Chapter 36: A bloody sweat towel
Because Song Ruilong's movements were too fast, Tie Chong didn't have time to resist and shout at all.
Song Ruilong let go of Tie Chong and said, "Tie Catcher, I've frightened you."
Tie Chong just thought that Song Ruilong was going to kill him, but now he understands that this is just a play, and the purpose of acting is to restore the plot at that time.
Although Tie Chong was very uncomfortable, he was not angry at all, and said: "Where do you say that your lordship, as long as you can solve the case, what is it for your subordinates to be frightened by this?"
Song Ruilong saw that Spicy Jiutian's face was very ugly, and said, "Spicy Jiutian, you should now understand where the wine behind Liu Xiaodong came from, right?"
Spicy Jiutian still shook his head and said, "I don't know."
Song Ruilong said a little angrily: "Okay, this county will tell you where the wine came from." Last night, after the second hour, about two o'clock, you came to the south of the city, and flew over the city wall through your eaves and walls, and you met Liu Xiaodong at the edge of a field in the south of the city. You pretended to agree to Liu Xiaodong's conditions, and took advantage of his unpreparedness, just like the county did just now, and stopped Liu Xiaodong in his arms with his sleeves, and covered Liu Xiaodong to death with his arms. Then you carried the shopkeeper on your back, found a dry well, and threw Liu Xiaodong down headfirst. Then, you hurried back to the Yuexiang Inn to wash your clothes. ”
Spicy Jiutian said: "This is just your speculation, what about the evidence?" And why did Liu Xiaodong meet me in the fields south of the city? ”
Song Ruilong said: "Because after Liu Xiaodong gets the money, he will definitely escape, and he doesn't need to stay in Yuexiang Inn anymore."
Spicy Jiutian smiled and said, "Isn't this inconsistent, my lord?" The adult said that Liu Xiaodong did not run for his life because he did not bring clothes or food at all, and now he said that Liu Xiaodong would run for his life after getting the money, which is really puzzling to the villain. ”
Song Ruilong said patiently: "You will understand." Because the condition offered by the shopkeeper is a large sum of money, if the county is not mistaken, the money is definitely more than 1,000 taels. The shopkeeper has this thousand taels of silver, of course he doesn't have to bring any money bags or food, he can buy it openly. He didn't kill Ning Tianxiang, so naturally he didn't need to hide. It's just a pity that he was wrong, and you wouldn't have promised to give him more than a thousand taels of silver at all. So, you used the action of the county just now to cover the shopkeeper to death, and the wine on the back of the shopkeeper seeped into your clothes, yes or no? ”
Spicy Jiutian trembled and said, "What's going on with the wine on the body of the shopkeeper, I'm also very strange." But I really didn't kill him, and besides, what was my motive for killing him? ”
Song Ruilong said: "Because you killed Ning Tianxiang, you must have a handle on the shopkeeper's body, and the shopkeeper Liu Xiaodong grabbed your handle and didn't let go, he asked you to give him a thousand taels of silver, otherwise he would hand over that thing to the government." In desperation, you agreed to Liu Xiaodong's request, and according to the agreement, you went, but what Liu Xiaodong waited for was not your silver, but the token of Lord Yama. ”
The beads of sweat fell from his forehead to the ground, and he said, "My lord, then may I ask my lord, what handle do I have in the hands of the shopkeeper?"
"A sweat towel with blood on it." Song Ruilong said word for word.
Song Ruilong took out a sweat towel from under the table and said, "On this sweat towel, there is a pig embroidered, if I guess correctly, the spicy chef is a pig, right?"
Spicy Jiutian lowered his head and said, "I'm a pig, what's wrong?" This doesn't prove that the sweat towel is mine! ”
Song Ruilong said: "This sweat towel was found from a broken table in the corridor on the second floor of the inn, there were blood stains on it, and the pig was almost red with blood. The county doesn't need you to answer whether this sweat towel is yours, this county only needs to ask the steward Zhao Ping to know if this sweat towel is yours. ”
"Take Zhao Ping to the hall!"
Tie Chong quickly brought Zhao Ping to Song Ruilong.
After Zhao Ping saw the sweat towel, he said, "That's right, this one was bought by a small one." Each person has one, and the animal motif on each one represents each person's genus. The villain also has one. Zhao Ping took out a sweat towel embroidered with a rooster from his arms, "Adult, please see, this one of the villains is embroidered with roosters, because villains belong to chickens." ”
"Well, you step aside first." Song Ruilong glared at Spicy Jiutian and said, "What else do you have to say now?"
Spicy Jiutian turned pale with fright, like a withered leaf, and said, "I said, the sweat towel is indeed mine." I took advantage of the time when the shopkeeper went to the toilet that day, put the sweat medicine in Chu Tianpeng's teacup, and at night I broke into Chu Tianpeng's room, stole his dagger, and then sneaked into Ning Tianxiang's room, stabbed him in the heart, and killed him. Ning Tianxiang's blood didn't splash out, it just flowed onto my hands, and I wiped it clean with a sweat towel. I had wanted to hide the dagger behind the stable, and then go to the kitchen and burn the sweat towel, but when I hid it, the sweat towel was gone. Later, I learned that it was Liu Xiaodong, the shopkeeper, who picked it up, and he used it to blackmail me, asking me to prepare a thousand taels of silver and trade it in a field in the south of the city at three o'clock, and when the time came, he would hand over the bloody sweat towel. I thought that as long as I saw the shopkeeper and killed him, I would be able to find the bloody sweat towel from his body, but I was wrong, after I covered the shopkeeper to death, I searched his whole body and didn't find the sweat towel. ”
Song Ruilong said slowly: "You didn't find that sweat towel, why didn't you run away?"
Spicy Jiutian sighed and said, "Hey! I also had a fluke mentality, I thought that as long as the killing of Ning Tianxiang was blamed on Liu Xiaodong, the second shopkeeper, I would be not responsible. Also, most importantly, I can't live without Yuexiang Inn, if Yuexiang Inn falls into someone else's hands, then I ...... What is the meaning of my life? ”
Song Ruilong asked lightly: "What about the proprietress Chen Xiaohong?"
Spicy Jiutian looked at Song Ruilong with a surprised face and said: "She is naturally the owner of this inn, as long as I and Chen Xiaohong get married, this inn will be the two of us."
Song Ruilong said with mystery: "It's just a pity, people are not as good as heaven, although you are very accurate, but you ignore a little."
Spicy Jiutian asked in surprise: "Which point?"
Song Ruilong said: "Skynet is magnificent but not leaky, all your crimes are in the eyes of God!"
Spicy Jiutian's body suddenly seemed to be paralyzed, and said, "I still failed in the end." If it was the former county magistrate Guo Yongcai, my few tricks would be enough to cover him up. ”