The catchers first found Qi Qin's family at Qi's house, she didn't know where her husband went, Qi Dalang went out to eat, drink and gamble as soon as he had money, and the fifty taels of silver that the Gu family lost was not a small amount, enough for him to live happily for a while, so he has hardly returned home recently.

Since this is the case, the catchers immediately searched the Qinglou Chu Pavilion, black gambling stalls, and secret doors inside and outside Qiongzhou Mansion, but they found nothing, and in all the places where Qi Dalang often went, they did not find his whereabouts.

At the end of the day, Li Dazui, the head catcher of Qiongzhou Mansion, returned to the mansion dejectedly, and reported on the work of the half-day, seeing that Tang Jingting was blushing and wanted to set a limit, which was related to the safety and survival of his ass, he hurriedly knelt down and said: "Master Qiyu, although the little one didn't catch Qi Dalang, but he also gained a little, mentioned a few of his fox friends and dog friends, and asked more or less something." ”

Oh? Tang Jingting and Hai Rui looked at each other and smiled, and hurriedly called for those guys to be brought in, so they didn't set a limit for Li Dazui.

Qin Lin lowered his head and groaned, no one knew what he was thinking.

It was different when Li Dazui went out, his face was full of ferocity, and he slipped three wine and meat friends who often ate, drank and had fun with Qi Dalang into the mansion.

These three people are not good citizens, they know the tide, and when they enter the lobby, they kneel down and kowtow repeatedly.

Tang Jingting slapped the startled wood, shook up the official authority and shouted: "Well, the hall is honest, what has Qi Dalang moved, what has he said, and what he has done in the past few days, but there is a half-sentence difference, be careful of your ass!" ”

The first rotten guy cried with a sad face: "Master Qiyu, the little Huang Shilang, and Qi Dalang are friends, recently he got fifty taels of windfall from the Gu family, and everyone pulled him to eat and drink, and he didn't do anything else except eat, drink, and gamble...... That's right, I remember the day before yesterday that he said that he was going to do a big thing, and since then he has raised his eyebrows! ”

Big thing, raise your eyebrows? Hai Rui was originally an old god, but when he heard this, his eyes widened and his ears were raised, and Tang Jingting became more and more energetic.

Only Qin Lin didn't move, and he was always out of the world.

The second leprosy dwarf also hurriedly said: "Yes, Qi Dalang was drunk yesterday afternoon, and said that Gu Jiate is not a thing, and there must be revenge and revenge." ”

"He also said that he wanted to make a fortune, and he knocked the Gu family hard or something, and asked me if I had five hundred taels of silver, and could I redeem myself for the top brand of Chunyixuan, Cuixi girl," added the third thin man with a plaster on his forehead.

Huang Shilang laughed with him, and said to Tang Jingting: "He is a toad who wants to eat swan meat, and he doesn't look in the mirror to see what virtue he has, five hundred taels of silver, even if he kills him, he can't take it out!" Sir, you say yes, right? ”

Tang Jingting snorted heavily in his nose, waved the sleeves of his robe, and ordered the three unscrupulous people to be imprisoned, and if they couldn't find Qi Dalang for a day, they would not be let go for a day.

The three of them shouted in the hall that they were wronged, where did Li Dazui pay attention to these? With a pack of wolves and tigers, the eagle grabbed them and took them down.

"It turned out that Qi Dalang deliberately blackmailed, and the matter didn't work out, so he killed Gu Kedu in anger," Hai Rui let out a long breath, and his heart was indeed a lot lighter - if Qi Dalang didn't complain and retaliated because he didn't get angry, his previous ruling of "It's better to give in to the township eunuchs, it's better to give in to the small people", the responsibility is very heavy.

Tang Jingting said playfully: "When Qi Dalang committed the crime, he imitated the Three Bridges mystery case, intending to get through the trick, but I don't know that Skynet is magnificent and negligent, and in the end the teacher finds out the truth, hum, the student will send a sea fishing document, Qiongzhou is surrounded by the sea, forgive him for being difficult to fly!" ”

After that, Tang Jingting also looked at Qin Lin proudly, and said in his heart, aren't you like electricity, judging yin and yang? But in this case, the murder weapon was just found under the bridge, or did we solve the case! Next, as long as Qi Dalang is arrested, the whole case will be over.

Qin Lin smiled noncommittally, lowered his head and said to himself: "It's so easy to solve the case......

"What, what do you think?" Bai Shuanghua used the kung fu of sound transmission to talk to Qin Lin.

Qin Lin rubbed his nose, "Qi Dalang is like a dog, he can do it to blackmail, but if he kills someone, I'm afraid he won't dare to borrow his guts, right?" ”

Tang Jingting had already written the documents for sea fishing, stamped them with the big seal of the Qiongzhou prefect, and immediately sent them to all counties under the jurisdiction of the Qiongzhou Prefecture overnight, telling them to work together to arrest Qi Dalang as soon as possible.

It is destined that this sea fishing document will not be able to get out of the government office, and before he can go out with the documents at night, he can hear the bangzi beating like a drum in the distance, and the chaotic footsteps are coming towards the government office.

"Oh no, no," a few people dressed as ground guards and lieutenant chiefs poured into the palace with lanterns and torches, shouting and shouting.

Syllable! Tang Jingting slapped the startled wood again, and scolded sharply: "If there is anything to come quickly, don't make noise!" ”

Everyone pushed out a land security and said to the top: "Big lord, the small ones are the land security and township covenants of Wuligou in the east of the city, because a corpse was found in the ditch, and they were about to go to Qiongshan County to report for the first time, and someone recognized that the dead was Qi Dalang, who you want to arrest, so everyone came to the mansion." ”

What, Qi Dalang died in the ditch?

Everyone was shocked, and Tang Jingtinghuo, who was originally sitting on the Taishi chair, stood up suddenly: "How did he die?" ”

"Look, it looks like a suicide in fear of sin," said the dibao, adding that in the place where the body was found, there was a large stone with eight words engraved on it: Great revenge, atonement for sins with death.

Suicide? Tang Jingting was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and said continuously: "Haha, it's good to die, it's good to die, it's innocent to die!" Hai Qingtian is like a god in judging the case, my lord, I am thundering, Qi Dalang knew that it was difficult to escape the law, so he had to die, but he saved a lot of things for the government. ”

"After all, it's a human life!" Hai Rui sighed and said: "The so-called self-inflicted evil cannot live, he deliberately extorts and kills people without anger, and he is also to blame for coming to this point." ”

Is it really suicide? Qin Lin looked at them with a smile: "I want to go to the scene to have a look, and then it's not too late to draw conclusions, Mr. Hai, what do you say?" ”

Of course, of course, Hai Rui nodded again and again, his old face was a little red, for the sake of his own peace of mind, this conclusion was indeed a little too hasty.

Tang Jingting muttered with a dark face, but it was inconvenient to oppose it publicly, after all, human life is at stake, and the magistrate must be present for inspection, otherwise it will be difficult to say if the political enemy impeaches you for disregard of human life.

The group set out from the palace, when the sun had already set, and the sky was dark, so everyone hurried under the night with lamps and torches.

Fortunately, Wuligou is not far from the city, as the name suggests, it is Wuli Road, Qin Lin and Tang Jingting rode horses, Hai Rui sat in a sedan chair, and the sedan chair driver ran sweaty, and it took about a quarter of an hour to arrive at the place where the body was found.

Wuligou is called Gou, which is actually a river sandwiched between two hills, and the terrain is more tortuous and complicated, and there are some bare big stones on both banks.

The riverbed was deep and shallow, and ran between two hills, forming pools of various sizes, one of which was surrounded by a number of villagers, and the ground was covered with a corpse with a straw mat, and the two feet sticking out of the straw mat were bloodless, and the color became more and more pale in the light of the torches.

Hai Rui and Tang Jingting instructed him to go up for an autopsy, and Qin Lin noticed that on a big stone next to the waterhole, white handwriting was carved with sharp stones, which was the eight big characters of "Great revenge is avenged, atonement for sin with death", which was a single line, and it looked like it was carved in a hurry and scribbled.

He quickly examined the corpse and replied: "The deceased is Qi Dalang, a citizen of Qiongshan County, twenty-seven years old, with a white face and a slight beard in the middle of his body, five feet and one inch long, his whole body is cold, his face is bloodless, his five fingers are hooked, there is mud and sand in his mouth and nose, there are no suspicious scars all over his body, and the cause of death is actually drowning in water. ”

Hmm, Hai Rui nodded, it was indeed drowned, without any injuries, so the conclusion that he committed suicide by throwing himself into the water is very reliable.

Tang Jingting also breathed a sigh of relief, and even thought about whether Qi Dalang committed suicide in fear of crime, should he also push the previous Three Bridges mystery case on him? I'm afraid that the murderer of the Three Bridges mystery case will commit the crime again, so it's hard to say...... At this time, Qi Qin's family was also brought by the servants, her hair was scattered, her expression was sad, and when she saw Qi Dalang lying stiffly, tears were dripping from her eyes, but she gritted her teeth and didn't cry for a while, and then knelt down towards Qin Lin with a plop, knocking her head three times.

Qin Lin unhurriedly stretched out his hand to help, and Bai Shuanghua took a step forward, helped Qi Qin's family up, and whispered relief in her ear.

"Ask Chief Qin to administer justice for the clumsy man!" Qi Qin's eyes were as red as a peach, and he looked at Qi Dalang with great complexity: "Although, although he treats me badly, he is my husband after all...... I also know that he is a bastard, but, but he can't be so ruthless, whether it is to Master Gu or to himself! ”

Right! Bai Shuanghua felt the same way, and nodded towards Qin Lin, a pustule decaying person like Qi Dalang, a typical thief has no thief guts, there is no problem in extorting money, whether it is murder or suicide, does he have the courage and determination?

"Let's take a look at these words, is it Qi Dalang's handwriting?" Qin Lin pointed to the eight words on the rock.

Qi Qinshi said suspiciously: "It's like it, but the carving on this stone is a little out of shape after all." ”

Qi Dalang's family was very passable in his early years, and he studied in a private school for a few years, and later lost his family by eating, drinking, and gambling, so it was not a problem for him to write.

Tang Jingting sneered: "Brother Qin, don't waste your efforts, the corpse relatives have recognized his handwriting, what else do you have to say?" ”

Qin Lin ignored him and looked at Qi Qin's family: "Qi Dalang is eating, drinking, and gambling outside, and there should be a lot of IOUs in the gambling stalls, credit in restaurants, and bureau tickets written by the girl, right?" ”

Qi Qin nodded inexplicably.

"In other words, his handwriting is not difficult to imitate," Qin Lin smiled slightly, pointed to the words on the stone and said loudly: "This stone is uneven, and the inscription on it must be out of shape, plus the use of stone to engrave and write with a pen is very different in terms of the direction and strength of the pen, so if others deliberately imitate Qi Dalang's writing, it will be difficult for us to recognize!" ”

(To be continued)