Lin Linyou and Zhang Bi were cooking wine around the stove, waiting for Yang Fang to come back from buying meat and vegetables.
The tabby cat curled up next to the charcoal stove with its eyes narrowed, like a round ball.
"Second brother, second brother, you've been shot!" Yang Fang shouted loudly as soon as he entered the door, carrying wine and meat.
"What? The second brother was shot?" Zhang Bi stretched his neck and asked.
"Ci'ao! Who is playing with me?" Lin Linyou thought to himself that he was low-key enough, "Come on, third brother, sit down, put the meat in the pot, and talk while eating."
"The Li Ke is in trouble, Xia Di," Yang Fang pulled out his armchair, "I impeach you for causing trouble in the Jiaofang Division. But after he impeached you, I will send someone to check his background. This guy is Hongwu Thirty-four Jinshi in the third year of Jianwen (Jianwen 3rd year), second brother, why do you think he impeached you?"
"Isn't it because I caused trouble in Jiaofangsi?"
Yang Fang shook his head and said with a smile: "Before you, this person was the one who often visited Miss Si Yu in Jiaofang... Beauty is a disaster, second brother!"
"This bitch!" Lin Linyou cursed, thinking that his taste was the same as mine.
"But you don't have to worry too much." Yang Fang said, "The emperor only asked Xia Di and Commander Ji to investigate you together. Commander Ji doesn't care. We must find a time to give him a gift or something to one of our own. That’s easy to talk about. Not to mention that you have Minister Xu from the Ministry of Industry to speak for you!... Hey, it’s a pity that the emperor said that merits and demerits balance out. You had a chance to be promoted to a hundred households, but now I’m afraid you have no chance..."
"It's okay." Lin Linyou was very satisfied with his performance as the general banner. He was majestic to others and not too ostentatious to others. "Third brother, you, the little banner, have to climb up. I gave it to you last time. Didn’t you catch those private salt dealers?”
"Second brother, look at what you said. If I'm not busy with the Jiaofang Division's cases with you all day long, how can I have time to arrest them?"
Zhang Bi said: "Jinghu Lilie, you hang out with the female head catcher all day long, don't get involved with us! Do you also know that beauty is a disaster?"
"Brother, what you said..." Yang Fang said, "The reason why Captor Ren and I are together is to handle the case!"
"Speaking of the case... The boss has spoken, allowing the three of us to supervise the case." Zhang Bi said: "It's best for you to have less contact with the female catcher recently, let alone let her participate in the case, not only because The order from above is for your own good. If Ren’s enemies find an opportunity to impeach her for the crime of arrogance of having a private transfer to Jinyi Official School, both of you will be done with it, and maybe I and Er will be implicated as well. younger brother."
Yang Fang shook his head repeatedly, "What the elder brother said is absolutely true, I will pay attention to it."
"The boss asked the three of us to supervise this case?" Lin Linyou just learned about it.
"Yes! I don't want to wait for my third brother to come back and talk to you together!" Zhang Bi said, "Do you think what we did before can escape their eyes?"
"That's good. The name is justifiable, and the operation is more stable." Lin Lin said, "Otherwise, I would be a little nervous and walking on thin ice."
"Brother, speaking of which, I forgot to ask you. Those two people are dead. What secrets do they have? Brother, you haven't told us yet!"
"Who? Which two people? What secret?" Zhang Bi pretended.
"Those two people you asked us to monitor! They are dead now." Yang Fang said, "But I have always been curious, all roads lead to Rome. What does Rome here mean? Is it related to the Jiaofang Division case? ?”
Zhang Bi didn't look at Yang Fang, but glanced at Lin Linyou intentionally or unintentionally, and said: "Rome is just mules and horses! What else can it mean? All roads lead to Rome, which means riding on mules and horses. It will be smooth.”
"Oh, that's what you mean..." Yang Fang nodded doubtfully, "What about the factory owner? Why do they say that our Jin Yiwei is the factory owner's dog?"
"Factory Master... should be a personal name." Zhang Bi began to talk nonsense, "I don't know the details. I think those two people must have a grudge against Jin Yiwei, so they slandered him."
"He deserves to die... Then I think we should investigate the factory owner." Yang Fang patted the armrest of the armchair, "Maybe, one of our Jinyi Guards really became his dog."
"Well, third brother, go check it out!" Lin Linyou noticed Zhang Bi's eyes, but deliberately didn't look in his direction, just staring at the meat in the pot.
This time I cooked venison.
As the water in the pot boiled and the aroma of meat overflowed, the tabby cat opened its squinted eyes and meowed, obviously greedy.
"Let me ask, is this greedy cat a token of love between you and Capt. Ren?" Zhang Ben asked Yang Fang with a smile.
Yang Fang's face turned red: "What are you talking about? Brother, she and I are just ordinary friends. We usually only communicate on cases."
"Oh, no in-depth communication?" Lin Linyou also teased him.
Zhang Bi said: "Second brother, if they get married, you are a great matchmaker and you will inevitably ask third brother for a red wedding bag."
The three of them chatted and laughed, drank and ate meat. As the food and wine gradually faded away, the topic slowly returned to the case.
"This time the three of us are called upon to check. We are not like before, where we can check whenever we want and give up when we want to." Zhang Bi said, "It's stressful!"
"What's the deadline?" Yang Fang asked.
"Years ago."
"Years ago? There are only a few days left!" Yang Da was startled and raised his fingers, "One, two...it only lasts for more than half a month! Hey, I'm afraid I won't be able to go home to celebrate the New Year this year..."
Zhang Bi said: "Are you still thinking about celebrating the New Year? It would be nice to solve the case and save your head."
Several people's expressions became grim.
"What do you think of this case?" Lin Linyou asked, "Any murder crime must have a motive. Now, we don't even know what the murderer's motive is."
"If it was a vendetta, how could he have so many enemies?" Yang Fang thought.
"If it's a robbery, these offenders are all paupers. It's okay to have two sons left in the pocket of the Jiaofang Secretary." Zhang Ben said, "And it's also recorded in the file that there is no sign of property loss."
"There can be so many enemies!" Lin Linyou thought of the eleven people he beat with Baji Fist last time, and said decisively, "It should be a vendetta, but the murder only happened in Nanshi Building, which means the murderer was not He has hatred for all the hawkers, but only for the hawkers in Nanshilou."
"Where does hatred come from?" Zhang Ben asked.
"The dead customers were all private craftsmen who behaved rudely. The customers they met were all the lowest-ranking and most miserable people in Jiaofangsi... In Jiaofangsi, most of those who couldn't bear the humiliation and committed suicide were For such people, is it possible that the murderer killed so many people just to avenge them?"
"It's possible." Yang Fang nodded, "That means that the murderer has interacted with these fans in Nanshi Building? Even, they have a close relationship!"
"There are many people who have interacted with Jiaofangsi fans. You and I have communicated with them!" Zhang Bi said.
"But the fans who interact with you and me are the last two." Lin Lin lobbied. "The scope has been narrowed. Those who interact with the fans on the bottom floor of Nanshi Building are either military craftsmen who live near Nanshi Building. A civilian household, or...he lives in a building in Zhongnan City!"
"You mean, those turtle teapots and the like?"
"Yes, it makes sense." Zhang Bi nodded, "But there is no way to investigate. We can't pull out all the military craftsmen and civilian households and examine them, right? The Gui Gong teapot is easy to investigate..."
"So I decided to go to Nanshi Building tomorrow night to conduct a crime scene simulation." Lin Linyou said.
"Crime scene simulation?"
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