"What? Did I hear you right?" The upright Deng Kaicang raised his eyebrows and whispered to the ship's doctor - he has a lot of experience in rivers and lakes, and logically he shouldn't be so rude, but at the moment his mood is like that of a starving man. The person in charge was served a dish that looked appalling. He forced himself to eat it and found that it tasted pretty good. He then asked what the ingredients were, but the answer he got was as distorted as if he had just fished it out of a swill bucket.
It's not that he felt insulted, it was more likely that he felt why he was so mean?
Seeing the extremely surprised looks in everyone's eyes, the head catcher also noticed his slip of the tongue and quickly explained: "Maybe there is some misunderstanding in the term 'suicide'. A more reasonable explanation should be an... accident."
"Even so, it's hard to convince people." Lao Jin lowered his voice. He now only expected the head catcher to come up with a conclusion that was consistent with his own.
The catcher glared at Lao Jin, then looked at Ye Ci: "Mrs. Ye, you went to the kitchen last night and cooked another bowl of hangover soup, right?"
Everyone was startled when they heard this, but they had never heard Ye Ci mention this matter before, and Mrs. Ye also explained: "The official made a big fuss, so after coaxing him to rest, I made another bowl of soup and fed him. .”
"Sure enough, it's consistent with what I thought..." The catcher nodded, adding a little more confidence: "Because of this, I can be sure that this was an accident."
According to the description of the arrest, last night should have gone like this - last night Wang Qianhun drank too much and went back to the bedroom to rest early. Everyone dispersed and went back to their rooms, leaving only the innkeeper to clean up the scene. Then Wei Kui recognized Ye Ci and the two of them.
Dear, at the same time, Hu Zhide also prepared sobering soup and brought it to him. Drinking alcohol will make people thirsty. Wang Qianhun drank the sobering soup while half asleep, but he heard the sound of his concubine talking to the man. After getting angry, Mrs. Ye explained and settled the shopkeeper Wang. Finally, she went downstairs to cook a bowl of soup and sent it up, then went to the side bedroom to rest alone.
However, Shopkeeper Wang's death was actually an accident that happened in the middle of the night and was not witnessed by anyone. After drinking two bowls of ephedra and cinnamon soup, a sweat-inducing substance, Shopkeeper Wang felt extremely stuffy after the medicine took effect. I wanted to open the window for ventilation. However, the inn was built by the river and was designed to prevent moisture. The windows were not "double doors" but high windows that needed to be propped up. Therefore, shopkeeper Wang, who was weak and dizzy, stepped on the window frame and accidentally fell outside. However, he injured one of his legs, and in the end he had no choice but to go to the river to wash himself with all his injuries... In the end, he lost his footing and was sucked into the water and drowned.
"Well... Generally speaking, the front is quite reasonable, but the closer you get to the back, the more strange it becomes..." Mr. Chen raised his eyebrows and asked the arrester on behalf of others: "I accidentally put up the window. I won’t talk about falling. Drunk people will indeed lose their sense of direction and balance. It’s understandable to say that they fell from a building. But do people who have broken their legs still need to go to the river to wash up? Reply Wouldn’t it be better inside the inn?”
"Because no one came to the door..." He Nan smiled and answered Mr. Chen's doubts. The two sang the double recital perfectly: "There was actually no ship arriving at the port last night. This time
Dian Wang Qianhun knew it, and Hu Zhide, who was responsible for guarding the door, also knew it, so he opened the door and went to sleep as usual! "
"Is that so?" Wang Guangdi looked at Hu Zhide, wanting to hear the answer from him.
"I slept deeply last night, and indeed I never heard the door being called." When Hu Zhide heard his name being called, he agreed, "As for whether the shopkeeper knocked on the door or not, that's not up to me. of."
Perhaps he had a gambling mentality, or perhaps he was sure that Hu Zhide's hatred for Wang Qianhun was enough to keep him silent. In short, Hu Zhide's cooperation was quite a relief.
"I know you are also dissatisfied with this conclusion, but based on all the current traces, I can only conclude that this was an accident." The head catcher continued: "If someone was killed in the inn Shopkeeper Wang, the most likely possibility is to drown him in the washbasin in the bedroom, but he must have reacted violently when a living person choked on the water, and how would he then transport his body to the river without anyone noticing? The edge is also a problem; and if Shopkeeper Wang was taken to the river alive and then drowned, it is more serious than the former.
Add difficulty. "
"Wait! I just remembered something..." Tong Suisheng suddenly said: "This guard's martial arts is not low. If someone who knows martial arts killed our shopkeeper, wouldn't he be able to use Qinggong to move the body?" "
"You have misunderstood the key point. The key point is not Qinggong, but the location of Shopkeeper Wang's body." In the end, He Nan gave the final refutation: "Assuming that there really is a murderer, then the murderer is in the river. It doesn't matter if I kill Shopkeeper Wang, or I can dump the body. Is there anyone I can find?
In the section of the river blocked by aquatic plants, just peeing can ensure that Shopkeeper Wang's body floats away with the current. If you are more prepared, you can even tie a heavy object and sink it directly into the river. How could you commit the crime of "the body getting stuck in the reeds"? Mistake? "
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The next morning, everyone packed up and boarded the ship, bidding farewell to the murder in Tuoshadian. Since there were no more clues, the arrester finally closed the case as an accident. Shopkeeper Wang's body was also escorted back to the county by Ye Ci and his son this morning. For burial.
He Nan and Wei Kui stood on the bow of the boat chatting, watching the rugged mountain walls passing by: "Now we can finally tell you what happened, right?"
"Didn't you see it all? What are you asking me for?" Old Wei put his arms on the side of the ship, not very relaxed.
"All I can see is the truth about Wang Qianhun's death. As for why... I think it's better for you to tell me." He Nan dusted the soot toward the water without quality, but the wind blew it all back. On his own body, he was desperately sucking the ashes that floated into his mouth.
If you drowned in the river, there will definitely be dirt, grass seeds or other impurities in the river water in the mouth and nose. But if you were thrown into the river after death, the impurities will only stick to the edges of the mouth and nose. This is difficult. The first point is certain; and when he went to get the swill bucket, he was inspired by Lu Ning - a person who has been drugged with Mongolian sweat medicine will not struggle strongly even if he is pressed into the water and drowned. I think if the medicine is strong The same goes for sleeping pills, so the sobering soup last night was not two portions, but three portions. They are the cold-repelling soup cooked by Hu Zhide, and the cold-repelling soup cooked by Ye Ci.
There was one bowl of sleeping soup each. All Wang Qianhun took was the bowl of sleeping soup. The first bowl of soup was broken into pieces along with the vase, and the whereabouts of the second bowl of cold-repelling soup was not important, just leaving a The soup base was just used to hide people's eyes and ears, the fragments of the vase were thrown into the dustpan, and the broken bowl was thrown into the swill bucket. The sleeping soup also allowed He Nan to confirm that Old Wei did not kill anyone. He did not need any sleeping soup to drown others. He was directly pressed into the water without a chance to struggle. Of course, Old Wei did not stay out of the matter. He at least participated in the last thing - he could not get out of the window due to his size, so he just threw the person through the window into the river thirty feet away. Wang Qian Hun's right leg was actually broken by him.
"Wang Guangdi...Actually, his real name should be Du Guangdi." Even though He Nan had some guesses about what happened and was the reason why he was covering for Old Wei, he still had to tell Wei Kui to tell him what he knew - Wei The reason why Feng was able to make up a serious past actually came from the small talk he had with Du Rong in the military camp. The ill-fated teacher had always grudged the most about his sweetheart from his hometown, and he kept his last wish in mind when he was dying - it was really a coincidence that Wei Kui had at least remembered the name of "Master's Wife" before he recognized her. Out came Yeats.
"Oh... he's your first master, right?" He Nan had also heard Du Rong's story: "Does Du Guangdi himself know about this?"
"When Brother Du and Mrs. Ye left their hometown and were forced to separate, Mrs. Ye was already pregnant. When Guangdi came of age, Ye Ci informed him of this matter - although according to Ye Ci, she had no feelings for Wang Qian.
It was not an act of infidelity, but the child's biological father had to tell him the truth. Wei Kui continued: "I don't care what kind of people Ye Ci and Du Guangdi are, whether Wang Qianhun treats mother and son well or badly, but I owe Lao Du my life, so I must never let his son Just fold it like this.”
"It's just that I didn't want to drag you into the water. Although Du Guangdi acted in a hurry, he handled it calmly and orderly. He was probably able to hide the truth." Old Wei sighed, his eyebrows drooping slightly: "But now I see I thought it was simple. If you hadn't used your identity to scare the head catcher, we would have been trapped here for a long time.
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"What are you talking about...can I still bear the psychological burden of such a nonsense?" Some time ago, it was Wei Kui who was trying to persuade Congratulations, but today it was Congratulations to Wei Kui again: "That Du Guangdi is pretty good. , if he is not going to continue to waste his time, you might as well let him come out and see the world!"
Old Wei understood He Nan's meaning very easily, but he still couldn't help but complain: "Although I think so too, I really think you are suitable for running a shelter for the homeless..."
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