Yangzi took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. He sighed: "Captain Li, it's already past nine in the morning. According to normal wedding conditions, I only need to finish the makeup for Miss Cheng, and then Miss Cheng can put on the red hijab and get into the sedan chair. I can leave as soon as I receive the wedding money. To be honest, I have taken on a lot of work these days. If nothing happens, can I take the first step?"
Li Guolou glanced at him and said, "Tell me what you did last night. If you make it clear, you can leave."
Yangzi frowned and said: "I went to bed very early last night. When I woke up, I heard that the young lady had been killed. What I told is all the truth. Liu Weihuang, Brother Sangmeng and Old Man Li can all testify for me."
Old Man Li nodded and said, "Yes. When something happened in the inner house, we were all in the yard. No one was running around outside."
"Have you guys gone out to listen to the show?" Li Guolou turned to look at the people next to him.
"My master didn't go to the opera. We both went to the opera together." Zhou Xiaohuan rushed to say.
Roberts shook his head and said: "Xiao Lizi, I don't understand your opera. I drank with Liu Weihuang in the room, and then we slept separately."
Liu Weihuang nodded naively and said: "Yes. Mr. Roberts and I were drinking together until about nine o'clock in the evening. Then we went back to the room to sleep. I was woken up by Manager Chang at night and searched the room. My feet are so shaky now. So There are so many people crammed into one room. The toilet smells really bad.”
"Brother Sangmeng, what are you doing at night?" Li Guolou's face was serious. He looked at the timid Brother Sangmeng with a straight face.
"I'm going to the theater." Brother Sangmeng said with his chest raised and his belly raised.
"I didn't see you." "I didn't look after you either." Zhou Xiaohuan and Jiang Cong said one after the other.
"Handcuff me." Li Guolou shouted sternly.
Ai Hai stepped forward, with a fierce look on his face as he tried to catch the lying Brother Sangmeng.
People in Chengfu also glared at Brother Sangmeng, scolded him harshly, and decided that he was the murderer.
"It's unfair. Captain Li. I just ran to the inner house to peek at the little lady taking a bath. I didn't go to the daughter's building to kill someone." After Brother Sangmeng was handcuffed, he hurriedly shouted out and struggled with his arms to break free of the handcuffs. .
Cheng Kunyu turned pale and shouted angrily: "Hit me."
Yesterday, there was a opera in the outer courtyard. The door of the inner house was unlocked. The wives and concubines ran out to watch the opera. Only then did the murderer pass through the inner house and enter the daughter's building. This led to the death of his daughter Cheng Xiaochun. In the final analysis, Cheng Kunyu himself was not strict in his discipline.
Brother Sangmeng was beaten up by several servants and knocked to the ground. He cried: "Captain Li, help me. I really didn't kill anyone. Please help me."
Old Man Li said angrily: "I will beat you to death. If you make you do bad things, I will beat you to death..."
Old Man Li's eyes widened with anger. He also stepped forward and kicked Brother Sangmeng with great flexibility and force. The beating made Brother Sangmeng scream repeatedly. "Ancestor." "Grandma." He kept shouting. I hope people in Chengfu will show mercy. .
Yelia tugged on Li Guolou's sleeve. He hoped that Li Guolou would show some virtue and bring Brother Sangmeng back from the brink of death. Don't just think about saving two maids.
Li Guolou blinked and told Yelia not to cause trouble. Cheng Kunyu already wanted to kill someone. It was the right thing to let the people in Chengfu vent their anger.
Di Gu walked into the yard, clasped her fists and said, "Captain Li didn't notice."
"Oh..." Li Guolou's face twitched, as if he was snickering, and then he quickly became serious.
Seeing that Brother Sangmeng was beaten until he could no longer scream, Li Guolou said: "Okay. Stop beating the murderer and he will die laughing."
Cheng Kunyu pointed at Brother Sangmeng lying on the ground and roared: "Captain Li. If you don't interrogate Brother Sangmeng, do you know that he is not a murderer?"
Li Guolou said nothing else. He ignored Cheng Kunyu's accusation. Instead, he asked: "Old man Li, how old are you? What's your name?"
Beating people is also a laborious job. Old man Li, who was panting from exhaustion, stopped and said: "Captain Li. My name is Li Cheng. I am just forty-five years old this year."
"Oh... Li Cheng. You look old, but you are actually still young." Li Guo looked Li Cheng up and down. He already had suspicions in his mind. He looked up at the sky again. No matter what others were thinking. Muleng Leng stood in the yard, leaving the others aside.
"Captain Li." Ai Hai called softly from the side. It's important to tell him what to do next.
"Oh... Deputy Ai, put away all the undried clothes in the yard. There may be blood stains on them. Give me each piece of clothing to look at carefully. Put it in the darkroom and illuminate each piece with an oil lamp. The blood stains cannot be washed away. If you get some bugs, they will smell of blood and the bugs will crawl up." Li Guolou looked at Li Cheng with a smile. The meaning was self-evident.
"Captain Li, what do you mean?" Li Cheng blinked his eyes and shouted angrily.
"The Skynet is meticulous and meticulous. Li Cheng, don't think that if someone calls you Old Man Li, you will be a good person." Li Guolou squinted at the person, as if to see through what the other person was thinking.
Everyone was in an uproar. They couldn't believe that the honest and honest Li Cheng was the murderer. But they all focused on Li Cheng.
Li Guolou turned around and said: "Master Shangshu, I heard that someone offered you ten thousand taels of silver to buy your red diamond. You didn't even sell it, right?"
Cheng Kunyu nodded and said: "Yes. I'm not short of money. Why do I need ten thousand taels of silver? Red diamonds are priceless treasures. Even if someone offers one hundred thousand taels, I won't sell them."
Cheng Kunyu just wants to come back and be a real official again. It doesn't matter if the official hat is smaller. He has had enough of the charade. He wants to be sincerely related to Prince Li and give red diamonds as a dowry. Just to get back to work again. to the political arena.
Li Guolou said: "But I heard that someone in the world is offering a reward. The reward is ten thousand taels. As long as you get the red diamond, you are willing to pay. Is that right?"
"Hey, that's what happened. So I was extra careful. I never showed the red diamond to anyone. I didn't expect that people would take risks. I really regret that I shouldn't have given the red diamond to my daughter so early." Cheng Kunyu She shed tears. She beat her chest and stamped her feet and cried.
Li Guolou said: "Master Shangshu, I can say something responsibly. This case was committed by someone in your house. It has nothing to do with the troupe and these six people."
"Why. It's impossible." The manager, Chang Shikuan, jumped like thunder and screamed loudly. This is not to pour all the dirty water on his head.
Li Guolou said: "Because even if an outsider succeeds in stealing the red diamond, he will not be able to take it out of the Cheng Mansion. Mr. Chang, you have guarded this place to be weatherproof. Will the treasures fly out? So the murderer must He is from your house."
Cheng Kunyu looked at Li Cheng who was kneeling on the ground to express his love. He said suspiciously: "Captain Li. Then why do you think Old Man Li is the murderer?"
Li Guolou spat out word by word: "Master Shangshu, because only Old Man Li here has the opportunity to be your daughter's friend. He is a flower grower. He looks honest and older. He can freely enter and leave your inner house and daughter's building. Trim the flowers and plants. You can also say a few words to your concubine. You don’t mind, right?”
Cheng Kunyu's heart trembled. He looked at Li Cheng who was kneeling in horror. He stepped forward and kicked him. He yelled angrily: "Okay, so it's you."
Li Cheng hugged Cheng Kunyu's feet and cried: "Master, you are wronged. It's not me, it's not me. Don't listen to Capt. Li's nonsense. I have been loyal to my duties in the government for twenty years. I have never done anything wrong." Thoughts of dividing..."
Li Cheng screamed at the top of his lungs, as if he was extremely aggrieved.
Li Guolou sneered and said: "Judging from the crime scene, the murderer was put into the yard by the deceased Cheng Xiaochun. Why did Miss Cheng let the murderer into the yard? It was not because of an affair. Miss Cheng was watching from her daughter's building. There were no young men. Ms. Cheng usually saw a few older men doing miscellaneous things, such as pruning flowers and plants. Ms. Cheng took people too simply and thought everyone around her could be friends. So she and the murderer had been together for a long time. They became good friends who we could chat with. Miss Cheng was getting married. She would no longer be able to see her good friends. During the day, the maid kept a close eye on her. There was a difference between superiority and inferiority. She didn’t have the chance to chat more with her good friends. So she just chatted with her good friends. They agreed to come to her attic to have a chat in the evening. Or maybe it was a good friend who suggested it. It's possible. Miss Kecheng didn't expect that the world is dangerous. A reward of 10,000 taels of silver was offered. Even if someone wanted to commit suicide, this good friend was willing to do it. A reward of 10,000 taels was placed on Miss Cheng's head to inflict a fatal blow. Miss Cheng never thought that she herself had brought the evil upon herself. She even held the red girl in her hand until she died. She never died in peace."
Li Cheng shouted: "It's unfair. I didn't kill anyone. How could I get in without the key to my daughter's building?"
Li Guolou lowered his head and said with a smile: "Li Cheng, how do you know that the murderer has the key to his daughter's building? Could it be that you were at the scene."
"Oh..." Everyone shouted. They all understood. How the murderer entered the daughter's building was only known to the murderer himself.
"I, I, I. I heard what Mr. Chang said." Li Chengyou defended himself. He gritted his teeth and refused to admit to the murder and robbery.
"When did I say that? The policeman didn't check it out. Am I talking nonsense?" Chang Shikuan, the manager, roared. He wanted to beat Li Cheng to death, but was held back by the policeman beside him.
Li Guolou took out the bamboo hoop from his leather bag. The picture of the mandarin ducks playing in the water was almost completed. Only the two eyes of the mandarin ducks were not embroidered yet. He smiled and said: "Li Cheng, you remember that Miss Cheng was dying. The embroidery picture I showed you? Did you give me a few compliments? Or did you just criticize it?"
"Captain Li, just make nonsense." Li Cheng didn't bother to look at Li Guolou and turned his head to the side, looking like he would rather die than surrender.
Li Guolou smiled casually and said: "Li Cheng, you don't know that to kill someone, you have to stab the heart. Only in this way can the death be fatal. Stab the stomach with a knife. People will not die immediately, right?"
When there was no response, Li Guolou said to himself: "Li Cheng, you gave Miss Cheng a knife in the stomach. Miss Cheng also left you a souvenir. You know, you can wash away the blood. But this You still have a gift with you."
"What." Li Cheng asked involuntarily.
Everyone had not recovered yet. Yelia interrupted and shouted: "Embroidery needle. Miss Cheng inserted the embroidery needle into Li Cheng's braid."
"Ah..." Li Cheng couldn't hold it in anymore. He couldn't help but reach out to touch the braid on the back of his head. The two detectives next to him hurriedly grabbed Li Cheng's hands. Ai Hai was in Li Cheng's braid. When I touched it, I found an embroidery needle.
"Li Cheng, what else do you have to say?" Ai Hai asked excitedly.
Li Cheng collapsed on the ground and said feebly: "I plead guilty. I killed Miss Cheng. I wanted to get rich and went crazy. I'm unlucky. The red diamond was not found. Even if you beat me to death, I won't be red." Drill."
Li Guolou raised his hand and pointed upward and said: "Li Cheng, did you put those stolen treasures into the crow's nest?"
"Yes." Li Cheng replied feebly, feeling regretful and regretful. What awaited him would be torture and death.