After asking Mrs. Yang, I learned that at that time, Guo's and then hanged himself, everyone thought it was very logical, no one doubted it, and he did not report to the official. Because he died a very evil death, he immediately went into the coffin and asked the mage to perform the ritual, so he did not carefully examine the marks on his neck.

In addition, there is another very important reason, that is, not only the courtyard door of the small attic was locked at that time, but also the door of the room on the second floor of the small attic was also locked, and no traces of outsiders breaking into the room were found. The nurse and Yahuan didn't hear any fighting. So there is no suspicion that Guo was killed.

First of all, since it was confirmed that Guo was killed by someone, and it was in the jurisdiction of Ning Guofu, Song Tongzhi was here, and immediately decided to file a case to investigate and find out. However, how to investigate this case, Song Tongzhi still had a black eye, and asked Yang Qiuchi for help and asked him to help solve the case.

Yang Qiuchi was once again entrusted to solve the case. He extracted hair and blood type samples from Guo's corpse, and then asked Yu Zuo to reload the body into a coffin, nail it, put it in a watery grave, and bury it again.

Since he wants to solve the case, he must bring his forensic physical evidence investigation box, and he must also do a blood type test to determine whether Shan'er is the son of Old Lady Yang. This thing is Yang Qiuchi's treasure, so outsiders don't feel at ease with themselves, so they gave Feng Xiaoxue the key to the aluminum alloy cabinet, and asked her to take Xia Ping and other five brocade-clothed female guards to get it for herself, and sent five more male guards to accompany her to protect her.

Yang Qiuchi told Feng Xiaoxue that he only needed to bring the small box in the aluminum alloy cabinet, which was the forensic evidence investigation box with a password lock on it, so he didn't have to worry about Feng Xiaoxue making a fuss when he found out what was inside.

But Feng Xiaoxue was worried that Yang Qiuchi would encounter a ghost again at night, and was unwilling to leave Yang Qiuchi, so she couldn't comfort her for a long time, and finally Song Yun'er said that he accompanied Yang Qiuchi at night and protected him closely.

It took them about two days to come and go, and during this time, Yang Qiuchi had to conduct the necessary investigation and understanding to find enough clues to the crime.

Yang Qiuchi didn't expect to go back to his hometown for the New Year to worship his ancestors, and when he encountered this incident, it seems that if this case can't be solved as soon as possible, this year will not pass.

Since the small attic was locked and no one lived in after it was haunted, maybe there would be some traces left, Yang Qiuchi decided to go to the small attic to investigate the murder scene two years ago, hoping that he would have good luck and find something.

After inquiry, it was learned that the first person to find out that Guo was hanged was her personal maid Zhichun, followed by the wet nurse Lu. When the third aunt died, the doors and windows were locked, and there were only Yahuan Zhichun and the nurse Lu Shi in the house, so the two of them were of course suspects, Yang Qiuchi ordered the nurse Lu Shi to take care of it first, and then called Yahuan Zhichun, and came to the small attic with Song Tongzhi and Song Yuner to investigate the scene.

After Guo hanged himself in this small attic, except for the old lady Yang who stayed for one night because he missed Guo, but was scared half to death because he saw Guo standing by the bed and watching himself laugh, this small attic was completely closed, so it still roughly retains the scene at that time.

Yang Qiuchi first carefully inspected all the doors and windows, and found that it was exactly what Zhichun said, it was closed to death, and it couldn't be opened at all without a lot of effort.

I carefully inspected the door again, after all, it was a large family, the workmanship of the door was very good, the left and right doors could bite each other, and the closure was very tight, and it was impossible to open it with a knife. Moreover, this gate must not only be latched, but also used to hold up the top door bar when sleeping at night.

Yang Qiuchi asked Zhichun to talk about the hanging of the corpse first. According to what Zhichun said, Guo should have stepped on the low stool and hanged himself.

Yang Qiuchi judged that this low stool was about fifty centimeters, after the murderer strangled Guo to death, because the person will be very heavy after death, and it is soft, so it is more difficult to pick up the body and hang it in the rope sleeve of the beam, the best way is to put the rope sleeve around the neck of the corpse, and the other end goes around the beam, and then pulls the corpse up, if so, there should be traces of rope friction on the beam, pulling dozens of pounds of corpses, this trace must be more obvious, will not be erased by the two years of time.

Yang Qiuchi found two high stools stacked on top of each other, put them under the beam, stepped on them, observed the beam, and after wiping off the thick layer of dust on it, it was very strange, the beam was good, and there were no obvious friction marks on the neat edges and corners.

Strange, is there something wrong with your own judgment? Yang Qiuchi thought for a while and asked the maid Zhichun: "What kind of rope did your third aunt use to hang her?" ”

Zhichun said: "It is a white silk, and after going around the beam, the two ends are knotted and hung around the neck. ”

"How long is that white silk?"

Zhichun gestured, Yang Qiuchi couldn't understand it, and asked again: "In this way, you compare, this white silk goes around the beam and then knots at both ends, does it hang down to the ground?" ”

"No, only a small section grows after tying the knot," Zhichun looked up and down while standing under the beam, and compared it with his hand, "It can only hang down to the top of my head." ”

The little maid Zhichun was in front of Yang Qiuchi, she was half a head shorter than Yang Qiuchi, and inadvertently, Yang Qiuchi found that there were several scars on the back of Zhichun's neck, which were very light, and judging from the color, they were old scars. Yang Qiuchi sighed in his heart, this is a hard-working little girl, she must have been beaten a lot, thinking of this, her heart moved slightly, and she thought of something else.

Zhichun stood there and waited for a while, didn't hear Yang Qiuchi's question, felt slightly strange, looked back at Yang Qiuchi, and saw that he was staring at his neck in a daze, his face flushed, and he lowered his head.

Yang Qiuchi didn't find out his gaffe until Song Yun'er stabbed him: "Hey! What to see? ”

Yang Qiuchi came back to his senses at this time, smiled disguisedly, looked up and estimated the distance from the beam to the top of Zhichun's head, and came to a conclusion: with such a long white silk tied to the neck of the corpse lying on the ground, the other end could not reach the beam, let alone bypass the beam, so his initial speculation could not be established.

In this way, the murderer first tied up the white silk, and then carried the body up and hung it in a rope sleeve. Yang Qiuchi asked the maid Zhichun: "How high was her feet off the ground at that time?" ”

Zhichun gestured with his hands, felt that it was not easy to explain, and saw the low stool in the wing room at a glance, ran over and put the stool over, looked at it, and said, "It's almost as tall as this stool." ”

In this way, the murderer should have hugged the corpse and stepped on a low stool to hang the corpse.

After the coffin was opened for autopsy, Yang Qiuchi had a general impression of Guo's figure, Guo belonged to the kind of petite and delicate Jiangnan woman, weighing less than fifty kilograms, this low stool was relatively wide, a bit like the kind of low square stool that a person who played the piano sat on, and the murderer held Guo's body to hang it, and it was relatively easy to maintain balance.

Since the murderer probably stepped on this low stool and hung the body in a rope sleeve, would he leave shoe prints on the low stool? Yang Qiuchi carefully examined the low stool with the feet, although it was covered with a layer of dust and stained with some of his own blood, Yang Qiuchi still hoped to find something.

Yang Qiuchi tried to blow off the dust on it and find out the footprints left two years ago, but two years was indeed too long, the dust was stacked on top of each other, and a thick layer of condensation was condensed on the low stool. However, the dust was removed, and the footprints on it were finished.

After a general survey of the scene, the next step is to investigate and visit. Yang Qiuchi first asked the maid Zhichun to go downstairs and wait, and then discussed with Song Tongzhi how to solve the case.

Guo's was hanged in a room with a locked door, and there were only nurses and a newborn Shan'er in the room, and one other person was Yahuan Zhichun. Shan'er is only three years old, and it is impossible to be the murderer, so there are only two major suspects in this case, that is, the nurse Lu Shi and the little girl Huan Zhichun.

The first to find out that Guo's hanged was Xiaoyahuan Zhichun, and there were too many things that the thief shouted to catch the thief, so Yang Qiuchi and Song Tongzhi decided to interrogate Zhichun first. The interrogation took place in the small attic. Since it is the Ming Dynasty, and there is Song Tongzhi, simply open a court trial.

The temporary lobby is located in the living room of the haunted small attic, the tables and chairs are removed, and a long bookcase is placed in it, Song Tongzhi sits in the middle, and Yang Qiuchi takes a stool and sits on the side, which is considered a temporary criminal master. Song Yun'er had to listen to the trial on the sidelines, and Song Tongzhi and Yang Qiuchi couldn't do anything about him. Let her sit next to Yang Qiuchi and don't talk nonsense.

Song Tongzhi and Yang Qiuchi came to their hometown for the New Year this time, and only brought a few maids and servants, and did not bring a quick soap li, so Yang Qiuchi asked Nangong Xiong to bring three guards to act as a soap li, and each took a water and fire stick and stood on one side.

After calling the little maid Zhichun in, the little girl saw that Yang Qiuchi and Song Tongzhi were completely different from just now, as if they were a different person, she had never entered the yamen hall, although this was temporary, far worse than the majesty of the yamen hall, but after all, it was the first time she encountered this kind of thing, and her face turned white with fright. He knelt on the ground with a bang, not knowing what to say.

Yahuan Zhichun is only fourteen or fifteen years old, her body is thin and petite, under normal circumstances, her physical strength is unlikely to complete the heavy physical work of strangling a Chengren to death, however, Guo himself is relatively small and thin, not much stronger than Zhichun, and Guo was already asleep at that time, and the was confused. In that case, it won't take much effort to strangle it.

Seeing that Zhichun was very scared, this was not what Yang Qiuchi hoped for. When people are nervous or scared, they forget or miss something. Yang Qiuchi comforted her first, and asked Song Yun'er to pour her a glass of water, and she had some homely conversations, and gradually, Zhichun calmed down.

Although Song Tongzhi was sitting in the middle of the lobby, Yang Qiuchi was in charge of the specific interrogation, and Song Tongzhi did not interject indiscriminately, so as not to disrupt his train of thought.

Yang Qiuchi first asked Zhichun to carefully recall the process of discovering that the third aunt Tai Guo was hanged.

Zhichun said: "I remember very well that the day the third aunt hanged herself was March 20. That afternoon, the third aunt somehow became a nymphomaniac, and was later pulled back to the small attic. Excited all the time, stripping naked and walking around the little attic. My nurse Lu Shi and I forcibly pulled her back, closed the door, gave her water, and made trouble until the third watch in the middle of the night, and then lay on the bed and fell asleep slowly. The nurse wants to take care of the little master, and I am alone with Guo until she falls asleep. ”

Yang Qiuchi interjected and asked, "What about Old Lady Yang?" Why didn't he come to see Aunt Guo? ”

"The third aunt is a nymphomaniac, and the old lady is very angry and scolds her for being immoral, so she didn't come to see it. Later, after Aunt Guo died, the old lady cried and regretted it, saying that if the old lady came that night, the third aunt would not hang herself. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Qiuchi asked with some curiosity: "Do you know about the old lady's encounter with ghosts?" ”

"I know, the night after the third aunt died, the old lady said that she missed the third aunt and wanted to sleep in the third aunt's room for another night, hoping that the third aunt could give him a dream. slept late at night, and the old lady suddenly yelled, saying that he saw the third aunt standing by his bedside watching him laugh, which frightened the old lady. Since the little attic was haunted, we all moved out of the small loft from that day on. The little attic was locked. ”

Yang Qiuchi thought for a while and asked, "When the old lady said that he saw a ghost, did you see it?" ”

"No, my nurse and I heard the old lady yelling in the third aunt's room, so we got up and ran over, only to see the old lady Yang sitting on the ground, frightened and colorless, pointing to the front, saying that the third aunt was there. But my nurse and I didn't see anything. ”

Yang Qiuchi nodded thoughtfully: "You continued what you said just now, what happened to Aunt Guo after she fell asleep?" ”

"After the third aunt fell asleep, I went back to my room to sleep."

"Where's your bedroom?"

Zhichun pointed to the side room next to the living room: "It's there." The wing room on the left is where I live with my nurse and the little master, and the wing room on the right is the bedroom of the third aunt. ”

Yang Qiuchi understood now, he tore the window paper and saw the room where a woman looked at him and smiled, that is, the room where he went in later and saw a black cat jumping out of the cradle, which was Guo's bedroom. Could it be that the woman I saw was Guo? Or is it the ghost of the Guo family?

There are no ghosts in this world! Yang Qiuchi firmly believed, and motioned to Zhichun to let her continue.

Zhichun said: "After I went back to my room and slept, I slept very hard, and it was not until the next morning that I was awakened by the cry of the mountain, and I got up to see the mountain. ”

It's no wonder that the little girl is only fourteen or fifteen years old, and it is the time for her body to be sleepy, but Yang Qiuchi still asked casually: "Do you sleep so dead?" ”

"No," Zhichun blushed and shook his head, "I slept very lightly, because in the past, the third aunt often had to drink water at night, and she had to pee for the little young master or something, for fear that I would sleep too hard, I only took off my coat, and drank a lot of water before going to bed." ”

This little girl is also very hard, Yang Qiuchi sighed, then thought of one thing, and asked: "Then why did you sleep so hard that night?" ”

"I'm also very strange, I saw the little master crying a lot on the small bed, but the nurse still fell asleep, I shook her hard, and she woke up."

Yang Qiuchi and Song Tongzhi glanced at each other, thinking in their hearts that if what Zhichun said was true, then it was likely that Zhichun and the nurse were given calming and calming drugs such as sweat pills.

Yang Qiuchi motioned for Zhichun to continue.

Zhichun said: "I woke up the nurse to take care of the little master, and then I wanted to serve the third aunt to get up, and as soon as I arrived at the door, I saw the third aunt hanging on the beam of the living room. ”

Speaking of this, Zhichun's whole body trembled slightly, as if he was still trembling with the horror at that time.

Yang Qiuchi asked, "You have a good memory, what time was it at that time?" ”

"Around midnight, because I heard from Steward Pang later, they were having breakfast when they got the news. We usually have breakfast at midnight. ”

"Go on."

"I ran back to my room and told my nurse, who came out to see her and screamed in fright. Then I opened the door and shouted in the hallway, and they all came, and everyone ......"

"Wait!" Yang Qiuchi interrupted Zhichun's words, "When you opened the door, you noticed that the door was bolted?" ”

Zhichun nodded affirmatively: "It's bolted, the door was bolted by me the night before, and when I opened the door in the morning, the door was still bolted well." ”

"You're not going to be flustered, are you mistaken?"

"No, because the door must not only be latched, but also topped with a top bar. I remember very clearly, the top of the door bar is well topped, I was in a hurry after removing the top door bar, I was in a hurry to put it down, directly thrown on the floor, a clang, and scared myself. Because I was in too much of a hurry, the latch was too tight, and I couldn't pull the latch, but the nurse ran over to help me pull it out and opened the door. ”

Zhichun said so surely, what she said didn't seem to be fake, and she could check the nurse's statement later, and see if it could be confirmed.

Yang Qiuchi then asked, "Did the third aunt say anything suspicious to you that night?" ”

Zhichun lowered his head and thought about it, and shook his head: "No, after the third aunt was pulled back to the small attic by us, she didn't say anything, just smirked and wanted to take off her clothes." She didn't say anything until she fell asleep at night. ”

"How long have you been serving your third aunt?"

"When the third aunt married into the Yang family, Mrs. Yang asked me to serve her."

"Then have you ever seen the third aunt become a nymphomaniac before?"

Zhichun thought about it again before saying, "No, never." ”

"Tell me about the third aunt's nymphomaniac."

(To be continued)