On the wooden stage, the circus began to perform, and Richard was not interested in watching and turned away.

That night, he stayed in a hotel in the town.

When I waited until dawn the next day, when I was about to leave, I passed by the open space in the center of the town, and saw that the wooden platform that the circus had originally erected had disappeared without a trace, and everyone in the circus could not see it, and their eyebrows couldn't help but raise.

Stretching out his hand to stop a passer-by who had gotten up early and asked a few questions, Richard realized that the circus where the clown was staying didn't stay in the town for the night after the show last night, and left directly.

It's -

His eyes flashed, and Richard muttered to himself, "Is this a given up? If that's the case, then yesterday's math game wasn't played in vain." ”

After the words fell, Richard rode forward, left the town, and headed north.

......

Noon in the blink of an eye.

On a dirt road, Richard reached out and pulled the reins of his horse, slowly slowing down the horse's gallop.

Riding on the horse, Richard looked ahead, looked at the things in front of him, and said to himself: "It turns out that I thought too much, and I didn't give up at all." But what will happen this time?"

I saw that on the side of the road not far ahead, everyone in the circus was standing, as if they were resting, but when they got closer, they found that they were arguing, and everyone's faces were not very good-looking.

One of them, Oliver, the head of the circus, was red and angry, waving his palm, which could barely distinguish his fingers, and yelled at everyone: "I tell you, this matter is not clear, no one wants to leave, we will spend it here, yes, we will spend it here! You damn thieves, you dare to steal my money! That is my hard-earned money, how dare you steal it? How can you bear to steal it?"

"Your hard-earned money is obviously our money. Someone whispered.

Oliver glared: "Who? have the ability to stand up and say it!"

No one answered.

Richard rode to the front, glanced at the extremely excited circus leader, and then looked to the side as if he had been waiting for a long time, and said, "Mr. Clown, your circus seems to be a little troublesome?"

"As you can see—" the clown said, "passer-by, there has just been a theft in our circus - our captain's money is missing. Well, in fact, it didn't just happen, because our regiment commander couldn't tell when the money was lost, and we could only be sure that the last time I saw it was when I was going to bed three days ago.

Therefore, in these three days, all the people who have been in contact with him are suspicious, of course, the most suspicious are us. ”

"That's it. Richard raised an eyebrow and looked at Oliver, the regimental commander.

The clown also looked at Oliver, and asked in a playful voice, "Hey, Captain, you won't suspect that I stole your money, right?"

Oliver looked at the clown seriously, and said in an urn voice: "It stands to reason that you should be the one who should not steal my money, after all, you are the oldest, I should believe you." But...... Now I can't be 100% sure that you are innocent, after all, the more unsuspecting people are, the more likely they are to have motives. ”

"Okay, okay. The clown listened to the words and smiled bitterly, "Commander, I accept your suspicions, but...... I have to state that I really didn't steal your money, and I don't believe you can search me. As he spoke, the clown calmly spread his arms.

At this time, the big man Tyne also spread his arms like a clown, and said to Oliver: "Captain, I didn't steal your money, if you don't believe it, you can search me." ”

The lame groom McGee leaned over and said, "Me too, Commander, you can search me too." "Raise your arms as well.

Oliver pursed his lips and muttered, "Who knows if the three of you have transferred the money to the rest of the place?"

Joker: "......"

Tyne: "......"

McGee: "......"

The scene was a little awkward and silent.

At this time, the animal trainer Thors spoke, broke the embarrassment, glanced at the regiment leader Oliver and said directly: "Oliver, you can doubt me. But I must tell you, I am too busy to serve my lion every day, and I don't have much time to steal your money. After saying this, the trainer walked out of the bag and took out a piece of flesh with blood, walked to the lion's cage, and threw it in, and the lion in the cage immediately feasted on it, and the blood of the food was splashed everywhere.

Oliver looked at Thors and then at the lion, but said nothing, as if he was a little afraid that Thor would let the lion out and bite people, his neck shrank slightly, and he turned his head to look at the last person in the circus, the beautiful young woman Amy.

At this time, Amy was wearing makeup in front of a slightly old-looking bronze mirror, looking too lazy to participate in the discussion. After feeling Oliver's gaze, Amy turned her head to look at Oliver with confidence, this confidence is not the kind of confidence that she will not be caught, but a confidence that she is very sure that she has no problems.

Amy spoke up, a little impatient, and said, "Alright, Oliver, don't doubt me, I'm absolutely innocent!" To be honest, I want to steal your money, but you value it more than your life, and no one in the whole circus, except yourself, knows where you hide your money, and you can't steal it." So, you deserve it!"

"You!" After listening to Amy's words, the head of the regiment, Oliver's face darkened, he took a deep breath, looked around at everyone, and said angrily: "Hmph, neither are you, neither is he, so how did I lose my money?

"It's hard to say. Amy said with a bit of sarcasm, "Who knows where you hid your money, maybe you just hid it in a corner, and when you were in a hurry, you fell on the road!"

"Impossible!" Oliver retorted loudly, with important information, "My money is all hidden in the pillow, and the pillow is still there, but the money is gone, so ...... You definitely stole it!"

"Oh, it's in the pillow. As soon as Oliver's words fell, Amy, McGee, and Tyne all looked suddenly enlightened.

Thors, the trainer, didn't react much, took another piece of meat from the sack and threw it to the lion.

The clown turned his head to look at Richard and said in a loud voice: "Passerby, look at the current situation, who is the most suspicious? Who do you think is the one who stole the money from our regiment leader?"

Richard's eyes narrowed slightly, looked at the clown and asked, "Mr. Clown, do you want me to help you solve the case and find the thief?"

"Well, it's challenging, isn't it? it's time to use your clever minds!" said the clown.

"You have a point. Richard agreed, and then changed his tone, "But...... It doesn't have anything to do with me, and I'm not very interested, so why am I involved?"

Joker: "This ......" is speechless.