Chapter 173 Nuobao solves a theft case
Dean Wei leaned forward.
"Nuobao, then tell me. If we can solve this as soon as possible, Uncle Dean will thank you very much!"
After all, the dormitory has been robbed five or six times.
If we don't find out the reason ourselves, I'm afraid the students won't be able to study with peace of mind. When the adults at home find out, they will also blame the academy for its incompetence.
Little Nuobao patted her chest and said, "Uncle Dean, please take me to the dormitory first. I have something to ask the students who lost something today."
"Okay, it's over there." Dean Wei hugged her and ran away.
Wei's Academy is not big, and there are two dormitories in total. Dean Wei
has always been elegant, and even the names of the students' residences are elegant. The corridor is used as the boundary. The one on the left is called Yunshui Pavilion, and the one on the right is called Canglan Pavilion.
Each pavilion has fifteen rooms, all of which have four people.
When they arrived at the stolen dormitory, they saw that all the students in this room had returned, and they were now upset about the bags and boxes that had been robbed by the thief.
"Dean, I have lost all my pocket money for this month, a total of 120 coins."
"And me, and me, I lost more than 80 coins."
"The collection of poems and lyrics that my father brought me from the capital was also stolen. Oh, that thief is so hateful!"
The youngest student was only seven years old and was sitting on the ground crying, which made Dean Wei very distressed.
He could only touch his head to comfort him and secretly blame himself.
Xiao Nuobao looked around and said, "Little Guoguo, when was the last time you saw something lost?"
The student heard the soft voice, looked up, and saw that it was a little girl. He immediately wiped away his tears and pretended to be strong.
"Yes, it was last night."
"What about the others?" Xiao Nuobao held his finger and looked at the other three.
"I went to the Qinxue Hall at 3:30 in the morning. I also took ten copper plates and stuffed them into my socks to buy candy figures at the gate after class. At that time, my pocket money was still in the box." One of them replied.
Xiao Nuobao touched his chin.
So the things were lost after the 7:00.
"Since then, has anyone left the academy through the gate?" Xiao Nuobao asked again.
Feng Jing hurriedly called the doorman, who thought for a moment and shook his head decisively.
"I have been guarding the door, and no one has left the academy. After all, there are not many people in the academy in the morning, only me, the dean, the teachers and the students. As for the cook and the guard, they only came to work an hour before noon, and they are not here yet."
"That's easy!" Xiao Nuobao breathed a sigh of relief, sitting on the crook of Dean Wei's arm with his little buttocks dangling in the air.
"Why?" Jiang Fengnian and Dean Wei were curious.
Xiao Nuobao blinked his eyes. As the saying goes, to catch a thief, you just need to find the stolen goods. If you want to find the thief, you just need to find the stolen goods.
She said in a slow and steady tone: "The things were just lost, and no one left today, so they must still be in the academy. Now we just need to find the stolen things, and we will know who the thief is."
After that, Xiao Nuobao pulled off his big brother's money bag, took out three copper coins, and threw them on the ground at random.
Calculated the location of the stolen things.
"Kun position."
"Where there is open fire."
"There are grass and trees around."
The little guy took a glance and immediately said these words.
What does it mean?
Jiang Fengnian and Dean Wei looked eagerly, waiting to hear her explanation.
Little Nuobao murmured crisply: "The stolen goods point directly to the Kun position, which is the northeast, which should be the stove room."
"There is also an open fire and plants, which can also match the stove room."
Little Nuobao raised his chin and said confidently: "The stolen goods are in the cooking place, go find them!"
Upon hearing this, Dean Wei hurriedly led the book boy and students to run over to search.
After working for a long time, everyone finally found three hundred coins, some good paper and ink, and a book of poems under the large firewood basket next to the stove.
"Nuobao's calculation is really accurate. It is indeed here, and it is hidden so secretly." Dean Wei exclaimed in amazement, and couldn't help frowning and shaking his head.
Jiang Fengnian was puzzled: "Which student stole it? Why would he hide it here? Usually, people have to light a fire and cook here. It's almost noon now. Won't the cook find it when she comes?"
Xiao Nuobao shrugged: "That means the thief is very familiar with the cook in the academy, or even an accomplice."
After this, Dean Wei and Jiang Fengjing were silent.
They had guessed who the thief was.
The things were lost in the morning. The cook hadn't come to work yet, and the teachers were all in the Qinxue Hall. The doorman was guarding the gate, and no one had the opportunity to enter the dormitory.
So the only person who could steal it was a student.
And in Wei's Academy, there was really a student who was the mother and son of the cook in the kitchen.
If he hid the stolen things in the kitchen every time and then had the cook take them out of the academy, it would be difficult to be discovered.
Dean Wei smiled bitterly and shook his head: "No wonder he was able to steal things so many times. It turns out that he put all his attention to this."
Jiang Fengjing looked at him hesitantly: "Dean, then call Li Wencai over and ask him about it."
Li Wencai?
Upon hearing this familiar name, Xiao Nuobao and Jiang Fengnian were a little surprised.
Jiang Fengjing then told them: "Some time ago, our chef came to ask the dean, saying that her step-son had no books to read, and asked the Wei's Academy to take him in. Our dean was moved and agreed, and also allowed him to reduce the tuition by half. The child was Li Wencai."
It turned out that Old Li had been in the city for a long time, and had made a new family with a prostitute who had turned over a new leaf.
After Li Wencai was taken away by him, although the father and son were not on good terms, Old Li also hoped that his son would pass the imperial examination in the future so that he could benefit from it, so he let Li Wencai continue to study.
Dean Wei liked this child very much, thinking that he was studious and well-behaved.
But he never thought that the theft was related to him.
Dean Wei frowned and asked Feng Jing to go to the Qinxue Hall first and call Li Wencai over.
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