Ling'er said that the person who intended to commit the murder to him had a distinct feature, with six fingers on his left hand.

For a moment, no one in the room spoke, and everyone was silent. Six-fingered people are rare and easy to identify, but they are also difficult to find. Because it's still easy to hide one of your hands, you can't check all the people in wide-sleeved shirts one by one, and this task is enough for the people who live in the capital to check for months.

Ling'er also tried to search for any missing clues in her memory, as if there were, but she couldn't say.

Suddenly, a little monk staggered in from outside the door, looking at the frightened look on his face, he couldn't even say a complete sentence for a while, "Master, master, Miss Tang, ...... Tang." ”

Monk Langyue suddenly stood up, walked out of the courtyard gate, and turned around and walked towards the backyard. Seeing this, Ning Yiheng and the others also followed, and everyone came to a small row of three wings to stand outside.

At this time, the little monk also followed, and then the inner prison of Xiangguo Temple and several big monks also rushed over after hearing the news. As the abbot of Xiangguo Temple, Lang Yue first said loudly: "Let the poor monks go first to check the end, and you will enter later." ”

Ning Yiheng stood with one hand behind his back, made a gesture of please with the other, and said, "Master Abbot, please." Ling'er saw it in her eyes, and her heart jumped a few times, she was so handsome!

When Lang Yue entered the room, he only heard a recitation full of grief and indignation: "Amitabha! ”

Ning Yiheng took the lead in stepping into the door, and everyone rushed in.

Ling'er couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, only to see a woman lying on her back on the octagonal delicate bed placed against the wall, with blood stains on the corners of her mouth, her eyes staring ahead, her hands tightly grasping her clothes, and the clothes and bedding beside the bed were messy.

Ling'er stepped forward in a few steps, picked up the clothes on the ground and covered the woman's bare skin.

Everyone in the room was shocked, and the praise rose spontaneously, and it was rare to see a woman with such courage.

Ning Yiheng said to Monk Langyue: "Abbot, since such a thing has happened, you and I should go out and wait, this place will remain the original for the time being, and the decision will be made after the people from the Criminal Department send a person to conduct an autopsy, what do you think?" ”

Lang Yue's face was already full of shame and resentment, where else could he say, nodded, and told the little monk to report to the official quickly. Everyone returned to the small courtyard, the little monk added tea, everyone was silent, and the atmosphere was quite dull.

After being silent for a while, Mu Chenfeng suddenly said, "Dare to ask the master, is the dead woman a pilgrim who lives in the temple?" ”

Lang Yue said: "No, it was when I went to the bottom of the mountain before March, and I met a group of gangsters who robbed a team of people and horses on the way. The old man came to his aid and drove the gangster away. Only then did I find out that this was a merchant surnamed Tang who had lived in the capital for a long time, and the old man Tang was really a person from Jiangnan, a young man who came out to work hard and won thousands of family fortunes. I didn't want to encounter a robbery on the road, the old man, his wife and other children were all killed by the gangsters, and only this woman was still breathing. The old monk took him to the temple to recuperate, and wanted to send him back to Jiangnan after he recovered from his injury, but he didn't expect such a thing to happen. ”

After Lang Yue finished speaking, her face was full of sadness, and she recited again: "Amitabha! ”

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but sigh, and the disaster of this destruction really made people feel pity in their hearts.

King Heng said comfortingly: "The master doesn't have to blame himself too much, life and death are fateful, wealth is in the sky, and it is also the fate of the Tang girl who deserves this calamity." ”

Lang Yue did not answer, but his face was very heavy.

At this time, I heard a noisy sound outside the hospital, presumably someone from the government, Monk Langyue was in front, and everyone followed behind.

When he approached, Monk Langyue and everyone were about to salute, and a cold male voice sounded, "No need!"

Ling'er couldn't help but look at the person who came from the voice, and saw that this person was wearing a dark purple four-clawed python robe, which was very eye-catching, with a cold face and a gaze like electricity, which made people dare not look directly, but it looked a little similar to someone.

The man seemed to sense that someone was watching him, and his gaze swept away. Ling'er didn't expect the other party to look at it, so she hesitated for a moment and didn't have time to avoid it. The two made eye contact, and the man turned his head away in displeasure.

Ling'er snorted coldly in her heart, "Narcissistic guy." "I stopped paying attention to the man, and waited with everyone to inform the cause of death after the autopsy.

After a long while, he came out and saluted the purple-clothed man: "Lord Wang, this woman has a clear scar on her neck, bleeding eyelids, and cyanosis of her lips, she should die of suffocation after being artificially choked by the neck, the time of death is about an hour away from now, and she should have been violated before she died." ”

After listening to the narrative, Ling'er only felt that there was something wrong, and she was suspicious in her heart, so she said: "Can the prince allow the people to come forward and check it." ”

The purple-clothed man and everyone turned to look at Ling'er in surprise, Ling'er then woke up and was nosy again, but the words had already come out and couldn't take it back, so he had to nod slightly to the prince and said, "The people's daughter knows how to heal." ”

"The prince agreed, young lady, please!" A guard said.

Ling'er came to the dead Miss Tang, reached out to support her chin, broke the mouth with her other hand, watched for a while, and then put it down. He also carefully inspected his body skin and **, as well as scattered clothes. After checking about a stick of incense, he walked out, and said slowly but firmly: "Miss Tang did not die of strangulation and suffocation, she was suffocated to death, and she was not violated before she died." ”

Everyone was in an uproar, and Ning Yiheng looked at Ling'er with a playful look on the corner of his mouth, and said in his heart, "What a bold and careful woman!" ”

That guy was an open-minded person, and said sincerely: "I am willing to listen to one or two, and I hope that Miss will give advice."

Ling'er was also not modest: "Mr. Fangcai's observation is quite detailed, and some of the basic characteristics of death by suffocation are very detailed, but he ignores one point, if it is strangulation, then there should be a hyoid fracture." ”

After saying this, Ling'er looked at the people around him, all of whom were puzzled, so he had to continue: "The hyoid bone is hoof-shaped, composed of the hyoid body, the big horn and the small horn, and is the main supporter of the tongue body. Immediately below the thyroid cartilage, the greater horn of the hyoid bone has a stem, and the hyoid ligament connects with the styloid process of the temporal bone. So if it is choked by the neck, it will definitely lead to a fracture of the hyoid bone. ”

Everyone seemed to understand and looked at Ling'er, and then looked at Ling'er with great admiration: "Thank you for your advice." ”

Ling'er didn't wait for everyone to ask again, so she said: "As for being violated, although Miss Tang's clothes are messy but intact, there are no other injuries on her body. "I wanted to say that there was no trace of being violated, but when I saw a group of big men looking at me, I stopped. After a pause, he said, "What woman would be violated like this, unless it is voluntary, but Miss Tang's current situation shows that there is almost no possibility of voluntariness, one is that she has just lost her family and is in pain; Second, she has been recuperating behind closed doors and has no chance of contact with outsiders, so she can only deliberately create the illusion of violating and not killing people after being suffocated to death by someone covering her mouth and nose with a foreign object. ”

The explanation was reasonable, and everyone who listened was convinced.

Ning Yiheng was confused by Ling'er in front of him, "Could this be the second lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion?" ”

Mu Chenfeng's already admiring mind was even more attracted by Ling'er's ingenuity.

At this time, the servant knelt down on his knees and said: "The villain is not doing well, please ask King Rui to condemn him." ”

King Rui looked at the person in front of him coldly, and didn't say a word, the work was already sweating.

Ling'er complained again and again at this time, she forgot to turn over the yellow calendar when she went out today, and it was just a matter of meeting a king of Heng, and now she has recruited an ex-fiancé. But the work in front of him was also affected by himself, so he had to relieve the siege for others, and hurriedly said: "This gentleman has tried his best, and what I know is not understood by ordinary people, and I hope that the prince will forgive me." ”

Seeing this, King Rui really didn't think about these things at this time, the important thing in front of him was to find out the murderer, so that he could give an account to his father as soon as possible, and waved his hand at the man, who hurriedly got up and retreated.

Ling'er put her mind at ease at this time, and was about to retreat to the back of the people, not wanting to suddenly listen to King Narui: "I don't know if the girl has other high opinions about today's murder." ”

Ling'er was stunned, and when she turned around, she said in her heart, "That's it, if you come, you will be safe." ”

He said: "The people have only paid attention to the doors and windows of this house, and there is no damage to them, so it can be seen that the murderer has been allowed by Miss Tang to enter the inner room, so the murderer should be someone that Miss Tang knows." Since Miss Tang was rescued by the abbot, she has been placed in the backyard of this Xiangguo Temple to recuperate from her injuries and has not had the opportunity to contact outsiders. This can only be guessed that the murderer is a person in this Xiangguo Temple. ”

Monk Langyue couldn't help but say this: "What the donor said is wrong, the old man thinks that although there are many monks in Xiangguo Temple, there will never be the person the girl said. ”

Ling'er smiled slightly and said indifferently: "The abbot doesn't need to panic, I didn't say that the monks of the temple did it." ”

Lang Yue said: "What do you mean by ......?" ”

Ling'er continued: "Except for the monks of the temple, the abbot has arranged for others to take care of Miss Tang. ”

Lang Yue hesitated: "Because the temple is full of monks, Lao Gao sent someone to invite a mother-in-law to serve Miss Tang closely. Lang Yue turned around and ordered, "Please come over your Senior Brother Fang." ”

The little monk hurriedly answered "yes" and turned around to invite someone. After a while, a monk with a kind face and a calm demeanor followed him and saluted Monk Langyue and asked, "Why did the master call the apprentice?" ”

Monk Langyue said: "The teacher asked you to find a woman to take care of Miss Tang, and now Miss Tang is dead, where is that person?"

The monk surnamed Fang said: "The neighboring sister-in-law Ding invited by the apprentice took a few days off because of something at home, and she didn't come for two days. ”

Monk Langyue said, "Go and find that person for questioning." ”

The little monk was ordered to go out to find someone, and everyone except for the errand was led by Monk Langyue to the front yard for tea.

At this time, King Rui spoke: "The second brother also has free time to hang out in Xiangguo Temple today, presumably the injury has healed, the eldest brother has been busy with official business recently, and he has no time to see you go." ”

King Heng arched his hand and said: "The eldest brother is busy with official business, and he should take state affairs first, and the younger brother is fine. ”

Ling'er muttered in her heart, "These two brothers are also very polite!"

"I don't know which daughter this girl is, this king is fortunate to have the help of the girl, if there is a big progress in the case, he should come to the door to thank him another day," King Rui suddenly turned to Ling'er and said.

Ling'er almost choked to death after taking a sip of tea, coughing and panting, so frightened that Qingxi patted her on the back vigorously, and it took a while for her to get out of breath.

Looking at everyone's expressions, King Narui's face turned green, and I really don't know what was wrong with my words. The corners of Hengwang's lips curled slightly, and he lowered his head to taste the tea in his hand. Mu Chenfeng looked at King Rui coldly, and then at Ling'er, with an expression of waiting to see a good show. The rest of you are full of suspicion, but you don't dare to show it on your face, you all look at your nose and nose, and you ignore it.

Ling'er calmed down, she couldn't hide from the situation in front of her no matter what, and said, "The people's daughter is ......." Halfway through the conversation, the little monk who had just gone out to look for someone had already run back, panting and saying, "Sister-in-law Ding is gone." ”

Monk Langyue said urgently: "Where is her family, where can you say where she went?" ”

The little monk said: "Her family said that her mother's brother was sick the day before yesterday, and she went to visit her, but she didn't come back for two days. I then went to her mother's house to see it, but her brother said that my sister had left early this morning and had returned to her house, and that the two families were no more than three incense sticks away, so that there would be no one for most of the day. ”

Monk Langyue said: "Who else is in her family?" ”

The little monk replied, "Only her husband, called Li Dashan, has already brought him, and now he is waiting outside the door for questioning." ”

Rui Wang was already impatient, and said coldly: "Let him in." ”

Ling'er looked closely at the person who came in, five big and three thick, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a scoundrel's appearance, and two wine-colored rats, and couldn't help but feel disgusted.

The guard beside King Rui said sharply: "When you see the prince, don't kneel down yet." ”

At the foot of Li Dashan, he knelt down softly and begged for mercy: "The villain doesn't know what he has done, if my mother-in-law comes back, I will immediately send her over to the prince for personal interrogation." ”

Ling'er was suspicious in her heart, and her eyes unconsciously looked at Ning Yiheng, and only King Heng could still say a word at the moment.

Ning Yiheng saw Ling'er looking at him, and he understood in his heart, so he said, "Ding Dashan, stretch out your hands." ”

Although Li Dashan hesitated in his heart, he still obediently stretched out his hands.

Monk Langyue and Mu Chenfeng couldn't wait to look over, very disappointed, and did not have the six fingers that Ling'er said.

At this time, the little monk outside came to report again: "Master, Sister-in-law Ding is back." ”

Everyone looked out of the door, and saw a woman staggering in at the door. It turned out that as soon as the sister-in-law arrived at the house, a little monk waiting there brought someone over.

Ling'er took a closer look at the past, and saw that this woman was of medium stature, her facial features were still upright, and her face was generous, and she looked like an honest woman.

Seeing his wife come in, Li Dashan glared angrily and said, "Don't tell the prince where you went and what you did in the past half day, be careful that the master goes back and breaks your legs." ”

This sister-in-law looked at her husband Fang in fear and said: "I came back from my brother's house and saw some fish and shrimp in the river in the north, so I wanted to catch some back. She was sincere, and she didn't lie at all.

When everyone saw this, they all looked lost, and they waited for half a day to find nothing.

At this time, Ling'er had no intention of glancing, "Hey, what is that?" ”