Black Lotus Concubine's Case-solving Notes

The prefect couldn't figure it out, so he couldn't help but put his hope on Xie Lanzhao: "What do you think, Miss Xie? Whose body is this?"

It was March, but there was still a hint of winter chill. Feng Jia stood in the hall in thin, ragged clothes, but he was neither humble nor arrogant, and said what was in his mind: "The identity of the body is unknown for now, but the deceased died the night before yesterday, and it has been almost two days. The family has been unable to find him and will report to the authorities. I think the prefect might as well look through the petitions received by the government from the night before yesterday until now, and maybe you can find something."

This was a good idea. The prefect nodded and asked his men to present the petitions filed during this period. He carefully searched through them and pulled out one of them and read: "This petition was submitted this morning. The one who submitted the petition, Jiang Liu, said that her master did not return home the night before yesterday and they searched everywhere but to no avail... Her master, Jiang, is a cook at Hua Man Lou, fifty-two years old, and a... a cripple?"

……

Hearing this, Feng Jia's frown finally relaxed.

Hua Manlou’s cook, Liu Bozi.

The age and physical characteristics match, so this body is most likely his.

At this moment, a blue message appeared in front of me.

[Congratulations to the host for solving the case, the current progress is 60%]

[You have discovered that the extra body is the crippled Jiang, but why did Jiang die in Wang's house? Where did the missing Wang Da go? Please solve the case as soon as possible. ]

[Survival countdown: half an hour. ]

Only half an hour left.

The message was gone in a flash. When Feng Jia looked up again, the prefect had walked down from the hall and said to Du Chunsheng, who was still trembling on the ground, "You just said that this Jiang Kuizi had an affair with that Wang family woman?"

After all, he was the one who sold the poison. Although he was not aware of it, he still had to be punished for killing someone. Du Chunsheng only hoped to provide more useful clues so that he could be lenient. He hurriedly said, "My Lord, I heard about it by accident."

He took a breath and recalled, "It was last month, I was drinking with that old man Wang, and he drank a few more glasses and said something out of turn, saying that his wife, oh, that is, Wang's wife, and the cook Jiang Bozi of Hua Man Lou... were having an affair!"

"I heard that the two have been together for some time... When they were young, Old Man Wang even wanted to divorce, but the old woman Wang was related to the mistress of the Prime Minister's family, so the matter was left unresolved. Now that they are older, the two old women Wang have become more unscrupulous, sometimes even daring to do it right under Old Man Wang's nose... Well, anyway, I heard that Jiang Bozi usually comes in the first half of the night and leaves in the second half of the night, so after a long time, Old Man Wang just turned a blind eye."

"Is there any evidence for this?"

Du Chunsheng immediately said, "Of course there are people who can testify! I wasn't the only one who drank that day. Shopkeeper Lei and Scholar Fan from the east end can both testify!"

The case finally showed some signs of improvement. The prefect breathed a sigh of relief and immediately sent someone to check. But he heard someone behind him say, "If I were the prefect, I would definitely send another person to arrest the real murderer, Wang Da."

The prefect was surprised and asked, "You said that the person who committed these numerous crimes was... Wang Da?"

"It was Wang Da." She had been able to piece together the truth from the clues. Feng Jia said, "On March 12, three days ago, Feng Da bought a large amount of arsenic from Manager Du's pharmacy and planned to poison his entire family. The date of the poisoning was set for March 15, which was noon today. However, two accidents occurred in this poisoning case."

The prefect thought for a moment and said, "The first accident was Jiang Bozi?"

"That's right," Feng Jia said, "On the night of March 14, Jiang Bozi came to look for his lover Wang Pozi again in the middle of the night and was caught by Wang Da. Wang Da must have hated his mother's lover, so he killed Jiang Bozi with a heavy object. Judging from the wound on the back of his head, the murder weapon was probably a bowl or a watering can. Then Wang Da dumped the body. The place where the body was dumped should be by the pond not far from home, because the coroner Xu said during the autopsy that the body was white and swollen, and it was soaked in water after death, and there were remnants of water plants in the mouth of the body."

"If the murderer wanted to set the fire, why did he throw Jiang Bozi into the pond?" the lawyer asked.

"This is the second accident." Feng Jia said: "I think Wang Da didn't want to set this fire at first, because setting a fire in broad daylight will easily attract attention, but because of this accident, he had to do it."

"What kind of accident is this!"

"The accident is that I didn't eat the poisoned food that day," Feng Jia's voice was extremely calm, as if she was talking about something that had nothing to do with her. "If he had killed me in other ways, there would have been traces left on my body, so Wang Da came up with a plan. He knocked me out and dragged me to the river, making it look like I tripped and fainted in a panic to silence him. He also dragged Jiang Bozi, who had died the night before, from the river, burned his face to make it look like his own. But wouldn't it be suspicious if only 'Wang Da' had burns on his face? So he simply started a big fire and planned to burn it all clean."

Feng Jia spoke in a steady voice: "What he didn't expect was that the fireworks in broad daylight quickly alerted the neighbors, and the fire was put out before all the evidence of his crime was destroyed. He also didn't expect that Jiang Bozi's family would report to the police so quickly and reveal the true identity of the corpse of "Wang Da"!"

All signs indicate that Wang Da is still alive, but this fact is too unbelievable. The prefect sighed: "But why did Wang Da poison the whole family? The daughter-in-law of the Wang family is already seven months pregnant..."

Are there really such cruel people in this world?

The prefect fell silent, the lawyer frowned, and the onlookers looked at each other and sighed.

Manager Du fell to the ground, trembling, perhaps because he was horrified by the case or because he was repenting for the mistakes he had made. He did not dare to look up for a moment.

Only Feng Jia looked calm: "Why did he commit the crime? We need to ask the real murderer in person. It's less than four hours since the crime happened. If Wang Da escaped, he would never have left the city with the strength of a strong man. If the prefect sends people now and divides the troops into several groups, he will definitely be able to arrest Wang Da before dark!"

After hesitating for a moment, the prefect said to the officials in the government office, "Let's do as Miss Xie said. One team will immediately send a prefect's order to the captains of the four city gates, asking them to help with the investigation. Another team will search the streets with Wang Da's portrait. We must bring this murderer to justice!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Feng Jia heard a ding.

A line of blue words appeared before my eyes.

[Congratulations to the host for solving the case. The current progress is 100%. ]

[You have found the real murderer Wang Da and cleared yourself of the injustice. The survival countdown is paused and the rewards are being calculated...]

[Reward experience value 20%, can be exchanged for items or props in the backstage]

[Special Reward: None]

[Obtained 1 card draw, do you want to draw now? ]

Feng Jia clicked [Yes]

Two square cards with complex patterns on them immediately appeared in front of him. Feng Jia hesitated for a moment and chose the one on the left.

The two cards disappeared at the same time, and a small arrow appeared in the item bar instead.

[Item: Hunter's Arrow (3)]

[Hunter's Arrows (Active): You have three invisible arrows that never miss their target. They can be triggered as long as you keep a certain distance from your prey.]

[This item cannot kill with one arrow, and using it will consume a certain amount of experience points, so please use it with caution. ]