"Not good!"

Cui Geng seemed to think of something, slammed the case, and shouted, "What time is it?" Are the gates closed? ”

Yao Du glanced at the sky outside the county lieutenant's office and said, "Look at this sky, it's dark and dreary, it's almost the end of the unitary time!" ”

"As the so-called unitary alternate day, the city tower and dusk drums are finished, at this time the city gate is closed, my lord, what is wrong with you?" Song Genhai pulled his fingers and replied.

Although the city gate is under the control of the soap class, he is not in charge of the fishing class, but as the head of the fishing class, he is naturally very clear about when to open the city gate and when to open the city gate.

"Talk about it on the way, Song Zhutou, go to the city gate with this official, go!"

couldn't help but say, Cui Geng dragged Song Genhai up, left Yao Du and Uncle Ying, and rushed out of the county magistrate's office like wind on the soles of his feet.

Yao Du saw that Cui Geng was in a hurry like a fire in the room, and there was no figure in the blink of an eye, and he couldn't help but wonder: "What happened to the county lieutenant?" Hearing what Lin Cheng said, he went straight to the direction of the city gate building. ”

"I guess I thought of some clues about the murderer, right? It's not early, go home for dinner and say goodbye! Uncle Ying said lightly, and walked out of the county magistrate's office with his head down. Anyway, he only has to check the body, follow up the clues and arrest the murderer, and these things are not his responsibility.

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East of Qingyuan County, city gate.

There are two city gates in Qingyuan County, one is the east gate and the other is the west gate.

On weekdays, the West Gate is basically closed, and if it is not for the new emperor's accession to the throne, the canonization of the crown prince and other court ceremonies, or special events such as thieves and bandits in the city, there is no precedent for the West Gate to be opened.

Therefore, Qingyuan County relies on the east gate to communicate with the outside world, whether it is the township under its jurisdiction to enter the city, or to Putian County, Longxi County, and even to Quanzhou City, it is to enter and exit the city gate of the east entrance.

The time has passed, and the east gate has long been closed, leaving only four officials of the soap class to be on duty at night.

Cui Geng and Song Genhai hurried all the way to the east gate on foot.

On the way, Cui Geng had already told Song Genhai about his suspicions after listening to Lin Cheng's new discovery. Talking all the way at a trot, Cui Geng was tired enough, and Song Genhai squatted down when he arrived at the ground, panting heavily, and shouted that he was tired, so that Cui Geng despised him for a while.

This guy has been a head catcher for so many years, and the kung fu and physical strength on his legs and feet will actually lose to himself, Cui Geng is not difficult to imagine what this guy has done in his head-catching career over the years.

"Okay, don't squat and pretend to be a dead dog, hurry up, go and call someone down!" Cui Geng gently kicked Song Genhae's ass.

"Gotcha!"

Song Genhai stood up from the ground in response, tilted his head with his hands on his hips and struggled his neck, and shouted to the duty room upstairs in the city: "Is there anyone panting?" Where did all the people die? The county lieutenant has arrived, hurry up, get out of here! ”

Cui Geng: "......"

Quality, Nima, where does this Song Genhai look like a head catcher? It's like a live bandit!

Under the shouting of the broken voice, the heads of three or four officials appeared on the city tower one after another, taking advantage of the moonlight, helping a few people to descend from the city tower along the steps of the city wall, and all arrived in front of Cui Geng.

"I don't know if the county lieutenant arrived, and he missed the distance, so what... What's that—" A leading official clenched his fists as if he were clasping his fists.

Cui Geng waved his hand and said, "Excuse me!" ”

Seeing this, Song Genhai said fiercely: "Okay, don't bite the text and chew the words, there is still a long way to go, you Hu San'er know how to drag a fart in front of Lao Tzu?" Nonsense, what about the Wu squad leader of your soap class? ”

The leading soap Li said: "Go back to the county lieutenant, if Song catches the head, our team leader is not on duty at night, and as soon as the city gate is closed, we will let the government go home!" ”

Song Genhai quipped: "Yo, Wu Cripple is quite good at enjoyment, knowing that the city tower is hard at night, he went home early to find his daughter-in-law to drill holes to warm the bed!" ”

"Hahaha...... Who made our mother-in-law Wu Bantou look so handsome! ”

"Our team leader is the most painful!"

"My sister-in-law is so beautiful, how dare Wu Bantou come to the city tower to watch the night? In case one is not careful, there are other men in the family to watch for him at night, but what can be done? “

"Hahaha......"

Suddenly, under the joke of Song Genhai, several people played poor and boring with the team leader Wu Cripple.

Cui Geng said secretly, it seems that Wu Cripple's prestige in the soap class is far from convincing the public.

"Ahem~~ Is it still a little in shape?" He coughed twice and glared at Song Genhai.

Song Genhai hurriedly laughed: "Hehe, don't worry, adults, these are all a group of people who don't know how to be polite, go back and let Wu Cripple train them well!" ”

After that, he shouted at a few night servants: "Be serious, stand up for Lao Tzu!" The county lieutenant came here tonight to ask you something important! ”

A few people were a lot more honest in an instant. Looking at their attitude towards Song Genhai, Cui Geng can clearly feel that Song Genhai's deterrent power is definitely stronger than that of the soap class.

Cui Geng asked, "Which of you was there when you were guarding the city gate during the day?" ”

Four, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to say.

After about a short while, Hu San'er, the leading officer, raised his hand slightly, and said weakly: "Lord County Lieutenant, I'm here!" ”

"Okay, this official asks you, has Fang Ming ever entered and exited the East Gate during the daytime today?" Cui Geng asked again.

Hu San'er scratched his cheeks and asked suspiciously: "My lord, who is Fang Ming?" ”

Syllable~

Song Genhai rewarded Hu San'er with a burst of chestnuts and reprimanded: "It's the Fang Ming who used to work as a bookkeeper in the wine shop of our Cui County Wei family, who else can there be?" ”

Qingyuan County is not big, usually large families or some people with a head and face enter and exit the east gate more often, these guards will know each other. For people like Fang Ming, who were originally well-known in Qingyuan County, the officials guarding the city would deliberately make things difficult and take the opportunity to ask for some rewards, which was what the officials of the soap class often did.

Therefore, Song Genhai concluded that Hu San'er, an old fritter in the soap class, definitely knew Fang Ming.

"Oh~~ It's the official Fang who used to work in the accounting room of the county lieutenant Cui and then usurped the property of the county lieutenant?" Hu San'er seemed to remember.

Syllable~

Song Genhai slapped him again and scolded: "Why is there so much? It's good to know, don't say much other! ”

Obviously, Song Genhai took the opportunity to be afraid of Cui Geng's sycophants again.

Hu San'er rubbed his head in pain, his face was panicked, and he said depressedly: "During the day, the little one has seen the big officials of Fang go out of the city, as for when he will enter the city, the little one is really not impressed!" ”

"Fang Ming, this grandson has really returned to Qingyuan!" Cui Geng's complexion changed slightly.

When Fang Ming entered the city, Cui Geng didn't care. Because as long as he has been out of the city, it means that he has returned to Qingyuan County before, which means that he has the time to commit crimes in Yangfang. As for the motive for committing the crime, there is no doubt about it. Maggie made him cuckold, which in itself was a motive.

Moreover, Song Wen borrowed the 300 yuan from Tianshun Money Village to open a shop for Mei Ji before, but he disappeared from the scene and couldn't find it, maybe Fang Ming couldn't get along outside, and wanted to come back to play the emotional card with Mei Ji and borrow some money to tide over the difficulties. However, Mei Ji didn't agree, so Fang Ming robbed the money and killed her.

Cui Geng racked his brains to think about Mei Ji's enemies, and the one who could hate her to the point of crushing her throat bone, except for his old Cui family, might be Fang Ming.

The Cui family is naturally impossible, so the most suspicious thing now is naturally Fang Ming.

That's why he wanted to come to the East Gate to confirm if Fang Ming had entered or exited the East Gate. Only when this premise is determined, can Fang Ming be suspected of murder.

After all, there were so many people coming and going in and out of the East Gate every day, and he didn't have much hope that the city guards would remember him, but the slim chance didn't mean that there was no chance.

Now I heard Hu San'er say that Fang Ming really went out of the city during the day, so the suspicion of this guy is not to run.

However, he was worried that Hu San'er had made a mistake or in order to deal with his own nonsense, so he asked again: "Are you sure Fang Ming really went out of the city today?" ”

Hu San'er snorted, nodded and said: "There are many people coming and going during the day, if it is in the past, I may not be able to remember it." But today, the little one dares to guarantee that Fang Daguan has really been out of the city. It was about the time when the gates were opened! Well, it's about five watches! ”

The city gates just opened early in the morning? Five watches?

Cui Geng said secretly that the city gate is usually closed at about seven o'clock in the evening and opened at five o'clock in the morning. Isn't five o'clock in the morning the fifth watch? It must have been not long after Maggie's death......

Fang Ming's suspicion is getting bigger and bigger!

Immediately, he asked, "Why do you remember it so clearly?" ”

Hu San'er said: "My lord, what do you think, when the city gate was just opened on the fifth watch, there were not many people out of the city. And at that time, Fang Daguan was in a hurry, panicked, and still holding a big burden in his hand. He accidentally dropped a few large coins from his baggage, and he forgot to pick them up. In the end, it was cheaper for the villain. Whoa—"

Hu San'er groped in his arms, took out a few Kaiyuan Tongbao, checked them in his hand, and said, "Look, my lord, this kind of cheap thing, how can the small one remember the wrong person?" But it's also evil to say, this big official doesn't miss a search on weekdays, and this time he didn't want to go back and pick up a few big coins, hehe......"

When Cui Geng heard this, he fell into deep thought again.

"Damn, according to what Hu San'er said, it's really as the adults guessed on the road, Fang Ming is the murderer! If he hadn't killed someone, how could he be so panicked, and he would have to leave the city on the fifth watch? ”

Song Genhai was talking, but he snatched the big money in Hu San'er's hand and scolded: "You kid actually let go of Fang Ming, the murderer? Hmph, these big coins are confiscated! ”

Ignoring Hu San'er's scramble, he directly stuffed the three Kaiyuan Tongbao coins into his sleeve pocket.

However, Cui Geng ignored the quarrel between Song Genhai and Hu San'er, but waved at Hu San'er and them, and said, "Okay, there's nothing to do with you, let's go back to the city tower for the night first!" ”

Hu San'er was swallowed up by Song Genhai for a few big coins, and he felt aggrieved in his heart, so he had to hang his head and go up to the city tower.

Seeing this, Song Genhai said: "My lord, Hu San'er and their soap class let go of the murderer, and they must be severely punished." Especially Cripple Wu, this guy has a lot to do! ”

Cui Geng shook his head and said, "They don't know that Fang Ming killed people to get out of the city?" It's none of their business! It is estimated that at this moment, Fang Ming has already left the jurisdiction of Qingyuan County and entered Putian County. In this way, Song Zhutou, you should go back to Zhang Luo ten fast catchers now, and then borrow a few fast horses from the miscellaneous service class. ”

Song Genhai was stunned for a moment, then quickly reacted and said, "Do you want to rush to Putian County now to arrest Fang Ming?" ”

"Well, now that the waterway is not open, and the night road is not easy to walk, so Fang Ming has a ninety percent chance of spending the night in Putian County!"

Cui Geng nodded and urged: "Quick, don't rub it in, wait until dawn for him to leave Putian County, it will be difficult to take him again." ”

"But, but ......"

Song Genhai scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "Once we enter Putian County to arrest the suspect, it will be a cross-border case, which requires the handwriting of Hu County's order." Otherwise, when we arrive in Putian County, it is impossible for the people of Putian County to let us investigate the case and handle the errand! ”

"I can't care so much, this official will go to Putian County with you."

Cui Geng shrugged, spread his hands, and urged helplessly: "Hurry up and prepare, hurry up, and for the rest, wait until you get to Putian County to find a way!" I'm waiting for you right here! ”

"Oh~ The county lieutenant is waiting, I'll go back and recruit people!"

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