A piece of hemp rope was loosened from the latch, curled in mid-air, and lay on the ground.

The test has been completed so far, whether it is the insiders of the inn who did not see the hemp rope landing outside the door, or Shen Cang, who is a bystander, or Zhao Di, who witnessed and participated in the test inside the door, they all have to admit that the process of the murderer's escape from the scene at the time of the crime was indeed like this.

Zhao Di opened the door and sat on the Taishi chair that was separated from Shi Xiancheng's buttocks. The warm autumn sun shone in through the south window, and it couldn't dispel the freezing chill on his body, and there seemed to be a touch of world-weary sorrow between his young eyebrows, which made Jian Qing suspect that he might break out and hurt people at any time.

Zhao Di pulled the person in, knelt in front of him for a while, and didn't say a word. Jian Qing couldn't figure it out, should he kneel, or should he kneel? Either kneel, the two thoughts of kneeling and not kneeling fight in the mind, and in the end dignity prevails.

Zhao Di glanced at her, Jian Qing was inexplicable, this person's mouth on his face didn't have any other functions except for panting and eating?

"Ahem!" Jian cleared his throat, "Shopkeeper, on the third night of the new year, from the first quarter to the second quarter of the hour, are there any guests coming in and out, and are there any shopkeepers coming and going upstairs?" ”

"No, there won't be!" The shopkeeper's head shook like a rattle, "After autumn, the door of the store is closed at the end of the day, and if the guests want to stay, they have to bang on the door, and there is a lot of movement." ”

The shopkeeper said to Zhao Di, "The small one has always settled accounts at the beginning of the hour, and the stairs upstairs are facing the counter, if someone comes down upstairs, the small one won't be able to see it." ”

Jian Qing didn't believe it, the counter of the inn was very high, and the shopkeeper sat in the back, just his size, if the guest didn't go over and pat the counter, he couldn't see anyone when he straightened his neck. The counter is almost high, covering himself and the people outside the counter, how can he see it?

Zhao Di glanced at the shopkeeper lightly and did not speak, but his expression was obviously unbelieving. Jian Qing felt that Zhao Di, the mascot, was quite responsible.

"To answer the main question, when the shopkeepers went up and down the stairs, did they notice anything abnormal? Even if you feel abnormal. If you don't answer, or if you deliberately say something wrong, you're covering up the crime! ”

The three shopkeepers knelt on the ground, and their bodies were like sifting chaff. Jian Qing is a little unaccustomed, maybe he is used to seeing some vicious criminals before, or maybe these flat-headed people are humility after seeing Zhao Di, and the humility of being stepped into the dust makes Jian Qing feel a sense of sadness for the dead fox.

Jian Qing was a little unbearable to watch.

"I was in charge of the Tianzi room that day, and I was very happy to see the guests talking and spitting wine, and I didn't have to serve the guests with food. When helping the guest carry the water to the room, the guest said that he didn't have to come back to clean up, and it was the same for him to clean up tomorrow morning. ”

It's normal for colleagues to ask each other, and it is estimated that it often happened in the past, and if nothing happened, it would be fine, but now something has happened. In front of Zhao Di, the shopkeeper couldn't restrain his expression of wanting to kick Li San to death, and said viciously, "Tell you to be lazy!" ”

"Less nonsense." Jian Qing asked, "When did the guests in this room move in?" Did you go out? And when did you come back? ”

"The guests in this room are small, waiting." Tuesday said, "It was the second hour of the year that he came in, it was the small one who picked up his luggage, and the guests asked for food and soup for bathing, and it was not until the end of the hour...... It's over. ”

The details are the same as before, and there are no discrepancies.

In this room lives He Donglai, a native of Jinhua County, Zhejiang. Speaking of which, like Wang Pu, they all came from the south. Wang Pu is a native of Yingtianfu, and Jinling is what later generations called Nanjing.

All from Nanjing, live in an inn, left and right next door, one died, one left early in the morning, is it a coincidence, or Jian Qing thinks too much, or is there really a cat in it?

Jian Qing is not a newcomer in the workplace, and she will not rely on imagination and various speculations to solve the case, she does not associate the two together, and all reasoning ultimately needs to be supported by evidence.

In a word, at all times, on such a cold day, everyone is willing to stay in the hot kangtou. Therefore, after the end of the day, basically no one walked upstairs and downstairs, and there were no witnesses to how the murderer left.

It is not known whether the murderer swaggered away from the gate.

Zhao Di got up and went from the earth to the sky. Jian Qing was next to him, and the shopkeeper and others wanted to go in, but Shen Cang was very considerate and stayed.

Standing next to the bathtub, Zhao Di looked at the blood stains on the ground and asked, "You said before that this footprint can be inferred to be a man, and later said that the murderer was a woman with good skills, why is this?" ”

Jian Qing followed Zhao Di's gaze and looked over, "Your Highness should have the answer in your heart." In the demonstration, the width of the door depends on the angle at which the latch can be raised. If the angle is too large, the latch will fall out of the door slot, and the resulting movement will be too risky for the murderer. The untouchables had lifted the latch to the maximum angle, and it was barely enough for the untouchables to pass through. ”

If you are strong, you will not be able to pass through such a narrow gap. Therefore, Jian Qing will say, "The height is only four feet eight inches, thin, and the weight will not exceed 100 catties."

But how can you infer that it must be a woman?

Zhao Di understood, nodded, and made a clear recognition of Jian Qing for the first time. The blood stains on the ground after being trampled on, and the footprints of a man can be clearly seen, Zhao Di pointed and asked, "How can you determine that it is a woman?" ”

"If the murderer must have been a man, there would be no need for a pool of blood here." Jian Qing was full of confidence, leaving an obvious footprint on this stall of blood, which was to cover up, and it could also be understood as a contempt for the Lingqiu County Ya patrol and arrest fast class.

"I heard that you performed a corpse and the result was a dagger to the heart?"

"Yes! Because it hits the heart directly, there should be very little blood. With this kind of wound, it is basically impossible for blood to shoot so far from such a high tub. Moreover, judging from the distribution of the bloodstains, this is not the blood that ejaculates from the wound, on the contrary, your Highness, please see that the bloodstains are from the side of the wall in the direction of the bath barrel, and the untouchables understand that this is artificially manipulated. The killer was standing to the left of the bloodstain, facing the wall, and his arm was swinging in the direction of the tub. ”

Jian Qing made an empty-handed demonstration, even if she didn't do it, Zhao Di had already understood it and recognized her inference.

Jian Qing did not breathe a sigh of relief, because if it were an era like the 21st century, empty-handed demonstrations would not be enough, they needed to make a unique reproduction, and they needed to provide physical evidence before they could present evidence in court.

This is obviously a loophole in this era, and the law has only been improved step by step with the progress of society, and the concept of human rights will not appear in a society that still divides people into three, six, nine and so on.

"The bloodstains, including those on the wall, are thought to be used by the untouchables to deceive people." Jian Qing remembered the mystery of the width between the words of heaven and the earth, and said, "The murderer is a person who is very familiar with the Xinglai Inn, and may be even more familiar than the shopkeeper. ”