"However, this is not too convincing," Young Master Yan Jiu continued, "Lu Ce asked that person to go to the ancient tomb in the middle of the night, it should be a temporary intention, that person did not have any preparation in advance, and what method did he use to scare Lu Ce alive in the tomb? And why did he scare Lu Ce to death? and even why did he use the method of 'scare'? He knew that he could not rob Lu Ce with his family background, and after killing Lu Ce, it was impossible for him to return to the city in advance and borrow that ancient book to complete the argument first, and he would not get any benefits. He can't rob Lu Ce, and he definitely can't rob others, just about his family background, he can only give this opportunity to others, unless his argument can be higher than others, and if so, killing Lu Ce will become a redundant move, so from the point of view of whether he can grab benefits and win fame, that person has no reason to kill Lu Ce at all, unless the drunkard's intention is not to drink. ”

"That's right. "Yan Qidao.

"......" Young Master Yan Jiu turned his head and glanced at his sister who was cheering indiscriminately, "The drunkard doesn't mean to drink, that person can't grab the opportunity to become famous, and he can't guarantee that his argument on the inscription can be higher than others, and still killing Lu Ce in this case can only prove one thing: that person is just to kill Lu Ce, this is his real purpose, and it has nothing to do with this ancient night inscription." ”

"So it became a murderer who had long intentions and happened to encounter such a killing opportunity, so he agreed to Lu Ce?"

"If the murderer took the opportunity to kill Lu Ce on the impromptu basis, how could he ensure that he would not be discovered by others when he went out with Lu Ce in the middle of the night? As long as someone heard the movement in his house, it would definitely fall on his head when the incident happened, and if he made an impromptu intention, how could he guarantee that he would be able to scare Lu Ce to death?

"So you think he's prepared in advance?"

"If he is temporary, the way to scare Lu Ce in the ancient tomb is nothing more than to pretend to be a ghost or suddenly bluff to frighten Lu Ce, if he pretends to be a ghost, he needs to be assisted by equipment or makeup, and the murderer is temporary, neither of these can be possible, then it may be a sudden bluff, this kind of situation only appears in the back while the other party is not paying attention to the sudden slap or scream, but when Lu Ce died, he was facing the tomb wall, under common sense, he came to the inscription, after entering the tomb, he must have directly started to copy, it is impossible to look around, if the murderer scares him behind his back, he can only stand behind Lu Ce facing the tomb wall, Lu Ce is frightened and must turn back, heart disease suddenly fell to the ground, it must be facing the opposite direction of the inscription, and if the murderer was standing opposite Lu Ce, it would be even more impossible to scare him, and the most critical point is that the paper and pen on the table have not even been spread out, and after Lu Ce entered the tomb, the person was already scared to death, how did the murderer scare Lu Ce to death in such a short time?"

"Hey, you're talking like a normal person. ”

“……”

"So the murderer was prepared in advance, right? ”

"If the murderer is prepared in advance, then cause and effect can be reversed - the murderer intends to kill Lu Ce, so he lures him with fame and fortune to lure Lu Ce to the ancient tomb in the middle of the night and fall into the trap he has arranged. ”

"But how can the murderer prepare in advance? You have been together since you arrived here yesterday, right? And if it weren't for the ancient night inscription in the tomb, Lu Ce would not have come to the tomb in the middle of the night to copy it, how could the murderer guarantee that the timid Lu Ce could be tricked into the ancient tomb in the middle of the night without the ancient night inscription without knowing it in advance?"

"This just happens to make sense," Young Master Yan Jiu curled the corners of his lips, "The suspect's father is the deacon of the people sent by the imperial court to collect antiquities a few days ago, and he knows what is inside the ancient tomb before anyone else. ”

"Speaking of which," Yan Qidao said, "The imperial court has already sent someone to extend the ancient night inscription back, isn't it too late for you to study it now?"

"The imperial court confiscated the antiquities back, first to enter the book, before the registration is to be the age of the antiquities, texture and craftsmanship to infer clearly, but also to the cultural relics named, picture albums, text description, should be complicated and trivial, registration is the first priority, research inscriptions should be placed in the back, this will only be afraid that all kinds of cultural relics have not been sorted out, no one can take care of these inscriptions, these people in the society want to grab is this time, as long as they can preemptively publish their research results before the court, then it is properly famous in the world. ”

"That is to say, the suspect learned from his father that there was an ancient night inscription in the ancient tomb, but he didn't know it in front of you, secretly made plans and preparations in advance, and waited for everyone to enter the tomb and find the inscription, so he acted according to the plan, and tricked Lu Ce into the ancient tomb and scared him to death. ”

"It seems that this should be the case now. ”

"So who is this suspect?" Yan Qi asked.

Young Master Yan Jiu's eyes moved slightly: "Ji Chun." ”

"Ji, is it the one in the same room as the surnamed Lu?" Yan Qi has a good memory, "Aren't the two of them the only ones who have an alibi last night?"

"That room was picked by Ji Chun on his own initiative. Young Master Yan Jiu recalled the situation at that time, "And Lu Ce can't sleep in such a room because of his bad heart, lest someone get up in the middle of the night and startle him, which gives Lu Ce the environment to 'create' that he can sneak out at night - because Ji Chun knows that I and the third brother Wu will sleep in the same room because of the closeness of the two families of Yan and Wu, and the third brother Wu is the president, so he should occupy the largest room, and I don't like to associate with Lu Ce in the society very much, which avoids the possibility that Lu Ce will choose our room, Wu, Li and Li are not afraid of the cold since they come, and they only wear a jacket in winter, and if Ji Chun had told Lu Ce in advance that they would go to the ancient tomb together at night, then Lu Ce would also choose to live with Wu and Li, and sleep in the closest place to the window, so that it is convenient to act at night - Ji Chun did this in order to separate from Lu Ce and prevent everyone from suspecting him after the incident, and secondly, to create an alibi for himself, but this gave rise to a bigger question: If Ji Chun had never left the room at night, how did he scare Lu Ce to death? ”

"Did he come in early and set it up?" Yan Qidao.

"Before we came, there was a seal from the imperial court on the tomb door, and we came with a permit order, and only with a permit can the seal be removed, so no one will enter beforehand. Young Master Yan Jiu said, "And if Ji Chun hadn't left the room last night, even if he had arranged it in the tomb in advance, he wouldn't be able to destroy the evidence used to arrange it after scaring Lu Ce to death, because we almost entered the ancient tomb on our feet this morning, although he was the first to rush in, but in just a dozen steps, how could he destroy the evidence?"

"If it's certain that he didn't leave the room last night, then he must have run to the front to destroy the evidence before you enter the tomb, and this evidence must have been destroyed lightly. Yan Qi looked around the tomb, there was only one table and one coffin, although there was an ear room next to it, but in terms of time, there was no time to hide things in the ear room, and the ear room had already been emptied by the imperial court, and it was all bare and empty at the moment.

Young Master Yan Jiu fell into deep thought, Yan Qi didn't bother him, only walked around the tomb a few times, and then looked at the inscription on the tomb wall, after a long time, he heard footsteps in the corridor, but he saw a branch, and said to the two: "Lunch is ready, the master let me invite the ninth master and the seventh lady to eat." ”

"I'm not going to eat yet. Young Master Yan Jiu said slowly.

Yan Qi looked at him, and saw that the kid seemed to refuse to eat without solving the problem, so he said to Yizhi: "Please uncle, they eat first, Xiao Jiu and I will go over later." ”

Seeing Yizhi leave, Yan Qi turned his head and said to Young Master Yan Jiu: "Do you remember that method? ”

Of course, Young Master Yan Jiu knows this method, this is a way of thinking that his sister taught him when he was a child, not only to write it down, but also to draw, in a certain order, to divide the primary and secondary branches, and connect them with lines, and finally you can form a flat relationship network, which can make people macro and overall, and will not always be missing like when storing in the mind, she said that this is called "organizational chart", which can make people's thinking more organized, more comprehensive, and more "systematic".

Young Master Yan Jiu answered, and slowly walked to the table, before he was about to get a pen and paper, but he found that the things that were originally piled up on the table were a little messy, so he couldn't help but take back his outstretched hand and look at it with his eyes down for a while.

"Before leaving the tomb last night, it was Ji Chun who cleaned up the table. Young Master Yan Jiu held his hands, and slowly looked at his sister like an old fairy, "And I happened to be next to me and saw how he placed the utensils on the table." ”

"I see. "Yan Qidao.

Young Master Yan Jiu was not surprised that his sister was a little bit clear, she was never stupid, she was just more willing to give up the opportunity and stage to others.

Young Master Yan Jiu stretched out his hand again, and slowly rearranged the items on the table as they had been after Ji Chun cleaned up last night.

There is no light in the tomb, and if you want to study the inscription indoors, of course, you need to light a lamp and make it bright to see the words on the tomb wall. When the members of the Jinshi Society were doing research in the tomb, they lit a total of six or seven lamps, all of which were glass lamps that could be carried around. When we left the ancient tomb last night, everyone took the lamp away, because there is still a night road from the ancient tomb to the village chief's house, after all, the village chief's house is still a common person, and they can't afford to use good lamp oil, so everyone has to use their own lamps to go back to illuminate, so there is only a spare lamp left on the table in the ancient tomb, which everyone knows.

Lu Ce quietly went out in the middle of the night, in order not to wake up the people in the same house, it was impossible to carry a glass lamp over the window, since there was a lamp left in the ancient tomb, there was no need to take it again, so out of the village chief's house, a fire on the road could be lit, and it would not be too bright for others to see.

When you enter the ancient tomb chamber, of course, you have to light the lamp first, the brightness and combustible duration of the fire fold are limited after all, there is a ready-made lamp on the table, walk over and light it, the room is bright, and turn your head to see the inscription on the tomb wall that is about to make you famous- At this moment, only the lamp on the table was lit in the tomb, and the utensils and utensils in the hands of Young Master Yan Jiu gradually recovered the appearance of being posed by Ji Chun, so in the eyes of Yan Qi, who had been looking at the tomb wall, a hideous grimace gradually appeared, and the ghost mouth full of fangs was wide open, and it seemed to be about to come to the face under the slight flickering of the lamp!

Young Master Yan Jiu stopped, and the things on the table were arranged by him in the layout at the time of the incident, so it looked nothing wrong except for being a little chaotic, but the stacked things blocked the dark shadows formed by some of the lights on the tomb wall, but they clearly constituted a grimace, which was undoubtedly a strong visual impact and mental stimulation for Lu Ce, who was already doing bad things and was unprepared for it, he may not be afraid of the dark, He was not afraid of the corpse in the coffin, but he was afraid of being discovered, and he was afraid of the psychological hints caused to him by the evil ancient night culture instilled by Ji Chun in his subconscious, so at a glance, he was strongly frightened, his heart suddenly attacked, no one rescued him, and he died in an instant.

Therefore, Ji Chun didn't need to go to the scene to commit the crime at all, before everyone left the ancient tomb yesterday, he had already arranged this murder method in front of everyone, and even the position of the lamp had been placed in advance, just waiting for Lu Ce to come in in the middle of the night and light up his own life-killing lamp.

And that's why when everyone came to the ancient tomb to find Lu Ce this morning, he had to rush into the tomb first, as long as he casually disrupted the order of the items on the table, this technique would not be discovered, and if he wanted to do this, he would not even need a few seconds, and the second person who entered the tomb was enough to prove for him: it was impossible to destroy the evidence at a distance of more than ten steps.

Even if he didn't scare Lu Ce to death, there would be no loss for Ji Chun, because anyone would think that the formation of the grimace shadow on the wall was just a coincidence, and he would not attract any suspicion, let alone leave evidence and handles, so to speak, this arrangement, done, the probability of being able to kill Lu Ce is fifty percent, if you don't do it, there is no one, it is best to kill Lu Ce, and if you can't kill it, you won't attract suspicion and trouble to yourself.

So, why didn't he do it?

When everyone was invited back to the tomb to watch this unbelievable murder method, they also felt extremely incredible - such a simple killing method, such a peculiar killing arrangement, really used human imagination and creative power to the extreme!

It is Ji Chun who can know in advance the pattern in the ancient tomb and the ancient night inscription on the wall.

The only parent with a lower official position than Lu Ce's family is Ji Chun.

It was Ji Chun who cleaned up the items on the table.

It was Ji Chun who left a lamp on the table.

The first person to enter the tomb after the incident was Ji Chun.

The murderer is Ji Chun.

Although the evidence is a little vague, and serious investigation may not be a decisive condition for conviction and sentencing, Ji Chun seems to have been disheartened and admitted the crime without much argument.

"Three generations of my family have studied gold and stones," Ji Chun confessed with an empty gaze, "especially the ancestors of the family, who are obsessed with antiquity and love to collect ancient coins." Last year, the ancestor was seriously ill and incurable, and his wish was to be able to take a look at the coins unearthed at that time, which are rumored to be the coins minted during the Kaiping period of Liang Tai and Zhu Wen, the ancestor of the five generations later, and the deacon who presided over the registration of the unearthed objects and sorted out and cleaned them was Lu Ce's father and his father's boss Lu Daren, who was separated by two levels.

"It just so happened that one day, Lu Ce took a few of us from the Jinshi Society to the Treasure Bureau to visit the antiquities one day, and I ...... I saw the Kaiping Tongbao ancient coins in it...... I think of my grandfather who died on the couch...... His cloudy eyes were full of regret...... I...... I took one of them secretly, taking advantage of the unpreparedness......

"...... this matter was discovered by Lu Ce, he has been used as a handle to coerce me, many of his appreciative antiquities appreciation arguments are written by me for him, my wish is to be able to enter the Hanlin Academy, dedicated to the study of gold and stone, Mr. said that the Hanlin Academy has a special recruitment opportunity every three years, even if there is no guò scientific examination, there is a skill can also be specially recruited into the entry, only need to write three arguments with unique insights, it is very likely to be selected, but the number of places is limited, every three years to recruit only three people, Mr. said that with my foundation of gold and stone, there is a great opportunity。

"However, Lu Ce forced me to count the three arguments he had written as if he had written them, because he did not want to follow the path of the imperial examination! And I, even if I participated in the scientific examination, even if I was on the list, I would not necessarily be able to be named to the Hanlin Academy, and my father was a low-ranking official, and he could not help me move around, so I didn't want to do anything else--I just wanted to study the antiquities of gold and stone--Lu Ce did this, and it was clear that he was going to cut off my future and my life! If I could no longer do what I liked, what was the fun of my life? How could I be willing to ......be threatened by him all my life?"