with words in mind

Chapter 436 Qingzhou Sea Ghost Case 6
Yan Mo checked the boss's body carefully again, and just when he found that there was still some food in the mouth of the body, he heard: "Secret escape route?!" She looked around, inspecting the ground, walls, and roof beams. again, found nothing
It wasn't until the three of them worked together to push the mattress away that a wooden window similar to the length of the bed was found under the corresponding wall.

To get in and out, you have to lie on the ground and roll around.

Outside the long window is a tall building wall. The path outside the window is about ten feet long and two feet wide. The narrow width is only enough for one person to stand on. The two ends of the path are perfectly covered and sealed by wooden buildings. Only one side of the wood is destroyed , to get in and out.

But now, the left and right sides are intact, only .
The three people who rolled out of the window one after another looked up, and said in unison: "Up!"

"Could it be that the murderer sneaked in from here to kill Boss Hu?" The masked man muttered while resting his chin, "But when we moved the bed just now, this exit was tightly blocked. To enter from the outside, it needs to be large enough." strength will do."

"No!" Yan Mo said thoughtfully, "The position of the bed changed when the waves overturned, blocking the exit. If the bed returns to its normal position, it can completely block the exit, and the height of the bottom of the bed can also accommodate the exit." one person!"

"Ah~ That's right!" The masked young man suddenly felt enlightened!
"So," Qi Ming concluded, "the murderer had already succeeded before the storm happened."

Yan Mo: "Under the raging wind and waves, Boss Hu's body bumped back and forth in the room, but he still kept his sitting posture, which shows that he died sitting down, and he continued in that posture for a long time. The key now is that the murderer Who is it?"

"As long as you know this secret path, anyone can come in and kill people." The masked boy looked up and down at the opposite high wall, and said as it should, "A person like you who is agile can come and go freely with just two strokes." "

Yan Mo looked at Mr. Jiang, and suddenly thought: "You try it."

"Huh?!" The masked boy was very surprised, "I can't do it, I, I." Seeing the other party gradually releasing an irresistible aura, he had to give up, "Why is it me again?"

The high wall on the opposite side of the secret passage was about ten feet long, and the wall was smooth. With the height of the masked man, it was a bit difficult to jump up directly. In the end, he changed his posture and put his buttocks and soles of his feet on the front and back walls respectively, like Moving like a snail bit by bit
Yan Ming said: "."

slam-la-

"what!!"

A wave hit, and with the shaking of the ship, the masked boy tilted his body, and fell on the narrow path in vain!
"No, with my skills, the wall is a little higher, so I can't go up."

Seeing the two men on the opposite side threatening with silence, the masked boy had no choice but to get up aggrieved and try again
A moment later, he gasped for breath, kicked his ass and fell down again!
"Ah! It's too difficult and you don't have the skills to escape from here."

Yan Mo looked back at the wall belonging to the room. With the help of the props in the room, ordinary people can escape, but in this way, the props will stay here. Is it true that the murderer must be agile as Mr. Jiang said? man of.

In this way, Yu Xi, who is not as tall as Young Master Jiang, is excluded
Outside the door of the room, Guo Ze, who had faintly heard the sound, handed Yu Xi over to his subordinates early on. When he entered the room, he saw that there was a cave behind the bed!
"Should I go home? Have you found the murderer?"

"Brother Guo, step aside." After Yan Mo signaled the other party to step aside, the three of them rolled back one after another.

"There is a secret passage here?" Guo Ze squatted down and looked out of the opening, but only saw a wall blocking his view.

Yan Mo: "Brother Guo, where is the brother in charge of guarding Boss Hu?"

"They neglected their duties, and I put them in a cell." Guo Ze learned to lie on the ground, and half of his body entered the secret passage to see everything clearly.

Yan Mo: "Have you found the murder weapon?"

"Brothers all use long knives and long swords, no short swords or spears." Guo Ze replied as he turned around.

Yan Mo: "Take me to meet the brother who is in charge of guarding this place."

"Come with me."

After entering the cell on the first floor of the main building, Yan Mo interrogated each of the guards individually. Most of the guards said the same thing, but they just guarded outside Boss Hu's door. There was a fire on the first floor, and everyone rushed down the annex building in a hurry to fight the fire, so the second floor of the annex building was vacant.

Yan Mo: "Before the sea fire and storm, who was near the boss's room?"

"After the boss entered the house, I watched Lao Zhang deliver food to the boss. At that time, the boss was alive and well, and I didn't see anyone else approaching him after that. Only Mr. Yu was busy, occasionally far away, and I I saw the figure of an adult."

Yan Mo: "Master Yu, what was he doing when you saw him?"

"Your Excellency is busy here and there. I passed by in a hurry. Later, I saw Master Yu was so busy that his belt was loosened, and he went back to the house with a box. Not long after, he came out again and started to meet the customers in the main building."

Yan Mo: "A box?"

"Oh, it's such a long box."

Yan Mo looked at the other party and gestured, and roughly remembered that when he checked Yu Xi's room just now, he did see a long box.

"Do you know what that box is for?"

"I don't know."

The box was empty, Yan Mo wondered what Yu Xi was doing with an empty box?No, it might have been emptied later, so what was in that box before that?

During the interrogation, Guo Ze had sent someone to find out the trend of the secret road.

Yan Mo returned to Boss Hu's room with doubts. After listening to Guo Ze's description, she picked up a small table and rolled into the secret passage again.

"Shoulder, what are you doing?"

"Come in!" Yan Mo grabbed Mr. Jiang out from the secret passageway, "Try this step!"

The masked boy didn't have the right to refuse, he stepped on the little table in frustration, and finally pulled up the high wall!

"Ehhhhh!"

Because of the raging wind and waves, the water stains on the top of the high wall were slippery, and because of insufficient arm strength, the masked boy slipped and fell again!

The corner of the skirt swayed, Yan Mo stepped on the wall with one step, and flew directly to the top of the high wall. Only by experiencing it personally can one understand the true appearance of the distribution of secret passages.

"Damn, even if I can climb up with this thing, this thing won't follow me up." The masked boy watched him go up with ease, only envious and jealous.

Qi Ming has followed the secret path unknowingly, and with one step of flying, he also flew onto the top of the high wall!

On the high wall, the beams are thick and the paths extend in all directions. With the faint firelight shining in from outside, Yan Mo could vaguely see the exits in three different directions. She had to marvel at the dexterity of the shipbuilders!
Taking a quick look at two of the exits facing the corridor, seeing Qi Ming also coming up, Yan Mo told him to stay here, and then headed for the last exit.

Below this exit is a narrow path between several buildings, the path turns and turns, and there are several branches.

After Yan Mo turned over and entered the small path, she looked at all the forks one by one. After a lot of ups and downs, she finally found the exit she was looking for.

As the decorative furnace pavilion slowly opened the top cover, Yan Mo poked her head out, and after climbing out of the exit, she found that the cabin where Master Yun was imprisoned was on the right, and the guards here were relatively sparse, so she walked through the corridor The road turned a corner, and he saw Boss Hu's room from a distance, and Yu Xi's room was right in front of him, and the two rooms were in the same row.

"Shoulder," Guo Ze asked seeing the other party come back, "Since we know the secret way, can we find the murderer?"

Yan Mo conveniently tore off a few straps that bound the curtain, connected them together, turned over and entered the secret passage again, followed closely by Guo Ze.

"Tie one end of this to your wrist and the other end to a small table, and you climb up to try it."

The masked boy obeyed, and under Qi Ming's pull, he finally got to the top of the high wall, gasping for breath: "I'm coming up!"

"Use the rope around your wrist to pull this little table up."

"Huh? Ah! I got it!" The masked boy stared at his wrist, and finally came to his senses. While holding the little couple, he muttered, "So that's the case, why didn't I think of it!"

"What do you mean?" Guo Ze couldn't understand.

"With the tiptoe stones and the long rope, anyone can pass here regardless of skill or not. The key is, who has such an advantage and knew early on that there is a secret passage here?"

"My brothers and I only boarded the ship today. The only one who can know the secret way in advance, Mr. Yu!"

"Where's Yu Xi?"

"in the side room"

"It's not good, Brother Guo! Lord Yun and that concubine are gone!"

As soon as Guo Ze finished answering, he heard his younger brother shouting from the room!
Qi Ming grabbed the masked young man, turned over and fell down, and followed Yan Mo out of the secret passage.

When several people passed by the side room, Yan Mo looked inside and found, "Where's Yu Xi?!"

"When did Master Yu wake up?!" Guo Ze immediately asked the guard's younger brother!

"Just now, my lord said he wanted to go back to his room. Just."

Just as the younger brother answered tremblingly, there was a loud noise in Yu Xi's room at the end of the corridor! ! !

"Go and see!!"

The few people walked quickly, and before they entered the room, they saw Yu Xi holding two exquisite wooden boxes backing back and forth, narrowly avoiding the sharp light and shadow that was flying towards him!
"Go to hell! Go to hell—" It was Mr. Yun's concubine who rushed out with the tip of a spear!
Guo Ze moved swiftly, he drew out the long knife on the younger brother's body and blocked it hastily!
"Madam!!" Master Yun followed closely, narrowly catching the little concubine who was bounced away by force!
"What's going on? When are we going to land?!"

Just at this time, Boss Jin ran up from the first floor with several other people. They were already impatient to wait after looking around frequently!
For a while, several people faced each other, looking at each other in blank dismay!
"...Don't just stay here, go into the room and talk."

In the end, it was Yan Mo who spoke first.

In order to prevent Yu Xi from escaping, and to prevent another assassination, Guo Ze had Yu Xi and Lord Yun and his wife arrested respectively.

"Master Yu, you used to be the envoy of the city ship, and you also know how to build a ship. I think this ship must be your choice." Yan Mo quietly came to the small window, put his arms around his chest, and leaned his back against the wall "In order to get rid of Boss Hu, you don't hesitate to spend all your money, killing people under so many pairs of eyes, you have enough guts!"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Yu Xi secretly glanced at the exquisite box that was taken from him from time to time, "Boss Hu's death is unclear, it must be the work of sea ghosts! I saw it with my own eyes just now, and there really are sea ghosts! It killed Boss Hu, I want to avenge Brother Hu!!"

"Don't be hypocritical," Yan Mo curled his lips and said in a contemptuous tone, "In order to kill Boss Hu, you stunned Boss Tong with Mongolian sweat medicine. You wanted him to be your vague witness, but you didn't want the sea of ​​fire to happen, and the visions were frequent. He But he became a lonely ghost under someone else's knife. As for you, not only did you escape the catastrophe, but you also became a justifiable scapegoat."

"You talk nonsense! Brother Hu is very guarded outside the door. I am busy dealing with everyone, and I don't have time to get close. Only sea ghosts have this ability!"

"Yeah, you make yourself so tired that you want everyone to relax their vigilance, but in fact, you have already hidden under Boss Hu's dining table through a secret passage, and killed him with a knife while he was eating!

Maybe he was unlucky, he could have shouted for help, but he choked on the food and died on the dining table.

Eh!Don’t say you don’t know the secret way.” Seeing the other party wanting to refute, Yan Mo stopped him, “Man’s calculation is not as good as heaven’s calculation. A storm made the boss’s room reveal its original shape. There is a secret way under the bed, and the secret way extends in all directions. It’s the closest The exit is right next to it. "

"You spitting blood! A bunch of pirates, aren't they more suspicious than me, a person who only knows how to write?!"

"You're so stubborn!" The masked boy looked a little bit aggrieved, "I can only write and write, and I can still climb the high wall of the secret path!"

When Yan Mo heard this, he glanced at the masked young man and said, "Just now he said that he was killed by a sea ghost, but now he's become a pirate again?"

Yu Xi: "Whether he is a sea ghost or a pirate, it has nothing to do with me! I don't know any secret ways! Don't talk nonsense!"

Yan Mo: "Everyone is new to this ship, and they are not very familiar with the hull structure, but you are different, this ship was chosen by you, and this transaction was also arranged by you, how could it have nothing to do with you?

You are wearing silk and satin, and the matching belt is a Suzhou embroidered belt. This kind of belt is about ten feet long, which is just as close to the height of the high wall.A pirate saw you returning to the room with a long wooden box, but when I checked that wooden box, there was nothing inside.Dear customers, have you ever seen this wooden box? "

Boss Jin and the others looked at the wooden box Guo Ze took out and shook their heads.

Yan Mo: "This wooden box, with your belt, can climb that high wall with your stature. As long as you know the secret way in advance, you are more powerful than that sea ghost!"

Yu Xi: "Nonsense! Everything is just your guess!"

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha--"

After hearing this, the concubine suddenly laughed wildly!
"You have colluded with pirates for several years, and now you are ruined, and you have to bury your last place with your own hands! You deserve it!! Master Qian has a spirit in heaven, and he will definitely let you die without a place to die!!"

"Lord Qian?" Yan Mo seemed to realize something when he heard it, "What does Master Qian's death have to do with you?"

Guo Ze looked at the tip of the spear and wanted to ask, "Boss Tong, did you kill him?!"

"The only one I want to kill is Yu Xi!!" The concubine said viciously, "It was you who pushed Mr. Qian off the boat and refused to save him! Just because he found out that you were going to embezzle the ship of the Municipal Shipping Department and blocked your Cailu, you actually pushed him into the water while he was saving someone! You are the real sea ghost!! The damned person is you!!! Ugh! Let me go! Let me kill him—let me go !!"

Hearing this, Yan Mo realized that this man and woman were the witnesses when Mr. Qian was killed!

"It turns out that you pretended to be Lord Yun and my concubine because you wanted to avenge Lord Qian."

"Aren't you Master Yun?!" Guo Ze was very surprised, staring at the couple!

"Master Yun" saw that the matter had come to this point, and Yu Xi had become a public enemy, so he said openly, "My name is Lou Minsheng, she is Miss Chen, we are both from Hailin Town, and we have all received the favor of Lord Qian. After the disaster happened, we Trapped in the water, it was Mr. Qian who rescued us, and we survived.

For our safety, the lord let us get on the boat and leave first, because we didn't see the lord for a long time, so we turned back, who knows. We saw Yu Xi from afar, taking advantage of the official's inattention, and pushed the lord Qian into the water!I immediately went into the water to search quietly, but unfortunately, Mr. Qian has already."

"Lord Qian drowned because of overwork!" Miss Chen continued with tears in her eyes, "I kept watching Mr. Lou after he fell into the water, and Master Qian didn't even have the strength to struggle after he fell into the water, so just let him go." So gone! Yu Xi! You are the one to die!!!"

Guo Ze naturally wanted to kill Yu Xi, but Boss Tong's death had to be explained to the Tong family: "Tie them up and hand them over to the Tong family after they land!"

"They are not the real culprits who killed Boss Tong." Yan Mobuxian said.

"The tip of the spear is in her hand, how can there be a fake?"

Yan Mo: "They are locked in the side room, without Master Yu's key, they cannot get out through that small window."

Guo Ze: "Then how did they come out now?"

Hearing this, Yu Xi subconsciously looked at his waist, and the key was indeed gone!
Yan Mo also noticed: "Since Ms. Chen is not pregnant, that belly is fake. Presumably, the spear point has been hidden in her belly. The murderer got the spear point from Ms. Chen through the small window, and entered in the chaos. This room was going to kill Yu Xi, but unexpectedly, it was Boss Tong who fell on the ground. In order to protect himself and attack again, the murderer wanted to blame everything on the sea ghost, so he tied the two pieces here with the extended horse mane. The curtain, with the help of the suspended spear, played a scene of sea ghosts killing people." She came to the leaky curtain, pointed to the candles placed in the spiral table on the wall, and continued, "The murderer tied up After the curtain 'pinched' a cloak ghost, one end of the horsehair was passed around the candles, embedded in the candle body, and the candles that could illuminate the shadow were lit one by one.

With the cover of the drapery 'cloak', he can hide his shadow in it, or bend down to hide from the light source, and pull the horse mane to climb out of this window.

After everyone notices the ghost, he just needs to pull the mane in his hand hard!
Some horse manes will break when they touch the flame, some will cut off the head of the candle and fall together, and some will run around because of the loss of strength, which is why some of the 'hair' on the ground have knots. Some have burn marks.

And these two curtains will fall apart because of the loss of the support of the horsehair, and return to their original state.This is why the candles were extinguished when we saw ghosts scattered.

Coupled with the raging wind and waves, the candle wicks that fell on the ground would be easily blown out, and the candle tears would solidify immediately upon contact with the water, mixing with the candle tears that had originally fallen on the ground.

And the metal sound I heard outside the door at that time should be caused by these spiral tables due to the impact of force.

After the murderer escaped from the window, he went back to the side room, passed the murder weapon to Ms. Chen through the small window, and Ms. Chen hid it back in the fake belly, so that I could smell blood on Ms. Chen's body. "

Guo Ze: "The murderer is not her, who is that? Where is it?!"

Yan Moyou leisurely returned to his original position, leaning his back against the wall and said, "He's right here!"

(End of this chapter)