Chapter Seventy-Six: Extraneous Branches
Li Canghai's heart warmed, and there was a touch of tenderness in his eyes, and he said with relief: "It's okay, judging from your previous description, that person's martial arts should be inferior to yours, maybe he is hiding somewhere." Let's go back first, and then think about the long term. ”
Di Qing originally looked a little depressed, but when she heard him say this, her mood suddenly improved.
The two returned to the inn, Di Qing helped him treat the wound, and fed him a pill to treat internal injuries, and then he was relieved.
"Canghai, why did this group of people kill you?" Di Qing poured a glass of water, handed it over, and asked puzzled.
Regarding 'Reverse Scale Xuanwu', Li Canghai did not reveal half a sentence to her. In her opinion, the two of them had just arrived in Luofengji and had not provoked anyone, so how could anyone want to kill him?
Li Canghai was pondering whether to tell her the truth when there was a sudden anxious knock on the door.
"Your Excellency, Your Excellency! Oh no, something big happened, Zhuo Bufan died! Chang Feng stood outside the door and shouted eagerly.
Li Canghai stood up suddenly, he hurriedly opened the door, and walked to the backyard without saying a word.
Since Luo Fengji did not have a cell, Li Canghai originally planned to lock Zhuo Bufan and Liu Cuier in the firewood room of the inn for a night, and escort Chang Feng and others back to Zhengyang County early tomorrow morning.
However, before this night passed, Zhuo Bufan died violently inexplicably.
In the firewood room, Li Canghai's face was cold, not only Zhuo Bufan, but even Liu Cuier also died.
"The body is still warm, it should have just died." Li Canghai touched the bodies of the two, and his brows suddenly furrowed.
Di Qing asked curiously, "How is it, what have you found?" ”
"Purple lips, pale complexion, and dilated pupils are symptoms of suffocation." Li Canghai checked it carefully, and suddenly shook his head again: "No, the throats of the two people are broken, and they were choked to death." ”
Di Qing is not good at reasoning, but she is very familiar with all kinds of injuries, she leaned over, carefully observed for a while, and said: "Judging from the pinch marks on the throats of the two people, the person who started the attack has extremely high martial arts. ”
"Oh? How so? Li Canghai asked.
"If ordinary people want to cut each other's throats, they must use great force, and they will leave clear pinch marks on their necks, just like when Liu Cuier and her husband pinch each other, there will be pinch marks on their necks. Those who know martial arts will accurately find the most vulnerable part of the throat, and then with a force, they can easily cut the throat, so that the pinch marks left will not be too obvious. ”
Di Qing said, then stretched out his hand and demonstrated it to him.
Di Qing's description was very accurate, and Li Canghai, who listened to it, couldn't help but think that his neck made a 'click' sound, and someone twisted it in two.
Twisting his neck unnaturally, Li Canghai showed an approving smile to her, and then asked, "Other than that, are there any other doubts?" ”
Seeing Li Canghai's encouraging gaze, Di Qing's confidence greatly increased, she checked Zhuo Bufan's corpse, and suddenly frowned: "This person's martial arts are not weak, why was he choked by someone's throat, but he was killed without any resistance?" ”
Li Canghai gave her a thumbs up sincerely, glanced around and said, "Qing'er, if you can find this, it means that you are becoming more and more handy at solving cases." Look around the corpse, there is no sign of chaos around Zhuo Bufan, but Liu Cuier's side is messy, what does this mean? ”
Di Qing glanced at the place where the two had fallen, Zhuo Bufan was close to the pyre, as long as he resisted, there should be messy marks around.
But the scene is just the opposite, judging from the traces on the ground, Liu Cuier seems to have climbed to the corner of the wall in a panic from Zhuo Bufan's side, but there were some traces of struggle in the corner.
"It shows that the murderer is someone Zhuo Bufan knows!" Di Qing looked at the traces of the scene and suddenly spoke.
Li Canghai snapped his fingers and said approvingly: "Yes, the murderer should be someone who knows Zhuo Bufan." Only in the face of acquaintances, will you be defenseless. If my guess is correct, this should be the case. The murderer suddenly appeared in the firewood room, making Zhuo Bufan think that the murderer was here to rescue him, but he didn't expect the other party to suddenly attack the killer. Defenseless, he didn't have time to resist, and the murderer directly cut his throat. And Liu Cuier climbed to the corner of the wall in a panic, struggled for a while, and was killed by the murderer. ”
"Your Excellency is truly a man of God! It's only been a stick of incense for a while, and such a complicated case has been solved! Chang Feng praised in time.
Li Canghai glanced at him and shouted, "Don't pat yourself on the back!" You think you're Li Yuanfang! Let me ask you, at the time of the crime, did anyone enter the firewood room? ”
Chang Feng was frightened by his shout, and wondered in his heart, who is this Li Yuanfang?
However, seeing that Li Canghai was displeased, he hurriedly said: "Since the detention to the present, no one has entered the firewood room, and the little one is also wondering, how could these two people suddenly die violently." ”
Li Canghai stomped a few steps, and as soon as Di Qing went to chase the mysterious person, the two of them were killed, and this incident was probably not accidental.
"Who brought the dinner?" He walked over to the table, picked up the bowl of rice, and suddenly asked.
There was no shortage of rice in this bowl, and it was clear that the deceased did not have time to eat it before he died.
"Back to my lord, dinner was delivered by the second shopkeeper." Chang Feng replied in a cold sweat.
Li Canghai pondered for a moment, and then said, "Find the shopkeeper for questioning." ”
Chang Feng nodded yes and hurriedly ran out.
After a while, the shopkeeper covered his head and followed Chang Feng step by step.
"What's going on?" Li Canghai frowned.
"Back to my lord, when I found him, he was knocked unconscious by the haystack." Chang Feng replied, and as he spoke, he pulled down the shopkeeper and said, "Little Er, tell the adults what happened to you." ”
The shopkeeper touched his head and said a little confused: "Big ...... The adult, the small one came to deliver food, but I didn't expect to be knocked unconscious as soon as I walked out of the kitchen. ”
When Chang Feng heard this, he immediately understood what was going on, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and shouted, "My lord, it was the villain who took care of it and let the thief take advantage of it." The villain is wrong, and the villain is willing to be punished! ”
Li Canghai was a little bored in his heart, and he waved his hand to let Chang Feng get up.
They can't be blamed for this kind of thing, after all, the other party is a martial arts master, if they really recognize the truth of the murderer, I'm afraid that none of these officials will survive.
"Canghai, what should we do now?" Di Qing saw that his brows were tightly knit, so he asked.
For Di Qing, she seems to have gotten used to it, and Li Canghai makes decisions from time to time.
"It's really an eventful season, with waves of unevenness rising again and again." Li Canghai shook his head, sighed helplessly, and muttered: "So far, I can only take one step at a time." ”