Chapter 297: Edgeworth Kills (4)
"Oh, he's there!"
Liang Jia said with envy: "He is a capable person!" Lu Mengcai's house is at the west end of this street, just two years ago, he was just like us, an ordinary person, with a carriage, helping people pull some goods every day, and earn a little money to support his family.
But since last year, he didn't know what big work he had taken, and the money was getting more and more day by day, and in just over a year, he already had ten carriages, and he had opened a carriage dealership, and bought a big mansion, and now he is a famous rich family in this area!
Alas! Sister Liu still has a good life, married a good husband, this is all fate! ”
Let's say it, Liang Jia shook his head enviously again.
"Brother Tiger, do you want to send your brother to arrest him back?" , Cao Xiaohui pulled Nie Xiaohu aside and whispered in his ear.
Nie Xiaohu shook his head and said, "Don't startle the snake, this person is just a small character, and the big fish is behind!" ”
"Hmm!" , Cao Xiaohui nodded lightly.
"You go and arrange a few brothers, change into civilian clothes, and secretly monitor near Lu Mengcai's house, twelve hours a day, and report to me immediately if there is any abnormality!"
"Got it!"
"Mrs. Liang!"
Nie Xiaohu looked at Liang Jia and said with a smile: "It's not too early, it's time for us to leave!" ”
"Let's go? Why don't you stay and eat before leaving? Liang Jia enthusiastically retained.
"No, there are many things in the yamen!"
"Okay then, come and sit down often in the future!"
"Definitely!" , Nie Xiaohu clenched his fists and walked out.
"Tiger head", came to the outside of the courtyard, Shi Yuning hurriedly stepped forward and said.
Nie Xiaohu turned his head to look at Shi Yuning.
"My brother-in-law's business?" , Shi Yunning said after a moment, "You see that he is crazy, and he swears that he will take Zhao Shuogen's head at noon tomorrow, although this is just his angry words, but in case he is ......"
"Hmm!" , Nie Xiaohu nodded.
"That's it, tomorrow morning, I will arrange a few brothers to watch here, and then arrange a few brothers to watch near Zhao Shuogen's house, forgive him for not making any trouble!"
"That's the best!" , Shi Yuning nodded, "I'll come tomorrow too!" ”
"Okay, you can take your five brothers and watch over the two families here tomorrow morning until evening!"
"Oh yes!" , Shi Lu happily turned over and got on the horse.
After returning to the fast capture room, Cao Xiaohui immediately arranged for people to go to the vicinity of Lu Mengcai's house and secretly monitored him.
"I hope I catch a big fish this time!" , Nie Xiaohu thought to himself.
Time passed bit by bit, and in a blink of an eye, the next day, Shi Yuning took the five catchers to the vicinity of Liang Jia and Zhao Shuogen's house early in the morning, and Cao Xiaohui was outside to monitor Lu Mengcai's affairs.
Time was slowly passing, except for a few merchants who went to the Lu family's carriage shop in the morning, and left quickly after discussing some business, there was no news from both sides.
The sun slowly climbed high in the sky, and it was noon, just when Nie Xiaohu was bored, Cao Xiaohui suddenly ran into the hall in a hurry, with an anxious look on her face.
"How? Is there any movement over there in Lu Mengcai? Nie Xiaohu hurriedly greeted him and asked.
"It's not Lu Mengcai!" , Cao Xiaohui shook her head and said, "It's Zhao Shuogen!" ”
"Zhao Shuogen?" , Nie Xiaohu frowned, he just thought about the matter of private salt, and almost forgot about it, in fact, he didn't take it seriously.
"Zhao Shuogen just died in his own home, he was inserted from the back by a dagger and went straight to the heart!"
"What?!" , Nie Xiaohu's eyes immediately widened a lot.
"Let's go!"
Zhao Shuogen's courtyard gate was already surrounded by people watching the excitement, people chattering and saying anything, seeing a large number of catchers coming, people immediately quieted down and consciously gave way to a passage.
Lin was standing in the courtyard at this time, his eyes were already swollen from crying, and the three catchers were guarding the door, and when they saw Nie Xiaohu and others coming, they all hurriedly clasped their fists and saluted.
"Has anyone ever been in?" , Nie Xiaohu asked as soon as he entered the courtyard.
"Back to the head catcher, as soon as we found out that someone had been killed, we sealed off the house, and no one entered it!" , said a catcher.
"Mrs. Lin, what happened?" , Nie Xiaohu looked at Lin who was still crying and asked.
Lin wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, choked up and said: "I was washing clothes in the yard this morning, and the master came out to go to the toilet, and then went back to the study on the second floor to read, and when I finished washing my clothes, it was almost noon."
I went back to the house to cook, and wanted the master to give him a hand, so I called him twice, but the master did not reply, I felt a little strange, and went upstairs to see, and found that the master was lying on the ground, and there was a dagger on his back, woo woo woo! ”
Lin cried again after speaking.
Nie Xiaohu didn't speak again, and walked into the house quickly, in the study on the second floor, a man was lying on the ground, with a dagger stuck in his back, the blood spilling from the wound had not completely coagulated, and it was obvious that he had not been dead for a long time.
Nie Xiaohu carefully observed the dagger, there was a circle of finger-wide yellow paper around the handle, and the yellow paper was full of strange runes, and Nie Xiaohu's mind immediately came up with the dagger he saw at Liang Jia's house yesterday.
An autopsy confirmed that the deceased had died for no more than an hour, had no other external injuries around his body, and that the cause of death was a dagger piercing him from behind and straight into his heart.
The windows in the study are closed, latched from the inside, there is no trace of being pried, the furnishings in the room are not messy at all, the bookshelf against the wall is full of books, there is no trace of a fight on the floor, there are four treasures of the study room on the bookcase, a brush rests on the pen stand, Nie Xiaohu picked up the brush, took out a blank paper on the bookcase, and wrote the word 'tiger' on the paper.
"Brother Hu, are you still in the mood to practice calligraphy at this time?" , Cao Xiaohui asked puzzled.
Nie Xiaohu smiled slightly, "What do you think of my calligraphy?" ”
"Cut!" , Cao Xiaohui pursed her lips and glanced at Nie Xiaohu.
Coming downstairs, Nie Xiaohu looked at the three arresters who were watching here and asked, "What happened to you?" ”
"Total headcatcher!"
One of them quickly replied, "This morning, five of our brothers arrived here with Shi Bantou, and Shi Bantou arranged for the three of us to monitor this courtyard, and he and the other two brothers to monitor the other courtyard.
In the morning, I saw the deceased come out of the house, go to the latrine in the southwest corner of the courtyard, and then return to the house, and then a woman came out with a large wooden basin full of clothes. ”