"Do you have eyebrows?" Xie Hao was very confident in Wei Qian, I don't know if it was because Xu Dongda was full of praise or because he himself gave people a very reliable feeling.

Wei Qian said, "There is a general direction, I need to verify some things tomorrow." ”

Xie Hao's heart was pounding, and it took a while to calm down, "Who do you think it is?"

Wei Qian didn't hide it from Xie Hao, and went through what he had just thought about from the beginning, "The most critical person in the whole thing is Cui Erniang, and her confession is very important. Assuming that she is lying, then it may be that she took the opportunity of Lin Niangzi to visit relatives in Zhuangzi to poison the old lady's diet, and then caused the illusion that the old lady committed suicide by poisoning herself in the secret room, maybe she originally let others find the body first, but when she happened to be the two rough maids who neglected their duties, and no one found out for a long time, she felt that it would be very suspicious to drag it out, so she had to take action herself. ”

"This ...... Is there any evidence for this? ...... such a young child," Xie Hao wondered.

"Evidence, she deliberately asked about the side door the day before the old lady died, and she slept and ate with the old lady every day, so she had the best chance of being poisoned. You say that she is young and seems ignorant and ignorant, but she is very coherent and witty, and she is able to kick open the latched door, which shows that she has a mind beyond that of an ordinary eight-year-old child, and it is not surprising that she can plot murder. ”

What he said was well-founded, Xie Hao couldn't refute it, the only thing he was puzzled about was, "She's a little child, she won't have such a deep hatred for her sister, right?"

"Children are the most innocent, but they are also the most terrifying. Wei Qian said slowly, "Children are innocent and ignorant, but because they don't know how to take matters seriously, maybe a small thing can make them rational, and they won't restrain their emotions like adults." Cui Erniangzi has been punished to the Buddha Hall several times to think about it, and a few months ago there was another time when she almost died here, who knows if she will not have any resentment? There is another thing, the old lady plans to leave Cui Erniang in the Buddha Hall to teach her personally, maybe she does not want to stay in the Buddha Hall?"

"There is such a thing. "Xie Hao has just been here for less than two days, and he is sad and angry and busy dealing with Cui's family, where does he have time to understand so much information. Hearing Wei Qian's words, he also had to doubt Cui Ning, but he still couldn't fully believe it.

Wei Qian then said some more words, shaking his previous speculation, "But according to others, Cui Erniang and the old lady have a good relationship. The innocence of children has a terrible side, but they are not good at hiding it, how can the old lady not be able to tell the difference after living most of her life? But the old lady is very happy with her, and she is more indulgent to her, and she should be much more comfortable staying here than outside, and having the old lady personally teach her will be beneficial and harmless in the future. In any case, there is room for scrutiny in the above speculation. ”

Xie Hao nodded, just now he couldn't believe that it was Cui Ning's hand, except for emotional reasons, in fact, he also felt that there was a loophole in that speculation, but he couldn't say why for a while.

"If Cui Erniang didn't lie, the Buddha Hall is tied from the inside, at first glance it sounds like a confined space, but the Buddha Hall has three doors, Cui Erniang said that the wind was very strong when he just kicked them open, I took a look, the direction of the wind in this season, only by opening the small side door will cause such a big wind. ”

"I looked closely at the sealed side door, and it was actually just a thick wool felt nailed to the outside, and the door was locked from the outside, and the latch on the inside was not plugged in. From this, it can be inferred that when Cui Erniang kicked the door open, the side door was suddenly blown open by the wind, which caused a sudden gale. ”

Xie Hao listened attentively, "So, when Ah Ning kicked the door, the murderer had just left?"

"At first, I thought the same thing, but since the murderer wanted to create the illusion of suicide in the secret room, why did he run into the Buddhist hall in person? Do you confirm that the old lady is dead or alive? If the murderer didn't want to create the illusion of suicide in the secret room, then why did he bolt the door from the inside?"

It is indeed very strange, and the old lady is poisoned, since the poison has been dropped, it would be good to make a false suicide in a closed room, why is there still a loophole?

"I took a closer look at the wool felt that sealed the side door. It is directly stuffed into the door frame, and the tsuò is very ingenious, and the tenon is new, but the opening on the door frame is very old. There were several signs of new damage underneath, which were supposed to have been sealed and then pried open, and painted with paint in an attempt to cover them up. ”

Cui Erniang said again, she went out to ask for help, and after she came back, there was no wind in the house, it is said that if the side door was still open at that time, the wind would not be too strong, but it is unlikely that there would be no wind at all. In other words, someone locked the side door in this gap. ”

This person wouldn't be Lin, because she was really not there that day, so it could be someone else who had been here that day.

"But I still haven't figured out why that person left a flaw, it can't be that he deliberately left it, right?" Xie Hao asked.

Wei Qian's slender fingers gently tapped the brocade quilt placed on the table, and a white color was reflected in his eyes, which seemed to be very clear, "It may be that the murderer was bumped into by Cui Erniang before he had time to arrange it, and he had to hide temporarily, and it happened that Cui Er asked for help halfway, so he waited for the opportunity to seal the door, but ......"

"Ahh

A frightened scream pierced the silent night, interrupting Wei Qian's words.

"It's from the main courtyard!" Xie Hao stood up, tidied up his clothes casually, and left in a hurry.

The old lady's coffin was still in the main courtyard, and he was afraid that something had happened there.

Wei Qian also got up and followed closely behind Xie Hao and rushed to the place where the voice came from.

The Buddhist hall where they lived was a short distance from the main courtyard, and when they hurried to the main courtyard, they found that the courtyard where the old lady's coffin was parked was brightly lit.

When the two arrived at the courtyard, there were already quite a few people gathered.

Xie Hao took a closer look, there was a female corpse lying on the ground in the compartment, the corpse was on the ground with its side face, her hand was stretched out to the door, her face was blue, her lips were black, she vomited blood in her mouth, stained the placket of her chest red, and sprinkled some blood on the ground.

If you look closely, isn't this woman the rough maidservant who waits in the old lady's yard?

The patriarch of the Cui clan arrived with an iron face, looked at the female corpse on the ground, and said coldly, "Whose maid is this!"

"Uncle, it's the rough maid beside the old lady. Ling's face turned pale.

"Is it suicide in fear of sin?" I don't know who said.

"Suicide?" the patriarch snorted coldly, "I want to see who is making trouble!"

He was angry, but because of this matter, he couldn't report to the Xie family immediately, so he had to look at Wei Qiandao and said, "I'm tired of Wei Langjun coming over and taking a look." ”

Judging from the scattered blood stains on the ground and the maid's gesture of reaching out to the door, she had a strong will to survive before she died, but the poison attack was too fast and too violent, and she died in an instant. And the murderer didn't deliberately cover it up, either he didn't have time, or he just wanted to kill people, or there was a possibility that this servant girl did commit suicide in fear of sin, but she was remorseful and burst out of her survival instinct.

"How?" the patriarch now hated to find out the murderer immediately and break his body into thousands of pieces.

During the time he was in office, he was greatly annoyed by the scandal of the murder of the clan's wife, and then it did not stop, and another servant girl died! Although it is insignificant, it is not good to die one after another.

―――――――――――― (Let's put the murderer's affairs aside, let's guess how the murderer killed the old lady?) In addition, it will be added tomorrow. ）

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