Hearing Rong Fei say that there was a third person in the room at that time, and it was very likely that it was the murderer, Steward Liu suddenly showed a fierce face, showed his arms and sleeves, and searched all over the house with thugs and turtle gong.

Since the murder to the present, no one has been out of the house, so the murderer must have been hiding somewhere in the house.

it, do things in Lao Tzu's territory to block Lao Tzu, see if Lao Tzu doesn't pick your skin.

Steward Liu said fiercely in his heart.

The room where the dust girl receives guests is not big, and there are not many furniture in the room, and there are only two places under the bed and the wardrobe that can hide a big living person.

Liu Guan personally lay on the floor in advance to check the bottom of the bed, and swept the emptiness below with a glance.

Standing up, not bothering to pat the dust on his clothes, he made a gesture towards the thugs and the turtles.

Six or seven thugs and turtles will be surrounded by the wardrobes that can hide people.

Picking up the stool that had just smashed Chunxiang, Steward Liu walked to the wardrobe door, slammed open a cabinet door with his left hand, and smashed the stool into the wardrobe with his right hand.

"Something that doesn't open your eyes, I'll kill you!"

Boom!

The stool smashed into the closet, smashing a stack of women's underwear and smashing the inner wall of the closet.

"Hey, why is there no one?"

Steward Liu looked at the clothes scattered from the closet, muttered strangely, and then unwillingly opened the other cabinet door.

The six-foot-tall and four-foot-wide wardrobe has double doors that open open, revealing the interior to the public.

"Your Excellency... Am I mistaken?"

Steward Liu turned around and said to Rong Fei with the anger in his heart.

If it weren't for the jealousy of the identity of the Immortal Division, Lao Tzu would have killed you for everything he said today.

"Hehe, I didn't say that the murderer was hiding in the closet, it was Steward Liu that you thought too much about yourself."

Rong Fei sneered.

"Just now, my lord, you said that there was a third person in the house, and no one had ever gone out from here, and there were only these two places where people could hide, not here, and not there, could it be that this person would be invisible through the wall."

Steward Liu's anger was a little uncontrollable, and he said sarcastically.

Rong Fei didn't bother to be as knowledgeable as him, walked to the wardrobe with his hands behind his back and looked inside, then went to the bed and looked down, and then said slowly.

"Through the clues and evidence previously obtained, Haruka's murder suspicion was ruled out, and the possibility of the deceased committing suicide was denied. Therefore, Ben came to the hypothesis that there must have been a third person in the house at that time.

The so-called bold assumptions, carefully verify. Now that the hypothesis has been made, the next step is to verify it.

In handling cases, we must look at the overall situation, and then find out the unusual details, so that we can find the final truth. Now please think back to the whole process of the case, are there any details that have been left out or anything out of the ordinary?"

Detail?

What's unusual?

Everyone couldn't help but think about it carefully when they heard it.

"Is it suddenly pitch black in front of you?"

Someone suddenly shouted outside the door.

"Exactly."

Rong Fei nodded.

"Haruka-girl, when you first started playing peek-a-boo, there were candles lit in the house, right?"

"Yes."

"I see there were four candlesticks in the house, and they were all lit?"

"Not all lit."

Haruka shook her head and explained.

"Because the blindfold was used to blindfold the guests, and the silk handkerchief was transparent, and if the fire was too bright, a faint figure could be seen through the silk handkerchief, so I only lit the candle on the dresser at that time."

"Oh, all of a sudden the room was pitch black while playing the game, and it was because the candles went out. Is it possible that the wind from the customer's movement is too large to blow out the candle?"

Rong Fei asked again.

"No, it won't. At that time, my guests and I were so far away from the dresser that we couldn't get the wind on my clothes."

Haruka replied.

"Is this kind of candle a haruka girl, do you usually use it, and have you ever gone out suddenly before?"

Rong Fei walked to the dresser, pulled out the candle on the candlestick, took it in his hand, and gently blew the flame and asked.

"The candles are rationed in the building, and this hasn't happened before."

After Haruka answered, Rong Fei turned to Xiao Wei and asked.

"Little girl, there are four candlesticks in the room, why did you light this one after entering the room?"

The maid Xiao Wei was stunned by Rong Fei's question, and after thinking for a while, she hesitated to answer.

"I... I don't know, probably... Maybe it was because it was so close."

"Can you elaborate on how you lit this candle?"

"Huh?"

Xiao Wei was a little dazed, and looked at Rong Fei for some reason. Seeing Rong Fei's serious look, he spoke.

"Just run to the front of the dresser, take out the fire sickle and light the candle."

"Did it ignite all at once?"

"Uh... Not really. My hands were shaking so badly that it took me several strokes to light the scythe, and the candles were... It took several times to ignite."

"Did you feel that something was wrong at the time?"

"Does it count if the candle is not very good?"

"Yes, of course."

Rong Fei nodded, walked to the table near the wall with the candle, lit the candle on the table first, and then blew out the candle in his hand.

"From the time the candle suddenly goes out to the time when Miss Xiao Wei comes in and relights the candle, it should not be more than thirty breaths, the wick of the candle is still hot, it should be easily lit, just like this."

Rong Fei blew on the extinguished wick twice, allowing it to cool to almost the same temperature as thirty breaths later, and then brought the candle close to the flame, lighting it easily.

"But the situation at that time was that it took some time for Miss Yui to ignite it, and there was only one possibility why this happened."

Rong Fei said, tilting the candle in his hand slightly towards the candle on the table. Because of the sudden increase in temperature, the candle on the table sped up its melting, and soon the red wax overflowed and flowed down the candle.

Everyone guessed that Rong Fei's move must have another meaning, so they all stared at the two candles and were reluctant to blink, for fear of missing important information by mistake.

The interval between one exhalation and one inhalation is one breath, and there is a slight difference due to the difference in each person's lung capacity, so the value in the middle is about six seconds.

The onlookers were counting their breaths and counting the time, staring intently at the two candles.

Five breaths... Ten breaths... Twenty breaths... Thirty breaths...

After fifty breaths, nothing happened except for a puddle of wax solidified on the table, and two candles became a little shorter.

After such a long time without blinking, many people finally couldn't help but close their eyes and rub hard.

"Oops... Why did it suddenly go out?"

Suddenly, someone shouted in surprise.

The person who had just closed his eyes hurriedly opened them, and sure enough, he saw that the candle on the table had been extinguished, but the candle in Rong Fei's hand was still burning.

What's even more strange is that the flame of the candle in Rong Fei's hand is next to the extinguished candle, but the candle is as if it is dead, and there is no flame to ignite.

Do candles die?

There is no life in the first place, how can there be life and death.

So why doesn't it burn when it meets fire?

Because there is no core!

"Damn, selling fakes actually came to the building, and I don't want to mess around in Kyoto City in the future, right?"

Steward Liu scolded angrily.

The situation is already obvious, there is something wrong with the quality of this batch of candles, and they go out by themselves when they are burned.

It is estimated that the cotton core wrapped inside should be broken.

"Hehehe, Steward Liu is not in a hurry, it shouldn't be a candle problem."

Rong Fei spoke, then walked to another unlit candle, pulled the candle off the candlestick, walked to the real place where everyone could see at the door, and held the candle and turned it slowly.

"Hey, there's a hole in this candle."

A turtle man who was closer pointed to the candle in Rong Fei's hand and said in surprise.

"Whoever has a sharp dagger or a knife to borrow one."

Rong Fei asked.

"I have."

Bai Zizi flicked his sleeves, and a delicate small sword with the length of a palm appeared in his hand.

Rong Fei reached out and took the small sword, carefully inserted the tip of the sword into the small hole on the candle a little bit, rotated around the candle, and then gently broke the candle along the carved traces.

Rong Fei's movements were very careful and gentle, but even so, the cotton wick inside the candle was still broken after it was broken.

Although everyone didn't understand the significance of Rong Fei's move, they still couldn't help but sigh with regret.

Rong Fei seemed to be unwilling, and this time he didn't use a small sword to carve and scratch, he directly used his fingers to break the candle in two simply and rudely.

The strange thing is that Rong Fei broke the candle with such a rough action, but the cotton core inside was not broken, and it was still tenaciously connected to the two severed candles.

"Oh, I see. When the cotton core was broken for the first time, it was not broken, but had already been broken. The little hole in the top of the candle was left when the cotton wick was broken."

People with fast brains were the first to suddenly say.

When Steward Liu heard this, he hurriedly ran to fetch the last unlit candle in the room, and sure enough, he saw that there was also a small hole near the top of the house.

Use your fingertips to crush the candle little by little, starting from the top, and when it reaches the level of the hole, a small piece of cotton wick falls off and falls directly on the floor.

At this point, only a small hole is left in the cross-section of the candle, and the remaining cotton wick is shrunk into the hole.

Seeing that everyone here understands, the cotton wick inside the candle is not only broken, but directly cut off a little bit, and the cotton wick on it burns out and cannot be sustained, and the candle will extinguish itself.

Therefore, it took some time for Xiao Wei to light the candle, because the cotton core was a little shorter, and the wax mud covered with it had to be melted before the cotton core could be ignited.

In this way, it explains why the candle goes out on its own.

Because someone has tampered with it.

"My lord, the matter of the extinguishing of the candle has been clarified, but you still haven't said where the murderer is hiding?"

Steward Liu asked.