Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 70 Suspicion
Afterwards, Li Canghai left the murder scene and went to a guest room next door.

The three people who were originally seen at the murder scene were all invited to this guest room at this time.

The shopkeeper stomped back and forth anxiously, the Confucian scholar looked gloomy, and the woman kept crying.

Seeing him go in, the shopkeeper immediately went up to greet him and asked, "My lord, how is the investigation going? Has the murderer been found?"

Li Canghai signaled him to be quiet, and then asked: "The deceased was killed, who first discovered it?"

"Yes, it's me." The woman said with tears in her eyes.

"What is your relationship with the deceased? When did you find out that the deceased was dead?" Li Canghai asked in a deep voice with his hands behind his back.

"My name is Liu Cui'er, and I am the concubine of the master. This morning, the master left the inn to go out on a business trip, but when I came back, I saw the master died on the bed." Cui'er continued to sob.

"Then where were you when the deceased died?" Li Canghai touched his nose and asked.

Embarrassment suddenly appeared on Liu Cui'er's face, she stirred the silk with her hands, and said in a low voice: "I... I am going to the latrine. I ate badly last night, and after the master left, I felt unbearable abdominal pain, so I went to the latrine .”

Li Canghai frowned slightly, Liu Cui'er's words were impeccable, and even blocked the possibility of him asking for witnesses.

After all, it is unlikely that someone will prove the matter of going to the latrine.

"Who are you, and why did you appear in the room of the dead?" Li Canghai turned to ask the Confucian scholar.

The scholar gave him a sideways look, sneered dismissively and said, "Who are you? Why did my son answer you?"

At this time, Changtou had already asked other people, walked in, just heard the Confucian scholar's words, and suddenly became furious.

"Boy, this is the magistrate of this county, you'd better be honest with me, otherwise I want you to look good!"

Hearing what Chang Tou said, the three people in the room were stunned.

The shopkeeper saluted again and again, and said with a flattering smile: "It turns out that you are the county magistrate. I am disrespectful and disrespectful. I thought you were a master. I hope you will forgive me for my poor greetings!"

For the shopkeeper, the prestige of the county magistrate is still far inferior to the master of the state government office. After all, the county magistrate is the biggest official in this land, so naturally he has to curry favor with him.

The Confucian scholar's face changed, and his expression also became respectful. He hurriedly stood up and saluted Li Canghai: "The late student Zhuo Bufan has met the county magistrate."

Li Canghai saw that he was wearing a jacket and that the official did not kneel, so he asked, "Are you a scholar?"

"My lord, Wansheng is a member of Tianbao's nine-year middle school." Zhuo Bufan said with a slight bow.

Li Canghai glanced at him, then asked, "What is your relationship with the deceased?"

"My lord, the deceased is my brother." Zhuo Bufan sighed and said sadly.

"Where were you when the crime happened?" Li Canghai sized him up in surprise and asked with his eyes narrowed.

"My lord, I was studying in the room when the crime happened, and I didn't step out of the room. I didn't know that my brother was killed until I heard the cry." Zhuo Bufan said with tears in his eyes, gnashing his teeth: "My lord, my brother has always been easy-going. , but suffered such catastrophe, I hope my lord will find out the murderer and give my brother justice!"

Li Canghai nodded, "I will find out the truth about this matter, and give justice to the deceased, but you said you didn't leave the room, but who can testify?"

Zhuo Bufan was stunned for a moment, and he said in a bit of embarrassment: "Wan Sheng has been studying in the room, so where's the witness?"

At this time, the shopkeeper suddenly interjected: "My lord, this little girl can prove it."

Li Canghai touched his nose in surprise, and signaled Chang Tou to bring the waiter.

As soon as the shop waiter saw Li Canghai, he immediately knelt down, kowtowed and said, "I don't know if it's an adult coming, please forgive me if I offend you."

After all, Li Canghai is not a person of this era, and he dislikes kneeling.He waved his hand, made the waiter stand up, pointed at Zhuo Bufan, and asked: "Let me ask you, he said he was studying in the room, can you testify for him?"

The waiter bent over and said, "Responding to my lord, the little one delivered water to several guest rooms before the murder happened. When I passed by the guest officer's room, I did see the guest officer in the room."

"You saw it with your own eyes?" Li Canghai frowned slightly.

"I saw it with my own eyes." The waiter lowered his body, but his words were a little uncertain, "But..."

"But what?" Li Canghai asked in a deep voice with his arms folded in front of his chest.

"The small one is what I saw through the window, but I just saw the guest officer's figure." The waiter replied honestly.

Zhuo Bufan glanced at him, and said with a gloomy face, "Could it be that my lord suspects that Wan Sheng killed my brother?"

"I'm just making a routine inquiry. You guys rest here for a while, and I'll come when you go." After saying that, Li Canghai left the guest room, and called the shopkeeper away along the way.

"My lord, I've asked them all, and no one found anything abnormal." Chang Tou followed behind him and told him the results of the inquiry.

Li Canghai nodded, turned to the shopkeeper and said, "Shopkeeper, please tell me what happened at that time."

"Returning to my lord, I was cleaning up the sundries on the second floor. When I heard someone shouting, I ran over immediately. After entering, I found that Boss Zhuo was killed on the bed, and his concubine was sitting on the ground , and then Mr. Zhuo also came in..."

Before he could finish speaking, Li Canghai interrupted his words and asked, "You said that Zhuo Bufan entered the room after you? Are you sure?"

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, he thought about it for a moment, and said with some uncertainty: "This... I didn't care. After I entered Boss Zhuo's room, Mr. Zhuo appeared right after me. Didn't he come in after me? ?"

Li Canghai knew it well, he asked the time, thought that Di Qing might still be sleeping, so he asked the shopkeeper to wake Di Qing up, and went to Zhuo Bufan's room by himself.

Zhuo Bufan's room is located downstairs, he pushed the door and walked in.

Everything in the room was placed in an orderly manner, and there were several books and some manuscripts of poems on the round table.

The whole room looked normal, and Li Canghai couldn't help wondering if his guess was wrong. He pulled out a round stool from under the table, and wanted to sit down and think about whether he had missed something.

Unexpectedly, there was a fist-sized hole in the middle of the stool that was pulled out.

Li Canghai stared at the stool, his mind turned quickly, suddenly his heart moved, he seemed to have figured out the key point, and turned to search in the room.

After a while, he found two sticks, one long and one short, and inserted the long sticks into the hole, only to find that they matched the hole exactly.

The corners of Li Canghai's mouth rose slightly, and a bright light flashed in his eyes.

When Li Canghai walked out of Zhuo Bufan's room, Di Qing rubbed her sleepy eyes and walked out of the room.

"Canghai, why are there so many yamen servants here? What happened?" Di Qing asked yawning before she recovered her senses.

"There is a murder case, come with me." Li Canghai said, then dragged Di Qing to the room of the deceased.

Hearing that there was a murder case, Di Qing was sobered up in an instant, and her eyes flashed with excitement.

(End of this chapter)