In front of the prison gate of the Criminal Department, there are two stone lions lying all year round, and the warm sun of spring shines even more fiercely. Xie Xixuan has always felt that these two lions are much more terrifying than other places, and they can suppress evil spirits, so they have been able to keep the criminal department safe for many years.

But today, it is here, under his own rule, in the most airtight place, that such a big incident happened.

If it was the first emperor's dynasty, he Xie Xixuan was cut a hundred times, it was nothing.

Now, the emperor didn't say anything. This newly promoted young man is a good cultivator, so he left his black gauze hat and didn't say anything, and asked Tete to let Lord Yushi Su pass on the message:

"I know that Qing is very deep, and I am responsible for a quick investigation to prove my innocence. ”

When Xie Xixuan thought of this, he couldn't help but feel a sense of pride in his heart to repay the Lord's kindness. But he has always been cautious and low-key, he has been an official for more than 20 years, and he has been in the palm of the criminal department for eight years. This position, at all times, should be careful.

"The scene is down there, I don't know Master Su, but do you want to take a look?" Xie Xixuan said cautiously to the young man in front of him.

"Lord Xie doesn't need to be so polite, the lower officials are young and knowledgeable, and the affairs of the prison depend on the adults a lot. This young Lord Yushi has no expression on his face, but his official words reveal a sincerity.

Xie Xuanxi looked at this very young imperial history, and somehow, a trace of goodwill rose.

Although he looked handsome at a glance, he stood quietly on the side, and Su Huan also showed a calm demeanor of a child of a family, and his martial arts foundation was not weak. Unlike today's young people, babbling and giving people a headache.

What's more, who doesn't know that the Metropolitan Procuratorate of this dynasty is not dispatched by the six ministries, and only acts according to the emperor's orders. This Master Su did not see the slightest arrogance, his words were gentle, and he was amiable to watch.

Besides, his origin, where is the ordinary imperial history?

In the dungeon under one zhang, Yan Zhi was also inquiring about this imperial historian: "Hey, by the way, did you hear who came to supervise the work this time?"

"It is said that the surname is Su. New here, haven't heard of it. Wei Huan was actually quite curious.

"The surname is Su...... There are only a few officials from the Metropolitan Procuratorate who assist in the investigation of criminal prisons, how can anyone with the surname Su be there?"

"I said that it was a new arrival, and the official family was only transferred this morning, and they said that it seemed to be called ...... Su Huan, yes, that's the name!"

"Su Huan! What kind of imperial history is he......"

"Do you know?" Xu is reaction was too big, Wei Huan turned around and looked at her suspiciously.

"Not so blessed...... I have seen him a few times from afar, he is the son of Su Yuhuai. ”

Yan Zhi pursed her lips, and then stretched out her hand and waved it helplessly, Yushi was already very troublesome, but this time it was good, and there was a powerful family in the family.

Wei Huan looked puzzled, "Su Yuhuai...... Which Su family?" Then, as soon as Yan Zhi wanted to speak, she saw Wei Huan's mouth slowly turn into a standard round: "It can't be the Su family of Chengguo Gong, right?"

Yan Zhi nodded: "Hey, which other Su family." Gambling on the future of the whole family, this kind of thing, forget it once, can you imagine that his family played three times and won every time?"

"More than ten years ago, Chengguo Gong raised troops in the north to support the emperor, and his vision was indeed accurate enough. If it weren't for him, how could the emperor, who was so unfavored, ascend to the world so smoothly. But where did the other two come from?" Wei Huan was also curious.

"When he was the ancestor of his family, he was meritorious from Long and named Yanghou. "Actually, how good it is to be an idle prince, it's not enough, Yan Zhi actually doesn't understand.

"Another time?"

"This Lord Su, when the East Palace was powerful a few years ago, he saved the lives of the three princes. Now that the third prince has become our emperor...... "has become the heart of the Son of Heaven...... It was only a matter of time before Su Huan took another step, and the more Yan Zhi thought about it, the more she didn't understand,

"You said that he relied on the merits of his ancestors to shadow an official, no, the emperor has a good relationship with him, and it is okay to reward him, why do you have to come to block us?"

"How much do you look down on others, and I don't see you embroidering at home?" Wei Huan looked her up and down, and popped out a sentence leisurely.

"Can I be like him?" Yan Zhi almost didn't catch her breath and rolled her eyes:

"I just can't get used to it, Su Huan's ice face, obviously everyone is young, and he always has a tone of 2580,000 yuan. ”

"Oh, Lord Xie, you are a tall foot, it seems that you know each other......"

A voice that was actually quite gentle sounded in his ears, but here in Yan Zhi, it was no different from a thunderclash in the flat ground.

She didn't need to look back, she could guess who had arrived, and she usually didn't talk so much, why did she hit the muzzle of the gun with all her nonsense?

When I looked back, it was Su Huan, who was standing by the cell door, looking at her with a cold face. The pair of phoenix eyes were very attentive, but I didn't know whether they were angry or joking in those eyes, or they didn't take her into account at all.

Xie Xixuan and the rest of the group followed behind, and they didn't dare to come out.

Yan Zhi couldn't wait to tear out her tongue: this newly appointed Su Yushi, a beauty is definitely a beauty, but there is no anger in her eyes, no joy or sadness in her words, there is only one face left, as white as silk, and I don't know if she was born or angry with herself.

Lord Xie's face next to him was even more exciting, and Yan Zhi looked over and felt a bit like stewed braised hooves......

Of course, Yan Zhi was not afraid of Su Huan, but what he said just now was to Xie Xixuan.

It's not good to be stubborn yourself, let Xie Tou'er suffer.

Yan Zhi sighed in her heart, she is a little woman who can bend and stretch, and today she has to bend.

Thinking of this, she knelt down with a "horn": "The little one should be damned, I didn't have the honor to witness the adult's Zhiyan." ”

Two lives, although they are still alive for a short time, Yan Zhi still figured out some truths. For example, a person can die, but the upper limit of what can be done is different.

For most women, the upper limit is appearance, and in this officialdom, this upper limit is identity.

It is no good for her to die with Su Huan.

Su Huan didn't look at her squarely, but walked around the dungeon with a serious expression, and finally stopped in front of the middle-aged man with the bun, but he had swallowed the bun now.

Su Huan stopped probably because he was the only one who seemed to be panting.

Yan Zhi and Wei Huan had already asked, this adult's surname was Li, he was a nine-grade petty official, in charge of the logistics and food of the Ministry of Officials, and it was enough to be wronged to be involved in this corruption case, but when he encountered this tragedy, half of his soul was gone.

The man looked at the people in the officialdom, although he was scared to death, when he saw Su Huan looking at him with interest, he still got up from the straw and beat a thousand children:

"The Department of Literature and Literature of the Ministry of Humble Officials, Deng Shilang Li Gaoli, has seen Lord Yu Shisu. ”

I saw Su Huan frowning slightly, and said to everyone: "This one, do you want to interrogate?"

In a good sentence, Yan Zhi sounded quite normal, but I don't know how it fell into the ears of this Lord Li, and it became a life talisman. I saw that his legs were weak, and then he kowtowed like pounding garlic:

"Back to my lordship, I slept well last night, and I really didn't kill anyone......"

Su Huan saw that the person was frightened like this, and sighed almost inaudibly, and his eyes fell on Yan Zhi, who was also kneeling on the ground:

"I've long heard that the Criminal Department has accepted female arrests, Lord Xie must be a unique vision, I don't know if you have any high opinions?"

Yan Zhi gritted her fine teeth, you are polite, this girl knelt and knelt, and her head was kowtowed, and she didn't tell me to get up until now.

happened to be kneeling with leg pain, she took the opportunity to get up with a cigarette, twisted her kneeling waist and legs and arms, and said while dusting off her clothes:

"Then you're welcome, three doubts. ”

"I want to hear about it. Su Huan's eyes lit up, and he made a gesture for her to continue.

"First, the cause of death. There were no obvious signs of a fight at the scene, and there were no traces of blood. Twenty-one bodies died peacefully, with no visible external injuries, and judging by the degree of stiffness, they had been dead for at least two hours. Twenty-one corpses, the difference in the time of death is not large, no matter what method the murderer used, it can be said that the killing is invisible. ”

Once Yan Zhi began to explain the case, she spoke very quickly. At this point she stopped suddenly, and her eyebrows, which had not been drawn for a long time, were twisted into a knot.

"But are there any clues?" Su Huan didn't miss her little action of wanting to say something.

"Cherry red corpse spots, common in carbon monoxide poisoning, if only a toxicology test could be done......" Yan Zhi rubbed her face with her index finger while holding her cheeks, smacking her lips.

"What kind of charcoal?" Su Huan was obviously confused, and the others also stared at her.

Yan Zhi hurriedly realized that this was really not a good time to make up for their chemistry lessons, and quickly concluded:

"Those are not important, but what is important, the second doubt is – motivation. The motive for indiscriminate killings is usually indiscriminate revenge. But this case is not like this: the victim is a group of strangers gathered for a chance case, and if you want to destroy the clues of the connection node - the Wuju case, it is inevitably too big. ”

Yan Zhi narrowed her eyes and stared sideways at Su Huan's face, but the focus of her eyes fell on the distance.

"What about the last point?"

"Of course, this Lord Dengshilang Li, what is the reason why you are loved by the murderer?"

Yan Zhi finished this speech, walked up to Li Gaoli, and gave him an extremely bright smile.

Su Huan pondered for a while: "Suspicious, the girl seems to have one less ......"

"Oh? "Yan Zhi is a personality that loses but does not lose.

"The doors and windows at the scene were closed, how did the murderer get in?"

A hint of appreciation flashed in Yan Zhi's eyes, this Master Su has never read criminal investigation or mystery novels, but her observation is okay, and she also has a talent for grasping the key points, since this is the case, she may be able to save some effort.

"With closed doors and windows, the scene can be regarded as a secret room, and murder in a closed room is one of the most classic impossible crime puzzles. Regardless of whether there is a body in the chamber or not, the motivation for building the chamber is far more important than the method used to construct the chamber. ”

"Generally, most commonly, the killer builds the chamber to give the impression that the victim is committing suicide or that the ghost is haunting him...... Of course, Master Su, you don't believe this, right?" Yan Zhi paused to confirm whether Su Huan could accept further scientific explanations.

Su Huan nodded: "Usually, the power of manpower is far greater than the power of ghosts and gods. ”

Yan Zhi smiled and agreed, "Of course, the possibility of twenty-one people committing collective suicide is also very small. The second intention, then, was to clear the suspicion of the most suspicious subjects, but in this case, no one could clearly benefit from the death of these twenty-one people. However, there will be new objects of suspicion, that is, the little jailers with the key, Lao Liu and Master Xie, but at the same time, they have no motive to kill. ”

"The third purpose is to falsify the secret room in order to prove an alibi, and go to the victim's side in full view, and in the same way, the huge number of victims in this case also makes it impossible for this plan to succeed. ”

"So, what's the point of this secret room?" It was not only Su Huan who was curious, but also Lord Xie.

When you rule out all the impossible, and the rest is no matter how unbelievable, that's the truth. At that moment, Yan Zhi's mind flashed Sherlock Holmes's words. She recited it silently, as if she had gained a glimmer of courage.

She took a deep breath, turned her face, and faced Su Huan, Xie Xixuan, and a group of officials of the Criminal Department, her eyes swept over their faces one by one: "Because the scene has never been a secret room. ”