Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 127
Who knew that Li Canghai smiled slightly and said, "Brother Zuo's family has an accident, and I can't leave. Maybe I can help."

As he said that, Li Canghai asked Chang Feng to stay with Di Qing and Fen'er, and he strode towards Zuo Hongji to catch up.

When Wang Buquan saw this, anger appeared on his face, he stomped his feet, and followed.

Zuo Hongji had a wide body and a fat body, and he was gasping for breath after running a few steps.

On the contrary, Li Canghai and the maid were one step ahead of him, and went to the door of the wing room first.

As soon as he stepped into the wing, Li Canghai smelled a faint smell of blood, his heart tightened, he secretly thought that something was wrong, there was a smell of blood in the air, and he was afraid that someone would die.

Thinking of this, he raised his foot and kicked over, and the closed door slammed to him.

Li Canghai walked in quickly. There was a screen on one side of the wing against the wall. Behind the screen was a large wooden barrel half a person's height, and the blood energy seemed to come from there.

At the same time, the servant girl came in, panting and pointing at the screen, she said: "Madam fainted behind the screen."

Li Canghai immediately walked over. He walked around the screen and saw a woman lying in the barrel. The woman was completely naked with a pearl hairpin stuck in front of her chest. The water in the barrel turned light red. But it is already dead.

Zuo Hongji just ran to the wing room at this time. Seeing the scene in front of him, he suddenly yelled: "Madam! Madam!" Then, he rolled his eyes strangely and passed out.

Seeing this, Wang Buquan hurriedly helped him up, pinched him vigorously, and Zuo Hongji suddenly regained his breath.

"Madam...Madam, what's the matter with you, what's the matter with you!" Zuo Hongji lay on the ground, crying with tears in his eyes.

"Everyone leave the room immediately, and quickly order people to go to the yamen to report the case." Li Canghai frowned and said with a serious expression.

"Go, don't hurry up!" Zuo Hongji yelled at the dazed butler madly.

"Ma'am, ma'am, why did you die? Which bastard who suffered a thousand knives killed you? I must avenge you, ma'am!" Zuo Hongji crawled on the ground, crying loudly.

Li Canghai walked up to the wooden barrel, she stretched out her hand to poke around the neck of the female corpse, and said in a deep voice, "Your Madam died not long ago, the murderer should have not left yet, quickly put the house under martial law, and no one is allowed to leave."

Wang Buquan glanced at him, and then ordered everyone to gather together, and no one was allowed to go out.

"You know how to investigate?" Wang Buquan stared at him coldly and asked.

"No, but human life is at stake, so we have to try." Li Canghai said casually.

"Okay, if you can find the murderer who killed my wife, I will agree to this deal!" Zuo Hongji got up suddenly, howling recklessly.

Li Canghai nodded and said, "I will do my best."

He carefully observed the dead man. The dead man's arms and head rested on the wooden barrel, and both arms had scratches from the wooden barrel.This shows that the deceased had been held down with both arms and struggled before his death, otherwise there would be no abrasions on the inner sides of the arms.

The deceased's eyes were protruding, and the lower eyelids were covered with red spots. Not only that, but he also found a strand of wool from the deceased's nose and mouth.

Li Canghai pondered for a moment, and then ordered someone to cut a hole in the wooden barrel, and the blood flowed out immediately.

At the beginning of the construction of this wing room, a hole was specially reserved for pouring water. After the water ran out, Li Canghai stared at the corpse carefully.

In the middle of the night, he stared intently at a naked corpse, which made people feel uncomfortable.

Zuo Hongji didn't care about Li Canghai staring at his wife's naked body. What he cared about was the murderer. He swore in his heart that he would chop the murderer into pieces.

Wang Buquan felt uncomfortable all over, he moved his body, frowned and said: "You stared at the corpse for a long time, did you see the trick?"

Li Canghai did not answer him, but turned to the maid and said, "Describe everything you have seen."

The servant girl's face was ashes, she looked at the female corpse lying in the wooden barrel, and said tremblingly: "After Madam left the banquet, she went back to the room. I got a few buckets of water. After that, my wife began to take a bath. Later, my wife asked me to get the clothes to dry during the day, so I went. But when I came back, I suddenly heard a loud cry from the room, and I Hastily opened the door and went in, only to find Madam fainted in the barrel."

Li Canghai folded his hands on his chest, and said in a deep voice, "Where did you go while Madam was taking a bath? Did you notice any suspicious people?"

"When Madam was taking a bath, I was guarding in front of the door, and I didn't see anyone suspicious appearing." The servant girl said tremblingly.

Li Canghai nodded, he walked into the wing room and looked around.

This wing room is divided into two parts by bead curtains, before the bead curtains is the living room, there are several rows of wooden frames, on which are various strange stones, behind the bead curtains is the bedroom.

Li Canghai walked to those wooden frames, picked up those strange stones and looked at them.

"You don't go to investigate the murderer, but play with some rocks instead. If you don't have the ability, get out of here early." Wang Buquan frowned and said angrily.

Li Canghai was not angry, he weighed a transparent stone in his hand, and said, "Master Zuo, these strange stones are all very valuable, but which one is the most precious?"

Zuo Hongji stood up, walked to a wooden frame in the middle, turned a porcelain vase, and a hidden compartment suddenly appeared behind the wooden frame.

"The most precious thing is this 'snail-turned-jade'. It took me five years to find this treasure." Zuo Hongji took out a small wooden box the size of a palm from the hidden compartment and said. .

Li Canghai stared at the wooden box, and said seriously: "I have long heard that 'Snail Jade' is a rare treasure in the world, but I have never had the chance to see it. I wonder if I can open it so that I can learn more?"

"Could this 'snail jade' be related to my wife's murder?" Zuo Hongji didn't want to open the wooden box at first, but when he saw his wife's body lying not far away, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and blurted out to ask.

Li Canghai glanced at him in surprise, and said calmly: "Whether it matters or not, we can only judge after opening it."

Zuo Hongji hurriedly opened the wooden box, but when the wooden box was opened, he stood there dumbfounded.

The wooden box is empty, not to mention 'snail jade', not even a hair.

"My 'Snail Jade', my 'Snail Jade' is gone!" Zuo Hongji slumped down along the wooden frame, muttering to himself, as if his soul had been taken away.

Wang Buquan suddenly pointed the finger at Li Canghai, and he said coldly, "You already knew that the 'Snail Jade' was gone, didn't you?"

Li Canghai nodded, and pondered: "If I'm not wrong, the murderer actually came for the purpose of 'turning the snail into jade', and the murder was just a coincidence."

(End of this chapter)