Chapter XIII: The Courtyard Where the Case Occurred

When Chu Ran arrived at the cell of Dali Temple, he found that Zhou Huai had already said almost everything.

Under Di Xue's retelling, I knew the situation last night.

The previous description in Jinyuan Restaurant was not different from Li Heng's, until the little guy came to report the news.

Zhou Huaizheng was anxious about Xu Lai's case, so he was furious in his heart, and followed the little maid to the yard, but who knows, when he entered the yard and opened the door, he fainted in the kitchen.

When you wake up, you become a murderer!

Di Xue asked some of Zhou Huai's hobbies and people like that.

Then he drew the appearance of the little guy with Gu Zhouhuai's description, and after handing the portrait to Han Shu to find someone, Di Xue followed Chu Ran and retreated.

"Where are you going next?"

Chu Ran asked Di Xue back: "Let's go to the small courtyard where the crime occurred, let the girl of the Wang family cultivate first!" ”

So the two of them changed into their regular clothes and rode to the courtyard where the Wang family had an accident.

The person guarding the gate of the courtyard has been replaced by the patrol of Dali Temple, Di Xue walked to the wall of the small courtyard to check, there is a part of the pattern in the middle of the brick wall is hollowed, and the onlookers who were watching outside at that time should have seen the scene inside the house through here.

Then Di Xue pushed open the wooden gate and entered the courtyard, and the blue brick and green tile hut stood in the courtyard, although there was no obvious sign of dilapidation inside and outside the courtyard, the well full of leaves, and the eaves covered with cobwebs, all showed that no one had taken care of this place for a long time.

According to the information that Di Xue has, this small courtyard was purchased in Zhou Huai's name three and a half months ago, and soon after, General Zhou set out to conquer Wara, which is a bit too much of a coincidence!

"Chu Ran, do you know that Zhou Gongzi bought this yard?" Di Xue asked

Chu Ran shook his head: "Zhou Huai doesn't like these things outside his body, and besides, if he buys real estate, I won't know it!" ”

Di Xue agreed with Chu Ran's words, but with a rigorous attitude, she still asked: "Ahem, will Zhou Gongzi have a confidante or an outer room, you don't know?" ”

"Why don't you blush and your heart doesn't beat when you say this! Zhou Huai's tutor is extremely strict, there will never be such a thing! Chu Ran held his forehead, he had gradually become accustomed to Di Xue's breaking the rules.

Di Xue made a decision after hearing this, and said: "If not, it is very likely that the courtyard was not bought by Zhou Gongzi, and the person who bought this courtyard for Zhou Huai was scheming, perhaps to lure him to kill!" ”

Stepping on the gravel laid on the dirt, I opened the front door of the house and entered the kitchen.

A stove was built near the back wall of the kitchen, and the grease-stained walls and iron pots showed that it had been inhabited a long time ago.

There was a lot of chopped firewood in the area marked by a wooden fence next to it, and the dirt ground had been trampled flat and smooth.

There are no windows between the kitchen and the inner room, but the roof is connected and there is no block.

opened the small door in the house, and only then did I enter the scene of the crime, and the blood stains on the ground in the house were rubbed everywhere!

There is no door to the house, which means that there is only one exit from the main entrance of the house.

The place where the Wang family fell was circled with grass and wood ash, and suddenly Di Xue felt the wind blowing in the house, looking at the doors and windows were all closed, Di Xue raised her head and squinted her eyes to feel the direction of the wind, and suddenly she looked at a place on the roof, it was here!

Di Xue jumped lightly on the beam and came to the roof of the kitchen through the beam.

Then I saw that there were some traces of friction on the beams here, and there were slight knife marks.

There seemed to be scraps of hemp rope remaining on it, Di Xue took out a white cloth bag from her arms and gently swept it with a small brush.

Then he moved in the direction of the wind, and sure enough, there was a hole in the back of the roof, and the wind poured in through this small opening.

When I looked closer, there were two small wooden planks that had been dismantled next to them, and they smelled like they had traces of smoke.

These two small planks are supposed to have been used as vents by the original family after the chimney was blocked.

But this house has not been inhabited for a long time, let alone a cookhouse.

So why was this plank dismantled, was it just for escape?

Di Xue tried to squeeze out of the mouth while trying, but the attempt failed.

It is assumed that Zhou Huai was not the murderer, but escaped through the vent after the killing.

But with such a small figure, how could he pretend to be Zhou Hai, who is seven feet tall, and hide the eyes of the girl of the Wang family!

Di Xue thought about it, jumped down, came out of the house, and came to the backyard of the small courtyard.

Chu Ran walked to the backyard and looked at the dry toilet on the top of the wood plank.

"Do you think it's possible to hide here?"

After listening to Chu Ran's words, Di Xue looked at the small house with a dry toilet.

The house is not big, but it can also accommodate two people, and it is indeed possible to be Tibetan.

Di Xue nodded at Chu Ran, and then opened the door of the dry toilet with her sword.

The strange thing is that there is no smell as expected, but a faint fragrance!

Di Xue hurriedly pulled Chu Ran in, but saw Chu Ran standing at the door.

Looking down, it turned out that the barbs on the wood at the door were hanging Chu Ran's clothes, but the silk was extremely strong, and not even a small cut was cut.

After taking Chu Ran's clothes off, he saw that there was a rag left on it, which was bright in color, but the stitches were sparse and rough on closer inspection.

Di Xue picked up the rag with a small tweezer made of bamboo: "Chu Ran, will Gongzi Zhou wear clothes of this quality?" ”

Chu Ran looked at it, and then shook his head: "Zhou Huai's mother is very elegant, Zhou Huai's clothes are carefully selected by her, it is impossible to have such inferior materials!" ”

Although this material looks somewhat similar to the color of the silk worn by some rich children, the quality is not comparable to the previous one, and it seems that it is very likely that people will be avoided here.

In order to test her conjecture, Di Xue removed the wooden plank that covered the mouth of the dry toilet.

Sure enough, there was no filth in it, and the soil looked like it had been turned out, and this aqua toilet had not been used!

"Could this material have been left behind by the workers who built the aqua privy?" Chu Ran asked.

Di Xue shook her head and denied this idea, ordinary people would never wear such bright clothes to work.

After receiving the materials into the white cloth bag, Di Xue got out of the dry toilet and jumped onto the roof of the backyard.

Chu Ran could only watch from below, this was the first time he felt sorry for himself as a martial arts idiot!

From the rooftop, you can see that there are many businesses outside the courtyard, but because people have died in the courtyard, the stalls are far away. If the killer really came out of that small vent, how did he get out of the yard? Over the wall?

No, there are businesses all around, and it is impossible for someone to escape over the wall without being discovered, so they hide in the dry toilet for fear of being discovered? But you still can't get out of the yard like this!

Suddenly, Di Xue noticed that there was a dog hole in the fence wall of the backyard, could it be that this is how he went out?