Detective in the Red Chamber

The black and skinny businessman was full of grievances when he was beaten, and he didn't know what he said wrong.

While the Sun family brothers were listening, they couldn't help but sneer again and again. Don't look at Jia She's scolding profiteers one after another, but if you really think about it, he's probably a hundred times more greedy than this black and thin businessman!

It's just that he is an elder after all, and it's not easy for the two brothers to tell him face to face, so after he kicked him a few times, Sun Shaozong said, "Uncle Shi, please be calm and don't be impatient, and let me ask him a few questions? "

Jia Amnesty knew that he had revealed the truth, so he didn't feel his face was a little hot, but he was a person who was used to "playing rough" after all, and when he turned his head, he said sanctimoniously, "Don't listen to my son-in-law and my nephew." He's talking nonsense! This fellow is clearly 'passing off the second as good', insisting on selling those shells to me for ten taels of silver!"

The use of the word 'resolutely' is really wonderful!

Sun Shaozong is not considered poor now, but he can't imagine how an ordinary businessman with no background "forced to sell things" to the elder of the Rongguo Mansion.

And what Jia She said at the beginning seemed to be 15 taels of silver for a golden shell, right?

My heart was speechless for a moment, but after all, he slept with his daughter, and Sun Shaozong couldn't care about these things with him, so he smiled helplessly, "Don't worry, Uncle Shi, what I want to ask is not about these trivial matters, but about Tao I'm just curious about Zhu Jinbei's background."

As soon as Jia She heard this, his wrinkled old face immediately glowed, and he urged in repeated voices, "Yes, yes, yes! Quickly ask about the origin of the golden shell, and it would be better for us to send someone to gather it up." Be a second-hand dealer?!"

Since the check of the accounts, this fellow has been confiscated with a lot of stolen money, and he has completely fallen into the eyes of money-it's just that he is greedy for money, and he doesn't even bat an eye when he spends money.

What's more, when Jia She said this, it seemed that inquiring about the origin of this 'Tao Zhu Jin Bei' was just trying to rob him of his wealth, which made Sun Shaozong feel very uncomfortable.

However, the black-faced man was very obedient, he got up immediately after hearing this, and without waiting for Sun Shaozong to ask anything, he explained the origin of Tao Zhu Jinbei clearly and clearly.

It turns out that the so-called 'Taozhu Jinbei' is indeed a product of the Western Regions, but it is not produced in a foreign land thousands of miles away, as the rumors say, but from the four guards outside the Great Wall thousands of miles away.

The Four Guards outside the Great Wall are located on the plateau in the northwestern border, with a vast land and sparsely populated by herdsmen. Although it can be regarded as the territory of the Great Zhou, few people care about it.

Therefore, it was not until a few years ago that a group of vendors selling tea bricks discovered such shells with patterns of copper coins near the saltwater lake named 'Tuowenbu'.

At that time, this matter, as one of many legends in the Western Regions, was only circulated among some businessmen and did not attract much attention.

Until last summer, a certain vendor had a whim. While selling tea bricks, he bought a batch of shells with written characters from local herdsmen, dubbed them "Taozhu Jinbei", and tried to sell them in the capital.

Unexpectedly, this thing became famous in the first battle, and was highly praised by many gentry. In just two months, its worth has doubled dozens of times—some of them who can distinguish the content of the text have increased by thousands More than double!

As soon as the news spread, some well-informed businessmen rushed to the vicinity of 'Tuowenbu Lake' to sweep goods—this black and thin businessman was one of them.

"Because the villain was afraid of delaying too long and missing the market, he only collected four or five hundred pieces of good quality, and casually brought back more than 1000 pieces of inferior goods."

When Sun Shaozong heard this, he asked again, "How much of this is 'Tao Zhu Jin Bei' with writing?"

"Back to your lord, the real 'Tao Zhu Jinbei' can be said to be one in a million!"

The black and thin businessman said depressedly, "I got these two thousand coins back, and only three of them gave birth to characters, and all of them are just vaguely shaped like characters, so they are not worth a lot of money at all."

Seeing that Sun Shaozong seemed to be disbelieving, he hurriedly explained, "The local herdsmen also often keep the shells with characters as rare objects, so the surname Hu only collected more than a hundred shells at once-but he probably also I didn't expect that 'Tao Zhu Jin Bei' would be so valuable, and I sold it cheaply at the beginning, and now I'm afraid it's too late to regret it."

Speaking of this, the black and thin businessman couldn't help but gloated a little.

In this way, this 'Taozhu Jinbei' is really a scarce resource.

Sun Shaozong pondered for a while, and then asked, "Now the price of 'Taozhu Jinbei' is one a day, not to mention the middle-grade ones, and even the defective ones have risen to four coins a piece. Is this because you are waiting for the merchants to coax it up?" of?"

"Master Qingtian made a clear decision!"

The black-handed man knocked his head on the ground and complained, "The others don't know what to do, but how can a mere wandering businessman have such abilities?"

"Originally, I just wanted to make a fortune with the help of 'Taozhu Jinbei'. Later, the villain found that the real Jinbei was hard to find, and he was unwilling to return empty-handed, so he tried to collect some ordinary goods, hoping to earn some hard work. money."

"Who would have thought that after arriving in the capital, the villain would find that many traders coincided with me. Thousands of ordinary goods were piled up in one place, but where could they be sold?"

"No choice, everyone had to sell those golden shells to others for a few pennies."

"Because the people who bought the gold shells seemed to know each other, the villain was careful at the time, and only sold the inferior goods, but secretly kept the five hundred gold shells with better quality. pieces."

"Sure enough, after summer, not to mention ordinary gold shells, even the prices of those defective products have doubled and increased!"

"The villain thinks he has a plan, so he wants to take the opportunity to make a fortune, but who knows..."

Speaking of this, the black and thin businessman looked depressed again, and stole a look at Jia Amnesty.

Sure enough, someone was manipulating this matter!

Sun Shaozong's spirit was lifted. Since there was a 'behind the scenes', it would be a lot more reasonable for the Criminal Department to investigate the matter thoroughly.

It's just that I don't know who made such a big hand, created such a momentum in a short period of time, and even made some gambling houses in the capital endorse Jin Bei.

"I'll ask you!"

Sun Shaozong was trying to figure out the identity and background of the 'behind the scenes', but Jia She on the other side hurriedly asked, "Now, my lord, if I send someone to collect some golden shells near that lake and sell them back, is there still time? "

"This one……"

The black and thin businessman hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "The number of these golden shells is limited, not to mention that most of the gold threads on the shells are messy, and they are not considered golden shells at all. If I go to buy them now, I am afraid they will not be found. Too much out."

Jia She immediately slumped back on the chair like a deflated ball.

Seeing that Jia Amnesty was no longer interested, Sun Shaozong ordered Bai Yi to take the black and thin businessman to the criminal justice department so that he could re-transcribe the statement, and he also told Lin Delu and others to focus on the identity background of the 'behind the scenes'.

Clang~!

At this time, I heard the sound of the gong outside, but this morning's "Sun Gong's Case" is about to officially start.

The first one to play was not the protagonist 'Sun Shaozong', but Liu Xianglian and a few scholars. Seeing that they sang the background in three or two sentences, they began to 'quarrel' in cadence.

Everyone's attention was attracted, and they all waited quietly for Jiang Yuhan to speak up.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the door of the room was suddenly pushed open heavily, and Jiang Yuhan, who was dressed in a costume, broke in, and said anxiously, "Brother Sun, please take a step to speak!"

At this time, how could he still have time to talk to himself?

Sun Shaozong didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly followed Jiang Yuhan out of the private room, but saw Jiang Yuhan reached out and grabbed his wrist, and said excitedly, "Brother Sun, something happened! Zhu Er, who played the carpenter, was stabbed to death by someone just now!"

Chapter 386 The Murder Case of the Royal Opera Troupe [Part [-]]

As soon as he heard that someone died in the opera troupe of the Wangfu, Sun Shaozong naturally did not dare to be negligent, and hurried back to report the crime to Jia Amnesty and his brother, and then rushed to the scene with Jiang Yuhan in a hurry.

Speaking of which, Sun Shaozong hasn't been out of the scene for a few days since he cracked the "Longsheng Old Store Heart Gouging Case". It's really nostalgic for him to enter the working state for a while.

But at the moment of seeing the murder scene, most of the nostalgia dissipated.

Outside the row of simple thatched huts, surrounded by seven or eight opera actors with heavy make-up, all of them covered their noses with their hands.

As for the reason...

"Then Zhu Er was killed while going to the toilet?"

"Exactly."

Jiang Yuhan also took out the handkerchief, covered her mouth and nose and said in a low voice, "When someone went to the toilet just now, I just opened the door of the second toilet in the east, and I saw him lying in it bloody, and he had been dead for a long time!"

As he spoke, he raised his voice and ordered, "Get out of the way, and let Mr. Sun investigate the case!"

The actors hurriedly retreated to the side, and looked at Sun Shaozong in awe and anticipation——During the rehearsal, Jiang Yuhan collected a lot of Sun Shaozong's experience in solving the case for everyone to figure out the role. Sun Shaozong's reasoning fan.

But Sun Shaozong was expressionless, and when he arrived at the second toilet in Dongshou, he looked up and took a look inside, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief—after all, it was a famous restaurant in the capital. Much stronger than imagined.

The whole latrine is about two meters long from north to south, and about 1.5 meters wide. There is a thatched shed for sunshade and rain protection on the top, and there are whitewashed wooden walls all around. The "tunnel" in the middle is tightly covered by a wooden board, and the wooden board is nailed There is a long handle so that when the toilet user comes out, he can easily remove it.

In addition, there is Zhang Taishi's chair in the corner, and the seat has a circular hole, just like an ancient toilet.

At this time, Zhu Er's corpse was sitting on the grand teacher's chair with wide eyes, only a piece of plain underwear on his body, and a dagger stuck in his heart - if nothing unexpected happened, this should be the deceased suffered fatal wounds.

Sun Shaozong checked the door lock of the latrine first, and saw that there was no trace of forcible damage on it, so he stepped in and reached out to lift the wooden board pressing the tunnel.

An indescribable breath suddenly rushed out!

Sun Shaozong held his breath and lowered his head to take a look, then hurriedly pressed the wooden board back.

After that, he came to Zhu Er's body and examined it carefully.

This Zhu Er was about thirty or so years old, short, fair-faced and beardless. The actors usually had no beard. He leaned back on the chair, with his arms hanging naturally on the outside of the armrest.

After a preliminary inspection, the deceased seemed to have only one fatal wound on his chest.

The murder weapon was a dagger less than six inches and twenty centimeters. It was narrow and sharp, and there was no blood groove on the side. After being inserted into the heart by the murderer, it seemed that there was no intention to pull it out, so the bleeding from the wound was not very large.

After confirming this point, Sun Shaozong immediately checked again, Zhu Er's hands hanging on the outside of the armrest.

Generally, if the heart is pierced by a sharp object, and the victim is not pulled out instantly to cause a large amount of blood loss, the deceased will often struggle violently before death, so there is a high probability that there will be flesh fragments, or clothing fibers, etc. clues.

Sure enough, after careful investigation, Sun Shaozong found some moon-white fibers in the crevices of the dead man's nails.

but……

These white fibers seem to be of the same material as the deceased's clothes.

Could it be that he grabbed his own clothes before he died?

Sun Shaozong pondered for a while, then suddenly turned his head and went out of the latrine, and pulled an actor dressed as a martial artist nearby, opened up the colorful costume, touched and looked at it for a long time to study.

The martial artist was stupefied by him, and he didn't know whether to resist or to refuse, but Sun Shaozong had already left him, and asked loudly, "The moon-white underwear you are wearing inside is issued by the royal troupe?"

Everyone nodded in unison, and Jiang Yuhan also covered her nose and said in a low voice, "Brother Sun, all the costumes in our theater troupe are made by sewing women in the mansion, so they are all of the same style and material."

"In this way, the chances of committing crimes inside are very high."

Sun Shaozong ordered unquestionably, "Brother Jiang, please call all the people inside and outside the opera troupe to the backstage, so that I can ask after the corpse is examined."

In fact, Jiang Yuhan also felt that the murderer was inside the troupe, so without further ado, he quickly ordered to call everyone in the troupe to the backstage.

But Sun Shaozong turned his head, went to the corpse again, and continued to inspect it carefully.

The deceased glared angrily, and his expression was terrified with disbelief—maybe he didn't believe that the murderer would dare to attack him?

At the corner of the deceased's mouth, there seemed to be many traces of saliva overflowing.

Sun Shaozong further opened the lips of the deceased to check, and found that there were clear tooth marks printed on the inner wall of the lips, which should be the traces left when the deceased's mouth struggled under pressure from outside.

Could it be that he covered his mouth with one hand and pierced his heart with a dagger with the other?

If so, this person should be quite agile.

but……

Agility seems to be the basic skill of an actor, so it cannot be regarded as too important evidence.

Sun Shaozong pondered in his heart, and carefully pulled the body of the deceased outward, so as to make some gaps to check the situation behind the deceased.

The first thing to check was the back of the head. Except for some floating dust, there were no traces of collision or violent friction.

If the murderer had covered his mouth with his hand, according to common sense, the deceased should have leaned back to avoid it.

Is the deduction of covering his mouth with his hands wrong, or is it because the deceased did not touch the wall when he struggled?

wrong!

According to the blood accumulation in the abdomen of the deceased, it can be basically concluded that he was sitting on a chair and was attacked, and if he struggled in this position, he would knock down the wall behind him—that is, the inference that he covered his mouth with his hand Have a question?

Moreover, there were obviously some friction marks on the wall behind the dead man's head.

Could it be that there was something on the back of his head?

While constantly deliberating based on the clues, while constantly questioning himself, Sun Shaozong carefully inspected the murder scene inside and out more than twice.

Just as I was habitually simulating the scene of the murderer committing the crime in my mind, I suddenly heard someone outside respectfully say, "My lord Zhizhong, it was only after repeated interrogations by the officials that I learned that Zhu Er, who died suddenly, was used to cheating, cheating, Pushing the blame on others, so I don’t get along with many people in the troupe.”

"In addition, this Zhu Er once made a lot of jokes on the stage because of his unbearable abdominal pain. Since then, every time the play starts, he will first go to the latrine to pay respects. No one in the theater knows about this."

These words are concise and concise.

Sun Shaozong looked back curiously, and saw a person standing bowed outside the latrine, but it was Su Xingfang, the prime minister of Daxing County.

"Why, Su Xiancheng is also here to listen to the play?"

"Don't hide it from your lord."

Su Xingfang smiled shyly, "The lower official has been here for three full days, and I don't know how much official work has been delayed because of it. I also know in my heart whether it should be like this, but I really don't want to part with such a wonderful show."

This person usually looks shrewd and capable, but he is also a drama idiot inside.

Chapter 387 The Murder Case of the Royal Opera Troupe【Part [-]】

But he said that Sun Shaozong came out of the latrine, led Su Xingfang a long way, and took a few deep breaths of fresh air facing the flower bed in the corner, and then asked, "Major Su, do you dare to ask who has been to the latrine before the show starts?" How many people are there?"

"grown ups."

Su Xingfang smiled bitterly and said, "Because of Zhu Er's lesson, people in this troupe are used to going to the toilet before the show starts. I just asked casually, and more than a dozen people claimed to have been there—not to mention the messy backstage at that time." , Even if someone falsely claims that they have not been there, they may not be able to find out.”

tsk~

It seems that the thing of 'piss spot' really existed in ancient times.

Sun Shaozong pondered for a moment, then asked again, "Su County Chancellor, apart from the one who has a quarrel with Zhu Er, have you ever asked who in this troupe has a close personal relationship with Zhu Er?"