Chapter 101 Murder scene
After Zhou Zhao finished speaking, he walked straight towards the Star Picking Tower. When he came to the door, he suddenly stopped again.
The latest letter announcing the death of his wife did not specify the time of death. It was Chuyou who invited them to get together here the day after tomorrow, so she preconceived the idea that the day of death was the day after tomorrow.
But now that a murder has occurred, could it be that... her death is not the day after tomorrow, but now?
She thought and walked in without hesitation.
"Master Xiao Zhou, because we are rushing to work, we have a large group of people working here twelve hours a day. If there is anything abnormal, everyone will see it."
Chu Hang looked at the anxious people and trotted after them.
Seeing that only Su Changying came in, Chu Hang put his hands into his sleeves with a look of pleading on his face, "Miss Zhou Zhao, my boss is pressing us hard. If we can't finish it on time, we won't get the money." .”
"To be honest, the predecessor of this Zhaixing Tower was Linjiang Tower. The former owner was burned here, so this place is a haunted house. Strange things happened when the ground was broken. We invited people to perform Nuo dances and offered sacrifices. Only after killing three animals did I feel at peace.”
Hearing this, Zhou Zhao turned his head curiously and looked at Chu You outside the small building.
She had her sleeves rolled up and was talking patiently to the craftsmen, but the mood of those people seemed to be getting more and more wrong.
One of them, a stout man, shouted loudly, "I've told you a long time ago that there is a big danger in this place, and a woman is invited to take charge. It's just making the trouble worse. Sooner or later, something will happen to Zhaixing Tower! Look, now Wang Liu It’s a scam!”
Zhou Zhao watched quietly, and seeing that Chu You could handle it, he asked Chu Hang, "What weird thing happened?"
"When we were driving the pile, we drew blood...but later we discovered that there happened to be a nest of rabbits hidden under the pile. After working for only three days, one of the old masters named Wanhao accidentally broke his arm. , having no other choice, he asked his junior brother Wang Xun to take his place.”
"Master Xiao Zhou, you are also a girl. You know it very well. These things have nothing to do with Ayou being a girl."
"I'm worried that now that Wang Liu has happened, they..."
Chu Hang said, looking embarrassed.
He didn't finish his words, but Zhou Zhao understood that he was worried that the craftsmen would blame Chu You for the incident, and then be unwilling to continue working because of fear, so that the Zhaixing Tower would not be able to open its doors to welcome guests in the future.
Zhou Zhao ignored him and walked through the Star Reaching Tower toward the side facing the East River.
Chu You built a long water plank road here. Both sides of the plank road are now full of awning boats. There are small copper bells hanging on the awning boats. The bells jingle when the wind blows.
"Boss Chu, we don't want to do this anymore! It's unlucky no matter how you think about it! You settle the money with us and we want to go home!"
At this moment, several strong and powerful men rushed over, and the leader among them was the one who had spoken loudly to Chu You earlier, "You're cheating! Who knows if I'll get into trouble with something dirty!" I don’t want to be the next person to die!”
"Here comes a lady, she can find out..."
The man spoke loudly, and under Zhou Zhao's gaze, his voice became smaller and smaller.
The strong man who was still full of anger before and felt that he could plow two miles of land in one breath was suddenly deflated. He shrank his neck and said, "Sir... Sir, I made a mistake."
Zhou Zhao glanced at him coldly, "We can find out that this is not a corpse fraud, but a murder."
As she spoke, she looked around and said to the people who rushed in, "There is no such thing as the first seven souls, and no one can die twice. Wang Liu faked his death while drunk. His real death was yesterday. Left and right, and died on one of the awning boats in Zhaixing Tower.”
As soon as Zhou Zhao finished speaking, there was an uproar on the scene. She looked towards the other side of the Star Building with dissatisfaction and said loudly, "Min Zangzhi, why don't you come over?"
Although Min Zangzhi is no longer the examiner, he will be needed to write the subsequent case documents. Instead of watching, he just listened and made wooden stakes at the door of other people's houses. He didn't know what the disease was!
After Zhou Zhao finished shouting, he saw Min Zangzhi covering the lower half of his face with a fan and running over.
His whole face was red, as if he was drunk, especially the roots of his ears, which could bleed all over. If you look carefully, you can see that there is a thin layer of sweat beads on his forehead.
Zhou Zhao glanced at him suspiciously, "You also get rubella when you smell paint water?"
Min Zangzhi's face turned redder. He shook his head and completely forgot to shake his fan.
Zhou Zhao was too lazy to pay attention to him and continued to talk about the case, "This case is very simple. The murderer is among you."
After saying that, Zhou Zhao ignored the discussions of the craftsmen and raised his hand to point to a pile of sawdust piled next to the plank road. "During the autopsy just now, we found freshly colored sawdust on the soles of the deceased Wang Liu's shoes. According to you, As you said, Wang Liu has left Zhaixinglou for seven days.”
"If it was inserted seven days ago, the sawdust will be soiled by stepping on it. And some of the slender and sharp ones will pierce the soles of people's feet."
"Wang Liu didn't clean the soles of his shoes or replace his straw sandals. Because these sawdust were newly stained when he came to the Star Picking Tower last night where you piled waste."
"Not long after, he was killed with a blunt instrument and sank into the East River. Everyone is dead, who cares whether the shoes pricked the feet?"
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Zhou Zhao said and walked onto the plank road.
The night wind blew, and the bells on the awning boat tinkled, which also blew up the hairband on Zhou Zhao's head that said "The laws of nature are clear and there are no taboos".
She walked alone toward the center of the sparkling water, and the wind blew up her black official robe. For that moment, everyone standing on the shore felt that she was going to become a fairy.
Su Changying watched, and when he came back to his senses, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he landed next to Zhou Zhao with a tap of his feet.
Zhou Zhao stopped beside the penultimate awning boat. She turned her head and looked at Su Changying, "If you look at me and continue walking forward, you will fall off the plank road. ”
Su Changying was startled and stopped abruptly, only to see that half of the toes of her right foot were already hanging in the air. If she took another step... she would have to force herself to do a light kung fu floating on the water, and she would fall down and force herself to do so. Just like somersaults...
Su Changying took back her feet and walked to Zhou Zhao's side as if nothing had happened.
Zhou Zhao rolled his eyes at him, pointed to the penultimate awning boat, and then took out the small metal ring he had pulled out from the sole of Wang Liu's shoe.
At this moment, the others finally woke up and swarmed over.
Zhou Zhao jumped onto the awning boat next to him with a slight leap, and raised the small metal ring so that it was level with the top of the tinkling copper bell.
Su Changying looked at it, "This small metal ring is used to hang the copper bell. Ah Huang said that Wang Liu once had a fight with others. The bell should have been pulled off during the fight, and then stepped on it in the chaos and became embedded. Straw soles.”
"The awning boat next to it no longer has any bells, so that boat is most likely the scene of the murder."
Zhou Zhao nodded and jumped onto the penultimate awning boat. As she landed on the boat, Su Changying landed lightly and lit up the lights hanging on the boat, and the boat lit up instantly.