Chapter 27: Unscrupulous Means (7)
"Thank you so much!" Xie Tianwu hugged his fists at the five people and left quickly.
Xiaohu and the others went into the house again to accompany the old woman Chen and talk to the Huang family for a while, and seeing that it was already night, they got up and said goodbye.
Outside the courtyard, Liu Zhenxiao, Mao Guangjian, and Shi Yuning each found a place nearby to hide, secretly monitoring the courtyard, while Xiaohu and Tang Yibin chatted and walked towards Youfu.
When the two of them came to the door of Youfu, it was already the second half of the night, and the people who guarded the door saw that it was an official messenger coming, so they didn't dare to slack off, and led the two in.
Nie Xiaohu instructed his subordinates not to disturb You Tianxing, but let them lead the way, and came directly to the outside of the wing where Xie Tianwen lived.
"I'm still reading, this Xie Tianwen is really a nerd." Tang Yibin saw that the inside and outside of the wing room were lit up, and said with a smile.
"That's not right! He lives alone in the wing, how can there be lights inside and outside? Nie Xiaohu's brows were furrowed.
Tang Yibin reacted immediately, the two glanced at each other, nodded at the same time, and immediately stepped forward and knocked on the door, but there was no movement in the house.
"Xie Tianwen, have you slept?" , Xiaohu asked softly, no one in the house answered, Xiaohu asked three times in a row, and there was still no movement in the house.
Xiaohu pushed it with his hand, the door opened, and there was no latch, Xiaohu and Tang Yibin entered the house, no one! Xie Tianwen is gone!
"Not good!" Xiaohu and Tang Yibin shouted at the same time.
Nie Xiaohu and Tang Yibin ran all the way to the front of the old woman's house.
Liu Zhenxiao, Mao Guangjian, and Shi Yuning all walked out of their hiding places, and the five of them gathered together.
"How? Is there any movement here? Nie Xiaohu asked anxiously.
The three of them shook their heads together, and Liu Zhenxiao said, "There is nothing abnormal, and no one has come." ”
"Oh, that's good!" , Nie Xiaohu's hanging heart was let go.
"Since he didn't come here, where will he go?"
Nie Xiaohu shook his head, "Let's continue to monitor and wait until dawn!" ”
The five of them found a place to hide until dawn, and there was no movement.
The five of them came to the gate of the courtyard again, "It looks like we're going to continue tonight." Xiaohu smiled and said, "Let's go!" ”
"Daughter-in-law! What's wrong with you? Just as the five of them were about to leave, the cry of the old woman Chen suddenly came from the thatched hut.
The five of them were startled, and rushed to the door in a few steps, the door was still bolted from the inside, Nie Xiaohu couldn't care so much, kicked the door open, and the five rushed in.
As soon as they entered the house, the five of them were stupid, only to see Huang lying on the ground in the inner room, bleeding from seven orifices, and had been dead for a long time, while the old woman Chen knelt next to the corpse and was crying, and there was a bowl on the wooden table in the inner room.
"Alas!" Xiaohu stomped his foot vigorously.
Liu Zhenxiao hurriedly helped up the old woman Chen, and continued to comfort, Tang Yibin, Shi Yuning, and Shi Yuning, you look at me, I look at you, with a confused face, Nie Xiaohu squatted down, carefully observed Huang's corpse, and then stood up and picked up the bowl on the table. There was still a little red medicinal juice left in the bowl, Nie Xiaohu leaned close to his nose and sniffed it, nodded slightly, and handed the bowl to Shi Yuning.
"Take it back and find someone to test it and see what kind of poison it is."
"It's all useless!" , Liu Zhenxiao said hatefully: "I don't even know when the murderer went in!" ”
Mao Guangjian and Shi Yuning also lowered their heads silently.
"It's not your fault!" , Nie Xiaohu shook his head and said: "The Huang family was poisoned, it seems that the murderer should have been mixed in the crowd yesterday and took advantage of the chaos to poison the herbs that the Huang family drank every night." ”
"Then where did Xie Tianwen go? Could it really be him? If he really did it, then killing the Huang family and then escaping, wouldn't there be no three hundred taels of silver here? Tang Yibin said with a frown.
"Let's carry the body back first", Nie Xiaohu waved his hand.
After a false examination, it was determined that Huang died of the highly poisonous Heding Red, and the remaining medicinal juice in the bowl brought back from Huang's room was also detected in Heding Red.
After listening to the conclusions of the work, Nie Xiaohu couldn't help but sneer, "As I expected, as long as I find Xie Tianwen now, the truth will be revealed!" ”
But Xie Tianwen had no trace at this time, as if the world had evaporated, Nie Xiaohu arranged for people to go out and look around, and they didn't find it for two whole days.
In the early morning of the third day, as usual, Nie Xiaohu and the others were just about to go out to inspect when someone came to report the case, saying that a body had been found in the woods ten miles outside the city.
Xiaohu immediately led people over, and in a forest ten miles outside the city, a group of people formed a circle there, and everyone saw Nie Xiaohu and others coming, and they all made a gap.
Entering the circle, Xiaohu saw a man sitting under a tree with his head drooping, his back against the trunk, his face showed a shocked expression, bleeding from the seven orifices, he had been dead for a long time, the deceased was Xie Tianwen, and there was a small porcelain bottle on the grass next to the corpse.
Nie Xiaohu took out a handkerchief, wrapped the porcelain vase, gently picked it up and sniffed it under his nose, nodded, and said, "It's Heding Red, which is the same as the poison in the Huang family." ”
After inspecting the scene, Nie Xiaohu carefully recalled all the clues, then nodded with satisfaction, and took Xie Tianwen's body to Xie's house.
As soon as the old woman Chen saw Xie Tianwen's corpse, she immediately fainted, and the onlookers hurriedly threw themselves on their chests and pinched people, and it took a long time for the old woman Chen to wake up.
After receiving the notice, You Tianxing, Xie Tianwu and You Ruoxi also came to Xie's house.
"Alas!" , You Tianxing sighed and said: "It seems that he should have committed suicide in fear of crime, after he killed Mr. Wang, he heard that Huang recognized him, and poisoned Huang to death, and absconded in fear of crime, but he knew that he had nowhere to go, so he took the remaining poison and committed suicide." ”
"Brother! Why are you so stupid! Xie Tianwu shook his head, his voice was crying, he looked at Xie Tianwen's corpse on the ground and said: "If you make a mistake, I will definitely ask Master You to intercede for you, it's a big deal to lose some money, just go home and don't do it, why not kill people!" Pity my wife, who also died at your hands, what do you call me good! ”
After speaking, he held his head in his hands and squatted down, and You Ruoxi on the side hurriedly comforted him.
Xiaohu looked at it coldly from the side, and said in his heart: "What are you pretending?" Huang is dead, isn't this exactly what you want to see? Wonder stuff! ”
"Is that really the case?" , Nie Xiaohu sneered.