Li Guolou carried an oil lamp and walked into the south room, until now he claimed to be a catcher, but he had not shown the waist card to others. He doesn't have such a thing, he first boasted that he was catching fast, who wouldn't believe it?

In the living room outside, there is a bed collapsed, and a hookah gun is placed on it, which means that the owner Wei Wen smokes less hookah. There are calligraphy and paintings hanging above the collapse, Li Guolou didn't look carefully at what the couplet wrote? He just glanced at the painting, which was a tiger with a hanging forehead, staring at everyone who walked through the door with its teeth and claws.

On the Nanmu table, candlesticks have been lit, and some messy bloody footprints can be seen on the ground. Li Guolou looked at these footprints and pondered, thinking about which people had blood on their shoes.

Walking into the inner room, the door opened, and a tall man fell in a pool of blood at the door, Li Guolou was careful not to touch the blood on the ground. The oil lamp in his hand was placed near the corpse, and an oil lamp was also lit in the room, which allowed Li Guolou to see the layout and details of the entire room clearly.

The dead Wei Wenshao was dressed in a silk riding coat, his hat rolled down to the side of his head, his face was facing the ground, and blood was pouring from his chest. penetrates into the square bricks, impregnated with a large patch.

The smell of blood made Li Guolou want to vomit, and the two oil lamps flickered in an instant, almost extinguished. Li Guolou was startled and almost wanted to escape from the door. Do you want to see the corpse? I was hesitant to retreat in my heart. Are there really ghosts in this world? Why did the glass-covered oil lamp dim or dim together? Could it be that the ghost of the dead Wei Wenshao was watching him from the sidelines?

Later, the officials who will really catch fast and patrol will come. He's a fake catcher who is about to get into a goof, so he has to hurry up and decide, what should he do? How can the smell of blood and the smell of terror frighten the fake foreign devils who do not believe in religion!

Li Guolou mustered up the courage to turn the body of a dead man for the first time in his life.

The dead man Wei Wenshao's chubby face was already stiff, and he couldn't bat an eye. Li Guolou let out a slight sigh: "Don't worry, Wei Wenshao." I caught the murderer for you, so rest in peace. ”

Li Guolou closed Wei Wenshao's frightened round eyes and looked down at the knife stuck in his chest.

A fatal slash with the hilt against the chest. It takes a lot of force to use a cow's sharp knife and plunge it into the chest of a man in the prime of life. Li Guolou had already expected that the second grandmother, Xie Xiuzhu, could not be a murderer. Although Xie Xiuzhu's preface does not match the afterword, the right and wrong of the speech have long been ambiguous. But it was the death of her husband Wei Wenshao, which made her very frightened.

Li Guolou felt Wei Wenshao's pulse, and there was no trace of his heart beating. He looked at Wei Wenshao's corpse again, to see if he had turned Wei Wenshao's corpse, no one should have moved, and suddenly felt a little incredible in his heart, whether Wei Wenshao died or not? As a member of the family, it should be rescued first.

Li Guolou grabbed one of the dead man's hands Wei Wenshao to see if the dead man's hand would grab something? Many times the dead will tell the living about his last hope. But Li Guolou looked at Wei Wenshao's two hands and found nothing. This further proves how cruel the murderer is, and one knife will make Wei Wenshao go to the west.

Li Guolou gritted his teeth and raised his hand to touch the blood stains on the ground, he wanted to see the dryness and humidity of the blood stains, because he found that the corpse was already a little stiff, that is, Wei Wenshao had been dead for some time, at least more than an hour. Li Guolou stroked the blood on his fingers and couldn't help but ponder. Li Guolou's face became more and more ugly under the oil lamp, and he stood up to check the layout in the bedroom.

The splendid quilt where the mandarin ducks are playing in the water has been laid out, as if Xie Xiuzhu had slept for a while, and the quilt on one side had been wrinkled and messy. Li Guolou touched the inside of the quilt with his clean left hand to see if there was any residual temperature of the human body inside.

The front of the dresser was clean, the rouge gouache was neatly placed, and a black plush cloak hung on the hanger, Li Guolou secretly opened the wardrobe to see what was inside?

Suddenly, Li Guolou remembered that he had turned over the corpse, and hurriedly flipped the corpse back again. He lifted his left foot again and looked down to see if there was blood on the soles of his feet.

Li Guolou jumped out of the room and saw a total of eight people in the courtyard, three women and five men. Among them are the second grandmother Xie Xiuzhu, the maid Xiaoqin, the old mother Xie Ma, the deputy manager Xu Xiaohu, the servants Wei Xiaoliu, Wei Xiaoqi, the chef Wei Zhuangyong (he is the husband of the old mother Xie Ma), and one is Xu Xiaohu's entourage Xu Biao.

Li Guolou shouted: "The people who played mahjong together just now stand together." ”

But I saw Wei Xiaoliu, Xu Xiaohu, Wei Zhuangyong, and Wei Xiaoqi standing together.

Li Guolou asked, "Xu Biao, what are you doing?" ”

Xu Biao replied: "Little Lizi, I will pour tea and water for them first······ After watching them play cards······ Then go back to the north room and sleep······ Can Xiao Liuzi testify for me······ When he came in to sleep······ It's loud······ I also scolded him. ”

Xu Biao's speech, how slow and slow he was, made Li Guolou anxious.

Li Guolou turned his head and asked, "Which of you came across Wei Wenshao's corpse?" ”

Xu Xiaohu glanced at Li Guolou timidly, and said: "I just touched the master's pulse, and I didn't dare to move anywhere else, Xiao Liuzi saw it on the side." The second grandmother also woke up at that time, and Xiaoqin was also watching. ”

Li Guolou said: "Oh! I can't see Deputy Chief Manager Xu, you can know if the master is dead or alive by touching the pulse? I don't even want to turn over my body. ”

Xu Xiaohu said: "There is such a big pool of blood on the ground, I know that the master will not live, Xiao Liuzi didn't touch it, just look at it." My knowledge is better than his, and if I draw my sword, will I not make people think that I am a criminal? ”

Li Guolou shouted: "Take off all your shoes for me, let me see who has blood under their feet?" After saying that, Li Guolou ran to the elm tree and looked at the two shoes of the eighth master.

Looking at it under the light, Li Guolou was sure that under the two shoes of the eighth master, there were bloodstains.

He put his shoes in front of the Eighth Master, and said, "Eighth Master, what do you say about this?" ”

Man Baye's face was swollen and bruised, and he was vague, and said, "I, I, I'm wronged!" Master Bao must avenge me. ”

"Wronged you, kill you delusional pervert!" "It's a good man! The Axe Gang has people like you, which can be regarded as a disgrace and a loss to the Yongding River. "If I don't kill you, I'm your grandson!" "You're a worm, a crawling bedbug, and I'll clean the portal for the Axe Gang."

Several men saw the blood stains on the shoes, and rushed forward even more frantically, beating the eight masters again, beating and scolding at the same time. let Li Guolou know the origin of some things, it turned out that Xie Xiuzhu was the singer's shot, and Man Baye was originally Xie Xiuzhu's admirer, but Xie Xiuzhu finally followed Wei Wenshao. The full journey is that the toad wants to eat swan meat, climbs the wall into Wei's house, and wants to take revenge on Wei Wenshao, and there is a reason for the murder.

The neighbors all know that as long as Xie Xiuzhu goes on the street, she will come forward to talk to her, and she will take advantage of Xie Xiuzhu as in the past.

Li Guolou couldn't stand it, and if he continued to fight, he would die, so he hurriedly stepped forward to dissuade Xiao Liuzi and others from committing violence again.

Li Guolou listened to the speeches of the neighbors at the door, and wanted to ask the people in the courtyard one by one, but the officials in the yamen came. Li Guolou knew at a glance that it was when he was playing mahjong that the two little catchers who came quickly, and also took the other four people to cross the threshold with their might.

The officials already knew that the murderer had been caught, and as soon as they entered the door, they shouted, "Get out of the way, the official is in the office, what is there to see, I have to work tomorrow." All go back to sleep. ”

Having said this, I happened to see Li Guolou face to face, and I was stunned for a moment, and immediately turned into a big smile. They already know Li Guolou's identity, and they will be brothers in the same hall in the future, and everyone will share the merits.

The bald man is a man, named Ai Hai, who is more than 20 years old, and at first glance he is the kind of person who can endure hardships. From his body, it can be seen that some people have changed their living habits, and he can also adapt to the life of the people at the bottom.

The other big guy is a horse face, named Ma Dequan, the soapy clothes on his body are washed white, and he already has gray hair in his thirties, and it seems that the family burden is quite heavy.

Several other people are patrol officials, which can be said to be fast, but they are not really fast. When there is a case, they maintain law and order, and they usually do things to maintain law and order, catch some petty thieves, and of course, the main errand is to collect protection money.

Only these officials themselves know what kind of people they belong to, and the officials are also divided into three, six, nine, and so on. Outsiders think they are an equal group of people, but in fact, the sadness inside is unknown to outsiders.

After asking about the case, Li Guolou modestly stood aside and stopped talking, listening to Ai Hai's questions to see how different the real catch was from him.

What surprised Li Guolou was that several arresters did not go to the scene of the crime. The pen had been used to record the responses of everyone present, as if the dead man in the room was an inconsequential matter. And four officials brought Man Youli back to the yamen, and the shackles of handcuffing hands and necks also made people feel a kind of pain that they were powerless to break free.

Li Guolou couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "Brother Ai, why don't you go to see the scene?" ”

Ai Hai lowered his voice and said, "The murderer has been caught, and there is nothing to do." We have to wait for the servants to come to inspect the scene, and if we break the scene, we will be punished. ”

Li Guolou asked, "When will that work come?" ”

Ai Hai rolled his eyes at Li Guolou and said, "How do I know this, as long as I am not drunk, Wan Qiaozuo will come." But ·······" Ai Hai said softly: "Wan Qizuo is unwilling to walk at night, until dawn, he and his apprentices will not come." ”

Li Guolou took out his pocket watch, looked at the time by the light, it was already more than four o'clock, and he didn't come again, I was afraid that the sky was going to be bright, and the efficiency of the yamen was so high that Li Guolou sighed. By the time the work came, the corpse had already become stiff, and the blood stains had dried thoroughly, and it was estimated that Wei Wenshao's death time would be several hours short.