Dongdu Pavilion Case Record

"Master Chu, the person you see is not Miss Suxin." Wen Tao said, "What you see is a woman wearing a crab shell green dress, hanging from the beam and facing away from you. Because it is Miss Suxin's room , you later found me and returned to Xiage and saw the real lady Suxin lying on the ground, so you took it for granted that the one you saw hanging on the beam when you broke the door was the lady Suxin."

"But...Miss Furong has been watching..." Fangzhu Chu was puzzled.

"Of course we have to watch, not only to watch, but also to help the murderer get down, and then hang up the real Suxin lady." Wen Tao said.

"Ah! It's Lady Furong!" Everyone was stunned.

"This secret room is not difficult to make." Wen Tao said, "The murderer first entered the room pretending to be Mrs. Suxin, and then moved the corpse into the room with Mrs. Furong in the middle of the night, and put on clean clothes for the corpse. Mrs. Furong went back late at night and waited until late at night. The first one came over early in the morning of the next day. At this moment, there were the murderer dressed in exactly the same and the dead Suxin lady who had been hidden in the room. The murderer locked the door from the inside. When Lady Furong and Master Chu knocked on the door, The murderer just needs to hang himself for a while with his back to the door, so Fangzhu Chu can see this scene the moment he breaks in."

"However, I also happened to come that day." Master Chu said.

"It's not difficult. Even if you don't come, Lady Furong finds a maid from Xia Pavilion as a witness. As soon as she sees this scene, she can send her to Pavilion Master Tang. Anyway, most people definitely don't want to be with the corpse, so she can Do the next thing slowly." Wen Tao said.

"Then why did Furong become an accomplice?" King Qi asked puzzled.

Tang Wuyi took over the conversation and said: "I guess, the one who pushed Miss Suxin into the water was not the murderer, but Lady Furong. To be precise, in the case of Lady Suxin, the murderer was Lady Furong, and the accomplice was the murderer in the other cases."

"I'm confused by what you said." King Qi said.

Tang Wuyi continued: "In this case, the other oiran ladies were all killed by one person, and in the case of Lady Furong, it is likely that this person witnessed Lady Furong pushing Lady Suxin into the lake, and then helped her deal with the aftermath. When people kill other people, they always try to kill them with one blow, but the technique of pushing people into the water may not drown them or be discovered. It's not like this person's style."

Seeing that everyone was still puzzled, Tang Wuyi said: "Let me restore the case. Lady Suxin sent Queen Qi away and walked back to Xiage alone. Xiage is surrounded by water on three sides. Lady Furong, because of King Qi's affairs, especially Hearing that King Qi was going to bring Miss Suxin back to the capital, he held a grudge, so he followed her quietly and pushed her into the water when he saw the opportunity. It happened that this scene was seen by the murderer. It happened that this person also had murderous intentions for Miss Suxin and followed him secretly. Seeing this, the man came out, and Lady Furong must have been terrified at the time. The man persuaded Lady Furong to join hands to deal with the aftermath of the case, making a weird appearance of murder in a secret room, so that it could be blamed on ghosts. Afterwards, it was like hearing The priest said."

"So, this person was responsible for the murder of Lady Furong this morning?" said Vice-Fang Jiang, who hadn't spoken for a long time.

"That's right." Tang Wuyi said, "Just imagine who can ask Miss Furong out alone at this time? It can only be her accomplice. It is very likely that Lady Furong is panicking these two days and probably wants to kill Suxin Tell me about the lady. Of course, this person can't let her do what she wants, she has several murder cases, and seeing that Lady Furong has a different attitude, I asked her out this morning to silence her."

"That's right..." came a weak voice, it was Lady Furong's personal maid, Rongniang, "Miss, she doesn't think about food and drink for the past two days, and she can't sleep well at night. She must insist on eating breakfast this morning." Go out, I persuaded for a long time to no avail."

"Well, I guess, the murderer hid the news of her appointment in the breakfast food box. The management of the garden has been chaotic these two days, and it can be done by doing anything."Tang Wuyi said.

"I don't know something." Fangzhu Chu suddenly said.

"Please tell me." Tang Wuyi said.

"Miss Furong has murderous intentions towards Mistress Suxin, I can understand," Fang Master Chu said, and then he glanced at King Qi, who turned his head feeling a little ashamed, "But, why did the murderer kill Mistress Suxin? Who is she? "

"Good question." Tang Wuyi continued, "However, before answering this question, let me ask everyone to think about the rumors about Lady Diewu."

"We indeed saw ghosts dancing with our own eyes." Master Chu said, "I witnessed it with Pavilion Master Tang."

"The murderer made good use of Miss Diewu's ghost. It's a pity that Dongdu Pavilion took over this time, and she was out of luck. Otherwise, if the case can't be solved, many people will probably think it's Miss Diewu's. The ghosts committed these crimes." Tang Wuyi said, "Master Wen, please explain the ghost dance and the mystery of the golden butterfly."

In fact, Tang Wuyi already knew about these things, but since Wen Tao discovered them, Tang Wuyi was very happy to see Wen Tao explain them one by one in front of everyone.

Wen Tao took out the topographic map of Jinyuan from his sleeve, laid it on the table, and said in an orderly manner: "After the deaths of Lady Xifang and Lady Dongfang, rumors of the ghost of Lady Diewu began to appear in Jinyuan. I think, this The murderer may not have known about this rumor at the beginning, but she happened to need to kill again, so she took advantage of this rumor."

Wen Tao continued: "For two consecutive days, people in the pavilion near the southeast corner of Jin Garden witnessed a woman in red dancing at midnight on a small island in the middle of the lake. This woman is like a ghost, appearing and disappearing in an instant. Flying, just like Lady Diewu was alive back then."

"That's right!" "We all saw it!" several Kabuki who had witnessed the ghost dance echoed.

"Actually, this person did not go to the small island in the middle of the lake, but danced on a stone boat in the northwest corner of Jinyuan." Wen Tao said while pointing to the topographic map, "Look, the witnesses are all in Jinyuan. The southeast corner, and this woman is actually dancing in the northwest corner, but the terrain there is slightly lower, just blocked by the small island in the middle of the lake, so from your point of view, you think it is the woman in red dancing on the small island in the middle of the lake. Think about it carefully, isn't that dancing figure relatively small?"

The person involved, Chu Fangzhu, said: "As expected. I was only shocked when I saw it at the time. Now that I think about it, the proportion of the figure and the size of the small island in the middle of the lake are wrong."

Wen Tao said: "There is a big tree blocking the stone boat, and it is a black shadow at night. As long as this person turns out from behind the tree and dances on the boat, he can create a sudden effect."

Those kabukis who witnessed the woman in red dancing breathed a sigh of relief. They almost believed in the ghost killing before.