late Qing Dynasty arrest

Cheng Kunyu was so angry that his beard flew around, he glared at Li Guolou viciously, and shouted angrily: "Okay! I will save face for you, but you must find the murderer, and Red Diamond must help me find it!" Now that the daughter is dead, the priceless red diamond must be found, otherwise it will be a big loss.

"Your subordinate must do my best!" Li Guolou replied.

"Captain Li, you have to do your duty!" Cheng Kunyu looked towards the courtyard with his hands behind his back, not letting others see his tears, and the loss remained in his heart. He is not old yet, but he can only provide for the elderly. If you want to spread your wings and fly high, you will lose both people and money.

"As long as the murderer is still in the mansion, the officials will definitely find him." Li Guolou replied unequivocally.

In the courtyard, Li Guolou ordered Ai Hai to lead the policemen to look for the clues left by the murderer, and the policemen scattered to do their own tasks in a tacit understanding.Li Guolou walked up the stairs, and the narrow and dark stairs were about to lock up a little girl's happiness for a lifetime.He will not build this kind of daughter building full of resentment, and the daughter also has the ideal of pursuing happiness.

The daughter's building is a two-story small attic with flying eaves, red bricks and blue tiles, small and exquisite, and a closed boudoir embroidery building.The bottom floor of the attic is the hall for receiving guests, and the stairs behind the screen lead to the upper floor.In the bedroom, there were a few festive candles stuck in silver candlesticks that burned all night long. Only the candle at the stairway fell to the ground together with the candlestick.The drawers of all kinds of furniture in the bedroom were wide open, and the things inside were turned around in a mess, especially cosmetics scattered on the top of the dressing table and pieces of jewelry that fell on the floor.

The stolen property was not only a priceless red diamond, but also some jewelry disappeared. Li Guolou did not see the female body, only a pool of blood on the ground. This is where Cheng Xiaochun died.Blood seeped into the wooden floor, never washing away the breath of death.On the floor not far away, there was an unfinished embroidery picture of a mandarin duck playing in the water, tightly fastened in a round bamboo hoop.

Li Guolou squatted on the ground and asked, "Aside from the opera troupe, who else is here in the Chief Manager Chang's mansion?"

Chang Shikuan, the manager, said: "Oh! There are also Liu Weihuang and Master Liu who make jewelry. Brother Sang Meng who makes wedding clothes, and Aunt Yangzi who wears a pan head. The person who took the photo, Captain Li, you know, is the Baozhu photo studio opened by your family. Roberts; Torres and his two apprentices. There are more than 30 actors, and I know that they are all suspected and all of them are under control."

"Have you found the lost treasure?" Li Guolou was most concerned about this, since death does not perish.Reluctant that his business partner Roberts was also involved in the murder.

"I've searched everything, and found nothing." Chang Shikuan, the manager, said it very loudly just now, but when he finished, nothing was accomplished.

Li Guolou took the embroidery picture and looked at the pattern carefully, wondering what he was thinking?Li Guolou took out the magnifying glass from his purse, lay down on the ground and searched on the wooden floor. As time passed, the people next to him still couldn't figure out what Li Guolou was doing?

The Ministry of Punishment does not have female officials, and generally female corpses are also inspected by male officials.Today, the special male master Wannianqing came, but he couldn't use it because he had nothing to do.The Criminal Department called a female prisoner Digu from the women's cell to check the body. After an hour, the female prisoner Digu and Yelia came out of the next room.

There was a bloody sharp knife on the plate, which was the murder weapon.

"Report to Captain Li, the deceased Cheng Xiaochun was stabbed in the stomach, fatally, and no other wounds were found." The female prison guard Digu had an excited expression on her face, and there were bloodstains on her gloves.

"Well, I see, Gu Di is doing very well! There will be a reward when I go back!" Li Guolou glanced at Yelia and reconfirmed that there is no problem.

Li Guolou whispered a few words to Gu Di Fuer, and Gu Di clasped his fists to accept the order and went to check the corpse again.

"Well;;;;;; where was that red diamond originally placed?" Li Guolou asked.

"Oh! It's here!" The nanny Zhang Xiuyu opened a hidden drawer under the mahogany bed. There were some treasures in it, and the middle decoration of a delicate gold necklace was gone.

"Oh! Ms. Cheng didn't wear it?" Li Guolou took the gold necklace lacking accessories, imagining what a fifteen-carat diamond would look like in his mind.

People in the Qing Dynasty never knew that there were diamonds in the world. This was a luxury jewelry from the West. It let the people know that there was a treasure that was more valuable than sapphires. Unfortunately, he had never seen the legendary blood-colored diamond.

After inspecting the scene, Li Guolou went down to the attic, Ai Hai came over to report to him, shook his head and said: "Report to Captain Li, there is nothing found, there is no trace of being climbed over the wall, the murderer should have entered the daughter's building through the door opening. "

"Yes! Got it!" Li Guolou expected in his heart that the murderer entered the daughter's building through the courtyard gate. Willing to open the locked door inside and let the murderer enter the daughter's building.Cheng Xiaochun probably thought it was fun, it was rare to have a friend come to play, and even cheated the two maids who were close to him, but he didn't expect that Cheng Xiaochun's good friend was actually a murderer who liked fifteen carat red diamonds.

Chang Shikuan said anxiously: "There are several flower houses in the north courtyard, and usually only the old gardener Li, the old man, lives in them to tend the flowers and plants. This time, I specially invited a few people who are needed by the lady when she leaves the cabinet. For the convenience of the neighborhood, all I live in the flower house. I found out that the young lady was murdered this morning. I thought the six of them could not escape suspicion, so I detained the six of them in the courtyard, waiting for your investigation! That British devil is the most difficult to deal with, I can only give him money, Let him calm down."

Li Guolou asked angrily: "How is that aunt with the pan-haired hair?" He was most worried that Roberts would gossip around, hook up with other women, and do things that would offend Qian Shuiping.

"Captain Li looks fine, otherwise, which bride would ask her to put her hair up and put on makeup?" Although Chang Shikuan felt strange, he still told the truth, how beautiful is the makeup artist aunt Yang Zi?What does that have to do with solving the case?Chang Shikuan couldn't figure it out in his mind. He peeked at Yelia, the blond foreign woman, and thought about Li Guolou's deeds. Fight for three or four rounds.

A group of people came to the courtyard in the north, and four famous family members Ding Ding did their part to stand in the way at the door. Chang Shikuan knocked on the door, and a man in his 50s and [-]s opened the door. He was the old gardener Li Laohan.

"Are they all in their own room?" Chang Shikuan asked hastily.

"They're all here! I'm watching closely." Old man Li's eyes were fierce, he was sure that there was a murderer in his yard, and he waved his fists as if to hit someone.

Li Guolou looked around and saw a row of houses in a small courtyard. In the courtyard was an old locust tree with lush branches and three crows' nests. The open space was full of plants and flowerpots were everywhere.

The old man Sun chattered, seeing that Li Guolou noticed his craftsmanship, he came over and said with regret: "Since the six of them moved in, that brother Sang Meng, who made wedding clothes, went to the daughter's building to tailor clothes for the lady, and Aunt Yangzi Liu Weihuang, who was busy tinkering with her rouge, hair oil, and jewelry, took a lot of gold and silver. Only the British devils ran around, and they didn't let go of my flowers. From the photos, I think he and those two apprentices with sly eyebrows are the murderers."

"Uncle Li, don't talk nonsense, Roberts and his two apprentices are Captain Li's subordinates in the family." Chang Shikuan couldn't think of any words to express clearly, and winked the old man Li to stop talking A few words.

Old man Sun was chattering when bird feces fell from the sky and almost landed on his shoulders. He stomped his feet angrily and shouted, "Little soldier, what are you in a hurry for? I'll get you something to eat. If you dare to disturb me again Your lair has been stabbed, take it easy!"

Li Guolou looked up and saw a few crows flying up and down around a sunflower-sized nest on the top of the old locust tree, screaming "croak!" It seems that old man Li usually feeds them at this time I forgot about the food today, so the crow showed off to old man Li.

Chang Shikuan brought out the six "murder suspects", but found that Li Guolou was still looking up at the sky, and he yelled several times before Li Guolou came back to his senses.

Li Guolou raised his eyes and saw Roberts; Torres was wearing a black windbreaker, a black top hat was buckled on his head, and a pipe was hanging from his mouth. It was a gift from Yelia. The demeanor of a photography artist.The two apprentices Jiang Cong and Zhou Xiaohuan next to him saw him, and their faces were beaming with joy.

"Ms. Yelia, hello!" Roberts took off his hat and bowed, and greeted Yelia first in a polite manner.Who can tell that he is an English hooligan at heart, and he looks like a full-fledged English gentleman.Now he is a celebrity in the capital. He is the only photographer in the Qing Empire who has entered the Forbidden City. Roberts is the most expensive photographer in the capital.

Li Guolou turned to the make-up artist Yang Zi, and indeed he focused his eyes on Roberts. Fortunately, Roberts now has high eyesight and ignored Yang Zi's flying eyes.Li Guolou couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, luckily luckily!Otherwise, this case made him see another tragedy, how could he dare to be a policeman again.He secretly swore that there would be cases of young widows in the future, and he would not take them again.

Yangzi is in his early 40s, with a round face that looks as pink as an egg shell, and his figure is still in shape, and there are still some things to watch.The chubby face is full of smiles, it seems that she has never cried, and her pair of watery eyes are blinking non-stop. The most striking thing is that she is wearing a colorful and colorful dress on her upper body, but on her feet are a pair of black leather shoes with round toes. He is not in the middle of the ocean, with a fair face, and his cheeks are still flushed. If you look closely, you can see that you are wearing rouge.

Yangzi is superbly skilled and well-groomed. In the capital, she is the number one bridal makeup artist. Among the elders, she is a little red among the green leaves. The brilliance is so dazzling that people will never forget it. Yangzi's eyes are full of jealousy, and she hates Yeliya Take the heart of her target Roberts.

Li Guolou has long heard about Sang Meng who makes wedding clothes. He has heard that he can cut out decent clothes at a glance. He is a master of first-class clothing making.Sang Mengge was young, and he was born in an authentic Ningbo Red Gang tailor.

Liu Weihuang, who makes jewelry, is a big man in his 30s. Who can tell that thick fingers can make exquisite gold and silver jewelry.It is a school of its own, specializing in customizing all kinds of wonderful things for wealthy families.

Ever since Cheng Kunyu hired these people, he knew how high the standard of the wedding was, but it was a pity that the wedding turned into a funeral.