1097.Murder (1)

The sun is shining, Chen Kang took a few guards all the way to Donggou Village, the sun is just right, some children with sleare yellow and thin faces are frolicking at the entrance of the village, some women are drying some unknown hay, as for the use is unknown, Chen Kang and others came to the village on horseback, and a group of women and children were shocked and frightened when they saw it.

Chen Kang got off his horse and said loudly: "May I ask where is the second child of Zhenglu in your village?" ”

A child saw that Chen Kang's face was kind and not vicious, and he also said directly: "Are you looking for the second master?" His house is at the very end, and the largest tiled house is the second master's house." The seven or eight-year-old pointed to the other side and said.

Chen Kang smiled kindly, led the horse over, and walked to the other end, and sure enough, there was a rather tall house, which was only relative to other houses, and it was only three or five earthen wall houses.

The door was closed, and Chen Kang was also puzzled, so he stepped forward and knocked on the door, "Is Uncle Lu at home?" No one answered, Chen Kang frowned, shrugged his nose, seemed to feel that something was wrong, and still knocked on the door a few times, but still no one answered.

Suddenly, a guard behind him exclaimed, "Commander, you see." As he spoke, he pointed to the tattered window beside him.

Chen Kang looked down and looked over, he was shocked, kicked open the door, and the latch inside snapped off, and the dilapidated door almost fell apart.

As soon as the door opened, Chen Kang and the others were surprised, only to see a person hanging on the beam of the room, a thick rope around his neck, this person had white hair and was dressed in tattered and white brown clothes, it was Lu Lao Er.

Chen Kang sighed in his heart, stepped forward to take down Lu Lao Er, and sniffed, he had already been dead for a long time.

"Quick, Du San, you go and report to His Highness, just say that Uncle Lu hanged himself, and I am waiting here." Chen Kang hurriedly turned around and shouted. One of the guards left in response, and Chen Kang pointed to the other guards and said, "A few of you are guarding the surroundings, and no one is allowed to approach or destroy the scene."

Chen Kang has also followed Li Pojun's guards for many years, he is not a reckless man, he also knows that Lu Lao Er's death is very strange, there must be ghosts in it, although Chen Kang couldn't figure it out for a while, but he also learned to preserve the scene with Li Pojun, and he couldn't destroy the clues left by the murderer.

In the Yangzhou Embassy Office, Li Pojun looked at the dozens of officials under the hall with great interest, and looked at them one by one, Li Pojun's heart also sank to the bottom, these officials, with the passage of time, almost all of them were anxious, and their faces were weird, although Li Pojun was not an expert in his heart, but he was not a fool, he had a ghost in his heart, so he naturally panicked, if he didn't do those things, let you sit here for a while, what are you panicking about?

At this moment, a rush of footsteps came, and Du San, who was sweating profusely, rushed into the lobby, "Your Highness, Lu Lao Er of Donggou Village hanged himself, and Commander Chen is guarding the scene."

Li Pojun was shocked when he heard this, "What? Lu Lao Er is dead? ”

Zhang Song and the others were first shocked when they heard this, and then they were secretly relieved.

Yang Gongcheng smiled, breathed a sigh of relief, and when he saw Li Pojun's surprise, he also said with his eyebrows flying: "Your Highness, why did Lu Lao Er actually commit suicide?" He must have a ghost, and he knows that framing the court officials will not end well, Your Highness, the ministers are wronged."

Zhang Song frowned slightly, as if he felt that something was wrong, the matter of embezzlement and salary protection was true, and now there was a dead life, if this matter could not be fooled in time, I am afraid it would be difficult to explain, and immediately made a color to Qiu Wenzhong.

Qiu Wenzhong immediately understood, and said directly: "Yes, Your Highness, this Lu Lao Er must have committed suicide in fear of crime, you must know that framing a court member out of thin air is a serious crime."

"Shut up" Li Pojun was furious and shouted: "Zhang Song, Yang Gongcheng, Qiu Wenzhong, Lu Liang, follow me to Donggou Village, and the rest of the people are not allowed to leave the office for half a step, and the violators will be killed."

After saying that, he glared at Yang Gongcheng fiercely, and when he mentioned the Heavenly Sword, he went out.

Li Pojun took everyone to Donggou Village, when Li Pojun came, Donggou Village was lively, knowing that Lu Lao Er actually died at home, a group of villagers were shocked, scared and sad, and they gathered around Lu Lao Er's house to watch, unwilling to leave, fortunately, Chen Kang and others held tokens and guarded the surroundings.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived." The soldiers stepped forward and shouted.

The villagers were shocked, busy to visit, Li Pojun now has no time to be polite, straight to the second room of Lu Lao, Chen Kang stepped forward and said: "Your Highness, when I came, I saw Lu Lao Niang hanging on the beam of the house."

"Have you ever been on the scene?" Li Pojun frowned, looking at these dilapidated earthen walls.

"No, I drew a line around this and no one crossed the line". Chen Kang pointed to a line drawn on the ground with his sword in front of the door.

Li Pojun looked at it, drew a circle outside the house, nodded and turned to a few people behind him: "You guys are watching at the door." immediately took Chen Kang and Zhang Wenqian into the room.

As soon as I entered, I saw Lu Lao Er lying flat on the ground.

Chen Kang said straightly: "I took the body of Uncle Lu from the rope in order to probe the snort, and then I never moved it again."

Li Pojun stepped forward and squatted down, just looking at his face, he shook his head and said hatefully: "It's definitely not suicide."

Zhang Wenqian also frowned and said: "There is no reason to commit suicide, they would rather beg thousands of miles to enter Beijing to file a complaint, but now that His Royal Highness accepts the case, they should have hope and hope, why would they commit suicide."

Li Pojun looked at Lu Lao Er, his eyes were full of grief and indignation, and he clenched his fists and said straight: "You look at Lu Lao Er's face, there is no abnormality. If he hangs himself, after he is out of breath, his eyes will spit out, his face will be hideous, and his tongue will stick out, and he will definitely not commit suicide."

Saying that, Li Pojun stood up and looked at the house, this is the main house, quite spacious, the walls are rammed earth, and the roof is also tiled, after all, Lu Lao Er is a village leader, although his family was not rich before, but it was also stronger than ordinary people, but in the past two years, the salary has not been paid, and it is dilapidated, and there is no money to repair the house, so this house also looks very dilapidated.

The area in the house is quite wide, there is a table, there are simple farm tools on the side, the beam is quite high, and there is a thick rope hanging quietly on it, Li Pojun walked down, looked up, stretched out his hand and couldn't touch it, Li Pojun was also surprised, you must know that now Li Pojun's height is about one meter seven, and he can't reach the rope when he stretches out his hand, which shows that the rope is hanging very high.

Li Pojun turned around violently to look at the body of Lu Laoer, who was a head shorter than Li Pojun.

Then he looked at his feet, and saw a small pony lying on the ground, "Did you fall to the ground when you came to this stool?" Li Pojun looked at Chen Kang and asked.