【It's two in one again】
Qinghong Building.
A mid-range restaurant located in the west of the city. The front and upper floors are divided into private rooms and a hall. There are also two separate guest rooms in the backyard, next to the bamboo forest and flower garden, which is quite quiet in the midst of the hustle and bustle.
The last dinner that the Ministry of Household gave to Lu Mingsi during the incident was also enjoyed here.
According to the survey, Lv Mingsi is a frequent visitor here, and especially likes the fat sausage cooked by Wang Erhu, which is a must at every meal. The fake suicide note also mentioned this dish.
It can be seen that the murderer should be quite familiar with Lu Mingsi's eating habits.
As for whether it is familiar to him or the result of the investigation after the murderous intention, there is no way to judge for the time being.
But he said that this morning, the cabin that had been banned for a long time finally welcomed two more guests.
"Don't look at it."
After seeing Yu Qian entering the door, he carefully looked at the layout of the room, especially the placement of the tables, chairs and benches.
Sun Shaozong waved his hand and went to sit at the table. He said helplessly, "Lu Mingsi died of poisoning on the street after walking out for nearly a mile in the evening. By the time the yamen of Shuntian Prefecture checked this place, they were already there. It’s been ten minutes since the third watch, and this house has entertained two groups of guests, so it’s no longer possible to test the traces.”
"I was curious for a while, but called Uncle Thirteen to laugh."
Yu Qian smiled and sat opposite Sun Shaozong.
Because it was at the scene of the poisoning case, Sun Shaozong naturally didn't order any tea, and asked straight to the point: "There is no one else here, Yi Tingyi might as well express his opinion directly. In your opinion, who is responsible for this case?"
This case is now so troubled that everyone in the household is in danger.
The fault is not that the two sides are related by marriage, and there are many contacts on weekdays, so Sun Shaozong will not ask so straightforwardly.
"Since Uncle Thirteen asked, then I'll make a random guess." Yu Qian said, subconsciously scratching and pulling on the table, but accidentally stained the sludge on his hand, so he hurriedly took the handkerchief and wiped it.
When his work was over, he said succinctly: "Since it is a major murder case, the motives are nothing more than public anger and personal hatred - now there is a lot of uproar in the outside world, it is said that Lu Mingsi investigated the major corruption case in the Ministry of Household, so he was killed. Quiet, but I think the latter is more likely."
You are indeed asking the right person!
Sun Shaozong was shocked and hurriedly asked him why he came to this conclusion.
Yu Qian said solemnly: "Originally, the deceased was a big one, so I shouldn't talk about the length of Lu Gui's advice, but since it is to find out the real murderer who poisoned him, I don't care too much."
"To tell the truth, this Lu Jizhong has been an official in the Ministry of Housing for three years, and he has impeached five people, all of whom are under the eighth rank.
"With his usual actions, he is at most a mediocre official, and it is even very possible..."
Although the following words are not fully stated, he is obviously suspecting that Lv Mingsi has already colluded with the corrupt officials of the Ministry of Household, and has even become their umbrella.
Sun Shaozong was pondering, and Yu Qian suddenly smiled and said: "Of course, this personal hatred may also be caused by the uneven distribution of spoils, so the direction of the previous investigation of Dali Temple may not be wrong."
Sun Shaozong pondered for a while, and then he smiled dumbly: "In this way, he even hit him straight."
After that, Sun Shaozong asked some more details. Some Yu Qian could answer them, but some had no clue. After all, he and Lu Mingsi were only in the relationship between superiors and subordinates.
Speaking of which, Chen Jingde also suspected Yu Qian, but now Yu Qian, as a householder, has the powers of the imperial counselor.
Although he is not comparable to the secretary of later generations, he can be regarded as a close minister of the emperor. How could Chen Jingde dare to offend him
Therefore, doubts are doubts, but he did not even dare to ask a few questions.
…
After half an hour, Sun Shaozong didn't feel a little smirk when he watched Yu Qian leave the carriage and horses alone, picking up the overhaul in the snow.
The master, who has left a name in the history, still retains a bit of childishness.
"grown ups."
Chen Jingde approached cautiously and asked, "Let's go next..."
"Lead the way ahead, go to Wang Erhu's house to see!"
Long before Yu Qian came over, Sun Shaozong had roughly walked around the restaurant, and asked the shopkeeper, Xiao Er and others, but basically nothing.
It is useless to stay here any longer, so naturally we have to shift positions.
Wang Erhu's house was not as crowded as a restaurant, and he was hanged in the living room, so there must be more clues left at the scene.
The book does not go into details.
However, they said that the group rushed to Wang Erhu's house, but they never wanted to miss out. Wang Erhu's wife Liu and their children had never stayed at home.
Sun Shaozong immediately ordered Chen Jingde to go to Liu's family to find him.
As for him, he took a group of yamen to stay outside Wang Erhu's house, but he didn't stay idle. Instead, he ordered people to requisition tables and chairs from the neighbors, carefully wiped the snow off the wall, and checked what was left on the wall. trace.
According to Chen Jingde's initial investigation, Mr. Liu did not hear anything in the back room because he was cooking in the kitchen. When he went to Wang Erhu for dinner, Wang Erhu was already hanged on the beam.
The doors and windows of the kitchen are open not far from the gate. If Wang Erhu was hanged from the beam as Sun Shaozong had deduced before, then the possibility of the murderer sneaking in through the gate should be low.
The corners of the two wings of the courtyard wall may be more suitable.
On the morning of the second day after Wang Erhu was killed, there were snowflakes in the sky, so the top of the wall has been covered by snow since that day.
If someone had ever entered through the wall, the traces should have been preserved by the snow, and not covered by new dust.
"grown ups."
However, after a while, Huang Bin hurriedly replied: "I have looked at the walls of the courtyard, and there is no sign of climbing."
Didn't you go over the wall
Sun Shaozong's gaze moved slightly upwards and landed on the roof tiles again.
Huang Bin immediately bowed his hands knowingly: "I'll take someone to the room to check it out."
Sun Shaozong first nodded, but then he stopped Huang Bin who was about to leave, and warned: "The top must be very slippery, you must be fully prepared before going up, and don't be brave."
"Thank you for your care!"
Huang Bin thanked him with tears in his eyes, and then went away happily.
By the time Chen Jingde brought Wang Erhu's wife Liu Shi home, there were already several yamen squatting on the roof.
Liu Shi was quite at a loss when he saw this, and after being reprimanded a few times by Chen Jingde, he remembered to take the key to open the door.
After entering the door, he even shrunk in the corner, looking at the officials with trepidation and sending people to turn against the guests.
Sun Shaozong had seen the layout several times through the courtyard wall as early as just now, so he did not delay after entering the door, and went directly into the living room where Wang Erhu's corpse was hung.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw the Huang Chengcheng hemp rope, swaying on the beam.
Sun Shaozong immediately stopped and looked carefully at the magnitude and direction of the hemp rope shaking.
Chen Jingde followed closely and saw Sun Shaozong staring at the hemp rope without moving for a while, so he explained wisely, "Sir, this is probably because the wind from outside is blowing in, so..."
Before he could finish speaking, Sun Shaozong suddenly went straight to the inner room with the door open.
Chen Jingde was stunned for a moment, and then quickly followed in, only to see Sun Shaozong looking down at the window in the south, carefully observing something.
He hurried up too, only to find that the window was open with a three-finger-wide gap.
"Sir, you..."
Chen Jingde didn't know why, and was about to ask what was going on. He never thought that Sun Shaozong would push the window probe open, look at the outside of the window frame, and then squatted down directly, groping for a while on the ground.
Chen Jingde looked more and more inexplicable, but he couldn't ask any more questions, so he pretended to be investigating the scene and stared at the paper-cut on the window.
After a while, Sun Shaozong finally straightened up and asked, "Who has surveyed the scene that day? Call someone in."
It's finally useful!
Chen Jingde's case was relieved, and he hurriedly went out and called a few officers to come in.
"My lord, except for Huai San, who died under the poisonous arrow that day, the rest are here."
When Sun Shaozong heard that everyone had arrived, he immediately pointed to the window and asked if anyone had moved.
Those yamen, you look at me, I look at you, the last issue is like a rattle.
Their attention that day was mainly focused on the corpse in the living room and the suicide note, which was a symbolic check here.
Sun Shaozong immediately ordered again: "Go and call Liu's in again!"
This time, Chen Jingde didn't need to come forward, his own yamen went outside and brought the Liu family in.
That Liu shi was terrified at first, but at this time, seeing so many fierce and vicious officials crowded in his small bedroom, his legs were so weak that he couldn't stand.
So after entering the door, she half-squatted and half-kneeled and cried, "Master Qingtian, the little lady really doesn't know why Erhu committed suicide!"
Sun Shaozong waited for her to cry a few times, and then stopped a little, then asked, "You said that when Wang Erhu was hanged, you were cooking in the kitchen, but you don't know what you did?"
The woman was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting Sun Shaozong to ask this question, so she hesitated for a while before saying: "I just fried some cabbage and ordered a pot of noodles - he is a cook in a restaurant, and the oil and water are very heavy, I usually like to eat some vegetarian food at home.”
While talking, he inadvertently met Sun Shaozong's eyes, hurriedly lowered his head again, and added embarrassingly: "He never cares about the stove at home, and I take care of it all."
Sun Shaozong was silent for a moment after hearing the words, and then pointed to the window and asked, "After Wang Erhu died, have you ever moved this window?"
Liu shi was stunned for a second, then tilted his head to look at the window, hesitantly shook his head and said, "I haven't... I haven't moved."
"That's amazing!"
Sun Shaozong suddenly sneered and said, "Neither you nor the officer handling this case have ever touched this window, and the day Wang Erhu was hanged, his clothes were relatively thin, and there was no sweat left on his body. Open a gap in the window, and then hang yourself?"
"This… "
Liu Shi shrank his neck, turned his head to look at the window again, and then cried again: "Master Mingjian, the little lady really doesn't know why Erhu opened the window..."
"The window has been repainted recently, hasn't it?"
Before she could finish crying, Sun Shaozong asked again, "But right now, the window frame facing the wall has peeled off a piece of patent leather. Do you still want to tell this official that you still don't know it?"
But it turned out that as soon as Sun Shaozong entered the door, he found that the rippling angle of the thick hemp rope was not quite right. It seemed that it was not only because of the wind blowing in after opening the door, but also the wind from the living room and bedroom.
That's why he went inside to check, and it turned out that the window had not been closed tightly.
It would be fine in other seasons, but the weather has been very cold recently, so people who are idle at best open the windows to breathe when the sun is shining at noon.
Judging from the traces of snow and water left on the scene and the peeling marks of the patent leather, it is very likely that Wang Erhu pushed it away before his death.
So he asked everyone to come and question him.
And under this question, Liu's suspicion increased sharply.
"This this… "
That Liu Shi became more and more flustered, but still cried: "The women really don't know why! My family is fat, maybe it's hot..."
"This official has already said that there is no sweat stains left on his body, and his clothes are relatively thin!"
"This this… "
Liu's 'this' made a sound for a while, and his eyes rolled around, but after all, he couldn't think of a suitable reason to prevaricate, so he could only crawl on the ground and sob.
"Chen Jingde."
Sun Shaozong didn't ask any further, but instructed: "Take someone to the neighbor's house and ask him how his and his wife's relationship is on weekdays."
Chen Jingde was stunned when he heard the words, and then he couldn't help but blurted out: "Does your lord suspect that this scumbag murdered her husband?!"
"My lord is wronged, my lord is wronged!"
Hearing this, Mrs Liu couldn't help sobbing, she straightened her back and shouted, "The little lady has the courage to murder her husband!"
Sun Shaozong ignored her shouting, instead he glared at Chen Jingde and scolded: "What are you talking about, why don't you go and ask clearly!"
Chen Jingde knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, and hurriedly took the order.
Looking at his back, Sun Shaozong sighed unconsciously. It seems that the reason why this Dali Temple has declined so much is not necessarily because of Wei Yi's inaction - he has this kind of wine bag and rice bag under his hands, even if he wants to make a difference. Difficult.
At this time, Wang Erhu's wife was obviously panicked, and repeatedly kowtowed and cried, saying that she never murdered her husband.
But Sun Shaozong ignored it.
After about two quarters of an hour, I heard Chen Jingde exclaiming excitedly from outside: "Your Excellency is really clever, this woman really doesn't get along with Wang Erhu!"
After shouting and rushing into the house, he first gave the woman a vicious look before continuing to report: "I heard that it was because she gave birth to a son to her ex-husband, and after marrying Wang Erhu, she only gave birth to a daughter. Wang Erhu has a grudge against her, and she will be beaten or scolded."
"At first, this stubborn woman tried her best to be patient, but then Wang Erhu became addicted to gambling, and the family often couldn't make ends meet, so this sly woman gradually resisted, and later, the two often fought each other!"
Having said this, he widened his eyes and scolded through gritted teeth: "What a poisonous woman! If it wasn't for the fact that Master Sun was very careful, you would have almost ruined the important affairs of the court!"
Having said that, he ordered the left and right to take down the Liu family first.
However, before he finished speaking, he heard Sun Shaozong shaking his head and said, "She is not the murderer."
Then he stared straight at Liu and asked, "Where is your son now?"
Liu Shi immediately changed color.