Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 76 Exogenous Branches
Li Canghai's heart warmed up, his eyes revealed a touch of tenderness, and he said with relief: "It's okay, judging from your previous description, that person's martial arts should not be as good as yours, maybe he is hiding somewhere. Let's go back first, and then worry about it later."

Di Qing was a little depressed at first, but after hearing what he said, she immediately felt better.

When the two returned to the inn, Di Qing helped him treat the wound and fed him a pill to treat internal injuries, and then she felt relieved.

"Cang Hai, why did this group of people kill you?" Di Qing poured a glass of water, handed it over, and asked in confusion.

Li Canghai didn't reveal a word to her about 'Ni Lin Xuan Wu'.From her point of view, the two of them had just arrived at Luofengji and hadn't provoked anyone. How could anyone want to kill him?
When Li Canghai was considering whether to tell her the truth, there was an anxious knock on the door.

"My lord, my lord! It's not good, something serious happened, Zhuo Bufan is dead!" Chang Feng shouted eagerly standing outside the door.

Li Canghai stood up abruptly, he hurriedly opened the door, and walked to the backyard without saying a word.

Since there is no cell in Luofengji, Li Canghai originally planned to lock Zhuo Bufan and Liu Cui'er in the woodshed of the inn overnight, and Chang Feng and others will escort them back to the Zhengyang County Government Office in the morning.

However, before the night passed, Zhuo Bufan unexpectedly died suddenly and inexplicably.

In the firewood room, Li Canghai's face was stern, not only Zhuo Bufan, but also Liu Cui'er died together.

"The body is still warm, so it must have died not long ago." Li Canghai frowned as he touched the bodies of the two.

Di Qing asked curiously: "How is it? Did you find anything?"

"The lips are purple, the face is blue-gray, and the pupils are dilated, which are symptoms of death from suffocation." Li Canghai checked carefully, then suddenly shook his head and said, "No, the two people's throats were broken, and they were strangled to death. "

Di Qing is not good at reasoning, but she is very familiar with all kinds of scars. She leaned over, observed carefully for a while, and said: "Judging from the pinch marks on the throats of the two of them, the attackers are extremely skilled in martial arts. high."

"Oh? How did you see that?" Li Canghai asked.

"Ordinary people want to choke each other's throat, they must use great force, and there will be clear choke marks on the neck, just like when Liu Cui'er and her husband choked each other, there will be choke marks on the neck. People who know martial arts , it will accurately find the weakest part of the throat, and then use more force to cut off the throat easily, so that the pinch marks left will not be too obvious."

Di Qing said, stretched out her hand, and demonstrated it to him.

Di Qing's description was so accurate that Li Canghai couldn't help but think that his neck had been twisted in two with a "click" sound.

Unnaturally twisting his neck, Li Canghai smiled approvingly at her, and then asked, "Besides that, are there any other doubts?"

Seeing Li Canghai's encouraging eyes, Di Qing's confidence increased greatly. She inspected Zhuo Bufan's body, and suddenly frowned and said, "This man is not weak in martial arts, why was he choked by someone, but he was killed without any resistance?" Someone killed?"

Li Canghai gave her a thumbs-up sincerely, glanced around and said, "Qing'er, you can find this, which means that you are getting more and more proficient in solving crimes. Look around the corpse. Is there anyone around Zhuo Bufan?" There are signs of chaos, but Liu Cui'er is surrounded by chaos, what does this mean?"

Di Qing glanced at the place where the two fell, Zhuo Bufan was close to the firewood pile, as long as he resisted, there should be signs of chaos around him.

But the scene was just the opposite. Judging from the traces on the ground, Liu Cui'er seemed to have crawled from Zhuo Bufan's side to the corner in a panic, but there were some signs of struggle at the corner.

"Explain, the murderer is someone Zhuo Bufan knows!" Di Qing looked at the traces at the scene and said suddenly.

Li Canghai snapped his fingers and said approvingly: "That's right, the murderer should be someone who knew Zhuo Bufan. Only when you face an acquaintance will you be defenseless. If my guess is right, the situation at that time should be like this. The murderer Suddenly appearing in the firewood room, Zhuo Bufan thought that the murderer was here to save him, but he did not expect the other party to attack the killer suddenly. Before he had time to resist, Zhuo Bufan had his throat cut off by the murderer. Liu Cui'er Panicked, he crawled to the corner of the wall, struggled for a while, and was silenced by the murderer."

"Your Excellency is truly a god! Such a complicated case has been solved in just one stick of incense!" Chang Feng praised in time.

Li Canghai glanced at him, and shouted: "Stop flattering! You think you are Li Yuanfang! Let me ask you, did anyone enter the firewood room when the crime happened?"

Chang Feng was startled by his yell and trembled all over, wondering in his heart, who is this Li Yuanfang?

However, seeing Li Canghai's displeasure, he hurriedly said: "Since the detention until now, no one has entered the firewood room, and the young ones are also wondering why these two people suddenly died suddenly."

Li Canghai stomped a few steps, Di Qing had just gone after the mysterious man, and the two were killed, it's probably not a coincidence.

"Who sent the dinner?" He walked to the table, picked up the bowl of rice, and asked suddenly.

There was not much rice in this bowl, and it was obvious that the deceased did not have time to eat it before he died.

"My lord, the dinner was delivered by the waiter in the shop." Chang Feng replied in a cold sweat.

Li Canghai pondered for a while, then said, "Bring the shop waiter over for questioning."

Chang Feng nodded yes, and hurried out.

After a while, the shop clerk covered his head and walked over with Chang Feng.

"What's going on?" Li Canghai frowned.

"My lord, when I found him, he was knocked unconscious by the haystack." Chang Feng replied, and as he spoke, he pulled the waiter from the store and said, "Sir, tell your lord what happened to you. .”

The waiter rubbed his head, and said in a daze, "Master... my lord, the little one came here to deliver meals, but I didn't expect to be knocked out just as soon as I walked out of the kitchen."

When Chang Feng heard this, he immediately understood what was going on. He hurriedly knelt down on the ground and shouted: "My lord, it was the villain who ignored me and let the thief take advantage of the loophole. The villain is wrong, and the villain is willing to be punished!" "

Li Canghai felt a little bored, he waved his hand to let Chang Feng get up.

They can't be blamed for this kind of thing, after all, the other party is a master of martial arts, if they really recognize the truth about the murderer, I'm afraid none of these yamen servants can survive.

"Cang Hai, what should we do now?" Seeing that his brows were furrowed, Di Qing asked.

For Di Qing, she seems to be used to it, and Li Canghai makes decisions when everything is uncertain.

"It's really an eventful year, with one wave of ups and downs and one wave of another." Li Canghai shook his head, sighed helplessly, and muttered: "At this point, we can only take one step at a time."

(End of this chapter)