What Young Master Yan Jiu was holding on his hand was confetti.

This confetti was found under the chair Pei Ming was sitting on, and Qiao Lezi had also checked there just now, although no confetti was found, but the confetti was stained on his eyebrows.

"This is also normal," Qiao Lezi said, "Pei Ming's specialty is paper-cutting, and it is normal to find confetti around him." ”

"He hasn't touched the paper today. Young Master Yan Jiu said.

"Could it be that it was on my body after practicing paper-cutting at home?" Qiao Lezi tried his best to think of all possibilities.

Young Master Yan Jiu raised his lips and smiled: "My lord should indeed marry a wife as soon as possible." ”

......What does this have to do with whether Lao Tzu marries a wife or not!

If you don't marry a wife, there will be no one to take care of the affairs in the inner house, and no one will take care of your food, clothing, housing and transportation, so naturally you don't know what kind of comfortable life these young masters who are taken care of - the clothes they have to wear every day will be ironed by the maids the night before. Incense, even if the next day is still the previous day's clothes, it will still be carefully taken care of by the people, dust, sticky hair, but also check whether the clothes are accidentally hung off the silk or hook holes, if the clothes are a little dirty, then the clothes must not be worn the next day, there are pleats to spray steam and then iron flat, after the incense is finished, hang up so as not to be pressed out of the pleats.

After such careful care, how could there be confetti on them? If Pei Ming really sat on the chair and meditated all the time, then where did the confetti come from? Although the confetti near the seat could not prove that he was the murderer for the time being, it at least confirmed that his testimony that he had never moved while sitting on the chair was false.

If he is not the murderer, why tell a lie?

"Go and see if Pei Ming has confetti on him," Qiao Lezi called one of his subordinates and ordered, "Be careful not to let him find out." ”

The subordinates took the order, and Qiao Lezi and Young Master Yan Jiu returned to Pei Ming's seat to check it carefully, and sure enough, they saw that there were some extremely fine scraps of paper in the cracks of the fabric of the futon where Pei Ming had meditated.

This futon is used for his daily meditation, and if he accidentally drops confetti in it, it is not easy to find. Qiao Lezi continued to envision various scenarios that could overturn the evidence.

And Young Master Yan Jiu automatically took on the side of the debate with him: "The futon, like clothes, is also taken care of by subordinates, not to mention that if Pei Ming is religious, he should be able to bathe and change clothes before meditating at home, and it is impossible to sit on the futon to do paper-cutting, even if he does, it is impossible for the confetti to run under the buttocks, and there is still a strong fragrance on this futon, and it is not like it has not been washed for a few days in a row." ”

…… This kid has also smelled the futon that Pei Ming's ass sat on? Qiao Lezi admires this little ninth master of the Yan family a little, and he is really desperate to find out the real murderer!

For a while, the official who ran to observe Pei Ming came back and said to Qiao Lezi: "My lord, there are really a few pieces of scrap of paper on the hem of Pei Ming's shirt behind him!"

"Where did this confetti come from, and what does it prove?" Qiao Lezi fell into deep thought, and suddenly felt a movement in his hand, and saw that Lu Lotus was taking away the handkerchief wrapped in ice in his hand, the ice in the handkerchief had melted a little, and the water was dripping down, and the girl was not too cold, so she took the ice water with her hand underneath and walked quickly to the outside of the exhibition hall.

The handkerchief is already wet, how can this girl put it on her body? Throw it away? No, it won't be good if a man picks it up, stuff it into a purse and bring it back to her body? The purse will get wet too, and she will keep holding it with her hands? It's so cold, how can your hands stand it. What will this girl do?

Qiao Lezi looked at Lu Rong, and saw that she threw the ice in the handkerchief outside where it would not be stepped on, then twisted the water on the handkerchief, folded it a few times, and made the handkerchief into a small roll, just took it in her hand and walked back, and when she walked outside the door, she stomped her feet, and stomped the snow on the soles of her feet, and then entered the hall.

What a delicate girl. Qiao Lezi retracted his gaze and looked at the confetti on the futon as white as snow, and then raised his eyes and looked at Young Master Yan Jiu: "Pei Ming must have been to a place where there was shredded paper, and the scraps of paper got on his body, and then brought it back to the futon." ”

Where there is shredded paper...... There was no shredded paper in and around the murder scene on the second floor, Young Master Yan Jiu turned his head and pointed to a short distance from here, on the display cabinet of handmade works, there was a large ball of paper-cut latte art.

This work is a combination of paper-cutting technology and paper latte art technology together of the four different creations, although the paper cut is good, but unfortunately there is no creativity, and such a big mess is placed here, and it is made of white paper, there is really no desire to buy.

Qiao Lezi and Young Master Yan Jiu stepped forward to take a closer look, and searched carefully on the ground around them, and sure enough, there were a few small white slags.

"It is also possible that these pieces of paper fell when they were moved to the exhibition hall. Qiao Lezi said.

"No matter when it fell, at least it can be confirmed that this thing is the source of the paper residue on Pei Ming's body, and Pei Ming has touched this paper latte art. Young Master Yan Jiu said.

"What is he doing with these latte art?" Qiao Lezi thought.

Just thinking about it, the subordinates who were responsible for recording the confessions of the six parties came back one after another with the writing paper, and the six people were also brought back to the side.

Qiao Lezi carefully flipped through the transcripts of these six people, and saw that the little ninth master of the Yan family was staring at him, and hurriedly handed the transcript to him-what is going on with this domineering aura of "don't show the master, you can't marry a wife for the rest of your life"? !

Taking advantage of Young Master Yan Jiu's efforts to turn over the transcripts, Qiao Lezi ordered his subordinates to take the six people away first, guarding them separately to prevent collusion, and then asked Kang Ran to come back and asked him: "You said that you can see Pei Ming sitting there all the time in your position, can you be sure?"

Kang Ran nodded repeatedly: "Sure, sure, sure!" My position is just right to see his left shoulder!"

"Can you only see the left shoulder?" Qiao Lezi raised his eyebrows, "Are you sure it's his left shoulder?"

Kang Ran: "Don't laugh at me, my lord, I can really be sure! The white robe that Senior Brother Pei is wearing today, I can just see him on one shoulder, I can't be wrong!"

Qiao Lezi: "...... The officer didn't laugh. Are you sure it's his shoulder and not something white? Like ...... Paper?"

Kang Ran: "How could it be paper! I can't tell the difference between clothes and paper? The texture of that material is clearly cloth, is it possible that Senior Brother Pei is wearing paper clothes? Don't tease me, my lord!"

…… Qiao Lezi glared at him, "Are you sure that he has been meditating and not doing anything else since he sat down on that seat today?"

"Sure, sure!" replied Continuum, curtly.

"Are you sure that your eyes have been looking in Pei Ming's direction and have never left?" It was Young Master Yan Jiu who asked, staring at Kang Ran's impetuous face lightly.

"How is that possible, why am I always staring at him, I also have my own things to do!"

"......" Qiao Lezi was almost angry, "Do you know that your words are inconsistent?!" Give the official a serious answer! Otherwise, he will be sent to prison for the crime of disturbing the government's judgment of the case!"

Kang Ran was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "You let me think about it! I can't remember it a little bit - no one knew that this kind of thing would happen, where would they care about what others were doing in advance...... I, I've actually been playing puppet shows, you know, playing puppet shows have to hide my body behind the table, so, so, I can't see Senior Brother Pei when I play puppet shows - but after every time I finish a play, I will come out from behind the table and sit on the chair to rest, and every time I can see Senior Brother Pei's shoulders exposed, it looks like he hasn't moved at all!"

Qiao Lezi looked at the bear child speechlessly: "What are you doing so desperately practicing puppetry?"

Kang Ran hurriedly said: "The student is also a member of the puppet show club of the college, and our club will do a puppet show in the academy in a few days, and the student is seizing the time to do practice! The student has applied for two clubs at the same time, which is really hard......

“…… Okay, okay," Qiao Lezi waved his hand, and he still complained at him, "Are you sure you haven't heard anything else during this period?"

"The student has been reading the words in the script, even if there is a sound, he can't hear it......," Kang Ran scratched his head.

"Pei Mingke knows that you are going to practice puppet show today?" Young Master Yan Jiu interjected and asked him again.

"I know," Kang Ran said, "Brother Pei said before, he said that on the day of the exhibition, he would bring a futon, and he would meditate when there were no visitors, so as not to be idle and boring." ”

"That's why you thought of taking a puppet to practice?" asked Young Master Yan Jiu.

Kang Ran: "That's right, as soon as I heard Senior Brother Pei's words, I thought it would be better to practice with a puppet, and if I am idle, I will be idle!"

Young Master Yan Jiu: "Your position was chosen by yourself?"

Kang Ran: "Yes, because only the entrance is a big long case, I can compare it when I practice puppetry, and the tables at the other entrances are slightly smaller." ”

Young Master Yan Jiu: "That big long case, who moved there when the guild hall was arranged?"

Kang Ran: "It's me and Brother Pei, Brother Pei said that the case was too heavy, and asked me to move with him, I fell in love with that case at the time, thinking that as soon as I came today, I would first grab the entrance where the case was located, so that I could practice puppetry." ”

Qiao Lezi: Is this kid a puppet showman?

Young Master Yan Jiu continued to ask, "Did Pei Ming's seat choose by himself?"

Kang Ran: "That's right, at that time, only Senior Brother Geng offered to be on duty upstairs, and the other few of us were downstairs anyway, and we didn't deliberately assign who was at which entrance, I chose the entrance where the long case was located anyway, and walked directly to this side, Senior Brother Pei was talking to me, and I followed this side unconsciously, and he sat down in that position - you have been asking Senior Brother Pei, is it possible that you suspect that he is the murderer?!"

Young Master Yan Jiu ignored his last question, and only looked at Qiao Lezi: "I have nothing to ask." ”

Qiao Lezi waved his hand to let his subordinates take Kang Ran away from here, and then turned around and said to Young Master Yan Jiu: "If this Pei Ming is really a murderer, it must be said that he is quite scheming, and every little detail has been calculated, and step by step he has created a desired criminal environment and a witness who will never be suspicious. ”

Young Master Yan Jiu said: "I just don't understand what this has to do with those paper latte arts, and even if Kang Ran will hide behind the table when he practices puppet show, how dare Pei Ming guarantee that Kang Ran will not suddenly show his head from behind the table during the time he leaves the crime? I think those paper latte art may be as important as Pei Ming's creation of the illusion that he is still in his seat, but I don't understand how he did it. ”

Qiao Lezi patted the little boy's still immature shoulder, and said gently: "Don't be anxious, let's come step by step, first call another witness who can prove Pei Ming's alibi, and then ask him carefully." With that, he asked his men to bring Chen Min over.

"Chen Min, you once said that you could see the shadows of Kang Ran and Pei Ming at your location, but is that so?" Qiao Lezi asked Chen Min.

"Yes, sir. Chen Min is neither humble nor arrogant.

"Are you sure that the shadows of the two of them are always there?" Qiao Lezi continued to ask.

Chen Min: "I'm not sure that 'always' is there, because I've been doing wood carving, and occasionally when I feel that my neck is sore, I will raise my head and move, and I can see the shadow every time I raise my head, but because Kang Ran is hiding behind the table to make his puppet show, all I can see is the puppets on the table, and those puppets are moving, so I can be sure that Kang Ran was there at that time." ”

Young Master Yan Jiu: "Can you be sure that Pei Ming's shadow has been there motionless from the beginning?"

Chen Min: "No, the shadow can't be seen at first, because the sun hasn't gone to that place yet, the light can't shine, the shadow is later, after I can be sure that Pei Ming and Kang Ran have always been in place, and then the sun changed position again, and the shadow can't be seen again, as for whether I have done any action, I can't be sure, I spend most of my time doing wood carving." ”

- The time when the shadow appeared and disappeared!Qiao Lezi and Young Master Yan Jiu glanced at each other, was this also used by Pei Ming?

Young Master Yan Jiu asked, "Are you sure that the shadow is Pei Ming's and not something else?"

Chen Min glanced at Young Master Yan Jiu strangely: "Of course it's him, even if it's just a shadow, the outline of his side face is quite clear, that is, he is right." ”

"It's still that question," after Chen Min was taken down, Qiao Lezi and Young Master Yan Jiu said, "If Pei Ming is the murderer, if he has indeed left his seat, how dare he guarantee that his shadow is gone during this period and will not be discovered by Chen Min?"

"Pei Ming's method of making an alibi gives him confidence in this regard," Young Master Yan Jiu said, "It must have something to do with that paper latte art—whose hand is that paper latte art?"

Qiao Lezi asked his subordinates to bring over the list of exhibits in the exhibition hall, looked for it for a while, raised his head suddenly, and looked at Young Master Yan Jiu with a glint in his eyes: "It's Pei Ming! These paper latte art are Pei Ming's own works! Sure enough, there is a problem!"

"If it is his work, with his craftsmanship, he may be able to cut a profile portrait of himself, but the paper is too soft to hold up, and the paper will appear transparent when the sun shines on the paper," Young Master Yan Jiu said as he walked to the side of the paper latte art and observed it carefully. Even if you use paper to make a dummy, I'm afraid it's too late to do it in the first place, second, if you make a dummy now, I'm afraid that it will be discovered by Kang Ran or Chen Min, and third, a dummy as big as a real person is not easy to deal with, whether it is torn or hidden, it is easy to be discovered, with Pei Ming's scheming, he should not choose such a way to deal with it. ”

Qiao Lezi also leaned over with his big head, stared at the paper latte and said: "It can be said that we are now eighty percent sure that Pei Ming is the murderer, but this is just the same decisive evidence, I think we should find someone who also knows paper art to come over and help see, what is the mystery of this paper latte?"

Young Master Yan Jiu turned his head and lowered his eyelids and pointed at Cui Xi, who was standing in the room chatting with Yan Qi: "That's it." ”

Qiao Lezi looked in the direction of his fingers, but saw that Lu Rong was also walking over to talk to the two of them, still holding the wet handkerchief in his hand, he heard Yan Qi ask her, "What are you holding in your hand?"

"No, it's a veil. As she spoke, she took the corner of the handkerchief that had been folded in her hand and pulled it out, and the handkerchief was unfurled.

Qiao Lezi's head flashed with gold, and he suddenly had an epiphany, and quickly turned around and rummaged carefully in the latte art, and finally found one end of the paper latte art, but tried to close the latte art slowly.

Qiao Lezi was afraid of destroying the evidence, so he didn't dare to be careless, but he couldn't figure it out for a long time, so he had to invite Cui Xi over in person: "I'm tired of helping to put this paper latte art together." ”

Cui Xi didn't say much, reached out and took one end of the paper latte, and it didn't take a moment to separate the messy paper, and then closed it layer by layer, and the rest of the four to nine gangs also came to watch, only to find that this paper latte art was also made with a lot of effort, layer upon layer I don't know how many pieces of paper were used, the paper-cut part was only in the middle position, simply a few patterns, there was really no creativity and difficulty, and the strange thing is that the outline shape of these papers is not the same, there are wide and narrow, but it is symmetrical, and the connection between wide and narrow is also natural and smooth。

And when this paper latte art was layered by Cui Xi's skillful hands and slowly took on its original shape, everyone's eyes widened in surprise - a person! A paper sculpture appeared like this! Looking at its face, it was clearly the person named Pei Ming—— what was going on?!

"This person first glues and stacks the paper that has been simply carved to make it into a whole 'boulder' or 'whole wood', and then carves and polishes it like a stone carving and a wood carving," Cui Xi said, "so that it presents such a soft and delicate and full and realistic shape in front of him, and because the paper has been glued to each other, so that it can be stretched and twisted without worrying about it falling apart, so it can be called '" As for the hollow paper-cut made by the snake in the middle, I think it is probably this person in order to cover up the real characteristics of the latte paper carving, and just want people to think that this is a paper-cut latte art. ”

Isn't that the case!Qiao Lezi motioned to his subordinates to arrest Pei Ming immediately. This prop used to make an alibi is placed here in such a grand manner, near Pei Ming's seat, he just needs to take advantage of the time when the sun is not shining, but his shadow is about to shine - so that Chen Min can't see if he is in the seat, and when Kang Ran is hiding behind the table to practice puppetry, he walks over and closes the latte paper carving- He will definitely not be as messy as he is now, he can easily close the latte art, and then carry back to his seat, he is very close to the paper sculpture, only ten steps back and forth, Kang Ran is unlikely to get out of behind the table so quickly, and then Pei Ming placed the paper sculpture on his seat, this is why he is wearing a white robe today, the paper is also white, and it is realistic, you can't see the authenticity at all when you put it there, even if you don't move, it doesn't matter, because he is meditating, and when he meditates, he is originally immobile。

Then he can go upstairs, kill Geng, wait for the shadow to disappear, return to his seat, carry the latte back to the display case, unfold and mess it up to make it difficult to recover, and finally return to his seat.

The latte paper sculpture is Pei Ming's own face, and the figure is also made by him according to the proportion of his body, which is ironclad evidence.

"Why do you want to kill Geng Zhi?" Qiao Lezi asked Pei Ming.

"Because I really can't stand him anymore," Pei Ming, who has always been so calm, gritted his teeth when he said this at this time, as if he couldn't kill Geng Zhi again, "I can't stand him always chewing apples, cucumbers, turnips, or eating melon seeds and crunching things loudly in the handicraft class—maybe you will think it's incredible, but I just can't stand this kind of sound! Every time I hear such a sound, I get so angry that I want to smash the table! I want to kill someone! I want to stab the person who makes this sound to death!"

Pei Ming almost let out a hysterical roar when he said that, grabbing his head so hard that he almost collapsed.

Everyone, including Young Master Yan Jiu, was indeed very incredulous about such an absurd reason for killing, but Yan Qi remembered a medical term he had seen in his previous life - phonophobia.

Pei Ming is a person who suffers from phonophobia, patients with this disease will be allergic to a certain sound, not only will have physical discomfort, but also strong stimulation in the mental aspect, the light will have disgust or fear, and the heavy will likely lead to mental breakdown and even madness.

Phonophobia, even in that lifetime, was basically blank in the research of medical research institutions, it was not just the same as hearing the harsh sound of chalk on the blackboard, it was a mental illness, a manifestation of psychosis, a pathology.

Qiao Lezi said that it was difficult to understand Pei Ming's inexplicable feelings, no matter what, killing someone is killing someone, no matter how strange his reasons were.

"It's a pity," Qiao Lezi finally looked at the realistic paper sculpture and sighed, "Why do you always choose to take a path of self-destruction when you have such talent?" Look at the shackles of this official, how many such murderers have been handcuffed this year?...... Huh?!" 166 Reading Network