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Chapter 16: The Case of Destruction of the Lu House (2) The Body of the Man in the Secret Room

Zhu Daniu and Bao Liuwen were nervously checking everywhere. When they heard Bao Qing's frightened scream, they were really shocked. The big bull was in front, and Bao Liuwen followed closely and ran towards Bao Qing desperately.

"What's wrong, what's the matter?" Zhu Daniu kicked open the room where Bao Qing was, and Bao Liuwen followed in.

"A male corpse!" Bao Qing said calmly, not as frightened as before, as if he wasn't calling him just now.

"Then why are you screaming? I'm scared!" Bao Liuwen frowned, pressed her right hand on her chest, and said angrily.

"You guys come and see the wall!"

"Hey, a secret room! But most of the rooms of rich people have secret rooms. By the way, how could this corpse be here? Shouldn't it be taken away by the coroner of the government office?" Bao Liuwen asked, then slowly walked to Bao Qing, turned to look at the corpse.

"Ah, why is this person like this? Why is his mouth so wide? No, why is he not rotting that day? Could it be that zombie?" Bao Liuwen took two steps back in fear.

"Are you scared like this? Don't worry, it's definitely not a zombie." Bao Qing's scalp was a little numb, and of course he wouldn't explain too much with Bao Liuwen. The closed oxygen-deficient environment affects the speed of the corpse's decay. So he said, "When I accidentally opened the secret room just now, under the dim light, I saw a black figure pounce on me from the door of the secret room. I was hit in my arms and had an intimate contact with the corpse with a big mouth. Now I know why I screamed so miserable and fear just now!"

"No wonder, if it were me, I would be scared to death on the spot! But why did it open its mouth wide? And why did it pounce on you?"

"Then there is no need to say that the secret room is a place for storing goods. I just went in and looked around, but there was no air hole at all! A living person was inside, but he was not suffocated to death. Think about it, he had no oxygen to breathe, so he opened his mouth and breathed desperately, and was locked in the secret room. He thought about it and didn't beat and scratch it at the door. Then, he died in the secret room. As soon as I opened the door, he fell to me."

"Oh, that's true. By the way, Brother Bao, what is oxygen? Why do you say what oxygen we breathe?" Bao Liuwen asked.

When Bao Qing heard this, he felt a little embarrassed and secretly scolded himself for talking too much, so he had to say, "I just said it wrong. It's air, it's the kind of breath that you inhale and exhale."

"Brother Bao, I have always been wondering why we humans have to exhale and inhale. We have been practicing medicine for many years, and we have never told me!"

"Cough, let's continue to investigate the case!" Bao Qing thought, the little girl really broke the batter and asked to the end. Did she tell her that Hu was for the purpose of intake of oxygen and Hu was for the purpose of eliminating carbon dioxide, and all of this was for the metabolism of our body. Of course, Bao Qing would not explain this way, so she had to cough quickly.

"Strange, Brother Bao, how did that person get locked in a secret room and couldn't get out?" Bao Liuwen had many questions.

"I guess I heard the news of the killing outside, and felt that there was danger outside, so I hid in the secret room. I never thought that this villain looked for wealth everywhere, overturned the table, and pressed it on the machine of the secret room, and killed the door of the secret room. The man was locked in the secret room and was suffocated to death. You don't know that the solid wood square table sank on the ground, and I can't even move it."

At this time, Zhu Daniu suddenly became excited and shouted: "Brother Bao, come quickly! We are rich and have a lot of money!"

"You are such a pig! Don't I know if you have money? What are you yelling about? You can't just quietly find money in this dark night?"

"Oh, Brother Bao! Then what do you mean?" Zhu Daniu asked.

"You are really a pig. What should I do if I find the money? What did we go to Huairen County to work so hard? You found a bag, and you sorted out Jiaozi and copper coins and took them all away. By the way, there are also those precious calligraphy, paintings, jewelry, etc."

"Brother Bao, take them all away? It seems not good! My father said that it is best to be greedy for a fraction of the time, so that you don't notice it." Bao Liuwen suggested.

"Big Niu, don't listen to her. Pack everything, take away everything you can. By the way, pick a good piece of jewelry for your own mother!" Bao Qing is not stupid. As long as no one reports it, all of these belong to him.

"Brother Bao, there are a few books here, why don't I help you install them so that you can go back and take a look." Daniu said.

"Books? They say that calligraphy and paintings are valuable! What's the good thing about this book?" Bao Qing took a look at the book handed over by Zhu Daniu.

This is not a book, it is clearly an account book. What kind of account book is this? It has to be kept in a secret room? Bao Qing ran over and read all the books, and two letters fell out of it.

The letter was also placed in the secret room, and it seemed that this letter was quite important. Bao Qing opened the letter and looked at it carefully. After a long time, Bao Qing handed the letter to Bao Liuwen.

"Brother Bao, this letter is abbreviated by the prime minister Lu Yi of the current dynasty!" Bao Liuwen said.

"Yes, this letter is too important. Both letters are instructed by the Lu family to act secretly, as if to monitor the Li family in Changyuan County."

"I know the Li family. The Li family is one of the few big merchants in our county, specializing in the supply of materials for river engineering. The embankment materials in the entire section of the Nanfei River in our county are all supplied by the Li family."

"Is the head of the Li family called Li Jiujin? The owner of this account book is called Li Jiujin!"

"Yes, it's called Li Jiujin, and the Li family is very big. It seems that Li Jiujin is the uncle of Li Hai, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Works. The river engineering materials are supplied by the Li family every year, but the dam breaks every year and they are broken. The materials are broken. My father dares not speak out. No one can do anything to the Li family." Bao Liuwen seems to know a lot.

"So, the Lu family is investigating the Li family! And it was entrusted by the current Prime Minister Lu." Bao Qing complained deeply, this is probably an internal strife in the court. It is better not to participate in such a fight between gods and gods like himself.

"I think it's, Brother Bao, then look, did the Lü family buy the murderer?" Bao Liuwen asked.

Bao Qing nodded and said, "This is possible, but we have to catch the murderer first. As for the mastermind behind the scenes, it is best not to touch it. Even if you touch it, you should throw the problem to the government office. See if you can catch the perpetrator and send it to the government office to finish the matter!"

"Big Niu, bring everything back, keep the secret room closed, put the body on the screen in the corner of the wall, and notify the government office tomorrow to deal with it." Bao Qing ordered.

Early the next morning, Bao Qing and the other two came to the government office to check the files and checked them until noon, and then they finished checking all the files.

"Xiaowen, how are you watching the corpse list?" Bao Qing asked.

"From the corpse list, most of the Lu family members were killed with one knife, and most of the wounds were counted on their necks. The fatal wounds on their necks were not very deep, but they seemed very accurate. I think those bad guys were proficient in assassination." Bao Liuwen replied.

Bao Qing nodded. As expected before, these murderers were some assassinators who were skilled in assassination, and they were organized and planned. This is a problem. It seems too mysterious to deal with a killer organization by himself, a county lieutenant.

"Brother Bao, where are you there!"

"This document records that when the incident happened that day, the old man who was beaten to the Lu Mansion passed by the Lu Mansion. When he was in Yin Shichu, he heard the screams from the Lu Mansion, so he secretly lay down at the crack of the door and looked at it. Finally, the old man was not scared and ran to the government office with tears and shouting. Because the government office knew that the Lu family was a member of the Lu family, he attached great importance to it. He immediately dispatched all the constables and yamen run to the scene of the crime and closed the city gate at the same time."

"That's all? Is there any suspect?" Bao Liuwen was very disappointed.

"Yes! It's just Zhan Fang and the others! I guess they really couldn't find the murderer, so they caught Zhan Fang and the others. By the way, I roughly calculated that it took only a hundred breaths for the old man to run to the yamen, and the Lu Mansion was still very close to the yamen. The constable ran faster, with a maximum of two hundred breaths, which was no more than the hour of Yin, and Luzhou closed the city gate at night."

"In other words, the murderers only have 200 breaths to escape. When the constable arrived, even if he could leave the murder scene, he had no time to escape from the city? Right, Brother Bao!" Bao Liuwen interrupted quickly.

"Brother Bao, I don't understand what you said. Those murderers can't leave the city. At worst, they can't leave the city when the city gate opens during the day. Isn't it the same?" Zhu Daniu couldn't help but interject when he saw Bao Qing and Bao Liuwen chatting.

"Don't interrupt, those murderers wait until the city gate opens during the day before leaving the city. So how do they hide when the constable searches the whole city? You know, there are so many of them, at least dozens of people!" Bao Liuwen pouted and glanced at Zhu Daniu.

"Xiaowen is right, this is the most important clue at present. We basically believe that this family extermination case is a premeditated and organized killer and the murderers are all killers who are good at assassination. These killers plan to assassinate the entire Lu family. After the assassination, they find a place to hide in Luzhou City, and then wait until the wind passes, the city gates open and leave one after another. I guess, before the murder, these killers were disguised and scattered into the city. The hidden place afterwards is likely to be their place to enter the city." Bao Qing thought for a while and said.

"If that's the case, wouldn't that place be the branch of this killer organization?"

"It's very likely, but this is just our own wishful thinking. If this so-called branch exists, we might as well think about it more. Where is it possible?" Bao Qing had actually been thinking about this question for a long time. The key is that he is not familiar with Luzhou City and has no way to guess.

"This, I'm not familiar with Luzhou City either." After Bao Liuwen finished speaking, she saw Bao Qing slightly disappointed, bit her lip, and then said, "You can ask Sister Yanran, she must know."

Bao Qing didn't say anything, the key is that he didn't know what to say!

After using the meal, Bao Liuwen indeed found Dong Yanran, followed by the maid Xiaolan.

Bao Qing looked up at Dong Yanran slightly, feeling a little surprised. Miss Dong seemed to have lost some more, and her complexion turned yellow and she was in a state of distraction.

When Dong Yanran saw Bao Qing looking over, she turned her head slightly and coughed twice: "Some time ago, I was caught in the wind and cold and I had some cough."

"Sister Yanran, you are in good health. You shouldn't have trouble you!" Bao Liuwen felt a little guilty and turned to glaring at Bao Qing, "It's all your fault. Sister Yanran has arguing about you and his father, and was confined some time ago. That tall woman is not as good as us. She is such a lovely man!"
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