Chapter 117
When I passed by the constable room, I heard a lot of laughter inside, so I walked in and saw a room full of people gathering together, not knowing what I was doing, and said with a smile: "What are you doing, you are so happy?"
When Tang Tang saw that it was him, he happily greeted him and said, "Master Situ, they are lazy, come and judge him."
"Who cheated?" Yin Yadan said, "You beat yourself up and said we are."
The constables surrounding him all dispersed and bowed.
Situ Ce looked in and saw some cards on a table, but it turned out to be a horse pavilion, and said with a smile: "Are you playing cards?"
Tang Tang said: "Yes, they are cheating, Master, please judge!"
Situ Ce walked to the table and said, "Why are you cheating?"
Tang Tang pointed at Yin Yadan and Xiao Mouse: "It's them who colluded and gave each other cards, two of them beat me, hum!"
Xiao Huang Zhenzhen said, "Who gave each other cards? I just don't want anything she lacks, just yin cards; she happens to be my next home, so she can naturally take cards, it's natural."
Situ Ce smiled and said, "Okay, it's better to play cards, it's better to behave properly. Feed each other cards and collude to play cards together, so...
As soon as he said this, Situ Ce's mind flashed with inspiration and he stood there in a daze and stopped talking.
Tang Tang unconsciously pointed at Yin Yadan and said, "Did you hear me? The master said, just play cards, behave properly. Don't collude with me!"
Situ Ce suddenly screamed, turned around and ran out of the detectives' room, and ran to the inner house of the yamen in one breath.
He Lanbing was reviewing the official documents in the house. When he saw him running back, he was panting and couldn't help but smile: "What's wrong? Look at you're so panicked. Could it be that there is a tiger behind you?"
"It's not a tiger, but a fox. I think I found an old fox!"
"Old fox? Where is it?"
"Guo Zhu!"
"Guo Zhu?" He Lanbing said in surprise, "How come he has become an old fox!"
"We analyze that the case of Mr. Yan being killed and robbed by his family was caused by an acquaintance. However, all the relatives and friends of the Yan family were excluded one by one, and witnesses proved that they were not present or did not have enough time to commit the crime, right?"
"Yes," Helan Bing said, "That's right, Guo Zhu, didn't he testify with a friend, he went to his friend Ma Wei to borrow money and came back to play horse hangers."
"What if the two of them colluded with Ma Wei to make fake certificates for him?"
He Lanbing was stunned: "It's okay to collude? Are you saying Ma Wei is lying? Guo Zhu didn't borrow money from his house?"
"Well!" Situ Ce said, "Do you still remember? When we asked his beloved Qin, Qin said that Guo Zhu was very skilled in playing horses and pawns. He often did not bring money to play cards, and he could earn a hundred or two hundred yuan back. You also said that he was making money for nothing. Do you remember?"
"Remember, Helanbing naturally knew that Situ Ce would not say this for no reason. After pondering for a moment, he immediately understood, and his eyes lit up, and said, "That means that Guo Zhu can make money with his skills, even if he doesn't have much money, he can continue to play! Don't you need to borrow money from friends two streets away?"
"Yes! Especially, they play cards at his mistress's house. He has no money, but he has a mistress. Isn't it enough to just take it with Qin Shi? Qin Shi should have spent a lot of money he made in the past? Besides, Qin Shi admires his card skills so much, how could he lose the opportunity to win back the money without money?"
"So, Guo Zhu is lying!"
"Why did he lie on such a thing? I can only say that he wants to hide the truth inside!"
"We arrest Guo Zhu and Ma Wei and interrogate them strictly?!"
Situ Ce shook his head: "Don't worry! We are just pushing the side now, and we can't find any real evidence to prove that they committed the crime."
“What should I do?
"Squat!" Situ Ce said, "Four hundred taels of silver are not a decimal, and they will not hide this huge amount of money in a place where they are worried. Therefore, they will definitely hide it at home."
"Then let's search!"
"No!" Situ Ce shook his head again.
"Why?" Helanbing was puzzled.
Situ Ce said: "From the deceased old man Yan's arm, there were pressing marks to stop the resistance, there were at least two people present. It was a fact that Guo Zhu sent his child back to the Jiang family, and the Jiang family has confirmed it. From Guo Zhu's head Qin family to the Jiang family, and then to the old man Yan's house where the case was, it took five or six cups of tea to travel back and forth. Everyone present proved that Guo Zhu only went out for about one meal. Therefore, he had less than one cup of tea left, and the whole time to kill people, rummaging through boxes and cabinets to rob wealth was not enough. This means that Guo Zhu should just go to help call the door, and then quickly returned, and someone else killed people...
He Lanbing immediately understood: "Do you suspect that besides the two of them, there is another accomplice? And the four hundred taels of stolen goods may be hidden in the hands of this accomplice?"
"Yes, if we rashly arrest Guo Zhu and Ma Wei, first of all, we have no evidence, it is easy to arrest and release people; secondly, we will be alarmed and another accomplice will transfer the stolen goods and escape, it will be even more difficult for us to solve the case."
"It makes sense! I was not considerate. Then let's wait? They both saw the calm and thought it was okay, so they might take out the money and use it. At that time, they knew where the stolen goods were. It was proof of catching the thief and stolen stolen!"
“That’s exactly that!”
The two agreed that Helanbing immediately organized a secret surveillance of Guo Zhu and Ma Wei.
A day later, Helan Bing found Situ Ce happily and said, "I have a discovery. Do you want to hear it?"
Situ Ce looked at the ponytail behind her head and was swaying around. He was obviously very excited and smiled and said, "What good news? Are you going to get married?"
Helanbing gave him a blank look: "You will know when I will get married!"
"Okay, I'm waiting for the wedding banquet!"
"Hmph! Drink! You know how to drink!" He Lanbing was very unhappy with a stern face.
Situ Ce didn't know why she was unhappy again, so he hurriedly bowed: "Okay, I'm wrong. I won't drink your wedding wine, okay?"
He Lanbing glared at him again and said, "Back to the point! - I asked the clerk of the Ministry of Justice to check the records of half of the sentences in previous years. A major discovery was that Guo Zhu's good friend Ma Wei was also a guy who was released from prison! A few years ago, he was sentenced to three years of propriety, but he did not serve hard labor with Guo Zhu."
He is also a person who has been released from prison! This is completely in line with their analysis of the case situation! This made Situ Ce very excited.
However, the strange phenomenon before rushed into his mind like a poisonous snake - why there were no strangers' fingerprints at the scene of the crime? Or there were no fingerprints of Guo Zhu and Ma Wei? If they were the real murderers, at least there should be Ma Wei or someone else's fingerprints at the place where the cabinet was turned. In fact, except for the fingerprints of the Yan family, there were no strangers' fingerprints. This made Situ Ce puzzled.
Two more days later, on the 1980s, Yin Yadan came to report like a wind, saying that the night before, they found Ma Wei went to a family in Nancheng, and came out soon after, and then went to the most luxurious brothel in Xicheng, and found four most expensive and beautiful prostitutes to sleep all night, and left in the morning. The family in Nanyuan was named Liu, and the owner was named Liu Dong. They had already deployed people to stare at it.
Situ Ce ordered to increase efforts to focus on the Liu Dong family! At the same time, Helan Bing asked Xingfang Piao Tianwen to arrest the three of them at the same time! Helan Bing and Situ Ce went to arrest Liu Dong, Shi Meng arrested Ma Wei, and Xiao Mozi led the team to arrest Guo Zhu!
When Helanbing and the others rushed into Liu Dong's house, their family was having a meal. The yard was not big, it was very dilapidated, with wooden walls and roofs shining. However, there were several large plates of chicken, duck, fish and meat on the dining table. In ancient times, ordinary people could rarely afford chicken, duck, fish and meat. When they saw this scene, Helanbing and Situ Ce both laughed.
Liu Dong said nothing about their questions, but his parents, wife and children panicked and kept asking what had happened. He Lanbing ordered a search.
These constables were experts in search of houses, and soon discovered that Liu Dong's family had more than ten taels of silver. Logically speaking, such a poor family could not have so much silver. Liu Dong still said nothing when interrogated Liu Dong.
He Lanbing ordered all the furniture to be lifted out, the doors and windows were opened, and the search focus was on the floors of each room, especially Liu Dong's house. You should know that the volume of 400 taels of silver is not small, and it is very heavy. Only when hiding it underground seems to be the most suitable one.
Soon, the constables discovered that the soil in the gap between the blue bricks under Liu Dong's bedroom was new, and it seemed to be newly buried. They immediately opened the blue bricks and dug off the soil layer above, and found a wooden box below! When they pried open it, they saw that the white inside was full of silver!
When the constables began to search the ground, Liu Dong's face changed. When he saw the constables began to lift the blue bricks on the ground from his bedroom, Liu Dong squatted on the ground weakly. When the box of white silver was placed in front of him, he finally collapsed: "I confess that it was me, Ma Wei, and Guo Zhu, and the three of us who conspired to kill the old master of the Yan family and rob the silver."
"Whose idea?" Helanbing asked.
"It was Guo Zhu who caught it. He said he knew that Old Master Yan's eldest son, who was an official in the capital, gave him 400 taels of silver to support him, and he could go and grab it."
"How did he know that Old Master Yan's house has this huge sum of money?"
"I don't know how he knew, so he said that. I asked him if the news is accurate. He said it's okay, absolutely accurate. As for how we get the news, we don't need to ask. So we didn't ask."
"How did you meet if you don't work hard together?"
Chapter completed!