Chapter 488: Poison Needle
The phrase "go shopping" elicits different reactions.
As a child, Pei Qingqing's reaction is joyful, children are playful by nature, and they always keep people in one place, so they have to hold back their illness, not to mention Pei Qingqing, who is already lively and active.
Zhou Shilin's instinctive reaction was to be shocked, and then immediately became vigilant, ready to arrange for someone to go out with her.
Bai Zhijun said that he wanted to go with her, and the reason was also very good, he had not been to the city since he came to Shanxi Road. Of course, as previously analyzed, the most important reason is that General Gu and Lord Zhao walked around the city before they were killed. Although I haven't found the relationship between this walk around and the murder of the two people for the time being, it is always frightening.
In this regard, Qiao Ran responded one by one and did not refuse.
That happened before dinner, Qiao Ran turned over, opened her eyes, and looked at Pei Qingqing, who was sleeping with her fingers biting her fingers in the quilt next to her, the girl was sleeping well, and she gradually got used to her turning over and getting up at night.
Qiao Ran got up and lifted the quilt and got out of bed, and then put on her robe and went out.
There was no one walking around in the hotel late at night, and the wall lamps were dim, although it was a little dim, but it was not completely impossible to see the inside of the hotel.
The figure leaning on the handrail of the stairs was pulled by the dim light, and Qiao Ran smiled and walked towards him.
Zhang Xie looked down at the girl who came over, and said in a low voice, "The thing has been found." ”
The girl's figure is also tall among women, but it is still a lot smaller than that of men. As soon as he looked down, he saw the girl's smooth and beautiful forehead resting on her lips.
Such an inadvertent ambiguity made his breathing instinctively stagnate, and he wanted to get close for a while, and even wanted to drop a kiss on that forehead.
Looking at the beauty under the lamp is already intoxicating, especially when this beauty is still her sweetheart. He couldn't take his eyes off for a while, and I have to say that he still seemed to overestimate his concentration. A gentleman? He is not a god after all, he also has seven emotions and six desires, and when facing his sweetheart, he will inevitably have the idea of wanting to kiss Fangze.
Time seemed to stand still for a moment, and after a moment of silence, he leaned back slightly, and his eyes couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips when his eyes fell on the two scarlets on the girl's cheeks.
"Where?" The girl looked up, her eyes swept over, and there was some sparkling in her peach blossom eyes.
Zhang Xie was stunned for a moment, and after a while, he lowered his head and looked into her eyes with a smile: "Come with me." ”
The hotel was quiet, so quiet that only the sound of each other's breathing sounded in my ears.
Qiao Ran lowered her eyes, and for some reason, her cheeks were a little hot.
Late at night, men and women quietly go out, which is really hard to make people think of some beautiful things. Even if they knew in their hearts that what they were doing was not a late-night tryst, it still made people can't help but feel a little abnormal heartbeat.
Pushing open the door of the room where the miscellaneous items were piled up in the corner, Qiao Ran took a deep breath, suppressed the throbbing in his heart, and followed Zhang Xie in.
This is a room where all kinds of miscellaneous items are piled up in the hotel, and Zhang Xie did not turn over the miscellaneous items in the room, but directly took her to the corner with a few bamboo umbrellas hanging on the wall.
The umbrella she asked him to help find was here.
"It's hard not to be suspicious of General Gu's and Lord Zhao's wounds and their location." Qiao Ran said softly, "So the method used by the other party must be very special." ”
The method of poisoning must not be suspicious, but it must be obvious if it falls on the instep of the two people.
Qiao Ran looked down at the embroidered shoes on her feet, and raised her feet to gently cover the deerskin boots of Zhang Jie.
For example, it's not surprising that someone stepped on someone when going out.
Zhang Xie also lowered his head and looked at the surface of his feet. The already small embroidered shoes looked more delicate and cute against the backdrop of the deerskin foot boots, obviously doing the right thing, but for some reason, he couldn't help but think about something else tonight.
Compared to his deerskin foot boots, Ranran's shoes were so small that he seemed to be able to hold them with one hand.
"There will be pain when you are stepped on, if you take advantage of that moment and the person who does it is skilled, General Gu and Lord Zhao will only think that they are being stepped on or choked by the gravel on the sole of the other party's shoes, and they will not particularly care."
The girl's voice was soft and good, Zhang Xie looked at the smile on her face and responded.
This echoes...... In the past, the clear and clean voice didn't know why it was a little more unspeakably hoarse and confusing, Qiao Ran lowered her eyes, and for a moment she didn't dare to look at his eyes.
The dim lighting of this hotel is really too beautiful, they are obviously very serious about doing business, but it seems to be a private meeting.
"But how to let the poison on the needle fall on the instep of General Gu and Lord Zhao is a problem." Qiao Ran looked down at the upper of his shoe, "It is obviously impossible to use a special long needle to facilitate your hands or deliberately lie down and squat in front of General Gu and Lord Zhao to do it, it is difficult not to attract people's attention, and General Gu is still a skilled master." ”
"So, the murderer should have used tools." Qiao Ran's gaze shifted from the upper of the shoe to the several bamboo umbrellas hanging on the wall.
"Before we came to Shanxi Road, it had been snowing on Shanxi Road, and because it hadn't snowed since we came, there was one thing that was put away, and it was collected reasonably, and no one doubted it."
Umbrella.
Of course, there are people who don't hold umbrellas on snowy days, but umbrellas are not an anomaly on snowy days.
"They must have brought umbrellas with them when they traveled." Qiao Ran said.
Zhang Xie reached out and took down one of the bamboo umbrellas, handed it to her, and said, "Only this umbrella handle is empty." "Now it's just an ordinary hollow bamboo umbrella.
But the most important thing for umbrellas is to protect them from the wind and rain. A hollow bamboo umbrella is propped up, and the handle of the umbrella is hollowed, and the rainwater is poured from the handle of the umbrella, and the rain leaks from the handle of the umbrella at hand as you walk, which is a bit strange to think about.
"The umbrella surface is new." Zhang Xie stretched it open and looked at it, and said.
If it is an old umbrella, the other party may still quibble about "disrepair", and some may be small, but it does not mean that there is none. For example, Zhou Shilin's bizarre reasoning.
"It's easy to do with this umbrella, the murderer should have stuffed compacted snow in the handle of the umbrella on the spot, and then fixed the poison needle at the head of the umbrella." Qiao Ran said and took the umbrella from Zhang Xie and put it away, holding the umbrella in one hand, it hung down naturally, and let the umbrella head fall on the instep.
"The moment you step on your feet like this, not many people will pay attention to the panic at that time."
A wound like a needle hole in the instep is so bizarre that it is not easy to explain such a poisoning method, and this umbrella is the best evidence of her reasoning.
Zhang Xie put away the umbrella and said: "Since the murderer was able to arrange the mechanism later, it can be seen that he is a person who is very familiar with this hotel, and he should be a person in the museum......
"It's also possible that someone has a quota, or a disguise or something." Qiao Ran thought for a moment and said, "It's not easy to figure out what every handyman and maid looks like. ”
There are too many and too many of these things, even if Zhou Shilin does his best, it is difficult not to make mistakes.
"However, although I don't know the problem of these people, this person must be General Gu and Lord Zhao who were also on leave or absent from office on the day they went to the city to hang out." Qiao Ran said with a smile on her face, and said lightly, "There are not many people like this. And, I'm sure the man hasn't gone yet. ”
"One blow succeeded, and General Gu and Lord Zhao were solved, but it made people helpless, giving him enough confidence that he would not be discovered." The girl smiled suddenly as she spoke, "And at this time, I have to do the same thing as General Gu and Lord Zhao, and the murderer should also be ready to do something to me." ”
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The news that someone had an accident in Lishan when he saw the snow soon gave Chang'an City, which had been quiet for a long time, a fierce medicine.
The teahouse tavern that had been resting for several days was lively again for a while.
The name Kun Zhi has also become known to everyone in the entire Chang'an City with the chanting in the mouth of the storyteller.
"Being a little guy and doing this can be regarded as famous." Xu and Xiu Muran looked at the storyteller who kept talking "Kun Zhi" and "Kun Zhi" in his mouth, and rolled his eyes.
For a while, even Kun Zhi was the illegitimate son of the Xu family, and this kind of bridge was arranged by someone.
Several officials of Dali Temple shook their heads again and again while listening: "This is also a panic." "Even if they were idle for a long time, they suddenly encountered a case, didn't they happily take over?
I don't think there are a lot of things in the day, but I am really idle and there are not enough idle things.
It's really cheap.
It's just that for this case, it's just a group of idle and panicked officials in Dali Temple: after all, it's just a small guy who died.
Although I came to listen to the story during the lunch break, after listening to a few words, I saw that the storyteller was talking nonsense there, and everyone lost the interest in continuing to listen, and talked about the case itself.
"This Kunzhi's death should be related to the person who broke the bridge." An official peeled peanuts from a dry dish on the table and ate them.
"And that Xue Huai must also know something." Someone on the side followed
These two points are recognized by everyone, Xu Hexiu thought about it, and said: "The official is still searching the mountain, and I don't know if I can find some evidence or something." ”
Having said that, there is little hope, after all, it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack to find something from the entire Lishan Mountain.
Several officials also sighed a few times, followed and chatted a few more words, and then saw Xu Hexiu get up, folded his robe and said to everyone: "You guys continue to play, in the afternoon I will visit a few Guozijian students who are familiar with Xue Huai, and ask them if this Xue Huai has any other entanglements with those people in the day." ”
Several officials hurriedly said "yes", the dead Kun Zhi had something to do with the Xu family, and Xu Hexiu was naturally very active in this case.
Of course, this is also due to the fact that Xu Hexiu's cousin in the clan was trapped in the Que Tower.
However, those people in the Que Tower should be fine, because the lights of the Que Tower can be seen at night every day, and the craftsman supervisor is still repairing the bridge, and when the bridge is repaired, you should be able to see those people in the Que Tower.
Several officials of Dali Temple sighed with emotion, and after Xu Hexiu left, he drank another empty pot of tea, and suddenly changed his face when he asked someone to add tea: "Lord Xu said that he invited us to drink tea, but he left without paying the bill?" ”
This meal of tea is not a small amount! I haven't seen a guest and let them do the checkout of the guests, this Lord Xu didn't mean it!
An official-like person in the teahouse box turned on his back.
Xu Hexiu, who hadn't noticed that he had defaulted on his debts, just held an umbrella and looked down at the names on the paper and couldn't help laughing.
It's really a coincidence, one of the several students who lived in the same courtyard as Xue Huai in the Guozi Supervision School was an acquaintance, and he didn't follow him to Lishan, so it could almost be concluded that this matter had nothing to do with him.
When questioning, it is naturally best to ask irrelevant people.
Joe Shu! Xu He Xiushen walked towards the house that "he rented to Miss Qiao".
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I didn't know that someone was about to come to the door, and the red beans were roasting around the charcoal basin and sighed: "It's really not easy to be an official of Dali Temple, Tang Zhongyuan's unlucky one was called to search the mountain again." ”
What can be found on such a snowy day?
Fang Xiuting responded casually, glanced at her, and continued to look down at the book. Miss Xu Shi's book is quite good-looking, she has read it for the second time, and she doesn't know when the second book will come out.
Hongdou, who didn't wait for a response, pushed her dissatisfiedly and said, "You say a few words!" ”
In addition to the two of them, the rest of the Qiao Shu in the family went back to the room to study, and the second Mrs. Fang somehow recently indulged in tinkering with those two pots of plum blossoms, saying that they were going to be planted and given to Mr. Luo, who had been widowed for several years. Because Mr. Luo likes Lamei.
When I think about it, the red beans have a subtle feeling. I always felt that the "long-missing" Fang Er Master might have some other colors on his head.
In this regard, she also vaguely reminded Fang Xiuting, but after Fang Xiuting heard this, she only rolled her eyes and said: "I look at Mr. Luo very well, gentle and elegant, and has a good temper, although the family is not rich, but in terms of appearance and knowledge, he is much better than my father." ”
Unexpectedly, she actually agreed to let Second Mrs. Fang sprinkle some color on Second Master Fang's head.
In this regard, Fang Xiuting just scoffed.
Her father's kind of person has no ability, and when he comes back from being angry outside, he beats people to death, she still remembers this! Since she was a child, she has been close to her mother. Let's talk about raising her, to be honest, it's not her father who really uses real money to support the Fang family, it's the eldest aunt! Even with money, her father didn't take care of the two of them, but got a concubine and came back.
She had already seen that her father was not a good thing.
Now that someone disappeared as soon as they entered the city, she didn't know who had taken her dad away, but the broom star said that her dad wasn't dead. She didn't know whether it was disappointment or other emotions, anyway, she had calculated with her mother, if her father came back, her mother would go to reconcile with her father. As for her brother who spends all day studying in Jinling Library, he wants to be with them, and if he wants to go with his father, he will follow her father, anyway, her father still loves his son.
If her father doesn't come back, Broom Star also said that the Da Chu Law Statute is dead if he has been missing for five years. When the time comes, go to the yamen to report that her mother is very good with Mr. Naluo.
Fang Xiuting did not shy away from saying these more than once, every time she heard this, Hongdou felt very subtle, but the affairs of others were none of her business. Besides, Second Master Fang is indeed a thing that is not a thing, Miss said, this Second Master Fang Third Master beat his wife and daughter to start a ruthless attack!
A man who beats his wife and daughter is not a good thing.
was pushed by the red bean, Fang Xiuting raised her head and perfunctory twice, and continued to read the book.
"Miss, you don't look at the real case, you look at these fakes." Red Bean muttered, expressing her dissatisfaction with this.
Fang Xiuting didn't raise her head, and continued to flip happily: "How can the case be as tight as the twists and turns of Zhang Ran and Qiao Tianshi's twists and turns, I like this, and I don't know if the misunderstanding can be resolved." ”
Hongdou frowned when he heard this, and said dissatisfiedly: "The relationship between our young lady and my uncle is also good......"
"Yes, yes, the two of them have a good relationship!" A male voice also rang out at this time.
The red beans who were roasting looked at the person who jumped off the wall, and couldn't come back to their senses for a while: What's the matter? When you come to their house, you don't want to knock on the door and climb the wall?
Facing the stunned expressions of Hongdou and Fang Xiuting in the upper hall, Xu Hexiu dusted off the falling snow that had rolled on Fang Cai's body when he climbed the wall, looked at it disapprerovingly, and said, "What about Qiao Shu?" I'm looking for him. ”