After Shang Buqi said this, the person had already jumped over the wall and jumped into Cao's house, and everyone hurriedly rushed out of the neighbor's house to Cao Yuanwai's house, and then looked at the layout in the courtyard, and it was suddenly clear. He walked around the kitchen and sniffed, then pushed open the kitchen door, rummaged in the dark for a while, made a series of sounds, and then seemed to open the lid of the pot, and then said with a smile: "That's right! The monkey is looking for this pot of beef soup!" As soon as the words fell, he heard a wolfing sound coming from the dark kitchen, and it was Shang Buqi who was really drinking the beef soup in the Cao family's kitchen.

Everyone hurriedly raised the lamp to shine it, only to see that the kitchen was already a mess, full of pots and pans, and Shang Buqi knelt on the kitchen stove and poked his head into the pot to eat beef soup. Seeing this, the Cao Yuan couldn't help but say, "Yes, that's exactly the case! After the monkey escaped that night, this was the scene in my kitchen!"

I can't imagine that the "portrait" technique of this Beiping god is really a bit of a doorway. Xie Yixiang thought about it carefully, in fact, it was not as mysterious as Shang Buqi boasted, in the final analysis, it was much the same as "reasoning", but he imagined himself as the perpetrator, so as to figure out the perpetrator's behavior, and then reason from the perspective of the perpetrator. However, this matter is easy to say, if she is asked to draw a gourd in the same way, and Xueshang does not give up pretending to be a monkey, so as to restore the case as a monkey, she says that she can't do anything.

Liu Zhukuai was still a little suspicious, and couldn't help asking: "On the night of the theft, your family also cooked beef soup?" Mrs. Cao nodded and said: "My family cooks beef soup for almost twenty days in a month, and it takes a whole afternoon to stew. The four of them ate more than half of the meat that night, drank more than half of the soup the next morning, and I cooked the rest of the broth at noon and sent it to the grocery store for them to eat. ”

Suddenly, Shang Buqi on the stove said: "It's almost time, even if you have been awakened by the noise in the kitchen, it is time to come out and check." Stand back where you were that night. Cao Yuanwai and the others were obedient and hurriedly returned to their positions that night. Mr. Cao stood at the door of the bedroom next to the main hall, with an oil lamp in his hand, while Mrs. Cao returned to the bedroom, and the two servants were at the door of the servant's room to the west opposite the kitchen, carrying a horse lamp. In this way, the kitchen where Heshang is located is exactly a triangle.

When everyone returned to their places, Shang Bu gave up and said: "At that time, Cao Yuanwai shouted, and the monkey was frightened and slammed open the kitchen door, and then ......ran away," he said, he looked at the furnishings in the yard, and immediately nodded and smiled: "Yes, in front of the wall next to the servant's room, these wooden boxes are piled up against the wall; With that, he jumped down from the stove and rushed towards the wooden boxes.

He had just run to the middle of the courtyard, but he felt that the lanterns in the hands of the two servants outside the opposite room were flickering, and the light was very dazzling. He stopped and exclaimed, "No! It shouldn't be like this! Can you really be sure that the monkey came out of the wooden box over the wall?"

Cao Yuanwai and the two servants nodded hurriedly and confirmed, "That's right. Shang Buqi shook his head and said, "Absolutely impossible! The monkey fled in panic, and in the dark night, Cao Yuanwai and the two servants had lights on in their hands, how could the monkey escape in the direction of the lights?" He immediately turned around and walked towards the wall behind the kitchen when he came, and said: "The so-called old horse knows the way, and it is the nature of animals to return the same way as they came, and the monkey is no exception!"

When Shang Bu gave up on the east wall when he came, he found that there was no place to borrow from the wall, and he climbed the wall with the movements of a monkey, and slid down again and again, just like before. At that moment, Shang Bu had no choice but to return to the courtyard, and reluctantly walked towards a few wooden boxes next to the servant's room, saying as he went, "Impossible...... No way...... The only explanation is that the monkey had already seen the way out of the kitchen before he went into the kitchen to steal food, and knew that the east wall could not go out when he came...... But how is that possible?"

Liu Zhukuai couldn't help but say: "The monkey has already been optimistic about the way out, so he dares to go out from here in front of the light, Shang Shenzhuo's inference is reasonable, why do you say that it is impossible?" Shang Buqi couldn't help but glared at him, and said: "How did you make the old mistake again? You must know that this crime is a monkey, and even people may not be able to think of the way out in advance, let alone a beast? You see that I have been imitating the monkey's actions, and when I came in over the wall, have you ever seen the way out?"

Liu Zhutou couldn't help but mutter: "Maybe the monkey who stole things that night was really pretended to be someone." Hearing this, Shang Buqi was suddenly shocked, and blurted out: "Aren't I a monkey, but a person?" Cao Yuanwai and the two servants immediately said: "Of course it's a monkey! The three of us can see it clearly, and there will be no mistake in our plan." ”

Shang Buqi shook his head and muttered repeatedly, "Could it be that I am alone?" Seeing him like this, Mrs. Cao couldn't hold back, and stepped forward to ask, "That monkey also stole the jade pendant that the Cao family has been handed down for generations that night, and of course he also went to my study. How could you just leave like that?"

Shang Buqi said impatiently: "Xie Yixiang, you answer for this woman, so that they don't bother me!" Xie Yixiang knew that Shang Buqi was at a critical moment of thinking at this time, and he couldn't afford to disturb him at all, so he immediately smiled at Mrs. Cao: "Madame, don't be in a hurry, when it comes to the jade pendant lost in your family, in fact, I have already seen the catty in it." Let me ask you, when did you find out that you had lost the jade pendant?"

Mrs. Cao said, "It's that night." After the monkey escaped, the lord and the servants immediately counted at home, and the lord was afraid that there was something missing, so he asked me to get up and count again; who knew that I had counted this time, and only then did I find that the ancestral jade pendant of the Cao family in the study was missing. It is said that this jade pendant is placed in a wooden box, and it is hidden in the secret compartment of the study along with my other belongings, and even the master does not know. And on the first day of the monkey's arrival, I had personally checked it, so naturally it was stolen by the monkey. ”

Xie Yixiang couldn't help laughing and said, "It turns out that the jade pendant is stored in the dark compartment, and there are other belongings, I don't know what kind of belongings?" Mrs. Cao was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but glance at the two servants in the house, and said in a low voice: "This ...... This one...... In fact, there are no belongings......" Xie Yixiang knew her worries, and asked instead: "Except for the jade pendant, are any other belongings missing?" Mrs. Cao immediately shook her head and said, "No." The same is not less. ”

Xie Yixiang let out an "oh" and said, "That's a little strange, could it be that this jade pendant is priceless, or is there anything special?" Mrs. Cao shook her head again and said: "That jade pendant is just a token passed down from generation to generation in the master's family, and it was intended to be passed on to his son, but because we only have two daughters, we have always stayed with me." If you want to say that it is valuable, I am afraid that it is not as good as the other belongings of the dark grid. ”

Hearing this, the smile on Xie Yixiang's face was even brighter, and she said, "Then I completely understand." No wonder Cao Yuanwai said today that he couldn't remember the case clearly, and he didn't dare to bother the government. In this way, the reason why Cao Yuanwai went to the government to report the case that day was actually what Mrs. Cao meant?" Mrs. Cao was taken aback and said, "How do you know? Yes, the old man didn't plan to report the case at that time, but I saw that I had lost such an important thing at home, of course I had to find a way to find it, so I forced him to report the case." ”

Xie Yixiang sighed secretly and said, "Could it be that after listening to my questions, Mrs. Cao hasn't figured it out? Although you don't have a son, it doesn't mean that Cao Yuan doesn't have a son." ”

Mrs. Cao was still confused, but Liu Zhukuai next to her had already understood, and immediately said: "Wonderful! I didn't expect that Miss Xie San was actually a good hand in handling the case, and the villain had looked away before!" As he spoke, he sneered at the Cao Yuanwai: "Old Cao, I have long heard the neighbors mention that you raised a Han woman outside the bread and gave birth to a boy, and the jade pendant that has been passed down from generation to generation of your Cao family should naturally be passed on to you, an illegitimate child?" So when the monkey escaped, you took the opportunity to hide the jade pendant, and then pretended to call your wife to take stock. Your lady thought that you didn't know the location of the secret grid, so she naturally blamed the monkey for the loss of the jade pendant. ”

That Cao Yuanwai's face was already pale with fright, and he hurriedly said, "Brother Liu...... No, Lord Liu, don't make such a joke with me......" Then Liu Zhukuai immediately shouted: "Are you kidding? You, old Cao, actually dare to come to the yamen to report a false case, who is making a joke about whom?"

As soon as these words came out, Cao Yuanwai was so frightened that his knees weakened, and finally said, "It's me...... I was wrong...... then Mrs. Cao finally came to her senses, and immediately shouted angrily: "Okay, you Cao Jinman, you dare to go outside behind my back, and you have a bastard with inferior Han people?" From today on, I will pray every day, ask the true God to curse you, and let you become a pig and dog in the next life!"

As a result, the Cao family is already in a mess. Unexpectedly, at this moment, the Shang Buqi in the courtyard suddenly rose from the ground, looked up to the sky and laughed wildly: "I finally understand!