Chapter 171: Yunxi Tower
Su Jingmo stood up from the circle chair and was about to ask Feng Zizhou's opinion. Feng Zizhou suddenly rushed to say, "Hey, Lord Nie is not here?" Could it be that the case has changed again? ”
"That's possible, we might as well go and see it right away."
"It's okay, come on, Erhu, you take him back and lock him up, don't embarrass him first."
When Jing Mo and Feng Zizhou took a two-ride sedan chair to Yunxi Building, Xiao Man was waiting in a small room, and there were five bowls of dishes on the table, Jinling barbecued pork, mushroom pot, crispy duck, roasted shrimp balls, and stewed vegetable cores. Jing Mo and Feng Zizhou walked in and sat down just now, when the waiter from the restaurant happened to bring in three bowls of rice.
Nie Xiaoman said: "Brother Feng Zizhou, thank you for your hard work. I guess your dinner may not have served you yet. Now let's take a break and wait until we have dinner. Jingmo, haha, I see that your curiosity can be eaten, and when you encounter a strange case, I have never heard you cry out that you are hungry! Now I believe that I have jumped out of the strange circle of 'contradiction between the front and the back, left and right', and the two of you should also take a break, let's pay tribute to the Five Organs Temple first. ”
The three of them didn't say a word more, bowed their heads and ate together, and after about half a pillar of incense, the dinner of the three of them was hastily finished. When the waiter was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, the three of them were already drinking tea and began to discuss the case.
Nie Xiaoman said first: "Jingmo, haven't you already talked to Shang Chongming once?" I don't think you're necessarily very happy with his confession, are you? ”
Jing Mo nodded and responded, "Not bad." According to Shang Chong's confession, he has nothing to do with this matter, and it is completely different from what you assumed before. ”
"Well, my assumptions have changed because of Brother Feng's letter, so Shang Chongming is indeed not suspicious, but can you still tell me what he said?"
Jing Mo recounted the conversation just now, and put forward two counter-evidences, proving that Li Dege's statement that the mother and son personally dressed the deceased and Chunlan left in the deceased's illness were all forgeries.
Feng Zizhou also told Nie Xiaoman about the investigation of Shang Chongming's pseudonym. Nie Xiaoman was silent and didn't answer, and slowly drank tea, as if he was summing up something. Finally, he nodded suddenly. Jing Mo didn't know what this nod meant.
Jing Mo couldn't help but ask, "Xiaoman, do you think Shang Chongming's words can be relied on?" Will he make up a set of nonsense to get away with it? ”
Nie Xiaoman nodded and said, "I completely believe what he said, he really has nothing to do with it." ”
"So, could it be that Lai's mother and daughter did this case, and Chongming was also deceived?"
"No, it's not the mother and daughter who did it, and they don't have a direct relationship."
"What? It doesn't even matter if Lai's? ”
Nie Xiaoman didn't answer, but nodded, and then gently put down the tea bowl.
Jing Mo couldn't help but wonder: "So, why did she take poison herself just now?" Isn't it suicide in fear of sin? ”
Nie Xiaoman's eyes suddenly shot out, he stared at Jing Mo with his eyes, and said, "This question really bothered me for a while!" If I can't explain it clearly before a pillar of incense. However, this is a long talk, and I haven't had time to talk about it at the moment...... Hey, by the way, Jingmo, don't you have a drawing in your pocket? ”
Jingmo was reminded by Xiaoman, and reached into the bag to touch it, and the jute paper was really still there. Jing Mo then took it out, re-opened it and looked at it, drawing the human figure on one side, and writing "I am watching the mountain scenery from the city tower" on the other side Eight extremely ugly words.
Jing Mo responded: "It's still here." What's your use? I wanted to ask Shang Chongming, but I didn't think about it at all just now. ”
Nie Xiaoman said: "You don't need to ask him. I just bought a small book called "The Book of Gambling" from a small bookstall and fully understand the purpose of this drawing. Now it can be said that the key to the reason why the Lai woman took poison is in this picture. ”
Jing Mo felt that this sentence was still a mystery in his own opinion. This nondescript picture would have a relationship with Lai's poisoning, and I really racked my brains and couldn't think of it!
Feng Zizhou took the jute paper from Jing Mo's hand and looked at it, nodded suddenly, and muttered in his mouth: "This seems to be the Heavenly Defeat Star Living Yama Luo Ruan Xiaoqi." ”
Jing Mo felt even more inexplicable when he heard it, and at the same time he was a little secretly ashamed, his brain was not as clever as Feng Zizhou.
Nie Xiaoman suddenly smiled and said, "Brother Zizhou, you can even name it, it can be seen that you have experience in this kind of thing, but do you know how powerful this thing is in Jinling?" ”
Feng Zizhou frowned, shook his head and said, "It's really harmful!" Although we tried our best to investigate, they were like weeds in spring, cutting one batch and growing another, and it was endless. As he spoke, he handed back the paper on which the image was drawn to Jing Mo.
Xiaoman and Feng Zizhou had a dumb conversation, but fortunately someone came in to interrupt, otherwise Jing Mo would probably be impatient and would have made trouble with Nie Xiaoman.
The one who broke was a catcher in a straight blue shirt. As soon as he walked into the small room, he immediately saluted a few people, and said to Nie Xiaoman, "Lord Nie, Hao Shoubei invites you to go." ”
Nie Xiaoman looked up at the catcher, revealing a state of surprise. Xiao Man asked rhetorically, "What's the situation?" Hasn't he come back yet? Still there? ”
The catcher still maintained a bowed posture, and replied carefully, "Exactly." We waited until this moment, and there was no sign of it. Hao Shoubei said that maybe there was a leak, or something went wrong. ”
Nie Xiaoman drank the tea in the tea bowl in one sip, and then frowned again, and his dark eyes suddenly rolled a few times.
He asked again, "Where is Hao Shoubei at the moment?" Are you still there? ”
"Yes, I'm still waiting at the place designated by the adults." ”
"What about Jing Kui?
"He's over there, too."
"Good! Wait, let's go. ”
After Nie Xiaoman finished speaking, he hurriedly paid the bill for the meal, and then he asked Na Yu to lead the way, and the other three people followed. At this time, Jing Mo was full of suspicion, and it was inconvenient to ask questions for a while.
Xiaoman said Jing Kui, I don't know what kind of person he is, Jing Mo has never heard of this name. Feng Zizhou was clearly in the same confusion as Jing Mo. However, Feng Zizhou was not as patient as Jing Mo, and when the four of them walked out of Yunxi Tower to get into the carriage, they finally asked the question that Jing Mo had always wanted to ask.
Feng Zizhou asked, "Lord Nie, where are we going?" ”
Nie Xiaoman replied with a word of gold: "Runshenfang." ”
"What fang? What are we going to do? ”
"Let's catch the murderer!"
"Catch the murderer? Who is it? ”
"Xie Lao Wu."
Nie Xiaoman's simple reply fully showed that he really didn't want to answer at the moment, and his words were completely out of politeness.
Finally, Jing Mo couldn't bear it anymore.
Jing Mo also interjected and asked, "Who is this Xie Lao Wu?" How could such a person appear out of thin air? I have never heard this man's name since this case happened. ”
Nie Xiaoman shook his head, and reluctantly responded: "You can't be blamed for this, Jingmo." I didn't know the name of this man half an hour ago. I'm sorry, now please bear with the two of you, as long as there is no other fork, and after a pillar of incense, everything will be clear. ”
Since Nie Xiaoman made it clear that he didn't want to say more, Jing Mo and Feng Zizhou naturally had no choice but to march towards the Moisturizing Workshop as if they had put a seal on their mouths.
The carriage walked quickly, and after a while, it arrived not far from Lotus Lane, and saw Hao Shoubei, who had changed into civilian clothes, coming up from the side of the road. The four people in the car immediately got out of the car.