"Master! Master! Wow, wow, wow -!"
The cries of the Chen family's book boy and the servant girl Wu were shocking, and the faces of the onlookers were whiter than snow.
"Do evil spirits kill someone every night?" "The Chen family is rich and aristocratic, so they attract ghosts!" "But if we stay here, will it be our turn tonight?"
People were panicked, and everyone was worried that they would become the evil ghost's next target, so they naturally retreated slowly.
Go to that fucking blizzard inn. No matter how strong the wind and snow are outside, it can't stop the residents from escaping.
"Don't leave!"
But when everyone was about to return to the guest room, pick up their luggage, and leave without hesitation, a figure walked over, it was Wu Jing, the guard.
With red eyes, he drew his sword out of its sheath, pointed it at everyone, and said sternly: "My young master was killed, and his body has not even been found. Every one of you is a suspect. If anyone dares to leave, don't blame me for being ruthless with my sword!"
Someone whispered: "This is obviously a murder by evil spirits, it has nothing to do with us!"
Wu Jing shouted: "I don't care if you are a human or a ghost! You all have to stay!"
The following news came over, and Di Jin, who had returned to the room, explained what he saw: "Now Chen Zhijian has become the second victim. Does anyone have any ideas about how this person was killed?"
Since he had predicted a long time ago that there was likely to be a second murder, and the murderer would once again dress up as a ghost to commit crimes, the atmosphere in the room at this time was not one of fear, but confusion.
"Yesterday, there were no footprints left in the snow. Maybe there are still top experts who can come and go..." Di Xiangling slowly shook his head: "But to complete so many things in a quarter of an hour is really beyond the limits of human power. What is it?" How?”
Lei Cheng scratched his head: "Why do you want to harm the husband of the Chen family? Dong Ba and Chen Zhijian, one is an errand and the other is a scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam. They are not next to each other..."
Lin Xiaoyi and Lei Jiu frowned even more.
Just when everyone was puzzled, Zhu Er suddenly said: "Did you just say that the book boy was very weak, had a splitting headache, and quickly developed a fever after blowing some wind?"
Di Jin nodded: "Yes, I have touched his body. I am not pretending. It is indeed weak."
Zhuer laughed: "Then I know how the murderer killed... They must have been stunned last night!"
Di Jin raised his eyebrows: "Drug? Fragrance?"
Zhu Er said: "I am naturally addicted to drugs. The incense medicine is very weak. It will not last long, and it is difficult to dispel afterward. Not even people in the world use it..."
According to the classic martial arts routine, a slender bamboo tube is poked into the window paper and spits out a burst of smoke. The heroine in the room will faint and let herself be manipulated. But judging from Zhu Er's attitude, this That kind of artifact doesn't seem to exist in the world's arena.
Di Jin became more knowledgeable and continued: "After being drugged, this is how you react when you wake up?"
"That's right! They feel sore and weak all over. If they are in poor health, they will have a splitting headache! They just opened the window, as if they were awakened by the cold wind. These symptoms are more like catching a cold, so they did it very cleverly!"
Zhu Er began her own reasoning: "The murderer drugged the food of the three servants around Chen Zhijian, and took them out to kill them last night. The bodies and weapons were taken care of, and the heads were cut off and buried in the snow. , and then deliberately warmed Chen Zhijian’s quilt this morning to create the illusion that it was there not long ago, then opened the window and woke up the three people around him..."
"It's not difficult to verify. The book boy and the maid couldn't figure out the physical condition. Doesn't the guard know he was drugged? But that was a breach of duty. He may not be willing to admit his fault..."
"Yes! Isn't that head blue and purple from the cold? If it had just been buried in the snow for a quarter of an hour, how could it be frozen like that? It must have been buried in the snow last night, and the footprints can be easily explained. The time After a long time, it will naturally disappear, ha!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone suddenly showed admiration. Di Xiangling said: "I can't tell, you still have such ability!"
Zhu Er put her hands on her hips: "Hey, hey!"
Seeing that the female thief's proud tail was about to rise to the sky, Di Jin also nodded: "Teach me! From the perspective of drugging, it does explain a lot of doubts, and if the food is really drugged , the store owner and the clerk are very suspicious..."
When Lin Xiaoyi inquired about the news yesterday, she learned this: "The store owner Wang Hou, whose wife is called Wang Ahe, works in the back kitchen. There are three waiters, waiter, waiter, waiter, waiter, waiter, one who feeds the horses, and one who cleans. House.”
In ancient times, clerks were busy all day long and had no rest. Regardless of the size of an inn or shop, there are indeed enough manpower. Any more would be a waste of manpower.
After a pause, Lin Xiaoyi whispered again: "This inn was only booked half a year ago. The couple is very miserable. After something like this happened, they still owe the Xiangguo Temple's savings..."
Xiangji money is loan sharking, and Daxiangguo Temple is not the largest place in the capital that lends money at high interest rates. All the royal family members do it, but in the minds of ordinary people, Jialan's loan lending is the most convenient, and the pressing methods are much gentler than those of high-ranking officials. It is still worth it. trusted.
Of course, gentleness is only relative. If you don't repay Jialan's money, Buddha will also let you know what it means to be sad at the end of the year!
"It doesn't seem right to pretend to be a ghost and kill people in your own inn when you owe money for a loan..." Zhu Er's proud expression gradually disappeared: "Could it be that the murderer secretly put the drug into the food in the kitchen? Tsk, This is also difficult!”
Di Xiangling said: "If the cook is not poisoning, then we need to know what the Chen family eats, whether they bring their own dry food, especially the eating habits of the guard, and make sure that all three of them eat the poisoned food." Only if you need food can you sneak into the room at night and take Mr. Chen away..."
At this point, everyone frowned.
This case is really weird. It is obviously man-made, but many details really look like they were made by ghosts, with all kinds of inexplicable contradictions.
"Xilulu!"
At this moment, the sound of horse hooves came from the front yard. Di Jin opened the door and glanced down: "Someone is coming from the Yamen."
Surrounded by more than a dozen government officials, a man in a blue official uniform walked in grandly.
After Dong Ba's death, one of the officials with the most agile legs and feet went to the nearby county government to report the crime, and now he finally arrived.
As soon as this official entered the inn lobby, he said in a loud voice: "I, Ren Changyi, am Fengqiu County Lieutenant. Anyone related to the case, please come here quickly!"
"Lieutenant of Fengqiu County..."
Di Jin thought of the movie "Thirty Thousand Miles from Chang'an" that he had seen in his previous life. The protagonist Gao Shi did not enter the official career until he was fifty years old. His first official position was Fengqiu County Lieutenant. The common people were dissatisfied with the life of a county captain, so Gao Shicai resigned angrily. Later, he was appreciated by Ge Shuhan, who launched a counterattack in the second half of his life.
I wonder if he is also the county captain of Fengqiu, what should he do as the county captain of Ren?
The answer was soon revealed.
Everyone did not dare to neglect the people coming from the yamen, and they all gathered in the hall, including the shopkeeper, his wife and three clerks. County Lieutenant Ren glanced at the five shackled people and said, "They are Hedong Road The criminal?"
Xue Chao stepped forward and responded: "If you go back to the county captain, it's them!"
These five people were indeed prisoners escorted by officials, and Di Qing was among them. After Dong Ba's body was discovered, they were shackled again and locked up in the woodshed.
Just after they were released, the local county captain said directly: "The escorting officer was killed. The murderer is determined to be among these criminals. Come on! Take them back to the Yamen and interrogate them strictly!"
Di Qing's expression suddenly changed, but he wisely did not refute. After all, he had some verbal conflicts with Dong Ba that day and could easily be slandered.
Several prisoners nearby could no longer hold back and began to mutter: "Dong Ba was not killed by us!" "It has nothing to do with me!" "Unjust! Unjust!"
"beat!"
Ren Changyi snorted coldly, and the officials on the left and right rushed over, picked up the stick in his hand, and whipped them.
Amid the screams, Ren Changyi looked towards the second floor, and suddenly his expression changed again. He stroked his beard and said with a smile, "I heard that the husband of the Chen family is also here? Why don't you lead me to see him soon?"
There was dead silence in the hall.
You can't see Chen Zhijian anymore. Do you want to see Chen Zhijian's boss?
In the end, Xue Chao stepped forward and led the county captain to the backyard, narrating the situation in a low voice along the way.
Ren Changyi's expression suddenly froze, especially when he heard that it was not a living person who was doing the killing, but an evil ghost. He muttered a few times, and finally couldn't help but groaned: "It's over! It's over! This time Why is it my place of Fengqiu that is haunted, and why is Mr. Chen family’s husband the one who is dead!”
