In the eyes of Princess Keya, this is undoubtedly a kind of acquiescence: "Gu Zhenbei, I won't give up!" ”

At this moment, someone knocked on the door, and then, Nangong Ke's gentle voice came.

"Brother Gu, are you resting?"

Zhen Bei opened the door and saw Nangong Ke standing in front of him with two wooden boxes in his hands.

"Brother Nangong, but what's the matter?"

"I heard that there are a lot of mosquitoes here at night, and I remember that there was some mugwort in the car, so I asked them to take it and give some to my brother!" Nangong Ke said with a smile.

Zhen Bei's heart warmed and said, "Thank you Brother Nangong for your kindness!" ”

Nangong Ke was slightly stunned when he saw Princess Keya coming over, and then smiled and said: "It turns out that the princess is also here, but she doesn't have to wait for the next step!" This box was originally given to the princess! ”

Princess Keya took the wooden box, and inexplicably felt a little guilty: "Nangong Gongzi, are you really crowded with them to rest?" ”

Nangong Ke glanced at Zhen Bei in surprise when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Thank you princess, two guests just left, and the store has already cleaned up the side room." One of them rested there next, and the other one was also rented by us, so that Commander Li and them could also sleep comfortably! ”

Princess Keya breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this: "This is really good! Nangong Gongzi, you are really a considerate and good person! ”

Nangong Ke smiled slightly, and arched his hand: "Thank you princess for complimenting!" Nothing else, I will take my leave! Brother Gu, Princess Keya will continue to travel tomorrow, so you should rest early! ”

Princess Keya watched him walk to the wing room at the end of the corridor, and praised him: "What a beautiful son who is as gentle as jade!" ”

She turned her head to look at Zhen Bei, her tone changed suddenly, and she said in a strange manner: "But some people don't know how to appreciate?" ”

"yes, he's so perfect, I just don't think he's worthy of him! But the princess is as beautiful as a flower, Bing Qing Yujie, since she understands his goodness, she will be a matchmaker to match the two of you, how about it? Zhen Bei said meaningfully.

Princess Keya snorted coldly: "That's not good!" ”

Just then, the sound of small footsteps came from the staircase.

Zhenbei and Princess Koya followed the prestige, and saw a light figure appear at the top of the staircase.

This is a young girl, she is handsome, dressed in yellow, after her eyes touch Zhenbei and the two, she nods slightly towards them, and passes by, leaving a string of unusually good aromas.

I saw her go straight to the door of the wing next to Princess Keya, push the door and walk in.

Princess Keya looked at the woman and closed the door, and whispered to Zhenbei: "I don't know what the origin of this carving contest is, so many people have come to this small town!" Could it be that this woman is also here to participate in the competition? ”

Zhen Bei looked thoughtfully in the direction in which the woman had disappeared, shook her head, and did not answer.

The next day, before dawn, Zhenbei was woken up by the noise outside the room.

I vaguely heard someone say: "Get up quickly, if there is a murder case, you have to get up and accept the interrogation!" ”

She came to her senses, rubbed her eyes, and sat up.

As soon as he put on his clothes and tied his long hair behind his head, someone banged on the door.

When she opened the door, she saw several officials standing outside the door.

"Big brothers, but what happened?" Zhen Bei was surprised.

Those officials saw that she was gorgeously dressed and had an extraordinary temperament, and they didn't dare to slack off.

The senior official at the head said: "This son, someone died in this store last night, in order to investigate the case, please cooperate to understand the relevant matters!" ”

Seeing Zhenbei lightly nodded, they secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

There were already a few other officials knocking on Princess Keya's door.

"Who?" Her voice was a little impatient.

Then the door opened, and she walked out of the room with a veil on her face, and saw Zhenbei also in the corridor, and the anger caused by not sleeping enough dissipated a lot, and hurriedly walked to her.

At the same time, Nangong Ke and the others also walked out of the room.

After Commander Li showed the identity card to those officials, the other party learned that he had offended the nobles and disturbed the sleep of those who could not afford to be provoked.

Nangong Ke and the others were naturally invited back to the room with great respect, serving carefully, and at the same time hurriedly sent news to the officials in the palace.

His Royal Highness the Prince came in person, and they didn't know that they were really guilty and deserved to die!

"What the hell is going on?" Nangong Kedai, who had been curious for a long time, asked.

The accompanying master hurriedly took a few steps forward and replied: "Your Highness Qiqi, last night, the shopkeeper of this shop was poisoned and murdered!" After a preliminary investigation, it was suspected that the perpetrator was a guest staying in this store! ”

His voice trembled with excitement.

Nangong Ke nodded clearly: "What is the result of the current investigation?" ”

A flash of panic flashed in the master's eyes, and he said, "Little incompetence, there is no new progress in this case!" ”

Nangong Ke pointed to the handsome boy beside him and said, "This is Gu Gongzi, who has studied the reasoning of case investigation, if you encounter anything difficult to solve, you might as well ask Gu Gongzi to help!" ”

This is a slap-sized town, weekdays are calm and calm, there are few cases, occasionally people report to the door, and most of them are trivial things between neighbors and villagers, working in the yamen, it is easy work that everyone envies.

The master originally thought that he was going to punish himself for his unfavorable case, but when he saw that he was helping to invite a master to solve the case, he was overjoyed and said: "Thank you, Your Highness, for your understanding!" ”

Immediately afterwards, he bowed deeply to Zhen Bei and said: "This case is very strange, I have to trouble Gu Gongzi to come out in person!" ”

Zhen Bei was surprised: "Master Guo, please explain the matter in detail." ”

The master surnamed Guo was busy calming down and said: "Early this morning, as soon as the lower officials arrived at the yamen to work, they received a panicked report from the junior of the Jufu Inn, saying that their shopkeeper was killed in his own room!" In our town, except for the carving competition four years ago, there was a homicide, and there are few major cases! The county lord naturally didn't dare to delay carelessly, and hurriedly asked the lower officials to bring a group of brothers to come over to find out! ”

When Master Guo and the others arrived, they knew the tricky part of the matter.

To be precise, the shopkeeper Liu of this Jufu Inn was poisoned to death, his face was blue, his seven orifices were bleeding, and the whole person fell face down to the ground.

The result of the autopsy was that the poison in Liu's shopkeeper was a highly toxic poison commonly used by people in the rivers and lakes, and after this poison entered the throat, it could kill people in an instant!

The time when the shopkeeper Liu died was about midnight, and according to Xiao Er, after having dinner, he entered the room and never came out again.

Could it be that the deceased locked himself in his room and committed suicide by poisoning?

As soon as this point of view was put forward, it was unanimously refuted by people who were familiar with Liu's shopkeeper, such as the shopkeeper.

And they will firmly believe that the shopkeeper Liu was poisoned by someone for two reasons: first, with the recent holding of the carving competition, the inn business is booming, and the shopkeeper can't close his mouth every day, and there is no reason to commit suicide at all; The second is that he plans to go to Lincheng in the near future and live in the house of his married daughter for a while, because a few days ago his uncle sent a message to say that there was a new big fat boy in the family! For this matter, he specially asked someone to customize a set of longevity locks and gold and silver bracelets, which he planned to give to his newborn grandson as a meeting gift!

In this way, the probability that Shopkeeper Liu will commit suicide is indeed almost zero!

Could it be that someone smeared poison on the objects in their room in advance?

This hypothesis was quickly ruled out, and the poison could only work if it was in the stomach!

And since Shopkeeper Liu has just had dinner and has no habit of eating broken food, he naturally can't eat other food when he returns to his room and is about to fall asleep!

Moreover, the teapot and teacup placed on the table in the room were not detected with toxins, and they were placed very neatly, apparently as if they had been touched.

Or did someone hide in the room in advance, and when the shopkeeper Liu came back, he forced him to drink the poison and then quietly left?

This is even more impossible! At the time of the incident, the doors and windows of the wing where the deceased was located were locked from the inside, and the shopkeeper and several handymen swore to ensure this.

"After the little one got up today, he listed the things that needed to be purchased, and planned to show them to the shopkeeper, but he knocked on the door for a long time, and he didn't see a response inside! On weekdays, our shopkeepers all get up very early! At this normal hour, he has already walked around the streets and come back, where has there ever been a time when he is still closed and sleeping? Yes, the little one sensed that something was wrong, and hurriedly called the three of them and slammed the door open together! But I found that the shopkeeper was he-" The shopkeeper said this, wiping his eyes.

"That's right! The little one remembers clearly, the doors and windows have not been moved, as you can see now, they have always been locked! Our shopkeeper is a cautious person on weekdays, not to mention this season, even in the hot summer, he will close the doors and windows before sleeping! After all, the origin of the people we live here is not clear, who would have expected that the other party is a villain! ”

Zhen Bei checked the only window in the room and nodded slightly.

And crucially, what is the motive of the other party's killing?

Is it murder for money?

But after some searching, it was found that the gold, silver, and other valuable things in the room were left intact in the heavy locked box under the bed!

It's not because of money, after a little thought, she asked, "What kind of enemies do you have in shopkeeper Liu?" ”

The shopkeeper shook his head decisively and choked up: "It's impossible!" Our shopkeeper is the most kind person, and he is a well-known good person here, how can there be an enemy at all? ”

Zhen Bei looked at the motionless corpse on the ground, and remembered that when she first came to stay in this store yesterday, the middle-aged man who was white and chubby and smiling at the counter with a kind smile.

It's a businessman who looks like a good old man who is angry and rich, and it doesn't look like the type of person who has a grudge against someone and is retaliated against.

It's just that people's looks don't mean anything, in order to avoid preconceived ideas affecting judgment, Zhen Bei hurriedly stopped and continued to think deeply in this direction.