fast and ferocious

Chapter 6 Xinyuan Inn Murder Case ([-]) Second Watch

Xinyuan Inn is located near the Red Bridge. It was not a bustling place. It was because a student who went to Beijing to take the exam lived in this inn more than ten years ago. Later, on the way back to his hometown, he did not forget to visit this inn. Look, this inn has gained some reputation, who knows that three years later, there will be candidates who have lived in this inn, and they will be named on the gold list. This time, Xinyuan Inn will become famous. Having to live there for a while has also boosted the business of the surrounding shops, especially the restaurants.

The inn is divided into two floors. The first floor is mostly prepared for ordinary people. The cheapest ones are Datong Shops, which can accommodate six people. The second floor is all single rooms.

Qin Wubing looked at the dead body on the Datong bunk, and understood why the innkeeper hadn't concealed it. There were three people living in this room, and the other two woke up in the morning to find the dead body. If you want to enter the inn, you have to shout and push to come in. How can the innkeeper hide it!
Don't look at the many people inside and outside the inn, but no one in the room dared to enter. Firstly, this kind of thing is unlucky, and secondly, they are afraid of getting into trouble. If the murderer cannot be found, who knows who will be used to fill the number. It's not that the people at the gate of the yamen have never done such things in their early years.

Therefore, when Qin Wubing arrived, the house was not completely messed up.

Qin Wubing first stood at the door and looked at the whole room. The room was not big, except for the Datong shop on the left, and the wall on the right next to the door. There was not even a window. This reminded Qin Wubing of his previous life. Partition rooms, the innkeeper is afraid that he wants to separate a few more rooms to meet the accommodation requirements of poor students.

"Liu Qin, Zhang Zhu, go and ask the shopkeeper, when did the deceased check in, what did he do on weekdays, what did he do yesterday, whether he has been out of the inn, and what he had for dinner."

"Hong Tian, ​​go to Wuhan University and ask the two people who live together, did you find anything wrong with the deceased last night, and did the deceased meet any relatives, friends or old friends here?"

"Find someone to urge Old Zheng to hurry up and get him to work!"

After Qin Wubing finished speaking, he approached the deceased and looked at it carefully.

The death of the deceased was very strange. His neck and back were stiff, his head and limbs were bent backwards, and his torso was forward, showing a bow shape. Qin Wubing lowered his head and took a closer look at the face of the deceased. He saw that his teeth were closed tightly, and his eyes seemed to be staring at him. What, wry smile, very weird.

Qin Wubing raised his eyebrows, and instead of turning over the corpse, he took out a small cloth bag from under the pillow of the deceased. Yin, there are still a few copper plates, not even a tael of silver.

The road guide clearly stated that the deceased was named Fan Wenjin, a native of Mao County, Taizhou Prefecture. He was 25 years old at the time and came to Beijing to take the exam.

Qin Wubing looked at the clothes in the cloth bag carefully, and then opened the bags of the other two. These two people obviously carried more things than Fan Wenjin, at least the cotton robes needed in winter , exam preparation books, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and a few taels of silver.

In the end, Qin Wubing noticed a pair of moiré cloth shoes of the deceased on the ground. The shoes were loose, and the black uppers were stained with dust and turned gray. Qin Wubing picked up the shoes and carefully looked at the soles and uppers.

Qin Wubing was watching seriously when Old Zheng walked in, grumbling, "Have you bumped into some god in the past two days? I haven't worked so hard in a few years!"

"In another two years, you won't have to work hard at all!" Qin Wubing held his shoes and looked at Old Zheng.

Old Zheng head climbed onto the Datong bunk, knelt down beside the corpse, muttered a few words first, then began to take off the dead man's clothes and check them back and forth, and kept saying, "What do you mean you asked me to come here? Check it out for yourself, isn’t it the same? There are no injuries on the deceased..."

"What's the point of your going up? He's already like this. Don't you immediately see that it's poisoned by nuxe?"

"Then we also need to see if there are other injuries. You have always been strict in this regard, but you have become more relaxed in the past two days. I wanted to examine the headless woman yesterday and you would not let me."

"It's not that we won't let it go, but we should focus on the most important things first. This person shouldn't have any trauma today. If there is any trauma, the two people who live with him will know about it, and they would have yelled about it early in the morning."

Old Zheng lowered his head and asked unwillingly: "Why didn't you say that when I went up just now? Oh, I was sleeping soundly, why did you bully an old man!"

"I called you here to confirm my own inference. You are better than me in terms of poisoning. I will be more modest and say that I have benefited a lot from you!"

"You don't need to put gold on my face, I can only say that you have a good memory. You have memorized everything I have said in the past few years. Tell me, what is the purpose of calling me here?"

"Take away the corpse!" Qin Wubing said with a smirk.

Old man Zheng was so angry that his beard turned up, and he said angrily, "I'm running out of wine here, and you want to refill it for me!"

"I bought you a small yard, but you don't want to live in it. You insist on living in a shack on the edge of the city. There's no way to give you more wine..."

"I have no children, and I don't know who will take advantage of it after I die. This is a loss-making business, and I won't do it!"

"If you die, I will take it back!"

"Wonderful idea, do you still want to recycle the things you gave away?"

After the old man Zheng finished speaking, he yelled twice to the outside. Two yamen servants came in carrying a stretcher. There was a piece of dirty white cloth on the stretcher. Soon, Old Zheng headed away with the corpse.

Qin Wubing pursed his lips. Old Zhengtou saved his life. When he was just a policeman, he went out of the city to handle a case. On the way, he was thirsty. He saw a red fruit in the grass by the roadside and wanted to pick it off to eat, but he was beaten by Old Zhengtou. Hand, from then on, when Old Zheng had the opportunity, he would talk about which flowers and plants were poisonous but could be used as medicine, and what symptoms would occur after taking a large amount of poisoning. Qin Wubing listened carefully every time.

It's not a big deal, but Qin Wubing kept it in his heart. Qin Wubing would not tell the Qin family. He was afraid that he would not have the opportunity to investigate the case again, so he could only pay for it himself, and wanted to help old man Zheng as much as possible. , but old man Zheng only wants wine, and won't accept anything else!
Qin Wubing knew why, in the eyes of old man Zheng, they were different people, old man Zheng didn't want to hurt Qin Wubing's reputation because of himself, here, the work is even more degrading!

(End of this chapter)