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Cheng Luojie took the jade pendant, looked at it carefully, and said: "This jade pendant is very good, high-grade, very valuable, how can it be in the hands of this poor girl?" - I see, it must be the murderer! When the murderer wanted to rape the maid, the maid resisted desperately and grabbed the jade pendant from the murderer! The texture of this jade pendant is so good, it can only be that of the rich and unkind landlord Zhu Peng! Sure enough, he killed the maid, this silver thief, I want to kill him! ”

Cheng Luojie stood up abruptly and was about to go out, but Leng Yi hurriedly grabbed her and said, "Don't worry, you can't decide the case just by this thing!" Further evidence is needed. ”

"What is there to find, this kind of silver thief, I killed him, he is innocent of death!"

"A thug who committed an attack on the spot can be killed on the spot, but when it comes to determining who is the murderer after a murder has occurred, it is necessary to be cautious and have sufficient evidence to prove the murderer before he can be arrested and brought to justice. Let's conclude that Zhu Peng is the murderer just from the jade pendant in the hands of the deceased, and it is not convincing enough. Because there are other reasons, the deceased may have this jade pendant in his hand, such as Zhu Peng gave it to her, or the murderer planted it, and so on. Besides, there is no name on this jade pendant, so it can't prove that it is Zhu Peng's. ”

Cheng Luojie nodded slowly and squatted down again.

Leng Yi continued to check the deceased's hands, and found some pale red marks in the deceased's fingernails, which were carefully picked out with thin branches, as if they were human skin.

Leng Yi observed the belt tied around the deceased's neck again, and found that there were no traces of forgery, which overlapped with the strangulation marks, and said to Cheng Luojie: "Is there a way to cut the belt?" ”

Cheng Luojie pulled out a flying knife, reached out and grabbed the belt around the deceased's neck, avoiding the knotted place, and cut the belt. took it off and handed it to Leng Yi.

It was the first time Leng Yi had clearly seen Cheng Luojie's flying knife at close range, and he was a little curious, so he didn't take the belt first, took the flying knife from Cheng Luojie's hand, and looked at it carefully. I saw that this flying knife was as thin as a cicada's wings, without a handle, and there was no red scarf behind it, like a willow leaf.

Leng Yi said: "This thing is so thin, no wonder you wear it closely, but you can't see it." ”

Cheng Luojie put away the flying knife.

Leng Yi checked the belt, which was finely made and had a high texture. At first glance, it was not an ordinary civilian, and after inspection, nothing suspicious was found.

Leng Yi carefully took out the handkerchief stuffed in the deceased's mouth, the handkerchief was stuffed deeply, it was estimated that it was going to the throat, and there were blood marks left by forcibly stuffing it into the mouth and wiping it.

Leng Yi unfolded the handkerchief little by little, suddenly sighed, pointed to the corner of the handkerchief, and said, "What is this?" ”

Cheng Luojie looked at it and saw that the word "Zhu Peng" was embroidered! couldn't help but be furious, and said: "Sure enough, it's this silver thief, I'll kill him!" With that, he stood up and rushed out.

"Stop! Come back! Leng Yi's voice was firm and full of majesty.

Cheng Luojie stood still, so angry that her shoulders kept rising and falling.

Leng Yi walked behind her and said in a low voice: "Don't be impulsive, now it's a case, not chasing assassins, you can't mess around!" ”

Cheng Luojie turned around, looked at him, and pointed to the corpse of the little maid in the firewood room: "She died so miserably, I will never let him go!" ”

"I know, I won't spare any murderer." Leng Yi said, "Now it's an investigation, it's my case in Yinling County, just let me handle it." I know your feelings, we are all very sad, I will find out the facts of the case and avenge the deceased. Feel relieved! With that, he reached out and grabbed her little waist.

Cheng Luojie snuggled in his arms and nodded slowly.

The two stood next to each other in the moonlight, and after a while, Cheng Luojie's mood was basically calm, and Leng Yi gently patted her back and said, "You go and bring Zhu Peng here, I will interrogate him, just in the firewood room." ”

Cheng Luojie agreed, walked into the house quickly, and soon, like an eagle catching a chicken, lifted Zhu Peng to the firewood room and threw it on the ground.

Zhu Peng was so frightened that his whole body trembled, and he knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Leng Yi said: "Where did you go last night?" ”

"I didn't go anywhere, I slept in the house all the time."

"Sleeping in the house all the time? Alone? ”

"It's not a person, they don't want to sleep in the same room with me, so they can only be alone."

"That means you slept in the house last night and no one was able to testify?"

"This, this also needs to be testified?"

"Of course you do!" Leng Yi threw the belt, handkerchief, jade pendant, and the pair of shoes in the haystack in front of him, "Who are these things?" ”

Zhu Peng picked it up and looked at it, and said in surprise: "It's all ......, it's all villains, I said why can't I find the trouser belt and shoes, -- when I got up just now, I couldn't find my trouser belt, and I couldn't find the shoes, so I had to find a trouser belt from Zhuang Laoshi's wardrobe and tie it, and found a pair of shoes to wear, and then I came out." By the way, how can I have this trouser belt or something, in the hands of the old man? ”

"If only you admit it's yours!" Leng Yi said, "These are found on the deceased's body, the jade pendant is held in the palm of the deceased's hand, the belt is strangled around the neck, and the handkerchief is gagged." How do you explain that? ”

Zhu Peng was so frightened that he sat on the ground. Then he hurriedly turned over, knelt down and kowtowed, and said, "Master! The villain is wronged! The villain really didn't kill her! Although the little one coveted her beauty very much, after the warning of Mrs. Self-esteem, the little one did not dare to do so. The little ones were really sleeping in the house, and it wasn't until they heard screams outside that they all came out to see, and I followed them out. ”

"Then let me ask you, how did your things get to the deceased?"

"This, the little one really doesn't know, maybe the murderer stole it from the small one and wanted to blame the little one."

"Blame you? Who will blame you? ”

"The little one doesn't know, maybe it's the old way, because the little one is angry, but he said that the little one has a copper smell, and glared at him a few times, or the village woman, the little one also ridiculed him, so he wants to take revenge, and the merchant, this kind of person looks down on people with money the most, and frames the small one."

"Have they ever been to your room?"

"No, only the maid came, I asked her to pour water for my feet, help me loosen my clothes, - this is what a maid should do, just do this, let her go, I didn't touch her, really."

"Then you don't close the door when you sleep?"

"It's closed."

"Then how did they get in and steal it?"

"This ......," Zhu Peng was a little desperate, because he couldn't say the problem, and suddenly, as if he had discovered the key to the problem, he said urgently: "By the way, the rear window!" They must have come in through the back window! While I'm asleep! ”

"The rear window? Your back window isn't closed? ”

"I didn't pay attention, I was hiding when I slept, and I don't know if it was turned off."

"Check it out!"

Cheng Luojie picked him up and dragged Leng Yi to the back of the room.

The snow in the yard of this house was swept away, but the snow behind the house was not swept away.

Behind the master bedroom was an open lot, covered with snow, and a step or two from the window, there was a puddle of splashing water, which was supposed to be left by the people who lived in the house poured water out of the back window.

Directly below the back window, there are two lines of footprints, all the way from the back window along the house to the corner of the house, sparing the past, leading to the direction of the side firewood house!

As soon as he saw this footprint, Zhu Peng's whole body trembled, and said, "This ......, what's going on?" I'm ......, I haven't come out! ”

"Haven't been out? So what's going on with this shoe print? ”

"I don't know, sir, I really haven't come out of the window, this must be someone else's footprints!"

Leng Yi took the lantern, knelt on the ground, carefully inspected the shoe prints on the snow from all angles, looked at them one by one, stood up again, and looked at the windowsill carefully, the window was not damaged, it was pulled, and it was closed tightly, it should be tied from the inside.

He turned around and said to Zhu Peng, "You said these footprints belong to someone else?" Well, let's compare. ”

Leng Yi took Zhu Peng's shoes, compared them with the shoe prints, which just matched, and said: "If you are still not convinced, take off the shoes on your feet and compare them!" ”

Cheng Luojie grabbed Zhu Peng's leg with one hand, lifted him upside down, took off one of his shoes, and handed it to Leng Yi.

Leng Yi put his shoes on the footprints, and it was really not bad at all!