"Last night, who was the last to leave and who closed the door?"

The guy surnamed Liu replied: "It's the shopkeeper Yao." ”

"At that time, Mr. Wu came, and the shopkeeper personally went to the kitchen to fry three dishes, and the two of them drank in the lobby, so they let us go home."

"Just the two of them? How many people are there in your shop? Song Ning asked.

Wang's man replied: "There are a total of sixteen people upstairs and downstairs, except for the shopkeeper last night, it should be the two of us who left last, because according to the schedule, the two of us lived in the store last night." ”

The guys in their store have to keep two of them in the store every night.

"But last night Shopkeeper Yao asked you to go home, you don't need to guard the store?" Song Yuanshi asked.

The two guys nodded.

Everyone's hearts were raised.

"Find a way to open the door first." Song Ning looked at the wooden door tied from the inside, "Pick it open with a knife?" ”

Shen Wenyu said: "I'll try." ”

This kind of deadbolt is not difficult to pick, and sure enough, Shen Wenyu opened it easily after finding the buckle.

Pushing open the door, a smell of overnight food and wine came to my face.

"Watch your steps and don't touch anything else." Song Ning finished explaining, when he stepped in first, the door panel of the front door was blocked, and the light in the lobby was not bright, Song Ning stopped at the door, and after adapting to the light, he saw that on the table facing the door in the middle, there were scattered meals and upside-down wine jugs, on the edge of the table, the chair was upside down on the ground, and the vegetable soup and grease solidified on the ground.

In addition to this, other tables and benches or chairs have been relocated.

Especially on the meadow leading to the back door, all the chairs and benches that might be in the way were kicked aside.

But he didn't see anyone.

"Give me a lamp." Song Ning didn't rush in, still staying at the door.

The little guy surnamed Wang replied: "Yes, yes." Saying that, he went to the backyard to find a lamp, Song Ning looked at it on the ground, and said to Zhao Yi and Shen Wenyu, "Take a look." ”

Both have looked at it.

"There are obvious traces of dragging and mopping the floor." Zhao Yi said, "Dragged people out? ”

Shen Wenyu said: "It looks like it." ”

"Find someone." Song Ning told everyone, "Just go, don't touch and flip." ”

Everyone should be, after opening the front door, the room was bright, and everyone scattered on the first and second floors to find someone.

Song Ning stood in front of the table and looked at it.

There were three dishes and a soup on the table, two wine glasses and two tea cups.

The flask was poured on the table, the wine in the flask should have evaporated after flowing out, the dish turned over, the dishes were scattered on the table and the ground, one teacup was upside down, there was no tea in it, the wall of the teacup had red lipstick, and the one next to it did not.

According to this calculation, at the square table, Yao Shan was sitting facing the main entrance, and Wu Xian was sitting on her right.

The poured flask was opposite Yao Shan, with the spout facing Yao Shan's position and the bottom of the bottle facing the main entrance.

The teacup was poured by Yao Shan's, and Wu Xian still had half a cup of tea in it, and there was also a little residual wine in the wine glass.

"Qiao Si, go and invite Dr. Xu to come." Song Ning said.

Qiao Si should have gone to invite Dr. Xu.

She sniffed the teacup and felt that there was a little peculiar smell, but she was not sure, so she said, "Miao Miao, you come and smell it." ”

Lu Miaomiao leaned up and sniffed her nose, sniffed carefully for a while, and said, "My lord, I think it's not just the fragrance of tea, but also the smell of medicine." ”

"Can you smell any medicine?"

Lu Miaomiao shook her head.

He didn't know medicine, so he only knew that it was medicine, but he didn't know the name.

"When Dr. Xu comes, you follow him to the infirmary to study, smell the temperature of all kinds of poisons, and remember." Song Ning said.

Lu Miaomiao's eyes lit up, and he felt that he could do this, and said happily: "Okay, okay." ”

Song Ning twisted a little vegetable under Lu Miaomiao's nose, Lu Miaomiao sniffed and shook his head: "I can't smell this." ”

"My lord, no one." Everyone returned to the lobby, Shen Wenyu said, "I have searched all around, but there is no one." ”

Wu Xian and Yao Shan were not there.

"What about you guys, is there anything unusual about the store?"

The little servant surnamed Wang replied: "Yes, the villain went to the back account room just now, and the locked cabinet was pried open, and the silver and silver tickets in it were gone. ”

"Another burglary?" Lu Miao Miao said.

Why is it again, because they have just finished the Gao Huan case, and it was a burglary at the beginning.

"Let's take a look around." Song Ning went to the account room across the wall from the counter. There were six large locks on the door, there were no windows in the room, and six lamps hung on the wall.

A row of cabinets against the wall, two large tables.

There are ledgers on the cabinet, and on the table are the ledgers of the month, and when working, they should sit opposite the two ledgers, one in and one out to check and settle.

"This is the cabinet." The guy surnamed Wang pointed to the innermost position against the wall, Song Ning walked over, and there was a high table in the corner, and there was a pot of red flowers on the high table, at this moment the high table and the flowers were moved to the right, and in the original vacant position, he saw a cabinet with a side door, and the door of the cabinet was open at the moment, and the two layers of partitions inside were clean and clean, and there was nothing.

Song Ning took a closer look, and then put Gao Ji and safflower in their original positions.

The room was dimly lit, and with this tall table and the saffron cover, it was hard to spot a small cabinet at the back.

"Go and bring your accountant." Song Ning said.

The little guy should go to the bookkeeper.

Song Ning withdrew to check the lock, Zhao Yi was already looking, and said, "The lock has traces of prying." ”

"Pick the lock?" Song Ning took it over to check, and it was really true, the six locks had very obvious traces of external force smashing.

She looked at Zhao Yi and asked, "Zhao Zhutou, do you think this scene is very weird?" ”

"Well, it's hard to tell what happened."

Song Yuanshi also walked over and echoed: "Zhao Zhutou is right, for people like me who are walking to the scene for the first time, I am very confused. ”

"But it's not inexplicable." Shen Wenyu stood at the table of the meal and said, "Someone poisoned their wine and food, and when the two of them fainted, they messed up the wine pot and teacup on the table. ”

"And drag them away?" Song Yuanshi asked rhetorically.

Shen Wen bowed his head and was about to speak, when Dr. Xu came.

"Doctor Xu, please look at the teacup and wine glass on the table." Doctor Song Ning Xu said.

Doctor Xu should be, stepped forward to check, sniffed and dipped his fingers a little and tasted it, Lu Miaomiao looked at his movements, also dipped a little and tasted it, and smacked his lips again.

"What did Lu Gongzi taste?" Dr. Xu asked.

"It's a little sour." Lu Miao Miao said.

"How's that smell?" Dr. Xu asked.

"The smell is a bit like ...... It smells like bacon. Lu Miaomiao replied.

Doctor Xu smiled and nodded, "Master Lu's sense of taste and smell is really good. After speaking, he said to Song Ning, "My lord, there is sweat medicine in this cup, this kind of medicine is often found in the rivers and lakes, and it is relatively violent and inferior." ”

"What about the other cup?" Song Ning was not surprised.

Doctor Xu and Lu Miaomiao sniffed it again, because there was no tea in the cup, the two of them discussed for a while, and Doctor Xu said affirmatively: "There is also tea in this cup." ”

Song Ning bowed his head: "Thank you, when we find out this matter clearly, can Lu Miaomiao go to you to learn for a few days, and you can teach him the names of various poisons, and identify smells and tastes?" ”

"Of course you can, even the villain doesn't know much, so I'm afraid of delaying Gongzi Lu." Doctor Xu said.

Song Ning said no, and the two of them said a few more polite words.

After talking about accepting apprentices, Dr. Xu went back.

Mr. Jiang Kee's bookkeeper came, there were two bookkeepers in total, one young man was in his early twenties, an apprentice, who was usually responsible for a day's running accounts with the counter, and the other was in his sixties, and Jiang Kee in Qingzhou had been doing bookkeeping for 14 years.

"Yes, there is money." The old account room hurriedly turned around, pointed to the cabinet and said, "I checked it when it closed yesterday afternoon, and there are a total of six Jiang Ji silver bills of ten taels and three hundred taels in the cabinet, which are the money for today's settlement." ”

"There are also sixty-two taels of copper coins and forty-four taels of broken silver."

"Plus the chapter where Jiang Ji went to the money bank to withdraw money is all in it."

"That's good." The old account room is anxious and the old tears are crossed.

A total of four hundred and sixty-six taels of silver were lost.

"Who has the key to the account room and the key to the cupboard?" Song Ning asked the two.

The two replied: "We both have the key, and the shopkeeper also has it." ”

"Yao Shan has the key in her hand?" Song Ning was surprised and asked, "Then does she hang the key on her body every day?" ”

The man surnamed Wang replied: "The key to the shopkeeper is not placed here, but in her room." ”

"Does Yao Shan live in the hotel?"

The guy replied, "No, her house is in the alley behind." ”

Song Ning looked at Shen Wenyu.

"Take me for a walk." Shen Wenyu said to the guy surnamed Wang.

The two went to the alley behind.

Song Ning felt very strange and was about to speak, when suddenly the young bookkeeper shouted in the room: "My lord, come and see." ”

Song Ning and Zhao Yi entered the room of the account room.

Just now I lit a lamp, the light was dim, and now the young account room has lit up all six lamps, and the room is bright, Song Ning saw that there were four big characters written on the wall with faint ink: rob the rich and help the poor.

"Matsuyama?" In addition to a few outsiders from Song Ning, several locals in Jiang Ji exclaimed, especially the old bookkeeper stumbled and said, "Songshan, Songshan has been here." ”

Song Ning frowned and asked, "Songshan?" The Matsuyama you said and Matsuyama, who was imprisoned for three years and was not beheaded, are the same person? ”

"Yes!" Old Accounts Road.