After a while, Huang Shiyun came out and said, "Wu Jieyu Niangniang is invited." ”

Xiao Jiading stepped in and saw that Wu Zetian had returned to sit on the soft couch, looking at him with inquiring eyes. Several eunuchs next to him stood with their heads bowed.

Xiao Jiading stepped forward, bowed down and said, "Niangniang, I still have some thoughts about this case, and I want to report it to you separately, I don't know if it's okay?" ”

An old eunuch shouted at the top of his voice: "Be bold ......! ”

Before he could continue to scold, Wu Zetian had already waved his hand to stop: "You all retreat!" ”

Several palace maids and eunuchs looked at each other, then bowed and bowed, agreed to retreat, and closed the door.

Wu Zetian was expressionless and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it." ”

Xiao Jiading sighed slightly, and said: "The autopsy results found that the four of them were in rags and seemed to have been torn apart, I was puzzled at the time, because the place where they died was an abandoned ice cave, they used bronze tripods and a lot of wood against the stone gate, and the people outside couldn't enter at all, and there were no traces of destruction found in the grottoes inside, which means that the injuries on their bodies and clothes were caused by tearing and beating each other?" I couldn't figure it out at the time, but now I do. ”

"What did you figure out?"

"I know that people will freeze to death soon when they are outdoors and have no cold protection conditions in the severe cold, and when people's body temperature drops severely, they will have consciousness disorders, but they will feel very hot and irritable, and they will take off or tear their clothes, which can explain why their clothes are torn and their skin is scratched without outsiders invading."

Wu Zetian snorted coldly: "You mean, they went crazy because of the cold, tore their clothes, and scratched themselves?" - Don't forget, it's summer! ”

"However, for people with special abilities. It's also very easy to turn a hot summer into a cold winter. ”

"What do you mean?"

"I once saved a child, named Leng Jian, he learned methamphetamine palm by chance, just now I saw him, he told me that the ice palm of his methamphetamine palm, has been able to control the degree of freezing, it seems that Niangniang had asked him to use this ability to extract a confession. Of course, he didn't know that he might be placed somewhere no outsiders could be seen, and he used his magic to turn a house into an ice cave and put people who needed to be forced to confess in the house. The kid said that Niangniang had also asked him to make a few igloos. ”

Wu Zetian said coldly: "You want to say that I let this kid Leng Jian make an igloo and kill the four of them?" ”

"Don't dare!" Xiao Jiading said lightly, "Niangniang said just now, if I have anything to say, I will say it directly." What I just said is what I think in my heart, if my mother thinks I'm a fool, then I won't say it.

"Yes. Don't play these tricks with me to retreat into advance, and then say, what are you thinking about? ”

A smile appeared at the corner of Xiao Jiading's mouth: "If you suspect Niangniang just for this point, it is simply too child's play." Fortunately, there is also a very important evidence that can prove that when they died, they were lying in the mother's bedroom. ”

"What do you mean?"

"I found some strange patterns on the back of the deceased. It was some mysterious arcs, and I couldn't figure out how these mysterious patterns got to the back of the deceased. Could it be that there are really ghosts and gods in this underworld? ”

"What kind of pattern, you name clearly."

Xiao Jiading smiled and lowered his head, as if he had just seen the bluestone puzzle on the ground. He screamed in surprise, squatted down, stroked the pattern of the sun and moon on the bluestone slab bricks with his hand, and said: "Oh, it's like this kind of arc, round, and there are also inward arcs, just like the crescent moon." I believe that if there were corpses on the floor of the mother's dormitory, it would have left the same mark. ”

Wu Zetian's pretty face changed color slightly, and he immediately recovered. He snorted and didn't speak.

Xiao Jiading continued: "I have heard that an hour after death, corpse spots will appear, which are formed by the blood in the body deposited in the lower part of the body after the heart stops beating and cannot flow. However, if the compressed part of the body has a yin and yang concave and convex pattern, due to the uneven compression of each part, this concave and convex pattern will be printed on the compressed part of the deceased, thus leaving the pattern characteristics of the surface of the compressed object. And this pattern, if the original can be found, can be compared. Thus leading to essentially the only conclusion. ”

Wu Zetian said: "I want to remind you, you just said that they are in the ice cave, and they blocked the stone door with a huge bronze tripod, and blocked the door with wood and the like, and there are no traces of outsiders invading the ice cave, what I want to ask you is, how do I freeze them to death?" ”

"Niangniang didn't listen carefully to what I said just now, they didn't die in the ice cave, this is very obvious, because although the ice cave is called the ice cave, it has been abandoned, and there is no ice in it, so although it is cold, it is far from freezing to death. The most important thing is that the floor of the ice cellar is just an ordinary large bluestone, and there is no arc-shaped pattern. So, it wasn't the first scene of the crime. Rather, it was the scene of the removal of the body. ”

"You're saying they died in my dormitory, and I moved them to an ice cave?"

"Don't dare, I didn't say that Niangniang did it, maybe it was Niangniang's subordinates who did it behind Niangniang's back."

"You don't dare to mess with me?"

"Hehe, according to my inference, the time of transferring the body should have been half a month ago. I asked the host of the temple that Niangniang and her subordinates went to Qingling Temple half a month ago, and they had not been there before or since. ”

A smile appeared at the corner of Wu Zetian's mouth: "Since you also know that I took someone to Qingling Temple half a month ago, then there is one thing you must explain clearly, if you can't explain it clearly, all your inferences are nonsense!" ”

"Please give me some advice."

"Time!" Wu Zetian said slowly, "I went to Qingling Temple half a month ago, but Chun Tao and the others disappeared a month ago, which can be attested to by everyone in my dormitory." If I killed them a month ago, and only moved the corpse to Qingling Temple half a month ago, then on such a hot day, in half a month, the corpse would have already rotted and smelled, I was afraid that people would smell it as soon as I went out, how could I cover up the past? ”

Xiao Jiading smiled and said, "There is actually no problem with this, because although they disappeared a month ago, they were actually killed half a month ago, and I believe that they have been tortured by severe cold and other torture in the past half a month." He died tragically half a month ago. Within two hours after her death, the people in Niangniang's palace took advantage of Niangniang's opportunity to go to Qingling Temple to offer incense, and quietly transferred the body to the ice cave of Qingling Temple. In this way, there will be no corpse stench. ”

"You're just speculating!"

"It's not just speculation, I have evidence."

"What evidence?"

"Green-headed flies!"

Wu Zetian frowned slightly: "What's wrong with the green-headed fly?" ”

"The green-headed fly is a nuisance, but it can sometimes help us get to the bottom of the case. One of the many regularities of the green-headed fly is that they only like fresh dead bodies that have just died, so soon after a person dies, a green-headed fly flies to lay eggs on it. The growth of green-headed flies has a certain regularity, these eggs will become maggots, feed on the soft tissues of the corpse, and pupate into adults in about ten days to half a month. At this time, the corpse is no longer fresh, so the grown flies will fly away, looking for a fresh corpse, rather than laying eggs on the already decomposed corpse. The large number of flies I found in the ice cellar were the green-headed flies that pupated into adults, and it was inferred that the time of death should be about half a month. This is just in line with the time when you take people to Qingling Temple to incense. ”

Wu Zetian was very surprised: "How do you know this?" ”

"When I was a child, I listened to our old man, but if I don't believe it, we can do an animal experiment on the growth of flies."

"No need." Wu Zetian said, "I believe what you say. You won't make up something to fool me. However, although you have a reasonable explanation for the time problem, there is another key issue that you must also explain, otherwise, it is still useless. ”

"What's the problem? Is it a problem with the stone gate closing? ”

"That's right!" Wu Zetian heard Xiao Jiading's words, obviously had thought about it, and couldn't help but be a little nervous, "Since there are no other traces of destruction in the ice cave, that is to say, there is no other passage, so let me ask, such a heavy bronze tripod, plus so much wood, blocking the stone gate from the inside, how can I or my people send the corpse in, block the stone gate and then come out?" ”

"This question has bothered me before, but when I was sheltering from the rain in the gazebo just now, I saw a large puddle of water quickly accumulating on the ground, and I figured out what was going on. Pushing the huge bronze tripod and so much wood behind the door, it was the water! -- The young nun of the temple once told me that when the construction of this ice cave was almost completed, she found that there was a very serious problem that it was prone to water accumulation, and rainwater seeped into the ice cellar, and if the rain was heavy, the ice cellar would be flooded, so the ice cellar was abandoned. And this year there was a lot of rain, especially some time ago, when the torrential rain was flooded and the streets were flooded. I believe that there was also a flood in the ice cellar, and under the floating action of the water, the large bronze tripod and the timber flowed down the water and rushed to the stone gate to stop, and after the water receded, they stayed exactly where the stone gate was. This is also evidenced by the fact that the corpse was also located behind the wood. Because corpses will drift too. ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Jiading said with a smile: "I know, it's just a coincidence, in fact, Niangniang didn't think of this way to close the door, and Niangniang may not want to close the door at all, but it just happened that there was a lot of rain this year, and it was poured into the ice cellar to inadvertently form this result." However, this result is more in line with Niangniang's original idea. (To be continued......)