Chapter 371: Assassination Case 6 of No. 25
Dali Temple, who came in a hurry, was Lao Li, and with the assistance of the guards of the Gongyuan with a sad face, escorted the body of scholar Zhongju back to Dali Temple for autopsy to check the specific cause of death.
Mu Yirong and Ruicao, the two commanders of Dali Temple, continued to stay, and began to check all the candidates in the Renzi dormitory one by one, as well as the invigilator's hands, clothes, and rows of houses.
If the murderer used a sharp murder weapon such as a dagger to assassinate scholar Zhongju, it would be difficult for the tiger's mouth on both hands not to be injured.
In addition, after stabbing the heart and pulling out the murder weapon, a large amount of blood will burst out, and the perpetrator will definitely be splashed with blood, and even if it is cleaned afterwards, it may leave traces.
However, Seocho and Mu Yirong carefully checked all the candidates and invigilators in the Renzi Building, but they did not find anything unusual and suspicious.
At this time, it was ten o'clock in the morning, and the sky was getting brighter, Mu Yirong let the candidates go to the door to get breakfast, but many people had no appetite.
Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one in the house, Mu Yirong and Seocho leaned in, and checked from the No. 01 building of Renzi No. 01 to the No. 25 building at the bottom, but they still found nothing.
In the previous cases, Seocho showed her strength in collecting evidence perfectly, but this time, she almost chiseled through the wall, but found nothing.
Seocho, who had withdrawn from the No. 25 building, looked up and down at the brick and stone coffin-like house in front of him, his nose suddenly smelled a strange smell, and he suddenly turned his eyes to the dung bucket storage on the side, and walked over.
The Gong bucket in the dung bucket storage place has obviously been replaced, and it is all clean, Mu Yirong walked to the side of Seocho and asked what was unusual?
Stretching out his hand and pointing at the dung bucket, Seocho asked rhetorically: "You say, did the murderer throw the murder weapon and clothes into the dung bucket, and then were transported out of the Gongyuan examination room and dumped?"
It is very possible that Mu Yirong ordered someone to find the person who "poured the night incense" for questioning.
In charge of pouring night incense in the examination room are a middle-aged couple surnamed Pi, both of whom are dark and sturdy, and their eyes are evil.
The couple surnamed Pi not only helped pour night incense in the examination room, but also helped many large families in the capital pour night incense.
Mu Yirong asked the couple surnamed Pi, where did they pour the night incense in the examination room of the Gongyuan Academy?
The couple surnamed Pi told Mu Yirong that every day at dawn, they would pull the night incense outside the gate of Anhua City, and the dung trucks that collected the dung from the countryside would take it away to irrigate the fertile fields.
At dawn, it was the middle hour when the examinee Junjian found that the scholar Zhongju had died, and the two of them had not yet arrived.
Hearing this, Mu Yirong couldn't help but look at the invigilator Teng Xuan, and asked him why he had to let outsiders in and out of the Renzi Examination Institute if there was a murder case, and transport the Gong bucket out?
Teng Xuan, the invigilator who stepped forward in a panic, said that he didn't think there was any problem with the Gong bucket, and the couple surnamed Pi were very anxious, they had to pour the gong bucket here and pour the night incense elsewhere, so he didn't think much about it, so he asked them to take the gong bucket away.
"Didn't you think that the murderer might have thrown the murder weapon into the Gong bucket and took it away?"
Teng Xuan, who was in a cold sweat on his forehead, hurriedly said that he was confused, and he had never considered this situation, and as he spoke, he immediately looked at the couple surnamed Pi and asked them if they found anything like a suspected murder weapon when they poured night incense?
Knowing that there was a candidate in the Renzi number, the couple surnamed Pi hurriedly shook their heads and said that they did not find anything abnormal when they poured the night incense. The couple surnamed Pi spoke in a humble tone, but they couldn't see a weak heart or abnormal appearance.
Mu Yirong asked the two not to be nervous, and carefully recalled that when they poured the night incense into the villager's dung bucket outside the city, they didn't find anything abnormal?
The woman in the couple surnamed Pi is obviously a person who likes to talk and laugh, after she heard Mu Yirong's words, her emotions relaxed, the amount of dung buckets to be cleaned by the Dao Examination Institute was very large, they were busy for a long time, and they did not find anything unusual in the Gong bucket.
Moreover, when they poured the incense on the villagers who came to collect the dung, the villagers feared that they would adulterate it with dirt and stones as a weight, so they would use-stirring sticks to stir it in the bucket, and if they were thrown into the dagger or bloody clothes, they should be found.
Not far away at this time, several candidates who were gathering around for breakfast heard the colorful narration of the woman surnamed Pi, and silently put down the chopsticks in their hands.
The villagers will stir the feces inside the bucket, and things like bloody clothes should be easily detected.
But something as small as a murder weapon, a dagger, can be missed.
It's just that now the dung buckets are all transported by the villagers to all parts of the countryside, and there is no way to find them for a while. This matter can only be made into an example and posted everywhere to collect clues from the villagers.
Or wait for the next time the villagers come to collect the night incense, ask them one by one.
However, the couple surnamed Pi told Mu Yirong that the villagers who come to collect the night incense every day are not fixed, and it may take some time to find the villagers who took the night incense today.
Whether the murderer threw the murder weapon and bloody clothes into the bucket and was taken away is not verifiable for the time being, and can only look for other clues.
Seocho, who had been pacing in front of the wall where the Gong bucket was kept, stretched out his head from time to time to look at the other side of the wall, Mu Yirong asked the couple surnamed Pi to wait for a while, and then walked up to Seocho and asked her what she was doing?
"You said that the scholar Zhongju got up in the middle of the night, is it possible that he was not hungry for reading?"
Behind the wall where the gong barrel is stored is the room, Mu Yirong leaned in front of the courtyard wall to check, and there were indeed traces of climbing on it.
Cooking on a fire in the kitchen will bring light, which is in line with the previous speculation that the scholar Zhongju was assassinated in a bright place.
Seocho, who didn't wait for Mu Yirong to react, immediately exerted his waist and feet together, and then jumped over the one-person-high courtyard wall in full view of everyone and went to the courtyard next door.
There was no help to run and borrow strength, so he jumped straight over, and all the candidates who saw the name of Ren were dumbfounded, and said in their hearts that this only female official in Yan Zhou really lived up to his reputation and was extraordinary.
Mu Yirong, who smiled helplessly, also jumped over the courtyard wall, walked quickly to Seocho, reached out and gently knocked her head, lowered his voice, and reminded with a smile: "Can you behave like a normal human." ”
Ruicao glanced at Mu Yirong: "I came down the mountain to learn how to be a human being, if I did, I would have gone back to the mountain as soon as possible." ”
Hearing Seocho say that he wanted to go back to the mountain, Mu Yirong was slightly stunned: "Do you want to go back to the mountain in the future?"
"Of course. ”
After replying, Seocho, who didn't want to think about it, immediately bent down and began to look around the base of the wall, looking for suspicious traces.
Mu Yirong, who looked at Seocho's busy figure, his eyes flashed, and finally walked in front of Seocho.
"You and I are married, do you still want to go back to the mountains?"