"That's it!" , Nie Xiaohu nodded with satisfaction.

"I said Tiger Head, how do you know that there is a stone with a rope tied here, what is it for?" , Mao Guangjian asked curiously.

"Don't leak it!" , Nie Xiaohu showed a weird smile.

"Take it back!" , Xiaohu waved his hand, turned around to leave, his eyes inadvertently glanced at the ground, and suddenly stood again.

Nie Xiaohu took a few steps to the left, his eyes were fixed on the grass, he slowly squatted down, stretched out his hand, and picked up a cylindrical broken porcelain piece in the grass, which looked like the lower half of a porcelain vase.

Xiaohu took half of the porcelain bottle and looked back and forth, then leaned to his nose and sniffed it, and a faint sour smell entered his nostrils.

"Why is this smell so familiar?" , Nie Xiaohu frowned and thought about it.

Suddenly, Nie Xiaohu remembered something, reached into his arms, and took out a porcelain bottle.

"Haha! Now it's all clear! Nie Xiaohu stood up, looked at the porcelain vase in his hand with a smile, and nodded incessantly.

"What's clear?" , the four of them were confused.

"Let's go!" , Nie Xiaohu let out a loud shout and turned over on the horse.

"Where are you going?" , Tang Yibin asked.

"Xu Xiaotian's family!"

After speaking, Nie Xiaohu rode away.

"Didn't we just come out of there?" , Liu Zhenxiao muttered.

All four shrugged their shoulders and rode their horses to follow.

"Don't be too sad for a virtuous nephew, people can't be resurrected after death, the most important thing for us at the moment is to bury my second brother alive."

In the living room on the first floor, Xu Xiaohe said to Xu Tiancai with a sad face: "The second brother committed suicide, it's really not good to say it, let's say that he died of a sudden illness!" ”

"Hmm!" , Xu Tiancai sobbed and nodded.

"I don't think so!" , Nie Xiaohu's voice came from outside the door.

Xu Xiaohe was stunned when he heard this, and then looked up, Xu Tiancai also stopped crying and turned his head to look at the door.

The person who came was Nie Xiaohu, and I saw Nie Xiaohu standing in front of the two of them with his hands behind his back, looking at them with a smile.

"Nie Zhutou, why did you come back so soon, what you said may not mean anything?" , Xu Xiaohe asked with a frown.

"If what I expected is not bad, the truth of the matter should be", Nie Xiaohu pointed at Xu Tiancai, who was beside the corpse with a slightly frightened look, "This person murdered Old Man Xu in order to rob Old Man Xu's family property!" ”

As soon as these words came out, even the four people walking behind Xiaohu were taken aback.

"What did you say!?" , Xu Xiaohe stood up suddenly.

"You're a bloody squirt!" , Xu Tiancai also jumped up with a scream, the sadness on his face immediately changed to an angry expression, and a look of panic flashed in his eyes.

"Everyone, don't be impatient", Nie Xiaohu smiled and stretched out his hands and pressed down, and then looked at Tang Yibin.

"Tang Yibin!" ……

After the Pose was set, Nie Xiaohu began his opening remarks.

"As long as it's a crime, there will be loopholes, and all I do is find out the loopholes," Nie Xiaohu said with a smile as he tapped his fingers on his thighs.

"Xu Tiancai, now I'll tell you where your loopholes are", Xiaohu looked at Xu Tiancai mockingly.

Although Shi Yuning said that he had many doubts in his heart, he still habitually took out the iron chain and stood behind Xu Tiancai, and Liu Zhenxiao and Mao Guangjian also stood by Xu Tiancai's side on the left and right.

"You just said that Old Man Xu took advantage of your unpreparedness to hang you on the beams of the house, and then went to the secret room to burn charcoal and commit suicide, right?" , Nie Xiaohu asked.

"Ah, yes," Xu Tiancai said, nodding.

"Since you were hung on the beam, how do you know where Old Man Xu went?"

"This?" , Xu Tiancai was speechless for a while, lowered his head and rolled his eyes, obviously thinking about countermeasures.

"After we rescued you from the beam of the house this morning, you immediately blurted out that Old Man Xu was going to commit suicide in the secret room, obviously you know very well that Old Man Xu is in the secret room, can you explain?" , Nie Xiaohu looked at Xu Tiancai with a smile.

"Where else can he go on the first floor of the house except for the secret room?" , Xu Tiancai suddenly raised his head and said confidently, "You don't have to think about this to know, what kind of truth are you!?" ”

"Then he can't go outside? Like going out and finding a secluded place? ”

"My father was as timid as a mouse, and it was the middle of the night, how could he run out alone? What nonsense! Xu Tiancai retorted.

"Hmm", Xu Xiaohe nodded, "What Tiancai said also makes sense, Nie Zhutou, if you say that he is a murderer based on this alone, the old man will not accept it." ”

"Okay, just like you said", Nie Xiaohu said tepidly.

"If it was really Xu Tiancai who murdered Old Man Xu, then how did he hang himself on the beams of the house? Could it be that he still has accomplices? Shi Yuning couldn't help but interject.

"There must be no accomplices, this kind of thing is more dangerous if more people know about it, he knows this better than anyone else." , Nie Xiaohu said with a smile.

"And how did he do it?" , Liu Zhenxiao interjected on the side and asked, "And the secret room, how can he leave the secret room and lock the door?" I checked, and the key to the secret room hung on Old Man Xu's waist. ”

"You make it clear to me today, if you can't say anything clearly", Xu Tiancai looked like a dog jumping off the wall in a hurry at this time, "Nie Zhutou, I'll let go today, I'm going to sue you for a false accusation!" ”

"Why are you in a hurry, what's the matter, the dog jumped off the wall in a hurry?" , Nie Xiaohu said slowly.

"The whole thing should be like this, last night's dinner, Xu Tiancai placed a brazier in the secret room in advance, and secretly drugged the meal, and tricked the old man Xu into the secret room before the drug attacked, and the old man Xu fell asleep after entering the secret room, which caused the illusion that he burned charcoal to commit suicide."

The index finger and middle finger of Xiaohu's right hand quickly clicked on his thigh a few times, and continued: "I went to the second floor to investigate, the window in the room was wide open, and there was a table at the door, and there was a candlestick on the table, and the candle on the candlestick had burned out, but strangely I found a lot of black powder in the wax oil of the candlestick, I guessed that this should be the ashes that fell when the candle was burning, and sure enough, when I checked the rope, I found that the end of the knot that was stuck in the brass ring on the door was charred, which confirmed my suspicions.

I carefully inspected the window again, the window was made of wood, and the window looked out of the valley, and I found that the lower end of the window frame had obvious signs of being rubbed by ropes, and there were wooden thorns on the place where it had been rubbed, indicating that it was caused by strong rubbing. ”

Xiaohu glanced at Xu Tiancai, who had a panicked look in his eyes, the corners of his mouth curled, and then said: "He first tied a big stone to one end of the rope, put the stone on the window, calculated the length, tied a big dead knot on the rope, and then passed the other end of the rope through the copper ring on the door, and lit the candlestick on the table at the door, and then passed the rope through the beam, and then tied his hands, took a piece of linen and stuffed it into his mouth, at this time he only had to push down the stone of the window, and the stone would hang him above the beam. All that's left is to wait for the candle to burn the string off. ”

"What a clever trick!" , Shi Yuning nodded thoughtfully.

"But these are all conjectures, what about the evidence?" , Xu Xiaohe asked with a frown.