Li Zhai opened his eyes and found that the sky had already brightened, and Zhou Biao's cry came from the third room of Tianzi above.

"What's the name of the ghost? Could it be that the so-called Zhou Dashao had an accident?"

Li Zhai muttered to himself, got up and opened the door, just in time to see Yun Ruoling running up from the stairs with two young men.

The stairs and corridors of Qiyun Inn are similar to the wooden buildings in the costume TV series that Li Zhai watched in his previous life, and they are all designed in the courtyard courtyard of the inner corridor.

Whether you live on the second or third floor, you need to walk up or down the stairs from the cloister outside the door.

The room he lived in was located in front of the official road, the window was facing the main road, and the door was facing the stairs on the other side, so he could see the situation there.

There was a squeak, and several doors around it were opened, apparently the occupants inside were woken up.

"Young master, who is so bold as to dare to murder you to death!"

Zhou Biao's shout came from upstairs again, and Yun Ruoling's anxious inquiry: "Brother Zhou, what's going on?"

"You ask me what's going on? My young master was killed in your Qiyun Inn, so why don't you report to the official quickly and stop everyone from leaving. ”

Listening to the conversation between Zhou Biao and Yun Ruoling upstairs, Li Zhai touched his nose, it turned out that he was really right, and the eldest young master Zhou was really dead.

"Xiao Wu, go and report to the official, Xiao Liuzi, you go and dissuade all the guests from leaving first. ”

There was a murder in the inn, and the key death was still the wealthy young master of the Zhou family, Yun Ruoling wanted to say in her heart that it was impossible not to be in a hurry, but she still behaved very steadily, and directly commanded.

"No need, I am an official messenger, and I will be fully responsible for this murder, and I will definitely help the cloud shopkeeper find the murderer. ”

As soon as Yun Ruoling's words fell, a room on the third floor was opened, and the man wearing a red robe and carrying a ring knife waved his hand and said.

Kong Yilong, the former head catcher of Ziyi in Dongliu Town, was successfully promoted because of his conscientious work.

This time he went to Changping County to take office, Kong Yilong was full of pride, and it happened that he encountered the murder of the young master of the Zhou family again, so he planned to take action.

"Hey~, look at my brain, how did I forget about you, Master Kong. Xiao Wu, come back, you don't have to go. ”

Yun Ruoling slapped her head, and when she opened her mouth with a smile, she stopped the young man who had already run to the staircase.

In fact, when Kong Yilong checked in yesterday, he didn't wear the clothes of an official, and Yun Ruoling also saw him for the first time, how could he know that he was a fast catcher.

"You two go and block the front and back doors of the inn, and don't let one go until the real culprit is found. ”

Kong Yilong didn't care about Yun Ruoling's sycophancy, he ordered Xiao Wu and Xiao Liuzi.

"Yes!"

The two young men didn't dare to disobey the official's wishes, and hurriedly ran downstairs.

Next, Kong Yilong first went to Tianzi No. 3 room to check Zhou Wenjun's body.

Hearing that they were not allowed to leave, the second-floor residents who opened the door with Li Zhai had different expressions, some were anxious, and some were calm.

As the saying goes, the people don't fight with the officials, and the poor don't fight with the rich, since Kong Yilong asked Xiao Wu Xiaoliu to block the front and back doors of the inn, the guests who couldn't leave for a while didn't dare to break in even if they were in a hurry.

"Everyone, including the Cloud Shopkeeper and the Chef Father, gathered in the hall. ”

After Kong Yilong inspected Zhou Wenjun's body, he began his first step in investigating the case.

Let everyone leave the room and go to the hall on the first floor of the inn, Kong Yilong is afraid that someone will take the opportunity to destroy the murder weapon or something, and it can also prove from the side that he still has some ways to handle the case.

In this way, dozens of people walked out of the room and came downstairs one after another.

Li Zhai was naturally in the crowd, he was a little sleepy yesterday, and he went to sleep after dinner, he didn't expect that there would be so many people in the inn.

Good guys, men, women and children, there are forty or fifty in total, this Qiyun Inn is really prosperous.

"You go down too," Kong Yilong commanded Zhou Biao.

"Brother Kong, I am the nursing home of the Zhou family, the most trusted ...... of the young master"

"Shut up, who are you going to call your brother and sister? You are also suspected of murdering your own young master, go downstairs and wait. ”

Kong Yilong directly interrupted Zhou Biao's set, making his face blue and red for a while, and he was indescribably embarrassed.

But in the face of the official errand with a straight face, Zhou Biao still didn't dare to continue to refute, and he went downstairs coyly.

Kong Yilong began to search room to room for clues.

Half an hour later, he also came downstairs and began to stare at everyone present.

"Official, can you find out who the murderer is, hurry up and close the case, we are still waiting for the delivery? If we delay for too long, not only will we not be able to get the silver taels, but we may also lose some of the ......."

A man dressed as a farmer couldn't help but speak, and the face of the young man in coarse cloth beside him was also full of anxiety.

"Who are you?"

Kong Yilong frowned and asked.

"We are from Caijiazhuang, my name is Cai Daping, he is my brother Cai Niu, we are going to Qishan Town to give ......"

The man who called himself Cai Daping explained, and his brother Cai Niu also added on the side.

It turns out that Caijiazhuang is rich in a delicious peach, but after this kind of peach is picked, it only has a storage time of two or three days, and the villagers can't eat it all, so they can only sell it.

Shops in Qishan Town are one of their sales channels.

It is eighty or ninety miles from Caijiazhuang to Qishan Town, and the villagers' ox carts are too slow to catch up with the place in a day.

The Cai brothers then stayed at the inn.

Because they often come and go, and they usually don't live in the guest room, Yun Ruoling let them and the young man squeeze in the backyard, and only charge a few copper plates at a time.

"Oh, I see, Xiao Wu, is there a discrepancy between what they said?"

According to Cai Daping, in addition to getting up to go to the thatched house last night, the two brothers have been sleeping soundly with the young man on the Chase bunk in the backyard, and there is a full alibi.

"Yes, sir, we stayed in the same room last night, and after curfew at night, the door to the backyard was shut. ”

The young man explained, which corroborated the Cai brothers' statement.

Kong Yilong nodded, and after he checked the peaches in those bamboo baskets, he let the Cai brothers go.

"Thank you, sir, you can take these and try them. ”

Before leaving, Cai Daping picked up a few fist-sized pink peaches and stuffed them into Kong Yilong's hands no matter what.

In the end, he had to accept it.

Back in the hall on the first floor of the inn, Kong Yilong put the peaches on the table, looked at the anxious people and said lightly: "You don't have to think about it, no one is allowed to leave until the real culprit is found." ”

Hearing what he said so categorically, the few people who wanted to speak swallowed back.

"Start with you, tell me where you were last night, and when did you find the body? ”

Kong Yilong began to interrogate, and the first person he called was Zhou Biao.

Being regarded as one of the suspects, Zhou Biao was very unhappy, but after being silent for a while, he still spoke: "I have been protecting the young master in the outer room of Tianzi No. 3 room last night. ”

"Oh, yes, tell me how you protect your young master?"

Kong Yilong knocked on the table and asked with a smile.

Zhou Biao's face turned red, and he said with some embarrassment:

"I don't know what's going on? I fell asleep on the table in a daze, and when I woke up again, it was already dark, and when I went to wake up the young master, I found that he had been out of breath for a long time......