Chapter 44: Unforgettable
Jing Mo immediately understood: "You want to see the person who came to knock on the door?" Okay, I'll open the door for you. ”
This Lang Zhong is still with straight eyes, unable to say anything. Jing Mo immediately rushed over and opened the door, never expecting that the one who knocked on the door so eagerly and rudely was actually a woman.
The woman asked, "Are you from Luo Langzhong's family?" ”
Jing Mo hesitated for a moment and replied, "Exactly, where are you?" ”
The woman said, "I was sent by the Wu Mansion. My wife is impatient. Please come quickly, Mr. Luo. This woman seems to regard Jingmo as a subordinate to answer the door, and she is not polite, and she is reincarnated and left after saying her words.
Jing Mo thought of Wu Langzhong's strange reaction, and felt that there seemed to be some kind of connection between these two things, and he was about to interrogate this woman a few times, but he didn't expect that the other party would not leave him any chance at all. Looking at the woman's distant back, Jing Mo could only give up.
Jing Mo returned to the house, only to see that Na Luo Guanmiao closed her eyes again, and her face seemed to be even more pale. Suddenly, his hands trembled slightly, his legs straightened, and he didn't move anymore! Jing Mo probed the Futu point on the other party's neck with two fingers, only to realize that he had exhaled his last breath! He's dead!
At this time, Jing Mo thought that it was more important to report to the official than to invite Langzhong.
Jing Mo said to the slave, "You wait here." I'll go and report to the officer, your master is dead. ”
The slave was dumbfounded, with a look of surprise on his face, his right hand was raised, and it was lowered again, as if he wanted to stop Jing Mo, but he didn't dare to speak. Jing Mo didn't wait for the minion's answer, turned around and walked out.
Xiaoman stopped a carriage and hurriedly went to find the head catcher Wang Chaozong, but Wang Chaozong was not there. Jing Mo had no choice but to briefly explain the location of the crime and the general situation of the case to the arrester on duty in the yamen, and asked them to step up their efforts to send people to investigate.
Jing Mo naturally thought of his old friend again, Nie Xiaoman, the imperial historian who patrolled the city. He felt that there were several peculiarities about this case: the murderer had robbed the examination equipment. And the deceased's attention to the person who knocked on the door when he was dying, and the person who came to knock on the door was a woman, seems to be very valuable for reference.
Nie Xiaoman may be interested in this case. So, when he hurriedly went to Gluttonous Cat Zhai to find Nie Xiaoman, Xiaoman hadn't returned to the mansion yet, shouldn't this guy be faster than himself? Helpless, Jing Mo could only tell his old servant Wei Pu as usual.
Jing Mo pounced twice in a row, and his heart was unhappy, so he had to go back to Jishitang. I saw that the pockmarked slave was still standing aside, but he was about five feet away from Luo Guanmiao's corpse, his face was pale, and his eyes were full of fear.
Jingmo asked, "What's your name?"
He replied, "My name is Forget Worries."
Jingmo proves it, what is such a pock-faced old slave called "forgetting worries"? Immediately, I understood: "Oh, your master got it for you, right?" No wonder you have such a name for Chinese medicine, forget your worries! Are you the only servant here?
"There is also an old mother Xu. She had already fallen asleep. Do you want me to get her up? ”
"Slow, not in a hurry. How long have you been serving here? ”
"It's only two months."
"Well, did your master go to the clinic just now?"
"Yes."
"Where is the home call?"
"I don't know about that, he didn't tell me."
"Well, tell me what happened when he was shot and killed."
"My master said he was going to the clinic and told me to go to bed because he had the key. I closed one of the doors and went back to my room in the back. As soon as I was there to make the bedding on the bed, I heard a whisper, like the voice of my master, and I was taken aback, and when I listened carefully, I heard the screams of my master, and I ran out to see. ”
"You ran out right away?"
"Yes, when I reached the door, I saw that my master had fallen to the ground, and that a man in a short gray robe was running westward. At that time, I was in a hurry to help my master up, but I didn't have time to catch up. But the master could no longer move, and his weight was so great that I couldn't hold him for a while. After a while, I saw you and rushed over. ”
Jingmo was taken aback! He asked, "You said you saw a man in a short gray coat fleeing west?" ”
Forget nod. "Yes, it's the West. I live here and can't be mistaken sir. ”
"Do you see he's wearing a short coat? Wouldn't it be a robe? ”
"No, it won't. I see clearly. ”
"Could it be that he fled east, you misunderstood?"
"No, never. I saw him go to the right side. ”
Jing Mo thought to himself: Since the pockmarked man's speech was so determined, it was obvious that the person in gray clothes he saw was not the one he saw. There were clearly two men dressed in gray, one in a robe and the other in a short garment, one east and one west, fleeing in two directions.
Jing Mo asked again: "Do you know this person who escaped?" ”
Forget the worry and say, "I don't know." ”
"Have you ever seen a face clearly?"
"No, there isn't. I could only see his back, not clearly. ”
Jing Mo glanced around the Jishi Hall and said, "You did see that your master was carrying a leather medical box when he went out?" ”
Forget the worry and nodded. "yes, I'm sure I do. When I didn't go back to my room, I saw that he was already carrying a leather medical box and preparing to go out. I asked him if he wanted to get a sedan chair for him. He said that it was raining tonight, and the neighborhood was very secluded, and he couldn't find a sedan chair for a while, so he might as well hire it himself. With that, he went out, and I went to the back of my rest. ”
"Didn't you close the front door for him when he went out?"
"Nope. There was a lock on the outside door, and he locked it when he went out. This lock has two keys, and I have one too. Later, I could hear the sound and ran out to see, and it took a while to open the lock, but I only had to open the door a small opening, and my hand could reach out to open the door.
Then he was probably stabbed by the bandits when he was turning around and locking the door after going out. Do you think so? ”
"Maybe. I don't know, but I could faintly hear him talking as he went out. ”
"Talk? Talking outside the door? ”
"Yes."
Jing Mo was a little pleased and said, "Very good!" This is useful! What kind of people do you hear him talking to? Is it with a man or a woman? ”
Forget the worry and recalled: "I can only hear his voice, whether he is talking to others, or whether he is talking to himself, I don't know. ”
Jing Mo thought to himself: "I don't know anything, this is really a confused servant, it's a pity that I can't confirm this, but I said to myself, it seems that it shouldn't be." Probably after this Luo Guan Miaolang went out, he also talked to a person. So who is this person? Was it the murderer who killed him? If so, then the fact that the murderer and the deceased were able to talk to each other proves that the two of them knew each other. Well, it must be so, and that's right! Jing Mo was quite satisfied with his reasoning alone.
Just when Jingmo was smug, bang bang bang! …… Bang bang bang! The knock on the door is knocking again!
However, Jing Mo was very happy, he thought that Nie Xiaoman or Wang Chaozong had already arrived, and of course he rushed to open the door, ready to talk about his analysis and reasoning. Unexpectedly, there was another accident of Jingmo, and the visitor who knocked on the door was even more inexplicable. However, it was also because of this knock on the door that a big mystery in this case was raised!