Leng Yi didn't say anything, pulled her out of the lobby, came to the back of the stone house, and said, "Let's look for it, see if there is the high coffee table that we looked at when we came yesterday, pay attention, after you find it, don't touch anywhere,"

"Good!" The two began to search around the stone house.

It didn't take long for Cheng Luoyan to point to the grass excitedly and shouted: "Found it!" Over here! ”

Leng Yi hurriedly went over, carefully avoided the places that might leave traces, moved out the high coffee table, looked carefully at the surface of the coffee table, and a mysterious smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "I know who the murderer is!" ”

"Who?" Cheng Luo said happily.

Leng Yi blinked slyly: "Wait a minute, you'll know!" ”

Leng Yi took the coffee table to the stone room and ordered Song Qi to be brought.

Song Qi's face was a little pale when he saw Leng Yi interrogating him for the second time, and after he came in, he arched his hand and said, "Lord Leng, didn't I say it, I chatted with Lord Zhao Puzhao last night until almost dawn, and then I fell asleep." I'm not a murderer because I don't have the time to commit the crime! ”

Leng Yi looked at him: "You said earlier that you had been talking to Lord Zhao Puzhao last night, and it was almost dawn, so it was convenient to go together, and then fell asleep." And you sleep in the same room until dawn when everyone gets up, and you don't get up, right? ”

"yes."

"So you haven't been to the antechamber before?"

"No?"

"You haven't left Zhao Pu and Lord Zhao to act alone?"

Song Qi's head shook like a drum: "No!" I talked very speculatively with Lord Zhao, and we even went out together. ”

"Really?" Leng Yi smiled meaningfully, "Did you close the door when you slept?" ”

"It was closed, and by that time, it was already cooler. We're still a little scared of the legend of this haunted house, so, hehe......"

"What about the windows? Is it closed? ”

"It's closed, too."

"That means people can't get into your room?"

Song Qi didn't know what Leng Yi's purpose was, so he hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Yes, no one can go in." ”

"Alright, please take your boots off!"

Song Qi didn't know why. took off his shoes and handed them to Leng Yi.

Leng Yi took a closer look, the pattern on the soles of his shoes, and the smile on his face became even happier, and he walked to the high coffee table. Pointing to the scattered footprints on it, he said: "This coffee table has not been used for many years, it is full of dust, yesterday, we took it and put it under the window, climbed up to check the situation inside." I remember that at that time, only my wife Cheng Luochang and Lord Lu Duosun Lu climbed up. My wife's feet are smaller. Lord Lu's feet are more fat. But. The footprints on this coffee table ,—— the top two, but they are completely different from theirs. I compared the pattern above. It looks like yours. The pattern is exactly the same. How do you explain that? - Don't say that you stepped on it for some reason. Because you have already said before, you have been talking to Lord Zhao Puzhao and sleeping together. ”

Song Qi's face suddenly turned pale. looked at Leng Yi: "I ......, I don't know......." Maybe someone secretly took my shoes while we were asleep. ”

"But as you just said, because you are afraid of ghosts, you have closed the doors and windows before going to bed!"

"I ......, I misremember ......"

Leng Yi sneered: "Did you remember wrong? It's okay, I can check with Lord Zhao Puzhao. I'm sure he won't be mistaken! ”

Song Qi smiled and said, "Even if it is, but what does this mean?" Just a pair of shoe prints on the coffee table can prove that I killed Chen Congxin? ”

"Absolutely!" Leng Yi said coldly: "This coffee table was originally placed under the ventilation hole behind the stone house. However, this morning we found out that it was not there, it was thrown into the grass, why? It's simple, because after you carry the body to the stone house, you untie the deceased's belt, tie it around the deceased's neck, and tie a knot around the beams at the other two ends. At this time the body is on the ground, and you need to pull him up the beam and pretend that he committed suicide. So put your belt next, go through the belt on the beam, and send both ends to the outside of the vent. Then after you set up the mechanism to close the door, step on the coffee table behind the stone house, and pull the corpse up to the girder, because the girder hanging from the deceased is the closest to the vent, you can completely pull the belt out of the vent, tie a knot, and then slowly release your belt. Because you moved the knot forward and shortened it, so that he could hang in mid-air. - The traces of dust drag on the girders and the dust on the belt above the neck of the deceased are proof! Once you've set it up, you take your belt back. Afterwards, he was afraid that we would think of your tricks from this coffee table, so he threw the coffee table into the grass with some thief heart. - Hehe, I want to cover it up, but it's self-defeating! ”

Song Qi looked at Leng Yi and suddenly smiled, as if he was smiling happily: "Lord Leng, even if you are right, there is a key question, if you can't find the answer, you can't punish me!" - How did I get outside, and then fasten the door from the inside? ”

"If I hadn't thought of an answer to this critical question, I wouldn't have closed the net, and it was precisely because of this answer that I locked on the suspect was you!"

The smile on Song Qi's face immediately stiffened, and he calmed down: "Really? Then what did I use to tie the door from the inside? ”

"Dead man!" Leng Yi slowly spit out these two cold words, "After a person dies, there will be a corpse mortise in an hour or so!" Once there is a zombie, the corpse will maintain the posture it was in when the zombie appeared, and it cannot be changed even if it is strong. However, the heat can delay or even prevent the onset of mortis. Since the weather is too hot, the vestibule well is the coolest place. After you killed Chen Congxin, carry him there and put him on the bluestone slab where Lu Duosun had been lying yesterday. There is writing on the bluestone slab, and you put the deceased in a side position with your hands stretched forward. Therefore, the handwriting on the stele is reflected on the left side of the corpse! That's where the blurred lines on the left side of the corpse come from! I couldn't figure out what it was, but when I figured out your trick to close the door, I did. ”

Song Qi just looked at Leng Yi and didn't speak, and the sneer on the corner of his mouth had gradually turned into astonishment.

Leng Yi continued: "After you waited there for the corpse to appear, you carried the corpse to the stone house. Tie your neck with a belt and put the other end that goes around the beam out of the vent. Then stand the already stiff body behind the door. - The corpse has been turned into a position of two hands stretched forward by you, just supporting the latch. You get out of the crack in the door, and slowly close the door, and the corpse inside slowly leans forward, and when the door is closed, the corpse leans forward, and the latch is placed just above the latch frame on both sides. In this way, when the zombie is relieved, the corpse's arms will hang down. The latches naturally fell into the latch frames on both sides. Once the latch is down, you pull the corpse through the vent with a belt that goes around the beam, tighten the belt, and hang the corpse in the air, completing the layout. ”

Song Qi sneered: "Since you also know about corpse stiffness. Then you should know that the mortis usually resolves after two or three days, how can it be relieved overnight? ”

"This is due to the scorching heat, as I said earlier, the heat slows down the onset of mortis, or even does not occur. So, you take advantage of the coolness of the well to form a zombie. It was only short-lived. In this sweltering stone house, the zombie was quickly relieved. And because the temperature was too high, the smell of corpses even appeared quickly. ”

Speaking of this, Leng Yi stared at Song Qi: "Use the corpse phenomenon to create a secret room." Only those who understand the phenomenon of corpses and are not afraid of the dead can carry it out. - And you, you are such a person, you are the secretary of the criminal department. According to the information we have in the Criminal Court, after you enter the official career. He has been engaged in criminal prison work, and has also been the criminal officer in charge of case investigation in the local yamen for many years. You are fully equipped with this knowledge. So, you are most likely to commit such a crime. Thankfully, I found the footprints you left on the coffee table, confirming that you are the criminal! What else do you have to say? ”

Song Qi sneered: "Lord Leng, don't forget, I have been chatting with Lord Zhao Puzhao last night!" He can testify! ”

"You lie!" Leng Yi said, "Zhao Pu colluded with you and fabricated this story as perjury!" The contradiction between the shoe prints you left on the coffee table and the statement that you never left alone is the best proof of this! As for why you are lying, I think I already know the reason, and it is related to the grievances between Concubine Li De and Concubine Li Xian! Right? He also wanted Chen Congxin to die. ”

Song Qi sneered: "Since your trial court knows so many things, you should know that I am not a member of Zhao Pu's old ministers' faction, I am Lu Duoxun's person, how can I help Zhao Pu?" What's more, Chen Congxin is also a member of our faction, how can I kill my own people? Aren't you contradicting yourself? ”

"That's right!" Leng Yi said lightly, "You won't kill Chen Congxin, but when you killed, you didn't know that the person who was killed was him, because the person you want to kill is actually me!" ”

Song Qi's smile immediately froze, and a look of despair appeared in his eyes. looked at Leng Yi.

Cheng Luoyan next to her was also taken aback, but her husband was interrogating, and she couldn't talk much, so she could only stare at Song Qi with eyes full of anger.

Leng Yi continued: "Chen Congxin was drunk last night and had to sleep in the stone house, and I helped him back, because my wife didn't want to sleep in the place where people had died, so we gave the study to Chen Congxin and let him sleep in my bed, and we found another kitchen to sleep in." When you were about to sneak in and assassinate me, Chen Congxin was awakened by urine and came out in the corner of the house, and when you saw him coming out of the room where I was sleeping, you thought it was me and strangled him from behind. You strangled yourself only to find out that you had killed the wrong person. You are very smart and your decisions are wrong. You knew that Zhao Pu wanted to kill Chen Congxin, so you found Zhao Pu and told him that you could help him kill Chen Congxin, but if you wanted him to help you lie, saying that you were together, maybe you would have other costs. He agreed, and you set up this impossible murder in a closed room. - As for why you want to kill me, the reason is simple......"

As soon as he said this, Song Qi suddenly rushed towards Leng Yi like a sharp arrow off the string, and his left hand became a claw, grabbing his throat!

His movements were already very fast, but he was still a step slower, because since Cheng Luoyan already knew that he wanted to murder his husband, she had been staring at him, so she took the first step in front of Leng Yi, grabbed his wrist, flew up and hit him in the lower abdomen.

Song Qi was like an eagle whose wings were broken in the air, falling down heavily and falling in front of Cheng Luoyan.

Cheng Luoyan kicked him in the waist and eyes, and Song Qi screamed even more, his whole body was paralyzed, and he couldn't move.

Leng Yi squatted down and said, "Although I have already guessed why you want to kill me, I still want you to say it yourself,—— why did you kill me?" ”

Song Qi turned his head and ignored it.

Leng Yi smiled: "I know, people like you think they are very tough, but as soon as the torture comes up, sooner or later they will speak." If you want to kill me, I can't help but use special means against you! However, I'm not good at coercing confessions, so I decided to do this kind of thing with someone else. - Xuan'er, you go and call Yin Vulture! ”

Cheng Luoyan hesitated: "But he ......"

"Don't worry, you've hurt him like this, he can't hurt me."

"Good!" Cheng Luoyan was still not at ease, so she flew up and kicked Song Qi in the back of the head, Song Qi suddenly fainted, and Cheng Luoyan walked out quickly.

Yin Eagle has always followed Leng Yi as a guard, he is the head catcher of Kaifeng Mansion, and what he is best at is to extract confessions. After coming in, after listening to Leng Yi's brief explanation, he clenched his fists and arched his hand: "My lord, hand him over to me, at most half an hour, I can pry his mouth open!" ”

"Hmmm! Remember, don't let him make a little noise! Don't leave any external injuries either. Can you do it? ”

"Don't worry, sir, I won't let him stay at all, and I can let him speak!"

"Good!"

Leng Yi came out with Cheng Luoyan and went straight to the shade of the tree outside the lobby. Looking at Zhao Pu, who was pale, he said lightly: "Lord Zhao, I have something to ask you!" You come with me! ”

Zhao Pu nodded slowly, and followed Leng Yi to the shade of the well on the side of the lobby. Leng Yi looked at him and said, "I have already found out that the murderer who killed Chen Congxin is Song Qi!" ”

Zhao Pu's thin body was shocked, his eyes drooped, and he didn't dare to look at Leng Yi.

Leng Yi said: "He killed Chen Congxin, he got the wrong person, what he wanted to kill was actually me, as for the reason, I believe he will tell me in person later." Because what I have is the means! ”

Zhao Pu's old face turned pale, his beard trembled, and he didn't dare to look at Leng Yi.

Leng Yi smiled and said, "I know, you helped him lie and perjury, in fact, you didn't chat together at all last night, he killed people, where is the time to chat with you all night and sleep together?" Anyway, what's going on? ”