Quan Shufang must have wanted to make contributions. After he got closer, he shouted, "Brother Li, you are here too. What a coincidence!"

Li Rizhi said with a sneer and said, "Yes, there is a river next to it, there is a corpse in the river, me on the shore, and brother Quan, oh, it's so coincidental!"

Quan Shu Fang laughed and said, "Brother Li, this corpse may not be killed by someone, it may not be a case, so if there is anything good, remember to score a little bit!"

He was logical in his words, but Li Rizhi understood what he meant. After all, he just wanted some benefits so that he could find someone to submit a business paper. He was still willing to help with this little bit of care, and at least he was a fellow villager.

Li Rizhi nodded and said, "Brother Quan, I know the county magistrate of Chang'an County. I am his junior. If he comes to the scene, then if I explain to him first, then he will focus on my opinion. I want to tell Brother Quan. It is not that my opinion is higher than yours, but that it is a close relationship!"

What he said was quite polite. The original intention was that if Peng Ji came and took my opinion, but did not take your opinion, it was because I had a good relationship with him, not your opinion!

But Quan Shufang misunderstood. He was very confident in his analysis. After listening to Li Rizhi's words, he said, "Then, why not introduce me to the magistrate Peng County, and then you will first talk about the analysis of the case. What do you think?"

Li Rizhi smiled and nodded, "Success, I will do it for Brother Quan!"

His help is very good. If someone else is replaced, he may not help you. I don’t help you because I am afraid that you owe me a favor. If the favor is too big, I am afraid that you can’t pay it back, so I don’t help you and will not add any burden to you!

At this time, Ding Chutou saw them talking and said, "You two, I still want to see the county magistrate. I will go to the county magistrate now. You can wait and guard the body. If it is lost, you must ask you...!"

After saying that, Ding Chutou ran and knelt down, running very fast, not like he hadn't slept all night.

Li Rizhi sighed. He wanted to ask Ding Chutou a few more questions, but the whole thing came and there was a third person on the scene. If Ding Chutou asked him again, Ding Chutou might not be able to tell the truth, and he would not even be angry.

Ding Chutou trotted all the way, entered the city gate, and then flew to the Chang'an County Government. After reporting to him, he saw Peng Ji. Because it was a case of someone's life, Peng Ji decided to deal with it himself. However, he did not rush to leave the city, but asked the clerk to record it and find out if there were any missing people in recent days.

There are many cases of missing populations. Chang'an is so big, with countless good people and bad people. Especially the Tang Dynasty allowed slaves, so missing people happen almost every day. However, most of the missing people are women and children. There are very few adult men. It is difficult to lure adult men, and it is even more difficult to use strong people. Therefore, there are very few people who report adult men missing.

There were very few, not none, and just three days ago, a man named Rong Shuxiang came to report the case, saying that his brother was missing and had not been home for several days, and had left an address. Peng Ji immediately asked someone to find Rong Shuxiang.

The yamen runner went out to find someone. After a long time, Rong Shuxiang arrived. He thought he had found his brother, but his brother did not go home directly. The government sent someone to find him. He was scared and felt that his legs were weak when he walked.

Peng Ji asked Rong Shu, "How many days have your brother been missing? Have you been more than five days?"

Rong Shuxiang thought for a while and said, "Yes, it's definitely more than five days. However, he went out of the city to do business, and it took time to do business. I don't know if there were any missing villains at that time, but it's certain that if they go out of the city, they will disappear for seven or eight days!"

"Where did he go after leaving the city?" Peng Ji asked.

Rong Shu said to him, "I went to a Taoist temple, and said I was going to find my sister-in-law. My sister-in-law was eager to beg for a child. I heard that there was a Taoist temple outside the city called Jidou Temple. Praying for a child was very effective, so she went there often. However, five days ago, she came back by herself, but the little man's brother did not come back. The sister-in-law said she had not seen the little man's brother, so the little man was anxious and came to report to the official."

Rong Shu nodded and said, "Please keep a calm mind and don't be anxious. I want to tell you something. Where is Jidou Temple outside the city? A corpse was found. Maybe it's your brother's. I want to check it now. Do you want to go together?"

When Rong Shuxiang heard this, his face changed drastically. He shook his body and finally stood firm. Then he said, "The villain is willing to go out of the city with the county magistrate and go out to see it."

Seeing that he agreed, Peng Ji immediately left the yamen and rode his horse out of the city. Although he was a civil servant, his riding skills were very exquisite. Rong Shuxiang was not bad. He also rode a horse, took Ding Huotou, and the two of them rode. After Peng Ji and a group of yamen runners, he rushed to Jidou Temple.

When it was Jidou Temple, it was already afternoon. The sun was too strong, and Li Rizhi went back to his room to rest. He didn't sleep well last night. He went to make up for a night while Peng Ji was not here.

Quan Shufang was waiting by the river, and he refused to leave. He had too few opportunities in Chang'an. Even if he had the first place in Zhengzhou, he had the best in the prefecture exam. There were hundreds of scholars in Chang'an. If there were too many firsts in the prefecture exam, it would be not surprising that he had to seize this opportunity and talk to Peng Ji.

Ding Chutou took Peng Ji and the others to the riverside and said, "It's right here, the body is hung by branches, and it's still in the river!"

Peng Ji got off his horse and walked to the riverside. At this time, Quan Shufang walked forward and saluted Peng Ji, saying, "Student Zhengzhou Quan Shufang, I have seen the county magistrate, and the students have been waiting here to ensure that the body is not washed away by the river."

Peng Ji nodded at him and said, "Thank you for your help. Are you a scholar living in the temple waiting to take the scientific examination?"

Quan Shufang was overjoyed. Finally someone asked him this. He hurriedly said, "Yes, the students are students who live here. Now they see that there is trouble in the temple, so they come out to help!"

Peng Ji said, "You are a good person. Now there are fewer and fewer people with kind hearts like you. The world is getting worse and worse. Everyone just wants to reduce trouble for themselves, so how can they help others!"

As he spoke, Peng Ji walked to the river and looked at the corpse. Although the corpse was right by the river, he still couldn't see anything clearly. He waved his hand and called Rong Shuxiang and asked, "Come and recognize it, see if this corpse is your brother!"

Rong Shuxiang was sweating all over. He walked to the shore, looked at the corpse in the river, widened his eyes and looked at it. After a while, he said, "I really can't see clearly and dare not recognize it. The clothes are torn and I can't tell whether it is my brother's clothes, so the villain... I really dare not recognize it!"

Rong Shuxiang's face was full of nervous expressions. It seemed that he was afraid of recognizing the corpse in the river as his brother, and his brotherly love was deep, which was also a very normal thing.

Peng Ji stood up and said to the yamen runners behind him, "Catch up the body!"

The yamen runners immediately took action, and the bodies were not easy to catch. They were easy to say, but very difficult to do. Peng Ji walked aside, and Quan Shu Fang followed Peng Ji to the side.

All the stools calmed down, swallowed his saliva, and bowed, "County Master, the student saw this corpse yesterday and found that the corpse was dressed in tattered clothes and should have been soaked in the water for more than five days. So the student's suspicion, would the corpse drift from the upstream?"

He wanted to tell Li Rizhi the analysis that he analyzed yesterday and told Peng Ji again. He felt that his analysis was correct. As long as he measured how far the body drifted in five days, he could determine the location of the crime. It was very likely that it was not in Chang'an County. If the specific location was analyzed, the local officials there could be allowed to solve the case. Isn't this equivalent to reducing the trouble for the county magistrate of Chang'an County!

But before the whole house could ask and answer his questions, Peng Ji waved his hand indifferently and said loudly, "How could it be drifting from the upstream? Not to mention anything else, just talking about the clothes on the corpse. If it had been drifting for five days, how could it be put on him? It would have been naked. Besides, this place is the capital, with a dense population, and a village is a few miles away. Not to mention drifting for five days, someone would have discovered the corpse in five hours!"

Quan Shufang was stunned. He thought that the body was floating in the river, but forgot to analyze that this was a densely populated place. He was not completely analyzing it. He ignored his butts and analyzed the case, but how could he only analyze the part in the water, and ignore the other part on the shore!

The footsteps came, Li Rizhi strode over, Fu Guibao and the others followed behind. When they learned that Peng Ji had arrived, they rushed over immediately.

Li Ri knew, "Uncle Peng, my nephew met Uncle Peng. Yesterday, my nephew came to visit a friend. Unexpectedly, he encountered this incident, so he did not leave. He wanted to wait for Uncle Peng to come and see Uncle Peng solve the case, so my nephew could learn from it!"

All the people listened, and suddenly felt a sudden mistake in their hearts. No wonder they had no way to invest in the bank. It turned out that they couldn't speak. What I said just now, the students had a little insight, and what Li Rizhi said, and what Li Rizhi said, learning experience from others, and these two statements are far behind. No wonder Li Rizhi was doing well and was like a fish in water in Chang'an.

In fact, Li Rizhi was really not like a fish in water, because when he heard Peng Ji's words, he knew what he was thinking, and maybe Peng Ji thought of it too.

When Peng Ji saw Li Rizhi, he smiled and said, "Nephew Li Xian, you are here too. OK, then I will come to take the exam. Where did this corpse float from?"

In fact, this question is quite easy to answer. After all, Peng Ji analyzed it just now. If he changed the full shroud, he would definitely say that he was drifting from nearby. If he was more cruel, he might just say that the body was always here, and maybe he was a person who was harmed by the monk in the temple!

It is actually a relatively good answer to say that the corpse has been around.

However, Li Rizhi went to check yesterday, so he didn't need to just say a little about it. The neighborhood was so big. He said, "Peng Shibo, my nephew thinks he floated from Jidou Temple not far away. I went to see it with my friends yesterday. Jidou Temple leads the river water into the garden. There is a sluice in the back wall and there is a gap in the sluice. The sluice can float out of the sluice."

As soon as he said this, he was not only stunned, but in addition to being ashamed of himself, he was only ashamed. He found that he was not as good as Li Rizhi, but also not as hardworking as Li Rizhi. Yesterday, Li Rizhi and the others went to check Jidouguan, but until now, he didn't even have the idea of ​​investigating it. This was far worse than Li Rizhi, and he couldn't accept it.

Peng Ji was also stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Li Rizhi to investigate the case. Even if it was him, he might not have to go looking for it immediately. Instead, he had to find someone to ask, for example, the local Baoding hoe here.

Peng Ji said, "Which came out of Jidou Temple? Is that a family temple? Although this temple is in the jurisdiction of this county, I have never been there before. Not far from here?"

Li Ri knew that "it's just about passing through this small woods, not far away at all."

"Then how do you know that the corpse drifted out of the Taoist temple?" Peng Ji asked with a frown.

Quan Shufang also looked at Li Rizhi. A corpse floated out of the Taoist temple and then floated to the backyard of the monk temple. Why is this?

Li Rizhi thought about it, his expression was serious, and he said solemnly, "I guess!"
Chapter completed!