Leng Yi sighed and said, "It's dead!" ”

"Ghost ......!" Xiang Gong shuddered, "This haunted house really has ghosts!" Yesterday he was fine, and he was still talking about his affair with the laundry woman, why did he die today? There must be ghosts! Let's go! ”

Leng Yi squinted at him: "No one can go!" How exactly he died is unknown! Let's figure it out first! ”

"What else do you need to figure out?" Lu Duoxun's voice also trembled a little, "It must be that he told a ghost story last night, and as a result, he provoked all the evil ghosts in this haunted house!" Lead him here and hang him! ”

Song Qi also said with a pale face: "Yes, he obviously slept in the backyard, why did he come to this stone house to hang himself?" What else could it be but a ghost? ”

"There can be no ghosts! Don't talk nonsense like that! Leng Yi said sharply.

Cheng Luoyan naturally helped her husband, and said in a trembling voice: "If it's not a ghost, then he ......, is he hanged himself because he drank and missed the lotus girl who died because of him?" ”

"Definitely, yes!" Song Qi also quickly changed his tone, sighed, and said, "It can be seen that the death of the lotus girl hit him very hard. ”

Lu Duosun also nodded and sighed.

Everyone's eyes looked at Leng Yi. He is now in charge of picketing hundreds of officials, and now, an important official of the imperial court has died in a haunted house, and it is up to him to decide whether to file a case for investigation and punishment.

Leng Yi didn't look at them. He just squatted next to the corpse, carefully looked at the scar on the deceased's neck, stood up again, walked to the offering table and looked down, and said in a deep voice: "He didn't hang himself, but he killed!" ”

"He killed?" All of them were taken aback.

Leng Yi nodded: "Although the murderer is very cunning, he put a stool at the feet of the deceased. Pretending to be a deceased person ascending a height and hanging himself. However, he forgot a trace and revealed his secret! Leng Yi pointed to the scars on the deceased's neck: "You see, the trouser belt used by the deceased to hang himself, and the place where the knots are knotted." Behind the neck of the deceased, right? ”

So people nodded when they saw it.

"The hanged person, if the knot is tied in the position, is exactly the position of the lift,—— like this. The knots that are lifted up will hang in the air, so that they will not leave traces of pressure on the neck of the deceased. "Speaking of which. Leng Yi pulled the trouser belt around the deceased's neck and said, "However, the scar on the deceased's neck is a relatively obvious trace of oppression, what does this mean?" ”

Song Qi also said in a deep voice: "It means that the deceased was strangled to death!" Then hang it up and pretend to hang it! ”

Leng Yi nodded. praised: "Lord Song is worthy of being the secretary of the Criminal Department, and he is very interested in the phenomenon of death." ”

"It's just a matter of awarding."

Zhao Pu squatted down, looked at it carefully, and said, "Yes, but the door of this stone house is tied from the inside." The window is only the size of a bowl, and it is impossible for outsiders to enter or exit from it. How could this murderer be able to tie the door from the outside after killing someone? ”

Song Qi walked to the door, inspected the two stone doors, and said, "The joints of this stone door are interocculate, that is, you can't use a tool like a thin blade to close the door through the crack in the door." He carefully examined the barn of the latch and said, "There is no hanging tool such as a thin wire on it, and the latch behind the door can be controlled from the outside." ”

Leng Yi walked over to check it and nodded slowly.

Xiang Gong's pale face said, "So to speak." He didn't hang himself! He's ......, he's a ghost who killed him, and then pretended he hanged himself! - Only ghosts can disguise the scene, pass through walls, or vents! ”

Cheng Dexuan said: "He has been telling ghost stories last night. Could it be that this is because of this, the ghost is provoked? ”

Lu Duosun also said in horror: "Yes, I said don't tell ghost stories, you don't listen!" I'm going to live here, it's fun! ”

Shen Lun looked at him: "Yesterday I said that I wanted to live here, it seems to be you!" You made a bet with Xiang Gong and the two of you, dragging everyone to stay here, and talking about others! ”

Leng Yi said: "Okay, don't quarrel, it's everyone's idea to stay, don't complain to each other if something happens." ”

Several people stopped talking.

Leng Yi said to Cheng Luoyan: "Lord Song and Lord Shen will stay, and the others will go out, I will conduct an autopsy on the deceased!" ”

Cheng Luoyan hurriedly went out, and the others also went out.

Leng Yi examined the deceased's face, bruised and swollen, and there were pinpoint-like bleeding spots on the eyelids and oral mucosa. Consistent with the signs of strangulation. It was preliminarily determined that the deceased died of suffocation with the surname of the instrument.

He undressed the deceased and examined his upper body, and there were no external injuries to his torso. He checked the palm of the deceased again, and sighed, because the fingers of the deceased were obviously broken! There is a nail that has even fallen off! However, there was no resistance to any injuries in the arm! That's weird.

Leng Yi began to check the deceased's pants again. The strap on his pants was missing, apparently the one that had hanged him. They are used on the pants with disc buckles, so even if the belt is removed, the pants will not fall off.

He was about to unbutton his pants when he suddenly let out another sigh and looked at them neatly.

Song Qi and Shen Lun hurriedly said, "What's wrong?" ”

Leng Yi touched the upper part of the front of the deceased's pants with his hand again, and said, "It's wet here!" ”

Song Qi stretched out his hand and touched it, and said, "It should be that after the deceased strangled him, his urine overflowed and got wet." ”

Leng Yi shook his head: "No, the wet part is not in the crotch of the deceased, but in the upper part of the deceased's pants. ”

Shen Lun frowned and said, "However, if it wasn't left by the deceased's enuresis, how did it stay?" ”

Leng Yi thought for a while and said, "Perhaps, it was the murderer who suddenly attacked and strangled the other party while the deceased was peeing, because the deceased in this posture took off his pants, just enough to wet the pants!" Speaking of this, Leng Yi took possession and began to inspect the stone house. However, there was no urine in the stone house, it evaporated, and there was no trace of urine!

Leng Yi muttered: "That is to say, this is probably not the first scene!" Let's take a good look and find the place where the deceased peed, it could be the first scene of the killing, there. Maybe the murderer will inadvertently leave some clues! Yesterday, he slept in the study, most likely, near there! ”

Leng Yi proceeded with the autopsy. He stripped the deceased naked, and there were no external injuries on the deceased's body. However, on the left side of the corpse and on the left arm, some patterns left by the press can be faintly seen, but it is impossible to tell what they are.

Leng Yi pondered for a long time, but he couldn't tell the difference, so he did a good job.

Before looking for the first scene. Leng Yi carefully inspected the stone house. Especially the latch behind the door. The latch was indeed split alive, and there was no trace of splicing. There are also no tools behind the door that can be used to hook the latch from the outside.

Leng Yi instructed the guards to find a wooden ladder, put it on the beam, climbed up and checked the rope that was hanged, and found that the knot was on it, and. It was still empty for a long time before it was knotted. On the top of the beam, dust marks were also found on the hanging silk drag, and the belt hanging above the deceased's neck was also stained with pieces of dust, which indicates that the victim was dragged up the beam by hanging his neck after his death. Further illustrate that the deceased died of homicide!

Leng Yi stepped out, glanced at the ministers outside the room, and said, "Although I don't know how the murderer created a secret room after killing people. But. I am sure that the deceased died of homicide, the murderer faked the scene, and besides, the whole haunted mansion was guarded by my guards, and it is unlikely that outsiders had infiltrated it, therefore, the murderer was among us! The officials appointed me as the original judge of the trial court and put me in charge of picketing hundreds of officials. Now, Lord Chen has been murdered. The official decided to formally file a case for investigation and punishment. Before the murderer is found, all of them are suspected of committing crimes. Therefore, you can't move around at will, so stay in the lobby. My guards will oversee you! None of you can leave this hall for half a step without the approval of the Officer, otherwise. This official can only arrest him as a suspect! ”

Xiang Gong muttered, "What about you?" ”

Leng Yi smiled lightly: "I have my wife as a witness, and I didn't leave all night." Naturally, I can't be a murderer. At the same time, as the original verdict of the trial court, it is my duty to investigate the case, and it is the privilege granted to me by the official family! According to the authorization of the official, the official has the right to arrest those who resist the investigation of the official until they are killed! - Does anyone else have a different opinion? ”

Hearing Leng Yi's official tone and the emperor's holy decree, everyone stopped speaking for a while.

Leng Yi asked Wumei Daoist and Master Tu You to supervise them, and then took Cheng Luoyan to the outside of the backyard study.

The two of them began to look down for urine stains on the ground, because it was too hot this day, and the urine was probably dry, hoping to find the traces left by the urine.

Soon, Leng Yi saw a small pale yellow urine stain in the corner of the wall under the corridor! Just outside the study corner!

Leng Yi held his chin in his hand, looked at the urine stains on the ground, and muttered for a moment before starting to search. Unfortunately, there are no suspicious marks on the ground! There was also no trace of physical evidence or anything like that. However, a patch of weeds lodging under the porch clearly proves that someone here has been trampled on indiscriminately!

Leng Yi gestured and said: "The murderer should have seen the deceased urinating here, and then suddenly strangled his neck with a belt from behind, and then tightened the rope and strangled him to death!" ”

Cheng Luoyan said: "Since you killed him here, why did you put him in the stone house and hang him?" Wouldn't it be more convenient to hang directly here? ”

Leng Yi said: "Because the murderer wants to forge an absolute illusion that he hanged himself,—— once the stone house is tied from the inside, it is impossible to open it from the outside." Unless knocked away. In this way, there is only one possibility that the deceased himself will tie the door from the inside. This led to the conclusion of suicide. ”

However, how did the murderer put the body into the room and hang it on the beams, but he was able to tie the door to the inside from the outside? ”

Leng Yi muttered: "This is exactly what I don't understand. ”

Cheng Luoyan hesitated for a moment and said, "Could it be that you are mistaken, in fact, he ......, he really just committed suicide?" ”

"The living can lie, but the dead don't! - The knot around his neck makes it clear that he was strangled with a rope and that the killer tied a knot at the back of his neck. However, the hanging position is that the knot is lifted at the back of the head, and it is impossible to have a knot in this position. - Dead people don't run to hang themselves. Only it is possible that he killed! So, despite the cunning of the murderer, he still showed his feet. As for how he made the secret room, this is a problem that must be solved, otherwise, it would be impossible for him to kill! ”

"yes. So who will be the murderer? ”

Leng Yi shook his head: "There are no clues here, I can only investigate and see if there are any flaws." ”

The two returned to the lobby, and the faces of Lu Duosun and the others looked at him with all kinds of expressions.

Leng Yi asked the Wumei Daoist to send these ministers to the shade of the tree in the courtyard, and each of them sat on a stool. Then one by one, they were sent to the stone house, where he interrogated.

The first person to be interrogated was Shen Lun, the organizer of this banquet.

Shen Lun's expression was a little unnatural, and after sitting down, he looked at Leng Yi with a sneering expression and said, "Lord Leng won't doubt me, right?" ”

"As I said, everyone is suspected of committing a crime, and I am sure that the murderer is among us. So it has to be asked one by one. Thank you for your cooperation. ”

"Okay. If you have any questions, you can ask. I'm sorry about this, if I hadn't proposed to come to this haunted house, this wouldn't have happened. ”

"That's exactly the question I'm asking!" Leng Yi said lightly: "As the left-behind prime minister, you assisted Queen Hua Rui in taking care of state affairs, and this is because the official family sees you as a cautious person, so they have entrusted you with important tasks." But how do you come up with something as ridiculous as a haunted house adventure? This doesn't seem to match your stable surname. ”

Shen Lun blushed and said: "I was drunk yesterday, and everyone's interest was very high, mainly because of Lu Duoxun, she shouted that it was hot and wanted to find a cool place, I was also drunk, and I said this casually, but I didn't expect everyone to be very enthusiastic." It's just Lord Leng, you ......, hehe, it doesn't seem to be explicitly opposed. ”

"What I'm going to say is that you proposed to come to the haunted house, and the haunted house happened to be murdered! Is this just a coincidence? ”

Shen Lun's face changed slightly, and he looked at Leng Yi: "I understand, do you suspect that I set up a situation and deliberately lured you here, and then killed Chen Congxin?" ”

"Isn't it?"

"Joke, what am I going to do when I kill him!"

"The motive needs to be explained."

"I didn't kill him! I have no reason to kill him! ”

Leng Yi looked at him and smiled, and said meaningfully: "I heard that Chen Congxin is Lu Duoxun's person, and Lu Duoxun seems to be very close to Zhao Tingmei, the king of Qi." As the second minister, you should know very well that according to the Jinkui Covenant, Prince Qi is the future heir to the throne! After the official family went on the expedition, the forces in the court were divided into three factions, one faction was headed by you, and they were loyal to the official family, which I knew - at least on the surface, hehe. ”

"How can we behave, of course we are loyal to the official family, I think, all the ministers are loyal to the official family, there is no such thing as ganging up as you said!"