Xia Fengyi said: "That's not right, concubine remember, Xianggong, when you return to the room after eating, it should be half an hour when we go to the toilet." ”

Meng Tianchu nodded, and asked Ji Wen with a smile: "Miss Ji Wen, when did you and your grandmother leave the fast room after eating last night?" ”

Ji Wen said: "Meng Gongzi, as soon as you left, grandma and I left right away." ”

"Then when we met you in the toilet, we heard a baby crying behind the temple and scared Feiyan so much that the oil lamp fell to the ground and went out, and you came over with the oil lamp to light it for us, and you were talking to your grandmother in the room before that, how long has it been since you left the fasting room?"

Ji Wen's face was a little pale, she thought about it, and said, "One is coming." ”

"That's not right, judging from the digestion of the food in the stomach of your grandmother's corpse, your grandmother died less than two quarters of an hour after dinner, that is, before half an hour, how could you still talk to her an hour later?"

"At that time, grandma was indeed alive! I'm talking to her! ”

"Really?" Meng Tianchu stared at Ji Wen coldly, and saw Ji Wen's hair straight.

Qin Yiyun hurriedly said: "Meng Gongzi, you don't have to doubt Ji Wen, I believe in her, he will never kill my lady, she has followed my mother since she was a child, and she has been with me for many years, and the master and servant have deep feelings." ”

Meng Tianchu said coldly: "Really? I was about to ask you, you said earlier that you were also in the room at that time, lying on the bed and napping, very strange, your lady should have died at that time, were you talking to the dead? ”

Qin Yiyun opened his mouth and stammered, not knowing how to answer for a while.

Scholar Zhang Zhenyu frowned and said: "Brother Meng, what you said is judged according to the degree of digestion of your stomach contents, and you judge the time of death according to the digestion of the food in your stomach, which is indeed very fresh, but we have never heard of it, and we don't know if it is true or false." ”

"That's easy to do, find someone to test it, why don't you Brother Zhang help?"

Zhang Zhenyu said in a deep voice: "The little brother is telling the truth, how can Brother Meng entertain the little brother?" ”

"Hehe, make a joke to liven up the atmosphere, it's easy to affect your thinking if you're too nervous." Meng Tianchu smiled and patted Zhang Zhenyu's shoulder, "Don't bother Brother Zhang, now there is a ready-made corpse examination of Xusong, we have dinner together, I remember that it was about the second watch at that time, Xusong and Mrs. Qin ate at the same time, but the time of death is different, and the digestion of stomach contents is also different, I determined that Xusong died at about five o'clock in the morning according to the comprehensive judgment of the temperature, zombie stiffness, and corpse spots of Xusong's corpse, now I will talk about the digestion of the food in Xusong's stomach, and then let's dissect his stomach, How about taking a look at what I said to see if it is consistent with what I said, and confirming whether what I just said is true? ”

Zhang Zhenyu, Qin Yiyun and the others glanced at each other and nodded.

Meng Tianchu said: "Xusong eats on the second watch, dies on the fifth watch, three hours apart (that is, six hours), he eats rice and vegetables, so it will be digested within two hours and all transferred to the intestines, therefore, his stomach must have been empty, not only that, because three hours have passed, so the upper part of the intestines must also be empty, and it has been emptied and transferred." - Now let's see if I'm right! ”

After that, Meng Tianchu picked up the scalpel and prepared to cut open the abdomen of Xuan Song. Suddenly, I saw everyone's frightened eyes, and suddenly understood that this dissection was really too shocking for ordinary people, put down the scalpel, thought about it, and said: "Otherwise, please ask Abbot Xuanyin to witness and stay here, and the rest of the people will go out." ”

As soon as the words fell, except for the abbot of Xuanyin, the rest of the people had already fled out of the door.

Xuanyin has been a monk for many years, and he has already seen through life and death, standing aside, silently announcing the Buddha's name, and watching Meng Tianchu dissect.

After autopsy, it turned out that the stomach and upper intestines of the corpse had indeed been emptied.

Abbot Xuanyin said: "Amitabha, it seems that what Meng Gongzi said is true. ”

After the body was stitched together, the rest of it was called in. Xuanyin said the results of the autopsy, and everyone believed it.

Xia Fengyi and Feiyan looked at Meng Tianchu strangely, wondering how this person could understand so many things they had never heard of.

Zhang Zhenyu smiled a little embarrassedly: "Meng Gongzi's inference seems to be correct and very convincing. However, Meng Gongzi, the younger brother still has a little question, there seems to be a problem in your inference that doesn't make sense. ”

"Oh? Please advise! ”

"Judging from what you just meant, you suspect that Ji Wen deliberately pretended to talk to Mrs. Qin in the room, so as to mislead you into thinking that Mrs. Qin is still alive, so the real murderer of Mrs. Qin is Ji Wen, if this is the case, everyone has seen it, Ji Wen is thin and small, judging from her physical condition, she wants to hang Mrs. Qin, I'm afraid she can't do it!"

"Zhang Gongzi is reasonable!" Meng Tianchu nodded, turned around, looked at Qin Yiyun meaningfully and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Qin, did you hear what Zhang Gongzi said just now?" ”

"Hear me, what's wrong?" Qin Yiyun's expression was a little displeased.

"Zhang Gongzi said that Ji Wen can't kill Mrs. Qin alone, so if Ji Wen is the murderer, then there must be a helper! This helper should be a man, a man who is enough to subdue Madam Qin! ”

Qin Yiyun was furious: "Hey! Meng Gongzi, you shouldn't be suspicious of me again, right? It's ...... It's ridiculous! ”

"Don't worry, Shopkeeper Qin, I just said a fact, so far, I haven't pointed out that any of you are the murderer, because, I haven't finished analyzing it." Meng Tianchu hugged his shoulders for a long time, tilted his head and thought about it, as if to sort out his thoughts, for a moment, and then said: "After I discovered the clue to this, I began to carefully recall the scene of passing by Mrs. Qin's room at that time. Speaking of this, Meng Tianchu turned his head and asked Xia Fengyi: "Lady, did you two notice at that time, how many projections were there on the window of Mrs. Qin's room?" ”

Xia Fengyi and Feiyan glanced at each other, and Xia Fengyi said, "It seems to be two!" ”

"yes, that's right, I think it's two!" Feiyan added, "At that time, I was a little scared, but when I saw that the lights were still on in Mrs. Qin's room, and I heard someone talking inside, I felt a little more at ease, so I paid special attention to it, and there were indeed two figures on the window at that time." ”

Meng Tianchu nodded: "That's right, because I also remember that the projection on the window at that time was indeed a projection of two people, but because the two people were far away from the window, they couldn't see it in a blur, and they couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman." ”