The cells were dark and damp, and some insects and ants appeared from time to time.

Hakujiu curled up in the corner, clasped his hands on his knees, and buried his head in his knees to pretend to sleep.

"Tu Su Gongzi, Situ catches the head." The little officer guarding the door screamed, waking Chu Jiu up.

Another servant opened the door of the cell where Chu Jiu was locked.

Tu Su saw this little girl who appeared at the scene of the murder of the old hall master without tears, and raised his eyebrows slightly, it was her, the girl who was embarrassed in the back mountain of Nigang Village, and the dowry girl of Li Xianlin's new wife.

The courteous servant brought two stools for the two adults to sit down.

Situ Zhutou asked, "Zhao Chujiu?" ”

"Yes, sir."

"The old hall master has no grievances with you, why do you want to harm him?"

"Wronged, my lord! I was just passing through. Chu Jiu retorted loudly.

"Then why are you in the ancestral hall?" Tu Su spoke without tears.

Chu 91510 told all the experience, "I saw a maid in the garden dropped the handkerchief, I wanted to remind her so I called a few times, but she didn't seem to hear, so I picked up the handkerchief and chased after her to return it, and then inadvertently came to the courtyard of the ancestral hall, who knew that the ancestral hall actually came out of a man's scream, I didn't see anyone when I entered the door, I saw so many tablets in the inner hall for fear of disturbing the front hall masters, I opened my mouth to apologize to them, and I was knocked out before I finished speaking." There was a pain in the back of Chu Jiu's neck, and she immediately lifted her hair and showed them the back of her neck, "I still have a faint pain here." ”

Tu Su Wuxian and Situ Zhutou took a look, and sure enough, the back of this girl's neck was bruised, and it seemed that she had been beaten with a heavy object.

"When you pushed the door in, you really didn't see the old hall master?" Situ asked.

"There really isn't, when I went in, there was no one in the inner hall."

"Not a single one?" Tu Su thought without tears, because the place where the body was found at that time was this inner hall, and there were only the dead old hall master and this girl who had passed out in a coma.

Chu Jiu suddenly remembered the handkerchief, so he took out the handkerchief he picked up from the placket, which was a pink silk handkerchief with a white butterfly embroidered on one corner. "My lord, look at this handkerchief, it's the one I picked up, you see that I can't have such a thing in my status."

Tu Su took the handkerchief without tears, the residual body temperature on it overwhelmed him, he immediately folded the handkerchief and put it into the small cloth bag hanging from his waist, cleared his throat and said, "Okay, I will find out who the owner of this handkerchief is." ”

Seeing this, the sleek little official immediately handed over a cup of tea, "Master Tu Su, please drink tea!" ”

Tu Su picked up the teacup without tears and drank it in a big gulp, hiding the embarrassment that no one had found out at all just now.

"By the way, there was a sweeper in the garden at the time, and I shouted to stop the girl, and he saw it."

"Okay, we'll follow it up and see if what you say is true." Szeto recorded these clues in his booklet.

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Pushing open the door of the ancestral hall of Mufeng Hall, Tu Su Wuxian and Yamen caught Situ Ren entering the inner hall one after another.

The candles in the inner hall are fluttering, and the tablets of the hall masters of the past dynasties are neatly displayed on the shelves.

Tu Su walked along the wall of the inner hall without tears, he checked every window and found that the windows were locked from the inside.

On the other side, Situ Ren opened the pamphlet in his hand, which registered the results of the autopsy of the old hall master.

"According to the results of the autopsy, there were a total of two wounds on the body of the former hall master Liu Zuo. The first wound was on the left chest, presumably a stab wound to a sharp object such as a hairpin, but it was not fatal. The second wound, which is fatal, is in the lower back, and the wound is deep enough to kill people. But the point is this fatal wound, it is not simply a stab, but several knives, so the surface of the wound here and its disorder, but the internal incision of the wound is neat, and then look at the size of the wound, it is inferred that it was made by a sharp dagger. ”

"It is said that the murder weapon is directly pierced into the waist bone, which means that the murderer must be very powerful to do it."

Tu Su nodded without tears, "This fatal wound requires all your strength to penetrate the bone, so it is absolutely impossible for the murderer to be a girl like Zhao Chujiu who has no internal strength at all." ”

Situ Zhutou closed the booklet and inspected the floor step by step, only to see scattered blood stains sprinkled on the dark floor, which was really invisible at first glance, and could only be seen if you looked closely. "Master Tu Su, look at this bloodstain!"

"There's that too." Tu Su squatted down without tears and pointed at it, and two or three sparse blood stains loomed on the floor.

"Childe, I suspect this is not the first scene at all."

"That's right, the knife wound on the old hall master's body is a fatal wound, and it should be bleeding nonstop, if this is the first scene, the blood stains here should be a large area, not the current stars."

"Well, it seems that the old hall master was moved here after his death, and this little blood stain was unintentionally dripped from the corpse when the murderer moved the corpse."

"Situ, we still have to find out where the old hall master was killed!"

Situ Zhutou remembered the wound that was not fatal, and according to the old hall master's romantic deeds when he was young, "Who else did the old hall master quarrel with before he died?" You forget that the wound on his chest was a hairpin. Childe, do you say it will be one of the many female relatives who came to congratulate last night, the old hall master inadvertently slighted a certain woman after drinking, and the woman stabbed the old hall master with a hairpin as soon as she resisted, and then the woman's concubine knew about it, and killed the old hall master in a fit of anger. If the old hall master wasn't drunk, how could he be plotted by others with his martial arts? ”

"What you said is also one of the possibilities, and there is also another possibility, that is, it is someone who hurts him, so the old hall master will take his guard lightly and turn his back to the murderer."

Situ Zhutou insisted on his own thoughts, and said proudly: "But the old hall master is strong in martial arts, even if there are people behind him, they should be aware of it, you said that he didn't drink yet!" ”

"Yes, yes! Brother Situ, you're right, last night was Hall Master Li's big day, such a festive day, how could anyone present not drink! ”

Tu Su Wuxian and Situ Zhutou had already seen all over the inner hall, so they thought about going outside the ancestral hall to see if there were any other clues.

As they were about to cross the threshold, they suddenly noticed something black on the edge of the threshold, and they fixed their eyes on it, and it was a blackened bloodstain. The corpse was brought in from somewhere else! The two of them looked at each other and smiled.

"Oh no! A female corpse was found in the lake! Someone shouted outside, and then the entire Mufeng Hall set off a big wave.

Tu Su Wuxian and Situ Zhutou came to the lobby, and the people who came to congratulate him yesterday hadn't left yet, because this mansion had been guarded by the people of the Yamen and Tu Su Mansion, and no one could easily enter and exit.

There was a female corpse in the center of the lobby, and the female corpse had been soaked for a day, so her face was a little swollen.

Situ Zhutou glanced at the corpse a few times, and then asked the little official standing aside to carry the corpse back to the yamen. "Where were the bodies found?" he asked. ”

A housekeeper with weak legs walked out slowly, "It was found by the small one, and the small one was found while cleaning by the lake." ”

"Yes, you can take me to the place where I found it." Situ caught the head and let the family lead the way.

Tu Su Wuxian just wanted to follow over but found his eldest brother sitting in the crowd, he walked over, "Big brother, why are you so pale?" ”

Tu Su Wushuang held his forehead, his face was bloodless, "It's okay, it's just that I was scared when I saw the corpse just now." ”

"Then go back to your room and take a rest, do you need me to ask a doctor to take a look?" Tu Su said without tears.

Tu Su Wushuang suddenly grabbed Tu Su Wuxi, "You help me out for a while, okay?" ”

Tu Su didn't refuse without tears, "Okay." He hugged his eldest brother, and then told Situ Zhutou that he would go to the lake to find him later.

Out of the lobby, there were only two Tu Su brothers on the road.

Tu Su Wushuang suddenly asked, "No tears, how is the death of the old hall master traced?" ”

Tu Su did not doubt him without tears, so he said the general situation, "The murderer is definitely not the girl found at the scene, she is a corpse, and the murderer may be a powerful man." ”

"Really?" Tu Su Wushuang's heart trembled at this time.

"The girl who was arrested also said that she had seen a girl in the morning, and she had been led to the ancestral hall, so the corpse of the woman found by the lake may be the person she was talking about."

Tu Su Wushuang opened his mouth to ask for more information, but Tu Su Wuxian suddenly saw a passing family member and called out to him, "You, come here!" ”

"Childe!" Jia Ding looked puzzled.

"Are you free now?"

"The little ones are free!"

"Okay, you help me send my eldest brother back to the room to rest," Tu Su turned his head to his eldest brother without tears and said, "Big brother, I'm still in a hurry to find Situ, how do you feel now, do you still need me to ask for a doctor?" ”

"No, I'm fine. I went to find my mother. ”

"Okay, big brother, I was negligent and forgot about my mother, so much happened today. You go to her room and see how she is doing, and this is also a good opportunity to be by your mother's side. Tu Su patted his eldest brother on the shoulder without tears and encouraged him.

Tu Su Wushuang nodded, but his eyes flickered.