Song Yichang shook his head and went into the prison, he sat down facing Xiao Rong, and said: "Brother Xiao don't panic, I am Bai Yijie's friend, Yijie believes that Brother Xiao is not a wicked person who can harm people's lives for the sake of face, so he asked me to rush to Daye to find out." ”

Xiao Rong saw Song Yichang say this, and his heart calmed down a little, but then he lowered his eyelids and said in a depressed voice: "It's useless, I am the most degraded person to see the deceased, and no one will believe what I say anymore." ”

"You have to sigh like this all the time," Song Yichang said with squinted eyes, "I can see that you are a left-hander, you are not good at learning, you like to eat candied fruits, and you have a sweetheart who has promised you a kiss in private." How can I help you clear your name? ”

Xiao Rong was taken aback, Song Yichang had never met him, but he suddenly said these things, which caught him off guard.

Song Yichang saw the position of his jade pendant, the honey marks on the corners of his mouth, and the purse hidden under the corners of his clothes.

"Well, I'll start with the case." Song Yichang said: "If there is anything unclear, you can add it." About half a month ago, in the early hours of the morning, a murder occurred in a house on East Street in Daye County, and according to the records of the local government, even in recent years, this is a relatively prominent case in Daye County. The owner of the house is a family surnamed Zhao who migrated from Xuzhou five years ago to escape the war, according to his own introduction, he is a big businessman in Xuzhou who makes porcelain, and his family has a lot of surplus wealth, and after arriving in Daye County, in addition to doing business, he is also kind and charitable, and has a good relationship with his neighbors. ”

Xiao Rong nodded silently.

The owner of the house, Zhao Tianren, does a number of business trips, including selling timber, and his timber is stored in the lumber yard in the backyard. At the second watch of the same day, the neighbors saw the fire in Zhao's house, and hurriedly helped to put out the fire while notifying the yamen to come to the rescue. But what Zhao Jiaweng bought was extremely dry and high-quality wood, and the officers and soldiers of the yamen and the neighbors could not save it, so he watched a whole pile of wood burn into carbon slag before extinguishing it. The yamen asked the owner of the house to inquire about the cause of the fire, only to find out that the owner of the house was missing, and there was no trace inside and outside. The officials found traces of fierce fighting in the master's study, and found that the secret compartment used by the master to hide important items was opened, and it was said that a treasure had been taken away, and an inkstone stained with a small amount of blood was extracted from the scene of the crime. And this inkstone was pointed out by the servant as the guest's belongings. ”

"This guest," Song Yichang stared at Xiao Rong and said slowly, "It is Xiao Rong's son, the grandson of Xiao Zhongkui, the richest man in Daye County." ”

"The yamen side is said to have strong evidence that Xiao Rong Gongzi killed people because of his anger. Therefore, Xiao Gongzi was arrested first, and in the subsequent further investigation of the scene, more unfavorable evidence was found for Xiao Gongzi, blood stains and traces of dragging heavy objects forward were found on the way from the study to the timber yard, and sure enough, the burned and fragmented corpse remains were found in the ash heap embers of the timber yard. According to these clues, the yamen organized the case, which should be that the victim was hit by an inkstone in the study and died on the spot. ”

"Exactly." The team leader said: "The conclusion was made at the time of the arrest, and Xiao Gongzi's guilt as the biggest suspect has almost been determined. ”

Song Yichang smiled meaningfully: "There are several points in this that are worth careful consideration. ”

"I said it, I didn't kill Zhao Weng at all!" Xiao Rong said loudly: "Someone framed me for all this!" ”

"So." Song Yichang motioned for him to be quiet, and said slowly: "Can you just tell me this suspicious thing as it is?" ”

"Declare in advance that Zhao Weng and I have never known each other." Xiao Rong said: "But we have known each other's names for a while, and he and I like to play with strange stones, and when I say I like it, I am particularly obsessed." ”

"We like to play with stone friends, there is a meeting place in Daye County, we have a perennial room in a restaurant in Daye County as an activity location, often get together to appreciate and play with strange stones. This Zhao Weng has a lot of rare and interesting stones in his house, which are often displayed at meetings, but every time I go to a party, I always pass by him. It wasn't until the gathering the day before the crime that I got a glimpse of the true face of this Tibetan friend known as the Stone King. ”

"Then what does this Zhao Weng look like?" Song Yichang asked with interest.

"To be honest, he doesn't come across as an eye-catcher." Xiao Rong seriously recalled the original scene: "He is very small, and he is a little obscene, like a mink that hides himself under a gorgeous brocade garment. But when it comes to his collection, it is really amazing, he took the three stones that day, either majestic and magnificent, or delicate and elegant, are rare in the world. ”

Speaking of stones, Xiao Rong's eyes also lit up: "At that time, he stared at me, as if he was very happy, and told me that there was a superb Shoushan stone in his home, which had the appearance of a dragon and a tiger fighting each other, which was natural and extremely majestic." ”

"'That's so precious, I don't dare show it to others.' He said. ”

"I said, 'If only my uncle were here, he would be able to see these stones of Zhao Weng, and he would not know how happy Lu Dao would be!' ”

"Speaking of which, my uncle is playing for Meng Dashuai in Huangzhou, and he is a stone idiot like me." Xiao Rong couldn't help but smile when he mentioned this uncle who had the same temperament as himself.

Then Zhao Weng invited me to his home to admire and play with this strange stone. But he regarded the strange stone as if it were his life, and would never take it out to see it during the day. I must wait until after the lamp is in place before I am allowed to visit him at his house. So I waited for the lantern to be in charge of the lamp, and then went to the Zhao family's mansion to pay a visit."

"Who opened the door for you?" Song Yichang suddenly asked.

"It's a middle-aged servant woman who looks quite athletic."

"I think this is the person who identified Brother Xiao afterwards." Song Yichang turned his head and asked the team leader, who nodded in acknowledgement.

"You go on." Song Yichang said to Xiao Rong, and he couldn't tell whether he was happy or worried.

The woman led me directly to the master's study, Zhao Weng was waiting for me in the study, and when the servant woman left, he carefully closed the doors and windows. Moved the museum shelf away, and reached out and pushed the mechanism, revealing a dark grid. ”

"Dark Gray is that strange stone, I'll tell you the truth, don't look at my young age, I have seen not 10,000 stones but 5,000 squares, I have never seen such a rare and magnificent strange stone, I believe that in the whole world's stones, it can be compared with it, and I can't find a second one."

Song Yichang hummed simply, obviously he didn't care about the rarity of this stone, and just asked lightly, "When did you watch it later?" ”

"Encounter this kind of world's best, I must want to have a good time to play and appreciate, if you say sex, I'm afraid that you can't do it in your hands for three days and three nights. It's a pity that Zhao Weng is extremely stingy with this baby, I only played for more than an hour, and he hurriedly urged me to go back. ”

"'If Childe likes it, I'll always ask you to play with it in the future.'" Why rush today. As he spoke, he pushed me out, and I pleaded with him, but to no avail, I had to say goodbye. When I left, the Shoushan stone was still on the table and was not taken back into the dark grid, so I said goodbye to Zhao's house and quietly returned home, because I was afraid that I would be scolded by my father and mother when I returned home late. I also secretly opened the side door with the configured key and slipped back to my room. ”

"So, when will you come home, none of your family can prove it?"

Xiao Rong nodded awkwardly.

"That's how it happened." The head of the squad said: "The speculation of the county order and the arrest is very consistent that Xiao Gongzi's words are not credible, the fact is very simple, after Xiao Gongzi saw the rare Shoushan stone, he couldn't resist the temptation of the strange stone, and tried to take it for himself, so he took advantage of Zhao Weng's unpreparedness, slammed Zhao Weng on the head with an inkstone, and dragged the body into the wood yard in the back garden to burn the corpse to cover up the crime, and then fled with the Shoushan stone. ”

Song Yichang said with a smile: "The analysis is reasonable, but after the fact, I searched in detail in the Xiao family's Xiao Gongzi's room, and I didn't find that rare stone." ”

"Since the murderer dared to set fire to the body, of course he would have thought that the government would conduct a large-scale search later, and it was very possible to hide the stone elsewhere."

Song Yichang smiled and said, "In this case, this case is simple. But I always feel that it seems a little too simple, imagine that you are the head of the team, will you commit murder when the master explicitly invites you to go to the stone, when there are already witnesses who have seen you enter the master's study? Isn't that a clear notice to the government that you are the only suspect in the crime? Another point, since the murderer thought of burning the body to cover up the evidence, why would he be so careless to leave the inkstone as a clue? Honestly, it doesn't make sense at all. ”

"There's nothing that can't be explained, Xiao Gongzi killed someone for the first time, and his heart was inevitably panicked, and it was reasonable to forget to clean up the inkstone, not to mention that except for Xiao Gongzi, you can't find any other possible murderer."

"The murderer is another problem. It is easy to find other more reasonable explanations, such as when Zhao Weng and Xiao Gongzi were admiring the stone in the study, a snitch sneaked under the window lattice outside the study, and heard Zhao Weng talk about how precious and valuable this stone was, and when Xiao Gongzi went out, he picked up the inkstone left by Xiao Gongzi in the study and killed Zhao Weng, snatched the stone and burned his body to extinction. ”