Qin Lin didn't rush to ask, but glanced around at the house, sure enough, it was small and old, the ground was a little damp, there was a faint musty smell in the air, the tables and chairs were old and tattered, and a rope was pulled diagonally against the window behind the bed, and seven or eight stinky footcloths were hung.

Smiling slightly, Qin Lin looked at Wang Basan, and asked unhurriedly, "Your concubine is called Sister He Gui, right, when did she disappear?" ”

"If you go back, if you go back to the master, she went out the night before yesterday and didn't come back," replied Wang Bassan cautiously, he was used to being a turtle slave, and the sneer on his face was really natural, and his eyes, nose, and mouth were all squeezed together.

Yu Zhigao and Shen Yourong both nodded, Wang Basan also said the same thing when he reported to the county government, the time was right, the body was found in the early morning of the day before yesterday, that is, after Sister He Gui left home all night.

Qin Lin said again: "How old is Sister He Gui, how fat and thin, how tall she is, whether her complexion is black or white, come one by one!" ”

Wang Bassan didn't even stumble, and replied smoothly: "She is twenty-five years old this year, she is a little thin, her skin is not white, she is a little shorter than me, and she is about this tall." ”

As he spoke, Wang Basan stretched out his hand and compared it to the top of his forehead.

The sailor who recognized Sister He Gui quietly nodded at Qin Lin, the dart master Wang Basan didn't lie, Sister He Gui did look like this.

Wang Basan's stature is relatively short among male surnames, about four feet seven inches, and Sister He Gui is a little shorter than him, that is, about four feet six inches. "Well, it's good, you didn't lie to the official," Qin Lin nodded, and his expression changed to a relaxed expression, "So, is there any unique marks on her body, such as black moles, birthmarks, scars, etc." ”

Wang Basan scratched his head: "Let the little one think about it, oh yes, she has a blue-black birthmark on her buttocks, a black mole on the right side of her neck, and a bruise on her left leg that has been bruised, and there is a finger-thick scar next to her knee, and then there is nothing else." ”

Poof~~ Lu Yuanzhi squirted, God, aren't you playing with us, Sister He Gui has recognizable features everywhere, but what I found was a chest and abdomen without any features, which is too coincidental!

Qin Lin lowered his head and thought for a moment, then suddenly stared at Wang Basan with a cold and lightning-like gaze, and shouted, "She has a red mole on her chest, why don't you say it?" Deliberately conceal it, where is the intention! ”

Everyone present was shocked, there was no red mole on the corpse, what did Qin Lin mean by asking?

Wang Basan was so frightened that he trembled, and said without a preface: "I didn't see the red mole, no, no, there is no red mole on her body." ”

Qin Lin didn't continue to dwell on the issue of the red mole, and asked again: "Then Sister He Gui disappeared and found broken body parts, do you think she has been killed?" Who do you think would kill her? ”

"Of course it's the Westerners!" Wang Bassan said without thinking: "There is a man named Wawei in it, and he pestered Sister Gui endlessly, thinking that Sister Gui did not agree to him, and this person was angry and angry, so he poisoned him." ”

Qin Lin chased after him: "In that case, why didn't you report to the official on the day of her disappearance, and didn't report to the official until the day after the body was found?" ”

Wang Basan laughed: "Master, you also know that Sister Gui is in that business, and after going out, she was left for the night, and even came back for a day or two, and there were before, until the broken corpse was found, and after waiting for another day, Sister Gui has not come back, so the little one panicked and went to report to the official." ”

That's right...... Qin Lin thought for a while, and couldn't find any useful clues from Wang Basan's mouth, so he had to leave with everyone.

As soon as he walked a short distance, he was confronted by a group of fierce and vicious people, who rolled up their sleeves high and walked on their shoulders.

When this group of people saw that Yu Shigao and Shen Yourong were coming from the opposite side, they consciously stood on the side of the road and squeezed out a smiling face.

Yu Zhigao ignored them at all, but Shen Yourong nodded at them, and told Qin Lin that these people were local dock gangs, specializing in loan sharks.

Oh? Qin Lin raised his eyebrows and slowed down.

After a while, there was a burst of ping-pong fighting from a distance, mixed with Wang Basan's shouting: "Uncles, it's not that you don't pay back, Sister Gui is dead, where is the money to pay you back?" If you don't believe it, you go to the yamen and ask, and feed the fish in eight pieces! ”

"Phew, we're bad luck! If Sister Gui hadn't died, she would have been arrested and sold to the ghosts! The scar-faced strong man at the head spat in the face of Wang Basan, and sent people to rush into the house to rummage, but he didn't find anything valuable, so he had to lead his men to go back the same way in a huff.

Qin Lin and his party didn't go far, they just waited for them a little bit around the corner, Scarface was quite surprised when he saw this, and he didn't know what this group of sailors had planned.

"Come on, come on, this Master Qin has something to ask you," Yu Shigao beckoned.

No matter how powerful the dock gang is, they don't dare to say goodbye to the regular sailors, Scarface had to smile bitterly and sing a fat song to Qin Lin: "Master Qin is on top, the little one is polite, I don't know what you want to ask?" ”

Qin Lin said with a smile: "It's none of your business, as long as you tell Sister He Gui about borrowing money from you." ”

Sister He Gui is a secret prostitute, and if she dies, she will die, and there is a sailor to investigate her case? Scarface wondered in his heart, his face was respectful, and he poured beans from the bamboo tube and said it clearly.

It turned out that Wang Basan was very good at gambling, and he lost all the money earned by Sister He Gui, and he still owed a lot of debts, and he could barely support himself by demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall, but if he wanted to borrow new debts, no one would lend him anything.

Two months ago, it was Sister He Gui who found Scarface who was a loan shark and said that she would borrow a sum of money to repair the house and buy some calligraphy and paintings, bonsai and other decorations, so that the business would improve a little.

Sister He Gui's appearance is very ordinary, and it can even be said that she is a little ugly, but she is not afraid to pick up customers, and even the customers from the East and West are willing to accept them, and the business is still passable, Scarface thinks that she decorates the house and adds decorations, and the business may go to the next level, and the repayment is still sure, but it is not good, and she can save the capital by catching Sister He Gui and selling it to the ghost, so she lent her the money.

How do you know that two months have passed, and there is no movement on Sister He Gui's side, and when I asked, I realized that the day after Sister He Gui borrowed money, Wang Basan lost almost a certain amount of money on the gambling table, and Scarface knew what their idea was, and hurriedly forced the debt for three days and two days, becoming more and more fierce day by day.

"Alas, I didn't expect Sister He Gui to be killed, and there were no bones left, which can be regarded as her retribution!" Scarface let out a fake sigh.

Yu Zhigao sneered: "Hmph, if you hadn't forced her to go to the debt and forced her to run away and entangle with the Westerners, how could she have died?" ”

"The small, the small ones also have a lot of losses!" Scarface cried and mourned, and wrenched his fingers to settle the account: "The interest of the interest is twenty-eight taels, not counting it, the capital of fifty taels is full, and the one I copied in her house just now is not even three taels of silver!" That's it, the people are dead, the little ones think they are unlucky, and they don't come to Wang Basan anymore. ”

Qin Lin shook his head slightly, and Yu Zhigao let Scarface get out, he was just a loan shark, and it should not be directly related to the murder.

"Brother Qin, that Wang Basan is very suspicious," Lu Yuanzhi lowered his voice: "Could it be that he is trying to avoid debts and pretend to identify the corpse?" The scarface just now also said that now people can only die and settle accounts, but if Sister He Gui is not dead, he will not be so easy to speak! ”

Qin Lin nodded, his feelings were clearer than Lu Yuanzhi's, and the intuition formed over the years told him that there was something wrong with Sister He Gui and Wang Basan.

However, only three pieces of broken corpses were found, which added up to only the width of a palm, more than a foot long, and only a piece of flesh on the front of the torso, and there were no recognizable features, providing extremely limited clues, how could we find clearer clues?

Qin Lin thought about it, led the crowd back to the mortuary next to the county office, and asked the old man just now: "Has Wang Bassan seen those corpses?" ”

He collected the money, and of course he knew everything and said everything: "Back to the master, after he reported to the official, Master Xue asked him to identify the body." ”

"Dumbfounded!" Qin Lin coldly threw down the four words, turned around and left.

Qi Zuo was taken aback: What kind of person is this, his tone is as loud as a Bafu patrol, but don't say it, look at Yu Shoubei of the water division, he is almost the same as his follower by his side.

Out of the mortuary, Lu Yuanzhi was confused: shouldn't the body be recognized? Xue Zhixian did ...... Qin Lin smiled bitterly, if it is a complete corpse, or it has outstanding features, it is also a conventional method to call the corpse relatives to recognize it, but these three corpses do not have any outstanding features, and they do not involve appearance, even if her own mother comes to recognize them, she is afraid that she will not be able to recognize them, so why let Wang Basan recognize them? unwarrantedly leaked all the information held by the official, giving people who are interested an opportunity to take advantage of!

If it weren't for this, Qin Lin suddenly lied that there was a red mole on the chest of the corpse just now, maybe he would have cheated something.

"Why don't you arrest that guy and torture him?" A brocade-clothed brother is gearing up, and he is not afraid that Wang Basan will not be able to recruit under heavy punishment.

Qin Lin glanced at him: "Do you think we are still Beizhen Fusi?" ”

The lieutenant smiled and touched the top of his head, and then remembered that Chief Qin had been dismissed from all his posts and sent to Qiongzhou Jinyiwei to serve, this is a case that happened to be encountered on the road, how can he have the right to torture to extract confessions? In case some people know about it, it is not beautiful to impeach him for acting illegally on the way to the match.

When the investigation encountered difficulties, Qin Lin became more and more frustrated, originally this case had little to do with him, but since he bumped into it and intervened in it, he had to find out the case.

What's more, he faintly felt in his heart that the behavior of the Portuguese was a bit strange...... Qin Lin immediately dispatched manpower and asked Shen Yourong to return to the water division to mobilize sailors and take a boat to retrieve the sea surface of Yuegang to see if new corpse parts could be found. It is true that it has been two days since the first corpse was found, and the wind and waves have swallowed it by fishing and turtles, and the chance of finding it is very slim, but as long as there is a glimmer of opportunity, Qin Lin will not give up.

"Obey the order, anyway, let's go to sea to practice as a sailor, and it won't take much effort," Shen Yourong agreed without thinking.

Then, Qin Lin asked him to dispatch sailors who were familiar with the local situation, and looked for people everywhere to inquire about whether anyone had seen Sister He Gui after the night before.

"Oh, God, forgive me!" Shouts in Portuguese, mixed with the sound of crackling boards, came from the direction of the county hall.

Xue Xinyan is a middle-aged civil official with a mustache, after he sat on the official case in a public uniform, the wings of the three classes of officials on both sides were lined up, and the two Westerners below were dragged to the ground by the officials, the board crackled and beaten, and the board was full of joy.

"If you don't recruit from the truth, this official will not tolerate mercy!" Xue Xinyan paused, and then sneered: "You Westerners, you are all beasts without kings and fathers, what's so strange about killing people?" Needless to say, then Sister He Gui must have been killed by you! ”

At this time, in the eastern world, the Ming Dynasty was a brilliant Celestial Empire, and it was quite contemptuous of the East and the West, even if Xue Xinyan was a dumb person, there was no pressure at all to beat foreigners, and he would fight when he said he would.

"Merciful God, we're not going to die here, are we?" Rob rolled on the ground, crying and mourning, "Motherland Portugal, I don't have a chance to see the day when you break free from the clutches of Spain!" ”

Wawe was also beaten to the ground, and cried out, "My sweethearts, farewell...... O beautiful princess of the East, you can only let other knights save you! ”

The other Portuguese were so angry that they wanted to beat up Wawe, if it weren't for you and that girl entanglement, where would you have caused today's trouble? We're going to send our lives to the East.

Xue Xinyan sneered, anyway, he was beaten into a trick to make these Westerners confess and obey the law, even if he solved the case, at least he had to have a "judgment and understanding" test.

Besides, Westerners don't understand Chinese law, and they can't find a way to overturn the case with government control, provincial control, and Beijing control, and they are beaten into tricks, and there is really no risk at all as a magistrate!

At this time, the trial was to be made public, and many people outside the threshold of the lobby came to see, compared to Master Xue, the people were much more simple, and they were discussing: "I heard that these Westerners burned, killed, and plundered in Luzon, and they were very fierce and bad. ”

Someone immediately retorted: "What do you say? Luzon is the big franc machine (Spain), these are the little franc machine (Portugal), when the little franc machine people first came, they were also fierce, but they have been very honest in the past few decades, and the little franc machine people in Macao come to us to do business, is there still a few? ”

What the people said was the truth, the Ming Dynasty was quite tough on the Westerners, before and after the Wang Zhi Group and the Zheng Group dominated the sea, the Westerners had to pay them protection money, the government, rented Macao to the Portuguese to do business, but it was very different from the concessions and colonies of later generations, the Portuguese in Macao should be under the jurisdiction of the local county officials, if they broke the law, the county officials unceremoniously beat them on the board, in the eyes of the government, the Portuguese are equivalent to the status of the Tusi people, and the status of ordinary people is lower.

(To be continued)