Lu Jinping also had a good impression of the porter and said, "Since this little lady can testify to you, and you don't know that she is looking at you, it means that what she said is true. So, you have evidence to prove that you were not at the scene of the crime, so, it is not the case you did, you can initially rule out the suspect of the crime.●⌒"

The porter couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, and thanked him repeatedly.

Lu Jinping looked at the rich man and said, "What about you? It seems that you were alone in the house when the murder occurred, right? Do you have any evidence of your absence?"

The rich man's face shook and said, "I was sleeping at that time, and I have no evidence."

Lu Jinping said: "If you don't have someone to prove it, you can provide physical evidence, for example, what you see and hear, and these things can only be seen or heard in your location, and these can also be proved."

When he heard this, the rich man thought about it, slapped his forehead and said to Lu Jinping: "I don't know if there is something that proves that because it's cold, the quilt is thin, and someone was killed, I tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. Later, I heard the screams of this girl from your room. It seemed that something had hit your window, and there was a bang, so she screamed, and then the light in your room was turned off. I thought it was a bad person at that time, but I didn't dare to get up and look, because it was too cold, and I thought that this girl had great martial arts skills, so no one should bully her, and no sound could be heard behind it."

Yunzi and Lu Jinping looked at each other and felt a little embarrassed, especially Yunzi, whose face turned red because he thought of what happened later.

Lu Jinping's attention was still on solving the case. Inferring from time to time, if the local rich man had indeed heard Yunzi's screams and the sound of branches hitting the railings and windows, then it would have been a moment since the peddler was killed. The local rich man could not have traveled quickly between the toilet and the wing room in such a short time, and it would have been impossible for him to be in two places.

Lu Jinping nodded and said, "The sound you heard just now is correct. This sound can only be heard in the yard, and it is absolutely impossible to hear in the toilet. So this can be used as evidence that you are not at the crime scene. You can also rule out the suspect."

The rich man then breathed a sigh of relief and quickly thanked him.

Lu Jinping finally looked at the strong man with a waist knife and said, "They can prove that they are not present, only you have no evidence to prove that you did not kill the peddler."

"Sir, I, I was squatting in the toilet and shitting. I, where should I find a witness?"

The hunter said: "There are so many things about thieves shouting to catch thieves."

The strong man couldn't help but be furious when he heard this and yelled: "What do you mean? Are you saying I killed him?"

When the hunter heard the other party get angry, he couldn't help but take a step back and said, "I didn't say that either. I just said that there is a thief calling for catching a thief, but it's not about you."

"You are pointing at the bald man and scolding the monk, don't think I can't hear it."

Lu Jinping waved his hand to stop the two from arguing.

The hunter said, "I didn't kill him anyway. I'm not familiar with him. I know what he does? Why do you want to kill him? He is not a wild beast. You can sell it for money if you kill it."

The strong man said, "Me too, I don't know him either. Why should I kill him?"

Lu Jinping said: "The motive for murder can only be revealed after the criminal is found out. In many cases, outsiders seem to have no motivation, but in fact there are deep motives. Therefore, you cannot rule out the suspicion of the crime on the grounds of no motivation. You two are suspected in this case. Therefore, after the blizzard stops, you two will follow me to Tongzhou City. I will continue to investigate this case."

The strong man suffered from Yunzi's loss and knew that although Lu Jinping had no martial arts skills, the girl around him had excellent martial arts skills. If he had this woman as a strong support, he had to obey. What's more, he was an official. If he didn't cooperate with the investigation of the case, he could still arrest himself. So the strong man quickly figured out this point and said: "The blizzard has stopped, I will go back to investigate. However, I really didn't kill him. If I killed him, bury him directly in the snow, or throw him down a cliff, you don't know that the blizzard is so big that it will be half a foot deep in a while, so how could he find his body?"

The hunter said: "Can it be someone else? It was a sneak attack hidden nearby."

Lu Jinping shook his head and said, "At present, there is no such evidence, and this possibility is not great. Because no one can come from such a dangerous mountain road for such a big blizzard. The biggest possibility is the case that one of the people here is doing. Now, after investigation, the biggest possibility is the two of you. Of course, if the murderer is willing to confess and surrender, he can be dealt with with leniently."

The hunter said: "A hero is a hero, but I didn't do it, so of course I can't do it."

"At present, we are just concluding that you are the suspects from the point of time and possible that you have the crime. Because there is not enough evidence to prove that you are the murderers, I will not take coercive measures against you, and you cannot leave. You must obey my orders and go to Tongzhou to continue the investigation. If you want to abscond, I will treat you as criminals and will go to sea to arrest you for official documents. Have you heard it clearly?"

Having said this, both the hunter and the strong man had to nod.

Lu Jinping said again: "You two are suspects now, and I hope you two will supervise each other. So, tonight, you two sleep in the kitchen, the porter, come to sleep in the lobby, and the others will sleep in their own sleep. After the blizzard stops, we will go back to Tongzhou."

Arrange it properly and go back to your room to rest.

Lu Jinping and Yunzi returned to the wing room. The window in the room had been smashed to pieces. Lu Jinping took off the branches on the window lattice. The old woman found another piece of kraft paper from home and applied the window again. The window lattice could not be repaired now, so she could only wait until the blizzard stopped and then lighted the oil lamp again, and then the old woman left.

Close the door and sat back on the kang. Yunzi glanced at Lu Jinping and said, "Do you still want to drink?"

Lu Jinping shook his head and said, "From now on, we must stay absolutely sober, so we can't drink anymore."

Yunzi was shocked and said quickly: "What do you mean is that the murderer will still kill people? Didn't you let them supervise each other?"

"Although there is no clear evidence in this case, judging from the current situation, it is not very likely that they will commit the crime."

Yunzi nodded: "Yes, first of all, it's the hunter. Although there is no evidence of the hunter's absence, if he really wants to kill this person, he doesn't need to get close to him to cut his neck, because he is a hunter with a long bow on his body, and a distance can kill him with an arrow."

"Yes!" Lu Jinping nodded.

Yunzi continued: "The farmer said just now that he saw the hunter sitting there when he got up. The hunter woke him up. This testimony was obviously a bit unfavorable to him, but he did not make any excuses and admitted this fact. I think there is no ghost in his heart. If he really has ghosts, he will definitely pretend to be asleep when he comes back, waiting for the farmer or others. After hearing the scream, he wakes him up. The evidence of his absence is sufficient, and he did not do so, so I think it shouldn't be him."

Lu Jinping smiled and nodded: "It's very good. Your analysis and reasoning are very good, and that's true. As long as it was done by him, he could pretend to be asleep. Let others wake him up and testify for him, so I feel that he should not be the suspect."

"Then it's only that strong man with a knife. Is it really his thief who shouts to catch the thief?"

"So far, he is the most suspicious. Because he is indeed with the deceased, no one else proves his innocence. In addition, he is strong in martial arts, so it is not a problem to kill the peddler, but he also has something strange to him."

"Oh? Where is it?"

"If he really wants to kill the other person, he shouldn't choose to use a knife, because he only has a knife among all people. If he uses this method to kill people, it is easy to suspect him immediately. Therefore, I suspect that if the murderer is one of us, this person may use frame-up method to turn our attention to the strong man."

Yunzi said: "I also feel that when the hunter said that he was very angry when he was called to catch the thief. I could feel that the anger was from the heart, a kind of anger from the heart after being falsely accused, so my feeling was also that he was not very similar to the murderer. And I found that although you said he was a suspect and said that the deceased was killed by a knife, you did not check his single sword to see if there was blood on it. I was a little surprised at that time, I don't know why you didn't do this. Now I understand, in fact, you don't really suspect that he is the suspect. You just want the murderer to feel that you have caught the murderer and relax your guard, so that you will be exposed, right?"

Now Lu Jinping looked at Yunzi very well and exclaimed: "You really surprised me. You can guess what I think. It seems that we are both without colorful phoenixes and have a little understanding of each other!"

Yunzi's body was obviously shocked, and he looked at him with a hot look, and said happily: "This poem is so good! You can say such beautiful poems by blurting out your mouth. It would be a pity if you don't take the top scorer for such a good knowledge."

Lu Jinping blushed a little and said hurriedly: "This is someone else's poem, which I learned from."

Yunzi said, "No way? My Hanguan teacher taught me all the famous poems of the Tang Dynasty, but there was no such sentence. This sentence is so beautiful, it is definitely not something that ordinary people can write. If it were someone else's poems, it would have been spread throughout the world for a long time, then I, Hanguan master, should know, so don't be humble, you must have done it, right?"

This poem is a famous line by Li Shangyin, a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty. It only appeared more than a hundred years later. No one knows it now. I just read it casually. After hearing Yunzi's praise, I looked at him with a very enthusiastic look. Lu Jinping not only felt ashamed, but also muttered not to show off these things casually in the future. There is really no need to do this. He had to use other people's poems to exchange for a woman's soul and admiration. That would be meaningless.

Lu Jinping immediately changed the topic and said, "I won't talk about this anymore. Seeing this blizzard can't stop for a while, let's go to bed first and accumulate energy."

"Okay, I'm really sleepy. I just drank wine."

"Aren't you afraid of lying outside?" Lu Jinping felt a little strange. Someone outside was murdered just now. If it were another woman, she would probably be very afraid that she would not have sleepiness at all. Unexpectedly, Yunzi seemed to be nothing.

"What's so scary? I used to fight against my father on the battlefield. Some of them died miserably. I was also scared at first, but after seeing too much, I got used to it."

Lu Jinping was even more surprised and said, "Have you ever been on the battlefield?"

"Yes, there are often tribal rebellions. My father is the general of our Tubo. I often wear military uniforms and go to fight with him to kill the enemy. Why would I learn martial arts?"

Lu Jinping was even more surprised. It turned out that in this Tang Dynasty, not only were women in the Tang Dynasty open to become officials and even emperors, but Tubo was also a woman who was not as good as men and went directly to fight to kill the enemy.

Yunzi put the wine bowl on the earthen kang on the head of the earthen kang, then turned around and knelt on the earthen kang, lay the bedding, then got into the quilt, and waved, "Come in quickly."

Seeing Yunzi so open, Lu Jinping felt a little embarrassed and said, "You just need to sleep on the kang, I just need to sleep on the floor."

Yunzi gave him a blank look, lifted a corner of the bedding and said, "How can that make sense? Come up quickly, we are wearing clothes but haven't taken off our clothes, just a quilt, and we don't cover it together. What should you do if you get frozen at night? Hurry up, stop talking!"

Lu Jinping smiled and got into the quilt, pulled the quilt over and covered it. Yunzi then smiled, blew out the oil lamp on the kang, and then got into the quilt.

Although Yunzi seemed very honest and straightforward before, he asked Lu Jinping to get into the quilt and share the same bed, but he was actually lying in the quilt, but he was lying honestly and didn't even turn his head to look at Lu Jinping.

Lu Jinping was a little uncomfortable, so don’t say anything: “When you lie down on your Tubo grassland, look at the stars in the sky, it must be beautiful, right?”

"That's of course. I always feel that the stars in our place are much brighter than those in your Tang Dynasty. They are all over the sky like gems, so beautiful."

Tubo has a very high altitude and is thinner than the plains. Of course, the stars look particularly bright.

Lu Jinping said: "Then do you often lie on the grass and watch the stars like this?"
Chapter completed!