Just when Xue Rengui sent a cavalry team to ride around Qinghai Lake for a surprise attack, Li Hao also arrived in Youzhou.

Because Li Hao's status is noble, the official position is extremely high, and now there is a position of Hebei deposed envoy, Youzhou Governor Sun Bowang personally went out of the city to greet him, not only that, the people of the city have long heard that Li Hao is coming, and the road is welcomed, and there is a lively scene of 10,000 empty alleys, Li Hao's implementation of the new tax system, or let the people know, the people naturally praise Li Hao, and now this group of people is looking forward to the new tax system can be implemented throughout the country, so that they can pay half of the agricultural tax, which is simply the gospel of all the people of the Tang Dynasty.

After entering the city, Li Hao said a white robe, rode a white horse to the street, and frequently waved to the people, so unexpected, quite once saw the high-spirited posture of Chang'an flowers, Di Renjie and other Dali Temple officials followed him to feel honored, and the waist pole was straight.

Looking at the back of Li Hao, who was proud of the spring breeze, Di Renjie was quite envious, and secretly swore to himself: "I also want to be like King Qiongnan, for the benefit of the people, if one day I can be praised by all the people like this, even if I live 20 years less, it is worth it." ”

Finally came to the Governor's Mansion, Li Hao dismounted, and under the guidance of Sun Bowang, came to the Governor's Mansion Ya Hall, Sun Bowang also wanted to serve tea and be polite, Li Hao asked directly: "Lord Sun, where is the corpse?" ”

Sun Bowang immediately understood that this King Qiongnan was an impatient and a practical person, so he hurriedly replied: "Back to Lord Li, all the corpses are parked in the Houya morgue and preserved with ice." ”

"Well, that's good." Li Hao nodded appreciatively and said, "Take us to have a look." ”

"Yes." Sun Bowang immediately took Li Hao and them to the back office.

When he arrived at the Houya morgue, he pushed open the door, and a foul smell came to his face, Li Hao directly waved his sleeves and took a few steps back, feeling that this smell could smoke his lungs, after a long time, he took out the handkerchief given to him by Qin Su, covered his nose, and led everyone into the morgue, only to see seventy or eighty corpses neatly parked in the huge morgue, and the corpses were covered with white cloths, but they still looked quite terrible.

Although it was spring, the temperature in the morgue was very low, because many ice cubes, large and small, were placed on each corpse, and some of the ice melted and flowed all over the ground, so the ground in the morgue was very humid and uncomfortable.

Li Hao picked a corpse and lifted the white cloth, only to see that the deceased was an old man in his fifties, with no clothes on his body, and the corpse had begun to decompose, after all, it had been too long, even if there were ice cubes, it was only to delay the decay of the corpse, which was like the future world, the corpses were put in a special freezer, and it was no problem to put them for a few years.

"Huaiying, come and see." Li Hao shouted, Huaiying is Di Renjie's word.

Di Renjie was a little puzzled when he heard this, he didn't tell Li Hao his words, how did Li Hao know, although he was puzzled, he was more interested in investigating the case, so he walked forward quickly, pulled the white cloth down to the corpse's legs, and then pulled open the corpse's mouth, eyeballs, ears, hair, fingers and other hidden parts, and carefully examined it.

After a long time, Li Hao asked, "Huaiying, have you found anything?" ”

"Yes." Di Renjie replied, "Although there are strangulation marks on the neck of the corpse, this strangulation mark is different from the strangulation marks caused by death, it should be caused after death, and it can be determined that it is not a suicide, but a premeditated murder, and the skin color of the corpse is abnormal, and the possibility of poisoning cannot be ruled out." ”

Li Hao nodded when he heard this, this discovery was nothing, because he had already guessed that this was not a suicide.

Sun Bowang on the side interjected: "When I did the autopsy, I used a silver needle to measure the deceased's abdomen, and found that the deceased's abdomen was highly poisonous. ”

Li Hao heard this: "That means that this group of people was poisoned to death first, and then hung up with a rope and disguised as hanging. ”

Sun Bowang said: "Yes, my lord, we found that there is poison in the well of Hu and Zhao's house, and these people should have died after eating the highly poisonous well water." ”

Di Renjie heard this: "Lord Sun, I don't know if your autopsy record is available?" Xia Guan wanted to take a look. ”

Sun Bowang glanced at the young Di Renjie suspiciously, and then looked at Li Hao with inquiring eyes.

Li Hao smiled and said, "Give it to him." ”

"Yes." When Sun Bowang heard this, he immediately ordered someone to get the autopsy report.

The autopsy report was brought, Di Renjie took the autopsy report and read it, and then examined a few more corpses, and then returned the autopsy report to Sun Bowang, Li Hao asked: "Huaiying, are there any new discoveries?" ”

Di Renjie shook his head thoughtfully: "Not yet, I need to go to the scene of the crime to see." He was so obsessed with the case that he even forgot his honorific title for Li Hao.

Sun Bowang on the side looked at Li Hao in surprise when he saw this, after all, even he, the governor, was respectful to Li Hao, and Di Renjie had even forgotten to call him now that he had forgotten his honorific title, how could he not be surprised.

Who knew that Li Hao didn't care at all, but turned his head to face Sun Bowang and said, "Master Sun, take us to the scene of the crime." ”

"Yes."

Sun Bowang responded respectfully, and sent the official to open the way and go to the scene of the crime.

The mansions of the Hu merchants and the Zhao merchants were both in the city, and they went to the Hu mansion first, and after entering, Di Renjie frowned and said in a low voice: "The scene of the crime has been touched by you a lot, but I am afraid that a lot of clues will be destroyed." ”

Sun Bowang was ashamed when he heard this, he was not a professional case-solver after all, so he didn't know much about this aspect, and he was very curious about Di Renjie's identity now, why he was so young and valued by Li Hao, and his future was definitely limitless, so he didn't dare to refute Di Renjie's words.

Di Renjie turned his head to face the other twelve colleagues in Dali Temple, bowed his hand, and said, "Seniors, please." ”

Although they were a little dissatisfied with Di Renjie's team leader, work is work, they didn't dare to be sloppy about this, and Di Renjie was thoughtful and not arrogant at all, which made them very comfortable, and everyone didn't have any temper, so they returned the salute one after another, and then scattered and began to collect evidence.

Di Renjie came to the Hu family hall under the leadership of Sun Bowang, and after Sun Bowang pushed the door open, he said: "At that time, there were nearly thirty corpses hanging in this hall. ”

Di Renjie first looked at the ground, then looked up at the roof and the surroundings, then stepped in and asked, "Lord Sun, were all the corpses hanging on the beams of the house at that time?" ”

"Yes." Sun Bowang replied.

Di Renjie asked again: "Do they have a stool under their feet?" How high are the feet of the corpse off the ground? ”

Sun Bowang thought for a moment and replied, "There are more than a dozen benches that have fallen to the ground, and the corpse's feet are about as high as the stools from the ground, which looks like self-hanging. ”

"It seems that the murderer is a veteran." Li Hao said when he heard this.

Di Renjie nodded in agreement: "What the prince said is right, it seems that they have done this kind of thing, and we may have to ask Lord Sun to help us check all the murder files in Youzhou in the past ten years." ”

Li Hao couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, investigating the murder case files in Youzhou for more than ten years, just thinking about it made his scalp numb, it seems that investigating the case is really not a simple job.

Di Renjie paced slowly in the hall, looked up at the beams of the room, and after a while, asked, "Lord Sun, how did you get it down when you put down the corpse in the first place?" ”

Sun Bowang said: "Cut all the ropes and put them down." ”

"Great." Di Renjie's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he suddenly rushed forward, stepped on a pillar twice, and his body suddenly jumped upward, and landed steadily on a square beam, he carefully observed the beam, and soon found that it was two faint footprints, which had been covered with dust and a little blurred, he took out two pieces of white paper from his arms, and gently put them on the footprints, and after a while, he gently picked up the paper again, and then took out a porcelain bottle from his arms, pulled out the stopper, sprinkled some black powder on the paper, and shook the paper gently while holding the paper, The powder walked through all the corners of the white paper's surface, and when he shook the black powder away from the white paper, clear footprints appeared on the paper.

After doing all this, Di Renjie jumped down, handed the white paper to Li Hao, and said, "Lord Wang, these are the footprints of the murderer." ”

Li Hao glanced at it and couldn't help but smile: "It's good, it really has a hand." ”

"Carving insect skills, why worry about teeth." Di Renjie said indifferently, turned his head and asked Sun Bowang, "Master Sun, where did you collect the rope used to hang the corpse?" ”

Sun Bowang said: "It's in the evidence hall of my back office." ”

"Then when we go back, I bother Lord Sun to show us the rope, maybe there will be clues." Di Renjie said that he continued to collect evidence in the hall.

When they came out, a special soldier suddenly came to Li Hao's side and whispered a few words in Li Hao's ear, Li Hao smiled and nodded.

Seeing this, Sun Bowang was surprised and asked, "Lord Li, could it be that your personal guards have also discovered something?" ”

Li Hao smiled mysteriously, nodded and said: "That's right, Dali Temple has the investigation method of Dali Temple, and this king has the investigation method of this king." ”

Di Renjie also looked at Li Hao suspiciously when he heard this, he wanted to ask Li Hao how he investigated the case, but he also knew that this was too abrupt, so he couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart.

After checking the mansion of the Hu merchants, they went to the Zhao mansion again.

In a village and town twenty miles away from the north of Youzhou City, there is an extremely large mansion, and the plaque on the door of the mansion has two big characters written - "Cui Mansion", this village and town is the clan land of the Cui clan of Fanyang, one of the five surnames and seven wangs, and the gate valve giant.

Just when Li Hao and Di Renjie were investigating the case at the Hu merchant's house, a sloppy dressed and swordsman appeared in front of the side door of Cui's mansion, only to see that his hair was scattered, and the scabbard behind his back had been wrapped in rags, only to see the long and big hilt, the hilt was half a foot higher than his head, Cui's housekeeper Cui Qin went out to greet him, and under the guidance of Cui Qin, this chivalrous man came to the living room of Cui's mansion.

Cui Qin pointed to the door of the living room of Cui's Mansion and said, "Our master is waiting in the hall, Mr. Ye, please come in." ”

The sloppy man looked up at the living room of Cui's mansion, his eyes narrowed slightly, he obviously felt that there were no less than 100 masters of the rivers and lakes hidden in this living room, and he couldn't help but sneer: "Master Cui really looks down on me Ye Mengqiu." With that, he strode up the stone steps of the hallway, ready to enter the living room.