The Golden Hairpin

Back in the palace of King Kui, the sky was completely dark.

When Li Shubai got out of the car, Jing You hurried to greet him.

Li Shubai walked inside and said to him: "Get me two big iron locks, the bigger and scarier the better."

Jingyou didn't ask what's the purpose, and went down to prepare after responding.

Huang Zixia thought for a while, and suddenly understood his methods, she couldn't help but be stunned: "Master, would this be too cruel..."

"When they were lazy, did they ever think that they were too cruel?" Li Shubai glanced at her and was unmoved. "When the waterway is blocked and drowning people, they should be enlightened. This is a big event that can kill people, isn't it? When you can take money to do things just fine."

Huang Zixian nodded and thought, let this awkward master stare at him. It is estimated that starting from tomorrow, the matter of Beijing's waterway management will change from a fat job to a hard job.

She was thinking about resigning. Li Shubai looked back at her, and she followed obediently. Although the lord was difficult to serve, she was still very happy to eat together. After all, she was really hungry now.

However, the meal was uneasy, and after only a few bites, Jingyou had already entered. Sure enough, he was holding two large iron locks that looked terrifying, dark and heavy.

He gave the lock to Li Shubai and said to Huang Zixia: "Chonggu, the little son of Zhou Shilang is here to look for you, and he is waiting at the concierge."

"Zhou Ziqin?" Huang Zixian and Li Shubai looked at each other, and they both saw the understanding in each other's eyes—it really came.

He waved his hand and said, "Let Ziqin come here directly and see what happened."

"Of course something big happened!"

Zhou Ziqin wore a long rouge red dress with an emerald green belt around his waist and a yellow gauze crown on his head. The whole body was full of dazzling colors.

He was originally a shocked person, and this time it was even more exaggerated. That kind of excitement is simply the best explanation for fearing that the world will not be chaotic.

"My lord, Chonggu! In the afternoon, I was in Dali Temple to check the relevant population records of Wei Baoheng's incident-have you seen it?"

Huang Zixia nodded: "Dali Temple copied a copy for me."

"Oh, I was sitting in the Dali Temple and watched it. Just at dusk, you know, the people in Dali Temple are all weird and the houses are gloomy, so after seeing it twice, I didn't see anything useful. Yes, I'm ready to leave. As a result, at this moment, guess what, the outside roared, saying that it was a dead person!"

"Who is the deceased?" Huang Zi Xia asked if he pulled out the only useful content from a lot of nonsense.

"It's simply unexpected, it's absolutely shocking, it's stunned, I can't believe it!"

Li Shubai finally couldn't help it, frowning and said: "To make a long story short!"

"Sun Leizi is dead!" Zhou Ziqin immediately changed his style.

Sun Leizi, the beast who committed the inferior things to animals while Di Cui was in a coma, really died.

Huang Zixia pondered Wei Luma's words and asked, "Who is the murderer?"

"I don't know! At present, there are no clues...but I don't have one!" Zhou Ziqin felt that his mouth was dry all the way, grabbing the tea on the table and pouring himself first.

Huang Zixian and Li Shubai looked at each other helplessly, each restrained their tempers, sitting on both sides of the desk waiting for him to say the following.

Zhou Ziqin poured a pot of water, wiped his mouth, and said, "No, I can't keep it short. I must start from the beginning."

"Say." Huang Zixia was speechless.

"The ins and outs of the matter are like this-don't blame me for being too arrogant. I really can't explain this matter, otherwise you don't know who the people inside are. Saying that there is money in the capital to keep track of carts and horses, The business is very big, and the boss’s name is Qian Guansuo. I guess you don’t know..."

Huang Zixian and Li Shubai looked at each other silently, and Huang Zixian said in a complicated and strange tone: "I know, I've heard of it."

Zhou Ziqin didn’t notice it, and continued: “You know it’s the best. Qian Guansuo is the most famous horse and carriage dealer in Chang’an, and he helps many horses in the government. I’ve seen him, a short fat man, He is so happy, he really looks like making money. He started the year before, and his business was not only in the carts and horses, but also a group of masons, earthen carpenters, and even the people from the Ministry of Industry who had access to the sewers in the capital. There is a job there, and now the capital is looking for him for house repairs, construction of ponds and so on. Hey, he still speaks plausibly, saying four things about food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Huang Zixia was really helpless when she heard it: "Zi Qin, can you start with that murder case?"

"Okay." Zhou Ziqin was a little frustrated. "Today evening, near dusk, Qian Guansuo and a steward drank at the Xishi Liquor Store. When they were drunk, they cursed the steward. As for the reason, everyone around was all drunk. I heard that Sun Laizi was scolded in the shop. I heard that after Wei Ximin was hacked to death by Tianlei, he couldn't leave the door every day. But the one who broke the house was afraid that someone would break into the house. I actually went to the housekeeper to repair the house on credit. The man in charge didn’t know what he was doing, so he asked a few people to spend an afternoon repairing the doors and windows for him. Qian Guansuo was angry when he heard about it when he was drinking, saying that everyone shouted. The **** was so poor that he had to pay for the repairs. The man in charge was only allowed to agree with the muddy Qiqiao. He cursed for a while, then went crazy with the alcohol, and the man in charge went straight to Sun Feizi's house, saying that he would demolish his house today. , I have to ask for the money."

Huang Zixia was very satisfied with his statement, so she nodded and asked, "He found Sun Laizi, and there was a conflict?"

"No! At that time, the people in the wine shop saw the excitement, and the big group of people followed him to the door of Sun Laizi's house. It is said that the doors and windows were really well repaired, the reinforced doors, reinforced windows, and the windows were all half-inch thick solid wood panels. The doors and windows of his house were closed tightly, almost like iron barrels. Qian Guansuo kicked the door while cursing Sun Lezi, and there was no sound inside. Someone behind him handed him an axe, and Qian Guansuo closed the door with Jiuxing. It was split, and everyone was afraid that he would hack Sun Feizi when he entered with the axe, so he quickly took the axe and returned it to the original owner-guess who is the one who handed the axe?"

Huang Zixian shook his head, Zhou Ziqin turned his head and saw that even Li Shubai couldn't guess, and he was a little proud: "This person, it's strange to appear here, and it's not surprising, it's the old man Lu Zhiyuan!"

Huang Zixian asked in surprise: "Why is he there?"

"Don’t the people in the capital repair the house often press the kind of nursery that puts the lantern on the wall? Lu Zhiyuan often cooperates with the steward to install the lantern nursery. This time the wine shop in the West Market is next to his incense candle shop. , I heard that he was asking for money from Sun Feizi, Lu Zhiyuan yelled, Sun Feizi promised to lose money to him, and now it is not enough, but this Sun Feizi has money to repair the house, and there is no money for him. So he was angry and picked it up. A small axe that split the wax went with him to beg for money."

Huang Zixia had nothing to say to the old man, so she asked again: "Then a group of them smashed Sun Laizi?"

"No! Sun Feizi is dead!" Zhou Ziqin was so excited that he slammed a fist on the table, so powerful that the teapot jumped twice. "A group of them kicked the door open and found that there was a broken bed in the house, and that Sun Feizi was lying down. On the bed, he has died stiff. It is so hot and the room is closed again, the whole room is already a bit smelly!"

Huang Zixian frowned and asked, "What was the situation at that time?"

"At that time, everyone else felt something was wrong when they smelled the odor. Only Qian Guansuo, who was drunk, rushed forward and grabbed Sun Laizi's clothes to pick him up and have a fight. Lu Zhiyuan, who was behind him, quickly stepped forward and pulled him. Live, but Sun Laizi’s corpse has been pulled to the edge of the bed. When Qian Guansuo was pulled and let go, he fell to the ground with a plop, and he was dead stiff! Lu Zhiyuan squatted down and turned the corpse on the ground over and looked scared. Feeling dispelled, he dragged him to run back quickly, Qian Guansuo was so scared that he backed away when he saw the distorted face of the corpse. The two fell to the ground and couldn't get up for a long while. The onlookers rushed to help others. People, the newspaper official’s newspaper official, called Lizheng. When I reported to Dali Temple, it was almost dark. As soon as I heard that Sun Laizi had died, I hurried over to see the situation and came to you."

"How did Sun Leizi die?" Huang Zixia asked.

"The stabbed to death! The wound is thin and small. It should be a sharp small dagger, about an inch and a half wide. The murderer has very little strength and the wound is not deep. The other party also knows this fact. He ran away with two stabs. No murder weapon was left at the scene, it should be the murderer who took it away."

"Are there signs of struggle?"

"No, the murderer should have committed the crime while the deceased was in his sleep."

"Where is the injury?"

"Sun Leizi was facing the door with his back to the wall at the time, sleeping sideways on a narrow bed, the corpse was in a natural sleeping posture. But he was covered with sores, and he didn't feel sick to me during the autopsy." Zhou Zi As Qin said, he gestured to himself, "One wound is under the bone of the left shoulder and the other is on the waist on the right side of the navel. The wounds are all traces of oblique downwards. It is obvious that the murderer squatted when Sun Feizi was sleeping on the low bed. Stabbed by his bed."

"Where are the traces of the struggle?"

"There are no signs of struggle."

"Unreasonable." Li Shubai calmly said.

Huang Zixian nodded: "It's unreasonable, it's not the key point, and the stabbing is not deep. The deceased should at least struggle to resist."

Zhou Ziqin looked at them with an aggrieved expression: "I don't know. When I had an autopsy in the past, the body was already lying under the bed. But according to the people who opened the door at that time, Sun Feizi was indeed lying on the bed in a sleeping position. at every turn."

Huang Zixian frowned slightly, put aside this doubt, and asked, "When was Sun Laizi's death?"

"I can definitely conclude this, no later than today's noon. He definitely died before noon or noon."

"In other words, he was dead at least three hours before Lu Zhiyuan and Qian Guansuo broke into the door?"

"Yes, in the house that has just been repaired, in the iron barrel-like house where the doors and windows are reinforced. The door is closed tightly, and the latch is on the inside. Qian Guansuo kicked it several times and didn't kick it open. The only window It is a whole piece of thick solid wood without any patterns, and the window bolts are installed from the inside. The walls are all rammed loess walls, and there is no mouse hole." Zhou Ziqin looked mad, "So, where does the murderer come from? Where do you come in and kill people, and where do you go out, and lock the doors and windows from the inside without leaving a trace?"

Huang Zixian frowned slightly, and asked, "At present, it seems that there is no physical evidence at all?"

"Yes, no. But... the evidence is there." Zhou Ziqin said here, with an expression similar to toothache on his face, "But, but..."

Huang Zixia motioned for him to continue.

Zhou Ziqin frowned, lowered his voice, and said: "According to the testimony of several aunts in the workshop, when they were putting on the soles of their shoes under the shade of the ancient well at around noon, there were two men and women who were not in the workshop, and their feet came to Sun Feizi's house one after another. Nearby, I seemed to be wandering to observe something, but it seemed that I didn't do anything and left."

"Men and women?" Huang Zi Xia asked with frown.

"Yes, one man and one woman." Zhou Ziqin murmured, holding his head in annoyance, "It is said that the man who came first was very tall, with a righteous face and a straight waist. Good guys, although they are older and sitting in a remote place, they will inevitably take a few more glances. But because of the angle that the big ladies are sitting, they can’t see Sun Laizi’s house, so I don’t know where he is going. What have you done."

"Where is that woman?"

"The woman, who keeps her head hidden, can't see her face clearly, but she is slender and should not be very old. She came over after the man left, walked around the place where he walked, and was also there. Wandered around the skinny's house for a long time."

"Are there any other features?"

"Yes..." Zhou Ziqin said with difficulty, "She is wearing a pair of blue cloth shoes with a cork sole, and two hibiscus flowers blooming opposite each other are embroidered on the left and right shoes."

Huang Zixia remembered that when she saw Di Cui at Zhang Xingying's house this afternoon, the pair of hibiscus blue cloth shoes with cork soles on her feet, and her face changed a little: "Did you tell Dali Temple?"

"No. But I think that when Dali Temple conducts an inquiry in each workshop, the two of them will be found out in the near future, and they will be called for questioning at that time."

Huang Zixian looked at Li Shubai speechlessly. Li Shubai walked to the case and pulled a piece of paper to write a few words, saying: "Tonight, you should go and check the situation there, lest the evidence is scattered."

Zhou Ziqin pulled up Huang Zixia's sleeve and said quickly, "Let’s go, let’s go. I have already checked. There is absolutely no place to go in and out of Sun Laizi’s room. Please help me to confirm it quickly and see if there is any way to do it. Kill in a room like this."

"Yang Chonggu." When they walked to the door, they heard Li Shubai calling her in a low voice from behind.

Huang Zixia quickly turned her head: "Lord."

Li Shubai's gaze fell on Zhou Ziqin's sleeve, she said slowly: "We have another important business tomorrow, you remember to go back to your home as soon as possible, and you have to stay overnight."

Huang Zixia quickly pulled her sleeves out of Zhou Ziqin's hands, bowed her head and saluted: "Yes."