Chapter 54: Who is the Murderer?
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Hua Lianyue, Huo Lianjue sat face to face in front of the rosewood kang table. In addition to two cups of tea, there is also a plate of tiger skin peanuts, a plate of Ruyi cake, a plate of two-color bean cake, and a plate of honey-pickled cherries.
The amount of these snacks is very small, only two or three pieces. It was specially prepared by Dashuang in order not to let Hua Liyue drink tea on an empty stomach.
"It's quite a harvest today!" Hua Lianyue pinched a tiger skin peanut from the plate and put it on the table, and said, "Ma Cailiang, one of Zhou Tianhe's creditors, specializes in lending money to make a living. Zhou Tianhe once borrowed two taels of silver from him, and later rolled it up, and the highest rolled to fifty taels. Zhou Tianhe was unable to repay, and was once discounted by Ma Cailiang's men. ”
After a pause, she shook her head again and said, "But his suspicion is the least." After all, he does this for a living. I don't know how many people owe him interest and can't repay it, so can't he kill them all?"
Huo Lianjue nodded, he also reached out and pinched a honey-stained cherry, put it next to the peanut, and said: "Wang Shengrong, one of Zhou Tianhe's gambling friends, has a silk village at home, and he has some family background. It's just that this person is lustful as life, and he eats both sexes and males. There was a conflict with a passing merchant over a small restaurant. At that time, Zhou Tianhe also helped, but was injured by the merchant's men. For this reason, Zhou Tianhe repeatedly asked Wang Shengrong to blackmail money. ”
Hua Lianyue scratched her head and said, "People like Wang Shengrong who have some net worth generally hold their own identities, and they shouldn't personally attack Zhou Tianhe." Even if you have murderous intentions, most of them are buying murder. ”
"Don't worry, there's more!" Huo Lianjue took another piece of Ruyi cake and put it next to the honey-stained cherry, and said: "Wu Qingfeng, the former prince of Huaiyang, took Oiran Ye Wushuang to change his name and surname and live opposite the Zhou family. Who knew that Zhou Tian and this scoundrel secretly coveted Ye Wushuang's beauty. Half a month ago, when Wu Qingfeng was out, he pried the door into the Wu family with the intention of doing wrong to Ye Wushuang. was discovered by Wu Qingfeng, who rushed back in time, and injured him. For this reason, Mrs. Zhou also blocked the door of Wu's house and scolded for half an hour, so everyone on the whole street knew about this incident. ”
"What a veritable rotten ghost, it didn't kill him like this. It seems that good people don't live long, and the scourge will last for a thousand years!" Hua Lianyue became more and more angry the more she listened, and sneered: "This week, the old lady is quite interesting, this rotten ghost has been beaten countless times. She didn't dare to go to others for trouble, but she didn't let go of Wu Qingfeng and his wife, who were obviously victims. ”
Huo Lianjue chuckled and said: "Persimmons are all pinched softly, others are either rich or have people, and their Zhou family can't afford to mess with them." But even this rootless and foundationless Wu Qingfeng dared to do something to Zhou Tianhe, and this old woman naturally vented all the resentment accumulated over the years on his head. ”
Hua Lianyue tilted her head and thought about it seriously. She stretched out her white fingertips and picked up a piece of two-color bean cake and put it next to the Ruyi cake, and said: "The last one is Wei Hongguang, I had the honor to meet him today, and in a few words, this person's temperament was exposed." Although he is rough and irritable, he has no scheming, and he has a deep affection for Zhou Ping'er. It's just because this brother-in-law was forced to withdraw from his relationship with Zhou Ping'er, if you want to say that among these people, his motive for killing is the most obvious. ”
Huo Lianjue frowned slightly, he stretched out his slender fingers, knocked on the piece of Ruyi cake, and said, "I think this Wu Qingfeng's motive for killing is the most distinct. Think about it, the prince who was once high in the world has now been reduced to such a level that even the foolish women in the market dare to bully at will. Such a huge gap is only afraid that it will make him angry, so that he will explode and kill. ”
"You can't deliberately ignore this because of sympathy for their couple. He looked up at her, his face calm, but the accusation in his words could not be ignored.
Hua Lianyue really didn't want Wu Qingfeng to be a murderer, she pondered for a moment, shook her head and said: "All this is just our speculation, we haven't found the murder scene yet, we haven't found the murder weapon, and we haven't even found the tool to throw the body." If you want to find out the real culprit with a few words of speculation, I'm afraid it's not that simple. ”
These four people have more or less motives for killing, but if they want to find out the real murderer from them, they really need more corroboration.
The atmosphere suddenly became dull, and the two of them each fell into deep contemplation. I saw that Hua Lianyue suddenly read words about the Ruyi cake, and suddenly chattered about the two-color bean cake, and from time to time she gritted her teeth at the tiger skin peanuts and honey-stained cherries.
Huo Lianjue took a sip of the tea in front of him, and a faint smile passed over his fair and handsome face.
There was a steady sound of footsteps outside the house, and in a blink of an eye, the thick dark green bamboo curtain was lifted, and a biting cold wind drifted in with thin snowflakes. It's just that before the snowflakes could land, they were baked into tiny droplets by the heat in the house, silently ** the ground.
Ye Zhutou entered the house, shaking the fine snow on his shoulders, and complained in a rough voice: "This ghost weather, when it says snow, it snows, and my head is frozen." ”
Hua Lianyue saw that his clothes, shoes and socks were semi-wet, and hurriedly beckoned: "Come over and warm up." Dashuang, pour a cup of hot tea for Ye Zhutou. ”
Dashuang put down the needlework in his hand, neatly took the teacup, and poured a cup of hot tea warm in a warm pot for Ye Zhutou and put it on the kang table.
"Thank you!" Ye Zhutou took the tea, and despite the fact that it was still a little hot, he drank it all in one gulp.
Putting down his teacup, he caught a glimpse of the four snacks scattered on the table. Without saying a word, he stretched out his palm and grabbed it all, and then stuffed it all into his mouth. While chewing, he sighed comfortably: "You are still comfortable here, and you have to eat and drink." ”
Spit out the cherry pit in his mouth, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Huo Lianjue obviously looking crying and laughing. And Hua Lianyue opened her mouth even more exaggeratedly, staring at her mouth fiercely.
Ye Zhutou frowned, and said domineeringly: "Look at what, it's not dirty when it falls on the table, of course don't waste it if you can eat it." ”
Hua Lianyue snorted, slapped the table and leaned back and laughed. Her laughter was unbridled and unbelievable, and Huo Lianjue, who was sitting opposite, could almost see her back molars.
He couldn't help but laugh, and coughed lightly several times before he could barely suppress the smile that was almost overflowing. Then he said to the confused Ye Catcher: "How is it, have you found anyone?"
"No, none of them were found. Ye Zhutou shook his head and said: "The shopkeeper of the Wang family's silk said that Wang Shengrong raised a kiln sister outside, and now it is fresh, and she is mixed together day and night, and often does not return to the shop for several days. ”
As for Ma Cailiang, according to his wife, at the end of every year, he has to go to the villages to collect bad debts, and he hasn't come back for a few days. ”
"It's such a coincidence, and there is no one in sight?" Huo Lianjue showed a deep thought on his face.
Hua Lianyue, who had laughed enough, probed over at this time, and said shyly: "They won't be afraid of crime and abscond!"