Lei Song shook his head, "What I said is something else, but this murder case is obviously premeditated. The other party did it neatly and without any trace. If Li Wenyou had not dived into the water to escape, he would have sank to the bottom of the river. No one knew what happened?"

Hearing the word "premeditation", Li Yanqing's heart twitched heavily, but he had calmed down from his initial anger. He just took preconceptions about Li Wengui and believed that Li Wengui was planning to murder his brother.

However, when he calmed down and considered various possibilities, he had to admit that it was not necessarily what Li Wengui did, but it was also possible that the clan leader was targeted in Zhending Mansion. The other party was killed by money. The clan leader's last word "Fu" may refer to "Fu", which means Zhending Mansion.

As for Li Wengui's choice to cancel the case, it should be that he wanted to transport his brother's body back to his hometown as soon as possible. He did not expect the government to solve the case.

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

If Li Wengui has any dissatisfaction with his brother, it is that Li Wenyou founded the Li family grain store without telling him, but the capital was Li Wenyou's own money, and it did not infringe on Li Wengui's interests. At most, it broke the wealth distribution boundary between the two brothers, but it did not make Li Wengui want to kill.

So after thinking about it, Li Yanqing temporarily ruled out Li Wengui's suspicion of murder. He now suspected that he was committing money and killed him.

"Captain Lei, are there really no clues at all?" Li Yanqing asked again.

Lei Song pondered for a moment and said, "If there is no clue at all, then we are just a bunch of unlimited wine bags. In fact, we still found some clues, but we can't tell the public. I can tell the little official, please keep it confidential for us."

"Please give me some advice, I will keep the secret."

Lei Song nodded and said, "In fact, there were witnesses, that is, the ship that saved Li Wenyou. It was also a cargo ship, parked on the shore. A crew member got up at night and happened to witness the case. He said there were about four murderers, with extremely fierce techniques. The boss of the ship knelt down and begged for mercy, and was also killed by them. Li Wenyou was stabbed a few times and then jumped to escape. Several murderers had internal conflicts about whether to chase Li Wenyou. A very majestic fat man tried his best to chase him to the end, but the other three opposed it, cursed and almost killed the fat man."

Li Yanqing immediately outlined the image of a wild boar in his heart. Isn’t this Liu Chenghong? He had already ruled out Li Wengui, but now he was shaken again.

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

"Who is it?" Li Yanqing asked anxiously.

"It should be the three water bandits active in the Yongji Canal of 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 in the Yongji Canal for five or six years, killing people and robbing wealth, and are cruel and ruthless. There are no less than dozens of merchants who died at their hands. The officials of Xiangzhou and Daming Prefecture escaped several times, and several brothers died."

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

"This is the key to the problem. The Bai brothers not only robbed money themselves, but also accepted other people's entrustment to do things. We think this time it was entrusting to kill people, so there was an internal strife."

Speaking of this, Lei Song sighed regretfully and said, "This case is simple and simple. You can solve the case by catching the three brothers of Bai. However, Xiangzhou and Daming Mansion have turned against each other in order to capture the three brothers of Bai in recent years. We know that the murderer is in Daming Mansion, but we cannot cross the border to handle the case, so I said that this case is very difficult."

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

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Xiangzhou was not big. He walked fifty miles eastward and entered the territory of Daming Prefecture. Since there were no official roads along the river on both sides of the Yongji Canal in this area, Li Yanqing placed his horses in Anyang County. He carefully searched along the Yongji Canal to advance eastward.

Captain Lei told him that Xiangzhou and Daming Prefecture turned against each other in order to capture the Bai brothers, and the governments in the two places did not buy into each other. Since the three Bai brothers committed the case in Xiangzhou, they would definitely flee to Daming Prefecture.

But the Yongji Canal is hundreds of miles in Daming Prefecture, with countless branches of various rivers and reeds on both sides. How easy is it to find that ship?

Li Yanqing inquired all the way, but there was no clue. Three days passed in a blink of an eye. Li Yanqing's journey of chasing the murderer was still clueless, which made Li Yanqing a little desperate. He had to admit that he thought the problem was too simple. The government had no clues for several years, but he thought he could pursue the murderer and take it for granted.

Early that morning, he came to Beihuan Town, about fifty miles away from Daming City. The town was close to Yongji Canal. Two miles westward was the official road. Li Yanqing was hungry and thirsty. Seeing that there was a small tea shed outside the town, he quickly walked over.

In the tea shed, an old couple was busy boiling water and cooking. They were old, and the old man was hunched over and blew fire into the stove with a bamboo tube. The old woman had a kind face, wearing a coarse cloth dress, and served tea to the guests. At this time, a few coolies had already sat in the tea shed, drinking herbal tea while gnawing on wheat cakes.

"Little official, come here 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 there is!"

The old woman smiled and said, "The little official first sit down and drink a tea, take a good rest before rushing."

Li Yanqing sat down at an empty table and placed the small package on the table. He looked around. There was a small pier a dozen steps away from the tea shed, with more than a dozen ships of all sizes moored. Although it was dawn now, the ships came and went on the river, which was quite busy.

The old woman brought him a pot of tea and a few white flour buns and said apologetically: "I'm really sorry, we have a small profit, no meat pie, and a little egg. If the little official needs it, we will cook a few more eggs."

"Then let's cook three more eggs!"

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

The robbed ship is quite distinctive. The bow of the ship is carved with a seated tiger, and it is a thousand stone ship. It is a large cargo ship and is rare on the Yongji Canal. As long as you have the intention, you will remember it.

The old woman looked at it for a moment, then picked up the pattern and asked the old man, "Dad Shunzi, do you see if this ship is the same yesterday morning?"

Li Yanqing looked at the old man nervously. The old man who was boiling water looked for a moment, nodded, and the old woman came back and said, "This tiger-headed boat passed by here yesterday morning. Several crew members were still having dinner in our tea shed and bought all the dough cakes."

Li Yanqing was shocked and happy. He searched for three days without any clues. Just when he was about to give up, he finally got a clue. He asked quickly: "Does the aunt know where the ship went?"

The old woman shook her head and said, "I don't know where I went, but I seemed to have heard from one of them that I would find a place nearby to rest for a few days, and I guess I should park nearby."

This is called searching for everything without any effort. He searched for it for three days without any news, but finally got a clue at a tea stall.
Chapter completed!