"Ah? Why did he die like this?" This news was really shocking. Not only was He Nan who was watching the excitement surprised, but Deng Kaicang also walked out of the room and asked the ship's doctor what he had seen and heard.
The ship's doctor was also a member of the Sihai Gang. He was used to seeing wind and waves. He quickly regained his composure from the panic and led the people who had gathered because of the news to rush towards the dock.
The mood of Deng Kaicang's crew and He Nan's group were relatively stable, but they were just surprised. However, the employees of the Pier Inn were not so forgiving. After all, they were their shopkeepers - even though they were divided into two groups, one followed them. Everyone went to the river bank to conduct an autopsy, and the other party went to knock on the door of the shopkeeper's family to inform them of the situation.
The composition of early merchant ship crews was relatively mixed, and each voyage was not fixed. Sailors usually took turns serving as doctors or cooks, but this also gave rise to many safety problems - the most serious one was the uneven distribution of benefits. All resulted in fights among the crew, and the ship's doctor and ship's cook, who were most likely to have access to medicines and food, were obviously the two roles most likely to commit murder. Therefore, later ship leaders learned from this experience when organizing the crew. , tending to let trustworthy people assume important responsibilities, including every ship in the Sihai Gang, which will be assigned this way.
And the Sihai Gang doesn’t support these doctors just to feed them. Incurable diseases may not be able to be solved, but it is enough to cure seasickness, diarrhea, wind, cold, wind and heat, and autopsy is considered to be something everyone in the world has some knowledge of. There was no other way to do it, so the ship's doctor explained to everyone on the road what he had seen this morning and the condition of the body.
According to him
, probably woke up shortly after 4 o'clock this morning. Seeing that everyone was still awake, he went back to the ship alone to check the condition of the cargo as usual. The ship's cook who was in the same room with him can testify to this - the ship's cook and the ship's doctor woke up before and after. They went to the surrounding morning market to buy some food for the ship's supplies, and the two parted ways at the door of the inn.
"After I inspected the cargo, I went up to the deck to hang the sail and flag. However, I saw something floating up and down in the reeds on the shore from a distance. It looked more and more like a human being. I dragged a rope from the boat to pull the man up. Wait until he left. We went closer to take a look - and found that it was the body of Shopkeeper Wang." As everyone approached the body of Shopkeeper Wang, the ship's doctor had already basically explained the situation.
"According to my observation, Shopkeeper Wang has been dead for about two hours, and the cause of death was drowning." At this moment, everyone had gathered around, and He Nan was squatting at the front to check carefully. In fact, He Nan was not a good detective. Autopsy was the weakest among his many detective skills. However, practice made perfect after seeing more. He was probably right when he could identify the spots on corpses and rigor mortis. According to the degree of swelling, Shopkeeper Wang did indeed die around two quarters of an hour after the incident, and it was indeed due to drowning. It's just that He Nan also noticed other suspicious points - Wang Qianhun's clothes were slightly damaged, and there were signs of fractures in his right leg. But it was not his turn to show off at the moment, so he kept it secretly in his mind to see what others would do. reaction.
"I'm afraid your family's words are difficult to convince the public - who knows that you assassinated our shopkeeper and then arranged such a scene?" The waiter at the inn listened to the ship's doctor's talk for a long time, but felt that it was not true, so he took a step out and said
——He is not afraid of being surrounded by ship's doctors. This Tuosha Lake is their territory after all.
"Hey, I'm talking about you young man... why are you so unreasonable?" These words made Lao Chuan doctor laugh angrily: "Not to mention that I am a doctor and not a killer. First of all, I have no enmity with your shopkeeper. The two old men are already fifty-three, how can they still have the strength to take your shopkeeper to the river and make him drown?"
"Huh, we don't understand this anyway, so why don't we just let you say whatever you want? Maybe you and the cook conspired to kill our shopkeeper, and the two of them moved the body to this place together!" But the waiter was like this! Relentless look.
Even their own people couldn't stand the waiter's nonsense. The chef of the inn also helped by saying: "This morning my colleague did ask me how to get to the nearby vegetable market, and he talked to me every time he came there. The usual shopping time is about the same, about two-quarters of an hour - the food he bought is now placed at the front door of the inn, saying that he will take it with him when they leave, there is no doubt about this. "
Just when everyone was in a mess around Wang Qianhun's body, they saw shopkeeper Wang's side wife Ye Ci and his son Wang Guangdi surrounded by the innkeepers.
She walked over - although it was a concubine, shopkeeper Wang's main wife died early, and the eldest son was not here, so it was appropriate for the mother and son to take charge of the overall situation. After all, this was a family matter.
When Ye Ci saw Wang Qianhun's body, he didn't show much emotion and felt very numb. Wang Guangdi's expression did not show any sadness, but was more shocked. The subsequent group of people also learned the details of the autopsy and avoided
No more noise.
"Madam, look at what we are going to do now..." The accountant of the inn pursed his lips and asked the landlady to come up with an idea - He Nan noticed that something was not right with this woman, and her eyes were looking in his direction. But he glanced at the woman inadvertently.
Although Ye Ci was a prostitute, she was very calm at the moment. She withdrew her eyes and was silent for a moment, then said: "Let's carry the official's body back into the house first. It's not a big deal to yell around here - give me an order Others go to the city to report to the officials, but they are not allowed to say what happened. They are only told that shopkeeper Wang asked the arrester to come. We are also not allowed to let the news leak out, and we all go back to the inn first."
Originally, Deng Kaicang was preparing to set sail today after ordering the goods yesterday, but now that a life was lost in front of him, it was difficult to escape until the suspicion was cleared. Fortunately, the schedule was not so urgent, so there was no harm in leaving a day for error. He just hoped that the official mission would come. The case can be concluded sooner. When the group of people returned, they no longer shouted or cried, and there was actually a strange chilling atmosphere. Wang Guangdi and the waiter carried his father's body one after another and walked in the center of the crowd, not wanting outsiders to see and spread gossip.
"Dear guests, something like this happened in the shop. The slave family has sent someone to report it to the official. I have to ask you to wait quietly in the shop until the case is closed." Ye Ci asked his son to go through the front and back doors and hang the closing signs, and then went to the said everyone waiting in the lobby.
This is normal. After all, although Deng Kaicang and his group are guests, who can guarantee that there is no murderer among these people? If you let go, you will never come back, so most people have no objections. Only He Nan came out and stood out: "Official
We can't just sit here and wait until the mission comes, right? Why don't we take this opportunity to tell each other everything we did last night? If we should look for witnesses, we should look for witnesses, and if we should look for physical evidence, we should look for physical evidence. If we can confirm that it was not the fault of outsiders like us, then we don't need to waste each other's time. Let's go first, and you can take your time to handle the case. "
Normally, He Nan wouldn't be too lazy to come forward so early, and would only say a few words when everyone was at a loss. But he knew the temperament of these officials very well - he didn't know whether he could solve the case, but it was really a waste of time. Ah, investigation and evidence collection have to be ranked after sending these people to prison for interrogation one by one. Not to mention that my schedule is delayed after this, Deng Kaicang's boat of fish and shrimp must not be stinky? So in order to save time, I say this.
But these words certainly made the waiter dissatisfied: "Who are you? Is it your turn to point fingers?"
He Nan dared to show off, so naturally he was confident. He immediately took out a flat sign from his arms, which seemed to be some kind of token - he had a lot of identification certificates on him, some were true and some were false. For example, when Li Mastiff had sex in spring He was given the Black Arrow Order to mobilize hidden arrows, and the Mountain and River Order that was later transferred to him by Nan Yingzhi, but the thing he showed now should never appear in his hands... It was a county soldier. Although the garrison card of the guard station is only the lowest level.
He Nan asked for this thing from Zhao Xike - of course, Zhao Xike must not show favoritism in public affairs, and He Nan was unhappy with private affairs, so of course it was impossible to give it to him, but the old man hinted at He Nan in his words. "Although I can't give you a piece directly, but
You can imitate a cat and carve a piece of it yourself.” The implication of this implication is obvious. If you He Nan wants a cheap identity certificate, you can be acquiesced, but if something happens, you will be responsible for it.
Although Tuo Sha Dian is under the jurisdiction of Fenlang County, not everyone can afford to mess with the county military guards. Even the lowest-level guards can theoretically direct the county's head catchers to cooperate with their work.
However, yesterday He Nan, who was a book boy, suddenly showed such a sign, which could not reduce others' suspicion, especially the waiter who was not convinced. Fortunately, the proprietress Ye Ci was convinced of this, and the innkeepers finally settled down and accepted it. accepted He Nan's suggestion.
After questioning each one individually, He Nan roughly ruled out the crew members' involvement.
possible case.
Except for Deng Kaicang and other four people, the rest of the people paid for the goods on delivery. Naturally, they hope that the voyage will be as smooth as possible. If someone dies, it will delay their own financial opportunities. Even if one of them really had a personal grudge against Shopkeeper Wang that no one could investigate, the crew members would not have to dump the body so close - the crew members who could bring Wang Qianhun to the river bank were fully capable of bringing him along. The boat was hidden in its cabin. Wouldn't it be safer to wait until the anchor was lifted early the next morning and then dump the body in an unknown section of the river than to throw it in Tuosha Lake? The combination of two people sleeping in one room is also the combination of sleeping cabins on the ship. They can prove to each other that the other party did not commit the crime last night. In the same way, if these two people are accomplices, it will be easier to hide the body on the ship - forging The illusion that Wang Qianhun has been missing for a day is more reliable than the fact that Da Lala threw the body into the reeds.
Of course, this method only works on ships
members, but it cannot be applied to the innkeeper and He Nan's group. Because except for the deck, every door of the cabin was checked and locked by Deng Kaicang himself when he disembarked. The crew members each held the keys to their own cabins, while the keys to other cabins were kept by Deng Kaicang, the captain of the ship. He Nan and others In order to avoid suspicion, the key to the temporary cabin was returned to Deng Kaicang when he disembarked. Others could only go up to the deck at most, so non-crew members could not contribute to the consequences of the corpse being hidden on the ship.
From the fact that the body was thrown into the river, it can be determined that the perpetrator had indeed considered it, because the river would wash away the body so that there would be no evidence of death. It was just a coincidence that the body was floating and got stuck in the reeds at the bend of the river. I'm afraid The murderer must also regret why he didn't tie a heavy object to Wang Qianhun's body and sink it directly to the bottom - even if someone later realized that Wang Qianhun had been missing for a long time and proposed to salvage it, it would be difficult to convict based on the details at that time after such a long time. .
Of course, this is just a preliminary inference based on the best way to deal with it. What if a crew member really takes such an approach out of motives that only he knows and to mislead others? However, it was not He Nan's habit to get into trouble, so he summoned a few people from the inn to get to know each other individually.
You won’t know until the trial, but you will be shocked at the first trial - based on the cross-testimonies of these people, He Nan discovered that almost all the people in the inn were suspected of murdering Wang Qianhun.
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