigate, whether you have the ability to investigate cases... but whether people let you investigate. Zhao Kuangyin's family, unless the emperor approves, who would dare to search and take people from the house of the commander of the capital in front of the temple?

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Zhao San rushed back to Tokyo alone, and on his way home he passed the Dongshi North intersection, and saw that the building owned by Li Xiaer was full of government servants. Zhao San didn't dare to get closer to see what happened, so he hurried home.

When he returned home, he felt that the situation was calm, and it seemed that the matter had not yet affected Zhao's residence.

But in the calm scene, Zhao San was also very worried and fearful, feeling extremely depressed. When he walked to the hall of the inner courtyard, he suddenly saw the spirit tablet of the He family on the table, and he was shocked again. This woman had a bad relationship with Zhao San in his lifetime, and at this moment, Zhao San felt hairy when he saw her token. Zhao San hurriedly backed out from the gate again. Accidentally kicked on the threshold, he staggered and almost fell.

The words on the spirit card seemed to have turned into a human face, looking at him coldly and smiling.

Zhao San hurriedly fled back to his house in the front yard, thinking to himself: quickly let this matter go! I dare not in the future, I was wrong...

Apart from fear, he was also very angry, inexplicably angry. Later, he began to think about the cause and effect of the incident. He kept thinking about asking him to eat at night, and his heart was already turbulent, and a series of things came and went many times.

Zhao San didn't sleep well at night, both disturbed and worried.

Even in the morning, he didn't go out, always feeling that his home was safe. The second brother is so powerful, as long as he is under the halo of the second brother, Zhao San will live in peace.

At this moment, the servant suddenly heard a report: "A thief was caught this morning! He stole food in the kitchen last night, but he thought he didn't get any money, so he hid in the firewood room and wanted to strike again! Unexpectedly, we caught him right away."

Zhao San waved his hand and said, "Why bother me with such things?"

The servant said: "Ah Lang and Er Lang went straight up...how to deal with this thief, you guys have to ask first. Or report to the old lady."

"Don't bother my mother." Zhao Sandao, he suddenly turned around, "The thief is hiding in the woodshed, and still stays in the daytime? How did he get into the yard?"

The servant said: "The villain is not very clear.

"Follow me to have a look." Zhao San stepped out of the door first. When they reached the side courtyard, they saw two servants inside and outside the firewood room watching. When Zhao San walked into the woodshed, he saw an old man tied backwards by a hemp rope to a bundle of firewood.

Zhao San sized him up, waved his hand and said, "Stay outside, I'll interrogate him first."

"Yes." The servants obediently left the woodshed.

Zhao San asked, "What's your name?"

The old man with a lot of flowers replied: "My surname is Dong, and my name is Dong Wajiang... I came in to steal some food because I was too hungry. I offended the nobleman. I beg you to beat me up and don't report to the official. I will never dare to come again next time!"

"Report to the official?" Zhao San frowned, and suddenly said in a deep voice, "Do you know Guo Shao?"

The old man thought for a while, then nodded: "I see that your family is also a family of officials, and Guo Shao is also an official! I used to be a servant in Guo's mansion, and I was kicked out."

Zhao San's face became colder, and he sneered, "How did you get kicked out?"

The old man said embarrassingly: "I also stole some money from his family. But Guo Shao was kind to others, took in my daughter, and sent me a lot of money... At first, I was thinking about using this money to do a small business to make a living. But thinking that there is still more money, I ate and drank first, and saw the young women in the market who spent some money. It is easy to spend money, but difficult to stop. In the end, it is impossible to stop spending nothing, hey."

Zhao San frowned and remained silent.

The old man said: "I'm telling the truth every sentence, if you don't believe me, send someone to Guo Shao's house to ask."

Zhao San said coldly: "What do you ask? Did you stay in Guo Shao's house, or did you get kicked out by the master, or did your daughter work as a slave in Guo's house?"

Dong Wajiang looked puzzled, as if he didn't understand what Zhao San was talking about.

Angry and frightened, Zhao San looked down and saw a ball of sackcloth fell on the ground, picked it up, pinched Dong Wajiang's mouth, and stuffed the burlap ball into it. Then he held down the cloth in Dong Wajiang's mouth with one hand, and grabbed his nose with the other and pinched it.

Dong Wajiang immediately struggled, but he couldn't move. His eyes widened, and his legs kicked desperately on the ground.

After a while, the old man stopped moving. When Zhao San looked at him, he saw that his eyes were wide open, but the eyes had changed color. This person's breathing was really strange, and as soon as he lost his breath, his eyes were completely different.

Zhao San stretched out his hand to wipe, but the eyelids could not be wiped off, and the eyes were still staring.

He gave up, and it didn't feel like killing a lot of people at all, but Zhao San felt that he seemed too cold-blooded, as if he had a lot of experience in killing people. He pulled out the cloth from Dong Wajiang's mouth and threw it away, and saw the stolen wheat cakes and other food beside him.

Zhao San immediately grabbed a few wheat cakes and a handful of pickles, walked up to Dong Wajiang, stuffed them into his wide open mouth, and cursed, "I tell you to steal, I tell you to eat, eat as much as you want!"

After cursing for a while, he threw away the rest of the food in his hand, turned around and opened the door and said, "Bring water, the thief is choking."

The servant came into the room to have a look, and hurriedly said, "No, he's dead."

Zhao San turned around in astonishment, stepped forward, stretched out his hand to touch Dong Wajiang's nose, and said in a daze, "I'm really dead... I've become a stuffed ghost."

The servant turned pale and said, "What should I do? Do you want to report to the officials?"

Zhao Sandao: "A thief in ragged clothes, report to some official, take a car out of the city gate, and throw it on the side of the road."

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Competing for the September monthly ticket list last night, successfully entered the top three! There are a lot of book friends who participated, and this result is the accumulation of everyone's strength bit by bit. Thank you for the book friends who rewarded and voted last night!

I was too tired last night to break out today, but I started to keep it up until the weekend. Try to update chapter 4 tomorrow. (Both orders are less than 2000, which is not yet the conditions for the daily 3 updates I promised)

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