"Two hundred taels, if you can find the flower boat, I will give you a reward of two hundred taels. With these two hundred taels of silver, you can not beg for a living on this river, but go to the shore, do a small business casually, marry a wife, have children, and live a simple life. Seeing that Mao Mao was still a little hesitant, Yan Suwen motioned for Errong to directly take out two hundred taels of silver.

"I know, I know where the boat is." Mao Mao saw the silver and immediately said it.

"Errong, tell Yun Fei to come over." Yan Suwen's eyes sank, Er Rong nodded, got off the big boat, and took the small boat to the shore. After a while, Gu Changfeng came back with Gu Yunfei.

The tower was parked in a hidden reed, and there were a lot of flies around the hull, and if you got a little closer, you could smell the fishy smell coming from the boat.

"How did you know the boat was parked here?" Yan Su asked Mao Mao, who was holding the silver.

"This boat was towed by a few of us." Mao Mao glanced at the boat, and did not have the slightest intention of continuing to hide it.

"You dragged it here?"

"It's us, but we're a coincidence." Mao Mao stretched out his hand and pointed to the flower boat: "That night, we did run away, and we didn't dare to go back to the river for several days, for fear of meeting that strange thing that crawled out of the river." But we live on this river, and we can't hide from it all the time. Later, I mustered up the courage, burned incense and worshiped the river god Niangniang, and chose an auspicious day for the zodiac to return to the river. ”

"An auspicious day for the zodiac?"

"Hey!" Mao Mao laughed at himself: "This day is calculated by the dog leftovers, this kid is a god all day long, we thought he really understood, until we met this boat, we knew that he was a liar." When it was on the shore, the sky was fine, but as soon as it came up the river, it became gloomy, followed by a light rain, and the whole river was foggy. We were all about to scold this kid to death. ”

"If the weather is bad, I'll go ashore again."

"Yes, according to ordinary people's thinking, it is. But Madame doesn't know, there are rules in our place. When you get on the boat, you have to get something, even if it's just a small fish and shrimp. In short, the ship could not be returned to shore empty. Fortunately, we all walk on the river all year round, and this weather is also customary, so we directly parked the boat in the place where there were the most fish in the past, got off the net, and stayed on the boat to drink and chat.

As soon as he took a sip, the wine had just passed his throat when he heard the dog barking. When I looked up, I saw that there was another ship in the mist. We were still laughing at the time, saying that we didn't know it was the unlucky one. Later, the ship got closer and closer to our ship, and when we were almost in front of us, we saw clearly that it was a flower boat, and it looked like it was quite familiar. ”

"It's this Bird Tower."

"That's right, it's the Magpie Tower." Mao Mao casually pointed to the boat: "At the beginning, we didn't think of this boat and the flower boat that night. There are many of these boats on the river, and they are all lively at night and deserted during the day. But when the boat rowed past us, we saw clearly that there was no one on the boat. Not only was there no one, there was not even a light at all, and there was a smell of blood. ”

"You're on the boat and have you gone to see it?" Yan Su asked.

"Yes!" Mao Mao nodded in response: "If the boat rowed away from us, it would have saved trouble, but it stopped." At that time, my hair almost stood on end, because I was afraid, afraid that something would come out of that ship and kill us too. But after waiting for a long time, there was nothing but a cold wind blowing on the river. Later, the dog suggested going on the boat to have a look, saying that there might be something of value on the ship. ”

"Did you find it?"

"What?"

"Something of value?"

"Nope!" Maomao's gaze dodged.

"Is it true that there is none, or is it false?" Yan Suwen flicked his fingers: "What about me, I just want to know what happened on this ship, as for the things on this ship, you will take it, anyway, it's not mine, and I don't worry about it." But if you lie to me, I'll be very angry. ”

Mao Mao looked at the saber that Gu Yunfei was holding in his hand with Yan Suwen's gaze, trembled coldly, and hurriedly replied, "Take it...... I took it, but it wasn't a valuable thing, and I forgot about it as soon as my brain was hot. ”

"What did you take?" Wonderful book

"It's the things that the girls use, what kind of piano, pipa and so on, and the rouge gouache that the girls use, and the clothes they wear. If Madame doesn't believe me, she can call the people who are in the same boat as me, and we'll take them. Mao Mao lowered his head: "When we got on the boat, it was dark and there was no one on the boat. Later, when the lights were lit, I saw blood inside and outside the cabin. Some of the blood was gathered together, some was splattered. Based on our experience on the river, we don't think they were killed by water monkeys, but like they met thieves and slaughtered a whole boat. Nine times out of ten, the people on this boat have been thrown into the river, and it is impossible to say where the corpse has floated. ”

"Since it is a flower boat for trading, there should be cash or silver tickets on this ship."

"yes, that's what we thought when we first started." Mao Mao actually patted her thigh with Yan Su's words: "When the dog leftover proposed, he also said so." He said that this water monkey is killing people and eating people, and he is not asking for money. The ship was clearly empty, and had become a ghost ship that no one wanted. This ghost can't spend real money, so it's better to cheapen us, and it's just a good thing to help them do good deeds.

Although the words of this dog leftover son are not very popular, they are all true. In this way, we touched the boat and got on the boat, but we searched all the places on the ship, but we didn't see any silver, and we didn't see any silver tickets. It's definitely not water monkeys but people who like money, so I just told my wife that the person who climbed onto the boat in the middle of the night was probably a thief.

We didn't see any silver, we didn't find any silver tickets, so we searched around and found only the things that the girls used. We took those things to the shore and exchanged them for silver, and everyone saw that they had a share, and they all gave them a share. Oh, by the way, after getting the stuff, we'll tow the boat to this place. This place is stagnant, no matter what it is, you can't walk when you get here. Putting the boat here also saves you from scaring others. Many of these people who begged for a living on the river were dragged by their families. The child is small and can't stand the fright. ”

"I'm worried that the child will be frightened, so it's true that I hide this ship and want to wait for it to pass, and then sell it."

"Hey, hey." Mao Mao touched his head: "Don't hide it from Mrs., I thought so." But this ship is not said to be sold if it is sold. ”

"It's a good thing you didn't sell it, otherwise the charge of robbing the ship and killing people would have fallen on your heads. This should be asked, I have asked almost the same question, you go back first. If there's anything you think of, let me know. ”

"Yes, thank you, ma'am!" Mao Mao wiped the cold sweat that was frightened on his forehead, and got off the boat with the two hundred taels of silver.

At this time, Gu Changfeng had already taken Gu Yunfei and Shen Jiu to check inside and out of the Bird Tower.

"How?"

"Shen Jiu found special spices on the ship, those spices can make people fall asleep in a short time. The murderer should have counted the time to get on the ship, and it was a premeditated murder. ”

"Spices?"

"I've already arranged for Yang Huairen to investigate."

"If it's a simple robbery and murder, there's no need to use this spice." Yan Su asked and pondered: "There is another point that I can't figure out until now." Why did the perpetrator continue to commit the crime knowing that there were other boats near the flower boat? Why didn't the witnesses be killed before committing the crime? Is he confident that those people won't recognize him, or is he confident that the people in the government won't be able to catch him? ”

"It's weird." Gu Changfeng responded.

"What about corpses? Has there been a detailed inquest? This sentence seemed to be asking Gu Changfeng, but it was actually for Shen Jiu to answer.

Shen Jiu took a step forward very consciously and arched his hand: "Mrs. Hui's words, the victim Yang Zhi has been found to be the son of Yang Huairen, the garrison of Yecheng. The fatal wound was in the neck, and after being soaked in the river, a thin cut had been opened in the lower part of the knife. The blade is sharp, not like an ordinary thief, but like a killer who specializes in killing people on the rivers and lakes. Another female deceased was a girl named Lian Yunzhi who was in the tower, and was fatally wounded to her back, and the wound was visible to the bone. ”

"Look at the bloodstains on that ship, there should be more than one person dead." Yan Suwen stared at the stagnant water under the flower boat: "Mao Mao said that the water here is stagnant water, and as long as anything gets here, it will not move again." Although the odds are a little slim, it is still possible to try salvage, and maybe we can find other flower boat victims in this stagnant water. I've always felt that this is not just about killing people and robbing money. ”

"The murderer is coming for Yang Zhi." Gu Changfeng opened his mouth and glanced at Yang Huairen, who was standing aside and had not spoken from beginning to end: "Before the Huachuan case happened, Lord Yang received a secret letter. The letter mentioned that he should be optimistic about his son and not go out if he can. Lord Yang thought it was a joke made by others, so he didn't take it to heart. Who knows, Yang Zhi really had an accident. ”

"If the husband said so, the thief should not be coming for Yang Zhi, but for Lord Yang. Killing Yang Zhi is not only a reminder of Lord Yang, but also a threat to Lord Yang. Who this murderer is, it is estimated that only Lord Yang can count it in his heart. ”

"Lord Yang, what do you think?" As soon as Gu Changfeng spoke, Yang Huairen knelt on the board of the boat with a "plop".

"Xiaguan...... Xiaguan ......" Yang Huairen trembled slightly: "Xiaguan should be damned, Xiaguan did hide one thing, but Xiaguan can guarantee that he has never promised the other party, and he has never done anything to be sorry for you." If it weren't for the refusal of the lower official, the son of the lower official would not have died unexpectedly. ”