Chapter 0018: Two Pairs of Footprints
Wang Ping'an saw that Xie Yu's expression was a little loose, and hurriedly added: "If you don't believe it, you can go around and inquire, then the sixth child is an old gambler, and his relatives and friends are almost cut off from him, so I am willing to borrow something for him." ”
He glanced at Pei Heng from the corner of his eye, still a little frightened, and turned his gaze to Xie Yu anxiously Chen Bai, "I see that you two are also here to investigate the cause of the sixth child's death, just ask about the sixth child, as long as the villain knows, you will never dare to hide it." ”
Xie Yu stared at Wang Ping'an's eyes, looking at his appearance, it should be true.
It was she who asked: "Since the sixth child is an old gambler, even his relatives and friends have no contact with him, then why are you willing to associate with him, I see that his neighbors are not only you." ”
Wang Ping'an was stared at by Xie Yu's eyes, Pei Heng glanced at him lightly, and descended with an invisible coercion, making Wang Ping'an wipe the cold sweat on his forehead.
He sighed, and finally explained honestly, "Actually, it's because every time the sixth child comes back from the casino and makes money, he will give the villain's family a little, cook in the villain's house, and cook him an extra bowl." ”
When it comes to money, Wang Ping'an defended with some nervousness: "But the villain definitely has no intention of seeing money, the sixth man, when he wins the money, he spends a lot of money, and he will squander it in a few days, and most of the days in a month are dependent on the villain's help, and the silver he gave is also pasted back." If it weren't for the love of the neighborhood, why bother wading into this troubled water. After all, he also said that he would return a few ingots of silver to me when he came back today. ”
According to Wang Ping'an, Lao Liu will still have more than half a month of nourishing days in January, which shows that his gambling luck and gambling skills are not bad, if he does not know moderation, life will not be like this at all.
"According to what you say, the sixth child's gambling skills should not be bad, how can an old gambler like him not leave some capital to turn over the book, and he needs to rely on you for more than half a month?"
Unexpectedly, Wang Ping'an waved his hand again and again: "That's not what I said, the sixth child's gambling is fixed, according to the villain's observation, although the sixth child is good at gambling, but he is very restrained, and he can win money only once a month." The villain also asked him secretly, but he didn't say much, only said that there was a chance. ”
"Can you believe the words of this old gambler?" Xie Yu wanted to laugh when she heard this, the first time she heard that an old gambler like Lao Liu, who can ruin the family property, there will be a fixed number of rules when it comes to gambling.
"The first son said that the villain didn't believe it, and the sixth child probably didn't believe it. In the past, he also had the last three or four times in the past, except for the first time, the back was lost to the end, and this ancestral property was lost by him in addition to this old house. So the villain estimated that the sixth child should not be deceiving. ”
This is a little interesting, Xie Yu frowned unconsciously, she secretly glanced at Pei Heng from the corner of her eye, and saw that he was also deep in thought, and seemed to be suspicious of Wang Ping'an's words.
She remembered that she had read similar stories in those strange books before, saying that the countryside mortals had a chance to get a chance and were enlightened by various immortals, and since then they have gained some extraordinary skills. However, such white windfalls are usually excessive, so they are all fixed, for fear that mortals will not be blessed.
It was because she sighed unconsciously, "Could it be that the sixth child really got the enlightenment of the God of Wealth?" ”
"The sixth man's house is not the God of Wealth."
Xie Yu didn't expect that she would say it casually, and Wang Ping'an would take it seriously, she smiled and asked, "What is that offering?" ”
"I can't say it, anyway, I should be a bodhisattva by looking at it, but the paintings around my body look very yin, not like the appearance of our Central Plains."
Xie Yu didn't understand this, she didn't know much about Buddhism, but the Buddhist hall was solemn, and she would never know the yin qi that Wang Ping'an said.
In order to investigate the mandala pollen, she has read many books about the Western Regions.
One of the chapters is recorded in many places in the Western Regions, and many people regard these crooked cults as gods in front of the worship hall.
Xie Yu had only read one or two things in the book, and she was a little curious, "Do you know where the sixth child enshrined it in the past?" ”
Wang Ping'an guided Xie Yu to move away a piece of charred wood with his memory, and pointed to the bottom of a pile of ruins, "It seems that it is offered in this Buddhist shrine on weekdays, and it is covered with silk cloth, and it is only opened before going to the gambling house." ”
Xie Yu squatted down, flicked with a wooden branch, and found a half-cut Buddha head that had been blackened by the fire.
The Buddha statue was smashed and fell into the mud everywhere, Xie Yu carefully wrapped the fragments of the Buddha statue in silk cloth and decided to go back and put them back together.
In the end, before letting Wang Ping'an go, Xie Yu also asked him: "Which gambling house did Lao Liuping Suli go to?" ”
Seeing that he would be able to leave soon, Wang Ping'an naturally didn't dare to hide it, "The sixth usually goes to the Sitong gambling house in the city, and it is said that this time the peace card is also ready to be sold to the people in the gambling house." ”
On the way back, Xie Yu was still thinking about the talisman card, this stone card was rough in workmanship, even the people in the countryside who had never seen much good things knew that this thing was worthless, and an old gambler like Lao Liu, could it be that he didn't know what the end of shoddy in the casino was.
Where did he get the guts to take this thing and sell it to Sitong Casino.
"My lord, let's go and see the body of the sixth child first." Xie Yu proposed.
Pei Heng asked her, "But what did you think of?" ”
Xie Yu shook her head honestly, "Originally, I saw that this jade talisman was torn to the ground, thinking that the sixth had a violent conflict with the murderer before he died, but according to Wang Ping'an's statement and what we saw, after the sixth and Chen Daniu made an appointment to go to the Sifang Gambling House, they went home and asked their neighbor Wang Ping'an to borrow a wooden barrel, ready to fetch water by the well to wash his face, and then went to the gambling house with his own shoddy talisman. After that, she looked back at Pei Heng and asked: "My lord still remembers that Wang Ping'an said that Lao Liu only went to the gambling house once in January, and there was not even a wooden bucket for fetching water that was burned at home, and he could still be so determined to win, just because he knew that he would win this time." ”
Xie Yucai doesn't believe in any ghosts and gods, even if there are really immortals, he will not give the opportunity to an old gambler like Lao Liu. Therefore, she guessed that if there was really only Lao Liu at the well at that time, then the things that could guarantee him smooth sailing in the gambling house were still on him nine times out of ten.
When she returned to the Yamen, Master Liu had already sent all the files of these days to Xie Yu's room, and she nodded and motioned to check the body of the sixth child first.
The sixth child was drowned, although he was foaming in the well for a long time, but the whole person looked at it and was really permeating.
He examined his surroundings carefully to make sure that he had not been hit with a heavy object before slashing his chest with a corpse knife.
Before Xie Yu could open it, he saw the puddle of viscera in his chest, lined with white skin blistered by well water, and heard Cui Yun vomit in the back.
Rao is Pei Heng's temperament is determined, and now that he saw Cui Yun vomit, his good-looking facial features were wrinkled together, and he patted his chest again and again, and then he forcibly suppressed the nausea.
Xie Yu was also disgusting herself, although the sixth child was a dead man, but now she was disemboweled, which also caused a huge impact on her, so she immediately covered the white cloth back.
Cui Yun covered his eyes and retreated, he didn't think that after a while, he changed into clean clothes and came back in, presumably because he felt that he was not too bright to escape from the battle.
As soon as he came in, he asked Xie Yu, "What did you find when you went to Lao Liu's house today?" ”
"Back to Lord Cui's words, no." She was silent and continued: "It's strange to say, I thought that the stone plaque fell to the ground under the violent tearing, but today I went to the old six's house to investigate, and only found the footprints of Chen Daniu and the sixth man by the well. But if it was the sixth child killed by Chen Daniu, why did he throw himself into the net. ”
"It's because everyone thinks like this that Xu let him escape?" Master Liu asked.
Xie Yu shook her head, "If Chen Da Niu can think of this, then when we go to explore the sixth family, we won't only find his footprints with the sixth child, otherwise the evidence is conclusive, how can he deny it?" She paused and analyzed: "The sixth child has a neighbor named Wang Ping'an, and the sixth child does not gamble these years, so he eats with his family." According to him, although Lao Liu is a good gambler, he has a habit of gambling only once a month, and he will win every time he gambles. But if you break the rules, you often lose ten bets. Wang Ping'an knows the habits of the sixth child, and Chen Daniu, who has been playing with the sixth child all the year round, will not be unaware. ”
"The sixth brother kills the Quartet, how can Chen Daniu, who follows the sixth child, be stained, he has no reason to kill the sixth child today, unless the sixth child really has something on him that will win every gamble."
"But Chen Daniu has been imprisoned, and his clothes and belongings have been stripped clean, if he really took away the things of the sixth child, he could only hide them somewhere in advance and take them out after he was released from prison." Speaking of which, Xie Yu first denied this idea on her own, "But if the truth of the case is not revealed, it will be difficult for Chen Daniu to clear his grievances, so how can he talk about getting out of prison and getting it back?" ”
Xie Yu frowned, she turned around and lifted the corpse cloth of the sixth child again, and personally touched his corpse a few times, but found nothing.
She sighed a little anxiously, glanced at the almost faded red trouser belt around his waist, and subconsciously asked, "This sixth year?" ”
Da Zhou Kan'er is too old to be too old, and he needs to tie a red trouser belt around his waist to block the trouble.
Master Liu sighed, flipped through the file and said: "No, the sixth child was born in the twelfth year of the first emperor Jinghe, so it stands to reason that this year is not the year of his birth." ”
Xie Yu calculated, this sixth child is now forty-three years old, and he will not be alone.
It was she who asked Master Liu, "Does the sixth child have no relatives in Luoyang?" ”
"He has a daughter, but she accidentally got lost when she followed the sixth child to a rally three years ago, and she has not been found." Master Liu was also a little helpless when he said, "But the sixth brother has never reported to the official, so people outside say that he sold his daughter to Bao Buqi." ”
It is not uncommon for a child to sell a daughter, even if the sixth child is really sold, what can the government do with him.