Chapter 35 An hour
Lu Jinping didn't want to pretend to him, so he asked himself the key point. He walked around the house. The winery was not big, and there was a hall outside for drinkers to drink. There were several couches and several coffee tables for diners to chat while drinking. There were two wing rooms on the left and the doors were open. When he looked over, he saw that on the left was the boudoir of the widow, which had a leisurely smell of rouge; on the right was a warehouse where wine was stored, with several large jars of wine in it. The smell of wine was floating. There was a door beside the hall. When you opened the door, it was surrounded by a wall.
Lu Jinping turned around and said to Widow Chang: "Where did you first see the body? What does it look like?"
Widow Chang quickly got up, Xiao Sui walked into his bedroom, came to the bedside, pointed to the floor near the head of the bed and said, "Then it's here, lying down face down. It was the first time Liu Laoer discovered it. He called me. I thought he was drunk, but I didn't expect that he was dead and scared me to death. Just because he died in my winery, my business was greatly affected, and many people were afraid that they wouldn't come."
Speaking of this, he looked at Mr. Zhou with resentment and said, "Master Zhou, you have to make the decision for me, because your son-in-law died here, my business plummeted, and no one came. I still hope that this winery will support myself! What should I do now?"
Yuanwai Zhou snorted, turned his head over and did not look at her.
Lu Jinping continued: "You explain the story about what happened that night in detail."
Widow Chang agreed, with her phoenix eyes looking at Lu Jinping with affectionate eyebrows, secretly sending Qiubo, saying, "I don't know what to call this young master?"
Zhou Yuanwai on the side said proudly: "This is Mr. Lu, a man from the founding county of Tongzhou Prefecture, and a doctor of the yamen. He is my guest of honor. I heard that Mr. Lu's son-in-law was murdered by you. Mr. Lu is righteous and wants to catch the real murderer for me and seek justice for my son-in-law."
When Widow Chang heard this, her face smiled like a flower, twisted her body, and her plump and white plumes were shaking, shaking her eyes. She looked at Lu Jinping and said, "It turns out to be the Lord. Oh, I'm rude. I haven't seen a Lord since I was a child. I've really had the honor of being a Lord. I have been lucky enough to have a blue smoke from my ancestors' graves..."
Lu Jinping waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's investigate the case and ask you what you can answer with your life, needless to say anything else."
Seeing that Lu Jinping didn't like her, Widow Chang was a little disappointed and lowered her head and agreed, but from time to time she sent a pair of phoenix eyes to Lu Jinping to secretly send autumn waves.
Lu Jinping said: "What I said just now is to tell you what happened, and you can tell me now."
Widow Chen smiled, stroked her hair, and said, "That day, it was already evening when Pang Yan came. He used to come to me to drink, and sometimes he drank at noon until the next day. He had a very good alcohol tolerance, and he would not get drunk even if he had a jar. But that day, he seemed to be in a bad mood, so he didn't drink muffled, drinking very quickly, one cup after another, and I advised him not to listen. So, by the middle of the night, he was already missing.
I was not drunk much. At that time, the other drinkers had already gone home, and he was the only one left. I said he would not do anything to send him back and would continue to drink. At this time, Liu Lao Er came, and he said he was about to find someone to drink, so the three of us were together, drinking while playing tricks, but it was almost all my family with Liu Lao Er. Pang Yan seemed to have a lot of worries, and he kept drinking one cup after another. He drank most of the jar of wine I took out. "
Lu Jinping glanced at the jar of wine placed on his feet. It was estimated that it was ten kilograms. He drank nearly ten kilograms of white wine alone. Even the relatively low-degree white wine in ancient times was enough. Wu Song and Jingyanggang fought tigers and even drank eighteen bowls, the total amount was probably not more than ten kilograms.
Lu Jinping asked: "You said he seemed to be full of thoughts, so have you asked him what was going on?"
Widow Chang shook her head and said, "I asked him not to say anything, but just drank with her head, but I could tell that he was very unhappy. No matter how I teased him, he just smiled and didn't talk much, so I don't know what he sold."
"You continued, what happened afterward?"
"I saw that he was so drunk that he was so drunk that he said he shouldn't drink anymore, and helped him go home, but he said he wouldn't go back, so he slept here today. I said that's not possible. No man has ever stayed here. I opened the door to do business, but I was doing a clean business, not that kind of bitch. I won't leave a man for spending the night here, and I will send him back no matter what. But he refused to leave. He was too fat, and Liu Laoer and I also drank.
After drinking a lot, he couldn't lift him. So Liu Lao Er said, "Otherwise, put him on my bed and let him sleep there. I sleep in the wine cellar, and there are also door bolts that can be bolted from the inside." Liu Lao Er said that he slept in the hall outside, and he was here, and there would be no one going around in the future. I thought about it, so we forced him to drag him to my bed in the inner room. Then, I took another quilt to sleep in the winery, and Liu Lao Er slept on the couch in the hall."
Lu Jinping said: "This arrangement is not suitable. Why don't you let him and Liu Laoer sleep in the restaurant hall? Then you sleep alone in the house, and you can also bolt the door. In this way, the two men sleep outside can prove your innocence."
Widow Chang smiled awkwardly and said, "The Lord is very considerate. I have never read a book, so I didn't expect to be so thoughtful. At that time, I just thought that he was Zhou Yuanwai's son-in-law and a wealthy family. How could he let him sleep on the floor? He must have to sleep on the bed."
After hearing this, a proud smile appeared on Zhou Yuanwai's face.
Lu Jinping continued, "What happened later? You continue."
Widow Chang said, "When it was almost dawn, I heard someone knocking on the door, which scared me. I had just slept for a while and was sleeping soundly. I scolded him, which dead ghost knocked on the door so early? Liu Lao Er said it was him, so he asked me to get up and take a look. Pang Yan was not right and seemed to be out of breath. I was startled and got up and opened the door. Liu Lao Er said that after he woke up, he found that it was almost dawn, so he was going to call Pang Yan home. After all, I went out early in the morning.
It is not good to see people, and it is best to leave before the day is completely dawn. Pang Yan slept with my room and the door was not closed. When he went in, he saw Pang Yan lying on the ground, lying on the bedside, motionless. He sniffed and seemed to be exhausted, so he came to call me. I was frightened when I heard this and went to see it quickly, but it was really exhausted. We were both frightened, and he went to call the doctor, and I went to Master Zhou’s house to report. They all came, and that was the whole thing."
"When is that?"
"About the beginning of Mao."
"From your description just now, the last time you saw him was in the fourth day of the sky, and found that he died was at the beginning of dawn. There was more than an hour in the middle, right?"
"Yes, that's it."
"Have the door of the winery closed?"
"Of course the door needs to be closed."
Lu Jinping walked to the door of the room and checked the door latch. There was no sign of damage to the door latch. He also checked that the windows in the hall were intact. It seemed that although this widow was doing a laughing business, she still cared about her reputation and the doors and windows were very strict.
He walked into Widow Chang's bedroom again. Several windows were open, but the windows were intact. He turned around and said to Widow Chang, "Has this window been opened that day?"
"In the past, when I sleep in the bedroom, I had to check the doors and windows and close the doors and windows. But you also know that although I sell alcohol, my boudoir doesn't want so much alcohol. Therefore, before I go to bed, I always open the windows to breathe, so that the smell of wine will drift out, and close the doors and windows before I go to bed. When I sleep, I check the bottom of the bed and check every place. Some unscrupulous villains, who want to attack me, would hide in these places. I also found that I used a stick to drive them away. That night, because Pang Yan was sleeping in my bedroom, I forgot to close the windows when I opened it."
Lu Jinping walked to the open window and looked at it. Outside the window was the backyard of the winery, and there was a brick wall of more than one person high, so it was relatively safe, unless someone climbed over the wall.
He looked carefully on the windowsill and found nothing. The window was not high and could be turned in and out directly. And several days have passed, even if there were any traces left, they were probably destroyed.
Chapter completed!