Dong Zehua, Nie Xiaohu and Tang Yibin each took off a hat from the wall at the door, put it on their heads, went out of the living room, and came to the beehive on the east side.

After tearing off the tarpaulin on the shed, Dong Zehua walked to the beehive with a small brush in one hand and a small wooden bucket in the other, and the wooden barrel was filled with red paint.

Dong Zehua dipped a small brush in red paint and carefully brushed a red mark on several boards in the sealed box.

"What are you doing, old man?" , Nie Xiaohu asked with interest.

"Oh, there's a new queen bee born, this bee, there can only be one queen bee in a nest, if there are two, they will fight, that's really fighting each other, until death!"

Dong Zehua said with a smile: "I have left marks on the boxes with queen bees, and when it is noon tomorrow, I will put the marked boxes in a separate box, and one box is a nest of bees, so that they will not fight." ”

"I see!" , Nie Xiaohu nodded.

"Brother Zehua!" At this time, a shout suddenly came from the courtyard gate.

"I've got a friend coming, let's go!"

"It turned out to be Brother Ruhai!" When everyone came to the gate of the courtyard, Dong Zehua smiled at an old man standing outside the gate of the courtyard.

"Come in and sit!"

"No!" The old man outside the gate waved his hand, "Tomorrow is the full moon day of Brother Hong Tao's great-grandson, the four generations are in the same house, we have to go to congratulate Yihe!" ”

"That's a must-go!" , Dong Zehua said with a smile.

"Okay, tomorrow at noon, I'll call you, let's go together!"

"Okay, then I'll be waiting for you at home!"

"Good! See you or leave you! After saying this, he turned around and left.

"Old man, it's time for us to take our leave!" , Nie Xiaohu said with his fists clenched.

"Good, good! Slow down, everyone! Dong Zehua waved his hand at several people.

Just after noon the next day, Nie Xiaohu received a report from the chief security officer of Jinxiu Village, saying that there was a murder in a courtyard at the foot of the mountain outside Jinxiu Village, and the deceased was Dong Zehua, Nie Xiaohu couldn't help but be surprised!

Yuan Jisong and a young man and a middle-aged woman stood in the courtyard, all three of them had sad looks on their faces, and the courtyard was full of people who came to watch the excitement.

There was a ladder on the ground on one side of the door of the main house, and a ladder was erected on the wall not far away, and the corpse was lying in the center of the living room, facing up, with a feathered arrow stuck straight in its chest, and blood overflowed from the middle arrow, forming a circle centered on the shaft of the arrow, and the corpse's hands were also covered with blood, and there was a broken teapot next to the corpse.

"Who found the body first?"

"It's him!" , the chief of the security guard pulled an old man from the crowd to Nie Xiaohu.

Nie Xiaohu looked at the old man in front of him, and suddenly remembered that it was the person who came yesterday.

"What's your name?"

"The old man's surname is Sun, his name is like the sea, and he is a friend of Brother Zehua."

"Tell me about the situation, and don't leave any details behind!"

"Yes!" , Sun Ruhai nodded.

"Yesterday, I made an appointment with Brother Zehua to go to the banquet today to drink the full moon wine of Brother Hong Tao's great-grandson."

Nie Xiaohu nodded and motioned for him to continue.

"When it was close to noon, I came to call Brother Zehua as promised, and when I came to the gate of the courtyard to call him, I suddenly found that Brother Zehua came out of the corner of the house on the east side, he was wearing a hat for beekeeping, and he stumbled when he walked, and I saw a feather arrow stuck in his chest, and he was unable to speak when he covered the arrow in his chest with both hands, and stumbled towards the door, and knocked down a ladder erected on the wall in front of the door.

I was taken aback, and I shouted at the time, only to see Brother Zehua crash into the house, and then there was a "bang" sound in the house, as if something was broken, I was very scared, there was a person on the roof at that time, and he was also in a hurry, because the ladder was knocked down, and he couldn't get down.

It wasn't until the man on the roof shouted for me to call someone that I came to my senses and hurriedly ran to call someone. ”

"Where are the people on the roof?"

"It's me," the young man said, "my name is Wang Likun, and I'm a hired guy from this family. ”

"Tell me what you saw!"

"Yesterday I went into the city to buy firewood, unfortunately it rained, and when I came back, it was almost dark, Steward Yuan told me that the roof was leaking, and asked me to fix it today, so I prepared the materials this morning and went up to the roof.

It was almost noon, I suddenly heard someone shouting the name of the master, I looked up, and saw an old man standing outside the courtyard gate, I just wanted to lower my head and call the master, I found that the master had been shot an arrow, and was stumbling out of the beehive, as if he wanted to go back to the house.

At that time, I was frightened and wanted to go down, but I didn't expect the master to knock down the ladder, and I could only be in a hurry on the roof, so I had to shout loudly and call the old man outside the courtyard to call someone, and after the village chief came, he didn't dare to mess with the items on the scene, so he found another ladder, and I was able to come down. ”

"Have you been on the roof from the morning until you found out that Master Dong was killed?" , Nie Xiaohu asked as he stared at Wang Likun's eyes.

"Yes, all the time!" , Wang Likun nodded, his eyes were clear, without the slightest flustery.

"When did Master Dong go to the beehive?"

"He was there when I went up to the roof in the morning, and he loved the bees he kept so much, and took great care of them, and he went to see them several times a day!"

"Steward Yuan, where were you at the time of the incident?" , Nie Xiaohu turned to look at Yuan Jisong, who was looking sad.

"Back to the official, I was dozing off in my room at the time."

Yuan Jisong beat his chest with his hand, "You also know, people are old, they always like to sleep, about close to noon, I suddenly heard someone outside shouting the name of the master, I was just about to go out, I heard a "bang" in the living room, as if something was broken, I hurried to the living room."

As soon as I entered the living room, I found the old man lying on the ground, with an arrow in the chest, and a broken teapot on the ground, I think it must have been pulled to the ground by hand when the old man fell to the ground. ”