The most unlucky crossing in history

On the morning of New Year's Eve, Jiang Sicheng hurried over to tell Zhong Qiyun that the two servants of the Pei family suddenly disappeared last night.

The matter of the pirates was always on his mind, Zhong Qiyun immediately asked Jiang Si to search the entire ship, including the three treasure ships, six large ships sailing on the sea, every corner and even the wooden boxes carrying the goods, etc. over again.

This is the most important New Year's Eve of the year, and people are panicking.

It was not until the morning of the second day that the bodies of the two Pei family servants were found in the large wooden box in the cabin of the treasure ship carrying the Sangha cargo.

The sea was already hot and tight, and the cabin was even more stuffy. When the bodies were found, the two bodies were swollen and even gave off a foul smell, which made the guards of the searching fleet retch.

When Zhong Qiyun, Xie Wenyuan and others arrived at the treasure ship, Jiang Sicheng had already ordered the wooden box containing the corpse to be carried to the deck.The daring boatman only dared to take a look at it, but the rest of the people even avoided it and backed down three feet.

Zhong Qiyun had a rare dignified expression. He smelled the stench of corpses before he got to the wooden box. He covered his mouth and nose with his hands, walked to the wooden box and looked inside.

The faces of the two corpses had already started to turn white and swollen, and each of them had a very deep knife wound on their necks, which was terrifying.

"Besides the two of them, is there anything else found in the cabin?" Zhong Qiyun frowned.

Jiang Sicheng replied: "There are two signs of fighting, which are not obvious. I just checked. The only fatal wound on the neck of these two people is that someone took advantage of it and cut off their neck."

Speaking of this, Jiang Sicheng and Zhong Qiyun said in a low voice, "The method is crisp and neat, not like what ordinary people do."

Zhong Qiyun nodded, "Have you searched every corner of all the ships?"

"They've been searched," Jiang Sicheng frowned, "Even everyone's identities have been checked, and nothing suspicious was found."

"Brother Jiang, are you sure everyone has checked?"

Jiang Sicheng replied: "Definitely."

Hearing this, Zhong Qiyun frowned. He thought that there were pirates hiding on board, or that there were pirates sneaking in, so he asked Jiang Sicheng to verify everyone's identity... Now it seems that the people on board are still the same people who came here at the beginning. Those at that time have not changed, and the fleet has been sailing at sea for the past few days and has never docked. In this way, it is the people on board who did it.

Looking back at Pei Yan who was standing far away, he asked, "May I ask Young Master Pei, who have these two servants in your family had any grudges with recently? Or who have they come into contact with?"

"I, how would I know!" Pei Yan

I didn't want to come, but when Tan Yuanjin came, he didn't want to stay where he was, so he accidentally saw the corpse and was so disgusted that he couldn't feel well. After hearing Zhong Qiyun's words, he scolded: "What do you think of me? But the young master of the Pei family is not the village woman who talks about Zhang's parents and Li's family in a leisurely way in the streets, how can I know who the servant has an enmity with in private?"

When Zhong Qiyun heard this, he glanced at Pei Yan indifferently. Pei Yan's heart tightened when he was watched, and he took a step back. After realizing what he had done, he straightened his body and stared at him.

Just staring at him for a while, he felt a little guilty. In fact, he knew in his heart that it was a murder case, or his Pei family. Now that Zhong Qiyun didn't ask him about his master, who would he ask?

Thinking of this, he curled his lips, swung his sleeves, and said impatiently to his personal servant: "Pei Fu, who are these two people? Have you seen anything unusual recently?"

"Ah?!" Pei Fu looked tremblingly, looked at his young master, and then at Tan Yuanjin over there, his face was even more ugly, and he said at a loss: "Young master, I, I don't know. …”

"I don't know?" Pei Yan looked at Pei Fu in surprise, and slapped him, "You tell me you don't know?! Didn't you tell me that two servants are missing? Now you say you don't know?! "

"I, I really don't know," Pei Fu carefully glanced at Tan Yuanjin over there, and whispered in Pei Yan's ear, "Young Master Biao told me..."

Pei Yan understood the identities of these two people as soon as he heard it, and they were probably using his family status as spies to cover up.

Thinking of this, he didn't know what to do for a moment, he could only look at his cousin beside him.

What Pei Yan and his servants were muttering over there Zhong Qiyun couldn't hear, but seeing the appearance and the ignorance of the two dead servants just now, Zhong Qiyun could roughly guess two points, I'm afraid the actual identities of these two people are not the same It's not a servant, but Tan Yuanjin's subordinate.

Thinking about it this way, Zhong Qiyun frowned. If someone wanted to kill his two subordinates, why would he single out this time after several months of sailing? Is there any possibility of such a thing happening in the future?His boatmen had never communicated with Pei's family at all, at least that's how he saw the situation. If the boatmen didn't do it, who else would kill Tan Yuanjin's subordinates?

Zhong Qiyun moved his eyes, and the first thing he thought of was Xie Wenyuan, but he didn't suspect Xie Wenyuan's hand, but thought that if Tan Yuanjin's subordinates were killed, Xie Wenyuan must be the first to be suspected... .....

I'm afraid of it...

But before Zhong Qiyun could think about it, the man in charge next to Tan Yuanjin said, "Boss Zhong doesn't know that these two members of the Pei family lived in the same room as the members of my Yuan family on a daily basis. It was the few in my family who found out that they were missing, so they hurriedly told Pei Fu, and Master Biao was worried and didn't have time to ask about the situation."

Zhong Qiyun carefully sized up this steward who hadn't noticed before. He was in his fifties, his eyes were heavy and he couldn't see clearly, he could only see the crooked eyebrows on his face, with a benevolent look on his face.

It's not easy, this is Zhong Qiyun's first feeling.

Seeing him staring at him, Zhong Qiyun withdrew his scrutinizing gaze, pondered for a moment and said: "Now we are at sea, there is no possibility of escaping anywhere, but someone died..."

Zhong Qiyun glanced at the people looking around at this point, "You should understand, it must be the people on board who committed the case. I don't know who and why the murder was done. Now we are not in Daqing and we can't report to the authorities. Since the person died on the boat and the murderer is still at large, for the sake of everyone's safety, I will ask Master Jiang to take more precautions, and I will also search for clues to find the murderer. I hope everyone will be more careful during this time. People report to me immediately, and after the fleet returns to Daqing, they will report to the officials."

After Zhong Qiyun finished speaking, he dismissed everyone.

Although Jiang Sicheng is a man of the rivers and lakes, he is not a government official, so he can't see what secrets are hidden on the two corpses. The weather is hot now, and the corpses cannot be placed on the boat all the time. After thinking about it, Zhong Qiyun still found Xie Wen Abyss there.

"I didn't see you speak out on the deck just now, Brother Xie, what do you know?" Zhong Qiyun asked in Xie Wenyuan's room.

Xie Wenyuan poured a cup of tea, took two sips slowly, and said, "Those two are the spies Tan Yuanjin sent to follow."

Zhong Qiyun was taken aback when he heard the words, his eyes were dumbfounded.

Xie Wenyuan snorted, "Brother Zhong thinks it was me who did it?"

Zhong Qiyun returned to his senses, shook his head and said, "It can't be you."

"Oh?" Xie Wenyuan looked at Zhong Qiyun with interest, "What do you mean? You have evidence?"

"There is no evidence," Zhong Qiyun said, "You told me last time that what the spy wants to hear depends on what you want them to know. In this case, you have controlled the two of them, and it is impossible to kill them again. .”

After hearing this, Xie Wenyuan suddenly laughed, "You know that Tan Yuanjin has now concluded that I killed those two people. After all, I am the only one on this boat who has enough reasons to do it. And, how can you

Are you sure that these two people haven't made me want to kill?Why are you so sure it's not me? "

Zhong Qiyun frowned and said, "I don't think it's you, can't it?"

"..." Xie Wenyuan suddenly felt helpless, "Zhong Qiyun, do you know that my hands are covered with blood?"

"...you can guess it." Can also imagine it.

"Then you still believe me?"

Zhong Qiyun looked at Xie Wenyuan, blinked, "Didn't Brother Xie tell you all? We are all on the same boat now, if I don't believe you, who else?"

"It's easy for you to lose your life like this." Xie Wenyuan said with a smile: "However, you are right this time, I did not kill the person."

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