Li Guolou walked into the south room carrying an oil lamp. Until now, he claimed to be a police agent, but he had never shown his waist badge to others. He didn't have such a thing, so he boasted that he was a police agent. Who wouldn't believe it?
Woolen cloth?
In the living room outside, a bed collapsed with a hookah placed on it, which meant that the owner, Wei Wenshao, smoked hookah. There were calligraphy and paintings hanging above the collapsed bed. Li Guolou didn't look carefully at what the couplet said? He just glanced at it.
The picture shows a tiger with a hanging forehead, its teeth and claws glaring at everyone who enters the door.
On the nanmu table, the candlestick has been lit with candles, and you can see some messy bloody footprints on the ground. Li Guolou looked at these footprints and pondered, wondering which people had blood on their shoes.
Walking into the inner room, the door opened and a tall man fell in a pool of blood at the door. Li Guolou was careful not to touch the blood on the ground. He placed the oil lamp in his hand next to the body and lit another in the room.
The oil lamp allowed Li Guolou to clearly see the layout and details of the entire room.
The dead Wei Wenshao was wearing a silk mandarin jacket, with the hat rolled down on the side of his head, and his face was facing the ground. Blood came out of his chest. It penetrated into the square bricks and stained a large area.
The smell of blood made Li Guolou want to vomit. The two oil lamps flickered in an instant and almost went out. Li Guolou was startled and almost wanted to escape. Do you want to check the body? He was thinking about retreating.
I am still hesitant. Are there really ghosts in this world? Why does the oil lamp covered with glass dim, or dim all at once? Is it possible that the ghost of the deceased Wei Wenshao is watching him from the side?
The real police officer will be here soon, and the patrolling yamen officer will be here soon. This fake police officer is about to betray the gang, so he must seize the time to decide what to do? How can the smell of blood and the smell of terror scare away the fake and unbelieving people?
foreign devil!
Li Guolou mustered up the courage to turn over a dead body for the first time in his life.
The round and chubby face of the deceased Wei Wenshao was already stiff, and he could not close his eyes. Li Guolou slightly said: "Don't worry, Wei Wenshao. I caught the murderer for you, you can rest in peace as soon as possible."
Li Guolou closed Wei Wenshao's horrified round eyes and lowered his head to check the knife stuck in his chest.
A fatal blow, with the handle of the knife against the chest. It takes a lot of force to insert a sharp knife into the chest of a strong man. Li Guolou had already expected that the second mistress, Xie Xiuzhu, could not be the murderer. Although Xie
Xiuzhu's words didn't match what she said, and her words were unclear. But it was her husband Wei Wenshao who died, which frightened her greatly.
Li Guolou felt Wei Wenshao's pulse, but there was no trace of heart beating. He looked at Wei Wenshao's body again to see if Wei Wenshao's body had been disturbed. No one should have touched it, and he suddenly felt something in his heart.
It is unbelievable, whether Wei Wenshao died or not? As a member of the family, he should be rescued first.
Li Guolou grabbed one of the dead Wei Wenshao's hands to see if the dead man would catch something in his hand. Many times, the dead would tell the living people their last hope. But Li Guolou looked at Wei Wenshao's two books.
With only one hand, nothing was found. This further proves how cruel the murderer is, as he sent Wei Wenshao to the west with just one knife.
Li Guolou gritted his teeth and raised his hand to touch the blood on the ground. He wanted to see the dryness and humidity of the blood, because he found that the body was already a little stiff, which meant that Wei Wenshao had been dead for some time, at least more than an hour. Li
Guolou stroked the blood on his fingers and couldn't help but think deeply. Under the oil lamp, Li Guolou's face became increasingly ugly. He stood up to check the layout of the bedroom.
The splendid quilt where the mandarin ducks were playing in the water had been laid out, as if Xie Xiuzhu had slept for a while, and the quilt on one side was wrinkled and messy. Li Guolou touched the inside of the quilt with his clean left hand to see if there was still any residual warmth from the human body.
The dressing table was clean, with rouge and gouache neatly placed, and a black plush cloak hanging on the hanger. Li Guolou secretly opened the closet to see what was inside.
Suddenly, Li Guolou remembered that he had turned the body over and quickly turned the body back over. He raised his left foot again and lowered his head to see if there was any blood on the sole of his foot.
Li Guolou jumped out of the room and saw eight people in the yard, three women and five men. Among them were the second mistress Xie Xiuzhu, the maid Xiaoqin, the old lady Xie Ma, the deputy manager Xu Xiaohu, and the servant Wei Xiaoliu.
, Wei Xiaoqi, the chef Wei Zhuangyong (he is the husband of Lao Mazi Xie Ma), and the other one is Xu Xiaohu's follower Xu Biao.
Li Guolou shouted: "Those who were playing mahjong together just now, please stand together."
But I saw Wei Xiaoliu, Xu Xiaohu, Wei Zhuangyong, and Wei Xiaoqi standing together.
Li Guolou asked: "Xu Biao, what are you doing?"
Xu Biao replied: "Xiao Lizi, I first poured tea and water for them... and watched them play cards for a while... and then went back to the room in the north to sleep... Xiao Liuzi can
Testify for me... When he came in to sleep... he was very loud... and even got scolded by me."
Xu Biao spoke as slowly as possible, which made Li Guolou anxious.
Li Guolou turned around and asked, "Which of you came across Wei Wenshao's body?"
Xu Xiaohu timidly glanced at Li Guolou and said hesitantly: "I just felt the master's pulse and didn't dare to touch anything else. Xiaoliuzi saw it from the side. The second grandmother was also awake at that time, and Xiaoqin was also watching.
It’s here.”
Li Guolou said: "Oh! I can't tell Deputy General Manager Xu. Can you tell whether the master is dead or alive just by feeling his pulse? He doesn't even want to turn over."
Xu Xiaohu said: "With such a big pool of blood on the ground, I knew that my master would not survive. Xiao Liuzi knew it at a glance without even touching it. My knowledge is better than his. If I drew my sword, wouldn't people think I was a criminal?"
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Li Guolou shouted: "Take off all your shoes and let me see whose soles have blood stains?" After speaking, Li Guolou ran under the elm tree and looked at Manba Ye's two shoes.
Looking at it under the light, Li Guolou was convinced that there were blood stains on the bottoms of Manba Ye's two shoes.
He put the shoes in front of Master Manba and said seriously: "Master Manba, what do you say to this?"
Man Ba Ye's face was covered with hematomas and bruises, and he said vaguely: "I, I, I have been wronged! Mr. Bao must avenge me."
"I've wronged you, and I'll beat you to death, you delusional pervert!" "You're still a good guy! The Ax Gang has people like you, so it's shameful to throw them into the Yongding River." "If I don't beat you to death, I'm your grandson!" "You!
Just a bug, a bug crawling all over the ground, I clean the house for the Ax Gang."
Several men saw the blood stains on the shoes, and rushed forward even more crazily, beating Man Ba Ye again, and scolding him while beating him. Li Guolou learned the whole story. It turned out that Xie Xiuzhu was a singer.
Ji took action. Man Baye was originally an admirer of Xie Xiuzhu, but Xie Xiuzhu ended up following Wei Wenshao. Man Yuli was a toad who wanted to eat swan meat and climbed the wall into Wei's house. He wanted to take revenge on Wei Wenshao and killed him.
There is a reason.
Everyone in the neighborhood knows that whenever Xie Xiuzhu goes out on the street, she will be approached to strike up a conversation and, as in the past, she will take advantage of her.
Li Guolou couldn't stand it anymore. If he continued to fight, someone would be killed. He hurriedly stepped forward to dissuade Xiaoliuzi and others from using violence again.
Li Guolou listened to the speeches of the neighbors at the door, and wanted to ask the people in the yard one by one about their situation. Officials from the yamen came. Li Guolou recognized him at first sight, and they were the two young police officers who had just arrived while playing mahjong.
He also took four other people with him and stepped across the threshold in a mighty manner.
The government officials already knew that the murderer had been caught. As soon as they entered the door, they shouted, "Get out of the way. Officials are working. What's there to see? We have to work tomorrow. Go back to bed."
At this point, they happened to see Li Guolou face to face. They were stunned for a moment and immediately turned into a big smile. They already knew Li Guolou's identity. From now on, they would be brothers and share the merits.
The bald man is a Manchu named Ai Hai. He is more than 20 years old. At first glance, he is the kind of person who can endure hardships. From his body, it can be seen that some people in the Manchu people have changed their living habits, and he can also adapt to the life of the lower class people.
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Another big guy is a horse-faced guy named Ma Dequan. His soap clothes are white after being washed, and he already has gray hair when he is in his thirties. It seems that the family burden is quite heavy.
The other people are all patrol officers. They can be said to be police officers, but they are not real police officers. When a case occurs, they maintain law and order. They usually do the same thing, catching petty thieves, of course.
The most important job is to collect protection fees.
Only these government officials themselves know what kind of people they belong to, and government officials are also divided into three, six, and nine grades. Outsiders think that they are a group of equals, but in fact, the sadness inside is unknown to outsiders.
After asking about the case, Li Guolou stood aside modestly and said nothing, listening to Ai Hai's questions to see how different the real police officer was from him.
What surprised Li Guolou was that several police officers did not go to the scene of the crime. They kept recording the responses of everyone present with pens, as if the death in the room was an insignificant matter. However, four yamen officers
After traveling all the way back to the yamen, the shackles on the hands and neck also made people feel the pain of being unable to break free.
Li Guolou couldn't hold it any longer and asked, "Brother Ai, why don't you go see the scene?"
Ai Hai lowered his voice and said: "The murderer has been caught, and there is nothing to do. We have to wait for the police to come and check the scene. If we mess up the scene, we will be punished."
Li Guolou asked: "When will Wu Zuo come?"
Ai Hai rolled his eyes at Li Guolou and said: "How do I know this? As long as you are not drunk, Wan Wuzuo will come. But..." Ai Hai said softly: "Wan Wuzuo doesn't want to walk at night, no
He and his apprentice will not come until dawn."
Li Guolou took out his pocket watch and looked at the time by the light. It was already past four o'clock. If Wu Zuo didn't come, it would be almost dawn. The efficiency of the yamen was so high that Li Guolou let out a long sigh. Waiting for Wu Zuo
By the time they arrived, the body had already become stiff and the blood had dried. The estimated time of Wei Wenshao's death would be several hours off.