Consort Zhanzhao

Speaking of which, these two people just knocked open the door, took a look, and then came out in a panic. Adding up, the time spent with the dead Xiang Da was not even enough for a cup of tea, and there was really limited things to say. .

Finally, just ask if you have touched anything in the house, and there is nothing to ask.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang came out to communicate, and were about to let him go, but Zhao Bijia stopped him.

Both of them looked at the princess, and Yang and An coughed behind her: You two look too presumptuously!

"It's already late autumn, and it's only rained again, and it's very cold at night." Zhao Bijia didn't seem to have anything to do with the case at first.

Zhan Zhao still listened to her with a smile on his face. Bai Yutang had suffered several big losses at her hands, so he raised his eyebrows, wanting to hear what she had to say, but Xu Qing, who was a bit impatient, couldn't bear it anymore.

"He was supposed to be on the road today, but Ouyang Daxia is still waiting in Bianliang."

"Brother Xu San, don't worry." Zhan Zhao said unhurriedly, "When encountering a murder case, there is absolutely no reason to leave at this time."

Zhan Zhao was still being polite, Yang and An were just slapping faces, "If you don't interrupt, the princess has already finished speaking."

It was much quieter now, and Zhao Bijia said again: "At this time, when you sleep at night, you must close the windows, and the two people just said that they broke in through the door. Could it be that they were murdered by ghosts?"

Zhan Zhao silently looked at the sky, as if he had never seen it before.

But this sentence is enough, even Xu Qing, who was anxious just now, frowned and said: "The handyman in his twenties... It's not like he couldn't knock the door open, he called the postman who was sweeping the floor downstairs At the same time, although it can be said that it is fear, it is not impossible to find a witness."

The whole incident was linked to conspiracy theory because of Zhao Bijia's words. After all, Zhan Zhao has been in Kaifeng Mansion for more than half a year. Knowing that if conditions permit, witnesses cannot be called and there are many suspects to meet, so he said: "It's better to be cautious." , take care of the two of them separately, there are less than 30 people in this post station, and they can't be asked to make confessions before we check it out."

Bai Yutang sneered, "The handyman said he didn't knock the door open at first... Hehe, Fifth Lord Bai also knows how to insert the door bolt from the outside."

Han Zhang, who had been listening silently, came up and patted him, "Your three brothers are all here, and the princess is there, who are you!"

Zhao Bijia gave Han Zhang a silent thumbs-up in her heart, wanting to say that last time...he threatened the princess.

Seeing her eyes full of deep meaning, Bai Yutang was a little timid, and stood next to Zhan Zhao with a wink. Zhan Zhao acted as if he hadn't seen him, turned around when he approached, and went to grab another guard. Come over and ask him to look at the two of them, everything is like flowing water, without any affectation.

Reminded by Zhao Bijia, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang went to give orders one by one, but they didn't tell them not to speak, but asked the guards to listen carefully to who talked to whom, and to speak again. What.

These guards turned out to be the guards next to the emperor, and they knew everything, and patted Zhan Zhao's shoulder with a smile, "Understood, don't worry, we have always been good at installing pillars, so they won't realize how many of us there are."

A few people walked to the front yard again, and within two steps Shao Yong came out again and said, "There are now two groups of people living in the station, one is the messenger the princess has seen, and this one lives in a small building with Xiang Da. One is a military adviser, because he was bitten by a poisonous snake, he was left behind by his general, and there are two servants to look after him, but he is almost healed."

The speaking room has reached the front yard.

There were two three-story buildings in the front yard, and the dead Xiang Da lived in the east one.

Seeing Zhao Bijia coming, the two guards at the gate rushed up to salute. After a moment of hesitation, they seemed to think that it was not good for the princess to take care of this matter, but at this time, no one could control her. The husband stayed in his room and didn't call out."

Several people went up to the second floor. Xiang Da's room was at the innermost part of the second floor. There were three rooms in a row, with a small hall in the middle, a bedroom on the north side, and a small study room on the south side.

As soon as everyone entered, they looked at the latch first.

The door bolt is still a good one, but the hasps on both sides have been broken, which is in line with what the two said.

Xiang Da's body was on the inner bed to the north. It was indeed as Uncle Li said, leaning on the bed, and the quilt was only half covered.

Zhan Zhao was the first to go in, but just took a look and then backed out, "The princess is waiting in the hall." Without thinking, he knew that his clothes were disheveled.

Zhao Bijia hummed and gave Yang and An a wink, you go in and have a look.

Although the room where the dead body is placed is the most important thing, there is also a need to search carefully for clues in this hall. Now several people are separated, and two people in each room search carefully.

But after a while, they all gathered in Xiang Da's room. There were corpses in this room, and there must be the most clues.

Zhao Bijia was still standing in the hall, but she could hear the voices of the people inside.

"There are no wounds on the body." It was Zhan Zhao who spoke, and then there was a sound of moving the body.

"Eh?" Bai Yutang's voice.

There was another rustling sound, and Zhao Bijia was a little anxious, because the voices she heard were basically full of surprise and suspicion, and she didn't need to think about it, she knew that there were many clues in the corpse.

After a while, Yang and An came out, and Zhao Bijia knew that she could go in.

The corpse has been tightly wrapped in the quilt and hidden, even in order not to scare people, a lot of things are thoughtfully stuffed into the quilt, so the bulge of the head is basically flat, not at all. It doesn't look like there's a dead person inside.

Zhao Bijia was a little stunned, seeing that Yang and An were the same, but saw that he didn't say anything but just pursed his lips tightly, alright...according to his temperament, if he can hold back from making trouble or showing off...then it can only be done by Zhan Zhao that's it.

It's just...Zhao Bijia glanced at Zhan Zhao, "I've even seen people who have been dead for half a year." Not so fragile.

"The window is indeed not open, it is plugged in from the inside."

After checking the small study, Han Zhang and Xu Qing talked about the problem of the windows as soon as they came in, "The windows were locked from the inside, and the door was knocked open... Could it be that the handyman did it?"

If it weren't for Zhao Bijia's conspiracy theory in the morning, everyone's thoughts might have turned to how the person was killed in this secret room, but because of Zhao Bijia's previous guess and Bai Yutang's interruption, now all doubts are concentrated on On the handyman in his twenties.

"It's just that there is no evidence." Zhan Zhao said, "Master Bao also said that conviction cannot be purely based on speculation."

Bai Yutang used the door bolt of the bedroom as a demonstration, but a thin rope tied to the door bolt made it fall again after the door was closed.

Zhao Bijia suddenly remembered the official of the Qin Tianjian who had reported to the mausoleum repair two months ago, and said: "The gate of the imperial tomb is almost the same way. It is not uncommon for people to bump into the door bolt when they come out."

Everyone fell silent for a while, looking at the windows and the door in the house, basically thinking about how this person got in and how he got out.

"When did people die?" Zhao Bijia asked.

"It's almost cold." Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, "Although it's cold now, but... it should be around midnight."

"Midnight...the door must be plugged in when you sleep, so this person may have been hiding in the house from the beginning...or came in by knocking on the door." Zhao Bijia glanced at him, "It must have been possible to knock on the door and come in at this time." It's an acquaintance."

Han Zhang and Xu Qing looked at each other with surprise and admiration in their eyes, but before they could speak, they were cut off by Bai Yutang.

"It's not bad to think so, but..." Bai Yutang walked to the window first, opened the window of the bedroom, and said, "Look at the top, there are traces of ropes and other things being worn, and here," he pointed at the window box, "This is a footprint."

Zhan Zhao sighed, walked to the front of the closet and opened the door, now Zhao Bijia could see clearly without him explaining, the upper half of the clothes were neatly placed, even a little crowded.Underneath is a pile of messy clothes, and the mark on the top... no matter how you look at it, it looks like someone has slept in it.

Zhao Bijia was stunned. The acquaintance knocked on the door, came in through the wall, and hid in the closet. At this moment, there were three ways to enter, and there were all evidences.

"Xiang Da..." Zhao Bijia subconsciously glanced at the dead body under the layers of quilts on the bed, "His death is really not wronged."

Yang and An suddenly took two steps towards the bed, pursed their lips and said, "It's more than that." He stamped hard on the floor under his head, making a thud-thump-thump sound, except for Zhao Bijia who didn't know what to do, everyone else stared round He rolled his eyes, "Brother Yang, why didn't you say anything just now?"

Yang and An squatted on the ground, touched the floor beside the bed for a long time, then pulled out the dagger from their boots, and inserted it along the thin gap between the wood.After a long while, the board was pried up, and there was another room underneath.

Bai Yutang immediately lit the torch, held it up and looked inside.

"I just remembered that too." Yang and An said: "When we came the day before yesterday, for safety reasons, I checked all these two small buildings. The one on the west has [-] rooms on the first floor, and the one on the east has only [-] rooms. At that time, I thought that the top of the second floor was converted into his house by Xiang Da, so I didn't think much about it."

Bai Yutang had already jumped into the tunnel.

Yang He'an looked up at the ceiling again, "I only remembered after he died today. Apart from the rooms on both sides of the small building, there are also the stairs left over from that time."

Zhao Bijia was speechless. She thought it was just a dead person, but she didn't expect that there were so many secrets.

Zhan Zhao jumped up and punched the corresponding place on the ceiling, the board was shaken by him, and a lot of dust fell down, "It seems that there is nothing wrong with it."

Bai Yutang came out of the tunnel again, "It's a utility room with dilapidated tables, chairs and benches. The door is locked from the outside. Go take a look later."

Zhao Bijia's head was a little messed up, she shook her head, and it looked like a secret room, but in fact the riddled room was put aside first, and she continued to ask the questions she had originally thought.

"How do people die?"

Several people looked at each other, as if it was a bit difficult to speak, but in the end, their eyes all fell on Zhan Zhao, waiting for him to make up his mind whether to tell the princess or not.

Zhao Bijia frowned, recalling what the two witnesses said, as well as the moment when she first entered the room, "There is no blood, and there is no smell of blood in the room, on..."

"There are wounds on the body." Zhan Zhao said frankly, "There are two small holes in the neck, like snake bites—"

snake?

This explanation is quite reasonable. Zhao Bijia knows that there are snakes in the mountains. She has eaten a lot of grilled snake eggs in the past two days. Now it is late autumn. In order to hibernate, the snake should also come out to hunt. It lives in the building next door. A man bitten by a snake.

But if it was bitten to death by a snake... Isn't it a bit too simple.

"—The kidney sac is blue and purple." The first half of the sentence was also spoken.

Kidney capsule?This surprised Zhao Bijia, isn't the kidney sac just like egg skin?It's bruising again... It's definitely not possible that I pinched it myself, so...

Zhao Bijia looked up at everyone in the room, "Who strangled you?"

Except for Yang and An who no longer have testicles, the expressions on the faces of the rest of the people were not natural, and they couldn't help but close their legs, as if the pain had also spread to them.

In the silence of the room, Han Zhang suddenly changed his face, "No! The wound is not right!" He hurried forward and lifted the quilt. Yang and An dodged to block the princess, but they moved three points faster than him. Zhan Zhao bumped into each other with a plop, no one could stop him...

Yang and An stared at Zhan Zhao as if they were going to eat people.

Fortunately, Han Zhang still knew how to measure, so he only lifted the quilt a little bit, exposing the wound on his neck.

"This wound doesn't look like a poisonous snake bite."

Zhao Bijia also came over.

Two small holes on the iron-blue skin were slightly swollen, and there was a trace of blood beside it.

"If it's a poisonous snake, or a poisonous snake that can bite to death, the neck should be swollen." Han Zhang frowned, "Either the one that bit him was not a poisonous snake, or... the wound was created after death!"

Everyone in the room looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Xiang Da was just a courier at a courier station, and he was still a low-ranking official, and he was in charge of only 30 to [-] people. How could such a person be worthy of the murderer's great efforts to arrange such an intricate scene.

"Try this?" Zhao Bijia pulled out a thin silver hairpin from her head, "It will turn black if it is poisonous."