Ruyizhai

Now, when they came to the stone gate, what greeted them was a spacious room filled with candlelight.The candlelight was bright, but the wall they were facing was pitch black. Before Wu Xingchen could take a good look at the layout of the room, Ruyizhai dragged him to the ground.The two squatted beside a man lying on his back on the ground.This man has yellow skin, a pair of black and brown eyes wide open, and he seems to be dying. He is wearing a black silk nightgown, and his hair is soaked in a puddle of blood-red liquid. Dirty out.Wu Xingchen followed the direction of the liquid, turned his head and looked behind him. In his conception, it should be the place where the stone gate was located. For some reason, he couldn’t find any trace of the stone gate. Patterned wall front.

The walls of this room are full of rare and auspicious birds, such as phoenixes, unicorns, cranes, and white zebras, as well as some luminous fairy grass Ganoderma lucidum, three trees with pearls in their branches, white sycamore trees, and lotus flowers. , dotted with ghost grasses, and there is a dragon soaring through the clouds and fog on the ground. The cloud is emerald-colored, and the whole dragon is shining with golden light, with a pair of red eyes shining brightly. This flood dragon is about to turn up the clouds and fly away.

Ruyi Zhai shouted: "Hello."

Wu Xingchen rubbed his eyes, and looked away from the golden dragon's eyes. He looked at the man on the ground. He was lying motionless under the golden dragon's hind paws. Ruyizhai was patting his cheek, and Ruyizhai shouted again. Said: "Hey, wake up."

A dagger fell from the man's right hand, and a wine bottle lay not far from his right hand.Wu Xingchen probed the man's breath and said, "I'm out of breath."

Hearing this, Ruyizhai put some of the red liquid on the ground under his nose and sniffed it: "It's not blood, it's tomato grape juice, rich in vitamins."

Wu Xingchen wanted to get the wine bottle, but Ruyizhai stopped him, saying: "Don't move things at the crime scene, didn't the reasoning tell you? If you touch this wine bottle, this story may become a social reasoning going."

He looked at the man: "There is no obvious trauma on the front."

As he spoke, he picked up the man's head, and Wu Xingchen said, "This is a corpse, so you can't touch it carelessly, right?"

Ruyi Zhai touched the back of the man's head and said with reason: "I saw a man lying on the ground, can't I give him first aid?"

As he spoke, he lowered the man's head and said, "It looks like he fell to the back of his head, but the injury is not serious, and the bones are still intact, so he won't just die like this."

Wu Xingchen pointed to the cup on the ground and the desk next to it, and said, "The cup should have fallen from here."

There are still some books, globes and other sundries in a mess on the desk.There is a map hanging behind the desk, which does not indicate the region and year, but from the outline, Wu Xingchen judges that it is a map of the territory of the Qin Dynasty.

Ruyi Zhai said: "The door is closed from the inside."

At this moment, he had stood up from the ground and walked behind a door—this was the only door in the room, made of wood, with a bolt-type lock behind the door.At this time, the latch is inserted.

He walked towards the two windows in the room again—they were the only two windows in the room, opened on the same wall, and the pepper-red window lattices were painted with legends about King Zhou Mu driving to the Queen Mother of the West.

Ruyizhai opened the window and wiped it on the window sill: "There are no footprints and no dust. Either no one came in through the window, and someone came to clean it today, and it was clean, or someone came in through the window and cleaned the window sill. traces, but the people who came in obviously didn't go out again."

Wu Xingchen looked over and understood what he meant. It was dark outside, but the moonlight was bright enough to illuminate a lush bush on the ground. The window was about ten stories above the ground, and there was no support outside the window. A man who climbs in through a window kills someone and then slips away through the window, unless he can float in the air, he will leave some trace on the window sill.

Wu Xingchen said: "Things are also very neat. If someone suddenly came in through the window, either the deceased knew that person and knew that person would meet him in this way, otherwise he must be very surprised...Maybe there will be a fight."

But the bed in the room, the candlesticks - there are many candlesticks placed high and low in this room, on the bedside table, on the bookshelf, on the desk, on the floor, you can see candlesticks everywhere, these candlesticks have different shapes and textures. They are not the same, there are stone-carved celestial beings in the shape of a jade plate, there are gold-plated stags in the shape of raising their necks, and jade-carved celestial maidens hugging candles in the shape of bouncing pipas, and Wu Xingchen is even on the desk. Next to the globe, I saw a shuttle-shaped candlestick made of alloy, and a short white candle was supported on the top of the shuttle.

The two walked back to the lifeless man.Wu Xingchen asked, "Then what should we do now?"

Ruyizhai said, "Call the police?"

Wu Xingchen was surprised: "Shouldn't this be the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang? Why is it like a bedroom?" He swallowed, "Could it be that this is..."

Ruyizhai rolled his eyes: "You work in the Earth Museum and you don't know what the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor looks like? Isn't it excavated a long time ago?"

Wu Xingchen was even more surprised: "That's right, that's why it's so strange! The mausoleum doesn't look like this... Moreover, Indonesian volcanoes erupted in the 27th century, and the plate movement even affected Xi'an. There were frequent earthquakes of magnitude [-], and the simplicity made the mausoleum waterproof. Shui Daba fell, and the entire underground was flooded."

Speaking of this, a beam of white light came in from the window and fell at their feet.Its daybreak.Tuk Tuk, someone knocked on the door outside.

Wu Xingchen looked at Ruyizhai, stretched his sleeves, and unfastened the latch through the fabric.A woman dressed as a lady came in, and when she saw Wu Xingchen, she was taken aback for a moment, then she saw the man lying on the ground, she immediately fainted, and half of her fell outside the door.Just as Wu Xingchen was going to help her, a guard rushed in from the door, pointed the spear in his hand at Wu Xingchen, opened his mouth, but a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, he glanced behind Wu Xingchen, The doubts deepened, and he dragged his tone, shouting: "Come here, there are assassins..."

He yelled sloppyly, hesitating, but the "people" came very simply, and soon, there were three people coming: a tall man with a goatee, a middle-aged man in military uniform and two soldiers who looked like soldiers. People, the middle-aged man came in and said: "The general is here! Who dares to make mistakes!"

After the general's words fell, two soldiers captured Wu Xingchen and Ruyizhai respectively.Ruyizhai shouted: "My lord, I am wronged, we are not assassins."

His wording fits perfectly.Wu Xingchen said: "He was out of breath when we came, so hurry up and call the police."

The general looked Wu Xingchen up and down, grabbed the hilt of the saber hanging at his waist with one hand, and said, "Guard! The general asked you, have you seen these two people come into the emperor's place?"

The guard at the gate said: "No!"

The general shouted loudly, his eyes widened with anger, and he circled Ruyizhai and Wu Xingchen: "Hey! Bold assassin! How dare you stay on the scene after assassinating the emperor! Tell me, who sent you here! Are you a rebel?" leader!"

Chachachachachacha, dongdongdongdongdong, cymbals and small gongs sounded together, Wu Xingchen's ears were ringing badly, his head was dizzy, he was pressed down by the soldiers holding him behind him, and he knelt down on the ground, facing the dying man. man.

He should.When the copper bell rang, the gongs and drums stopped, and a man and a woman came flying in. The man looked like a teenager, and the woman was a bit older. Now there is a black mole on it.The man and woman entered the house and began to cry. The boy threw himself on the dead body and called the emperor first, then his father. The woman cried bitterly, first the emperor, then her husband.The general began to circle around them, saying: "Poor queen! Poor prince! Poor subjects and common people, what is going on with this court, and where is this world going to go!"

Clearing the zero and bang, the percussion instruments started to make noise again, Wu Xingchen asked Ruyizhai in a daze, "I'm not dreaming, am I? Did you hear some background music-like sound?"

Ruyizhai said: "It means we are not in real life."

"You heard that too?"

The general was still throwing exclamation marks and interrogative sentences: "The leader of the rebel army must not be arrogant! Wait for thousands of troops to take your head! This world is the emperor's world after all!"

The weeping queen suddenly raised her eyes to look at Ruyizhai and Wu Xingchen, and made Pusipusi's voice.Ruyi Zhai also knelt down knowingly, and got together with Wu Xingchen, only to hear the queen say: "Who are you? You are not the ones playing the assassin, are you?"

Ruyizhai shrugged, Wu Xingchen shrugged too, and the soldier behind him yawned loudly.

Clang, bang, bang.

The background music that comes with the general's speech is obviously louder.

The queen rolled her cloudy eyes: "The assassin should be under the bed, how did you get in?"

Wu Xingchen said: "How do you know that the assassin should be under the bed, could it be that you sent the assassin?"

At this time, the prince also joined in: "What are you talking about? Hey, did the general add drama to himself again?"

"Add drama?" Wu Xingchen said: "You also know that you are a character in the movie?"

The prince giggled and said, "What!"

He sniffed hard twice, and said, "Why is there juice on the floor? Empress, isn't this paragraph in the script? The director secretly changed the script again? Didn't the theater owner tell him to leave if he found out that he changed the script? What about the child support owed every month? Will you help him pay?"

The queen said: "Stop meddling in your own business." She pushed the man on the ground: "Emperor, did you overturn the prop juice yourself?"

Wu Xingchen said: "Didn't you find out, he is already dead."

Both the prince and queen laughed.Wu Xingchen said: "Really! Feel his pulse! Listen to his heartbeat! He is dead!"

The queen and the prince shoved and laughed. The prince pretended to lie on the man's body and listened to his heartbeat. He was still smiling at first, but after lying down for a while, his expression changed. The queen saw this and pinched him twice. arm, and said coquettishly: "Oh, what's the matter, is it true or not? Stop playing."

The prince raised his head to look at Wu Xingchen: "You...are not here to perform this stage play?"

Ruyizhai said: "The case has been solved. This is the scene of a stage play, so there is always background music."

Wu Xingchen said: "Are you guys rehearsing now? How is the actor's health? Shouldn't he have any genetic diseases?"

The queen looked at them, and also went to listen to the man's heartbeat, her face paled immediately, and she leaned against the prince as if she was holding a heart, calling: "General!"Then the general came over, knelt down beside the queen, supported the queen's shoulders, glanced at everyone, and complained: "What are you doing? Why is the assassin here? Shouldn't the assassin hide under the bed? What's wrong with the window?" open?"

The queen kept winking at the general: "No heartbeat, no breath! Really dead!"

The general was startled, touched the man's neck, snorted, and said, "Letting him act as a dead man is not asking him to really die!"

"What now?" asked the prince.

The general turned his head and yelled: "Who is the guard who kept watch last night, come forward!"

The guard who pointed at Wu Xingchen and Ruyizhai with a spear came over, and the general pointed to the small circle where they gathered together: "Come closer, come closer!"

The guard approached, only to hear the general whisper to him: "Director, the emperor is dead!"

The guard drooped his eyelids and said, "Are you acting up again? Next door you were playing Tang Minghuang. When you get here, remember that you are the general! This stage play that is staged every day to attract tourists is called "Death of the Emperor" !"

"It's really dead!" The queen and the prince pulled the guard onto the man, insisting on letting him listen to the man's heartbeat.The guard was caught off guard and fell to the ground, yelling: "General! Last night! No suspicious person came in! Guaranteed by name and life!"

There was no expression on his face, and after lying on the man's body for a while, he only frowned slightly.

The general asked him: "Then what should we do now? How can we act again? Who acted in the memory flashback? What about the substitute? Now be the substitute? Otherwise, we can take an intermission and make some adjustments?"

The guard was furious, and grabbed the general's collar and said, "What are you talking about! The performance must continue! It must continue! Once the stage begins, the actors must not run away until the curtain calls! Traitors of the theater! Slaves of society! Potential bladder patients! Actors must obey the director! Obey the scriptwriter! Obey your characters!! The audience must obey the plot!"

The prince hiccupped, the queen let out another soft *, and she collapsed into the prince's arms. She whispered to the guard, "Is it improvisation?" "Who are you? You're not from the theater, right? Who asked you to play the assassin? Didn't you read the script? Shouldn't the assassin be under the bed?"

Wu Xingchen said: "You may not believe it, we entered this room through a door that has disappeared, so... this is the scene of a stage play?"

The guard said: "There's no need to believe it or not. Since you say so, let's take it for granted that there really is such a door."

Ruyi Zhai said, "We are detectives."

"detective?"

Ruyi Zhai said: "Don't you want to know how the emperor died? A detective is someone who can give you the answer."

He immediately said again: "After the emperor came into this room, no one came in again, right?"

The prince leaned over, pointed at the wooden door, and said, "No, there is only one entrance and exit in this set, and even if you want to kill people..."

The prince looked at the guard, who nodded, raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

The black wall that Wu Xingchen had seen before lit up.

That's the auditorium.

The bright lights illuminated the blank and focused faces of hundreds of spectators.

The guard turned around and suddenly asked the audience: "The emperor is dead! Has anyone seen the murderer??"

Someone in the audience shouted: "The assassin didn't do anything! The assassin is under the bed! Those two people are innocent!"

And so did other viewers.

The general immediately ran under the bed and found an assassin.The loud background music started again, and the guard said: "It seems that he may have died of a sudden illness."

"Not necessarily, maybe he was murdered, and there are many forms of murder," Ruyizhai smiled, "And, isn't this an impossible murder case that all reasoning detectives can't escape? Closed room, hundreds of witnesses."

The guard fell into deep thought, and Wu Xingchen tried to analyze the current situation between him and Ruyizhai: "This is the Emperor Qinhuang's tomb, and a stage play called "The Death of the Emperor" is staged here every day to attract tourists. , the actor who played the emperor is really dead."

The guard's eyes flashed: "Yes! Since you said that you are the ones who can give the answer, it's up to you to find out the truth about the emperor's death!"

The prince and the queen looked at the guards in unison, dumbfounded, and the prince said: "What... what do you mean? Isn't this a part-time actor's profession? That is... impromptu performances are also included in the part-time actor's profession?"

The queen straightened her waist: "Are you crazy??! You will be sent to a war camp by the boss!"

The guard pointed to Ruyizhai, and said to the queen, "This is the imperial physician."

The guard tried to wake up the dust, and said to the prince: "This is General Feihu, who just came from the front line with the news of suppressing the rebels. The two of them will join hands to investigate the truth of the emperor's death."

The queen whimpered and passed out again, maybe this time she really lost consciousness.The prince was dumbfounded and trembling all over.The general and the assassin babbled and babbled against each other, beheading you who usurped the throne of a certain dynasty, a strong man through the ages, Yi Shuihan!

The guard snapped his fingers again.The lights in the auditorium dimmed.

He announced to Wu Xingchen and Ruyizhai in a low voice: "Now... the real "Death of the Emperor", the performance begins!"

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