Jiang Luo pulled Jiang Jingtian to the study of the East Courtyard, he beat Jiang Jingtian, who was only a few years old, with rattan in the study, and almost died of tears, while Cai stood outside the study with the little Jiang Nianlong in his arms and knocked on the door of the study and begged Jiang Luo not to beat Jiang Jingtian again. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Even the old inn guys like Shopkeeper Zhao listened to Jiang Jingtian's cry in the study, and they were quite distressed to hear it.

But Jiang Luo is angry, where can he listen to anyone's persuasion.

Yin Qiqi listened to Jiang Jingtian's smiling narration, and said in his heart that the Cai family probably had a grudge against Jiang Long'er, the sister-in-law who was not deeply affectionate, since that time.

After finishing speaking, Jiang Jingtian put the two small pieces of broken ink inkstone back in the closet.

Yin Seventeen followed and said, "Shouldn't this ink inkstone be placed on the bookcase?" Even if it breaks, it shouldn't be in the closet, right? ”

Hua Zilai also followed and said, "That's it, isn't this wardrobe a place to put clothes, what's the matter with a piece of ink inkstone that has been broken in half?" ”

Jiang Jingtian opened the wardrobe, bent down to put the ink inkstone into the corner of the bottom cabinet of the wardrobe, got up and said:

"I don't know what's going on, but then I came to the 'attic' again, and once I opened my aunt's wardrobe and accidentally found it, because at that time I was beaten by my father because of the ink inkstone that was broken in half, although I was curious, but I didn't dare to ask my father why, so why did my father place this ink inkstone in the corner of the bottom cabinet of this wardrobe, I don't know why."

Jiang Luo did not throw away Jiang Jingtian's broken inkstone, but put it in the closet, perhaps because he missed Jiang Longer, and was reluctant to lose anything in Jiang Longer's "attic".

Hua Zi said this, and several people present couldn't help but nod slightly, all agreeing with his explanation.

Only Yin Qiqi thought that Jiang Luo had not thrown away the broken ink inkstone like a normal person, in addition to thinking about Jiang Long'er, was there any other reason?

Yin Seventeen didn't think about it for too long, and she quickly attracted the old clothes in the closet that Jiang Jingtian opened.

Jiang Jingtian put away the broken ink inkstone, and wanted to close the closet, but let Yin Seventeen stop him:

"Young owner! Don't close, I'll look at the clothes in the closet! ”

When Hua Zilai heard Yin Seventeen say this to Jiang Jingtian, his eyes couldn't help but look at the shirts and dresses in the wooden closet - old, clean, and outdated.

Jiang Jingtian didn't close the closet as he said, he moved out of the way, and let Yin Seventeen step forward to look at the old clothes in the closet closer.

After Yin Seventeen approached, her eyes roamed around the wardrobe that was divided into three layers of latticework, and after looking at it for a while, she found that the colors of all the shirts and dresses in Jiang Longmen's wardrobe belonged to the bright and dazzling one:

"Brother Hua, do you remember the shirt and dress that the deceased wore when he died?"

Hua Zilai hadn't figured out Yin Seventeen's intention to say this, but he still responded truthfully:

"Remember, when the deceased died, he was wearing a sprout yellow shirt and a purple and red peony skirt!"

Yin Seventeen said: "Yes, the deceased is still wearing a pair of tender yellow satin embroidered shoes embroidered with swimming fish playing in the water!" ”

While speaking, Yin Seventeen looked left and right at the wardrobe, then walked through the wardrobe, squatted down in front of a low cabinet on the left side of the wardrobe, which was only half as high as the wardrobe, and asked Jiang Jingtian:

"Young owner, this is Jiang Long'er's shoe cabinet?"

Jiang Jingtian listened to the conversation between Yin Seventeen and Hua Zilai, and knew that the two were talking about the case related to the murder case of Qianguang, and was suddenly asked by Yin Seventeen, and he hurriedly responded:

"Yes!"

When Jiang Jingtian answered, Yin Seventeen had already opened the shoe cabinet, and she quickly took out a pair of embroidered shoes from it that also looked a little old, but the color was still very bright:

"Whether it is a shirt skirt or this embroidered shoe, although the style seems outdated now, if it was placed twenty years ago when Jiang Long'er was still there, these clothes should be extremely novel and beautiful!"

Jiang Jingtian replied: "Yes, my father once said that my aunt is the girl who loves beauty the most, and every time there is a new style of clothes in the county, my aunt always buys it back as soon as possible, and always chooses the most colorful shirt and dress!" ”

When Hua Zilai heard this, he already understood the meaning of Yin Seventeen:

"The clothes and embroidered shoes that the murderer specially changed for the deceased after his death are all the latest and most dazzling colors!"

Hua Zilai had already thought of something, but he couldn't say it.

He looked at Yin Seventeen, and Yin Seventeen was also looking at him!

After reading the "attic", Yin Seventeen and Hua Zilai returned to the third floor of the inn, and Zhao Youlai also returned to the front yard of the inn to see that there was nothing to be busy with, only Jiang Jingtian stayed in the "attic" of the west courtyard, saying that he wanted to stay for a while.

Yin Seventeen and Hua Zilai did not return to the Nine Room and the Nine Room, but went to the grandstand on the third floor, still sitting at the round table in the corner of the railing on the street.

The reason why I chose this round table is because the position of this round table is enough for Yin Seventeen to see clearly the private room opposite the grandstand and the corridors on both sides, and can see all the people, things, and things on the street under the grandstand more clearly, and the field of vision is wide enough.

As soon as he sat down for a while, Zhao Youlai made a pot of hair tips for the two of them, and after putting them down and leaving, Hua Zilai said to Yin Seventeen:

"We'll have to go back to Hongsha County tomorrow."

Yin Seventeen said: "Well, we've been in Huanlin County for two days, and I don't know how Brother Zhan's investigation is going?" ”

The purple sandalwood Buddha bead that was inlaid in the courtyard wall at the end of the academy, I don't know if you can ask its source?

In the past two days] so many things have happened with Hua Zilai in the Longmen Inn in Huanlin County, so what about Zhanyan?

Is Senkoji still calm?

Early the next morning, Hua Zilai retreated to the third floor of the upper room, and rode out of Huanlin County with Yin Seventeen and returned to the county government of Hongsha County.

Zhan Yan was not in the yamen, just half an hour before Yin Seventeen and Hua Zilai dismounted and stepped into the county ya, a little monk from Qianguang Temple came to report the case again, saying - there is another murder!

Yin Seventeen was shocked: "What? ”

Hua Zilai also exclaimed: "Someone died again?" ”

As soon as the horse was led into the horse pen to rest for a while, it was brought out of the backyard by the flowers.

When they arrived at the Qianguang Temple, Yin Seventeen and Hua Zilai got off the horse, and they saw a lot of people surrounded by ninety-nine stone steps from a distance, including officials, many monks and a few pilgrims who came early in the morning to offer incense.

The flowers came and went and tied the horses under the trees on the side, and the horses ran straight to the gate of the Thousand Light Temple as soon as the yin seventeen got off the horse.

When he ran to the gate of the Thousand Lights Temple, Yin Seventeen was shocked by the scene in front of him!

The same goes for the flowers that came up later.

Zhan Yan arrived more than a quarter of an hour earlier than Yin Seventeen and Hua Zilai, and he had already asked the officials who came with him to protect everything at the scene of the crime.

Zhan Yan was standing in front of the new deceased and looked at the expression on the deceased's face, and saw Yin Seventeen hurriedly running up the stone steps, and after being startled for a while, Yin Seventeen walked over the thick rope to the left hand side of his side, and also looked at the new deceased and froze in shock.

Hua Zilai saw the new deceased, so he slowly crossed to Zhanyan's right hand with stiff steps, and then stiffened his body and bent down to drill through the thick rope that was held in front of the temple gate, and he also looked at the new deceased without saying a word.

The new deceased is the ...... of the Senkoji Academy's passenger compartment and letter room Miss Ying!

Miss Ying's personal maid Huan Xiaozhi had already fainted from crying on the side, and asked Zhan Yan to order the official to carry her to the guest courtyard of the temple to rest first.

Yin Qiqi stood on Zhanyan's left hand side for a while, as if she was frozen by something, she looked at Miss Ying who was kneeling dead in front of the gate of Qianguang Temple, and couldn't say half a word for a while.

Just two days ago, she and Miss Ying sat face to face eating tea and chatting, Miss Ying's gentle and gentle voice was still in her ears, and the subtle and elegant smile was still vivid, but at this moment two days later, Miss Ying was killed in front of the Thousand Light Temple.

Miss Ying's body was kneeling in front of the temple gate of Senkoji Temple, her eyes were open, her face was still with tears, she was kneeling upright and straight, her hands hanging weakly at her sides, and she knelt straight in front of the temple gate.

The reason why Miss Ying's body was able to kneel so upright in front of the temple gate after death was because her severed neck was tightly tied by two thick ropes from both sides of the temple gate, like a rope encircling a puppy, to maintain her dead posture of kneeling upright.

These two thick ropes hung Miss Ying's neck from the left and right sides of the temple gate, and the height was deliberately set to be the same as the height after Miss Ying knelt down, so Miss Ying knelt on both knees with the lower half of her body, and the upper body had to straighten her waist because of the two thick ropes hanging from her neck, and knelt to die facing the temple gate!

Shi Chengzuo and Zhen Wenpo have done a preliminary autopsy for Miss Ying's body, and the two of them are also standing in front of Miss Ying's body.

"The cause of death was a knife cut throat and died, exactly the same as the deceased Bai Lanzhi who died in the wing room of the temple's chess courtyard before, no other wounds have been found for the time being, and there are no signs of poisoning."

Zhen Wenpo also said: "At present, as Shi Qian said, as for other more detailed results, we need to return to the yamen for further autopsy, alas, the people killed are all poor young girls, and I don't know which one is so ruthless as killing a thousand knives!" ”

Zhan Yan, Yin Qi, and Hua Zilai all understood that the detailed autopsy that Zhen Wenpo was talking about meant that after returning to the yamen, she would open the clothes of the deceased Miss Ying, check whether there were any other injuries or signs of violation, and see if there were any other findings.

The usual male deceased are all Shi Cheng as the main examiner, and Zhen Wenpo is the auxiliary.

But once the female deceased is encountered, it is Zhen Wenpo's main inspection, and Shi Yan is the auxiliary.

After listening to the preliminary results of the autopsy that Shi Qizuo and Zhen Wenpo said, Yin Qiqi nodded slightly, remembering what Shi Qizuo said about the "deceased Bai Lanzhi", she couldn't help but ask:

"Brother Zhan, the identity of the deceased in the array room has been confirmed?"

Zhan Yan nodded and said: "It's confirmed, it's the third daughter of a rice shop in the north of the county, fifteen years old, who came to Qianguang Temple to fast and pray to the Buddha for safety for her seriously ill father." ”

Unexpectedly, Bai Lanzhi did not seek her father's health, but died in the guest room of the chess courtyard that was going to live for ten days.

And Bai Lanzhi's father was seriously ill, and when the official came to the door with a portrait, he heard that Bai Lanzhi died in the passenger compartment of Qianguang Temple for no reason, and he spurted blood in a mouthful, and his condition worsened, and he was about to run out of oil.

Hua Zilai sighed: "The white-haired person sends the black-haired person, this Bai Lanzhi's father will definitely not be able to withstand this blow!" ”

Yes, anyone who thinks that her daughter is a Buddha who went to the temple to worship for herself, but she died in the temple overnight, no one can accept it, and no one can help but blame herself strongly in her heart.

After all, if you think about it from another angle, if Bai Lanzhi hadn't been praying for her seriously ill father, then she wouldn't have come to Qianguang Temple to fast and worship the Buddha, and she wouldn't have lived in the guest house of the temple, so Bai Lanzhi might have escaped death.

Bai Lanzhi's father must have thought so when he learned of Bai Lanzhi's death from the mouth of the official.

And at this moment, Miss Ying, who died in front of the gate of Qianguang Temple in a kneeling position, was not the murderer brutally killed her mother Chaodu, who died of illness?

If Miss Ying's father learned the news, how would he grieve and blame himself?

After Shi Qizuo and Zhen Wenpo finished talking about the preliminary results of the autopsy, they stood aside.

The two had to wait until Miss Ying's body was carefully put down, and then the officials carried them into the carriage in the yamen that had specially transported the deceased's body back to the yamen, and then they could go back to the yamen with the officials.

Yin Seventeen returned to Miss Ying's corpse, she looked at Miss Ying's eyes that were wide open when she died, and after looking at her for a while, she suddenly stretched out her hand.

Zhan Yan saw it, but he didn't stop Yin Seventeen's move.

Instead, he quickly grabbed the right wrist of Yin Seventeen's outstretched hand: "What are you doing?" ”

Yin Seventeen said: "I want to see what the water on Miss Ying's face is." ”

Hua Zi looked at the water on Miss Ying's face that she said in her seventeenth mouth, and said after only two breaths:

"Tears, of course, what else could it be?"

Yin Seventeen pulled the corners of her mouth slightly, she was not interested in explaining, only said:

"Let it go, Brother Hua."

Hua Zilai said: "The dead are gone, don't offend the dead!" ”

Yin Qiqi nodded and said, "I know, but I think Miss Ying hopes that we can find the murderer and avenge her!" ”

Hua Zilai was stunned and didn't speak, nor did he let go.

Zhan Yan said: "Come on! ”

Hua Zilai immediately let go, almost subconsciously reflexively, which made Yin Seventeen can't help but look at him.

When she first entered the yamen, Yin Qilai knew that Hua Zilai was just catching fast, and she was a subordinate of Zhanyan, a big catcher, but gradually she understood one thing, that is, she and Hua Zilai were different after all.

She is a little fast hand, Zhanyan's subordinate, and even if Hua Zilai is not a fast catcher in the yamen, he will inevitably listen to Zhanyan, no matter what.

Hua Zizi grew up with Zhanyan since childhood, grew up together, and worked together in the yamen, saying that it was the relationship between subordinates and superiors, but in the eyes of Yin Seventeen, she felt that even if this relationship between superiors and subordinates was not due to being on an errand in the same yamen, the way the two of them got along probably would not change.

Zhanyan always has a dominant momentum, and Hua Zilai seems to be born to stand only on Zhanyan's side, not in front or behind, but closely following the side.

As soon as Zhan Yan spoke, Hua Zilai let go of her hand, and Yin Seventeen continued what she wanted to do.

She gently touched the tip of her right index finger on the faint water on Miss Ying's face, and then raised her index finger to her nose and sniffed it. (To be continued.) )