Li Guolou looked at the murder weapon on the table, the "ox ear sharp knife" and the "hemp rope" for the hanging beam, all of which were ordinary goods, and they could be seen everywhere on the stalls outside, he thought about scaring the murderer, but in case the murderer was not fooled, he would give him a mouse and not go out, not to return empty-handed.

Jin Erzi worked hard to record confessions for the people in the mansion, but Li Guolou looked at the first court testimony on the table, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, he thought of a strategy to lure the snake out of the hole, but if one person cooperates, this person is the key to solving the case.

"Outside of the senior staff, please come in for a moment." Li Guolou walked to the door and beckoned, the first thing was to ask Gao Qiuyu, this person is the key to solving the case.

There were two people alone in the room, Gao Qiu Yu was leaning on his body, he was in his sixties and was old, but he was not sad about the suicide of the maid Aihua, and the grief during this time made him much older.

Li Guolou got straight to the point and said: "The senior staff is mourning and changing, and we don't hide it from the fact that we came here this time because the criminal Gu Shuimo in the prison retracted his confession, and did not admit that he had killed anyone, but he only admitted that he had come to the scene of the crime, he came to date your daughter, but he saw the corpse on the ground, he was afraid of taking responsibility, and fled from the scene of the crime, and the second is that we are very suspicious of the maid Aihua's suicide, and he should not commit suicide when he is young. ”

"This makes the old man explain to his daughter, isn't this murderer all confessed, Captain Li, you can make a price." Gao Qiuyu thought that Li Guolou and his gang were here to extort money, and ran to his house to reap benefits.

Li Guolou said embarrassedly: "Gao Yuanwai, don't get me wrong, we are not here to ask you for money, this case is really suspicious, originally I came to interrogate the maid Aihua, I didn't expect to be a step late, but unfortunately I haven't seen the scene of Aihua's suicide, what I say now is also false, I came here to find out the troubles at the Gao Yuanwai's family, if the Gaoyuan is a criminal who is really hiding in your home, isn't you also in danger!" ”

Gao Qiuyu listened to the latter sentence, the older people get, the more afraid of death, people in their sixties still want to live a long life, especially rich people, there is no only daughter in the house, and there are two concubines.

"Captain Li, what should I do then?" Gao Qiu Yu was anxious, and his hand rubbing showed his inner impatience.

Li Guolou smiled and said: "Outside the senior staff, I will teach you two tricks, the first is that you pretend to be weak, as long as you don't seem to be able to recover your body, no one will beat you, even if the people around you are criminals, they will wait for you to die naturally!" ”

Gao Qiuyu's face was strange, and he thought of going somewhere else, Li Guolou was calm and continued: "This second trick is crucial, as long as the senior can do it, I guarantee that your daughter can get back the stolen property she has with her!" ”

"Captain Li, please speak." Gao Qiu Yu is much more confident, and his daughter Gao Xiuxiu is wearing jewelry, gold and silver that are worth a lot of money, of course he wants to get it back.

Li Guolou lowered his voice and said: "Outside the senior staff, when we leave, you will announce that you will punish the self-assertive person this time, whether it is the housekeeper, the guard, and those sleeping in the house, all of them will not be spared, from now on, half of the salary and monthly silver will be deducted, and the time will end on your daughter's sacrifice day, I believe that in less than a month or two, the person who stole your daughter's property will take out the gold and silver to use, I will send my subordinates to lurk in Gaojiazhuang, whoever has spent money lavishly, I will definitely arrest him, Anyway, even Gu Shuimo is a criminal, he has to wait until the autumn to ask for beheading, I think there has been no loss to the senior members in the past few months, and the future troubles will not be eliminated, and it is impossible for the senior members to retire for a long time! ”

"Hmm······ Thank you Captain Li for speaking up, the old man knows what to do. Gao Qiu Yu nodded and praised Li Guolou for coming up with an idea.

Gao Qiu Yu walked out of the room dejectedly, looking drooping and old, sad engraved on his face, who can see what he thinks deep down, the old treacherous and cunning is to have life experience, Gao Qiu Yu Gaojiazhuang is a great good person, living a quiet life, of course, it is a matter of old age, when he was young, he was a big businessman in Gao Qiuyu, and the necessary condition for becoming a big businessman is to hurt others, and he has done things that harm others and benefit himself.

"Gao Xin'an, you come in." Li Guolou made a routine business and asked the head of the Gao Mansion that the head of a big family is critical, and if he doesn't use it well, he will take the life of the master, and whether Gao Xin'an is guilty or not, he can be sentenced to manslaughter, which belongs to the category of accomplices.

Gao Xin'an is in his forties, more than 1.8 meters tall, has a fat figure, a chubby face without a beard, is used to being pampered, and belongs to the smiling and kind housekeeper.

"Gao Xin'an, are you guilty?" Li Guolou didn't give Gao Xin a good face, and directly put on the prestige of the chief.

"The little people are guilty." Gao Xin'an was in high spirits when he entered the mansion just now, "Plop." He knelt in front of Li Guolou with a sound.

Li Guolou said: "It's good to know, Gao Xin'an, as the head of a government, the senior officials are merciful and don't punish you, can you get through the tricks yourself, do you have to go to the lobby to get the board!" ”

Gao Xin'an prostrated and cried: "Chief Li's lesson is that I will receive twenty canes by myself in a while, and I will never dare to cheat!" ”

"What did the official say about you, and you also hung an oil lamp to guide the murderer, who taught you this trick." Li Guolou has a deep memory of this trick, which is also the key place for Xiao Xiucai Gu Shuimo to enter the strange mansion without breaking in.

"This ······" Gao Xin'an paused slightly, looked up at Li Guolou, and said: "It's the young master Gao Sheng, he was very excited that day, I still drank with him, I did everything with the young master's idea!" ”

"Oh······ When. Li Guolou didn't look at Gao Xin'an's face, and the teacup in his hand didn't move.

Gao Xin'an said: "It's noon when the young lady comes back, and then the young master Gao is promoted to get drunk, and he didn't eat dinner!" ”

Li Guolou glanced at Gao Xin'an deeply, this slave suspected that the young master Gao was promoted to kill people, although he didn't say it explicitly, it was to tell him who he should suspect.

"Hmm······ This official heard that the young master's monthly silver for his high promotion is one or two or eight hundred wen, and he doesn't even have half of you, right? Li Guolou said unhurriedly.

"Yes." Gao Xin'an lowered his head, so that Li Guolou couldn't see the expression on his face, and the slave would also make a trick, but unfortunately no one asked him to suspect who killed Miss Gao Xiuxiu, and now he was arrested and questioned, so he deliberately confided in some information.

Li Guolou smiled and said: "Gao Xin'an, do you know who the maid Aihua is, can you tell this official!" ”

"Well, Xiaomin doesn't dare to talk nonsense, Gao Shengguan once boasted with me when he was drinking that he had eaten two maids in the inner house, but whether the maid Aihua had slept with him, I didn't dare to talk nonsense." Gao Xin'an was promoted to the rank of young master again, and the reason was that he had two maids, so he let Li Guolou find it himself.

Li Guolou said: "Open your two hands and let me see." He wanted to see if Gao Xin'an had any scars on his hands, and he used a rope to strangle people to death, and his palms were too strong, and it was easy to break the skin of his hands, this was because people like the chief manager and young master did not do manual work, and their palms were not calloused.

"I was slapped in the palm of my hand." Gao Xin'an spread out his two palms and looked at Li Guolou timidly, his two palms were beaten by an iron ruler, and they were scarred, making it difficult to distinguish.

"Oh······ How many people have been beaten? Li Guolou was annoyed, it was too coincidental, and a loophole for the murderer happened to be blocked.

Gao Xin'an bowed his head and said: "The people on duty that night were all beaten, I was beaten badly, and I even had to be fed a few days ago!" ”

Li Guolou asked: "After the incident, the embroidery building should be locked, how could the maid Aihua hang here!" ”

Gao Xin'an shook his head like a wave drum, and said: "Captain Li, how do I know, these days everyone is walking around the embroidery building, who will pay attention to here, it was the next day that I couldn't find Aihua, I found it here, and found that Aihua was hanging in the air, it was I who asked the guards not to move the scene, and reported directly to the official, Aihua is a slave who sold herself, so this is her home, and the body was placed in the guest hall, so that she accepted the incense, and waited for the seventh day to be buried in the ground, and the lord did not agree to bury Aihua next to Miss Miss's grave, and he wanted to bury it directly in the Gaojiazhuang cemetery!" ”

Rich people have family graves, farmers have a place to bury their own land, there are also rural areas have special cemeteries for the deceased in the village, there are no landless people have a special cemetery to bury, is to spend money to buy cemeteries and tombstones, no money and no land will be burned in the corpse, the Qing Dynasty people are particular about entering the soil for peace, as long as there are conditions will give the deceased a place to rest, so a country has been established for a long time, the land will be less and less, one of the key is that the farmland is slowly eroded into a cemetery, saying that the rich and noble land merger to form a land reductionIt is not a comprehensive and untrue situation.

Therefore, the first thunderbolt in the founding period of the founding of the country was to fill in the cemetery, and this cycle has been repeated from ancient times to the present, without exception, and it has formed a large amount of farmland during the founding period, and then it will become a decrease in national land.

Gao Xin'an means that the deceased Aihua can only be buried in the Gaojiazhuang cemetery, not in the Gao Qiu Yu family cemetery, a little unjust for the deceased Aihua, thinking that the deceased Aihua is a martyr for Miss Gao Xiuxiu, belonging to a loyal Geng Geng servant, and deserves to be buried Miss Gao Xiuxiu's side of the glory, from this point of view, Li Guolou temporarily arranged Gao Xin to be removed from the list of suspects.

"Hmm······ Gao Xin'an, are you very good at talking, are you a relative of Gao Yuanwai! ”

"Hehe, Captain Li, our Gaojiazhuang, the surname Gao is related to the family, what can we do." Gao Xin comprehended with peace of mind and immediately argued for himself.

When he met a smart person, Xiao Jiujiu in his stomach was careful and his words were not leaking, Li Guolou couldn't grasp Gao Xin'an's handle, and said helplessly: "This official likes to talk to you, and we will talk again when we have the opportunity in the future!" ”

"Pierce." Gao Xin'an knelt down for Li Guolou, the official of the ninth grade, bowed backwards and left the living room, walked to the fifth step and knew that there was a threshold behind him, and pulled his clothes out, and his movements were skillful and in one go.

If Gao Xin'an is a murderer, the Gao family can kill people without showing a trace in the mansion, and he also has the opportunity to get Gao's inheritance, Li Guolou put Gao Xin'an's words and deeds in the notebook, looked at the pocket watch on the table, today is not going back, and the conversation with the people in the Gao Mansion has just begun, there is no time for witnesses at the time of the crime, they have to ask again, and the competition between arresting and criminals seems to win more and lose less, but who can know the hardships.

"Gao Sheng, you can come in." Li Guolou raised his voice and squinted at the door, the big suspect is this person, the scholar is too smart, when knowledge and crime are combined, it is even more difficult to find out the loopholes of the criminal, fortunately, this scholar himself still has loopholes, he likes to fight wild cannibalism, and he has no money to go out to play, so he can hold it for a few days.

Li Guolou was implicit, sitting with official authority, looking at the kneeling and high promotion, Li Guolou seemed to see his own shadow, the two are the same kind of people, they can give everything for wealth and status, and both of them will do despicable and insidious things.

Li Guolou couldn't help laughing, and said with a spring breeze on his face: "Sit." ”