"Lord Shen, are you saying that someone beat the deceased before he fell from the building?"

Lu Xiang also had the same speculation in his heart, so he asked more.

"Yes, hit the face with a blunt object, ahem...... And it is very likely that this is the fatal injury. ”

This would explain the fact that there were grooved dent wounds on the face that did not fit the ground, and the strangeness of the deceased dying without any convulsions after falling from the building.

"But the entourage has been guarding the door, and apart from the sound of the window opening in the middle, they haven't heard anything to move."

Zu Yong raised doubts, he specially explained to his subordinates, and he must rush in immediately when he hears any abnormal movement.

"That's the hand that moves when it's not around, like cough cough cough...... After the sound of the window opening, he often chased them downstairs to the street during this time. ”

At this point, everyone was even more puzzled, and they all started talking about it for a while.

"Wasn't the deceased in the room at that time?"

"Tsk, with such a serious injury, the sound response should be so loud that many people can hear it?"

"Where were you beaten to death? There were no signs of a fight. ”

Shen Chi thought quietly, completely ignoring the doubts of the people around him.

Zu Yong's Chang ran to the middle of the crowd with a few steps, panting and reporting:

"The little ones searched the store, but they didn't see the bartender, but they only inquired about the man's name was Niu Fang."

"First ask someone who is familiar with Niu Fang in the store, draw a portrait, and immediately want it in the whole city."

Shen Chi immediately commanded.

"Lord Shen, since the deceased fell from the building, this place has been sealed, and no one has entered or left yet."

Yiqiu reminded him that in fact, since the gambling was opened here, Zu Yong was afraid of many people and bad things, so he almost chartered the venue, and there were very few customers in the Daye Gambling House these days.

Shen Chi pondered for a moment, and then added:

"Ahem...... Then start from the Daye gambling house, search along the upstream and downstream banks of the Dinglong River, or arrest people. ”

Everyone knew that if the main gate could not escape, it was very likely that there would be a party on the river to meet them.

After all, all the windows on the first floor are open next to the river, and it is very easy to escape if there is a boat under the window to jump out of the window.

A few days ago, Zu Yong used a similar method to rescue the orchid worm.

"Ahem, the information you can get from the corpse...... That's all", Shen Chi raised his head and looked upstairs, "After the sound of opening the window, I found that the deceased was not in the room...... Ahem...... If we infer from the location of the fall, the deceased could only be in that room, or on the roof of the building. ”

After saying that, he first took off his robe and got up and entered the gambling house, and everyone followed him upstairs, and found that the room corresponding to the place where he fell was still the private room where the deceased was.

"Is it possible that he went to the top of the building?"

Yiqiu was puzzled, so he had to say in confusion.

This time, it was the shopkeeper of the gambling house who made a noise, and there was a life lawsuit in his own store, and so many high-ranking officials and dignitaries entered the store at once, so he could only follow and serve, for fear that the slightest mistake would cause him to not be able to keep his business.

"Miss Hui Lin knows that there is no passage to the roof of a river building like ours. Of course, if the deceased climbed out of this window and climbed up, the young man with light hands and feet might be able to barely climb up with the help of a rope and ladder, but this side of the window is Jiaolan Lane Street, where people come and go, and if someone makes such a big move to climb the building, someone has already seen it. ”

His tone was very humble and funny, but the truth was real, if according to Fang Cai's inference, the deceased was thrown downstairs after being hit in the face and killed by someone upstairs, wouldn't it be that both the deceased and the murderer had to climb to the top of the building to complete the case?

Yiqiu's face was slightly red, and he smiled and waved his hand to the shopkeeper:

"It's only because our people did see that the deceased was not in the room, so I have this conjecture, which is also a blind guess."

Shen Chi also smiled and said:

"Ahem...... The old man is also very puzzled, and he has the same doubts as Miss Lin. Now I want to confirm whether the roof of the building is a murder scene, cough...... There is also a simple way, teach people to climb to the top of the building to see, these days there is snow in Kyoto, presumably there is snow on the roof has not melted, there are no traces of walking at a glance. ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly answered the promise, and instructed the people in the store to prepare to go down the long ladder, and Lu Xiang assigned two officers and soldiers to go to the roof to find out.

Shen Chi did not stand in place and wait, but walked into the elegant room and slowly paced around, looking leisurely.

In the middle of the room is a large dining table for eight people, where food and wine are still served. The furnishings on the four walls are elegant, but because it is a place for the guests of the gambling house to eat and drink, the furniture is very rare, in addition to the tables and chairs for dining, there are only a few small tables and rattan chairs for the guests to rest, and on both sides of the entrance, there is a flower stand for a hug of white plums, and on the other side is a half-person high quadrangular cabinet, which is usually used to store some tablecloths, chairs, hand towels and other things.

Shen Chi thought for a moment in front of the quadrangular cabinet, then leaned over and opened the cabinet door, and there were several piles of fabrics stuffed in between, as if they had been put in in a panic.

At this time, two officers and soldiers of Shuntian Mansion Yin came in from outside and said;

"Ladies and gentlemen, the subordinates have only seen the roof, there is a thin snow melting, and there is no trace of human activity."

The shopkeeper of the gambling house also bent his waist and smiled at everyone, and when he saw the four-corner cabinet beside Shen Chi, he couldn't help frowning:

"What kind of lazy killer is this, we have rules in the store, the things in this cabinet are all new and washed, you can't put it in so indiscriminately, it's all wrinkled when you use it, how can it be good."

As soon as he said it, he had to tidy it up himself, for fear that this messy cabinet would smash the signboard of his store in front of all the powerful.

Shen Chi's body moved and stopped in front of the cabinet, and said softly:

"Since there are rules in the shopkeeper's shop, most of the guys in the store follow them, ahem...... I'm afraid that the contents of this cabinet were randomly stuffed into it in a panic. ”

Zu Yong picked up the hat placed on the cabinet and said in surprise:

"Didn't he never take off this hat, why did he put it here?"

Shen Chi carefully took out a few rolls of unkempt tablecloth chairs in the cabinet and examined them one by one, but did not see any clues.

Then he took the candlestick probe and looked into the cabinet, and saw that there were yellowish-gray dust marks under the inner wall of one side, like half a shoe print.

Shen Chi breathed a sigh of relief:

"Ahem...... It looks like someone was hiding in this cabinet before. ”

He got up again and walked to the table, lifted the lid of the flask and shook it, then put his nose to the side of the glass and muttered:

"Well, I haven't had time to drink the wine yet."

"Ladies and gentlemen, the old man has a rough inference about how the murderer committed the murder, cough cough cough ......"

"Niu Fang knocked the deceased unconscious when delivering wine and put it in the corner cabinet, at this time Niu Fang went out of the door as usual, it should be taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the person to hide in the next room, and opened the window sash in a certain way to make a sound, attracting the ancestral family to follow in to check, and after people mistakenly thought that the deceased jumped out of the window and fled downstairs, Niu Fang dived back into the room again and dragged the deceased out, wrapped the deceased's head with the oil paper that is often available in the restaurant, hit the deceased in the face with a blunt object to death, peeled off the oil paper again, and threw the deceased face down from the window."

"At present, the murder weapon has not been found, and the old man suspects that the murder weapon is the fork rod of the window sash."