Li Guolou looked at the murder weapon on the table, the "niu-ear sharp knife" and the "hemp rope" used to hang the beam. They were ordinary goods and could be found everywhere on the stalls outside. He thought about scaring the murderer, but what if the murderer didn't fall for the trick? .Give him a mouse and stay still. You don’t want to return empty-handed.
Jin Erzi was working hard to record confessions for the people in the high house. But Li Guolou looked at the first evidence presented in court on the table. Suddenly an idea came to him. He thought of a strategy to lure the snake out of its hole. But it requires one person to cooperate. This talent He is the key to solving the case.
"Executive officer, please come in." Li Guolou walked to the door and waved. The first thing he asked was Gao Qiuyu. This person was the key to solving the case.
There were two people alone in the room. Gao Qiu Yu had a hunched body. He was in his sixties. He was not sad about the suicide of his maid Aihua. The grief during this period made him much older.
Li Guolou got straight to the point and said: "The high-ranking officials have expressed their condolences. To be honest, we came here first because the criminal in the prison, Gu Shuimo, recanted his confession. He did not admit that he had killed anyone. He only admitted that he had been at the scene of the crime. He came here to make peace. Your daughter was on a date, but she saw the body on the ground. She was afraid of taking responsibility and ran away from the crime scene. The second thing is that we are very suspicious of the suicide of the maid Aihua. A young person should not commit suicide. I heard that Gao Yuanwai He is a compassionate person. From the incident to the time when the maid Aihua hanged herself, she was not beaten."
"How can I explain this to my daughter? Didn't this murderer confess everything? Captain Li, please give me a price." Gao Qiuyu thought that Li Guolou's group was here to extort money, so he ran to his house. The benefits are coming.
Li Guolou said awkwardly: "Foreign officials, please don't get me wrong. We are not here to ask you for money. There is something really suspicious about this case. Originally, I was here to interrogate the maid Aihua. I didn't expect that I would be late. One step. Unfortunately, I have not seen the scene of Aihua's suicide. Whatever I say now is false. I am here to find out the troubles in Gao Yuanwai's family. If Gao Yuanwai is a criminal and is still hiding in your home, wouldn't you be in danger too? "
Gao Qiuyu listened to the last sentence. The older people get, the more they fear death. People in their sixties still want to live a long life, especially the rich. The only daughter in the house is gone. There are still two concubines. .
"Captain Li, what should I do?" Gao Qiuyu was anxious. The action of rubbing his hands showed his impatience.
Li Guolou smiled and said: "As a senior member, I will teach you two tricks. The first is to pretend to be weak. As long as you look like you can't recover, no one will have any ideas about you. Even if the people around you are criminals. I will also wait for you to die naturally."
Gao Qiuyu had a strange look on his face. He thought of going somewhere else. Li Guolou remained calm and continued: "This second move is Guan Jian. As long as Gao Yuanwai can do it, I guarantee that the stolen property your daughter has with her can be recovered. .”
"Captain Li, please speak." Gao Qiuyu was much more confident. The jewelry and gold and silver worn by his daughter Gao Xiuxiu were valuable. Of course he wanted to get them back.
Li Guolou lowered his voice and said: "After we leave, Gao Yuan, you will announce that you will punish those who made their own decisions this time. No matter it is the housekeeper, the guards, or those sleeping in the house, none of them will be spared. From now on. Half of the salary and monthly silver will be deducted until your daughter's memorial day. I believe that within a month or two, the person who stole your daughter's property will use the gold and silver. I will send my men to lurk in Gaojiazhuang. Whoever spent money lavishly, I will definitely catch him. Anyway, even if the criminal is Gu Shuimo, he will have to wait until the autumn to be executed. I think these few months have caused no loss to Gao Yuanwai. The future troubles will not be eliminated. Gao Yuanwai wants to live a happy life. It’s impossible even in years.”
"Well... Thank you very much, Captain Li, for speaking up. I know what to do." Gao Qiuyu nodded, stroking his beard and appreciating Li Guolou's idea.
Gao Qiuyu walked out of the room dejectedly. He looked very old. Sadness was engraved on his face. Who could tell what he was thinking deep in his heart. A cunning man must have life experience. Gao Qiuyu was in Gaojiazhuang Becoming a good person and living a life of indifference. Of course, this is something that happens when you are older. When you were young, you were a great businessman in Gaoqiu. The prerequisite for becoming a great businessman is to hurt others. You have done everything to benefit yourself at the expense of others.
"Gao Xin'an, please come in." Li Guolou asked the manager of the Gao Mansion as usual. The manager of a large family is Guan Jian. If he doesn't use it well, his master will be killed. Gao Xin'an can give him a sentence regardless of whether he is guilty or not. Manslaughter. Someone who is an accomplice.
Gao Xin'an is in his forties. He is over 1.8 meters tall. He has a fat figure and a chubby face without a beard. He is used to pampering. He is a smiling and kind-hearted housekeeper.
"Gao Xin'an, do you understand your guilt?" Li Guolou did not give Gao Xin'an a good look and directly displayed the majesty of a superior officer.
"Young people know your guilt." Gao Xin'an was not as high-spirited as when he entered the mansion just now. "Plop." He knelt down in front of Li Guolou.
Li Guolou said: "It's good to know. Gao Xin'an. As the general manager of the government, the senior officials are so merciful that they won't punish you. Do you think you can get away with it yourself? Do you have to go to the lobby to get the board?"
Gao Xin'an prostrated on the ground and cried: "What Chief Li taught me is that I will get twenty sticks for myself later. I will never dare to lie."
"What did I say you were good at? You even hung oil lamps high to lead the way for murderers. Who taught you this trick?" Li Guolou remembered this trick deeply. This was also the time when the young scholar Gu Shuimo entered the unfamiliar world. The key point is that there is no break-in in a high-rise house.
"This..." Gao Xin'an paused for a moment, looked up at Li Guolou and said, "It's the young master Gao Shengguan. He was very excited that day. I even drank with him. Everything I did was the result of the young master. idea.”
"Oh... when..." Li Guolou did not look at Gao Xin'an's face. The tea cup in his hand did not move at all.
Gao Xin'an said: "It was noon when the lady came back. Later, the young master Gao Shengguan got drunk and didn't eat dinner."
Li Guolou glanced deeply at Gao Xin'an. This slave was suspecting the young master Gao Shengguan of committing murder. Although he didn't say it explicitly, he was telling him who he should suspect.
"Hmm... I heard that young master Gao Shengguan's monthly salary is one or two, eight hundred yuan. It's not even half of yours, right?" Li Guolou said calmly.
"Yes." Gao Xin'an lowered his head so that Li Guolou couldn't see the expression on his face. Servants can also do tricks. Unfortunately, no one asked him who he suspected killed Miss Gao Xiuxiu. Now a police officer asked him .I deliberately revealed some situations.
Li Guolou smiled casually and said: "Gao Xin'an, do you know who your maid Aihua's lover is? Can you tell me?"
"Well, I don't dare to talk nonsense. When Gao Shengguan and I were drinking, he once boasted that he had secretly eaten two maids in the inner house. But did the maid Aihua sleep with him? I dare not talk nonsense." Gao Xin'an once again tricked the young master Gao Shengguan. The reason was that he had two maids. As a result, Li Guolou was asked to find them by himself.
Li Guolou said: "Open your hands. Let me see." He wanted to see if there were any wounds on Gao Xin'an's hands. He used a rope to strangle someone to death. He used too much force on his hands and could easily break the skin of his hands. This It's because people like the manager and young master don't do physical work and have no calluses on their hands.
"My wife slapped my palms." Gao Xin'an spread out his palms and looked at Li Guolou timidly. His palms were beaten with an iron ruler and were so scarred that it was difficult to tell them apart.
"Oh...how many people have been beaten?" Li Guolou was annoyed. What a coincidence. One of the murderer's loopholes was blocked.
Gao Xin'an lowered his head and said: "Everyone on duty that night was beaten. I was beaten the hardest. I even had to be fed in the past few days."
Li Guolou asked: "The Xiulou should have been locked after the incident. How could the maid Aihua be hanged here?"
Gao Xin'an shook his head like a wavy drum and said: "Captain Li, I didn't know this. Everyone walks around the embroidery building these days. Who would pay attention to this place? I couldn't find Aihua the next day. This I just found this place. I found Aihua hanging in the air. I asked the guards not to touch the scene and reported it directly to the official. Aihua was a prostituted slave, so this is her home. The body was placed in the living room. She accepted the incense and was buried after seven years. The master did not agree to bury Aihua next to the lady's grave. He wanted to be buried directly in the cemetery in Gaojiazhuang."
Rich families have family graves. If farmers have land, they bury them in their own land. There are also special cemeteries in rural areas for people who have passed away in the village. People who have no land have special cemeteries for burial. You have to spend money to buy a cemetery and a tombstone. . Those who had no money or land were burned in the corpse field. People in the Qing Dynasty were very particular about burial. As long as there were conditions, they would give the deceased a resting place. Therefore, after a country has been established for a long time, the land will become less and less. Among them are One key point is that farmland is slowly being encroached and turned into graveyards. It is incomplete and untrue to say that the annexation of land by the rich and nobles has resulted in a decrease in land.
Therefore, the first decisive measure during the founding of the People's Republic of China was to fill up the graveyards. This cycle has been repeated from ancient times to the present. There are no exceptions. This means that during the founding of the People's Republic of China, the measured farmland was the most, and then the country's land decreased.
Gao Xin'an means that the deceased Aihua can only be buried in the cemetery of Gaojiazhuang and cannot be buried in the cemetery of the Gaoqiu Yu family. It is a bit unfair to the deceased Aihua. It is believed that the deceased Aihua was buried for Miss Gao Xiuxiu. The loyal servant deserves the honor of being buried next to Miss Gao Xiuxiu. From this point of view, Li Guolou has temporarily excluded Gao Xin'an from the list of suspects.
"Hmm... Gao Xin'an. Are you good at talking? Are you related to Gao Yuanwai?"
"Hey, Captain Li, in our Gaojiazhuang, everyone with the surname Gao is related to him. So what?" Gao Xinxin understood and immediately defended himself.
I met a smart man. Xiao Jiujiu in his belly was very calculating and his words were flawless. Li Guolou couldn't catch Gao Xin'an. He said helplessly: "I like to talk to you. Let's talk again when we have the opportunity."
"Tie." Gao Xin'an knelt down to the ninth-rank officer Li Guolou. He bowed and walked backwards to leave the living room. When he reached the fifth step, he knew that there was a threshold behind him. He lifted up his clothes and stepped out. His movements were skillful and smooth.
If Gao Xin'an was a murderer, he could kill without leaving any trace in the Gao family's mansion. He would also have a chance to get Gao Xin'an's inheritance. Li Guolou wrote down Gao Xin'an's words and deeds in a notebook and looked at the pocket watch on the table. Today. There is no way to go back. The conversation started with the people in the high house. Anyone who did not have time to witness the crime at the time should be questioned. It seems that the policeman wins more than the criminal and loses less. But who can know the hardships involved? .
"Gao Shengguan, you can come in." Li Guolou raised his voice and looked at the door with squinted eyes. The biggest suspect is this person. The scholar who committed the crime is too smart. When knowledge and crime are combined, he wants to find the loopholes of the criminal. It is even more difficult. Fortunately, this scholar has loopholes in himself. He likes to hunt for wild food and has no money left to go out for fun. How many days can he hold it in?
Li Guolou kept his words to himself and sat upright with his official dignity. He looked at Gao Shengguan who was kneeling down. In Gao Shengguan, Li Guolou seemed to see his own shadow. The two were the same kind of people. They would sacrifice everything for wealth and status. .Both of them can do despicable and sinister things.
Li Guolou couldn't help but smile. He said with a smile on his face: "Sit down."