"That's true! If the victim is too tall, he can only stab him with his hand. If the victim is short, he usually stabs him with a stick. This is more convenient and more conducive to stabbing him."
So Mr. Yang no longer dwelled on this issue, but ordered people to bring Mr. Liu's family members immediately. At the same time, he borrowed someone from Su Wenqing to search Mr. Liu's cabin.
"The master said there were no river bandits anywhere. Even if the river bandits boarded the ship, it would be useless for everyone to stay in the main hall and they would all be beaten. So he wanted to go back to the cabin to rest."
A woman in her late teens burst into tears. After wiping her tears with a handkerchief, she couldn't help but sob.
Su Yizhao looked at the woman in front of him, whom I felt pity for, and immediately despised Mr. Liu in his heart.
Mr. Liu must be past his forties, right? This woman looks like she is no more than a hairpin, and she is younger than his daughter, so how can he think of killing her?
This girl is the twelfth concubine that Mr. Liu has just taken in. She is only more than a month old. This time Mr. Liu is going to Beiyuan Mansion to discuss a business, so he took his concubine, Mrs. Liang, with him to serve her.
"Why is your master so sure there are no Jiang bandits?" Mr. Yang snorted coldly.
"The master said that he traveled all over the country and had extraordinary experience. He knew at a glance that it was not the work of robbers. Robbers usually hijack ships late at night to catch them by surprise. In order not to alert the snake, even if there is an insider, he does not dare to act rashly during the day. Why?
Maybe he will suddenly kill someone?"
When everyone heard this, they all thought it made sense.
"That's right! We can't run away anyway, wouldn't it be better to take action later?" Someone suddenly realized.
Su Yizhao nodded. The reason why she didn't pay attention to shopkeeper Zhou's response to the Jiang bandits was because she thought it was unlikely that the Jiang bandits would do it.
Therefore, she has always targeted the murderer as someone on the ship, including the ship's workers and passengers.
"It turns out that Mr. Liu has such a high opinion, but why didn't he say it just now?" someone questioned.
"The slave asked him the same question. The master said that he didn't want to cause trouble. It seemed that this matter had been planned in advance. It would be better to have more trouble than less trouble. He is a businessman, and he can't get rid of trouble."
Su Yizhao was surprised that Mr. Liu looked like a nouveau riche. He didn't expect him to be so smart.
That's right! If you are not smart, how can you be so rich?
Master Yang was also very surprised, but then he sighed again.
"He didn't want to cause trouble, but he ended up ruining his own life. It's still a bad idea to ignore this matter and ignore it! This is called being smart but being mistaken. If he hadn't gone back to the cabin, he would still be alive now.
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"He is going back to his cabin, do you have someone with him?" Master Yang then asked.
"Yes! The master said that he didn't sleep well last night, so I took a nap with the master for a while." The woman's expression became a little unnatural when she said this.
"After waking up, the master felt hungry and wanted to eat the crispy chicken cooked by the slave. The slave went straight to the kitchen and planned to cook it for the master to try."
Everyone's expressions couldn't help but become ambiguous, but now is not the time to care about these things.
The woman's words were verified by the master chef in the kitchen, and she indeed made crispy chicken.
Mr. Yang then asked everyone about the time Mr. Liu left. After calculating, he said: "In other words, he was killed within half an hour. Did you find out that he was killed when you returned to the room?
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"After the slave came back with the crispy chicken, she opened the door and found the master lying on the ground."
The woman continued to sob, not knowing how sincere it was, or maybe she was worried that she would have no support in the future.
"So Liang's suspicion is the highest. After all, we don't know what happened before she entered the kitchen." Su Wenqing said suddenly.
"Indeed! There are only two of you in the cabin, and five people testified for you, so you can't get rid of your suspicion."
Mr. Yang looked at the woman's stature and found that she was almost as tall as Mr. Liu, and his suspicion of her suddenly deepened.
When the woman heard this, she immediately panicked, "But this slave has been in the kitchen for more than a quarter of an hour. How can I kill him?"
Everyone Wen Yan immediately calculated in her mind and found out that Mr. Liu only had less than a quarter of an hour.
"Kill him when he is not prepared. It only takes a few breaths. It is completely enough and there is still room to clean up." Master Yang said with a cold face.
"But I didn't kill anyone, so why did I kill the master? If the master is dead, I don't know how to live in the future."
Mrs. Liang shook her head, now panicked.
"Sir, no other property was found in Mr. Liu's cabin." Shopkeeper Zhou came in to report.
"How much money did Mr. Liu bring this time?" Mr. Yang asked Mr. Liang.
Liang said without hesitation: "The master said he wanted to negotiate a deal. He didn't explain it to me in detail, but I heard him reveal that it would not be less than ten thousand taels."
Everyone couldn't help but gasp, so many?
"Does this mean that so much money is missing? Even rummaging will take a certain amount of time. I just saw that there were no signs of rummaging in Mr. Liu's room. This means that the murderer must know where he hid the property.
Place."
After this analysis, Mr. Yang felt that Liang was even more suspicious.
After being exposed to three murder cases at once, Mr. Yang gradually became familiar with the process of handling the case and his thinking became sharper.
Su Yizhao lowered her eyes and thought deeply. She looked at Mr. Liang, who was pale with fright, but she had another suspicion in her heart.
Liang shook her head desperately, her face turned pale with fear at this moment.
"Your Excellency, how can this slave kill the master? There is no reason!"
"It just so happened that there was a murder on the ship, so you planned the matter and wanted to blame the case on the previous murderer. When the time comes, you take the banknote and fly away, no one can find you, and you don't have to do the job of waiting on others anymore.
Son, is that so?" Mr. Yang shouted coldly.
"Impossible, the slave's bond of sale is still in the hands of the mistress, where can I go with the money?" Madam Liang said flatly.
"Oh! I remembered, the master's banknotes were packed in a box, a box made of huanghuali and longevity peaches. At that time, the master opened it and gave the slave a look, and the slave only saw a thick stack."
Mrs. Liang suddenly remembered this and was very excited.
"He also said that the banknotes are safest if they are kept with him. Later, the slave and the master rested, and the master slept inside with the box in his hands. The murderer must have seen the box on the bed, and then he killed the master and sought wealth and death.
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"Don't argue. As long as you have money, why don't you worry about finding a solution? You saw the box in Master Liu's hand and became greedy, so you killed him."
Master Yang did not listen to Liang's words and asked shopkeeper Xiang Zhou.
"Did you see a huanghuali box?"
Shopkeeper Zhou shook his head, "Not really!"
Huanghuali's box is also a valuable thing, so they will definitely pay attention to it.
Mr. Yang frowned and found two female passengers on the ship to search Liang's body. He also ordered people to search Mr. Liu's cabin again.