The first work of the imperial prison

When it comes to starting, it doesn't start immediately, it's not a little bit of time.

Everyone is quite tired, so why not have a late-night snack first like working overtime in the past, so as to calm down, refresh your mind, and make your mind more flexible, right?

After eating and drinking, the tea was brewed, and Shen Jiang stopped yawning. He pulled out the small whiteboard for each discussion, and first wrote the names of the people involved in the case...

Yes, although the young master has changed rooms, from the Nuan Pavilion to the Commander's place, everything that should be there is still not bad at all, and all of them have been moved here, so it is very convenient to do everything.

Following the names in his pen, Ye Baiting said: "Let's analyze the two deceased first. The first is the dancer Yu Linglong. Her identity should have been confirmed by the commander, and it has nothing to do with any interest group?"

Qiu Yiqing stuck the teacup on the back of her finger, the temperature was just right, and she pushed it in front of Ye Baiting: "She is just a dancer from the Jiaofang Division, and her circle is very simple."

"If that's the case, why did she have to die? What was the motive for killing her?" Ye Baiting pondered, "She was raped by someone, and she didn't do anything when she could call for help. Why? Are there us in her circle of life? I don't know, very important person?"

Shen Jiang took out the small notebook on her body: "Didn't the young master remind me to check Su Jiujiu? Why did you deliver the wine at night? Why did you go in the wrong direction? Where did you go? I asked, she really went to find Yu Linglong that night Yes, the two jars of wine in Yu Linglong's room were made by Su Jiujiu. The person who shared half of the jars with him before was also Su Jiujiu. At that time, they chatted and made an agreement. Su Jiujiu said that he would give the same Give her something, who knows that there was an accident that night, the things were not delivered, and Yu Linglong died..."

Ye Baiting: "You went to find Su Jiujiu for questioning? Did she say so?"

Shen Jiang: "She didn't hide anything when she went there in the evening. She didn't take the initiative to bring it up during the questioning that day. She didn't think it was important, but it's different when someone dies."

"How did Su Jiujiu behave when he heard the news of Yu Linglong's death?"

"Expression..." Shen Jiang recalled, "There must be some surprises, and some regrets, but she was not too sad, and she didn't ask too much. She only said where her grave will be buried in the future. I hope we can tell. She wants to Make a jar of wine and worship in the next day."

Qiu Xunqing: "It sounds like the two don't have much contact with each other?"

Shen Jiang: "No really. Yu Linglong just ordered two jars of wine at Suji Winery. Su Jiujiu took the order. She and Su Jiujiu didn't know each other before, and they didn't have any interaction. Just because of this order, Only a few times have they met, one of them practices dancing every day and is busy receiving banquet guests, the other makes wine every day, rarely goes out, and doesn't meet many times... To say how close and important is, I don't think so, this Could it be a pure accident?"

Maybe the two girls were unlucky, Su Jiujiu came to deliver things, bumped into that bastard Lu Ming, and Yu Linglong was killed because of other accidents that they don't know about right now?

The room fell silent.

Ye Baiting rested her fingertips on the table: "During the banquet, the few times Yu Linglong left the banquet, who's time intersected with it, and the person who had a relationship with her, can you be sure?"

"I feel like it's him."

Shen Jiang's pen tip hesitated a little, and landed on a name, Lu Ming.

Ye Baiting: "The reason."

"Really ask this question, no one admits it, everyone says it's just a joke, it's just a joke, it's normal to talk dirty when drunk, no one really did anything," Shen Jiang said, "Master let me I paid attention to checking all the lecherous people at the banquet, the most obvious ones are really only these three—”

He circled the names of Lu Ming, Zhong Xingyan, and Bi Zhenghe.

As for Daha... he circled the empty circle.

"This one is also very horny, but he obviously has more than enough energy, and he is more talkative."

Shen Jiang analyzed: "They are most likely to pester Yu Linglong. But not long after the banquet started, Bi Zhenghe got drunk, fell asleep on the table, and spent most of the time in the main hall of the banquet. It seemed that there were not many opportunities to do this; I am more interested in Su Jiujiu... According to the confession with Yan Ren, when Lu Ming 'suggested' Su Jiujiu toast, Zhong Xingyan was very interested Well, half of it is because the two wine shops are competitive, and he has a desire to conquer this girl, and the other half is because Su Jiujiu is inherently beautiful and has a very unique temperament, he has seen it before, and he has missed it."

"I feel that this matter is not groundless, but I went to investigate and investigate, but I didn't get any definite evidence, so this 'concern', whether Zhong Xingyan is interested in Su Jiujiu, can only be suspected up to now."

Ye Baiting: "You doubted Lu Ming, maybe you didn't just use the method of elimination? He did leave the meeting halfway, and the time coincided with Yu Linglong's?"

Shen Jiang nodded: "It's as simple as non-compliance. When Su Jiujiu went the wrong way and came to the main hall, Yu Linglong left the table during the three song and dance breaks. The last time out of the three, Lu Ming also left the table. The two left one after another, and the routes were similar, and the time they didn't appear in front of others... was more than two quarters of an hour."

"I inquired about the servants and maids, cross-compared, and found that no one had seen them during the two quarters of an hour, but outside the partition wall of a moon gate, a maid passed by and spoke clearly. There was a very ambiguous voice, but she was a little frightened at the time, and she didn't even think about going to see who it was, and left quickly."

Ye Baiting: "Do you think these two people are Yu Linglong and Lu Ming?"

Shen Jiang nodded: "In terms of evidence performance and cross-comparison with time, the two of them are the most likely."

"Did this happen before or after they drank?" Ye Baiting said, "Didn't it mean that Yu Linglong toasted all the adults present?"

Shen Jiang flipped through the notebook: "Afterwards."

"So the nail marks on his wine glass were left before Yu Linglong left the table for the third time?"

Ye Baiting murmured, Lu Ming is not a good person, he will use coercive methods to persuade Su Jiujiu to drink, and he will use the same method to persuade Yu Linglong before, but the difference is that later, Su Jiujiu did not drink, but Yu Linglong had no choice but to persuade him to drink. In the past, she drank.

At that time, she and Lu Ming were pushing and rejecting, and the force was very strong, even leaving nail marks, and she was quite reluctant. In this case, why was she willing to do this with Lu Ming?

Shangguan has official authority and the strength to oppress her, Lu Ming is just a teacher, with Yu Linglong's ability to speak, can't she shirk it?

After a moment of silence, Ye Baiting asked again: "What about the various tear marks on her skirt? Is there anything to gain from the scene?"

"I did find a few broken pieces of cloth," Shen Jiangdao, "most of them are in the bushes, that is, the very obvious trace of chasing and running, and the window sill of the east wing. Other than that, nothing else was found. .”

"Where's the bite mark? Did you find it?"

"nor."

Shen Jiang also felt very puzzled. Jin Yiwei has discipline, and it is okay to ask others to cooperate in questioning. It is a bit too much to ask others to take off their clothes and check the traces. Unless the evidence is convincing, they generally will not force them. Just peek at others taking a bath, and if they don’t take a bath, try to throw something on them to make them have to take a bath.

But this time no results were found, neither.

"Lu Ming's corpse, have we all seen it? Not on Zhong Xingyan, nor on Bi Zhenghe... This is very strange. Before Yu Linglong died, who was she fighting against? Who did she bite?"

"Could it be biting before?" Shen Jiang tried to think, "Could it be that she met someone first, encountered something that caused the action of 'biting', but in the end died of the person who bullied her, two people Not one?"

Ye Baiting: "Who coincided with Yu Linglong's last absence?"

"That's too much," Shen Jiang flipped through the small book, and said, "The last time she was away, Su Tu came to save the girl, and when Du Kang also came at the end, Su Tu used the wine rack to kill everyone. It was very lively, the scene did not notice when Yu Linglong left, but the men at the scene basically did not leave..."

Qiu Su's green knuckles tapped on the table: "That is to say, during this time, Yu Linglong is blank."

Unnoticed, unfollowed, she could go anywhere and do anything.

Shen Jiang nodded: "Yes, she hasn't come back since this time. The banquet hall was disturbed by Su Tu, and the envoys didn't win the wine game. They lost face. Daha lost his temper and shook his sleeves. After leaving, the three members of the Su family walked away. Everyone in the venue was polite and polite, saying pleasantries, and proceeded to the last round of persuasion. At this time, it is not good for the guests to leave immediately. There are a lot of people leaving the table, so go and relax. Smell of alcohol, say a few small words, come back after a quarter of an hour, the atmosphere will be over, everyone please leave..."

Ye Baiting listened, and frowned, there was too much movement in the past quarter of an hour, most of them left the table, didn't they have time to kill Yu Linglong?

"Did Lu Ming faint on the table at this time?"

"Yes, Daha lost his temper, the three of the Su family left, and everyone had a last round of drinking. Many people left, but Lu Ming didn't. Everyone's confession was that he seemed to have drunk too much. Someone asked him to go out for a break, but he didn't respond. , lying on the table," Shen Jiang flipped through the small book, "in the end, everyone said goodbye, helped each other, or left under the service of servants. No one paid attention to Lu Ming, probably because he didn't have enough status."

He is just a master, even if he is promoted by others and sits in the elegant hall, no one will call him who is not close to him.The Shangguan didn't call, maybe he forgot, the mission didn't care, maybe he didn't take him so seriously, as for the servants... the guests present are all Shangguan, the servants of the officials, of course, have the qualifications to serve Master, forget about the master's servants, they are just like their masters, unworthy.

As a result of blessings from various reasons, Lu Ming was left alone and kept lying on the table, no one cared. After all, he would leave by himself when he was sober, but he died here and couldn't leave at all.

Ye Baiting pondered for a moment: "How is Lu Ming?"

Shen Jiang: "Insidious and cunning, profit-seeking and speculative, philistine and cunning, he is very courageous, and his methods are dirty. Whether it is business management or officialdom giving advice to Shangguan, he is very sinister. In his eyes, interests are paramount. People, especially People with lower class levels don't matter at all."

"Didn't the young master tell me to pay attention to who is lustful? This Zhong Xingyan is very good, especially women from good families. I checked in depth and found that Lu Ming had a deed of beautifying Shangguan. He was out of business and had daily contact with There are a lot of people, and there are many incidents, big and small, and those involved in these incidents will have family members, such as sisters, cousins, wife's sisters, wife's cousins... Several concubines in Zhong Xingyan's backyard, They are all vaguely related to Lu Ming, but these things involve a wide range of things, and it is a bit slow to investigate, and I haven't got any conclusive evidence yet."

Ye Baiting pondered for a moment: "Where is the fake wine chain, may it be found to be related to him?"

"This..." Shen Jiang looked aside, "Need to ask the commander?"

He was in charge of interviewing confessions, checking the timeline of all suspects, their daily contacts, and whether there were any increase or decrease of people involved in the case.

Qiu Xingqing's answer was affirmative: "Lu Ming helps Zhong Xingyan manage his business, and his business covers a wide range. This case is related to a liquor store, but it has become more and more popular recently. The business with the largest turnover is vegetables."

Vegetables... It's obvious. Wood essence can be widely used in vegetable preservation. It is obvious that Lu Ming can easily get the source of the poison. If you think about it, Zhong Xingyan should be able to do the same.

It is difficult for other people to get in touch with themselves. If they want to kill people with this method, they must clearly know that Lu Ming and Zhong Xingyan can get this thing, and use clever tricks to kill people with a knife.

Ye Baiting: "The mission chooses wine, and Lu Ming Wine Shop competes with Suji Wine Shop. What suppression methods can we use?"

"Not yet," Shen Jiang shook his head. "Lu Ming is very cautious this time. At present, he just found the Su family and wanted to talk about cooperation, but was rejected. He is very unhappy and has no plans for the next step."

"Is there no, or must it be slow?"

"Master... what do you mean?"

Ye Baiting narrowed his eyes: "You said that Zhong Xingyan likes girls from good families, and Lu Ming is used to using tricks in the business field to help Zhong Xingyan hunt for beauty... Su Jiujiu is very beautiful."

If there is a demand for 'hunting beauty', the means cannot be so simple and rude.

Shen Jiang immediately frowned: "It makes sense... That old bastard Zhong Xingyan may have some dirty intentions!"

Qiu Xunqing: "There are other things to consider, Daha's attitude towards Su Ji, and Bi Zhenghe's attitude towards Su Ji."

Shen Jiang: "Daha is not a good person. He is also lustful. Although he has more than enough energy, his cunt is not good. When he looks at girls, his eyes are also dark. I have seen it with my own eyes. Bi Zhenghe also had a banquet last night. Now, it's a fact that he got drunk and went to bed early, and he only went out for a pee in the middle, but he also pretended to be decent on the surface, unmoved, but in fact, if someone offered him a woman, or if a woman came to him by herself, he would basically not refuse Yes, I don’t believe that he is not lecherous at all, but he has a big temper and an unfriendly face, so he is not very popular in this regard.”

Ye Baiting quickly sorted out the received information: "Daha, I am very satisfied with Zhong Xingyan and Bi Zhenghe's reception..."

"I really don't have any objections, and it's quite polite to get along with each other." Shen Jiang also felt a little strange, "Why does he only make trouble with us and not others?"

"It's also targeted."

Qiu Xunqing picked out a few pages of news files, arranged them on the table, slid her fingertips across a few places, and finally stopped.

Some of these were just brought in, and some were scattered paper pages delivered during the day...

Ye Baiting smiled, indeed.

"Targeted," he said, pointing to the points that Qiu Xunqing pointed out, "Here, Daha didn't finish his sentence once, and deliberately asked Lu Ming to run errands, which is embarrassing; Zhong Xingyan filed a complaint against Lu Ming, saying that Lu Ming was incompetent and too slow in doing things, so Zhong Xingyan had to send more people to give him more convenience. Bi Zhenghe? Bi Zhenghe did not make any achievements in the reception task, and there was a mistake in the process of designing Zhong Xingyan's work, so Daha had to find him..."

Qiu Yiqing: "Daha is not as superficial as he is, and he is very thoughtful."

Ye Baiting narrowed his eyes, isn't he thoughtful?He can mess around outside, provoke inside, and never fall behind anywhere. He is really an all-rounder.

That's why the first time I saw Zhong Xingyan and Bi Zhenghe, the atmosphere between the two of them was so strange... It's not just a simple difference in personality, the two have to work together and compete with each other, and they have to guard against what they don't do well, Daha complained to his superiors...

No one can stand outside the overall situation and understand all the details, and will only see the result at that time. Zhong Xingyan and Bi Zhenghe have to be held accountable for not doing a good job in the reception task.

If Daha's thoughts were darker and his methods darker, he could turn these two people around. The two people still don't know the real reason, and they are tripping each other up.

"It's not a good thing..." Shen Jiang instigated Yahuazi, feeling that there was still a fog in front of him, and he couldn't see clearly, "Can you point me in the direction, young master? Why do I feel so messed up?"

Ye Baiting pondered: "My teacher... said that in our business, you have to use your brains. The murderer's purpose is hidden in the death state of the deceased, and the murderer's motive is hidden in these purposes. Every time I encounter a case, It basically starts from this point, but this case has confused me for a long time."

"Lu Ming died of the poison of counterfeit wine, which seems to be related to the 'money' dispute. The real wine and the counterfeit wine, either he plotted against the Su family and was hated, or his master thought he was not capable enough to do anything. Well, in short, if you look in this direction, you will be rewarded, but there is a second corpse at the scene, Yu Linglong."

"I have read all the dossiers. Yu Linglong has nothing to do with the disputes caused by 'wine' from social relations to other things, but she also died from the poison of fake wine. Her death process was accompanied by obvious atrocities. The form of the process, on the contrary, makes people feel that the "poison of fake wine" is just incidental, the murderer did not deliberately choose this method of killing, and his purpose for Yu Linglong itself is only two words, female sex."

"Then if it's just for 'sex', he can just vent his animal desire, Yu Linglong doesn't have to die, why does she have to die? What kind of rules did she break?"

Ye Baiting looked down at the rice paper on the table: "Yu Linglong's status is not high, and the places she can come and go freely are limited. Recently, she has been busy entertaining the embassy. The embassy likes to use her in banquets, and they are very wary of her. I don't think he can get access to any core secrets. If he really broke the rules, he should just be killed. Both the mission and the guests are people with status, and they don't care about a dancer. Look at her tonight. Experience, danced a few rounds, rested and exited several times, toasted everyone in the seat, and got intimate with people outside... When the banquet was about to end, he was chased, raped, and killed, why? Does this process take so long? Unless..."

Chou Xunqing: "Unless she learned the secret during the banquet, and the murderer knew she knew it."

Ye Baiting: "The murderer is very confident in his actions. Even if he encounters this accident, he can complete it easily and casually without being known, so he 'enjoyed' this woman for the last time. After all, life is beautiful and he is about to die. It can't be wasted, can it?"

Shen Jiang gritted his teeth: "So Lu Ming's death was planned by the murderer? The murderer planned to kill him that night, Yu Linglong was an exception?"

Ye Baiting nodded: "If the murderer in this case is one person."

Shen Jiang was taken aback. That's right, all these inferences have the same premise. If the murderer is not alone, it would be useless. These directions are all wrong.

He patted his head belatedly: "So who has bite marks on his body is the key?"

If the murderer who killed Yu Linglong was the person who forced her, then this person should have bite marks on his body. The above inference is accurate, but he searched around and couldn't find this person at all. If the murderer was not the person who forced her, then the motive It can't be confused, whether it's wealth, sex or something else, whether there is no 'secret' at all, the case is even more complicated...

"Another point--"

Ye Baiting's fingertips landed on the rice paper, and Muya's name was on it: "On the day of the banquet, all the guests were more or less suspicious, but he was the only one who was killed by his alibi. With the proof of our Dazhao's guards, there is absolutely no one. Is it a little strange that he might be involved in the killing process and smashed to death like this?"

Shen Jiang: "Strange?"

Ye Baiting frowned: "It's as if deliberately creating this fact, cooperating with the guards to supervise, not leaving for a moment - it's like shining a beam of light on yourself under the dark night, and blatantly attracting all eyes, saying that you all come to see me , I really wasn't dishonest at all, I didn't move at all..."

"I'm wondering if we're overthinking the case. Could the deaths of these two be related to the mission?"

"And Daha," Ye Baiting's eyes flickered, "he looks really stupid, he knows nothing but incompetence and rage, but we have already discovered that he has his own delicate thoughts. How much pretending, how acting, how deliberate? Does he really know nothing about these things that happened in his banquet hall? Did he sit by and watch, indulge in giving opportunities, add fuel to the flames, or personally participate in it? "

"It is true that only Lu Mingzhong Xingyan has access to counterfeit wine and wood essence, and it is the most convenient way to get it, but it is not necessarily true that it can be brought to the scene without being noticed by anyone. The Oala mission put some water in this case, What is the request?"

Ye Baiting felt that if these problems were solved, the case would be solved.

"We still need to pay attention to this point. Does Yu Linglong know any secrets? Is her murder related to this? She fled eastward from outside the banquet hall until she reached that room. There were many opportunities to call for help, but she didn't." , why? Is the latest information she has learned related to someone close to her? Or, this matter is very likely to cause trouble to someone close to her, and she wants to protect it? "

Shen Jiang: "But who is this person? I checked all the people around her, and she really doesn't have any close relatives or friends."

Ye Baiting's eyes drooped slightly: "Yu Linglong has a lot of contradictions in her body. She knows how to 'play around the world, and be good at dancing'. She seems to follow the trend and adapt to the rules. In fact, she doesn't like this kind of life. She just has to hone her skills. The smoothness polished by oneself is the only way to avoid being hurt. She was trapped by the word 'dance' in her life, and her body may also be destroyed by the word 'wine', but she sees clearly and does not hate dance or wine because of it. , On the contrary, she has a rich spiritual world and a level of appreciation. She likes to dance, and she will practice in private, or dance for herself to please herself.

"In ancient times, white hair is like new, and it is as old as before. Some people have been together for a lifetime, their hair is gray, and they look like new strangers to each other. Some people just meet by chance. After stopping for a chat, they immediately hit it off and become friends. Men can do it, but women why. no?"

"Don't underestimate the girls' friendship..."

Ye Baiting talked about his guesses and feelings in the past two days, as well as the conversation with his sister in the bamboo branch building: "Although I haven't gotten along with the two girls, I seem to know them. They are rare girls. Lu Ming told Su Jijiu Fang has an idea, Zhong Xingyan is particularly interested in Su Jiujiu, I boldly guess, has Su Jiujiu caught the eyes of others?"

Thinking deeper: "Is Zhong Xingyan the only one who has thoughts about Su Jiujiu?"

Drunkenness invigorates people, and lustful people are not alone that night.

Qiu Yiqing pondered: "After Su Tu entered the banquet hall, Yu Linglong's sense of existence was very low."

Su Tu attracted all eyes, almost no one noticed when Yu Linglong was absent, but since then, she has not been back.When she was killed, had the three members of the Su family left safely?

"Last night, Suji Winery was attacked."

"Assault?" Ye Baiting was taken aback, "Who?"

"Miya."

Qiu Yiqing's expression was serious, and his knuckles unconsciously tapped on the table: "He moved erratically, it seemed that he was just passing by, and he didn't really attack the Su family. I didn't connect this behavior with the case at the time, because his goal was very clear. Obviously looking for Hachioji."

Suddenly, Ye Baiting had an idea.

His eyes flickered: "So this case, will it be two lines?"

"Two lines?" Shen Jiang didn't understand, "What is a line?"

Ye Baiting's eyes were serious: "If the motive of this case is not money, not sex, what if what you see on the surface is all deception?"

The candle flame exploded out, and with a 'pop', the whole room was lit up, and then fell silent for an instant.

Ye Baiting closed his eyes slightly, adjusted his emotions, thought quickly in his mind, and when he opened his eyes again, he was clear: "We all know that the most important purpose of the mission here is the Eighth Prince, the two most important forces in the royal court, one King Wala, an uncle of the ninth king, King Wala wants to find his son to inherit the throne, and the uncle of the ninth king wants to kill the eighth prince to ensure his inheritance. Will you and the deputy leader work together?"

"The people of King Wala will sincerely look for them, and they really want to accept them. The people of Uncle Nine Kings will also look for them, but what they want more is to make trouble. It's better to mess it up. Let alone the eighth prince, the mission can't go back. good……"

Shen Jiang later felt that he understood: "Daha has been causing trouble, so he should be from Uncle Jiuwang? Muya is from King Wala?"

Qiu Yiqing: "The two of you are on guard against each other, maybe you haven't found the Eighth Prince, but you must know what the other is doing."

Ye Baiting: "So Muya can plan ahead and prepare an alibi for herself."

"Wait," the two spoke too quickly, and Shen Jiang was a little overwhelmed, "The commander and the young master mean that Muya knew that Daha was going to make trouble at the banquet, so he deliberately withdrew early to avoid embarrassing himself? "

Ye Baiting nodded: "He may not know all the other party's plans, but he has a prejudgment of 'happening'."