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Chapter 18 Investigating Missing Persons

After Linglong left, Situ Ce brought a pot of water and added it to the stove. He then took a porcelain bowl, took out a piece of paraffin from the inspection box and put it in a bowl, poured the hot water into the porcelain bowl, melted the paraffin, and added a little ink. Put it aside and cooled.

Then, he put on rubber gloves and turned the entire leather gloves of the two retrieved bodies outwards, because the human fingerprints have lines inside and outside the skin. Although the outer layer is rotten and damaged, the inner layer is still good. After turning it over, you can still make molds and rubbing.

After turning it over, he cut off the human leather hoods of each finger in turn and put them on his fingers one by one.

When the wax liquid cooled to the surface and was about to crust, he put the leather gloves he was wearing in the wax liquid so that his fingers would be covered with wax film. Then, wait for a while, immediately rolled his fingers on three sides on a piece of cloth, and the wax adhered to it was removed from the mold.

He put the wax film in warm water, gently spread it flat, and then took it out and dried. A complete fingerprint molded into!

He made ten fingers of wax films in turn, all of which were very clear and fully qualified for comparison.

It took him almost an hour to complete this work. Listening to the sounds in the distance, it was already three o'clock, so he hurried to go to bed.

The next morning, Helanbing came, and Situ Ce asked him to come to the forcing room with him in front.

The six rooms in the yamen "officials, households, military and punishment worker" are equivalent to the current functional departments of the county people's government, such as the Personnel Bureau, Civil Affairs Bureau, Education Bureau, Armed Forces Department, Court and Construction Bureau. The person in charge of each room is called "Sifang". The Ministry of Justice Fang was surnamed Dong, and he was a shabby old man. When he saw the two masters coming in, he quickly stood up to greet him.

Situ Ce said: "In the past two months, has anyone from the yamen reported the missing population?"

"Yes." Dong Sifang hurriedly said, turning his head and instructing a clerk to find the registration book, holding it in his hands and deliver it to Situ Ce.

Situ Ce opened it and saw that there were still many missing people. More than 20 people reported missing in the past two months alone. Most of them were women and children, while only four men were men. It is no wonder that the population of trafficking in ancient times was much more powerful than modern times, and most of the abducted people were women and children. Many of the men disappeared were mentally ill or had accidents when they went out.

Among these four men, one was an old man in his sixties, which obviously did not match the body. The other three were similar. Situ Ce decided to start from these three.

He copied the names and addresses of the three people, then came to the constable room and said, "We are going to investigate the missing people today. Deputy Captain Xiao, please take two brothers with us."

The deputy chief inspector was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that he was saying that he was, and he quickly got up and agreed. The constable next to him laughed and said, "Master Situ, just call him Xiao Mouse in the future. The magistrate called him this. If you want to call him the deputy chief inspector, he himself didn't know who he called."

Everyone burst into laughter.

Xiao Mouse was not angry either, but just glared at the constable and smiled at Situ Ce and said, "Sir, why do you have time to check the missing people today?"

He Lanbing glared at her eyes: "What are you saying? Missing people are not trivial matters. If it were anyone, it would be a big matter. Of course, it is necessary to investigate, and it must be checked in time. What does it mean to check if you have time?"

Xiao Mouse stuck out his tongue: "What Master Helan taught me is that our brothers are incompetent and cannot find the missing person, so we both troubled the two masters to take action in person."

"Okay, stop talking nonsense, hurry up and take two brothers to visit us!"

The female detective Yin Yadan came over with a fat body trembling: "I'll go! Take me there!"

"And I!" Another female detective Tang Man and Yin Yadan were inseparable, so they naturally rushed to go.

Situ Ce nodded and said, "It's good to take them two, you will be more patient when you investigate the missing people."

"Okay." Xiao Mouse said, pointing to a small constable next to him: "Brother, you go too!"

This little constable named Sun, is a fence-skinned man, always following the crowd, so he is nicknamed "Big Brother".

Brother Sun nodded and agreed, and ran over.

The two masters and four constables left the yamen and visited the three households one by one.

When people heard that it was the yamen who came to investigate the missing person, they were very excited. In previous years, few people came to ask about this matter. Unexpectedly, the new master actually investigated the case himself, and was busy serving tea and pouring water.

He Lanbing and several constables asked about the family's situation before disappearance, where they might go, and who they might contact. Situ Ce asked them to take him to the house of the missing person. After checking, he took a tea cup used in front of the missing person, took it to a separate house, extracted the fingerprints on it, and compared it with the finger membrane of the deceased who had been extracted earlier, and the results were obviously different. It proved that the deceased was not the missing person in the family.

After saying goodbye to this house, they went to the other two, just like the first time. Others asked about the missing person, while Situ Ce extracted his fingerprints and compared them. The result was disappointing. The other two fingerprints were completely different from the deceased!

The fingerprints of the three adult men who have disappeared in the prefecture and county in the past two months are completely different from those of the deceased who are looking for the source of the corpse. In other words, the deceased is not these three missing persons, so who will it be?

One of the remaining missing people is an old man, which is obviously wrong, and the other twenty are women, and they are not the dead at all. Now it seems that the dead are not among the missing people!

Could it be that the missing person? When Situ Ce thought of this, he slapped his forehead suddenly and cursed himself in his heart that he was really stupid. The deceased was arrested by the East Factory or the Jinyiwei, and the arrest must be openly carried out. In other words, the family members of the deceased may know that the deceased was arrested by the Jinyiwei or the Dongfair, but they just didn't know that they were dead. Since they knew that they were captured by the Dongfair, the family naturally could not report the case to disappear, but they searched the missing persons. How could they find it?

However, if you openly ask who are arrested by the Jinyiwei or the East Factory recently, and come to visit, once the Jinyiwei or the East Factory knows, they may come to cause trouble for themselves, and that is not a joke. You must investigate secretly.

But how to secretly investigate? Deputy Chief Xiao Mozi is well-known and has friends from all walks of life. It is the most suitable for him to ask him to investigate. However, Xiao Mozi is a man and whether he is trustworthy. Before he is fully sure, Situ Ce is unwilling to let more people know about this matter, which is related to his own mind, but he cannot be joked about it.

So, he was stunned for a long time, waved his hand and said, "Go back!"
Chapter completed!
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