After the prefect of Song's mansion, he ordered someone to bring the splash skin, and the splash skin looked evil, but he insisted that it was the innkeeper and his wife who wanted to kill for money, because the sky was about to dawn, and there should have been people walking in the town at that time. I asked the store in the town, but I didn't hear the sound of running for help. It was obviously killed by someone at night, and then dragged to the entrance of the town, where the body was removed and destroyed. The squire admitted that he had committed blackmail, but the murderer was a sure thing, and asked the prefect to interrogate.

After hearing this, the Song prefect felt that it was also very reasonable, and now the confessions of the two sides are inconsistent, and they cannot be decided without mutual examination. Since the facts are not clear, an investigation is needed. Therefore, he ordered the two to be taken to wait, and ordered Xie to wait to investigate and testify.

Xie Ci and a group of four people came straight to Wuli Shop.

All the residents along the way, when they heard about the murder, gathered in groups and followed the arrester to watch.

Xie Ci and the others arrived at the door of the inn first, and saw a corpse lying below, with a knife wound in the neck, which seemed to be dead from the wound at a glance.

Xie Ci looked at the knife wound and his heart sank.

Then he asked the second child in the store and asked, "Where is the shopkeeper of your house?" Did this corpse fall here? ”

Xiao Er asked this first when he saw Xie Ci, and hurried back: "Tell the official, my shopkeeper fainted this morning, and he has been carried to the medical hall and has not come back yet, I'm afraid he is still fainting." As for the corpse, there was no corpse at the door of the shop, and it was the scoundrel who moved the corpse from the entrance of the town to the door of the shop in order to blackmail the shopkeeper of my family, so that the scoundrel could blackmail Lai. Ask the official to be clear. ”

Lao Zhao squatted down for an autopsy, and the three of them walked into the inn and asked Xiao Er, "Which room did the guests live in yesterday?" Xiao Er said: "There are only three rooms in the back, and the shopkeeper and his wife live with their daughter." The two rooms on the east side are kitchens, and these five houses never live in guests, but only move forward and enter, so that guests can live. The villain and others live in the backyard and do not live here. Yesterday the guest came, and the shopkeeper said that because they were merchants who sold goods, they would always have money, and it was not proper to move forward, so he asked him to live in Zhongjin. Xiao Er said as he led the thanks, and the others went to the middle room, pointing to the house above.

Xie Ci and the others went in to take a closer look, and saw that there were still traces of residual food and wine on the table, which had not been removed.

Chen Badao: "I saw that it was as this little two said." ”

Xie Ci shook his head and pointed to the two night pots placed under the bed, which were clean and clean, without any traces of being used at night or after being used and cleaned.

The three of them glanced at each other, and they all suspected that the confession of the little two was untrue.

Chen Ba asked: "Since your shopkeeper has opened an inn here for decades, and the passers-by must live here, is there only the two of them yesterday, and there are no other guests?" ”

The little two replied: "In addition, there are three guests, one is to sell leather goods in Shanxi; Those two are the master and servant, from Henan to here, and now because of illness, they are still sleeping here! ”

Soon the leather customer was brought in for questioning, and the guest said that he had seen the guest of yesterday, and that he had indeed gone out at the dawn of day, and that he had not heard any shouting during the night, and that he had no idea why he had died.

Then he brought the servant, and said the same thing, saying that the master was sick, and had not slept all night, and that if there had been any other reason, how could there be no movement.

Everyone said in unison, saying that it was not the store that killed them for money, and they were even more puzzled in their hearts, so they had to go inside again, and look around carefully, but there was still no trace.

Xie Ci was puzzled: "This case is obviously dead outside the inn, if it dies in this house, it is the three people who deny it, but if it really died in the house, how can there be no trace at all?" ”

Xie Ci and the others were puzzled, came out of the inn, and then went to the entrance of the town, and saw that the ground at the entrance of the town was covered with blood and scattered everywhere.

There were no people living in this place, so Xie Ci and the others had to visit the nearby residents of the town, but they all said that they did not know.

When he returned to the inn, Lao Zhao Tou had already understood the cause of death of the corpse.

"A male corpse, with a knife wound to the neck, three inches in diameter and six minutes in width, killed with one knife."

Old man Zhao stood in place, looking at the thanks.

Chen Ba and Li Dadao also stopped speaking at the same time, and their faces changed.

They have all seen such a one-knife kill.

The nameless corpses in the fire in Xiuchun Pavilion not long ago, as well as Ding Yi, Pan He's family, both died from the same knife wounds.

It's just that the nameless deceased in the fire of Xiuchun Pavilion, in addition to the fatal wound in the neck, also has a knife wound on the shoulder and back, and a left rib, which is obviously entangled with people.

Xie Ci squatted down and turned the palm of the deceased's hand over, only to see that the thick calluses in the palm were covered with fingers, and then touched up, the arm was very thick, the warp was coiled, and there were many years of old wounds in the arm, and the scars had faded.

Xie Ci's eyes narrowed, and he stood up and shook his head.

At this time, a dog's whimper caused Xie Ci's face to turn pale, and when he heard the sound, a big black dog next to the inn fell to the ground due to exhaustion, and one leg was bloody and could not stand.

A person in the back kitchen of the inn panted with a knife: "Da Hei, don't run again, if you want to blame your bad life, you can't stand on the wrong side if you are beaten by someone, you can't bite people and can't see the courtyard, as a dog, you have been abolished, and you are a black dog, if you are born white and tender, how can there be today's disaster?" I will kill you with the order of the shopkeeper, and use your blood to pour the earth on the ground, and also add some fragrant meat to the back kitchen, and I will not suffer any pain when I go down, and you will not escape. ”

The shopkeeper said with disdain: "Third Brother Luo, why are you talking so much nonsense with the beast alone?" It's over with a knife, and it's still so much tongue. You went to the hospital to see the shopkeeper, can the shopkeeper wake up? ”

Without waiting for the cook to answer, he walked over first, squatting down to take a closer look at the black dog.

The dog was very large, with sharp teeth and round eyes.

At this time, it whimpered and cried, trembling all over, it was unable to walk due to a leg injury, and it ran out of these many ways in order to survive, and it was already powerless, and a pair of eyes looked at Xie Ci, and actually shed tears.

The cook saw a handsome and unparalleled catcher blocking in front of him, and he didn't dare to cut it, so he had to twist and smile at a few catchers, and stood in the distance with his hands hanging down, not knowing what to do.

Xie Ci turned his head to look at the cook and said, "Dare to ask my brother, when was this big black dog injured?" ”

The cook replied honestly, "Yesterday night before going to bed, it was fine, I fed it some rice and went to sleep." In the confusion of the night, I heard it roar a few times, and then it was silent and did not care, and this morning, it was like this. ”

Xie Ci touched the black dog's head and reached for its injured leg, and the black dog trembled, revealing a huge knife wound on the leg.

Xie Ci turned back to Old Zhao and said, "Uncle Zhao, can you help me take a look at this dog?" ”

Old Zhao Tou rushed over when he heard the sound, looked at it carefully, and didn't speak, but just nodded to Xie Ci.

Xie Ci stood up and said to the cook: "This black dog has some credit in your family compared to before it was not injured, and the shopkeeper of your family caused the case, it was a person who killed people, not a ghost, if he killed this loyal servant in vain and angered the gods, I am afraid it will cause trouble." Besides, the front of your store may be one of the places where the crime occurred, so you can't miss any clues. What hasn't been found out yet, you poured a basin of dog blood, who can tell if the blood droplets on the corner over there are human blood or dog blood? In case we miscount and arrest your shopkeeper, don't cry out at that time. ”

The cook and Xiao Er suddenly made a swing, the two looked at each other, the cook himself couldn't bear to kill the black dog, it was the shopkeeper who ordered him to do it, and now he thanked him for his intercession, and he was shaken.

He thanked him and said: "This dog is also crippled and useless, I will give you some silver here, you give it to your shopkeeper, and then go to find a dog to take care of the home, and I will take it away." ”

As he spoke, he took out a dozen copper plates from his sleeve and handed them to the cook.

Lao Zhao Tou had already found some gauze and hemostatic medicine from his own appliance box, and wrapped it in the black dog, the black dog was a fierce one, but at this time he seemed to know that the two people in front of him were trying to save his life, only shed tears and remained motionless, obediently let Lao Zhao Tou bandage.

The cook looked at the copper coin handed over by Xie Ci, and he didn't dare to ask for it, but he raised the black dog, and now he really didn't want to watch the black dog die under his own knife.

He looked at the thanks, then at the black dog, then at the copper plate, and finally gritted his teeth.

As long as the shopkeeper asked, he said that he had to buy this catch, and the shopkeeper would not go to find this catcher theory.

So the cook took the copper plates, turned and hurried out, to report to the shopkeeper in the infirmary.

Xie Ci borrowed a bamboo basket from the fellow, tied the bamboo basket firmly to the saddle, and then picked up the bandaged black dog, which was very heavy, and the blood on his legs was stained on Xie Ci's official uniform.

Xie Ci put the black dog firmly in the bamboo basket, and then walked to the other two.

Chen Ba and Li Dadao have been very worried since they knew the cause of the deceased's death, and after the four of them discussed, Xie Ci took Lao Zhao Tou back to the yamen of Yangzhou Mansion first, and reported the situation in detail.

Chen Ba and Li Dadao stood by and guarded the scene.

So Xie Ci took the old man Zhao on a horse, and the horse behind him carried a basket containing a black dog, and ran back to Yangzhou Yamen one after the other.

When he arrived at the Yamen, Xie Ci entrusted the bamboo basket to a colleague, and he and Lao Zhao went to report first, and after he reported the situation in detail, Song Zhifu, who was sitting on the Taishi chair, had already wrinkled his brows.

"So, it's a man's doing?" Governor Song looked at the thanks.

Xie Ci neither nodded nor shook his head, but only replied: "It's very similar, but it's not sure if it was done by one person." ”

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