The night is getting darker, and the winter cold is getting heavier.

Chunmiao stood under the eaves, holding a lantern in her hand, and the flames flickered, shining on her face as blue and white, I don't know if it was cold or frightened.

Glancing into the room from time to time, he quickly turned his head and silently recited Amitabha Buddha in his heart.

When he read it more than a hundred times, the light and shadow inside swayed, expanding in circles, and finally illuminated the door frame, alluding to a slender figure.

"Miss!" Chunmiao's heart jumped, and she hurriedly held Lu Anran's arm, "You finally came out, the slave was standing at the door, and she was very flustered." ”

Lu Anran blew out the candlestick in his hand and asked Chunmiao to lock the room again.

"What did Miss find?"

"I still don't understand."

One question and one answer, it didn't seem to be on the same topic, Chunmiao didn't ask, helped Lu Anran to leave from here, and said in her mouth: "Why didn't Miss just tell Village Chief Yin that maybe his daughter-in-law was the murderer." ”

Lu Anran shook his head: "In between, most of them speculate and judge, and there is no actual evidence. ”

Chunmiao blinked, her face full of doubts, "Then why did Miss go to the trouble to check on Yin Tianxiang's and his wife's room?" ”

Lu Anran lowered his eyes: "Xu is...... Just to solve the mystery in my own mind. ”

Chunmiao smiled proudly: "Anyway, I don't think the government is as powerful as Miss and Yun Gongzi, and if you go out twice, the matter will be investigated." ”

Lu Anran glanced at her: "There are still one or two points missing." ”

"It's just one or two points, and after all, things have a direction, and it's easy to do."

Lu Anran was stunned and sighed: "The last two points are the key, the motive for committing a case, the specific time and place, what murder weapon was used in the crime, how many people there are, the modus operandi, and the process of committing the crime, etc., are all indispensable." ”

"Ahh Chunmiao reacted and shouted, "Miss is going to Yin Tianxiang's house, just to add eight or nine points." ”

The two of them circled the inside and outside of the house, but found a secret door through the outer wall, which was easily invisible from the inside because it was blocked by bushes and an osmanthus tree.

returned to the Buddha hall and handed over the key, and before Village Chief Yin could ask, Lu Anran asked about the door first.

"Originally, there was a door to move some firewood, but every winter freezes, the road behind is slippery and difficult to walk, so I don't need it for many years."

Especially a few years ago, the mother of the elder of Yin Village fell once and lost her life, first, she missed her deceased mother and felt unlucky, so she simply locked the door.

Lu Anran: "In other words, if you have a key, you can still go?" ”

Village Chief Yin: "Naturally, yes. ”

"Where's the key?"

"I put it in the wing locker, I haven't touched it in so many years, and of course it's still there."

Lu Anran's dark eyes were slightly deep, and he pointed out: "It was before, but not now." ”

Village Chief Yin's two eyebrows were brought together, and a deep groove was squeezed out in the middle, "What do you want to say, it's better to say it quickly." ”

Lu Anran's eyes were certain: "That door is next to the room of Yin Tianxiang and his wife." ”

Village Chief Yin reacted, his pupils were shocked, his face twitched violently, and he turned around and ran towards the wing.

When Lu Anran and Chun Miao arrived in a hurry, Village Chief Yin was blushing, his hands were still shaking with his fists, and the candlelight and shadows were staggered, full of dejection.

Lu Anran didn't need him to say it, he understood that the key was gone.

The wind moved, the candles flickered, and a scream pierced the night sky.

The three of them looked towards the place where the sound came from, and it didn't take long for Yin Tianming to run over breathlessly, and when he arrived at the door of the wing, before he could speak, his legs were weak, and he almost fell, so he almost held on to the door frame.

"Father, father......" snorted, his face was full of sweat, "Brother and daughter-in-law, brother and daughter-in-law, she ......" her teeth bit her tongue, and her sore head twitched, but she was able to say the words smoothly, "I killed myself holding the golden hairpin in the room!" ”

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The wind started again, and the snow that had stopped for a long time was blown, and the snow particles hit the face, cold as a knife.

After Yin Tianxiang's accident, Wei moved to Su Su's room, and at this time, many people had already screamed at the door, listening to the movement outside, and other villagers also came one after another.

Inside, there were no less than dozens of fat middle-aged women around her, gossiping and asking questions, until Village Chief Yin passed over, and everyone got out of the way.

Lu Anran stepped forward to follow, asked someone to block the road, and turned his eyes to look, "Shizi? ”

"You don't have to squeeze into this person, if there's anything you want to know, I'll tell you."

Lu Anran thought for a moment and asked, "The prince was there just now?" ”

"I just came back to see you and went straight to the Buddha Hall, so I talked to Yin Tianming." Yunqi is still the silver-robed fox fur, with clear bones and grace, black hair like splashing ink in the wind, freehand, but there is a little less frivolity in his expression, which makes his nobility heavier, "Originally, I was looking to see if the widow Wang and his words could match, and I happened to meet the woman who brought the food." ”

Since the accident at Village Chief Yin's house, there are two people left, Village Chief Yin and Yin Tianming, one of whom is too sad, and the other is that they need to keep watch from time to time, so no one takes care of the affairs at home. Therefore, after several uncles and father-in-law in the village discussed with everyone, each family contributed to help, and the woman of the next family was responsible for cooking rice, and three meals a day were delivered here.

Yunqi said: "When I met her, she said that she had sent Wei a medicine in the evening, and Wei said that she was sleepy and wanted to sleep for a while, and she went to shout once during dinner, but there was no movement inside, and the woman thought that Wei might have left before she woke up.

When I went back at this hour, she still responded silently, she was hesitating, Yin Tianming and I heard it, so we asked her to open the door and go in to have a look, only to find that Wei Shi was dead in the room. ”

After briefly talking about the previous situation, Lu Anran understood a rough idea, and just as Village Chief Yin also finished asking, he shrank his steps before opening the door and entering, and looked at Lu Anran.

"Chunmiao, you stay here." Lu Anran dropped this sentence, quickened his pace, took a step ahead of Village Chief Yin, and entered the room.

Lu Anran came once, and the layout of the farmhouse and courtyard was almost the same, but because the children lived, there were a few more gadgets, which were originally stored in a bamboo basket, and they were scattered all over the place at the moment.

Next to the overturned basket, there was Wei's corpse, holding the golden hairpin in his right hand, and the other end of the golden hairpin was pierced on Wei's chest, blood stained red clothes, overflowing the ground, and solidified in the middle of the road, as if Wei's life came to an abrupt end.

"Dead man, dead man again."

"Oh, you're dead, you're really dead, Amitabha."

"Young, alas...... Poor village chief's family, how can such a disaster come to his house. ”

"It won't be cursed by demons......"

There were many people, and the fear was dispersed, and it seemed that the gall was fattened, and they squeezed the door frame and looked in, until someone said a ghost, and the panic that had just dispersed was gathered again, and everyone suddenly fell silent.

Lu Anran walked around the corpse first, and the ground was very messy, not only the overturned gadgets, but also the fragments of tea bowls, overturned stools, and various footprints of different sizes.

Yunqi stood at the door, saw Lu Anran staring at the footprints on the ground, and touched his nose: "It happened too fast, and the first few rushed in, and they didn't have time to stop it." ”

Lu Anran raised his eyes and glanced at him, and his eyes seemed to say-you don't understand such a simple truth as protecting the scene of the crime?

Yunqi felt the contempt in his eyes, wanted to speak, opened his mouth, and had nothing to say, opened the fan and fanned the wind vigorously to drive away the evil fire!

"Moonwatching! How do you do it? ”

Holding a sword and squatting on the tree to watch the moon, he almost fell down, and he was a palace guard in addition to moving stones, running errands to check the scene, picking door locks, and now he has an additional task of guarding the door?

Lu Anran didn't care that Yunqi's master and servant glared at each other, she took out her sheepskin gloves and picked up a few broken hairs from the ground and put them on the spread out handkerchief, and then turned her head to check the corpse.

"Look at the golden hairpin." A villager saw Lu Anran pick up the golden hairpin held by the Wei family, and patted the people around him: "The Wei family specially wore it in front of us last time to show off." ”

"Yes, yes, I remember, it's her favorite hairpin, although it is made of bronze inside, and there is a gilded surface outside, but this shape is really exquisite, even the county can't find the same, only in the royal capital and other flowery places."

It can be seen that the focus of women is the same.

"I'll see." Sister-in-law Tian came out of the crowd, squinted her eyes, and said loudly: "What is Wei's golden hairpin, I look like the Jin family has worn such one." ”

Saying this, several people remembered it and nodded one after another: "Jin has a few good pieces of jewelry in her hand, let's just say that the bracelets and earrings she wears most often, if you think about it carefully, the style is not exactly the same as this hairpin, it seems to be a whole set." ”

Sister-in-law Tian clapped her hands exaggeratedly: "Ouch, hey! According to you, the golden hairpin that Wei used to commit suicide was her favorite, and it is very likely that this hairpin originally belonged to Jin. ”

Everyone was startled and turned around, and the women crowded in front of them took a few steps back at the same time.

"Mo ...... Isn't it...... The Jin family turned into a resentful ghost and leaned over Jin Hai, only ......"

"I also look at Wei's character, not like a person who is easy to find short-sightedness."

"Mother, the ghost is asking for your life!"

The north wind howled, roaming the village surrounded by mountains, like wild beasts roaring, a hundred ghosts walking nocturnally, and the dark night was even more eerie.

Lu Anran took out a box of balm from Wei's body, opened the lid, and the smell of incense immediately emanated, and her complexion changed slightly.

Yunqi kept paying attention, and immediately put away the fan and asked, "What?" ”

"The smell of lilacs."

Yun Qi took a few steps to Lu Anran's side, leaned over and smelled it, the taste was light and fragrant, but it lasted for a long time, lingering like a ghostly aura.

Village Chief Yin watched the two of them play dumb riddles, and he had no patience for the successive accidents at home, and his face was even more gloomy than the dark clouds on a snowy day, "What Miss Lu said directly." ”

Lu Anran covered Wei's face with a handkerchief, gave her the last trace of decency, slowly got up, looked at Village Chief Yin and the others, and said softly: "After Su Su fell off the cliff, I smelled such a fragrance on her, and then there was an accident in the Buddhist hall, and the windowsill near the position of the Buddha statue also left this smell." ”

As he spoke, he asked Village Chief Yin: "The village chief still remembers that I just asked to go to Yin Tianxiang's room again." ”

Village Chief Yin's lips pursed into a line, and he listened to Lu Anran's words not shocking: "Although the fragrance in his room is dispersed, I found the same paste stained on the inner wall of the bath barrel. ”

A thunderbolt from the sky slashed at Village Chief Yin, and his whole person was crooked, almost fainting.

An idea suddenly popped into his mind, no wonder the key was lost, and the murderer was at home!

Wei, his daughter-in-law, is the murderer!