Saying that, Zhao Shizhen called Xiao Cui outside the door again, and asked her to tell Guo Zhiyuan and others about Lao Zhou's suicide, mentioning his father's death, Xiao Cui's eyes suddenly turned red again, and he sobbed: "In the past two days, I found that my father was a little unwilling, last night he locked himself alone in the secret room of the master's improved firearms, and locked the door from the inside, I called him outside He shouldn't, after a while, I heard a loud noise in the room, I quickly called the neighbor to knock the door open, and found my father and he... He..."Speaking of this, Xiao Cui couldn't stop crying.

Chu Wan'er is a girl after all, and seeing Xiaocui crying sadly, her eyes were a little red, Guo Zhiyuan frowned, this Zhao Shizhen has an alibi, it is said that this case must have nothing to do with him, but his intuition told Guo Zhiyuan that this case should not be so simple, so he said quietly: "Where is the scene of the crime?" I want to see if I can trouble Zhao Sheren to lead the way......".

A fine light flashed in Zhao Shizhen's eyes, and he said coldly: "Come with me!" After speaking, he brushed his sleeves away, Guo Zhiyuan didn't care, and followed Zhao Shizhen to the secret room where the crime occurred, the secret room is a separate wing room in the courtyard, the scene is well preserved, there is a pungent * smell in the room, a wooden table is broken into four pieces, several firecrackers and some parts are messily thrown on the ground, and a lot of blood is splashed on the wall and the ground.

"This is the scene of the crime, I have ordered my subordinates, all the furnishings in the house are not allowed to be disturbed, if you want to investigate, just check! If there is anything unclear and ask Xiaocui, the old man will not accompany him! ......" Zhao Shizhen looked very impatient and pointed to the house, and after speaking, he turned around and left to continue studying his firecracker.

Guo Zhiyuan walked into the secret room and carefully observed the furnishings in the house, the secret room is not big, only about 20 square meters, the door is locked, the door shaft is broken, and the gap in the window is still pasted with a seal, which is airtight, and it really doesn't look like someone is entering or leaving.

"Has the window been sealed, or has it been sealed after the crime? Was there anyone else in the room at the time of the crime? Guo Zhiyuan frowned, turned his head and asked Xiao Cui, who was cowering and following behind him.

"This wing room is the room where the master has improved firearms, usually locked and not let people in, in order to prevent others from peeping, the windows are also sealed with seals, the master said that the firearms in this secret room are very dangerous, except for my father who sometimes comes to clean up, we are not allowed to enter, and my father is the only one in it at the time of the crime......" Xiaocui carefully explained.

Guo Zhiyuan nodded and didn't ask anything more, continued to patrol the room with his eyes, and saw a piece of paper on the side of the note, so he walked over and picked it up and took a closer look, this is a suicide note, the tone is like that left by the dead old servant Zhou Liang, the suicide note said that he was greedy for a while, took the money of the master's family to gamble and lost it all, although Zhao Shizhen was not surprised, but he felt ashamed of the master's family, so he committed suicide to apologize.

"Find a letter from Zhou Liang and compare the handwriting." Guo Zhiyuan handed the suicide note to Zhang Cheng, and quietly commanded, Zhang Cheng promised and asked Xiaocui to take him to find Zhou Liang's usual letter.

Xiaolan didn't come in because she was afraid, and at this time only Guo Zhiyuan and Chu Wan'er were left in the room, Chu Wan'er wrapped her arms around her chest, and kept turning around the room, her snow-white jade fingers were gently placed next to the deep dimples to make a contemplative shape, but there was a bit of a female detective's posture.

However, she soon ran out of patience, and when she saw that Guo Zhiyuan was just frowning and not speaking, she coughed dryly and said, "Dengtu... cough cough, Guo Zhutou, according to this girl's careful observation, there is no trace of a fight in this room, the door is locked from the inside, and the seal on the window cannot be pasted in from the outside, if someone breaks into the house and kills someone, there is no way to get out at all, and there is only one deceased person in the secret room at the time of the crime, and there is a suicide note left at the scene, it should indeed be a suicide, so don't waste your effort ...... it."

Guo Zhiyuan smiled and didn't answer, walked to the window, touched the white seal, and suddenly noticed some black powder falling on the ground, so he squatted down and twisted it with his hand, and then put it on the tip of his nose and smelled it, his eyes flashed, this black powder is not *, but like a powder like iron filings.

He was about to stand up, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw a piece of wood under the wooden frame in the corner of the wall, if he didn't squat down, he wouldn't have noticed it at all, and quickly reached out to pick up the piece of wood, and saw that there was a word "discussion" engraved on it, his eyes lit up again, and he hurriedly rolled the piece of wood into the cuffs, and then stood up quietly.

Chu Wan'er was a little annoyed when she saw Guo Zhiyuan ignoring her, and said angrily: "Hey, the surname is Guo, you don't even believe Miss Ben's judgment, do you really think that you are Song Ci alive?!" ……”。 (Note: Song Ci, a famous criminal officer in the Great Song Dynasty, is the author of "Collection of Grievances".) ）

Guo Zhiyuan smiled slightly and said devinely: "Miss Chu, a case is like an iceberg on the water, we usually only see the part of the iceberg on the water, but we don't know that most of the iceberg is actually underwater, if we are confused by superficial things, we will often miss the truth, and the investigation of ......the case is not so simple."

Chu Wan'er couldn't imagine that Guo Zhiyuan, who only eats, drinks and has fun on weekdays, can actually say such philosophical words, she was stunned for a moment, and after a long while, she muttered in a low voice: "When did this guy become so talented, shouldn't it be a pig's nose with green onions and pretending ---to be an elephant!" ……”。

At this time, Zhang Cheng and the others also came back and reported to Guo Zhiyuan: "Son, after comparing the handwriting of the deceased's previous letters, the suicide note is indeed the deceased's own handwriting, and it seems that the deceased is indeed a suicide ......", and handed the suicide note to Guo Zhiyuan with a letter written by the deceased before.

Guo Zhiyuan was stunned all of a sudden, from human evidence, physical evidence to all the evidence at the scene pointed to the old servant who committed suicide, although Guo Zhiyuan also found some suspicious points, but now this suicide note is really left by the deceased, Guo Zhiyuan is indeed a little surprised, because the evidence at the scene may be forged, but if the deceased is killed by him, how can the deceased write a suicide note by himself, can it be said that the deceased really committed suicide?

And if the deceased really committed suicide, the clues will be completely broken here, and he can't relate the case to the demon book case, which is equivalent to entering a dead end. Shen has always given himself only three days to investigate the demon book case, and now he has spent most of his time on this seemingly unrelated old servant suicide case, should he continue the investigation or find new clues?

Guo Zhiyuan was also a little confused for a while, although he pretended to be a god in front of Chu Wan'er, but when it came to investigating the case, he was actually a complete layman, although he vaguely felt that this case should not be so simple, but he couldn't grasp where the flaws in this case were? !