If there is no breakthrough at the scene, the suspect's maid must also take a look. Chuemon offered to meet the maid and help Rokuji.

The two returned to the office again. Sukeru might think that such a little girl didn't look like a criminal, so she didn't put the person in the prison, but was placed in the waiting room of the criminal that was arraigned by the office and provided bedding.

When he saw this man, Chungemon didn't feel like he could steal something, although it was very unreliable to judge a person by his face. But veteran criminal investigators know that unless it is a kind of extremely high psychological quality, specializing in criminal psychology, or just a pervert with mental illness. Ordinary people panic when they see an official, and the expressions in their eyes are somewhat unnatural.

And the state of criminals in this situation is a bit more unbearable than ordinary people, and sometimes it is true that people can be caught by guessing, plus this person's performance.

Of course, only for now!

The maid will be fourteen years old during the Chinese New Year, and she will still be a second-year child in later life, but in this year, she has been a skilled worker who has come out to help and wait for several years. According to Shuroku, the maid’s family are all in Edo, and they are the most typical land-lost farmers. Because Edo Castle continued to expand, there was no land that could be rented, so I went to the city to seek a living.

Both parents are honest coolies, his father helps the sugar shop deliver goods, and his mother pastes paper umbrellas at home. Seeing the rain in Edo, everyone is a child of Tian Yi, and you must be mentally prepared to get drenched if you go out without an umbrella. Therefore, the money earned from selling umbrellas is comparable to that of his father working in a sugar shop.

As for sending her daughter to the Furukawa clan residence to be a maid, it was actually to learn various rules and etiquette to facilitate marriage. The common people sent their daughters to the daimyo's house, while Kimoto and Yu's family sent their daughters to Da'ao, and they would automatically quit to marry after they finished school.

Right now, even the quilt and furniture for the dowry are ready at home, and they are waiting to be married in another year or two. How could they steal a pair of gold wine bottles at this time and implicate the whole family in jail?

From all aspects, it doesn’t look like a crime will be committed.

Chuemon asked briefly, focusing on when she fell asleep in a daze that night, and when she discovered that the golden bottle had been stolen, so as to shorten the time between them as much as possible.

Shuroku also asked about this. According to the confessions of the Ashikaga clan residence and the maid, at least until eleven o'clock in the evening before the theft, the noisy hall of the nave disappeared, and everyone left to rest. Someone came to clean up before five o'clock in the morning, when the gold wine bottle had been stolen.

According to the maid, he waited for the candles on the candlestick to burn out and replaced them with new candles. He felt that the candles could burn for about three hours until dawn. Then he squinted his eyes and rested boldly. of.

Then if the maid’s view is adopted, the theft occurred between two and five in the morning, and pedestrians on the five o’clock street gradually began to appear. The early hawkers have started to go to Nihonbashi to buy goods. Hachiro Amano and Shintaro Terazawa may have already practiced by the river, which is not suitable for thieves' activities.

So this time can be further compressed!

Such an inference can explain one thing. The thief knows the work and rest of the entire Furukawa Mansion very well, and can clearly determine the perfect time for the crime. Pushing down along this line of thought still pointed out that the thief was a person in the Furukawa clan.

Not an insider of the mansion, how could he grasp the time so accurately!

How could an outsider have such a thorough understanding of the situation inside the Ashikaga Mansion? It must be the person who enters and exits the mansion every day, mastering the big things and small things of the mansion, and the camera starts.

"Have you interrogated all the servants of the feudal residence?" Chungemon can now be sure that it was an acquaintance who committed the crime.

"I haven't asked all the questions yet, but I've mostly gone through it." After receiving the report, Sukeru went to the Ashikaga clan residence and had gathered all the people from the clan residence and asked them again.

It must be asked about alibi or something. The feudal lord Toda Tadaro and his wife, young lord or something, don’t ask, what do they do to steal the things from their own house? As for the retainer samurai, they are actually similar to the servants of the Toda family. The family business of 11 thousand shi is only forty or fifty retainers.

Let’s talk about a more vivid metaphor. If you put it in the village next door, you will be a village captain!

He managed a dozen teams under his hand, with a population of that thousand, a few thousand acres of land, plus a little forest farm, nothing more. Can't support many samurai retainers.

As a samurai retainer who served the Toda family for many generations, although he might have done some sneaky things, the suspicion was never that big. The main thing is to interrogate the servants. After all, there may be servants hired by Edo, who have only been here for a couple of months~lightnovelpub.net~ and they are not very loyal.

But some of the servants of Ashikaga's residence were brought by their hometown, and some were hired by Edo. They didn't have that kind of new face at all. Most of them were hired for many years. The maid who was arrested was arranged for the drudgery of the night watch because of the four or five years of talent and the least seniority.

Therefore, the servants are also old people who have been serving for many years. None of them left the mansion, they always lived in the mansion, waiting for the lord's call at any time. They all slept in the servant's room, and everyone could prove to each other. No one left the mansion.

"It's amazing, is there a thief in this world who has a blind cat and a dead mouse?" Chungemon patted the table and said the most impossible answer.

"If it's a thief passing by, this case won't be solved!" Zhu Liu can be very annoyed.

Out-of-town thieves stole randomly and left Edo to run away after stealing. With the power of criminal investigation in this era, it basically means that this case can never be solved.

Hey, after running for a long time, there was no progress. Although, as an old case handler, I have done a lot of such useless work, but this is not related to the face of the new official of the Iron Brothers, of course it will be a little discouraged.

The two beat their horses and walked back, continuing to exchange information on the case as they walked. In fact, the Minamimachi magistrate is very close to the Ashikaga feudal clan residence and their homes. Back then, Ieyasu Tokugawa renovated Edo Castle. It was the houses of various daimyo and Kimoto that surrounded Edo Castle. The houses of common people were all on the periphery. On the land created by reclamation. It is very convenient for the two of them to go to the Ashikaga clan residence or to return to their own home.

In the evening, every household began to prepare dinner, and various vendors shuttled through the street, picking up items such as tofu, radish, pickles, and natto, and delivering them to customers. Some women are already waiting for the ingredients from these vendors at their doorsteps so they can cook.