Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 675 Gamblers Psychology
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While the woman was crying, Li Canghai closed his eyes and began to meditate.

He was a little surprised that there were many secrets hidden behind a seemingly simple adultery case, and it was even involved in a murder case.

From the beginning when Li Canghai took over this case, he felt that it would never be a simple case.

After all, Datang is not as important as everyone is equal after a thousand years.

Today, it is still a patriarchal society.

As a woman, Ma Rong colluded with Song Yan and took away all Wang Bao's family property. From this point, it can be seen that Ma Rong is definitely not an ordinary woman.

From the clues he has so far, it can be concluded that the incident of Wang Ying falling off the cliff three years ago has a lot to do with Ma Rong, and the death of Ma Si made him more certain of this idea.

After half a stick of incense, the woman walked down the stairs, but she was still sobbing.

"This is Mr. Li, Minister of Dali Temple. He came here to investigate Ma Si's actions. To ask you a question, you must answer truthfully. Only in this way can your lord find out the murderer of Ma Si." Zhou Feiyan said to him. The woman said kindly.

The woman nodded her head, knelt down to Li Canghai and said, "Ma Ushi, a civilian woman, has seen your lord."

Li Canghai nodded: "Get up and talk."

Although he has been in Datang for a long time, he is still very disgusted with kneeling.

"I want to ask you, Ma Sike said, who did he meet when he came to the Immortal Building today?" Li Canghai asked.

Ma Ushi shook his head and sobbed: "Returning to my lord, he only said that he came here to meet an old friend, but he didn't mention his name. The women don't know who he saw."

"Then before he left, did he do anything unusual or say something strange?" Li Canghai asked with a frown.

"Before my husband left, he said that after this visit, he could live a good life. He also asked the women to buy some wine, saying that after he came back, he would have a good time to celebrate. I don't want... to go and never come back , Woohoo~." Ma Ushi said with a sad expression.

Li Canghai knew it in his heart, he nodded secretly, and then asked: "How long have you been married to Ma Si?"

"My lord, the woman is Ma Si who married three years ago." Ma Ushi said.

"Three years ago? Did you know that he lost 300 taels of silver overnight?" Li Canghai asked while touching the bridge of his nose.

Ma Wushi lowered his head, bit his lips and said: "To tell you the truth, my lord, it was because of his 300 taels of silver that the women married him back then. With the 300 taels of silver, it would not be so difficult. But, I didn't expect On the second day of getting married, he took it to a gambling house and lost 300 taels of silver overnight."

"As far as I know, this Ma Si is just an ordinary coachman, how can he have so much money?" Li Canghai asked.

Ma Wushi shook his head and said, "This woman doesn't know, but I just heard him say that he bought these silver taels with his life. As for where it came from, he never mentioned to the woman."

Li Canghai lowered his head and began to ponder. After a while, he suddenly asked: "Think about it carefully, what secrets does Ma Sike hide that you don't know?"

Ma Ushi thought for a long time, then hesitantly said: "My husband has a box, he values ​​that box very much, and never lets me touch it."

Li Canghai's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Where is that box now?"

"It's on the beams of the women's house." Ma Ushi said.

"Ben Bo'erba, go quickly to Ma Si's house and get that box!" Li Canghai said in a deep voice.

Ben Bo Erba nodded, then turned around and left the restaurant, and headed towards Ma Si's house at high speed.

Zhou Feiyan looked at Li Canghai in surprise, and said in puzzlement, "My lord, how do you know that Ma Sihui has a secret box?"

Li Canghai said deeply: "If my guess is correct, Ma Si is closely related to Wang Ying's fall from the cliff. If this is the case, Ma Si's money may have come from a wrong source. We can make a hypothesis, assuming The 300 taels of silver is the money to buy a murderer. Ma Si must have grasped the identity of the instigator. And Ma Si is a gambler. As a gambler, he would never use such favorable conditions. Throw it away once, and it will definitely be used again at the right time.”

Zhou Feiyan understood in an instant, and he said in surprise: "Your Excellency, you mean that there is very likely evidence that the real murderer instigated Ma Si to kill Wang Ying in the box? And Ma Si threatened the murderer with this, so he will be with you." The instigator made an appointment here to have a conversation with the purpose of blackmailing the instigator?"

Li Canghai looked solemn, and said: "I checked Ma Si's body, and there is no evidence on him. There are only two possibilities. One is that the murderer took away the evidence after poisoning Ma Si. The second is that Ma Si did not bring the evidence with him. Of these two possibilities, I am more inclined to the second. Ma Si is greedy and gambler, and he would never give such an opportunity to the other party so easily. And he will use this as an excuse to keep blackmailing him. Right now, he only hopes that Ben Boerba can find what Ma Si is hiding before the murderer."

Time passed bit by bit, and soon it was another half an hour.

While everyone was waiting anxiously, Ben Boerba ran in panting with a small wooden box in his arms.

"My lord, I found something!"

Hearing this, Li Canghai quickly took the small wooden box in his hands.

"Did there be an accident?" Li Canghai asked.

"My lord, when I was going, I happened to meet a man wearing a hood coming out of Ma Si's house, holding this box in his hand. I rushed up and snatched the box back, and beat the man by the way. Palm." Ben Boerba said while wiping his sweat.

"Can he escape from your hands? It seems that the man's martial arts are not bad?" Li Canghai frowned.

Ben Boerba grinned in embarrassment, scratched his head and said, "Sir, according to my observation, that man does not know martial arts. The reason why he escaped from me is because he squinted my eyes with lime powder. Otherwise , I will definitely catch him!"

Li Canghai patted Ben Boerba's shoulder and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

"What my lord said, even if I risk my life, I will achieve it. Where is the hard work?" Ben Bo'erba said with a simple and honest smile.

"My lord, it looks like what you guessed. The man in the hood not only killed Ma Si, but also destroyed the evidence!" Zhou Feiyan said seriously.

Li Canghai nodded, and then opened the small wooden box.

Apart from the house deed and a few scraps of silver, there was only a piece of yellowed straw paper in this box, but the paper was blank, without half a word on it.

"My lord, what's going on? Could it be that the evidence has already fallen into the hands of the murderer?" Zhou Feiyan asked in puzzlement.

Li Canghai looked at the blank paper over and over again, also confused.

He shook his head and said: "The lock on the box has not been damaged, the murderer should not have had time to open it. But why is it blank? Where is the evidence?"

After pondering for a while, Li Canghai rubbed the center of his brows and asked, "Ma Ushi, can Ma Si know how to read?"

(End of this chapter)