96. Cliff

Everyone followed the prestige, and saw Yan Zike standing with his hands on the place where Lei Jiugongzi's corpse was displayed, looking up at the top of the mountain, and couldn't help but figure out what this famous neuropathy wanted to do, but Qiao Zhifu knew this very well, and asked him with a raised eyebrows: "What, don't you think there's something wrong with your lordship?"

Yan Zike turned his head to look at Shizi, who was already a little angry on his face, obviously Shizi was very unhappy with his inexplicable obstruction, but he didn't care whether others were happy or not, he only asked coldly: "Lei Jiugongzi doesn't have any smell of alcohol on his body, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old sober man, he fell off a high cliff for no reason, doesn't Shizi think this matter is a little strange?"

"What do you mean?!Could it be that my son deliberately jumped off by himself?!" Shizi was finally annoyed, and found a way to vent his heartache of losing his beloved son, "Yan Zike! Don't fight-"

Yan Zike waved his hand, ignoring his words at all, and only said: "I just heard these people describe the situation before and after the incident, Lei Bagongzi has clearly told everyone that behind the red curtain is a cliff, why did Lei Jiugongzi enter the red curtain? ”

"You—you mean—someone pushed my son off a cliff?"

"I'm not sure," Yan Zike said as he stepped down from the stone, "but I don't want to let go of anything that doesn't go the way." Na Langzhong, you have to take off and check Lei Jiugongzi. "I don't care if you agree with this at all, anyway, he has confirmed this matter.

Shizi's face was angry and suspicious, and in the end, he didn't know if it was because Yan Da's neuropathy was really not easy for him to provoke, or he also wanted to find out why Aiko fell off the cliff for no reason, in short, Shizi Qiang held back his anger, and waved his hand to let Yan Jiugongzi's body down, and Na Langzhong stepped forward to inspect it.

Everyone looked at each other on the side, not understanding why they suddenly followed this neuropathy into the criminal investigation procedure, and they didn't dare to make a sound for a while, and they all looked at this neuropathy and came up with some demon moths.

Lang Zhong examined it carefully, got up and bowed his hand to Yan Zike: "Lord Yan, there are no artificial scars on the body of the ninth prince, only some abrasions on the hands, and there are no signs of poisoning in the body, the fatal injuries are in the head, the ribs, cervical vertebrae, leg bones, and ankle bones have multiple fractures, which are caused by falls from heights, and as for other injuries, I really can't see anything in the bottom." ”

"Hand abrasions, what's the matter?!" Shizi asked busily, with a look of anger on his face, "Someone killed my son."

"The abrasion is probably caused by the fall of the cliff with his hands waving wildly and rubbing against the sharp stones on the cliff wall. Qiao Zhifu said.

"Go up there and take a look. Yan Zike said and walked up the mountain, Qiao Zhifu hurriedly followed behind, Shizi's face twitched a few times, and finally forcibly suppressed the anger and grief, and followed the two up the mountain together.

The rest of the people continued to wait at the bottom of the mountain with their faces in sight, Yuan Chang was a little impatient, and said to Yan Qi: "Is your uncle addicted to solving cases? Lei Jiu's idiot is obviously his own death, let him go east and he will go west, stumble and fall off the cliff, why is it involved with the case again? I still want to take you to have a good time today, and when they figure this out, it will be dark!"

"I think that even if he is willful, he will be cautious if he knows that there is a cliff behind the curtain," Yan Qidao, "If you are curious and want to know what is going on behind the curtain, shouldn't you generally stand outside the curtain, and then reach out and lift the curtain to look inside?

"That's right. Wu Yue nodded again and again beside him, "Xiao Qi said this, this matter is really a bit suspicious! Could it be that someone pushed him from behind?"

Yuan Chang shook his head: "I rushed over immediately after hearing the scream of him falling off the cliff, if someone was by his side at that time, I would definitely see it, and there is no place for people to hide nearby, unless someone hides in the curtain used to go to the toilet next to it, but the road to the toilet is very narrow, only one person can pass through the guò, and the toilet can only be used for one person to stand, isn't everyone waiting for one person to go back and then the second person can go again?" If two people go together, the first toilet can't stand, and the second body is also inconvenient, so I think there shouldn't be anyone else in that place when Lei Jiu falls off the cliff. ”

"Uh, in this way, Lei Jiu still fell down by himself?" Wu Yue said.

"That's right!" Yuan Chang nodded and glanced at Yan Qi, "What do you think of Yan Xiaopang?"

"Oh, I just think that a royal bloodline raised outside since childhood, nameless, powerless, and powerless, once recognized, once he is about to have the qiē that he once longed for and dreamed of, he will definitely be more afraid of death than anyone else. Yan Qi looked at the large string of gold pendants and jade pendants tied around the waist of Lei Jiugongzi's corpse, it was a kind of urgency to hate to show all the wealth and glory in his hands, it was an extreme expression that wanted to wash away his shady past and embarrassing identity, and it was a show-off announcement that he was completely turned over and became a human being-how could such a person not be afraid of death, die, and lose the qiē that he had just obtained after dreaming for many years, how could he be willing?

How could a man who feared death more than anyone else know that there was danger behind the red curtain out of curiosity rather than risking his life?

While a few people were talking, they saw someone coming down from the mountain and said to everyone: "Lord Yan, please go to the top of the mountain just now, and have something to ask you." ”

Everyone had to go up the mountain again according to the words, and saw that Yan Zi Ke Qiao Lezi and Shizi and several families were waiting in the pavilion, and when everyone entered the pavilion and stood still, Qiao Lezi said: "You have to work, please come up, I want to reproduce the situation at the time of the incident, according to what you said, before going down the mountain, you took turns to go to the north of the mountain to go to the toilet, so please report to the house in the order at that time, which one was the first to go?"

Someone answered, and Qiao Lezi asked, "Did you find anything unusual when you entered the latrine?"

"Nope. The man thought for a moment.

"Where's the red tent?" Qiao Lezi asked again, and the man still shook his head.

So he asked who the second person was, and repeated the first two questions, until he asked Wu Ting, and the next person to go after Wu Ting came back from the toilet was Lei Jiugongzi.

"I found nothing," replied Wu Ting, "but I lifted the red curtain and looked at it, and then put it back in the pavilion." ”

"You-" Shizi was shocked and angry when he heard this, "what are you doing to uncover the red tent?! It must be because you have touched the tent that my son accidentally fell off the cliff! You-you and my son have come to pay for their lives!"

Wu Ting stood straight, and there was no fear on his face in the face of the power of the prince, and he only said lightly: "I don't know if the prince can go to the mountain to see it, even if I have touched the tent, it will not affect the walking of others, the ninth prince is not a seven or eight-year-old baby, and he should have the ability to judge the known danger, not to mention how can I move the tent to let the ninth prince fall off the cliff?"

"Since you moved the tent, my son was curious, and as soon as he opened the tent in the past, his feet slipped and he accidentally fell off the cliff, even if you didn't intentionally hurt people, my son died because of you, and you must be indirectly responsible!" the prince shouted angrily.

"If curiosity can be counted as a reason, then wouldn't the person who set up a red tent at the cliff to arouse my curiosity also be responsible?" replied Wu Ting without flinching.

"What a yellow-mouthed boy! How dare you talk to this son like this! Who is your father? Call him!" the son of the world was so angry that he raised his eyebrows.

"Speaking of the man who set up the red tent," a cool voice suddenly interjected, interrupting the roar of the prince, "I would like to know which one of your mansions came up with the idea." ”

"Yan Zike, do you mean that you want to put all the blame on my own people?!" Shizi was furious.

"Oh, whose responsibility is it, and who will naturally bear it," Yan Zike said unhurriedly, "What I am curious about is that the cliff was originally hidden under the vines and vines of the mountain, and if you don't look closely, it is difficult to find out who first discovered the cliff here?

"Isn't it obvious enough to be separated by a red tent?!" said Shizi angrily.

"However, in addition to the red tent, there is also a green tent used as a latrine, if the insider does not explain it in advance, I am afraid that no one will know whether there is a cliff or a latrine behind the red tent and the green tent, right?" Yan Zike's gaze fell on Lei Bagongzi.

Lei Bagongzi said: "I have warned everyone in advance that behind the red tent is a cliff. ”

"So Lei Bagongzi already knew that there was a cliff there, right?" Yan Zike didn't seem to listen to his words, but just blindly asked with a word that made Lei Bagongzi feel unhappy, "So who was the first to discover this cliff?"

Lei Bagongzi frowned slightly, and said coldly: "It's me and the third brother and the fourth brother." ”

"This island was originally an ownerless wild island, what was the reason for the three of you to get to this island, and why did you climb this mountain and discover the cliff?" Yan Zike's series of questions made Lei Bagongzi's brows furrow even deeper.

"Yan Zike, what do you want?!Just take some irrelevant questions to delay time here, don't you think that this son of the world will not dare to do anything to you?!" The prince couldn't hold it anymore, and stretched out his arm to let the family come up and hold the bastard in front of him who was messing around with the death of his beloved son.

The swallow stood on the edge of the pavilion railing, looking at the prince lightly at the end of his eyes, and the golden red light of the sunset was reflected in the pair of black pupils into two dazzling golden rays, as if he was a wolf with fiery eyes, examining the prey in front of him with the cruel gaze of the demon wild.

"What do I want?" the wolf said coldly from his white fangs, "It's simple, it's just to find out the murderer who killed Lei Jiu." Don't you want to be a prince?"

"What did you say?!" Not only Shizi, but everyone present was shocked, "You mean-my son was really killed by someone?!"

"I just asked people to take a closer look at the cliff wall," Yan Zike's voice sounded unusually cold among the people who were holding their breath, "I found a few charred vines, so it can be seen that this cliff is not natural, but man-made. ”

"How to make a cliff?!!?" asked Shizi.

"Gunpowder blows up the mountain. Yan Zike spat out four words.

"What are you kidding! How much gunpowder does that need! Not to mention where does gunpowder come from? The imperial court explicitly forbade the private sale of gunpowder, and there was nowhere to buy it!" Shizi couldn't believe it at all.

"Besides, the scorched vines may also be the cause of being struck by lightning, didn't you say a while ago that there was a dry thunder at night?" someone cleverly answered.

"There are no traces of wind erosion and rain on the cliff wall," Yan Zike completely ignored everyone's doubts, and only said to himself, "The stone powder and lime produced after the cliff stone fracture are still very clean, obviously this cliff is new; gunpowder does not need to be purchased from the people, Prince Li's birthday, it is said that thousands of catties of fireworks are prepared for the night fireworks, and the mountain stone on this island is crunchy, and it is not necessary to need too much gunpowder to blow up the broken stones." As for the drought thunder, hehe, the drought thunder mostly occurs in the hot summer, Qin Tianjian observed and recorded the celestial cloud map night and night, what is the cloud phenomenon in the days and nights when it is rumored to be dry and thunder, whether there is thunder, go to Qin Tianjian to check. ”

“…… It's just nonsense! You mean, someone used gunpowder to blow up a cliff on this wild island with the intention of murdering my son? Yan Zike, there must be a limit to nonsense! Tell me, how can the murderer be sure that my son will come to this ownerless wild island? Could it be that he is a roundworm in my son's belly?"

"Before answering Shizi's question, I would like to ask Lei Bagongzi to answer my question," Yan Zike only looked at Lei Bagongzi, "Since this island is an ownerless wild island, what is the reason why the three brothers got to this island, and why did they climb this mountain and discover the cliff?"

Lei Bagongzi said lightly: "Because of my grandfather's birthday, my brother thought that today's banquet guests should always let everyone have fun, the nearby lake island has already traveled all over the previous years, so he rowed a boat to search farther away, and saw that the scenery on this island is quite pleasant, so he went to the island to explore the terrain, this mountain is the highest mountain on the island, and the pavilion built on the mountain is to let the guests enjoy the scenery of the whole island, my brother is to go up the mountain to explore the path when he found the cliff, so he instructed the craftsman to use the eye-catching red curtain to isolate the cliff to avoid danger. Lord Yan, please answer my father's question, dare to ask how the murderer concluded that his younger brother would come to this island today? How did he conclude that his younger brother would definitely come up on this mountain? How did he conclude that his younger brother would definitely fall off this cliff? Lord Yan, you have done everything possible to prevent me from placing my brother's body, which is already a great disrespect to our mansion and the deceased, if this matter cannot finally give our mansion a reasonable explanation, our mansion will never rest with Lord Yan, even if it is a sue for the emperor in Jinluan, our mansion will swear to reason with you Lord Yan to the end!"

"That's right!" the prince also echoed his son with a raised eyebrow beside him, "Yan Zike, do you dare to take your official hat as a guarantee, if it is finally confirmed that what you have done is really out of nothing and wrongdoing, you will take off this official hat and resign from your official position, so as to make amends to our government?!"

Yan Zike tilted his head, as if he listened to the rebuke of the father and son very sincerely, and then slowly grinned the corners of his mouth, revealing the tip of his snow-white wolf teeth and smiling: "Okay." ”