Chapter 183: The Hanging Beam Maid
Xiao Lu doesn't look at his young age, but he analyzes things thoroughly.
"Well, maybe, this man and woman love, we don't have much to say." inevitably made Xiao Lu think too much, Zhen Chutian did not have anything to do with the case.
So Xiao Lu also relaxed a lot, seeing that the hour was not early, so he leaned over and saluted, "Ladies and gentlemen, the slave and maid will not bother you, you can call me if you have something." ”
"Okay, you go get busy."
Seeing Xiao Lu leave, Zhen Chutian's face suddenly became gloomy, "This little leave has a lot of things to hide from us." ”
"Looks like I've pried her mouth open." Gu Chenghan smiled thoughtfully.
The moment the four eyes met, a smile appeared on Yu Linglong's face, if the smile was profound, but the white dragon envoy on the side looked confused, I don't know what these three people were laughing at, just about to ask, but I didn't want Zhen Chutian's eyes to sink, "Don't you tell me about your relationship with the prime minister?" ”
The appearance of Fang Cai Xiaolu disrupted Zhen Chutian's plan, so that the things she wanted to know had not been asked at this time.
When the words fell, Gu Chenghan sighed, raised his head and motioned for Yu Linglong to say.
Yu Linglong scratched her head in embarrassment, but she didn't know how to say it.
"What do you do with grinding and chirping, I'll just say it, the prime minister is our master's teacher, but he didn't help us back then, and the prime minister's wife always greets her with a smile, no matter how you look at it, she doesn't look like someone who will have an affair with the housekeeper.
Not to mention that the prime minister has been honest all his life, and he has a good reputation in the capital, and there are not a few officials in the court and the central government who have been mentioned by him, but he has never asked for anything with this.
Our master feels this very much. ”
The White Dragon Envoy quickly told him everything he knew about the Prime Minister.
Now Zhen Chutian knows a lot about the prime minister, but such a person died in vain for no reason, what murder is hidden in this?
Is it really related to the people in the court?
Or did someone deliberately do it, just to tie the prime minister's death to the empress?
originally thought it was just a murder, but they didn't want to implicate so many things, but now Zhen Chutian knows that the road ahead will be more and more difficult, and they must be cautious every step they take, otherwise they will definitely implicate others.
Seeing that Zhen Chutian was suddenly silent, Gu Chenghan chuckled in his heart, I don't know if it was a subconscious move or something, in short, he reached out and shook her hand, "What, because of the words of the White Dragon Envoy, do you think you are in the wrong direction?" ”
She shook her hand comfortingly.
Receiving Gu Chenghan's encouragement, Zhen Chutian shook his head and his face recovered slightly, "It's not that I feel wrong, but I don't know where the direction is?" ”
The tone was full of helplessness, this was the first time Gu Chenghan had seen Zhen Chutian at a loss.
According to the corpse and the scene of the crime, Zhen Chutian made a profile of the murderer, and there were many clues left at the scene, but they were disorganized, and each clue pointed to a different place, and it was impossible to connect them together.
First, it was a chronic poison, three years long, and a sword wound, although it was not fatal, but it induced poison, and then the body was burned, and this series of things is not like the same person did it.
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed, and the look of surprise on Zhen Chutian's face was obvious.
"Any thoughts?" After getting along during this time, Gu Chenghan can be regarded as understanding Zhen Chutian, and this state is naturally a good thing.
Zhen Chutian smiled mischievously, and looked at Gu Chenghan in a foolish manner, "Why don't you guess Master Gu?" ”
Zhen Chutian like this, but Yu Linglong and the White Dragon envoy are rare, the two of them looked at her dumbfounded, and then looked at Gu Chenghan, he seemed to be surprised for a long time.
Yu Linglong slandered, I have known Zhen Chutian for so long, her usual indifference, but when facing Han Shuangyi's kid, she looks like a delicate woman, Rao is such a naughty smile, he doesn't remember seeing it.
"There is more than one murderer."
"It's really Master Gu." Zhen Chutian looked impressed and complimented him a few words.
And then the two of you said a word, and what they said was what the White Dragon Envoy couldn't understand.
After listening to the words of the two, Yu Linglong fell into deep thought, and only interjected after a moment, "Then where should we start to investigate?" ”
"Cha Xiaoli, didn't Xiaolu say that she had met the same man? If she had anything to do with the case, the man was the breakthrough. Zhen Chutian looked at Yu Linglong steadily.
"Yes, I'll check it out tomorrow." With a new direction, Yu Linglong also felt that there was something to do, and it was better than staying in the house every day without any progress at all.
And it was night, and they dispersed, and returned to their houses.
At this hour, the prime minister's wife's house was brightly lit, and the maid was retreated by her, and she was the only one in the house.
But at this moment, a man dressed in black, fully armed, looked around, and only after making sure that there was no one did he enter the courtyard of his wife.
No one knew when he left, but Zhen Chutian was woken up the next morning.
The knock on the door, as well as Song Jiang's nervous tone, made her realize that something was wrong, and she got up suddenly, and Han Shuangyi on the side was also woken up.
The little hand rubbed his eyes, "What happened to Sister Chu Tian?" ”
"It's okay, you can sleep again." Zhen Chutian comforted Han Shuangyi, and then closed his clothes and opened the door.
Pushing open the door, I saw Song Jiang's tightly knit brows, "What's wrong?" ”
"The maid who was waiting in front of the prime minister's wife died." Song Jiang said that, and took Zhen Chutian to the scene of the crime.
Another dead one?
What kind of curse has the Prime Minister's Mansion suffered?
Zhen Chutian frowned and followed Song Jiang to the maid's courtyard.
Although the Prime Minister's Mansion dismissed a lot of maids, the courtyard was huge, so some maids and wives were still left to serve in front of him.
Because there are many courtyards, the maids and mothers-in-law of the Prime Minister's Mansion have separate courtyards, of course, the little maid has a courtyard, and the identity of the housekeeper is the highest in the Prime Minister's Mansion, so he has his own courtyard, and then the Prime Minister's wife, as well as the Prime Minister's son, and her concubine have their own courtyards.
Most of the rest of the courtyards are empty, Zhen Chutian and Gu Chenghan and the others are in the same courtyard, and there are five or six rooms in this courtyard, which is naturally enough to live in.
This group of people can be regarded as guests of the Prime Minister's Mansion, so this courtyard is on the edge of the Prime Minister's Courtyard, the maid's courtyard is there, and at the end of the Prime Minister's Mansion, it took them a quarter of an hour to walk over.
When they arrived, Gu Chenghan and the others were already there.
Seeing Song Jiang, the group dispersed so that he could examine the body.
"Suffocated to death, Bai Aya is the murder weapon, according to the stiffness of the corpse, it can be inferred that the time of death was about after the hour, and he struggled before he died, not by suicide, but by someone forcibly put on the beam."
When the maid found the deceased in the morning, she shouted loudly, so the little maid in the courtyard next door was called over, and when she saw this, she naturally put the person down first, and when the housekeeper knew about it, she sent someone to find Gu Chenghan and Zhen Chutian.
"The scene is well protected, the maid who came in first, Yu Linglong has been asking on the side, last night the maid said that she got up at night, and then she didn't come back, today's cleaner routinely cleaned, only to find that she was here."
Gu Chenghan told Zhen Chutian everything he knew.
After listening to his words, Zhen Chutian fell into deep thought, and his eyes circled around him.
"You're the first maid to come with you?" As long as Zhen Chutian investigates the case, his face will be expressionless, and the whole person will look a lot more majestic.
"Jade Linglong, bring people in."
Gu Chenghan didn't say much, shouted at the door, and after a while, he saw Yu Linglong enter the house with a few trembling maids.
Zhen Chutian looked at the few people again, "The corpse you found?" ”
"Yes, my lord, it's the body found by the slave and maid, but the slave and the maid really don't know anything, the slave and the maid really don't know." This maid met Zhen Chutian's cold eyes and knelt directly on the ground in fright.
"Ahem......" Zhen Chutian didn't expect the little maid to be scared like this and cough lightly, once to hide her embarrassment, "You get up, I have something to ask you, what I ask you to answer, as long as you answer truthfully, I will not doubt you." ”
"Yes, sir, you say." When the maid heard Zhen Chutian's words, she quickly got up and looked at her seriously.
"Was that the mess in the house when you found the body? And how many of you have been to the scene? Zhen Chutian looked at a few people with burning eyes.
Her dark eyes used to look full of aura, but now although the aura is still there, it is mixed with some fierceness, which makes people dare not look at her.
But the maid and the little maid subconsciously shook their heads, "No, we haven't moved, we just saved people......"
The words in unison, coupled with their facial expressions, Zhen Chutian knew that there was no adulteration in these words.
I asked for some more details, and then let the maid out.
At this time, only Gu Chenghan and Zhen Chutian were left in the house, and Song Jiang had already carried the body away with Yu Linglong.
"Did you find anything?" Seeing that Zhen Chutian hadn't spoken since the people dispersed, but she looked at the room thoughtfully, Gu Chenghan knew that she must have found something.
"There are traces of a fight in the house, but you can also see this maid, she is very thin, if the murderer is still strong, she will not leave so many traces at all, but if you want to hang a woman of her size, it is definitely not something that a woman can do."
Two years flashed in Zhen Chutian's heart, either there were two murderers, or the murderer knew the deceased, so there would be traces of a fight.
"The cause of death, extinguish the mouth." Zhen Chutian looked at Gu Chenghan steadily.
Gu Chenghan nodded slightly, "It's true, but who is the murderer?" ”
There is no need to argue, the maid died unexpectedly at this time, if it weren't for the death, the two of them really couldn't think of any other reason.
Gu Chenghan agreed with Zhen Chutian's first speculation that there were two murderers.
For Zhen Chutian, the more traces left at the crime scene, the more beneficial it is for her, such an impromptu murder, she can't quickly guess the profile of the murderer at all, she can only rely on her years of experience in handling cases.
"Check the people who had contact with her last night, the place where she first appeared, and the old lady." This maid is the girl in front of the old lady, and on the way here, Zhen Chutian also learned that she was very favored in the past, because of her sharp mouth, which was quite popular with the old lady.
And this maid was bought back from outside by the old lady, and she has been with the old lady for some years, and she is not young, but she has never found the man she likes, and she is not married, and the old lady also intends to keep it in front of her, so she has not left the house.
A person suddenly died in the house, and she was still the old lady's favorite maid, but the old lady didn't move at all, isn't this "being a thief with a weak heart"?
Such thoughts are deeply ingrained in Zhen Chutian's heart.
After another search, he found nothing, but found a rag in the house.
If she wanted to say that she had seen such a small object in the past, Zhen Chutian would not be anything, but she recognized this fabric.
When she sent those blind embroideries to Granny Xuan before, she also came into contact with a lot of fabrics, which can be described as first-class, even if this maid is loved by the eldest lady, she will definitely not have such fabrics.