In the hot summer, every household uses watermelon as the most heat-relieving fruit.

Watermelons are juicy and delicious, and many people like to eat them, which makes some melon farmers make money.

If the richest of the melon farmers is Uncle Wang of Dongjie, their guests have a long queue, and they often ask their wives to help.

Everyone likes to buy Uncle Wang's things, on the one hand, because his melons are sweet, and on the other hand, because their old husband and wife are very good.

But that day, Uncle Wang also quarreled with someone.

Li Cai, a salt merchant, bought two melons, said that one of them was no longer good, and said that he would only give money for one melon.

Uncle Wang was angry, if he said that the copper plate was bad, he wouldn't say anything, but he couldn't say that his melons were bad, and no one in his family had ever said that they were bad.

The two argued, and almost moved their hands back and forth.

The onlookers rebuked the salt merchant one after another, he was not a poor man, but he used this melon to repay the debt, and the salt merchant finally bought only one melon and threw another watermelon in public.

He was arrogant and unreasonable, and it wasn't a day or two.

This matter passed for the time being, and Uncle Wang was angry, but two days later, trouble came, and the salt merchant died.

If he is a rich man, there are naturally countless servants in the family, and there is no lack of protection.

According to the night vigil general, did not see any suspicious people, the lord has been sleeping very steadily, the next day before waking up to look in the lord's room, I found the lord lying there, a few nails in the forehead, the person has no breath.

Outsiders all sighed that the master's son died a year ago, and now the master is also dead, leaving only his daughter and son-in-law.

But there are still people who sigh. He deserves it, and he always fools people and uses his hands and feet in salt on weekdays. Now it's also very happy, but the case still has to be solved.

Someone mentioned that he had a quarrel with Uncle Wang a few days ago.

Xiao Mu still found Uncle Wang.

"Did you quarrel with Li Cai two days ago?"

Uncle Wang was a little nervous, looking at Xiao Mu and nodding, it was true that the two had a quarrel over the melon, but the people present could prove that they were not to blame for what happened that day.

Saying that, several other hawkers on the side immediately spoke, this Li Cai is not like a word. is not a poor man, but he wants to deceive people with a melon, and this uncle Wang is also stubborn. It's not bad for that melon, it's just a saying.

Xiao Mu basically understood the situation, it stands to reason that this Uncle Wang doesn't have to doubt how he is sixty years old. It's a little worse to sneak into someone's house in the middle of the night and commit murder.

But Li Cai's son-in-law kept talking. This man once said that his father-in-law must not die well, and he also said a lot of ugly words and curses.

Asked if there was such a thing, Uncle Wang answered, but there was such a thing, but he was angry when he quarreled, so he said angry words.

Xiao Mu went to the side and thought for a while. This old man is indeed strong and strong, but it is not easy to enter the courtyard over the wall. He thinks that it must have been done by the people in the yard, if the old man enters the house and directly uses a knife or covers him to death, why would he poke him with a nail?

Lord Li first brought the people from Li Cai's family to the Yamen for interrogation.

That night, Li Cai's daughter was sleeping, she said that she didn't hear any noise, and the next day a slave shouted, she knew that her father had an accident, and her husband was sleeping at the time, and she called for a while to wake him up.

Master Li interrogated her husband, and the person in front of him was called Bai Dong, who later had the surname Li.

"Li Dong?"

He nodded, he was originally a son-in-law, but because his father-in-law's only son died, he was surnamed Li.

It was evident that he had a problem with his leg and needed to walk on crutches.

"Your legs?"

He remembered that terrible time again, two years ago, when he had helped watch the minions escort the salt cart, and on the way several minions were dissatisfied with the low wages, and he quarreled with several people, and one of the minions took advantage of his unpreparedness to push a heavy wooden cart and knocked it down, and the wheel was just pressed against his thigh.

After seeing it, Lang Zhong said that his legs could no longer walk, and he would have to rely on crutches for the rest of his life.

Although this son-in-law could not commit the crime, Master Li only asked him if he heard or saw anything that night.

He shook his head, due to the difficulty of physical movement, he rarely moved around in the middle of the night, he slept surprisingly fragrant that night, the next day the lady called him, he didn't wake up, it was strange to think about.

"Do you sleep heavily on weekdays?"

The man shook his head, because of the leg injury, he was occasionally uncomfortable, and he would wake up in the middle of the night every night, but that day would be very dead.

Master Li hurriedly sent Xiao Mu to Li Cai's house.

After a while, Xiao Mu came back, and he found out that Li Dong's house had been used with incense.

This person must have charmed everyone in this way, so that no one would know even if the old man shouted.

After a while, Xiao Mu deliberately explained that there was no incense or anything like incense in this old man's room.

Didn't find it and didn't bring it to mean didn't use it.

"He really didn't use it."

Seeing that Master Li and Xiao Mu were discussing, Fu Bo interjected.

Seeing that what he said was so, Master Li must have evidence.

"When I examined Li Cai's body, I found a problem, there were sawdust in his fingernails, brown sawdust, I must have resisted and grabbed the cabinet or railing next to the bed."

Xiao Mu did find a few scratches there, I thought it was accidentally touched, so it was caught by Li Cai before he died, it seems that he also tried his best to resist, but why did this murderer choose nails?

"My lord, I think the nail should be a coincidence, because there are two nails missing from the wooden board under Li Cai's pillow, I think the two of them will either knock down the nail when they are struggling, and their heads will be pierced, and the guide will die of excessive blood loss."

Xiao Mu's analysis made Master Li understand, that is to say, the murderer should have other murder weapons, but they are useless.

"Or did this man not want him to die at all, but he just happened to wake up and was killed in an argument?" Bai Yu guessed.

These were all speculations, without any evidence, and as for how these two nails got into his head, Master Li repeatedly deduced.

He personally went to the scene to check, the wooden board under the pillow was moving, Master Li brought the wooden board back to the yamen, and carefully observed, the nail hole inserted into the wooden board was a little loose.

Perhaps this person wanted to pick up the plank and hit the deceased, but the moment he picked up the plank, the nail was exposed, and the deceased's head hit the nail, thus leading to death.

This statement is reasonable, and after carefully examining the Mu Gang, Xiao Mu found that there were blood stains on it.

I don't know if this bloodstain is the murderer or the deceased.

Fauber came up with a way to compare the blood samples of the two and test them by steaming them, but the blood of the two did not mix, which proved that it was not the blood of the deceased.

This is a great thing, the murderer left traces of blood, which proves that the murderer was injured, Xiao Mu sent someone to check Wang Bo's body, but he had a scar on his hand.

This gave Xiao Mu a little headache, so he had no choice but to take it back to the yamen.

When Master Li saw that he had injuries on his body, he asked how he got it?

He was a little frightened, and said in a trembling voice, this was accidentally drawn for a person to cut melons that day.

(To be continued.) )