Wei Zhijie took the hairpin and looked at it, then nodded, and asked a little suspiciously: "This is exactly what my lady is, I don't know how it is in the hands of adults?" ”

Nie Xiaohu nodded, did not answer Wei Zhijie's question, but motioned to take back the hairpin, and then continued: "Yesterday afternoon, Ji Chuanjun, the owner of Jijia Winery, was killed in his study, and the murder weapon was this hairpin!" ”

"What!" , Wei Zhijie was taken aback and stammered, "This... How is this possible? ”

Nie Xiaohu then said: "When we felt your home in the middle of the night, we found that your lady Liao Chunhua was hanged in the bedroom on the second floor. ”

"What... What the? Wei Zhijie was so shocked that he took several steps back, his eyes full of disbelief.

"Big... My lord, do you mean my wife... She first killed Boss Ji, and then hanged herself when she returned home? ”

Nie Xiaohu neither nodded nor shook his head, but supported his cheeks on the table with his right hand, looking at him with a silent look.

"Alas! She's doing it all for me! Lady! Why are you so troubled! Wei Zhijie sighed and cried.

"For you? What's going on? ", Nie Xiaohu asked lightly.

"My lord, here's the thing," Wei Zhijie sobbed a few times and choked up.

"Three days ago, my wife and I went out to play and relax, just outside the city by the river, I suddenly found a dilapidated old house not far away, so I called my lady to go and see.

The house was so dilapidated that even the windows were rotten, only the big holes remained, the doors had fallen to the ground, the house was full of dust, and the floor was full of tattered debris, and it seemed that the house had long since been abandoned, and I guess even the homeless would not want to live in it.

I looked around the house with my wife, and she thought it was too dirty and wanted to leave, but I thought I might find something useful, but I found a candlestick under a table with a broken leg, and it was covered with dust and looked like it was some years old.

But when I wiped the dust off the surface of the candlestick, I found that it was made of silver, and my wife and I were very happy, thinking that we would make a small fortune, so we returned home with the candlestick.

But not long after we got home, the boss of the Ji family winery brought someone to the door, saying that his old servant who was guarding the old mansion outside the city saw us enter his old house and took something with him.

When I took out the candlestick, Boss Ji turned his face on the spot, saying that I had entered his old house to steal something, and shouted that he wanted to report to the official.

I was so frightened that I begged him bitterly, my family was already poor, so I relied on my daily calligraphy and paintings to sell a little money to survive, if I was put in a prison cell, how could my wife live alone?

Boss Ji saw that I was pitiful, so he was moved with compassion and said that he could not report to the official, but asked me to write a confession of stealing, so I had no choice but to write it and sign it.

Who knew that after Boss Ji got the confession, he said that he wanted me to hand over ten taels of silver as compensation within three days, otherwise he would have to report to the official.

God can testify! I really didn't know that the house was his old mansion, I just thought that the candlestick was ownerless, so I brought it home, I really didn't mean to steal it! ”

Wei Zhijie shook his head and stomped his feet, with an expression of being wronged.

"Is it this candlestick?" , Nie Xiaohu picked up the silver candlestick and shook it.

Wei Zhijie looked up, then nodded and said, "Well, that's it." ”

"And then?" , Nie Xiaohu continued to ask lightly.

"Later?"

"It's yesterday", Nie Xiaohu prompted, "What happened yesterday?" ”

"Oh, yesterday", Wei Zhijie frowned slightly, lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head.

"Yesterday morning, my wife and I were at home to make up the ten taels of silver, but where are we going! My family can't make up so much silver even if they smash the pot and sell iron, and my wife and I are both outsiders, and we have no relatives and no reason in Luoyang City, and the neighbors are all the same as us, all of them are poor families, and no one can borrow silver, which is really sad for us!

In the afternoon, I suddenly thought of Boss Ji's wife Tian, and heard that she was an excellent talker, so I asked my wife to go to Ji's house, find Mrs. Tian, and beg her to let her go and say a few good words to Boss Ji and let us go, after all, they didn't lose anything. ”

"Did she go, then?"

"What can I do if I go, if I don't go? We don't want to beg for help, but there's really no way! Wei Zhijie shook his head again and again.

"When did she go?"

"I didn't go from time to time."

"Are you sure?"

"Sure," Wei Zhijie nodded, "because I made an appointment with a friend to go to his house for a drink at night yesterday afternoon, and I went out with my wife, so I remember it very clearly." ”

"You went to a friend's house for a drink? When did you drink and where did you go after drinking? ", Nie Xiaohu asked as he stared at Wei Zhijie.

"I didn't go anywhere, we were all drunk, and we slept until dawn, and I only came home this morning, and when I got home, I found that there were two officials in the house, and they said that someone died in my house last night, so they brought me here."

"So, you've been at your friend's house from yesterday afternoon until this morning?"

"Yes."

"Can anyone prove it?"

"Absolutely!" , Wei Zhijie nodded and said, "My friend Xia Yuze and his wife Jiang can prove it." ”

After listening to Wei Zhijie's narration, Nie Xiaohu frowned and thought for about a quarter of an hour before he said, "Someone! ”

"Tiger Head!" , Shi Lingning shouted loudly.

"Bring a few people, go and find Xia Yuze and his wife, as well as Mrs. Tian and the maid in her family, and the servant who guards the old mansion in his family!"

"Understood!" , Shi Yuning turned around and went out after speaking.

An hour later, everyone came to the hall of the fast catching room one after another, Tian Guizhi took the maid and an elderly servant, and a middle-aged couple, everyone stood in the center of the hall, facing Nie Xiaohu who was sitting in a row.

"It's all here, it's good!"

After Nie Xiaohu glanced at everyone, he nodded and said, "Everyone is waiting here, I want to ask them one by one!" ”

"Yes!" , a cadre of people nodded in unison and replied.

In the inquiry room, Nie Xiaohu and Cao Xiaohui sat side by side, and on the chair opposite sat the little maid of the Ji family, the little maid looked a little nervous, pursed her lips tightly, pinched the hem of her clothes with both hands, and kept rubbing them.