Although Shang Bu said easily, he still made a lot of preparations in the end, and carefully inquired about some of the situation at Cao Yuanwai's house, and then Cao Yuanwai was the host, and invited everyone to the restaurant opposite for dinner. Faced with a table of white-cut beef and mutton, the merchant did not give up but did not eat a bite, and said to himself: "According to you, the reason why the monkey made a noise in the kitchen that night was because he was so hungry that he came to look for food. And I'm going to simulate the monkey's behavior that night, so I'm going to be hungry. ”

After eating dinner like this, Cao Yuanwai went home first to wait, while Xie Yixiang, Xian Jingyue, Shang Buqi and Liu Zhukuai rested in the restaurant, planning to wait until midnight so that Shang Buqi could "paint" the monkey that stole that night.

Gossip rested, and in a blink of an eye, it was around the two watches in the middle of the night, and the merchant did not give up, eat or sleep, but was full of energy, and immediately strode to the street, looking at Cao Yuanwai's home diagonally opposite. Then the body of this merchant god began to twitch for no reason, and then danced exaggeratedly, and kept scratching his neck with both hands, and his mouth made a "squeaking" sound. The Cao Yuanwai couple and the two servants at home were already waiting at the door, and they were a little inexplicable when they saw Shang Buqi's behavior, and they didn't know if there was something wrong with the "case-handling master" invited by the Lanzhou Mansion Yamen.

Seeing this, Xie Yixiang and Xian Jingyue also felt a little funny. On that day in Qiliping Town, Emei Mountain, Shang Buqi had told everyone about the fourfold realm of solving the case, according to which it was "verification", "judgment", "reasoning", and "portrait", and the so-called "portrait" was based on the existing clues, outlining the gender, age, height, appearance, personality and behavior of the perpetrator, and then bringing himself into the heart of the perpetrator, simulating the perpetrator's every move, thus restoring the entire case. So at the moment, seeing that Shang does not give up such a move, he is clearly dressing himself up as a monkey.

I saw Shang Buqi stumbling on the street for a while, and then said: "A hungry monkey wants to steal into someone else's house in the middle of the night to forage for food, but Cao Yuanwai's mansion is surrounded by walls on all sides, and the only way is to climb over the wall." It is said that the walls of the Cao family are on all sides, I have seen the east, west, north and south, the back wall is as high as one zhang six or seven, bare and has no strength, even if it is a monkey, it is difficult to climb over, and there is no trace of climbing on the back wall. As for the left and right walls, they are shared with the neighbors on the left and right, and if the monkey enters from the neighbor's house...... Let's assume for the time being that the monkey did not enter the neighbor's house, but directly entered the Cao house, then we can only enter through the wall of the main entrance, and I will give it a try. ”

After that, he ran and jumped on the long street, came to the wall in front of Cao's house, and learned to climb the wall with a monkey, but he slipped down again and again. In this way, Shang Bu gave up knowing that his "portrait" was wrong, and hurriedly retreated to the center of the street, scratching his neck and saying, "No...... The monkey didn't enter from here, and there were clearly more than a dozen families on this street, if the monkey was looking for food, why did the monkey have to enter Cao Yuanwai's house?" he turned his head to look at the surrounding environment, suddenly came to his senses, stretched out his hand and pointed to the restaurant where everyone was resting diagonally, and asked himself: "At this late night, the whole street is dark, except for the two lanterns hanging outside the restaurant opposite, which illuminates several nearby houses, so the monkey will find here." Ask the owner of the restaurant if these two lanterns are lit on weekdays and nights?"

You must know that tonight is Yamen Liu Yu who brought guests to the restaurant for dinner, where did the restaurant owner dare to close, so he has been waiting with everyone until now. Liu Zhu quickly asked the owner of the restaurant, and sure enough, as Shang Bu gave up his conjecture, although the restaurant had already closed at this time on weekdays, the two lanterns outside had to be lit all night, which also brought a lot of convenience to the neighbors.

Confirming this, Shang Buqi lingered at the door of Cao's house for a while, and said: "That's right, although there is lantern lighting, but when the monkey sees the light in the middle of the night, he will also panic in his heart, so he didn't dare to choose the person opposite the restaurant, but chose the Cao family on the opposite side of the lantern light." After saying that, he immediately shook his head again and hesitated: "It's still not right! The wall in front of Cao's house is extremely difficult to climb, and the monkey has no reason to embarrass himself...... You see, compared to the wall of the Cao family, the next door neighbor's house on the right is also on the edge of the light, and the wall is clearly much shorter, and there is a big tree outside to borrow, how can the monkey be reluctant to ask for difficulties?"

Liu Zhukuai couldn't help but say: "Among the families that the lanterns of the restaurant can illuminate, the mansion outside Cao Yuanwai is the most glamorous. It seems reasonable to choose the Yin Shi House to steal. Shang Buqi immediately sneered and said, "Stupid! You are guilty of the common problem of catching fast, and you are used to using your own thinking to speculate on the behavior of the perpetrator, ignoring the differences between people." What's more, my current 'portrait' is still a monkey, a hungry beast looking for food, not a thief who steals money. ”

After that, Shang Buqi seemed to have finally made a decision, and immediately came to the neighbor's house on the right side of the Cao family, imitated the monkey's movements and climbed the big tree outside the wall, and then easily jumped onto the neighbor's wall. He looked inside the wall and immediately said, "That's true!" As soon as the words fell, he jumped straight into the neighbor's house outside Cao Yuanwai.

As a result, everyone had to come forward and knock on the door to wake up all the neighbors outside Cao Yuan, and Liu Zhukuai also revealed his identity and explained the reason to the family. When they entered the courtyard of this house, the first thing everyone saw was that under the wall shared by the neighbor's house and the Cao family, there happened to be a large tank containing water, about half a person's height, and it was covered with a wooden cover. The merchant walked around the courtyard, immediately jumped on the water tank, stepped on the wooden cover to carefully inspect the fence shared by the two families, and then pointed to a dirty mark on the top of the fence and said: "No mistake! The monkey first climbed into the neighbor's house with the help of a big tree on the side of the street, and then stepped on the water tank by the wall and climbed over the wall to enter Cao Yuanwai's house. If you look at this dirty mark on the wall, it is clear that it was left ten days and a half years ago, and most likely it was the monkey that brought up the dirt on the ground when he climbed over the wall. ”

Xie Yixiang hurriedly stepped forward to take a closer look, and sure enough, as Shang Buqi said, there were indeed mud marks in the yard on the wall. Zhao immediately interrogated the neighbors and asked them if they had climbed over the wall recently. The owner of the neighborhood was an old Han man, who didn't seem to have any friendship with Cao Yuanwai's family, and immediately said: "The whole street knows that Boss Cao, who has a grocery store, has a prosperous business and has a lot of money hidden in his family. There is a saying that 'the melon field is not accepted, and the plum is not neatly crowned', how can a poor person like me climb the wall between two houses? Hmph, if it is seen by others, isn't it reasonable to explain?"

Confirmed by the neighbors, it can be seen that the judgment of the merchant is good. Who knew that the merchant did not abandon the water tank and twisted his body exaggeratedly, and said with some hesitation: "It still doesn't make sense, the monkey is already hungry at this time, and this neighbor's house clearly has something to eat, so why bother to go over the wall to Cao Yuanwai's house to find it?" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, and everyone looked in the direction he was pointing, but they saw two pear trees planted in the yard of the neighbor's house, and although it was not the harvest season, the pear trees were already full of fist-sized green pears, and even in the middle of the night, by the light of the lanterns in the restaurant across the street, they could see clearly.

If the monkey foraging for food that night was the first to go to the neighbor's house, it should indeed go to pick the green pears from the neighbor's pear tree, and should not go over the wall to Cao Yuanwai's kitchen to make trouble. That Liu Zhuai was scolded by Shang Buqi, and he didn't dare to ask questions at this time, so he had to let Shang Buqi talk to himself on the water tank.

He replied, "Why don't monkeys eat p......ears?" Is it because the pears are not ripe, and they will have stomach trouble when they eat them? No, the monkey is already very hungry, how can he care if the pears are ripe or not......" Speaking of this, he suddenly smelled a commotion from Cao's house on the other side of the wall, and at a glance, it was the residual smell of the beef soup after cooking.

Shang Buqi thought for a while, his red and swollen eyes suddenly lit up, and he blurted out: "Yes, I remember! I am not an ordinary monkey, but a domestic monkey! And the food I eat every day is also the food eaten by people, how can I be like a wild monkey in the mountains to pick green pears that are not yet ripe to eat?"

Hearing Shang Bu Wai Wai words, everyone suddenly realized, so it made sense. The monkey who went to Cao's house to forage for food that night, if it was a monkey raised by people, then the food on weekdays was naturally a human meal. Therefore, although the neighbor had green pears, as soon as he smelled the smell of beef soup from Cao Yuanwai's house, the monkey immediately climbed over the wall and went to Cao Yuanwai's house.