late Qing Dynasty arrest

Li Guolou walked into the south room with an oil lamp by himself. Until now he claimed to be a policeman, but he didn't show his belt badge to others.He didn't have such a thing, so who wouldn't believe it if he boasted that he was a fast catcher?

In the living room outside, there is a collapsed bed with a hookah placed on it, which means that the owner Wei Wen rarely smokes hookah.Calligraphy and paintings were hung above the collapsed place. Didn't Li Guolou carefully read what was written in the couplet?He just glanced at the painting, it was a fierce tiger with its fangs and claws glaring at everyone who entered the door.

On the nanmu table, the candle holders had already lit candles, and some messy bloody footprints could be seen on the ground.Li Guolou looked at these footprints and pondered, wondering which people had blood on their shoes.

Walking into the room, the door opened, and a tall man fell in a pool of blood at the door. Li Guolou was careful not to touch the blood on the ground.Putting the oil lamp in his hand next to the corpse, and another oil lamp was lit in the room, this allowed Li Guolou to see the layout and details of the entire room clearly.

The dead Wei Wenshao was wearing a silk mandarin jacket, his cap rolled down on his head, and his face was facing the ground, with blood gushing from his chest.Penetrates into square bricks, dipping a large area.

A smell of blood made Li Guolou want to vomit, and the two oil lamps flickered for a moment, and almost went out.Li Guolou was startled and almost wanted to escape.Do you want to check the body?I retreated in my heart, hesitating.Are there really ghosts in this world?Why did the oil lamp with a glass cover dim, and it still dims together.Could it be that the dead Wei Wenshao's ghost is watching him from the sidelines?

The real arresting and patrolling yamen servants will come later.He, a fake police officer, is about to lose his job, so he has to hurry up and make a decision, what should he do?How can the smell of blood and terror frighten the fake foreign devils who don't believe in religion!

Li Guolou plucked up his courage and turned the body of the dead for the first time in his life.

The chubby face of the deceased Wei Wenshao had long been stiff, and he could not rest in peace.Li Guolou let out a slight sound: "Don't worry about Wei Wenshao. I caught the murderer for you, so you can rest in peace."

Li Guolou closed Wei Wenshao's horrified round eyes, and looked down at the knife stuck in his chest.

A fatal blow, the hilt pressed against the chest.It takes a lot of force to stab a sharp knife into the chest of a strong man.Li Guolou had already guessed that the second grandmother, Xie Xiuzhu, could not be the murderer.Although Xie Xiuzhu's words did not match the words, the right and wrong of what she said had long been vague.But it was the dead husband Wei Wenshao, which frightened her a lot.

Li Guolou felt Wei Wenshao's pulse, but there was no trace of his heart beating.He looked at Wei Wenshao's body again to see if Wei Wenshao's body had been turned over, no one should have touched it, and suddenly felt a little inconceivable in his heart, no matter whether Wei Wenshao died or not?As a member of the family, it should be rescued first.

Li Guolou grabbed the dead man Wei Wenshao's hand to see if there was something in the dead man's hand?Many times the dead will tell the living his last hope.But Li Guolou looked at Wei Wenshao's hands, but found nothing.This further proves how vicious the murderer is, and he sent Wei Wenshao to heaven with a single blow.

Li Guolou gritted his teeth and raised his hand to touch the blood on the ground. He wanted to check the dryness and humidity of the blood, because he also found that the body was a little stiff, which meant that Wei Wenshao had been dead for some time, at least more than an hour.Li Guolou stroked the blood on his finger and couldn't help thinking.Under the oil lamp, Li Guolou's face became more and more ugly. He stood up to check the layout of the bedroom.

The beautiful quilt for the mandarin ducks to play in the water has been laid out, as if Xie Xiuzhu had slept for a while, and the quilt on one side was already wrinkled and messy.Li Guolou touched the inside of the quilt with his clean left hand to see if there was any remaining body temperature inside.

The dressing table was clean, the rouge and gouache were neatly arranged, and a black plush cloak was hanging on the hanger. Li Guolou secretly opened the closet to see what was inside?

Suddenly Li Guolou remembered that he had turned over the corpse, and quickly turned the corpse back again.He raised his left foot again, and looked down to see if the sole of his foot was stained with blood?

Li Guolou jumped out of the room and saw eight people in the yard, three women and five men.Among them are the second grandmother Xie Xiuzhu, the maid Xiaoqin, the old lady Xie Ma, the deputy manager Xu Xiaohu, the servants Wei Xiaoliu and Wei Xiaoqi, the chef Wei Zhuangyong (he is the old lady Xie Ma's husband), and Xu Xiaohu's entourage Xu Xiaohu. Biao.

Li Guolou shouted: "Those who played mahjong together just now, stand together."

But I saw Wei Xiaoliu, Xu Xiaohu, Wei Zhuangyong, and Wei Xiaoqi standing together.

Li Guolou asked, "Xu Biao, what are you doing?"

Xu Biao replied: "Xiao Lizi, I will pour tea and water for them first;;;;;; watch them play cards for a while;;;;;; and then go back to the room to the north to sleep;;;;;; Little Six can Witness me;;;;;; when he came in to sleep;;;;;; very loudly;;;;;; and I scolded him."

Xu Biao spoke as slowly as possible, which made Li Guolou anxious.

Li Guolou turned his head and asked, "Which of you came across Wei Wenshao's body?"

Xu Xiaohu glanced at Li Guolou timidly, and stammered: "I just felt the master's pulse, I didn't dare to move anything else, and Little Six saw it from the side. The second grandma was also awake at that time, and Xiaoqin was also watching It's on."

Li Guolou said: "Oh! I can't see Deputy Director Xu, you can tell if the master is dead or alive just by feeling his pulse? You don't even want to turn your body over."

Xu Xiaohu said: "There is so much blood on the ground, I know the master will not live, the little six didn't touch it, just look at it. My knowledge is better than his, if I draw the knife, people will think I am a criminal. "

Li Guolou shouted: "Take off all your shoes for me, and let me see who has blood stains under their feet?" After Li Guolou said, he ran to the bottom of the elm tree to look at the two shoes of Master Manba.

Holding it under the light and looking at it, Li Guolou felt relieved, there were bloodstains under the shoes of Man Ba ​​Ye.

He put the shoes in front of Man Ba ​​Ye, and said seriously: "Man Ba ​​Ye, what do you say about this?"

Ba Ye Man's face was full of hematomas and bruises, and he said vaguely, "I am wronged! Lord Bao must avenge me."

"I wronged you for your size, and killed you, a delusional pervert!" "What a hero! There is someone like you in the Axe Gang, and it is a shame to throw it in the Yongding River." "If you don't kill you, I am your grandson!" "You It's just a bug, a crawling bug, and I clean the door for the axe."

Several men saw the blood on the pair of shoes, rushed up even more crazily, and beat Man Baye violently again, scolding while beating.Let Li Guolou know the whole story of some things. It turns out that Xie Xiuzhu was shot by a singer, Man Baye was originally Xie Xiuzhu's admirer, but Xie Xiuzhu finally followed Wei Wenshao.Man Youli was the toad who wanted to eat swan meat, climbed the wall and entered Wei's house, and wanted to take revenge on Wei Wenshao. There was a reason for the murder.

The neighbors in the neighborhood all know that as long as Xie Xiuzhu goes out on the street, Man Yuli will come forward to strike up a conversation, and will take advantage of Xie Xiuzhu just like in the past.

Li Guolou couldn't stand it anymore, if he continued to fight, he would be killed, so he hurriedly stepped forward to dissuade Xiaoliuzi and others from further violence.

Li Guolou listened to the speeches of the neighbors at the door, and wanted to ask the people in the yard one by one, when the official messenger from the yamen came.Li Guolou recognized at a glance that it was the two small police officers who came to play mahjong just now, and brought four other people, stepping through the threshold brazenly.

The yamen servants already knew that the murderer had been caught, so they yelled and opened the door as soon as they entered, "Get out of the way, the officials are working, what's there to see, and you have to work tomorrow. Go back to sleep."

Having said that, I happened to meet Li Guolou face to face, I was taken aback for a moment, and immediately turned into a big smile.They already know Li Guolou's identity, and they will be brothers in the same family in the future, so everyone will share the merits.

The bald man is a man named Ai Hai. He is in his twenties, and at first glance he is the kind of person who can endure hardship.From him, it can be seen that the Manchus have changed their living habits, and he can also adapt to the life of the people at the bottom.

The other big guy is Ma Lian, named Ma Dequan, whose soap clothes are white from washing, and his hair is already gray in his thirties. It seems that the family burden is quite heavy.

The others are all patrolling yamen servants, they can be said to be fast catchers, but they are not real fast catchers.When a case occurs, they maintain law and order, and they usually do things to maintain law and order, catching petty thieves, and of course the most important task is to collect protection money.

Only these yamen servants know what kind of people they belong to, and the yamen servants are also divided into three, six, and nine grades.Outsiders regard them as an equal group of people, but in fact the sadness inside is unknown to outsiders.

After asking about the facts of the case, Li Guolou stood aside modestly and did not say a word, listening to Ai Hai's question to see how different the real policeman was from him.

What surprised Li Guolou was that none of the policemen went to the scene of the crime.Keeping a pen to record the responses of everyone present, as if the dead people in the room were an insignificant matter.And four yamen servants brought Man Youli back to the yamen. The shackles that were handcuffed together with the neck also made people feel a pain of being unable to break free.

Li Guolou couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "Brother Ai, why don't you go to see the scene?"

Ai Hai lowered his voice and said: "The murderer has been caught, there is nothing to do. We have to wait for the assistant to check the scene. If we damage the scene, we will be punished."

Li Guolou asked, "When will Wu Zuo come?"

Ai Hai rolled his eyes at Li Guolou, and said: "How do I know that, as long as I am not drunk, Wan Wuzuo will come. But;;;;;;;" Ai Hai said softly: "Wan Wuzuo doesn't want to walk at night, no By dawn, he and his disciples will not come."

Li Guolou took out his pocket watch and looked at the time by the light. It was already past four o'clock. If Wu Zuo didn't come again, it might be dawn. The efficiency of the yamen made Li Guolou sigh.By the time Wu Zuo arrived, the body had already become stiff and the blood had dried up. The estimated time of Wei Wenshao's death would be several hours away.