In the Maoling.

Inside the inn.

Sima Yi stood outside the door, listening to the report on the situation.

The body of Zhang Village was first discovered by the inn waiter.

"Little, small..." The waiter swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looking at Jiji, "Little just saw Zhang Langjun's door faintly, thinking... I wanted to collect Yexiang, but unexpectedly looked... I saw...

The waiter in the inn needs to collect the night fragrance in the guest room early every morning, then mention the fat cart in the backyard alley, and then wash the chamber pot and other things, and then send it back to the guest room in the evening.

If you miss this time or have any problems with your temporary stomach, of course you can also provide temporary use, but you only need some extra tips.

The waiter said, and couldn't help but tremble, with a look of fear on his face, "See... Zhang Langjun lying on the ground..."

Sima Yi frowned slightly as he heard this.

There was a news that Sima Gang stood behind Sima Yi and whispered: "This person's surname is Wang, from Zuo Fengyi. He has been in this inn for many years. He is honest and diligent, and has nothing illegal... He was on duty in the store last night, and there were witnesses."

Sima Yi nodded and stared at the waiter.

The waiter was a little panicked and his eyes wandered.

"You are lying!" Sima Yi shouted in a deep voice, "What are you hiding?!"

The waiter's face suddenly turned pale.

The shopkeeper who was standing beside him was in a mess, and he cursed at the waiter: "Shangguan asked, are you not honest! Do you want to be so bitter? Idiot! You have to say whatever you have!"

Sima Yi glanced at the shopkeeper calmly.

The shopkeeper quickly laughed and didn't dare to say anything more.

Li Er, the inspector in charge of public security here, took a step forward and shouted with a dark face: "So brave! He dared to deceive Shangguan! The person comes..."

Before Li Er could call someone to kill him, the waiter was already limp on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, "Little one, the little one is wrong! Little one says everything, everything..."

The inspection team led Li Er to look back at Sima Yi, and saw Sima Yi nodding slightly, then shouted: "To be honest! But there is a half false sentence, Humph, be careful of your own life! Say it quickly!"

The waiter obviously lied.

Because the customer usually puts Ye Xiang at the door, the waiter will not take the initiative to enter the room to collect Ye Xiang unless the customer has ordered and tips, the waiter will enter the room to collect it. So the waiter said that he went in directly when he saw the hidden door, which was obviously unreasonable. However, Sima Yi did not think that the murderer was the waiter, so there was no need to spend more time on the waiter. Sima Yi only wanted to know what the waiter was hiding and whether there was any clue to tracing the real murderer.

"The little one deserves to die, the little one deserves to die!" The waiter knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly, "The little one saw the door of the room hidden... The little one thought Zhang escaped at night and did not pay the room fee, so he pushed the door to check... and then he saw... The little one was not intentionally deceiving Shangguan! It was really not!"

Sima Yi narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the waiter, not saying anything.

Li Er glanced at Sima Yi's expression and asked, "What did you see when you enter the door? Did you turn over the items in the room? To put it in detail, if you have any concealment, be careful of the pain of flesh and blood!"

The waiter was so scared that he trembled and repeated what he had done again.

Li Er grabbed some of the details and asked several times, and then basically confirmed that the waiter was not the murderer. He lied before, mostly to cover up his behavior of entering the room without authorization, which was not in accordance with the rules. The traces in the room also proved that the waiter did not have it.

Sima Yi nodded, and asked someone to detain the waiter first, and then looked into the house.

The houses in the inn are not big.

The bed, table, mat, shelf basically fills the entire house.

Zhang Village's body was standing on the side of the table. At his hand, there were four words "Chief Rider X" written in blood. I don't know if the last word was exhausted or for some other reason, but I just stopped after writing the first two strokes.

Sima Yi sneered at the undetectable.

Is this to write "The cavalry hurts me"?

What kind of person are you, and you are worthy of the attack of the cavalry?

It's simply ridiculous.

But the problem is that ordinary people don’t care about these things. They often just pursue watching the fun.

As for the truth, they don't have high requirements.

Or the continued attention is not enough.

When the truth comes out, they often turn to another bustle.

The blood has basically solidified and the smell of blood is very strong.

Sima Yi looked at the words, "Who else has come in?"

Li Er replied on the side: "In addition to the waiter, there are also shopkeepers. There may also be tenants around... When I brought people here, there were already many people around..."

Sima Yi nodded. As expected, this matter could not be concealed at all, and many people would see these words.

Sima Yi turned his head and looked at the shelf on the side of the bed. The items seemed to have been turned around and were a little messy.

There seemed to be some trampling marks around the shelf...

Um?

Sima Yi suddenly frowned. Where is his robe?

Sima Yi was a little excited.

At least it was a kind of excitement that made Sima Yi feel more challenging than trialing those corrupt officials.

It is too boring to hear those corrupt officials and is too unchallenging.

These corrupt officials seemed to be all made of a template. At the beginning, they said that they were innocent, because they were caused by a relative, a subordinate, a certain tribe, etc., through blinding, seducing, deceiving, etc., they finally embarked on a path of no return. Then, in the process of repentance, they vaguely pointed out that they had done more or less something when they were in office, either trying to make a mistake, or saying that they could correct their mistakes, or redeem them with money, etc. Anyway, most of them were corrupt money and different places, and other methods of corruption or the ugly behavior of being arrested were almost similar.

As they were much more similar, Sima Yi became a little bored after a period of trial.

Now Sima Yi suddenly found some interest in hearing the case...

"Where is this coat?"

Sima Yi suddenly pointed to the clothes hanger.

There are only one or two small clothes hanging on the hanger.

People in the Han Dynasty had three layers of clothes, including small clothes, middle clothes, and outer robes. Now, only middle clothes were tightly placed on the body of Zhangcun, and no outer robes were seen.

Li Er hurriedly walked to the clothes hanger, looked down and suddenly said, "There are marks here!"

There seemed to be some faint blood on the edge of the hanger, which was not too obvious, and then it walked around the back of the hanger.

Li Er immediately pulled out his waist knife, turned the hanger, checked the marks on the ground, followed the traces, and then arrived at the back window, "The thief went out from here!"

There were some bloody scratches on the window.

Because the inn house is not a new house, the windowsills are also old and the marks on the paint are not very obvious. Only veterans like Li Er who have been on the battlefield will be more sensitive to some clues.

Sima Yi nodded, then signaled, and then his guard and Li Er brought the inspection either climbed out of the window or walked out of the house, following the traces on the window. Soon, the sound of scolding and fighting came from another place...

After a while, Li Er rushed to the outside of the house, "Report to Dali, the thief has caught him!"

So easy?

Sima Yi raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Woooo...┭┮﹏┭┮" The thief was tied up with a piece of rag on his mouth and his limbs were tied together, like a sheep being thrown on the floor.

"This was found in his house! This is the deceased's outer robe! Jade belt!" Li Er obviously felt that he could catch the thief so quickly, and he was a little excited. "And this, the golden fan! They are all here! This is all physical evidence!"

『Hmm…』 Sima Yi looked at it, thought for a while, nodded, 『Take back to Dali Temple…』

Li Er was very happy and took the thief away.

Sima Yi still stayed there, looked at the window, then looked at the door, and then looked at the people watching the fun outside the door, and left.

When I returned to Dali Temple and tried the captured thief, I realized that I had caught the wrong one.

Strictly speaking, it's not a mistake, but this guy didn't kill people, but stole things...

When this guy arrived at Dali Temple, he collapsed on the ground and cried bitterly. He repeatedly emphasized that it was only the first time he had confessed and said that he should not be obsessed with the ghosts and wanted to see money, but this did not get any sympathy from Sima Yi and others. He first let the thief be imprisoned and then imprisoned in prison.

"Dali Qing... Is this thief relieved of the serious crime for a minor crime?" Li Er was a little disappointed when he didn't catch the real thief, but he still held a little hope...

Sima Yi nodded slightly, "I can't say that this is impossible at all..."

After a moment of silence, Li Er said nervously, "Da Li Qing... I don't know where the cavalry is... but what are the rules of associations?"

Before there was no fingerprint, bloodstain theory, or related criminal investigation disciplines, the great man was extremely inefficient in cracking such murder cases.

Looking at the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, even the Qin Dynasty, and even the Han Dynasty, the major cases recorded in historical books basically require witnesses, such as Dong Xuan's strong point, Li Ying enforced the law and killed Zhang Shuo's, etc. In fact, strictly speaking, they are all political cases, not just murder cases.

Most murderous cases, even in the feudal dynasties in later generations, were not many who could truly break the case successfully. More than half of them were just a move, and many were left unresolved. At most, only one or two percent were truly inferred.

So Li Er was a little worried because this involved the cavalry, so if the cavalry forced the order, it would be a break within a few days...

Then it's over.

Sima Yi glanced at Li Er, "What's the advice of inspector Li?"

"How dare you see the word "teacher"..." Li Er hurriedly lowered his head and bowed his hand and said, "The young man wants... If the cavalry chased him urgently, he can... can he report this thief first..."

Li Er glanced at Sima Yi's expression.

Sima Yi had a expressionless face, "What do you mean... is to regard this as a thief?"

Li Er quickly swung his hand, "The little one doesn't mean this, the little one... I just said that if the cavalry is anxious, it would be considered a remark... As for the others, it depends on the orders of Dali Qing..."

Sima Yi did not comment or said anything, but just lowered his head and looked back at the records of the case and related confessions.
To be continued...