Wang Xichen and his daughter were arranged to live in a small courtyard in the east corner, and a dedicated maid would deliver all three meals. When Xu Dayong learned that Wang Xichen was still a doctor, he became more respectful.
Kidnapping two people and sending them to the boat, a little girl with no strength to tie a chicken, and a skinny middle-aged scholar, seemed to Xu Dayong an easy and simple matter. In these days, women care about their reputation, and it is difficult for a group of rough men to take action; Xu Dayong decided to tie up Wang Xichen first and use his father to coerce his daughter.
Think of a way and just do it.
In the dark night, Wang Zhenyi was awakened by the noise outside the house and hurriedly lit the candlestick. When she put on her coat and walked to the door to listen, she heard a noise coming from the yard. After a while, her father's low pleading voice came. Got into the ear.
"You guys, please tell me a certain amount of money. I just ask you not to hurt my little girl!"
Wang Zhenyi was shocked. She hurriedly turned around and blew out the candlestick. Then she returned to the bed in the dark and took out an elm slingshot and several clay balls from the package beside the bed.
When Wang Zhenyi was eleven years old, her grandfather passed away. She and her grandmother went to Jilin for the funeral and stayed there for five years. During this period, Wang Zhenyi learned riding and archery from the wife of the local Mongolian governor, and became good at archery. After returning to Guannai, she traveled around with her grandmother and father. But it was always inconvenient for a girl to carry a bow and arrow when going out, so she had someone make a slingshot for self-defense.
At this time, Wang Zhenyi slowly walked to the window with a slingshot, first used her fingers dipped in saliva to pierce the window paper, and carefully observed the situation in the yard.
Under the light and shadow of the torch, I saw two strong men with their faces covered, holding a big wooden stick; another person held a sharp knife and put it on Wang Xichen's neck.
A strong man walked up to the steps outside Wang Zhenyi's house and said in a deep voice: "Girl, I know you heard me. Follow us honestly. If you dare to shout loudly and alert the people in the village, your father's blood will immediately be splashed on the spot!"
Wang Zhenyi didn't say anything. She hung up a clay ball, raised her slingshot, and looked through the holes in the window paper at the thief who was threatening her father with a sharp knife.
In the room of lightning and flint, Wang Zhenyi released her right hand, and a mud ball that had been dried and hardened by the sun passed through the hole in the window with a "swish", and hit the one holding the sharp blade with a "pop!" On hand.
"Clang!"
"Ouch! That woman hit me with a slingshot..."
"She hit me on the head!"
"Ouch~~my nose!"
At this time, Wang Zhenyi, who was hiding in the house, rushed out with a bag on her back, stepped forward to help her father up, and said, "Dad, let's go quickly!"
With a "clang", the courtyard door was pushed open from the outside, and Xu Dayong rushed in with someone.
Seeing the three people sitting on the ground, covering their hands, foreheads and noses and screaming, Xu Dayong never expected that the seemingly frail young woman was actually a practitioner. This was like a thief from his hometown meeting a young girl. What a coincidence!
Wang Xichen, who was hiding under the corridor, looked surprised when he saw Xu Da used it, and said quickly: "Manager Xu, hurry up, catch these thieves!"
"Dad, they are in a group!" Wang Zhenyi looked coldly at Xu Dayong and others who were dressed exactly the same as the three thieves before, and raised the slingshot again; but the problem was that she only had one clay ball left at the moment.
"Ah?!" Wang Xichen was frightened and confused just now, but now he just reacted. "Manager Xu, what's the problem between my father and my daughter? Why do you want to harm me?"
Xu Dayong looked at the injury of one of them by the light of the torch. He saw that the other person's forehead was already swollen. He touched it with his hand, and the man screamed in pain. He raised his hand to look at the foreign matter on his hand under the light of the torch, and then realized it was loess.
"Niwan?" Xu Dayong was shocked, then waved his hands and said: "Tie them up, tie them up, look at what happened."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Zhenyi was seen holding a slingshot and shouting angrily: "Don't come over! I'll blind anyone who comes!"
When the several strong men holding ropes heard this, they couldn't help but stop hesitantly. I turned around and looked at the three guys behind me who were still shouting "ouch ouch", and thought to myself that the little girl's slingshot was too accurate. What if she really wanted to break her eyes?
Xu Da covered his forehead helplessly, thinking that this was too embarrassing. A group of grown men were frightened by a woman. If this spreads out, people will laugh to death in the future!
He angrily kicked the companion next to him on the butt, and cursed: "That's a clay pill! You can't kill anyone! Hit them all!"
A group of spies from Beihai Town didn't care about the men's and women's defense, and turned sideways to surround him. At this time, Xu Dayong suddenly felt a black shadow coming in front of him, and he hurriedly raised his arm to block it.
With a "pop!", a mud ball hit his forearm, causing Xu Da to grin with his teeth in pain. I thought I should have just brought a pot lid from the kitchen to use as a shield.
In fact, the power of Wang Zhenyi's clay balls is still low. If they were dried in the shade and then burned in the fire to make pottery, the beating would be even more severe.
But it was too late to say anything now. The father and daughter were tied up and a handkerchief was stuffed in their mouths. After that, they were pushed into two small sedans and carried directly to a sand boat parked outside Zhuangzi.
Not to mention how the Wang family and their daughters regretted their mistake in befriending bandits along the way, or lamented their future fate; just when Zhao Xin was inspecting spring plowing, something big happened in Fuldan City.
The cause of this incident also starts with the hunting team.
After entering April, the snow in the primitive mountain forests of the outer Northeast has melted and the weather has warmed up, and the wild animals that have survived the winter have begun to come out to look for food. In this lean season, the sprouting wheat in Beihai Town and Fuldan City has become the best target for many wild beasts. In contrast, protecting wheat fields has become a top priority for farmers.
It is relatively easy to patrol the fields during the day, just to chase away the geese and wild ducks returning from the north. But in the cold nights, wild boars, badgers, wolves, and bears all come out, and sometimes the roar of tigers can be heard. The farmers were on duty at night in the thatched shed on the field. Apart from the half-grown yellow dog, there was a bonfire that burned all night long.
So as in previous years, hunting teams were organized in the two places to hunt birds during the day and wolves, wild boars and badgers at night. As for the meat and skins hunted, it doesn't matter. After all, the beasts in spring really don't have much to gain.
The members of the hunting team are usually sent by the army, in groups of three or five; one of them holds a powerful lever rifle, and the other two are standard rifles.
Three days ago, a hunting team from Fuldan City encountered a herd of wild boars while out hunting.
As the old saying goes, one pig, two bears and three tigers. Wild boars are stupider and dumber than bears. They like to rub against pine trees, and the tree oil will cover their bodies. They also like to roll all over the ground, covered with sand and stones. Their bodies seem to be covered with a thick layer of armor. Sometimes SKS cannot hit them with a single shot. Tooru, you have to use a lever rifle with magnum bullets.
Moreover, the head of a wild boar is longer than that of a domestic pig, with two upturned tusks exposed from its mouth, and its small eyes always look vicious. If you mess with it, it will start to fight for people's lives. It will even bite and pick with teeth, causing people to be injured even if they don't die.
A new recruit in this hunting team was chasing a fleeing wild boar when he spotted a big one. He hit the pig in the hind legs. Although the pig was a little lame, it still ran as fast as it could. Later, the recruit chased him as far as two miles without realizing it.
This was in the forest. It was almost dusk and the light in the forest was somewhat dim. When the pigs came to a piece of grass one by one, the pig seemed to be dying. It slowly stopped and finally lay on the ground motionless. The recruit was more than a hundred meters away from it and was inexperienced. When he was about to go up and shoot again, the pig miraculously raised its head and turned around, and rushed towards him with its fangs straight out. This was a fateful move. The recruit was caught off guard and was kicked over by the mature boar. When he landed on the ground, his stomach was pierced by a dry branch on the ground and his head was also hit with a big wound.
Later, the wild boar was killed by other hunting team members who caught up, and the recruit was sent to the hospital in Fuldan City overnight for treatment. It should have been a blessing to have survived the disaster, but unexpectedly something happened to the recruit on the second night after he was admitted to the hospital!
It was around three o'clock in the middle of the night, and the hospital staff on duty were making routine inspections with flashlights on. Because it's too dark at night, the patrols usually take place in teams of three, one guard and two nurses.
It is said that since a large number of refugees moved to Fuldan City last year, various work-related accidents have occurred from time to time, and the originally small hospital ward has been overcrowded.
After a group of three people came out of the duty room, they went to the ward to check on the patient's condition. The hospital in Fuldan City originated from the field hospital of the year before last. The wards were not one long strip next to each other, but separate wooden huts.
Just when the three of them arrived at the first ward and had not finished checking, there was a sudden call from Ward No. 3, and then they heard a man shouting: "Someone is here! Someone is here! Someone is in trouble. Got it!"
When the three people on duty heard the call for help, they immediately ran to Ward No. 3 to check the situation. After entering, they saw the patient near the door lying on the bed with his face facing out and waving his hands. Two nurses thought it was something wrong with the patient, so they immediately stepped forward. Go check out the situation.
The patient was hit by a tree trunk while logging and had a broken leg, so he could only lie in bed and call for help. When the nurse asked the patient what was wrong with him, the patient quickly said it was not him. Then he pointed to the bed by the window, signaling the nurses to look over there. Only then did the nurse notice that the patient's abdomen was bright red, and the blood stained the white sheets.
Only then did the nurse remember that this person was the member of the hunting team who was brought in yesterday. Due to the emergency situation, the nurse thought it was a recurrence of the injury and started resuscitation without even having time to think about it. But when they took off the bandages of the hunting team members, they discovered that this was not heavy bleeding caused by a recurrence of the injury at all. This was someone stabbing the injured person directly with a knife, and even ruthlessly turning the knife around the injured person's abdomen. Circle, twisting out a big bloody hole. Although the nurses tried their best to save her. But because it was discovered too late and there was no way to save it, a soldier who had just completed recruit training and was transferred to the combat unit was killed.
On the night of the incident, all security police in Beihai Town were dispatched, sealing off the entire hospital and restricting everyone's access. But after a restless night, the security police searched the hospital carefully all night, but found no suspicious persons and no murder weapon.
Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng found out about this early the next morning, and they were all shocked. This was the first homicide in the history of Beihai Town. Because the victim was still a soldier in the army, Liu Sheng cursed angrily and ordered a company of troops to patrol outside the hospital 24 hours a day to prevent similar situations from happening again.
Zhao Xin quickly sent a telegram to notify Beihai Town, asking Katayama and Wang Yuanfang to strengthen the security of all departments.
But next, how to solve this case?
Liu Sheng is very busy now. His most important task at the moment is to keep an eye on the defenses of Karen and Dongning in Mongolia and monitor the movements of the Qing army at any time. In addition, Wu Xiha from Zak Sulu's tribe came to Fuldan City again to find Liu Sheng. This girl has already made up her mind and is determined to marry Liu Sheng.
At the moment, Zhao Xin is also busy with summer exercises. Every day he is either meeting with Sheng Haizhou or discussing map issues with Lin Ziping.
The security police in Beihai Town have been involved in fights and arrests of spies in recent years, but this is the first time a murder has occurred. Zhao Xin thought about it, and finally decided to hand it over to the local security police chief Yonejiro. He also transferred Chen Jishan, who had recently been promoted to his bodyguard, to cooperate. At the same time, he ordered a company of garrison troops to cooperate with the two men's actions at any time.
Such a big thing happened in the jurisdiction, which really frightened the police chief Yonejiro, fearing that Zhao Xin would lose his job. After Chen Jishan came to report with Zhao Xin's order, the two of them immediately rushed to the hospital and met with Qi Bingwei, the security policeman who had been waiting here.
Saihei was transferred from Beihai Town with Yonejiro. He also participated in the search on the night of the incident and had a better understanding of the current situation.
After the three of them found a free office in the hospital and sat down, Yonejiro asked Saihei to introduce the current situation.
"On the night of the incident, twenty minutes after we received the news, we conducted a search of the entire hospital. Unfortunately, no outsiders came in or out after nine o'clock that night. The guard and two nurses who were on duty that night were Three rounds of ward inspections were conducted, and it was discovered that the victim was injured during the third round of inspections, but there was a ten-minute interval between the third round of inspections and the second round of inspections, and the victim's condition was still normal during the second round of inspections."
Chen Jishan didn't say anything. He had never been a police officer. He had no problem arresting people, but he was not good at analyzing the case.
In fact, Yonejiro knew all these situations, and the purpose of asking Qi Bingwei to introduce them was to tell Chen Jishan. Seeing that Chen Jishan did not speak, Yonejiro nodded and said: "This means that the murder occurred within these ten minutes. You continue."
Saibei continued: "After the incident, we inspected the murder scene and found no traces on the windows. It supposedly rained lightly last night and there was wet mud outside the window. If the murderer climbed in through the window, there would be It left footprints, but we carefully checked the wet mud and found no footprints. According to my guess, the murderer could only enter the ward through the door. After all, the nurses have to enter the ward to check the situation during inspections, which means that every once in a while There will be no one outside the door, which just allows the murderer to take advantage of it."
After the three people had a small meeting, they questioned the other three patients living in Ward 3. All three said they did not hear any unusual noises before the third round of inspections, and by the time everyone was awakened, something had already happened.
At this time, Chen Jishan suggested going to the crime scene to take a look, so the three of them came to ward No. 3 to check. At the moment, Beihai Town doesn't have any fingerprint database, and no one in Chuanzhong knows how to collect fingerprints. Yonejiro and the other three looked inside the house for a long time, but found no new clues.
When the three returned to the public security police office, Yonejiro asked Chen Jishan for his opinion.
Chen Jishan pondered for a moment, held his thin chin with one hand, furrowed his thick eyebrows, and said slowly: "Judging from the current situation, I estimate that the murderer is probably inside the hospital."
Yonejiro raised his eyebrows, and his young face showed a cunning that was not suitable for his age. He said with compliments: "As expected of the person next to His Highness King Zhao, Mr. Chen is really powerful."
Chen Jishan said with some embarrassment: "Chief Inspector Mi is too praiseworthy. I really don't understand the criminal names. Tell me what you think."
Yonejiro said: "Mr. Chen, I wonder if you have noticed that the hospital is surrounded by residential buildings, and there is a circle of dwarf trees planted outside the hospital wall. If someone climbs in from outside the hospital, they will inevitably trample and knock over these dwarf trees. But we went around the hospital and found nothing like this, which means the murderer must be someone from within the hospital."
Chen Jishan then reported Yonejiro's judgment to Zhao Xin, which shocked Zhao Xin into a cold sweat. He knew that if Yonejiro's judgment was accurate, it meant that the murderer was still hiding inside the hospital. If this person is not found out for a day, other patients in the hospital will still be at risk, which is a huge hidden danger.
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