The Famous Detective of the Red Mansions

[It's two in one again]

Qinghong Tower.

A mid-range restaurant located in the west of the city. The upper and lower floors in front are divided into private rooms and halls. There are also two separate guest rooms in the backyard.

It was here that the last dinner given to Lu Mingsi by the Ministry of Households was also enjoyed.

According to the survey, Lu Mingsi is a frequent visitor here, especially like Wang Erhu’s fatty sausage, which is almost a must in every meal—the forged suicide note also mentions this dish.

This shows that the murderer should be quite familiar with Lu Mingsi's eating habits.

As for whether it is the preface of the book or the result of the investigation after the murder, it is temporarily impossible to determine.

But that morning, the cabin that had been banned for a long time finally welcomed two more guests.

"Don't look at it."

After seeing Yu Qian entering the door, he carefully checked the layout of the room, especially the placement of tables, chairs and benches.

Sun Shaozong waved his hand, sat down at the table, helplessly said: "Lü Mingsi went out nearly a mile in the evening before he was poisoned in the street and died. When the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion found this place, he was almost there. The third shift is very close, and there have been two groups of guests in this room, and the traces have long been untestable."

"I was curious for a while, but made Uncle Thirteen laugh."

Yu Qian smiled and sat opposite Sun Shaozong.

Because it was at the scene of the poisoning case, Sun Shaozong naturally didn't order any tea, so he asked straightforwardly: "There is no one else here. Yi Tingyi might as well express his own opinion. In your opinion, who would do this case?"

This case is now causing everyone in the household to be in danger, and Pakistan can't get out of the way and stand on the sidelines.

The fault is that the two parties are in-laws, and there are many contacts on weekdays, and Sun Shaozong would not ask so bluntly.

"Since the Thirteenth Uncle asked, I'll just guess it randomly." Yu Qian said, subconsciously scratching on the table, but accidentally stained with the sludge on his hand, so he hurriedly took the veil and wiped it.

When his busy work was over, he said concisely: "Since it is a major murder, the motive is nothing more than public outrage and private enmity. Nowadays, there is a lot of rumors outside that it is Lu Mingsi who has found a major corruption case in the Ministry of Housing and was killed Quit the mouth, but I think the latter is more likely."

Sure enough, I asked the right person!

Sun Shaozong was shocked and hurriedly asked him why he came to such a conclusion.

Yu Qian said solemnly: "Originally, the deceased was the greatest. I shouldn't talk about the length of Lu Jijian, but since it is to find out who killed him by poison, I can't take care of this much."

"It's true that this Lv Gei served as an official in the household department for three years. He impeached five people, all of whom were small officials below the eighth rank. The seven suggestions are all dispensable omissions."

"From what he usually does, it's no more than a mediocre official at best, and it's even very likely..."

Although the following words are not exhaustive, he is obviously suspecting that Lu Mingsi has been collaborating with corrupt officials of the Ministry of Households, and has even become their umbrella.

Sun Shaozong was pondering, and the opposite Yu Qianhu smiled again: "Of course, this private enmity may also be caused by uneven distribution of spoils, so the direction of Dali Temple's previous investigation may not be wrong."

Sun Shaozong pondered for a while, and then smiled dumbly: "In that case, it made him beat him upright."

After that, Sun Shaozong asked for some details. Some Yu Qian could answer, but some had no clue. After all, the relationship between him and Lu Mingsi was only between the superior and the subordinate, and it was really difficult to talk about it.

Speaking of it, Chen Jingde had also suspected that Yu Qian was in the head, but Yu Qian now has the power of a court counselor as a minister of household affairs.

Although not comparable to the secretaries of later generations, but the size is also regarded as the emperor's close minister, how can Chen Jingde dare to offend?

Therefore, he turned to doubt, but he didn't even dare to ask a few words.

…………

Half an hour later, when Yu Qian watched Yu Qian leaving his carts and not doing it, he was picking up the snow covered place for overhaul. Sun Shaozong didn't feel a little smile.

This historically famous master still retains a bit of childishness.

"grown ups."

Chen Jingde approached cautiously and asked: "Let's next..."

"Lead the way in front of you, go to the Wang Erhu's house to see!"

Long before Yu Qian rushed over, Sun Shaozong walked around the restaurant and asked about the shopkeeper, the second person, etc., but there was little gain.

It's useless to stay here right now, and naturally I have to shift positions.

Wang Erhu's house is not as crowded as the restaurant. He was hanged in the living room again. There must be more clues left on the scene.

The book does not go into details.

It was said that the group rushed to Wang Erhu's house, but they never wanted to take a break-Wang Erhu's wife Liu and a pair of children never stayed at home. It is said that they returned to their natal house temporarily because they were afraid of scaring the children.

Sun Shaozong immediately ordered Chen Jingde to find someone in Liu's family.

As for he left with a group of government officials outside Wang Erhu’s house, but he was not idle. Instead, he ordered people to requisition tables and chairs from his neighbors, carefully wipe off the snow on the wall, and check what was left on the wall. trace.

According to Chen Jingde's original investigation, Liu did not hear anything in the back room because he was cooking in the kitchen. When he went to Wang Erhu for dinner, Wang Erhu had been hanged on Liang.

The doors and windows of the kitchen are not far away from the door. If Wang Erhu was hanged on the beam, as Sun Shaozong inferred before, then the possibility of the murderer sneaking in through the door shouldn't be great.

The corners of the two wings of the courtyard wall may be more suitable.

Snowflakes floated in the sky the next morning when Wang Erhu was killed, so the wall has been covered by snow since that day.

If someone ever entered over the wall, the traces should also be preserved by the snow and not be covered by new dust.

"grown ups."

However, after a short while, Huang Bin hurriedly replied: "I have seen it on the courtyard wall, and there is no trace of climbing."

Didn't you cross the wall?

Sun Shaozong's gaze moved slightly upward, and then fell on the roof tiles.

Huang Bin immediately handed over knowingly: "The little one will take someone to the room to find out what happened."

Sun Shaozong nodded first, but then stopped Huang Bin who was about to leave, and exhorted: "It must be very slippery. You wait until you are fully prepared before you go up. Don't be aggressive."

"Thanks for your care!"

Huang Bin thanked him with gratitude, and then went happily.

By the time Chen Jingde brought Wang Erhu's wife Liu home, there were already several government officials squatting on the roof.

Liu was quite at a loss when he saw this, and Chen Jingde scolded him a few times before remembering to open the door with the key.

After entering the door, he even shrank in the corner, tremblingly looking at the officials who sent the people back to the guest.

Sun Shaozong had just watched the layout a few times through the courtyard wall, so he entered the living room of Wang Erhu's hanging corpse without delay after entering the door.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw the yellow hemp rope swaying on the beam.

Sun Shaozong stopped immediately and carefully looked at the amplitude and direction of the hemp rope swaying.

Chen Jingde followed in and saw Sun Shaozong staring at the hemp rope. He didn't move for a while, so he wisely explained: "My lord, it's probably because the wind from outside is blowing in, so..."

Before he finished speaking, Sun Shaozong suddenly went straight to the open door.

Chen Jingde was taken aback, and then hurriedly followed in, but he saw Sun Shaozong facing the south window, looking down and carefully observing something.

He hurried to catch up, only to find that the window was open with a gap of three fingers wide.

"My lord, you..."

Chen Jingde was unclear. So, waiting to ask what happened, he never thought that Sun Shaozong pushed open the window probe, looked at the outside of the window frame, and squatted down directly, groping for a while on the ground.

Chen Jingde looked more and more inexplicable, but couldn't ask anything more, so he had to pretend to be investigating the scene, staring at the paper-cuts on the window.

After a while, Sun Shaozong finally straightened up and asked: "Who had surveyed the scene that day? Call someone in."

It's finally useful!

Chen Jingde breathed a sigh of relief at the case, and hurriedly went out and called a few officers to come in.

"My lord, except for the pregnant woman who died under the poisoned arrow that day, the rest are here."

Sun Shaozong heard that everyone was here, and immediately pointed to the window and asked everyone if anyone had moved.

You look at me, I look at you, those yamen shook their heads like a rattle in the last issue.

Their attention that day was mainly focused on the corpse in the living room and the suicide note, and there was a symbolic inspection here.

Sun Shaozong immediately gave another order: "Go and call Liu in again!"

This time, Chen Jingde didn't need to come forward, and his own yamen went outside and brought in the Liu family.

The Liu clan was already nervous, but at this moment, seeing the many fierce officials crowded into his small bedroom, his legs couldn't stand softly.

So after entering the door, he half-kneeled and cried: "Master Qingtian, the little woman really doesn't know why Erhu committed suicide!"

Sun Shaozong waited for her to cry a few times, then stopped a little, then asked: "You said that when Wang Erhu hanged himself, you were cooking in the kitchen, but you don't know what you did?"

The woman was taken aback for a moment, apparently she didn't expect Sun Shaozong to ask this question, so she hesitated for a while, and said: "I just fry some cabbage and put a pot of noodles-he works as a cook in a restaurant. , I usually like to be vegetarian at home."

During the conversation, I met Sun Shaozong inadvertently, and hurriedly lowered his head again, and added slyly: "He never cares about the stove at home, it's my own control."

After hearing this, Sun Shaozong was silent for a moment, then pointed to the window and asked, "After Wang Erhu died, have you ever moved this window?"

Liu cried again for a moment, tilted his head to look at the window, hesitatingly shook his head, and said, "No...never moved."

"That's weird!"

Sun Shaozong suddenly sneered: "Neither you nor the officer handling this case have ever touched this window, and the Wang Erhu wore thinner clothes on the day of hanging, and there was no sweat left on his body. How could you put this on a cold winter evening? Push the window open a gap, then hang yourself up again?"

"This……"

Liu shrank his neck and turned his head to look at the window again, before crying again: "Master Mingjian, the little woman really doesn't know why Erhu opened the window..."

"The windows have only been repainted recently, right?"

Before she finished crying, Sun Shaozong questioned again: "But now a piece of patent leather is peeling off the window frame facing the wall outside. Do you still have to tell the officer that you still don't know?"

However, as soon as Sun Shaozong entered the door, he found that the angle of the thick hemp rope was not quite right. It seemed that it was not just because of the wind blowing in after opening the door, but was affected by the wind in the living room and bedroom.

That's why he went inside to check, and it turned out that the windows had not been closed tightly.

This is fine if it is in other seasons, but the weather has been very cold recently. When the sun is shining at noon at most, the idler's house will open a window for ventilation.

Judging from the traces of snow and paint peeling left on the scene, it is most likely that Wang Erhu pushed it away before his death.

That's why he asked everyone to come over for questioning.

Under this question, Liu's suspicion increased sharply.

"This this……"

The Liu family became more panicked, but still cried out: "The local woman really doesn't know why! My hunk-born is so fat, maybe it's hot..."

"This official has already said that he has no sweat stains left on his body, and his clothes are relatively thin!"

"This this……"

Liu's ‘this’ for a while, his eyes twitched, but after all he could not think of a suitable reason to prevaricate, so Yingying prostrated on the ground and sobbed.

"Chen Jingde."

Sun Shaozong didn't ask any more, but instead ordered: "You take someone to the neighbor's house and ask about how the relationship between his and his wife is on weekdays."

Chen Jingde was stunned when he heard the words, and then couldn't help but blurt out: "My lord suspects that this wicked woman murdered her husband?!"

"My lord is wronged, my lord is wronged!"

Upon hearing this, the Liu family could still care about weeping~www.readwn.com~ hurriedly straightened her back and exclaimed: "The little woman has the courage to murder her husband!"

Sun Shaozong ignored her yelling. Instead, he glared at Chen Jingde and scolded: "What is it, why don't you ask for it!"

Chen Jingde knew he had made a mistake, and hurriedly took the order.

Looking at his back, Sun Shaozong sighed unconsciously. It seems that the reason why this Dali Temple has declined is not necessarily due to Wei Yi's inaction-this kind of wine bag and rice bag under his hand, even if he wants to make a difference It's also difficult.

At this time, Wang Erhu's wife was obviously panicked, and she repeatedly kowtowed and cried, saying that she had never murdered her husband.

But Sun Shaozong ignored it.

About two quarters of an hour later, I heard Chen Jingde shout out loudly outside: "My lord takes it seriously, this woman is really at odds with Wang Erhu!"

After shouting and rushing into the house, he first gave the woman a vicious look before continuing to report: "I heard that it was because she gave birth to a son to her ex-husband. After marrying Wang Erhu, she only gave birth to a daughter. Wang Erhu was full of grudges and scolded her whenever he hit."

"At first, this spoiled woman tried her best to endure it, but then Wang Erhu became addicted to gambling, and the family was often struggling to make ends meet. This spoiled woman gradually resisted, and later the two of them often fought harder!"

When he said this, he widened his eyes, gritted his teeth and yelled: "What a poisonous woman! If you hadn't had Master Sun who had been observant of the details, you would have almost ruined the imperial affairs!"

Having said that, he ordered the left and right to take Liu first.

But before he finished his words, Sun Shaozong, who listened to the side, shook his head and said, "She is not a murderer."

Then he stared at Liu directly and asked, "Your son, where is it now?"

Liu's discoloration suddenly changed. ()

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