"You..." The manager was very angry. He narrowed his eyes and stared at the two of them unkindly. "You two are sneaking around. Do you have any ulterior motives?"
The man in green ignored him and walked past him to find the captain. "Captain Zhao, we found something on the roof."
Captain Zhao immediately took his men up and saw the fishing line, the scratches on the roof, and the bloodstains on the eaves.
"Could it be that the criminal threw the person down from the roof instead of from the second floor?" a constable asked in confusion.
The man in blue said, "The murderer must have killed someone in advance, carried the body to the roof, and used a fishing line to retrieve it. At a specific time, he silently cut the line, causing the body to fall. This way, the murderer could create an alibi for himself."
Captain Zhao nodded in agreement. "In that case, everyone in the cabin is a suspect."
"Yes. We need to re-examine the suspicious persons." Bei Yutang followed up, "To cut off the fishing line, we must leave midway. Who left the cabin before the body fell?"
Captain Zhao immediately ordered his subordinates to re-investigate.
An incense stick later, the yamen runners came out with four men. Two of them were young men, one wearing gray-black clothes, surnamed Sun. The other was the young man who had kidnapped the child, surnamed Li. Another was a fat, wealthy businessman surnamed Wang. The third was an old man surnamed Qian.
The chubby middle-aged businessman said, "Captain Zhao, what do you mean by bringing the four of us out separately?"
The man surnamed Sun then asked, "Why did you bring us out alone?"
The man surnamed Li narrowed his eyes and asked, "Are you suspecting that we killed someone?"
When these words were spoken, the four people were all shocked.
The old man surnamed Qian trembled and said, "How could I, how could I kill someone? At my age, how could I possibly do that?"
"You couldn't find the murderer, so you just randomly arrested a few of us to make up the numbers?" the man surnamed Li said unhappily.
Captain Zhao frowned, "We brought you out here just to ask you a few questions."
"What's the problem?"
"Why did you come out when the child was being sold? What did you do when you came out?" asked Captain Zhao.
The old man was the first to answer, "I went to the back to relieve myself."
The gray-black man then said, "I was just going to pee, and I happened to run into this old man coming out."
The old man nodded and said, "Yes, yes, I saw him coming."
Captain Zhao looked at the middle-aged wealthy businessman and the man surnamed Li.
"I was planning to go back and get the silver. My servant knows about it. If you don't believe me, you can just ask him. By the way, there was someone standing next to me at the time. I think that person was your servant named Wangcai." The fat rich businessman finally looked at Bei Yutang.
Finally, the man surnamed Li spoke up, "I was trying to pick up a purse. Actually, his son is to blame for this. He kicked me out, sending my purse flying. Luckily, I caught it in time, otherwise I would have suffered heavy losses."
The four men's reason for leaving was quite plausible. Captain Zhao summoned the servant and Xue Qian from the mansion and, after questioning them separately, confirmed that the wealthy businessman was going upstairs to get the silver. The young man in gray and the old man could testify that they were both urinating.
As for the fact that the man surnamed Li went to pick up the purse, it is the only proof that he is the most suspicious based on the questioning just now.
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