Chapter 198
"The county office has already closed, so I can be sure that the murderer is in the office. I originally thought that for such a big thing as the county magistrate's bào killing, everyone would come forward. I just took the opportunity to see who had an abnormal expression or who was lying. I didn't expect that, The crime scene gave me a great surprise.”
Lu Heng looked at her with a smile, like admiration or connivance. Seeing him behave like this, Wang Yanqing was already certain in her heart, and she said angrily: "Cheng Zhifu, county magistrate, Chen Yuxuan, including you, everyone is lying."
Lu Heng smiled. He knew whether Wang Yanqing would go to sleep in a while, so he bent down and sat back at the desk, pouring two cups of tea unhurriedly: "Sit down and talk."
He still has the mind to drink tea! Wang Yanqing was so angry that he walked quickly to his side, stared at him and said, "You already knew?"
Lu Heng held Wang Yanqing's wrist. Wang Yanqing refused to move, so he exerted a little force and pulled her to sit down: "It's getting harder and harder to lie to you. How do you see that?"
"There are too many flaws." Wang Yanqing was angry. She wanted to see who was lying, but everyone was lying. Wang Yanqing's mood at that time was beyond words. Wang Yanqing said: "Jin Yiwei has been trained and has more concealment ability than ordinary people. There is basically no extra movement on his face and body. However, this is abnormal. Chen Yuxuan is enthusiastic and righteous, likes to talk, and his mouth is not idle. , but today when he reported to you about the death of Tao County Magistrate, he kept his head down, and his words were few and far between, as if they had been deliberately omitted. , so I don't dare to talk nonsense. The real flaw actually appears in you."
Lu Heng looked at Wang Yanqing and smiled, and said amusedly, "I'm actually the one who dragged them down? I'd like to hear more about it."
"You are such a desperate person, but after hearing about the murder, you didn't go to find the corpse, but listened to the report of the death from your subordinates. With your cautious character, how could there be such a mistake? Tao County magistrate's body has always been Lying on a stretcher covered with a white cloth, everyone subconsciously thought he was dead. But..."
Lu Heng sat calmly, his eyes full of interest: "But what?"
"But after Tao County Magistrate died, Jin Yiwei immediately controlled the scene and prevented people from approaching the corpse. This approach may be for fear that people will destroy the scene, but it may also be that there is a problem with the stretcher. After Chen Yuxuan reported it, you said Tao The county magistrate was not hanged after being strangled to death. Judging from the state of death, it should be suicide. From what I know about you, you would not say such a thing in front of a suspect, but it is like offering a confession to someone on your own initiative." Wang Yanqing Shen He took a breath and said the final conclusion, "Therefore, I suspect that Magistrate Tao is not dead at all, he is just lying on a stretcher and acting."
Lu Heng sighed faintly, so once people are familiar with it, many things are not easy to do. The old fox Cheng Youhai didn't see it, but Wang Yanqing discovered it.
At this point, Lu Heng had nothing to hide, nodded and admitted: "Yes, he has a great life, and he is indeed not dead."
As expected, Wang Yanqing immediately asked, "What the hell is going on here?"
Lu Heng raised his eyebrows and asked, "What do you think, Qingqing?"
Wang Yanqing felt it yesterday, and seeing the performance of this group of people today, a guess slowly emerged in her mind: "Is it related to the gold mine?"
A smile floated in Lu Heng's eyes, motioning her to continue. Wang Yanqing took out the stone that her grandson had given her when she was in Hegu Village, and said, "That child is still young and has no concept of money and easy change, but when I asked him to exchange the most valuable things, He didn't hesitate to dig out the stone. He didn't know what was valuable, so this knowledge could only be taught to him by others, such as his grandparents."
"anything else?"
"I heard that there were gold diggers in ancient times who scour the sand day after day in the water, and all that was left was alluvial gold. If alluvial gold is found in a river, if you are lucky, you may be able to find a gold ore vein. This stone is not fine. Great, but I guess there should be a small amount of gold in there too."
Wang Yanqing tried to restore the ins and outs of the whole thing: "There are many mountains in the valley village, the river at the entrance of the village flows out from the depths of the mountains, and there is rock gold somewhere underground. The gold ore is washed into pieces by the water flow, and some of the pieces follow the river water. It flows outside and settles in the river. Adults don't pay attention to the small stones by the river, but children dig and pick up things day after day. One day, Li Zheng's grandson picked up a shiny stone by the river. The stone, which he took home to play with, had no intention of being seen by Li Zheng and his wife. Li Zheng was surprised and delighted when he found out that it was sand gold. They repeated the generation of grandchildren and this kind of thing was very valuable and could not be told to outsiders, and then reported it to the court. The county magistrate Tao Yiming quickly sent people to look for it along the river, I don't know the result, but I guess they should be very lucky to find the gold mine, and the reserves are not small."
Lu Heng put the tea in front of Wang Yanqing, Wang Yanqing moistened his throat and continued: "However, Tao Yiming became greedy after seeing the gold mine and was unwilling to report the gold mine to the court. He was born in poverty, He has been working at the bottom for 20 years as an official, and he has not saved much savings. If this mine is reported to the court, someone will soon take his place, and he will be transferred to another poor county, without any benefits. Tao Yiming was not reconciled and had the idea of stealing the gold mine."