Seocho, who was standing diagonally in front of the east side of House 25, prayed silently in his heart, and then poked the torch into House 25.

In the narrow number room, two long boards, one high and one low, are staggered and parallel to the wall, like an uncovered coffin board, hanging above the scholar's middle lift.

On the left side is inserted on the slightly high board of the west wall, where the pen, ink, paper and inkstone are placed, and there are obvious traces of being disturbed, as if someone accidentally bumped into it, and the ink in the inkstone has splashed on the wall.

The slightly lower board on the right side of the east wall is slightly inclined to the inside, that is, to the west, as if it has been pressed by a heavy object, causing the plank to loosen from the card slot because of the tilt.

On the sloped left wooden board, an obvious pool of blood can be seen, and it can be preliminarily inferred that Scholar Zhongju was originally placed on this board, but due to the tilting of the wooden board for unknown reasons, Scholar Zhongju fell to the ground.

Under the two planks on the top and bottom, facing the west side, the scholar Zhongju is upside down, and his face cannot be seen clearly from the front, and he needs to stand in the direction of the west or squat down to see his appearance clearly.

The scholar Zhongju, whose eyes were closed, turned pale, and Seocho reached out to check his pulse, but there was no beating.

On the walls of Room 25 on both sides, there were no blood sprays, except for the blood stains on the left sloped wooden board, only a small amount of blood could be seen on the ground behind the corpse lying on its side.

As far as the eye could see, there was no murder weapon, nor did I see anything suspicious.

After a preliminary observation of the scene, Seocho stood up and nodded at Mu Yirong with a heavy face, and Mu Yirong immediately ordered the guards of the Gongyuan who were waiting on the side to step forward and move the body of the scholar Zhongju out of the No. 25 building.

The two guards of the Tribute Academy, whose faces were very ugly, secretly shouted bad luck in their hearts and stepped forward hard.

Originally, such a thing should have been done by Dali Temple, but because Dali Temple was transferred by Jingzhao Mansion to help, it was their turn to do such a thing.

The guards of the Gongyuan Temple, who had never touched the corpse before, twisted their heads to the side and tried to pull out the two boards above the corpse, but Seocho reached out to stop them and said not to destroy the scene.

The two guards of the Gongyuan had no choice but to squat down, with a bitter face, and stretched out their hands to the scholar Zhongju.

But the hands of the two stopped in front of the corpse of the scholar, not because they were afraid, but because they didn't know what to do.

The two of them wanted to hold the scholar Zhongju's head like pulling a radish out of the cramped No. 25 room, but they really didn't have the courage to touch the cold corpse.

Finally, the two of them glanced at each other, grabbed the clothes on the shoulders of the corpse of Scholar Zhongju, and pulled the corpse of Scholar Zhongju out of the cramped No. 25 room as if pulling out a drawer.

Scholar Zhongju's body had stiffened, and was laid straight on the ground, facing the sky on its back.

Then the two guards of the Tribute Court immediately retreated to the side, as if they were worried about the corpses lying on the ground, and suddenly jumped up and bit them.

Lao Li, the servant of Dali Temple, was also transferred away by Jingzhao Mansion, although he had already sent someone to inform him to come, but he had not yet arrived.

Seocho, who knows some methods of inquest of corpses. stepped forward to examine the corpse as usual, and Mu Yirong also squatted down with Ruicao.

Ruicao stared at the scholar's Zhongju's face, which had become a little gray, and his eyes were a little moist, as if the aspiring young man who had a confident smile on his face and spoke loudly about his ideals and ambitions was still vaguely in front of him, and couldn't help but look at Mu Yirong with some sadness.

Scholar Zhongju's ambitions were not realized, and Mu Yirong, who was also uncomfortable in his heart, silently held Seocho's hand and patted it twice comfortingly.

Seocho's eyes were gloomy, but he spoke in a very resolute tone: "I don't believe that Tao Dasheng will kill people. ”

Mu Yirong, who agreed with Ruicao's statement, nodded, Dao Wuju is not here for the exam, and it is difficult for Tao Dasheng to enter the examination room of the Gongyuan Academy, so there must be something strange about this matter. 168 Books

Teng Xuan, the invigilator of Renzihao, who heard the conversation between the two, was on duty last night, and hurriedly stepped forward, saying that someone saw Tao Daqiang jump in from the wall of the room last night, he didn't do it, who else could it be?

Seocho glared at Teng Xuan, who had come to a conclusion as soon as he opened his mouth, and ignored him, but began to silently check the clothes on Zhongju's body without saying a word.

The clothes on the scholar Zhongju's body are very clean, but the neckline and cuffs are worn to varying degrees, but there are no patches, which shows that the scholar Zhongju usually cherishes his clothes very much and is also very thrifty.

With nothing in the clothes and nothing out of the ordinary, Seocho flipped the clothes over to the sides of the corpse, stretched out two fingers, and pressed the corpse.

The invigilator of the Tribute Academy, who saw the woman's face touching the corpse for the first time, and the two guards of the Tribute Academy, who had just helped remove the corpse, all had a ghostly expression.

No wonder, the beautiful woman in front of her will be hand-picked by the current saint to Dali Temple on an errand.

Other ordinary women, where can she have such guts!

Among the guards of the Tribute Courtyard, a young man with a blue chin and sunken cheeks couldn't help but slander that if he married such a woman, his hobbies of drinking, gambling, and spending all his days drinking would have to be stopped.

Otherwise, he kneels on the washboard every day and is light.

If she accidentally provokes her one day, maybe she will become a corpse in ignorance.

Thinking of this, the fair-skinned beautiful girl in front of him suddenly turned into a cyan-faced and fanged yaksha, which frightened him so much that he couldn't help but tremble.

Completely ignoring the strange surroundings of Seocho, he was engrossed in carefully examining the corpse of Scholar Zhongju.

The stiffness was obvious, there were no wounds on the chest, and there were no injuries on both arms, but there were visible corpse spots on the left arm, ribs and the outside of the thigh, which were caused by the corpse falling sideways.

There were no injuries on his legs, and Seocho took off the shoes and socks of the scholar Nakaju, and no injuries were found on the ankles or feet.

Seeing this, Seocho turned his head to the west, glanced at the ground in front of the other houses, and then lowered his voice and said to Mu Yirong, who was squatting beside him: "Ordinary people, they shouldn't sleep with their shoes on. ”

Mu Yirong nodded, and then helped Ruicao turn the body of scholar Zhongju over.

The left side of Scholar Zhongju's back, that is, the position of the back of the heart, was injured by a sharp weapon, and a large amount of blood stains could be seen on the clothes around the wound, which should have pierced the heart.

Seocho raised his head, holding the torch and looked into the 25th House again, the walls on both sides were very clean, and there was no blood under the two planks inserted in the wall, only the lower one on the right side, there was a pool of blood, but there was no trace of dripping.

The blood stains on the ground were not obvious, there was no round blood falling from above, only blood in the shape of a half-moon, which could be inferred to flow from the body of Scholar Zhongju lying on his side. Because the amount of blood is small, it does not penetrate the front of the corpse, which is why it forms this shape.

From these various signs, it can be preliminarily inferred that the No. 25 house was not the scene of the first crime, but someone stabbed the scholar Zhongju to death from the rear in another place, and after staying for a while, the body of the scholar Zhongju was moved to the front of the No. 25 house and stuffed onto the upper board, which can be concluded from the pool of blood on the inclined wooden board.

After that, for some unknown reason, the scholar Zhongju fell from the wooden board to the ground.

The brick groove in the wall that holds the plank is loose, either because the body is placed on the left side of the plank, causing the weight to be unbalanced, priing the brick groove, causing the plank to tilt and the body to slide off, or the brick groove itself is loose and cannot firmly hold the plank, causing the plank to roll over and the body to slide off.

This is difficult to verify, but it is enough to show that the body of the scholar Zhongju was originally placed on the wooden board on the lower left side, and then fell to the ground because the wooden board was tilted.

The two boards in Room 25 are not spliced together, and they still show the state of the previous scholar when he was reading and writing.

It can also be temporarily speculated that it was dark at that time, and the murderer did not notice that the wooden planks were not connected, or because the murderer was anxious and did not think much about it, he directly stuffed the body of scholar Zhongju into it.