Poor Family

  Chapter 90 Tracking down the suspect (2)

Lei Song shook his head, "I said tricky because I meant something else, but this murder case was obviously premeditated, and the other party did it neatly, without leaving any traces, if Li Wenyou hadn't jumped into the water to escape, I'm afraid he would have sunk his body At the bottom of the river, no one knows what happened?"

  Hearing the word 'premeditated', Li Yanqing's heart twitched heavily, but he had calmed down from the initial anger. It was just because he had a deep prejudice against Li Wengui, so he preconceived and believed that Li Wengui murdered his brother.

But when he calmed down and considered various possibilities, he also had to admit that it was not necessarily Li Wengui's doing, and it was also possible that the patriarch was targeted by someone in Zhending Mansion. The word "Fu" mentioned at the end may refer to "fu", which means Zhendingfu.

  As for Li Wengui’s choice to close the case, it should be because he wanted to transport his brother’s body back to his hometown as soon as possible and put it in the ground for safety. He did not report any hope to the government to solve the case.

   Motives are very important in committing crimes. Li Yanqing really can't think of any motives for Li Wengui to murder his own brother. The wealth division between the brothers is clear, and the status in the clan is also clear. They have not violated each other for five years.

If Li Wengui has any dissatisfaction with his elder brother, it is that Li Wenyou founded Li's Food Company without telling him, but the capital is Li Wenyou's own money, which did not infringe on Li Wengui's interests. At most, it broke the boundary between the two brothers' wealth distribution. But it is not enough to make Li Wengui have the idea of ​​killing people.

  So after thinking about it, Li Yanqing ruled out the suspicion of Li Wengui's murder for the time being. Now he suspects that he murdered for money.

   "Butou Lei, do you really have no clue at all?" Li Yanqing asked again.

Lei Song pondered for a moment and said: "If there is no clue at all, then we are a bunch of people who don't have any clues. In fact, we still found some clues, but we can't tell them to the outside world. I can tell the little official, please be sure to help me We keep it a secret."

   "Please catch the head and give pointers, I will strictly keep the secret."

Lei Song nodded and said: "Actually, there are eyewitnesses, that is, the ship that rescued Li Wenyou. It was also a cargo ship, and it was moored on the shore. A crew member woke up to urinate at night and happened to witness the incident. He said There were about four murderers with extremely fierce tactics. The boss of the boat knelt down and begged for mercy, but was also killed by them. Li Wenyou jumped into the water after being stabbed a few times. The very majestic fat man insisted on pursuing him to the end, but the other three objected, cursing and almost killing the fat man."

   Li Yanqing immediately drew an image of a wild boar in his mind, isn't this Liu Chenghong? He had already ruled out Li Wengui, but now he wavered again.

  Lei Song glanced at him, and continued: "Actually, we have roughly guessed who the murderer is?"

   "Who is it?" Li Yanqing asked anxiously.

"It should be the three water gangsters active on Yongji Canal in Xiangzhou and Daming Prefecture. The three brothers of the Bai family, Bai Ming, Bai Liang, and Bai Guang, are known as the three heroes of the Bai family. They have been active on Yongji Canal for five or six years, killing people Stealing wealth and being ruthless, no less than dozens of businessmen have died in their hands, and they escaped several times rounded up by Xiangzhou and Damingfu officials, and several brothers died."

   "But just now you said that there are more than three murderers."

   "This is the crux of the problem. The Bai brothers not only robbed their own money, but also accepted other people's commissions to do things. We felt that this time they were commissioned to kill people, so there was almost an internal strife."

Speaking of this, Lei Song sighed regretfully and said: "This case is simple and simple. The case can be solved by capturing the three brothers of the Bai family. We know that the murderer is in Damingfu, but we can't cross the border to handle the case, so I say this case is very difficult."

  Li Yanqing nodded silently, at least he knew the direction of the murderer.

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Xiangzhou is not very big, and walking another fifty li to the east, you will enter the boundary of Damingfu. Since there are no official roads along the banks of the Yongji Canal in this area, Li Yanqing stored his horses in Anyang County. Search eastward.

  Butou Lei told him that Xiangzhou and Daming Mansion turned against each other in order to round up the Bai brothers, and the two government governments did not agree with each other. Since the three Bai brothers committed a crime in Xiangzhou, they would definitely flee to Daming Mansion.

  However, the Yongji Canal is hundreds of miles long in Damingfu, with countless branches of various small rivers, and the banks are covered with reeds. How easy is it to find the boat?

Li Yanqing asked all the way, but there was no clue. Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and Li Yanqing's journey of chasing the murderer still had no clue, which made Li Yanqing a little desperate. He had to admit that he thought the problem too simply, and the government investigated There were no clues for several years, but I thought I could pursue the murderer and take revenge, which was a bit taken for granted.

Early this morning, he came to Beihuan Town, about 50 miles away from Daming City. The big tea shed, then walked over quickly.

In the tea shed, an old couple is busy boiling water and cooking. The two are old. The old man is hunched over, blowing fire into the stove with a bamboo tube. At this time, a few coolies were already sitting in the tea shed, drinking herbal tea and gnawing on wheat cakes.

   "Little official, come and have a rest!" The old woman waved to Li Yanqing with a smile.

  Li Yanqing walked into the tea shed and asked with a smile, "Is there anything to eat?"

   "Of course!"

  The old woman smiled and said, "Young official, sit down and have a sip of tea first, and take a good rest before going on your way."

Li Yanqing sat down at an empty table and put the small package on the table. He looked around. A dozen steps away from the tea shed was a small pier with a dozen or so boats moored. The boats are coming and going, quite busy.

The old woman brought him a pot of tea and some white flour steamed buns, and said apologetically, "I'm really sorry, we have small profits, we don't have meat pies, and there are some eggs. If the petty officials need it, we can cook a few more." an egg."

   "Then cook three more eggs!"

The old woman ordered her wife to boil eggs, and brought a plate of pickled vegetables to Li Yanqing. Li Yanqing ate a few mouthfuls of wheat buns, then took out the pattern in his bosom, and smiled to the old woman: "I'm looking for a boat , this is the same as the boat on the pattern, I wonder if my aunt has seen it?"

  The robbed ship is more characteristic. There is a sitting tiger carved on the bow, and it is a thousand-stone ship. It is a large cargo ship, which is rare on Yongji Canal. As long as you are interested, you must remember it.

  The old woman looked at it for a while, then picked up the pattern and asked the old man: "Father Shunzi, do you think this boat is the one from yesterday morning?"

Li Yanqing looked nervously at the old man. The old man who was boiling water looked at it for a while and nodded. The old woman came back and said, "This tiger-headed boat passed by here yesterday morning. Several crew members were still eating in our tea shed. They bought all of them." All the bread."

Li Yanqing was surprised and delighted at the same time, he searched for three whole days but found no clue, just when he was about to give up, he finally got a clue, he asked quickly: "Does Madam know where that ship went? "

  The old woman shook her head and said: "I don't know where I went, but I seem to have heard one of them suggest that I should find a place nearby to rest for a few days. I guess it should be parked nearby."

   This is called walking through iron shoes and finding nowhere, and it took no effort to find it. He searched for three days without any news, but finally got a clue at a small tea stall.

  Li Yanqing no longer went north, but searched carefully near Beihuan Town. At dusk, Li Yanqing finally found his target in a small river.

  (end of this chapter)