Early in the morning, Li Guolou jumped out of the carriage and carried two big bags, which were some Tianjin specialties and foreigners like to eat delicious food, Li Guolou was ready to give them to the chief and friends, and came to the door room to register and sign in, Li Guolou just stepped out of the door room with two bags, and met a group of people coming over. Wu Defu came out of it with a few arresters and two servants.

Li Guolou was a little excited, there was a case where he could display his talents, he hurriedly greeted him, and said, "Master Wu, where is this going!" ”

Wu Defu showed a happy expression on his face and said: "Xiao Lizi, you still came early, the owner of Tongyitang, Bayern Yiyi, hanged himself, you lead the team to see it, I still stay in the yamen!" ”

"Ahh Li Guolou Mu Lengleng was stunned, the two packages in his hands fell to the ground, he let go of the theft gang of the Tongyi Hall, and the evil consequences finally appeared, the owner of the Tongyi Hall, Bayern Yiyi, was overwhelmed and committed suicide, and he could not shirk the responsibility for this case.

"Xiao Lizi, what are you stunned about, I'll go to the party at noon, come over early, solve something by yourself, I'll help you keep these things, come and get half of them tomorrow." Wu Defu sent Li Guolou away, turned around and left, and the little follower Wu Tatar hurriedly picked up two bags of food and smiled brightly at Li Guolou.

In the morning, there are a lot of people who come to work in the Criminal Department, some people have carriages, Li Guolou casually stopped a carriage and went to the scene of the crime with two servants and two arrests, the car went north, drove for more than half an hour to the back of the big and small Buddha Temple, there are six Biandan Hutongs in Beijing, here is a prosperous commercial street, and the headquarters of Tongyitang is located here.

Tongyitang is a pharmacy, there are also Lang Zhong sitting in the hall, at this time most of the pharmacies are a one-stop for medical diagnosis and treatment and dispensing, but rarely accept patients, the general patients are seriously ill, Lang Zhong is on the outpatient treatment, there are also patients who can't do it, the family carries the patient to the hospital with the door panel to treat the disease, the poor are looking down on the disease, can be equipped with a few medicines, Lang Zhong will be sent away, the doctor's parents' heart, is an empty word, the patient mortality rate is very high.

It has been closed in recent years, and Tongyitang is a sparsely populated pharmacy, passing through the front pharmacy and sitting in the hall Li Guolou into the backyard.

Yesterday was the day when the shopkeepers of the twelve branches of Tongyitang came to Beijing to settle the one-year benefit, but I didn't expect that today they and the owner were indeed in the same time, when they walked into the backyard, there was a cry, and there were two officials standing at the door of the room of the deceased's owner, Bayern Yi, and the body of the deceased was placed on a bed inside.

The family members of the deceased rushed from their homes and knelt at the door and wept bitterly, and behind them were some shop men and 12 big shopkeepers from all over the country.

Li Guolou didn't take care of the family of the deceased and those clerks, these and miscellaneous people participated in the peace, he asked his subordinate Zhang Haojie to do it, and he and the two servants walked directly into the deceased's room.

The deceased was in his forties, slightly fat, with three long beards, about 1.7 meters tall, with his eyes closed, wearing underwear, barefoot, and an obvious strangulation mark on his neck.

The room is not more than 20 square meters, it is a place to live alone, the two servants put the body on the ground and began to check the wounds of the deceased, Li Guolou first went to see the door that was hit and opened two rooms, this is an old-fashioned wooden bolt door, the wood is Nanmu, the palm wide wooden bolt was broken, the other lock is a Western door lock, intact, the Western lock will be opened as soon as it hits, looking at the traces of being broken, Li Guolou knows that people can't open the door, it is necessary to smash the door with a hard object such as wood a few times, in order to smash the door open, there are traces of being hit by heavy objects on the door, proved his guess that there was also a log outside the door, which was used to hit the door.

Li Guolou closed the two doors to see if there were any signs of someone inserting a tool in the crack of the door, whether it was possible that the door was locked from the outside, from the inside and outside of the room, Li Guolou closed the door four times, and found no traces of the door being prying.

Li Guolou entered the room to see the layout of the room, there is a south-facing window, there are iron bars erected on it, the curtains have been opened, the dark curtain cloth is rolled together, this is the second air outlet of the whole room, the solid iron railing has not been pried, Li Guolou opened the window latch, open the window, the weather is cold in the north, the window is a two-layer design, first open two windows to open inward, and then push open the other two outward windows.

The cold wind blew Li Guolou's face, and a tear flowed down, he wanted to change himself and could no longer fall, no shame, no self-esteem, no morality at all, so what is the point of him succeeding, concealing the truth will eventually let him taste the bitter fruit, the dry and cold wind in the north will blow his lips apart, this time he no longer needs lanolin, the blood in his mouth tastes by himself, Li Guolou gritted his teeth and turned around.

The four-foot-wide wooden plank bed shows that the owner Bayern is a thrifty man, a summer mosquito net has not been removed, the deceased Bayern should hide in this mosquito net and cry to death, Li Guolou is full of remorse and chagrin, he can let go of the thief and return the stolen goods to Tongyitang, and he did nothing, just sat on a chair and drank bloody red wine.

The deceased was hanging from a beam, with a square table underneath it, and a round stool on the ground next to it, and the deceased should step on the table, and then step on the round stool, and end his life with a white silk cloth.

Li Guolou picked up the round stool that fell to the ground, put the round stool on the square table, and looked at the height of the deceased who fell to the ground, it should be about 1.7 meters.

Li Guolou raised his voice and said: "Zhang Haojie, can you try to get Bai Aya!" ”

Outside the station door, Ren Zhang Haojie stopped the chatterbox, and immediately ran in and tried to hang himself.

"Report Li Zhengzheng, just right, I can reach it." Zhang Haojie's chin happened to be hung with white silk cloth.

"Kick the stool off for me." Li Guolou said undoubtedly.

Zhang Haojie hung the white silk cloth around his neck, and he didn't dare to let go of the white silk cloth with his two hands, and he kicked the round stool far away with his feet.

"Is it alright, sir?" Zhang Haojie's voice was a little weird.

"Jump off." Li Guolou no longer looked at Zhang Haojie's expression.

The display in the room is very simple, a bed, a square table, two round stools, a hanger, there is a tea table with an oil lamp at the head of the bed, there is a large teapot and two inverted teacups on it, and a wardrobe is placed against the north wall, there are some clothes in it, Li Guolou checked it and found nothing suspicious.

"Report Team Li, I've finished my preliminary inspection." He was happy and stood up and said.

Li Guolou looked at the crowd outside the door and bowed his head and said, "Say it!" ”

Qi Zuofang was happy as if he was afraid that outsiders would hear about it, so he came to Li Guolou's side and said: "The deceased Bayern should have drunk a lot of wine, and there was only one strangulation mark on his neck, he hanged himself, there are no wounds on his body, and there are no traces of fighting with people, I think we should go!" ”

Fang Xingxing wanted to go to Baozhifang to have a lively meal, and he didn't want to stay next to the dead people.

Since Li Guolou brought a few of them out, he took them to dinner by the way, and he didn't have much interest in this suicide case.

Li Guolou glanced at him and said: "You pack up the tools, put the deceased's clothes on, put them on the bed, I'll ask about the case again, give me a serious look Your expression is very hateful!" ”

As soon as Li Guolou heard that they were not at the scene of the crime, he drove them all out of the backyard with a wave of his hand, and even the deceased's wife did not listen to her crying.

Li Guolou said: "No one in the backyard left last night, I just need to know who stayed with the deceased yesterday!" ”

Several officials were responsible for driving out the men and Lang Zhong in the Tongyi Hall, and there were many fewer people, leaving only the twelve shopkeepers of the Tongyi Hall and the deceased Bayern Righteous servants in their fifties to worship the mountain wind, and these thirteen people all had a strong smell of alcohol, and they were hangover and did not wake up, and their eyes were red and swollen from crying.

The servant Bai Shanfeng and the twelve shopkeepers brought Li Guolou and the others to their drinking hall last night, diagonally opposite the deceased's house, and the two spliced tables of the Eight Immortals were still placed there, and the tables had been removed cleanly, not even a teapot.

Li Guolou had a solemn expression and said, "You sit down according to yesterday's seat!" ”

Li Guolou himself sat on the main seat of the south, and he didn't need to look at him to know that the deceased Bayern was righteous, where he sat last night, and the thirteen Tongyi Hall people looked for their own seats and sat down.

Isn't this Jesus and the thirteen disciples, Li Guolou trembled in his heart, which one of them was Judas.

Li Guolou said: "Worship the mountain wind, the official asked you, you replied, don't cry for me, if any of you want to cry, go out and cry for me, the official's time is very precious!" ”

Be polite to these people, you have a good time, Li Guolou knows in his heart how to deal with the people.

The thirteen Tongyitang people stopped wiping their tears, and they were still quite scared when they saw the official mission.

Li Guolou took out the pen in the notebook and the iron box from his leather bag, and the pen was easy to flow ink at this time, so even if he carried it with him, he had to put the pen in the box.

Li Guolou said: "Since you held a shareholders' meeting during the day yesterday, let's start with the shareholders' meeting, don't hide it from me, there's nothing to be ashamed of, who will say it first." He had already expected that yesterday's general meeting of shareholders of Tongyitang would not be successful, and the 9,000 taels of property from the head office were stolen.

A shopkeeper in his forties coughed and said: "Sir Li, let me say first, my name is Shantian Gu is the shopkeeper here, in fact, we have been meeting for the second day, the shareholders' meeting began the day before yesterday, from the beginning everyone was in a heavy mood, sighing, in March this year, there was a theft of the head office warehouse, I bear the main responsibility, I was the first to speak at the meeting······

Li Guolou stopped taking notes, raised his head and said: "Stop, the shopkeeper of Shantian Valley, don't talk at length, I don't want to listen to your review, first tell me what you quarreled about the day before yesterday!" ”

Shantian Gu lowered his head and said: "I put forward the first plan with the owner, which is to let the twelve stores share the loss of the theft, everyone slapped the table and slapped the table, scolded the mother and scolded the mother, and said that they wanted to withdraw the shares, and even the table was overturned, so we didn't even drink the wine the night before yesterday, and everyone held back their anger and talked about it yesterday, and the owner didn't sleep all night and talked to the eleven shopkeepers one by one, and said that it was only yesterday that we started to make plans again!" ”

Li Guolou asked: "Good shopkeeper, then you and the owner have a major disagreement!" ”

Zhang Haojie was very clever, brought a big teapot in, poured hot tea for the audience, Li Guolou nodded to Zhang Haojie with satisfaction, praised Zhang Haojie for being teachable, and did not disappoint him.

Zentian Valley said: "The main disagreement is, of course, whether this theft case has anything to do with the branch, and whether the shopkeepers should spend the difficult time with the owner after a year of hard work!" ”

"Oh." Li Guolou looked up to the sky and sighed, "Then what is the compromise plan that you passed the next day!" ”

Zen Tian Gu said: "It hasn't all passed yet, but our twelve shopkeepers are willing to spend the difficulties with the owner, and it has been roughly resolved, but there is still some controversy about sharing this loss in several years!" ”

There were only two names on the book in front of Li Guolou, and he didn't remember anything else, he couldn't see irritability and floats from his expression, he picked up the teacup and drank water, and he didn't even look at the thirteen disciples.