Doctor, you are so cold

Ning Wuxin hurriedly took Yan Yunqi to the source of the noisy sound.

Yan Yunqi frowned.

The murderer is so fast!

When I came to the courtyard where the servants lived, I saw many people gathered in front of a hut.

Several people raised torches and looked inside, but none of them dared to go in.

There was a middle-aged woman sitting on the ground crying, "My God! Dead! Dead!"

There was blood on her hands, face and body, and she looked horrific.

Speak less, Mo Yan and Shen Yan have arrived and are discussing things anxiously.

The six guards of Liu Yizhao and Yan Yunqi also rushed to the scene one after another, quickly maintaining order.

Not long after, Mrs. Liao, Mrs. Qi, Aunt Tian and Miss Zhenci all came over with maidservants.

Yan Yunqi said loudly, "Be safe and don't be impatient! Those who know anything will stay, and everyone else will go back to sleep!"

His voice carried an irresistible majesty. After everyone whispered to each other, they all dispersed one after another, leaving only the woman who was sitting on the ground in a daze and a follower who spoke little.

The entourage looked seventeen or eighteen years old, trembling and pale.

Yan Yunqi said, "You guys wait first." After speaking, he motioned to Ning Wuxin to check the body.

Liu Yizhao felt the torch, and Yan Yunqi and Ning Wuxin came to the servant's room.

There were two corpses lying in the room, Ning Wuxin quickly squatted down to examine them carefully.

"I can't see it clearly at night, but I can be sure that the two died in the same way as Li Fengxian. Both of them had a hairpin in their hearts. From the initial look, there is no trace of struggle. I'm afraid they were also poured with sweat medicine."

Yan Yunqi frowned.

This is so wrong!

Why is it Mongolian sweat medicine again? !

Ning Wuxin said again, "The clothes of the two of them are still in good condition, they don't look like they are about to go to bed soon. The blood on the ground shows traces of being rolled over."

Yan Yunqi nodded.

The person who rolled over was probably the woman who was shouting for the sky just now.

He ordered Liu Yizhao to protect the scene, and planned to check everything again in the morning, so as not to miss anything.

Then, he and Ning Wuxin left the hut.

The two came to the middle-aged woman and the servant.

Yan Yunqi said, "Who is the woman's last name?"

Before the woman recovered from her stupefaction, she was kicked by Mo Yan, "My lord, ask me, tell me!"

The woman woke up like a dream, and kowtowed, "Slave Chunhua."

"Why are you covered in blood? Seriously!"

Chunhua cried out in horror, "The servant is not the murderer! The servant just went to the wrong room at night, and kicked the dead body, scaring me almost to death!"

"You can't go out at the second watch (9:3 p.m.), and it's close to the fifth watch ([-]:[-] a.m.), what are you doing out so late?"

"My lord doesn't know, but I've eaten up my stomach tonight. I went to the latrine several times at night."

Yan Yunqi frowned, "I've been to the hut so many times, and I didn't recognize the wrong room the first few times, but I got it wrong the last time. Where is your room?"

"The servant's room is next to the Qian couple's." She repeated again and again, "everything the servant said is true! Your lord knows the truth."

Yan Yunqi thought for a while, put her down, and said to the boy, "What are you doing here again? What did you see?"

The little servant Xiuzhao's mouth was trembling, and he couldn't utter a word clearly.

Shaoyan kicked him, "Calm down! Speak well! This is useless!"

Xiu Zhao took a deep breath for a long time and said, "The young one went out to the latrine at night, and saw the female ghost floating across the long corridor of the ancestral hall, heading for the servants' yard." She was still trembling.

Everyone stopped, all pale in shock, even Yan Yunqi stood up.

He was surprised, "You saw the female ghost?! When?"

This is really big news!

He saw a female ghost entering the servants' yard, and the female ghost was clearly made up by the murderer. Couldn't that confirm the time of the crime? !

Everyone listened intently.

Xiu Zhao took a deep breath, and told the story in detail.

"It was not long after the third watch. The three young masters were discussing the arrangements for the funeral in the eldest young master's room, and I was waiting on the sidelines. The young masters and the younger one didn't know what they ate wrong at night. They had a bad stomach, and each of them ran away for a few days. Go to the hut. Not long after midnight, I went to the hut again, but the third young master wanted to use it too. There was only one hut in the young master’s yard, so he drove me out and told me to use the one in the garden.”

He went on to say, "When I came back from the latrine, I saw the female ghost drifting across the long corridor of the ancestral hall from a distance, heading for the servant's room. I was so frightened that I ran to the young master's yard, and the third young master came Waiting for me at the door, saying that the eldest young master and the second young master couldn't take it anymore, and told me to boil water. I went to the tea room to boil water before coming back."

Yan Yunqi's heart beat violently.

He calmed down, "May I ask the three young masters, what are the ladies and ladies doing at midnight tonight?"

Everyone's face is ugly.

This is simply to suspect that they are murderers.

But Yan Yunqi is the prince, and the Holy Majesty ordered him to be in charge of the Li family's case, they dare not say nothing.

Shaoyan first said, "As Xiu Zhao said, the three of us discussed the funeral together from the third watch until around the fourth watch. We went out to the latrine a few times at night, but it didn't take long."

Yan Yunqi nodded, "Where are the ladies?"

Mrs. Liao said, "I went to bed early, and the servant girl stayed with me in the room. My stomach is also not very good, and I went to the latrine a few times."

Madam Qi followed suit, "Like Madam, I also fell asleep at the second watch. Maid Jinchai can testify."

The proverb said, "My aunt (Tian) and I slept together in my aunt's room tonight, and both maids are here."

Yan Yunqi felt extremely upset.

As soon as this murder case came out, all the suspects in his mind had alibi!

He calmed down and said gently, "Everyone is tired, let's go to rest. The case is being planned tomorrow."

Then, he said to Shaoyan, "Do you have a topographic map of the mansion?"

Shaoyan nodded quickly, "Yes. Send it to the prince's room tomorrow morning."

Yan Yunqi ordered the guards to keep watch, and Ning Wuxin walked back to the room slowly, with serious expressions on his face.

When killing Li Fengxian, Mongolian sweat medicine was used to create a secret room.

There is no secret room in the case of the Qian couple, so just kill them with poison? !

Now, he finally knew why the murderer used Mongolian sweat medicine to stun the Qian couple.

From the very beginning of the case, the female ghost was closely tied to murder.

This time, he just wanted people to see clearly that this case was not done by people, but by Yinshuang's unjust death!

This murder case is to give the murderer a perfect alibi!

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Early the next morning, Shaoyan brought the map of Li's residence, and arrested Xiuzhao to let him explain clearly.

As Ning Wuxin explained, she led Yan Yunqi's finger on the map, letting him form a rough outline of the terrain in his mind.

(Please see "The author has something to say" reference topographic map)

(For the sake of the case, this article basically does not conform to the structure of ancient courtyards. Please pay attention to the party and let the villain go!)

(Note: Each courtyard in the picture has only one door, which is the small blue cuboid. The servant’s courtyard has two doors.)

There are high walls between the various courtyards, which cannot be climbed at all.

Yan Yunqi studied for a long time. From the topography, the suspects in his mind could not possibly pretend to be ghosts.

Could it be that two people committed the crime?

The murderer has an accomplice?

Yan Yunqi thought thoughtfully, "Read it, why did you say that the murderer came outside our window to scare people on the first day?"

Ning Wuxin raised her eyebrows for a long time, shook her head, "I don't know."

Yan Yunqi pondered for a while, "I think the murderer wanted us to see him."

"Why do you say that?"

Yan Yunqi remained silent for a long time.

After a while, he said, "Read it, let's go to the corridor to have a look."

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The ancestral hall of the Li family is beautiful, built entirely of marble, not a single piece of wood was used, even the long corridor.

From this building, you can see how grand the Li family is.

Ning Wuxin moved a ladder and looked around the corridor, not missing a single piece of the beams above and the ground below.

After half an hour, he finally finished the inspection.

He said suspiciously, "Nothing special. It's just that there seems to be a little black mark on one beam, which seems to have been burned. There is also a little black dust on the ground, which seems to have been burned."

Yan Yunqi said, "The Taoist asked people to put a lot of braziers in the yard and burn money three times a day. When there is wind, the black ash inside the braziers is blown and blows everywhere, which is normal."

Ning Wuxin nodded, "That's right. At the end of the corridor, under the corner leading to the servants' yard, there is a brazier."

Yan Yunqi didn't take it seriously, "That's it."

Suddenly, he raised his brows and became excited, "Say it again? Where is the brazier?!"

Ning Wuxin didn't understand, so seeing Yan Yunqi's excited face, he quickly repeated, "At the end of the corridor, under the corner leading to the servants' yard, there is a brazier."

Yan Yunqi's face turned red.

He paced back and forth, and after a while, a look of joy appeared on his face.

It turns out...it turns out to be like this!

There is another way!

In this case, in this case... If everyone is telling the truth, only that one person can commit the crime!

That person... must be the murderer!

Just as he was about to speak, Shaoyan ran over panting and flustered.

As he ran, he shouted, "My... my lord! There is no need to solve the case! Qi... Mrs. Qi committed suicide by taking poison!"

Yan Yunqi was shocked, there were still people dying!

He frowned, "What's going on? Speak slowly!"

Speak less to calm down, "This morning, Mrs. Qi didn't show up. When Aunt Tian went to see her, she found that she and the maid, Jinchai, both died of poisoning and left a letter behind."

Yan Yunqi had a bad premonition in his heart.

"She said in the letter that she was the murderer, and she told everything about it. Go and see it!"

Yan Yunqi's face became gloomy.

Madam Qi... Madam Qi is definitely not the murderer!

This murderer even arranged for a scapegoat!