"Well, sit down first!"

Nie Xiaohu nodded, and then looked at the fat man: "What about you?" ”

"My lord, the villain's name is Hu Jianming, he is from Hujiazhuang in Fengyu Town, this time he went into the city to see my uncle, but because he was in a slow hurry, he missed the time to enter the city after dark, so he rested here for one night", Hu Jianming said carefully, with an honest face.

After listening to the statements of several people, Nie Xiaohu thought for a moment, and then asked, "Did you all rest in your room around midnight last night?" ”

Several people were silent, neither nodding nor shaking their heads, all of them looked like they wanted to say something.

Nie Xiaohu observed the expressions on the faces of several people, couldn't help frowning, and said in his heart: "There must be a story to dig up here!" ”

"Answer!" , Nie Xiaohu slapped the table next to him.

The three were startled almost at the same time, as if they had suddenly woken up from a dream.

"I... I'll talk about it first", Hu Jianming's face was almost frightened, and he said tremblingly.

"Say it, be honest!" , Nie Xiaohu's face showed a satisfied smile,

"Hey!" , Hu Jianming hurriedly nodded, "My lord, I stayed in my own room last night, but in the middle of the night, I couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, my stomach kept rumbling, I ate a lot, I usually have to add a meal at home at night, last night I didn't have that meal at night, I was a little hungry and couldn't stand it."

But in the middle of the night, everyone is asleep, where can they go to find food? Later, I suddenly remembered that there was a jujube seller at the hotel today. ”

Hu Jianming glanced at Wang Daniu as he spoke, "At that time, I wanted to buy some dates and deal with it, so I got up and got out of bed and went out to his room." ”

"When was it?"

"Yin... Around the end of the day. ”

"Then Wang Da Niu can be in the room?"

"No," Hu Jianming shook his head, "When I went to the door of his room, I found that the door was hidden, I knocked on the door, but no one inside answered, so I pushed the door open and walked in."

When I went in, I found that there was no one in the room, and I asked a few times, 'Is there anyone?' And no one answered. I saw the two baskets of dates on the ground, and I was so hungry that I took a handful of dates and went back.

But I didn't steal him, I put the money to buy dates on the table in my room, and if you don't believe it, you can ask him! Hu Jianming pointed at Wang Da Niu with his hand.

"That's true", Wang Daniu nodded, "I did find a three-pattern copper coin on the table last night, but I don't know what's going on, and now I understand!" ”

"Let's tell me why you're not in the room!" , Nie Xiaohu looked at Wang Daniu coldly and asked, "Where were you at that time?" ”。

"I was a little sick to my stomach and thought I had eaten something unclean for dinner, so I went to the latrine," Wang Daniu said without thinking.

"Fuck your shit!" , He Furong, who was sitting on the side, suddenly jumped up from the chair.

"Last night, the old lady was sick to the stomach, and I went to the toilet three times in a row, and I didn't even go back to the room in the middle, and every time I went out of the toilet and didn't return to the room, when did you go to the toilet?" , He Furong glared at Wang Da Niu and shouted.

"I... I thought the toilet in the building smelled bad, so I went to the toilet in the backyard, and of course you couldn't see me! Wang Daniu glared back at He Furong.

"A latrine in the backyard?" , Nie Xiaohu stared at Wang Daniu and asked, "The time of the crime last night happened to be around midnight, since you were in the backyard at the time, have you ever seen the murderer commit the murder?" ”

"Huh? Not... I didn't see it, it was pitch black in the backyard at that time, and the villain didn't see anything! Wang Daniu shook his head randomly.

"What about you?" , Nie Xiaohu looked at He Furong again.

"My lord, old... The little woman didn't fall asleep last night because of a little pain in her stomach, so she sat in front of the window and watched the moon. ”

"What else did you do besides looking at the moon?"

"Go to the toilet!" , He Furong said, "What else can you do?" Last night, my legs and stomach were tendoned! ”

Nie Xiaohu thought for a while, and then said to Cao Xiaohui: "Xiaohui, you take someone to search the inn inside and out carefully, don't leave any corner!" ”

"Brother Tiger, are you saying that the stolen pearl necklace is still in this inn?" , Cao Xiaohui asked suspiciously.

"Possibly!" , Nie Xiaohu Yile.

"So it means that the murderer is also likely to be in the inn, which means that the murderer is hidden among them?"

"It's hard to say!" , Nie Xiaohu replied ambiguously, "Let's search first!" ”。

"Got it!" , Cao Xiaohui agreed, and immediately led people to start the search operation.

"Cui Yuanwai, Mrs. Meng, which room do you live in?" , Nie Xiaohu smiled at Cui Yuanhao.

"What? Is even our room going to be searched? Cui Yuanhao looked at Nie Xiaohu with a puzzled face.

"It's fair to the three of them, it's just a routine and a walk-through!" , Nie Xiaohu said with a smile.

"Oh, that's what your lord said! It would be unfair to only check their rooms and not mine, and the old man lives in room No. 2. ”

"Then I'll bother!"

"My lord, please!"

Nie Xiaohu nodded slightly, and stepped into the second room, which is a suite, quite spacious, with a living room outside and a bedroom inside.

In the outer living room, under the window is a desk case, on which are placed the four treasures of the study, it may not have been cleaned, there are still a few drops of ink left on the table, looking along the direction of the ink, Nie Xiaohu saw a large bowl next to the table leg under the table, and the bowl was also full of ink.

Facing the door against the wall are two chairs, a small coffee table in the middle of the chairs, and a landscape painting hanging on the wall behind them; The inner bedroom has a wooden bed, a wardrobe on one side of the wall, and a dresser on the other with a bronze mirror and several empty jewelry boxes.

"Cui Yuanwai, looking down from the window of your bedroom, it just happened to be that secret room, did you see or hear any unusual movements last night?"

"No", Cui Yuanhao shook his head, "Don't hide it from my lord, the old man sleeps very heavily on weekdays, if I fall asleep, I won't wake up even if there is thunder in my ears!" ”

After speaking, Cui Yuanhao laughed twice as if he was self-deprecating.

"I know", Nie Xiaohu smiled slightly, walked out of the room, and walked towards Room No. 6 where He Furong lived.

Coming to the door of room six, Nie Xiaohu was just about to enter, when he suddenly stopped, tilted his body, and squinted at the window on the left side of the door.

There was an inconspicuous hole under the window paper, Nie Xiaohu came to the bed to look at the small hole, squatted down again, stretched out his right index finger and wiped it on the floor under the window.