Chapter 739: Piercing the Hall

[It's 2-in-1 again]

Qinghong Building.

A mid-range restaurant located in the west of the city, with two floors in front of it, are divided into private rooms and halls, and there are two separate guest rooms in the backyard, next to the bamboo forest and flower garden, which is quite quiet.

The last dinner that the household gave to Lu Mingsi was also enjoyed here.

According to the investigation, Lu Mingsi is a frequent visitor here, especially likes Wang Erhu's roasted fat sausages, which are almost a must-order at every meal - this dish is also mentioned in the forged suicide note.

It can be seen that the murderer should be quite familiar with Lu Mingsi's eating habits.

As for whether it is the preface of the book or the result of the investigation after the murderous intent, it is impossible to determine for the time being.

said that this morning, the hut that had been sealed for a long time finally welcomed two more guests.

"Don't look at it."

After Yu Qian entered the door, he carefully looked at the layout of the room, especially the placement of tables, chairs and benches.

Sun Shaozong waved his hand, sat down at the table, and said helplessly: "Lu Mingsi was poisoned and died on the street in the evening, when he walked out nearly a mile away, and by the time the officials of Shuntian Mansion found out here, it was almost ten minutes of the third watch, and there were two groups of guests in this house, and the traces have long been unexaminable." ”

"I was curious for a while, but Uncle Thirteen smiled."

Yu Qian smiled and sat opposite Sun Shaozong.

Because he was at the scene of the poisoning case, Sun Shaozong naturally didn't order any tea, and asked straight to the point: "There is no one here, Yi Tingyi might as well express his opinion, in your opinion, who will do this case?" ”

This case is now causing everyone in the household to be in danger, and Ba cannot withdraw from the matter and watch from the sidelines.

The fault is not that the two parties are in-laws, and there are many contacts on weekdays, and Sun Shaozong will not ask so bluntly.

"Since Uncle Thirteen asked, then I'll guess randomly." Yu Qian said, subconsciously scratching and pulling on the table, but accidentally stained the oil sludge in his hand, so he hurriedly took a handkerchief and wiped it.

When the busy work was over, he said concisely: "Since it is a major murder case, the motive is nothing more than public anger and personal vendetta - now there is a lot of rumors outside, and it is said that Lu Mingsi found out about the corruption case of the household department, so he was killed and extinguished, but I think the latter is more likely." ”

Sure enough, it's the right question!

Sun Shaozong's spirit was shocked, and he hurriedly asked him why he came to such a conclusion.

Yu Qian said solemnly: "Originally, the deceased was the greatest, and I shouldn't talk about the length of Lu Zhi's advice, but since it was to find out the real murderer who poisoned him, I couldn't care about it." ”

"It's not a secret, this Lu Qi has been an official in the household department for three years, and a total of five people have been impeached, all of whom are minor officials of the eighth grade; The seven books of advice are all dispensable omissions. ”

"With what he does on weekdays, he is at most just a mediocre official, and it is even very likely that he will ......"

Although the following words were not exhaustive, it was obvious that he was suspecting that Lu Mingsi had been in the same league with the corrupt officials in the household department, and even became their protective umbrella.

Sun Shaozong was groaning, and Yu Qian, who was on the other side, suddenly smiled again: "Of course, this personal feud may also be caused by the uneven distribution of spoils, so the direction of Dali Temple's previous investigation may not be wrong." ”

Sun Shaozong pondered for a while, and then he smiled dumbly: "In this way, let him hit it crookedly." ”

After that, Sun Shaozong asked some more details, some of which Yu Qian was able to answer, and some of them had no clue - after all, the relationship between him and Lu Mingsi was only between superiors and subordinates, and it was really a little difficult to deal with.

Speaking of which, Chen Jingde also suspected Yu Qian, but Yu Qian is now the head of the household department, and he has the authority of the imperial counselor.

Although it is not as good as the secretary of later generations, it can be regarded as a close minister of the Son of Heaven, where is Chen Jingde who dares to offend?

Therefore, suspicion is suspicion, but he didn't even dare to ask a few words.

…………

Half an hour later, seeing Yu Qian leave the carriage and horses alone, picking up the snow and overhauling the drifting, Sun Shaozong didn't feel a little embarrassed.

This famous master in history still has a bit of childlike fun.

"Your Excellency."

Chen Jingde cautiously approached and asked, "Let's ...... next?"

"Lead the way in front of the head, go to the Wang Erhu's house and have a look!"

Long before Yu Qian rushed over, Sun Shaozong roughly walked around the restaurant, and asked the shopkeeper, Xiao Er and others, but basically nothing was gained.

It's useless to stay here any longer at the moment, so naturally you have to shift your position.

Wang Erhu's house is no more crowded than a restaurant, and he hanged himself in the living room, so there must be more clues left at the scene.

The book is not too much to say.

said that the group hurried to Wang Erhu's house, but they never wanted to pounce - Wang Erhu's wife Liu and a pair of children did not stay at home, and it is said that they were afraid of scaring the children, so they went back to their parents' house to live temporarily.

Sun Shaozong immediately ordered Chen Jingde to go to Liu's mother's house to find someone.

As for him staying outside Wang Erhu's house with a group of officials, he was not idle, but ordered people to requisition tables and chairs from the neighbors, carefully wipe the snow off the wall, and check if there were any traces left on the wall.

According to Chen Jingde's original investigation, because Liu was cooking in the kitchen, he didn't hear any movement in the back room, and when he went to Wang Erhu for dinner, Wang Erhu had already hanged himself on the beam.

The doors and windows of the kitchen are open not far from the door, if Wang Erhu was hanged on the beam as Sun Shaozong deduced before, then the possibility of the murderer sneaking in from the door should not be large.

The corners of the two wings of the courtyard wall may be more suitable.

Early the morning of the second day after Wang Erhu was killed, snowflakes fell in the sky, so the wall has been covered by snow since that day.

If someone had ever crossed over the wall, the traces would have been preserved by the snow and not covered by new dust.

"Your Excellency."

However, after a short time, Huang Bin hurriedly replied: "I have seen it on the courtyard wall, and there is no trace of climbing." ”

Didn't you go over the wall?

Sun Shaozong's gaze moved up slightly, and then fell on the roof tiles.

Huang Bin immediately gave his hand knowingly: "The little one will take someone to the house to find out." ”

Sun Shaozong nodded first, and then stopped Huang Bin, who was about to leave, and advised: "It must be very slippery on it, you wait until you are fully prepared before going up, don't be reckless." ”

"Thank you for your care!"

Huang Bin thanked him gratefully, and then went happily again.

By the time Chen Jingde brought Wang Erhu's wife Liu home, there were already several officials squatting on the roof.

Seeing this, Liu was a little overwhelmed, and was reprimanded by Chen Jingde a few times before he remembered to take the key to open the door.

After entering the door, he shrank in the corner, trembling at the officials and sending people to rebel against the guests.

Sun Shaozong had already looked at the layout inside through the courtyard wall a few times, so he didn't delay after entering the door, and directly entered the living room where Wang Erhu's body was hanging.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw the yellow and clear hemp rope, which was rippling and swaying on the beam.

Sun Shaozong immediately stopped, carefully examining the amplitude and direction of the hemp rope's shaking.

Chen Jingde followed in, and saw Sun Shaozong staring at the hemp rope, and did not move for a while, so he explained smartly: "My lord, this is probably because the wind outside is blowing in, so I ......."

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Sun Shaozong suddenly went straight to the inner room with the door open.

Chen Jingde was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly followed in, but saw Sun Shaozong in front of the south window, looking down and carefully observing something.

He hurried up, only to find that the window was open three fingers wide.

"Your ......, my lord"

Chen Jingde didn't know why, and was waiting to ask what was going on, but he didn't think that Sun Shaozong pushed open the window probe, looked at the outside of the window frame, and then squatted down directly, groping on the ground for a while.

Chen Jingde looked more and more inexplicable, but he couldn't ask anything, so he had to pretend to be investigating the scene, and stared at the paper-cut on the window.

After a while, Sun Shaozong finally straightened up and asked, "Who inspected the scene that day?" Call people in. ”

Finally, it has a place to use!

Chen Jingde breathed a sigh of relief in the case, and hurriedly went out and called a few errand officers to come in.

"My lord, except for Huai San, who died under the poisoned arrow that day, the rest are here."

When Sun Shaozong heard that everyone had arrived, he immediately pointed to the window and asked everyone if anyone had moved.

Those officials, you look at me, I look at you, the last issue shook their heads like a rattle.

That day, their attention was mainly focused on the corpse in the living room and the suicide note, which was symbolically examined.

Sun Shaozong immediately ordered again: "Go and call the Liu family in again!" ”

This time, Chen Jingde didn't need to come forward, and his own servants went outside and brought the Liu family in.

The Liu family was already frightened, but at this time, when he saw that in his small bedroom, there were so many fierce and vicious officials, and his legs were so weak that he couldn't stand.

So after entering the door, he cried half-kneeling: "Lord Qingtian, the little woman really doesn't know why Erhu committed suicide!" ”

Sun Shaozong waited for her to cry a few times and stopped a little, and then asked: "You said that when Wang Erhu hanged himself, you were cooking in the kitchen, but you don't know what you did?" ”

The woman was stunned, obviously she didn't expect Sun Shaozong to ask this question, so she hesitated for a moment before saying: "I just fried some cabbage and put a pot of noodles - he works as a cook in a restaurant, and the oil and water are very heavy, and he likes to eat vegetarian food at home." ”

While speaking, he inadvertently met Sun Shaozong's eyes, hurriedly lowered his head again, and added curtly: "He never cares about the stove at home, I am in charge of it." ”

Sun Shaozong was silent for a moment when he heard this, and then pointed to the window and asked, "After Wang Erhu died, have you ever touched this window?" ”

Liu Shi was stunned again, turned his head to look at the window, and shook his head hesitantly: "Not ...... Never moved. ”

"That's weird!"

Sun Shaozong suddenly sneered: "You and the errand officer who handled this case have never touched this window, and Wang Erhu was wearing a relatively thin clothes on the day he hanged himself, and there were no sweat stains left on his body, how could he first push open a gap in this window in the cold winter evening, and then hang himself?" ”

"This ......"

Liu shrank his neck, turned his head to look at the window again, and then cried again: "Master Mingjian, the little woman really doesn't know why Erhu wants to open the window......

"The windows have only recently been repainted, right?"

Before she finished crying, Sun Shaozong asked again: "But right now, on the window frame facing the wall, a piece of patent leather has fallen off, do you still want to tell the official that you still don't know?" ”

But it turned out that as soon as Sun Shaozong entered the door, he found that the angle of the thick hemp rope was not quite right, it seemed that it was not only because of the wind blowing in after opening the door, but also because of the wind in the living room and bedroom.

That's why he went inside to look inside, and sure enough, he found that the windows were not closed.

This would be fine in other seasons, but the weather has been very cold recently, and the most that can be done is to open the windows to breathe in the sun at noon.

Judging from the traces of snow water and the traces of peeling off of patent leather left at the scene, it is very likely that Wang Erhu pushed it away before he died.

That's why he asked everyone to come over and interrogate.

And under this question, Liu's suspicion increased sharply.

"This ...... This ......"

The Liu family became more and more panicked, but still cried: "The women really don't know why! My fat family is probably hot......"

"The official has already said that there are no sweat stains left on his body, and his clothes are relatively thin!"

"This ...... This ......"

Liu's 'this' sounded for a while, his eyes rolled wildly, but he couldn't think of a suitable reason to prevaricate after all, so he had to crawl on the ground and sob.

"Chen Jingde."

Sun Shaozong didn't ask anymore, but ordered: "You take someone to the neighbor's house around you to ask what the relationship between the two of them is on weekdays." ”

Chen Jingde was stunned when he heard this, and then couldn't help blurting out: "Isn't my lord suspicious, it was this woman who murdered her husband?!" ”

"My lord is wronged, my lord!"

As soon as he heard this, the Liu family could still care about sobbing, and hurriedly straightened his waist and shouted: "The little woman is so bold that she doesn't dare to murder her husband!" ”

Sun Shaozong didn't pay attention to her shouting, but glared at Chen Jingde and scolded: "What are you talking about, don't you go and ask clearly!" ”

Chen Jingde knew that he had lost his words, and he hurriedly took the order.

Looking at his back, Sun Shaozong sighed unconsciously, it seems that the reason why this Dali Temple is declining like this is not necessarily due to Wei Yi's inaction - there are all kinds of wine bags and rice bags under his hands, even if he wants to make a difference, it is difficult.

At this time, Wang Erhu's wife was obviously panicked, and she kowtowed and cried again and again, saying that she had never murdered her husband.

But Sun Shaozong ignored it.

About two quarters of an hour later, I heard Chen Jingde shouting excitedly outside: "My lord is really clever, this woman is really at odds with Wang Erhu!" ”

After shouting and rushing into the house, he first glared at the woman viciously, and then continued to report: "I heard that it was because she gave birth to a son to her ex-husband, but after marrying Wang Erhu, she only gave birth to a daughter, which made Wang Erhu feel guilty and scolded her. ”

"At first, this Diao woman tried her best to endure it, but later Wang Erhu became addicted to gambling, and the family often couldn't make ends meet, so this Diao woman gradually resisted, and later the two often fought!"

Speaking of this, he widened his eyes and gritted his teeth and scolded: "What a poisonous woman! If it weren't for Lord Sun's discernment, you would have almost ruined the court's affairs! ”

As he spoke, he ordered the left and right to take down the Liu family first.

However, before he finished speaking, he heard Sun Shaozong on the side shake his head and said, "She is not a murderer. ”

Then he stared at Liu and asked, "Your son, where is he now?" ”

Liu's color changed when he ascended. ()

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