"And who opened the window? We did hear the sound of the sash hitting the wall before we came in. ”

Zu Yong's Chang Sui asked softly.

"If the old man guesses right, cough cough...... The murderer has been hiding in the private room next door, and the sound of the window is mostly caused by the murderer pulling the window to the side with something like silk thread through the window lattice in the next room. ”

Shen Chi pointed to a window on the left, and there was a very slight white scratch on the woodcut lattice of Bubujin, which was probably caused by the friction of thin lines.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the old man has a rough inference about how the murderer committed the murder, cough cough cough ......"

"Niu Fang knocked the deceased unconscious when delivering wine and put it in the corner cabinet, at this time Niu Fang went out of the door as usual, it should be taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the person to hide in the next room, and opened the window sash in a certain way to make a sound, attracting the ancestral family to follow in to check, and after people mistakenly thought that the deceased jumped out of the window and fled downstairs, Niu Fang dived back into the room again and dragged the deceased out, wrapped the deceased's head with the oil paper that is often available in the restaurant, hit the deceased in the face with a blunt object to death, peeled off the oil paper again, and threw the deceased face down from the window."

"At present, the murder weapon and oil paper have not been found, and the old man suspects that they have been taken away by the murderer or thrown into the river to be destroyed."

Everyone heard the words, and sighed.

Yiqiu suddenly sighed:

"Alas, it's troublesome to kill someone."

Often on the battlefield, rushing into the enemy's formation, killing has almost become instinctive, but I don't want to work so hard for a human life.

Shen Chi coughed a few times hurriedly, and then stroked his chest and smiled:

"Miss Lin is right, and the old man also thinks so, the murder method in this case is easy to crack, but there are four key points that are very puzzling——"

"First, it is very rare to see a murderer who only hits the face, and ends up being fatal."

"Second, if you kill someone, you will kill someone, so why bother to make it fall from a building?"

"Third, where can't you kill people with such a lot of effort, why did you choose this place?"

"Fourth, is the deceased Huda? If it was Huda, who had written a suicide note, it was natural for him to commit suicide, so why wait until he was killed here today? If not Huda, who is the dead? ”

Lu Xiang was silent in his heart, and quietly took a few steps back.

The first two questions were the ones he was aware of as soon as he arrived today, and the last two questions he hadn't had time to think of, but he only vaguely felt that this was a trip to troubled waters, and if he was involved too much, he would inevitably have the risk of getting on fire.

There are many powerful people in Kyoto, and he doesn't have a slippery and slippery figure, how can he do a good job as a parent official in Kyoto? None of them dared to offend easily, and leaving three points for seven points in words and deeds was the foundation for him to keep his official position.

Since Shen Chi is already in charge and intends to investigate to the end, he, Lu Xiang, does not have to come forward to take on this responsibility.

Zu Yong bowed his head, frowned and said to Shen Chi:

"Actually, before Lord Shen and Lord Lu arrived at the scene, the younger generation sent a family member to invite Hu Da's wife and concubine, and they also determined that the clothes, hair crown, and jewelry were all worn by Hu Da today, but the deceased's face was so badly damaged that it was impossible to identify. They also didn't know if Huda still had birthmarks and other marks on his body, so Huda's family could not fully confirm that the deceased was Huda. ”

"Judging from the behavior of wearing a hood and the murderer deliberately hitting the face, the deceased and the murderer may have tried their best to cover up the true identity of the deceased. However, this is only speculation after all, and there is no real evidence to get it. ”

Yiqiu sighed and said tiredly.

After Shen Chi saw Lu Xiang quietly disappearing into the crowd, he knew that he wanted Mingzhe to protect himself and was unwilling to participate in the conversation, so he didn't poke it in public, and only smiled mysteriously at Yiqiu and Zu Yong:

"It's not impossible to confirm your identity, it's just a little troublesome, and I'll wait for the old man to go back and draw up a charter."

Snowflakes were falling in the night sky, and it was already very cold.

Zu Yong intimately ordered Chang to call a carriage and send Yiqiu back to his house first, and the two of them sat in the carriage and staggered, both of them were weak and tired.

"Look at that Lu Xiang, an old fox, if he can be sloppy, he will never say a word, for fear of wading into this troubled water. Look at Shen Laoshangshu again, the investigation is clear, the means are upright, and the gap between the two is really too big. ”

Yiqiu leaned her head against the soft brocade cushion wrapped around the wall of the car, and complained to Zu Yong with a wry smile.

Zu Yong laughed out and looked at Yiqiu:

"Look at these old foxes, I can see better than you do. The new emperor ascended the throne, and now it is the situation of Vientiane renewal, and the smart people will be reused at this time to make a stand and swear allegiance to the new king. ”

Boasting about the new emperor, Zu Yong's heart was sour, but he knew very well that the new emperor was indeed a young and wise person who would make a difference in the future.

Not only did he see it this way, but his old father, who was an official of the household department of the three dynasties, also saw it this way-it was precisely because of this that he didn't want to entangle himself with the daughter of the Lin family more, so as not to offend the new emperor by making extraneous branches.

"Alas", Zu Yong sighed angrily.

Yiqiu heard it, his eyes turned and he smiled and said:

"What are you sighing about, old foxes?"

Zu Yong disguised indiscriminately:

"Shen Chi's family background is innocent and has no foundation, he has never even been lifted, he is still a small official in the county government at the age of forty, and he has solved several major cases, but think about it, since the founding of Dachen in the past hundred years, there are many capable ministers and officials in the local area, among which Jinshi and the first people abound, why can he be the only Shen Chi to rise to the top?"

"He is much wiser and smarter than Lu Xiang, who is a mediocre person, and at this time, he will be more appreciated and valued for solving the emperor's worries.

"Hee-hee", Yiqiu teased him: "The twists and turns here are very insightful for you, and you have no teacher." ”

The implication is that his father must have his son, as the old Shangshu of the household department of the Three Dynasties, Zu Facheng is not only good at collecting money, but also political speculation. The most talked about in Kyoto is the three sons-in-law he found for his three daughters, and the three factions of the magnates, military generals, and Qingliu are all occupied, which shows how much thought has been taken behind the scenes.

Of course, Zu Yong heard Yiqiu's words, but he smiled warmly at Yiqiu on his face, only when Yiqiu was complimenting, but he secretly slandered in his heart, your father is only afraid that he is even more powerful than my father, and he knows more twists and turns.

Thinking of his father, Zu Yong was also gloomy.

Although Zu Facheng did not clearly show his intention to return to the court, he was indeed waiting for the price to sell, and when the time came, he appeared with a posture of turning the tide to help the new emperor save the finances and return to the core of power in his old age.

It's just that if he wants to use his old father to regain financial power at this time, he must be facing a great crisis that cannot be resolved, so he has to beg him to go out of the mountain. His father is different from Shen Chi, his father's biggest disadvantage is that everyone is a small family, filling the treasury and filling his own pockets at the same time.