What has happened cannot be erased, no matter how much it is covered up or tampered with, the truth is always the truth.

After arriving at the Mi house, because the people of the Mi family had not lived here for the time being due to the tragedy at home, Hu Xianxian directly arranged things.

"Slowly clear the ashes from the ground into the yard and pile up the larger cinders and fine ash separately. Also, don't wear shoes, wrap your feet in a cloth, and slowly collect the ashes from the doorway, trying not to damage the ground marks. ”

Looking at the ruins of the firewood house that was burned down, Hang Wuyi crooked his mouth and asked, "Auntie, asked us to help you, just to sift the ashes?" ”

glared at her sternly, didn't explain, and after ordering the matter of sifting the ashes, Hu Xianxian went out and walked around the rice house a few times.

The rice house is not very big, but in this dilapidated street, it is a good house.

Deputy Commander Mi's career did not go well, and he often spent a lot of time drinking, so he didn't save much money. Therefore, I did not live in West Street and East Street, where rich and noble families were concentrated.

This small alley near the north gate is a small and uninhabitable place, with brick and stone walls littered with rotten vegetable leaves, sewage and livestock manure everywhere.

The identities of the people who came and went were also very mixed, Hu Xianxian looked at the ground carefully, and did not find any suspicious footprints, and there were no traces of blood.

After looking at the mossy courtyard wall repeatedly, there was still no trace of blood dripping.

On the courtyard wall near the firewood house, obvious scratch marks were seen, which could be identified as traces of climbing and sliding, and Hu Haizhong should have quietly entered the rice house from here.

Seeing no useful clues, he asked his neighbor about the fire that night.

They all said in unison, or the fire did not spread, and the neighbors only smelled the thick smell of smoke, and saw the fire, but did not burn out the rice house.

Afraid of being implicated by the skewers, they were so scared that they couldn't do it, but fortunately they didn't burn the courtyard wall.

Hu Xianxian entered the courtyard, and then looked at the kitchen adjacent to the firewood house, and then saw that the courtyard wall close to the firewood room was all blackened and roasted out of cracks, but it was not burned.

The firewood house was burned to the point that the beams of the house completely collapsed, and only the remnants of the brick walls on three sides still stood crookedly.

After looking at the remains of the firewood house, Hu Xianxian speculated that after the firewood house burned, some kind of partition measures should have been made to block the spread of the fire.

This shows that the fire was properly extinguished at that time, and there was time to calmly protect the other areas.

Being able to have a calm mind and excellent ability to control the spread of fire is not something that a person of Mrs. Mi's personality can do.

Even if Mi Duobao woke up and helped deal with things, no matter how talented he was, he was just a mortal child, and it was estimated that he would not be able to deal with so many things.

Could it be that there were other people in the rice house at that time? A question popped up, and another question popped up.

Why is there a condition to calmly control the fire and not pull Qu Chunxiang out? Even if he already thinks that Aunt Qu Chunxiang is dead, the usual mentality is to drag people out and talk about it.

If there is a breath of air, you will be saved; If you die, you should also protect the body, because if Qu Chunxiang's body is intact and after the autopsy, it will also be ironclad evidence to identify Hu Haizhong, and there will be no more doubtful disputes.

Qu Chunxiang will be burned to the bone, and the result must be that the fire will be concentrated on the corpse, while other places will only be burned to the degree of burning.

Hu Xianxian looked at it and thought, after half a day, the apprentices had cleaned up the firewood room.

They divided the ashes into three piles, a large pile of charcoal sticks, a small pile of cinders, and a pile full of fine ash.

Look at a few of them again, the beautiful fairy has become a flower-faced cat, she can't see her facial features clearly, only her big black eyes are staring at Hu Xianxian together, and they are all puzzled and aggrieved.

Hu Xianxian explained with a smile that because unintentional scratches and fatal injuries will form different blood stains, then there are at least two blood stains in the firewood room, and the dripping characteristics of different wounds and bloodstains must be different.

Moreover, except for the fact that not long after the fire was extinguished, and the catcher came to pick up Qu Chunxiang's bones, no one else came to mess up the scene, and he was sure to be able to find useful residues from the ashes.

They suddenly realized, and Hu Xianxian gave them a thumbs up approvingly, "You guys have done a good job!" Regardless of the level of talent, being conscientious and meticulous in doing things is the basic requirement for a practitioner, and no matter how smart and arrogant a person is, he will not be able to become a great thing. "

They all smiled embarrassedly, and Hu Xianxian said again: "You go and wash it first, and then use the aura to remove the dust from the lungs." Be careful to observe when walking around the courtyard, and do not touch the utensils here. "

After finishing speaking, Hu Xianxian walked to the ruins of the firewood house.

The ground of this firewood house is compacted soil, and there are many miscellaneous traces on the ground, compared to the ground of stone slabs, this mud floor is softer, and the penetration is also very good.

When burned, many beams and tiles fell, smashing small craters into the ground, but the footprints were barely recognizable.

On the pitch-black mud floor, although the footprints are no longer recognizable, there is an obvious trace of stampede and struggle. It is speculated that Mrs. Mi is playing according to Qu Chunxiang's position, and it should also be the location where Qu Chunxiang died.

Hu Xianxian squatted down to take a closer look at that place, and he could see the purple and black imprints, which were different from the other gray imprints on the ground.

Take out the one-yuan hairpin, draw out the fluorescence, through the very fine dust, and the purple and black stains under the fluorescence are obviously bloodstains.

Hu Xianxian looked slowly along the bloodstains and found that the bloodstains in this room had two completely different dripping states.

"No, go and invite the prefect of Lingzhou, the master of the criminal name, and the deputy commander of Mi."

She has gained something, and she wants to tell everyone that the blood stains are abnormal.

Soon after, Hang Wuyi arrived with the people he had invited. Seeing that after the prefect got off the sedan chair, there were also catchers and servants following, Hu Xianxian tactfully asked the entourage to wait outside the courtyard, and only let the people she wanted to invite into the rice house.

When they arrived at the edge of the ruins of the firewood house, Hu Xianxian led the way and said to the prefect: "My lord, please pay attention, this is the blood stain left by Qu Chunxiang.

"You see the little dripping bloodstains, around to this location, this should be the original window position of the firewood room.

From here, he went around to the place where he was beaten, and from the occasional drop of blood, it was evident that the amount of blood was very small.

What Hu Haizhong said should be true, Qu Chunxiang was slightly injured in the wrist, and he was not dead before he formed a movable blood dripping trajectory. "

The prefect of Lingzhou and the master of the criminal name exchanged glances, and they both agreed with Hu Xianxian's speculation that Qu Chunxiang was not dead when he dripped blood around the circle.

Then, Hu Xianxian pointed to the location where it was unanimously recognized that it was Qu Chunxiang's death, where there was a large pool of obvious bloodstains, which had been soaked in a lot of soil, and there were splattered blood spots next to the bloodstained ground, and this blood trace was obviously formed by a fatal injury.

Moreover, it was violently pierced with a murder weapon to form a relatively large wound to have such a large amount of bleeding, and it was only when blood suddenly spurted out that there were blood splash spots.

Through the comparison of blood stains, it is obvious that Qu Chunxiang was injured twice.

Hu Xianxian said unhurriedly: "Lord Prefect, Hu Haizhong and Qu Chunxiang's adultery has been discovered, and they have escaped, is it very unlikely that they will come back and kill again?" Judging from these two bloodstains, can Hu Haizhong's suspicion of murder be reduced? "

The prefect stroked his beard and bowed his head slightly, expressing his agreement with what Hu Xianxian said.

"Also, my lord, you see, only the firewood room was burned to a serious extent, all of them were burned down, and there was no burning in other places, it was obvious that Qu Chunxiang's body was specially burned, maybe combustibles were used."

Hu Xianxian pointed to the oily mass on the mud floor, and the naked eye could see something greasy......

Deputy Commander Mi hurriedly said, "It's lamp oil, not combustibles." It was the clumsy Jing who unintentionally knocked over the firewood room ignited by the lamp, there were no combustibles, and no one deliberately wanted to burn spring incense. "

"Yes, yes. But even if a small oil lamp is sprinkled with oil, and burns for so long, a little grease will be burned out. You see for yourselves that there is a large mass of mud soaked in the ground, and it is likely that the lamp oil was deliberately spilled here, and it is not just the oil of a lamp. "

The prefect believed that Hu Xianxian speculated that only by spilling lamp oil could so much grease seep into the soil.

Hu Xianxian asked Master Xing Ming to scrape a little dirt with a knife and asked him to test it, how much lamp oil is needed to make the lamp oil impregnated with mud to this depth?

After saying this, Hu Xianxian asked Hang Wuyi to prepare some miscellaneous things, and then returned to the state government with the prefect.

When he went to Yazhong, Hu Xianxian asked people to find a few pieces of pig's legs that were very clean; I also found a knife of the same size and similar style as the kitchen knife held by Hu Haizhong to test.

With the place where the blood stains of this knife were coagulated, compared to the same depth and position, and stabbed to the pig's leg according to this standard, five cases were selected, and only a small wound was cut.

"With this strength and the location of the bloodstains, even if it is stabbed in the chest, it is difficult to be fatal. My lord, can Hu Haizhong's suspicion of murder be reduced a few points? Hu Xianxian asked the prefect of Lingzhou.

The prefect groaned, and the master of the criminal name was about to echo, but Deputy Commander Mi glared at the master, raised his eyebrows and asked Hu Xianxian: "What if Hu Haizhong happened to be pierced on Chunxiang's veins?" Small wounds can be fatal. "

Hu Xianxian said calmly: "I haven't made an absolute judgment yet, I just reduced Hu Haizhong's suspicion, and I didn't say that I could completely get away with it." "

Then, she asked Qu Chunxiang to present the bones that had been picked up.

The Mijia firewood room is just firewood burning, not a special charcoal fire, nor is it burning in a confined space, so the firepower is not large, and the remaining bones of Qu Chunxiang are relatively complete.

In order to convince people, Hu Xianxian found a common test.

The two agreed that the other bones were full of fine gray lines that had been cracked by fire; Only the lower left shoulder blade and one rib were smoothed by an external force.

It is said that the wounds on these two bones were caused by stabs, and the force used at that time must have been very strong to cause them.

Hu Xianxian glanced at Deputy Commander Mi and said, "Hu Hai is a traitor. The love is exposed, and he just wants to escape quickly in the indiscriminate pulling in front of the window, and it is impossible to stab him in the back so accurately and so hard. Mrs. Mi's testimony does not match the appearance of the bones, and she is suspected of lying. "

Deputy Commander Mi's face instantly turned blue and white, and then slowly turned red.

Hu Xianxian thought he was going to say something, but Deputy Commander Mi didn't argue, but the hand holding the saber tightened.

Seeing him like this, Hu Xianxian didn't ask anything, summarized the details to the prefect of Lingzhou, and deduced that the kitchen knife was not the murder weapon that killed Qu Chunxiang, and Hu Haizhong was very likely not the murderer.