"This ...... What is it? The butler's eyes widened and he asked.

"This is a light red soil, slightly clayy, sand-free, with a slight smell of yuba, as far as I know, in the entire Fengyang County, only green bamboo forests have such soil."

"But how could it appear in Cai's Mansion and on your young lady's shoes?"

Qi Ying's words made the housekeeper unable to answer for a while, and he also became a little stammering: "This, this, how do I know." ”

"This can only show that your young lady went to the green bamboo forest before she died, and judging from the soil under her feet, these soils are still very wet, and they have not exceeded three hours at all!"

Qi Ying said: "In other words, after your young lady went to the green bamboo forest, she died in the room when she came back!" ”

As he spoke, he also looked at the housekeeper coldly and asked, "Didn't you say that she never went out!" ”

"This, this, maybe I'm misremembering." The housekeeper was already a little panicked and began to play sloppy.

"Humph!" Qi Ying ignored him anymore, because he knew that from the housekeeper, he couldn't ask anything, and the Cai family was a big family, so he couldn't arrest him and torture him.

But the case had obviously made him suspicious, and after observing the body for a while, he looked up at the beams, and then flew up to the ground under his feet.

His skills were very agile, and he stretched out his right hand, gently lifted the hanging hemp rope and looked at it, and then touched the beam with his hand, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

After he landed, an officer and soldier also greeted him: "Brother Qi." ”

Qi Ying didn't explain anything, but directly moved over a stool, stepped on it, and pulled the hanging rope, putting his head into it.

Looking at his movements, not only the Cai Mansion housekeeper's eyes widened, but the other two officers and soldiers were even more startled, and one hurriedly shouted: "Brother Qi!" ”

Qi Ying waved his hand and interrupted him: "Later, remember to save me when I am dying." ”

As soon as the words fell, he directly kicked off the stool, his body sank under the force, the rope on the beam immediately tightened his neck, and the others began to subconsciously struggle in mid-air.

The ropes swayed, and dust fell.

Looking at this scene, everyone at the scene widened their eyes and looked incredible, until a while, seeing Qi Ying waving his right hand there with difficulty, the two officers and soldiers reacted, and then hurriedly stepped forward and put it down.

"Ahem! Ahem! As soon as he came, Qi Ying coughed violently, rubbed his neck and said, "You two really want me to hang myself!" ”

"Huh? Brother Qi, you ......" The two officers and soldiers didn't know what to say.

After rubbing his neck again, Qi Ying flew up to the beam again and observed carefully.

After a while, the corners of his mouth hooked slightly, pointed to the rope and said: "You see, this hemp rope is very rough, before, I carefully checked the place where the young lady hanged herself, and found that there was no trace of rope strangulation on the beams of the house. ”

"And I, just tried it myself, and after the rope strangled my neck, I began to struggle violently, pulling the hemp rope, leaving obvious marks on the beams."

"Whether a person really wants to die or not, just like a person who can't swim, in the case of drowning, he will also struggle in the water!"

"It's an instinctive human reaction!"

"Judging from the traces just now, it is enough to prove that the young lady did not struggle before she died, she was hung to the beam of the house after she was killed!"

At that time, the case could not be judged in the present, but Qi Ying was observant, and even regarded himself as a deceased person and experienced the feeling of hanging.

After he finished speaking, the two officers and soldiers also glanced at each other, and one of them said, "Brother Qi, you mean that the young lady was killed?" ”

"That's right."

"This, how is this possible!" The butler began to scream in a panic.

"Hmph, if it's true, I'll understand it soon, send someone to block here." After Qi Ying finished speaking, he also waved his hand directly: "Go!" Let's go to the green bamboo forest! ”

He said that he would leave, but when the housekeeper saw this, he panicked, and immediately said to a servant of the Cai Mansion: "Oops! It's going to be bad, quick! Go and inform the master! ”

Qingzhulin is in Fengyang County, but it is far away from Caifu, Qi Ying rushed for a long time before he came here with two officers and soldiers.

This is a bamboo forest, the environment is quite elegant, there is a village not far away, after Qi Ying arrived here, he first pinched a piece of soil on the ground and rubbed it in his hands, and then muttered to himself: "This is so far from Cai's mansion, why did she come here before she died......"

While he was thinking about the problem, a woodcutter happened to pass by here with two bundles of firewood, Qi Ying saw this, and hurriedly stretched out his hand and called, "That woodcutter." ”

"The official called me?" Hearing the shouting, the woodcutter came with firewood.

Although the Qin people are warlike and the people are fierce, it does not mean that they are not simple.

Seeing that he was old, Qi Ying hurriedly took out his water bag from his waist, handed it to the woodcutter and said, "The old man drinks saliva first." ”

"Thank you, thank you, what does the official have to ask?" The woodcutter said.

Qi Ying said: "I think the old man should be from this village, and he often passes by this green bamboo forest?" ”

"Yes, every day I go up the mountain to chop some firewood, I have to pass through this green bamboo forest." The woodcutter replied.

"Has the old man seen a young woman lately?" After Qi Ying finished speaking, she added: "She is not from this village, but she is very beautiful, especially yesterday, have you ever been here?" ”

"Yesterday?" The woodcutter thought for a moment and said, "I didn't pay much attention to it yesterday, but after being reminded by the official, I remembered something." ”

"Oh? What's the matter? Qi Ying suddenly came to his senses.

The woodcutter said: "In the past, there was a poor scholar who studied in this bamboo forest almost every day, and there was a girl, as the official said, young and beautiful, dancing beside her......

"Now, that's it." The woodcutter said, and pointed to the bamboo forest, then shook his head slightly and sighed: "The two of them look like talented women, but it's a pity, something happened later." ”

"Oh? What happened? Qi Ying had vaguely grasped something.

The woodcutter shook his head again and said, "I don't know the specifics, but I heard that the scholar died by accident, and the girl was also forcibly occupied by a bully in the city." ”

"Bully? But the surname Cai? Qi Ying asked.

"This old man doesn't know." The woodcutter shook his head again, and when he had finished speaking, he was ready to leave the place.

Seeing this, Qi Ying hurriedly arched his hand politely: "Ah, thank you old man." ”

"Huh? No thanks, no thanks. ”