Chapter 18: The Ninja of the Celestial Empire
Hu Xiu, who was originally a little straightforward and appreciative of Chen Li, suddenly had a bad feeling.
Sorry, the way is different, different is the plan.
"Chen Li, recognize people, if you still want to clear your suspicions, recognize them clearly."
"That's... All right. ”
Chen Li himself also found out that Hu Xiu was suddenly a little cold to him, and he didn't talk much anymore.
looked at them one by one, and finally Chen Li stopped next to a short and slumped junior. Looking at Xiao Er's face, with a mustache, small eyes, and thief eyebrows, he was even more obscene than Chen Li.
"This is this man, the one he brought me with wine and food."
Chen Li pointed at Xiao Er and said firmly.
"Are you sure?"
He couldn't just see someone more obscene than him and feel uncomfortable.
"It's him, I won't admit it."
"Xiao Er, tell me that the night before Lord Wei died, did you send Chen Li wine?"
"Yes, I sent the drinks. I still remember that day, Chen Li drank a few sips of wine and went upstairs. ”
"When did Chen Li ask you to send the wine?"
Hu Xiu wanted to blow him up to see if the time they said could be the same.
"It seemed to be the middle of the day, but at noon that day, I came out to get up at night, as if I saw Chen Li coming back from outside. But I'm not sure if it's him, but I vaguely look at the face, it's very similar. ”
"I'm coming back from outside at midnight? I had already fallen asleep that hour, and you didn't feel ashamed of telling lies like this? ”
Hu Xiu saw that the two of them had a tendency to quarrel, and he was interested, this situation is good, after all, one thing can be determined now, between these two people, there must be someone lying!
"I'm lying? That night, I saw blood under the hem of your clothes, but it was too dark to see how much there was. ”
Xiao Er said that he saw that the hem of his clothes was full of blood, but he said that it was too dark and he didn't see much, which was a bit strange.
If the surroundings are dark, then the blood under the hem of his clothes should not be visible, after all, black is the best camouflage dark red.
This little two seems to have a bit of a problem......
"Stop, stop arguing just yet."
"Little Er, can I ask you some questions?"
"Master Hu, ask."
Lord Hu? How does he know that my surname is Hu, I just came to the post house, and the people in the post house shouldn't know me.
"Okay, you really saw Chen Li that day?"
"I can see it clearly, it's Chen Li, I was up at night and happened to see it."
Okay, it's a different rhetoric again, and I kept saying that I didn't see it too clearly, and my face was blurry. Why is it so clear now?
"Tsk~ Are you sure you're telling the truth?"
"But when I hear what others say, it seems to be different."
Hu Xiu is yin and yang, at this time, he has to get a routine, if he jumps, it will be a good thing. If you don't jump, then interrogate slowly.
"The man I met said that when he told me that he was in the son, there was a man who entered Chen Li's house, short in stature, with his back still on his back, holding a bloody shirt in his hand, and secretly opened the door."
"It's a pity, it was at that time, it was too dark, I couldn't see my face clearly, it's a pity... It's a pity..."
Hu Xiu had a melancholy expression on his face, but the Qingluan on his waist was slightly pulled out, and the person he said was a metaphor for the little two in front of him.
Xiao Er, at this time, his face was not as good as it was at the beginning, his face was low, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
"Master Hu, I really admire you, but there is one thing you said wrongly, I didn't enter Chen Li's room at midnight, but when I was ugly."
"You're lying! Say, "Why do you slander me?" ”
"Chen Li, do you really think of yourself as a character? You still don't understand, why did the king of Yu send you to Hu? ”
"Don't you want to stir up trouble between me and my lord!"
Chen Li's face was pale, and his expression was not very good-looking.
"Hmph, cannon fodder who doesn't know how to die......"
Xiao Er didn't know when he took out a ball-like thing from the placket of his chest.
At this time, Hu Xiu and Lin Guards had already drawn their weapons, thinking that the post house had been blocked, and this little two could no longer escape.
"Master Hu, don't leave it at that!"
The ball exploded, and the whole room was filled with white smoke in an instant, and this hand had to be put in front of the face to see clearly.
The guards outside heard white smoke coming out of the house, and one by one poured in. Suddenly, in the room, the cries of the subordinates and the angry scolding of the guards were endless.
And the little two quietly rolled to the wall, leaning out ghostly.
He moved like a rat that had just stolen cheese, and he approached the back window step by step. All of this was seen by Hu Xiu, and his eyes could vaguely see what he was doing.
But he went to the back window...... Isn't it just to jump out of the back window and run away?
"Where are you running away?"
Hu Xiu held the long sword Qingluan in his hand and strode straight to the window. Originally, Xiao Er's face was still a little banter, but now all that was left was horror.
A donkey rolled until it reached the window.
"Click~"
Jumping back, he smashed the window with his spare part, shook his sleeve, and two brightly colored steel needles appeared in his hands.
Throwing it at Hu Xiu, fortunately, he also had Qingluan in his hand and subconsciously blocked it.
"Ding~Ding~"
The sound of two metal collisions, his arm was a little numb from the shock, and he took a few steps back, this little er's strength is so great, he still looks like a master.
Relieved, regardless of the numbness of his right hand, he rushed to the window and looked outside, outside the post house is the street, and now there are people coming and going on the street, but I didn't see Xiao Er.
That Xiao Er jumped down from here, there were people coming and going on the street, someone would definitely find him, and it might cause some chaos after finding out, but the street was so calm and serene, what was going on?
Chen Li and a group of guards heard the sound of the windows shattering, so they rushed over.
……
The smoke gradually cleared.
Hu Xiu squatted on the ground and looked at the steel needle that Xiao Er threw at him just now, the steel needle was slender and turquoise.
"Hu Gongzi, what about the little two? But ran away? ”
Lin Guards were a little impatient.
"He ran away, he ran away through the window."
Hu Xiu pointed out the window.
"Huh? Childe, what are you looking at? ”
"The killer just threw my weapon."
"Weapons?"
Lin Guards looked at the ground, saw the steel needle, and wrapped it up with something to see.
"The color is so bright, I'm afraid it's poisonous."
"It should be poisonous, but the second child should have run away, why don't you guards chase after it?"
"It's the street outside the window, I shouldn't have run far, I'm going to chase it!"
The Praetorian guards were eager to try it for a while, and they wanted to jump out of the window to chase after them.
"Hehe~ I think you'd better listen to me, leave some people in the post house, the real murderer is still in the post house, and the second child is at most an accomplice."
Hu Xiu sneered twice.
"Isn't this little second the murderer who killed Lord Wei?"
Lin Janissary was a little puzzled.
"Have you ever taken a closer look at the bloody clothes that you found in Chen Li's room?"
"Bloody clothes? What are you doing with that? ”
"When Chen Li was wearing the bloody clothes, the blood marks on the hem of the hem were on the soles of his feet. That is, the height of the murderer is one meter ... No, the murderer's height should be about the same as Chen Li's. That little two is too short. ”
The ancients didn't have the concept of one meter eight, and the little two looked less than one meter five.
"What does it have to do with height?"
Lin Xiwei's brain was a little unrounded.
"If that little two is a murderer, when he killed Lord Wei, there would be more than a little blood on his clothes, after all, the killing weapon can make the killed person bleed all over the place in an instant."
In this way, if it is the person killed by Xiao Er, then after Chen Li puts on the bloody clothes, the blood stains must at least extend to his calves. Besides, if this little two is wearing this dress to kill people, he will become troublesome to even walk, after all, this dress is too big for him. ”
Although it is not ruled out that Xiao Er first killed someone in his own clothes, and then stained the clothes prepared in advance with blood, and did a good job of wearing this clothes to kill people in disguise to blame Chen Li.
But Hu Xiu thinks that this possibility is very low, just by virtue of the performance of Xiao Ertie Hanhan's self-destructive identity just now, he thinks things can be so sophisticated?
"That's right...... So is this little two still chasing after him? ”
Lin Zhanwei grabbed his head and was dizzy.
"Of course you want to chase it, just let a few people go?"
Hu Xiu was a little helpless, isn't this person's head a little silly?
"But it's better to inform the Holy One and issue a city-wide search warrant so that it can be searched."
"Okay, I'll tell someone to do it."
Lin Guards hurriedly turned around and were about to go downstairs, but saw a woman coming towards him.
The woman looks like she is in her thirties and forties, some of them are old, and their appearance is mediocre.
"Huh? How did you get out? Hurry back? ”
"I just heard movement outside, so I came out to take a look."
The femininity is a little cold, giving people a feeling of being easily not approached.
"Who is this?"
"Oh, she is also an envoy, from the Martial Kingdom, in addition to the Martial Kingdom, there are some other small countries in the post house."
When Hu Xiu saw her for the first time, his first image was that he was about 1.7 meters tall, and he should not be a murderer.
"Ma'am, I want to ask you some questions, shall I?"
"Naturally, you can."
When the woman heard the word lady, she was slightly stunned, but immediately recovered.
"Then Master Hu, I'll wait for you first."
Wait for me? Isn't this Lin Janissary leaving?
Follow the woman all the way to the room next to her, enter the house, get a cup of tea, and hand it to Hu Xiu, who is not thirsty, so he put it aside.
"What were you doing the night before the inn was besieged?"
"That day, I went to bed early."
"To be specific? What was done in the specific time. ”
"That day, after eating, I heard people talking about a newly opened rouge shop on Suzaku Street, so I went and bought some rouge to see that it was almost time.
On that day, I and my entourage watched the sunset over Heian Castle, which was beautiful. After that, I went shopping in the night street, guessed a few lantern riddles, and watched a few acrobatics.
Later, it was late, but I didn't expect it to rain lightly, so my subordinates and I hurriedly ran back to the inn. ”
"What time is it to the inn?"
"It seems that it is the time of the year, and I know too well, you can ask the people who accompanied me at that time."
"Anyway, when I came back that day, I was too tired to do anything, so I went into my room and slept. If Childe doesn't believe me, you can ask the people who were with me before. ”
The woman's expression was calm, as if she had prepared her words a long time ago, and she was just reading according to the script.
But you can't be suspicious, after all, there is nothing suspicious about what this woman said.
"Okay, lady, I'll leave first."
……