Cui He's body had already shown severe corpse spots, and the time of death was probably around midnight. The corpse's face was scratched by a sharp blade, both horizontal and vertical, the skin and flesh were turned out, and the flesh was blurred, and it was impossible to distinguish the original appearance.

The old man Wang opened the neckline of the corpse, revealing a dark purple strangulation mark on the neck, and pointed to it and said; "The deceased was first strangled in the neck with a very fine silk thread, restrained and then stabbed in the back with a dagger. The murderer stabbed a total of eighteen knives before and after, and each one avoided the vital point. In addition, the deceased's face was cut with a sharp object, ten cuts were made on the left side of the face and thirteen cuts on the right cheek"

Meng Heyu endured her nausea and secretly glanced at Cui He's face, which was miserable.

"What a feud! The face is scratched. She asked, wryly.

"The murderer was cruel, and the deceased suffered greatly during his lifetime. The murderer strangled Mrs. Cui to death with a silk thread after stabbing the eighteenth knife. Old man Wang said as he took off his gloves and took out a yellow paper bag from the toolbox, "This is a silk thread found at the scene of the murder, which was wrapped around the neck of the deceased at that time." ”

Pei Ling took the paper bag first and opened it to see that there was a silk thread with blood stains lying inside. This silk thread is different from ordinary silk thread, it looks thicker, and the eye color is a little fairer than silk.

"Where did she die?" Meng Heyu asked curiously.

Old man Wang turned his head and took out two pieces of yellow sheet paper from the toolbox: "This is the detailed information of the case that Master Cheng brought from the yamen, maybe you can use it." ”

Meng Heyu took the yellow sheet paper, took it and flipped through the two pages, and was dizzy by the dense handwriting.

Pei Ling first looked down at her blue and white face for a while, and a trace of laughter overflowed from her mouth, and then reached out to take the yellow table paper.

I have to say that although Cheng Shaoqing has an uninhibited and debauched personality, he is very organized, and the whole two pages of yellow paper are full of dense details of the case, even if he is not at the scene, Pei Lingxian can get a glimpse of it.

Cui He is the concubine of Jiang Tianbai in Yizhou, and after the death of Jiang Tianbai's original wife, there has been no continuation. Half a year ago, Jiang Tianbai went to Suzhou on a business trip, and on the way back, he rescued Cui He from a group of mountain bandits.

Cui He followed Jiang Tianbai back to Yizhou, and soon became a woman in Jiang Tianbai's backyard.

Jiang Tianbai was very fond of him, and he released a rumor a month ago, preparing to straighten Cui He. Although this Mrs. Cui has a bizarre background, she has excellent embroidery skills, which just caters to Jiang Tianbai's official duties, and collects a lot of exquisite embroidery for her to please Shangfeng.

Previously, the weaving mansion also released a rumor, saying that Mrs. Cui and Boss Jin of Jinlin Xiufang had studied the long-lost Tibetan embroidery technique together, and were ready to sacrifice it when Emperor Gaozong was on his birthday. But Cui He died at this time.

Cui He has been living in the Splendid Pavilion, and he rarely goes out of the mansion in Pingsuri, and the only outsiders who entered the Jiang Mansion on the day of the accident were Jin Xiuyan, the owner of Jinlin Xiufang, and two groups of masons who repaired the attic, and in addition, there were only Pei Lingxian's master and servant and Meng Hefei.

Cui He's body was found in the embroidery room of the Splendid Pavilion, and the man fell on a loom in the corner, with a circle of silk thread wrapped around his neck, and his body was stabbed eighteen times, and his face was ruined.

The first person to find Cui He's body was Wang Er, a florist in the Splendid Pavilion. Wang Er drank wine at night, went to the toilet at night, and when he passed by the embroidery room, he found that the light inside was not on, and there was intermittent talking from inside.

At first, Wang Er didn't listen to it, thinking that it was the maid Cuihua who often cleaned up the embroidery room, but as soon as he walked near the embroidery room, he heard Cui He's voice suddenly coming from inside.

Cui He said: Don't kill me, Miss, don't kill me, Miss.

Wang Er sensed that something was wrong, and hurriedly ran to the window, and glanced inside through the small hole in the window screen, only to find Cui He dead in front of the loom.

The door of the embroidery room was locked from the outside, and the key was always in the hand of the maid Cuihua. Wang Er didn't dare to bang on the door, so he stumbled and ran to call the housekeeper.

When the housekeeper brought people over, he found that the door of the embroidery room had been opened, and Cui He died in front of the loom.

The housekeeper hurriedly told the master, and then led people to block the entire Jiang Mansion.

The servants interrogated the servants of the Splendid Pavilion one by one, and when they learned that when the time came, that is, after Wang Er found the body, Cuihua went to the embroidery room. The door may have been opened by Cuihua, and she was stimulated when she saw Cui He's corpse, and ran out of the Splendid Pavilion in a delirious state, and then met Cai Wei who led them into the mansion in the corridor of the Water Pavilion.

The rest of the content is the testimony of some subordinates in the house, the most interesting of which is the rumor about the recent haunting of the house.

Half a month ago, there was often a cry in the middle of the night in the embroidery room of the Splendid Pavilion, or the sound of the loom weaving itself. Cui He was so disturbed that he often couldn't sleep at night, and even had symptoms of nightmares a few days ago.

Seeing him look at it for a long time, Meng Heyu couldn't help but ask curiously, "What is written on this?" ”

Pei Ling pursed her lips and said nothing, and folded the yellow table paper into her sleeve pocket in three or two times.

Meng Heyu looked at him with a confused expression, then looked at Old Man Wang, turned her head and asked Ergou in a low voice: "Hey, what is written in the letter?" ”

Ergou touched the tip of his nose, looked up at Pei Lingxian, and saw that he didn't react, so he repeated the content of the letter to Meng Heyu.

After Meng Heyu heard this, the spirit spirit shuddered, jumped back two steps at once, and looked at the corpse on the stone platform from a distance: "So she was killed by a ghost?" ”

Pei Ling ignored her first, and said to Old Man Wang: "There are no traces of a fight in front of the corpse?" ”

Old man Wang hurriedly shook his head: "There is no trace of struggle and fighting. ”

Pei Ling nodded first, and then carefully examined Cui He's hands and feet, and then put the white bully covering the corpse.

Before leaving Yizhuang, the old king asked the second dog to go to the back room and take out a blue indigo package, which contained two sets of government uniforms left by Cheng Shaoqing.

Meng Heyu held the official uniform, and looked at Pei Lingxian who had changed his clothes, and always felt that there was a bit of an inexplicable relationship between these two people.

Pei Ling saw that she was still holding her clothes and looking at him stupidly, and couldn't help frowning, "Don't you change?" ”

Meng Heyu hurriedly put the official uniform into her arms and hugged it: "Change." ”

When he came out of Yizhuang, there was a drizzle in the air, Meng Heyu sat in the carriage with half-squinted eyes, and asked Pei Ling where to go first.

The sound of horses' hooves was particularly clear in the quiet forest, and Pei Ling leaned back against the carriage first, gently raising the horsewhip in his hand.

"Jiangfu."

"Catching ghosts?" Meng Heyu suddenly became interested, and lifted the curtain, "To be honest, what is your relationship with that Cheng Shaoqing?" I don't think he's your enemy, he's clearly here to help you. ”

Pei Lingxian suddenly turned his head, Meng Heyu didn't have time to dodge, the two of them looked at each other, and the air was suddenly filled with an inexplicable warm breath.

Is it his?

Or hers?

Pei Ling let out a faint "um" first, and reached out to push her head into the car.

Meng Heyu was a little stunned, and subconsciously reached out and touched his forehead, which was warm, as if there was still the temperature of his palm.

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Mu Shi had been looking up at the skylight for half an hour, and even the rats in the cell thought he was sitting down, and from time to time they came out from behind the straw stack in the corner, ran up to him and squeaked twice arrogantly, and then found that he seemed to be able to move, and quickly ran back behind the haystack.

"How long have you been watching this? It's almost a hopeful stone. Cheng Shaoqing rolled his eyes unbearably.

Mu Shi turned his head sharply and glared at him viciously: "Cheng Shaoqing, let me tell you, if the son has something that is long and short, I will definitely not let you go." ”

Cheng Shaoqing raised his hand and plucked his ears: "Don't eat radish first, don't worry about it, with your son-in-law's temperament, you won't suffer anything you eat, I'm worried about that little girl." He got up from the Taishi chair and walked to Mu Shi's side, "Hey, that girl is really Pei Lingxian's cousin?" It doesn't look like it! ”

It's okay if he doesn't mention it, but when he mentions it, Mu Shi's whole person is not good.

That female thief is not a good person at first glance, and Childe goes out with her alone, what if she is harmed? The more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt in his heart, and he couldn't wait to put on his wings and fly out from here.

Cheng Shaoqing suddenly smiled, raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, don't worry about this and worry about that, I can tell you, if your son-in-law can't find the real murderer within three days, I have no other way, when the time comes, Zheng Dabao really wants to use your son-in-law as a scapegoat, don't blame me for not helping." ”

"Isn't it your business to solve the case?" Mu Shi glared at him, Cheng Shaoqing grinned, looking like a hanger, "Which eye did you see that I was the material for solving the case?"

Mu Shi glanced at him, flicked his sleeves, and simply found a corner to sit on, ignoring him again.

Cheng Shaoqing smiled wryly and touched the tip of his nose: "Actually, you don't have to worry, I have already asked people to leave them with government uniforms, and at this time, ......" He looked up at the thin and cool moon outside the skylight, "I have probably gone to Jiangfu!" ”

At the same time, Jiang Fu.

Because of holding Cheng Shaoqing's waist card, Pei Ling and Meng Heyu successfully entered the Splendid Pavilion.

The embroidery room where the accident occurred was in the inner courtyard of the Splendid Pavilion, next to it was a flower room, and the link to the flower room was a small room.

Meng Heyu followed Pei Ling to the embroidery room first, opened the door, and a strong smell of blood came to her face, and she subconsciously shrank behind Pei Lingxian.

"Two officials, if there is anything else to ask, just ask." Next to him was the housekeeper of Jiang Mansion, in his forties, with pale sideburns and chubby cheeks.

Meng Heyu looked in from behind Pei Lingxian, the room was full of blood stains and messy footprints, and there was a loom by the west wall, and there were more blood stains under the loom than the place next to it, which had turned red.

"That's where she was killed, right?" She raised her hand and pointed at the loom, and made up for the appearance of Cui He sitting in front of the loom, and couldn't help but shudder.

The housekeeper nodded, and secretly looked at Pei Lingxian next to him, I don't know if it is his illusion, why do you always feel that this handsome servant is a little familiar?

Meng Heyu secretly bared her teeth, saw his expression in her eyes, and said in her heart, don't you think it's familiar, you were the one who sent us to prison not long ago.

Pei Ling didn't speak first, lifted the hem of her robe, and cautiously walked into the house.

Meng Heyu glanced at the room, swallowed and spat, and would not enter it if she died.

She stood at the door and looked in, and saw Pei Ling first going around the blood on the ground and turning around the room twice, and finally stopped in front of the Huanghuali hanger in front of the east wall.

The hanger was three feet long with an outstretched arm, and a wide-sleeved skirt hung from it.