Chapter 18: The Mystery of the Kitchen Secret Room
"Why was the old butler brought back by Commander Fang, Adjutant Zhao should know, right?"
"I know this, when the old butler was begging on the street, Commander Fang brought the old butler back. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"That's all? In the era of war and chaos, there were so many people begging, why did they bring back the old housekeeper? ”
"I don't know about this, and it's not easy for a subordinate to ask a question like this."
"Then now except for Adjutant Zhao, everyone else has a motive to kill, I will start to check the body now, will I allow Commander Fang's body to be viewed?" Xu Tian looked at the Fang family and said.
"Just check." The old lady squinted and said.
"Mr. Xu." Xiao Nannan said. "Regarding Adjutant Zhao, he also has a motive to kill."
When Xiao Nannan's voice fell, everyone present was shocked.
"Do you know about Adjutant Zhao? Do you know Adjutant Zhao? The eldest young master asked.
"This Adjutant Zhao, he used to be my father's subordinate, he disappeared after my father's death five years ago, I recognized him after I came to the Fang Mansion, but Adjutant Zhao doesn't seem to know me, although I don't think Adjutant Zhao should be confessed, but now I can't stand the death of the old housekeeper, I am a person who loves and hates, the old housekeeper has no enmity with me, if the case is really related to Adjutant Zhao, I will not sit idly by." Xiao Nannan said.
"Adjutant Zhao, is this incident true?" Xu Tian asked.
"Okay!" Adjutant Zhao nodded and said. "Indeed, as Xiao Nannan said, I used to be a deputy head of the regiment under Commander Xiao, but before Commander Xiao died, I had already left, because I couldn't get used to Commander Xiao's practice of bullying the people, with all due respect, it was natural for Commander Xiao to be killed, and it was not a pity for him to die a hundred times for those things that hurt heaven and reason."
"You talk nonsense, my father is not what you say." Xiao Nannan argued.
"How can you know all the bad things you did as a father? Commander Fang was also doing the right thing for heaven back then, everyone present knew it, right? When Commander Fang exterminated Xiaojia County, the people of the county were all cheering, and no one came forward to seek justice for Commander Xiao, but Commander Fang was elected by the people as the Qingtian Lord who eliminated harm for the people. Adjutant Zhao's face was upright, and after saying these words, his eyes were already rosy.
Everyone present was silent, and this time no one came out to scold Commander Fang.
"Adjutant Zhao loves Commander Fang so much, and no one refutes Adjutant Zhao's words just now, so to speak, the commander of the front in five years has really done a good thing?" Xu Tian said.
"What a good thing." Mrs. Fang said. "That beast is just a crooked attack to destroy an evil force, in the era of warlord secession, isn't it all you who beat me, and I eat you? It's so normal. ”
"Shut up, you!" The old lady retorted. "Regarding the incident five years ago, I still support this brute, no matter what, Commander Fang did do a harm to the place back then, but I don't know which tendon is wrong with this brute, he didn't destroy the descendants of the Xiao family, and now he leaves the root cause, people don't know when they come to seek revenge, and they want to marry someone! It's so ironic. ”
"Anyway, Adjutant Zhao has always been by my side, about Adjutant Zhao's suspicion, naturally it can be cleared, and now everyone's motives have been investigated, but except for Adjutant Zhao, the so-called alibi of others cannot be established, we have to find the answer from the corpse, let's first examine the corpse of the old housekeeper nearby!"
Adjutant Zhao and the second young master lifted the old butler down from the stove, and Xu Tian first checked the fruit knife that stabbed the old butler to death, this is a common knife, and it is a little reluctant as a murder weapon, because the tip of the knife is not very sharp, and there is only one blade, it stands to reason that this kind of knife wants to pierce the chest, it takes a lot of strength.
There are two knife cuts in the heart, indicating that the fruit knife was not stabbed in one go, but why didn't the old butler struggle? This point really made Xu Tian incomprehensible.
Xu Tian, who was reading the novel, wanted to test the fingerprints of the knife handle, but in that environment and in that era, the key evidence of fingerprints may be difficult to test.
"This fruit knife was stabbed twice, the first time the knife was very shallow, and the old butler should be very painful at this time, but the old butler did not resist, which is very doubtful, under what circumstances can the old butler not resist? Could it be that the old butler was stabbed to death by the murderer of his own volition? Xu Tian asked.
"Probably not!" Adjutant Zhao said with a wink. "Who can be killed voluntarily? It simply doesn't make sense. ”
"If there is a certain reason, it is not impossible, you see this first knife edge, it is obvious that it was stabbed from the bottom up, and judging from the knife edge, the handle of the knife should be on the right side at that time, this posture is completely the old butler stabbing himself with a fruit knife in his right hand. But the second knife that caused the old butler's death was different, it was obviously stabbed from above, and the handle was very straight, the old butler should have been stabbed to death by someone else, but it was too strange, so why was the first wound? Why did the old butler stab himself himself? ”
"Could it be...... The person who locked the door was also the old housekeeper himself? Adjutant Zhao said with a straight glare.
"That's right, when Mrs. Fang saw the old housekeeper die in the kitchen, the moment Mrs. Fang turned around, she felt that someone was watching her, I thought, it should be the old housekeeper pretending to be dead at that time, and after Mrs. Fang left, the old housekeeper locked the kitchen door, but then the old housekeeper was really stabbed to death, the question is, when was the old housekeeper stabbed to death, could it be that there were other people in the kitchen at that time? But there was no trace in the kitchen, and the snow outside was so big that if a second person entered the kitchen, it would definitely leave footprints with snow water, but there was nothing in the kitchen, which made no sense. ”
"Could it be...... Could it be a ghost? I think that the Fang Mansion has been haunted recently, and it must be a ghost! Mrs. Fang shouted in horror.
"Impossible, it must have been a man-made crime, but the old housekeeper was stabbed to death voluntarily, all indications can show that when the old housekeeper left the study, he deliberately gave Mrs. Fang a look, just to ask Mrs. Fang to give the murderer this alibi, the old housekeeper must have communicated with the murderer, pretended to be dead first, and then let Mrs. Fang see that she was dead. Later, after Mrs. Fang left, the old housekeeper locked the kitchen door and continued to lie on the stove as if he was dead, and then when we found the old housekeeper's body, the murderer found an opportunity to stab the old housekeeper to death. Originally, this plan could be quickly recognized, because after the old housekeeper gave Mrs. Fang a look, if Mrs. Fang followed the old housekeeper immediately, the murderer would definitely find an excuse to stop Mrs. Fang, but unexpectedly, Mrs. Fang took the initiative to hesitate for a while, which created time for the old housekeeper to pretend to be dead, and even God was helping the murderer. ”