Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 68

At the end of the corridor, a group of people pointed around the door of a room, and a woman cried from time to time.

At this time Xiao Er happened to pass by him anxiously, Li Canghai grabbed him and asked, "Xiao Er, what happened, why are you crying?"

The little girl just walked up the stairs and said out of breath, "Guest officer, he's dead... I just went to report to the officer, and I just came back."

Li Canghai's nerves immediately tensed up when he heard the dead person, he didn't have time to think about it, and walked towards the guest room.

This inn is divided into upper and lower floors, each with ten guest rooms. According to the sequence, the room where Li Canghai is located belongs to the sixth room, while the dead man's room is at the end, which belongs to the tenth room.

Hearing that there was a murder case, guests from several guest rooms rushed over to join in the fun.

Li Canghai squeezed through the crowd, and then walked into the guest room.

There are three people sitting in the guest room, two men and one woman.

Two men, one of them is the manager of the inn, and the other is wearing a scarf and dressed as a Confucian scholar.

And that woman's complexion is beautiful, as gorgeous as a peach blossom, she is quite pretty, sitting on the chair and weeping bitterly.

Among the guest rooms, the most eye-catching thing is a dead body lying on the bed.

The chest of the corpse seemed to have been stabbed by a sharp knife, and large swathes of blood flowed out from the chest cavity, dyeing the bed a bloody red.

Homicide case!
Anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that this is a murder case.

"Guest officer, this is the scene of a murder, don't enter casually!" Seeing him entering the room, the shopkeeper hastily stopped him with a sullen expression on his face.

The owner of the shop is most afraid of encountering the murder of a dead person. This will not only lose business, but also cause a lot of trouble. Naturally, he doesn't want more people to get involved.

Li Canghai hurriedly said: "Don't worry, shopkeeper, I'm the master of Luoyang Mansion. I saw a murder happened here, so I came to check it out."

When the shopkeeper heard that he was the master of Luoyang Mansion, his eyes suddenly lit up, as if a drowning man grabbed a life-saving straw, and said excitedly: "It turns out that the master is here, please see what happened." What? The shop has been open for more than ten years, but there has never been a murder case! Now, some people have died in the shop, so how can the shop do business in the future!"

The shopkeeper was so sad that he almost cried.

Li Canghai glanced at him. Now that his life is at stake, he still thinks about his own business.

In his heart, he despised the shopkeeper fiercely, and then Li Canghai began to observe seriously in the room.

Although the shopkeeper is a bit snobbish, he also knows how to protect the scene. Except for a few people, the scene has not been damaged too much.

After asking several people to move to another place, Li Canghai walked to the side of the corpse.

The deceased was a 40-year-old man with a slightly fat body. Judging from his clothes, he should be a businessman like Fu Jia.

There was a wound about an inch wide on the chest of the deceased, and the blood at the wound had solidified into purple. This wound hit the heart, and it was obviously a fatal wound that caused the death of the deceased.

Li Canghai made a preliminary judgment in his mind, and then he looked around.

This room is basically similar to other rooms, divided into two rooms, inside and outside.

While he was looking around, there was a sudden sound of footsteps at the door.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, the yamen handles the case, and the idlers wait to avoid it quickly!"

Following a burst of loud shouts, several yamen servants rushed into the room quickly, and then a man who looked like a head catcher came over.

"This is the scene of a murder. Who are you, and who allowed you to come in?" The head catcher was taken aback when he saw someone in the room, and then shouted.

"Master Catcher, you brought so many people and rushed into the murder scene recklessly, wouldn't it cause damage to the scene?" Li Canghai was a little angry when he saw the Catcher walking in the room without paying attention. , the voice instantly increased a lot.

The man snorted, looked at Li Canghai, and suddenly said contemptuously: "What kind of thing are you? I'm arresting and investigating the case, so I still need you to teach me?"

Li Canghai frowned suddenly, this kind of reckless man, I really don't know how he was promoted to be a head catcher, Li Canghai wanted to point at his nose and jump up and curse, but thinking that this is not Luoyang City, he still couldn't bear it. down.

"Oh, how about I ask Mr. Chief Catcher, what do you think about this murder case?" Li Canghai was too lazy to argue with him, so he asked calmly.

The head catcher only glanced at the scene, and then said convincingly: "According to the head catcher's opinion, someone must have broken into the house to rob and kill someone by mistake."

"What's the evidence for the captor?" Li Canghai asked, rubbing his chin.

"It's not easy. You can see that the house is in a mess, and there are obvious signs of being turned over. Besides, there is a hole in the rear window. I presume that the thieves broke into the house and happened to be met by the deceased, so the two had an affair." During the fight, the thief accidentally killed the deceased with a sharp knife, then jumped out of the rear window and fled the scene."

The head catcher seemed to be very satisfied with his speculation, and he immediately asked people to go to the backyard to investigate.

Li Canghai couldn't help but feel a little funny, this deduction is full of loopholes, he can still say such a serious thing, this person's IQ is worrying!
The head catcher noticed the sneer from the corner of Li Canghai's mouth, and was immediately angry. He said with a cold face, "You seem to disagree with the head catcher's deduction?"

"It's not that I don't agree, it's just nonsense." Li Canghai didn't even have the strength to refute, and said directly.

"Hmph! Do you dare to say that the deduction of the chief arrester is wrong? Unless you tell me a reason, otherwise, the chief arrester will take you back to the yamen for the crime of obstructing official duties!" The chief arrester looked at Li Canghai a little He didn't give him any face, and shouted angrily.

Li Canghai squinted at him, and said calmly: "First of all, the murderer cannot be a thief. Although the purse was missing from the deceased's body, the jade wrench was not removed from the deceased's hand. Will leave such an obvious treasure behind and steal a pile of useless banknotes."

"How do you know that the murderer won't steal the bank notes?" the head catcher said angrily.

"If you want to use a silver ticket, you have to go to the bank to exchange it for silver taels. The minimum denomination of a silver ticket is 100 taels. According to the business law of the Tang Dynasty, any exchange of [-] taels must be recorded. If you are a thief, you will risk being arrested. Do you want to exchange money when someone finds out the danger?" Li Canghai glanced at him and sneered.

"How are you sure that what is in the money bag is not cash, but bank notes?" The head catcher was stunned for a moment, thinking that what he said made sense, but also felt that he was shameless, so he asked.

"The deceased was a merchant. From these scattered ledgers, it is not difficult to see that he came this time for business. Judging from the deceased's attire, he should have come here for a big business. Since it is It’s a big deal, and there’s no silver box, so it’s conceivable that there are only silver bills in the purse. Could it be that the head catcher didn’t notice such an easy-to-understand reasoning?”

The head catcher was choked by these words, and after a while, he snorted, "Even if what you said makes sense, how can you explain the chaos in this room?"

"I have checked the scene. Although these things are tilted here and there, there are no traces of fighting and impact. Combined with the disappearance of the money bag on the deceased, I think this should be done deliberately by the murderer. The purpose is to make us think that this is a conspiracy. The murder case." Li Canghai thought for a while, and said very firmly.

(End of this chapter)