Chapter 10: Dongmei (2)
Mengyun didn't like to be silent, she couldn't help but speak first: "Does my sister have any opinion on Chun Tao's death?" β
Dongmei was thinking about her thoughts, she didn't expect Mengyun to ask her this question, she was obviously stunned for a moment, and then slowly said: "I think the murderer is very likely to be Xia He, because she has a motive to kill." As for Xia He, she is usually very timid, but after drinking, her courage will become very big. I remember a few fights between her and Chun Tao, all after she had drunk. β
Mengyun then asked, "Sister thinks that when Xia He killed Chun Tao, she brought a knife with her?" β
Dongmei replied without thinking: "Of course she brought it, she hid the knife on her body, so Liuzhu didn't see it." She killed Chun Tao in the process of fighting with Chun Tao. β
Mengyun asked again, "But the officials didn't find a knife in Xia He's room?" β
Dongmei replied: "Xia He is not a fool, if she kills someone with a knife, will she put the knife in a conspicuous place in her room?" Maybe she hid the knife in a very secret place in the room, and the officials didn't find it. It is also possible that it is hidden somewhere else in the 'Wind Moon Tower'. β
Mengyun secretly pondered in her heart, "Aunt Feng said that Xia He is not a murderer, and Dongmei said that Xia He is a murderer, which of the two of them is true?" There is also Liuzhu, who thinks the murderer is Liu Dazhu. Thinking of Liu Dazhu, Mengyun then asked, "Does my sister think Liu Dazhu will be the murderer?" β
Dongmei thought for a while and said: "Liu Dazhu is a womanizer, I have seen him pestering Chun Tao, and he has also pestered me. Want to ask if Chun Tao was killed by him? I think it's very likely. β
Mengyun, "Oh? "Tell me about it." β
Dongmei licked her red lips and said, "Liuzhu said that she once forgot to lock the door, and Liu Dazhu sneaked into Chuntao's room at that time, he must have been hiding somewhere." After a while, Chun Tao returned to the room, and Liu Dazhu saw that after Chun Tao fell asleep, he came out of the hiding place and wanted to rape her. Unexpectedly, Chun Tao would resist violently and shout for help, Liu Dazhu was afraid that Chun Tao's shout would attract his sister in the next room, so he immediately covered Chun Tao's face with a quilt, but he didn't expect to accidentally cover Chun Tao to death. β
Mengyun smiled, and she said, "I really didn't expect my sister's reasoning ability to be so strong!" β
Dongmei also smiled and said, "What reasoning! It's all my imagination. β
Actually, what Dongmei said is also very reasonable.
But the premise is that the black shadow that Liuzhu saw was Liu Dazhu, and confirmed that Liu Dazhu had entered Chun Tao's room. It seems that Xia He and Liu Dazhu both have motives to kill. There is also Dongmei sitting next to her, and even Liuzhu, Ziyan, Aunt Feng, ......, except for herself, everyone in the 'Fengyue Tower' has the possibility of killing.
Abba once said, "Before a murder is solved, anyone can be the murderer." β
At this time, the carriage stopped.
The coachman shouted, "Two girls, Yizhuang has arrived." β
Mengyun and Dongmei got out of the carriage one after another, and Dongmei deliberately gave the coachman a small piece of broken silver, asking him to wait here, and he would take this carriage back later.
From the outside, it looks more like a big mansion, but it looks a little dilapidated on the outside. The courtyard was overgrown with weeds, and it seemed to have been abandoned for a long time.
The gate in the middle is half-open, and on both sides of the gate hang two papier-mΓ’chΓ© white lanterns with the word 'Yizhuang' written on them.
There was a hunched old man at the door basking in the sun.
Seeing two young and beautiful girls approaching, he was slightly surprised, and asked first, "I wonder what the two girls are doing here?" β
Mengyun smiled politely and replied, "Uncle, I want to ask if the government has sent a young female corpse, she was a sister in the 'Fengyue Tower' when she was alive. β
The old man nodded, and let out an old voice, "Yes." β
Mengyun was overjoyed, it seems that Chun Tao is here! She asked, "I want to go in and see her, is that okay?" β
The old man shook his head and said, "No." Here, only unclaimed bodies can be identified by families. And the one sent by the government can only be seen by people in the government, not by outsiders. β
Dongmei took out a small piece of silver, stuffed it into the old man's hand, smiled sweetly, and said softly: "We are her good sisters, you can make it convenient for you to be old, let us go to see her for the last time, say goodbye!" β
When the old man saw the silver, he smiled, and his mouth full of yellow teeth leaked.
I saw him stretch out his thin hand and point to the door, and said, "The wing room that turns right when you enter the door, the one near the door is." Remember, get out quickly, there's a lot of stuff in that room. β
Dongmei thanked the old man, took Mengyun's hand, and walked in......
Mengyun pushed open the door and stepped over the high threshold, and a faint smell came from the room, which was unique to the smell of dead bodies.
In front of him, against the wall, there is an offering table, with two extinguished incense candles on either side of the offering table, and a bronze incense burner in the center.
There were several corpses neatly placed in the room, all covered with white cloths.
At this moment, they were lying quietly on the door panel, with a wooden stool at each end of the door.
Mengyun silently read in his heart: "Excuse me! Everybody. β
She and Dongmei stood in front of the corpse near the door......
Mengyun glanced at Dongmei's face.
Dongmei's expression was very flat, as if she wasn't particularly scared, which made Mengyun slightly relieved. In fact, Dongmei's courage is not small at all.
Mengyun slowly reached out and lifted the white cloth covering the corpse, revealing Chun Tao's purple face under the white cloth......
A living person can leave this world in an instant for a variety of reasons. But for whatever reason, no one wants to die. Because there is only one life, and once it is gone, it means that the soul is gone forever. Then all that is left is the body, which is the only proof that she has been to this world.
Mengyun chanted softly: "Standing in front of you, I can no longer see your smiling face." You stand at the end of your life and feel the dangers of the world. Or maybe it's God's arrangement, maybe your fate with life is too shallow, let me look at you one last time and remember what you look like forever. β
Hearing Mengyun's chanting, Dongmei, who was standing next to her, snorted and laughed, and she said, "She can't hear what you say, just hurry up what you want to do!" β
Mengyun's little face flushed, and she felt a little nervous, because after all, this was the first time she had actually touched a corpse.
She carefully untied Chun Tao's clothes and carefully examined them from head to toe.
Chun Tao's nails are trimmed short and neatly, and there is nothing between the nails.
Under normal circumstances, if a person is covered to death, then she will inevitably resist fiercely before she dies, which is the instinct of survival. And Chun Tao was drunk before she was covered to death, and then she knocked her head unconscious, her consciousness of resistance will decrease, and her strength is much smaller than usual, so it is normal that she did not scratch the murderer.
Chun Tao has a total of four wounds all over her body. One is on the right side of the forehead, it is a bump wound, and Mengyun has no doubts about this wound. The other three wounds were in the chest and abdomen, and the stab wounds were very obvious.
She glanced up at Dongmei, Dongmei's face changed, and she avoided her gaze.
Mengyun didn't care, she bent down and carefully examined the three knife wounds.
On the surface, only the shape of the wound can be seen, but the length and depth of the wound are unknown. She was ruthless, opened the wound and looked at it carefully, and compared it with her fingers.
Seeing this scene, Dongmei felt a little disgusted, she turned her face away and stopped looking.
At this time, Mengyun didn't have time to pay attention to her, she thought that the size and depth of the three wounds were exactly the same, and they should be the same murder weapon. It's just the size of this wound that makes huge waves in her heart.
She instinctively touched the dagger she was wearing, thinking to herself, "This wound is almost the same size as my dagger?" How so? Could it be that someone stole my dagger, stabbed Chun Tao three times, and quietly sent it back to me? It's impossible. My dagger is worn with me, and even when I sleep, I keep it under my pillow and never lose it. Then there is only one other possibility, in the 'Fengyue Tower', the size of the murderer's dagger is almost the same as the size of my dagger, who could this person be? I remember that Sister Ah also had a dagger exactly like me, but where was she? Could it be that she is really in the 'Fengyue Tower'? Dongmei? β
Mengyun shook his head.
She carefully helped Chun Tao arrange her clothes and gently covered them with a white cloth.
I saw Dongmei, who was standing aside, looking at her with a strange look and said, "I really didn't expect it!" At your young age, you are so bold that you dare to perform an autopsy. β
Mengyun smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know how to perform an autopsy, I just take a casual look." β
Dongmei asked, "Then what do you see?" β
Mengyun shook his head and said, "I thought the murderer would leave clues on Chun Tao's corpse, but I checked it carefully just now, and there was nothing." β
Dongmei pursed her red little mouth and complained, "Then didn't we come for nothing?" β
Mengyun replied mischievously: "How can it be for nothing!" At least, I know that my sister is very bold and not afraid of corpses at all. β
Dongmei crooked the corners of her mouth, and said helplessly: "Don't be poor, let's go back quickly after the inspection." I don't want to stay here, it's weird. β
"Okay, we'll go back now."
Mengyun and Dongmei closed the door, said goodbye to the old man at the door, sat in the carriage when they came, and gradually drove away from Yizhuang......