After Wang Fugui left, Chen Jinbao was waiting for him in the study. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Do you know what's burning in this brazier?" Chen Jinbao asked the family next to him.

Jia Ding bowed to Chen Jinbao and said, "If you go back to the official master, the little one doesn't know what it is?" ”

Chen Jinbao touched his chin with his hand, turned his eyes to look at the room full of books, and continued to ask the family: "Does your master have any correspondence with people?" ”

Jiading thought for a while and replied, "If you go back to the official, there is." ”

Chen Jinbao asked again: "Since there is a letter, where is it hidden?" Why haven't you found it? ”

Jia Ding continued: "This villain doesn't know, the villain in the master's study has only been cleaned, and has not sorted out the books, and the master's books have always been neatly placed and never need to be organized. ”

Chen Jinbao nodded, and then asked, "Do you know who wrote the letter to your master?" ”

Jia Ding thought for a while and said: "Back to the official, the master's letters are very frequent, but they are all written to the master, and the villain has twice brought letters to the master, and when he brought the letter to the master, he saw that the person who wrote the letter was called Lu Dayou, and the other letters were not written by this person, and the small ones didn't pay attention to it." ”

Chen Jinbao asked again: "Are you the one who gave the letter to your master?" ”

Jia Ding said: "Yes, the official, the villain is in charge of the study, generally there are not many things, take a letter to the master, send food to the study or something, usually do not need to clean, the master let the cleaner clean the villain, and the brazier will only be cleaned when the villain cleans." ”

Chen Jinbao asked again: "Has your master ever written a letter to others?" ”

Jia Ding thought about it again and said, "The villain doesn't seem to remember." ”

Chen Jinbao clasped his hands in his arms and fell into deep thought, and at this time, Wang Fugui ran over.

"Master, I've asked everything, there's nothing suspicious, but I feel that this family is a little too rich."

Chen Jinbao smiled, turned his head to Wang Fugui and said, "Okay, you can go." ”

The group was about to leave, and the lady followed a few maids to send it, Chen Jinbao turned to his wife and said, "Madam, you don't need to send it, you take care of your life, maybe you will need to go to the yamen to testify in the future." ”

Mrs. bowed to Chen Jinbao and said, "Thank you, sir." ”

After the group left, Chen Jinbao was going to ask his master, but there were so many catchers to follow, and the master must be even more unhappy, so he said to the catchers: "Wang Fugui can follow alone, and everyone else will go back to the yamen first, remember that after returning to the yamen, first go to the master to check if there is a person named Lu Dayou in our county, and after finding it, go to his house to search, find something and wait for me to come back, hear clearly." ”

"Yes!"

The group quickly took another way back to the Yamen, while Chen Jinbao and his apprentices prepared to go to the master's house on East Street.

On the way, Wang Fugui asked Chen Jinbao: "Master, who is that Lu Dayou you just said?" ”

Chen Jinbao replied: "The family Ding of that family said that Lu Dayou wrote letters to the deceased, and more than once, when the family Ding said that when he took the letter to the deceased, he saw that it was written by this person twice, and we didn't find any letters in the study, so I suspect that the things burned in the brazier are letters, and the ashes in the brazier are still a little thick, and it can be seen that there are more than a few letters burned, and I suspect that after the deceased was released from prison, he earned so much money because of these letters." ”

Wang Fugui nodded and said, "Hmm........ Master, it's possible, and don't you think this person wrote to ask the deceased to go to that house? “

Chen Jinbao said: "Hmm...... This possibility is also possible. ”

Wang Fugui bit his thumb and said: "Master, I don't think this is possible, it should be the truth, do you remember what the young master of the Mipu family said at that time, he said that when the children entered the house, they saw a figure in the hall of the house?" ”

Chen Jinbao's eyes widened, then he frowned again, touched his chin with his hand and continued: "You mean that those children are the dead who are what they see?" ”

Wang Fugui nodded and said, "Yes, master, I think that's the deceased." ”

Chen Jinbao kept touching his chin with his hand and said: "Your statement makes complete sense, the clean places on the chairs and tables we found in the hall of the house should have been touched by the deceased when he checked around that place, and the sleeves of the deceased's underwear were particularly dirty, which should have been left when he wiped the particularly clean chair, but there is one thing I don't understand, does the deceased really touch so many places?" And it's all on the same side. ”

Wang Fugui bit his thumb and said, "Well.... Master, I don't understand this either. ”

Neither of them spoke again, just walked forward, and then Chen Jinbao felt that he had thought of something.

"Hmm!"

Wang Fugui was startled when he saw Chen Jinbao raise his head violently, came back to his senses, and asked Chen Jinbao excitedly: "Master, have you thought of anything?" ”

Chen Jinbao replied: "I remember, when I was in the torture room, the corrupt Confucian scholar said one thing, he said that he heard the sound of hurriedly turning over the cabinet, and then heard the sound of some iron falling on the ground and rubbing and then hitting something and stopping, maybe the knife we found in the hall was the deceased, and someone attacked the deceased, the knife fell on the ground, and then he was kicked inadvertently, and it slid along the ground and then hit the corner of the wall and stopped, but the problem was ........"

Before Chen Jinbao finished speaking, Wang Fugui knew what it meant, and said: "Master, if the knife is brought by the deceased, let's not say whether the deceased wants to use it to kill, at least it means that the deceased has a weapon, and the deceased's death is very hideous, the knife is not necessarily knocked to the ground, so what did the deceased see and didn't even have the courage to wield the knife?" Master, maybe someone is indeed pretending to be a ghost? ”

Chen Jinbao nodded and said: "That's true, if it's the murder of the shopkeeper of the wine shop, then the wine shop lady can help pretend to be a ghost or pretend to be crazy, but the young master of the Gu Mi shop said that it was the house that the wine shop lady let them go to together, and the two children were too scared so they left, and they didn't know anything about the rest of it." Let's think about it first, the person was killed by the shopkeeper of the wine shop, and at that time, the wine shop lady entered the house and found that it was her father who killed him, and then conspired with her father to play a scene, and then the two teamed up to hide the body and left the house, but I never expected that there was a rotten scholar in the house. ”

Wang Fugui nodded and said, "Master, it's completely possible, now we still need to figure out why the corpse appeared in the house for no reason." ”

Chen Jinbao nodded with a smile and said, "Hmm...... So now let's go to my master and ask your master first, and just show this painting to his old man's house. ”

After speaking, Chen Jinbao took out the painting from his chest, and the two painting scrolls of the painting had been torn off by Chen Jinbao, and the painting was folded directly and placed on his chest.

Wang Fugui smiled and said, "Haha, master, you treat the ghost so well, beware of this female ghost running out." ”

As soon as he said that, both of them burst out laughing.

It didn't take long for the two to walk to East Street, first went to buy jar wine, and then went to Zheng Qing's house.

"Knock.. Boom.. Boom"

Chen Jinbao knocked on the door a few times, and after a while, the door opened, and it was Zheng Qing who opened the door.

"Ouch, apprentice apprentice, both of you are here." Zheng Qing said happily.

"Master"

"Master"

The two of them looked at Zheng Qing, Zheng Qing smiled and said, "Ouch, you two are from the yamen, I'm just an ordinary person, don't be like this, don't be like this." ”

Zheng Qing stepped forward to help the two of them, and the two of them felt that Zheng Qing's hands were wet with water on their hands, and the two looked at the wet place, Zheng Qing said with an embarrassed face: "Oh, apprentice apprentice, it's not the right time for you two to come, I'm sweeping the kitchen, you see this is done." ”

Chen Jinbao and Wang Fugui were angry after hearing this, and Wang Fugui asked Zheng Qing: "Master, you are a "god-catcher" and their family treats you like this, and you still let you do this person's work?" ”

Zheng Qing smiled and said: "Oh, I'm a rich person, how can I make requests to others, okay, you two come in quickly, come here if you come, bring wine, come on." ”

Zheng Qing brought the two into the door, turned around and closed the door, and was about to bring the two into the room, when Zheng Qing's wife stood at the door and suddenly shouted: "Xianggong, are you finished in the kitchen?" Why do you still bring people into the house? ”

As soon as Chen Jinbao and Wang Fugui heard this, they directly held the knife in their hands, ready to draw the knife and come out to reason with her, but when Zheng Qing saw this situation, he immediately pushed the handles of the two of them with both hands, and the two of them did not pull out the knife in the end.

"Okay, ma'am, I'll go get the kitchen first, and let someone come and follow this wine."

Subsequently, a maid came over to take the wine from Chen Jinbao's hand, and Zheng Qing took Chen Jinbao and the two to the kitchen door. ”

Zheng Qing replied while wiping the door with a rag in his hand: "What's the matter, don't think too much, I originally came here upside down, and people didn't treat me well, just because you two came." My father-in-law and mother-in-law were very taboo about ghosts and gods, and they also said that I dealt with the dead bodies of wicked people every day and didn't want to marry my daughter to me, but I still resigned from the government and joined the family before I was willing, so I was sad that you two came. ”

Wang Fugui shook his head angrily, and then said: "Master, this woman is a little beautiful, but it won't be that you give up your career to marry her, you ........ when you were in the Yamen."

Before Wang Fugui finished speaking, Zheng Qing interrupted and said: "Okay, okay, you don't have to help me speak, I just want to live a peaceful and stable life in this life, I don't want to be a big official, if you want to really help me, come and help me clean up." ”

Chen Jinbao and Wang Fugui picked up the rag angrily, and followed Zheng Qing to clean up the kitchen, Zheng Qing looked at it and smiled and said: "Haha, the apprentice didn't accept the apprentice in vain and didn't ask for it in vain, okay, what trouble did you two run into again?" ”

Chen Jinbao put down the rag, took out the painting from his chest and opened it to Zheng Qing, and said, "Master, can you see anything when you look at this painting?" ”

Zheng Qing turned his head to look, his body was shocked, and he asked, "What kind of painting, so scary." ”

Subsequently, Chen Jinbao told Zheng Qing about the case, and also told Zheng Qing what he didn't understand and some ideas, hoping to get some opinions from the master and make the case clearer.

After listening to this, Zheng Qing said lightly while wiping the stove: "I don't understand." ”

Chen Jinbao and Wang Fugui's eyes widened, and they said in unison: "What! ”

Chen Jinbao walked up to Zheng Qing and said, "Master, just tell us, we really have a headache now." ”

Zheng Qing smiled and said: "Jinbao, I remember that I have already told you, clues and ideas, the two most fundamental things to solve the case, and the use of ideas to lead clues, you also have clues and clues, why do you want to ask me?" ”

Chen Jinbao patted his head and said, "Master, I just didn't understand some things before I came to ask you, don't you say something profound, just tell us directly, won't it be over?" ”

Zheng Qing smiled again and said, "How can I know anything, you are catching heads, searching, clues, and ideas are all in your hands, it is said that you should know more than me." ”

Chen Jinbao asked again: "Master, I just can't figure it out before I come to ask you, I and Fuguitou are about to think about it, I don't know what's going on, and that painting, we can't see what's wrong, so I came to ask you what the problem is." ”

Zheng Qing smiled and said, "Haha, are you two human beings, and I'm not human?" You two can't see what's wrong with that ghost painting, I can see it? ”

When Wang Fugui heard this, he sighed, walked up to Zheng Qing and asked, "Master, then you can tell me, is my master's thinking right or wrong?" ”

Zheng Qing wiped the lid of the pot and said, "How can I know if you two are thinking correctly, but there is one thing you must figure out." ”

"What's the matter?" The two asked in unison.

"Premise, this must be clarified, speculation also has to have a premise, you two suspect that the shopkeeper of the wine shop is murderous, if this suspicion is correct, then the wine shop lady must be pretending to be crazy, but if the wine shop lady is not pretending to be crazy or really crazy, then your speculation is pure nonsense, just like you said that the corpse appeared for no reason is the same, you think that the corpse appeared for no reason because you didn't see the corpse before you left, plus the frightened two stunned said that you didn't see the corpse either, So what if you and Er Stunned didn't notice the corpse? If you think about it this way, didn't the corpse appear for no reason? ”

Chen Jinbao and Wang Fugui listened to Zheng Qing's words and pondered.

"It's not that there is a corpse for no reason, but that you haven't noticed the corpse?"

Zheng Qing looked at the appearance of these two people, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, I can only help here, you two know more things than me, you should know better than me, and that painting, it scared me, don't show me again, you guys, think for yourself." Also, I won't leave you to eat, my wife will definitely not be happy. ”

The two looked at each other for a while, and after thanking Zheng Qing, they left Zheng Qing's house.

On the way back to the Yamen, Wang Fugui said to Chen Jinbao: "Master, I thought of something. ”

Chen Jinbao smiled and said, "It's a coincidence, I also thought of something." ”