Liu Tianxiong looked at the clean floor and the clean table, and said, "Xiao Er, did you clean this room yourself?" ”

The shopkeeper nodded and said, "It's the small one that cleans." There are few guys in the store, so I have to do everything alone. ”

Liu Tianxiong asked a little strangely: "The guests in your inn, after sleeping every night, do you take away all the bedding and tea sets used by the guests?" ”

The shopkeeper shook his head and said, "Oh, no. Not every guest sleeps and we take away their bedding. For example, if you stay in this room for one night, we will never take away the bedding and tea set. ”

Wei Bixiao heard someone praise herself, and she was also very comfortable, and said, "Then why did you take away the futon in Zhao Ping's room?" ”

The shopkeeper squinted his eyes and said a little mysteriously: "Guest officer, you don't know anything. Although Uncle Zhao said that he had money in his hands, he did have a very unpleasant smell. The smell is bigger than the smell inside the hut. That night, after he took a shower, the water in the tub stenched like ink. The next day, after that Zhao Ping left, the little one went to his room and smelled it, good guy, I almost didn't faint to the ground. Smelling Uncle Zhao's cup and futon again, I want to vomit myself. Tell me, officer, if I don't take the bedding used by such a guest to wash it, I'm afraid that no guest will want to live in this room again. ”

After listening to the words of the shopkeeper, Master Liu didn't have any ideas, but he felt that it was not easy to open an inn.

Liu Tianxiong didn't ask any valuable clues at the Youlong Inn, but only proved one thing, Zhao Ping was indeed at the Youlong Inn on the night Ning Tianxiang was killed, and he didn't have the time to kill.

Wei Bixiao and Liu Tianxiong were walking on the way back to Ping'an County, and at this time, the sun was already much westerly. Wei Bixiao said: "Master Liu, do you think this Zhao Ping has time to commit the crime?" ”

Liu Tianxiong said: "Didn't you already ask?" This Zhao Ping has been at the Dragon Inn all night, and it is impossible for him to have time to commit crimes. ”

Wei Bixiao's eyes rolled and said, "What if the shopkeeper is lying?" ”

Liu Tianxiong shook his head and said, "Impossible. The shopkeeper introduced Zhao Ping's situation to us wholeheartedly, and from his eyes and tone, it was very smooth, not like he was lying. ”

Wei Bixiao said: "There is one more thing, that is, this morning, I didn't find any particularly bad smell on Zhao Ping's body in the county office, but why did the shopkeeper say that Zhao Ping's body had a very big smell?" ”

Liu Tianxiong shook his head and said, "I don't know about this. If you want to know if Zhao Ping's body really has a very bad smell, I think we should smell it carefully after we return to Ping'an County. ”

The breeze blew the crops in the fields, bringing Song Ruilong a very pleasant air.

The air soon filled the air with another very unpleasant smell, the smell of dead bodies.

Mao Tieshi took Song Ruilong to the dry well in his field, and said to Song Ruilong: "My lord, please look, this is the dead man." ”

Song Ruilong squatted down and looked into the dry well, and sure enough, there was a person standing upside down in the dry well.

Song Ruilong instructed one of the officials to tie the rope, and the other one stood on the dry well and pulled the rope, and slowly sent the official to the well.

After Song Ruilong looked around the field, he found a row of footprints. The row of footprints was not very wide, but it was clearly stepped on.

Song Ruilong himself stepped on the ground a few times, but his footprints didn't reach the ground.

When the two officials pulled the deceased out of the dry well, Song Ruilong looked at it and said with some surprise: "Oh, I didn't expect it to be Liu Xiaodong, the shopkeeper of Yuexiang Inn." ”

Liu Xiaodong was still answering Liu Tianxiong's question yesterday, but he didn't expect that he would become a dead corpse today.

After Song Ruilong carefully examined the body of the shopkeeper, he found that his head had traces of being hit by a stone, and from the wound, the stone was very large and flat.

Song Ruilong looked under the dry well, and sure enough, he saw a very flat stone, and there was not much blood on the stone.

Song Ruilong looked at the throat of the shopkeeper again, and he found that there was no trace of the shopkeeper's throat being stuck.

Mao Tieshi looked at it for a while, couldn't help the anger in his heart, and said, "Which bastard is this, his heart is too ruthless, right?" He actually pushed the man headfirst into the dry well, and let the man die alive by a stone. ”

Song Ruilong shook his head and said, "This person was not killed by a stone. ”

Mao Tieshi asked puzzledly: "Why do you say that?" You can see that his head has obvious marks of being hit by a stone from the well. He did fall headfirst as he did. ”

Song Ruilong pointed to the wound on Liu Xiaodong's head and said, "You take a closer look at his wound." ”

Mao Tieshi's eyes widened again, and finally he shook his head and said, "The little one can't see any clues." ”

Song Ruilong said: "First of all, you see a wound the size of a fist. Just this one wound can kill Liu Xiaodong. If this wound is smashed out of a living person, the blood on his head will continue to flow out until the person is dead. But what is it? ”

Song Ruilong asked Mao Tieshi to take a look at the dry well.

Mao Tieshi said: "But there is not much blood on this Liu Xiaodong's head, and those blood stains are not even covered with the big stone under the well." ”

Song Ruilong said: "Why is this? ”

Mao Tieshi shook his head like a rattle and said, "I don't know." ”

Song Ruilong said: "This is because the wound on Liu Xiaodong's head was knocked out by the stone in the well after he died, in other words, after the murderer killed Liu Xiaodong, he threw him headfirst into the dry well." ”

Mao Tieshi kept nodding, and suddenly he raised his head and said, "But my lord, since this Liu Xiaodong was not killed by a big stone under the dry well, nor was he strangled to death, then how did he die?" ”

Song Ruilong walked to Liu Xiaodong's side, squatted down, looked at Liu Xiaodong's nose, and said, "You take a closer look at Liu Xiaodong's nose and his eyes, as well as the traces on his face, what did you find?" ”

After observing for a while, Mao Tieshi said, "My lord, the bridge of his nose seems to have been broken, and there are still blood stains. Also, there were signs of something squeezing him in the corners of his eyes, as well as on his face. ”