Detective in the Red Chamber

Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered the bedroom, she found that Mrs. Sun was naked, tied to the screen with several silk scarves, and there were several hideous wounds on her chest, and blood was flowing all over the floor.

At that time, the two screamed desperately, and then woke up Liu Yiqing who was holding a candlestick.

After that, Wu Zuo found traces of intercourse and the solidified rice green liquid in Sun's private parts, and determined that the wound on the chest of the loss was caused by the candlestick.

Seeing this, it seems that the evidence is conclusive.

But there are still many doubts in this case.

First of all, on Liu Yiqing's body, except for some blood on the hand holding the candlestick, no blood was found on the rest of the body.

Secondly, some skin debris was found between Sun's fingers, but there was no wound on Liu Yiqing's body.

Come three times, it's a matter of the relationship between the husband and wife.

According to the servants in the house, the two couples had settled their feud as early as half a month ago-it is said that the opportunity for reconciliation was because Mrs. Sun bought an authentic work of Yan Zhenqing through her natal family, and promised to make a copy of Yan Zhenqing's work before the end of the year. Liu Yiqing took a concubine.

Ugh!

It's a pity that more than two months have passed, otherwise, if you inspect the scene yourself, you should be able to solve many doubts or discover more doubts.

Right now...

I can only read the dossier carefully a few times first, and then ask the person concerned about the situation.

Chapter 606 Mysterious Jinling Case [Part [-]]

The night is getting darker.

The front hall of the palace was brightly lit. Sun Shaozong was lying on the round table where the banquet was removed, looking through the files intently, and from time to time he would write quickly, briefly transcribing some questions or supporting evidence on paper.

Wang Ren, who was still in high spirits before, didn't know where he took Xing Zhong. Only Xue Bian and Sun Shaoxu were left guarding Sun Shaozong, one on the left and one on the right, desperately trying to find out some tricks from those ghostly symbols.

However, they obviously couldn't keep up with Sun Shaozong's jumping thinking, so they had to give up deciphering the messages in the end, and obediently waited for Sun Shaozong to start asking questions.

"grown ups."

At this time, Li Mou, the county magistrate of Jiangning, brought over a few pieces of rice paper, and said cautiously, "This is the scene of the murder and the topographical map of Liu's backyard."

Sun Shaozong picked it up casually and took a look. Seeing that although the picture above was a bit brief, the layers were clear and orderly, and the strokes were mixed with three parts of landscape charm, which was far beyond his expectation. He couldn't help asking subconsciously, "Who made these?"

"It's Shuxuan, Sun's dowry maid."

Li Zhixian hurriedly replied, "She is most familiar with the layout of Mrs. Sun's bedroom, and she is also good at meticulous calligraphy and painting. She is really the best candidate for topographical maps."

Speaking of this, he complained in a timely manner, "At the beginning, Liu Yuanwai intended to cover up for his son, and ordered people to completely destroy the scene. When the humble official sent people to investigate, let alone the blood on the ground, even the blood-stained The screens and mattresses were burned clean."

Because the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty generally encourage relatives to hide from each other, it is not uncommon for relatives and friends to destroy the scene.

And this is also the reason why Sun Shaozong is not going to investigate the scene for the time being. First, he was destroyed by someone, and now it has been two months, so the chances of finding out the clues are very slim.

Nodding his head noncommittally, Sun Shaozong first selected the layout of the crime scene and confirmed it with the confession in the file.

The scene of the crime was located in the bedroom on the east side of the main room. The door was opened in the middle of the west wall, and the screen tied with Sun's body was directly opposite.

It was also because of this that the two maids found Mrs. Sun's body at a glance after entering the door.

According to the description in the complaint, the screen is about a foot or two away from the gate, and the back is about four feet from the east wall.

As for the Babu bed where Liu Yiqing was sleeping soundly at the time of the crime, it was located in the north, about ten feet and five feet away from the screen and the entrance and exit.

Because it was rainy, the south windows were all locked from the inside.

After looking at it for a long time, Sun Shaozong took the topographic map of the backyard of Liu Mansion in his hand and looked at it carefully.

As mentioned before, the Liu Mansion is also a family of officials and eunuchs, and like the Sun family's Nanzong, it usually settles outside the city, so the courtyard will naturally not be small.

According to the picture, if a burglar really broke into Liu's house and wiped out Sun's family, he would at least have to climb over two high and one low walls, and even hide the few domestic dogs raised by Liu's house.

This is already quite difficult, not to mention that it was still rainy at the time, and it was even more difficult to go up and down without leaving a trace.

As for the crime committed by the internal servants of the Liu family...

According to the topographic map and the confession, there are servants guarding the area between the backyard and the front yard 24 hours a day.

And because it was rainy, most of the Liu family's servants gathered together to deal with trivial matters in the room. Even if some people once left the group and went alone halfway, it took less than a quarter of an hour.

In such a short period of time, it might be possible to climb over the wall and enter the backyard, but after killing Mrs. Sun, tying her body to the screen with the intention of blaming Liu Yiqing is absolutely impossible.

With all these things, it's no wonder that Jiangning County decided that Liu Yiqing killed the Sun family when there were still doubts about the case.

After reviewing the remaining topographic maps one by one, Sun Shaozong turned his attention to the bustling dozens of witnesses outside the gate.

"First bring Liu Changfeng and his son, maids Shuxuan, Mu Qin, housekeeper Song Ji, servants Liu Yan, Sang Youfu and others."

Liu Changfeng, father and son, and the two servant girls didn't say much, but the housekeeper and servant behind them were the ones who were in charge of cleaning up the scene.

Li Zhixian hurriedly went down to deliver the message in person, and brought those people in after a while.

Liu Changfeng is a rich middle-aged man. Although his son Liu Yiqing is wearing shackles and looks a little skinny, he is still slightly higher than Sun Shaozong in terms of appearance.

After entering the door, the father and son knelt down first, and the servants behind them also prostrated themselves on the ground.

"injustice……"

That Liu Changfeng was about to cry for grievances, but he heard Sun Shaozong raised his voice and asked, "Song Ji, Liu Yan, Sang Youfu, what did you see when you cleaned up the murder scene, and tell me one by one."

The three of them apparently never expected that Master Guan would be the first to ask about themselves, and then Liu Yan and Sang Youfu panicked.

As for Song Ji, who was the housekeeper after all, he was calmer than the two of them. Dang even roughly recounted the incident when Liu Changfeng called him to the backyard to help clean up the blood on the corpse.

However, what he mentioned was basically recorded in the files of Jiangning County, and there was nothing new about it.

So Sun Shaozong asked again, "Besides this, is there anything else you want to add?"

"The villain has nothing to add."

Song Ji categorically denied it, but Liu Yan subconsciously looked at Liu Changfeng, seeming to be embarrassed.

How can such small actions be hidden from Sun Shaozong?

Dang even asked by name, "Liu Yan, are you hiding something?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Yan hadn't done anything yet, and Liu Changfeng urged repeatedly, "It's already time, what else can you say? Could it be that you want to kill the young master?!"

Seeing that the official ordered his name and surname, and the master kept urging him again and again, Liu Yan said tremblingly, "Don't dare to expire, sir, when the villain cleaned up the blood on the ground, he once picked up a blood-stained candle." ..."

This point is actually recorded in the file, but Sun Shaozong obviously has other inside stories from his appearance, so he ordered, "Keep talking."

I heard Liu Yan stammering, "Apart from... besides the blood, there is also... some sticky things on the candle. It seems... It seems to be something made by men and women."

"Also, that... the candle base is a little flattened, it seems... it seems to be pinched..."

It turned out that such things were kept a secret, no wonder this guy has scruples in front of everyone.

Sun Shaozong pondered for a while, and then asked further, "Was it ever contaminated with a man's rice green liquid?"

"This... seems to be there."

"You can't be sure?"

"Yes! The villain clearly remembers that there is indeed a man's dirty stuff on it."

Hearing this, Sun Shaozong stretched out his hand and pointed to the candlestick not far away, and ordered the servants of the palace to fetch two candles, one for himself and one for Liu Yan.

Sun Shaozong exerted his strength slowly, squeezed the candle slightly flat, and asked Liu Yan what shape it was.

"It needs to be flatter."

After getting a negative answer, Sun Shaozong pinched it even more, and then got Liu Yan's confirmation.

Throwing the squashed candle aside, Sun Shaozong ordered again, "Just give it a try and see how hard and flexible this candle is compared to the one you found at the murder scene."

That Liu Yan pinched the candle a few times, then broke it in half, then shook her head and said, "This candle should be softer, not as hard as the one in our house."

tsk~

The candles used by the Wangfu are not low in hardness, but the candles of the Liu family are even harder - it seems that they have been used for a long time and deeply, otherwise they will not be obviously deformed.

So what does this new detail mean?

The killer is a pervert?

So after entering the sage's time, he still risked Liu Yiqing waking up at any time, humiliating Sun with candles repeatedly?

or……

The murderer was actually a fast man, who was despised by Mrs. Sun because of his instant shot, so he used external force to vent his shame and anger?

or...

The murderer was Liu Yiqing himself, so naturally there was nothing to worry about?

After briefly recording the suspicion in his mind on paper, Sun Shaozong asked again, "Apart from that, do you have anything else to add?"

Seeing that Liu Yan really added some details, Liu Changfeng suddenly regained his energy, and turned around and promised, "If anyone can come up with something useful, I will definitely reward you, sir!"

Under this heavy reward, another "brave man" appeared as expected.

But I heard Sang Youfu muttering, "Master, villain... the villain also saw something, but I don't know if it's useful or not."

Sun Shaozong said decisively, "Whether it is useful or not, your master will reward you!"

Encouraged by this promise of benefits without cost, Sang Youfu hurriedly said, "When the villain was sweeping the blood, he found some white shards of wax in front of the screen, which looked like it fell when peeling off the wax pills..."

Fragments of wax pellets?

Sun Shaozong turned his attention to Liu Yiqing, "You and Mrs. Sun, did you take any pills before the incident?"

"Never!"

Liu Yiqing hurriedly shook his head like a rattle, and said firmly, "My wife and I are in good health, why have you ever used any pills?"

Sun Shaozong asked the two servant girls again, and they shook their heads again and again.

in this case……

This thing is very likely, not the original thing at the scene of the crime.

In other words, this was probably brought to the scene by the murderer.

Could it be that some kind of drug was installed to break up Sun's resistance?

This seems to make sense.

but……

Do drugs need to be made into pills?

This thing should be as convenient to use as possible, right?

Even if it is made into pills, it should be peeled out in advance when it is ready to be used.

As for the volatilization of the medicinal properties...

Solid pills should not have this problem.

As for the liquid anesthetic...

If you really want it in liquid form, just put it in a water bag, bamboo can or something, isn’t it more reliable than wax pills?

In short, this is another clue that cannot be connected into the case for the time being.

After recording all kinds of conjectures on paper again, Sun Shaozong immediately turned his attention to one of the maids.

After Sang Youfu told about the 'wax pill' and got the promise of a great reward, the maid looked eager to try, obviously also thought of a clue that had not been recorded in the record!

Chapter 607 Mysterious Jinling Case [Part [-]]

"Which of the two of you is Shuxuan and which is Mu..."

"Erlang has already started asking questions? Why don't people let me know!"

Sun Shaozong was about to ask the identities of the two maids, and then asked further, which maid in the blue skirt on the left, but thought of something strange.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the words were spoken, Wang Ren and Xing Zhong appeared in the back hall.

The three people at the table hurriedly got up to greet each other, but Xue Biao and Sun Shaoxu greeted Wang Ren, while Sun Shaozong bowed his hands to Xing Zhong and called him 'Uncle Xing'.

Although there is no blood relationship, this Xing Zhong is Jia Yingchun's serious uncle. Sun Shaozong respects him, but in fact he is taking care of his own "sister-in-law" face.

But this kind of courtesy that surpassed Wang Ren made Xing Zhong feel a little uncomfortable—over the years, those rich relatives in the Rongguo Mansion never looked at him seriously?

So for a while, I was at a loss and forgot how to deal with it.