Chapter 297 Crispy Grilled Pork Belly (8)

The door of the house was wide open. Seeing Lin Fei and others coming over, the guard who was guarding the place stepped forward and called "Lin Shaoqing."

Lin Fei nodded to them, stood outside the house and looked inside: the house is not big, and you can see the situation inside when you stand outside the door. After entering the small square courtyard, there is a row of houses. The house is simple and clear at a glance. A main house, a kitchen with a fire and a utility room.

"He moved here five days ago. According to people at the market, he likes to cause trouble every day when he goes to the market. He hasn't seen anyone since about three days ago," the guard said.

According to Wu Butai's autopsy results, Feng Tong was killed two days ago. In this case, consider what happened to Feng Tong. Less than two days after he moved in, he was taken away by assailants and killed a day later. The body was then separated and discarded in a swill bucket, with unknown intentions. Feng Tong disappeared without realizing it.

"Looking at the way the body was destroyed, there is a possibility of a vendetta," Liu Yuan thought for a while and said, "This person also has a temperament that makes enemies everywhere."

"It's hard to say!" Bai Zhu on the side shook his head when he heard this and said, "Vendettas are often done to vent anger. Death is like a light going out. In the cases handled by Dali Temple, the murderer who really hates the other party is often the one who hates the other party so much. The victim was killed while he was still alive, and tortured while the victim was still alive, capable of screaming and aware of pain, in order to vent his anger."

This statement is not unreasonable. If not, why did Lu Fei, the wife of the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty Liu Bang, after Liu Bang's death, not give Mrs. Qi a happy life, but torture her to death despite being able to easily get rid of Liu Bang's favorite concubine Madam Qi?

"On the contrary, most of the purpose of destroying corpses and eradicating traces is not vendetta, but to avoid being discovered." Bai Zhu said, glanced at Lin Fei beside him, and said, "If it weren't for Lin Shaoqing yesterday, the contents in the swill bucket would have been landfilled. If it is dealt with, the dead Feng Tong may never be found."

But because people were accidentally discovered...

"Today, the remaining body of Feng Tong was also found in the swill bucket. However, it was not mixed up in it like yesterday, trying to confuse it. Instead, it was discarded casually, so that the people who came to throw debris found it at a glance. ." Bai Zhu said, "By doing this, I obviously thought that sooner or later we would find out that Feng Tong was the owner of the corpse, so we simply sent the remaining corpses back."

"Giving" them a complete corpse in such a grand manner is obviously not a act of kindness by the murderer.

Liu Yuan thought for a while and said: "The murderer's original plan was to kill Feng Tong without anyone noticing. Now that he thinks that we will be able to find out that Feng Tong is dead sooner or later, he changed his plan and simply sent the body out. He took the initiative to disclose Feng Tong's identity. It seems that he dared to do this because he was not afraid that we would investigate Feng Tong..." At this point, Liu Yuan's face changed slightly, he opened his mouth, and subconsciously murmured, "The murderer must be... …”

"Since the relationship between Feng Tong and them has been erased, it is difficult to investigate." Bai Zhu took over what Liu Yuan had not finished and followed Lin Fei's gaze to the house in front of him.

Lin Fei didn't say anything, but walked into the house.

Since Feng Tong disappeared within two days of moving here, many of his luggage and belongings were still stored in the boxes and cages and had not yet been taken out.

Except for some daily clothes and a mattress for sleeping, everything else was thrown into the box.

Bai Zhu walked to the side of the sack where a bunch of clothes, sweat towels and other items were thrown away. He picked up a few pieces of clothing and looked at them. He couldn't help but said: "The clothes are worn out and have a lot of patches. I think they were working at the dock." Wear them for work." At this point, he paused and picked up the sweat towel again. When he saw the holes in the sweat towel, he thought about it and said, "These should be Feng Tong's. Items used for small jobs on the docks must have been thrown away in sacks.”

The life of a dock worker is difficult, which can be seen from Feng Tong's old clothes. Judging from Feng Tong's reaction after gaining power, he will definitely throw away all the shabby things of the past and replace them with things worthy of his status as "Feng Shiling".

Lin Fei nodded and glanced around. After Feng Tong moved in, he only hastily tidied up the table, chairs and mattress for sleeping. The rest was left untouched and even covered with dust. Lin Fei touched it. Touching the dust on the empty shelf, he put his hand away, turned around and walked out the door.

Bai Zhu, who was in the house, saw the thick layer of dust and couldn't help but said: "If this Feng Tong is not a tidy person, or he is a city magistrate and is not prepared to clean the house himself, he is going to hire someone to take care of him."

This is no small expense! Liu Yuan nodded and walked out with Bai Zhu to follow Lin Fei.

Lin Fei went to the kitchen of this house. The kitchen was empty, with no signs of fire. Even the pots on the stove were covered with a layer of ash and showed no signs of being moved. The same was true for the utility room.

"It seems that Feng Tong just moved his things in and took a nap," Bai Zhu said, touching the ashes on the kitchen counter. "He has three meals a day and eats out. This city order is really true. It’s really not small!”

"This... is a good expense," Liu Yuan calculated. "The money for renting a house, he was ready to throw away all his old clothes, and if he needed to add the money for buying more clothes, these few things alone would be enough." He has been receiving a monthly salary for several years, so where did he get all this money?"

"That's right!" Bai Zhu nodded and said, "There is just some little oil in the market. He looks like he is causing trouble everywhere. How many vendors are willing to spend money on him? Fish out a flower Come on, I don’t have this kind of money.”

From this point of view, the banner "Swallowing Gold and Receiving Treasures" posted on the door is really something.

Of course, for this, you need to ask the owner of this house and find out how Feng Tong became the mayor of this market.

The owner of the house was never seen, only the middleman who rented the house was found.

"The owner of the house is not in Chang'an City. He has put the house up with me all year round to help rent it," the middleman explained. "Although the location is good, the price of the house is not cheap, so it may be empty. Feng Shiling came to rent it. This house has been empty for half a year, and I rented it just a few days ago, with a year's rent deposited." As he said that, he handed over the house lease deed signed by the two of them.

The deed procedures were all in accordance with the laws of Da Rong. The deed and the land deed were all available. Seeing Lin Fei carefully looking through them, the middle-aged man removed the money for this month's rent and returned the remaining money. The Yamen of Dali Temple can be regarded as "confiscated".

I originally thought I would only deposit three months' rent, but instead I deposited a full year's rent. The contract was for a five-year lease of the house, so I planned to stay there for a long time.

After the stranger left the deed, the land deed and other things and left, Liu Yuan couldn't help but said to Lin Fei who was looking through the deeds: "Lin Shaoqing, I did the math. The money in Feng Tong's hand is at least hundreds of taels." , and I’m afraid he needs a long-term money bag to be able to support his living like this.”

When Bai Zhu heard this, he also nodded and said: "When he was the city magistrate, he bullied others just to have fun after gaining power. From the beginning to the end, this Feng Tong didn't mind the filial management of the city magistrate's monthly salary and the vendors. money."

In this case... the source of everything points directly to three months before Feng Tongchao came to power. So what happened that made the original dock porter not only swallow up gold and treasure overnight, but also transform into a city magistrate? ?