eighth story

Early the next morning, Wu Qinyang went to the troupe with Han Xiangyang.Perhaps it was because the troupe thought the murder case was too unlucky, or maybe it was because they didn't want to get involved with the powerful Yang family in the area. In the past few months, the Wen family troupe has hardly received a decent business.And because Wen Yingying's murder case has not yet reached a complete conclusion, neither the Yang family nor Ye Zhao will easily allow them to leave the inner city to make a living in other places, and a theater troupe can't find any other way out, so during this period of time I have been relying on my previous savings to barely get by, and I have already reached the point where I cannot make ends meet.The class leader of the Wen family class is a middle-aged man in his 50s. When he saw Han Xiangyang approaching, he quickly got up and greeted him.Several martial arts students who were practicing at the door also stopped their movements one after another, and came forward to ask about the latest situation of Wen Yingying's case.

Wu Qinyang was not familiar with them, so he took a step back and began to look around the troupe.Wen Jiaban bought a small two-story building on this street. From the gate, you can see all kinds of outfits in the front hall.Wu Qinyang raised his head and looked upstairs, and found that a figure seemed to flash behind the window on the second floor, but it disappeared soon.Wu Qinyang was skeptical, but at this time the theater troupe owner had let them into the house, Han Xiangyang pulled a chair and sat down, and motioned for Wu Qinyang to sit down too.Han Xiangyang took the tea from the troupe master, poured another cup for Wu Qinyang, and then said to the troupe master: "Uncle Wen, this is a new policeman in our bureau, called Leng Yunfeng, please give me another cup of tea." Tell me about Yingying’s situation in detail.” Then he introduced to Wu Qinyang: “Xiaofeng, this is Uncle Wen, the leader of the Wen family class, and Wen Yingying is his niece, who learned opera from him since childhood. "

The head of the theater troupe hurriedly said: "Hello, Leng Butou. What do you want to know about Yingying? I will know everything next time."

Wu Qinyang suddenly wanted to laugh when he heard the name of time travel, and he couldn't help but correct the purpose of this trip. He didn't know where to start, so he thought for a while and said: "Uncle Wen, you are welcome, I just want to If you want to know about it casually, just tell me about Wen Yingying and Young Master Yang."

Before Uncle Wen could open his mouth, a tall and burly young man next to him jumped up and said, "That bastard Yang Shikang has nothing to say! I think you policeman and that bastard Yang family are all in the same group, it's nothing Good thing! Sister Yingying died after being ruined by that bastard Yang Shikang. If you say you don’t arrest people, then don’t arrest them. We can bear with a nest of snakes and rats! But what did your Captain Ye say? ', don't let us go, how can there be such a reason in the world! Are you still letting people live!"

Wu Qinyang thought to himself that this young man is also an unforgiving master, so he was not annoyed at the moment, but just smiled: "Isn't that bastard Young Master Yang dead now?"

The boy choked, but he didn't expect to be beaten back by such a cheerful soft nail like Wu Qinyang, but Han Xiangyang couldn't straighten up with laughter, turned his head and said to the boy: "Huzi, don't bully you, Xiaofeng!" Brother is a newcomer, you can't beat him." The young man blushed, talking about you and me for a long time but couldn't tell why, so he frowned and remained silent.

Seeing this, Uncle Wen quickly scolded: "Huzi, why are you so indifferent, why don't you hurry up and apologize to Leng Butou and them." He asked Wu Qinyang and them to forgive him again and again.The boy said bitterly: "Anyway, you want to avenge Sister Yingying!" After speaking, he turned around and went upstairs in anger.

Wu Qinyang didn't want to be angry with such a half-grown child, and said to Uncle Wen: "You should talk about Young Master Yang."

Uncle Wen saw that neither of them had any intention of getting angry, so he was relieved. When he mentioned Young Master Yang, he first sighed: "Young Master Yang, alas, this Young Master Yang!" Then he said helplessly, "You know, this Young Master Yang Family... Well, there are dozens of people in our theater troupe, so we have to find a way to make a living? This young master Yang is lawless, and we ordinary people dare not mess with him. He has been pestering Yingying, Yingying bothers him, and doesn't like him , I can only persuade Yingying to bear it, and at worst, follow Young Master Yang. Even if he is promiscuous, earning the title of concubine is not a loss. Now it seems that I have made Yingying miserable! Now Yingying... Alas, how can I feel sorry for my brother who died early!" He raised his sleeve and wiped away his tears, "Now that Young Master Yang is dead, Yingying can rest in peace under the Nine Springs... It can be seen that evil comes with evil, God has eyes!"

Wu Qin said: "Then according to what you mean, Wen Yingying really hates this Young Master Yang?"

Seeing that Uncle Wen nodded with certainty, Wu Qinyang could only give up the previous idea that the mother and daughter of the Yang family bribed Wen Yingying to frame Young Master Yang. Wen Yingying's status as an actress is unlikely to get in touch with the Yang family's mother and daughter in the gate of the mansion. It seems that the second aunt is too angry to speak out.Thinking of this, Wu Qinyang continued to ask: "Then can you tell me what happened that night again? I heard that Master Yang came?"

An elderly martial artist next to him said, "Yes, after the second watch that night, it was almost time for Haizheng. Master Yang came in a hurry with a team of entourages, and asked us to return his money." Family heirloom. But we don't know what his family heirloom is, so we can only politely invite him to the second floor first. After all, we finally realized that it was his prodigal son who stole his family's heirloom. It should be a jade bracelet. It looked good, so he gave it to Yingying as a toy. Now Master Yang insists on getting the bracelet back. Then we can't stop it."

Uncle Wen said: "What Dapeng said was that this was the case that night. I said then call Yingying out. I don't know about the bracelet, so I can only let Yingying talk about it. Later, Yingying When Ying came out, she told Master Yang that she had no intention of pestering Young Master Yang, and that she would not be rewarded for nothing, and that she would return all the gifts that Young Master Yang gave. Master Yang asked her to hand over the bracelet quickly, but Yingying went back to the room to find it. , and found that only the bracelet was missing. This has poked a hornet's nest. When Master Yang got angry, he argued with Yingying. We didn't dare to persuade her until Yingying's head hit the table and saw blood. Pull them away. Later, Mr. Yang dropped the bowl and left angrily. I hurriedly asked Ping Jun to wrap Yingying's wound, but in the end I didn't know where the bracelet was. I wondered if someone else in the troupe took it. Yes, I asked around and couldn't find it."

Wu Qinyang said: "Then when did Master Yang leave?"

The martial artist named Dapeng said: "He only stayed for a quarter of an hour."

Wu Qinyang said, "What about after that?"

Uncle Wen said: "After that, I asked Ping Jun to comfort Yingying. Yingying said that she wanted to be alone for a while, and Ping Jun came out first. Later, I saw that Yingying was fine. It was amazing, so I went back to sleep, and I didn’t know about it until Huzi cried and called me up the next morning, saying, “Sister Yingying is dead.”

Wu Qinyang asked, "Where are the others?"

Uncle Wen yelled "Ping Jun" upstairs, and soon a girl with two braids ran down the stairs.Uncle Wen said: "Mr. Ping, tell this cold catcher about your sister Yingying, the more detailed the better."

Ping Jundao: "Sister Yingying broke her head that night, I took Jinchuang medicine to bind her wound. I wanted to accompany her, but Sister Yingying said she had a headache and wanted to rest, so I told her I came out first, and then I went back to my room to sleep. It was already past the third watch. After sleeping for about half an hour, I heard some movement in Sister Yingying’s room, so I pushed Aunt Xiangyun. I asked her if there was any sound, Aunt Xiangyun fell into a drowsy sleep, and said no, I listened carefully, and it seemed that there was no movement, so I continued to sleep, who knows... If I knew it, I should have woken up and watched at a glance."

Second watch, Haizheng, third watch... Wu Qinyang silently corrected the time in his mind. According to Wu Sheng Dapeng, Master Yang came to the troupe before ten o'clock that night, and left half an hour later. The troupe was busy. Wen Yingying bandaged the wound, and after another half an hour, Wen Yingying said that she wanted to rest, so she asked Ping Jun to leave. It was just after the third watch, which should be around eleven o'clock in the evening.Ping Jun slept for half an hour afterwards, and the sound she heard was probably that Young Master Yang broke into Wen Yingying's room, but she didn't know why Wen Yingying didn't call for anyone, it should be around midnight at this time.Combined with what Han Xiangyang said before, Young Master Yang came to the tavern between one and two in the morning, so there is no problem in terms of time.If Wen Yingying's death time was confirmed to be after three o'clock in the morning, then Young Master Yang would not be the real murderer of Wen Yingying.

But Wu Qinyang was still a little worried, and asked again: "Then none of you know about this bracelet?"

Uncle Wen said: "Then Young Master Yang usually likes to give Yingying some gold and silver jewelry. Yingying doesn't want it. I'm afraid of offending others, so I let her keep it first. There is no engraved word on the bracelet saying It's a family heirloom of the Yang family, we don't even know."

Wu Qinyang nodded, thought for a while and said, "Then take me upstairs to have a look."

Uncle Wen asked Ping Jun to lead the two up to the second floor.The second floor as a whole presents a "匚"-shaped pattern, and there are blind spots on the left and right from the stairs, but no obvious abnormalities have been seen so far.Pointing to the room on the left, Ping Jun said: "This is where I usually rest." Wu Qinyang saw that the room was not small, and Ping Jun was not living alone, so he guessed that there were other female relatives in it, so he didn't go in.Go straight from Ping Jun's room and turn left to Wen Yingying's room. The door has been sealed by the police station. At this moment, a woman's lazy voice came from the corridor: "Hey, this I haven’t seen this little brother before, are you new here?”

Wu Qinyang turned around and saw a tall woman standing by the door.The woman's hair was in a loose bun, apparently she hadn't had time to properly dress up after waking up in the morning, so she just casually draped a peach-pink robe on her body, revealing a small section of delicate collarbone, which seemed indescribably frivolous.Wu Qinyang didn't expect to see such characters in the troupe, so he took time to be amazed, and heard Han Xiangyang on the side saying displeasedly: "Hongling, don't draw Xiaofeng's attention."

The woman named Hongling giggled, grabbed the robe on her body and said, "What did Han Butou say?" As she said that, Pingpin walked over coquettishly, "Oh, this is to check Yingying again. What about that girl?"

Han Xiangyang said: "It's business, so you don't have to worry about it." He tore off the seal on the door and at the same time pushed Wu Qinyang secretly, and the two walked into the room together.After Han Xiangyang closed the door, Wu Qinyang asked curiously, "Who was that just now?"

Han Xiangyang said: "It's just a woman, Xiaofeng, you don't need to worry about her."

It was the first time for Wu Qinyang to see him talking to other people in a pleasant manner since he traveled through time. He couldn't help being curious, and immediately asked: "I still can't see that this is a woman? What I want to ask is what does she have to do with this troupe."

Seeing his expression of "investigation is the most important thing", Han Xiangyang confirmed that he was not interested in Hong Ling himself, Fang continued: "She is also an actress in this troupe, called Hong Ling, but Uncle Wen got it from someone else. The one I bought is not the same as Wen Yingying, who was brought up since she was a child. She also sings Tsing Yi, but she is not as good as Wen Yingying, and she can’t be on the big stage.” She pointed to a white painted with lime on the ground. The place in the circle said, "Here, Wen Yingying's body was there that morning, and the room was basically not moved. I found all the things that Young Master Yang gave before, and Wen Yingying locked them in a jewelry box and put them all On the cabinet over there, only the bracelet is missing, and I haven't seen a trace of it until now."

Wu Qinyang looked around and saw that the bedding on the bed was messy, and there were some scattered black bloodstains on the sheets, which could be regarded as the proof of Young Master Yang's violence against Wen Yingying that night.He went to the window and saw that the room was facing the street, so he opened the window and looked downstairs, which happened to be the place where the martial arts students practiced.Wu Qinyang was terrified. There should be no one in this room just now... Then he suddenly remembered the hanged figure floating on the window pane when Xuan Jue was haunted by the red ghost, and hurriedly said to Han Xiangyang: "I am Xiangyang!" Let me ask you! On Wen Yingying's neck...are there any traces of being strangled by a rope?"