While Zhao Zhi Xian’s brain was in a muddle, Zhu Ping An spoke up, “Lord Zhao, how many people are engaged in the funeral trade in Yiwu County, including coffin making, grave spotting, burials, grave relocation, playing and singing, etc., make sure to do a detailed statistic, and please send someone to invite all of them to the county government office right now, and don’t let any of them fall behind.”
Although Governor Zhao did not understand the purpose of Zhu Pingan’s question about the funeral industry, he still answered with his mouth open, “Your Excellency, there are a total of eight coffin shops in Yiwu County, of which there are three coffin shops in the county town, and five in the townships below; there are many people who set up the graves, and there are people from all three religions and nine streams, and this is filed in the county government office, and there are about twenty to thirty people; those who undertake the burials are mostly the people from the righteous estates.Yiwu County, a total of five Yi Zhuang, in addition to Yi Zhuang, Za Louzi life shop also has a relationship to undertake funeral matters, Yiwu County, Za Louzi life shop about ten; blowing, playing and singing about ten, most of the red and white things to do …….”
It can be seen that Zhao Zhixian’s work in Yiwu is still very solid, for every aspect of Yiwu, basically do the heart.
Zhu Pingan’s appraisal of Zhao Zhixian was a few points higher, and there were not many Zhixian’s who had made it to this point.
In the future, Zhao Zhixian’s achievements were definitely not limited to Zhixian.
“My lord, these people are not a few, should they all be invited to the county office?”Governor Zhao inquired uncertainly.
“Yes, don’t leave any of them behind.”Zhu Pingan nodded heavily.
“Ta-Jen Zhao, after inviting them to the county office, send clerks and ask and record in detail if they have undertaken any funeral or grave removal matters in the two months before and after the crime last year, if they have undertaken any funeral or grave removal matters during this period of time, record in detail to whom they have undertaken them, and ask them in particular if there were any suspicious or strange things during the period of undertaking them, no matter how outrageous it may be, record it in detail, and finallyask them to sign and draw a pledge.”
Zhu Pingan continued.
“Your humble servant will obey.”Governor Zhao nodded his head vigorously and turned around to arrange for an errand boy to go to the county government office to retrieve the funeral business files, compare the files, and invite all the people engaged in the funeral business to the government office.
After Zhao Zhi Xian had arranged things down, he finally could not hold back the doubts in his heart and arched his hand to ask Zhu Ping An for advice, “Your Excellency, my humble servant, I wonder what is the purpose of asking about the people in the funeral trade, ah?”
Chen Dacheng and the others were also confused, not knowing what Zhu Pingan’s intentions were.
“To find the victim’s head.”Zhu Pingan said in a shocking voice.
“Ah?”Governor Zhao was indeed shocked, the paste in his head became even more muddled and there were more question marks.
“Lord Zhao, I suspect that the victim in this case is not Chen Erlang’s wife Zhang, the victim is someone else.”
Zhu Pingan attached himself to Governor Zhao’s ear and whispered.
If the murderer was Chen Erlang, there was absolutely no need for Chen Erlang to cut off his head and discard it after killing his wife, even if it was to vent his anger, it would be unconscionable to discard the head alone; on the contrary, if the murderer wasn’t Chen Erlang, then why did he cut off his head and hide it, the murderer must have had a purpose for doing so, to collect the head? This can be basically ruled out, if really such a perverted collection of fetish words, Yiwu County was cut off the head of the victim is certainly more than this case, but Zhu Pingan also understand, Yiwu County was killed after cutting off the head of the case, only so a; so, Zhu Pingan suspected that the murderer cut off to hide the head of the head, certainly do not want everyone to see the victim’s head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the murderer, not tocover up something ……Following this line of thought, Zhu Pingan had a bold guess.
Zhu Pingan’s first thought was that the murderer might have been trying to cover up the identity of the victim, perhaps the victim was not Chen Erlang’s wife Zhang at all. Then if the victim was not Chen Erlang’s wife Zhang, who was it?
This query would be answered when the victim’s head was found.
“Ah? What?!”
Zhu Pingan’s words were even more shocking than thunder, and Governor Zhao almost jumped up in surprise.
“Hush, keep your voice down, don’t make a sound so as not to frighten the snakes.”Zhu Pingan gently patted Governor Zhao’s shoulder.
“Yes, yes.”Governor Zhao nodded his head repeatedly, but he still couldn’t help but attach himself to Zhu Pingan’s ear and whispered, “But Your Excellency, in the two months before and after Chen Erlang’s wife murder case, there were no murders in my Yiwu County.”
Valley</span> “It is precisely because there are no murders that I am more certain of my guess.”Zhu Pingan said.
When Governor Zhao heard this, he was puzzled and stunned for a long time, a light seemed to flash through his mind, as if he had some understanding.
If the victim, was someone else, then cutting off the head and hiding it would make sense.
If the victim is someone else, and no one has reported it.
Then this real murder, is in the form of non-homicide, by the murderer normal funeral.
After all, the death of a person, can not be wrapped in paper. The only way to put it to rest is to have a normal burial.
The body is in Chen Erlang’s house, only a head, how the murderer normal funeral? It must be covered up. But no matter how to cover up, it is impossible to do everything, funeral, there will certainly be some strange things.
That’s why Lord Zhu asked himself to send someone to ask the people in the funeral trade whether they had undertaken funerals and relocated graves for a period of time after the crime, and to specifically ask whether there were any suspicious or strange things during the period of undertaking.
“Your Honour, I seem to understand.”Governor Zhao looked towards Zhu Pingan.
“It’s enough to understand, there’s no need to say anything so as not to frighten the snakes.”Zhu Pingan nodded slightly.
“Yes.”Governor Zhao nodded his head.
“Let’s go, let’s go back to the county office and wait for news.”Zhu Pingan said to Governor Zhao, “There are some questions that we need to ask them further when the time comes.”
As Zhu Pingan and Zhi Xian Zhao’s group left, Chen Dacheng also brought a few of his clan members to follow along to the county office. His brother’s case was now finally hopeful again, how could he sit at home, firstly because he was uneasy and didn’t want to miss out on any of the details, and secondly because he also wanted to contribute their efforts to the case.
Yiwu County Yamen is very efficient, soon Yiwu County people engaged in the funeral business were all invited by the police officers inside the county office.
Governor Zhao verified and confirmed that all the people in Yiwu County who were engaged in the funeral business had arrived and had not been left out.
As instructed, the county court clerks asked them one by one whether they had been engaged in funeral matters for a period of time and whether there were any suspicious or strange things during the period of engagement, and recorded them in detail.
Because there were many people engaged in the funeral business, there were not enough court clerks, in order to improve the efficiency of the case, Zhu Pingan and Zhao Zhixian also went down to ask the record.
Zhao Zhixian asked five people, two of whom had been engaged in funeral matters for a period of time, but after careful recollection, they all said that there was nothing suspicious or strange during the time of the funeral.
Zhao Zhixian noticed that none of the other clerks in the field seemed to have recorded that they had encountered any suspicious or strange funeral matters either.
Could it be that Lord Zhu was heading in the wrong direction.
Just as Governor Zhao was once again doubtful, he saw a scholar with a somewhat agitated face get up with the transcript and walk towards himself.
