On the morning of the 26th, Jing Mo went to the Gluttonous Cat Zhai Nie Xiaoman's Mansion to find him to explain some supplementary information. This was originally agreed upon when the two broke up at the gate of Jinlingwei that night. Unexpectedly, when Jingmo arrived, he had already gone out.

This time, I didn't buy breakfast in the name of walking.

Wei Pu told Jing Mo that Xiao Man was invited by Master Li of Li Dege to talk, so he asked Jing Mo to sit in the study for a while. Jing Mo waited until the drum had been beaten before Nie Xiaoman came back from outside. After Xiaoman came back, he wrote another note~, asking Wei Pu to send it to Feng Zizhou, asking him to remove all the fast catchers who were waiting for the Shang family, and asked him to deal with all kinds of things about the official face, and asked him to come to Gluttony when he was free, so as to report him the details of this case.

Nie Xiaoman sat down and took the initiative to explain to Jing Mo the process of all previous cases, but before he explained the inside story of the case, he also made a complaint, lamenting the harmful gamble, and at the same time blaming it on the erosion of the current society.

Xiao Man sighed: "This matter is so complicated, all because gambling has a strong stimulus and the possibility of instant wealth, gamblers think that gambling can make people rich instantly, then gamblers can become a profession." In fact, gambling, if you want to win, you rely on 1% luck, and 99% skill! This profession requires professional knowledge, which includes shuffling, changing, hiding, stealing, cutting, making, living, jumping, taking treasure, stealing the day, life and death, rivalry cards, ghost sedan chairs, ghost upper body...... And so on, many unheard of and unseen stunts. It also includes astronomy and geography, yin and yang gossip, human feelings, deceit, and even human personality and reactions, machine changes, etc., can you say that this is a simple science? However, even if you are proficient in these techniques, you will still lose more and win less, and sooner or later you will lose everything, not to mention these people who completely think that they can rely on gambling luck. ”

Jing Mo nodded and said: "Although I am a complete layman for the gambling method of beating horses and hanging, I have really seen the crime of stealing and cutting off people's heads from time to time on the report of the Criminal Department. What's more, the scholar women would desperately sleep next to the coffin in the wilderness to pray for dreams, and thus they were robbed and raped by the mob! As for the loss of gambling and the death of people, it is almost everywhere, and it has long been no news! ”

Nie Xiaoman responded: "These crazy gamblers are terrifying. But this is not the most terrible, I am afraid that one day there will be a gambler with demons, cutting off the heads of the living and praying for dreams! But what is even more terrifying is the methods of this gang of bandits. They have so-called earpieces, subdivisions, ships, etc., which are really dotted and pervasive! Since ancient times, there have been about three ways to get ahead, one is to study and get a scholar, the other is to seek a knighthood with military merits, and the third is to do business to accumulate wealth. In today's world, not everyone can read, and military merits are not easy to obtain, only some hope for business. But who is not a person who has become rich in business has not colluded with the powerful and used his power for personal gain to obtain money? How can ordinary people have such a chance? In this way, gambling in despair has become the only hope for hundreds of millions of people, so how can the world last long? ”

Jing Mo was very depressed when he heard this, and suddenly volunteered: "Then, let's work hard and catch this class of gamblers who are bankers!" ”

Nie Xiaoman sighed deeply again: "Hey! Easier said than done! That's not the root cause. Don't you see the signs of this great tomorrow on the verge of collapse, full of hunger and cold panic? And a few people only care about their own pleasure! Most people have difficulty supporting their wives and children, so they tend to take advantage of unearned shortcuts. Those terrible devils took advantage of the luck of the people and laid murderous nets everywhere, waiting for those poor foolish birds to fly into it one by one! ”

Jing Mo heard Xiaoman say this, and was silent for a while, not knowing what to do. After a while, Jing Mo asked Xiao Man how he could think of the old five who was fighting horses and hanging demons.

Nie Xiaoman explained: "When this incident just started, I dare to say that no one would have imagined that there would be the current result. When I found Li Dege to talk about it just now, that Master Li called Shang Yuanji and talked to me openly and honestly because the development of the matter could not be concealed and there was no need to hide it. He also brought Na Chunlan out to testify......"

Jing Mo didn't wait for him to finish, and couldn't help but interject: "What! This little maid Chunlan finally appeared? Do you see that? ”

Nie Xiaoman nodded and said, "See, she is hiding in Tang Anguo's house." When we went to Tang's house yesterday, she was upstairs, so it can be said that she missed it in person. At first, we hoped to find this girl and give us a witness to prove the crimes of Lai's mother and son, but she turned out to be a witness to clear their suspicions. This is also something I didn't expect. ”

"How did Chunlan clear their suspicions?"

"What Shang Chongming told you in the yamen is really completely true. Before he went out, the things he passed by were very ordinary. But since he went out, because of various opportunities, this bizarre and mysterious case has been constituted. ”

"Oh, what did she say?"

When Shang Chongming stole something and went out, Chunlan was already starting to fall asleep. But in the fog, she saw Shang Chongming sneaking out with a package. Then she literally fell asleep. After a while, a tile fell on the roof, probably because of the wild cat's running, and Chunlan suddenly woke up. She opened her eyes to take a look, and suddenly saw that the corner of the white curtain was a little rolled up, and the lamp that was placed next to the deceased's head, which she could see from the outside, had also been extinguished. Frightened, she stood up and looked behind the curtain and felt something change. She pulled up the veil a little more, only to find that the matron lying on the board had been transformed into a headless corpse! She couldn't help but exclaim. ”

Jing Moyao thought about the situation of the little maid when she saw the headless corpse of the main mother, and she couldn't help but be a little secretly frightened.

Xiaoman said again: "The mother and daughter of the Lai family knew about the deceased's loss of head, and everyone was so panicked that there was nothing to do. Later, when Chongming was inquired, Chunlan said that she had seen him secretly take a package out. Na Lai knew that his son Shang Chongming was a gambler who loved to play horses. She was nervous for a while, and thought that Chongming must have cut off the dead man's head for the sake of beating the horse and praying for a dream. She knew that Chongming usually liked gambling the most, and she was a little bold, so she probably could do this kind of thing. ”

Jing Mo couldn't help but nod his head, imagine that under that situation at that time, who wouldn't make such an assumption?

Xiao Man continued: "Other than that, she can't think of any other explanation. She felt that if Shang Yuanji knew about this matter, it would be terrible, so she came up with a way to cover it up. If this kind of incident had happened to someone else's family, he could have gone to the yamen to report the case openly, and he would never have made such a big mistake. It's a pity that their family relationship is deformed, which not only has the status difference between wives and concubines, but also the suspicion between half-brothers, and is also mixed with the scourge of inheritance, layers of magic obstacles, so this unexpected dispute arises. ”

After a pause, Xiao Man said again: "Do you remember that Shang Yuanji once told us that the Lai family sent jujube soup to him to drink. This move is obviously because the Lai family has done something wrong, and if he wants to make up for his feelings for Shang Yuanji, he may not have any malicious intentions. Shang Yuanji was sick because of his heart, so he decided that his aunt was going to poison and murder him. At this end alone, you can imagine the horror of the gap in the family. ”

Jing Mo also sighed with Nie Xiaoman, and asked again: "So since this aunt assumed that her biological son Shang Chongming cut off the corpse, did she put the headless corpse into the coffin by herself?" “

Nie Xiaoman nodded and said: "Exactly, this terrible action was done by those three women, and even Na Chunlan also had a share." Because although Chunlan was the close girl of the deceased's cronies, she felt that she was also at fault when her mother was cut off, so she naturally leaned to Lai's side. I think back now that even if we had found this little maid, she might not have told us the truth. ”

Jing Mo asked again: "But this action of Xie Lao Wu peeping outside the back door, Shang Yuanji told us the morning before yesterday. Why didn't you think of him at the time? ”