The doorkeeper kept it very clean and looked very energetic.
It's just that time has left deep marks on her face, with a layer of age spots on her face. Even though she works hard to straighten her body, she still looks a little shabby.
Lu Bai smiled at the doorkeeper.
He led the sect to the alley, looked left and right, and saw Li San's family in the middle of the alley, almost close to the entrance of the market on the left and the entrance of the field on the right.
"How did you find out that Ban'er was arrested?" Lu Bai asked while looking around for traces.
This alley is in the southern suburbs.
Although it is very prosperous outside the city, it is still outside the city. The streets are paved with dirt. Now it rains and is muddy. There are puddles and mud pits. There are also big and small footprints on the soft soil.
Even though I put some dust on it, it was of no use.
"Ah, I saw it when I went out to pour water." The housekeeper spoke angrily with a strange tone, like a frightened old hen, her words were startled and confused.
Her house is diagonally across from Li San's house, near the alley entrance of the market.
The doorkeeper said as she walked to the door of her house and made a gesture of splashing water.
"I had just come out when I saw something like a big black dog running past the door. I was wondering what it was. When I walked out, I saw the monster holding the board in its mouth and running out the other side.
." said the doorwoman.
Her eyes showed excitement as she spoke, and there was a trace of sadness on her face.
"I dropped the basin and ran after him." The doorwoman ran past Lu Bai.
"But the monster ran too fast and reached the entrance of the alley in the blink of an eye. When I arrived at the entrance of the alley to look, the monster had disappeared." The doorkeeper turned back with a look of regret.
Lu Bai pondered for a moment, "So, you didn't see where the ogre demon went after you came out of the alley?"
The doorkeeper nodded, "This food-eating devil is haunted. It's so evil."
After she finished speaking, she clapped her hands and let out a long sigh, "Young Master, to tell you the truth, I tried my best to chase this ogre. To tell you the truth, I felt like catching him, my godson's son.
He was captured by the ogre demon three years ago."
Then, the housewife scolded the ogre devil, "This damn beast has killed countless people and ruined many families. Why don't you put an end to this scourge?"
Lu Bai ignored her.
He walked slowly towards the entrance of the alley near the fields.
When he was halfway there, he looked back and asked the doorkeeper, "Where did you run to, and the ogre demon walked out of the alley and disappeared from your sight?"
The doorkeeper hesitated for a moment and then said: "Just when Baner's mother went out and saw me."
Lu Bai understood.
He glanced at the entrance of the alley again, turned back to greet the doorkeeper, and when she came over, Lu Bai asked her where she saw Ban'er's shoes.
The doorkeeper hurriedly pointed to a place on the ground on the left, "It's right next to the mud pit."
Lu Bai had nothing to ask now.
He just leaned down and looked around, then bent down to carefully check the footprints on the ground, and returned to Li San's house along the same route.
The doorkeeper asked curiously: "Young Master, are you from the Yamen?"
Lu Bai chuckled, straightened up and clapped his hands, "I am from Jinyiwei."
Snapped!
The housewife's face changed with fright, she took a step back and stepped into the mud puddle.
Lu Bai smiled at her, "Are you scared?"
The doorkeeper was at a loss and trembling. She didn't know where to put her hands for a moment, "Um, sir, just talk and laugh, Jin, who is the guard in Jin Yi, who is not afraid?"
Lu Bai nodded, "That makes sense."
He stood at Li San's door and asked Li San to bring him a bowl of water. Without waiting for Li San's consent, he walked into the door of Li San's house, "Hurry up..."
Before he finished speaking, his body trembled.
The doorkeeper felt a shadow disappear and thought she was hallucinating, so she couldn't help but rub her eyes.
Li San had seen Lu Bai's magical powers and couldn't help but open his eyes wide in the courtyard.
Then, as if she had seen a ghost, the doorkeeper saw Lu Bai holding a dagger in his hand, putting it on the neck of a man in a blue cloth shirt with a fleshy face, and escorting the man from the alley near the market.
The doorkeeper hurriedly looked inside Li Sanmen and saw Lu Bai there, waving to him.
"Ghost, ghost!" the doorkeeper shouted in fright.
Lu Bai escorted the driver and drove the carriage to the doorkeeper. He ignored the doorkeeper and asked Li San, "Who is this driver? Do you recognize him?"
Li San looked anxious. He glanced at the driver and shook his head: "No, I don't know him."
"What about you?" Lu Bai asked the doorkeeper again.
The doorwoman looked a little panicked, but she still shook her head.
Lu Bai chuckled, "You won't tell? He's here to silence you. If you don't tell, I won't be able to protect you. When the time comes, I'll ask you to go to Jin Yiwei's Zhao Prison and talk about it."
The name of Jinyiwei is the shadow of the tree.
As soon as Lu Bai mentioned Zhao Yu, the housewife was so frightened that she was like sieving chaff, "No, no, I..."
"How about you tell me?" Lu Bai asked the man under his sword.
"You must be aware of my reputation. If you don't tell me, I have plenty of ways to get you to speak. You might as well speak happily and avoid suffering a lot." Lu Bai chuckled.
"As for you—"
Lu Bai looked at the porter and said, "If he says so, then you can go to Zhao Prison and have a good time."
The doorkeeper was frightened.
Li San was still confused.
"I say, I say!" Jin Yiwei's reputation for cruelty finally broke the last straw in the doorkeeper's heart, and she hurriedly shouted: "Ban'er, here, in my house. This, this person is the leader of the pig industry.
Zhu Liu's great disciple, I, I have met him."
The doorwoman said it in one breath.
Lu Bai looked as expected.
"What!"
Li San was stunned, and the neighbors in the yard who were either joining in the fun or comforting Mrs. Li San all fell silent.
"What are you doing standing still? Go and rescue your son quickly." Lu Bai kicked Li San.
Then, he asked the doorkeeper, "Where is Zhu Liu's home?"
"The biggest and widest yard in Shazhu Lane is..." the doorkeeper said.
Lu Bai nodded, stepped back, and a clone came out of him and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The doorkeeper looked horrified, Lu Bai's skills were indeed like a ghost.
Lu Bai was also sighing at the effectiveness of this clone technique.
In the fight of magic, this clone technique is actually not very useful, because experienced and experienced people can recognize the clone at a glance. Even if they can't recognize it, because it is a clone, people of the same realm can crush it with one move.
Many times, the clone technique is more used as a cover-up in battle.
However, Lu Bai used this magic to a new level, that is, in investigating crimes - he is probably the only one in the world who uses it like this.
Maybe in the eyes of people in the same realm, Lu Bai's doing this was a bargain - using magic to investigate cases undoubtedly gave the magic a mundane aura, and made him feel like he was not doing his job properly.
However, Lu Bai was very proud of his use of the clone technique to investigate the case.
at this time.
"Found it, Ban'er found it!"
Li San's ecstatic voice came from his mother-in-law's house, and he almost fell down when he went out. In his arms was a five or six-year-old child, his feet were naked, and he was sleepy and confused at the moment, not knowing what had happened.
When Mrs. Li San heard the news, she ran out of her home and threw herself into Li San's arms. She couldn't hold back the tears on her face, "Ban'er, my Ban'er, my little sweetheart."
For her, the sky was falling just now, and she felt that life was hopeless. But now, the rain has passed and the sky is clearing, and she feels happy involuntarily.
Li San patted Mrs. Li San comfortingly.
Ban'er in his arms also reached out and touched the tears in the corners of Mrs. Li Sanniang's eyes, with a confused look on her face.
Neighbors chased them out. While they were happy for Li San and his wife, they also whispered, "Why is Ban'er at the housekeeper's house?"
"Yeah, that's weird."
"And this young master, how did he know he was at the housewife's house?"
"You can see it just by walking around twice? It's amazing."
Lu Bai smiled softly.
In fact, this case is not that difficult.
No matter what the doorkeeper or Mrs. Li Sanniang said, there was one biggest problem:
Ban'er didn't scream.
If he meets a stranger, or if a food-eating demon really snatches him away, Ban'er will definitely make a noise.
This gave Lu Bai an idea: an acquaintance committed the crime.
Only if an acquaintance commits a crime, Ban'er will not remain silent when the other person hugs him.
In addition, Menpo's house is on the left side of Li San's house, and the entrance of Lintian alley is on the right side.
If the housekeeper saw the food-eating demon holding a board in his mouth and chased it, he would definitely pass by the door of Li San's house.
Li San's door is open.
If Ms. Li Sanniang heard the noise and went out of the house, she should have seen the figure of the doorkeeper chasing after her.
But in fact Mrs. Li Sanniang didn't see it.
Not only did they not see it, but by the time Mrs. Li Sanniang chased her out, the doorkeeper had already kept some distance away from Mrs. Li Sanniang.
This is also a big doubt.
Lu Bai guessed that the door mother picked up Ban'er, so Ban'er didn't scream. Then the door lady stunned Ban'er and handed Ban'er to another person. He took one of Ban'er's shoes and ran to Li
After walking a short distance on the right side of the three families, they shouted loudly, "Ban'er, what a ghost!"
Mrs. Li Sanniang could not hear clearly in her panic and would not suspect where the doorkeeper was.
When she chased her out, the doorkeeper had already put some distance away from her. The reason for keeping this distance was because although the doorkeeper was healthy and energetic, she was still an old lady after all. For the sake of Mrs. Li Sanniang,
Without seeing the shoe in her hand, she must ensure that she is always in front of Mrs. Li Sanni.
When she came out of the alley, Li Sanniang threw away the shoes in her hand when she chased her out. This was a deliberate suspicion created by her, making people mistakenly think that the child was taken away by the ogre.
As for the dark shadow that Mrs. Li Sanni saw.
It was actually the helper of the doorkeeper who was playing tricks on her. Mrs. Li Sanniang didn't see what it was at all, but she thought it was the eater devil because of the legend of the doorkeeper and the eater devil.
As for the helper, there was no doubt that he was the one who gave the shoes to Huang Zuotou and asked Huang Zuotou to force Li San to take action.
All he had to do was walk leisurely from the direction of a few scattered houses while everyone was looking for the child.
No one would suspect him.
What's more, his sleeves are so light that he can't hide the child at all.
Then the person can walk through the alley, get the shoes from the mother-in-law's house, put them in his arms, and leave without any worries.
Those looking for the child focused their attention on the alley and the fields, so no one would suspect him.
As for why Lu Bai believed that the child was at his mother-in-law's house, there was no other reason. After all, Ban'er was old, and everyone in the alley was looking for Ban'er. The thief would not take the risk to take Ban'er away.
Besides, they just want Baner's shoes, so they don't need to take such a big risk.
What's more, even if they wanted to take Ban'er away, I'm afraid the doorkeeper wouldn't be willing.
The door mother must have been very close to Ban'er on weekdays, so Ban'er let the door mother pick her up without making a sound. And the thief who found the door mother probably had a new idea and wouldn't let the door mother be with Ban'er for so long.
To manage feelings.
Of course, it was all Lu Bai's guess at first. Lu Bai conducted a series of corroborations before confirming his guess.
For example, according to what the doorkeeper said, the ogre demon ran away through the alley, but the alley was muddy and there were no unusual hoof prints at all.
Moreover, as the doorkeeper said, when she ran to the entrance of the alley, the food-eating demon disappeared. However, according to the doorkeeper, she chased the food-eating demon for a while, but when Mrs. Li San came out, the food-eating devil was gone.
He disappeared from the alley in a flash.
This is simply impossible.
If the ogre demon could disappear when the doorkeeper ran to the entrance of the alley, and read at the same speed, he would have disappeared in the alley long ago, and the doorkeeper would not have a chance to pursue him for a while.
After ruling out these points, Lu Bai was sure that an acquaintance had committed the crime at this time, and the child was most likely at the acquaintance's house, thus locking the doorkeeper.
He turned around and told another craftsman to make the same inquiry when he went back.
He also created a clone and followed the craftsman.
As for this, Lu Bai still has some questions to ask.
After this investigation, Lu Bai suddenly realized that he had overlooked an issue, that is, when he was investigating the case today, the clues were cut off one by one. It was not the man behind the scenes who got ahead of him and cut off the clues one by one, but the man behind the case.
I had expected that Lu Bai would find out here, and had already started to cut off all the clues.
It's just that the mastermind behind the scenes didn't expect Lu Bai to investigate so quickly, so Lu Bai caught up.
Under Lu Bai's vigorous and resolute pressure, the mastermind behind the scenes hurriedly accelerated the subsequent plans to go online, but unexpectedly it was still too late.
For example, he used the doorkeeper to kidnap Ban'er, and then used Li San to kill Hu Wanwan.
This plan can be said to be meticulous, and it should be planned in advance. However, they did not expect that Lu Bai investigated the case too quickly, so that under Lu Bai's pressure, their work became rough and sloppy.
If it was a meticulous crime, Ban'er would have been taken away quietly without leaving any traces, so there would be no evidence to prove the death. No matter how much the investigation was done, the doorkeeper would not be found. And because it is very common for child-eating demons to kidnap children, it is estimated that
This case will probably be closed as another case committed by the Ogre.
However, today's haste left too many doubts, which gave Lu Bai the chance to solve the case.
Not only that, Lu Bai even felt that many cases of child-eating demons might have been committed in this way.
As for whether it is yes or no, we will know whether the prize pool in Lu Bai's draw later will be rich or not.
Just when he was solving the case, the panel reminded him that he had one more chance to draw a lottery.
He now has two lottery chances, and one chance for him to stop and catch the perpetrator Li San and the craftsman.
Lu Bai estimated that the prize pool for that lottery opportunity would not be very good because the case was too simple to solve.
Lu Bai raised his head at this time and was about to interrogate the door mother and Zhu Liu's eldest disciple. Li San handed the ban'er to Mrs. Li San and came over aggressively and wanted to kick the door mother, but saw her defeated look.
, endured it and put his feet down, "Mother-in-law, why are you tying the board? Why!"