Pei county

It was night, the lights were out, and looking down from the window of Xue Rui's room on the second floor, I could just see the entire backyard.

The guards released Niu Er, the chef who had been making trouble during the day, but confiscated his kitchen knife and warned him again.

Yu Shu stood by the window, without lighting the light, to make sure that the people outside could not see inside, until the five big and three rough cooks walked into the small room next to the kitchen with their heads drooped, and when the door was closed, she whispered:

"Is this the one who killed Lord Yushi Zhou?"

"Well, it's him." Xue Rui was standing behind Yu Shu, and the two of them were secretly watching the cook's performance.

"Then he is King Ning's man," Yu Shu muttered to himself, and asked curiously, "How did this person cut off Lord Zhou's head under the noses of several guards?" ”

The room was dark, she asked about the dead man, but she was not afraid at all, Xue Rui didn't know whether to praise her for being bold.

"Come over here and talk about it," Xue Rui closed the window with one hand, and gently pulled her sleeve with the other, leading the person away from the window.

The moonlight was blocked out of the window, and now the room was even darker, and Yu Shu couldn't see clearly at all, so he subconsciously grabbed his arm.

Xue Rui noticed it, slowed down his pace, dragged her, walked to the table, helped her sit down first, then sat beside her, took her hand, and did not let go.

"Later, Niu Er will peek downstairs, and we won't light the lights, Ashu, aren't you afraid of the dark."

Yu Shu shook his head, and then realized that Xue Rui couldn't see it, so he said softly: "Don't be afraid." Big brother said, how did Lord Zhou die. ”

Because Xue Rui practiced martial arts, he was more deaf and clearer than ordinary people, so in the dark, he could especially see Yu Shu's face, although it was just an outline, having her by his side made him feel more down-to-earth, very confident, and it became a twelve-point.

That night, Zhou Qi stayed at this restaurant. According to the accompanying guards. After dinner, he went back to his room and never came out again, and the light in the room was not extinguished until midnight. Only one guard remained in the hallway for the night. Around the fourth watch. went to the thatched house, and it was at this time that the murderer caught the opportunity. ”

Zhou Qi's itinerary is quite confidential. Who would have thought that someone would dare to kill the imperial court near the capital, so it is inevitable to be unprepared.

According to the confessions of the guests living on the same floor, no one heard any exclamations for help that night, and it was obvious that Zhou Qi had lost his head in his sleep. To be able to sneak into Zhou Qi's room in such a short period of time, and kill him with one blow, cutting off his entire head, can only be a martial artist with extremely strong arms. ”

Xue Rui was afraid that Yu Shu would be uncomfortable listening to it, so he didn't tell Zhou Qi's death in detail, and the next morning after the accident, the guards found that he was dead in the room, and the headless Zhou Qi was wrapped in a thick quilt and stuffed under the bed.

"I began to think that the murderer would flee after killing someone, but I didn't expect him to be bold enough to stay in the restaurant, but after the autopsy, I found a detail in the room where the crime occurred."

"What is it?"

I don't know if it's because it's too dark around, Yu Shu listened to Xue Rui talk about this, and felt a little nervous, and his back was cold, as if Zhou Qi's unjust soul was still wandering in the restaurant, staring at them in a place where he couldn't see, waiting for someone to avenge him.

Fortunately, when she heard Xue Rui's voice, she was not timid.

The quilt that wrapped Zhou Qi's body was pulled out from under the cabinet in the room, and the cabinet drawer in the restaurant was sprinkled with camphor powder to prevent insects, but under the cabinet, two bean elephants died, which is a small insect that likes the smell of oil, and the nose is very smart. The upper room where Zhou Qi lives is cleaned on weekdays, not to mention that in summer, who would have nothing to do to touch the thick quilt under the cabinet, so it can only be that the murderer left traces when he covered up the corpse, which attracted this kind of small worm. ”

"I think it's impossible for a killer to eat wine and meat, and his hands are greasy and greasy to kill without washing, so it is likely that the murderer himself can't be separated from greasy, and he has another identity that hides people's ears and ears to facilitate him to commit crimes."

"So, I suspected the chef of this restaurant, Niu Er, I went to the kitchen to see, he used the cutting board, the knife edge on it is flat and deep, it can't be caused by the age, but the wood color of the cutting board is new, it took a month at most, so I know that Niu Er is a person who practices martial arts, and he is still used to using knives, and his arm strength is extremely strong."

"As I said earlier, Zhou Qi's head is missing, I asked people to search near the restaurant, but they didn't find it, since the murderer is still in the restaurant, Zhou Qi's head must not be far away. So I had the guards imprison the shopkeeper and his fellow men in the restaurant, and then searched the kitchen cellar, and sure enough, I found the head in a pickle jar in the cellar. ”

"Hiss-" Yu Shu took a breath of cold air, his stomach was a little pantothenic, and he thought to himself that when he went to the restaurant outside in the future, he wouldn't dare to eat those pickled and soaked things again.

"In that case, why didn't you arrest him then?" Yu Shu couldn't figure out how Xue Rui found out that the murder was a plan, and he couldn't help but didn't solve the case immediately.

Replaced by her, with the result, she had already handed over the errand, how could he have so many ghost hearts.

Xue Rui gently shook Yu Shu's hand and said in a low voice:

"I was thinking, all this is too coincidental, Zhou Qi just happened to stay in Pei County, and he happened to live in this restaurant, and it happened that there was a chef in the restaurant who was a killer, and I just found the worm in the closet, all of this seems to be carefully arranged by someone, this case is solved, it is too convenient, so I don't think it's right."

Xue Rui judged the case, there was a sequence, different from the judge next to him, he first trusted his instincts, and then looked for evidence, rather than being swayed by the evidence, which affected his judgment.

This habit helped him solve several mysterious cases that caused headaches in Dali Temple, and this time, it also helped him avoid falling into the trap.

"That's true," Yu Shu muttered: "Why did King Ning know that Lord Zhou would stay overnight in Pei County, and arranged the killer in advance, didn't he say that the cook had been in this place for a few months, then he was not found temporarily, but the emperor ordered Lord Zhou to go to Guangdong, and then he left, which was only half a month ago." ”

Xue Rui solved her puzzles:

"This is the best restaurant in Pei County, where there are Beijing officials passing by here, the accommodation will definitely choose here. I asked Zhou Qi's accompanying guards that when they went out of the city, they encountered a little trouble, so they delayed their trip and spent the night in Pei County. As for that Niu Er, don't underestimate King Ning, he has secretly arranged it all these years, even our Xue Mansion has his eyeliner, Niu Er is just a move he buried in advance, and he just used it at this time. ”

Hearing this, Yu Shu couldn't help but sigh: Liu Hao's scheming methods are indeed beyond her imagination.

She admitted that in the past, because of Ji Xingxuan, she did underestimate King Ning. (To be continued......)

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