Brother Lian and Ye Yanshan waited at the door of Jiang's house for a while, and Guan Tongsheng and Man San came over on horseback. Brother Lian said, "Let's go, talk as you go." ”

The four of them walked towards the East Lane, and Brother Lian first told the news they had discovered, and Guan Tongsheng listened to it and said: "Of the five people who died in the Guo family, only the mother and daughter who died in the end, called a post-mortem officer, and this is the autopsy sheet I copied." As he spoke, he pulled a piece of paper out of his bosom.

Ye Yanshan stretched out his hand to take it and read softly: "Mother and daughter, their corpses are soft and unharmed, and those who leak fire from the charcoal stove and stink are fumigated and kill themselves unconsciously, similar to those who can't recover from nightmares. After reading it, he handed the corpse sheet to Brother Lian.

Brother Lian looked at it and said: "This can only show that the mother and daughter died of coal poison gas, but it can't explain whether it was man-made or accidental." ”

Man San said: "I specially asked the second child of the Guo family what he looks like, and he said, he is tall, strong, and has lush hair." Guan Langzhong drew a portrait of the murderer that day to show him, and he said that it was somewhat similar. ”

Brother Lian said: "If this is the case, the second child of the Guo family will cause psychological distortion in the case of extreme anger, and it is indeed possible to do extreme things. ”

Ye Yanshan said: "Even if you want to take revenge, shouldn't you find Jiang Zhi? Why did you find Zhang Mao?"

"When you see him, just ask. Brother Lian grabbed the horse's belly and galloped away.

East Lane is obviously much more dilapidated than Changliu Street, and a fire broke out here a few years ago, after which the Fire Temple was built.

Lian Di asked the others to wait, she dismounted from the fire temple, entered the temple to look, in the small temple, the fire god was standing on the altar with a red face and a red dress. She found Miao Zhu in the wing room next to her, and asked him about the courtyard of the Guo family, and sure enough, it was next to the temple, she came out and pointed out the direction of the Guo family to the three of them, and took the lead and walked over.

The courtyard of the Guo family is very old, the earthen walls on both sides of the door are only one person high, and the height of several people is not short.

Guan Tongsheng patted the door, no one came out of the house, and Brother Lian said, "Go to the Fire Temple and wait." ”

The four of them turned around and went to the temple, and just about to enter the temple, they saw a big man with a strong physique and a full beard walking into the alley.

When the strong man walked past them, Brother Lian shouted, "Guo Er!"

The strong man turned his head and glanced at Brother Lian, his eyes swept over the four of them, and when he saw Guan Tongsheng, he was immediately stunned, turned around and ran. Brother Lian jumped up, rushed behind the strong man with a handful of strength on the side of the wall, reached out and grabbed him by the collar, the strong man turned around, raised his right foot, pulled out a short sword from his boot, and stabbed at Brother Lian.

Brother Lian easily avoided the short sword sideways, and slashed at the opponent's intercarotid artery with a hand knife, the strong man was dizzy for a while, and Brother Lian grabbed his wrist and twisted to subdue him to the ground.

"What are you running?" asked Brother Lian, twisting his arm vigorously.

Guo Er exclaimed in pain, "Lao Tzu can run if he wants, what's the matter with you." ”

Guan Tongsheng said: "Bring it back first, let Xinggu recognize it, and then he won't want to quibble." ”

Guo Er snorted coldly, glared at Guan Tongsheng viciously and said, "Zhuang Yuanlang is such a big official. ”

Guan Tong once wore flowers to swim through the streets when he was the champion, and there were many people who had seen him, if Guo Er was the murderer, he would pay attention to the progress of the case, and it was not a secret that Guan Tongsheng was personally ordered by the emperor to solve the case, no wonder he ran away when he saw Guan Tongsheng.

Brother Lian tied Guo Er with a rope, threw him on Mansan's horse, turned back to Ye Chengshan and said, "Go, go to his house and rummage through it, you will definitely find some things, pack them and take them back." ”

The two climbed over the wall and entered the courtyard of the Guo family, only two dilapidated low houses, and the courtyard was littered with a lot of firewood and rotten vegetable leaves. A small wooden horse in the corner, the wood is brand new and incompatible with other dilapidations. When I entered the house, I couldn't get my feet down, except for the table, chair, bench, and bed, there was nothing superfluous.

There was a pair of old military boots next to the corner of the bed, and when Lian Di lifted it up, there was blood on the soles of her feet, so she pulled a piece of cloth and wrapped the boots and handed them to Ye Yanshan. I lifted up the pile of clothes on the bed again and flipped through them, and I couldn't help frowning. Ye Yanshan asked her, "What's wrong?"

She shook her head and said, "It's nothing, go to the kitchen and have a look." ”

The two entered the kitchen, there were two hard steamed buns in a bowl on the stove, Lian Di opened the lid of the pot and looked at it twice, and then squatted down and looked at the stove, thought for a moment, got up and said to Ye Yanshan: "Let's go." ”

The two walked out, and several people escorted Guo Erda back to the criminal department. Halfway through, Guan Tongsheng called Man San to immediately go to Hongxing Building to pick up Xing Gu.

Guan Tongsheng escorted Guo Er back to the torture room and tied him to the torture rack, and Brother Lian walked up to Guo Er, stared at him and asked, "You did the bloody case in Hongxinglou?"

Guo Er glanced at her, removed his eyes, and did not say a word, neither admitting nor shouting injustice.

Ye Yanshan opened the baggage and took out the old military boots, mentioned them in front of Guo Er, and asked, "These boots are yours?"

Guo Er glanced at his shoes, the corners of one side of his mouth were slightly upturned, and he looked away again, still not saying a word.

Brother Lian raised the bottom of his boots to Guo Er's eyes: "This is Zhang Mao's blood?"

Guo Eryi looked at it, raised his eyebrows, wrinkled together, and twisted his face to the other side.

Guan Tongsheng pointed a stick at Guo Er and reprimanded: "The official asks you something, you'd better answer honestly, don't think that you can escape without saying a word, be careful that the official beats you so that you can't say what you want to say." ”

The door of the torture room was opened, Man San led Xinggu in, Guan Tongsheng laughed, "Look how you still quibble!"