There was such a big thing on the ship, and someone had already informed the ship boss to go. Shen Chaixing and Ye Maolin stepped forward and busily untied the ropes on Tang Xixi's hands and feet, and took out the cloth stuffed in his mouth.

At this time, Chu Jie, the boat boss of the Sichuan Gang, came over. Chu Jie, in his thirties, has a dark complexion because of the perennial wind and sun, looks like he is forty or fifty years old, walks with a clattering sound, and obviously has good martial arts. His eyes narrowed from time to time, revealing a shrewd look, clearly with a shrewd mind beneath his rough exterior.

Chu Jie threw unrelated characters out of the cabin, but only Shen Chasing Xing Linglong, Ye Maolin and the man in black were left.

Chu Jie explained: "Because there was a murder case, it should be reported to the official. The four of you were the first guests to enter, so please be a witness. The next stop is Anqing, where the boat will dock. ”

Ye Maolin listened and said nervously: "I still have something to do, and I can't get off the boat." ”

Chu Jie said: "Look at the current situation, it should be the male owner who committed suicide, there is no murderer, I will ask the hostess in a while, make a confession, and everyone will sign and draw a pledge." As for the deceased and their families, they should disembark from Anqing and rent another boat to go home. The guests on this ship are either rich or expensive, and if there is a corpse on the ship, it may not be very convenient. ”

Shen Chaixing and Linglong'er understood that Boss Chu just wanted to keep corpses, bloody cases and other messy things as far away from his ship as possible, and he was afraid of delaying his business.

Ye Maolin saw that he did not delay his trip, so he put his mind at ease. The man in black remained noncommittal, did not say a word, just scanned the people and objects in the cabin with those cold eyes.

Shen Chaixing was most concerned about Tang Xixi, her weak body was mixed with a frightened expression in Chu Chu's movingness, which made Shen Chaixing have a strong desire to protect.

Shen Chaixing has no mother, and he can count the number of women he has been in contact with since he was a child, Zhu Yun is really one of them, in Shen Chaixing's eyes, Zhu Yun is really the embodiment of perfection, an existence that can only be looked up to. Zhu Yunzhen may need protection, but he must not be a person of his own identity. It should be the kind of person with a golden crown on his head, wearing a brocade robe, a mature and handsome face, riding a good horse with a horse, and a noble person, like Blue Moon.

Linglonger is a friend, a partner, a comrade-in-arms in Shen Chaixing's heart, and a brother who can joke casually, anyway, Shen Chaixing has never regarded her as a woman. Linglong'er doesn't need protection, it's not bad if she doesn't harm others.

Shen Chaixing has never seen such a woman as Tang Xixi. Tang Xixi had never had a word-by-word communication with Shen Chaixing, but her talking eyes seemed to be asking Shen Chaixing for help.

Shen Chaixing thought to himself: "If I hadn't fought with Sha Junbao at the gambling table, maybe all this wouldn't have happened, and Miss Tang wouldn't have been so abused and almost died on the boat." At this time, Linglong'er, who loves to talk the most, is silent.

Chu Jie found a pen and paper and asked Tang Xixi to tell what happened.

Tang Xixi took a deep breath and told what happened:

"My husband Junsha Junbao is very good to me, as long as I like it, I will always try to get it for me. I came from a humble background, and I didn't ask for any title after meeting him, but Junbao married me to be the wife of the main family, regardless of everyone's objections, including his parents. However, he has a shortcoming, because Junbao has never been defeated on the battlefield, in the mall, or in the casino, he is very proud and is an extremely conceited figure. After losing to this little brother in the casino last night, he has been sullen all the time. I persuaded him that our Sha family can be said to be rich and rival the country, not bad for this silver, besides, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and this is even more true in the casino. But he just didn't listen, just whispered, 'How can I lose?' and then he kept drinking, and I saw that he kept persuading me and wanted to go to bed early. I don't want him to ask me to serve him, I'm not feeling well these days, but he doesn't care. ”

"Afterwards, he began to drink again, and I said that the wine was cold and wanted to warm it for fear of hurting my body, so I took the wine and wanted to go out to warm it up, but he broke the jar of wine, and said in his mouth, 'I will not let you leave me,' and at the same time found a rope to tie me up, and gagged my mouth. At the same time, I kept drinking, muttering 'I can't lose', and then I pulled out the knife again, and I was very scared, and I struggled desperately, trying to kick the wall with my foot, and when he saw it, he pointed at my acupuncture points, and I couldn't move. Immediately afterwards, the most terrible thing happened, he actually used this knife to ••••••" Speaking of this, Tang Xixi couldn't cry anymore.

After Tang Xixi finished speaking, Chu Jie carefully inspected the scene with everyone, except for the hatch, there was only a small ventilation window in the whole room, and it was impossible to enter and exit from it at all. The hatch is locked from the inside, so the possibility of people coming in from the outside is completely ruled out. Tang Xixi at the scene was tied hands and feet, so it was impossible for her to kill Sha Junbao.

At this point, Chu Jie nodded with great satisfaction and said, "It's already obvious that Sha Junbao can't afford to fail because his personality is too strong, and after drinking a lot of alcohol, he committed suicide. Tang Xixi regrets that what he said is true, and asks everyone to sign and draw on the testimony.

At this time, the man in black spoke, his voice was low and slightly hoarse: "Should I look at the wounds of the deceased again and sign it?"

Chu Jie listened and said: "It should be so, it seems that Mr. is quite professional!"

After speaking, he led everyone to inspect Sha Junbao's body again, and there was an obvious knife wound in the throat of the corpse, which just cut off the trachea, clean and neat. Other than that, there is nothing suspicious about the whole body, except for a small wound on the neck and above the collarbone, which seems to have been accidentally pricked by a needle, but it is not on any acupuncture points, so it is impossible to fatal it here.

The man in black looked at the short knife held by Sha Junbao in his right hand, and suddenly raised his head and asked Tang Xixi: "I have seen your husband play dice in the casino, it seems that he is both left-handed, he should be left-handed, right?"

Tang Xixi said: "Mr. is observant, the deceased husband is indeed left-handed. According to him, the Sha family had a strict family education, and it was considered indecent to write and eat with his left hand, so he was forced to switch to his right hand when he was a child, for which he was beaten many times and suffered many crimes. Since his parents passed, Junbao has become the head of the Sha family, and he is no longer bound by anything, so he uses his left hand again, but he uses both hands well. ”

Shen Chaixing listened and said: "It is unreasonable for a person to commit suicide alone, just imagine how a person in a normal state could do such an extreme thing? Or maybe he was possessed by something at that time, and it is impossible to say. ”

Ye Maolin also shook his head and reasoned: "This fundamentally explains why Sha Junbao has such an extreme personality and does some extreme things, it is because he has been too strict by his family since he was a child." When I was a child, I was obedient, and when I grew up, I would do something extreme and even rebellious. ”

Speaking of this, Ye Maolin smiled apologetically at Tang Xi and said, "I'll give you an example, of course, it's not disrespectful to Mrs. Sha. Sha Junbao ignored everyone's opposition back then, and insisted that Miss Tang marrying her as the main family was an extreme rebellion against her family and parents. ”

Tang Xixi listened, blushed and bowed his head and said: "I was born in the dust, this is a well-known fact. This time, the two of us came to Suzhou without accompanying our families, which is the meaning of the deceased husband, in order to commemorate the third anniversary of our acquaintance, he wanted to revisit the old place and relive the time of the year. Junbao is such an amorous person!"

Hearing this, Shen Chaixing apologized, but it was irretrievable, so he had to sigh softly.

Chu Jie concluded at this time: "This cabin is tightly closed, and there is absolutely no possibility for outsiders to enter. At the same time, Tang Xixi's hands and feet were tied, and he could not carry out murder with a knife. Therefore, there is only one possibility, that is, Sha Junbao commits suicide. Do you have any dissenting opinions?"

Chu Jie saw that there was no longer any disagreement from everyone, so he asked the four of them to sign Tang Xixi's confession.

When it was the turn of the man in black to sign, Shen Chaixing paid special attention to it, and the name he signed was the word "Ma Dong".

What followed was a bunch of chores, dealing with the corpse, and at the same time rearranging Tang Xixi's residence.

Tang Xixi politely refused Chu Jie's request to provide manpower to help, and insisted on disposing of her husband's body by herself. At the same time, he said that he would accompany her husband to spend the last night on the boat in this room, and leave from Anqing tomorrow.

Chu Jie asked Tang Xixi for the opinions of the neighbors, and the neighbors on one side asked to move out of here, but Shen Chaixing said that he didn't care that there were corpses next door, and he still lived in the same place. Of course, Chu Jie was satisfied with this treatment, saving him a lot of trouble.

Nothing was said all night.

The next morning, Shen Chaixing and Linglong'er came to the deck early to blow the wind as usual. The man in black, "Ma Dong", was still leaning on the side alone, as if he was full of concerns. After Ye Maolin got on the deck, he chatted with Shen Chaixing about yesterday's incident, Ye Maolin said that the boat would arrive in Anqing in the afternoon, and hoped that Shen Chaixing would be able to help Tang Xixi with him, Shen Chaixing nodded and agreed.

After a while, seeing that the sun was shining, Shen Chaixing, Linglong'er and Ye Maolin returned to the third-floor cabin together. Not long after entering the cabin, Shen Chaixing had just said something to Linglong'er, and suddenly heard a scream from Ye Maolin's room next door, which frightened Shen Chaixing and Linglong'er, and the two hurriedly went out of the house and came to Ye Maolin's cabin to inspect.

Ye Maolin stood in the room intact, constantly rummaging over things, and shouted in his mouth: "It's over! It's over!

Shen Chaixing pushed him a few times, and Ye Maolin returned to normal a little, and said a bunch of words in his mouth, which roughly meant: Ye Maolin took a boat to Chengdu this time, and he was going to hand over something to someone. But now that thing is gone. If he can't deliver that item himself, not to mention losing his life, the lives of his family members will also be threatened.

Shen Chaixing and Linglong'er were suddenly curious, and asked what it was, and the two of them were willing to help him find it. Ye Maolin was very embarrassed at first, and then he was really scared, so he said to Shen Chaixing: "Actually, it is nothing to my family, including a 100,000 taels of silver tickets that can be deposited and exchanged, and a new genealogy compiled by the Ye family recently. ”

Shen Chaixing and Linglong'er scratched their heads when they heard this, it is understandable that the silver ticket was lost, what is the use of the genealogy?

The two of them had no clue, and Linglong'er said: "This thief is not only clever, but also eccentric, we should also take precautions." The two of them each checked the things in their arms, Linglong'er was not lacking in things, Shen Chaixing's bag of diamonds was still there, but the 100,000 taels of silver tickets and the jade pendant about King Wu's treasure were missing.