Before Jin Xiaolou could answer, Gao Lang had already stroked the back of Jin Xiaolou's head, pressed her into his arms, and said in a soft voice: "But don't worry, lady, the two of us, one smart is enough." ”

In the cold winter night, the dew was even deeper, and Jin Xiaolou's ears were numb from the cold.

As soon as he was buried in Gao Lang's arms, he was surrounded by a warm breath, Jin Xiaolou was annoyed, and smashed it on Gao Lang's stomach, and after breaking free, he hurriedly said: "Entering the mountain is not a problem for you, so what about getting rid of the officers and soldiers?" ”

With that, he pulled hard and pulled Gao Lang behind him.

With Jin Xiaolou's strength, Gao Lang couldn't pull Gao Lang, but Gao Lang was willing to make the lady happy, so he paced outside the alley.

Sure enough, the scolding of the officers and soldiers immediately sounded: "What people! Stand aside! ”

Seeing Gao Lang obediently standing against the wall, Jin Xiaolou was secretly relieved in his heart, ignored Gao Lang, turned around and ran through the alley to the mountain.

The lanterns under the signboard of Shan Kee were lit, the gate was closed, and four officers and soldiers stood guard at the door with spears.

I had to go around to the back.

The backyard of Shan Kee is backed by three other houses, two of which are also merchants on the left and right, and the other is a private house.

Jin Xiaolou sneaked around, and finally found that there was a low wall on the side of the private house, and he planned to touch into the courtyard of the house first to see if he could find a way to turn into the backyard of Shanji, but as soon as he got closer, he saw two officers and soldiers guarding the low wall.

It seems that this yamen is really strictly guarded, and the mountain is surrounded by water, Gao Lang said it is really good, Jin Xiaolou sighed, the mountain is really not so easy to enter.

So she had to go back to the opposite side of the gate, and the cat was in the corner of the wall to take a look, and maybe after a while there were officers and soldiers who wanted to relieve themselves or take a lazy nap or something, so she took the opportunity to act.

As soon as I squatted against the wall, I heard a commotion not far away, and someone shouted loudly: "Come on, there are bandits in the city!" ”

When the officers and soldiers guarding outside the mountain heard this, they looked at each other, and two of them immediately went with guns.

After a while, another officer and soldier who had lost his hat ran over in a panic and shouted at the other two: "Come and help, don't let the bandits run away!" ”

The officers and soldiers guarding the door hesitated: "We ...... it"

The one who lost his hat immediately got anxious: "Where did anyone come to this ghost place where the dead man died in the middle of the night, that bandit seems to be related to the case in the county magistrate's mansion, if there is a trouble, we will not have good fruit to eat!" ”

As soon as they heard this, the two officers and soldiers were really solemn, and hurriedly followed the man and walked away.

Jin Xiaolou was stunned, only to feel that the officers and soldiers without hats looked like Chang'an, and they understood, and hurriedly walked through the street, wanting to push open the gate of Shanji.

Before his hand was stretched out, he was picked up by someone's waist, and he turned over, three or two, and before he could figure out what was going on, he jumped onto the terrace overhead,

"You ......" As soon as Jin Xiaolou spoke, Gao Lang covered her mouth from behind.

I heard a creaking from below, the door opened, and two officers and soldiers came out of it. The two officers and soldiers looked left and right, and when they saw that the people guarding outside were gone, they also hurriedly ran to the sound.

It wasn't until the person walked away that Gao Lang said slowly: "It's really a monkey hurry, if you are hit squarely and deduct a hat that wants to destroy the evidence of the crime, you will really jump into the Yellow River and you won't be able to wash it." ”

After that, he let go of Jin Xiaolou: "There are only two inside, and now they are clean, go ahead." ”

Jin Xiaolou buried her head and walked down, she was also grateful to Gao Lang for saving her, but she still couldn't help but say: "What are you doing with me......"

Gao Lang shrugged his shoulders and tilted his head slightly: "Those officers and soldiers don't know when they will come back, I have to ensure the safety of my wife." ”

Jin Xiaolou was noncommittal, and walked up the stairs.

The stairs on the second floor of Shan Kee do not pass from the first floor, and are directly connected to the outside and the back kitchen.

I went downstairs, walked through the back kitchen, lifted the curtain, and finally entered the backyard.

However, I didn't see it for two days, and the yard was full of fallen leaves, and it looked messy and dirty without anyone to clean it.

Jin Xiaolou went straight to Ruyi's wing, stood at the door and gently pushed the door open.

It was pitch black inside, Jin Xiaolou took out a fire fold and a white candle from his arms, blew it and lit it, and then walked in with the light.

The red water on the ground was only half dry, Jin Xiaolou was careful not to let himself leave footprints, stood in the middle of the room, looked around, and sure enough, it was right with his impression, this wing room was a small room, and there was almost no place to hide people.

The bed is empty, you can see it when you stand in the doorway, the wardrobe on the right hand side is not large, and there are two partitions in it when you open it, so you can hide a child.

However, Jin Xiaolou didn't think that it was a child who didn't grow up who killed Ruyi.

"If you are a murderer, now Ruyi is standing in the middle of the room, and you slowly approach her with a hemp rope and twist her neck." Gao Lang suddenly made a sound, startling Jin Xiaolou and almost extinguishing the candle.

Gao Lang clapped Jin Xiaolou's wrist, and continued: "You killed her and put her in the bathtub where she was going to bathe, you already had an idea in your heart, bolted the doors and windows, and planned to disguise this room as a secret room." ”

"Right now, where will you hide, waiting for Jin Xiaolou, the shopkeeper of this mountain record, to break into the door with someone?"

Jin Xiaolou rolled his eyes, unconsciously raised his forehead with his hand, and couldn't help but say, "I have nowhere to hide." ”

"No, you have." Gao Lang said with certainty, "There is only one place." ”

Jin Xiaolou looked up at the roof, most of the buildings in Xinning City had very thin beams, and there was no room for people to hide. The whole room, there is no place to hide people at all, unless ......

"Unless you hide in the bath." After Jin Xiaolou finished speaking, he shook his head first, "This is impossible, not to mention that Ruyi was originally in the bathtub, after opening the door, Sister Ruyue entered the house, she leaned on the side of the bathtub and sniffed Ruyi's snort, if there are others in the basin, how can she not see it?" ”

"Don't you think there's a lot of weirdness in this case?" Gao Lang didn't answer Jin Xiaolou's question, but laughed, "I remember that this wooden basin is broken, as soon as people go in, they will step on wooden thorns if they don't pay attention to it, and a little guy got your two-day leave because of this, and you have since put this basin in the utility room, how can Ruyi use it to bathe?" Moreover, this room full of wooden basins of red water, at first glance, I thought Ruyi had died of excessive blood loss, but she didn't have a single wound on her body, why did the murderer bother to get so many dyes to splash fake blood everywhere? Is it just to be scary? ”

"There must be a reason for everything." Gao Lang reminded in a soft voice.

The candlelight shone on Gao Lang's face, which made Jin Xiaolou stunned, and suddenly realized: "Could it be that the murderer used the red dye precisely to muddy the water in the wooden basin and make himself better hidden?" ”

"In this case, this tub was prepared by the murderer." Jin Xiaolou slowly arrived, "The murderer is not from Shanji, so he didn't know that we didn't need this wooden basin for bathing, he just thought that this big wooden basin could hide himself, so he moved to the Ruyi house." ”

Jin Xiaolou suddenly brightened: "No wonder there is water everywhere in the house, because if the murderer wants to come out of the basin, he must be wet, if the ground is dry, wouldn't it be obvious to people at a glance." ”

"From this point of view, the murderer has excellent water skills, at least he can stay underwater for a while." Jin Xiaolou's eyes lit up when he said this, "Murderer...... There should be collusion with Song Yitao. ”

She continued: "I couldn't figure out how Ruyi's brother knew the news so quickly and cried at the door of Shanji, but now I know that he is trying to lure us away from this murder scene and create an opportunity for the murderer to escape." ”

Gao Lang nodded: "Mostly." ”

"It must be so!" Jin Xiaolou snapped his fingers excitedly, "If I am the murderer, I will take off my clothes, shoes and socks in the cabinet first, and hide them in the wooden basin naked, and after the people in the house are attracted away by Song Yitao, I quickly come out of the basin, get dressed, and put on shoes and socks when I walk to the door, so that there are no footprints outside, and I slip away unconsciously." ”

After finishing speaking, Jin Xiaolou wilted again: "However, the murderer is so cunning and has not left the slightest evidence, how can he catch his tail?" ”

"You forgot the thorns in the basin?" Gao Lang took a step up and walked to Jin Xiaolou.

"Wood thorns?" Jin Xiaolou was puzzled, "You mean, the murderer will be stabbed by a wooden thorn?" ”

"There's a good chance that the killer will be stabbed by a wooden thorn, and you know how annoying that wooden thorn is. Since Ruyi was not pierced, and the murderer and Ruyi's body were crowded in the wooden basin together, there were very few places to stay, how could they accidentally step on one or two. As Gao Lang spoke, he raised his hand and tapped Jin Xiaolou's eyebrows, "The wooden basin is filled with water with dye, if the murderer's foot is injured, it will definitely be dyed, this is the most important evidence." ”

Jin Xiaolou nodded: "I understand, as long as you follow Song Yitao to find someone who is familiar with water, and the person who has injured his foot in the recent days will ......"

Before he finished speaking, Gao Lang blew out the candle, approached Jin Xiaolou suddenly, and almost bit her ear and said, "The person is back." ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard the sound of small footsteps, and two officers and soldiers came over one after the other, and stopped as soon as they reached the door of the wing.

Only through a wooden door, Jin Xiaolou could almost hear the breathing sound of the two officers and soldiers outside, and he didn't dare to move.

But Gao Lang's breath hit his ears with a bang, and it didn't take long for him to itch.

I had to gently pull Gao Lang, take a few steps back to the back of the wing, and then stand on tiptoe and ask Gao Lang, "What should I do, do you have a way to get out?" ”

Although Jin Xiaolou couldn't see it, he could feel Gao Lang shaking his head, and couldn't help sighing, and then he heard Gao Lang say: "I have a way, but I don't want to go out." ”

Jin Xiaolou was inexplicable, only to hear him say again: "I can't ask for it to stay with you head to head." ”

"You ......" Jin Xiaolou was dumbfounded, and hurriedly took two steps back to distance himself from Gao Lang.

Gao Lang didn't care, the dark night covered his lonely look, and only a faint voice came: "My childhood time is very short, only five years old, when I was five years old, my mother died, died in front of my eyes." I grew up overnight, for the sake of my mother, in order to find out the truth, and even more so to live, I had to start pretending to be stupid and pretending that everyone believed me. ”

"Jin Xiaolou, when I was alone by your side, I never pretended, I just went back to being myself who I didn't do when I was a child."

Gao Lang's voice was a little hoarse, and in such a place, it seemed out of place.

But like a thorn in the wooden basin, it pierced Jin Xiaolou's heart, leaving a red mark.

"If you think I'm pretending to be stupid and blame me, I don't blame you." Gao Lang raised his voice, he took two steps forward, and paused, "The simpler the crime, the better, and the more complex it is, the easier it is to leave evidence." The reason why the murderer wants to do so many tricks has only one purpose, and it is also the murderer's motive, that is, to frame you. ”

"You were arrested and locked up in Shanji, who is the most beneficial?"

After Gao Lang finished speaking, he stepped forward and opened the door and walked out directly.