Chen Jitao shouted in shock, quickly stepped forward and snatched the things in Guo Ye's hand, looked at them carefully, and confirmed again: "That's right, this is the money bag of the ship boss." Before, the lower official asked him to send Xue Hao and his wife out of Yangzhou, and when he paid him the silver, he saw him put the silver into this money bag. Look...... my lord."

While speaking, Chen Jitao opened the mouth of the money bag, handed it to Guo Ye and pointed out: "Lord Thorn Shi, there is a 'yellow' character embroidered here with needle and thread, and the ship's boss is surnamed Huang." This money bag should have been embroidered by his mother-in-law. ”

Sure enough, once the position of the mouth of the money bag was opened, a crooked yellow character was embroidered.

Guo Ye exhaled a breath of turbid breath in his chest, took the money bag in Chen Jitao's hand again, looked through it carefully, and asked, "Mingren, are you really sure that this money bag is the boss of the ship?" ”

Chen Jitao patted his chest and said loudly: "The lower officials dare to vouch for their heads, and they can't make a mistake." ”

Guo Ye pointed to the string on the money bag and said: "This string is used to tie the money bag around the waist, you see that the break of this string is obviously pulled and broken by external force." It seems that this money bag was broken by Xue Hao from the waist of the boat boss before he died. ”

"Huh? Lord Thorn Shi is really observant! ”

There was admiration in his eyes, and he praised: "My lord even found this clue, and my subordinates admired it very much." That's right, the fracture of this string, unless it is pulled and broken under the action of huge external force, otherwise the fracture will not be so uneven and irregular fracture. Judging from the many years of experience of his subordinates, this money bag should have been pulled and broken by Xue Hao before he died or during the fight with the ship boss. Skynet is magnificent but not leaky, Xue Hao wants to tell us the identity of the murderer. ”

Liu Zhenxuan, who was on the side, finally realized his previous mistake in judgment, lowered his head and said to Guo Ye: "Master Hou, I know that I am wrong. ”

Guo Ye shrugged, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Zhenxuan, in addition to thinking more about investigating and judging cases, you must also have the attitude of daring to doubt everything. ”

"Zhenxuan is taught!"

Liu Zhenxuan bowed to Guo Ye again, and then asked Guo Ye: "Master Hou, in this way, the murderer is the boss of the ship?" ”

Guo Ye suddenly shook his head again and said, "It's too early to conclude that he is the murderer. Zhenxuan, let me ask you, if the murderer is the boss of the ship, then what is his purpose? Seeking revenge? Or is it the intention of seeing money? ”

Liu Zhenxuan pointed to the side of Xue Hao and his wife, and said, "Naturally, I am interested in seeing wealth, but Miss Yuru left Yangzhou with many years of savings and softness. Maybe it's the wealth that moves people's hearts, and the ship boss sees the wealth and kills him? Master Hou, we have only recovered the corpse so far, but we have not recovered the gold, silver, jewelry, and soft goods carried by Xue Hao and his wife. Now that the boss of the boat is missing, and the money of Xue Hao and his wife has not been found, doesn't this explain everything? ”

Guo Ye nodded and said, "This is not a kind of inference. But let me ask you, since the boss of the boat wants to murder Xue Hao and his wife when he sees his wealth, why does he want to poison the three guys? ”

Liu Zhenxuan blurted out: "This is better explained, the uneven distribution of spoils." ”

As soon as these words came out, even the county prince Chen Jitao couldn't help nodding in agreement, and echoed: "Yes, Liu Duwei's inference is reasonable. The boss of the ship first wanted to make money, and together with several subordinates, he killed Xue Hao and his wife, and then poisoned the three guys on the ship because of the uneven distribution of the spoils. The truth is clear. ”

"Haha," Guo Ye twitched the corners of his mouth and said with a smile, "Is it really that simple?" Didn't you two hear what you just said? The three men were all stabbed in the back, piercing the heart and lungs and died. There was not the slightest trace of a fight. What does this mean? It shows that they are powerless to resist at all. The captain of the boat is so old that he can easily kill three young and strong guys on the river, which is too much for him, right? ”

Liu Zhenxuan and Chen Jitao were stunned for a moment, and they also wondered about this doubt.

He said again and again: "Lord Assassin Shi is right, if these three guys really died at the hands of the ship boss because of the uneven distribution of the spoils, there should be some traces of struggle and resistance." ”

Guo Ye suddenly walked in front of the corpses of the three guys, squatted down and untied their clothes one by one, and then untied Xue Hao's clothes, compared the wounds between several people, and suddenly realized: "Zuo, let's check, are the wounds of these corpses all caused by the same short knife and sharp blade?" ”

He was stunned when he heard this, and said in surprise: "Damn, how did I forget this stubble?" ”

With that, he hurriedly squatted down to re-examine and check the wounds of several people one by one, and after a while, he gave an answer.

Of the five corpses, except for Miss Yuru, who drowned, the other four were all stabbed to death. Although the four were all killed by stabs, the gaps in the knife wounds were different.

The three guys were pierced in the back by the sharp blades of the short knives and passed through the chest, but they were different from the knife wounds in Xue Hao's abdomen and left ribs, which were clearly caused by short knives of different widths.

Moreover, Xue Hao's fatal injury was in the throat bone, and the throat bone was forcibly choked, which is not something that an ordinary boatman can do, at least a practitioner.

At this time, even Liu Zhenxuan spoke up, saying that he did not dare to guarantee that he could crush the enemy's throat with one hand.

Guo Ye's face sank like water, and he took a long breath, and said slowly: "At present, the basic mystery has been clarified. Obviously, the missing boat boss is the most suspicious, but he is not alone in this murder. That is, he also has accomplices. Moreover, when he received the business of sending Xue Hao and his wife to leave Yangzhou by boat, he notified his accomplices to wait near Jiangxin and commit murder at night. ”

After saying that, he suddenly looked at Chen Jitao, the county prince who was in charge of arranging for Xue Hao and his wife to leave.

Bite~

A dragon's groan, the horizontal knife out of the sheath!

Liu Zhenxuan suddenly pulled out the horizontal knife on his waist, pointed the blade directly at Chen Jitao, and shouted: "Chen Juncheng, as far as I know, Master Hou asked you to be in charge of the departure of Xue Hao and his wife before. Hmph, the suspicion on your body is also the biggest, come on, take down Chen Jitao! ”

Puff~

Chen Jitao's face changed drastically, he knelt on his knees, and shouted in a panicked voice: "Lord Thorn Shi, it's not me, it's definitely not me." Xue Hao and I have no grievances in the past and no enmity in the near future, and the lower officials are not short of the little silver of their couple, why should they have crooked thoughts about them? ”

Although Guo Ye had doubted Chen Jitao in his heart, as Chen Jitao said, he had no motive to murder Xue Hao and his wife at all, and he had no motive to kill their husband and wife from any aspect, so it was untenable.

Immediately, Guo Ye raised his hand to stop the soldiers who came up from all around, and then walked to Liu Zhenxuan, who had a murderous face, patted him with a knife and pointed it at Chen Jitao's arm, and said in a low voice: "Zhenxuan, put down the knife, I believe that Chen Juncheng will not do such a thing." ”

After saying that, he bent down again and hugged the other party's shoulder, helped Chen Jitao up, and said, "Mingren, get up, this official believes that you are innocent." ”

Chen Jitao stood up tremblingly under Guo Ye's support, grateful, choked and howled: "The lower official hereby thanked the adults for their trust. I, Chen Jitao, swear to God here, I use my own head as a guarantee that I have never done this thing. ”

Guo Ye stopped his gambling curse and swore an oath, and suddenly asked: "Mingren, then again, I only ordered you to arrange this matter alone for Xue Hao and his wife to leave Yangzhou by boat at night. The captain of the ship was also found by you, and it would be really hard to be convincing if you had nothing to do with it. And now that the boat boss is nowhere to be found, you can't clear your suspicion even if you jump into the Grand Canal now. ”

Chen Jitao's face was full of pain, he stomped his foot hard, and said to himself: "Alas, why am I so unlucky? I just got caught up in this unfortunate thing. It's not good to find anyone, but to find this ship boss who hides evil intentions? Now it's okay, it's over, how can I wash myself away from the suspicion? ”

After crying bitterly and blaming himself, Chen Jitao's voice suddenly stopped, his eyes looked at Guo Ye with bright eyes, as if he had thought of something, and hurriedly shouted: "My lord, Lord Assassin Shi, no, no, the lower official remembered." In addition to Xia Guan, there was another person who knew about the departure of Xue Hao and his wife after dark. Yes, and him, how did I forget about him? ”

Chen Jitao exclaimed, his face was full of joy.

In Guo Ye's view, there is quite a bit of a feeling that the mountains and rivers are full of doubts, and the willows and flowers are bright and the villages are bright.

Under the turn of the peak, he couldn't help but ask in a deep voice, "Who?" Apart from you, who else knew in advance that Xue Hao and his wife were going to leave by boat tonight? ”

PS This is the first shift, and there will be a second shift later. Then after noon, I have to go to the hospital to get a blood test report and confirm the condition. The third and fourth updates should be updated for everyone in the evening. I'm sorry, I've done my best. Think of it as selling sympathy, it's the beginning of the month, begging for a reward, begging for a monthly pass. But don't force it, everyone just watch and vote.