"And you're still there?"

"Do you remember what Jiang Junli said?" , Nie Xiaohu asked.

"Which one?" , the four of them asked almost in unison.

"He said that he was a coolie seller, how could the family have the money to afford such a valuable thing."

"Yes, that's what I said," Shi Yuning nodded and said, "What's wrong?" It's normal, he can't afford such expensive jewelry, it must have been given by someone else! ”

"The key is not here", Nie Xiaohu pouted and shook his head, "Think about it, since Jiang Junli can't afford it, can Hu Xiaoqi afford it as a driver?" ”

"It's too!" , Shi Lu scratched the back of his head.

"Twenty taels of silver, you and I don't eat or drink, and we have to save for several years, where did he Hu Xiaoqi get so much money, or buy a bracelet to give away? I think there must be an article in this! ”

"It's still a tiger head!" , Shi Yunning slapped a sycophant just right.

More than an hour later, Mao Guangjian and Liu Zhenxiao walked in with a young man with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks.

"Tiger head, he is Hu Xiaoqi!"

"I've seen all the officials!" , Hu Xiaoqi smiled and laughed again and again.

"Hu Xiaoqi, do you recognize this thing?" , Nie Xiaohu took the bracelet and shook it in front of his eyes.

"Recognize... Recognize", Hu Xiaoqi nodded busily.

"It's... I bought it for Chunhua", Hu Xiaoqi's voice was almost inaudible.

"Spring flowers? Who is Chunhua? ”

"It's Jiang Junli's wife, Wei Chunhua", Hu Xiaoqi lowered his head and muttered quietly.

"Where did you buy this bracelet from?"

"The Treasure Pavilion on North Street, I bought it at noon the day before yesterday."

"How much money did you pay for it?"

"Twenty taels."

"Well, it's quite honest", Nie Xiaohu nodded.

"Official, Chunhua's death is none of my business, I'm just playing with her, I really don't know who killed her!" , Hu Xiaoqi suddenly raised his voice, and his head shook like a rattle.

"I know it's not you!"

"That's good!" , Hu Xiaoqi had a smile on his face, and nodded again and again, "That's good!" ”

"Hu Xiaoqi, let me ask you."

"If the official has something, just ask!"

"Hu Xiaoqi, where did you get twenty taels of silver to buy such valuable jewelry!" , Nie Xiaohu suddenly shouted, startling Tang Yibin and the others on the side.

Hu Xiaoqi might as well have this question, and the whole person was stunned all of a sudden, standing in place, his face changed several times, and his two eyes kept rolling back and forth.

"It's not a real recruit yet!" , Nie Xiaohu slapped the table, "Could it be that you still want to try those things in the interrogation room?" ”

"Nope! No! I say! Hu Xiaoqi "Poof! He fell to his knees, his face full of remorse.

"I was hired by a mysterious patron who was generous and asked me to go to the ferry once a month on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year to help him pull goods, and give him two taels of silver each time."

"Two-two? It's really wide enough! Nie Xiaohu smiled.

"Who is that man? What does it look like? ”

"I don't know, haven't seen it?" , Hu Xiaoqi shook his head.

"Haven't seen it? Never seen him give you that much silver? ”

"I really haven't seen it!" , Hu Xiaoqi shook his head again and again and said, "At first, he just put a letter in my home, and there was a bag, and there were twenty-four taels of silver in the bag, saying that he would give a year's fixed money first, and I saw that the money was open, so I did as the letter said." ”

"Wouldn't you be unaware of this?"

"Official, I don't dare!"

Hu Xiaoqi shook his head and said: "If you take the money, you have to do something, besides, this kind of person can give me so much silver at once, it must not be a good stubble, if I lose the money, it is estimated that I will be killed by them!" ”

"How long have you been doing it for them?"

"It's been almost three years."

"When do you go to the ferry every time, what kind of goods are you pulling, and where are you pulling the goods down?"

"Every time it's night, every time I get to the ferry, there is a boat docked there, and there are a dozen people waiting on the boat, and as soon as I arrive, they carry the boxes on the boat, and they only move ten boxes at a time, and then two of them will drive the car to pull the goods away."

"Where?"

"I don't know."

"Don't know? Aren't you in a car? ”

"The car was mine, but every time they pulled the goods, they would leave me behind, and their men would drive the car away, and after about an hour they would drive it back, but the car was empty, and the two men went back to the boat, and then the boat rowed away, and I drove home."

"Do you remember what those people looked like?"

"They all covered their faces, and I couldn't see them at all, and I didn't dare to look at them."

"What's in the box?"

"I don't know."

Looking at Hu Xiaoqi's appearance, what he said should be the truth, Nie Xiaohu finished asking and asked people to take him down.

"Tiger head, look at this means, someone is smuggling!" , Shi Yuning said thoughtfully.

"It should be", Nie Xiaohu nodded.

"I really didn't expect this to lead to a big case!" , Shi Yuning's face was filled with excitement.

"These people are really cautious enough to do things, almost leakless, although we caught Hu Xiaoqi, there are still no clues to be found", Tang Yibin shook his head.

"No," Shi Yuning said with a slight smug look on his face.

"Oh? Let's talk about it! Nie Xiaohu suddenly became interested.

"Hmm", Shi Lu stamped back and forth two steps in a matter-of-fact manner, "According to Hu Xiaoqi's explanation, it took a total of one hour for the carriage to pull the goods and leave to the time it returned to the ferry, which means that the distance from the ferry port to the destination is half an hour's journey of the carriage.

There are three villages within the distance of the ferry, namely Lingshui Village, Jinxiu Village and Zhuquan Village, so the place where they unload their goods is none other than these three villages. ”