In the examination room of the Gongyuan Academy, Mu Yirong and Ruicao walked into the Renzihao Examination Institute again.

The rows of rooms have been cleaned, and there is nothing except for two wooden planks.

In the No. 25 building where the scholar Zhongju was before, it still retains its original appearance just like the night when the scholar Zhongju had an accident.

Two wooden planks were inserted into the walls on the left and right sides, and on the higher boards, the pen, ink, paper, and inkstones placed in chaos were still in place. The blood on the ground had dried so much that it was almost invisible, like the mottling of years, lightly clinging to the cold ground.

Seocho went inside again, but still didn't find any clues.

The original stinking Gong barrels have been cleaned up and lined up on the shady wall, like a group of soldiers from Lilliputian, silently guarding the empty Renzihao Examination Institute.

However, compared with the last time, the chimney in the next room emitted wisps of cooking smoke.

Although the Enke exam was suspended, the dormitory still had to provide food and drink for the officials and adults who worked in the Gongyuan, so the dormitory did not extinguish the fire.

Seocho, who didn't like to walk through the door, suddenly crossed over the low wall.

Two cooks in aprons were sitting on a small bench at the door eating melon seeds and chatting, when suddenly they saw a black shadow jumping from the wall, and they were so startled that they almost shouted to catch the thief.

Aunt Hao, the cook who was slightly taller and a little fatter, glared at Seocho complainingly.

"Pavilion Master, the door is for people to enter and exit. It's a good thing I'm bold, otherwise I'd have been scared half to death by you. ”

Aunt Ding, who was sitting next to her, smiled and said that it was not them who made a fuss, and said that she also thought that a thief had come in, and almost put the bench on Seocho.

Seocho smiled apologetically, then stared at Aunt Ding, the fat cook, and asked her what she meant by what she had just said. Could it be that they had seen thieves come in the Gongyuan before?

When the two fat cooks heard this, their eyes flickered, and they didn't dare to meet Seocho's eyes, so they were silent.

At this time, Mu Yirong also climbed over the wall from the Renzi number next door, and he walked up to Seocho and asked how it was?

Seocho repeated the question again, asking the two fat cooks, did they find anything abnormal?

Mu Yirong, who had a warm smile on his face, told the two cooks not to worry, if they found anything, just tell them. He promised that he would not cause them any trouble.

Aunt Hao and Aunt Ding glanced at each other, and then Aunt Hao, who had a more refreshing temperament, threw the remaining melon seeds in her hand to the ground.

"Actually, it's nothing. It was after the two adults left that day that the two of us were cleaning and cleaning the kitchen that we felt that something was not quite right with the blood on the floor. ”

When Mu Yirong heard this, he raised his eyebrows slightly, and Seocho immediately showed an expression that I knew, and asked Aunt Hao, what's wrong with the pool of blood on the ground?

Aunt Hao, who has good expression skills, speaks in an orderly manner, but has a very loud voice and an exaggerated expression.

She told Mu Yirong and Ruicao that the day before the Gongyuan exam, the room should first worship the god of the stove and open the stove.

The purpose of the stove was to burn the pig's head, and to slaughter the sacrificial pig in the house.

At that time, after worshipping the god of the stove and killing the pigs, the two of them had to clean the house.

However, because the eldest prince wanted to worship Confucius in the courtyard of the Gongyuan, everyone had to go to watch the ceremony.

So, the two had no choice but to pack up nothing and went to watch the ceremony.

After several hours of the sacrifice, the two of them had finished eating out, and it was already dark, so they decided to clean up the house early the next morning.

On the second day, the candidates checked into the Gongyuan, and Aunt Hao and Aunt Ding also entered the room, ready to start busy.

Because they had to do everything themselves, the two were very busy, and when they saw that the pig's blood on the ground had coagulated and needed to be washed with water, they brought water and prepared to clean it.

As a result, the cart that delivered the vegetables outside was pulled in, and they could only help unload the vegetables in the yard, and then began to pick and wash the vegetables, carefully put the eggs in the basket, hang the garlic and peppers, and hang the dried fish and bacon.

The same was true in the afternoon, so they didn't have time to clean up the puddle of pig blood in the room.

If there are candidates who need to eat supper, the invigilator will go over to inform them, and they will prepare simple egg soup cakes and other foods for hungry candidates.

On the night of the incident, it was also the first night of the Enke exam, and many candidates could not adapt to the high-pressure environment of the Gongyuan, as well as the narrow living space, coupled with the extremely tense nerves of the whole day to cope with the exam, and by the time it was night, they were all tired, and many candidates went to bed early.

Aunt Hao and Aunt Ding, the two cooks, only prepared egg soup cakes for a few candidates, and then went back to the room to rest, and failed to clean the pool of pig blood in the room.

The two of them were tired for a day and soon fell asleep, but they were awakened before they had slept for two hours, and brought the two of them to Mu Yirong, and the two of them knew that something had happened to the Renzi House next door.

At that time, when Mu Yirong and Ruicao asked the two of them what was going on with the pool of blood on the ground, the two subconsciously replied that it was pig blood.

But then the two found that there was a pool of blood on the ground. Seems to be getting a little out of the ordinary.

Originally, after two days, the pool of pig blood on the ground had dried up, but the pool of blood they saw at that time seemed to be a little sticky on the surface, and it was obviously larger than the previous pool of pig blood.

What does it mean that pig blood, which should have dried up, has become moist and sticky, and the area has become larger?

Mu Yirong and Ruicao, who glanced at each other, knew in their hearts that the room in front of them was very likely to be the first scene where the murderer killed the scholar Zhongju.

Thinking of this, the two immediately dodged and entered the room again, looking around.

There is only one wall between the Renzihao Examination Institute and the room, and it is not difficult for scholars to jump over. The point is, did he jump over with the intention of starting a fire to cook himself, or was someone called here and killed?

If you want to start a fire and cook with your back to the door, it is easy to be attacked and assassinated by someone, and there will not be much movement.

And if someone asks the scholar Zhongju to meet again, then there are more problems.

The person who asked the scholar to be in the middle of the juju must be familiar with him, so that he can assassinate the scholar while he is unprepared.

If it is a stranger, the scholar will definitely ask the other party, and then have an argument with him, and it is impossible not to make the slightest movement.

Unless, Scholar Zhongju didn't find out about the existence of the stranger, but the stranger knew that Scholar Zhongju was in a secluded room at that time.

From this, it can be concluded that whether it is an acquaintance of the scholar Zhongju or a person who does not know him, he must know that the scholar Zhongju will be in the room at that time that night, and he has some understanding of the environment of the examination room of the Gongyuan.

Being able to grasp the midnight movement of scholar Zhongju shows that that person is very likely to be someone from the Gongyuan.

Sure enough, it was the candidate who was the most suspicious in the same examination room as the scholar Zhongju that day.

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