Song Ruilong looked at the road ahead with a smile and said, "This is Shunchang Road, walk more than a hundred zhang, and you will arrive at the Qingrui Medicinal Materials Shop, do you think we can miss this opportunity?"

After Song Ruilong and Wei Bixiao walked to the Qingrui Medicinal Materials Store, a guy walked up very enthusiastically and asked, "May I ask if the two guest officers are here to order the medicinal materials, or do they buy them separately?"

After Wei Bixi showed the waist card of the tolerance case to the guy, he said: "We are the tolerance of the county government, and we want to know a little about the situation."

After the guy saw the waist card in Wei Bixiao's hand, his attitude was much better, and he said, "What do you two want to know?" Our Qingrui Medicinal Materials Store is an open and honest business, and all taxes have been paid. ”

Wei Bixiao said: "Since you are doing business seriously and have paid all taxes, what are you afraid of?"

Song Ruilong looked at the guy with a calm face and said, "Let's go to the inner hall to talk!"

There were a few guys who were busy, and they didn't know what was going on, they all stopped what they were doing and watched Song Ruilong, Wei Bixi and one of their buddies walk into the inner hall.

There is a room in the inner hall, and the environment in the room is very elegant, and a bottle of tulips is placed on a spotless table.

Song Ruilong smelled the faint fragrance, sat on a very soft chair, turned on the fan, looked at the young man with his head down, and said, "You don't have to be afraid, this is the duty, in order to investigate a case, I want to ask you a little bit about the situation."

Song Ruilong felt that the air here was too oppressive, so he deliberately said something to ease the atmosphere, and the guy really relaxed his mood a lot, and said, "Bad people, if you have something to ask." The small one must answer truthfully. Although the little one has not studied for a few days, the little one also knows the truth of assisting the official to handle the case. ”

Song Ruilong nodded and said, "Very good, Bencha asked you, where was your boss Liu Qingrui last night?"

The guy rolled his eyes a little strangely, and said, "Why do you ask that?" Could it be that something happened to our boss? ”

Song Ruilong said lightly: "You just need to answer Ben Cha's question." As for the rest, you don't need to know too much. ”

"Small mouthy!" The guy adjusted his mood and said, "If you go back to the messenger, our boss has been with us all last night, and he has helped us do a lot of things."

Song Ruilong asked with some surprise, "Then when did he leave?"

The guy looked up at the roof, as if reminiscing, and suddenly, he looked at Song Ruilong and said excitedly, "Oh. By the way, I remembered, I left this morning when the rooster crowed twice. ”

Song Ruilong thought in his heart that Liu Qingrui killed Guo Zhiliang when the rooster crowed three times, and he left the Qingrui Medicinal Materials Store when the rooster crowed twice, and it would take about the time for the rooster to crow once from the Qingrui Medicinal Materials Store to Liu Qingrui's home. This is completely consistent with Liu Qingrui's statement, is Liu Qingrui really not lying?

Song Ruilong asked with a calm face: "Then I will ask you again." Where did the housekeeper of your herb shop go last night? ”

The guy lowered his head in surprise at this time, and said, "The housekeeper Li Tao hasn't come to the store yet, he left last night when it was almost dark, he said that he was not feeling well, maybe he was infected with a cold." I wonder if something happened to him? ”

Song Ruilong felt a trace of unease. said: "Let's go, go to Li Tao's house!"

Wei Bixiao followed closely behind Song Ruilong and said, "Brother Song, you are walking so fast, could it be that Li Tao has an accident?"

Song Ruilong hurried forward. "I have an ominous premonition."

Song Ruilong didn't continue, Wei Bixiao didn't ask again, they quickly turned from Shunchang Road into Kangding Lane, and came to the door of Li Tao's house in Room 18.

Wei Bixiao tapped the door a few times and asked a few more loudly, but no one in the door responded.

Wei Bixi stopped knocking on the door, turned to look at Song Ruilong and said, "Brother Song, there is no one in the house."

The door is facing inward, which means that someone is in the house, but why doesn't that person speak?

Song Ruilong's heart was once again occupied by that ominous premonition, he transported his true qi to the palm of his right hand, and pushed it towards the door, and the two doors seemed to be blown open by the wind, and turned to the other side with a loud sound.

Song Ruilong strode into the courtyard and went straight to Li Tao's bedroom.

Song Ruilong walked into Li Tao's bedroom and saw Liu Qingrui lying on the bed, not moving.

Wei Bixiao's eyes glared in surprise and said, "Ah! How is this possible? Didn't Liu Qingrui just be arrested by us and returned to the county office? How could he die here? ”

Song Ruilong lifted Liu Qingrui's head to look at it and said, "Although he is wearing Liu Qingrui's clothes, he is definitely not Liu Qingrui."

Wei Bixiao was puzzled: "However, his face, hairstyle, and clothes on his body are all the same as Liu Qingrui."

Song Ruilong didn't speak, and after he gently tore off the thin mask on the deceased's face, Wei Bixiao saw an old face.

The wrinkles on that face were already deep, and it was as old as dead tree bark. This is the face of an old man in his fifties, and this face fills Wei Bixiao's heart with countless questions.

Wei Bixi's eyes widened, looked at the old face, and said, "Brother Song, what's going on?" Why did the deceased pretend to be Liu Qingrui? And what did he die for? ”

After Song Ruilong carefully inspected the deceased's house, he found a teacup on a table.

The teacup was empty, and there was a white piece of paper next to the teacup, and there was some pink powder on the white paper.

Wei Bixiao put his eyes on the white paper, opened his eyes wide, and asked in surprise, "What is this?"

Song Ruilong looked at the location of the deceased again and said, "The deceased died because he drank the poison in this packet of white paper."

Song Ruilong sniffed the smell on the white paper, and said with a surprised expression: "The smell on this package of white paper is the same as the smell of the snake venom lying in seven steps, if I guess correctly, this fake Liu Qingrui's death must have died after eating the poison of the seven steps lying down."

Wei Bixiao looked confused and said, "But Brother Song, why did this fake Liu Qingrui commit suicide?"

Song Ruilong touched the fake Liu Qingrui's chest, and he took out a piece of paper.

Song Ruilong opened the piece of paper and saw that it was a will. The content of the will said that the deceased's name was Li Tao, who was the housekeeper of Qingrui Medicinal Materials Store, who was 52 years old this year, and his wife and son ran away from home because of his addiction to gambling. Li Tao lost the courage to live because of this, and a year ago, he and Du Zhuangxiong, the owner of Ping An Pharmacy, had a grudge against Du Zhuangxiong because of a grudge in the Tianyun Gambling House, so he had the idea of killing Du Zhuangxiong. (To be continued......)