Chapter 149: Nine Weng Carpenters
Shen Yinqiu's tone made the people around her look at each other frequently, and she snorted and put on a cold look.
Wan Qiyan said for her: "This is my brother, he is still young, but he also has his ability." In order to prevent people from being looked down upon, Wan Qiyan naturally can't say that it is a reason to bring him to exercise, this matter has attracted everyone's great attention, if you have the intention of playing, it will be a public anger.
Li Zhu quickly glanced at Shen Yinqiu up and down, he was very disdainful, he had thin arms and legs, and his voice was still embarrassing, and this person knew that he didn't know martial arts at a glance.
Shen Yinqiu was particularly sensitive to his disdainful gaze, and glanced up at him, and didn't say anything, for a person who had tracked down the murderer for more than two months and had no clues, there was no need to waste his energy.
Now that the corpse has been determined not to be the daughter of the right minister, it is up to the rest of the family to find out.
Wan Qiyan looked at Li Zhu with a smile and said quickly: "Brother Li, the identity of the body will be handled by you?" ”
He used an inquiring tone, Li Zhukuai's full name is Li Dadong, and he still wanted to follow Wan Qiyan to see how the people around the prince were doing. When he was assigned to another task, he immediately hesitated.
Wan Qiyan sighed and said: "There are very few clues on the deceased, and it is also a big problem, the only person around me is Brother Li to reassure me, what is the problem with Brother Li?" ”
Shen Yinqiu laughed in her heart, Wan Qiyan actually used a flattering way, she had already guessed the ending.
Sure enough, Li Zhu quickly showed a somewhat embarrassed look, and then responded, "Thanks to Brother Xu's affirmation, this matter will be left to me!" ”
"Thank you." Wan Qiyan smiled and watched him go out with two of his subordinates.
Now there are only Shen Yinqiu and Wan Qiyan and two small servants left in the main hall.
"I haven't figured out any clues yet, what are we going to do next? It's almost noon, so time is running out. Shen Yinqiu looked at Wan Yanyan with a smile.
"It's just the beginning, is the fairy ready to nibble on dry food?"
Shen Yinqiu wanted to bite a mouthful of silver teeth when she heard the name fairy, and she usually shouted in private that it was okay, but when she took it outside and said, every time he shouted, the suspicious eyes of the people around her were cast at her, and the people who watched it were her! Originally, the female companion was a little cautious in men's clothing, and when she was stared at, she always thought that she was showing her stuffing.
"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and get down to business!"
Wan Qiyan stopped at the point, took her towards the street, and stood at the place where he had bought the human skin lantern before.
Shen Yinqiu thought about it first, and then observed that there were no suspicious traces around, and then looked at Wan Qiyan in puzzlement, waiting for him to speak.
Wan Qiyan squatted down and looked at the ground, it should have drifted through the light snow last night, but it melted quickly. Shen Yinqiu thought, if you look at the traces of the carts, you don't have to, because there are dozens of carts on this street, and they are pushed back and forth every day, so the car marks can be imagined, how can they be distinguished?
Wan Qiyan squatted on the ground, and even reached out to touch the ground, a little brown thing was printed on his white fingertips, Shen Yinqiu silently took out a handkerchief and handed it to him, she didn't know what Wan Qiyan was going to do.
He looked at the brown color on his fingertips and smiled, took Shen Yinqiu's handkerchief and thanked him, and said with a smile: "The time has come to test the fairy's sense of smell." ”
Shen Yinqiu hummed suspiciously, Wan Qiyan still wiped the brown on his fingertips in the end, and then naturally accepted the handkerchief and said, "Follow me." ”
Shen Yinqiu looked at him in his arms, didn't this person think about returning it to her. Forget it, if it's dirty anyway, just carry it for him.
The four of them entered the alley together, Wan Qiyan led the way in front, and Shen Yinqiu didn't give up and looked at the ground, but still didn't see anything.
They turned around and came to a corner, where a lot of debris was piled up, and Wan Qiyan motioned to the two servants to remove the cover covering those debris. One or two of the well-established carts were hidden in it.
Shen Yinqiu didn't react at first glance, but if you look closely at the structure of this cart, it is exactly the same as the lantern sold last night!
"Is this his cart?" Shen Yinqiu took two steps forward and looked left and right.
Wan Qiyan stepped forward, squinted at the surrounding environment, and looked at the blocked wall, which was a dead end.
"Well, it's not abandoned yet, and it seems that he is very confident in himself." Wan Qiyan thought about it carefully, and first found the carpenter of the cart. He gestured to the two boys; "Push it out."
Shen Yinqiu got out of the way, and one of the little guys easily pushed it, and there were still a few drops of wax on the shelf where the lantern was hung.
She obediently followed Wan Qiyan's side, and took advantage of the time to go out of the alley, and hurriedly asked, "How did you know that this cart was placed here?" ”
“…… While you were guessing riddles with him, I put something in his car. Wan Qiyan said seemingly naturally.
Shen Yinqiu sighed, stretched his neck and continued to look at him, "Why did you put something in his car at that time, did you find out that there was something wrong with him at that time?" How was it discovered? ”
"Why put something in his car? Because he looks at you as if he's looking at his prey. Wan Qiyan was forced to ask deeply, and he also began to laugh, and said inexplicably: "So I'm very unhappy." ”
Shen Yinqiu pondered, prey? She didn't even feel it, just wondered how quickly the stall owner seemed to notice her. After hearing Wan Qiyan say that he was unhappy, Shen Yinqiu pulled his sleeve and praised: "Well done!" ”
Wan Qianyan: "......"
"But when we found out that the lantern was a human skin, why didn't you send someone to chase him along this clue?" Shen Yinqiu looked at him without blinking, just waiting for an answer.
"It was dark and inconvenient, and if he deliberately went to check with a lantern, whether he was pretending to be looking for something or doing something, it would make him suspicious." Wan Qiyan said it seriously, but in fact, he thought that the murderer would not be able to escape, and he had already planned to accompany Shen Yinqiu to watch the fireworks.
How could you disrupt his plans? Although it was still mixed by the corpses in the lake. Hehe, this murderer really wants to find death.
Of course, Shen Yinqiu didn't know this, she only felt that Wan Qiyan seemed to have a point.
They inquired about the carpenter in the capital, and sent someone to inquire and locked up a man named Jiu Laoweng, at this time it was only a quarter of noon, Wan Qiyan and Shen Yinqiu bought some food on the way there, and they didn't stay for a moment to fill their stomachs.
But the footsteps were still not in a hurry, they directly pulled the cart to the residence of the nine old men, it was a very spacious courtyard, the little maid stepped forward and knocked on the door, there was a click and click of wood cutting, but no one answered.
A little guy secretly leaned on the wall to look at it, and said on the ground: "Master, it's an old man, sitting and working in the yard, it should be a bad ear." ”
Wan Qiyan raised his eyes, "Then keep knocking until he hears it." ”
"Yes!" The little guy in charge of knocking on the door patiently knocked on the door again and again, shouting while knocking.
Shen Yinqiu thought, this should also be heard behind the ear, right?
"Who?" There was a shout from the courtyard, a little weak and full of old age, and the tail note was a little long.
The little servant replied: "We begged to come to the door and specially asked the nine old men to help make a piece of furniture." ”
There was silence inside for a while, and then the door suddenly opened.
Shen Yinqiu stood beside Wan Qiyan and looked at the other party without a trace, almost full of white hair, beard, wrinkled face, only those eyes were not cloudy at all, and the old man's waist was already a little hunched. The body is also quite thin.
Shen Yinqiu looked at the Nine Old Men and the Nine Old Men were also looking at them, and after sweeping behind them one by one, he stayed longer when he looked at the cart outside the door again.
Wan Qiyan asked, "Old man, you also built this cart, right?" ”
"It's really my doing, is there a problem?" The Nine Elders asked in a slightly hoarse voice. His gaze was very calm and firm, "What I made by the Nine Old Men has not been said to be problematic, just a simple cart, what do you want to do?" ”
Wan Qiyan said: "The old man misunderstood, this was found in the dead end." ”
The Nine Old Men looked at him, but Wan Qiyan didn't say anything else. Shen Yinqiu smiled secretly, this person's heart was wilted, and his true nature was gradually revealed.
The two looked at each other for a while, and when the nine elders saw that he didn't have any thoughts about what to say, his hands floated on the door panel, and it seemed that he was about to close the door.
He said: "I don't know what you people want to do, no matter what I do, I don't have time, the old man still has a lot of work to do, and he can't be arranged." ”
When he was about to close the door, Wan Qiyan didn't know where to get the strength to resist the door panel, melodiously pulled out a piece of paper, and said kindly: "This is the county lord personally stamped the seal, and the old man is also asked to cooperate with the investigation." ”
The ninth old man stiffened his neck: "What do you want to investigate?!" What do I have to investigate for you? ”
"This, you get out of the way and let us in, what, are you so weak-hearted?" Wan Qiyan took the opportunity to push open the door and went in first, and Shen Yinqiu hurriedly followed.
After the nine elders carefully saw the seal of the official mansion above, he reluctantly took a few steps back, glanced at the visitor, and simply returned to his original position to continue to plank wood.
Wan Qiyan swept around, then stood in front of the nine old men and asked; "Who did you build the cart outside the door?"
The ninth old man didn't look at him, "If you look at this courtyard, you will know how many things the old man has to make every day, how to remember?" ”
"It's so hard to do, if you can't remember it, you have to remember that this cart has several lives." Wan Qiyan talked to him like chatting with his friends, but he invisibly oppressed people.
Shen Yinqiu looked at the two of them for a while, shrugged his shoulders and ran to see the finished objects, while the two little servants searched the backyard.
Shen Yinqiu turned around, looking back at Wan Qianyan's situation from time to time, although the ninth old man is an old man, but he must have been working all year round, and Wan Qianyan ...... It's hard to say, although there is no situation where the wind can fall down in the wind before, but there is no ability to fight back, and the two little guys are busy again, so it is better for her to stay by his side.
If these two people make a move, can she help a little?
Shen Yinqiu simply walked around the Nine Old Men a few times, this carpenter still gave people the feeling that it was very disobedient, even if he couldn't find anything wrong.
The Nine Old Man answered Wan Qianyan's question, and he had to keep an eye on this little man who kept moving, and his heart was full of vigilance.