"Someone's coming!"

Ling Xianjie shouted, and a servant ran over. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"What do you command, sir?"

"You just go to someone from Dali Temple, and ask him to take a few people who are quick to bring the guys from the Xicheng Yuelai Inn, the shopkeeper, and the traveling merchant to the Yamen Torture Room, and the official and Chen Zhutou are waiting there."

"Yes!"

The servant turned around and ran away.

Chen Jinbao approached Ling Xianjie and asked, "My lord, can those entourages you bring still follow to investigate the case?" ”

Ling Xianjie smiled, he remembered that he hadn't told Chen Jinbao about it for so many days.

"Those are not entourage, those are all officials of Dali Temple, several commentators of Dali Temple and a master."

Chen Jinbao nodded, thinking, all the officials are older than me.

Ling Xianjie turned around and walked back, and said, "Let's go, Chen Zhutou, you have to go to the torture room and wait." ”

.............

The two sat and waited in the torture chamber making a cup of tea, and it wasn't long before the innkeeper was brought in. The man was an honest young man, and when he saw these torture instruments, his face began to sweat, and he thought that the yamen was going to torture him.

"My lord, the villain has never committed any royal law, why do you want to do this to the villain?"

Ling Xianjie and Chen Jinbao didn't reply, and a few people tied the guy to the shelf and turned around and left. The guy was tied to the shelf, and he was trembling all over his body when he looked at so many torture instruments next to him.

"Your name is Wang Xiaocai, right?" Ling Xianjie asked.

The guy nodded and replied, "Yes.... Be...... It's an adult, a villain didn't break the law! ”

Chen Jinbao saw that the guy was about to cry, so he comforted him and said, "Don't be afraid, I just asked you to ask you something, and if you answer truthfully, I will let you go immediately." ”

As soon as the guy heard Chen Jinbao's words, he was relieved, and the urine that was about to come out was finally choked.

"Wang Xiaocai, this official asked you, are there any guests in room No. 1 of Tianzi on the seventh day of the first lunar month?"

The man replied, "My lord, there was a guest in the No. 1 room that morning, and there were no guests after that." ”

Ling Xianjie nodded, glanced at Chen Jinbao, and Chen Jinbao looked at Ling Xianjie and nodded.

"I remember you said that if there is a guest in the guest room, then you will give the key to the guest, right?"

"Yes, sir."

The guy said so on his lips, but what he thought in his heart was what the two officials wanted to ask? Is it new to give a key to a guest?

"Very good, so it means that from the morning of the seventh day of the new year to the morning of the eighth day of the next year, there is no one in the locked room, and only you have the door key, right?"

The guy showed a very puzzled expression and said, "Yes, that's right. ”

Chen Jinbao looked at the guy, touched his chin with his hand and continued to ask, "Are you sure you didn't give the key to anyone?" ”

The guy looked at Chen Jinbao and nodded, but this time he didn't even reply.

"Good!"

Ling Xianjie slapped the table, and then said, "Very good, then the murderer has no one else but you." ”

The guy was frightened when he heard this, and he didn't hold back his pee. He didn't have time to take care of his pants and hurriedly explained: "Adult, the villain is wronged, the villain didn't kill anyone!" ”

Ling Xianjie and Chen Jinbao almost laughed when they saw that the guy's pants were wet.

"Wang Xiaocai, this official told you that this official found that the door of Tianzi No. 1 room was open on the seventh day of the first lunar month, and the official didn't know if there were any tenants inside, but the official knew that only you could open the door, and the official retracted what he just said, you are not necessarily the murderer, but you must have hidden something to persuade you to say it quickly."

The guy thought about it with a painful expression, then turned his head to look at the torture instruments in the room, and sighed.

"Hey, my lord, the villain will tell you two."

Ling Xianjie and Chen Jinbao looked at each other for a moment, and then Ling Xianjie said, "Say it." ”

"On the seventh day of the first month, a guest came to the inn, he said that he wanted to stay in the hotel and let the villain take him to see the room, and the villain took him upstairs and he took a fancy to the No. 1 room of Tianzi. The villain opened the door and took him in, and at that time, it happened to be a meal, and the guests downstairs had to greet him, so the villain asked him to change the room if he couldn't see it himself. The villain went downstairs to greet the guests, and after a while he ran down by himself, saying that he couldn't stay in the store and then left. The villain went upstairs to lock the door and the matter was over, but early this morning, the villain heard the tenant of the No. 1 room screaming, and hurriedly ran upstairs to see what was going on, and found that the dead man under the bed was the one who came on the seventh day of the new year. ”

Ling Xianjie and Chen Jinbao frowned when they heard this. Ling Xianjie slapped the table and shouted, "Why didn't you say such an important clue at that time?" ”

The guy was very aggrieved and said: "My lord, the villain has never done anything bad in his life, and he should not have offended any bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods, why did that person die in the inn again when he left?" The villain thought that he had hit a ghost on the seventh day of the first month, so he didn't tell the two adults about it. ”

Chen Jinbao suppressed his anger, and then asked, "The person you saw that day is sure to be the deceased?" ”

The man replied with a sad face: "It's him, the villain dares to promise." ”

Ling Xianjie put his hand on the table, and his index finger kept tapping on the table, as if he was thinking about something.

"You said you saw the man gone, and you were sure that the man was dead? Do you really see clearly? ”

The guy didn't answer Ling Xianjie's words immediately, but tilted his head and thought about it.

"It should be him."

Ling Xianjie frowned and asked, "What should it be him?" Can't you be sure? ”

The guy raised his head and thought about it again, Chen Jinbao touched his chin and looked at the guy, could he really be wrong? Then the case is very clear, if the person who walks is either the deceased, most likely the murderer.

"My lord, the villain was very busy at that time, and I only saw one of his backs, and then I saw the burden he was carrying, and I felt that he should be right."

Chen Jinbao and Ling Xianjie looked at each other for a while, feeling that the case was getting clearer and clearer.

"That man came during the unitary hour (five o'clock in the afternoon to seven o'clock in the evening), right?" Ling Xianjie asked lightly.

Chen Jinbao stretched, he thought that the case had basically been figured out now, and the person who the guy saw out was the murderer who poisoned him.

"No, my lord, it was noon (eleven in the morning to one in the afternoon) for dinner, and it didn't take long for him to leave."

When Ling Xianjie and Chen Jinbao heard this, they almost didn't fall to the ground. Coming at noon? According to the records on the autopsy report, does that mean that the deceased spent an afternoon in the inn? And then the guy who didn't see the face clearly might be the deceased. Even if he is not the deceased, then the guy going upstairs and locking the door is equivalent to locking the deceased inside, how did he come out and run to tease Miss Jiang?

"Wait, did you go up and lock the door after you saw the deceased leave?" Chen Jinbao asked anxiously.

The man replied, "Locked up, sir." ”

Ling Xianjie then asked, "Did you see anyone inside when you locked the door?" It's important to remember it. ”

The guy tilted his head and thought for a while, and said, "The little one didn't see anyone inside." ”

Chen Jinbao grabbed the back of his head vigorously, and now there are some problems in the time of this case, which is completely inconsistent with Miss Jiang's statement.

"After the deceased left, did you go to the Tianzi No. 1 room again and open the door?" Ling Xianjie asked.

The guy shook his head: "No, my lord, the villain didn't open the door until the morning of the eighth day of the new year, when the traveling merchant came." ”

"Does anyone else have the key besides you?" Chen Jinbao asked anxiously.

The guy shook his head a little impatiently and said, "My lord, the villain told you that except for the cash drawer key, which is not on the villain, the other keys to the inn are on the villain. The man also came at noon, and if you don't believe him, ask the treasurer, and he will see it. ”

Chen Jinbao patted his forehead, not knowing what to do. He glanced at Ling Xianjie, and Ling Xianjie whispered to him, "Think about it from the beginning." ”