Chen Ying closed the record and looked at Pei Shu: "The testimony of the two family members corroborates each other, and when they testify, their demeanor is natural and their logic is not flawed, as far as I can see, there is no problem, and it can basically be concluded that they are both telling the truth." ”

At the end of the sentence, her expression became a little meaningful: "At this point, I can only pick up the first inference, that is, the rain." ”

"Or is it raining?" Pei Shu looked at her suspiciously: "However, this time is not right......"

He suddenly realized, his pupils shrank, and his face sank.

"I see." He nodded, his face pale, "I see what you mean." The key point is time. ”

"Yes, time." Chen Ying repeated softly, affirming his speculation, and added: "At least at the beginning of the child, Qian Tianluo should have fallen into the well and been drenched in the rain for at least two quarters, otherwise, his placket would not have been so wet." However, this person, who had died at the beginning of the child, appeared ghostly after the moment of the child, and was also seen by two witnesses. If this person is not a ghost, there is only one possibility, which is what I inferred earlier. ”

"The murderer pretended to be Qian Tianxia, in a vain attempt to cover up the truth of his murder by accidentally falling to his death." Pei Shu said coldly.

"That's true." Chen Ying bowed her head, lowered her eyes in her hand to record, and her smile did not decrease: "At this point, I have finished stating the inference about the time of Qian Tian's death. Next, there is speculation about the location of his death. There are two bases for this speculation. ”

She looked up at Pei Shu and pointed to the deceased's clothes placed in front of him: "The first basis for this is the deceased's boots. ”

When Pei Shu heard this, he immediately picked up the pair of boots, and Chen Ying said: "I don't know if Ah Shu has found that the soles of the deceased's boots are almost not dirty and clean." ”

"Really?" Pei Shu raised his eyebrows, turned over the soles of his boots and looked, and saw that there was only a small amount of mud on it, which could be called clean.

Chen Ying said at this time: "I don't know if you realize it, most of the stone paths in this house are overgrown with weeds and are very slippery, if it is rainy, I am afraid that it will be more difficult to walk." Just then I found out that even if it was you, you only walked on the muddy ground. ”

Pei Shu thought about it for a while, and it was indeed the case, so he bowed his head: "I haven't noticed it yet, but if I think about it carefully, it's really true." ”

After finishing speaking, he already understood, and couldn't help smiling: "As soon as you say this, I understand." If the money had fallen and died outside, it would have rained last night, the roads would have been muddy, and the soles of his boots would not have been so clean. ”

"That's just one of the reasons." Chen Ying bent her lips and looked down at the transcript: "The two family members confessed that the boots and socks they prepared for the deceased last night were all washed, and according to the descriptions of the two, the shoes and socks they prepared were the two things we saw at this time. This indicates that the clothes were at the foot of the deceased's bed when the deceased went to sleep last night. ”

She raised her eyes to look at Pei Shu with a determined expression: "Based on this, I have preliminarily determined that the deceased's room is the first crime scene. ”

Pei Shu nodded heavily.

Chen Ying added: "The second piece of evidence that proves this argument is the half of the footprints under the head of the deceased's bed. ”

Pei Shu raised his head suddenly.

There are footprints?

He suddenly remembered that when he was investigating the scene, Chen Ying had climbed under Qian Tian's bed.

It turned out that she had discovered such an important clue.

Pei Shu didn't know what to say, so he could only listen to him.

At this time, Chen Ying had already walked to Pei Shu and showed him a simple picture in the record book: "Ah Shu, look, this is a schematic diagram of the bottom of the bed of the deceased that I painted. ”

Pei Shu looked at her, and saw that there were large and small black dots painted on the picture, with the word "floating ash" marked in the upper left corner, and there were several handwriting in the ink dots, respectively written "shoe prints", "dirty socks", "chicken bones" and other words.

Pei Shu was surprised.

This well-said case, why did these suddenly pop up?

Chen Ying looked at him, his face was as calm as ever: "Although Qian Tianxia's house is quite clean, it is very dirty under the bed. I guess he must be lazy, and the two groups of people you sent shouldn't be very good at cleaning. ”

The corners of her mouth moved, and she continued: "When I was investigating, I deliberately crawled under the bed and found that there were a lot of debris under the deceased's bed, and these dirty socks and chicken bones were all heavy with floating ash, and no one cleaned them for at least ten days. Because of this, this half of the footprint remained. ”

She pointed to the marked place and deliberately turned the paper in a direction so that Pei Shu could see it more clearly: "You see, the toes of this footprint are facing the head of the bed, and the marks are still fresh. Judging by the degree of mess under the bed, and the degree of mess with the bedding, I can tell you with certainty that this was not left behind by the deceased or the family members or the guards, who usually did not bother to touch the place. ”

This clean voice was like a trickle, like a trickle, like Pei Shu's ears.

Somehow, he had a momentary trance.

At that moment, he suddenly remembered that when he was a child, his mother seemed to have said something similar.

"Dirty, forget it." The woman in her memory, put down the dignity of Mrs. Hou, held the broom with her own hand, swept out the debris under the bed, and looked at the heroic man with hatred.

And every then, the heroic man would laugh wryly, look like he had nowhere to put his hands and feet, and defend himself with his face, "I make people sweep the floor every day."

The woman would slam the brick floor with a broomstick, look disgusted, and scold the man, "I know that the surface is bare, and I never sweep under the bed, and there are many problems, and I will not be served, and I will only be tired."

Although he said this hatefully, Pei Shu felt that the woman, his mother, was actually happy.

It's the same with my father.

Those little complaints, small excuses, are like crumbs dancing in the sun, small and warm.

He still remembered the way they spoke, the corners of their lips, the undersides of their eyes, and the eyebrows, overflowing with joy and happiness.

His thoughts were like water waves, and Pei Shu didn't know where he was.

“…… Therefore, I deduced from this that the murderer was standing at the head of the bed. Chen Ying finally finished speaking, and when she looked up, she suddenly felt that Pei Shu's face was wrong.

"What are you thinking? What's wrong? She asked, her eyes fixed on him.

In an instant, Pei Shuru was burned, from his heart to his limbs, and it hurt hotly.

He came back to his senses immediately.

The discussion of the case was at a critical juncture, and his thoughts were flying wildly, and he really failed to live up to her affection for him.

"I didn't think much of it." He coughed in disguise, and the hand holding the sword changed to support his forehead: "There are many suspicious points in this case, but before you came, I didn't know it." ”

At the end of the words, the tone was already extremely solemn, and looking at Chen Ying's eyes, he was also dignified.

"Ah Ying, fortunately with you, things have taken a turn for the better." He said, his mellow voice, as if it was fragrant with wine.