Chapter 27 Noodles with Scallion Oil (4)

It turned out that I wanted to ask about the case of the little prince of Pingxi.

Liu Yuan said "Oh", said hello to Lin Fei and went back to the lobby. Not long after, he came back with a scroll.

In addition to this scroll, he also wrote two words in big words with his pen - Water Ghost.

There are many cases in Dali Temple. If they really wanted to mark each case in detail, there would be countless secret room murder cases with similar techniques. Therefore, they privately chose an easy-to-understand code based on the characteristics of each case.

name.

The case of the little prince of Pingxi County was called the Water Ghost Case.

After the beginning of spring, the nobles in Chang'an City who have been holding back all winter will naturally start their spring outings again.

Boating, fishing, and other activities along the Weishui River were favored by many wealthy and powerful children.

Not long after the spring started, an old man was fishing by the Weishui River. His fishhook was hooked. He thought he had caught a big fish, but he pulled hard and broke the fishhook. He was also called the "big fish" caught by the fishhook.

The "fish" was pulled close. When I saw it, it was not a fish, it was clearly a person! The old man was frightened to death. He cursed and ran to the Chang'an government office to report to the official.

The person who had the accident was the son of a wealthy businessman from out of town.

Originally, the Chang'an government office took over the case directly and did not report it to Dali Temple.

However, this is just the beginning.

Not long after, two more corpses appeared in the Weishui River. One was the son of a wealthy local businessman in Chang'an, and the other was the second son of Liu Bie's family.

So far, three corpses have appeared in the Weishui River.

A few days ago, a fourth body appeared. However, unlike the first three bodies that were found in the river, this body appeared directly in the bathtub on the boat.

The boat was a private ship and belonged to Yushi Zhongcheng Yansan. The person who died in the bathtub was also Yushi Zhongcheng Yansan himself.

At that time, all the slaves and maids on Yan San's private ship were not there, except for Li Yuan, the little prince of Pingxi who had fainted, and his young servant Shuangxi.

Seeing the corpses appearing one after another, the identity of the deceased became more and more "astonishing" each time, and now it was the censor Zhongcheng who died directly. How could the governor of Chang'an handle such a case? Report it to Dali Temple immediately.

Let Dali Temple take over.

The person who took over this case in Dali Temple was Lin Fei. After walking around with the people, Dangjiu brought Li Yuan, the prince of Pingxi County, who had already gone home to rest after saying hello to the governor of Chang'an, and his young servant Shuangxi back to Dali.

The temple imprisoned him.

To be fair, this approach was not bad at all. Yan San died on his private boat, and there was no one on board except Li Yuantong Shuangxi.

According to the normal case handling procedures, these two people were regarded as the biggest suspects and immediately imprisoned. But Li Yuan had a special status. If he wanted to leave, how could the governor of Chang'an stop him?

However, although he did not dare to offend Li Yuan in person, the governor of Chang'an was not confused enough to watch like this. As soon as Li Yuan left, he reported to Dali Temple and asked Dali Temple to stop him.

In fact, the first three corpses shown on Ming Dynasty all appeared in the river, and the last one, Yan San's, died in the bathtub. It doesn't seem to have much to do with it.

Moreover, the first three deceased were still young, all fifteen or sixteen years old, while Yan San was in his mid-thirties, and looked even less like the same family as the first three.

However, the governor of Chang'an obviously didn't want to take on this hot potato, so he made up a reason to group several cases together and sent them to Dali Temple.

"Two days before the first corpse appeared, there were people on the Weishui River worshiping the river god," Liu Yuan said. "In Chang'an, we have this every spring. Some people made it by themselves."

Because it is not a major festival, it has never been recognized by the court, and many locals in Chang'an are unaware of it.

"Something went wrong this year when offering sacrifices to the river god. The gift-giver who was carrying the sacrificial gifts into the river actually drowned when he came up." Liu Yuan said, "Fortunately, there were many people at the time, and they worked together to pull him out.

Come up."

The gift-giver who is chosen to deliver the ritual gift into the river is a first-class expert in water properties. It is unusual for such a person to drown.

"After pulling the man up, I saw that the man's feet were wrapped with knotted water plants. I asked the people who worship the River God every year, and they said that this year the River God was visiting the Dragon King as a guest and was not at home. No.

The river god was in charge, so the water ghost came out and wanted to find someone to be the scapegoat." Liu Yuan said, "Several people died in a row, and the people living by the Weishui River thought it was the water ghost who was causing trouble. I looked at this

The name is special enough and easy to remember, so I used it!"

The reason why the governor of Chang'an pushed him here was also that "water ghosts were causing trouble".

Of course, as officials of Dali Temple, they did not believe that this was a water ghost looking for a scapegoat. The murderer was a human being, not a ghost.

Lin Fei never interrupted Liu Yuan's words until Liu Yuan finished speaking. He also did not mention the water ghost incident. He just asked Liu Yuan: "How is the investigation going on there?"

Liu Yuan hurriedly said "Oh" and said: "I told Lin Shaoqing's words to his wife, and indeed I made a discovery."

As he spoke, he opened the scroll, pointed to the records written by the deceased, and said: "Schisandra chinensis and other kidney-tonifying medicines were found in the stomachs of several deceased people."

Speaking of this, Liu Yuan had a subtle look on his face: "I really can't believe that Yan Zhongcheng, who always looks so polite, can actually... and those young men of fifteen or sixteen years old, how old are they?

At such a young age... tsk tsk!"

The longer you stay in Dali Temple, the more you realize how wonderful the people and things in this world are!

Lin Fei's reaction after hearing this was still calm. He responded lightly and said, "What else?"

Liu Yuan quickly stopped his emotion and continued: "In addition, no algae from the river was found in the stomachs of the first three deceased. Preliminary judgment shows that they were not drowned in the river, but drowned somewhere else.

People got it into the river."

Lin Fei nodded and said to Liu Yuando: "Extract the medicinal materials contained in the medicated bath containing Schisandra chinensis that Yan San took. Find someone to go to the drug store and ask if the people around or himself of the first three deceased people bought this medicine.

Grow medicated bath kits.”

Liu Yuan, who was sighing after hearing this sentence, suddenly became excited and suddenly understood: "Lin Shaoqing is saying that the three people in front were drowned in the same medicinal bath tub as Yan Zhongcheng?"

Lin Fei gave a faint "hmm" and said: "Although the governor of Chang'an was eager to take action and put the deaths of several people together, it seems that he was deceived at the moment."

Yan San's death is indeed very likely to be related to the previous three deceased persons.

But the difference is that the corpses of the first three were moved to the Weishui River, and Yan San obviously didn't have time to move. As for why it was too late to move, thinking of the man who took Shuangxi with his young man to kill Yan San because of the collision.

Li Yuan on the boat.

He thought that this was probably the reason.
Chapter completed!