Chapter 18: Three Birds with One Stone (2)

"Embroidery girl!"

"The concubine is here"

"Call Lin Qiying out! There's something I need to ask him! ”

"Back to the head of the dart", Xiuniang bowed and said: "My husband went out to do business last night, and he won't be back until half a year later." ”

Xiaohu sat aside and didn't speak, and looked around the living room. The living room is not big, the first two chairs, a wooden table, there is a landscape painting hanging on the front wall, two rows of chairs on the left and right, three in each row, different from other living rooms, there is a wooden table in the upper left corner of the living room, there are four treasures of the study on the table, it seems that there are not many rooms, the study is moved to the living room, and there is nothing else.

"Out on business? I think he absconded in fear of sin, right? Yan Jiuzhou asked.

"Absconding in fear of crime?" Xiuniang looked dazed, and asked suspiciously: "What crime did my husband commit?" ”

"He killed Yaotian! You also saw the corpses! Yan Jiuzhou said sharply.

"What?" When Xiuniang heard this, she looked a little panicked, turned her head to look at the corpse on the ground, and stammered: "This, this is Yaotian?" ”

"Can I still lie to you?" Yan Jiuzhou's eyes were red.

Xiuniang looked at the corpse again with a shudder, and then sat on the ground, looking very helpless, muttering to herself with dull eyes: "Impossible, impossible, Qiying can't kill anyone." ”

"Mr. Yan, can you let me ask a few questions?" Xiaohu asked.

"Nie Zhutou is serious, you are a famous head catcher in this county, it is right for you to ask, I was also confused just now, Nie Zhutou is not strange", Yan Jiuzhou said politely.

Nie Xiaohu nodded slightly, turned to the beautiful woman and asked, "Xiuniang, don't be afraid, before the matter is clear, Lin Qiying is only suspected of murder, not that he must be a murderer." ”

The embroidery girl slowly eased up, stood up, and nodded slightly.

"When did Lin Qiying leave? What kind of business to do? Where did it go? Xiaohu stared at the embroidery girl's eyes and asked.

Xiuniang stabilized her mind and said slowly: "Back to this official, my husband left in the middle of the night yesterday, according to him, he was going to the south to buy goods, because several commercial houses in the town wanted to buy goods, he helped them bring them back along the way, yesterday during the day, those commercial houses to buy goods sent a total of three hundred taels of silver, my husband counted three times, and wrote them one by one receipts, when writing receipts, he accidentally knocked over the ink plate, and his hands were full of ink, and he couldn't wash them clean. ”

Xiaohu nodded lightly, and was about to speak, when a shout suddenly came from outside the living room.

"I said I owed me the money for the goods, right?"

Everyone looked up and saw a stocky businessman-like man walking in from the courtyard.

"This boss", Xiaohu said: "There is something here today, please come back another day!" ”

"Another day? I said Nie Zhutou, this murder pays for life, debts and copper, it is justified, Lin Qiying owes me money, it has been delayed for many months, when will it be a head if it drags on like this? The stocky man grinned.

"Do you want me to ask you out?" Shi Wei glared at the man and shook the chain in his hand.

The short and fat man looked at the situation, his eyes rolled, the fat on his face twitched a few times, and then changed to a smiling face, and said with a haha: "Hehe, don't worry, isn't it fifty taels of silver, come back another day, come back another day." ”

After saying that, the short and fat man turned and left.

"As soon as I heard that something happened to your family, I hurried to ask for debts, it's really no business!" Xiaohu looked at the man's back and shook his head.

"Xiuniang, it seems that your family's business is not very good, you should owe a lot of foreign debts, right?"

"Hmm", Xiuniang nodded and said: "Business has not been good in the past two years, and Qiying has borrowed a lot of foreign debts in order to turn over. ”

"Xiuniang, please tell me everything that happened during the period from yesterday evening to the second half of the night when Lin Qiying left, remember, you must not fall behind!" Xiaohu said in an accentuated tone.

"Yes", Xiu Niang nodded, and said: "Yesterday evening, after Qi Ying and I had dinner, we began to prepare the things to go out, and put them together with the three hundred taels of silver, and after packing up, it was already dark. Qiying said that she wanted to go out for a while, but she was afraid that it would not be safe, so she left her baggage at home and went out. ”

"When did you come back?" Xiaohu asked.

"It was about the middle of the night, I was already asleep at that time, and I didn't turn on the light, but I vaguely saw Qiying enter the bedroom."

"And then?"

"Then, then...", the embroidery girl looked a little hesitant and began to hesitate.

"Say, it's very important whether your husband is a murderer!" Xiaohu began to lure up step by step.

Hearing this, Xiuniang thought about it, and finally mustered up the courage to say: "Then he and I did the husband and wife thing, and afterwards he took the burden and left." ”

After the embroidery lady finished speaking, she blushed to the base of her neck.

After listening to Xiuniang's statement, Xiaohu frowned and pondered for a while, then suddenly turned his head to Yan Jiuzhou and asked, "May I ask if Ling Lang is used with his left hand or right hand?" ”

"Right hand, what's wrong?" Yan Jiuzhou didn't want Xiaohu to ask this question, so he said with a puzzled face.

"Then you can't go wrong!" Xiaohu nodded, stood up and walked to the center of the living room.

"First of all, the shopkeeper said that the deceased was not found in that grove yesterday, and it was not found until this morning, indicating that the deceased was killed last night, which coincided with the time when Lin Qiying went out last night."

Yan Jiuzhou looked at Xiaohu and nodded.

"Secondly, the deceased is not Yan Yaotian, but Lin Qiying!"

As soon as Xiaohu's words came out, he undoubtedly threw a boulder on the calm water, and the pot suddenly exploded inside and outside the living room, and for a while there were noisy voices and discussions, Yan Jiuzhou opened his eyes even wider, and his face was stunned.

"Quiet!" , Shi Yuning let out a loud shout, and the scene suddenly fell silent.

"Nie Zhutou, you said that this corpse is not Dog Yaotian, but Lin Qiying?" Yan Jiuzhou asked puzzled.