Although Shao Xi seems to be a little careless on weekdays, if he really says that he is more serious and careful than others in investigating the case, whether he was in Wanxian County or later in Qingshan City.

He always felt that everything related to human life should not be perfunctory, or not careless, since he meddled in it, he should do his best.

After coming to Junxiao Building with Long Qitai, he called the shopkeeper and Xiao Er over, and went to the private room on the second floor where the crime occurred last night.

Although the private rooms have been cleaned, they are not used to receive guests.

The shopkeeper said that it was really bad luck that someone died in this private room last night, and that it could not be used to receive guests again after asking the Taoist priest to do the rituals in the past two days.

After Shao Xi's inquiry, the shopkeeper and Xiao Er told Bai Jinqing that they were inseparable, and there was nothing suspicious about the whole thing.

asked Xiao Er, who was present at the time, that the chair that the envoy of the White Night Kingdom touched when he fell was the one near the door.

So Shao Xi walked over to the chair and examined it carefully.

Long Qitai stood at the door with his shoulders crossed, watching Shao Xi keep checking left and right in front of the chair. He didn't understand, why should he look at something he had already looked at this morning? I hadn't found anything in that chair before!

After Shao Xi checked for a while, he got up and asked the shopkeeper and Xiao Er, "Where did that person hit this chair when he fell down last night?" ”

The shopkeeper and the shopkeeper looked at each other, and they both lowered their heads and thought about it seriously.

Xiao Er spoke first: "If the villain is not mistaken, he should have hit the back of the chair at that time, but another guest who came with the guest before hitting him reached out to catch him, but the force of the fall was a little great, and he fell to the ground after hitting the back of the chair." ”

The shopkeeper also nodded at this time to confirm that what Xiao Er said was what he saw at the time.

After Shao Xi heard this, he turned around and carefully checked the back of the chair, as if confirming something, and then beckoned to Long Qitai.

"Brother Long, what do you see here?"

Long Qitai leaned closer to the back of the chair and looked carefully at the position Shao Xi pointed to, and indeed saw a trace of being hit by something, and there were shallow patterns on the trace.

"This pattern doesn't look like it belongs to the Central Plains, it should be a pattern from the Western Regions."

"So what does Brother Long think this will be the pattern left by something?"

Long Qitai glanced up at Shao Xi, lowered his head and pondered for a while, and said, "The pattern is very small, it should be left by some kind of small jewelry on the body." ”

"Like rings, right?" Shao Xi asked as if he had expected it.

"That's right, it's true that it's a small piece of jewelry like a ring that has such a tiny pattern, did you find anything?"

Shao Xi smiled and didn't speak. Turning around, he asked the shopkeeper and Xiao Er, "Are the guests of these two private rooms booked in advance or temporarily arranged?" ”

The shopkeeper replied: "They are all booked in advance, Bai Gongzi they came first, Bai Gongzi just left, the guests of this room came to book, and they also specified this one." ”

"Who is the guest who is booked?"

Xiao Er hurriedly replied: "It's the guest who reached out to help people." ”

Shao Xi nodded and didn't say anything more.

After the questioning, Shao Xi said to Long Qitai: "Go back and let people move this chair back to Dali Temple for the purpose of crop certificates, and now we have to go to the post house where the envoy settled before." ”

Long Qitai instructed the shopkeeper to keep the chair, and when he turned back, Dali Temple would send someone to pick it up, and the shopkeeper hurriedly agreed.

When the two came to the post house, Xiao Liuzi, who had rushed over from the front foot, had already left the envoy's entourage and others in the post house according to Long Qitai's instructions, and was not allowed to go out at will. Everyone's belongings were also gathered in one of the rooms, just waiting for Long Qitai and Shao Xi to come and check them.

Long Qitai arranged for someone to go to Junxiao Building to get a chair, and Shao Xi first found the entourage who went to the restaurant with the envoy last night.

The entourage knew the purpose of Shao Xi, Long Qitai and the others coming, and they also cooperated with the two of them in a proper manner, and answered all questions.

Shao Xi carefully looked at the envoy entourage in front of him, and asked about the incident last night, and the entourage also answered one by one, the same as what Bai Jinqing and the restaurant shopkeeper and others said.

"You just said that the envoy was invited by a friend to drink at Junxiao Building last night, right?"

The attendant replied respectfully: "Returning to the words of the lord, it is exactly so. ”

"Then what is the name of this friend of your envoys? Where did it come from? ”

"Back to my lord, the villain only knows that this person's name is Wuriyati, and he is a businessman, as for the other villains, I really don't know."

"Do you know where this man is?"

"He, like us, lives in this inn, but after this incident last night, he left the inn this morning and never came back, and now he doesn't know where he is."

Shao Xi frowned and changed the question again.

"Do you envoys don't like the Central Plains culture very much on weekdays?"

"That's not it, our envoy still admires the Central Plains culture very much, but on weekdays, he will recite to us some words that are too scheming in the Central Plains and like to hook and fight."

"Yesterday in the restaurant, why did you speak so fiercely? Is this the same way you talk on weekdays? ”

The attendant said with a smile: "Actually, not on weekdays, but yesterday when the adults and his friends talked about the Central Plains, the two had different views, and when they argued, the adults spoke so loudly." ”

"Well, do you remember who first talked about this topic?"

The envoy's entourage was silent for a long time after hearing Shao Xi's question, as if they were recalling the details of the conversation between the few people the night before.

"I should be not mistaken, it was an adult friend who first talked about this topic. Originally, there was nothing at the beginning, but for some reason the two of them chatted and argued, so the adults became more and more excited, and the voice became louder, which provoked the guests next door to come over. ”

"Do you know how long this friend of your envoy has been in the Central Plains?"

"I don't know how long the villain is, but it should be a lot of years, two days ago I heard that he was going back to the Western Regions, but for some reason he went back and forth, and he only lived in this inn yesterday, and invited us adults to go out to drink together in the evening."

Shao Xi was still accustomed to holding his chin with his thumb and asked thoughtfully: "Are you saying that he left Daliang two days ago, but he went back again for some reason, right?" ”

"That's why the night before he left, we drank with him and saw him off. But it's only been two days since I left, and I suddenly lived in this post house yesterday, saying that something has not been completed, and I won't leave for the time being. ”

Speaking of this, Shao Xi took out the ghost-faced black iron plate from his arms, handed it to the envoy's entourage and asked, "Do you know this thing?" Is this something for your grown-ups? ”

The attendant took the sign, looked at it carefully, shook his head, and handed it back.

"The villain doesn't know about it, and I've never seen it on my family before."

Shao Xi pursed his lips, feeling a little disappointed. However, he still said to his entourage: "You stay in the post house for the past two days and don't go out, and I may ask you when I come back." ”

The envoy bowed and said, "The villain understands, the villain and the others will cooperate with the adults to find out the case, and they will have an explanation after they go back." ”

Shao Xi nodded, turned around and went with Long Qitai to check the relics left by the envoys of the White Night Kingdom.

After some inspection, the envoy left behind them were all ordinary things, and even some jade treasures were not helpful to investigate the case.

Just as the two were about to give up and continue to check, Shao Xi was attracted by a box.

Speaking of which, there is nothing special about this box, just an ordinary small box with a damask finish. What intrigued Shao Xi was that the box was empty, and there was no matching object in the room.

What does a person who likes jade treasures do with a small box that he doesn't need?

Thinking of this, Shao Xi took the box and went to find the envoy's entourage.

"Do you know what your family has such an empty box for you?"

To Shao Xi's surprise, the entourage was surprised and panicked when he saw the box in his hand, and even couldn't help but snatch the box from his hand, looking very anxious.

"How did it become an empty box? Why is the contents of the box missing? I checked it yesterday and it's still there! Why is it missing now? Was it stolen? ”

Shao Xi immediately understood why the box was empty, it seemed that the contents of the box had been taken away, no wonder there was no one who could match the box.

"You say there's something in this box? What is it? When was the last time you saw it? Don't be in a hurry, speak slowly. ”

The attendant said anxiously: "This box originally contained a pair of rare glass beads, and there were colorful cloud patterns in those beads. Adults once said that this is a very precious treasure, and they don't worry about letting us keep it on weekdays, so they all keep it by themselves. I checked it yesterday, and the thing is still there, but today it's an empty box! ”

Shao Xi's heart was shocked! Glass beads, and Yunxia glass beads again! Of the ten glass beads consigned in Taihe Commercial Bank, the black-robed man bought two of them, and the wealthy merchants in the Western Regions bought two of them, so why did two more appear here? That's not right!

"You mean this box originally contained a pair of Yunxia glass beads? Where did you get these beads? And when did you get it? ”

"This box was indeed filled with a pair of Yunxia glass beads, the first time I saw it was the day I lived in the post house with the adult, I originally thought that the adult brought the Central Plains to the Jingyuan Shengshang, but when I offered the treasure, my family was not a pair of beads, the villain thought that it was because the envoys of the Dongmu Kingdom offered the same beads, so my family temporarily changed their minds. As for where the bead came from and when it was obtained, the villain really didn't know. ”

Shao Xi hurriedly asked, "What day did you and your family live in the post house?" ”

"It's the day before Chinese New Year's Eve."

The day before Chinese New Year's Eve, that is to say, the pair of Yunxia glass beads in the hands of the envoy of the White Night Country should be the pair bought by the black-robed man, but where did the pair in the hands of the envoy of the Eastern Mu Kingdom come from?

The only explanation is that the pair of beads in the hands of the envoys of the Eastern Mu Kingdom were obtained from the rich merchant in the Western Regions, but the rich merchant in the Western Regions had already left Daliang two days ago!

Wait a minute!

This friend of the envoy of the White Night Kingdom is also a merchant in the Western Regions, and he also left Daliang two days ago, but he went and returned yesterday.

Could it be that they are the same person?