"Ge Zhutou, what are you doing here?" Seeing this, Lu Yanqing hurriedly greeted Ge Changwu.

Hearing this, Ge Changwu came to a stop in front of Lu Yanqing, and said with a sad face: "Alas, it's not for the case the day before yesterday; By the way, Yanqing, why are you here? Why not recuperate at home? Is your body better? ”

Ge Changwu didn't mention much about the progress of the case, in his opinion, this could only add trouble to Lu Yanqing, so he cared about Lu Yanqing.

Lu Yanqing smiled: "Don't worry, Ge Zhutou, I'm fine, I'm here to be on duty at the Yamen." ”

Ge Changwu frowned, his face was suspicious, obviously a little unconvinced, so he persuaded him: "Yanqing, don't be reckless, it's better to cultivate at home, so as not to fall into a hidden disease, I am in the yamen, I don't need you to worry about it." ”

After only one day of cultivation, he came to the yamen on duty, and Ge Changwu was naturally not at ease.

Although there was no Lu Yanqing by his side to give advice in the past two days, Ge Changwu obviously felt that something was missing, but after all, Lu Yanqing had just recovered from a serious illness, and it was still necessary to recuperate at home.

"Ge Zhutou, I'm really fine, my body is very tough, I don't believe I'll show you with my fist."

As he spoke, Lu Yanqing threw a punch directly at Ge Changwu's face, and this sudden move startled Ge Changwu and several colleagues present.

But before Ge Changwu could react, Lu Yanqing's fist had already stopped in front of Ge Changwu's face, and the ensuing strong fist wind made Ge Changwu's sideburns chaotic.

Ge Changwu was directly stunned in place, and the momentum of this punch was even stronger than his own, which surprised him.

"How about Ge Zhutou, my punch is not bad, right?"

The corners of Lu Yanqing's mouth turned up slightly, and he asked for praise triumphantly.

Hearing this, Ge Changwu came back to his senses, and directly appeared on Lu Yanqing's side with a flash, and when he raised his foot, he kicked Lu Yanqing's ass violently.

Lu Yanqing, who was kicked in the ass, straightened up, hurriedly hid behind his colleagues, and begged for mercy with a hippie smile towards Ge Changwu: "Ge Zhutou, I was wrong, I was wrong, if you have something to say, don't kick my ass." ”

Seeing Lu Yanqing's very funny embarrassment, a group of colleagues immediately laughed.

This Ge Zhutou is famous for his love of kicking people's butts, and everyone present has been kicked by him, so when they saw Lu Yanqing being kicked, everyone gloated very badly.

"You're a stinky boy, aren't you? Even I dare to tease? Kick your ass without kicking your ass? ”

Ge Zhutou said with a smile, in a good mood; Since Lu Yanqing was able to make that punch, he should be in good health.

"Ge Zhutou, if you don't believe what I said, then I naturally have to prove it."

Lu Yanqing pretended to be aggrieved and explained, with a slight resentment in his eyes.

"Alright, don't ink, in that case, then follow us to investigate. If the case can't be solved today, Chu Jing's adults will be blamed. ”

As he spoke, the smile on Ge Changwu's face disappeared, and his face suddenly showed sadness, and the expressions of his colleagues instantly dimmed.

Without being stunned any longer, Lu Yanqing followed Ge Changwu and the others towards the Luo'an Inn where the incident occurred.

On the way, Lu Yanqing learned about the case from Ge Changwu's mouth, and only then did he learn the ins and outs of the matter.

The deceased's name was Yuan Hongzhang, and he was the head of the Yuan family cloth village in Chujing City.

Three days ago in the evening, Yuan Hongzhang set off from home, ready to go south to Suzhou and Hangzhou to buy spring silk, passing through Yong'an County when it was late, so he stayed temporarily at the best Luo'an inn in the city, planning to continue to set off early tomorrow morning.

But Yuan Hongzhang died while taking a bath, and was not found by the accompanying maid until the next morning.

After listening to Ge Changwu's story, Lu Yanqing asked curiously, "Then how did he die?" ”

Ge Changwu shook his head slightly, and sighed helplessly, "So far, the cause of death has not been ascertained." ”

Lu Yanqing frowned, "Then how is he dead?" ”

"The man sat in the tub, and his body was completely submerged in the water, except for his head above the water; There was vomit left on the side of his mouth, and the color of the water was slightly dark red, so he thought it was stained red with blood. ”

Ge Changwu described in a deep voice.

"Ge Zhutou, are you sure that the man was not drowned?" Lu Yanqing asked suspiciously.

"Of course not!" Ge Changwu affirmed: "I have been handling cases for so many years, I can tell at a glance whether he was drowned, not to mention that the water in the bath bucket is not deep, it is somewhat difficult to drown people, and the vomit at the corner of his mouth and the blood in the water cannot be explained." “

Lu Yanqing bowed slightly, Ge Changwu's analysis was not unreasonable.

Based on Ge Changwu's verbal description alone, Lu Yanqing really couldn't analyze anything, so he could only wait to arrive at the scene to investigate one or two.

A quarter and a half of an hour later, the crowd arrived at the Anluo Inn.

The inn was deserted, and everyone in the city knew that Anluo Inn had died the day before yesterday, so few people would come to bump into this bad luck.

What's more, the entire inn was controlled by the yamen, and the inn had to close before the truth was ascertained.

When the innkeeper saw Ge Changwu leading people up, he snorted coldly with an unkind face, obviously complaining that Ge Changwu was incompetent in investigating the case, which affected their business.

Ge Changwu ignored it and took Lu Yanqing straight towards the place where the incident occurred, while the rest of the people scattered and continued to look for clues in the inn.

In front of the innermost Tianzi guest room on the second floor, Ge Changwu directly pushed the door in, followed by Lu Yanqing.

"Now, this is where the crime happened."

Ge Changwu pointed to the bathtub not far away, and Lu Yanqing hurriedly walked closer to check it when he saw this.

I saw that the water in the bath bucket had not been emptied, but the corpse was no longer in it, so I thought it should have been sent to Yizhuang, and it was obviously inappropriate to soak in the water all the time.

The water in the bath bucket was light gray at this time, not the dark red as Ge Changwu said, which is not difficult to understand, after all, nearly three days have passed since the incident, and it is normal for the water to change qualitatively.

After half a sound, Lu Yanqing did not find anything, and now the first thing to investigate should be what caused this person's death, and only by determining the cause of this person's death can the direction of the investigation be locked.

"Ge Zhutou, have the things in this room been touched?" Lu Yanqing asked loudly.

"It is true that there has been a passive, but it basically maintains the original appearance at the time of the crime."

Lu Yanqing bowed slightly when he heard this, and then probed in the room.

In the case that the crime scene has not been changed or destroyed by external forces, it can truly and objectively reflect the criminals' modus operandi, the process of committing the crime, and other relevant circumstances, and the discovery and extraction of traces and physical evidence left over from the crime are conducive to solving the case faster, so the protection of the crime scene is particularly important for solving the case.

After searching around the room, except for the wine jug and wine glass on the table, Lu Yanqing did not find anything suspicious.

So Lu Yanqing asked again: "Have you investigated this wine jug?" ”

"It has been investigated, there is no problem with this wine, it was sent to the deceased's room by Xiao Er that night; In order to prove his innocence, Xiao Er poured himself a big sip with this wine jug, and nothing happened. ”

Ge Changwu knew what Lu Yanqing was suspicious of, so he explained in detail.

"Is it possible that Xiao Er changed the flask after the deceased's poison? Or maybe Xiao Er had already taken the antidote in advance when he was drinking, so he was fine? ”

There are many doubts in this, but in order to be able to get rid of this wine jug, it is necessary to completely solve the doubts.

"We really can't check the change of flask, but there's nothing wrong with the wine in the flask."

"What was Xiao Er doing that night?" Lu Yanqing asked.

"He said he had been on duty in the hall and had never left."

"Is there a witness?"

"Not really."

"Then this little two is still a little suspicious."

Lu Yanqing bowed slightly, it was also good progress to be able to identify a suspect.

After that, Lu Yanqing probed the perimeter of the inn again, and found no trace of outsiders entering the room through the window to poison the deceased.

From this, it can be concluded that if the deceased was killed by someone, then the murderer is most likely the person who was at the inn that night!

After scrutinizing and analyzing, Lu Yanqing's thinking gradually became clearer, so he asked Ge Changwu to gather all the people who were in the inn that night and prepare to interrogate them one by one.

Ge Changwu didn't have ink, and immediately called someone to summon all the people involved in the case to the hall.

Lu Yanqing first interrogated the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper's confession was no different from what Lu Yanqing learned from Ge Changwu, but because of the lack of witnesses, the suspicion could not be cleared.

The innkeeper and his wife were then interrogated, and they stated that they had slept in their bedrooms that night and had never even seen the victim's face; Regarding this, the shopkeeper can testify that he has indeed never seen anyone out of the room after a night of duty.

From the perspective of motives, the innkeeper couple did not have a reason to kill the deceased, and the suspicion was small.

Then there were only the two guards and two maids left with the deceased.

Because the deceased spent a lot of money on the night of check-in, there was no one else in the inn except for the above people.

The two guards patrolled the outside of the inn since the deceased checked in, and the two were able to witness each other, and did not find anything unusual during the patrol.

In this way, the number of outsiders committing crimes is very small, which further confirms Lu Yanqing's previous conjecture.

The two maids returned to the bedroom to rest together after putting the deceased in the bath water.

The two maids' bedrooms were far from the deceased's bedrooms, and the fact that they shared a bedroom can also testify to each other.

"How? What did you find? ”

After dismissing a few people, Ge Changwu asked Lu Yanqing in a loud voice.

Lu Yanqing did not hide it, and gave his guess: "In my opinion, the more suspicious ones are the shopkeeper and the two maids. ”

"Oh? The shopkeeper was on duty in the hall all night and there were no witnesses, so there was indeed a suspicion of killing the deceased; But what is so suspicious about the two maids living in the same bedroom and being able to witness to each other? ”

Ge Changwu frowned slightly, and asked very puzzled.

"Isn't it suspicious enough that the deceased had taken the whole inn, but the two maids had to rest in one bedroom?"

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