"What's the matter? It's been noisy all the morning, and it's not going to let people sleep?"

Things on the water tend to be more stable the bigger they are, and the merchant ship they are riding on is enough to be called a giant on the river, so sleeping in the room is not much different from the usual land, but it felt a little bumpy when the wind blew in the second half of the night last year. And Mu Sanqian has been practicing qi for many years and is extremely sensitive, although he is sleepy, he can't always sleep, and he didn't fall asleep until almost dawn, but who knew that it didn't take long for a while to be noisy outside, which was really more lively than the market, and Mu Sanqian, who couldn't continue to sleep, came out with a pair of dark circles to see what was going on.

There was already a circle of people on the deck of the room, and Old Man Ning and Yang Shan Zhe didn't like to join in the fun, but Mu Guiyun was there, so Mu Sanqian went over and asked what happened.

"There was a porter who was with him in the boat, and he got up early in the morning and said that his companion who had gone out with him had done harm. ”

Mu Guiyun also woke up to the noise outside, and when he came out, he saw five or six stout men with dark skin and thick accents shouting loudly around the boatman, and then the sailors on the ship came over and blocked the five or six porters aside. But they still refused to stop, and kept shouting that it was a black boat, and shouted that their fellow villagers had murdered the boatman at night and wanted the boatman to give an explanation.

Jiangnan Road is mountainous and watery, and some remote roads often have different sounds for ten miles. When Mu Sanqian first came to the south from the north, he didn't have a headache because of the difficult accent, and what he could understand and speak over the years was basically the dialect in the Wudang area.

The porters who were treated by the sailors listened to the accent like Jiangnan Xidao people, and there were few people on the ship who could understand it, so the scene was a little chicken and duck for a while, and they kept pointing at the boatman with their necks and scolding loudly, but the boatman didn't understand all of them, and could only vaguely know why they were so excited.

At this time, the commotion outside had attracted almost all the passengers on the boat to come out to see the excitement, and the young man who had accosted the red-clothed surnamed Ma also took two old slaves to squeeze through the crowd and stood inside listening for a long time.

"Ladies and gentlemen, because of the language barrier, if they are all talking about their own reasoning, even if they continue to quarrel until Jinling, they will not be able to achieve a result. ”

Ma Gongzi listened for a while and walked into the crowd, waving his hand to signal that everyone was quiet.

"These eldest brothers said that one of them disappeared for no reason, and since he disappeared on this merchant ship, he naturally needed to find a shipwreck to be responsible. ”

"This boy can't talk nonsense, we are all honest people who do our duty, and besides, several of them have spent money on a boat, how could I murder them?"

As soon as the boat family heard what Ma Gongzi said, he immediately blushed, if this fatal thing was put on his head, would it be worth it?

"The boat family is a little safe, and this son didn't say that this person is your fault. ”

Ma Gongzi turned around and comforted the boat family, but it was obvious that he deliberately set a trap for the boat family, so the boat family lost his words in a hurry, and directly said that he could not harm people, but Ma Gongzi did not say that this person was harmed by the boat family.

"It's kind of interesting. ”

Mu Sanqian didn't have the heart to get involved, let alone help people solve cases, even if it was saving people, such a thing as accumulating virtue and doing good deeds, he had to think about it. But this does not prevent him from watching the excitement.

When the porters saw that someone seemed to be trying to stand up for them, their emotions calmed down.

"Did your companion leave anything behind, like personal clothing, or personal belongings?"

Ma Gongzi's eyes rolled and he had a way to deal with it. This merchant ship sailing on the river is no better than other places, if there is really a plot to harm people, as long as you avoid the eyes and ears and throw people directly into the river, the water is deep and the waves are urgent, and there is nowhere to find it. But first we have to be sure that someone has indeed disappeared from the ship.

"Naturally, there is, my missing fellow is named Ding Sheng, and several of us are from Dingjiazhuang. ”

"In that case, you go with me to your room, and the boatman will follow, and the rest of the people will scatter and look carefully in the boat, maybe your fellow may have fallen asleep in some corner of the cup. ”

"Okay, just do what Childe says. ”

The porters all nodded in agreement, and the boatmen did not disagree.

After that, when everyone moved, Ma Gongzi took a few people to the porter's room, and the rest went to look for it carefully.

"Guess what the guy surnamed Ma does?"

Mu Sanqian watched Ma Gongzi enter the cabin, then turned his head and asked Mu Guiyun.

"Who knows this, but seeing that he is organized, is it possible that he is an accountant who keeps accounts?"

"Huh. ”

Mu Sanqian's tone did not change and he laughed, and Mu Guiyun, who listened directly, felt furious in his heart.

"Am I guessing wrong?"

Mu Guiyun asked rhetorically, but Mu Sanqian had already followed those people into the cabin, but Mu Guiyun still didn't think about what that meaningful laugh meant.

When they entered the room where the porters lived, more than half of them immediately withdrew. The location of the room is remote and not ventilated, not to mention, and the cargo hold on the next floor is extremely humid, and five or six rough men live in it, and the smell is extremely strong, and some people immediately can't bear it and run out.

The smell was indeed unpleasant, and Mu Sanqian stood at the door and looked inside.

Ma Gongzi still looked as usual in the room, and the porter who came in pointed to one of the beds and said that it was Ding Sheng's residence. Then Ma Gongzi carefully checked the unpacked clothes on the bed, as well as a few pairs of shoes next to the bed. It took a while to come out of the room.

It's amazing, and you can endure the smell of choking your nose like this.

Mu Sanqian couldn't help but applaud him in his heart after watching the whole process, although his behavior of accosting the red-clothed disciple was also annoying.

"Boat family, what these big brothers said is right, there is indeed one less person among them. ”

After Ma Gongzi had finished inspecting the room, he waited on the deck, and only when all the people who had gone to find Ding Sheng came back to no avail, did he speak to the boatman.

"This and this, the room they live in is a whole package for them, from Xunyang to Jinling a round trip I only received two taels of silver, how many people they live in is their business, how do I know if they are really less people?"

The boatman was indeed aggrieved, these porters followed the ship all the way east, and all the money they earned was hard-earned money, and it was convenient for him to have porters on board to carry goods, which was a business that benefited both parties, and he also gave those porters a lot of cheaper room fees, and now he said that something happened and put it on his head?

"Boatmen don't have to be in a hurry. ”

Ma Gongzi went over and patted the boatman on the shoulder to show relief.

"There were seven beds in their room, including the bunks, and now there were only six of their porters, and the clothes and shoes on that bed had been checked by Ben Gongzi, and it was indeed not one of the six of them. ”

In order to convince the boatman, Ma Gongzi told him what he found in the room again.

"So we can be sure that there must have been seven of them when they got aboard, but this morning they suddenly said that one was missing. ”

Ma Gongzi walked up to the six porters and looked at them one by one.

"That means it happened last night. ”

"Yes, when I was sleeping, I saw Ding Sheng in the room. ”

"Yes, I saw it too. ”

Several others chimed in.

"It's simple, if it happened yesterday, and it is certain that Ding Sheng was murdered, then the murderer can only be someone on this boat, and he is also a person who was still outside late last night!"

Ma Gongzi's expression was resolute, and he was extremely confident in his own judgment.

But when he said this, Mu Sanqian, who was standing on the edge from afar and watching the excitement, felt cold in his heart.

It's over, I followed the old Taoist priest to fish at night yesterday.