Travel to ancient times to be a fast catcher

Chapter 109

On the second day when they went to the yamen, Chu Xiaoyun brought Su Wen to the county yamen, and Yu He greeted him. Chu Xiaoyun arranged another morning drill for the police leader, and said to Yu He: "Talk while eating."

The three of them felt the dining room, and asked the cook to serve them breakfast first, and talked while eating.

Yu Hedao: "Yesterday I went to Baishui Village to gain a lot. After I left Baishui Village, I went to other places to investigate, so I came back late.

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"Okay." Yu He replied seriously, talking about his investigation results in Baishui, "I went to the village chief and asked him to organize people of different ages who had reached the age of 7 years in the village seventeen years ago to come. Asking, I learned that in the accidental eating case, the first person who discovered the deceased was not a villager, but a refugee friend of the deceased..." "Who was the

first to discover the body of the deceased?" Yu He looked at the person who came to ask questions A dozen or so villagers asked.

"It was also found by someone who fled from the north."

"A resident from another village found it."

"My friend Dunzi found it."

The villagers chattered.

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"Who is Dunzi?" Yu He asked, rubbing his temples.

The villagers looked at each other, and some of the older villagers said, "It's that dead fellow from a foreign country. The big guys call him Dunzi, but I can't remember what his name was."

"Oh." Yu He nodded, and finally figured out after a long time that the villagers said "the one who fled from the north", "a guest from another village", and "Dunzi's friend" were all referring to the same person. It is a good friend who escaped from the north with Dunzi and came here, a good friend Dunzi met on the way to escape.

"People in your village, how come no one finds out that someone is dead?" Yu He asked the opposite villager who was invited to talk.

The villagers chattered again and again, and Yu He had a headache from the noise, so let them speak slowly one by one. But this is a waste of time, and because many people are too old, they can't speak a word for a long time; In the end, Yu He didn't know what to do, and asked them to choose someone who was a bit organized and could speak well to answer his question. Whether you agree with the content of what he said or not, other people can express their opinions after that person has finished speaking. If there are omissions in what that person said, others will add.

An older man, quite prestigious among the villagers, and more eloquent, was elected by the group of villagers and replied: "Hey, you house arresters have also seen that Dunzi lives far away from the big guys. He said he lived in our village, but in fact it was already on the edge of the village. Before he moved here, it was considered out of the village. Dunzi is usually very shy. I didn't get close to anyone, and the big guy didn't have much contact with him. Besides, it was always raining at that time. Unless it was unavoidable, the big guy seldom went out to work, and he couldn't pass by his house. How could he find out? If He raised animals, and when people died, those animals screamed a few times without being fed and hungry, so maybe he could know a thing or two. He didn't raise any animals, even if he passed by his house, he didn't make any noise. No one knows!"

"Yes, yes."

"That's the way it is."

After the old man finished speaking, the rest of the villagers who were invited to ask questions also nodded in agreement.

"Then after he found out that Dunzi was dead, how did you know?" Yu He asked again.

"When he found that Dunzi was dead, he ran into the village crying and shouting, 'Dead man, dead man...' People in the village heard that something happened in the village, and all the men and big guys in the village were holding bamboo hats and wearing Coir raincoat and umbrella, went out to Dunzi's house to see what was going on. When I arrived at Dunzi's house, I found that the person was indeed dead. He fell down in the kitchen, bleeding from all seven orifices, and his face was so rotten that he couldn't see clearly. It seemed that he had died several times. Oh my god.

Yu He frowned after hearing this and thought for a while: "Since the face can't be seen clearly, how do you know that person is Dunzi? "

Villagers, look at me and look at you. After communicating with everyone, the old man replied: "The clothes he wears are Dunzi's clothes. Dunzi is a foreigner who fled from a refugee, and he is not rich. He only needs two clothes for washing. We saw him wear it out to work. Besides, looking at the figure, it can be seen that they are all so burly and unmistakable. Dunzi is about eight feet tall. In our village, even in Hejing County, there are very few people of this height, and you can't forget it at a glance. "

The old man said with certainty.

"Boss, have you read the file? It should have records of the deceased's height and other characteristics. Is the mound eight feet tall?" "Yu He asked.

Hearing Yu He's question, Chu Xiaoyun stopped the spoon in his hand and recalled the relevant records in the dossier for a moment. The deceased was converted into a modern person with a height of about 180, and his body length was eight feet. According to Dacheng's weights and measures, he converted it into a modern length , should be around 190. It is slightly different from the height described by the villagers.

Chu Xiaoyun shared the records in the dossier with Yu He: "But what the villagers said makes sense. Hejing County is located in the south of the Central Plains, and the height of people here is They are generally not tall, and even if they are tall, they are not big enough..."

Yu He looked at Chu Xiaoyun and said with a smile: "Is it like you, boss? "

"Stop talking..." Chu Xiaoyun scolded with a smile, "If you meet a person whose height is close to eight feet, and who is relatively burly, he will feel tall, and the error of eight feet is within the acceptable range." "

Yu He put away the hippie smile just now, and continued to talk about the investigation findings in Baishui Village.

"And then? You went to the Yamen to report to the officials?" Yu He asked.

The villagers were a little embarrassed to hear this question, and in the end it was the old man who was elected to answer the question: "Dunzi, that friend in distress, if you cry enough, you will ask us why no one found out about Dunzi's accident, did we murder him, and threatened to report it to the Yamen?" Officials, sue our villagers for poisoning foreigners who live here, against the imperial court's laws and regulations. How can we ordinary people bear such a big hat, for fear that he will report nonsense to the officials? Our villagers are the former old village chief. Under the auspices, a few young men in the village who are strong, literate and able to speak have been sent to the Yamen to report to the officials." Seeing

Yu He's bewildered expression, the old man explained: "Young man, you may not understand that fellow sufferer of Dunzi. What I said. Twenty years ago, the Hu people always harassed our border. Our court couldn't bear it. Didn't we fight with the Hu people in the north at the border? After that, many ordinary people in the north fled to our Central Plains. The court ordered that all Settle the refugees, don't cause riots. So at that time, every village had the task of resettling the refugees. Our Baishui Village was too poor, and the refugees didn't want to come, so only Dunzi came. The county government gave a part of the house in Dunzi If the money is not enough, the big guys in the village raised funds to build it for him."

Hearing this, Chu Xiaoyun understood. In the previous life, there were various relocations and resettlements in the modern society, all of which were government tasks. If they were not handled properly, it would easily lead to group confrontation, so those villagers were more afraid of the words of that friend in distress, Dunzi. From this point of view, not only modern society, even in ancient times, has the imprint of the times. For example, Yu He, who is about the same age as himself, can't understand the language of the old man's time.

"That's why the villagers of Baishui Village went to the Yamen to report to the officials first, in order not to be accused of being against the imperial court." Chu Xiaoyun said.

"That's right." Yu He drank the porridge in the bowl and said, "It doesn't seem to be completely like this. Because the villagers said that Dunzi's friend in distress said that if he didn't sue the government, he would have to pay him a large sum of money." A penny of money. The people in Baishui Village were poor and could not come up with so much money, and they were afraid that there would be endless troubles after using the money to solve the matter. Under the auspices of the old village chief at the time, they decided to take the initiative to report to the government and let the government make a decision." "Then the

yamen So they sent a policeman to Baishui Village with Wu Zuo to investigate the case. The villagers said that the autopsy result of Wu Zuo was that Dunzi was poisoned to death. According to his usual behavior, Dunzi didn't seem like a suicidal person. It can be concluded that it was homicide. Dunzi's friend became even more excited when he heard this conclusion, and clamored that the villagers must pay Dunzi justice and pay compensation." "

Because it involved refugees, the yamen also wanted to calm things down. But every penny of the yamen There must be a reason for the money in and out, and if the money is taken by the yamen, it must be recorded. Once it is submitted, it means that the local parents and officials are not managing well. Isn't this a self-destructive thing? The money is not easy for the yamen to take. I just thought that the person died in Baishui Village, and asked the villagers to pay the money. The villagers said that they hadn't done anything, and the other party's asking price was too high, so they couldn't accept this condition, and then several parties started a tug-of-war. The villagers probably meant this Well, this case can't go on, it can't be closed. So the county government has no choice but to step up the investigation of the case..."

Chu Xiaoyun nodded: "The county government just wants to find someone who can pay the money ..."

Yu He chuckled, and his tone was quite eager to get approval: "Boss, do you also think this is the meaning?"

Chu Xiaoyun said: "It's hard to say the real situation, but it sounds a bit like this at present. This unconfirmed Let's not talk about things, but then we found the pharmacy where Dunzi often sells medicine?"

Yu He was quite surprised: "Yes, boss, why do you know everything?"

Then he suddenly realized: "Is it written in the files? ?"

Chu Xiaoyun said: "Yes. It is said that when the arresting house was arresting the shopkeeper of the pharmacy, the shopkeeper stumbled and fell to the cliff and died. Later, it was found that Dunzi's bones had not changed color, so he re-investigated the case and found that Dunzi was not killed by poison, but by food. Killed each other."

Yu He nodded: "It's roughly similar to what the villagers said. The villagers said that there was a rumor from the county government that the shopkeeper absconded in fear of crime, and fell off the cliff to death while escaping. But I don't understand. , Isn't Dunzi just selling medicine to the shopkeeper, and isn't the shopkeeper of the pharmacy just buying his medicine, can this be considered a crime?"

Chu Xiaoyun shook his head when he heard the words: "There is no such detailed record in the file, this is indeed a mystery. "

Yu He also nodded in confusion: "The villagers also said that they didn't know what happened later. Some people found that Dunzi's bones hadn't turned black after several days, and some people suspected that Dunzi didn't die from poisoning. Then the county government sent Wu Zuo went to the autopsy, and found that Dunzi died of food poisoning, not poison. It was said that Xiangke food was also found in the food on the table before Dunzi died. Dunzi's friend didn't believe it at first, but later on After seven days, Dunzi's bones had not turned black, so his friend accepted the reality, and did not dare to ask for compensation, but kept urging Dunzi to be buried in the ground. Dunzi was buried on the tenth day after his death. After Dunzi was buried, the My friend never appeared in Baishui Village again."

"A case of poisoning and death, in the end, he died by eating food with similar attributes. Boss, don't you think this is too strange?" Yu Yu Crane felt that this matter was particularly absurd.

Chu Xiaoyun nodded: "That's right. If this is the truth, then the coordinator in this case has committed a serious crime of dereliction of duty. But there is no mention of punishment for this coordinator in the file." "Yes, a county government

office How could I make such a mistake as a full-time assistant. As a half-baked person like me, I dare say that I wouldn't make such an outrageous test." Yu He laughed all the way, "It's just unbelievable."

After hearing this, Chu Xiaoyun said after a long while: "This matter seems strange now, but the last page of the dossier was torn up, and we have no way of knowing the original investigators of this case, nor can we find the original author who came here. Ask."

"Ah, that's it. So what should we do now?" Yu He asked in surprise, "I heard about the shopkeeper from the villagers, and according to the description of the pharmacy by the villagers, I rushed to the pharmacy overnight Compare and check the place where the store was originally opened. Unfortunately, the pharmacy is now a fabric store. The owner said that when he took over the store, he was in the fabric business. He and the people around him said that they did not recognize the original pharmacy. That shopkeeper."

"No wonder you couldn't come back yesterday before releasing the Yamen." Chu Xiaoyun sighed, "After all these years, it's normal not to know each other. For the current plan, we have only one way, and that is Let's make sure that the dead bone that is parked in Dunzi's house is actually Dunzi himself." "

You mean..." Yu He was a little unsure.

"Open the coffin for an autopsy. Didn't the villagers say that Dunzi's tomb is still there? Let's go and see if there are any bones in the tomb!" Chu Xiaoyun said firmly.