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Chapter 9 The Knife, the Watchman and the Widow

In the east of the city, the gate of the Widow Wang’s Cloth Shop was already full of people who had gathered around several times. People stood on tiptoes and stretched their necks to look inside the cloth shop. The common people enter.

Bai Yutang walked to the back wall, climbed over the wall and entered the backyard of the cloth workshop, and frowned slightly as soon as he entered, why is the smell so weird?

There is only a small alley between the backyard and the front yard. Bai Yutang walked around the backyard and heard someone talking in the front yard. Knowing that Zhan Zhao and the others should be in front, he wanted to pass through that alley... At the entrance of the alley, I saw something shining slightly on the ground.Bai Yutang squatted down, and saw a string of small pearl earrings, reflecting light slightly under the sunlight.

As I was watching, I heard someone say, "Rat!"

Bai Yutang smiled slightly, looked up, and saw Zhan Zhao standing at the other end of the alley, staring at him with a complicated expression.

"Cat, what is this?" Bai Yutang waved to Zhan Zhao, and pointed to the earring on the ground.

Zhan Zhao also saw something glowing on the ground, so he walked over, knelt down in front of Bai Yutang, looked down, "It's an earring."

"Who died in front?" Bai Yutang asked with great interest.

"It's the proprietress of the cloth shop, and a watchman." Zhan Zhao said, "At first glance, the widow was stabbed to death, and the watchman seems to have committed suicide, with a murder knife in his hand."

"Huh?" Bai Yutang blinked, "The watchman killed the widow and then committed suicide?"

Zhan Zhao shrugged, "On the surface it looks like it is, but Mr. just looked at the corpse and said something was wrong."

"What's wrong?" Bai Yutang was interested.

"Before he had time to say anything, I heard movement in the backyard." Zhan Zhao glanced at Bai Yutang, "I guess it's you."

"Let's go and have a look." Bai Yutang stood up, Zhan Zhao also stood up, and the two walked towards the entrance of the alley, but the two moved in unison, but the alley was so narrow that only one person could pass through, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao Zhaodu wanted to leave first, so he bumped shoulder to shoulder and got stuck in the alley.The two looked at each other, turned sideways at the same time, trying to pass, but raised their heads to see each other's face... cheek to cheek, and remembered the embarrassment of last night... hurriedly turned sideways, and got stuck again... so many times , I heard someone laughing and asking at the entrance of the alley, "What are you two doing?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were taken aback for a moment, then looked up at the same time, and saw Gongsun Zhengren standing at the entrance of the alley with a smile and looking at them, shaking his head, "Don't move, one should turn sideways and walk to the front, then come out one after the other. Is it gone?"

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other, Bai Yutang pointed to the front, and signaled for Zhan Zhao to go first, Zhan Zhao turned sideways, quickly rushed to the front, followed Bai Yutang out of the alley, like that , don't be too awkward.

When he arrived at the front yard, Bai Yutang looked around, and saw that all the dyeing shelves supporting the yard had collapsed, and a watchman's corpse was lying in the doorway, his eyes wide open, his face full of horror, and the neck There was a hideous bloody mouth, and a large pool of blood had solidified on the ground... A big knife fell from his hand, and when he looked into the room, Bai Yutang frowned, and turned his eyes... There was a woman's corpse in the room, leaning on it in scantily-clothed clothes. On the side of the bed, there was a huge opening from the chest to the abdomen, and the intestines flowed out. The blood was all over the body, and the technique was extremely cruel.The woman also stared straight ahead with her eyes wide open, her expression felt like she couldn't believe it.

Beside him were a few guys who were trembling with fear, they all came early this morning to help the proprietress start dyeing the cloth.Zhan Zhao walked up to them and asked, "You guys found the body?"

"My lord, yes." One of the oldest workers answered Zhan Zhao, "We started work early in the morning as usual, and when we came in, we saw... oh."

"The Zhang Dazi who was playing the watch is a pervert." Another worker on the side gave the corpse a hard look, "I usually like to stare at the proprietress when I pass by. He must have sneaked in at night, wanting to Doing beastly things, and then the proprietress resisted, she was killed by him, and in the end, fearing that her crime would be exposed and sued, she committed suicide!"

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows, Zhan Zhao frowned, and they both looked at Gongsun at the same time.

Gongsun shook his head and asked Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "What do you two think?"

Zhan Zhao looked at the knife in the watchman's hand, "These days, why does the watchman carry such a big knife when he comes out to fight?"

"That's right." Bai Yutang also said, "Look at the lantern and the small gong in the watchman's hand, it looks like he came out to watch the watch. Why are you carrying a knife?"

"The gate of the front yard shows no signs of being damaged." Zhan Zhao continued, "The walls of this yard are quite high. I looked around and there is nothing to draw on. The watchman doesn't have much skill. With a lantern and a knife, it is impossible to break in."

"And the expressions of the two of them are quite weird." Bai Yutang said, "The widow's expression seems to be unexpected... If the watchman wanted to be rude and then killed, the widow should be angry and frightened. She It looks like he's taken aback."

"That's not true." Zhan Zhao nodded at the side, pointing at the watchman, "His expression is also quite strange, why does he look like he's seen a ghost? Where do people who commit suicide have such an expression?!"

"Well, if you were going to die, you would have committed suicide in the room, so why did you have to go to the door?" Bai Yutang frowned, "It also collapsed the cloth shelf, no matter how you look at it, there is a problem!"

"En." Zhan Zhao agreed, and the two looked at each other and nodded. They both felt that what the other said made sense.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other again, and when they looked at Gongsun, they saw that he was smiling meaningfully.

"Sir..." Zhan Zhao called him awkwardly.

Gongsun smiled slightly and said, "Well, it's really interesting..."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other again, "What's so interesting?"

Gongsun smiled and shook his head, "It's nothing... let's talk about the corpse." After speaking, he pointed to the body of the watchman outside the door, and said, "The watchman didn't commit suicide."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other—as expected, "Then how did he die?"

"I was scared to death." Gongsun said, "the blood from the cut throat is definitely not just this little bit, there should be more, and it will splash everywhere... But there is no blood around, which means that he was cut off. He was already dead when he was stabbed. And I saw that his face was yellow and his eyes were wide open, as if he had been greatly frightened..." As he spoke, he pointed to the watchman's trousers, and a large area was wet , "It feels like I'm scared to death."

"Hmm..." Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang touched their chins and nodded, making sense, and their expressions matched it.

"That woman..." Gongsun led the two into the house, pointed at the widow's body, and said, "She was killed by someone she knew well... and she was a good friend."

"Oh?" Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other, and heard Gongsun continue.

"Look..." Gongsun pointed to the Zhuchai and jewelry beside the bed, "These should be taken off just now."

"En." Zhan Zhao nodded, looking a little dazed.

"Oh..." Bai Yutang smiled, "I understand... this widow was undressed by herself, not raped."

Gongsun nodded, Zhan Zhao turned to Bai Yutang in confusion, "How do you know?"

Bai Yutang pointed to the heavy makeup on the widow's face, and said, "She was dressed in full dress before she died, and Zhuchai's jewelry must have been on... I only thought of taking off the jewelry before I took off my clothes. Husband came in and raped her, how could he be meticulous enough to help her take off all the red hairpins..." Before he finished speaking, Zhan Zhao squinted his eyes and looked at him.

"Uh..." Bai Yutang thought for a while, became angry, and frowned, "Smelly cat, don't think about it, I was brought up by my sister-in-law, so I know what's so strange about this?" Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows and said to himself , "I have been a color embryo since I was a child."

"What did you say?" Bai Yutang stared, "You're the one, you're such an adult, you don't even know this... Cat, don't you grow up so big, you haven't even held a girl's hand, have you?"

Zhan Zhaofei glanced over and saw that the two were about to quarrel again, Gongsun hurriedly smoothed things over, "Forget it, let's talk about the case first."

After hearing Gongsun's words, the two of them turned their eyes away, but they were still very unconvinced. Zhan Zhao called a worker next to him and asked, "Is there anyone close to your wife?"

Xiao Gong was a little embarrassed, looked at Zhan Zhao, and asked: "The relationship is close..."

"Oh, it's the concubine." Bai Yutang asked straightforwardly.

"Uh..." Xiaogong hesitated for a moment, then looked back at the people behind him, who were waving at him.Zhan Zhao frowned, glared at them, and said, "Do you want to tell the story here, or go to Kaifeng Mansion? You will be punished if you don't report what you know."

The small workers turned pale with fright, and hurriedly said, "To tell you the truth, my lady boss does have a friend...it is the chief escort of Changfeng Security Bureau, Luo Changfeng."

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were stunned, they looked at each other, Zhan Zhao asked, "What weapon does Luo Changfeng use?"

Bai Yutang thought for a while, then nodded, "Use a knife."

Zhan Zhao looked at Gongsun, and Gongsun asked, "Sword in the left hand and sword in the right?"

"The left hand." Bai Yutang replied, "I fought against him..." At this point, he stopped and stared at the watchman's body.

"The wound on his neck was caused by the knife in his left hand." Zhan Zhao said indifferently, "It seems that we need to talk to Luo Changfeng."

Afterwards, everyone cleaned up the scene, and the yamen servants carried the body back to Kaifeng Mansion, waiting for Gongsun's further inspection. Zhan Zhao wanted to go to the Changfeng Escort Bureau to find Luo Changfeng.

"Cat!" Bai Yutang stepped forward and grabbed Zhan Zhao, pulled him aside, and said in a low voice, "Are you looking for Luo Changfeng now?"

"En." Zhan Zhao nodded and asked, "What's wrong?"

Bai Yutang said, "Luo Changfeng washes his hands in a golden basin tonight. Almost all the heroes of the Jianghu have arrived. It is estimated that they are having a banquet now... You go to him at this time and say that he has an affair with a widow and even killed someone?"

Zhan Zhao was slightly taken aback, thought for a while, and felt a little embarrassed.

"Why don't you?" Bai Yutang laughed, "You and I will go to the Golden Basin Washing Ceremony at night. Nan Xia will go there to show Luo Changfeng's face. After the Golden Basin Washing Ceremony is over, we will ask him again. Otherwise, if it is found out that Luo Changfeng did not do it, and you destroy his golden basin to wash his hands, you will have a grudge."

After finishing speaking, Zhan Zhao was touching his chin and looking at him. Bai Yutang's face was burning hot from his stare, and he stared, "Dead cat, what are you looking at?"

Zhan Zhao smiled slightly, "Hmm... I can't tell, are you still looking towards me?"

Bai Yutang stared blankly with his mouth open for a while, then ground his teeth, "A cat who bites Lu Dongbin doesn't know a good heart!" After speaking, he turned and left.

Zhan Zhao raised his foot and chased after him, "It's because he doesn't know the heart of a good mouse!"