Xie Shi was so frightened that he screamed, and collapsed on the ground, covering his face and not daring to look at it again.

Rushing out of the room from the clouds, he shouted, "Oh no! The lord was killed! Come on! ”

The porter, the cook, and the painter all ran over, and Xie Shi calmed down a little, and when he saw that they were about to come in, he quickly stopped them and said, "Go out and go out!" All out! People are already dead, waiting outside, waiting for the yamen to come and investigate the case! Don't mess this up! ”

When the porter saw this bloody scene, they were already frightened, and when they heard this, they just retreated, and then hurriedly went to the government to report the case.

Leng Yi and the others received the report and hurried to investigate.

Leng Yi took Cheng Luojie and them to Huang Qiang's house, Xie was sitting under the porch crying, and the maid Congyun was accompanying her, constantly persuading her, but she kept shedding tears. The porter, the cook, and the gardener crouched under the porch of the wing, looking dejected.

Leng Yi inquired in detail about the whole incident between Xie Shi and the maid Congyun, and the two of them talked in detail, from getting up, sending hairpins, dressing up, showing off to a few people in the yard, raining to going out to incense, until they came back, they all talked about it in detail.

Leng Yi listened to it, and appreciated Xie Shi's action of preventing others from entering the scene, and it was commendable to think of this while grieving.

Leng Yi asked the others to wait outside, and then entered the room alone and began to investigate the scene, the corpse had not yet appeared zombie and corpse spots, and the temperature had not dropped significantly, and the estimated time of death should be within an hour. This is consistent with the testimony of Xie Shi and the maid Congyun about their conversation with Huang Qiang an hour ago.

The deceased was killed on the spot by inserting a sharp object into the eye socket and deep into the skull.

Leng Yi found a hosta with a broken tip next to the pool of blood on the ground. He picked it up and examined it. Before this time, Cheng Luojie had already shown Leng Yi all the pictures of the stolen treasures in the palace, and Leng Yi had already recorded the style of the stolen palace treasures in his heart. At first glance, I couldn't help but be shocked,—— this hosta is very similar to the hosta in the stolen palace treasures.

Leng Yi walked out of the door of the murder room with the hosta and handed it to Cheng Luojie.

Cheng Luojie took a look, and couldn't help but be shocked, looked at Leng Yi, and nodded slowly. Then he showed the hosta to Cheng Luoyan and Yin Ying, and the two of them were immediately excited.

Cheng Luojie quietly called Xie in, took the hosta and asked, "Is this your family?" ”

Xie shook his head and sobbed, "No, it was given to me by my husband this morning." He said he bought it from a friend last night to resell. The price is cheap. Because I kept nagging that there was no good hairpin, he gave me this one. I was worried that I would lose the hairpin when I went out to make incense, so I asked Congyun to put it back in the jewelry box in the study. - Where did you find it? How did you break it? ”

Cheng Luojie then asked, "Do you know where your husband bought this hairpin?" ”

Xie Shi still shook his head and said, "I don't know." He didn't say. ”

"Does he have any other treasures besides this hairpin? I mean with this hosta. ”

"Yes, in the morning, he took out this hosta from a brocade box, and I saw that there were still a few gold, silver and jade objects in the brocade box, but I looked for it just now, and the box was gone! It may have been snatched by the murderer. ”

Leng Yi said: "Do you see what the jewelry inside the brocade box looks like?" ”

"I didn't see it clearly, because it was piled up together. This hosta is placed on top. He gave it to me, and I just looked at the hosta. ”

Cheng Luojie pulled Leng Yi aside and said in a low voice, "These things must be found!" ”

Leng Yi nodded and said, "We'd better make sure at the same time what is in this brocade box, whether it's what we're looking for, so as not to delay time." ”

"Well, how do you find out?"

"The woman said that her husband had bought the jewels from a friend, and that we needed to find out about this person immediately, and that he should know what was in the box! This person was with the deceased last night and was a friend of the deceased, so it should not be difficult to find out. ”

Yin Vulture hurriedly said: "Okay, my subordinates will arrange to visit this person!" With that, he hurried away.

Leng Yi returned to the scene of the murder to continue the investigation.

Upon autopsy, there were no wounds on the body other than the wound to the right eye socket, and there were no obvious blunt force injuries that were not open. It seems that the wound in the orbital area should be the fatal wound of the deceased.

Leng Yi asked the yamen who came with him to dissect the deceased's head, and found that the wound in the eye socket had pierced the brain, and found a section of the pointed end of the hosta at the back of the head, took it out, and docked it with the one found at the scene, and the fracture was exactly the same, completely consistent.

This proves that this hosta is the murder weapon that killed Huang Qiang!

However, why don't murderers kill people, why don't they use knives, but use this precious hosta? Leng Yi, Cheng Luojie, and Cheng Luochang thought for a long time, but they couldn't figure it out.

After completing the detailed investigation, Leng Yi said: "This case should be a murder carried out by a thief, that is, someone from the deceased's family. We need to investigate them. ”

"Oh? How can it be seen as an internal thief? ”

"There were no traces of destruction found in the doors and windows at the scene, especially there were no traces of turning at the scene, the murderer just stole the box of jewelry, and the goal was very clear, so it was likely to be an internal burglar!"

"Then let's investigate!" Cheng Luojie said with great interest: "Judging from what I learned just now, the deceased's wife and personal maid were not at home at that time, and they were offering incense at the Chenghuang Temple, and when they left, the deceased was still sleeping in the house. Moreover, since the murder weapon was this hosta, and before Xie left, he was dressing up in the study. When they left, they were worried that the hosta would be lost, so they asked the maid to take the hosta back to the study from the cloud and replace it with the original hairpin. After Xie Shi and the maid came out of the clouds, neither of them went back to the bedroom. It wasn't until they returned from the City God Temple that they found Huang Qiang killed on the bed in the bedroom. Therefore, neither of them was at the scene of the crime and can be ruled out. Now only the porter, the cook, and the gardener remain. The murderer must be one of them! ”

Leng Yi nodded: "The analysis makes some sense, so let's start with a few of them!" ”

The first to check was the old faucet of the gatehouse.

The porter nodded with some trepidation, and stood with his waist hunched over, looking at them.

Leng Yi said: "After your wives leave, before they come back, what are you doing?" ”

The porter hurriedly said, "I've been guarding the door in the gatehouse." ”

"Who can testify?"

"Testify? No one testified to me, because I was alone. ”

"What were you doing?"

"Tea in the concierge. There is nothing to do, it is raining heavily, and in such weather, you can't go out to gamble and eat and drink, so you can only keep it like this, what else can you do. ”

"What about the cook and the gardener? Do you know what they were doing? ”

The porter shook his head and said, "I don't know, I'm just drinking tea in the house alone." - By the way, I suspect that the cook was the one who killed the master. ”

"Why?" Leng Yi asked.

"Because this cook is very lazy, cooking and stir-frying, the rice is not clean, the vegetables are not clean, and I often have diarrhea after eating, so I pulled it several times. Our lord also had diarrhea, so he scolded him. He was still not convinced, once he was drunk and told us that he had been enduring it, and one day he couldn't bear it, so he had to kill the master! Therefore, it is estimated that the master scolded him again, and he killed the master in a fit of anger! ”

"Well, you have a point, we'll investigate what you're reporting."

Leng Yi and the others called the cook again and asked, "Just now, when your wife went out to offer incense in the City God Temple, what were you doing?" ”

The cook nodded and said, "I'm filling sausages in the kitchen." ”

"Who can testify?"

"The gardener is okay, he once came into the kitchen to look for food, and I blasted him out, and I said that it is not time to eat yet, why are you in a hurry. And he was gone. ”

"You've been stuffing sausages all the time?"

"Yes! I poured it in the morning. Before Madame went out, I had already poured a pot. Our lady likes to eat sausages, all of which are often stuffed. When they left, I took the second pot and was about to go to the kitchen, but my wife stopped me and asked me if the new hosta she was wearing looked good! ”

Leng Yi said: "Let me see your hands!" ”

The cook picked up his hands and handed them over, and the oil was shaking on them.

Leng Yi took out the murder weapon again, half a hosta, looked at it carefully, and said to the cook: "At present, you are not a murderer, step down!" ”

The cook was overjoyed and quickly thanked him and retreated.

Cheng Luojie whispered to Leng Yi: "How do you know that he is not a murderer?" Didn't the porter say that he had a grudge against the dead? ”

He has been managing sausages, and his hands are full of lard, but there is no oil stain on the hosta of the murder weapon, so it can be seen that it is not him. And, of course, check to see if he's really been running the sausages. ”

Then the gardener was called in for questioning.

Leng Yi asked, "Have you been working as a florist in the deceased's house all along?" ”

"No, it's these people who have come. Because the old man likes flowers, but he can't grow them well, so let me help. The gardener was nervous, and his voice trembled a little.

"Where were you between the time the lady went out to offer incense and the time she found out that the master had been killed?"

"I've been growing flowers in my backyard."

"Have you been in the backyard?"

"It's been all the time, but I went to the kitchen to find something to eat, but the cook wouldn't give it to me. I went back. ”

"Who can prove it?"

"Cook!"

"He's in the kitchen, how can you prove it?"

The gardener pointed to the back garden and said, "Lord, please see, when you go to the back garden, you can only pass through the road at the kitchen door, and the cook has been filling sausages at the kitchen door, if I go over, he will definitely be able to see it." I was in the back garden when Madame left, and I didn't come until Congyun shouted that the old man was dead. Please be careful. ”

After Leng Yi inspected, sure enough, the back garden had to pass through the kitchen, and he called the cook to confront him, and sure enough, he didn't see the gardener go by.

All of them were questioned, and all of them had alibi evidence.

Another headless case?

(To be continued)