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Chapter 38 Jinjiang Literature City [Liu Deng 3] Chapter 38...

Detective Ye quickly: "Wandong, I still don't understand, but I'm quite worried about Mr. Qiu."

Wandong narrowed his eyes, squeezed a piece of mung bean cake with two fingers, and twitched the corners of his pretty lips: "Since Mr. Qiu dares to lock up people, he has a way to deal with it. If he doesn't have the guts, he won't dare to lock up people."

"As for the fact that he turned off the most important person, the Lantern Master, no matter who the murderer is, other people will panic if they should panic at the moment."

"Is the murderer the Lantern Master?" Captain Ye asked anxiously.

"Brother Ye really wants to know?" Wandong laughed.

Captain Ye nodded quickly.

"Then let's go to the jail where the lantern master is being held?" Wandong leaned over.

Detective Ye blushed, leaned back, but nodded his head honestly, Xiao Wandong's face is so picturesque, who dares to look at him!

After paying the bill and coming out of the tavern, Captain Ye suddenly realized that this is not in Shangjing!Why did he take Wandong to camp in the government prison in the northern suburbs of the city!

When they arrived at the gate of the Sanlihe government office on the outskirts of Yingbei, Captain Ye hurried to find Butou Qiu.

Qiu Butou took someone out just now, and the master of the government office told him.

Detective Ye quickly asked his master to take him to the prison.

"You should have heard of the lord above me, Yingchuan ink carp..."

Before Detective Ye finished his quick words, the master said in surprise: "Of course I know!"

"Today, this person is Lord Mo's friend. He was watching the lanterns at the time, so he became interested in this case."

When the master heard that he was Lord Mo's friend, he must be a very powerful person: "Then I will take you there!"

The master was chatting and laughing with Wandong all the way, and Detective Ye quickly followed behind with his sword in his arms. Who is Wandong's old friend between him and this master who just met?

At the gate of the big prison, the master first went to the head of the prison, and asked Wandong and Captain Ye to wait for him in the ear room.

The cell leader led the master into the cell.

The master asked the head of the prison to open the iron chain first: "I want to ask about the case, so I have to take him to the ear room."

The head of the prison stared at the master, then quickly lowered his eyes, and took out the key to open the lock.

The head of the prison led the iron chain in the hand of the lantern master out of the cell, and locked the chain on the stake in the ear room, then looked back at the two strangers standing in the ear room.

Because I had never seen these two people before, I took a few more glances, especially the handsome and outrageous young man, who knew that he was a foreigner just by looking at his bones.

The master felt that the cell head was too boring, so he asked the cell head to go out first, and the cell head stared at the master again, quickly walked out with downcast eyes and closed the door, and he stood at the door of the anteroom.

In the ear room, the master turned over the content of the previous interview record to Wandong.

After Wandong looked it over, he knew that the Lantern Master had been tortured. Although it was only five boards, it was not a good punishment.

Only then did Wandong raise his eyes to look at the lantern master. Looking at 27, he felt a sense of frailty. He must have read the book.

Wandong looked down at his birthday again, and it said 28. This age is a very good age for a craftsman. If you have learned boy skills for at least 20 years and are already proficient, it is an age that can be consolidated and developed. It is also time to raise apprentices.

"Cheng Ye, are you a scholar?" Wandong asked.

The young man's voice was pleasant, and Cheng Ye was stunned for a moment. He lowered his head and didn't want to look at these people, but now he raised his head.

Seeing that Cheng Ye didn't answer, the master helped to answer: "He has studied in a private school, because his father died long ago and the family's livelihood was cut off, so he followed others to learn how to make lanterns. He can do calligraphy and painting, so he is more skilled than ordinary craftsmen. The Yingbei Lantern business is well-known, and even my wife knows his name vaguely, and the lanterns he led others to make won several first prizes at the Lantern Festival."

A little talented craftsman?

"Cheng Ye, do you know who was burned to death in the lantern?" Wandong approached.

Cheng Ye denied it flatly: "I don't know."

Master: "He has said the sentence "I don't know" dozens of times, but he just keeps his mouth shut. People were burned to death in the lanterns he made, why didn't he know?"

"I drew the lamp design! It's not me who made it!"

The master was surprised: "I asked you last time, why didn't you tell me!?"

Cheng Ye frowned fiercely, his lips trembled again, but he didn't choose to continue.

Wandong narrowed his eyes and smiled: "The one who made it? Except for the 13 servants, could they have made it without a leading master?"

"I don't know." Cheng Ye obviously didn't want to say it.

Wandong continued to look at the master's records in his hand, and said: "Is there anything I can't say directly? The Gu family asked you to make lanterns, everyone knew that the Gu family's lanterns were made by you, and the people in the government asked the people near the Gu family. There are people near your house, they all said that they knew three months ago that you were going to be a lantern master for the Gu family."

When Wandong said this, he looked at Cheng Ye from the corner of his eye, and found that the expression on his face was more complicated than before.

Seeing Cheng Ye's thin lips tightly pressed, Wandong thought that if such a person didn't put the facts in front of him, he wouldn't say anything.

"There are thirteen servants in the Gu family who participated in making lanterns, six are from the mansion, and seven are invited from your workshop. You must recognize these seven."

The master said: "Their workshop contracted the lantern work for the merchants' homes before the Lantern Festival. In the past ten years, they have helped the merchants win the first place three times, and this time it will be the fourth time."

Wandong put her hand to her chin and coughed.

Master: "What's the matter with you, Doctor Mei?"

"I'm fine, it's just that there is some tide in the prison."

Wandong looked at the side room, is Yingbei so humid?The cell wasn't built underground either, but it smelled musty.

Detective Ye listened for a long time, and finally spoke: "Cheng Ye, you said that you drew the picture, and you didn't make the lantern, but everyone who knows said that this year's lantern at the Gu family was in charge of you, and now you are the one arrested by Lord Qiu. , if it wasn't for the lanterns you made, don't you feel that you have been wronged?"

"Since you were wronged, why are you willing to stay in prison and endure beatings? It's unreasonable!"

Master: "If he is willing to say it, he would have said it earlier, and he won't need to be punished."

Wandong walked over with eyes slightly lowered, and said with a faint smile, "You would rather be spanked than say it's because you don't want to tell others that your lantern was made by someone else, right?"

"..."

Cheng Ye only felt that this man's voice was soft and restrained, and there was a hint of demagogy in it. From the moment he stepped in and saw this man, he felt uneasy. This man was too scary.

"No! Don't ask me!" Cheng Ye waved his arms restlessly, and the iron chain made harsh noises. He wanted to keep Wandong away from him, but he didn't dare to hurt him.

"Bold Cheng Ye, calm down!" the master shouted.

Wan Dong sighed: "Master, don't yell at him, I have a few words I want to ask him alone."

The master wondered: "I'm afraid this won't work..."

Detective Ye was about to ask why Wandong had to be interrogated alone. This is not outside the government prison in Sanlihe, except for the government, other people in the prison cannot interrogate prisoners alone.

But Detective Ye quickly caught Wandong's eyes.

Detective Ye quickly took a deep breath and hugged the master's shoulder, and said a few words to the master, and somehow the master agreed.

Seeing that they had all gone out, Wandong sighed, "You can't let go of the knowledge of making such a huge lantern because you really drew this lantern, but you can't make it, right?"

Cheng Ye looked at him in horror and quickly lowered his head.

"You really want to take this first place, because the idea of ​​this lantern is very good. You have never made such a lantern before, and you have never seen other craftsmen make such a big lantern. Maybe you have tried it, but you You found that you couldn’t make it or you were worried that what you made would not fly, so you found someone to cooperate with this lantern, but this person didn’t appear on the list of Gu family’s lantern masters?”

A lantern can only have the name of one lantern master. According to the customary Yingbei Lantern Festival, the first twelve taels of gold will be distributed, and the host will give the hired lantern master two taels of gold.

This is also an important reason why lantern masters rack their brains to come up with new tricks.

Seeing that he still didn't speak, Wandong sighed again: "If you really wanted to hide it, you wouldn't have yelled out just now that you didn't make the lantern. It seems that you should have figured it out in the cell these two days, you don't want to suffer Unjust injustice, but also care about reputation."

Although Cheng Ye didn't answer him, his expression was slower than before.

"Then do you know who died?"

Cheng Ye took a deep breath and shook his head, his expression became tense again.

It was this kind of complicated expression again, making it impossible to figure out whether he was guilty of something or trying to cover up something.

Wandong didn't stay for long, and came out from the side room.

After they came out, they talked with the master for a while, and left the official office.

*

On the way from Sanlihe to Dahe, Captain Ye dared to ask Wandong: "What did you ask?"

"I didn't ask anything, but Brother Ye, how many brothers have you followed since you came back?"

"There's another brother who doesn't have a mission yet, what's Wandong's order?"

"Brother Ye, can you trouble you and that brother to go to the cell and watch Cheng Ye?"

Detective Ye's eyes changed slightly: "Wandong... don't you worry about someone killing someone to silence you?"

Wandong whispered in Captain Ye's ear: "If Cheng Ye is the murderer, it's easy to know who the dead are, but if Cheng Ye is not the murderer, this case is very complicated..."

Detective Ye was very touched when he heard that Wandong could tell him these things. In the past, Wandong would be bored and didn't say anything. He insisted on waiting until the day he was promoted. He didn't tell him anything and just let him run away. The feeling is too uncomfortable.

"Then I'll just keep an eye on it." Detective Ye's heart was beating fast, for fear that Cheng Ye would be silenced right now or then.

Wandong smiled: "It's not in a hurry, it's just my guess, Cheng Ye has been in prison for three days, and Mr. Qiu is not stupid, he won't let Cheng Ye die in prison for no reason, if he says it, it's his Mistake."

*

When Detective Ye and Butou Qiu met on the roof of the cell late at night, Detective Ye just wanted to say that Wandong's guess was right, and Master Qiu also made people watch Cheng Ye secretly!

"If you weren't Lord Mo's subordinate, I would suspect that you are here to kill people and silence people." After the two of them had done a few tricks, Qiu Butou snorted.

"Don't talk nonsense. I'm here to watch Cheng Ye. Dr. Mei said that Cheng Ye is the most important person in this case."