"Do things." Zhao Yi instructed the little guy, and the little guy was very attentive, "What do the adults want to ask, what to see, just say." ”

"Go and find the six oarsmen who rowed for Cai Erye on the ninth night of the first month, it doesn't matter if you can't find all of them, find a few of them."

The little guy should be looking for someone.

Song Ning stood on the deck and asked Wang Xiao, "Is it very close to Wanghu Pavilion here?" ”

"Yes, there is a bend here, and after this bend, you can see the Wanghu Pavilion, and you can row past it for a quarter of an hour at most." Wang Xiao introduced.

It was a short trip.

Fengtong Lake is a somewhat oval lake, and the pier here is just on the top of the ellipse, and the distance between the two banks is relatively narrow until the Wanghu Pavilion is further ahead.

If it's daytime, you can see the people on the deck from the shore.

"Where was the body found?" Song Ning asked.

"Right here." Wang Xiao pointed to a place more than ten meters away from their boat, "I saw it at a glance at that time." ”

Song Ning frowned and glanced at Zhao Yi.

Both of them found it strange.

There are many people coming and going here, and there is an endless stream of boat tourists, why was the body only found by an old man on the morning of the twelve? The corpse is from across the lake from the wind pavilion or where?

Where did Cai Er Ye fall into the water?

So where was the body before that?

The little guy came back with two oarsmen.

The oarsman rowed at the bottom of the boat all the year round and didn't know much about the things above, Song Ning asked, and the two oarsmen only knew where and where to park the boat.

The boat stopped on the opposite side, and walked a cup of tea.

If they asked anything else, they didn't know, and they didn't hear the sound of falling water and other sounds of quarrels.

Even when they were notified by Cai Erye to let go of the oars and leave, they only saw Cai Erye alone.

After asking a few questions, everyone couldn't answer them, so Song Ning let them go.

"When Second Master Cai got on the boat, he said that he would make an appointment with someone?" Song Ning asked the little guy.

The little guy should be: "Come up and talk to people about things, let the little one leave." ”

"Then when you came to collect the ship in the morning, did you find anything unusual on the ship?"

The little guy shook his head: "No, it's true." ”

"Have you had tea? Has the chair ever been moved? Can you see how many people have been here besides Cai Erye? Song Ning asked.

The little servant looked at the tables, chairs, benches and teapots on the table in the cabin, and recalled the scene when he came to collect the ship on the morning of the tenth day before yesterday: "...... Two teacups were placed on the table, and the chairs were pulled apart from each other. ”

"There's no movement anymore."

Song Ning motioned for him to enter the cabin.

The boat has three floors, the upper floor is the verandah, the lower floor is the resting room, and the bottom floor is the room for oarsmen and storage.

The further down it goes, the wetter it gets.

The little guy introduced them all the way, room by room.

Song Ning went to the bottom and stood where the oarsman rowed.

The oars protrude from the hull of the boat, with a square hole from which the oarsmen can see out, but there is still a considerable distance from the water.

Such a boat can't go far, so it can only be a painting boat.

Song Ning stood in the hollow, and Zhao Yi said opposite: "You come and see here." ”

Song Ning went to the opposite side and saw Zhao Yi dotting the cut on the hole, there was a scratch on the cut surface, Zhao Yi said: "This is a new mark." ”

"Hey, it doesn't look like a sign of an oar." The little guy also came to see it, and said, "The oars are sharpened very evenly, and they generally don't leave such scratches." ”

Song Jingjing looked at the hole and did not speak.

"Go and talk." Zhao Yi signaled the little guy not to disturb Song Ning, and let the little guy take him out, behind him, Song Ning suddenly said, "Is there a rope on the boat?" ”

"Yes, yes. There was the most rope on board. The little guy pointed to the location of the warehouse, "The adults want to see, and the villains will lead you there." ”

Song Ning and Zhao Yi went next door and pushed open the door of the storage room.

They had been here just now, but after a glance, the little guy dragged a basket of rope out.

"My lord, there are six volumes in it, two rolls of thirty feet, two rolls of twenty feet, and two rolls of ten feet." The little guy said, "How many feet do adults want?" ”

Song Ning said: "Twenty." ”

The little guy flipped through a roll and handed it to Song Ning, who motioned for him to continue.

The little guy turned left and right, and could not find the twenty-foot rope of the second roll.

"Eh, how could it not be." The little guy poured out all the ropes, and with the ones he had just taken out, there were only five rolls.

His face turned pale: "Great, my lord, I, I didn't lie to you. ”

"I know you didn't lie to us." Song Ning whispered a few words to him, and the little maid looked at her with a frightened face, and was about to speak, when she suddenly heard a noise on the deck.

Zhao Yi and Song Ning said: "Go up and talk." ”

There is no second door in the bilge, and it is easy to be blocked inside.

The group went up, and the sound of the quarrel became clearer. Wang Xiao's five brothers were on it, and Wang Xiao asked while climbing the stairs: "Old eight, who are you quarreling with?" ”

"Boss." As soon as the eighth child was halfway through speaking, his voice stopped abruptly.

Wang Xiao trotted up.

Song Ning and Zhao Yi went up to the deck, and as expected, they saw the Cai family's steward Wang surrounding the boat with people, and he himself stood on the deck with a swollen face.

When he saw Song Ning and Zhao Yi, he pointed at the two of them and shouted to the brothers: "Fight, kill the uncle and be responsible." ”

The third master of the Cai family, the second master of Cai, is named Cai Zize, Uncle Cai's name is Cai Haoyang, who is forty this year, and the third is Cai Yun. The three brothers are siblings.

The uncle Wu Yong said is Cai Haoyang.

Song Ning counted, Wu Yong brought sixteen people, and they added her and Zhao Yi for a total of eight people.

"One-on-two, okay?" Song Ning asked Wang Xiao.

Wang Xiao really didn't expect that Wang Ye and Lord Song could also fight, so he nodded hurriedly: "But, yes." ”

"Let's fight, then." Song Ning moved his muscles, "I didn't expect to go on a business trip to handle cases, and I could meet tigers and tigers who came to us to make trouble." ”

Zhao Yi asked with a smile: "Are you calculating how much the case fee will increase?" ”

"Zhao Zhutou understands me." Song Ning laughed and said to Wu Yong, who looked like a pig's head, "Come!" ”

The two sides fought.

Song Ning saw for the first time that this kind of northern person was really "powerful", he was angry and went home to shout at his brother, and he didn't let you report to your home, and smashed you on the bench, regardless of whether it was Song Shi'an or King Qi of Jinan who stepped on your head.

"Stupid to death!" Song Ning tied up Wu Yong and kicked him into the water.

People were tied up and couldn't paddle, and Wu Yong was splashing in the water.

Song Ning hung him on the handrail on the side of the boat.

Like a fish hanging dry and draining.

Zhao Yi kicked two people, and then stood still, Song Ning still wanted to see his skills: "Lord Wang, you keep fighting, this hasn't stopped yet." ”

"Say it's good to have two people." Zhao Yi leaned on to watch the excitement.

Song Ning folded his fingers and calculated: "So I'm still one short of one?" ”

"Do you still need to count on your fingers?"

Song Ning said: "Privilege help? ”

"There is no privilege to fight, go for it." Zhao Yi pushed her, Song Ning picked up the long knife that fell to the ground, and sneaked into the back of a person's head, the person was stunned and fell to the ground, and he was very dissatisfied with the cheerful catch that was being beaten, but he didn't dare to say that Song Ning cut off half of the person he beat half.

"Wang Zhutou, hurry up." Song Ning greeted Wang Xiao.

Wang Xiao should be.

Everyone has nothing to do with Song Ning, Song Ning called the little guy to continue talking about the previous matter, and he jumped into the water as he listened.

There are quite a few people standing on the shore watching the excitement.

After the fight, Wang Xiao tied everyone up.

Zhao Yi instructed: "Let the Cai family take the money to ransom people, how to make a price for the six of you to discuss." ”

"Well, the money is yours." Song Ning added.

Wang Xiao and a few people couldn't believe it. I must have been scared before, but the two people they are following now...... No one can make them feel the emotions they should be afraid of.

Just cover your head and do it.

Tomorrow's things will be said tomorrow.

Wang Xiao and a few brothers were elated, and they got together and whispered: "It's the first time I've seen an adult who is so upright and honest and frank about making money." ”

And the prince.

The prince also made money.

Haven't seen it.

Everyone tied everyone up for later use, Wang Xiao followed Song Ning to look into the water, and asked curiously, "My lord, why did you let him go into the water?" ”

"I'll find out right away." Song Ning said.

On the opposite shore, everyone is also discussing, Wu Yong is known to everyone, and of course he should clap his hands when he is beaten.

What everyone is more concerned about is that the little guy who took the initiative to jump into the water on the boat, what is he going to do?

"Looking for something? Cai Erye was drowned, could it be that he went to the water to find evidence that Cai Erye drowned? ”

"Didn't Second Master Cai get drunk and accidental? How do you still check the evidence? ”

Everyone was talking, and someone pointed to the two people on the boat: "What are these two people from?" ”

"That tall man is really handsome and graceful, not an ordinary person."

As soon as you say a word to me, I heard the little guy who had just dived out of the water with a bang.

"As you expected, sir!" The little servant raised his hand and shouted, and he saw that he was holding a rope in his hand. One end of the rope sank into the water, and it was impossible to see what was going on.

Very quiet on the shore.

Song Ning asked, "Tethered to the bottom of the boat?" ”

"Yes, it's in the bottom of the boat." The little guy said.

The ships of the Great Zhou will nail a very thick wooden board under the bed, and there is a card slot in the middle of the board, and there is a hook hidden in this card slot, and when not in use, the hook will be pushed horizontally into the card slot, and it will be taken out when it is used.

The use of this hook is very good, you can usually put fish cages, you can lift heavy objects to increase the weight of the hull during floods, and if it is a cargo ship, you can also put some goods that are not afraid of water at the bottom of the ship to smuggle away to avoid taxes.

Now, this hook is being used to kill people.

"That's why the deceased's hair was punctured, and the killer hung the deceased from the bottom of the boat with a rope or other tool." Song Ning said.

Wang Xiao suddenly realized: "So, so I said that he was not injured, yes, because he was hanging underneath?" ”

The drowned person floated in the water, up and down, there must have been traces of bumps and bruises, but Cai Erye's body was too clean and there was nothing.

is a very sophisticated murderer.

Zhao Yi added: "It is also explained that the deceased drowned in this body of water on the ninth day of the first month, but was not found until the morning of the twelve. ”

Tethering the hair does not leave a mark, but also controls the body from coming to the surface.

If the rope is not loosened, perhaps the deceased will have to float underneath all the time.

"He's not going to kill." Song Ning said to the little guy, "It's hard work, take the rope." ”