Chapter 6: The corpse is hidden for thousands of miles (three)

After Yan Peiwei led people to enter Xiaoyi County in a swagger, he booked a cross-yard at Yingbin Inn in the county town. He realized that the laws of the Xiaoyi County court were not as good as the words of the father of Liu Rong, the current magistrate Liu. The former magistrate kept trying to cause trouble for the Liu family and eradicate the cancer. However, he never thought of dying before he could succeed. Now he has been dismissed from office.

The Liu family did not let the magistrate Lin, who had lost his official position, and sent someone to set fire to the magistrate Lin's home at night. All thirteen of them were buried in the fire. Liu Rong's report to Fenzhou was that he committed suicide for fear of crime and burned himself to death.

If a county magistrate was buried in the fire for no reason, the court would have to send someone to find out the reason. However, a county magistrate who was dismissed would naturally be ignored. The Liu family handled well and was connected to the network of relationships. After a formality, it would be considered a fault and a fire, and the case was settled in a hurry.

The people of Xiaoyi County are very secretive about the dismissed magistrate and are unwilling to have a deep discussion on such a person's past.

Yan Peiwei did not forget his mission. The first thing he had to figure out was the identity of "Doer" who was locked in the inspection cell so as to plan for the next action.

The advance team had already sent some of the news. Yan Peiwei summoned the team to study for more than a day, but he didn't know the key points, but he just knew one thing. The man named "Doer" was a coachman. The carriage carried a pair of old fathers, as if they were from outside the pass. But somehow, the government found a knife from under his mule cart, and was arrested as a rioter. He was also falsely accused of being the leader of the rioters and was put into prison.

On the surface, the case is a typical example of local officials being incompetent, slandering good people and taking human lives, but Dor is wearing a knife after all. He is a handlebar and is not a man who travels around him. What is it to do with a knife around him? It is still hidden under the car. It is impossible to say that it is not suspicious.

According to the news coming, the accents of these three people seemed to be outside the pass. The county magistrate here actually ignored such a big flaw and then accused him of the head of the rioters. This way, with only one hand, shows that Xiaoyi County can no longer be regarded as the place of the royal court, and has become the backyard of the gentry Liu family and son here.

If such corrupt officials are not eliminated, the people of Xiaoyi County will never have a chance to make a comeback. The former magistrate Lin here is afraid that it would anger the interests of the Liu family and end up like this. Although Yan Peiwei didn't know if this magistrate Lin was a good official, at least he did not join the local evil forces and the whole family was killed in the end, which is worthy of respect.

For three days, Yan Peiwei just asked the team Yin to go out to inquire about the local customs and culture, and then whether there were restaurants, shops, etc., and he really regarded himself as a wealthy businessman who came to Xiaoyi County to invest.

Xiaoyi County said it was not big or small, but suddenly a wealthy businessman came. Naturally, he could not hide the suspicion of the Liu family throughout the county. The acting magistrate Liu Rong and his father, Old Master Liu, soon learned about the wealthy businessman named Yan, who was from the capital.

How could the wealthy businessmen in the capital come to this small Xiaoyi County to do business? The father and son of the Liu family decided to remain calm and wait and see the changes. At the same time, they stepped up the signing of "Doer" and then declared the sentence and reported it, and then obtained the approval from the Ministry of Justice, and then they could silence people openly. Money and merit were won by one kill.

Yan Peiwei was more concerned about the true identity of "Doer". The orders given by the Military Pavilion did not say much, which made Yan Peiwei feel a little confused. He first found out that the old couple's residence was still exhausted, but the brothers who went to investigate found that there was already empty houses.

Yan Peiwei felt that things were stranger. Maybe there was something amazing here. The whereabouts of the old couple were obviously known. The Junji Pavilion obviously knew the whereabouts of the old couple, otherwise the Junji Pavilion would not know the person "Doer". Judging from the known news, the couple and the coachman were obviously one, but what is their relationship with each other? The order was vague. It seemed that there was something unspeakable secret, relatives, or the relationship between the lone thief and ordinary people passed down by the people here. If he was really a lone thief and dared to walk on the street so swagger, he would be really not an ordinary thief!

Yan Peiwei sent a few more people to several nearby counties and finally found out the origins and details of the three people. The three claimed to be relatives, and the old couple was the uncle and aunt of "Doer". The three returned to their hometown in Hejian from outside the pass. No wonder they heard the accent outside the pass.

What the Military Machine Pavilion wants is the true identity of this "Doer", which naturally means that the relationship between the three of them along the way is fake and used to cover up the purpose. But Doer's identity is just enough to ask the old couple directly. As for sending themselves to complete this task that seems to be a bit difficult but is actually not difficult at all?

Then there are only two possibilities. First, the old couple can never speak. Second, the old couple himself does not know Doer’s true identity. Doer may be a pseudonym.

The old couple is no longer in Xiaoyi County. One possibility is that they have returned to Hejian Prefecture, but they have not seen them leave, but it is not impossible. The second possibility is that they have been killed. Judging from the small case of the military Ji Pavilion, it seems that the first possibility is relatively high. The old couple left Xiaoyi County without anyone seeing it. Where did they go, Hejian?

This may be the only thing that makes sense, but it is not the only unjust case for the Military Machine Pavilion to intervene. Even if the old couple sued, there will be people from the Ministry of Justice sent to investigate. Now it seems that the Ministry of Justice does not know about such a case in Xiaoyi County. This is also Yan Peiwei decided to wait for three days to see it first, but what he waited for was not the reaction of the Ministry of Justice or Fenzhou, but when Liu Rong, the acting magistrate of Xiaoyi County, announced the trial of the rioter leader "Doer"!

According to the new regulations, although the word "天" was added to the prefect of the magistrate, it was no longer performing this power of trial. The power of trial has been handed over to the deputy, and the county magistrate was usually responsible for the responsibility. However, Liu Rong was the county magistrate responsible for the trial before this. Now he has a great power. The new magistrate has not been determined and the new county magistrate has not taken office. Naturally, he has taken advantage of a loophole and taken over the power!

On the day of the trial, there were crowds of people outside the Xiaoyi County Yamen, and most of the people in the entire county were gathered outside the Yamen, and Yan Peiwei and Yin's team were also distributed among the crowd.

Yan Peiwei wanted to see Dorgon clearly, but Dorgon had his hair disheveled and his side was blocked. When he arrived at the hall, he turned his back to the outside of the hall. Although he had visually measured his height and body shape, Dorgon had suffered a lot in recent days and lost a lot of weight. Although he had met Dorgon several times on the battlefield, he still couldn't recognize Dorgon.

It was impossible for Dorgon to know that there was an old friend he knew in the crowd not far behind him.

When he saw the letters from Zhuge Qing and his wife, Dorgon believed it and signed and sealed all the crimes. Therefore, today's trial was just a formality. In the hall, Liu Rong read out the five major crimes of "Dor" and determined that "Dor" plead guilty one by one. After that, according to the Ming Dynasty, he announced that Dorgon was sentenced to beheading and sentenced. As long as the approval from the Ministry of Justice arrived, Dorgon's head would land.

Yan Peiwei calculated the time for the Ministry of Justice to travel on the road in his mind. If it was fast, it would be twenty days, which means they still had twenty days to investigate and understand the true identity of this "Doer", and then decided whether they would save his life at that time.

Back at Yingbin Inn, Yan Peiwei was thinking about where to start investigating "Doer"'s identity. If it really doesn't work, he could only order people to sneak into the inspection cell and ask Doer personally.

Just as they were frowning and thinking hard, a advance team member of the Yin team brought good news. They finally found the mule cart sold by Zhuge Qing and his wife. At that time, because they were not familiar with the place, Zhuge Qing and his wife sold the mule cart to a car dealer in the city. After buying the car, the car felt that the car was a bit worn, so they did some renovations and rented it to a satin merchant. The satin merchant went to the south to purchase goods. He just came back yesterday and made a delivery to the car dealer.

When Yan Peiwei heard the news, he immediately ordered someone to rent the car in his name and then pulled it to Yingbin Inn.

"Master, what's so special about this car?" A member of the Yin team watched Yan Peiwei spin around the mule carriage for nearly a hundred times, and couldn't help but ask.

"Master, I don't know either!" Yan Peiwei said angrily, "What are you doing here? Come over and help me quickly."

So a funny scene appeared, and seven or eight people turned around a mule cart, staring at them intently, as if there was something valuable hidden in the mule cart.

"Master, look, here, I just moved!" Suddenly a team member shouted loudly and pointed at a crossbar of the shaft.

Yan Peiwei walked over and looked over with his hands. Sure enough, when the mule was working, a small piece of wood in the shaft suddenly slid out, pushed open the patent leather wrapped outside, reached out and touched it, and it was indeed a little more protruding than the surroundings.

"Get a dagger!" Yan Peiwei said excitedly.

A military dagger was quickly handed over to him. Yan Peiwei took over and gently cut along the line of the raised part just now. Sure enough, a wooden square as big as a palm protruded out and carefully removed the wooden block. Under the nearby candlelight, Yan Peiwei saw a gray square cloth bag inside.

The man had too big hands and couldn't reach it in. He was afraid that the things inside would be damaged with a dagger, so Yan Peiwei ordered people to find a pair of chopsticks and picked up the cloth bag with the chopsticks. The things were quite heavy and almost dragged out from it.

Yan Peiwei took out the cloth bag and did not open it to watch immediately. Instead, he ordered people to keep the door strictly and lock himself in the room. Then he untied the cloth bag. The feeling he felt like he was holding it in his hand just now. He already knew that it was a square seal. Judging from the size and weight, it was a golden seal.
Chapter completed!