At the time of the incident, the doors and windows were closed, and there was no trace of outsiders sneaking in. In this way, it was an accident. - The situation at that time is that Daji Meiren got up to urinate at night, and for some unknown reason, she urgently retreated, so her slippers fell off, and her back knocked down the screen, and when she fell to the ground, the back of her head hit the blue brick floor, causing a concussion. However, she was not unconscious at the time, and she struggled to turn over. However, she just rolled over and passed out. And after she turned over, she was lying face down in the pile of clothes, and her mouth and nose were covered. Unable to save himself in a coma, he was suffocated to death!

However, the posture of the corpse made him doubt this reasoning again, it stands to reason that when the head is hit violently enough to cause a coma, the person will lose consciousness in an instant, and it is impossible to turn over again, if the force of the impact is not strong enough, it is not enough to make her immediately unconscious, it should be more common to curl up and lay sideways, and it is really not reasonable to lie face down and straight like now.

Could it be that she fell into a coma after she fell, and someone helped her turn over, deliberately made her lie face down, and suffocated her to death?

If so, it's murder. However, for this inference to be true, evidence must be found to support this view! That is, it proves that an outsider has infiltrated the bedroom.

However, the windows in this bedroom were closed and tied from the inside, and the window paper was intact, and there was no sign of opening from the outside. And the door was also tied from the inside, and the latch was broken by the eldest princess of the Lu Kingdom, and it was opened. The broken latch is on the scene!

Doors and windows are impossible, could it be from heaven or earth?

Leng Yi looked up at the sky, the roof tiles were very neat, and there was no trace of uncovering, but Leng Yi was still not at ease, he ordered to bring a ladder, put it on the eaves, and climbed up to inspect it. I saw that the snow on the roof was good, and there was no trace of stepping on it, which means that no one had entered the room through the roof!

Then only the underground remains.

Leng Yi returned to the house and carefully checked the ground again. This meditation room is not big, and there are very few furnishings, and after inspection, there is no hole in the ground.

Could it be that the murderer used some kind of mechanism that could open the latch of a door or a latch of a window from the outside? Or, I can reinsert the latch or latch of the window using the mechanism!

Leng Yi began to inspect the windows one by one, but after all the inspections were completed, nothing was found, the window paper was all well pasted, and there was not even a hole the size of a needle's eye. It is not possible to open or close the latch with wire or wire.

He went to the door again and checked the latch again.

The latch was indeed broken, and there was no sign of any binding on the latch, and the door was a single door, with the latch on one side, and it was impossible to move the latch from the outside with a knife or the like from the outside. There was no mechanism to open or tie the latch.

Leng Yi was very depressed, holding his shoulders and looking down at the ground and thinking.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and his gaze fell on the threshold.

Most of the inside of the threshold is shiny ice! It's relatively thin, and some parts have been mottled and peeled off. He immediately turned his head to look at the side of the lower foot of the door, and sure enough, there was also some ice. He slowly closed the door, and found that the threshold and the peeling part of the door matched perfectly!

Leng Yi smiled, he understood, at that time, the murderer slammed open the door and entered the room, and Daji Beauty was frightened and fell. The back of her head slammed into the brick floor and she passed out, and the killer flipped Daki Beauty, head and face down, pressed her into the pile of clothes, and suffocated her to death. Then, when the killer left the room, he closed the door. And last night's snowstorm was very heavy, and the snowflakes rolled up into the porch, not only covering the corridor, but also falling into the cracks of the door. And the cold stained the door. Therefore, the next day, Dai Qin and Princess Lu couldn't open the door, so Princess Lu slammed the door, she only bumped it once, and the door opened, just because the door was frozen, not bolted!

Seeing it this way, I originally thought it was a secret room, but in fact, it was not a secret room at all at the time of the murder, but later the wind and snow made him a secret room.

If this reasoning is true, then Daji Mijin was murdered, not died by accident.

But can snow alone freeze the door? Leng Yi has not experienced it and does not know if this inference is valid, but since there is such a possibility, before conducting relevant tests, Leng Yi decided to investigate first in order to see if there are any clues, and then conduct the test.

At this time, Wang Jien sent someone to call the eunuchs and palace maids who followed Leng Yi to investigate the case last time, and when they saw Leng Yi, they hurriedly saluted: "Meet Master Leng!" ”

Leng Yi said: "It's good that you are here, Da Ji Niangniang is dead, the cause of death is unknown, the official family has issued an order for the official to investigate, you are on guard around the scene, and no one is allowed to enter the scene." In addition, no one is allowed to move around freely. If anyone moves, stop it immediately and report it to the officer! ”

"Yes!" Several palace maids and eunuchs bowed down and agreed.

Leng Yi called Dai Qin, the maid of Daji Beauty, to the next room and began to investigate and question.

Leng Yi asked Dai Qin, "Did you hear any unusual sounds last night?" Like the sound of a screen falling to the ground? ”

Dai Qin shook her head: "I didn't hear it." Last night's blizzard was so big that it whined, blowing the snow up and beating the windows, so I couldn't hear anything else. ”

Leng Yi smiled faintly and said, "You live next door, and you can hear the sound of the wind and snow hitting the window, but you can't hear the sound of your mother knocking down the screen and falling to the ground?" It's amazing! ”

Dai Qin's face turned pale suddenly, and she knelt down and kowtowed with a grunt: "Master, the slave and maid should die, the slave and maid did not serve the good maid, but the death of the maid really has nothing to do with the slave maid!" ”

Leng Yi looked at her and said, "The slaves and maids are all in the master's house, even if they sit on the ground, they have to guard the master, but you, sleep next door alone." There is a snowstorm outside, and the sound is so loud that you can't even hear the sound of the mother knocking down the screen, how can you serve like this? Are you going to be lazy or are you deliberately avoiding suspicion? ”

Dai Qin was so frightened that her face was colorless, her petite body curled up in a ball, looking very pitiful, and her head kowtowed like pounding garlic: "Master, the slave is wronged!" It was the mother who let the slave and maid sleep next door, not the slave and maid's own idea. Niangniang has always liked to sleep alone, don't want the slave to serve on the side, what the slave said is true, ask the master to see it! ”

"Hehe, now that Da Ji's beauties are all dead, with empty mouths and white teeth, aren't you left to say?"

Dai Qin's forehead was bloody: "Master, the slave doesn't dare to deceive the master, it's not that the slave and the maid are serving the mother alone, there are other maids in the palace who also serve the mother, the lord can inquire about them, if it is proved that the slave and the maid told a lie, the slave and the maid are willing to bear any punishment!" ”

"This official will naturally inquire. Arise and go down and wait. ”

"Yes, thank you, sir!" Dai Qin kowtowed a few more times, then got up and walked out quickly.

Leng Yi came out and asked the palace maid outside to pass on the eldest princess of the country Lu to question.

After a while, the palace maid accompanied the eldest princess of the Lu Kingdom.

She was tall, with a golden step diagonally inserted on her black temples, inlaid with finely carved jade flower ornaments, hanging pearl charms, and a delicate flower comb inlaid with jade agate on her right forehead, and her pink face was covered with tears. Under the long eyelashes, there are two clear springs, the red mouth is warm and delicate, and a white velvet fox neck supports her jade-like face even fairer. The tight jacket with a silver edge and a white oblique silk pattern strangled her waist. On his shoulders he was draped with a white coat and white peony satin embroidery, like a fluttering fairy dust.

Leng Yi hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Weichen meets the eldest princess of the Lu country!" ”

The eldest princess of the country of Lu nodded slightly: "Lord Leng is exempt!" ”

"Princess, please come and talk next door!"

"Hmm!"

The two of them came to the room next door where Dai Qin lived and sat down.

Leng Yi is a courtier, although he is investigating the case, he can only stand, and when he saw that there were tears in the eyes of the eldest princess of the Lu country, she obviously had just cried, so she asked: "The princess was sad for Da Ji's beauty just now?" ”

The eldest princess of the country of Lu nodded: "Da Ji beauty treats me very well, I was very naughty when I was a child, Da Ji beauty is always very accommodating to me, no matter how naughty I am, she never punishes me, and now she is innocent and tragic, so I am very sad." ”

"Princess, please mourn." Leng Yi said: "The official family ordered Wechen to investigate this matter, and Wechen wanted to learn from the princess about what happened." ”

"This morning, as soon as I got up, I heard shouting and banging on the door from the opposite wing, and I wondered, who was so loud and noisy in the early morning? I opened the door and saw that it was Daji's maid shouting, so I went over and inquired. She said that Da Ji Mei didn't call her all night, and she was very worried, so she knocked on the door, but the door was tied from the inside, and no one answered when she knocked on the door. I helped knock on the door and call Niangniang, but Niangniang still didn't answer, so I was anxious and said that nothing would happen, right? Knock on the door and see! With that, I slammed the door open, and the latch broke, and we saw Daji lying motionless in a pile of clothes on the ground, and the screen on which the clothes hung had fallen. The two of us went in to investigate, and found that Daki was dead. - She died a terrible death! ”

Speaking of this, the eldest princess of the country of Lu sobbed softly.

Leng Yi waited for her mood to calm down a little, and then asked, "Princess, after you went in, you haven't touched the things inside?" ”

"No, after we found out that Daji Beauty was out of breath, we retreated, and Dai Qin knelt on the ground and cried. We didn't touch anything. ”

"Were the windows closed at the time?"

"It's closed."

"Did you hear anything unusual last night?"

"No, the snow was so heavy last night, where else could I hear anything but the howling of the snow?"

"Well, Wei Chen was woken up by the screams before, and when he got up, the genius was just beginning to brighten, and he couldn't see the figure clearly a few steps away. Then when you hear Dai Qin banging on the door and then going to bang on the door, it shouldn't be dawn yet, right? ”

"Yes!"

Leng Yi looked the eldest princess of the country Lu up and down, smiled, and said, "Since the sky is not yet bright, why did the princess get up?" Moreover, he was dressed neatly, as if he had a premonition that something was going to happen, which was quite surprising. ”

The eldest princess of the country of Lu stood up with a snort: "What do you mean?" Do you suspect that I killed Daji Beauty? ”

"Weichen didn't dare, Weichen just felt strange, it stands to reason that this cold day is in the temple again, and there is wind and snow outside, there is really nothing worth letting the princess get up so early, why did the princess get up early before dawn and wait in the house? Princess, is this where to go? ”

"Princess Ben likes to wake up early, can't she?"

"Of course you can, but the princess is dressed up and dressed, it can't be that she didn't sleep all night last night, just waiting in the house for something, right?"

"What are you waiting for?"

"It's hard to say about this Weichen. However, it is indeed uncommon to light up the lamp and dress up before dawn in the morning. That's why Wei Chen dared to ask a few words. ”

The eldest princess of the country Lu pointed at Leng Yi's head: "I warn you, I like to get up when I get up and when I dress up, that's my business, it has nothing to do with you!" If you chase after the wind and catch the shadows, and insult my innocence with blood and mouth for no reason, I, I can't spare you! ”

Leng Yi gently brushed her fingers away and said, "Princess, Weichen was ordered to investigate the case, and I ask the princess for forgiveness if I offended." ”

"Humph! Have you finished asking? ”

"Not yet, - the eldest princess has a maid, right?"

"Of course, each master can bring one in, and this princess is a personal maid in early summer. Why, can't it? ”

"No, no, how not. May I ask the eldest princess, what was this early summer girl doing last night? ”

"Sleep, what a strange question!"

"Weichen is asking, does she sleep alone or with her mother?"

"Together, sleep in my room! - Only a slut like Da Ji sleeps alone and does some shady things! ”

Leng Yi sighed, glanced at the eldest princess of the Lu country, and said, "Can Weichen ask the early summer girl?" ”

"If you want to ask, you can ask, you are ordered to investigate the case, can I say no?"

"Okay, Weichen will ask the early summer girl, eldest princess, you can go back."

The eldest princess of Lu flicked the sleeves of her robe, glared at Leng Yi fiercely, and walked out of the room.

Leng Yi smiled self-deprecatingly, got up and walked out, and asked the palace maid to invite the maid of the eldest princess of the Lu country to come in early summer. ”

After the early summer came in, he knelt down and kowtowed.

Leng Yi let her up and asked, "Where were you last night?" ”

"When the slave and maid had served her and lay down, she slept on the bunk. I slept until dawn. ”

"Sleep till dawn? Didn't you hear something? ”

"Back to the eldest lord, the slave didn't hear anything, and didn't get up until dawn when she heard the noise."

"So, didn't you help you do your mother's makeup?"

"No, the mother often dresses up by herself, not called a slave."

"Oh, she's very kind."

"Our mother is very good and never abuses our slaves."

"Why does she dress up before dawn?"

"Niangniang is often like this, she doesn't sleep very well, sometimes she gets up before dawn, dresses up and goes out for a walk. The slave often woke up at dawn to find that she was not there, and when she went out, she was dressed neatly and admired the flowers in the garden. ”

"Hehe, it's a good habit to go to bed early and get up early. Alright, go down. ”

(To be continued)