It seems that this electrified warehouse is for Zhao Chengqi, and this guy who ran out for some reason became his substitute ghost. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"This guy is one of your shopkeepers? You say he shouldn't have the treasury key, so whose key is it? Su Yanqing asked.

Each of the four stewards untied his own key from his belt, each with their names engraved on it.

No one lost their keys.

Su Yanqing's gaze swept over the key held in the dead man's hand, there was nothing, could it be copied?

The design of the warehouse lock is very delicate and complex, there are two organs, after inserting it, turn half a circle, will pop out the second spring, you need to buckle the double ring handle of the key, set on the second spring, and then turn half a circle, before the door is opened, if you don't know which delicate people turn the key directly to the end, it will touch the mechanism, the alarm bell rings.

"When you usually open the door of the storeroom, someone follows you?" Su Yanqing asked.

Zhao Chengqi and the four stewards shook their heads, the things in the warehouse are very valuable, if they are lost or stolen, they will cause huge losses to the Changyu, the four stewards have worked in the Zhao family for at least twenty years, and they are loyal to the Zhao family, very professional, and will never do anything outside the house.

The key process is complicated, it is extremely difficult to copy, at least in the town can not be done, this guy reports to Changyu every day, except for yesterday noon to afternoon leave, has not left Changyu, it can be seen that the key should be given to him after someone else copied.

"What's in the storeroom?" Su Yanqing asked.

Zhao Chengqi's first reaction was to stand up and want to open the door, the moment his hand touched the key, he suddenly hesitated, Su Yanqing said: "I just tried, and the door is no longer charged." ”

Zhao Chengqi still didn't take out the key, and cast an inquiring glance at his father Zhao Siyuan, Zhao Siyuan nodded: "Everyone has died, and there are only a few of us here, and there is nothing that can't be seen." ”

The door of the storehouse was opened, and there was not much in it, except for a few large jars of wine standing on the ground.

Su Yanqing stood in front of a large altar with the words: "Yuxiu grass, luminous flowers." ”

"I've never heard of what Yuxiu grass and glow-in-the-dark flowers are." He asked.

Zhao Chengqi replied: "This is a kind of herb collected from Miaojiang that the local people will put in winemaking, which is very rare. Most of the other things in the storeroom are rare items that have been collected from various places, and they are used here to try to make new sake. If these things are useless in the hands of ordinary people, if they are in the hands of brewers, they can have greater value. ”

"Your winery is the biggest in town, how many other wineries might compete with you?" Su Yanqing asked.

A steward said: "The Sun's winery in the west of the city, the Wujia winery in the north of the city, and the others are all small workshops. ”

"Even if the Sun family and the Wu family steal the new formula, they can't compare it to our Changyu." Another steward said.

Su Yanqing compared the key in the guy's hand with the other five keys.

Judging from the cutting marks of the metal, except for the new point, there is nothing special, the technique is fluent, at least it has to be a keysmith who has been working for a long time to make it, not a novice can grind it out with a piece of copper.

But including Zhao Chengqi and the four stewards, they all said that the key was never given to others.

"When the eldest brother went back to Luo's house, wasn't he drunk?" A voice came from the gate abruptly, and everyone looked at the door together, Zhao Chengping stood there impressively, walking over step by step.

"The eldest brother, as the shopkeeper of the Changyu, naturally has a treasury key, and the treasury key is such an important thing, of course, it is not as convenient to put it on the body as it is, and after getting drunk, during the time when the mind is in a trance, whether the key is still on the body, I am afraid that the eldest brother is not so clear." Zhao Chengping stood in front of everyone.

Originally, Zhao Chengping suddenly spoke up, which startled Zhao Siyuan, but as soon as he said a few words, Zhao Siyuan was attracted by the words of the Luo family and drunk, and turned his head and asked sharply: "Why did you go to the Luo family?" ”

Zhao Chengqi opened his mouth and said, "When did I go to Luo's house?" ”

Seeing that he wanted to deny it, Zhao Chengping took out a piece of sealing mud from his hand, and there was still a half-cut seal on the sealing mud, with the book "Zhao" on it, and another line was "Moon".

"Zhao's Changyu is brewed in winter, and the moon is frosty." Su Yanqing said in a low voice, not long ago, he had just seen the Changyu Honored Guest, and the wine jar was constantly being shipped from everywhere like flowing water. Naturally, I was impressed by the seal on the mud.

Zhao Chengping handed over the sealing mud to Zhao Siyuan, Zhao Chengqi stood aside, and argued for himself with his eyebrows: "It's just a piece of sealing mud, what can it say, can't the people of the Luo family buy it and drink it themselves?" Besides, you still have cooperation with the Luo family, and last time you came to Changyu for a day, you obviously coveted this shop, and you wanted to get the shop in your hands, why wasn't it you? ”

This was almost a scoundrel, Zhao Chengping didn't even bother to look at him, and pointed to the traces on the sealing mud: "Father, please see, what is on this sealing mud." ”

On the yellow clay and straw sealing mud, there is a faint finger print, and there is a circle protruding from the root of the finger. On the other side, there are faint marks of something scratched.

"What does that mean?" Zhao Chengqi shouted, and suddenly he was dumbfounded.

Zhao Chengping glanced at him and said coldly: "Big brother, why don't you put your left index finger on it and compare?" And ......" He gestured his finger to the scraped mark: "This is the mark of a man's fingernails, the dead Zhu kiln worker, when he was found, he had this mud between his fingers." ”

"Enough!" Zhao Siyuan shouted, Su Yanqing snatched the piece of sealing mud from his hand before he could react, Zhao Siyuan glared at him, and he raised the sealing mud to Zhao Siyuan: "This is important physical evidence, and it can't be left in your hands." ”

Zhao Chengqi's whole person was like a deflated ball, standing aside.

"What happened between your brothers, that you are going to do such a murder! He's your big brother after all! Zhao Siyuan was heartbroken.

Zhao Chengping stood there respectfully: "Father, the eldest brother has not explained anything, and this piece of evidence alone may not be able to explain anything, and the eldest brother may not have violated the law of the country." Why did my father already think that my eldest brother had committed the murder? ”

Zhao Siyuan sighed: "Knowing the son Mo Ruo's father, what can he do, I don't know?" ”

Zhao Chengqi wanted to open his mouth to explain, but lowered his head weakly.

"Big brother, if you don't tell the truth, it will be too late to cry out for injustice when the time comes." Zhao Chengping looked at his eldest brother coldly.

"After all, you are the eldest son of the Zhao family, there is no need to bear the blame for the Luo family." Zhao Chengping said, "What did you do in the Luo family that day? ”

Zhao Chengqi's whole body was out of strength, he collapsed on the chair involuntarily, took a few deep breaths, he raised his head, his originally radiant eyes were completely radiant, his vision lost focus, and the whole person's soul seemed to be sucked away.

He slowly recounted the experience of that day.

After closing that day, a friend who knew him said that there was a party in the evening, and the people who attended it were the owners or young owners of famous stores in the neighborhood, Zhao Chengqi thought that if he could expand more contacts at the banquet, it would help the business, so he didn't go home and went straight.

At the banquet, he saw Luo Xinyuan, at that time Luo Xinyuan had already received Zhao Chengping's order to make a wine jar, so he asked Luo Xinyuan about Zhao Chengping's order at random, and he didn't think that Luo Xinyuan would say anything to him, but he didn't expect Luo Xinyuan to talk to him a lot very enthusiastically, including what craftsmen he invited, how many orders he placed, what patterns were used, and what utensils were shaped.

Zhao Chengqi was also a little surprised by this, these are actually trade secrets, Luo Xinyuan is also a businessman, how could he not understand this truth, didn't he deliberately talk nonsense to set him up and mislead him?

But later, Luo Xinyuan said that he would introduce the potter to him, and if Changyu needed to customize the wine jar in the future, it would be convenient, and Zhao Chengqi thought about whether he was too much, maybe Luo Xinyuan thought that Zhao Chengping and Zhao Chengqi were brothers and a family, so there was nothing to shy away from talking and acting.

After the banquet was dispersed, Zhao Chengqi followed Luo Xin to the town to pick up people, the time was just right, and the kiln worker was coming over. Luo Xinyuan lowered his voice and said to Zhao Chengqi: "Little brother has a reluctant request, don't hide it from Brother Zhao, I forgot to book a room for this kiln worker, at this time the inn is full of foreign businessmen who come to the town to order New Year's goods, and I really can't arrange it for him." I also have relatives at home, it's really unfortunate, I don't know if Brother Zhao can help there? ”

Zhao Chengqi instinctively wanted to excuse himself: "My house is not very convenient." ”

Luo Xinyuan said: "I know that Brother Zhao has a house in Liuzhi Lane, and this is a poor potter, so I can just give him and the little maid a room." ”

Even if the Zhao family knows about the house in Liuzhi Lane, few people know about it, but it was broken by Luo Xinyuan, and Zhao Chengqi was worried that Luo Xinyuan would make a big deal about it and spread it to his father Zhao Siyuan. His parents are still alive and buying a private property, which is simply a big rebellion in the eyes of tradition, so he has to take this matter down, and the house is not a servant from the family, and it is not a big deal to put a person.

The three of them arrived at Zhao Chengqi's house in Willow Branch, got a few side dishes, a few jars of wine, and the wine was over three rounds of dishes and five flavors, and the happy kiln worker looked at the jars of moon and frost and said that the design of Changyu's current wine jar mouth should be improved, which will be very convenient for preservation and transportation.

Zhao Chengqi was very excited when he heard this, so he went to the brewery, and wanted to find an empty jar as a sample, and let the kiln worker demonstrate where to improve, but unfortunately a batch of wine had just been brewed, and all the empty jars were filled. So he took a jar of wine that had not been dried and brought it to Liuzhi Lane, and asked the kiln worker to guide him.

When he lifted the sealing mud, the ring finger of his left hand wearing the ring was imprinted on the undried sealing mud, and at the same time, the kiln worker accidentally scraped his fingers, leaving marks on the mud.

Zhao Chengqi casually threw the sealing mud out of the window, and was finally picked up by Zhao Chengping.

"And then?" Su Yanqing asked coldly.

Zhao Chengqi's godless eyes suddenly flashed a trace of confusion, and then panicked.

After discussing the design of the wine jar, Zhao Chengqi felt that he had drunk too much, went out to vomit, and rested for a while before returning to the house, but after being blown by the night wind, he felt even more dizzy.

He only remembered that he seemed to be drunk and collapsed on the chair, Luo Xinyuan pushed him several times and called him by name, but his whole body was weak, although he was conscious, he couldn't move at all, his eyes were slightly open, but he didn't blink, as if he had been drunk to death.

Then, he clearly watched Luo Xinyuan say something to the Zhu potter, who stood up and took off his thick cotton robe, revealing the fire talisman on his chest.

Luo Xinyuan shook his head, the expression on his face seemed to be very contemptuous and disdainful, and then, he said something to Zhu Potter, Zhu Kiln Worker wanted to escape, but Luo Xinyuan grabbed him with one hand and pressed his heart with the other, and then, there was a sound like thunder splitting the sky, and then Zhu Potter's body fell to the ground softly.

Luo Xinyuan squatted in front of him, not knowing what he was doing.

Then, Luo Xinyuan came over, holding a strange talisman in his hand and sticking it to my body, I didn't want to stand up at all, but I stood up myself, my hands, my feet, didn't listen to my call, I picked up the knife, and gave the potter a knife...... I wanted to scream but couldn't, I wanted to let go, but my hand was always holding the knife tightly. ”

Recalling the terrifying scene that happened that night, Zhao Chengqi couldn't help but tremble all over his body, and he couldn't spit out a word anymore.

He didn't need to recall the events that followed.

"Who did the thing about throwing the body later?" Su Yanqing asked.

Zhao Chengqi lowered his head, covered his face tightly with his hands, propped his elbows on his legs, and the whole person seemed to shrink into a ball: "It's me, I watched myself put the corpses on the cart one by one, covered them with tarpaulin, pushed the cart to the Sunu Lake, and then transported it to the boat. ”

This series of things finally has an eyebrow, but what Zhao Chengqi said was manipulated by Luo Xinyuan is too bizarre, and it is difficult to reason as evidence.

Zhao Chengping remembered the first corpse piece found by Uncle Ye again, and asked, "Big brother, do you remember what Luo Xinyuan was doing when you were moving the corpse?" ”

Zhao Chengqi shook his head: "I don't know, I only know that I have come in and gone out again and again, he may or may not be there, I don't remember." ”

That, could it be that Luo Xinyuan deliberately threw it there, so that people could find out, and finally track it down to Zhao Chengqi's head in order to hit the Zhao family's business.

Looking at the deserted appearance of the current Changyu, I know that Luo Xinyuan's planning is still quite successful.