Chapter 205: Arraignment
Miss Yin's boudoir is very bookish, the bookcase is full, there are few subsets of classics and history, and there are many Tang legends and miscellaneous dramas and Mingren novels, such as Wang Shizhen's "Ming Feng Ji" and Wu Chengen's "Journey to the West", although they are not full of sweat, they are already spectacular.
There is a red incense tent on the mahogany bed here, and on the mandarin duck pillow is the "Legend of the West Chamber" that Chu Fangyu read.
On the desk, there are inkstones, rice paper, ink, and lake pens, and several books are stacked, and the carved lattice shelf next to it is a white jade statue of Guanyin that the dragon girl worshipped, and the glass plate at the bottom contains the chayote that Yan Shu has inscribed.
The Xuande furnace is installed on the low table, and although the beast incense in the furnace is cold, there is still a faint aftertaste entering the nose.
Everything is still there, the Si people have gone, Xu Xinyi and Miss Yin have only one side, and they can't help but feel related at this time, and they sigh for a while.
Qin Lin picked up the book from the table and flipped through it casually, it turned out to be a collection of essays, remembering the poems sung by Miss Yin and the talented and beautiful women in Nanjing, the four sons of Jinling, Miss Gao, Zhang Zixuan, Zhang Jingxiu, Zhang Maoxiu and others all have works on it.
After seeing the words of the Yanziji Poetry Club, Qin Lin knew that Miss Yin was also present at that time, and when he thought about it carefully, he had a little impression, but there were too many Yingying Yanyan at that time, and he was entangled by Xu Xinyi and Zhang Zixuan, two stunning beauties, so he didn't notice her.
The anthology records the poems made by the talented and beautiful women during the Yanziji Poetry Club, and there are annotations and comments next to it, and a beautiful hairpin flower must be written by Miss Yin herself.
Qin Lin recalled the situation when Miss Yin was present at that time, and flipped through the anthology casually, only to see that the poems made by Wang Shiqi were inscribed next to "mellow penmanship, old and spicy sentences", and then evaluated Gao Panlong and Gu Xiancheng's poems quite highly, and when it came to Liu Huanzhi, "the writing is wonderful, and the true character of the talented son", the three brothers and sisters of the Zhang family got different comments, with Zhang Zixuan being the highest, followed by the two brothers.
Xu Xinyi came over, and happened to see Qin Lin turn to the page of Zhang Zixuan's poem, she pursed her lips, a little disapproving.
Qin Lin turned the page back again, suddenly snapped the text together, and threw it away with a sneer: "What is it?" That's nonsense! Let's see if there are any other clues...... "Let's pretend to inspect the ground."
Xu Xinyi knew that this guy was making trouble, pretended not to care, secretly took the anthology in his hand, turned to the page and looked at it, threw the anthology away, beat his chest and laughed wildly: "Qin, Qin Lin, you are too great, wahahaha......"
The anthology that was thrown on the ground was still on that page, Wang Shizhen, Bai Hao, Lu Fatzi and others looked at it curiously, and immediately coughed loudly in unison.
It turned out that the page was the famous sentence of General Qin Lin Qin: "A pagoda comes out of the ground, small on the top and thick on the bottom." One day it was reversed, small at the bottom and thick at the top. ”
It's just a famous sentence, and there is also an inscription next to Miss Yin's evaluation, "The text is rough and ugly, and the unbearable place makes people spray rice", the handwriting is dripping and slightly cursive, which is very different from the neat and beautiful small block in front, and it is completely conceivable that Miss Yin was annoyed when she wrote the evaluation.
"Ahem," Qin Lin raised his head and said solemnly: "The so-called bird's ambition to know the great bird, the grand cause in the official's chest, how can a mere boudoir woman know?" ”
Wang Shizhen is thankful as long as Qin Lin can solve the case, and he is a stinky compliment, this literary leader is telling everyone with a stern face that the composition is thick and simple, and there must be something to say, Qin Lin's poems really have the spirit of being a solo fisherman, and it is not an ordinary talent to compare.
The joke is over, Qin Lin's case still has to be investigated, Jinyiwei's duty is to "inspect and arrest the evil and rebellious", if a single murder case can be pushed to the magistrate, this kind of serial murder case with a bad surname is related to the duty and must be involved.
Lu Fatzi and Han Feilian each have a division of labor, one inspects the window, the other inspects the door, and finally reports: there are no traces of external prying on the doors and windows, and there is a layer of dust on the outside of the window sill, and no footprints are found on it.
So, Miss Yin was taken away from the door? You can go down the stairs to the bottom floor, you have to pass through the outer room where two girls are asleep, how did the criminal manage to be silent and not alarm anyone?
Lu Fatzi mysteriously approached Qin Lin's side, his voice was fluttering, and his eyes were shining green: "Brother Qin, I feel that there is something wrong with those two girls!" ”
Qin Lin threw him a roll of his eyes, and said in his heart, "What about you playing Sadako?" Called Lao Tzu's back is cold.
Of course, I had to interrogate the two girls, one was called Hua Hong, and the other was Liu Lu, timidly wiping her tears, Qin Lin and the others withdrew from Miss Yin's boudoir and interrogated them outside.
"If you go back, go back to the master, the maid never makes friends with people outside, and the maid doesn't know anything!" Bonus wiped her tears and sobbed in reply.
"Woo, wronged, the housekeeper controls us very strictly, and the people outside don't even dare to say a word," Liu Lu was younger, and his body trembled.
Bai Hao whispered a few words in Wang Shizhen's ear, and a few stable women came up and dragged the two girls down.
Xu Xinyi was very grinning on his face, but he was extremely old-fashioned and warm-hearted inside, seeing that the two little girls were crying with pear blossoms and rain, and they didn't know how to torture them, so they immediately stepped forward: "Hey, do you want to bend into a move?" Wang Lao'er, Miss Ben is still a clean official and a capable member, but I didn't expect ......"
Wang Shizhen and Bai Hao were quite embarrassed, and they wanted to explain but it was not easy to say it to Xu Xinyi, the dignified and upright three products should be Tianfu Yin, the leader of the literary world, and they were pointed at and scolded by such a little girl, and they were really embarrassed to be thrown into their grandmother's house.
Fortunately, Qin Lin laughed, stopped Xu Xinyi, and whispered a few words in her ear.
Miss Xu's honey-colored face suddenly turned crimson, she lowered her head and looked at her toes, stopped talking, remembered something and peeked at Qin Lin, and quickly looked away, even the roots of her ears turned red.
Wang Shizhen arched his hand towards Qin Lin and thanked him for relieving the siege, this old man's eyes were poisonous, and he had already seen a little clue, and his smile was a little obscene.
Wen Po brought the two little girls up again, knelt down and reported: "Master Qiyu, the two female prisoners have been tested, and they are really virgins and have not been defiled by anyone. ”
Bai Hao is worthy of being the head catcher of Ying Tianfu, and his suggestion to check whether the two girls are virgins is very reasonable.
In this era, once a woman is defiled by a man, she will either die or die, and from then on marry a chicken and a dog and a dog, and the woman's parents are generally reluctant to report to the official for the sake of face, so they have to marry their daughter to this person.
Therefore, there are many criminal acts of using women's names to blackmail, and there have been cases of robbers cleverly hooking up with maids as internal responses, stealing the property of the master's family and even raping the lady.
If these two girls were coerced to cooperate with last night's criminal acts, most of them would no longer be virgins, and the facts of the case can be ascertained from this point of view.
However, there are no absolutes in the world, and this time Bai Hao failed to make a breakthrough.
What could be simpler, more direct, and more effective than a women's name festival? Since these two girls are still virgins, the possible surnames of the cooperation case between the inside and the outside are basically ruled out.
Qin Lin pondered and asked, "When did you find out that Miss was not in the room?" Who was the first witness to seeing the corpse in the pond? ”
Flower red, willow green, look at me, I look at you, replied that the two of them slept very deeply, originally at the beginning of the hour (7 o'clock) should urge the young lady to get up, fetch water to wash up or something, and then send the young lady's breakfast from the room at 8 o'clock.
But maybe it was last night on Chinese New Year's Eve to watch fireworks, eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and sleep late, this morning they didn't wake up, it was the servant who delivered breakfast in the room found the body when passing by the pond, and they woke up in horror to realize that the young lady was not in the room.
Qin Lin immediately gave an order: "Get that servant from the room!" ”
Wednesday Lang is a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he is in charge of delivering breakfast, and finds the body of the young lady in the pond downstairs.
Seeing the traces of muddy water on his body, people's interest suddenly rose, and Bai Hao, Lu Yuanzhi, Xu Xinyi and other stern eyes threw at him, which frightened this person's heart into a panic, and he was pulled by the threshold and almost fell.
Bai Hao's voice was cold and hard: "Where did the mud watermark on your body come from?" ”
"I got it when I salvaged Miss in the morning!" Wednesday Lang replied without thinking, and then suddenly realized why the eyes of the masters were so stern, and quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "Ask the old men to investigate, the little one usually only delivers food downstairs, and he can't even meet with the young lady, how can he commit such a big crime?" The little one has always been honest and responsible, and he never dares to deceive him! ”
The Ming Dynasty doesn't talk about the presumption of innocence, the suspect must find evidence of innocence for himself, otherwise the government can wait for the big punishment, and it is reasonable that San Lang is so scared this week.
Qin Lin interrogated and specifically asked where he was last night and the night before the Yuhuatai incident, and it turned out that Zhou Lang had a full alibi in the past two days.
Bai Hao, Lu Fatzi, and Xu Xinyi all had bitter faces, exchanged a few glances with each other, and Bai Hao said tentatively: "Isn't it a case done by a lone silver thief?" The flower butterfly was planted on Shuzhong Road last year, and it was Mrs. Tang's own hand that abolished his two legs; Silver Demon Tulip Tianxiang has always walked the Shaanxi and Gansu Road, and his great enemy, the Golden Dao Chu Overlord, lives in Luoyang, so he never dares to enter the Central Plains; Is it [***] why not return? He offended the White Lotus Sect Master and was hunted down by the Demon Sect, how could he dare to commit a crime in Jinling? ”
As the head catcher of Ying Tianfu and the head of the Eagle Claw Gate, Bai Hao knows the famous silver thieves on the rivers and lakes well, and finds that there are no clever people who have come to Jinling recently.
"No, it shouldn't be a high-ranking character, he just played a little trick," Qin Lin had been silently tapping his fingers on the table to comb through everyone's confessions, and suddenly laughed, "Everyone, have you noticed any doubts in the confessions of the two girls, Hua Hong and Liu Lu?" ”
(To be continued)