Mu Yirong heard that the caretaker didn't hear any abnormal sounds, so he couldn't help frowning, pinching his chin, and asked again, "Have you ever left halfway?"

The caretaker shook his head, "Never walked away." ”

This is strange, even if Xiao Tao is grabbed by the back of the head and knocked out hard, she will not scream.

However, the sound of Xiao Tao's head hitting the pillar should not be small, and it is impossible for the guards who have been guarding the door not to hear any movement.

After examining Momo's corpse, Seocho finally stood up and threw the empty dustpan aside.

She bit the last elm money bun in her mouth, walked to the door, and looked at the axe placed on the ground in front of the firewood stack in the courtyard, "Fangcai, someone has chopped firewood in the courtyard?"

The caretaker followed Seocho's gaze, recalled it, and immediately nodded, "Yes, the guy from the kitchen once chopped two pieces of wood in the yard. However, after chopping wood, he went directly into the kitchen to make a fire, and did not enter the firewood room. ”

Han Xiangzi, a green swordsman who understood the chill in Seocho's words, instructed the caretaker, "You go over and split two pieces of wood." ”

The caretaker looked at Steward Pang, saw him nodding, and immediately ran to the courtyard, picked up the axe, and chopped firewood. Suddenly, there were several intermittent "crackling" sounds, which were very loud.

Mu Yirong let go of the hand that was pinching his chin, walked to the pillar in the firewood room, stretched out his fist and hit it twice, and then looked at Seocho, "Even under the cover of the sound of chopping wood, the family is standing so close to the door that it is impossible not to hear the movement of the pillar in the house at all." ”

Seocho turned around, stretched out her arm, and handed it to Mu Yirong in her hand, as if pinching something.

Mu Yirong spread his palm upwards suspiciously, and Ruicho put what she was pinching with her thumb and index finger on Mu Yirong's palm.

It was a few green silk threads, Mu Yirong didn't know why, and looked at Seocho.

"This is what I found on the wooden thorns on the top of the pillar. I checked Xiao Tao's clothes just now, and there are no scratches on her clothes. ”

After Seocho finished speaking, he pointed to the middle of the bloodstain on the pillar, and asked Mu Yirong to take a closer look.

After Mu Yirong got close to the pillar, he found that there were some traces of blood on the pillar, and his brows suddenly relaxed.

"Do you think that the murderer put a piece of cloth on Xiao Tao's forehead, plus the sound of chopping wood outside, so the caretaker didn't hear the sound inside?"

Seocho nodded, saying that this was her speculation, and Mu Yirong pinched his chin again.

Is this a coincidence, or does someone know that the kitchen guy was going to chop wood at that time?

Mu Yirong troubled Steward Pang, who had been listening, to summon the man, and Steward Pang waved his hand at the caretaker, and he immediately ran to the next door.

After a while, the caretaker walked in with a bald man wearing a greasy apron.

The man spoke in an urn voice, and after saluting Mu Yirong and the others, he asked Mu Yirong and the others what instructions they had?

Mu Yirong glanced at the man up and down, and asked him what he saw when he was chopping firewood in the courtyard just now?

The guy didn't know why, scratched his big bald head, and said that chopping wood is chopping wood with an axe, what else can you see besides seeing axes and wood?

When the green swordsman Han Xiangzi heard the man's words, he laughed "poof".

Steward Pang glared at the man angrily, "My lord is asking you, have you seen anyone entering and leaving the firewood room?"

The man stretched out his hand to the caretaker, "I saw him standing at the door of the firewood room." ”

The green swordsman Han Xiangzi laughed louder, Mu Yirong glanced at Han Xiangzi again, and asked the guy why he didn't go to the firewood room, or the firewood stack in the corner of the wall to get firewood, and he had to split it himself?

The guy smiled and said that he was not chopping ordinary firewood, but apple wood.

He said that in addition to lighting fires and fetching water, he was also responsible for killing chickens and sheep.

Recently, his wife had a bad appetite due to pregnancy and wanted to eat roast leg of lamb. However, the mutton is fishy, and it is smoked and roasted with apple wood, which can not only remove the fishy flesh of the mutton, but also have the sweet taste of apples.

So, he chopped some apples and used them to smoke the leg of lamb.

When Seocho heard the man's words, his drooling was about to come out, and he asked him if he had finished baking?

The man shook his head and said that he was setting up firewood, and he heard a noise in the courtyard, so he came out to see the commotion.

When he heard that it was a dead man, he felt that it was none of his business, so he went into the kitchen again, and found that the cook who had helped him was gone, and was about to look for it, when he was called over.

"There are a lot of people in the house, do they know that you are going to roast a leg of lamb this morning?"

The man nodded truthfully, and Mrs. Dao couldn't eat much, so she must have to share it with her subordinates, so there were many people who were hungry and lively, and they all came to see the leg of mutton early in the morning.

Listen to the words of the man, but all the people in this house, as long as they have a heart, will know that he will split apples. And when that time came, he sneaked into the firewood room, and with the sound of chopping wood, he killed Xiao Tao.

In front of the wood house, near the courtyard wall, there was a window, which was completely turned up and hung on a hook.

If someone takes advantage of the crowds in the morning to attract the attention of the caretaker, it is not impossible to quickly enter through the window and then come out.

It's just that the window is very small, and even for a woman with a corset, it will be very difficult to get in and out. How can you get in and out quickly and without attracting the attention of the gatekeepers?

In order to let in sunlight and prevent the firewood from becoming damp and moldy, the windows of the firewood house are set at a high place, just above the courtyard wall next to it.

Mu Yirong walked towards the courtyard wall, stood on tiptoe, and looked at the courtyard wall.

There were traces of climbing and friction on the courtyard wall, and he looked up again and looked under the eaves of the firewood house.

Under the eaves of the firewood room that leaned outward, there were two wooden beams horizontally, Mu Yirong turned his head to look at Seocho who came over, "If you jump up from the courtyard wall, can you hook the beams above with your hands or feet, and then jump into the window?"

Seocho tilted her head and glanced at the courtyard wall next to her, and then at the window of the firewood room at the level of her head, "I can just jump in like this." ”

Mu Yirong nodded, turned his head to look at the green swordsman Han Xiangzi, and saw that Han Xiangzi was staring at Seocho playfully with the eyes of "What kind of monster are you", his eyes flashed, and he asked, "Shaoxia, if it's you, can you?"

"It's not a beautiful snake down there, where can the body be so soft. ”

The green swordsman Han Xiangzi said that he couldn't do it, and smiled and asked Seocho to give him a performance.

Seocho replied to him, "I'm not a street juggler, how can I have the leisure to perform that for you." ”

"You've forgotten the kindness of that dustpan of elm money buns so quickly?"

The green swordsman Han Xiangzi smiled and asked for favors from Seocho, Mu Yirong glanced at the soft-mouthed Seocho, and suddenly inexplicably gave birth to a kind of self-raised pet, and the feeling of being bullied by other people's dogs always had the idea of picking up a stick and sucking the green swordsman Han Xiangzi.

"Since Shaoxia said that he wanted to help the official investigate the case, at this time, there is a place where you need to be used. ”

Mu Yirong looked at the green swordsman Han Xiangzi with a smile, and pointed to the beam under the eaves of the firewood house, "The young man can't get into the window, so you jump up and look at the beam, but there are any traces, it shouldn't be a problem, right?"

The corners of the green swordsman Han Xiangzi's mouth curled up in a good-looking arc, "Brother Yirong is worthy of being an official, and he has a set of instructing others to do things and work." ”

With that, he flew up and looked in the air towards the beams under the eaves.

Han Xiangzi, a green swordsman who jumped high, stayed in the air for a moment as if he knew how to control the sky, and then his wide sleeves fluttered and landed.

Han Xiangzi, the green swordsman who was floating on the ground, smiled at Mu Yirong and nodded slightly, "Brother Yirong is right, there are indeed climbing marks on that beam." ”

Someone once entered and exited the firewood room through the window, and combined with the evidence left on the corpse, Xiao Tao's death was undoubtedly murderous.

So, what is it that would do it to a frightened and insane person?

It should be the person who pretended to be a monster and attacked Liu Jingshan.

When Mu Yirong pinched his chin and thought, Ruicao, who had nothing to do, handed the green silk thread to Steward Pang's eyes, "The monster you saw, the clothes you are wearing, but this color?"

Steward Pang nodded subconsciously, but then shook his head again and said that although it was very similar, there were only a few silk threads, and it was difficult to judge.

Seocho's eyes were staring at Steward Pang tightly, as if the light of a beast was overflowing from his eyes, and a few drops of sweat oozed from Steward Pang's forehead.

Ruicao pinched the green silk threads and took a step forward, ready to continue to ask Steward Pang, but was stopped by Mu Yirong.

Mu Yirong took a step forward and said to Steward Pang, who was in a cold sweat, "Xiao Tao is very likely to be killed because of witnessing the murderer who attacked County Lieutenant Liu, Steward Pang should also be more careful, take precautions, it's best not to stay alone." ”

Steward Pang nodded and asked Xiao Tao's body, what should be done?