The maid continued, "When they could not knock on the door, they said forget it, and the girl should go to bed first, and they will come back tomorrow morning to convey the message, and they will go away." I then sat down against the pillar in the hallway, and I didn't sleep anymore, and I looked at the door blankly, always feeling a little unsteady. Because the girl who knocked on the door just now didn't open it, and she didn't speak, with her temper, she would definitely be angry. Thinking of this, I became more and more uneasy, and went up and looked through the crack in the door. But there's a black hole inside and there's nothing to be seen. So, I looked through the crack in the window, and looked through the window, and suddenly, I saw a white shadow hanging in the air in the room, and I was startled, and my heart was shocked. ”

At this point, the maid's words were filled with fear, as if the frightened scene had reappeared in front of me: "I could tell through the crack in the window, but I could not see it really, so I poked the window in the eye with my finger, and looked inside, and at this glance I was so frightened that I was frightened, and I saw the girl hanging in the air, and a white silk hanging from her neck, although I could not see clearly, but I judged from the shape of her body that she must be a girl." 'The girl hangs herself by hanging herself! I screamed and rushed to the door and banged on it. ”

"When the porter heard my shouting, he also ran out of the house, and asked what was the matter, and then he also went into the window hole and looked in, and he was frightened, so we both slammed the door with all our might, but could not open it. So he reached out and tore the window paper, reached in and opened the window, and then went in and opened the door. I went in to look, and it was really our girl hanging on the beam. I trembled with fright, and said to put the girl down first. So, I took the girl's leg and sent it up, and the porter took a stool and stepped on it to untie the white silk, but the beam was too high for her to reach, so she quickly found a pair of scissors and cut off the white silk. The girl was heavy. I couldn't hold it anymore, and I fell to the ground, and I felt that the girl's body was cold, and her body was already stiff. ”

"I was scared and sad, crying and shaking the girl's body on the ground, but there was no reaction at all. I put my ear to her chest again. There was no heartbeat at all, and I realized that the girl was dead. I was so scared that I asked the porter what to do. The porter said that she looked at me and asked me to hurry up and call the lord, so I ran to call someone, and the lord and they followed. I lit the lamp and checked, and found that the girls were all dead. ”

Hearing this, Lu Jinping turned his head and asked the rich man Ma, how many people entered the house at that time. The rich man said that there was only him and the ** in the front yard, as well as his two maids. Lu Jinping instructed Xiong Zhutou to extract the fingerprints and shoe prints of these people. Xiong Zhutou followed Lu Jinping to solve the case, and he already knew these basic procedures, and extracted them in turn.

Lu Jinping walked into the courtyard with a lantern, this courtyard is indeed not big, walked through the patio to the porch, looked around, there were no suspicious traces, and avoided the main entrance to the door. When I entered through the small door next to me, I saw a corpse lying on the ground. It was the poor girl who was drifting in the snow, her eyes slightly open, her tongue half-drawn, and a conspicuous groove on her neck.

Lu Jinping was not in a hurry to conduct an autopsy, he carried a lantern and carefully checked the doors and windows first. Except for the torn doors and windows that the maid said, the other windows were closed well. Got on the latch. The house was neatly furnished, and there were no signs of fighting. He held up the lantern and looked at the roof. There was no damage to the roof and no other signs were found on the beams.

Above the corpse, on the lowest beam, hung half of white silk. Carefully check the neatness of the fracture, which is consistent with what the maid said before to cut it with scissors. Look at the stool you are stepping on, there is a relatively clear footprint on it. Lu Jinping extracted this footprint.

Next, he examined the strangulation marks on the neck of the corpse, the shape was consistent with the normal hanging, and the figure 8 was not handed back, because the white silk was used, so the strangulation marks were not particularly obvious, but the subcutaneous bleeding near the strangulation marks was more obvious, which showed that it was hanged before death, not hanging the corpse after death.

Lu Jinping examined the body surface of the corpse, and the corpse's face was swollen. Examination of other parts of the body revealed no resistance injuries and no other external injuries.

Then, he instructed the servants outside to bring a ladder and put it on the beam, climbed the ladder and inspected the beam, and found that there was no trace of dragging, and if it was intentional homicide, there were often traces of drag to hang people up. No evidence of homicide was found from the traces.

After an on-site investigation and examination of the body's body, Lu Jinping did not find any signs of homicide, and although no autopsy was performed, he was able to conclude that the deceased had died by suicide.

Lu Jinping came out and told the result to the rich man Ma and others.

The rich man said, "Why should she die? Isn't it just that you didn't become the top three? Is it really that important? What did she do when she came out, and she still cares so much about her reputation? If you care about reputation, why do you need to do this business, it's really puzzling. ”

Lu Jinping said with a wry smile: "People are different from each other, what we can figure out, he may not be able to figure it out." Sometimes, it's just such a short moment, and he dies without thinking about it for a while, and many people who commit suicide, in fact, in the eyes of others, the reason is not enough for him to die, but he dies. It is because in the eyes of the deceased, the reason for letting him die is enough to deprive him of interest in living. Although this feeling is likely to be only a short period of time, and maybe she will not die after this time, there is no one to help her get through it, and she herself is on the road of no return. ”

The rich man nodded frequently and said, "The lord has analyzed it very well. "Since I know that the deceased died by suicide, it is slightly better than being murdered, but in the end, there was a murder and another death, I am afraid that others will think that he Chunhualou is too unlucky, and it is unpredictable to deal a blow to his business. The rich man of Ma has a sad face, most of his savings are invested in it, if the business has been hit so hard in a row, then what is there to talk about making money? I'm afraid that I will lose all my money!

Lu Jinping looked left and right, and didn't find the figure of the little girl's grandmother Mrs. Huang, so he asked the rich man: "Where is Grandma Huang?" ”

"She has been locked up, this kind of person is not good to clean up, she doesn't know what to do."

Lu Jinping sighed and said: "Forget it, let it go, she is also looking for trouble for us for her granddaughter, besides, her granddaughter has hanged herself, and someone has to clean up the aftermath." ”

The rich man hurriedly agreed, and immediately ordered the servants to release the old lady Huang and let her take care of her granddaughter's funeral.

Lu Jinping found that the Burning Lamp Heavenly Master was not there, so he asked the rich man again. The rich man said: "Sir, after you left, the Heavenly Master followed the Frost Peach girl to her house, and we found that the Drifting Snow Girl was hanged, and we didn't dare to alarm the Heavenly Master, presumably because we were drunk and had fallen asleep." ”

Lu Jinping just asked casually, and he didn't bother to pay attention to it, so he informed Xiong Zhutou that both the catcher and the people could withdraw. This is just a suicide, not an intentional homicide. Xiong Zhutou breathed a sigh of relief, Lu Jinping took Yunzi and Ye Qingqing back home, and sent Yunzi back to his mansion first, and then returned to his old mansion.

This night, Lu Jinping had a lot of strange dreams. For a while, I dreamed that the snow was hanging in the air and laughing at him, and for a while, I dreamed that the flames of the wind butterfly's whole body were burning, and then I dreamed that the half-old Zhu Yunniang was so burned that her chest and abdomen were gone, but she looked at him with affection, and he was so frightened that he woke up from the dream.

Turning his head to look, I don't know when, the night sky has moonlight, although it is very faint, but it is faintly sprinkled on the ground, reminding him of the embrace of his gaze, soft and cold. I remembered the feeling that made him feel like he was hairy in the bottom of his heart.

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The next two days were uneventful.

Chunhualou has several murders in a row, and there is still no clue. Lu Jinping didn't bother to think about it anymore, many cases are actually unsolvable, although he has modern detection methods, he often still has a feeling of powerlessness.

In the past two days, the Celestial Master of the Burning Lamp has come, several times a day, to visit the door. Lu Jinping said that he was unwell and didn't see him, he just hoped that he would retreat and go back to the capital as soon as possible, but he didn't expect this person to lose those gloves, so he recognized that he had to learn from Lu Jinping the ability not to be afraid of fire, so that he could pick up the title of this heavenly master, otherwise he would be unlucky if he went back, it was better to learn this trick while he was grinding and grinding hard. So although Lu Jinping made an excuse not to see him, he still did not know the difficulty and returned to the capital, and stayed in Chunhualou all the time.

Fortunately, he is a heavenly master, and Juxian Lou has rules, the emperor does not dare to offend these masters, they all come and go freely, and no one dares to say no words when he leaves, and no one comes to trouble him.

The next night, dark clouds and thunder and lightning were faint, and it was said that heavy rain was likely. But it only hit a few thunderbolts, but not even a single rain fell.

But the mines did some damage, and a cow in the city was killed by lightning, but there were no casualties.

The next morning, Lu Jinping had just arrived at the Yamen, and the porter guarding the mortuary ran in a panic to report something important.

Lu Jinping frowned, and the mortuary concierge came to report the matter, which was not a good sign, and immediately ordered him to come in. The old man in the porter was full of panic, and after coming in, he almost didn't kneel on the ground, and said tremblingly: "Sir, it's not good, the feet of the Spring Flower Building Wind Butterfly girl in the mortuary are gone!" ”

Butterfly Girl's body was set on fire, leaving only a mutilated head and a pair of feet. The embroidered shoes on the feet are still intact. In order to investigate the case, Lu Jinping ordered that the mutilated feet of the Wind Butterfly girl be put in a wooden box with lime to prevent the tide, and stored in the mortuary of the yamen in case of solving the case, which has not been solved for the time being. And Feng Die didn't invite anyone to ask for the bones to go back for burial, so these feet have been placed in the mortuary, but he didn't expect the porter of the mortuary to come and tell him that the feet were gone.

Lu Jinping immediately stood up: "What the hell is going on?" (To be continued.) )