Chapter 4: The Master of Detectives
Compared with other time travelers, Rong Fei is a complete tragedy.
There is no omnipotent system, no talent for stunning, and no famous family background. The only thing you can rely on is the reasoning ability you learned when writing suspense novels in your previous life, which is barely better than nothing.
Fortunately, Rong Fei has a positive and optimistic heart and is brave enough to face a bleak start.
Without plug-ins, you can still break into new worlds with your own abilities.
The golden scales are not something in the pond, but they turn into dragons when they encounter wind and clouds.
The introductory practice of practicing is the wind and clouds, and it is the ladder of Rong Fei's transformation into dragons.
Moreover, in addition to practicing martial arts, Rong Fei has greater plans.
After a little excited, Rong Fei's thoughts were no longer delayed. He opened the cloth bag and picked up the top book of the case and read it carefully.
The yamen runners and constables in the yamen were all guided by Rong Fei, so the case school wrote very detailed clues and information about the records, evidence, interpersonal relationships of the deceased, etc.
Ji Rouer has been hiding in the kitchen and eavesdropping. Although the business progress was a bit twists and turns, she believed in Rong Fei's ability, so she had already included 2,040 taels of silver notes in the account book.
When I was in a happy mood, I looked at Li Fengjie, who was sharp-mouthed and cheeked, and felt that it was much more pleasing to the eyes, so I brewed a pot of coarse tea to send it.
"Thank you, Miss Rouer."
Li Fengjie quickly stood up and nodded to thank him.
Ji Rouer poured a cup of tea for her, then smiled slightly, and it became as charming as the peony flowers.
After knowing each other for many years, Li Fengjie never had such treatment. He was so flattered that he held up a teacup with both hands. Looking at Ji Rouer's back, he couldn't help but feel a little confused. He sighed in his heart that beauty is in trouble.
Before Li Fengjie could finish a cup of hot tea, Rong Fei put down the case school. After closing his eyes and thinking for a while, he asked Ji Rouer to bring paper and pen. He used the pen like a flying brush to complete it in one go, and handed over the written details of the case resolution to Li Fengjie.
"Ah, this is broken...break?"
Li Fengjie was a little disbelief and asked stammered.
Previously, Rong Fei said that his ability to solve cases has improved, but Li Fengjie thought it was an excuse to raise prices, but unexpectedly, it was really much faster than before.
Rong Fei found the state of solving the case, so he didn't bother to pay attention to him and reached out to pick up the second case.
In the Fencheng County yamen, Guo Xiao thought it was too troublesome to move the case, so he simply requisitioned the document office directly.
At this time, Guo Xiao was sitting on the chair with a straight posture and closed his eyes to rest. On the table in front of him, the seventeen cases were divided into three rows and neatly placed.
On the right side of the desk, a pretty young maid was grinding ink carefully, while on the left was fiddling with the incense burner.
After the ink in the inkstone was ground and green smoke drifted out of the incense burner, the two maids retreated to the door and waited for a while. Guo Xiao then opened his eyes and picked up the first book of the case.
Guo Xiao is worthy of being a famous disciple of Shushan. He reads books very quickly. His fingers flip the pages of the book like playing a pipa. His two eyeballs moved back and forth in his eye sockets, and he finished reading the desk sect in a short while.
The case is about a woman who had just moved to Fencheng and reported the case to the yamen. She said that her husband went out to buy the goods the day before yesterday and has not returned yet. The woman was desperate and had no choice but to seek help from the yamen.
The yamen constable learned from the woman that her husband had gone to the grocery store west of the city to buy daily necessities the day before yesterday, so he went to investigate.
When the detective asked the shopkeeper of the grocery store, he seemed a little panicked. The detective was suspicious and searched the grocery store. As a result, a large amount of private salt was found from the backyard warehouse, and a body curled up in a salt bag was found.
Later, it was identified by the woman that it was her missing husband.
The constable took the shopkeeper of the grocery store back to the county government for interrogation. The shopkeeper confessed that the private salt in the warehouse was stored on behalf of others, but he only collected some storage fees. As for the dead body, it had nothing to do with him.
No matter how severe the constable was tortured, the shopkeeper of the grocery store gritted his teeth and refused to plead guilty.
The constable had no choice but to report the situation, and Guo Muhuai had no better way, so he could only keep it behind for the time being and let Rong Fei come back to deal with it.
"Hmph! I thought it was a difficult case, but it turned out to be nothing more than Err."
Guo Xiao hummed disdainfully as he returned to the case table after he finished reading the case.
The two pretty maids at Hou Li's door immediately cast admiration.
"The laws of everything in the world have long been recorded in books by the ancient sages of Shushan. If you comprehend one or two, you can have a general and a minister to be appointed as prime ministers and split the earth and be granted a title. Solving a few ridicules is just a game of entertainment. There are actually unknown officials who think they can do it themselves. It's really ridiculous. They are just a toad at the bottom of a well.
The saint said that merchants value profit but lack righteousness and are most greedy. Therefore, the real murderer must be the shopkeeper of the grocery store. He also added a charge of hoarding private salt and should be killed!"
Guo Xiao took the pen and wrote a line of words on the paper - Liu Er, the shopkeeper of the murderer's grocery store.
As a county magistrate, Li Fengjie naturally knew about this case. In his heart, he also believed that the shopkeeper of the grocery store should be the real murderer.
But the details of Ke Rongfei's solution gave different answers.
First of all, Rong Fei affirmed that the shopkeeper of the grocery store was definitely not a murderer, for two reasons.
First: After killing someone, you do not discard the body far away, but instead leave it in your own warehouse. This is contrary to common sense.
Second: A bag of private salt is valuable. It is too much to hide the body in private salt. Instead, it is better to dig a pit and bury it, and it is safer and less likely to be exposed.
Later, Rong Fei pointed out in the details of the case resolution that the woman who reported the case was of major suspicion and there were three reasons.
First: The woman lives in the east of the city, why does her husband ask for a distance to go to the west of the city to buy groceries?
Second: There are more than one grocery shops in the west of the city. The woman has never been with her husband, so why can she take the constable and find the grocery shop where the body is hidden?
Third: Why did the woman not report the case that day and insisted on reporting the case overnight?
At the end of the detailed resolution of the case, Rong Fei gave a specific method to solve the case.
Investigate who the woman has had close contact with recently.
Find out who stores the private salt in the grocery store and whether this person has a business competitor.
Although the identity of the real murderer was not directly revealed during the details, it was easy to find the real murderer by following the methods given.
Li Fengjie cannot solve the case, but he still has the ability to distinguish. Looking at the details of the case analysis, it is reasonable and well-founded, logical, and clear and convincing.
That's the word...it's a bit ugly.
After reading it three times, after confirming that there were no typos, Li Fengjie was about to put away the paper, but Rong Fei threw it away to the details of the second case.
Another thing was broken?
Li Fengjie was shocked.
This...it's too fast.
Li Fengjie held the Seocheng in his hand and looked carefully. After confirming that it was still as strict as the previous article, he looked up at Rong Fei, who was reading the third case, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Although it is a good thing, why does it always feel like a joke?
The second case in the county government office and the second case took Guo Xiao some more time, but in the end, he still made a conclusion smoothly based on his understanding of the quotations of the saints, starting from the perspectives of the operation of all things and the in-depth analysis of human nature.
"If you don't have any guilt, you should be killed. The real murderer must be the driver."
After solving two cases in a row, Guo Xiao felt a little tired. He asked the maid to get some tea and drinks, then closed his eyes and rested for a while before picking up the third case.
After warming up the first two cases, Guo Xiao realized that he had figured out the tricks to solve the case. The next cases were solved quickly. After almost an hour, he had read the eleven cases and wrote the name and name of the real murderer on the paper.
Humph, eleven unsolved cases were solved in one hour, so efficient, even if you look at the world, how many people can reach it.
Guo Xiao, who was proud, put down his brush and walked to the window to look at the blue sky and white clouds, relaxed and swollen eyes. The two maids also hurried to change the incense and tea soup.
At the same time, in the courtyard of Osmanthus Alley.
The details of the resolution of the seventeen cases have been written. Li Fengjie pressed his fingerprints on the IOU with a bitter face and couldn't help but complain.
"We two are colleagues and old acquaintances. Can Captain Rong trust Li so much?"
Rong Fei picked up the IOU worth 340 taels of silver and blew the ink marks on it, and handed it to Ji Rouer with the silver notes on her face, then he clasped his fists at Li Fengjie.
"Brothers settle the score clearly. Master Li, don't blame me."
Li Fengjie smiled bitterly and shook his head, put the sorted case settlement details in the cloth bag, and bowed to Rong Fei and left.
"You're exhausted."
Ji Rouer handed over a hot towel and looked at Rong Fei, who was tired and said distressedly.
It took four or five days to travel from Dunzhou to Fencheng. Rong Fei returned home this morning with a dusty journey. Before he had time to wash up and eat, the black market merchant first informed the goods that had arrived, and then Li Fengjie came to the door.
Ji Rouer originally wanted Li Fengjie to wait first, so she had to have someone to eat and drink water. But Rong Fei was thinking about getting all the money to buy practice techniques and spiritual medicines, and washed his face randomly and began to solve the case.
"I'm almost tired."
Rong Fei stuck out his tongue and grimaced.
"The braised pork and rice that have just been prepared in the kitchen, I took a shower and went to bed after eating. Now I have enough money, and the time provided by Manager Wang is enough. I will have a good rest today and it will not be too late to go tomorrow."
"No, I don't have the things, and I feel uneasy. I went to buy things back in the afternoon. I won't have to wear these gloves again."
Rong Fei grabbed Ji Rouer's hand wearing deerskin gloves and said with pity.
Although the old doctor Qi Xiutai rescued Ji Rou'er, who had half his foot in the gate of hell, his hands, which were bitten by a wild dog, were difficult to repair, leaving behind hideous scars.
Since then, even in the hot summer, Ji Rouer has been wearing gloves and refused to take them off, and has suffered a lot of rolling eyes and criticism for this.
The pain and torture in it are naturally empathetic to Rong Fei, the closest one.
Ji Rouer pulled her hands back, glared at Rong Fei shyly, and then left home to go to the clinic.
In the case room of the county yamen, Guo Xiao felt the soreness in his eyes relieved a little. He was about to turn around and continue to look through the remaining case, but he saw Li Fengjie holding a cloth bag and trotting towards the back yamen with a thief.
Guo Xiao's heart moved and shouted.
Chapter completed!