Hexi

Chapter 106 Acquaintances?

Han Mo looked at her back, and then motioned Su Wei to go into the courtyard and look around the empty courtyard. He asked, "After you went back yesterday, did you ask anything from the Zhou family? What is the origin of Aji this week? Zhou Chengli Who is your teacher?"

Su Wei shook her head: "Aji doesn't know Zhou Chengli's teacher and friend. However, it is not difficult to find out. Zhou Chengli was an official in Jinling, and he was dismissed about three or four years ago, and then declined. Based on this information, I believe that Han Butou you just If you go to the official department, you will be able to ask clearly."

Han Mo raised his eyebrows: "To be able to work in the Jinling government office, you must be a Jinshi. It's really not difficult to find out." After finishing speaking, he beckoned for a guard: "Go back to the mansion to find Dou Yin, let him go to the official department, Inquire about the life of Zhou Chengli, who served in the Jinling government office three or four years ago, and then come and tell me immediately."

Su Wei waited for him to finish his explanation, and asked, "Are those two beside you familiar with all the yamen?"

"That's natural. After all, they've been by my side since I returned to Beijing when I was 12 years old." Han Mo couldn't hide his satisfaction, and raised his neck and drank the tea in the leather pouch hanging on his waist.

Su Luo looked at him: "Why are they so loyal to you?"

Song Yan's ability in surveying and Dou Yin's skill in making a line, she saw them all yesterday, they are first-class.It is puzzling that these two people are so devoted to this guy in front of them, instead of seeking a decent position in the court office.

"Song Yan was rescued by my grandfather from among the dead. Dou Yin's adoptive father, who was a life-and-death friend of my father, specially asked him to come to Beijing to practice. Both of them were orphans, and they almost ate the same food as me in those years. table, sleeping at the same table, even getting into trouble and being punished together, you say they won’t fight with me, who will they fight with?”

With such powerful reasons, Su Luo had nothing to refute.

Han Mo stuffed the bag back, and went back to talking: "We haven't finished talking about Zhou Chengli, how deep is their friendship with Wednesday?"

Su Wei gave a general overview of the information she had learned from the conversation with Aji yesterday, and then said: "According to the current clues, Zhou Chengli should be from Gyeonggi, and his teachers, friends and relatives should all be in Gyeonggi, but after he was dismissed, these people But they all cut off contact with him, and they don't know if they are still here now.

"After Mrs. Zhou lost her husband, she did not hesitate to travel thousands of miles to bring her young daughter to Beijing. From the perspective of a weak woman, I speculate that she probably wanted to find these relatives. Even if she didn't, she must have come to seek refuge with someone she trusted very much. .It’s just that I don’t know why I didn’t go there for some reason, and turned to the most unreasonable Wednesday’s house.”

"Then why did she abandon her daughter?"

"I'm also very puzzled." Su Luo exhaled, "The letters yesterday were dug out from the closet of the couple on Wednesday, and they didn't seem to be placed randomly. Is that because the Zhou family couple deliberately left it? Like. Because they were just tucked away in a drawer without a package. In fact, I doubt Mrs. Zhou has ever met anything."

Han Mo paused for a moment, "It's really abnormal to bring your daughter to Beijing after going through a lot of hardships, but leave her behind without saying goodbye after arriving. However, there is no evidence that Mrs. Zhou's disappearance is related to the death of Wednesday and his wife."

"I think so." Su Luo said, "It's just that this case has something to do with me. If it weren't for the 50 taels of silver, at least these two people would not have died on this road. Solving these mysteries behind Aji is just incidental , To put it bluntly, it has nothing to do with me. Most importantly, I really want to find out the murderer as soon as possible."

Su Luo also used to have a kind heart, and she could not see the suffering in the world, but her heart was hardened by the reality in her previous life.The Zhou family couple couldn't even show mercy to an orphan who had lost their parents, so naturally they don't need to expect her to show mercy to them.But in the end it was her 50 taels of silver that caused the trouble, so she had to find the murderer for them.

"My son! The boss is here!"

At this time, there was a distant report from the guard pulling the rope from the kitchen.

Han Mo walked forward, and Su Wei almost started at the same pace as him.

Yang You came up from the bottom, bringing with it a strong smell of pickles.Holding an iron hook in his left hand and a four-legged bench in his right, he rushed towards Han Mo: "My lord, I found these!"

When Han Mo saw the iron hook, he took it in his hand immediately: "Pig hanging hook?!"

"That's right! It's a tool for slaughtering pigs in a slaughterhouse, even this stool!"

Yang You put the stool on the ground.

Su Luo saw that the stool was covered with deep knife marks, and the iron hook in Han Mo's hand was two hooks from different directions cast together back to back. She was not sure if she had seen such a thing before. But their dialogue has clearly shown it works.

"Why are these in Wednesday's house?" she asked. "Did Wednesday ever work as a butcher?"

Han Mo said: "Go and tell the neighbors on the left and right to come back."

The guard next to him said he was leaving.

Su Wei's face was solemn: "If Wednesday is the butcher, then is the pig-killing knife his? The murderer committed the crime with the knife he picked up at Wednesday's house?"

"This possibility is not ruled out." After Han Mo finished speaking, he looked at the guard who was walking in from the gate of the courtyard and a couple from the next door.When they arrived, he asked, "How many years have you been neighbors with Wednesday?"

The couple was very cautious, although the man hooked his head, he kept looking up: "We've been neighbors since they bought this yard."

"Was Wednesday ever a butcher?"

"He has never been a butcher, but his father used to be a butcher for a while." The man replied, "The relationship between their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is not good. This woman is mean and difficult to get along with."

Han Mo looked at Su Luo when he heard the words: "At present, no one in all the slaughterhouses fully meets the conditions for murder, so the murder weapon is likely to belong to the Zhou family. The iron hooks and benches are placed in the cellar, and pig-killing knives are usually used on Wednesdays." It will definitely not be placed in the open, and if you can accurately find the knife to kill someone at that time, it is probably an acquaintance who committed the crime."

Su Luo asked: "Do you know the people who come and go on weekdays on Wednesday?"

"Arranged the police to investigate. However," Han Mo said here, he looked up at Aji who was carrying some miscellaneous objects out of the firewood room, "Why bother now? Just ask her. !"

Aji walked in front of them, spread the things in his arms under his feet, and looked at Su Luo: "It's all packed, there is nothing else."

Su Luo took a look, and found that there were some old purses that were worn down to hair, a round fan with a gap, and broken pearl flowers, etc., which were really not worth keeping.She asked: "Aji, since you were trapped here by the wife of the Zhou family to do housework, you should know who you interacted with on Wednesday, right?"

Aji thought for a while, nodded and said: "I know. But, those are ordinary people."

"No matter who they are, you should tell the truth about all the people who have been with the couple on Wednesday!"

Han Mo folded his arms, squinting and talking, looking fierce.

(End of this chapter)