Detective in the Red Chamber

"The two should be the ones arguing. As for what the quarrel is about..."

"The villain only heard two words 'lick the ditch' and 'you want me', and just as a new customer ordered wine and food, the villain went downstairs to the back kitchen."

"By the time we came back, there was no movement in there."

Butt licking?you want me?

Could this be two homosexuals arguing?

Moreover, did the person who quarreled with Pan You'an make an appointment here in advance, or did they have a temporary conflict?

Based on this ambiguous statement alone, it is really difficult to judge.

Sun Shaozong then asked Liu Tiezhu to recall carefully, seeing that there were no other details.

But Liu Tiezhu scratched his head for a long time, but he really couldn't think of anything else.

Helpless, Sun Shaozong had no choice but to let him think slowly, and at the same time called Xu Shengli to him, and asked if there were any guests in the private room next to the T-shaped hall around the beginning of Haichu.

"At that time, there was no one in the private room of the C brand!" Xu Shengli insisted, "The dead master just ordered the food and drink, and the next door just left. Only two guest masters dined in the C room."

In this way, the chance of Liu Tiezhu getting it wrong is extremely small. It seems that this quarrel should be real.

only……

There are still too few clues.

Sun Shaozong pondered for a while, and then asked, "Are there any regular customers on the second floor around the time of Hai yesterday? The kind of regular customers who know the basics and can find people."

The waiter in the shop was busy, so he might not have noticed it, but the guests who dined on the second floor might not be curious when they heard the quarrel, so Sun Shaozong asked this question.

It's a pity that this line of thinking was immediately rejected by the two shop waiters.

Because there were indeed two regular customers on the second floor at that time, but it was a pity that they were dining in the Jia-style elegant room, and it was precisely because Xu Shengli chatted a few more gossips with them that he didn't hear what was going on in the D-shaped elegant room. quarrel.

After Qiu Yunfei was stopped twice, he held back until now, and finally couldn't help complaining again, "This motherfucker is just talking nonsense, and I haven't even seen a ghost, how can we investigate?!"

Sun Shaozong glanced at him and said, "You don't know how to check, it's just because you're impatient and not careful enough."

As he said that, he got up and walked towards the stairs, and said in his mouth, "Bring Liu Tiezhu and Xu Shengli up, and call a few more yamen servants upstairs. Let's try to restore the situation around Haishi last night."

Chapter 266 Wumiao Street Murder Case [Part [-]]

Huiyun Building is a standard double-storey building.

In the hall below, there are sixteen square tables with scattered seats.

The upper floor is divided into two parts - the hall area composed of nine tables, and the private room area composed of two large, two small and four compartments.

Based on this layout alone, it can be seen that Huiyun Building usually caters for low-end and mid-end customers. For example, Dingxiang Building, where officials from Shuntian Mansion often go, the private rooms take up more than [-]% of the space.

It is also because of this that a wealthy family slave like Pan You'an has the capital to set up a private room to drink away his sorrows.

The T-shaped private room is located in the northwest corner of the second floor. It is basically the most remote corner, but it is undoubtedly a treasured place for geomantic omen for those who want to drink away their sorrows.

After going up to the second floor, Sun Shaozong first observed inside and out, and then ordered the two shop waiters to discuss with each other, and reproduced the scene of the scattered guests on the second floor around Hai hour last night.

The ones in charge of acting as guests are naturally the policemen from Shuntian Prefecture and Wanping County.

"There is an old man at this table. He ordered half a catty of wine and two dishes of side dishes to go with the wine."

"By the window are three young Hakkas. They look like Juren who are rushing for the exam from out of town—probably because the rankings are about to be released, and I really can't sleep when I go back, so I dawdled around until midnight before leaving."

"There are two guests here, one old and one young..."

"There are also two people at this table..."

"No, it's a guest!"

"Nonsense, it's clearly two guest masters!"

Because there were only five tables of guests in the scattered seats outside at that time, the two remembered it fairly clearly, but only one of the tables had a dispute.

Liu Tiezhu insisted that there was only one guest, but Xu Shengli insisted that there were two guests dining here at that time.

"master."

Xu Shengli saw that he couldn't make sense with Liu Tiezhu, so he went forward and reported, "At that time, Liu Tiezhu went down to get food and drinks, but he was delayed for some reason. It happened that a guest came upstairs, and the villain was about to go up to greet him. He saw this table. The guest on board got up to greet him, and called that guest over."

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Liu Tiezhu also retorted with staring eyes, "I went up and down several times, and the guest has been eating and drinking alone all the time, so where did he come from?!"

"Aren't you blind? The other guest is a young man, extremely handsome, there is absolutely no way I can remember him wrong!"

"You're the one who's blind. I've always been the one who greets people here. I can't remember the guests I greeted?!"

Seeing that the two of them were fighting like a cockfight, they became more and more violent, forgetting that they were in front of the official, Zhao Wuwei hastily stepped forward to reprimand them, separated the two, and then asked Sun Shaozong how to imitate the guests at this table.

Sun Shaozong pondered for a while, but he asked, "Let's not talk about the young man, what does the other guest look like? What does he look like?"

Liu Tiezhu rushed to say, "The guest is very rich, and his clothes are not bad. He looks like a rich businessman."

Xu Shengli also hastily added, "I think he's a bit sneaky, I'm afraid he's not a serious businessman!

Although the words of the two shop assistants are different, the identity of the merchant should be certain.

Sun Shaozong asked again, "What about the young man? How about the clothes?"

This time, Liu Tiezhu didn't have anything to say, he could only look at Xu Shengli's reply and said, "The thin skin and tender flesh of that little brother seems to be quite arrogant at first glance, but when you look closely, it seems to be guilty of guilt." It's not like a son or young master, but there are some servants in the mansion gate."

No wonder he was mainly in charge of serving private rooms, his ability to observe words and expressions was indeed much higher than that of Liu Tiezhu.

A sneaky businessman, a servant with some status in the mansion gate...

Substituting the identities of these two people into the case, Sun Shaozong closed his eyes and simulated it in his mind, and then ordered, "Come on, let's try to rehearse."

Saying that, first let Liu Tiezhu go downstairs, and then let Qiu Yunfei sit at that table alone, acting as the sneaky businessman.

As for Sun Shaozong himself, he acted as the 'handsome boy', went downstairs to get some things from the counter, and then walked up the stairs to the second floor.

When I got upstairs, I saw a group of people staring at me stupidly, not knowing how to react at all.

Sun Shaozong was speechless, so he had to gesture to Xu Shengli, and confessed, "Just follow your appearance yesterday and come over to greet me——Chou Jianxiao, as long as he moves, you will get up and call me over."

The two suddenly came to a sudden, Xu Shengli hurried forward with a smile on his face, while Qiu Yunfei stood up with a grin, and shouted, "Here, here!"

Sun Shaozong did not rush over, but asked Xu Shengli, "That businessman greeted him like this?"

Xu Shengli hesitated and said, "The man's voice seems to be much lower than the voice of Xiao Ya Nei, as if he doesn't want to be heard by others—the tone should also be a lot more intimate."

Sun Shaozong nodded, but he didn't let the two start over again, but strode to the table.

According to Xu Shengli's description, he sat down with his back to the stairs, looked around vigilantly, and then carefully took out a dark object from his sleeve.

"Look!"

He lowered his voice, but he couldn't suppress the pride and show off in his voice, "This is a top-notch item, you can't find it anywhere else, and you can only find it in our house!"

Intimidated by his behavior and words, Qiu Yunfei couldn't help becoming a little sneaky, and stared at the object carefully, but saw that the dark object was actually an inkstone.

Moreover, it is the most common and cheapest inferior product, and it is estimated that one or two silver can buy two dozen!

But Sun Shaozong still had a showy look on his face, as if he was showing off some treasure!

There was no other way, Qiu Yunfei could only respond with the expression of 'Are you fucking kidding me'.

At this moment, Sun Shaozong turned his head and asked Xu Shengli, "After the young man sat down, did the guests from the Class A private room go upstairs right after him? Then you were busy entertaining them, and forgot about this place." ?”

"exactly!"

Xu Shengli nodded vigorously, "What the master said is not bad at all. I originally wanted to come over to say hello, see if there are more guests, and if I want to add some more wine and food."

"Coincidentally, at this time two old regular customers came with their friends. There could be more than a dozen people, and the villain was busy greeting them, so he didn't pay much attention to the situation of the seats being scattered."

Seeing that it was exactly as he expected, Sun Shaozong stretched out his hand and pointed to the Class A elegant room, and asked Xu Shengli to sit there for a while, and then asked Jiang Laoqi to call Liu Tiezhu, who was waiting in the kitchen, to go upstairs.

"It's you?!"

When Jiang Laoqi took the order, Sun Shaozong stood up suddenly, and exclaimed to the empty room, "Why are you here?!"

With that said, he hurried into the T-shaped private room.

Who's in there?

Isn't there no one inside?

The sky is bright and the sun is bright, could Mr. Sun see a ghost?

Or an old man? !

The police officers were watching with wild imaginations, when they saw Liu Tiezhu running up from below, standing at the stairs in a daze, staring at everyone.

At this moment, someone in the T-shaped room gritted his teeth and said, "You licking the ditch..."

The voice behind faded away, and only some indistinct movements could be heard.

Qiu Yunfei was hesitating whether to stick it on the door to hear what happened, when the voice suddenly became louder, "Okay, okay, you want me to die, right? I..."

After this sudden rise, the voice became indistinct again.

Qiu Yunfei finally couldn't bear it any longer, and leaned over to put his ear on the door to listen carefully.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the door creaked to the left and right, and Sun Shaozong came out from inside, and asked Liu Shengli, "Is the sound you heard at that time similar to what you heard just now?"

"Yes, yes, that's the movement!"

Liu Tiezhu hurriedly pecked at the chicken on his head, "So when the villain heard it, he knew there was a quarrel inside!"

"it is as expected."

Sun Shaozong muttered to himself, then sat back at the original square table, with a look of enlightenment on his face.

Qiu Yunfei hurriedly followed, and under the sway of curiosity, he didn't care about being aloof, poked his neck and asked curiously, "My lord, you...you didn't see something dirty just now, did you?"

"roll!"

Sun Shaozong rolled his eyes, and said confidently, "This official is only simulating the interaction between the young man and the deceased. If my prediction is correct, the case will not be far from the truth!"

Chapter 267 There is always only one truth!

Not far from the truth? !

Everyone present was a little dumbfounded. Except for Sun Shaozong's startled behavior just now, as if he had seen a ghost, there seemed to be nothing wrong, right?

Could it be that Master Zhizhong got some clues from the ghosts and ghosts just now?

"Ugh."

Seeing that everyone was staring wide-eyed, looking like Monk Zhang Er was puzzled, Sun Shaozong sighed helplessly, "Remember to watch and try more when encountering things in the future, otherwise how can you be a good catcher?"

"Forget it, if I want to sort it out from the beginning, let me briefly tell you about the way I deduced the case just now."

Hearing that Sun Shaozong was going to sort out the case, the police officers hurriedly gathered around them with breathless concentration—although they may not be able to do what they want to do and love what they do, they are still more concerned about solving the case than ordinary people.

"cough."

Sun Shaozong cleared his throat and said sternly, "First of all, it is the corpse. Jiang catcher once inferred that the deceased was killed by blunt instruments such as sticks and bricks, and I, based on this, through more careful observation, It should be distinguished that it should be a wound caused by a blunt instrument such as masonry."

"Then the question is, have you found anything abnormal in the wound of the corpse?"

What is unusual about the wound?

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and they felt a little embarrassed. Although they were also at the survey site, how could they compare with Sun Shaozong in their meticulous observation?

Furthermore, with their knowledge reserves, even if they do see something strange, they may not be able to recognize it.

Of course, some of them can still react after being prompted.

For example...

"correct!"

Qiu Yunfei jumped up, and replied like a primary school student, "I once heard from Lao Xu that generally if a brick or stone is thrown into a wound, it will inevitably be covered with debris - but the wound seems to be quite clean, at least nothing can be seen. Stone powder!"

tsk~

This kid has really learned a lot of skills after following the foreman, Lao Xu!

It's a pity that Old Xu can only play freely in the morgue, and when he goes out, he is submissive and can't show his strength at all, otherwise it would be a good choice to pull him out to investigate the case.

"That's right!"

With regret in his heart, Sun Shaozong affirmed Qiu Yunfei's discovery loudly, and further added, "General bricks and stones will always drop some powder and debris when they are hit hard - only those that have been washed for a long time or played with repeatedly Stones are the exception."