Leng Yi touched his chin and walked slowly in the yard.

Cheng Luojie followed him and said in a low voice: "Brother Yi, what should I do about this case now?" ”

Leng Yi stood and looked around the patio, there was no shelter from the rain to connect the main house and the side room, the green bricks in the patio were wet, and the corridor was full of footprints. I couldn't help but move, walked quickly up the corridor of the main house, stood at the door of the house, and looked inside the room. There were some wet footprints on the ground. He crouched down, looked at it again, and couldn't help but smile.

As soon as Cheng Luojie saw Leng Yi's smile, she knew that he had found a clue to solve the case, and said happily: "Have you found out the murderer?" ”

Leng Yi said: "Not yet, but there are some eyebrows." ”

"What's the eyebrow?"

"When the deceased's wife and her maid went from the clouds to offer incense, it was already raining. At that time, the porter was at the gate, the cook was in the kitchen, and the gardener was in the back garden, and the three of them had to walk through the patio to get to the main house, which meant that they would definitely leave footprints in the room. However, when I looked closely, there were only two smaller footprints on the ground besides my footprints, which at first glance were of a woman. It shows that the three of them did not lie and did not come to the scene. And there is no sign of outsiders sneaking into the bedroom, and there are no unfamiliar footprints of it, except for Xie Shi and Congyun's master and servant! ”

Cheng Luojie said: "They were the first to find out that the deceased had been killed, they entered the room when they came back, and all the footprints were left, which doesn't mean anything." ”

Leng Yi said: "What about the other way around? ”

"What do you mean?"

"Just cut open the way they entered the room this time, and then cut my footprints, so there would be no footprints in the room, right?"

"That's right!"

This means that the deceased was killed before it rained! So the murderer entered the room to commit murder, and there were no footprints left in the room! ”

Cheng Luojie was stunned for a moment and said, "That's not right! The murderer stabbed the deceased to death with a hosta, and broke a portion of the hosta in the wound in the deceased's eye socket. However, before Xie and Congyun's master and servant left, Xie was still wearing hostas to show off everywhere, and before the two of them left, Congyun put the hosta back, and it was also in the jewelry box in the study. And did not enter the bedroom. The murderer wants to kill the victim with a hosta, and only after that can he take the hosta to kill someone. At this time, Xie Shi and Congyun's master and servant had already left the mansion to go to the Chenghuang Temple to incense, and they were not in the mansion at all. Therefore, the two of them could not be murderers at all! ”

Leng Yi smiled and stretched out a finger: "When the possibility becomes impossible, the impossible will become possible." - Let's go and see if it's really impossible! ”

Leng Yi ordered Xie Shi and Congyun to be called, looked at Congyun, and said, "Lead us to your residence!" ”

"Yes!" Congyun didn't know what Leng Yi and they were doing in her room, so he lowered his head and led them to the door of his room. He stopped and said, "This is it." ”

Leng Yi glanced at the copper lock on the door and said, "Has this room been locked?" ”

"Hmm." Congyun replied with his head down.

Leng Yi said: "Now, the county is going to start investigating the case from the stolen goods, the murderer who killed your lord stole the treasures of the lord, and the official suspects that the people in the house did it, so we have to search the rooms one by one, whose room is the stolen goods, who is the real murderer!" Let's start with you! Open the door! ”

Congyun's face suddenly changed greatly, and he smiled forcefully: "Master, the slave maid followed the lady to Shangxiang, and when she went out, the hosta that was used as a murder weapon was still good, so it couldn't be a slave maid......"

"The county will let you open the door, don't say more!"

"Yes!" Congyun quickly shut up, took out the key, opened the copper lock on the door, and pushed the door open. ”

Leng Yi said to Cheng Luojie: "Search!" Search carefully! ”

Cheng Luojie and others entered the room and began to search. The room was very simply furnished, and they quickly searched the side and did not find anything suspicious.

Leng Yi searched in person, he searched little by little, and finally, he found that there was a wooden board at the head of the bed that could be moved, and he used a thin blade to insert and pry it open, only to find that it was a hidden hidden compartment!

Cheng Luoyan next to her had sharp eyes, and immediately saw a small package in the dark grid, stretched out her hand and grabbed it, and shouted: "Found it!" ”

Congyun suddenly had no face, and his body was shaky.

Cheng Luoyan unwrapped the package and cheered again: "That's right!" It's the stolen ......"

"Sister!" Cheng Luojie quickly interrupted her words and shook her head vigorously. Cheng Luojie saw that it was part of the treasures stolen from the palace, and she was extremely surprised, and couldn't help but cry out, but fortunately Cheng Luojie stopped it quickly, so she stopped.

Congyun forcibly calmed down and said, "It's not mine, these things aren't mine!" Someone must have framed me! ”

"Planting?" Leng Yi said: "How can you go back to the East Tibet Province in such a hidden place as the hidden compartment at your bedside?" Why don't you put it in your bed or drawer, and he won't be afraid that we won't find it? ”

"But ......, but...... The murderer killed the master with a hosta, and when we left, the hosta was still good! How could it be that I killed the master? ”

This sentence is the key to the whole reasoning, and if this problem cannot be solved, the whole reasoning cannot be established. So, everyone's eyes looked at Leng Yi.

Leng Yi smiled, took out the half of the hosta, walked up to Xie, and carefully inserted it into her bun. The back half is exposed, and the emerald gemstone pendant on it sways gently.

Everyone understood, and let out an exclamation.

Cheng Luojie's eyes also lit up, and said, "What does the eldest master mean is that what was inserted in Xie's head at that time was actually half a hosta?" ”

"Hmm!" Leng Yi pulled out the hosta, which was in his hand, and looked at Congyun Dao: "You put ointment and hot towel on your lady's face, she can't open her eyes and can't move, and you, take the opportunity to go out to fetch water, take the hosta on the table, enter the bedroom, and stab the old man to death, because the old man was pierced through the brain and cerebellum at once, and died instantly, so he died without making any sound." Then, you steal the treasure and hide it in your room. When you kill someone, you deliberately break the hosta, take back half of the hosta, and deliberately put the mirror aside, so that your wife can't see that you insert half of the hosta into her bun, and after you insert the hosta, you show her the mirror again, and let her go out to show off to everyone, so as to leave an impression that the hosta is still complete. Before going out, you used the excuse that the City God Temple was crowded and you were afraid that you would get rid of the hosta, so you suggested that your wife leave the hosta at home. Of course, when you take off the hosta, you cover the broken part of the hosta with your hand. Put the hosta back in the jewelry box in the study. That way, you can rely on the seemingly perfect alibi. ”

Cheng Luojie interjected: "That's not right! Finally, the hosta was found on the floor of the bedroom. ”

This is also one of her tricks on the fake scene, in fact, it is very simple, this half of the hosta she did not put into the jewelry box in the study at all, but hid it on her body. When they came back from the City God Temple, entered the bedroom, and found that the eldest master had been killed, they took advantage of the lady's panic to quietly leave half of the hosta on the ground at the scene. ”

From the clouds slumped to the ground.

Xie roared, like an angry leopard, rushed over and grabbed Congyun's hair, pulled her up, slapped her in the face a few times, and roared: "You slut! Why do you want to kill the master! Is he bad for you? You say! ”

This sentence angered Congyun, and she slammed Xie away and hissed, "Is he good to me?" Very good! Three days after I came, he quietly spoiled me and coaxed me to take me as a concubine in the future. I believed him, slept with him behind your back, and asked him when he would take me as a concubine, and he always said wait, you have a bad temper, and you can't say it now. As a result, I waited for so many years. I knew I couldn't wait, so I begged him to let me go out and get married, but he said that he wanted me to pay a ransom of two hundred taels and I could go. I was so angry that I went mad, and I hated him, so I decided to kill him. This time he got the treasure, and it happened to be delivered to the door for me to run away. So I immediately came up with the idea, and as long as the government couldn't find out that it was me right away, I would run away with the treasure. I didn't expect that people are not as good as heaven, and they were still discovered by the government, this is my fate is not good, and I accept my fate. Kill him, and I die, and go to him in the underworld to be husband and wife. Hahahaha"

Speaking of the back, look up to the sky and smile.

Xie Shi was about to rush over to hit her, but was stopped by Cheng Luojie.

Over there, Yin Eagle carefully grimaced and said to Congyun: "Are all the things you stole here?" ”

"It's all here, I don't have time to go elsewhere, it's all here."

Yin Vulture asked Leng Yi to the side to speak.

The two walked to the side, and Yin Hu said in a low voice: "Master, among these stolen palace treasures, there are three most precious ones!" ”

"Which three?"

"Please forgive my subordinates for being rude, I can't say this."

Leng Yi nodded: "These three should be the most precious?" ”

"Yes. If you can't find these three things, it's useless to find all the others. However, none of the treasures we have found so far have been able to do so. I suspect that this girl is hiding, and I need to extract a confession, so please ask for your permission. ”

Leng Yi said: "I believe that she is real." ”

"I believe it's useless, you have to force a confession to find it, these three treasures are particularly precious, not only a matter of money, but also may involve ......, you understand, sir."

Leng Yi sighed and said, "It's good that I still don't know about the affairs of the palace, since this is the case, you can do what you want, you don't need to ask me for instructions." ”

Yin Vulture clenched his fists and arched his hands, and said, "My subordinates accuse." After that, let Cheng Luojie and the others expand the scope of searching, and he grabbed Congyun himself and dragged him to a room. Soon, there was a terrible scream from the clouds.

Cheng Luojie and others turned almost the entire mansion over, but they still found nothing.

And Yin Vulture kept coming out to find out according to Congyun's confession, but it was obvious that those were all tortured by Congyun and confessed indiscriminately.

Finally, after Congyun was tortured to extract a confession and was almost dying, Yin Ying confirmed that Congyun was not lying, and that she had not put Dongzang Province elsewhere.

(To be continued)