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Chapter 49 Three Inch Golden Lotus

Situ Ce patted Xiao Mouse on the shoulder: "You are really quick to do things! Very good!" After that, he came to the guest room of the Qianya Precepts Room with He Lanbing. A young woman dressed up and flirted with her clerks and clerks. When the clerks saw Situ Ce and the others coming in, they quickly slipped back to their respective office documents and continued to work.

The woman closed her hair, raised her phoenix eyes and looked at Situ Ce. A sweet and slightly shy smile immediately appeared on the corner of her mouth: "Oh! Are you the Situ Master who knows fortune telling and solving cases, right?"

"Do you know me?" Situ Ceqi said.

"Of course, your fame has become well-known in Zhenhai County. Although I am a poor-faithed girl in brothel, I also know it. Today I have to see you, and I am really lucky to have three lives." After that, I stood up and gave a blessing.

Seeing that the woman was talking well, Situ Ce felt a little fond of affection. Seeing that there were many people in the house, he and Helanbing called her to the empty house next door, closed the door, and asked her to sit down. He and Helanbing each pulled a chair and sat down, and then asked: "We called you to the yamen because we wanted to ask you something..."

"I know that I was on the flower boat before. I had heard from the detective and the elder brother that it was the matter of Manager Mi being killed in the house? It was so weird! That night, he asked me to go when he got up the update. He stayed with him for a night and tossed me enough, and then gave me five cents of silver. Before dawn, I asked me to leave at the fifth update..."

"Did you leave the Mi family on the fifth day?" This is consistent with the death time determined by the autopsy.

"Yes, he drove me away at that time. I said that it was so dark that I was afraid. Will I let me walk when it was dawn? He refused and said that he was sleepy and insisted on me leaving, so I had to leave. I touched the darkness and returned to the flower boat. - When this kind of person wants you, he treats you as a treasure, and when it’s over, he treats you as a grass. I’m so angry!"

"After you go out, did he come to close the door?"

"No! At the fourth day of the morning, he said he was hungry, so he went to the kitchen to bring a bowl of soup to drink, and ate some meat, but didn't let me eat it. He was so stingy! Then he said he was very sleepy and wanted to sleep, so he drove me away. I left alone, and he didn't follow him out to close the gate of the courtyard. I was too lazy to pay attention to his door, thinking that it would be better if someone went in and stole his house, that would be relieved!"

"So, after you leave, the door of the Mi family has been open?"

"Well! - It's not that I don't care. I can't control it. The gate of the courtyard can only be tied from the inside. He doesn't come out and close it himself, but it's not my business!"

Situ Ce said: "Do you often go to his house?"

"Go often! He asks me to spend the night with him every now and then."

"Are you two the whole night?"

"There is also his wife who lives in the wing room. His wife never dares to care about his business. Seeing me happy with him in the main house, I didn't even dare to give a fart. What's the use of being tall and big?"

"Are there no one else except you two?"

"No more, - I know what the master wants to know? Who killed him, right? I don't know this. Anyway, when I left the Mi family on the fifth day, he would be fine."

Helan said coldly: "That's right, but after you left, he died. And if there are anyone else present, how do you explain?"

"Oh my god!" Xiao Yue cried in an exaggerated way, beating her chest and beating her beads, slapping the armrests of the chair, "I can't wash it even if I jump into the Yellow River! Why should I kill him? He is a big man, how can I kill him! God! Open your eyes!"

"Stop crying!" He Lanbing shouted loudly, which scared Xiaoyue. His voice suddenly stopped and he looked at He Lanbing in fear.

Helanbing said: "If a weak woman suddenly hits a vital part of the head of the deceased with a fatal weapon like an iron stick, she can still kill the other party! The deceased is stingy and asks you to leave in the fifth day of the day. If you are angry, you will take advantage of his sleeping moment to beat him to death and vent your anger. This is also reasonable."

Xiao Yue didn't dare to cry anymore, but said with a bitter face: "Master Helan, I really didn't kill him. He had already known it. If you give me less money, just take a few more customers and earn it back. There is no need to kill him. Killing people will pay for your life! I haven't lived enough yet! It's really a big mistake to say that I have to kill people!"

Situ Ce said: "We will find out if it is wrong. I need to extract your fingerprint now. Please cooperate!" After that, he took out the fingerprint ink cartridge and took the fingerprints of Xiao Yue's ten fingers. Then he went to the next room to close the door, took out the micro digital camera and called out the fingerprint pattern of the blue handkerchief covering the face of the deceased for comparison. The result was inconsistent, proving that the person who covered the blue handkerchief was not a prostitute Xiao Yue.

Situ Ce returned to the house and asked again: "What shoes did you wear when you went to the Mi family that night to spend the night?"

"Uh--, it's just this pair on your feet!"

"Take it off and I'll take a look."

Xiao Yue was so squeamish that she finally lifted the three-inch golden lotus with a red face, took off a pair of red embroidered shoes, and handed them to Situ Ce.

This was the first time Situ Ce saw an ancient woman bound her feet. Her little feet were wearing a pair of snow-white socks and could not be seen inside, but they must be deformed, because the appearance could be seen that they were obviously much smaller than normal people's feet.

He took the embroidered shoes and thought that women would smell bad when they bound their feet, but when they were in their hands, they were fragrant and strange.

However, it turned out that women had already started to wrap their feet in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and men were also very fond of those pairs of terrible feet that modern people looked terrible. But they regarded them as treasures and liked to take the three-inch golden lotus into their hands to play with. What's more, they used these small embroidered shoes as trays and placed the wine glass in the shoes to pour wine.

Since the embroidered shoes of brothel women are often used by customers for these uses, the shoes cannot have a smell, otherwise it will be too disappointing. Therefore, brothel women must wash their feet in regular cleaning, shoes and socks are often replaced, and they must be stained with incense to cover up some odor.

He opened the soles to check the patterns. He had looked at the soles of the scene for a lot of times, so after a glance, he knew that the pattern was different from the scene.

He Lanbing also came over to see it, and found that it was not. He couldn't help but frown. He thought that Xiaoyue had changed his shoes, so he called Yin Yadan and asked her to take the rubbings of the shoe prints she used to visit the shoe shops before, and went back to the flower boat with the prostitute Xiaoyue, and took out all Xiaoyue's shoes to see if there was any match.

Situ Ce nodded secretly. Helanbing's idea was right. The shoes were obviously newly replaced, with no odor and no dirtyness. So, maybe Xiaoyue changed the shoes after returning to the flower boat.

Yin Yadan took Xiao Yue away. After more than an hour, he came back excitedly to the study of the Neiya and said to Situ Ce: "Master Situ, I have read all the shoes of the prostitute, but I didn't find that the pattern was the same as the rubbings on the scene!"

Situ Ce was a little funny: "Since you haven't discovered it, why are you doing so happy? Are you very happy that you can't solve the case?"

"No!" Yin Yadan's chubby face became even more excited, and she said, "We discovered another thing! It should be helpful for solving the case!"

"Oh? What's the matter?"
Chapter completed!
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