Half River Autumn Moon and River Spring [Rat and Cat]

After Bai Yutang finished speaking, Zhan Zhao didn't realize it for a moment, until Bai Yutang started to touch him with his hands, then he jumped away and said, "What are you doing?"

Bai Yutang touched Zhan Zhao's body and said, "Cat, I remember you took the map drawn by Mr. Gongsun, and let me have a look."

Zhan Zhao paused for a moment before remembering that he had brought the map with him just in case, and after giving it to Bai Yutang, he frowned and said, "If Gongsun drew the map before the road was built, Then the distance and position of this piece will be different from the current one, which means that it will cause calculation deviations..."

Zhan Zhao tilted his head to look over, and asked, "So, do you need to start from the beginning?"

Bai Yutang shook his head: "No, even though there are deviations, the general direction is still correct, that is, the actual real target is not far from our place."

After speaking, Bai Yutang began to put away the map. Zhan Zhao saw Bai Yutang's movements and asked, "Do you know where it is?"

Bai Yutang nodded: "When I passed by just now, I didn't expect..."

"Eh? Did we pass by?"

Bai Yutang said: "It seems that the murderer's goal is really the medicine shop..."

"Pharmacy store?" Zhan Zhao changed his mind, "The pharmacy we just passed...you mean Ji'an pharmacy?!"

Bai Yutang glanced outside the door and said, "It's getting late, let's go over and check the situation first."

After thanking the shopkeeper, the two hurried to Ji'an Pharmacy. On the way, they met Da Ni who was eating sugar man and Su Gui who was walking with him, but they didn't see the person who was with them. Zuri dyed.

Bumping into Zhan Bai and the other two head-on, Dan Ni wanted to rush over to hug Zhan Zhao with his mouth full of powdered sugar. Su Gui grabbed Dani by the back collar and said, "Oh, I said you little brat, your hands are sticky. Just don’t put sticky candy on people, it’s true!! You’ll attract bugs later!!”

Zhan Zhao touched Dani's head, then looked at Su Gui and asked, "Why are there only the two of you? Where's Brother Su? Aren't you going to buy medicine together?"

Su Gui sighed and said: "It's not because of this little devil, he walked around the boss as soon as he entered, and accidentally smashed several jars of medicinal wine for the boss, Emma, ​​those snakes and insects soaked in medicinal wine spilled all over the floor Then the little devil saw it and cried in fright. My son had no choice but to let me take the little devil away first, and he was still there to clean up the aftermath! As a result, you see this poor child, as soon as he came out, he was like a normal person, and he insisted on pestering me Buy sugar for him to eat! Eat, eat, look back and see that you don't have tooth decay!"

Dani was quite aggrieved: "But the boss, Da Ni, looks very familiar, so I want to go up to him and have a look. Who knows those snakes are placed next to him, so scary! Wow, why does the drugstore have to raise snakes!"

Su Gui said feebly: "Everyone says it's for brewing medicinal wine, you brat, I don't know if you can handle it well, but please don't make things difficult for our young master, really!"

Zhan Zhao said: "It just so happens that we have something to go there, you go back to Kaifeng Mansion first, it's quite late."

Su Gui nodded: "Then Mr. Lao Zhan will help my young master, I will take this little devil back first!"

After the few people said their goodbyes, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang rushed to the Ji'an Pharmacy, but when they arrived, they found that the store door was closed tightly. The two looked at each other, and Zhan Zhao stepped forward and gently pushed the door. The door was locked, and just about to knock on it, suddenly heard a shrill scream from inside——

Zhan Zhao was startled, and hurriedly lifted his foot to break in the door. As soon as he entered, he found that the ground was full of broken pieces of medicine pots and some animal carcasses soaked in wine. It was the same as what Su Gui said, but he didn't see anyone, and finally he heard movement inside. , Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang hurried into the inner room again, and were photographed as soon as they entered.

A man covered in blood fell to the ground and twitched. Beside him was a complete severed hand, which was bleeding continuously. It was obviously cut off not long ago, and blood was spattered in many places in the room. , and besides this man, there is another person standing in this room.

Zuri dyed.

The situation in front of them undoubtedly surprised the two of them. Su Liran didn't react too much when he saw the two of them entering the room, but walked to the side of the man with the severed hand. The man with the severed hand trembled in fright when he saw Su Liran walking Getting up, he was about to move back while rubbing against the ground, and he kept muttering: "Chi... Chiba ghost... don't come over, don't come over..."

Seeing Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang standing at the door again, the man stumbled to his feet and shouted to them, "My lord, save me, save me!!! The Chiba ghost is going to kill someone!!!"

Zhan Zhao supported the man, and saw Su Liran took out a towel, bent down to wrap the severed hand on the ground, and picked it up.Just as he was wondering, he heard Su Liran say lightly: "Send him back to Mr. Gongsun for treatment first."

Seeing this situation, Zhan Zhao couldn't help asking, "What happened?"

The man with the severed hand shouted: "He is a Chiba ghost, a Chiba ghost, a Chiba ghost who specializes in eating people!!!"

"What Chiba ghost?"

"Look at his eyes, they are blood red. He is not a human being, he is just an appearance created by Ba. He killed Boss Du of Ruolan Hall and Boss Tong of Tong An Hall!! Now he is here to kill me! !"

Su Liran glanced at him and said, "You should stop the bleeding first, this severed hand is a witness, take it with you as well."

The two sides were still in a stalemate, Zhan Zhao frowned, and said to Bai Yutang, "Yutang, first you find a carriage and take him to Mr. Gongsun, and by the way, call the yamen servant to guard the scene, let me come here."

Bai Yutang nodded, quickly stopped the bleeding, then took the severed hand from Su Liran and took him away. Although he has an extreme cleanliness, as long as it is something that Zhan Zhao asks, Bai Yutang will definitely do it. It is imperative.

Seeing that Bai Yutang took him away, Zhan Zhaocai asked, "What happened? Did you cut off his hand?"

Su Liran shook his head: "I didn't do it, when I came in, his hand was cut off."

"Then why did he say you did it?"

"I also want to know why he said it was me. It's the first time I've met him. I don't know anything about him except that he is the owner of this Ji'an drugstore and his surname is Yang."

Zhan Zhao said, "Please tell me the truth."

Su Liran sighed, obviously a little helpless that he would be dragged into this case.

According to Su Liran, due to Dani's relationship, he overturned several pots of medicinal wine, so Su Liran had to stay and negotiate with the store owner for compensation. Dani kept crying so Su Guixian took him back. , and then Boss Yang said he wanted to go into the house to get the account book to settle, so Su Liran had to wait outside the house, but when he was waiting, he heard Boss Yang screaming from inside the house, and when he went in, he saw that Boss Yang's hand had been chopped off Fall there, then Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang will arrive.

When Su Liran said this, he paused: "You have seen what happened next, he suddenly insisted that I did it."

"Then when you entered this room, did you see other people?"

"No, there is no one else except Boss Yang."

Zhan Zhao didn't speak, but just looked at the scene. Besides the bloodstains, there were ledgers scattered on the ground, and there was a bloodstained knife at the door, which was obviously the murder weapon.

Zhan Zhao stroked his chin and thought for a while, then suddenly turned around and walked out of the room, stopped at the medicine bucket, and saw that the upper four and the third from the right were open, Zhan Zhao frowned, took a closer look, and was caught What I opened was still the cabinet containing angelica!

Since entering the store, no one else has appeared, Zhan Zhao looked around thoughtfully for a while, and said to himself, "Strange, why is there no one in this store?"

Su Liran replied: "When I came, there were no other people. Boss Yang said that those guys have all gone back, and now he is the only one staying to look at the store."

Zhan Zhao nodded, came to the room again, went to the window to observe for a while, and found that there was no sign of anyone entering or leaving, that is to say, no one escaped from the window.

Assuming that Su Liran was not the murderer, how did the real murderer leave?

According to the situation at the scene, it seems that all of them are very unfavorable to Su Liran, and the most unfavorable thing is that the victim personally identified the murderer as Su Liran.

According to general logic, it seems that Su Liran attempted to kill someone. If he came a little later, would Boss Yang be dismembered and put into the medicine bucket like Boss Du and Boss Tong were?

However, I always feel that the sense of violation is too strong.

The evidence seems to be sufficient but full of doubts.

Zhan Zhao hesitated for a while, then asked again: "Brother Su, I hope you don't mind, as usual I still have to ask, you two days ago..."

"Master Zhan wants to ask where I was when Boss Du and Boss Tong died, right?" Su Liran interrupted Zhan Zhao, "I rest in Kaifeng Mansion at night, but no one can prove it for me. After all, I live alone in a room, so if Mr. Zhan suspects that I am the murderer of these serial murders, it is understandable."

Zhan Zhao said: "I didn't say that Brother Su must be the murderer, but since Brother Su is suspected of being involved in the case, I must deal with it in a business-like manner. Please forgive me if I offend you. If Brother Su really did not do this, I will I will definitely give Brother Su justice."

Su Liran still smiled lightly: "Naturally, Su believes in the ability of Kaifeng Mansion, and there is Mr. Lao Zhan."

Zhan Zhao pointed to the medicine bucket again and asked, "Brother Su, when he entered this store, do you remember seeing that a cabinet of this medicine bucket was opened?"

Su Liran was stunned, looked at the medicine bucket and replied: "I really didn't pay attention to this, besides, it's common for the medicine bucket in the medicine shop to be pulled apart?"

Zhan Zhao pursed his lips with a puzzled expression.

Su Liran had never seen Zhan Zhao's expression like this before, and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

Zhan Zhao smacked his lips: "This case is very strange, really strange... There must be ghosts, right?"