Manager Zhang deliberately pretended to be nervous, but he didn’t want us to appear too calm and arouse suspicion. After the waiter briefly explained, he accepted his statement. Rainy day, closed inn, bizarre murder case.
The residents inside are not so easily appeased, because the murderer is in this inn.
There are quite a few guests here, which means the murderer is still among us.
No one thought that the murderer was a stranger who had never met before. He quietly sneaked into the inn to kill people and then left quietly.
There was a resident on the third floor who woke up from hunger at five o'clock in the morning. He had a quarrel with his roommate last night and was so angry that he didn't eat dinner.
In the morning he woke up from hunger and went downstairs to the kitchen to find something to eat.
He went from the third floor to the first floor and then to the kitchen without seeing any wet footprints.
The person who lived in the same room with the deceased said that there was a knock on the door at midnight last night, and the deceased was woken up, complaining that ghosts came to stay at such a late hour.
This means that when the woman comes, the deceased is still alive.
When the hungry guests go downstairs to look for food, the murderer can only take action during this period.
There was not much difference in time, so if an outsider killed someone, they would definitely leave muddy footprints.
They were analyzing outside, and I was listening in the room. I felt that their analysis made sense. However, the woman went upstairs last night without making any sound. This not only proves that she is good at Qinggong, but there is also a possibility that she was He didn't wear shoes, so he walked barefoot and on tiptoe.
She had time in the kitchen to take off her shoes, dry the soles of her feet, and then go upstairs barefoot so she wouldn't leave wet footprints covered in mud.
The residents also made random guesses, with different opinions and no conclusion.
There were three people living in the dead man's room, one sleeping on the couch and two sleeping on the bed.
Now someone died in their house, and it was a quiet death, and the other two people were more scared than the other residents.
They suggested that everyone focus in the lobby downstairs and watch each other to prevent the murderer from attacking again.
The other guests in the VIP room all agreed. They believed that this would also prevent the murderer from escaping.
In fact, what they were afraid of was that the murderer hated the rich and specifically picked out wealthy people who stayed in VIP rooms to kill.
Because all the belongings of the deceased were there, not a single piece of luggage was missing in the room and had not been disturbed.
In order to stabilize people's hearts, the boss lady deliberately led everyone to think in the direction of vendetta. If it was a personal grudge, it would have no impact on other people.
After a murderer kills one person, he will not kill anyone else.
At this time, someone objected to the crowd gathering in the lobby. They were afraid of provoking the murderer and killed everyone.
Now they want to know who the murderer is, but they are also afraid to know, fearing that the murderer will kill and silence him.
The two parties with different opinions stood in the corridor outside the door and started arguing.
In order to appear gregarious, Mr. Zhang would occasionally interject, mostly in a friendly way.
The landlady ran into the back kitchen and came out with a kitchen knife in her hand.
For business reasons, she decided to gather everyone in the lobby.
It's okay if someone dies in the inn, but if someone dies and the murderer escapes easily, no one will dare to stay in her hotel for a long time from now on.
Those people on the roof were still there, and I was really worried that they would kill people and silence them. I wanted to persuade the landlady to let it go, but the landlady immediately said, "Whoever doesn't come down has a guilty conscience and is a murderer."
We are not good citizens. Now is not the time to be high-profile, so we can only follow the crowd.
The waiter and the cook worked together to move tables and chairs, arrange seats in the lobby, and invite guests from each room to come down and take their seats according to the table and chair numbers.
The number on the table is the room number. Sitting like this, it is clear who belongs to which room.
The landlady took out melon seeds, peanuts, and tea and placed them on everyone's table. Yunzhou no longer had to eat fried soybeans, so he happily grabbed the peanuts and peeled them.
He only eats it after he has accumulated a lot of it. No one in the lobby is in the mood to do this except him.
The person who slept in the same bed as the deceased was a little distracted. He scratched his body a few times from time to time, either on his neck, arms or calves.
There was nothing wrong with him physically. This reaction was purely psychological. He might have suspected that the deceased had some malignant/infectious disease.
The residents looked at each other, trying to find suspicious people, and some even attacked them personally, making suspicions of people they couldn't deal with.
In the past three days, four of the residents had had a quarrel. They took this opportunity to cause trouble for each other. They suspected each other and said that the other was the murderer.
The four of them became more and more noisy and were about to start a fight by grabbing each other's collars. The proprietress's screams shocked them all.
"Why are you arguing? You caused chaos and let the murderer escape. Who bears the responsibility? Who will pay for my loss?" The landlady stepped in and her high-octave voice echoed in the lobby, which was better than beating a gong.
Normally, the landlady would always use a charming tone when facing distinguished guests, and treat poor guests with a harsh and mean attitude, but now it was the first time for everyone to see this gangster descending from the mountain.
The four people who were about to fight let go of each other's collars and sat back down with a groan.
Some people were staring at the woman who suddenly appeared last night, asking her where she came from, where she was going, what her surname was, what her name was, and whether she had a husband?
"My family name is Ye, and my name is Fengniang." The woman's tone, tone, and articulation of words are all like the hands of a violinist, touching people's heartstrings.
She claimed to be from the Luofeng Country and was married to the Shengyu Country at the age of sixteen. Unfortunately, her husband died early and she became a widow at the age of twenty.
Because she married into her husband's family and had nothing to do for several years, she was disgusted by her mother-in-law and ostracized by her sisters-in-law. As soon as her husband died, she was kicked out of the house.
She originally wanted to return to her hometown to join her brother, but she learned that her hometown had been hit by a flood not long ago, and the entire village, including her brother and sister-in-law, had also been washed away by the flood.
A young widow, helpless and pitiful.
These words of hers are all true and she is not lying, but she must have omitted some content, such as the fact that she later joined Zhaixinglaoyuelou and became a killer.
From her marriage in a foreign land, to her husband's early death, to her learning that her relatives were killed, this background should be true.
She looks like she is in her early twenties, but that may not be her actual age.
Most of the men in the lobby looked at her with pity, whether they were old or young, they all sympathized with her plight.
Only Manager Zhang was peeling melon seeds for Yue Nanxiang and didn't pay attention to what she said. Yun Zhou was dividing the peanut kernels and didn't pay attention to her.
Yunzhou divided the peeled peanuts into four parts, and each of us had fifteen pieces.
After hearing this, the landlady snorted coldly and said in a moderately loud voice: "Who has never killed a man? This woman can't rely on her dead ghosts or living enemies. She has to rely on herself."
At this time, a resident said: "The landlady is so strong that she can fight a tiger. Of course she can rely on herself. This little lady is so weak, so she needs to find a place where she can be protected from the wind and rain."
He spoke cryptically, but everyone present understood.
Isn't it just about finding a man to rely on? The key is which man is suitable?
There were mostly male guests in the inn, but there were only four women, the proprietress, myself, Yue Nanxiang and Ye Fengniang.
When Ye Fengniang didn't come, the male customers were joking with the proprietress. When Ye Fengniang came, the men's eyes were attracted to her, and the charming proprietress became a 'tiger fighting hero'.
It is said that the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds. The four of us didn't say a word, but someone kept talking and insisted on bringing the topic to us.
Ye Fengniang is not the only one who is said to be pitiful. If a good girl marries a fool, won't her whole life be ruined?
This fool is also a son-in-law, which is really strange. Our family is like that kind man. Did we owe a few lives to the fool in our previous life?
The man who spoke was sitting next to us, and there were two people at the same table with him. The three of them were sighing and gasping in disgust.
Yunzhou now knew that 'silly' was referring to him, but he didn't quite understand what 'silly' meant and thought it was a title.
"Shut up." I glanced sideways at them, my eyes swept across the faces of the three of them, and I looked at them one by one, with a clear warning.
The three of them were carrying several bags of fur goods when they stayed in the hotel. The leather in the north was good, and there were often fur traders traveling between the mountains to sell fur goods.
They moved in a few hours later than us, from the north to the south.
Their guest room was on the first floor, directly below our room.
In the past three days, they rarely left the room because there was a treasure in their shipment this time. The three of them did not dare to leave it and kept careful care of it.
If there hadn't been a murder case today, they wouldn't have come out.
Based on my investigation last night, I think the biggest suspect is Ye Fengniang. She secretly went to the third floor last night and stood at the door of the deceased's room for ten minutes.
Although she didn't enter the house, to use poison, you didn't have to see the target, and the poison could be administered from a distance.
At first, everyone was in the lobby, chatting about something or other, but as time went by, everyone was so bored that they couldn't sit still.
Someone started and everyone started to analyze the case, find the murderer, and play a reasoning game.
Ye Fengniang is the most suspicious person, but some residents are unwilling to doubt her. The reason is simple. She is so weak, and committing murder is a physical job.
"The deceased was poisoned. What kind of physical strength is required for poisoning?" A middle-aged man in civilian clothes with a bit of a girly look rolled his eyes and said.
"You guys are just guessing here, why not ask them to do an autopsy." Ye Fengniang picked up the teacup and took a sip.
"Where does this damn weather come from?"
"That's right, the nearest government office is far away from these three hills. It rains so hard that birds fly over, let alone people."
"The ready-made doctor is right here, right, Dr. An..."
Just when I thought Ye Fengniang was going to call me 'Miracle Doctor', she suddenly changed her words and changed to a more low-key title.
She looked at me and spoke, and everyone turned their attention to me.
"Is she a doctor?"
"Isn't this, isn't this a peasant woman?"
"I have long felt that something was wrong. She is dressed like a peasant woman and has a different temperament."
"The way she looked at me just now didn't look like a doctor, let alone a peasant woman. She looked like a killer!"
At this moment, the landlady shouted again, suppressing the different voices in the lobby. She walked to our table, her attitude was completely different from usual, and she asked with a smile:
"Is this sister-in-law really a doctor? Can she do an autopsy?"
"It's okay to do an autopsy, but I'm not a doctor. I'm a mountain doctor in the countryside. He's not good at curing diseases, but he does a little research on the structure of the human body." I'm sure that Ye Fengniang recognizes me. If I deny my identity, I'm afraid it will lead to more entanglements.
Simply admit it, but keep the scandal in front of you. Don't think about curing the disease, just do an autopsy.
The landlady shouted "OK" and immediately took me to do an autopsy. The body was moved to the ice cellar in the backyard. The weather was humid and hot, and the room soon became smelly. There was no place to store the body in the inn, so the landlady called Xiao Er and the cook carried the body to the ice cellar.
Ice cellars are not easy to make and are rare among the people. They can only be seen in palaces.
The landlady said that this mountain is unique and ice cellars can be built underground because there are several ice caves in the mountain. The ice caves are deep underground and far away from the ground, but the area above the ice caves is still cold. It is suitable for digging vegetable cellars and building ice cellars.
When I saw the body, I was still wondering why Ye Fengniang asked me to do the autopsy.
Isn't she a murderer?
Moreover, when the mission of "Zhaixingxingluoyuelou" is completed, they will leave immediately. They can come in the rain, and naturally they can leave in the rain.
Why don't you leave and why do you want me to do an autopsy?
At first, I thought they still had mission targets to kill, but in that case, they shouldn't ask me for an autopsy.
"Dr. An, please look at the body carefully and help me find the murderer quickly, otherwise I won't be able to continue my business. Don't worry, I will pay the fee."
"Houselady, are there anything in your store that is not a human being or a living thing, but can move?"
I took a thorough look at the body and found that he was indeed poisoned to death. The poison entered through his ears and penetrated into his brain.
But there is no living thing in his body. Something must have poured poison into his ears. To do this, you need to keep a very close distance from him.
His bedmate was the most suspicious, but that person didn't lie. He really didn't know how his companion died. He was more afraid than anyone else that he would be the next person to die.
The deceased was sleeping on the inside side of the bed. If Ye Fengniang wanted to poison her through the door, she had to get past the person sleeping on the outside.
The technical requirements are a bit high. The weight of venom in the ears and brain of the deceased cannot be moved by ants or spiders.
I finished checking what needed to be checked, left the ice cellar and went to the deceased's room on the third floor.
I was lying on the spot where the deceased was sleeping. The proprietress was frightened by the question I just asked. She rubbed her arms and told me not to scare her. Her shop was very clean and there was never any dirt.
"You misunderstood. I was referring to man-made things, such as Mechanisms." I know that there are Mechanisms in this world, but they are relatively simple. People have heard of Mechanisms, which are more complicated than kites.
"No, I've never seen anything like that." The landlady shook her head.
That's interesting. I thought it was the killer on the roof who opened the tiles and poisoned me.
But the VIP room is different from our warehouse. It has a ceiling, a hanging shed, and silk decorations. To poison the room from the outside roof, these decorations have to be removed.
The dust on the silk cloth was all there, no one had touched it.
So the murderer didn't attack from the roof or from outside the door. It... is still in this room?
I smelled carefully, looking for other clues, but found that the window in the room was open.
"When you came this morning, was the window open?" I asked the landlady.
"No, it's closed. At that time, I suspected that a thief came in through the window to commit murder. I looked specifically and saw that it was closed."
The two people who lived in the same room were the first to run out and call for help. After that, they did not dare to enter the room again. The landlady entered the room after they ran out, so they were not the ones who opened the window.
Other customers wanted to go in and take a look, but the landlady stopped them.
Then only the waiter and the cook had entered this room, and they were the ones who carried the body to the ice cellar.
Before I could say anything, the landlady immediately called the waiter over and asked him if he opened the window?
The waiter admitted quickly, saying that he was afraid that the poisonous gas had not dissipated, so he opened the window to let in some air and disperse the smell to avoid further harm.
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