Lu Shirui's tranquilizer was not a large dose, and after about an hour, the man woke up. Probably because the effect of the drug has also been reduced, Lu Shirui finally stopped shouting to chop his arm with a knife. Seeing that her son was awake, Mrs. Lu wanted to take her son away, but Gu Congzhou stopped them.

"I'm sorry Mrs. Lu, I have something I want to ask Mr. Lu."

Seeing that a little doctor dared to stop herself, Mrs. Lu was a little displeased, but Lu Shirui was very talkative, and he asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Lu Gongzi, do you know why you suddenly had that hallucination yesterday?"

Hearing Gu Congzhou's question, Lu Shirui's expression changed slightly, Mrs. Lu just wanted to speak when she saw this, but Gu Congzhou rushed to say first: "Master Lu, don't hide it, I also saw a person with similar symptoms to you a few days ago, but he couldn't save him at that time, and in the end, he was gone." ”

Hearing this, a trace of horror flashed on Mrs. Lu's face, and Lu Shirui asked in surprise, "Who is that person?" ”

"It's a coachman."

"Coachman? Pulling rickshaws? ”

"Yes."

"That can't be." Lu Shirui immediately vetoed it categorically. Gu Congzhou felt strange and asked rhetorically, "Why is it impossible?" ”

"Because the one I smoked was not an ordinary cigarette, but a rarity brought from out of town. He would never have gotten it with a rickshaw driver. ”

"Out of town?" Gu Congzhou frowned, "Can Lu Gongzi be more detailed?" ”

Lu Shirui hesitated for a moment and said, "The cigarette I smoked is called Golden Smoke, which was given to me by a pharmacy owner. He said that their pharmacy was a shop in the north, and he had just arrived in Kanto City, and he wanted me to give it a boost. He also gave me that cigarette, saying that now people with heads and faces in the two northern provinces smoke this kind of cigarette, which is much better than ordinary big smoke. And he told me that if I smoked it, I could go back to him.

Gu Congzhou heard more doubts in his heart, and hurriedly asked, "Where is the pharmacy you said?" ”

Early the next morning.

Gu Congzhou stood on the side of the street, looking at this Heren pharmacy - this is the pharmacy that Lu Shirui said yesterday that gave him "golden cigarettes". Judging from the face of the door, this pharmacy is indeed not small, and it seems that the owner of the pharmacy does have some strength.

Maybe it's still early, the pharmacy is not open, and the curtains are drawn on the windows. Gu Congzhou wanted to knock on the door to see if there was anyone, but as soon as his hand touched the door panel, he found that something was wrong - the door was actually hidden!

"Who are you looking for?" At this moment, a young man's voice came from behind him. However, Gu Congzhou didn't have the heart to answer him at this time, he slammed forward and pulled the door and broke in directly!

"Hey, what are you doing?!" The person behind him was probably the guy from the pharmacy, and he was anxious when he saw Gu Congzhou's movements, but when he followed Gu Congzhou in, he instantly lost his voice - because there was a strong smell of blood in the air of the pharmacy that even herbs could not hide......

Not far from their feet, a man collapsed in a pool of blood. He had a dagger in his chest, the blade completely submerged.

"Shopkeeper! ——”

The young man shouted and was about to go forward, but Gu Congzhou stopped him: "Don't go over!" He's dead! ”

At this moment, the faces of the people on the ground were blue and black, and they looked like they were dead. Gu Congzhou hurriedly ordered the young man beside him: "Go and call the people from the patrol room!" ”

"Who the hell are you? Why did you just run into it? Do you know that our shopkeeper was killed?! "I didn't expect this young guy to target Gu Congzhou with all the fingers. Gu Congzhou thought that he was probably anxious about the change at the first time, and he didn't bother with him, but said: "I'm a doctor, and I came to your shopkeeper today to ask him something." You also saw that you just came in and your shopkeeper is already dead. Now that there is a death, someone must go find the people from the patrol house, and if you don't want to go then I'll look for it. ”

The young man's eyes rolled, as if he was thinking of an idea, and finally he said, "I have to guard our shopkeeper here, and I have to find someone to go by yourself!" ”

Gu Congzhou saw that he was resolute, so he nodded: "Okay." ”

So, Gu Congzhou left the pharmacy and went to the patrol room by himself. Because he heard that there had been a murder case, he was taken directly to Sheriff Yao's office. When he found out that the person who came to report the case was Gu Congzhou, Sergeant Yao was a little anxious: "I said Doctor Gu, how can you encounter a murder case wherever you go?" ”

Can't you just stay at home?!

"Speaking of which, this incident may really be related to the last time." Gu Congzhou opened his mouth, and he told Sheriff Yao everything from yesterday's encounter with Lu Shirui's madness to today's discovery that the pharmacy shopkeeper Pan had been killed. Sergeant Yao frowned after hearing this, and the impatient expression on his face finally retreated a little. So he waved his hand and beckoned his subordinates: "Call a few people, get out of the team!" ”

"Yes!"

Gu Congzhou led Sheriff Yao and the people who patrolled the house back to Heren Pharmacy, but he didn't expect that the young guy was no longer alone in the pharmacy at this time. I saw a man in his thirties and forties standing with the young man, and when he saw the patrol man coming, the man came over.

"Sheriff," the man handed over a piece of cigarette, Sergeant Yao took it but didn't smoke it, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Who are you?" ”

"The surname is Liu, and he is a sitting doctor in the pharmacy."

"This is your shopkeeper?" Sergeant Yao pointed to the corpse on the ground. Compared to when Gu Congzhou had just left, there was now an extra white cloth on the corpse, which was obviously covered by the two of them.

Sheriff Yao went over and lifted the white cloth, and the appearance of the corpse was completely revealed. This shopkeeper Pan was a middle-aged man in his forties, slightly chubby, his eyes were round, and he seemed to be quite surprised before he died. And there was a dagger stuck in his chest, and the blade was almost completely submerged in his body.

Sergeant Yao looked at the corpse's dead face and frowned. However, Gu Congzhou suddenly spoke: "Have you touched the corpse?!" ”

"The innocent death of our shopkeeper, we can't exaggerate to cover him, right?" The sitting doctor said.

"No, the posture of the corpse is different from just now, you touched the corpse just now! Just now his body was on his left side, and now he is lying on his back! Gu Congzhou pointed out sharply.

Hearing Gu Congzhou say so specifically, a trace of panic flashed in the young man's eyes. However, the sitting doctor was still very calm, and he said: "We just watched the shopkeeper lying on the ground and couldn't bear it, so we put him in a posture a little, isn't this okay?" ”

"This person was killed, and you moved the body before we came to the patrol room, which means that you can't bear to see the shopkeeper's death, and those who don't know think that you secretly moved the body to cover up the evidence."

Sergeant Yao's lukewarm words immediately softened the attitude of the sitting doctor, and he nodded again and again: "The sheriff has learned that we did something wrong." ”

When Sergeant Yao saw that this person admitted his mistake, he didn't say anything more. However, Gu Congzhou's brows kept frowning. He didn't believe that this person moved the corpse because he felt sorry for the shopkeeper Pan, in fact, now the two of them were consciously or unintentionally away from the corpse, obviously they and the shopkeeper Pan did not have such a deep relationship. So what were they moving the body for?

Thinking of this, Gu Congzhou carefully observed the corpse. Except for the knife in his chest, all that remained of the corpse was his clothes. The shopkeeper Pan was wearing a set of long shirts, and the fabric was quite elegant, but the buttons were not neatly fastened, and it seemed that he was dressed in a hurry...... At this time, the trouser pocket on the left side of the corpse attracted Gu Congzhou's attention. The trouser pocket was crumpled and part of it was exposed. Gu Congzhou found that if it was the side lying position just now. The trouser pocket was crushed under the corpse. And now in this position, the person can put his hand in. So they just turned over the deceased's trouser pocket? Thinking of this, he hurriedly looked at the deceased's right trouser pocket, and sure enough, he found that there was also a wrinkle.

Seeing this, Gu Congzhou could confirm that they must have turned over the deceased's trouser pocket. What are they looking for? There is not much space in the trouser pocket, and it is generally used to put small objects, change, and keys......

- Wait, is it the key?!

It's possible. There is money coming and going in a place like a pharmacy, and there are also some precious medicinal herbs, and it is not surprising that the shopkeeper carries the key with him. Thinking of this, Gu Congzhou looked around and wanted to see which places could be locked. However, after looking around, I found that there were two locks in the counter.

Gu Congzhou asked, "What are these two drawers for?" ”

Over there, the police patrolling the house have begun to inspect the whole house. The sitting doctor and the young man were looking away, and only then did they turn their heads when they heard Gu Congzhou ask. The young man said, "That's where we put the money." ”

"Do you want to open it and see if the money is lost?" Gu Congzhou asked.

"The key is usually in the shopkeeper's hand......" replied the young man.

Sergeant Yao waved his hand: "Find the key." ”

The key was found, and when I opened the cabinet, I saw that there was a stack of banknotes and a number of silver dollars, all of which were well placed inside, and it seemed that the murderer did not commit the murder for money. The policeman then opened the other locked drawers, but the pharmacy people looked at them and said that nothing had been lost inside. During this time, Gu Congzhou had been paying attention to the expressions of the two people, but he no longer saw obvious mood fluctuations on the faces of the two people. It seems that whatever the two of them want to hide, they have been hidden and will not be discovered.

Confirming this in his heart, Gu Congzhou no longer spent time with those two, he decided to observe it himself. So he walked up to the body of Pan's shopkeeper, squatted down, and asked the forensic doctor who was performing the autopsy, "When was he killed?" ”

The medical examiner heard from others and knew that this person was also a doctor, so he said, "About 10 to 12 o'clock last night." ”

Gu Congzhou nodded—this person's clothes were a little untidy, as if he had been dressed in a hurry. It makes sense to say that he was woken up at night after he had fallen asleep. But why did the man come to him late at night? Is it just to kill him? What was this man so important that the shopkeeper did not hesitate to get up from the bed and open the door for him, greet him in, and then be killed by him?

Although he is not a professional forensic doctor, as a doctor, Gu Congzhou also has some basic common sense. Shopkeeper Pan could only see one wound on his chest all over his body, which showed that he did not expect the murderer to kill him at all, so there were no other wounds left on his body due to the fight with people. In other words, the murderer should be someone whom Pan knew and never thought of killing him - who is this person?

Gu Congzhou squatted next to the corpse and frowned and thought, over there, the forensic doctor was still continuing to examine the corpse. He raised the corpse's arm, and it was this shaking that made Gu Congzhou suddenly notice something abnormal - "Wait! ”

He tugged at the corpse's right hand and looked at it carefully, making sure it wasn't him just now: "What is this?" ”

The forensic doctor also leaned over, only to find that there were some black stains on the forefinger of the shopkeeper Pan. It's just that it's not very obvious because he has blood on his hands. The forensic doctor looked at it, wiped it with a cotton swab, and then said, "It's not bloodstains, it doesn't look like ordinary stains, is it medicinal herbs?" ”

Gu Congzhou frowned - could it be that Shopkeeper Pan got up in the middle of the night last night to catch medicine for the murderer? What kind of medicine is so urgent and secretive, it needs to be caught in the middle of the night, and after it is caught, it has to kill people?

Could it be ......

！！

Gu Congzhou's eyes suddenly lit up - golden smoke!!

Thinking of this, he immediately asked the two people in the pharmacy: "Do you sell opium/tablets of 'golden smoke' here?" ”

Hearing this, the young man shook his head: "We have opium/tablets here, but they are sold as medicinal herbs, and I have not heard of any 'golden smoke'." ”

Gu Congzhou's brows furrowed slightly-he always felt that the young man's eyes seemed to flicker a little before he spoke, but when he said that, his gaze changed so quickly that even Gu Congzhou himself was not sure; Second, even if he confirmed that the young man was lying, as long as he didn't admit it, Gu Congzhou wouldn't be able to get the truth out of his mouth.

It seems that you can only rely on yourself to find clues.

Just as he was thinking about it, a policeman from the patrol room came over: "Doctor Gu, can you take a look at your shoes?" ”

"My shoes?" Gu Congzhou was surprised, "What's wrong?" ”

"We found a shoe print over there," the policeman pointed to the ground near the doorway, "and it looks like a shoe print, and you're the only one who has come to this house." ”

Gu Congzhou walked in the direction of the policeman's finger, and sure enough, he saw half a bloody shoe print on the ground. He looked up again, and saw that the young man and the doctor were wearing cloth shoes. At this time, the policeman came over and said to Gu Congzhou, "Doctor Gu, please take off one of your shoes." ”

Gu Congzhou looked at the shoe prints and took off the shoe on his right foot, and the policeman compared the pattern on the sole of Gu Congzhou's shoe with the marks on the ground, and then shook his head - the two are not the same.

Taking advantage of the opportunity for the policeman to compare the shoes, Gu Congzhou was also secretly observing the shoe prints. Since this shoe print was not left by himself, it should naturally be the murderer's. He kept the shoe print in his heart and planned to draw it when he went out later.

The policeman returned the shoes to Gu Congzhou. Gu Congzhou put on his shoes and continued to observe in the room. The police patrolling the house have already searched the house, and many suspicious places have been circled by them. Gu Congzhou looked around, wrote down a few important clues in his heart, and then turned to the back room.

The back room is a cubicle, a small space that connects the front pharmacy to the backyard. Gu Congzhou noticed that there was a table here, there was nothing in the open space above the table, and there were two drawers under the table, both of which had been unlocked and opened. I saw that the two drawers were empty, only a few blank papers and a few scattered oceans.

Gu Congzhou frowned, he walked back to the front room, and asked the young man, "What were the two drawers in the back room?" ”

"I don't know." The young man shook his head, "Those two drawers have always been the shopkeeper's place to put things, and we haven't seen anything inside." ”

Gu Congzhou frowned and said nothing—the drawer was very clean, and he must have let go of things before. Now that it's gone, was it taken away by the murderer, or was it hidden in advance by the two people in front of you?

Over there, the two people also seemed to notice Gu Congzhou's difficulty, and the sitting doctor walked up to Sheriff Yao and discussed in a low voice: "Sheriff, our shopkeeper was killed, although the two of us are willing to cooperate with the patrol room, but we are not the shopkeeper's family after all." We have just sent someone to deliver a letter to the shopkeeper's family, you can see that this is a little ......" The sitting doctor looked at Gu Congzhou with a slight point, "Can we wait for the shopkeeper's family to come and then do a search?" ”

"Where is your shopkeeper?"

"Although the shopkeeper is from Ji Province, he has a family member near here, and it is estimated that he will be able to arrive this afternoon." As he spoke, the sitting doctor stuffed something into Sheriff Yao's hand, "Sergeant Yao, please, don't make it difficult for us......"

Sergeant Yao secretly touched a few silver dollars in his hand, and said to his subordinates: "Okay, seal everything you find, and wait for the rest to come in the afternoon." Doctor Gu," he said to Gu Congzhou, "you go back first." ”

"Okay." Gu Congzhou walked out of the back room and put his right hand into his coat pocket as if nothing had happened.

With Sheriff Yao's order, the people who patrolled the room left in the team, and Gu Congzhou also walked out of the Heren Pharmacy with him. When the two men were far away, they immediately returned to the pharmacy and closed the door.

"Uncle Liu, what do you say about this?" The young man asked the hall doctor with a worried expression.

"It should be fine, we just hid everything, they shouldn't have found it. In the afternoon, people will come to Pan's shopkeeper's house, and let them go to work when the time comes. ”

"Hmm." The young man nodded, and then asked worriedly, "You said those things are gone, will it really be ...... Kill people? ”

"If nothing happens, I believe that the top can be even. If something really happens......" Speaking of this, a trace of worry flashed in the eyes of the old Chinese medicine doctor, "Then you can only resign yourself to fate......"