"Shopkeeper Li, I guess you can help me find these sailors,"

Seeing this, it was estimated that he couldn't ask anything, Lin Xiao stood up and said in a deep voice, "Especially that Andre, you must find it." ”

If you are afraid of change, it is important to find someone quickly.

"Okay, good, let's arrange it."

Jack Lee, who reacted, looked at Lin Xiao with puzzled eyes, then looked at Qu Shiyun, and replied in a loud voice.

……

The setting sun shines on the clusters of pointed roofs and fish-scale tiles on both sides of the alley, which are roughly pink, but most of them have turned reddish-brown or off-white after years of sun and rain, and shimmer slightly in the sun.

In a deep alley full of exotic flavors, Lin Xiao, Li Tao and Situ Zheng, led by a local guy, have been quietly walking for a while.

They are here to find Andrei.

After Li Tao's analysis, if the problem really lies with those sailors, then this Andre seems to be the most suspicious.

The guards were all left at the mouth of the alley, looking for people is not a war, there are not many people, there is an agent expert Li Tao here, and three people are enough.

Zhang Chenfeng led another group of people and was sent to find another sailor named Roy, and according to one of Jack Lee's men, Roy was seen at a bar in the docklands just this afternoon.

This Roy, although he is far less daring than Andre, is Dutch.

Li Tao had a faint bad premonition in his heart, so as soon as he heard that someone had provided his traces, he immediately asked Lin Xiao to send someone to block him.

……

Unlike the fairly neat streets, deep in this narrow cobbled alley, the stench of urine, feces and garbage wafts from time to time.

"What is this place?" Lin Xiao asked the guys beside him in a deep voice.

"This is the residence of the Franciscans, Lane 7."

The guy is a lean middle-aged man with a mustache, also surnamed Lee, a fellow countryman of Jack Lee, who can speak Mandarin and is fluent in Portuguese in addition to Cantonese.

In addition to running for Jack Lee on both sides of Xiangshan and Haojing all the year round, and often dealing with the government, every time Jack Lee has something to negotiate with the Portuguese, he also takes him with him, which is considered to be Jack Lee's henchman.

"Why is it so dirty, and the doors and windows are closed everywhere, and no one is missing?"

Li Tao looked around, all the wooden doors here were locked, and there were protective iron bars outside, and there was not a single pedestrian in the alley, so he couldn't help muttering.

"This place...... Mostly the back door of the Francis merchant's mansion,"

The guy smiled and said, "On weekdays, only the next person goes through the back door." ”

"How far is it?" Li Tao, who felt impatient, asked in a low voice.

"Don't be impatient, sir, it's not far ahead,"

The man knew what he was thinking, and said cautiously, "Those rotten sailors, those rich would rather go to gambling, drinking, and visiting kilns, and can't afford to rent a good house......"

Finally, in front of a dilapidated house, the man looked back and forth, and stopped.

"Master, here it is." The guy pointed to the two auxiliary rooms along the street and whispered.

The main house of this Western-style house is not small, but it has not been repaired for many years.

The plastered walls, yellowed by the rain, reflected a miserable white light, and the wooden windowsills were cracked by the sun and the paint was peeling off.

It seems that this place was probably abandoned because the original owner moved to a new house, or else, the owner has gone bankrupt.

The auxiliary house is on the edge of the alley, separated from the main house by a small garden mottled with weeds, which looks like it has been remodeled for rent, and a separate door has been opened in the direction of the street, and it is estimated that the door to the back garden has been blocked.

The two small windows facing the street are inlaid with dense wooden lattices, and iron bars are pressed on the outside of the wooden lattice, so even if there are no curtains, you can't see the scene in the house clearly in front of you.

According to Jack Lee's buddy, the guy named Andre rents here, and usually, he enters and exits from this alley.

Seeing that this old sailor, who was quite capable on an ocean-going ship and could talk and laugh with the local manor owner on the American continent, actually lived here, Li Tao couldn't help but sigh a little in his heart.

People are poor and short-minded, horses are thin and long-haired, and a person who is so depressed is really just a mouthful of food, how can he care about any decency.

……

There was no movement in the house, the door was locked, it seemed that there was no one in the house, Li Tao stepped forward to take a look, and then moved his hand.

This kind of padlock couldn't make it difficult for Li Tao at all, and in the blink of an eye, with a "squeak", the door was gently pushed open......

The auxiliary room is one bright and one dark, and the outer one is the living room, which has no furniture except for a table and a few chairs.

On the table were several porcelain cups in a mess, a coffee pot, and a metal candlestick of rudimentary shape and crudely made.

In the corner, there is also a coal stove, which looks like it hasn't been lit for a long time.

Otherwise, there was nothing of value in the house.

Before he reached the door of the dark room, Li Tao found that something was wrong, and a strong smell of blood came to his nose......

Under the flashlight, a tall, ragged corpse lay in the doorway, head and feet, face down, blood dripping from the ground had not yet completely dried up.

Li Tao closed the pistol safe, inserted the gun into his lower back, cautiously stepped forward, bent down and squatted, glanced at the man's head, turned his head and whispered: "It's him, Andre." ”

Lin Xiao felt a pang in his heart when he heard this, Li Tao naturally would not admit his mistake, after all, they had been to the Americas together and lived together on the same boat for more than two months.

Lin Xiaotie squatted forward with a blue face to investigate, a small but deep wound was on the back, a wide leather belt around his waist, and a fire hammer was still there......

"Fatal wounds, here."

Li Tao carefully turned the corpse over, lifted the man's collar, pointed to the neck of the corpse and said, "The time of death will not exceed ...... One day. ”

The matter is obvious, it is not a one-knife killing, it should be a sneak attack from behind first, and then a fatal knife.

"Can you be more precise?"

Looking at the red wound where the flesh turned out, Lin Xiao asked in a low voice.

It's important to die less than a day.

"Judging from the coagulation of the bloodstains, it's only been more than ten hours,"

Li Tao stretched out his index finger, dipped it in some blood, twisted it with his thumb, put it under the tip of his nose and sniffed it, shook his head apologetically, and said with a wry smile, "It can only go so far." ”

Although he is an experienced old intelligence officer, he is not a forensic doctor after all, and he does not have any tools, just by visual inspection, and that's it.

Lin Xiao frowned and stood up, looked around, and said to Situ Zheng: "Look around, if there are any gold and silver coins, or anything valuable." ”

It seems that this person was killed, and no murder weapon was found at the scene, and one of the most important clues was broken......

Several people were busy, rummaging everywhere.

However, nothing of value was found.

Li Tao was very careful, not only did he rummage through the corpse inside and out, but even under the bed board, as well as the cracks in the wall and ceiling, he didn't find even a single gold coin or silver.

"Didn't you just get the honorarium the day before yesterday, where did you go?"

The more this is the case, the more Lin Xiao firmly believes that there is something wrong with this person, and in this era, there is no bank.

"Yes, the money is gone, but it means that there is something wrong with this person, and when he was killed afterwards, the murderer took the money away."

Li Tao echoed, "It is unlikely that this kind of person who is on the cusp of the knife will deposit his wealth in someone else's house."

After getting along with this group of people for more than two months, Li Tao's understanding of this group of people is far deeper than Lin Xiao's.

Judging from the scene, if you can suddenly sneak attack at the door of the bedroom, the murderer should know Andre.

After committing the murder, he robbed all the money, who could this person be......

(Question: In which year was Macau, China, defrauded by the Portuguese of the right of residence?) ）

Thank you: "Xi Yu", "Quasi-Proposed", "An Zhi Ruosu", "Dragon Teng Tiger Leap", "Su Xiaomeng" for the reward! Thank you!

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