Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 145 Secret Strategy
A few words were faintly written on the wooden sign. Li Canghai stared at it, tears streaming from his eyes, and realized that the words on it were: The Spiritual Tablet of...

The most important place is blank, Li Canghai is puzzled, since it is a place for enshrining the spirit, why is there no name and taboo written on it?And this is not a shameful thing, why is it done so secretly?
The cook set up the spiritual seat, carefully placed the dishes in front of the spiritual seat, and bowed to salute the spiritual seat.

"Ahem~".

Li Canghai coughed on purpose, and the cook's body trembled involuntarily. He didn't seem to expect that there was someone behind him, so he hurriedly turned to look at Li Canghai, with a hint of panic in his eyes.

"Could it be that you have something shady about coming here secretly?" Li Canghai walked over with his hands behind his back, and said in a cold voice.

The cook's face was a little ugly, he stepped back cautiously, stood close to the rockery, and stared timidly at Li Canghai.

"Brother cook, don't be afraid, I just want to ask you something." Seeing that the cook was a little scared, he couldn't bear it, and showed him a bright smile.

"Uh...uh, uh."

The cook looked at him cautiously, and after a while, he opened his mouth and made a low and hoarse voice.

"Huh? Are you dumb?" Li Canghai was extremely surprised.

The cook nodded, moved timidly, and blocked the spirit card.

Li Canghai saw that he was very concerned about the spirit card behind him, so he said, "Don't worry, I just want to ask you something."

The cook looked at him suspiciously, and nodded after a little hesitation.

"How long have you been a cook in the Wang family?" Li Canghai asked.

The cook stretched out three fingers and gestured.

"Three years?" Li Canghai understood his gestures and nodded, "Since you have been a cook here for three years, have you ever met a woman? The woman is about twenty years old and came here two years ago. to the king's house."

Hearing this, the cook's expression changed immediately, he stared at Li Canghai closely, and there was a trace of anger in his eyes.

Li Canghai was keenly aware of the change in the cook's mood. His heart moved, and he said deeply: "Today, I found a corpse in the back garden of Wang's house. After investigation, I found out that the corpse is likely to be that woman, and that woman is The sister of a friend of mine,

That's why I want to investigate the truth.If you do meet her, please let me know.I thank you on behalf of a poor brother who has lost his flesh and blood. "

As he spoke, Li Canghai bowed deeply to the cook.

The cook was stunned for a moment, he hesitated for a moment, as if he had made up his mind, he gestured with his hands.

"You were the one who found the bones today?"

Li Canghai understood what he meant, nodded and said, "I believe you must know that woman, don't you?"

The guarded look on the cook's face faded. After a moment of silence, he turned his body, pointed at the spirit card and said, "This spirit card is for her. She is a good person."

Next, the cook compared what he knew to him.

Li Canghai also learned something from his sign language.

The cook is a mute. Although he cooks well, his status is low and he is often bullied.Two years ago, Wang Buquan snatched a girl from nowhere and wanted to take her as a concubine, but the girl refused to obey, so Wang Buquan imprisoned her in a rage.

Because the cook is dumb, Wang Buquan asked him to deliver meals to the girl every day, and after going back and forth, they got to know each other better.

The girl is kind-hearted and regards the cook as a friend, which is something that the dumb cook never dreamed of.

The cook wanted to let her go many times, but the girl was worried that the cook would be implicated, so she gave up the chance to escape several times.

But just two months ago, the girl asked him to get her a dagger, and when he went to deliver the food again, the girl was no longer in the secret room.

At first he thought the girl had escaped, but later he found the blood stains in the secret room, and he knew in his heart that the girl might have been killed, but he searched secretly for a long time, but he couldn't find the body. It wasn't until today that Li Canghai found the body in the back garden. Really confirm the murder of the girl.

To commemorate her, the cook made a spirit tablet, but he was afraid of being discovered by others, so he didn't write his name on it, and secretly went to a secluded place to pay homage.

Li Canghai pondered, this dumb cook is also a kind and righteous person, from what he said, Wang Buquan did imprison Sister Changfeng, and it is very possible that he is the murderer.

However, if you want to know the real reason, you need to go to the secret room where Chang Feng's sister was imprisoned to find more evidence.

After pondering for a while, Li Canghai stared at the cook, and said seriously: "You want to find out the murderer, and you're going to be fair to Miss Chang?"

A gleam flashed in the dumb cook's eyes, and he nodded without hesitation.

Li Canghai walked up to the stone, dipped in the wine and wrote a few words on the stone. The dumb cook looked at the words, and his face instantly became solemn.However, he didn't linger, picked up the tray, hid the spirit card on his body, and then walked out of the rockery.

Seeing the back of the cook leaving, Li Canghai narrowed his eyes, and left the rockery after him.

As the breeze blew, the vines on the rockery were blown, and the handwriting on the stone gradually faded, and the four characters of "fake death and return to life" can be vaguely seen.

When Li Canghai returned to the living room, Wang Buquan was waiting for him with a frown.

"Brother Li, where did you go? Have you found any new clues?" Wang Buquan asked hastily as soon as he stepped through the threshold.

"County Lieutenant, I'm afraid Li will disappoint you this time." Li Canghai said with a wry smile.

"Brother Li, what do you mean?" Wang Buquan asked in surprise.

Li Canghai shook his head in distress, and sighed: "I have been investigating all day, but I have not found anything except that the skeleton is that of a poisoned woman. The skeleton has no characteristics, and even she is not I know that the people in the mansion are complete and there are no missing persons for no reason, the appearance of this corpse is too strange, I wonder if the county lieutenant offended someone, someone wanted to frame you, so the corpse was buried in the garden?"

Wang Buquan's eyes lit up, he slammed down the table, and said: "Brother Li is right, he really awakened the dreamer with one word! There is a profiteer named Lu in the east of the city, he has always been against me, this must be He did it on purpose and wanted to put the blame on me. Hmph, you are Lu, if you dare to put the blame on me for murder, I will let you go around without food!"

What Wang Buquan said was upright and awe-inspiring, as if it was really the case, but Li Canghai knew him well.From the greedy light in his eyes, it can be seen that he just wanted to find an excuse to get rid of his opponent.

Li Canghai didn't tell the truth, he pretended to be embarrassed and said: "But we don't have any evidence to prove that this matter was framed by someone surnamed Lu."

(End of this chapter)