Lu Jinping also had a good impression of the porter, and said: "Since this little lady can testify against you, and you don't know that she is looking at you, it means that what she said is true, so you have evidence to prove that you were not at the scene of the crime, so if you didn't do the crime, you can preliminarily rule out the suspicion of the crime." ●⌒，”

The porter couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard it, and thanked him repeatedly.

Lu Jinping looked at the rich man and said, "What about you?" Looks like you were alone in the house when the murder happened, right? Do you have any alibi? ”

The rich man's face trembled, and he said, "I, I, I was sleeping, and I have no proof. ”

Lu Jinping said: "If you don't have any witnesses, you can also present physical evidence, for example, what you see and hear, and these things can only be seen or heard in your position, and these can also be proved." ”

As soon as he heard this, the rich man thought about it, slapped his head, and said to Lu Jinping: "I don't know if I can prove something - because the weather is very cold, the quilt is relatively thin, and someone has been killed, so I can't sleep after tossing and turning." Later, I heard this girl screaming from your room, and it seemed as if something had hit your window, and there was a bang, so she screamed, and then the lights in your room went out. I thought it was a bad person, but I didn't dare to get up to see it, because it was too cold, and I thought that this girl was strong in martial arts, and no one should bully her, so I didn't hear any sound behind me. ”

Yunzi and Lu Jinping glanced at each other, both a little embarrassed, especially Yunzi, who didn't feel that his face was a little red. Because I think about what happened next.

Lu Jinping's attention is still on solving the case. Extrapolating from the time, if the rich man of the earth did hear the screams of the clouds at that time, and heard the sound of the branches hitting the lattices of the railings. After that, it was only a moment before the merchant was killed. It is impossible for this rich man to go back and forth between the latrine and the wing house in such a short time, and it is impossible to separate the two places.

Lu Jinping nodded and said, "What you just said is right, this sound can only be heard in the courtyard, and it is absolutely inaudible in the latrine, so this can be used as evidence that you are not at the scene of the crime." You can also rule out criminal suspicions. ”

Only then did the rich man breathe a sigh of relief, and hurriedly thanked him repeatedly.

Lu Jinping finally looked at the strong man with the waist knife on his shoulder, and said: "Several of them can prove that they are not present, only you have no evidence to prove that you did not kill the merchant." ”

"Sir, I, I was squatting in the toilet and, I, where can I find witnesses?"

The hunter said, "There are many things where thieves shout to catch thieves." ”

The strong man couldn't help but be furious when he heard this, and only shouted: "What do you mean by this? Are you saying I killed him? ”

The hunter listened to each other's anger. I couldn't help but take a step back and said, "I didn't say that, I just said that there is a thief shouting to catch a thief, and I don't mean you." ”

"You are pointing at the bald man and scolding the monk, don't think that Lao Tzu can't hear it."

Lu Jinping waved his hand to stop the quarrel between the two.

The hunter said, "I didn't kill him anyway." I don't know him well, I know what he does. Why kill him? He's not a beast. You can sell it for money if you kill it. ”

The strong man said, "Me too, and I don't know him." Why should I kill him? ”

Lu Jinping said: "The motive for the murder can only be revealed after the culprit is identified. In many cases, outsiders may seem unmotivated, but in fact there is a deeper motivation. Therefore, the suspicion of committing a crime cannot be ruled out on the grounds that you have no motive. The two of you are suspicious of this case, so when the blizzard stops, the two of you will follow me to Tongzhou City. I will continue to investigate this case. ”

The strong man has suffered Yunzi's loss, and knows that although Lu Jinping looks at him without martial arts, the girl next to him has good martial arts, and what he said has this woman as a strong backing. Then you have to comply. What's more, the family is still an official, if he doesn't follow and cooperate with the investigation, he can use the power of the government to arrest himself, so the strong man quickly figured this out and said: "The snowstorm has stopped, I'll go back with you to investigate." However, I really didn't kill him, if I did, I would have buried him in the snow or simply thrown him down the cliff, you don't know, the blizzard is so big, it will be half a foot deep in a while, where will I find his body? ”

The hunter said, "Could it be someone else?" Sneak attack in the vicinity. ”

Lu Jinping shook his head and said: "At present, there is no such evidence, and this possibility is not very likely." Because no one can come from such a dangerous mountain road in such a big snowstorm, the investigation of the case must start with the greatest possible one, and the greatest possibility is that one of these people here will do the crime. And now, after investigation, the biggest possibility is the two of you. Of course, if the murderer is willing to confess and turn himself in, he can be dealt with leniently. ”

The hunter said: "A good man is a good man, but I didn't do it, of course I can't be a man." ”

"At present, it is only from the fact that you two have the time and possibility to commit the crime to conclude that you are criminal suspects, because there is not enough evidence to prove that you are murderers, so I will not take compulsory measures of detention against you, and you cannot leave, you must obey my orders and go with me to the same state to continue the investigation, if you want to abscond, I will treat you as criminals, and I will go to the sea to arrest you. Did you hear me clearly? ”

Having said that, both the hunter and the strong man had to nod.

Lu Jinping said again: "Now that you two are suspects, I want the two of you to supervise each other, so tonight, you two sleep in the kitchen, porter you come to sleep in the lobby, and the others still sleep separately, and when the snowstorm stops, we will go back to Tongzhou." ”

Make arrangements and go back to your room to rest.

Lu Jinping and Yunzi returned to the wing. The windows in the house have been broken, Lu Jinping took down the branches on the window lattice, and the old woman found another piece of brown paper from home to re-paste the window, and there is no way to repair the window lattice now, so she can only wait for the snowstorm to stop, and then light the oil lamp again, and then the old woman left.

Closing the door, the two sat down on the kang again, Yunzi glanced at Lu Jinping and said, "Do you still want to drink?" ”

Lu Jinping shook his head and said, "From now on, we have to stay absolutely sober, so we can't drink." ”

Yunzi was taken aback and hurriedly said, "Do you mean that the murderer will still kill?" Didn't you let the two of them supervise each other? ”

"There is no clear evidence in this case yet. But judging from the current situation, it is not very likely that they will commit the crime. ”

Yunzi nodded: "Yes, first of all, the hunter, although the hunter has no alibi, but if he really wants to kill this person." He didn't need to come close to cut his neck, for he was a hunter with a longbow and an arrow from afar could kill him. ”

"Hmm!" Lu Jinping nodded.

Yunzi continued: "The farmer said just now that when he got up, he saw the hunter sitting there, and it was the hunter who woke him up, and this testimony was obviously somewhat unfavorable to him, but he did not make any excuses, and still admitted this fact, and I think there is no ghost in his heart. He really has ghost words. When he came back, he would have pretended to be asleep, waiting for the farmer or someone else, and waking him up when he heard the cry, and his alibi was very strong, and he didn't do it, so I don't think it should be him. ”

Lu Jinping smiled and nodded: "It's very good, your analysis and reasoning are in place, it's true." As long as he did it, he could pretend to be asleep. Let someone wake him up and testify on his behalf, so my feeling is that he shouldn't be a suspect. ”

"Then it's only the strong man with the knife, is it really him who shouts to catch a thief?"

"He's by far the most suspicious. Because he was indeed with the deceased, and no one else proved his innocence. Other than that. He is strong in martial arts, and it is not a problem to kill the merchant, but he also has something strange about him. ”

"Oh? What is it? ”

"His knife, if he really kills the other party. He shouldn't have chosen to use a knife, because he is the only one who has a knife, and if he kills in this way, it is easy to suspect him at the first time, so I suspect that if the murderer is one of us, this person may use the method of planting us to turn our attention to the strong man. ”

Yunzi said: "I also feel that he was very angry when the hunter said that he was a thief and called to catch a thief, and I could feel that that anger came from the heart, a kind of anger from the heart after being falsely accused, so I also felt that he didn't look like a murderer." And I found out that although you said that he was a suspect, and also said that the deceased was killed by someone who cut his throat with a knife, but you didn't check his single knife to see if there was blood on it, I was a little strange at the time, I don't know why you didn't do it, now I understand, in fact, you don't really suspect that he is a suspect, you just want the murderer to think that you have caught the murderer and let down your guard, so that it will show your feet, right? ”

At this moment, Lu Jinping looked at Yunzi really well, and exclaimed: "You really surprised me, you can guess my thoughts." It seems that we have no colorful phoenix wings, and we have a good heart! ”

Yunzi's body was obviously shocked, he looked at him with hot eyes, and said happily: "This poem is so good!" You can blurt out such beautiful poems, you are so good at learning, it's a pity not to take the top exam. ”

Lu Jinping blushed a little and hurriedly said: "This is someone else's poem, I borrowed it." ”

Yunzi said, "Won't it? My Han official teacher has taught me all the famous verses of your Tang Dynasty, but there is no such sentence. This sentence is so beautiful, it is definitely not something that ordinary people can write. If it was someone else's poem, it would have been spread all over the world a long time ago, then my master Hanguan should know it, so don't be modest, it must have been done by you, right? ”

This poem is a famous sentence by the famous poet Li Shangyin in the late Tang Dynasty, it only appeared more than a hundred years later, no one knows now, I also read it casually just now, after listening to Yunzi's praise, I looked at myself with a very enthusiastic gaze, Lu Jinping not only felt ashamed, muttered Don't show these casually in the future, there is really no need for this, I still have to think before I speak, and use other people's poems in exchange for a woman's soul and admiration, it is really meaningless.

Lu Jinping immediately changed the topic and said: "Don't talk about this, I can't stop watching this snowstorm for a while and a half, let's go to bed first and recuperate." ”

"Okay, I'm really sleepy, I just drank wine."

"Aren't you scared that there are dead people lying outside?" Lu Jinping felt a little strange, someone had just been murdered outside, if it was replaced by another woman, he must have been very scared and didn't feel sleepy at all, but he didn't expect Yunzi to be nothing.

"What's so scary, I used to fight on the battlefield with my father, and there were dead bodies all over the mountains, some of them died very miserably, and I was scared at first, but I got used to seeing too much."

Lu Jinping was even more surprised and said, "You have also been on the battlefield?" ”

"Yes, there are often tribal rebellions, my father is the general of our Tubo, I often wear a military uniform to go into battle with him to kill the enemy, or what am I doing when I learn martial arts?"

Lu Jinping was even more surprised, it turned out that in the era of the Tang Dynasty, not only were women in the Tang Dynasty open, and they came out to be officials and even emperors, but Tubo was also a woman who did not let her eyebrows go, and went directly to kill the enemy.

Yunzi put the wine bowl on the earthen kang on the earthen kang, and then, turning around and kneeling on the earthen kang, laid out the bed, and then got into the quilt, beckoning, "Come in." ”

Seeing that Yunzi was so open, Lu Jinping was a little embarrassed, and said, "You sleep on the kang, and I just sleep on the ground." ”

Yun Zi glanced at him, lifted the corner of the cover and said, "How can there be that reason?" Come on, the two of us are dressed and haven't taken off our clothes, just a quilt, don't cover them together, what should you do if you freeze at night? Hurry up, don't be verbose! ”

Lu Jinping smiled, got into the quilt, pulled the quilt over and covered it, Yunzi pursed his lips and smiled, blew out the oil lamp on the kang head, and then got into the quilt as well.

Don't look at Yunzi who seemed very frank and straightforward before, and directly asked Lu Jinping to get into the quilt to share the bed, but when he really lay in the quilt, he honestly lay flat, and he didn't even turn his head to look at Lu Jinping.

Lu Jinping was a little uncomfortable, don't have anything to say: "On your Tibetan grassland, lying down and looking at the stars in the sky, that feeling must be very beautiful, right?" ”

"Of course, where we are, I always feel that the stars we have there are much brighter than your Tang Dynasty, one by one, the sky is full of jewels, but beautiful."

The altitude of Tubo is very high, and the air is thinner than the plains, and of course the stars are exceptionally bright when they look at it.

Lu Jinping said: "Then do you often lie on the grass like this and watch the stars?" ”

"Yes, I often look at the stars and think, if I can become a star, I can blink in the sky and fly around, how comfortable it is. But I heard the old man say that there is heaven in heaven, and that is where people go when they die, and that they can go to heaven only if they accumulate virtue and do good, and if they do evil things but go to hell, they will not go to heaven. I've also seen the underworld in many temples of your Tang Dynasty, but it's scary, are those ghosts real? (To be continued......)