Chapter 223: Hanging
The body was lowered and temporarily placed on the bed, and Liang Yuanque began to pace around the small room looking for clues.
The corpse had not changed into pajamas, and was still wearing the same coat that he had seen during the day, but there were no shoes on his feet.
It seems that she should have been lying in her clothes last night, that is, lying on the bed, and suddenly thought of hanging herself to die, and got up and hung her neck?
The whole scene doesn't seem unreasonable at first glance, but Liang Yuanqi always has a weird feeling.
The body was lowered, and the homemade rope from which the body was hung was still hanging under the beams.
Liang Yuanque walked over and raised his hand at his height to touch it.
The side house is built very low, and if it is a big and tall man like Zhuang Youjie, I am afraid that he will not be able to hang himself at all.
Xiaolian's height is a few points shorter than Liang Yuanque, but it is enough to hang herself.
Liang Yuanque turned his gaze to a round stool that was tilted to the side, the only stool in the room.
He closed his eyes and mentally simulated what Xiaolian had done last night.
She tore the sheets from the bed and tied them into a simple rope, using the stool in the room to put her head into the rope sleeve.
Then with a kick of her foot, the stool was kicked away, and under the action of gravity, her neck bone was instantly broken, and she was killed.
The stool is kicked away, the stool is kicked away......
Liang Yuanque thought about this action repeatedly, and finally found the unreasonableness of this scene.
If this stool was kicked down by Xiaolian who was hanging, it would not have fallen in this direction at all!
Huang Jingye didn't even put down the corpse, and kept maintaining the scene and waiting for Liang Yuanque to come back, so it was impossible for this stool to be kicked by them and messed up the direction.
In an instant, the whole case changed in nature.
Liang Yuanque lifted the corpse up again and carefully examined the strangulation marks on his neck.
Because the body was hung by the wide sheet for a long time, a wide red mark formed on the neck, and because even if the sheet was torn off, it would still be stacked on top of the neck when it became a rope, forming many folds.
Because they have been hung for too long, these folds have also left marks of varying shades on the neck.
These traces are one of the reasons that have just affected Liang Yuanque's judgment.
Because among the traces of the ravines, there is one that is the real reason for Xiaolian's suffocation and death.
After some careful searching, Liang Yuanque finally found a strangulation mark that was deeper than the other marks and pointed to the back of the neck.
Sure enough, Xiaolian didn't commit suicide, she was killed by someone.
Judging from the performance of the corpse and the situation at the scene, last night, after the housekeeper's wife and Huang Jingye's hands left one after another, someone quietly sneaked into the side room with a rope.
Xiaolian was supposed to be sleeping at the time, and the murderer strangled her neck directly from the bed.
In the case of lying flat, it was difficult for the murderer to strangle her to death, and she could only be dragged out of bed.
It can be seen that the murderer must be stronger than Xiaolian.
In the process of this murder, Xiaolian should have struggled, but at that time, Master Huang's men had all withdrawn from the side room, and no one nearby could hear it.
After the murderer strangled Xiaolian, he tore the sheets and hung her on the beams of the house, pretending to be a suicide.
"Master Huang, you rested in the main house last night, didn't you hear the movement here?"
Huang Jingye thought for a while, "In fact, there was movement everywhere in the Song family last night, and I couldn't tell if it was from this side at all. ”
Sister Huang died like this, the Song family wanted to ignore her funeral, but Huang Jingye didn't let it, so yesterday Master Song commanded the people in the family to tear the white cloth and the big mourning hall overnight, and they didn't stay quiet all night.
Liang Yuanque said in his heart, after working all night, why didn't he see any practical effect, could it be deliberately to hide people's eyes and ears?
Huang Jingye looked at Liang Yuanque's frowns, and knew that something was wrong.
"Sir, what's going on?"
Liang Yuanque frowned and glanced at the open door, Huang Jingye immediately understood, asked his subordinates to go out first, and took the door with him.
In an instant, only the two of them and a corpse were left in the room.
"Two things," for fear that someone would break in, Liang Yuanque sorted out the wording, and to make a long story short,
"First, this little maid was indeed killed, she was Sister Huang's personal maid before her death, and she probably knew some secrets, so she had to die,"
"Second, the midwife who delivered the baby yesterday was also killed, because she was the one who directly killed your sister."
Liang Yuanque said, taking out the small porcelain bottle from his bag, "Hey, this is the bottle containing the poison, which was found from the midwife's house." ”
Huang Jingye took the bottle, and the green tendons on his forehead were about to burst out, "I'm going to find a confrontation with the surname Song!" ”
"Hey, wait!" Liang Yuanque saw that he was impulsive, and grabbed him, "Master Huang, we still have too few clues now, don't startle the snake." ”
Huang Jingye's fists were about to clench, "Then what should we do next?" ”
Liang Yuanque pulled Huang Jingye to sit down, waited for him to calm down a little, and told him about the discovery on Fang Pozi's side.
"So we should go to this murderer now?"
"Yes," Liang Yuanque nodded, "Although the insider is dead, the murderer is still there, and if the murderer can be controlled, maybe something useful can be prying." ”
"Of course, we have to get it out before it's destroyed."
The murderer of Fang Pozi is likely to be her mother's nephew, but the small porcelain bottle containing the poison was not taken away, which made Liang Yuanque doubt the incident again.
Could it be that the purpose of his killing was not to help the Song family extinguish? If it is to be destroyed, if such an important physical evidence is not taken away, won't people be killed in vain?
Or maybe what Mrs. Fang's little grandson said was the truth, and there was a fourth person who entered Fang's house last night.
It killed Mrs. Fang and knocked her little grandson unconscious, and Mrs. Fang's nephew may have just left before it, or he may have been killed by the same hand when he was unprepared.
In short, no matter whether this nephew is the murderer or not, we must find a way to find him.
Since Huang Jingye chose to entrust the case to Liang Yuanque for investigation, he naturally believed in every decision he made.
Liang Yuanque described the appearance of Fang's nephew who he heard from Aunt Wang to Huang Jingye, and asked him to arrange for someone to search for him in the entire county.
Fortunately, Master Huang came back this time with enough people, otherwise this matter would be really difficult to handle.
"Then the Song family doesn't have to guard it anymore?"
"We already know the cause of Sister Huang's death, let's let her be buried in peace, the Song family doesn't have to guard it anymore, and let her family take Xiaolian's body away." Liang Yuan said.
Xiaolian's corpse could no longer see any more information, since the Song family moved her family to put pressure on Master Huang, it simply fulfilled their wish.
Anyway, for her murderer, Liang Yuanque also had a rough guess in his heart.