White Cat Legend Episode 13 Recap
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Li Bing led the Court of Judicial Review officials to the dock. The Ministry of Justice had already moved the body outside the Dragon King Temple. The body was found in a strange, curled-up posture. The Ministry of Justice official explained that when the body was discovered, it was hidden behind the Dragon King statue. The preliminary judgment was that the death was caused by a severe blow to the head.
There were sticks at the scene, which are common tools for moving goods on the dock. The Ministry of Justice also stated that the deceased's name was Liu Fu, and he was a dock guard. After combining the above information, Li Bing believed the case would not be difficult to solve.
Seeing Li Bing's confidence, the Ministry of Justice official took the opportunity to invite Court of Judicial Review to take over the case, suppressing the limelight of the Jinwu Guard. After the Ministry of Justice left the scene, Alibaba speculated about the crime process based on his imagination, but Li Bing thought it was too dramatic.
Wang Qi analyzed that Liu Fu was a night watchman at the freight yard, and he must have discovered something during his patrol, thus being silenced. The murderer was likely a habitual thief. Li Bing also leaned towards Wang Qi's conjecture. Chen Shi had been staring at the Dragon King statue, feeling it looked strange. After a moment of thought, he believed the Dragon King should be holding a plaque.
Looking at the ground, he indeed saw a wooden plaque lying there, but the writing was blurry. Li Bing discovered that the Dragon King statue was hollow inside, which must be where habitual thieves hid goods. There were precious spices like cloves and nutmeg on the ground, indicating that the stolen goods were of certain value. It was also possible that Liu Fu committed self-theft.
To clarify the situation, Li Bing sent a few people to the freight yard to inquire about the situation. Wang Qi went to the freight yard to inquire about the victim, Liu Fu. All the porters avoided him from a distance as if they were avoiding a plague. Li Bing took Chen Shi into a tavern near the freight yard to inquire if any goods had been lost at the dock in recent days.
Just then, someone outside rang a bell, and all the customers deliberately avoided it. The tavern owner also showed strong disapproval and asked Li Bing to leave as soon as possible, saying he had been busy recently and did not accept business from strangers. Seeing the leftover wine on the table, Li Bing smelled it, and the scent was consistent with the wine bottle at the Dragon King Temple.
As Li Bing was preparing to leave the tavern, a beggar walked up to him and sighed meaningfully. After leaving the tavern, Li Bing specifically stopped the beggar and took out silver to ask if he knew about the recent events at the dock. The beggar said that waterway transport was not smooth, and people's lives were difficult, so many people had started stealing, which was a common occurrence in the area.
Alibaba saw a cargo ship operated by Hu people, so he boarded it as a fellow countryman to inquire. He learned that a luxury cargo ship had docked a few nights ago, stayed for only about half an hour, and then left, which was indeed unusual. Regarding the berthing time of ships at the freight station, the dock had record boards, but when Li Bing checked, they had been smeared and covered.
There were blood drops below the record board, so Li Bing followed them to the shore. A masked woman in black left a throwing dart and quickly departed. Qiu Qingzhi led the Jinwu Guard and appeared afterward, asking about the dock case. Back at Court of Judicial Review, Li Bing speculated that Liu Fu should have been an accomplice of the habitual thieves.
Initially, they coexisted peacefully, but it was very likely that an internal conflict occurred on the night of the incident. The record board being smeared was meant to erase the trace of the ship having docked. Wang Qi believed that the masked woman in black was the murderer, but because Chen Shi was held hostage, causing the culprit to escape, Wang Qi blamed Chen Shi for being incapable of success and only causing trouble.
Chen Shi unintentionally overheard Wang Qi and a few others evaluating him, saying he was kind-hearted but of no help in solving cases. He couldn't help but feel discouraged, believing he was not suitable to stay at Court of Judicial Review, so he went to Yuan Buer to confide. Surprisingly, Yuan Buer produced a letter sent by someone claiming to be Chen Jiu.
Chen Shi was very happy and took it back to Court of Judicial Review to ask Li Bing to read it. There wasn't much information in the letter either.
