In the hall, an eighteen or nineteen-year-old teahouse guy knelt tremblingly in front of Xu Rui and opened his mouth tremblingly.

"The little one's name is Wang Xi, he is a guy in this teahouse, he has just worked for half a year, and he is ...... today This morning, Shopkeeper Peng came to the teahouse early in the morning, he is a frequent customer in the store, and the guys know him.

At that time, because the door had just opened, most of the guys were cleaning, and only the small ones happened to be fine, so they stepped forward to ask the shopkeeper Peng if he was going to the booked Tianzi A room.

In the past, Shopkeeper Peng went to that one every time he came to the teahouse, but today he said that he wanted to go to the first floor of the place.

Although the little one was a little strange, but seeing that the shopkeeper Peng seemed to be a little nervous, he didn't ask much, and led him to the room of Dizi A, and as soon as he closed the door, the new guy told me that there were also guests in the Tianzi A room.

I was afraid that the guy didn't know the rules and let the guests occupy the Tianzi A number booked by Peng's shopkeeper, so I hurriedly chased after him, but I saw that it was Mr. An Ge who led someone into the Tianzi B room......"

"You said that An Ge went to room B of Tianzi?"

Xu Rui frowned and interrupted Wang Xi's words.

Wang Xi hurriedly nodded and said: "Yes, although Mr. An Ge is not a regular customer like Shopkeeper Peng, he has also been here once or twice, plus he is a noble person of Tianbao Pavilion, so the little one remembers his appearance, and he will never be wrong!" ”

"And what about when he enters the room?"

Xu Rui asked again.

Wang Xi said: "After entering the room, Mr. An Ge left the two guards at the door, and the little one went to prepare tea, and suddenly heard movement outside, and when he came out, he saw that it was an errand officer of Changxing Mansion.

Without saying a word, they walked towards the second floor, and when the little one followed, the messengers were talking to Mr. Ange's guards at the top of the stairs, and then they went to the Tianzi room together, and then they ...... found that the shopkeeper Peng was actually dead inside, and Mr. An Ge was also in the Tianzi A room, looking panicked, holding a short knife in his hand. ”

"You see all this?"

Xu Rui frowned and asked.

Wang Xi nodded: "It's all seen by the villain." ”

Xu Rui asked again: "How long has it been since you saw An Ge enter room B of Tianzi and the messenger from Changxing Mansion arrived?" ”

Wang Xi said: "At most, it will not exceed the time of half a pillar of incense." ”

Xu Rui nodded, took out a piece of two taels of silver and gave it to him, and said, "I know the matter, you go down first, and if there is any problem, I will ask you." ”

"Thank you Master Hou, thank you Master Hou!"

Wang Xi took the silver tael and was taken away by the guards with great gratitude.

After a while, Li Chun was brought over by the guards again.

"Li Chun, which room did you and An Ge go to in the morning?"

Xu Rui asked straight to the point.

Li Chun was stunned: "Naturally, it is Tianzi A, and Mr. An Ge and I also looked at the sign on the wall before entering the room." ”

Xu Rui's eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked again, "Is there anything special in the room?" ”

"Nothing special......"

Li Chun recalled everything that happened in the morning, and suddenly said uncertainly: "It's that the window in the room seems to be broken, I pushed it twice and didn't push it open, and then I didn't open the window again, I don't know if this is special." ”

Xu Rui was stunned for a moment, and said to Lin Shaodong beside him: "Let's go, go to Tianzi B to have a look." ”

As he spoke, he immediately got up and walked towards the Tianzi No. B room, Lin Shaodong and Cao Siyuan didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed.

"The two guards who followed An Ge should also be in Changxing Mansion, have you asked them?"

Xu Rui asked Lin Shaodong as he walked.

Lin Shaodong said: "I asked, they have been guarding the door of the Tianzi A room, until the messenger of Changxing Mansion went upstairs, they went up to negotiate with the messenger for a few words, and no one has been here in between." ”

Xu Rui came to the staircase, looked in along the corridor, as if thinking about something, and after a while, he took a big step and walked to the Tianzi B room.

The moment the door was opened, several people were stunned, the room of Tianzi B was exactly the same as Tianzi A, and there was no difference in even the furnishings, ornaments and calligraphy and painting.

"Dashuai, do you suspect that Ange and they are not coming from Tianzi A, but Tianzi B? But what about the guards at the door? They clearly said that they had been guarding the door of the Tianzi A room. ”

Lin Shaodong muttered.

Xu Rui shook his head, came to the window, and saw that the window was wide open, so he carefully checked the traces on the window frame.

Lin Shaodong followed behind Xu Rui and said: "Things are getting more and more strange, if the guy didn't lie, then the situation at that time was that the deceased Peng shopkeeper was in the Dizi No. A room on the first floor, and An Ge was in the Tianzi No. B room on the second floor.

The guards were guarding the door, and they didn't notice anyone passing through the corridor, but after a short half-pillar of incense, An Ge, Li Chun, and the deceased appeared in room A at the same time.

This short half-pillar incense time needs to bring An Ge and the deceased who were in other rooms to Tianzi A, and then kill people, and they can't pass through the corridor, which is completely impossible.

Also, the fact that the officers of Changxing Mansion came so quickly meant that they must have received the report in advance, or that they were simply hiding nearby, waiting for the case to happen.

But if Li Chun didn't lie, then he, An Ge and the guards should have been in the room of Tianzi A from the beginning, you said that Tianzi A was the location of the crime, so how did the murderer commit murder in Tianzi A after stuning An Ge and Li Chun?

Shopkeeper Peng turned his head before he died, that is to say, he was awake at the time, and he did not struggle before he died, if he saw An Ge and Li Chun who were stunned in the room of Tianzi A, how could he not be the slightest surprised, waiting to be killed by the murderer? ”

Lin Shaodong carefully analyzed the course of the case, but the more he analyzed, the more difficult the questions in his head became.

Xu Rui stretched out his index finger, gently stroked a slender scratch mark on the window frame, and silently listened to Lin Shaodong's analysis without saying a word.

After a moment of silence, Xu Rui suddenly went out of the door and came to the end of the corridor to look at the wall.

At the end of the corridor hangs a landscape painting on the wall, and at the bottom of the painting is a sour wood stand with a delicate small bonsai on the stand.

Xu Rui looked down the wall and retreated step by step, until he retreated to the outside of the Tianzi A room, and his frowning brows gradually stretched a little.

"Did you find out?"

Lin Shaodong kept observing Xu Rui's expression, and when he saw that he seemed to have gained, he hurriedly asked,

Xu Rui still didn't answer, but asked, "If what I expected is right, the Dizi A room should be directly below the Tianzi A room, right?" ”

Lin Shaodong nodded: "That's true, the subordinates of the No. A room have already gone to see it, and they haven't found anything suspicious." ”

Xu Rui sneered: "It's right if there is no suspicion." ”

Lin Shaodong frowned: "What does this mean?" ”

Xu Rui sneered: "The simplest part of this case is that no one lied from beginning to end, so all the clues we got are true." ”

"Real?"

Lin Shaodong said in disbelief: "Dashuai, the words of Li Chun, the buddy and the guards are clearly contradictory, the bull's head is not the horse's mouth, how can no one lie?" ”

Xu Rui shook his head: "Often the most real situation looks so unbelievable, but once the veil is lifted, the rest is easy to understand." ”

Lin Shaodong's face was happy: "My lord has unraveled the true image." ”

Xu Rui sighed: "Some people want to be a good person, but after being a good person, they have a heart of harm." ”

Lin Shaodong was even more confused by Xu Rui's emotion, and said puzzledly: "The subordinates don't understand what the adults mean. ”

The corners of Xu Rui's mouth hooked up a smile: "This matter itself is actually not complicated, the complicated thing is that there are too many people meddling, so it has caused a seemingly unbelievable fog, but the people who planned this unjust case are all attentive, and even Ben Shuai was almost fooled by them." ”

"So the big marshal can already be sure that An Ge was wronged?"

Cao Siyuan interjected.

Xu Rui smiled faintly: "It can't be fake, it can't be fake, let's go, since someone has set up a stage, then let's sing this play well!" ”

After speaking, Xu Rui beckoned to the two of them, and walked towards the outside of the teahouse with a sneer.

The two glanced at each other, they were all in the clouds, and they had to hurry up to keep up with Xu Rui's footsteps.

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