When Liu Wei heard this, he couldn't help but stood up and asked in shock.
"What did you say? Someone died?"
"who is it?"
The young man still looked frightened and said tremblingly.
"Sir, it's Shopkeeper Li from the butcher shop!"
"When I went to buy meat this morning, I found that shopkeeper Li's butcher shop was not open. I thought he might not be up yet, so I went directly to his house, but after knocking on the door for a long time, no one answered."
"I kicked the door open with several people who wanted to buy meat, and saw shopkeeper Li lying in a pool of blood. We were so frightened that we hurriedly ran to report the arrival of the official!"
Upon hearing this, Liu Wei suddenly became energetic and quickly called the government servant next to him.
"Let's go and take a look at the murder scene!"
The government officials were a little hesitant. They had been here for so many years, and Zhao County had always been a very peaceful place. There had never been a life-threatening lawsuit.
This time when I heard about such a thing, I suddenly lost my opinion, so I asked Liu Wei.
"Sir, how about we go and wake up the county magistrate?"
Liu Wei shook his head directly, waved his hand and said.
"Don't call him, he won't be of much help if he comes over."
"Let's go take a look first!"
Liu Wei thought to himself that after all, he was also a guard with a sword in front of the emperor, and he also had some experience in these things.
After I go there, I will definitely be able to see whether it was suicide or homicide, or find some clues.
But Zhao Feng's frail demeanor doesn't look like someone with talent in this area at all. Letting him go may destroy the clues. What's more, if Zhao Feng goes there, he will have to listen to Zhao Feng in everything, so what? Is there enough autonomy?
When the government officials heard this, they could only sigh silently. They did not dare to refute Liu Wei's words. After all, Liu Wei's background was much greater than that of Zhao Feng.
Liu Wei and the government servants hurried to the door of shop owner Li of the butcher shop. Many people had gathered here to watch the excitement. Fortunately, in this era, the dead were still very taboo, so they did not have the guts to go in. There was no damage to the scene.
Liu Wei called the young man who had reported the crime before and asked him directly.
"Other than you, who else discovered Shopkeeper Li's body with you?"
The young man named several people, and Liu Wei spoke directly to the government officials.
"Take these people aside and conduct separate interviews to see what the circumstances were like when they found the body."
The government officials all nodded in agreement and took all the villagers who had discovered the murder scene aside for questioning.
Liu Wei himself walked directly into the yard, looked at the body carefully, and found that the body was stabbed directly into his left shoulder with a sharp knife used to kill pigs. The sharp knife penetrated deep into the neck of the deceased. Killed with one knife.
In addition, the deceased was also wearing a leather apron covered with oil stains, which was probably worn when killing pigs.
Liu Wei looked at the body and searched for it in the yard. He couldn't help but shook his head and sighed.
The place where the deceased died was in the center of the entire courtyard, four or five steps away from the house where he lived and the door.
According to the situation at the scene, there seemed to be no signs of a fight, and since the deceased lived alone, there were no other witnesses.
Just after Liu Wei's search ended, the government officials also returned here and reported to Liu Wei.
"Sir, those people have already greeted each other. Although these people knew each other, they did not have any deep communication, and their confessions were consistent. They discovered the body of the deceased together."
Liu Wei nodded and gave instructions to the government officials.
"Go to the house and continue searching to see if there are any other clues?"
The government officials quickly ran into the house, and soon a government official came out with a piece of paper.
"Sir, a suicide note was found, written by the deceased!"
Liu Wei took the suicide note and looked at it, and found that the ink on it had dried. It clearly stated that shopkeeper Li slaughtered pigs and sheep every day. He felt that he was guilty, so he committed suicide with a butcher knife.
After seeing this suicide note, Liu Wei couldn't help but sigh and said to the government officials.
"I thought there was a homicide, but now it seems that the deceased should have committed suicide. It seems that we can close the case."
"Tell Wu Zuo to take the body back! Inform the family of the deceased to come to the Yamen to claim it!"
The government officials couldn't help but sigh, but they were still a little lucky in their hearts. After all, the folk customs in this county had always been very simple, and no murders had occurred.
At this time, if there was a homicide, they still had to investigate, so they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw that the deceased committed suicide.
Liu Wei was a little helpless, thinking that he had finally encountered something related to his expertise. Unexpectedly, the deceased actually committed suicide. It seemed that his expertise was not used.
Soon, Wu Zuo carried away the body of the deceased. It needed to be placed in the county government office for inspection to see if there were any other conditions on the body of the deceased, and then the family members of the deceased could be notified to come and claim the body.
As soon as Liu Wei returned to the county government office, he saw Zhao Feng walking over to look at the body out of curiosity. After looking at it for a while, he came over and asked Liu Wei.
"Do you think the deceased committed suicide?"
Liu Wei nodded and took out the deceased's suicide note.
"Sir, this is the deceased's suicide note. Judging from this suicide note, the deceased should have committed suicide."
After Zhao Feng read the suicide note, he couldn't help but shake his head and smile.
"No, the deceased was a homicide!"
"The murderer of this murder is someone else. You'd better investigate carefully."
Upon hearing this, Liu Wei couldn't help being stunned for a moment, then frowned and asked Zhao Feng.
"Why do you say this, sir?"
"Is it possible that there is already a suicide note? Can this matter still be false?"
Zhao Feng couldn't help but shook his head, sighed, and said to Liu Wei.
"The problem lies in this suicide note. Please read this suicide note carefully."
"Have you noticed that there are ink spots on the right side of these words?"
Liu Wei looked at the suicide note and found that there were ink spots splashed on the right side of several words.
Zhao Feng picked up a writing brush, tried writing on a piece of white paper, and then said to Liu Wei.
"Did you see it? Our writing habit is to write from top to bottom and from right to left."
"At this time, the person's hand will be on the right side of the words. If there are ink spots, they will not drip on the right side of the words."
"Only when writing with the left hand, the ink droplets will not be blocked by the hand and sleeve when they fall, so it can be judged that the person who wrote this suicide note should be left-handed."
