"Drowning?!" Yuan Chang looked at Yan Qi in surprise, "How to drown?"

"I don't know. "Yan Qidao.

"Does your uncle have any promises?" Yuan Chang looked at Yan Qi with a suspicious gaze, who was looking for clues all over the room with his head down, the one who didn't care about Yuan Chang who was pulling Yan Qi to watch the excitement at the moment, and Young Master Yan Jiu, who followed quietly.

"Cao Pu was drunk yesterday, as long as he falls asleep drunk, he won't wake up even if you beat him," Yuan Chang still knows a little about his classmate, "If you want to kill a drunk person, you only need to cover his mouth and nose with one hand and order him to suffocate to death, so why bother drowning him?"

"In order to prove that he was not present at the time of Cao Pu's death. Young Master Yan Jiu said lightly.

"When did Cao Pu die?" asked Yan Zike, who was squatting on the ground and didn't know what he was looking for.

"Between the time of the sea and the time of the child. Yan Zike replied to him with a dignified attitude.

"Everyone has already returned to the room when the time comes, right?!Cao Pu's door is not latched, anyone can sneak in and kill him!" Yuan Chang looked at Yan Zike with the eyes of a stupid human.

"That's unlikely," Yan Zike stood up, "the staircase leading to the second floor is in the center of the building, and the room on the west side of the stairs on the first floor is the lower room, the door is open all night, and there are people on duty all night, so that the guests can hear and rush to serve in time when they have orders at night."

"Cao Pu's room is located at the westernmost end of the first floor, and it is divided by stairs, the room west of the stairs is only his room except for the next person, and the rest of the people either live on the east side of the first floor or live on the second floor, no one except you has learned kung fu, and it is obviously impossible to reach Cao Pu's room through the open door unconsciously through the next world.

"Or enter and exit through the window, enter Cao Pu's room from outside the building, this can also be ruled out, I have asked the people on night watch outside, and they are very sure that no one has probed outside the window or even entered and exited through the window all night last night.

"Besides, the time range of death inferred by the inference is too large, from the time of Hai to the time of the child, this range can be regarded as the time of the death of the deceased, and as far as I know, yesterday you returned to the mountain pavilion at about three o'clock in Hai, and Cao Pu was sent back to the mountain pavilion by you and Liu Zhang at about the beginning of the war, and everyone has an alibi from the beginning of the war to the three quarters of the time.

"Therefore, if the murderer wants to use drowning to prove his alibi, it has also become a proof of narrowing the time range of the deceased's death, and the real time of Cao Pu's death is very likely to be within three moments of the first arrival of the deceased!"

"But during this time, all of us were in the waterhole behind the mountain, and none of us left, so I can testify to this!" Yuan Chang clearly did not believe Yan Zike's inference.

"The murderer's purpose in choosing this time is the testimony that everyone has made for him, and since he has arranged an alibi, there will inevitably be corresponding means to kill the deceased off-site. Yan Zike unhurriedly spread out his palm, and in the palm of his hand was a bright red pomegranate petal.

"There are pomegranate trees planted next to the back mountain pool. Young Master Yan Jiu said.

"And this petal was found inside the deceased's profane pants. Swallow said.

"After swimming in the water yesterday, Cao Pu wiped himself in the bamboo shed and changed all his clothes. Young Master Yan Jiu said.

So this petal can only be left in Cao Pu's clothes after he was put back in the room. Swallow said.

"Liu Zhang and I only took off the outer clothes for him, but no one touched the dirty pants!" Yuan Chang declared.

"The murderer has a bit of bad character?" Yan Qidao.

Yan Zike & Young Master Yan Jiu & Yuan Chang: "......"

"At present, there are three unresolved doubts in this case: First, where did the water used by the murderer to drown Cao Pu come from; second, how did the murderer drown Cao Pu, using a basin, a bowl, or a box? Third, how did he kill someone without being at the scene. Yan Zike paced to the window, turned around and leaned against the light on the windowsill, his eyes swept to Young Master Yan Jiu, "Xiao Jiu, let's talk about it, if you are a murderer, is there any way to do this?"

Young Master Yan Jiu held his hands and walked slowly into the house a few steps, his eyelids drooped, as if he was carefully looking at the situation in the house, and said slowly for a while: "The water that drowned Cao Pu can only come from the waterhole behind the mountain." There is only one bed, one couch, one table, two chairs, one cabinet, and one washing rack in this room, and the same is true for other people's rooms, only the basin can be used to hold water, or the cabinet can also be used to hold water after it is put down, but it is not free, and it will make a sound, so the possibility of using a basin is higher, but if you use a basin to scoop water back to the museum from the back mountain, it is inconvenient and eye-catching, and it is difficult to make a trip......"

"It's all nonsense for a long time!" Yuan Chang snorted.

"Speaking of the couch, I would like to know, after you and Liu Zhang put Cao Pu back in the room, why didn't you put it on the bed, but on the couch?" Yan Zike asked.

"He drank and sweated, and there was no mattress on the bed, and the mattress was too hot, so we put him on the couch - I slept on the bamboo couch anyway. Yuan Chang said.

The bamboo couch is the most common cool utensils of the ancients, the bamboo skin is braided, some are dense and solid, and some are left with holes that are ventilated, the bamboo couch in the Baoxiu Mountain Museum is a bamboo couch with holes, the height is only up to the knees, and it is extraordinarily cool to lie down.

Yan Zike walked over from the window, lowered his head on the couch of the old corpse and looked closely, Yuan Chang looked at him, and suddenly thought: "Hey! This bamboo couch can also hold water!

"Huh. ”

"Yan Jiu, what are you smiling at!" Yuan Chang glared at Young Master Yan Jiu.

"Let's not talk about whether this method is feasible," Young Master Yan Jiu said slowly, "Just say when did the murderer pour water into the bamboo couch? Could it be that a basin is more eye-catching than a bamboo couch, so the murderer discarded the basin and used the bamboo couch instead? If the murderer poured water into the couch in advance, then the suspect is only Liu Zhang, he is the master of this place, and he can completely arrange a qiē in advance, but the question arises again: how is Liu Zhang sure that Cao Pu will choose this room, so that he can pour water into the bamboo couch in this room in advance? Why don't we go to other rooms to see if all the bamboo couches in all rooms are watered. ”

Yuan Chang was so blocked by Young Master Yan Jiu's rhetorical question that he couldn't speak, and snorted angrily, "I'll go to the next room to check!"

Yuan Chang walked on the front foot, and Yan Zike, who was there to check the bamboo couch, said "huh" on his hind feet, then turned his head to look at Young Master Yan Jiu, and smiled nervously: "There is really water in the frame of the bamboo couch." ”

Young Master Yan Jiu: "......"

Yan Qi looked at the goods that usually moved at a turtle speed and jumped to the edge of the couch in two steps, stretched out his hand into the hollow bamboo in the frame of the bamboo couch, and slowly pulled out his hand for a while, seeing water droplets hanging on his fingers.

"Could it be dampness?" Yan Qidao, "This room is very damp. ”

As he was talking, Yuan Chang came back from outside, and his face was not very good-looking: "Even if I said it wrong, there is no water in the bamboo couch in other rooms." ”

"Isn't there any moisture?" asked Yan Zike.

"No!" Yuan Chang felt that this person was deliberately squeezing him, and glared at him fiercely.

"Interesting," the man didn't pay attention at all, just stretched out two long fingers and gently flicked the back of the bamboo couch, "even if the bamboo couch is used to hold water, everyone was in the back mountain when Cao Pu died, how did the murderer sneak into this room and drown him? Since the murderer wants to create an alibi, then there must be a way to commit the crime without having to be at the scene, since there is no need to be at the scene, then there is no point in holding water on the bamboo couch, because it is absolutely impossible for anyone to be absent from the scene and charge the bamboo couch to pour the water into the basin, and then press the deceased's head into the basin and drown, and finally dispose of the water in the basin. ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his fingers and poked into the hollow bamboo tube in the back of the bamboo couch, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he pulled out his finger and compared it to everyone: "There is no water." ”

"Are you finished?!Grab a mistake and bite it?!" Yuan Chang was angry first, thinking that this bastard was still sarcastically mocking him endlessly.

"Why is there only water in the frame?" the bastard still didn't pay attention to him, just looked at his niece and nephew, "Come on, take the bamboo couch in the next room." ”

Immediately, a government messenger was ordered to carry the same bamboo couch from the next room.

"Fill the frame with water. Swallow said.

A few officials hurriedly went to the room to bring water, and then poured it into the frame, but at this time the problem arose - the frame of the couch board was parallel to the ground, and the two ends of the bamboo pipe were not blocked with something, and the water poured in from one end would flow out from the other end, leaving only a few shallow puddles in the bamboo pipe!

"It's not a bamboo couch to hold water to kill people, but this bamboo couch has been soaked in water, water has been soaked in the couch, but not soaked in the backrest, Cao Pu's profane pants have pomegranate flowers planted on the edge of the back mountain pool, this room is very damp. Yan Zike seemed to say to himself here, and the tail of his narrow eyes suddenly lifted slightly, "It can be seen that the vessel used to hold the water to drown Cao Pu is not a bamboo couch or a basin, but a house." ”

"What are you learning to play the trumpet?"

"This room is a vessel for water," Young Master Yan Jiu said, "The stone walls and floor, and the sliding door stuck into the stone wall, have a good sealing effect, which can minimize the speed of water seeping out from the gaps." ”

"What are you kidding! To fill this room with water, how many times does the murderer have to carry it back and forth with a bucket!"

"It doesn't have to be filled, as long as the water overflows the mouth and nose of Cao Pu lying on the couch. Young Master Yan Jiu said slowly.

Therefore, the bamboo pipe on the back of the bamboo couch is dry, but the frame of the couch is wet, so the bedding on the bed board higher than the bamboo couch is dry, but the floor of the room is damp, so there are pomegranate flowers in Cao Pu's trousers, and the clothes on the hanger more than one person high have not left any traces. Yan Zike stretched out his finger and pointed at Cao Pu on the couch, "The water came from the back mountain, and he accidentally brought pomegranate flowers over. If the murderer personally scooped water into this room, he would inevitably dispose of it after discovering the pomegranate flowers, which proves that the process of pouring water into the room is not in the murderer's sight, nor can he grasp the condition of the water in real time, and the murderer's intention to create an alibi, it can be inferred that the time when the murderer filled the room with water is the time when you were playing in the back mountain!"

"But at that time, all of us were together, and it was impossible for anyone to have time to do it, and even if the water was only filled to Cao Pu, it would take a lot of water, right?!, do you tell me how the murderer carried the water from the back mountain in plain sight?" Yuan Chang retorted.

"Let's go to the back mountain. Swallow said.

The back mountain is still yesterday's scene, the waterhole, the bamboo shed, the pomegranate tree, Yan Zike pointed to the stone on the ground next to the bamboo shed and asked, "There are burn marks here?"

"Yesterday they were barbecuing food here. The clerk who came with him flipped through the notes.

Yan Zike looked up, and saw that there was a shady bamboo frame on the top, which was full of vines and vines, and walked around a few times, and finally stretched out his hand, and was about to climb up the rock wall.

The clerk and the officials who came with him looked "stunned": What are you doing? He is a member of the third rank of the court! Is it really good to pose as a gecko crawling in an official uniform?

I saw that this Chao Sanpin climbed up the stone wall and called a neat one, which fully showed what a second boy this person had, and he didn't do much to climb the wall and go to the house when he was a child, right?!

A group of people raised their heads to climb the wall of the three officials, and saw him come down from above for a long time, rubbing a few moss marks on his face, like a loose big cat, walking lightly in front of everyone, the corners of the sickle-like lips hooked the light shining from the ripples of the pool, at this moment everyone actually felt that the person in front of them was like a star gathered together, dazzling, and incomprehensible.

It's like the pleasure and enjoyment that soaks the heart when a person is doing what he likes best.

"Back to the Mountain Pavilion. The man was at the forefront.

Returning to the room of Cao Puchen's corpse again, Yan Zike had a clear destination and searched up and down, and finally threw out a sentence lightly: "I have cracked the murderer's modus operandi, call everyone over." ”

Crack it? Climb the mountain wall and you'll have the answer? Is there such a demon?! The officials looked at each other, but they didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly went to the hall to call everyone into the scene of the crime, and the members of the climbing club looked at the most glorious person in this room with apprehension or doubt or expressionless faces, even if he just stood in the corner without saying a word, it would make people irresistibly cast their eyes on him.

This is called aura.

"The murderer of Cao Pu is ......" Yan Zike had just opened his mouth when he felt a colorful shadow squeezing over.

"My lord, I'm so scared......" Liu Yunxian cried and staggered towards Yanzike.

"Take it. Yan Zi said coldly.

The left and right officials immediately stepped forward and cut Liu Yunxian's arms and knelt on the spot, Liu Yunxian was so frightened that his face turned white, and he didn't expect this handsome man who looked suave to be so ruthless, and he refused to pity the jade at all.

"Interrupting the official's decision without authorization is regarded as contempt for the official's authority, and according to the law, he should be punished with a twenty cane and dragged out. Yan Zike commanded in a normal tone, but everyone in the room felt that there was cool air seeping through the cracks of their bones, and they saw Liu Yunxian struggling and crying and begging to be dragged to the courtyard by the officials to be tortured, no one dared to squeak, and even Liu Zhang was holding on to it in a cold sweat.

"You still have one last chance to confess your crimes," Yan Zike lowered his eyelids, "I may have someone arrange a slightly clean cell for you, so that you will suffer less before committing your crimes." ”

There was silence for a while.

Who was it, who killed Cao Pu and made him undressed and ugly when he died?