Diao Peng came to the yamen like a treasure of Dongchanggong, and showed it to Situ Ce and He Lanbing. They couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Diao Peng said: "This is the only thing that can be done. Zhong Bingzhi can't do this kind of thing alone. There must be someone above, and maybe even the people in charge of the Shenji Camp. This is a big deal, everyone is not good-looking, so it's okay to catch a few people who are guilty of being in peace."

The case of stealing and selling arms was not the case that Helan Bing and the others investigated. They were related to their shooting of maids. Situ Ce originally thought that killing people was paid for his life, but he did not expect that he was sentenced to a thousand miles of sentence. Although popularity was second only to the punishment of beheading, the difference was too far. However, after Helan Bing explained, he understood that in ancient times, the killing of the master was absolutely forbidden, but the master killed the servants for a reduction, so he was sentenced to only one thousand miles of sentence. This is the difference between the sentencing between the elders and the young and the nobles in ancient times.

Moreover, since this case involves the sale of muskets, the sentencing is relatively heavy. If it is normal, it can even be done with redemption and money, without actually serving the sentence.

This result made Situ Ce depressed for several days.

Diao Peng cracked the case and received commendation from his boss. He was very happy and held a banquet to repay Situ Ce and He Lanbing, but both of them refused and did not go. Diao Peng was disappointed, but he could not.

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Before dawn that morning, Situ Ce was still sleeping in the room. Suddenly, a knock on the door sounded, and Linglong's anxious cry came: "Master! Master! Get up quickly, it's not good! A murder has occurred!"

Situ Ce got up, quickly put on his clothes, opened the door, then ran back to the bed to put on his shoes, and asked, "What's going on?"

Linglong stood at the door and said, "Just just now, the head of the Mi Er family in Xicheng was beaten to death. I just discovered it, so I told you to go quickly."

"Mi Er family? Who are you?" Situ Ce quickly put on his shoes and stood up and said.

"Mi Er is the shopkeeper of the Xicheng grocery store. He is very stingy. He was killed in the house this morning. I heard from my brother. He is waiting for you at the back door."

The male constable in the inner house cannot enter without the permission of the magistrate. So he asked the concierge to notify Linglong, and Linglong came to tell Situ Ce again.

Situ Ce asked, "Where is the magistrate?"

"I have sent someone to call me. You can hurry up first, don't wait."

"Okay!" Situ Ce picked up his on-site inspection box, walked out quickly, and came to the backyard. Brother Sun was already waiting there at the door.

Helanbing asked, "What's going on?"

"At dawn this morning, someone went to the yamen to report the case, saying that a murder occurred. Last night, Deputy Captain Xiao and I were on the night. After asking, we learned that it was Mi Er's neighbor of the shopkeeper of the grocery store in Xicheng. We quickly followed him to see it. When we arrived at Mi Er's house, we saw blood on the ground. Mi Er died on the ground, his body was covered with blood, and his head was broken! We asked if the murderer was found, and said no, he only found the body, so we reported the case. We quickly asked Di Bao to ask Min Zhuang to drive away the fun and not go in. Then he went to call Master Helan, and I'll call you. Go quickly!"

At this time, Linglong had already asked the yamen horses to lead the horses. The yamen had special official horses. In addition to the magistrate, the yamen could also take a seat when the magistrate and the captain performed official duties.

These days, Situ Ce had learned to ride a horse, hung the survey box on the hook behind the saddle, and then turned over the horse. Brother Sun took the reins and trotted to the west city.

He came to Mi Er's house in Xicheng. This was a large courtyard with three main houses and two rows of wing rooms on both sides. The yard was full of constables. Helanbing had arrived, but he didn't go in. He stood on the steps of the main house, waiting for a golden folding fan. Situ Ce turned over and dismounted, carried the box, and said strangely: "What are you doing when you stand here?"

"Waiting for you, isn't it your turn to investigate first? How dare I get ahead?"

When Situ Ce heard her teasing, he couldn't help but laugh: "Thank you! I really need to go in and investigate first, sorry!"

"Okay, as long as you can solve the case, you can do whatever you want."

Situ Ce stood at the door and stayed for a moment. He had rarely seen such a bloody murder scene. In a small room, a bloody corpse on the ground, a bloody head like a broken watermelon, and then there was blood,—a room full of blood, pools of blood on the ground, on the bed, on the wall, on the beams, and splashing blood. He felt as if he had entered a slaughterhouse.

The corpse on the ground lay on his back towards the door, with a blue handkerchief covered his face. Situ Ce turned around and asked Brother Sun, "Who covered the blue cloth on the corpse's face?"

Brother Sun said, "We had it when we came. I asked the neighbor who reported the case and said that when he found the body, the body had a blue cloth covered with the face. He had never been in, nor had the body moved."

"Oh?" Situ Ce was a little surprised and said to himself: "Who covered the deceased with this blue cloth? The deceased himself was beaten like this, and his head was broken. Of course, it could not be built by him. Who is it? The murderer? Or is it someone who has been to the scene before?"

He Lanbing said behind him: "It is possible, maybe, this will be a breakthrough in solving the case."

"Maybe!" Situ Ce continued to stand at the door to observe the situation in the house: there were messy blood footprints at the door and obvious wipe marks. Two or three feet away from the door was the corpse. The upper body was ****, and the lower body was wearing a pair of silk wide-leg trousers, and the trousers were covered with blood. Barefoot, there was a large pool of blood at the center of the head of the corpse. On the ground more than one foot away from the corpse, there was an iron rod. One end of the iron rod was covered with blood, but the other end was very clean.

There is a square pillow between the body and the wall, with a lot of blood on it.

There is a big bed inside the room. There are also bloody footprints that are back and forth between the bed and the high cabinet inside!

A curtain was hung on the large bed. The curtains on the ancient bed were different from modern mosquito nets. In addition to being used to prevent mosquitoes, they also have a private effect, so the curtains were hung very high, almost close to the beam above.

The bedside was also a pool of blood. Situ Ce carefully avoided the traces on the ground and came to the bedside and found eight teeth at the pool of blood on the bedside.

A thin quilt on the bed was covered with blood stains on the head. There were many throwing blood stains on the quilt, and there were throwing blood stains on the inside and on the top of the bed's curtain. If the iron rod on the ground was a weapon, then these throwing blood stains should be left by the murderer when he used the iron rod to hit the deceased and wielded the iron rod and wielded the blood.

There was a small door on the wall near the inside. When I pushed open it, there was a small room with a red paint toilet and a large washing basin. There was a set of skirts and shoes and socks in it, with blood on it.
Chapter completed!