"Lord Wang, if it's really a demon killing people, why use a dagger?" Li Canghai searched while he replied without raising his head.

Li Yu blinked his eyes and asked puzzledly, "What do evil ghosts use to kill people without daggers?" ”

Li Canghai rolled his eyes, he really didn't know how to explain to Li Yu, "The flow of ghosts and ghosts is transformed by wandering spirits, how can the invisible thing take up the essence of the five elements?" ”

"There seems to be some truth to that!" Li Yu touched his chin with a white jade-like hand and nodded in approval.

Li Canghai almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, and said in his heart, King Su, are you here to sell cuteness?

"Ahem, this king is confused now, he didn't commit suicide or was killed by evil spirits, what the hell is going on?" Li Yu looked at Li Canghai expectantly, wanting to get an answer from Li Canghai.

Li Canghai did not answer him, but held the candlestick and devoted himself to observation again.

The overall appearance of the table is a bit of a 'concave' shape, and there is a beam column behind the inner circle of the 'concave' character, and there is still a lot of water between the inner circle and the beam column, which seems to be caused by the return of moisture on the ground.

Li Canghai searched from the inner circle where the dealer died to the pillars, but found nothing, which made him a little puzzled.

"Canghai, what are you looking for?" Li Yu saw that he was holding a candlestick, his face almost lying on the ground, and he couldn't help but be a little curious.

Li Canghai didn't speak, still engrossed in searching.

Until he found the pillars, Li Canghai saw that there seemed to be some fine red powder floating on the water, he twisted some powder with his fingers, and after thinking about it, he took out the enlarged gem from his satchel. I took a closer look.

The satchel contained all the usual things needed to solve the case, and the magnifying gem he had kept in it all along. After returning from Zhengyang, he has been carrying this bag with him.

Li Canghai crushed the powder. I put it in front of my nose and sniffed it, and found that the red powder seemed to be a kind of vermilion paint.

He suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly raised his head and looked at the pillar in front of him, which was painted with vermilion lacquer, and the powder clearly fell from this column.

Li Canghai casually touched the pillar of the brace, and his hand was suddenly dyed with some vermilion lacquer powder, and the pillar was old, and the vermilion lacquer on it began to mottle and fall off. As long as you exert a little force, it will fall in a slump.

Li Canghai looked at the vermilion lacquer powder on his fingers, and then at the little powder floating on the stagnant water under the beams and pillars, and then fell into deep thought.

After a few moments, he took the magnifying gem and searched it down the beam, and at the bottom of the beam, a finger above the ground, he found something suspicious.

said that it was a suspicious point, but in fact, it was just half a circle of vermilion lacquer that fell off.

Outside of the beams and columns. One finger high from the ground, there is an obvious half-circle of vermilion paint falling off.

However, what made Li Canghai feel strange was that this half circle of vermilion lacquer was not like other places. It falls off irregularly, but like a trace of a slender object on it.

Li Canghai immediately stood up and glanced around.

The beam column is located in the upper left corner of the depression of the word 'concave', three feet back. On the right, there are two tables and chairs, on which are tea and fruit snacks. In terms of location, it is located in the upper right corner of the depression of the word 'concave'. Parallel to the left side of the beam column.

Li Canghai stood in the 'recess', looked carefully at the left and right, imprinted what he saw in front of him in his mind, and then closed his eyes and simulated the entire case in his mind.

On rainy days, the ground is back to moisture, beams and columns, and neatly placed tables and chairs......

One by one, inconspicuous clues that did not even have any doubts were spinning rapidly in Li Canghai's mind, constantly overlapping and connecting.

Suddenly, there was a pause in all the images.

Time flies back to before the crime.

Li Canghai was like a bystander, coming to the gambling house at the beginning of the crime.

At midnight, the rain was still falling, and the gambling house opened the door, and several gamblers were already waiting impatiently at the door.

The owner happily welcomed everyone in, and several gamblers rushed to the table, took out the silver taels and slapped them on the table, shouting to start betting.

At the table, if there is a gambler, there must be a banker, and the banker is the dealer of the gambling house.

At this time, the dealer did not arrive, and the owner could only smile and ask everyone to wait for a while.

It didn't take long for the dealer Han Da to hurry over with an umbrella and apologize to the owner again and again.

The owner said a few words to him, and told him to hurry up and change into the clothes of the gambling house and greet the gamblers.

As always, Han Da handed over all the money and belongings on his body, but there were only two pitiful copper plates on his body.

After getting dressed, Han Da walked to the gaming table and prepared to start the day's work.

When the owner saw the gambling game begin, all the gamblers took out the silver with white flowers, Le's eyes narrowed into a slit, he took a cup of tea, sat on a chair, and looked at the gambling table with a smile.

However, at this moment, Han Da suddenly fell to the ground and let out a miserable scream.

Everyone didn't know why, and then they saw Han Da, who was covered in blood, getting up from the inside of the gambling table with difficulty, his face was hideous, his eyes were prominent, he had a dagger in his chest, and his right hand was stretched out to call for help.

But when he opened his mouth, blood suddenly overflowed from his mouth, his eyes widened, and a piece of blood spurted out violently, and his head suddenly hung down weakly.

The sudden change made everyone startled.

The entire gambling house was suddenly thrown into chaos.

At the same time, King Su, who was in the Qinglou opposite, had a warm heart and had always wanted to be a master of solving cases, rushed over as soon as possible and restricted anyone's actions.

Li Canghai waved his right hand, and the picture suddenly froze again.

In the midst of this brainstorm, everything is at his disposal, and he can repeat the picture indefinitely.

Li Canghai walked to the inside of the table where Han Da died, and kept repeating the situation when he died.

Suddenly, the corners of his mouth rose, and the scene in front of him suddenly shattered.

Slowly opening his eyes, Li Canghai swept over everyone, and his heart suddenly became clear.

Seeing him in a daze, Li Yu couldn't help but feel a little strange, and just wanted to speak, but was stopped by Li Canghai stretching out his hand.

"Han, this official asked you, has Han Da complained recently?" Li Canghai held his hands behind his back. Asked.

Han Shi thought for a while, choked up, and said, "Go back to the adult's words." The husband did complain that the child was seriously ill in the past two days. But he didn't have the money to get medicine, and he cried day and night, presumably because of this, the husband was anxious. ”

"Han Da is a dealer, and this gambling house is running well, why does he have no money at home?" Li Canghai asked.

"My lord didn't know that although my husband worked in this gambling house, his wages were pitiful, and the owner had not paid my husband for three months. The husband has repeatedly asked the owner for money, but the owner has just blindly postponed, and there is no surplus food at home, so how can he have money to give medicine to his children? Han's tears rippled, and he kept patting the baby in his arms and crying.

Li Canghai frowned slightly, he was about to speak, but Li Yu took the lead.

"How can this be true? How can you be so treacherous! If he is working for you, why do you owe him wages? Well? Li Yujian raised his eyebrows. glared at him and shouted angrily.

The owner was startled, knelt on the ground, touched the ground with his head, and said tremblingly: "The king ...... The prince is angry! The grass people don't want to. It's just that the income in the first few months was really bad, and he couldn't even make ends meet, and the grass people didn't want to pay him. It's waiting for the transshipment, and then it will be sent to him again! ”

"Don't fool this king! You're wearing silk and satin. Eating sauce meat elbows, will you have no money? This king asks you. What is the monthly salary of Han University? Li Yu snorted and asked angrily.

"Back to ...... Back to the prince, Han Da ...... two dollars of silver in January. The owner craned his neck and said tremblingly.

"Two pieces of silver?" Li Yu tilted his head and thought about it, he didn't seem to have much concept of money, and he didn't know how much the two coins were.

So he beckoned to Qi Yunhe, and Qi Yunhe hurriedly walked over.

The two muttered for a while, and Li Yu's whole face instantly drooped.

"This king asks you, how much is this sauce elbow worth?" Li Yu had a gloomy face, walked to the table, picked up his elbow and asked.

"Back to ...... Back to the prince...... Two or two pieces of silver ....... The owner said with cold sweat on his forehead and trembling.

"Okay, two dollars of silver to buy a sauce elbow, you have the fucking money to buy a sauce elbow, but you don't have the money to pay for your work?" Li Yu took the sauce elbow, weighed it a few times, and suddenly scolded and slapped it at the owner with his elbow.

With a crisp snap, the plate suddenly split in half, and a line of blood suddenly flowed from the door of the owner's head.

"Wang ...... The prince spares his life! The prince spares his life! The grass people knew that they were wrong, and the grass people would send him their wages, and the prince would spare his life! The owner of the workshop was stunned when he was patted on the head, and the blood on his forehead dripped directly down the door of his head, where did he dare to wipe it, he only kowtowed desperately and begged for mercy.

"Pay now? Now that Han Da is dead, do you have a fart for your salary now? Damn, this king hates bullying the weak the most in his life, and when you meet this king today, you just wait for bad luck! Li Yu snorted, raised his foot and kicked at the owner.

Li Canghai glanced at Li Yu in surprise, Li Yu at this time was very different from his previous elegant image.

However, this made Li Canghai a little interested in him.

"Tsk, this prince looks polite and polite on weekdays, but he doesn't want to be a good lord!" Li Canghai said secretly in his heart.

That owner is just an ordinary person, how dare he contradict Li Yu?

It was really after Li Yu kicked his left head, and he also took the initiative to stretch his right head over and let Li Yu continue to kick.

Seeing that Li Yu didn't care about his image at all, Qi Yunhe suddenly smiled bitterly, he hurriedly stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Lord Wang, reserved!" There are a lot of people here! ”

Li Yu reacted at this time, hurriedly made a sven look, grinned at Li Canghai embarrassedly, pretended that nothing had happened, and said lightly: "That's it, this king is not such an unreasonable person, since this dealer is your guy's plan, and he died here inexplicably, you as the shopkeeper naturally want to give some compensation." ”

Li Yu thought for a while, stretched out three fingers and said, "Well, this king will punish you for compensating him for fifty taels of silver!" How is it? ”

"Five...... Fifty taels? The owner was stunned for a moment, this fifty taels is a lot of money!

"What, you're too little?" The corners of Li Yu's mouth rose, a hint of cunning flashed in his eyes, and he frowned: "Since this is the case, then you can compensate him for a hundred taels, if you are still too little, we can slowly add up, how about it?" ”

As he spoke, Li Yu squeezed his eyes at the owner.

Where did the owner dare to say a word, he was afraid that if he talked more, the compensation would be more, so he nodded busily: "One hundred taels, no less, no less at all." ”

"Remember, a hundred taels, not a copper less." Li Yu shook the folding fan and said lightly.

"Don't dare, absolutely don't dare, the grass people will go and get it." As he spoke, the owner hurriedly knelt down and retreated, and ran towards the back hall in a panic.

After a while, the owner came from the back hall with a tray in his hand, on which lay ten taels of silver, ten pieces in all.

"This is a hundred taels of silver, please take a look at it." The owner had a large bag on his head, and he didn't care about wiping the blood, and respectfully raised the tray above his head and said.

Li Yu snorted, directly picked up the silver, walked in front of Han, and said, "This is Han Da's funeral expenses, you take it." ”

Han's tears rippled, and he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to Li Yu: "The women have thanked the prince, the prince's great kindness, and the women can only be repaid as cattle and horses." ”

Li Yu's eyes showed a look of unbearability, he hurriedly helped Han up, and sighed: "This king doesn't want you to repay, this is what you deserve, this king only hopes that it is enough for you to have a good birth and raise children." ”

"The women of the people will definitely give birth to him and raise him." Han pressed his cheek to the face of the baby in his arms and choked up.

"Lord Wang, you have done a good deed, why don't you seem to be happy?" Li Canghai couldn't help but have some doubts when he saw Li Yu's expression.

Li Yu sighed and said deeply: "Even if you get compensation, what can you do?" This orphan and widow still has a long time to come, and this king only hates himself for being incompetent, unable to find the murderer, and giving him justice! ”

Li Canghai was silent, he didn't expect Li Yu to care so much about ordinary people, from what he did, it is not difficult to see that his concern for ordinary people is sincere, not like a fraud.

After a while, Li Canghai smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, there is still justice between heaven and earth." ”

Li Yu pondered for a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up, he looked at Li Canghai in disbelief and said, "Canghai, do you already know who the murderer is?" ”

Li Canghai smiled, he didn't answer Li Yu, but walked up to the owner, stared at him, and said word by word: "Tell me, why did you kill Han Da?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was immediately surprised.

The owner looked at Li Canghai blankly, his face full of innocence.

And Li Yu was stunned, he rubbed his eyes vigorously, and only then did he make sure that he was not mistaken, what Li Canghai said was indeed the owner.

"Canghai, you said he killed Han Da? This...... How is this possible? Li Yu opened his mouth and said in disbelief.

"Wronged...... Wronged! How can grass people kill? The grass people didn't kill anyone! Ask the adults to see it! The owner knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, and shouted loudly.

"yes, Canghai, could you be mistaken? How could he kill someone? There's no reason for that! Li Yu said.

Li Canghai's expression was indifferent, he glanced at the owner, and said lightly: "Do you think that if you can hide it from others, you can hide it from your own official?" You're underestimating your own officials. ”

The owner knelt on the ground and said blankly: "The grass people don't know what the adults mean, the grass people haven't deceived the adults!" (To be continued.) )