Chapter 103: The Perfect Plan
"The murderer was hiding under the bed."
Rong Fei pointed to the bed in the room and said.
"My lord, I've checked it, and there's no one under the bed."
Steward Liu emphasized helplessly.
"It's still hiding there."
Rong Fei ignored Steward Liu, and half-turned his body to point to the corner of the room near the wardrobe and said.
Everyone's eyes followed the direction of Rong Fei's finger, and the wardrobe blocked the candlelight, casting a shadow in that corner. But even so, everyone could see clearly, there was no one in the corner, and there was no place to hide.
"My lord, did you see anything unclean?"
Liu Guan looked at the corner of the wall in advance, and made sure that there was not even a ghost shadow anywhere. Turning his head to look at Rong Fei again, he saw that Rong Fei's face was full of seriousness, not like a joke, so he asked smartly.
Rong Fei ignored him, but walked to the edge of the bed and squatted down, poked his palm in, and asked at the same time towards Chunxiang.
"Haruka girl, do you clean the bed often?"
Chunxiang didn't answer when she heard this, but turned her head to look at the maid Xiao Wei beside her.
Xiao Wei looked a little apprehensive, and after glancing at Manager Liu first, he replied in a whisper.
"I'm in charge of cleaning Sister Chunxiang's room, because there are too many guests lately, and I have to clean several rooms at the same time, so... So only the bright side was cleaned, and the dark areas and some corners were not cleaned."
Steward Liu frowned when he heard this, and glared at Xiao Wei fiercely.
"Well, that's true."
Rong Fei's hand touched the floor on the edge of the bed a few times, and when he took out his hand, his fingers and palms rubbed a lot of dust.
After wiping the dust off his hands, Rong Fei reached under the bed again, but this time it was in the middle area.
After a few strokes of the rubbing, he took out his hand and showed it to everyone.
This time, Rong Fei's palms were clean and not contaminated with dust.
Looking at Rong Fei's clean palms, and then looking at the space under the bed that can accommodate people to lie down and get in, people who react quickly suddenly realized.
"Oh, I see what this lord means, the murderer did hide under the bed, but then he changed places."
"That's not right. The only things that can hide people in the room are under the bed and in the closet, these two places have been checked, and we can see clearly, there is no one at all. The murderer doesn't disappear into thin air, does he?"
Everyone was talking about it for a while, and all kinds of speculations emerged one after another.
"Don't rush to conclusions, let me connect all the clues, and then the truth will naturally surface."
Rong Fei raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, then walked to the door, stood facing the inside of the room and asked Haruka.
"Did Miss Haruka leave the room before receiving this guest?"
"Hmm... Leave for a while."
Haruka's face turned red, and she lowered her head and replied in a low voice.
"How long will it take to leave, will there be people in the room when you leave, and is the room locked?"
"Probably... After two cups of tea, there was no one else in the room when they left, and it was not locked."
"Can you light a candle in the room when you leave?"
"It takes a long time to wash up, so I blow out the candles before leaving, which saves some candle expenses. And seeing that there is no light in the room, the uncles will not bring guests into the room."
Chunxiang's answer was not as expected by Rong, and after nodding, Rong officially began to sort out the case.
"Assuming I'm the murderer now, Haruka girl just left the room for some reason, I hid in the dark and observed for a long time, and finally waited for the opportunity and sneaked in.
Although there were many people on the verandah outside, no one noticed that I had sneaked into this room because their attention was drawn to the poetry meeting that was being held on the first floor.
After entering the room, I took out the tools I had prepared in advance to cut the wick. Because there are four sticks of wax in the room
Candles, in the case of not sure which one Chunxiang will ignite, simply cut all four wicks short, which is more secure. Chinese Net
After cutting the wick, I hid under the bed and waited patiently for Haruka to return. Why should I hide under a cramped bed that is difficult to get in and out of, instead of hiding in the closet?"
Rong Fei walked to the side of the closet and reached out to open a cabinet door, which made a slight creak.
Pulling open the other cabinet door, there was still a creaking sound.
Close the two cabinet doors and squeak... Squeak, two more very soft squeaks.
"Because the cabinet door makes a sound when it opens and closes, I have to hide under the bed so that I don't notice when I commit murder. The next thing is to wait for Haruka to come back and light the candles, and after a while, the guests enter the house, and the two play a game of peek-a-boo. When the wick in the candle burns out, the room is plunged into darkness.
The eyes are adaptable to light, and the light suddenly disappears, and it takes a while for the eyes to adjust to the sudden darkness, and basically nothing can be seen during this time. I've been under a dimly lit bed, so I've been getting used to it a little quicker.
At this moment I got out from under the bed, walked behind the guest, covered his mouth with one hand so that he could not make any sound, and stabbed him to death with a knife in the other. After gently putting the body down, the murder weapon was placed next to the corpse, and then one of the corpse's arms was raised and then released, so that the sound of the arm colliding with the floor attracted Haruka's attention, and I took the opportunity to go to the gap between the closet and the corner to hide it.
Haruka tripped over the corpse and touched the dagger with blood on her hands as I had planned. Yui then notices the anomaly and enters the room and lights the candle on the dresser. Because the light of the candles on the dresser is blocked by the wardrobe, and the shadow of the wardrobe is projected into the corner, I am dressed like these people... Brotherly clothes."
Rong Fei stretched out his hand and pointed to a turtle boy and said.
The turtles of the Golden Wind Drizzle Building all wore cloth shirts of uniform style and color, short clothes that were convenient for work and dark gray that were dirty.
"Hiding in the shadows in clothes of this color is very difficult to spot as long as you don't look at it deliberately. Things were as I expected, Chunxiang and Xiao Wei were both stupid, and they didn't even notice my existence at all, and then Steward Liu rushed into the room with a group of people.
Hehe, the most ingenious trick of the whole plan appeared. Just when Steward Liu rushed in with someone, and everyone's attention was attracted by the dead and Chunxiang, I quietly walked out of the corner and blended in.
In this way, the whole plan was successfully completed in the three steps of killing, blame, and escape."
Everyone was still immersed in Rong Fei's narration and analysis, and after a while, they found that Rong Fei had finished speaking.
Some people are still unsatisfied, while others have already reacted.
Steward Liu suddenly jumped forward a few steps to open a safe distance from the people beside him, and then stretched out his hand with a gloomy face and pointed at the thugs and turtle Gong one by one, and said viciously.
"One person does things and one person is responsible, who killed the person, if you are a gentleman, stand up yourself!"
The two thugs and the five turtles looked at each other, and they all quickly shook their heads and waved their hands to declare that they were not murderers.
Steward Liu was also IQ online at this time, and after glancing at the height of the bed, he said to the two tall and strong thugs.
"You two go and guard the door, and don't let anyone go until you find the murderer."
The two thugs let out a sigh of relief, and walked to the door happily, standing left and right like door gods.
The floor of the bed was only about a foot away from the ground, and the two thugs were burly and their heads were much larger than ordinary people, and they couldn't get into that small space at all, so they were the first to rule out suspicion.
Rong Fei didn't have any opinion on Steward Liu's move, but just stood aside and quietly observed the expressions of the five turtle dukes.
"Hmph, that's all you five guys are left, let's talk about who did it."
"Steward Liu, Mingjian, you know me, I usually don't even dare to kill a chicken, where do I have the courage to kill someone."
"Steward Liu, you also know me, if I had this brain, I wouldn't do this."
"Steward Liu, you..."
The five of them all gave their reasons why they were not the murderers.
Steward Liu's gaze swept over the faces of the five people one by one, but he didn't see the slightest clue, and in the end he could only ask Rong Fei for help.
"It's easy to find out the real culprit."
Rong Fei smiled slightly and asked Steward Liu.
"Of the eight of you, who will be the first to enter the room?"
"It's me."
Steward Liu raised his hand and replied.
"Who's behind Steward Liu?"
"It's me."
One of the thugs standing at the door raised his hand in response, and then another thug took the initiative to say without waiting for Rong Fei to ask questions.
"I'm the third to come in."
"Who can prove it to both of you?"
Rong Fei asked.
"I, I, I... I can give them two proofs, I was right behind them, and I complained a few words in my heart because they were too wide to block their view, hehehe."
A turtle raised his hand and replied.
"That means you're the fourth to come in, so who can prove it for you?"
"My lord, I can attest that I have been following him all along. And I've been following Lao Yao behind me."
One turtle man raised his hand to prove the previous one, and then pointed to the other turtle to prove it for himself, which is also equivalent to the two proving each other.
In this way, the order in which the four turtle males, including Steward Liu, the two thugs, and the four turtle males entered the room had been determined. Everyone's eyes were on the only one left who had no one to prove it.
Rong Fei remembered this turtle father, it was when he asked Steward Liu if he needed to report to the official, but he was scolded by Steward Liu.
"Zheng Hang, what do you say?"
Steward Liu stared at the turtle named Zheng Hang with a gloomy face and asked sharply.
"Hey, hey, hey, it's come to this, what else can I say. Hey, hey, hey, this adult is so powerful, I thought it was a seamless method, but it was so easy to crack it by you."
Zheng Hang behaved very honorably at this time, and naturally admitted his crime. However, Steward Liu, who was questioning, didn't look at it, but praised Rong Fei.
"It's just that there is one thing I want to figure out, Steward Liu keeps calling you an adult, so which yamen are you? I, Zheng Hang, am also familiar with the large and small yamen in Kyoto City, and it is impossible for me to see through my arrangement with those bunch of wine bags and rice bags. Now that I am in the realm of death, I don't want to die, and I hope that this lord will tell me frankly, so that Zheng Hang will know who he lost?"