When Chen Ying heard this, her eyes bent slightly, and she said: "It's indeed such an idea, but there is still one link missing from what the little marquis said, which is those thin bamboo threads." ”

Pei Shu raised half of his eyebrows, his gaze quickly swept to Chen Ying, turned away again, and asked, "What about the bamboo silk?" ”

Chen Ying smiled and said: "Little Hou Ye Xu didn't find out that Gu Ji sells steamed cakes, and steamed cakes are to use steamers." ”

Pei Shu was stunned, and then suddenly realized.

Chen Ying knew as soon as he looked at his expression that he had guessed, so he said: "The steamer was originally made of bamboo, and coincidentally, when I was buying cakes, I found that the steamers in the Guji shop were all brand new, so I asked Feng's mother to ask, and some old diners said that the new steamer only arrived yesterday, and after Gu Dafu got the new steamer, he split all the old steamers by himself, making the ground full of bamboo strips, and it took half a day to sweep it." ”

Hearing this, Pei Shu's small eyes seemed to have a sharp light crossing: "It turns out that the thin bamboo silk in the footprints comes from this." ”

"Exactly." Chen Ying said: "I speculate that Gu Dafu's body should be stained with a lot of bamboo scraps, which fell when he sneaked into He's house, because of the rain in recent days, the dirt road in He's courtyard is very muddy, and the fallen bamboo scraps stuck to the soles of his shoes, so he left this clue." ”

Pei Shu nodded slowly, but did not speak.

Chen Ying then continued: "Let's go back and talk about the antecedents. Huang is very disgusted with the smell of green onions, and it is difficult to see this flavor in the He family's meals, but Lord He loves to eat green onions, so he often sends people to Guji to buy cakes and chat to satisfy their hunger. ”

Pei Shu immediately said: "That Mingxin and Gu Dafu must have met from here. ”

"The little marquis is right." Chen Ying affirmed his statement: "Later, I learned from Koo Tai Fook's neighborhood and the servants of the He family that Koo Tai Fook was very enthusiastic about Mingxin, and Mingxin took pity on him for being disabled, and he was also kind to him, and the relationship between the two was very good. A few days ago, Mingxin was sick and couldn't go out, and the people who went to Gu Ji to buy cakes were all servants on the side, and they had talked about Mingxin's illness in front of Gu Dafu. ”

Pei Shu sighed, and felt that the line in front of him was already very clear: "Since Mingxin was born beautiful, this Gu Dafu naturally fell in love with her, and because she had been sick recently, Gu Dafu was very worried, so he visited He Mansion at night, probably to visit his sweetheart, but because he didn't know where he lived, he bumped around, and happened to hear the dispute between He and his wife." Knowing that Mingxin was leaving, Gu Dafu was reluctant, and knew that the officials had an example of worry, so he moved to kill Mrs. He. As long as Master He is worried, Mingxin can only stay in Penglai. ”

"Little Hou Ye is high." Chen Ying said.

Pei Shu frowned: "This Gu Dafu is really weird, since the love is deep-rooted, why don't you come to the door to ask for marriage, but kill innocent people?" That Mingxin is just a slave, as long as he mentions it, it may not be that the He family will not let him go. ”

He was answered by a brief silence.

After a few breaths, Chen Ying's voice sounded: "I said before that Gu Dafu's thoughts and thoughts are very different from ordinary people. What he asks for is nothing but seeing Mingxin from time to time, and nothing else. As for asking for marriage and the like, if he can have this idea, then he is not Gu Dafu. ”

"There are such strange things." Pei Shu raised his hand and touched his chin, obviously very puzzled by Gu Dafu's psychology.

Chen Ying did not explain much.

Human psychology is extremely complex, and Gu Dafu, a person with a personality tendency to reflect on his personality, the logic of his behavior is absolutely incomprehensible to ordinary people.

This is like the widely circulated FBI test question in the previous life: the younger sister and the older sister attended the funeral of their mother, and met a man they liked at the funeral, so when they came home, the younger sister killed the elder sister just because she hoped to see the man again at the next funeral.

Gu Dafu killed Mrs. He, and his sister killed her sister, the same reason.

In their system of behavior, cause and effect are not directly related in the usual sense. But if you look at it from another angle, they can be logically self-consistent in a certain range.

In short, it's different from ordinary people.

Thinking of this, Chen Ying continued the topic of Fang Cai: "Gu Dafu originally came to visit the sick Mingxin, and he would never have a murder weapon on his body, so his murder methods would be so messy. As for the three things he stole from, I have already obtained a confession from Mingxin to prove that they were all done by Mingxin himself or used on a daily basis. Gu Dafu stole these three items, but they were just used to relieve lovesickness. ”

Pei Shu pondered for a moment, still suspicious, so he frowned and asked, "It stands to reason that if Gu Dafu wants to keep the He family, it is okay to kill Lord He." As long as he dies, the He family still wants to stay in Penglai, and Lord He is the culprit who left Mingxin, why didn't Gu Dafu kill him? ”

As soon as she heard this, Chen Ying knew that Pei Shu didn't know anything about house fighting.

"If Lord He dies, the first person the Huang clan has to deal with must be Mingxin, so Lord He can't die;" Chen Ying said, simply broke the truth and crumpled it into detail: "Secondly, if it is the Huang family who dies, Mingxin's departure is still irreversible, so the death or life of the Huang family has little impact; Third, if Lord He and his wife are killed at the same time, first of all, it is more difficult, and secondly, the most important point is that the He family will definitely disperse without him and his wife. Mrs. He can't support this family, and at that time, Mingxin will still not be able to escape the fate of being sold. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Ying looked at Pei Shu: "Although Gu Dafu is spiritual...... He is a madman, but he is not stupid, and he can even be said to be thoughtful, and he has his own reasons for doing everything he does. And that's what scars him the most. ”

Pei Shu frowned and thought about it, and finally figured out the truth, and couldn't help but feel slightly frightened, and said with a "hiss": "I really can't see it, this Gu Dafu is quite smart." ”

After saying this, after thinking about it again, he nodded again and said: "However, after thinking about it, he is a person who can't speak, but he can run a small shop well, and he has something extraordinary." ”

Chen Ying let out a "hmm" and looked up, but saw that He Mansion was already close in front of him, and the closed door reflected the sky, with an indescribable sadness.

She let out a long breath.

The case has been solved, and what follows is nothing more than confirmation of the details. It's just that at the time of the crime, she never expected that the cause of the case would be so insignificant, and the murderer took a life for the sake of an impossible relationship.

All crimes in this world may have their "last resort", and every time she thinks about it, Chen Ying will feel a deep regret.

The evil of human nature is the same no matter what time and space it is, and all she can do is to restore the truth and let the wicked have nothing to hide.