Pei Shu's face sank like water, his fingers tightly clasped the hilt of the sword, but he did not say a word.

Chen Ying looked at him, without the slightest hesitation on his face: "On the night of the crime, the murderer put on clothes similar to Qian Tianfall, splashed wine on his body, made a smell of wine, disguised himself as Qian Tianfall, calculated the time, and let the husband and mother-in-law see him enter and leave the clean room, so as to confirm the false appearance of Qian Tianqiu accidentally falling into the well. ”

Pei Shu was silent.

He was struggling to resist the urge to draw his sword.

Although he had a premonition, he vaguely felt that this matter was wrong, but when he heard Chen Ying tell the truth with his own ears, he was still angry, and he hated to be the real murderer.

After a long time, his solemn voice sounded in the room: "How did Qian Tianzhu die?" ”

"Based on the investigation of the scene, the transcript of the confession, and my personal speculation, I believe that the deceased should have been killed in the bedroom and then dumped in the well." Chen Ying said, put on gloves and walked to the head of the bed where the body was placed, lifted the white cloth, lifted Qian Tianxia's head, and pointed to the fatal wound.

"Let's talk about the injury first." She gently moved the head of the corpse so that it was facing Pei Shu's side as much as possible: "As far as I know, falling from a height can certainly form this kind of injury, but there is also a possibility that it can also form a ...... of the cervical vertebrae."

"I see." Pei Shu interrupted her suddenly, strode forward, took the deceased's head from her hand, stretched out his hands from behind, moved the corpse's jaw with one hand, locked the side of his cheek with the other, and twisted: "He was twisted by someone." ”

"Yes." Chen Ying's jaw said: "This action can cause cervical dislocation, and it is enough to kill people instantly. Later, the deceased was thrown from a height, causing multiple fractures of the skull and cervical vertebrae, and it was these fractures that covered up the real cause of his death. ”

She turned to the other side of the corpse, and a clean voice spread to Pei Shu's ear: "Now, let me tell you the whole process of speculation." The first is about the time of death of the deceased. ”

She picked up the white tunic from the pile of clothes and pointed to the blue mark on it: "This dyed tunic is one of the first and most important bases for me to conclude that this case is a homicide." ”

Pei Shu resumed his previous silence, but his face was cold and frightening.

Chen Ying saw it in his eyes, but he didn't say much, he only put down his middle shirt, picked up the royal blue shirt again, and lifted the lining: "Let's take a look at this dress first." This is a jacket, with two layers inside and outside, and if it is not soaked, it is impossible for the blue of the outer layer to penetrate the lining and dye the middle coat. Therefore, after discovering the stains on the jacket, I suspected that there was something else in the case. ”

She put her clothes in place, her eyebrows indifferent: "Qian Tianxia fell to his death in the middle of the night, and lay at the bottom of the damp well for six hours, or even longer. His face, ears, hands, etc., are relatively clean, but the back of his head is stained with a small amount of plaster, and the back of his coat is also a little dirty, which shows that the body was found in a state of lying on its back. ”

"Yes." Pei Shu affirmed Chen Ying's speculation: "When the body was fished up, he was indeed lying on his back, his legs curled up under him, shrunk into a ball. ”

She smiled at him and said, "Well, we know that he died on his back, which means that the clothes on his back were in contact with the damp soil for a long time, but the back of his middle coat was clean. ”

Chen Ying picked up the middle coat again, turned the back and showed it to Pei Shu: "On this point, I have come to the first conclusion, with the level of humidity in the wetland at the bottom of the well, it will not stain the color of the coat. Then, I came to a second conclusion: the placket of Qian Tianchuan's clothes should have been soaked in a large amount of water, resulting in serious decolorization, and the collar edge of the middle coat was dyed blue. ”

She paced slowly, and her voice was calm: "Just now you also said that the deceased was lying on his back in the well, and it rained again last night, and the rain soaked the deceased's placket, causing the current result, which also makes sense." However, if this is true, a new problem will arise. ”

She lowered her head and flipped through the transcript in her hand and said, "According to the testimony of the husband and the night watchman, the time when they witnessed the 'money falling from the sky' last night was a moment after the son. And by that time, the rain had stopped. ”

She looked at Pei Shu, her face was as cold as his: "Because I stayed at the inn last night, I was not used to it, I woke up twice in the middle of the night, I remember clearly, when I woke up the second time, Shi Leak was pointing to Zizheng (zero o'clock), and there was no rain outside the window." I was afraid that I would be mistaken, so I also carefully asked my husband and mother-in-law, and they all affirmed that it had not rained again at about the second quarter of the first day of the last night (half past eleven o'clock in the evening). ”

Pei Shu looked at her in a daze, and his heart was pounding.

Such a huge loophole, he didn't even find it!

During the interrogation of the confession, he only noticed the "eyewitness" testimony of the witnesses, but never thought that the wet clothes and the time when the witnesses saw the deceased were contradictory.

At this time, Chen Ying said again: "If you think about it according to this line of thought, the possibility that the deceased was wet by the rain will be ruled out." After all, the rain has stopped, and how can the deceased be 'wet' after falling into the well? So I thought, is it possible that he got his clothes wet somewhere else? ”

This question was obviously self-asking, and Pei Shu wisely did not answer.

Sure enough, Chen Ying had already begun to answer herself: "For this reason, I will assume for the time being that the deceased spilled wine or came into contact with water before falling into the well, so he wet his placket." So, when I first surveyed the site, I was looking for a possible source of water. ”

A smile appeared on her face, and she added, "The first thing to rule out is the brook in the garden." First, the deceased's residence was far from the creek; Second, the sound of falling into the water is too loud, which must alarm others; Thirdly, the water is quite deep, and if you fall into it, most of your body will be soaked, and it is impossible to wet only the placket. ”

After a pause, she continued to speculate: "Immediately after, I ruled out the clean room again. It was a dry toilet with no water at all. Again, I thought again about the dwelling of the deceased. After all, such things as basins, teapots, and wine jugs in houses can also cause such consequences, but this speculation has also been disproved. ”

She took out the record from her sleeve and compared it with its contents: "According to the confessions of the two family members, after dinner yesterday, the last urn of wine in the house had been drunk by the deceased, and he drunkenly asked the family to go and get it again. The deceased did not insist, and went to bed after washing. The two family members put the scarves, basins and other things in order, and took out the clothes and socks that the deceased had worn the next day, and then went back to the house. ”

She paused for a moment, and then continued: "When breakfast was delivered the next day, they thought that the deceased was still sleeping because they saw the bed tent falling, so they did not disturb him. At that time, the tea in the teapot had not been touched at all, and one of the family members spilled it, replaced it with new tea, and then withdrew. ”