Mr. Zhang deliberately pretended to be nervous, but he didn't want us to appear too calm and arouse suspicion, and after Xiao Er's simple explanation, he accepted his statement. Rainy days, closed inns, bizarre murderer cases.

The guests who are in it are not so easy to be appeased, because the murderer is in this inn.

There are a lot of guests, which means that the murderer is still among us.

No one thought that the murderer was a stranger they had never met, so they sneaked into the inn to kill people, and then quietly left.

A resident on the third floor woke up hungry at five o'clock in the morning, and last night he had a bit of a quarrel with his roommates, and he was so angry that he didn't eat dinner.

In the morning he was woken up hungry and went downstairs to the kitchen to find something to eat.

He went from the third floor to the first floor and then to the kitchen, and there were no wet footprints along the way.

The deceased's roommate said that there was a knock on the door in the middle of the night last night, and the deceased was woken up, complaining that the ghost had come to stay so late.

That is to say, when the woman comes, the deceased is still alive.

and then the guests who were woken up by hunger went downstairs to look for food, and the murderer could only do it during this period.

There is not a long time difference, so if an outsider kills someone, he will definitely leave muddy footprints.

They were analyzing outside, and I listened in the house, and felt that their analysis had some truth, but the fact that the woman went upstairs last night and didn't make a sound at all not only proves that she is doing good work, but also has a possibility that she was walking on tiptoe without shoes.

She had time in the kitchen to take off her shoes, dry the soles of her feet, and go upstairs barefoot so that she wouldn't leave wet footprints on the mud.

The residents are also guessing, and there are different opinions, and there is no conclusion.

The dead man's room was occupied by three people, one sleeping on a couch and two on a bed.

Now there were people dead in the house, still quietly, and the other two were more scared than the other occupants.

They suggested that everyone focus in the downstairs lobby and watch each other in case the killer committed another attack.

The other guests in the VIP room agreed, believing that it would also prevent the killer from escaping.

In fact, what they are afraid of is that the murderer hates the rich and picks the rich people who live in the VIP room to kill.

Because the deceased's belongings were all there, there was not a single piece of luggage in the room, and it had not been turned over.

In order to stabilize people's hearts, the proprietress deliberately guided everyone to think in the direction of vendettas, if it is a personal grudge, it will have no impact on other people.

When a murderer kills one person, he doesn't kill anyone else.

At this time, there were people who objected to the gathering of people in the lobby, and for fear of angering the murderer, they slaughtered everyone.

Now they want to know who the murderer is, but they are afraid to know, for fear that the murderer will kill him.

The two dissenting parties stood in the corridor outside the door and quarreled.

In order to appear gregarious, Manager Zhang occasionally interjected, mostly with muddy words.

The proprietress ran into the back kitchen and came out again with a kitchen knife in her hand.

For the sake of businessmen, she decided to gather everyone in the lobby.

It's nothing that someone has died in the inn, but if someone dies and the murderer runs away easily, then no one will dare to stay in her store for a long time in the future.

The people on the roof were still there, and I was really worried that they would kill people, so I tried to persuade the proprietress to forget it, but the proprietress immediately said, 'Whoever doesn't come down is a murderer'.

We are not good citizens, and now is not the time to be high-profile, so we can only follow the crowd.

Xiao Er and the cook moved the tables and chairs, arranged the seats in the lobby, and invited the guests from each room to come down and sit according to the table and chair numbers.

The number on the table is the room number, so you can see at a glance who is in which room.

The proprietress took out melon seeds, peanuts, and tea and put them on everyone's table, Yunzhou didn't have to eat fried soybeans anymore, and happily grabbed peanuts and peeled them.

He would only eat it if he had saved up a bunch, and no one in the lobby was in the mood to do it except him.

The man who slept in the same bed with the deceased was a bit unrelenting, and he scratched his body a few times from time to time, whether it was his neck, or his arms, or his calves.

He had nothing to do with his body, and this reaction was purely psychological, and he probably suspected that the deceased had some malignant/infectious disease.

The residents looked at each other to find suspicious people, and some simply attacked each other, suspecting people who did not deal with them.

In the past three days, four of the residents have had a quarrel, and they have taken this opportunity to trouble each other, suspecting each other, and saying that the other is the murderer.

The more noisy the four became, the more fierce they became, and they were about to grab each other's collars and fight, and the proprietress screamed and shocked them all.

"What's the noise? You made a mess and let the murderer take the opportunity to escape, who is responsible? Who will pay for the loss of the old lady? The proprietress threw herself in, her voice echoing in the lobby, better than striking a gong.

Usually the proprietress always faces the distinguished guests with a charming tone, and treats the poor guests with a snarky attitude.

The four people who wanted to fight loosened each other's collars and sat back in place with a hum.

And some people have been staring at the woman who suddenly appeared last night, asking her where she came from, where she is going, what her surname is, what is her name, and does she have a husband's family?

"The slave's surname is Ye, and his name is Feng Niang." The tone, tone, and articulation of a woman's voice are all like the hands of a pianist, plucking people's heartstrings.

She claimed to be a native of the Falling Wind Country, and married to the Shengyu Country at the age of sixteen, but unfortunately her husband died early, and she became a widow at the age of twenty.

Because she married into her husband's family for several years and had nothing to do, she was disgusted by her mother-in-law and excluded by her concubine, and as soon as her husband died, she was kicked out of the house.

She wanted to go back to her hometown to join her brother, but she learned that her hometown had been hit by a flood not long ago, and the whole village, including her brother and sister-in-law, was also swept away by the flood.

A young widow, helpless and pitiful.

She said these things really and didn't lie, but she definitely omitted some content that she didn't say, such as when she later joined the Star Fishing Moon Tower and became a killer.

From her marrying away from home, to her husband's early death, to her learning that her relatives were killed, this background should be true.

She looked like she was in her early twenties, but that wasn't necessarily her age.

Most of the men in the lobby cast pity on her, both young and old, sympathetic to her plight.

Only Manager Zhang was peeling melon seeds for Yuenanxiang and didn't pay attention to her, and Yun Zhou was dividing peanut grains and didn't pay attention to her.

Yunzhou divided the peeled peanut grains into four parts, and each of us had fifteen peanuts.

The proprietress snorted coldly when she heard this, and said in a small volume: "Who hasn't died a man, this woman, she can't rely on dead ghosts and living enemies, she has to rely on herself." ”

At this time, a resident said: "The proprietress is so strong that she can fight tigers, of course she can rely on herself, this little lady is so weak, but she has to find a place to block the wind and rain." ”

He said it in a vague way, but everyone present understood.

Isn't it just to find a man to rely on, the key is which man is suitable?

Most of the guests in the inn are men, just four women, the proprietress , me, Yue Nanxiang and Ye Fengniang.

When Ye Fengniang didn't come, the male guests all laughed with the proprietress, Ye Fengniang came, and the man's eyes were attracted to her, and the proprietress with charming eyes became a 'tiger hero'.

The so-called forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, and the four of us didn't say a word, but some of us owed a mouth, so we had to talk about it.

said that Ye Fengniang is not the only poor person, a good girl marries a fool, and her life will not be ruined?

This fool is still a son-in-law, it's just strange, our family seems to be that kind person, did we owe a fool a few lives in my last life?

The man who spoke sat next to us, and there were two people at the same table with him, and the three of them sighed and staggered, and hated it.

Yunzhou now knew that 'stupid' was talking about him, but he didn't quite understand what 'stupid' meant, and thought it was a title.

"Shut up." I glanced sideways at them, my gaze sweeping over the faces of the three of them, and I looked at them one by one, warning in plain sight.

The three of them carried a few bags of leather goods when they stayed, and the leather in the north was good, and there were often leather merchants who went back and forth in the mountains to pour out the skins.

They came in a few hours later than we did, from the north to the south.

Their room was on the ground floor, directly below our room.

For three days, they rarely went out of the room, because there was a treasure in the goods they transported this time, and the three of them did not dare to leave it, and they had been carefully guarded all the time.

If it weren't for the murder today, they wouldn't have come out.

According to my investigation last night, I think the biggest suspect is Ye Fengniang, she secretly went to the third floor last night, and stood at the door of the deceased's room for ten minutes.

Although she didn't enter the house, if she used poison, she didn't have to see the target, and she could poison it in the air.

At first, everyone was in the lobby, and they were talking about some things, and after a long time, they were so bored that they couldn't sit still.

Someone started to analyze the case, find the murderer, and play a game of reasoning.

Ye Fengniang is the most suspicious person, but some residents are reluctant to suspect her, for the simple reason that she is so weak, and murder is a manual job.

"The deceased was poisoned, what physical strength does it take to poison?" A middle-aged man in a cloth shirt with a somewhat 'motherly' demeanor rolled his eyes and said.

"You guys, guessing here, why don't you ask for an autopsy." Ye Fengniang picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"Where did this ghost weather come from?"

"That is, the nearest yamen is far away from these three mountains, and the rain is so heavy that the birds are flying over, let alone people."

"The ready-made doctor is here, isn't it, Ann... Doctor. ”

When I thought Ye Fengniang was going to call out the words 'God Doctor', she suddenly changed her words and changed to a more low-key title.

She watched me speak, and everyone turned their eyes to me.

"She's a doctor?"

"No, isn't this a peasant woman?"

"I've long felt that it's wrong, she dresses like a peasant woman, and her temperament is not like it."

"Even the way she looked at me just now, she didn't look like a doctor, let alone a peasant woman, like a killer!"

At this time, the proprietress drank again, suppressed the different voices in the lobby, she walked to our table, her attitude was completely different from usual, and asked with a smile:

"Is this sister-in-law really a doctor? Can an autopsy? ”

"The autopsy is okay, but the doctor doesn't dare to be it, and in the mountains and fields in the countryside, it is not possible to treat diseases, and there is a little research on the structure of the human body." I have already made sure that Ye Fengniang recognizes me, if I deny my identity, I am afraid that in exchange for more entanglement.

simply admit it, but put the ugly words in front of you, and think about curing the disease, you can do an autopsy.

The proprietress shouted 'yes', and immediately took me to the autopsy, the body was moved to the backyard ice cellar, the weather was wet and hot, and it soon stinked in the house, and there was no place to store the body in the inn, so the proprietress asked Xiao Er and the cook to carry the body into the ice cellar.

Ice cellars are not easy to make, and they are rare among the people, and they can only be seen in the palace.

The proprietress said that this mountain is peculiar, and the ice cellar can be built underground, because there are several ice caves in the mountain, and the ice cave is deep underground, far from the ground, but the area above the ice cave is still cold, and it is suitable to dig vegetable cellars and build ice cellars.

When I saw the corpse, I was still wondering why Ye Fengniang asked me to come for an autopsy.

Isn't she a murderer?

Moreover, they can come in the rain and naturally walk in the rain.

Why don't you go, and you want me to do an autopsy?

At first, I thought they had a mission to kill, but in that case, they shouldn't have gone out of their way and asked me for an autopsy.

"Doctor An, you can look at the corpse carefully, help me find the murderer quickly, otherwise I can't do this business, you can rest assured that I will pay the honorarium."

"Boss, are there anything in your store that is not a human being, nor a living thing, but can be moved?"

I looked at the corpse and found that he had indeed been poisoned, and the poison went through his ears and into his brain.

But he didn't have any living creatures in his body, something was supposed to have poured poison through his ears, and to do so he needed to be kept at a close distance.

His bedmate was the most suspicious, but the man wasn't lying, he really didn't know how his companion died, and he was more afraid than anyone else that he would be the next person to die.

And the deceased slept on the inside of the bed, and Ye Fengniang wanted to poison the door through the door, so she had to pass over the person sleeping outside.

The technical requirements are a bit high, and the weight of the venom in the ears and brains of the deceased is not something that ants and spiders can carry.

I finished checking the supposed checks and left the ice cellar to go to the deceased's room on the third floor.

I was lying in the place where the deceased was sleeping, and the proprietress was frightened by my question, she rubbed her arms and told me not to scare her, her shop was very clean, and there was never anything dirty.

"You're mistaken, I mean man-made things, like machine people." I know that there are tricks in this world, but they are relatively simple, and people have heard of trap birds, which are more complicated than kites.

"No, I've never seen anything like that." The proprietress shook her head.

That's interesting, I thought it was the killer on the roof who opened the tiles and threw poison.

But the VIP room is different from our barn in that it has ceilings, hanging sheds, and silk decorations, which have to be torn down from the roof outside.

The dust on the silk cloth was all there, and no one touched it.

So the murderer didn't start from the roof, not from the door, it's... Still in this room?

I sniffed carefully, looking for some other clues, but found that the window of the room was open.

"This window was open when you came this morning?" I asked the hostess.

"No, it's closed, at that time I suspected that a thief came in through the window to commit murder, and I deliberately looked at it and saw that it was closed."

The two people in the same room were the first to run out to call someone, and then they didn't dare to enter the house again, and the proprietress only entered the house after they ran out, so it wasn't them who opened the window.

The other guests wanted to go in to see, but the proprietress stopped them and didn't let them in.

Then only Xiao Er and the cook had entered this room, and the corpse was also carried to the ice cellar by the two of them.

Before I could say anything, the proprietress immediately called Xiao Er over and asked him if he opened the window?

Xiao Er admitted it quickly, saying that he was afraid that the poisonous gas had not yet dissipated, so he opened the window to ventilate and disperse the smell to avoid any more victims.

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