Chapter 11: Sophisticated Feelings
"Xiao Fan, let's go, go to Suzaku Street, and go to where your grandfather Tang lives."
"Huh? Childe, don't you want to investigate Lord Wei's case first? ”
"Why are you talking so much, you don't lead the way, you will listen to what the son says."
"Uh-oh."
Hu Xiu and Xiaowu were walking, and they were about to go, but on Suzaku Street in the south, they bumped into Qian Zhutou at the corner.
"Lord Overseer, are you going out?"
"Well, let's take a trip to Suzaku Street."
"Then Lord Wei's case..."
"It's just that I found some problems, so I went to Suzaku Street, and there was a person dead on this South Street, if my guess is correct, maybe I can find something different."
"I see, Lord Overseer, can the little one be with you?"
"Huh?"
Hu Xiu looked at him suspiciously, is this money so idle?
"Don't think too much, my lord, it was Lord Hu who asked me to follow you at any time."
Tsk~ I'll just say, how can this person be so kind, this Hu Feiwei is really not at ease with him, to handle a dead man's case, this helper has to follow at any time.
"Alright, let's go."
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To the south, Suzaku Street, near the city gate, outside the gate of Tang Xiangwu.
"Bang Bang Bang~"
"Two big brothers, the food is good."
Before Hu Xiu entered the door, he saw two young men in official clothes who looked to be in their early twenties squatting at the door, holding baked cakes in their hands and biting and eating.
"It's fragrant, if only I had a little more sauce."
One of them, subconsciously said, speaking a little silly, but looking at the face of one of the exceptions, these two are actually a pair of twins, almost identical.
"Alas! Second brother, what are you talking about, didn't you see Qian Zhutou and bring people here? ”
The exception was a little shrewd, and when he saw that Qian Catcher was coming, he hurriedly got up and wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and when he saw that his brother was still sitting on the threshold, he slapped him on the head.
"Money catcher? Which money catcher? ”
"What kind of money do you ask!? This yamen, just a money catcher, why are you so stupid? ”
What this eldest brother did, some hated the second brother.
The money catcher at the door was a little ashamed, there was such a stupid catcher in this yamen, and he lost face in front of outsiders, and he couldn't hang it on his face.
"That, Lord Overseer, I didn't expect that there would be such a stupid person under this hand, and when I went back, I would report it and let him go."
"There's no need, the people under this yamen are all shrewd, can you do this position of catching heads? I think he's better to keep it, at least he can do things. ”
It is not suitable for people to live, these two brothers, who are on an errand in the Yamen, just because they have lost face in front of him, this little thing, is to lose their jobs?
Hu Xiu is not an unreasonable person, he has to leave a line in life, and there are some little people, maybe he can help you in the future.
"That's right, Qian Zhutou, although my second brother is a little stupid, he has brute strength, you just let him stay."
"Hmph, well, since the Guardian has interceded with your second brother, then this matter will be so good. You don't have to thank me, but if you want to thank him, thank him. ”
This eldest brother, when he heard this, he hurriedly pulled up the second brother who was still sitting, the second brother was not a fool, the two of them thanked Hu Xiu, and looked full of gratitude.
"Don't thank me, I'm here to investigate the murder."
"What? Case? Are you Hu Xiu? ”
The eldest brother's face changed, and his foot kicked directly on his second brother's buttocks, but his strength seemed to be too strong, and he was shaken back a few steps, but his second brother did not move at all.
"Big brother, what are you kicking me for?"
The second brother grabbed his braincase, a little puzzled.
"You're the one who kicked it! Who told you to call people by their first names? Didn't I tell you, be respectful to people, be respectful..."
The eldest brother was a little angry, and he couldn't breathe.
"Master Hu, the little brother is not reasonable, I hope you don't blame him."
"It's okay, you two brothers, it's interesting."
"Your Excellency, you're laughing."
"What's your name?"
"My name is Shi Dajin, and my brother's name is Shi Dali."
What's that? Shi Dajin? Shi large grains?
The corners of Hu Xiu's mouth couldn't help but rise, but he had to hold back, the person who gave the two of them a name is also a great talent.
"When did you two get here?"
"My lord, we came last night, and we kept it all night, and we didn't dare to make trouble, until now, just now I was really hungry, so I grinded my brother and asked him to buy two baked cakes, and the result was seen by adults, hehehe~"
Shi Dali smiled embarrassedly.
"The two of you are also hard, after a while, I will go to the Moon Tower to drink a little wine, the two of you, are you interested in being together?"
"Drinking? I'm going, my lord. ”
"Second brother, be disciplined."
Shi Dajin secretly dragged Shi Dali.
"It's not in the way, then let's say it, gather at the Moon Tower, anyway, it's not forbidden to eat in the last few days, and it's okay to go back later."
"Then thank you, sir."
Shi Dajin thanked him, but saw that the second brother who was in the fugue and didn't know what he was thinking stepped on him violently.
"Oops~"
"You haven't thanked you yet?"
Shi Dajin gritted his teeth and glanced at Shi Dali.
"Thank you, sir."
"Then my lord, you should be busy first, my second brother and I will go back to restore our lives, so we won't bother here."
After that, he grabbed his second brother and left.
This pair of brothers is wonderful, one is shrewd like a monkey, and the other is stupid like a stunned person.
Tang Xiang's corpse in the room was still lying there, and the corpse stiffness had also dropped a little, and it seemed that 24 hours had passed.
Looking closely at the wound on his chest, Hu Xiu's mind flashed the wound on Lord Wei's corpse.
The same "triangular" wound, the same blood flowing.
"Lord Overseer, how is this wound so similar to Lord Wei's? Could it be that the murderer committed the crime continuously? ”
"It should be, but the two people who were killed, their identities are so different, one is a third-grade official, and the other is just a poor old man who has a dead son and grandson, what about the murderer's motive for killing?"
"There seem to be mud marks in this room, hiss~ In the study of Lord Wei's house, what I see is very similar."
"Mud prints? Why didn't I see it in Lord Wei's study? ”
"This... My lord, it was Mrs. Wei who erased it, and I paid too much attention to the square marks at the time, thinking that Master Wei accidentally made it before, after all, it had been raining for a while the night before. ”
"Where are the two seals?"
"A pair at the door, a pair at the desk."
Hu Xiu recalled the previous conjecture of how Lord Wei was killed, and then stared at the boxy mud prints in front of him, which had three in Tang Xiang's house, one at the gate, one at the sleeping door, and one in front of the deceased's bed.
He suspected that this was a "shoe print" left by the murderer, but how could this boxy look be a shoe print?
Whose gate is from the gate to Tang Xiang, there are about seven or eight meters, and the murderer jumped there as soon as he jumped?
Hu Xiu wanted to try it by himself, and stood at the gate, next to the mud print, feeling the "qi" in his body, his eyes stared at the mud mark at Tang Xiang's door, and jumped over.
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"Tsk~ Can you really jump over? Then the possibility that this mud mark is the murderer's shoe print is a little more likely. ”
Now the mud mark at the door of Tang Xiang's sleep is beside him, he just jumped lightly and came over, if the murderer's martial arts are high, he should be able to do this easily.
At the same time, this also shows that what Tang Xiang is here is the same person who killed Lord Wei in Wei Mansion!
"Qian Zhutou, come over here."
Hu Xiu looked at Qian Zhutou in front of him, looking left and right, and didn't know what he was looking at.
"What's wrong, sir?"
"Call a few people to send Tang Xiang's body to the ice cellar of Lord Wei's house."
"Huh? Adults are no longer investigating Tang Xiang's case? What if there is any evidence left by the murderer at this scene? ”
"The murderer should have extremely high martial arts, and the murderer also killed Tang Xiang with one blow, the same cause of death as Lord Wei, pierced the heart and killed him instantly, and the murder weapon is the same, a short knife that makes people bleed non-stop. The murderer came and went quickly, leaving no evidence. ”
"Then, my lord, isn't this case just unsolvable?"
Qian Zhutou asked tentatively.
"The scene has given me enough clues to know that the cause of death of the deceased was because of a ruptured heart. The murderer committed a serial crime, so the murderer's killing time should have been between the afternoon and evening of the day before yesterday. ”
"It turns out that Lord Guardian has already had his own thoughts, and I have thought too much."
Qian Zhutou said a few words, and then went out, probably going to the yamen to find someone to move the corpse.
"Childe, does this Grandpa Tang's corpse have to be moved to the ice cellar?"
The little guy, with red eyes, didn't know when he squeezed out a few more tears.
"Hehe~ This corpse must be put into the ice cellar, or it will rot. By the way, you're a big man? Why can there be so many tears? ”
Hu Xiu was very helpless and ravaged the hair on the top of the little guy's head.
"Got it, Childe, I promise that I won't cry again next time I see Grandpa Tang's corpse."
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It's not just that Shi Dajin's younger brother Shi Dali is a Hanhan, but this little guy next to me, Fan Jianqiang is also a Han, too Han.
Soon, Qian Catcher, with two official errands, came back.
"You two be careful not to damage the corpse, don't hear me!"
Qian Zhutou shouted, the two subordinates were also well-behaved and obediently carried the body to the stretcher, and Hu Xiu noticed that the deceased's left hand was clenched.
"Wait a minute!"
"Put it down gently."
When the stretcher hit the ground, he hurriedly rushed forward and broke the palm of the deceased's hand.
"Sheep fat jade? And it looks like it's still half a block, so where did the exception half go? ”
Hu Xiu looked at the jade pendant in his hand, it was a good-looking jade pendant, and it should be very precious.
"It should be his grandson."
"Xiao Fan, how do you know? But isn't his grandson dead? ”
"I heard Grandpa Tang say before that the piece of jade he took was the mother jade, and the child jade was from his grandson."
"Oh, I see."
Hu Xiu replied with disappointment, he thought he had found some clues.
"Grandpa Tang loves to drink the most, but he has no money, so he can only buy those particularly bad wines made from wine residues, and he has to drink a lot every night, and he is very drunk so that he can fall asleep."
"You just said that he had to drink a lot every night, very drunk!?"
Hu Xiu had thoughts again for a while.
"Yes, he has to drink it every night, and during the day he has to make candy paintings, so he doesn't have time to drink it."
"Do you know where he buys all the wine he usually drinks?"
"Where did you buy it? This... Childe, you let me think about it. ”
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"It seems to be called Han Cao Winery, and the winery makes wine all year round, and there are a lot of excess lees, and no one wants it. Grandpa Tang often goes, and Grandpa Tang's wine gourd is full for a few pennies. ”
"Wine gourd, but the one at the head of the bed?"
Hu Xiu pointed to the bed where Tang Xiang slept.
"Yes, it's a pity, Grandpa Tang is no longer here, and he can't drink anymore......"
The little girl's eyes were a little dim, as if she was about to cry again.
"It's okay, Childe will find the real murderer, arrest him, and avenge Grandpa Tang."
Hu Xiu patted Xiao Fan's shoulder and signaled him to stop being sad.
"Po~"
When the gourd stopper was removed, a pungent smell gushed out, and you could smell that the wine was junk.
How did Tang Xiang drink this wine before?
I tried the weight of this wine gourd again, and looked inside, there was still more than half of the wine, Tang Xiang should have bought wine before he died, so it was so full.
"Xiao Fan, lead the way, go to Hancao Winery."
"Childe... I want to take this wine gourd and this mutton fat jade with me, is that okay? ”
The little guy asked cautiously.
"Since you want to bring it, take it."
"Thank you, Childe."
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