Chapter 287: Confusing

"Interesting.

Looking at the scene in the room, Li Changxiao pinched his chin and murmured.

I had a quick glance last night.

When I saw him again today, he had become a corpse.

And he died so thoroughly.

Seeing this scene, the official frowned and quickly pushed open the doors of the other two rooms.

As expected, the fifteen men in black were all dead, and their deaths were almost exactly the same, all of them hanged themselves.

It is rare for such a strange case to happen in a small inn.

The official thought it was just a murder case, but he never thought that there were fifteen corpses hidden on the second floor. He immediately waved his hand and ordered all soldiers to strictly guard the inn and not let anyone go out.

This case is extremely strange. Li Changxiao and other onlookers were forced back to the room by the soldiers and locked the door to prevent them from going out. .

Li Changxiao and the other two never thought that such a strange thing would happen. They were sitting in the room, looking at each other.

The cook frowned slightly, as if thinking about something.

The official ordered people to put all the bodies down straight and neatly arranged in the corridor, and sent people to invite the coroner to perform an autopsy.

The coroner was a middle-aged man. After he arrived, he hurriedly drank a mouthful of courage-building wine and immediately began to perform an autopsy.

There were eight males and seven females who died. They were in good health and had intact limbs. They had not suffered any serious illness or disaster. Some of them had very good faces and looked like they were enjoying wealth and prosperity. They should not have suffered such a disaster.

Further observation.

The eight male corpses seemed to be of similar age and medium build. According to the appearance of the corpses, their eyeballs were protruding and congested. The cause of death should be suffocation, but there were some unreasonable features. For example, the arms were not It was found that the deceased showed a corresponding struggle before suffocation.

This is the initial information we have learned.

The coroner went downstairs again and checked the pool of blood and mud. He frowned and sweated. He had never seen such a corpse in his life. It was extremely tragic. The bones, flesh and blood of the whole body were chopped into meat paste by thousands of knives. It was impossible to tell who the victim was.

At this time, a soldier came to report that a sneaky man was found outside the Beauty Fragrance Inn. The official ordered someone to bring him in. He was panicked and looked at the man with angry eyes. He saw that he was dressed in luxurious clothes, had a great temperament, and was arrogant between his eyebrows. He didn't look like a criminal.

So the official asked him for information. It turned out that he had some background, but he was also closely related to the case, so he was taken to the inn.

The official inferred that the probability of the criminal hiding in the inn was It is possible that the people in the inn committed the crime collectively!

At this moment, he inferred in his mind:

Fifteen people came to this inn last night.

They ordered extremely sumptuous meals and accidentally revealed their wealth, which aroused the covetousness of the people in the inn.

So, at the same time, they had evil intentions and used incense to knock out all fifteen people, and pretended to hang themselves.

And the meat paste in the lobby on the first floor was killed by everyone's joint efforts because of the uneven distribution of the spoils or regret halfway.

Only in this way can the tragic death of this person be explained.

The official inferred in his heart that it was reasonable and the case was about to be revealed.

In fact, it was not his fault.

In this world, most cases are solved like this. Evidence is only auxiliary. The key is to sound reasonable and reasonable.

Next, the official questioned them one by one. He did not take the people in the inn back to the sky prison in the city, but interrogated them on the spot.

The Xiangmeiren Inn opened fifteen rooms last night. Apart from those fifteen people, there were about twenty-three people staying there. Including the elegant man who was just discovered, there were a total of twenty-four people.

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Questioned one by one.

There were only six people who were suspected of committing the crime, and unfortunately, Li Changxiao, Mei Sanniang, and the cook were among them, and they were the focus of attention, because two men and one woman lived in the same room, which was extremely suspicious no matter how you looked at it.

The key point was that the official asked them to explain the reason. Two of the men explained that they were poor, while the very coquettish woman said that she wanted to play some three-person games. At that time, this sentence aroused the official's imagination.

When he came to his senses, he shouted loudly. These three people obviously had something to hide, and their confessions were not coordinated in advance.

Moreover, the shopkeeper said that these three people behaved sneakily in the inn, and they were always observing others while eating. It was obvious that they had ulterior motives.

In the end, the three were questioned and rushed back to the room.

Li Changxiao was speechless for a while.

Mei Sanniang giggled, and the cook was silent.

The other three suspects were an old man, a woman, and a boy.

The old man looked to be in his fifties or sixties, with calluses on his hands. A hatchet was found in his room. He said that he was a woodcutter at this age. In fact, the official believed it, but not completely, because in this era, there are still people in their seventies or eighties who are still alive and kicking.

"The girl" is a beautiful woman who is well-known in the neighborhood. She is nicknamed "Knife Lady". She was cheated by a heartless man in her early years. Now she doesn't like men, especially good-looking men. The shopkeeper described that she and the fifteen people came to the inn almost at the same time last night.

The woman nicknamed "Knife Lady" stared at Li Changxiao, with murderous eyes, almost without concealment, as if she would cut him with a knife in the next second.

The things that Li Changxiao encountered recently were weirder than each other.

The last "child" was more like a young man, who looked like he didn't like anyone.

There are six suspects here.

As for the rest of the people, they were not innocent either, but the suspicion was relatively small.

Li Changxiao, Mei Sanniang, and the cook, since they were here, they wanted to see if the official could solve the case and how it would be solved.

By comparing the guest list, the official finally knew that the true identity of the man who turned into meat paste was actually a very famous young man nearby.

He was the last one to enter the inn last night. This discovery shook his previous guess a little, and according to the previous interrogation, the reason why the luxurious man appeared in the inn was to meet the young man who turned into meat paste.

Both of them came from wealthy families and invited each other to travel around the world. The place where they met was this inn. The luxurious man arrived in the evening, but he had a friction with a table of people in the inn and was angry and left. Because of his face, he refused to come back to live, so he thought about waiting until the next day and returning to the inn early.

But unexpectedly, the old friend was not found, but turned into a pool of meat paste.

With the in-depth investigation,

The case, which was thought to be clear, became confusing again.

Fifteen dead men in black.

The young man turned into meat paste.

...

What is the connection between the two?

The official frowned and pondered. After a day of investigation, the sky was getting dark. He was eager to solve the case, so he did not return to the city and stayed in this inn on the spot.

All the tenants were locked in the house, and the corpses were left where they were.

The proprietress smoked a jade-made dry pipe, puffing smoke under the moonlight outside the window.

She glanced at the cook. This case... may not be simple.