Hua Qiao pointed to the beam above her head and said, "There is water on the ground, and there is no trace of it anymore, but the location of this bucket is suspicious, I need to climb to it from here!" ”

Hu Yanjin nodded and went out to find someone to get a ladder.

After a while, they came in with a long ladder, which was raised to the beams of the house, and one of the servants tried to go up, but Hua Qiao stopped him and said, "Let me come." ”

After speaking, she went up the ladder in three steps and two steps, she first looked carefully at the beam, took out a fire fold from her arms, took out a piece of rosin, lit the rosin, and slowly smoked it towards the beam.

After a while, a smile appeared on Hua Qiao's face: on the wood of the beam, two clear palm prints gradually appeared, looking at the clarity of the palm prints, the time left will not exceed ten days, this room has been closed six or seven days ago, and the owner of the handprint can only be the murderer.

She shouted to Yi Chengjin, who was holding the ladder below: "Second Brother Yi, I found it, there are fresh handprints on the beams!" I know how the killer escaped. ”

She stepped down the ladder and said, "Let people go outside the roof and see if the tiles in this position have been moved?" You see, this fallen bucket and chair are the tools of the murderer to step on the beams of the house. ”

"One of them ran away from the roof, and the other deliberately kicked over the bucket so that we mistakenly thought that the water on the ground was flowing out of the bucket, and we didn't think that the ice that had been piled up next to the corpse had turned into water. If it weren't for the people who just died, they would have been frostbitten, and we would have all been deceived. ”

Hu Yanjin was by the curtain of the latrine, put his hand on the shoulder of a headcatcher and smiled: "I have it too." I know that when the head catcher came in to search, Chen Xuan shaved his beard and put on Luo Wenting's clothes and pretended to be Luo Wenting, where did he hide his body! ”

He pulled the head of the city next to him, let him squat by the toilet, and with a wave of his hand, he pulled down the thick cloth curtain, and followed Hu Yanjin's hand to cover the head of the capital, revealing the toilet. Add in the smell of the toilet bowl at that time, which can really make people stop.

The squatting head came out of the curtain and said: "At that time, because the curtain suddenly fell, my attention was on the exposed toilet, and I didn't expect that there was something under the curtain that had just fallen." ”

"I see! In this case, Liu Jian, who locked the door, absolutely can't get out of it! "Yi Chengjin is confident, that Liu is in charge, and he dares to talk nonsense when he enters the prison department, he is probably tired of it.

Not long after, Steward Liu was escorted back, and Xu Zhijin was also taken back to the academy at the same time. Xu Zhijin ate in prison for a few days, and now he saw the blue sky and white clouds, and felt the preciousness of freedom, and he was determined to guard the "freedom" of more people in his lifetime.

"Liu Jian, the evidence is conclusive, what else do you have to say?!"

Liu Jian knelt down with a "poof", and his head knocked on the ground:

"Lord Qingtian, I really don't know what you said about these little things! The little one only knew that Luo Wenting was indeed killed on the 12th, and the person who killed him was Mr. Chen. The little one just didn't report it, not the murderer! ”

Now that he had opened his mouth, Liu Jian gave an account of what happened on April 12.

Chen Xuan is indeed a talented man, he was once the first in the second class, and he was officially awarded the title of Jishi. However, because the two brothers were officials in Beijing, and the two elders in the family had no one to take care of, they resigned and returned to their hometowns and opened this Wutong Academy, which specializes in tutoring children in the township test.

In addition to being able to read for exams, Chen Xuan also has a unique skill, that is, copying various fonts, which can almost be used to confuse the real with the fake, including...... The Emperor's Word.

This time, Wang Yan, the inner courtier, colluded with Meng Xian, a staff member of King Zhao, and Wang Cheng, together with Wang Cheng, the Qintianjian prisoner, conspired to forge a false holy decree and wait for an opportunity to poison the emperor, and then abolished the crown prince and set up Zhu Gaosui, the king of Zhao, as the emperor.

Tongzhou Youwei calmed down Chen Kai, and voted for King Zhao early, so he naturally recommended his younger brother Chen Xuan to forge a false holy decree, in order to get a head credit for supporting King Zhao as emperor. After the incident, Chen Kai wrote a letter urgently, asking his younger brother to hide in the countryside with his parents first, and he also fled to Yangzhou in a hurry.

On April 12, Chen Kai's letter was delivered to Wutong Academy, but the sender did not find Chen Xuan, so he handed the letter to Steward Liu. Steward Liu is the old subordinate of the Chen family, and he can be regarded as Chen Xuan's confidant, and the forged holy decree was personally sent to Tongzhou by Liu Jian and handed over to Chen Kai.

"Second master, the eldest master has a letter." Steward Liu handed the letter to Chen Kai and waited aside to see if the second master wanted to send the letter back.

Chen Xuan opened the letter and looked at it, his legs couldn't help but weaken, and he sat down on the chair, Liu Jian was a little flustered, and hurriedly went over to support Chen Xuan.

"Liu Jian, you go and take care of it, let's go immediately."

"Let's go? Where to go? ”

"The matter of the holy decree was issued, and the eldest brother asked me to take the old lady away quickly. He said let's go back to the countryside, but I was afraid that the countryside would not be reliable, so I had to leave Yangzhou and go to Yunnan. ”

"Yunnan? …… Then I have to hurry up and deal with it, and you have to explain to the old lady as soon as possible, his temper is tough, I'm afraid he won't agree to leave easily......"

Chen Xuan nodded and said: "Forging the holy decree is a big crime of the Nine Clans, I dared to write it, and I was prepared in my heart......

"Forgery? Mr! How dare you falsify the Divine Decree! ”

Chen Xuan and Liu Jian were startled, and Liu Jian, who was standing by the door, pulled Luo Wenting at the door in and closed the door with his hand.

Luo Wenting is going to enter the exam tomorrow, and he has nothing to do to go to the examination room tonight, but he didn't expect to overhear a big secret!

"No one forged the holy decree, you heard it wrong, go back, and prepare for the exam tomorrow." Chen Xuan took a deep breath and said calmly. I'm going to leave tonight, I can't wait.

Luo Wenting was a thoughtful person, he said with a smile: "Mr. Chen, if you want me to say that I heard it wrong, you and the chief examiner Master Li are on the same list, and they are double passers, you come forward to say hello to Lord Li, won't I save trouble?" ”

Chen Xuan clenched his fist in his sleeve and said with a smile: "Wen Ting, if you look at this letter, you will know that the teacher did not lie to you." ”

Luo Wenting wanted to go over to see what was going on, walked next to Mr., took the letter, but Chen Xuan had already grabbed an iron candlestick in his hand, pulled out the candle head inserted on it, and poked it at his head while Luo Wenting was reading the letter.

After only poking twice, Luo Wenting's eyes straightened, and the whole person fell straight down.

"II...... Second Master...... What can I do? It happened suddenly, and Steward Liu was stunned.

"Lock the door and leave!" Chen Xuan reinserted the candle back into the candlestick, put away the letter and was about to leave, Steward Liu thought about it and said:

"Second master, now that the city gate has been closed, if you want to go out of the city, you have to wait for tomorrow, but tomorrow morning at five watch, Luo Wenting will enter the examination room, and his roommate will come to pick up the key and send breakfast...... We can't run away if we find it too early......"

Chen Xuan restrained his steps, indeed, he couldn't get out of the city, and it was in vain to say anything. He looked back at Luo Wenting on the ground, pointed to the bucket of water in the room, and said to Liu Jian, "Go to the ice cellar to change a bucket of ice." ”

Steward Liu hurriedly left with a bucket. After a while, he returned with a bucket of crushed ice.

Chen Xuan sighed and said, "Tomorrow I will take a top here, you go back and arrange the old lady and Mrs. Tai, and when they are safe in the city, you will come and let me out." ”

Steward Liu understood, turned around and went out, locking the door of the bookstore.