After dinner, the nerves that had been tense all day relaxed and most of them soon couldn't resist the overwhelming sleepiness and fell asleep.

Only a few people beat their spirits and continued to study and exercise to eat their children.

Mu Yirong asked the few people who went to bed late, did anyone notice the situation of the scholar Zhongju at that time?

The few people who were huddled in the dormitory at that time all shook their heads to indicate that after dinner, they became very sleepy, and after reading the book for a while, they all blew out the candles and rested, not paying attention to the situation in the other houses.

There were two or three people who were doing sports in the courtyard, saying that they were running around the courtyard a few times in order to eliminate food.

At that time, they did see a candle lit in the No. 25 building near Gongtong's room, and the scholar Zhongju was sitting upright reading, and the time was about the end of the day. After that, they rested one after another, and did not pay any more attention to the situation in the second and fifth houses.

As for when the scholar Zhongju died and who killed him, they did not know at all.

Candidate Junjian found the scholar Zhongju dead between the early hours of the morning and the dawn, around the end of the ugly hour, and the last time someone saw the scholar Zhongju was at the end of the day.

Therefore, the time when the scholar Zhongju was killed was roughly between the beginning of the night and the end of the ugly hour.

After asking all the candidates of Renzihao, Mu Yirong set his eyes on Teng Xuan, the invigilator on duty last night.

Teng Xuan, who was very discerning, immediately stepped forward, and without waiting for Mu Yirong to ask, he was the first to inform him that he was responsible for patrolling the night to check the situation in the house.

The invigilator is usually on duty at the entrance of the hospital, and last night, when all the candidates were sleeping peacefully, he entered the Renzihao examination hall as usual to conduct inspections.

At that time, he had to go to the twenty-five rooms to check the number of candidates in the room. There were twenty-five rooms in total, and all of them were lying people, and there were quite a few of them.

According to the sound of the change, it can be concluded that the hour at that time was the right time.

When Mu Yirong heard this, he asked slowly in a flat tone: "Then can you be sure that the people who were lying in the number room at that time were all candidates of the Renzi number?"

Teng Xuan, who was slightly stunned when he heard this, shook his head after hesitating for a long time: "At that time, it was dark and I couldn't confirm the specific appearance of the personnel, only the number of people, which was the negligence of the lower officials. ”

The invigilator at night basically only confirms the number of people in the dormitory, and does not confirm the appearance of the candidates one by one.

Teng Xuan didn't do anything wrong, but he still admitted his mistakes very modestly and had a good attitude, giving people the impression of sincerity and honesty.

Mu Yirong asked the invigilator Teng Xuan again, can he be sure that Zhongju, a scholar at that time, is still alive?

Teng Xuan, the invigilator who had been thinking about it for a long time, thought about it and said that he didn't notice anything unusual at that time.

Mu Yirong frowned suddenly, and Ruicao also looked at the invigilator Teng Xuan suspiciously, seeing that Teng Xuan was very uncomfortable as if there were insects crawling, and asked Mu Yirong with an uneasy face, was there anything wrong with what he said?

Raising his hand to Ruicao in Building No. 25, he asked the invigilator Teng Xuan to look at the wooden planks inside, and said that this was obviously not what a sleeping bunk should be. In other words, the scholar Zhongju may not have slept until he was killed, and he was still reading with candles. So how did Teng Xuan say that everyone was resting at that time, and there was nothing abnormal?

Teng Xuan, the invigilator who breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, said that he was sure that when he inspected, there was no candlelight in Room 25. And he was sure that the planks in Room No. 25 had been spliced together at that time, and there was a person lying on it, and he could not say whether it was a scholar Zhongju.

After saying this, Teng Xuan repeatedly and firmly said that he counted the heads in the number room last night, and there were indeed people sleeping in every room, and there was absolutely no mistake.

Hearing this, Mu Yirong and Seocho glanced at each other, and they all frowned tightly and thought about it.

According to the invigilator Teng Xuan, the scholar Zhongju had already gone to bed at the right time when he was a child, but he may have gotten up again in order to read, put the wooden plank up and down, and stood in the appearance of sitting and reading.

So, why did he leave House 25 and go to some unknown place where he was killed?

The time when the invigilator Teng Xuan finally saw the scholar Zhongju was Zi Shizheng, and the time when the examinee Junjian found the body was at the ugly hour of dawn, which further shortened the time of death when the scholar Zhongju might have been killed, which was within one and a half hours after Zi Shizheng and before the end of the ugly hour.

Based on the stiffness of the corpse, Seocho preliminarily deduced that the time of his death was about an hour before the body was found, and it would not have been more than two hours. It is roughly consistent with the time stated by the duo, so it can be concluded that the duo did not lie.

After secretly looking at the invigilator Teng Xuan and the examinee Jun Jian again, Mu Yirong asked Ruicao, who was staring at the No. 25 building, what did he think?

"First of all, why did Zhongju, a scholar who got up to study after falling asleep, leave House 25 on his own?"

According to the invigilator Teng Xuan, when he was in his childhood, he saw a person lying in Room No. 25, and temporarily assumed that that person was the scholar Zhongju.

After that, the scholar Zhongju got up again after the invigilator's inspection, and divided the two planks into the top and bottom, which should be to continue to warm the book.

At that time, the candidates in the other dormitories were all asleep, but if someone forcibly took away the scholar Zhongju at this time, it would inevitably cause a loud noise and wake up the other candidates.

Therefore, it should be that the scholar Zhongju left the No. 25 house by himself, went to a temporarily unknown location, and was killed.

The second suspicion is that the wound on the corpse of the scholar Zhongju is a little strange.

Often, a person holding a knife from the back and stabbing another person rarely stabs him in the back of the heart with unmistakable accuracy, especially in the dark.

Moreover, with the strength of ordinary people, it is difficult to insert a sharp weapon such as a dagger between the sternum.

And when assassinating, because of the small strength, the murder weapon will be stuck between the sternum, and it will not be so clean and neat to pierce the heart and pull it out.

Mu Yirong frowned when he heard this, according to Seocho, the place where the murderer committed the murder was most likely in a bright place. What's more, the perpetrator is powerful, and Tao Dasheng, who knows how to do kung fu, does echo the criminal's profile.

However, Seocho also said that sometimes there are uncommon coincidences, even if a person with little strength finds the right direction of assassination, he can still pass a sharp weapon through the sternum and pierce the heart.

Mu Yirong asked what the murder weapon was, and Ruicao preliminarily concluded that it was a dagger, but it was a murder before his death.

However, whether the scholar Zhongju took other toxic drugs before his death has to wait for Lao Li from Dali Temple to experience the corpse.

Mu Yirong, who was staring at the No. 25 house with both eyes, pinched his chin and asked Ruicao: "You say, why do you have to put the body of scholar Zhongju back into his house from the beginning?"

Suppose that the murderer is a candidate in the No. 25 dormitory, and after killing the scholar Zhongju, he can't dispose of the corpse, so he puts the corpse back in the No. 25 dormitory, which is the easiest and most convenient way to deal with it.

Mu Yirong agrees with this idea of Seocho, all the candidates in the Renzi House are the suspects who are most likely to commit crimes.