Zhang Bin was strangled to death.

But the murder weapon was not an ordinary rope.

Liu Sheng took Lin Hu to look for a long time at the scene, but he didn't find the murder weapon that killed Zhang Bin. So, the two guessed that the murder weapon that killed Zhang Bin should have been taken away from the scene by the murderer. Without a clue, Lin Hu had no choice but to come to Xing Ruyi in order to use her experience in examining the corpse to determine what the murder weapon was.

When Xing Ruyi followed Liu Sheng to the Qin Mansion, Zhang Bin's body had already been transported to Yizhuang in the city. Listening to the meaning of the catchers, this should be the idea of the master of the Qin family, and he felt that the son of a domestic servant died in his own home, and he was still in the boudoir where Qin Shu, the young lady of the Qin family, was killed, and it would inevitably cause many speculations to spread it, so he begged Liu Sheng to transport Zhang Bin's body away.

"Since he is the son of the Qin family's maid, it is said that he is also the Qin family's own person, even if he dies in the lady's boudoir, he doesn't need to be transported to Yizhuang immediately. This move inevitably led to the loss of a lot of clues. ”

Because she knew that she was going to touch the corpse today, Xing Ruyi changed into dark clothes, and even her hair was combed into a regular woman's bun. The catcher at the door didn't look carefully, and subconsciously reached out to stop her. When she raised her head and looked at the catcher, she saw that it was yesterday who reached out to stop her, and the catcher happened to recognize her, and dropped her hand in embarrassment.

"Ruyi girl."

"Why are you in charge of guarding the door this time?"

"The little ones are more dedicated."

Xing Ruyi nodded, and saw a touch of pink floating between his eyebrows, so he smiled and said to him: "If you are dedicated to catching fast, you will usually have good luck." You're not married yet, are you? ”

"No, I didn't." Hearing the word "marriage", his cheeks flushed a little.

"That's going to be soon. I see the red luan star between your eyebrows, and good things have happened in the past few days. ”

"Really?" Catcher's eyes widened a little: "The girl is really a god." Yesterday my mother told me that my cousin from the countryside was coming. said that it was to visit relatives, but in fact, it was to see if the two of us liked it, and planned to plan a marriage for the two of us. I was still a little worried, but when I heard the girl say this, I could put my heart down. ”

"Cousin?"

"Distant cousin."

"Worried about the ugliness of the other party's life, I will look down on myself?"

"The beauty of a woman is not in her appearance. I heard my mother say that my cousin is a girl who knows how to feel sorry for people and is good at running a house. I'm a fast catcher, just marrying a wife, not marrying a fairy to come back and see, as long as I am virtuous, it's good. I'm just worried that my cousin will look down on me. ”

"You're pretty good, if I were your cousin, I would have taken a fancy to you."

As soon as Xing Ruyi finished speaking, he saw that the face of the fast catcher was getting redder and redder.

"How can a small one be worthy of such a powerful character as a girl."

"Don't say that you don't deserve it, even me, and I don't dare to fight the wishful idea." Lin Hu leaned over: "Ruyi, look, what kind of star movement is there between my eyebrows?" ”

"You?" Xing Ruyi glanced at Lin Hu: "With your character, in ten or eight years, I'm afraid no girl will be able to look at you." ”

"Am I that bad? But then again, I really didn't want to get married so early. Women are troublesome, if they marry home, they will cause a lot of discomfort. Lin Hu said, and added: "Actually, I also have a cousin in the countryside." ”

Xing Ruyi didn't answer Lin Hu's words, but directly bypassed him and entered Qin Shuyao's boudoir.

"Where did Zhang Bin die?"

"The doorway, that's where you're standing now." Lin Hu pointed to the feet of Ruyi. "I wanted to remind you, but I forgot about it when you just talked to him."

Xing Ruyi glanced at his feet, and there was a circle of humanoid traces sprinkled with black ash in front of him. Judging from the traces, when Zhang Bin died, he should have been lying on his back. With his feet inward and his head outward, the murderer took advantage of Zhang Bin's inattention to suddenly attack from behind, strangled his neck, and directly led to his death, and then fled the scene with the murder weapon.

"Why is Zhang Bin here? As I recall, the yard was sealed. ”

"Not bad! Miss Qin's murder has not yet been investigated, this courtyard still belongs to the place where the crime occurred, and after transferring Miss Qin's body yesterday, I ordered the arrest to seal up this courtyard. At the door, there was also the seal of the yamen, but when I came this time, the seal had been torn off. ”

"Is it Zhang Bin?"

"Probably not." Lin Hu shook his head: "In order to prevent the murderer from returning to the scene, we deliberately made some tricks on the seal. Sprinkle some powder that can be stained on the paper, these powders are researched by Zhang Yanzuo, colorless and odorless, but there will be some discoloration on the fingers. ”

"Zhang Bin doesn't have it in his hands."

"Nope. We checked on the spot, and all ten of his fingers were clean. In addition, if Zhang Bin tore off the seal, he died in this room, and the seal should not have been lost elsewhere, but we searched repeatedly and did not find the fragment of the torn seal at the scene. ”

"Taken away by the murderer?"

"It should be. We discussed that if the seal was torn off by Zhang Bin, there was no need for the murderer to take the seal away. The only possibility is that the seal on this door was torn off by the murderer, and after tearing it off, he found the cat hidden on the seal, so after the killing, out of some kind of evasive psychology, the seal was taken away. ”

"There's a problem."

"Ruyi, you should want to ask, did this Zhang Bin come here with the murderer, or was he deliberately led to this courtyard by the murderer?"

"I haven't seen you for a day, but you've grown a lot."

"Do you think I can't hear you saying that about me on purpose? It doesn't matter, I'm broad-hearted, and I don't care about you. Lin Hu grinned: "I'll just praise you for me." ”

"The skin has also grown."

"We've checked the footprints at the scene, and it's a bit messy, and I guess there's no clue."

"It does take some skill to discern from so many messy footprints."

"Do you know these tricks?"

"Give it a try." Xing Ruyi said, stroking his stomach with his hand.

Of course, she doesn't know how to identify footprints, but she can use her magic to determine who those footprints belong to by the residual energy of the human body attached to the different footprints. If it is Zhang Bin's, his footprints will also have some unusual dead qi attached to them, and these breaths can only be seen when using ghost magic and opening ghost eyes.

She had promised the fox that for the sake of the little fox in her belly, she would no longer easily use ghost magic, but right now, the Qin family's case is here, and it is difficult for her to stay out of it. Instead of watching Lin Hu and Liu Sheng embarrassed, it is better to help with their own abilities.

Calming down, a touch of purple self-punishment swept through her eyes, and when she opened her eyes again, her pupils also changed color. What appeared in front of me was no longer the quiet courtyard of the Qin family, but a cloud of intertwined mist, in which many footprints appeared, deep and shallow, intertwined with each other, but marked by different colors.

Among the many footprints, Xing Ruyi finally found the pair that belonged to Zhang Bin. Concentrating again, he flicked his hand in the void lightly, and swept away the messy footprints, leaving only Zhang Bin's. After that, she followed Zhang Bin's footprints to the outside of the courtyard, and finally stopped by the door.

"How?" Lin Hu followed.

"Zhang Bin has been standing here for a long time."

"What is he doing standing here?"

"I think I'm missing Miss Qin. Since Zhang Bin plans to take the imperial examination, he should be a person who abides by the rules and knows etiquette. Besides, this person who died in the courtyard was his most beloved person, and he would never destroy the scene at this time and affect the inspection of the government office. So, he just came out the door and stood here quietly. ”

"What about the murderer?"

"The murderer should have come later, but as for whether he followed Zhang Bin or came here unintentionally, it is impossible to judge at this time. Well, those footprints over there should belong to the murderer, although he deliberately hid his footprints, but it can be seen that he has been standing there for a long time. The murderer and Zhang Bin should know each other, and they are also members of the Qin family, as for why he committed the murder and why he killed Zhang Bin in Miss Qin's boudoir, it remains to be carefully investigated by you. ”

In fact, Xing Ruyi already had a guess in her heart, but before the evidence was clear, she was unwilling to affect the judgment of Lin Hu and Liu Sheng. In the final analysis, she is just the proprietress in the rouge shop, not the trickster and catcher in the yamen.

"It's someone inside the Qin family again." Lin Hu frowned with a little headache: "Who did this Miss Qin family and Zhang Bin offend, they were actually killed one after the other." If I find out, I must interrogate him. ”

"Let's go to Yizhuang and see what else Zhang Bin can tell us."

"The carriage is just outside the house."

Lin Hu said, pointed outside, and then led the way in front. Xing Ruyi followed. Along the way, neither of them said anything, and they didn't even have the heart to fight each other.

No matter what happened in life, after death can only lie there peacefully.

A strangulation mark, level with the neck, extends from front to back, and crosses the back of the head in a cross-shape.

"This strangulation ......"

"It's not the ropes, indeed." Xing Ruyi carefully examined the strangulation marks left on Zhang Bin's neck.

Zhang Qizuo also said the same, but he had no way to judge what the murder weapon was. Ruyi are well-informed and may discern? ”

"The belt should be the belt used by men."

"Belt?" Lin Hu looked down at his waist: "What do you mean is that after seeing Zhang Bin, the murderer suddenly had the intention of killing, and then he didn't have a murder weapon at hand, so he untied his belt and strangled Zhang Bin." ”

"Whether it was a premeditated murder or a murder of passion, there is no way to judge at the moment, but I can be sure that it was a belt that killed Zhang Bin. Look here, these shallow traces are all left by the belt. After the corpse is parked for a period of time, some subtle changes will occur, and some scars from before life or just after death will appear one after another through the continuous fermentation of time, such as these small lines, which should be the texture of the belt fabric itself, or some artificial embroidery, and it is internal. ”