Chapter 319: The Cockroach Trampled to Death (6)

"It's still that cat, it's the cat that told me", Nie Xiaohu Yile.

"Cats? Could it be that cats can speak? Hong Jincheng's eyes became surprised.

"Cats can't speak, of course, but they told me a fact. Let's think about it, why did Hu Mingquan put that cat in the closet? ”

All the people present look at me, I look at you, and they all have puzzled expressions.

"Because Hu Mingquan knew that a guest was coming, that's why he locked up the cat!"

Nie Xiaohu said happily: "Then why did he do this? Because he knows that the person who is coming can't touch the cat! And as far as I know, the person who gets a rash all over your body when you come into contact with a cat is you, right? ”

"I'm ......", Hong Jincheng suddenly became nervous.

"Big... My lord, that's... And what about the crossbow? Didn't he shoot my master with that crossbow? How else could he have found it under his bed? Hong Jincheng stammered.

"How did you know that the crossbow was found under the bed? You were in the courtyard at the time", Nie Xiaohu smiled coldly.

"This ......", fine beads of sweat oozed from Hong Jincheng's forehead.

"Speaking of this bow and crossbow," Nie Xiaohu smiled and picked up the bow and crossbow found in Hu Mingquan's room.

"This is a brand-new bow and crossbow, the inside of the arrow groove is smooth and neat, there is no trace of the arrow shaft rubbing, and it has never been fired at all!"

As he spoke, Nie Xiaohu threw the bow and crossbow at Hong Jincheng's feet, and said coldly: "I sent someone to ask in all the nearby weapons and carpenter shops, and the boss of the martial arts weapons store remembers very clearly, you bought a bow and crossbow from him yesterday evening, where is the bow and crossbow you bought now?" ”

"I... I recruit, I recruit all! At this time, Hong Jincheng could no longer support it, and fell to his knees with a "poof" and hung his head.

"I first shot the master to death with a bow and crossbow, and then poisoned Senior Brother Hu with poisoned wine, hid the bow and crossbow under his bed, and blamed him, that's it!"

"It's true that you poisoned Hu Mingquan, as for the murderer of Li Shunzhang, you don't have to carry it!"

Nie Xiaohu's index finger and middle finger of his right hand quickly clicked on his thigh a few times, and continued: "Li Xiaoling, Miss Li, you are also happy to recruit!" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was taken aback, and Zhou's mother was even more shocked on the side, shaking her head again and again, and muttering in a low voice: "How is it possible?" How could it be Miss? The old man is her biological father! There must be a mistake! There must be a mistake! ”

Li Xiaoling was even more frightened, trembling and snuggling up to Zhou's mother, almost crying: "You have wronged me!" How could I have killed my father? Why should I kill my father? ”

Cao Xiaohui and the others also looked at Nie Xiaohu in confusion, waiting for his answer.

"The reason is very simple, because Li Shunzhang is not your biological father at all!" , Nie Xiaohu stared at Li Xiaoling and said word by word.

As soon as this statement came out, it was no less than a thunderbolt, which shocked everyone! No one knows what the hell is going on.

Li Xiaoling was shocked, her face was full of shocked expressions, and after a long while, she slowly regained her calmness, and the expression on her face was replaced by a look of maturity and calmness that should not be there at her age.

"My mother whispered to me about this before she died, and even my father didn't know about it, how did you know it, my lord?" , Li Xiaoling asked calmly.

"I didn't think of this at first, but I couldn't think of what the murderer's motive was for killing Li Shunzhang?"

Nie Xiaohu shook his head gently, "It wasn't until later that I learned that your father also had a junior brother, Hu Runxuan, and that there was still an emotional entanglement between your father, Hu Runxuan, and your mother, that I had this idea.

With this thought, everything became very smooth, especially after I knew that Hu Mingquan's adoptive father turned out to be your father's junior brother Hu Runxuan, everything became clear.

I think what happened should be like this, you are not Li Shunzhang's biological daughter, but your mother was born to Hu Runxuan, and Hu Mingquan is Hu Runxuan's adopted son, he should have learned about your background from Hu Runxuan, and then used this incident to blackmail you.

You are afraid that this matter will be exposed and Li Shunzhang will know about it, which will kick you out of the house, so you will not do two things, and your lover Hong Jincheng set this plan to kill two birds with one stone, after the incident of silver bracelet adulteration and Li Shunzhang's reprimand for Hu Mingquan, you know that the opportunity has come.

The night before yesterday, when everyone was celebrating your birthday after dinner together, you secretly told Hu Mingquan to wait for him in the woods next to the vegetable market in the south at night, of course you didn't go, and then you shot Li Shunzhang with a bow and crossbow when you were ugly.

In this way, Hu Mingquan had both the motive to kill and the time to commit the crime, and then Hong Jincheng was born, he took the opportunity to drink with Hu Mingquan last night, poisoned him, and then hid the bow and crossbow he bought under his bed, creating the illusion that he committed suicide in fear of crime, and ran to report to me this morning, saying that he remembered that Hu Mingquan was not in the room the night before, so that everything seemed so natural.

As for how I know that you are not Li Shunzhang's daughter, it is actually very simple, you are sixteen years old this year, and Li Shunzhang and your mother were married sixteen years ago, as the so-called October pregnancy, once childbirth, I can't calculate it right, if you are Li Shunzhang's daughter, then you are fifteen years old, and you are sixteen years old, then there is only one possibility, when your mother married Li Shunzhang, she was already pregnant with you! ”

"That's right! My mother has been married to my father for sixteen years, how can I be sixteen? ”

Li Xiaoling's eyes became a little dull, as if she was muttering to herself: "I never thought of such a simple truth." ”

"Your Excellency!" , Li Xiaoling seems to be making a last resistance.

"On what basis do you say that I killed my father? The arrow came in from the outside, and I was in the room at the time, how could it be me? ”

"Good question!"

Nie Xiaohu snapped his fingers, and then said: "On the surface, it seems that the arrow was shot into the house from outside the house through the window, but in fact, it is not!" During the day, you stood outside the study with your crossbow at home, angled it, and shot an arrow at the window, leaving a small hole in the window that had been broken by the arrow.

But unfortunately, the arrow hit the opposite wall, and shot a hole in an ancient painting hanging on the wall, and in order to hide the traces on the wall, you took off the ancient painting and hung a calligraphy and painting to cover the traces on the wall.

But the ancient painting that was shot by you was discovered by Li Shunzhang, Mother Zhou, didn't you say that when you came back from grocery shopping the afternoon before yesterday, you heard the voice of your master losing his temper in the study? ”

"Well, yes", Zhou's mother nodded.

"That is, Li Shunzhang was angry at Miss Li after discovering that the ancient painting was damaged, so that he didn't give you a good face when he ate at night. But this did not arouse Li Shunzhang's suspicions, in his eyes, it was just Miss Li's playfulness.

At night or so, Li Shunzhang was still worried about the ancient painting in the study, it seemed that the ancient painting should be worth a lot of money, at that time, Miss Li quietly took the bow and crossbow from the storage room, and shot Li Shunzhang at the door of the study, and then put the bow and crossbow back in its place, so that it looked as if someone shot Li Shunzhang to death from the outside, and the matter was as simple as that. ”

"My lord, what you say is the same as the truth, is there any evidence?" , Li Xiaoling was still gritting her teeth and insisting, but her body betrayed her, and she was trembling slightly uncontrollably.

"Is the evidence?"

Nie Xiaohu smiled slightly: "Have you ever taken the bow and crossbow hanging on the wall of the storage room?" ”

"Of course not! I'm a girl, what kind of bow and crossbow do I have? ”

"That's what you want!" , Nie Xiaohu was happy.

"You were very careful and didn't leave any visible marks in the storeroom, but you did neglect your feet, and just as you were taking the bow and crossbow, or putting it back, you trampled a poor cockroach on the ground to death, and you probably won't notice, right?"

Hearing this, Li Xiaoling was startled, and involuntarily lowered her head and looked at her feet.

Looking at Li Xiaoling's action, Nie Xiaohu said with a smile: "I think you still have the residue of that dead cockroach on the sole of your shoe, right?" Now that dead cockroach is still on the floor of the storage room, and there is a clear footprint on it, how about it? Do you want to compare? ”

"No, I confess!" , Li Xiaoling finally lowered her head, and the whole person was like losing her soul.

"Where are the footprints?" , Cao Xiaohui asked in an inaudible voice.

"I deceived her, who called her a thief with a weak heart!" , Nie Xiaohu whispered back.

Looking at the smile on Nie Xiaohu's face, Cao Xiaohui couldn't help but purse her lips and gave him a blank look......