Tang riddles

Seeing everyone looking at him in surprise, Shen Jin couldn't help laughing, and explained:

[It's a misnomer.The so-called "borrowing the corpse to return the soul" does not really mean that there is a soul attached to the corpse to wake up and return to the sun.What I mean is that someone takes advantage of someone's death to replace their own identity, so that they can continue to pretend to be the imperial guards and stay in the imperial city. 】

While talking, she motioned the bluebird to push herself to the position where the ten corpses were resting.The old Wu Zuo seemed to have a premonition of what Shen Jin was about to do, and followed closely.

Shen Jin tilted his head, and whispered a few words with Bluebird, and Bluebird relayed her words:

"General Wang, please come here and carefully identify the corpses of these ten people again."

Wang Zhongsi walked over with big strides, looked at Shen Jin with some doubts, and heard Blue Robin continue:

"My Erlang suspects that among these ten people, one of them was not your original subordinate, but was murdered to death and mixed with these ten people. General Wang will take a closer look to see if they are still the same people."

Wang Zhongsi nodded, although he still had a lot of doubts in his heart, but according to his words, with the help of the old master, he began to uncover the straw mats covering the corpses one by one to identify their appearance.After death, the color of blood fades, the skin and flesh loosen, and the appearance will change greatly.In particular, these ten people still died of accidental death, poisoned, and the venom made each of their faces turn blue and purple, their meridians burst out, and their entire faces were swollen, almost beyond recognition.Therefore, it is very difficult to identify who is who.What's more, Wang Zhongsi is not very familiar with the ten people under his command, at most, he has met face to face once or twice, and it is already very good to be able to match the names with the characters.

Therefore, identifying the identities of these ten people broke his brain.But he could still recognize seven of them, and there were only the last three corpses, and he couldn't guarantee that he really knew them.

The identification of the corpses should have been done a long time ago, but because these ten people died so strangely, everyone's attention was focused on how they died, and they never thought about checking their identities.Even Shen Sui didn't think of this at the time, and in the subsequent investigations, this step was completely ignored.In addition, originally ascertaining the evidence at the scene of the crime and paying attention to all unreasonable doubts should have been done earlier, but because Shen Jin took over the case halfway and lacked experience, Li Jinyue and Wang Zhongsi were completely laymen. , and ignored it.That's why I came back today for the post-mortem investigation to check for omissions and make up for vacancies.

The last three unidentifiable corpses still had the military badges on their bodies to prove their identity, but their faces were so out of shape that they dare not say they were their own.Shen Jin inspected it herself, and finally she noticed that one of the corpses was tied with an unnatural knot on the clothes. The way it is tied is too similar to the way the knot on the fishing rod is tied.

She checked the neck of the corpse again, and sure enough, she saw traces of wearing the pendant all the year round, as well as bloodstains left after the pendant was forcibly torn off.

【This person should be a snake witch. 】Shen Jin said.

Everyone looked at each other, Wang Zhongsi said anxiously:

"What's going on? Mr. Zhongqin, I'm stupid, can you explain more clearly?"

Shen Jin smiled, and raised his hand to signal Wang Zhongsi to be calm.Then he told the bluebird what he thought, and the bluebird relayed it to everyone one by one.

"General Wang, let's start with the day when you, my elder brother and the princess took a boat on the lake to investigate the case. Let me ask you, did you notice anything wrong after you boarded the boat that day?"

Wang Zhongsi heard the words and hurriedly said:

"What's wrong? It's not right! That day, I just felt that my mind was dizzy, and I couldn't control my hands and feet. What I did was very absurd. No matter how stupid I am, Wang Zhongsi, I won't be involved in the investigation Fishing. Moreover, I have no memory of why I went to the reeds that day. I just felt that I lost consciousness as soon as I got on the boat. When I regained consciousness, I was already on the lake with a bamboo pole in my hand. Fishing."

These words had been held in Wang Zhongsi's heart for a long time, but now that Shen Jin scratched his itchy spot, he immediately said them all like pouring beans.He didn't believe it when he said this, but this happened to him, it was really unbelievable.

Shen Jin said again through the mouth of the blue robin:

"General Wang, you have been hypnotized. One of the two soldiers who were on the same boat as you that day was the murderer of the death case!"

When everyone heard the words, they were all shocked on the spot like a thunderbolt.

"This murderer is extremely cunning. After the death of Team Shi broke out, he has been lurking among the imperial guards guarding Xiyuan. The imperial troops in Xiyuan are dispatched from various camps, with different military numbers and designations. The affiliation is also different. In this Xiyuan, there are so many soldiers of the imperial army, with mixed heads, it is really hard to recognize all of them. In recent days, the task of guarding and patrolling the imperial city is heavy, and there is obviously a shortage of manpower. The situation in Xi’an. There are many new faces in the team, and the veterans can’t find their comrades in the same team, and they don’t know anyone, which is really convenient for the murderer to hide his identity.”

After saying this, Shen Jinhu asked the old master to get a large copper basin, fetch a basin of water, and then take a small package of confiscated black fire/powder, and then find a hollow bamboo pole, not too long, The length of the bamboo flute is fine, and finally bring a small can of lamp oil and a pair of scythes.The old man was at a loss, but he still bought these things according to Shen Jin's wishes.

"According to my speculation, there must be more than one snake witch active in Luoyang City. Thinking about it, they must have people at both ends to transport black fire/powder into the imperial city. Some people will send it in, while others will meet it inside. Otherwise, these black fire/powder are buried by the red-tailed lizards at the bottom of the lake, who will dig them out? There are not only one red-tailed lizards, at least three, so many giant red-tailed lizards, one person can’t even look at them Yes. Moreover, after a long time, the oilcloth bag will be soaked, and it will leak. The black fire/powder is useless. There is a time limit, and the inside and outside must be well coordinated. But how should the inside and outside be coordinated? This Someone needs to deliver messages in it. But the imperial city is heavily guarded, who can travel through the imperial city without any hindrance, without attracting the attention of others? Apart from the patrolling guards guarding the imperial city, there is probably no one else.

We found out that there are two waterways where red-tailed lizards exist. In addition, there is a secret passage leading to the East Palace, which will be left aside for now.The waterway in the east flows into Hanjiacang City, and there must be an inner guard in Hanjiacang City for a long time. It should be a soldier of the Imperial Army who disguised himself as guarding Hanjiacang.However, Hanjiacang City and the imperial guards in the rest of the imperial city do not communicate with each other, and this internal response must not run from east to west, so he must have stayed in Hanjiacang City for a long time.It is not difficult in Hanjiacang City to convey information between the inside and the outside world. If I want to list it, I can list more than ten kinds.The easiest way is to pretend to be a grain delivery soldier, or use a grain cart to carve a code. There are too many methods, and this is not the point.

Let's talk about the waterway of Xiyuan in the west, why they sent the fire/powder into Xiyuan, it doesn't matter.It should be more difficult for Xiyuan to deliver news than Hanjiacang City in the east.Fortunately, someone provided convenience for them.The Saint exhibited the Holy Grail in Xiyuan. Is this a coincidence or was it caused by someone secretly?I think the latter is more likely.The Holy Grail is exhibited in Xiyuan, which makes it convenient for them to use the water channel of Xiyuan to transport black fire/powder.The use of these black fires/powders may have to be considered in conjunction with the secret passage leading to the East Palace. "

Many of Shen Jin's words were to the point, and she didn't say it thoroughly, but everyone present understood the hidden meaning of her words, and their expressions couldn't help but gloomy.

"On Xiyuan's side, there is a snake witch as an internal response, pretending to be a soldier, and guarding this artificial seaside for a long time. He is responsible for finding out where the red-tailed lizard buried the black fire/powder, and digging up the black fire/powder. Come out and hide temporarily for later use. I guess, he is probably one of the garrisons guarding the Vientiane Pavilion where the Holy Grail is stored. The way to convey information between the inside and the outside world should be to use the daily entry and exit of Xiyuan to visit the Holy Grail The crowd. I guess, it is very likely that certain markers were placed on the bodies of certain people. These people who passed the news may not realize that they have become the communication tools of these secret spies.

Until the night before the incident, things changed.Because, news came from outside that it was time to do something.At night, the thieves who had been hiding in the crowd and entered Xiyuan during the day made their move.His identity should also be a snake witch, wearing a moon snake hook on his body.This person climbed up to the Vientiane Pavilion and successfully stole the Holy Grail.This made the sage's plan of stealing himself and acting out a play to attract the dark villains to fail.

After the thief stole the Holy Grail, he came to find the Snake Witch, and asked him to help him immediately to leave Xiyuan by using the waterway.At that time, the Holy Grail was stolen, causing panic, and a large number of forbidden troops poured into Xiyuan to search and arrest.Nei Ying Snake Witch was also among his team and was patrolling.He found an opportunity to get out and join the Thief Snake Witch.But he never thought that before he had time to send the Thief Snake Witch away, his identity would be exposed.In the team he was in, someone noticed something was wrong with him. After he withdrew and left, this person became alert and led the rest of his brothers to follow behind him quietly. Then he discovered the scene where he was meeting with the thief by the lake. It can be said that people steal and get.

The identity of Neiying Snake Witch was exposed, and he had no choice but to run away, but he and the Thief Snake Witch were no match for each other.So he became ill-tempered.Not only did he want to kill the soldiers in the Shi team, but he also planned to kill his fellow thief snake witch to fill up the number of people. Otherwise, if there is no one in the Shi team, sooner or later the internal response will be discovered, and the superior will be ruined plan.

So he caught it off guard, and first poured out the poison/drug of the red-tailed lizard on his body, confusing the minds of everyone in the team, including the thief snake witch.Then, he exchanged clothes with the thief snake witch, dressed the thief snake witch as a soldier, and mixed into the team.After that, he used hypnotism to lure the ten people away, and ordered them to circle around the lake, pretending to be on patrol.By the way, hypnotize these ten people and let them take the stones in the nearby dry mountains and rivers as treasures and stuff them into their pockets to increase their weight.He himself used this period of time to immediately set up the scene.

His purpose was to delay the time as much as possible, so the corpses of these ten people could not be discovered quickly.And the fastest way to hide so many corpses is to sink them into the lake.Asking them to stuff stones into their clothes is to prepare for sinking into the lake.

Here comes the question again, how can he sink ten people into the lake with his own strength?Although the weather was beautiful, the surrounding area was filled with thick fog, which provided him with a cover to hide his whereabouts.But he really didn't have much time, and he was surrounded by a large number of forbidden soldiers searching back and forth, and he might be bumped into at any time.How to sink all ten people to the bottom of the lake in the shortest time has become the biggest problem.Fortunately, he is very smart, he knows that if he alone can't drag ten people.Then just let these ten people run into the lake by themselves, he knows that his hypnotism can do this, the only thing he needs to do is to 'pave the way' for these ten people first. "

"Paving the road?" Li Jinyue was surprised, "Could it be...he was actually on the surface of the lake, and a layer of ice formed?"

Shen Jin smiled and nodded.

incredible!

Just at this time, the old Wu Zuo, who had been preparing for it, came back with a burden on his back and a large copper basin of clear water in his hand.The timing of his return was just right, and Shen Jin immediately started to do experiments.She asked the old Wuzuo to put the copper basin on the ground, sprinkle the pack of black fire/powder in the water, then took the hollow bamboo pole, smeared one end with lamp oil, lit it with a scythe, and lit the burning Insert this end straight upright into the water.

Everyone saw a large canopy of hookah suddenly rising from the water, making a "squeak" sound and emitting a faint burnt smell.When the water smoke dissipated, everyone was surprised to find that a layer of black ice like ink had formed on the surface of the water.

"These black gunpowder/powder float on the surface of the water and are ignited by the flaming bamboo poles. They burn violently and emit a lot of heat, while the water surface below absorbs a lot of heat, and the temperature drops to freezing point, and even freezes. The hollow bamboo poles are good for exhausting smoke and cooling, but the solid ones are not. This layer of black ice is very thin and will soon melt away, not to mention that ten people running on it will soon crush the ice surface, They all sank into the lake." Shen Jin explained the reason again through the mouth of the blue robin, "This is also the reason why the thief who stole the treasure died in the lake where the fish was fried seven years ago in Chaohu Lake, Huainan Road The lake where the bamboo poles were inserted was frozen because of the fried fish, and the thieves lost their way in the thick fog and didn't notice when they walked on the ice until the ice broke and fell into the lake and drowned."

The old Wuzuo lifted the short bamboo pole, only to see that the tail had been charred.

"After the black fire/powder ice melted, it was washed away along the pipeline below it with the flow of water, but a part remained on the fence of the water gate at the bottom of the lake, and was discovered by my brother. And the bamboo pole , maybe the Neiying Snake Witch had no place to handle the bamboo pole, or maybe he ran into a patrolling soldier, so he hid the bamboo pole in the reeds in a hurry. The bamboo pole should have been used by him to guide the red There was a black rope tied to the lizard's tool, and it was tied with the red-tailed lizard's favorite frog leg. The snake witch was afraid that someone would recognize the thief snake witch he replaced, so he took the moon around his neck. The snake hook was torn off, and he was afraid of being found by others when he put it on himself, so he tied it together with the black rope on the bamboo pole, hooked the frog's leg on the tip of the hook to cover it up, pretended to be a fishing pole, and hid it together. rise.

The investigation started on the second day, and the snake witch was hiding in the imperial army, restless, and wanted to dispose of the bamboo pole immediately.Seeing the princess and others recruiting soldiers for rowing boats, he immediately volunteered to step forward and get on board General Wang's boat.As soon as he boarded the boat, he hypnotized General Wang and another soldier. He wanted to take this opportunity to take back the bamboo pole hidden in the reeds, but he never thought that General Wang was determined and resisted his hypnotism. I woke up halfway, and as a last resort, I used hypnotism to lure you into fishing, but unfortunately, I caught a red-tailed lizard, and the follow-up happened.

I think this should be the whole picture of the theft of the Holy Grail and the death of Team Shi. "

There was no sound in the surroundings, and everyone was still in shock, and they hadn't recovered yet.Shen Jin finally asked Blue Robin to relay:

"The holy grail should be hidden behind the rockery. I guess that place is where the inner snake witch fished out the black fire/powder and buried it. The bamboo pole should have been hidden there. The inner snake witch is taking these He hid the stolen Holy Grail in it while he was looking for something. Afterwards, he should have no chance to dispose of the Holy Grail."

Everything was just as Shen Jin said, half an hour later, behind the rockery, they found the holy grail that had been missing for many days, and several remaining packets of black fire/powder.After consuming so much black powder/powder, there are still so many remnants, one can imagine how much the original quantity is, and this has not included the four bags at the bottom of the lake that have not been salvaged.

And the snake witch who used this genius killing method to take ten lives at once disappeared like smoke and dust.No one knows what kind of hell scene those ten people saw at the moment before they died.

The author has something to say: The case is solved. This case is a bit complicated, the clues are very detailed, and some scientific knowledge is involved.Qin Nu is still very smart, she knows a lot of physical and chemical knowledge under the influence of her sister [Shen Sui: I am an aboriginal, not a time traveler. ], being able to solve this case is also a skill.

It's just that things haven't been completely resolved yet...

PS: The keyboard at home is broken. This chapter was written at work, and I will post it as soon as I write it.