Chapter 175 Fish Case

At this time, Huan Zhen and Yuan Yanshu rode their horses to the road in front of the courtyard and stopped. They each carried two black fish and blue fish more than two feet long in their hands, and their hair was tied casually down from their backs to their waists.

, wet hair dripping all the way, plus the loess from the galloping horseshoes, it was so dirty that it was almost impossible to see.

Wang Yun ran out and said in surprise: "Wow, what a big fish. Brother Huan, Brother Yuan are really capable!"

Huan Zhen smiled: "Count the time and bring an urn to cook the fish, a bigger urn."

"Yes. Thank you brothers."

Only the pavilion kitchens have extra stoves and cooking utensils. If a fish is left directly to the Wang family, the Wang family will not be full. The stove will be occupied all the time, and they will not be able to cook porridge or steam cakes.

When she learned that there was fish and meat to eat, Jia Gong lamented that good things came in pairs today! The family was worried about Ah He, so they asked Wang Erlang to follow Hu Tou to the kitchen with the pottery urn. For the fish, Jia Gong steamed more cakes, and the fish bones were still good.

Then cook the cake soup and you will have another delicious meal.

It's a pity...the uncle and nephew ran back with empty jars in their arms, their faces sallow, as if they were kicked out later.

Wang Weng knew something must have happened and immediately asked: "Tell me, what's wrong?"

Ayang's legs are short, so he had to run two steps to catch up with his second uncle, who was panting from exhaustion.

Wang Erlang avoided the younger members of the family and said in a trembling voice: "Something serious has happened! When Chief Huan Ting served fish to our family, a finger fell out of the fish head. After cooking three cauldrons of fish, they all fell over. The fish was

Those caught from the Yeshan River are put under the management of Linshui Pavilion. Chief Huan Pavilion has asked Cheng Qiu to steal the bag and wrap it around the finger to go to Linshui Pavilion."

In an instant, the hair on the king's forehead stood on end.

Ah Ying shook her elder father's sleeves, waited for him to lower his body, and added in his ear: "Brother Huan cooked the fish himself. After a few mouthfuls of the soup, he spit out some scales. After finding his fingers, he retrieved the scales. At first glance, they didn't look like it.

Fish scales.”

Nails? When Wang Weng imagined that scene, his face turned sallow.

Besides, in the kitchen, Huan Zhen rinsed his mouth with salt water and sat cross-legged between the two stoves as if he was sulking.

Anyone who has eaten a dead man's nails would feel uncomfortable, but he sat motionless in silence, not angry, but thinking carefully about the situation when he caught the four fish.

The county government's new policy decree states that all rural soldiers who have won the title of "brave man" within three years must be good at water and have the courage to swim. Starting from next year when the rural soldiers are in martial arts, a "swimming" assessment item will be added.

Therefore, when Huan Zhen had free time, he went to the Yeshan River to practice swimming. Uncle Yuan Yan also went there today. What a coincidence. Schools of fish were swimming around where they swam, and it was embarrassing not to catch them.

The finger and nail were stuck in the heads of two fishes respectively, so they were not discovered. Only the top part of the finger was damaged, and it was difficult to tell which finger it was due to the damage.

Of course, this is not important for this murder case.

The important thing is that the deceased who was eaten by the fish was probably a villager in Jiashe Village who died not long ago.

Huan Zhen guessed right. On the afternoon of the next day, a missing person was reported in Jiashe Village. The missing person was a tenant farmer of the landlord Jia’s family. He was nameless, over thirty years old, single, married, widowed, and childless.

.Because he stole grain, he was called "Rat Man" by other tenant farmers.

The landowner Jia's family is now facing a storm. Jia Taigong is seriously ill and cannot survive for a few days. The eldest house chief, Sun Jia Feng, and the second house are having a huge quarrel in order to compete for the position of patriarch. The tenants under each house have already fought twice.

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Rat Dalang is a tenant farmer of the eldest son. Does this matter have anything to do with the eldest son’s family?

It took another three days before the body was recovered. The murder case that Ren Suzhi wanted to investigate the most was the drowning case. On the one hand, it was difficult to find clues. He couldn't eat for several days after looking at the body.

Huan Zhen goes swimming every day, and "happens" to be met by Ren Suzhi, who "happens" to help investigate the case.

The first difficulty of the case: Although Shu Dalang has been missing, no tenants dared to identify the body, and they could not confirm that the deceased and the missing person were the same person. In the household registration of Shu Dalang registered at the township office, except for his dark skin, no other personal characteristics were mentioned.

The second difficulty: Apart from stealing grain twice, Rat Dalang has never had any grudges with anyone else. Landlord Jia’s family didn’t punish him, so why should other tenants meddle in their own business?

Since he was a tenant of Jia Feng's house, Ren Suzhi ordered the pavilion officials to call Jia Feng to identify him. Jia Dalangjun only took one look and vomited to the sky. He collapsed on the ground and couldn't pull himself up.

Alas, what should I do?

Ren Suzhi squatted on the gravel beach and felt worried. He couldn't confirm that the person who died was Shu Da Lang, so it would become two unsolved cases. He sighed again and said, "What we can do now is to ask the pavilion officials to ask the tenants one by one to decide.

When did Xiashu Dalang disappear?"

Huan Zhen: "The time of death of the drowned person cannot be confirmed, and it still cannot be connected with Shu Dalang."

Ren Suzhi sighed heavily again: The corpse was soaked like that, the limbs that were eaten by fish were all missing, and the face was also missing. How to confirm the identity? I asked you to dream!

Huan Zhen thought about it and came up with an idea: "When asking the pavilion officials to find witnesses, they must find a way to avoid the households of the tenant farmers. Anyone who can tell what kind of food Shu Dalang ate before he disappeared will be rewarded. Also, this recent paragraph

Time, is the mouse Dalang close to the master's family? When was it confirmed that the tenants in Jia Feng's house were missing? In the past, when tenants were lazy, how did Jia's parents deal with the house? It usually took a few days to find someone to report the case?

Anyone who can provide clues will be secretly rewarded."

"It's a good method." Ren Suzhi became more energetic. Because the belly of the corpse was not eaten by the fish! But the meaning of Huan Zhen's words was obviously... He crouched and moved closer, and asked in a low voice: "Do you suspect Jia

Parents’ room? Or do you just suspect Jia Feng?”

"Jia Feng."

"reason?"

"Since Jia Feng was banned, the eldest brother's house has suffered a loss. In this case, regardless of manpower, money and food, everything will definitely be worse than before. Jia Feng, who is good-looking and stingy, has been suppressed for a long time, and his life has become more unsatisfactory and open-minded.

It will become narrower. In this situation, his tenant farmers are not working in the fields, how can he endure it for a whole day and a night before reporting the crime? "

"Is Jia Feng stingy? He often delivers food to Linshui Pavilion... Tsk, what are you looking at? I didn't even take it!"

"So he gained a good reputation and lost nothing."

Ren Suzhi's eyes slowly widened and turned into bull's eyes: "Am I fooled?"

Huan Zhen shook his head: "Ren Tingzhang is really kind and kind, but he was tricked by that kind of fool all of a sudden."

This topic cannot be discussed anymore. If you are fooled, you will be fooled. Ren Suzhi's legs were numb from squatting, so he came back to the corpse and said, "Let's break the abdomen."

The Jia family's tenant farmers had a fixed amount of food rations. What if there were grain residues in the corpse? This was also a clue to the identity of the deceased.

Both of their faces were covered with kerchiefs, but if they wanted to break a dead person's belly, the protection of a kerchief would not be enough. Just in case, after covering themselves with another kerchief, Ren Suzhi brought the pavilion official's hat, and Huan Zhen both

Put it on and lower the edge of the mask. If there is any splash on the body, at least it will not splash on the eyes and forehead of the face mask.

All the people watching were dispersed.

Wang Sanlang and his son were also among them. After they were driven away, Wang San stopped and looked around again. Wang Zhu called him four times before he said "oh" and lectured: "You see, there is retribution for stealing."

It doesn’t matter whether you steal from other people or steal from your own family.”

"I didn't steal. I don't know why the money was under my mat!"

Wang San scoffed coldly.

Wang Zhu was so humiliated that he couldn't express his humiliation. He lowered his head and shed tears. The distance between him and his father was getting farther and farther. A few days ago, his father lost his money and looked for it anxiously. Finally, he found a coin under the bed mat in his house.

.How did he know where the money came from? The east wing room where he slept had not changed the bed mat for a long time. Maybe it was hidden by his mother before.

But my father didn't believe it, so the father and son kept silent because of this matter.

Wang Zhu looked back again, and suddenly thought, if one day he no longer wants to live, he might as well return to the river.

Huan Zhen picked out a sharp stone on the rocky beach and dug out a sharp stone from the mud. Then he wrapped his hand in cloth twice, and Ren Suzhi did the same.

The two of them confirmed that there was no exposed skin, and then lifted the cloth on the body, only lifting it a little to expose the abdomen. Huan Zhen took action.

After breaking it open, Huan Zhen also rummaged through it.

Such a smell! Ren Suzhi's face quickly turned yellow. He couldn't bear it anymore and turned his head to vomit bitter water. When he turned around, his nausea disappeared instantly!

Because Huan Zhen pinched a copper coin from the internal organs of the deceased!

I recommend a novel "The Great Ming Dynasty" that promotes the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage. The author is Kong Guliu.

The background of the novel is the last years of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. The magnificent age of navigation, cold eyes towards the ocean!
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