Allure emperor medical concubine

Chapter 44 A few doubts
Lu Xiaoning smiled smugly, since you invited me out of the mountain, wouldn't she be looked down upon by you if she didn't show some real skills?
"First of all, the first flaw is the basin of footwashing water and this quilt. If the guest turned off the lights at the end of the day and was killed alternately, then he must have gone to bed even though he used the footwashing water and didn't wash his feet before. But the quilt is folded well, not messy, and most importantly, this is not his usual way of folding quilts."

Huangfu Shaoye was annoyed, why didn't he notice this detail?
"The second flaw is these boxes. Did you see it? There are three boxes here, each of which contains the same batch of material. Although the patterns are different, the material is the same. These are all cloud silk. These all belong to Yunjin, and these all belong to Hangsi..." Lu Xiaoning pointed to the box by box, and went to the box on the far left and said: "Only this box, which is what Xiaoer saw, was carried by the merchant at the end of Shen Shimo." The box that came in is a mixture of three kinds of fabrics."

Gu Shifeng knocked on the head and blamed himself: "Stupid, really stupid."

"It's no wonder to you, you are not familiar with the fabrics, maybe in your eyes, these fabrics only look different in pattern, but my grandfather Ji's family is a famous silk merchant in Dazhou, I can distinguish more than 100 kinds of fabrics, as long as There are some in the market, and I just need to take a look at them to know where they are made, what materials and weaving methods are used." While comforting them, Lu Xiaoning boasted fiercely.

Huangfu Shaoye raised his eyes and said: "So, what you mean is that there is something wrong with the box that the businessman brought in. It is not filled with fabrics, but...a person?"

In this case, the explanation makes sense, three people came, three people left, and one person was left, and this person hid in the box, waiting for an opportunity to kill someone.After that, he went out through the window and dropped the wooden peg with a fishing line, creating the illusion of a murder in a secret room.

uh... not right.

Huangfu Shaoye said: "There is a question, since the merchant came to deliver the goods, how could the deceased not inspect the goods? Also, when Xiaoer asked if he wanted hot water at Haishi, who was the person in the room who answered no? Xiao Er said that he could clearly hear the voice of the guest."

Lu Xiaoning raised his eyebrows and said, "You finally got the point."

"Let me infer the circumstances of the case. Yesterday, when the application time was not up, a cloth merchant and two attendants carried a large wooden box into this room. Obviously, he had contacted the deceased before, and the deceased received him. Just when the deceased was about to inspect the goods, the cloth merchant and his attendants made a sudden attack and strangled the deceased's neck, causing him to suffocate quickly. Then they put the deceased on a chair, causing him to sit at the table of the Eight Immortals all the time Then the draper left with his entourage, and the people hidden in the box moved out."

"The purpose of his stay is to clean up the scene. If I remember correctly, there was a rain yesterday afternoon. The street should be wet. Even if they come in a carriage, they will always get out of the carriage. , so, the soles of their shoes must be wet, and they will leave footprints on the inside of the floor, even the slightest footprints. However, I checked carefully, and it was not cleared by the person hiding in the box. Very thorough."

"But it was because the cleaning was too thorough, which made the room look too clean and exposed flaws. Like you, this person probably couldn't tell the difference between these fabrics. In order not to leave this box empty, he put other The fabrics in the three boxes were evened out, which resulted in a mixture of the three fabrics in that box, while the fabrics in the other boxes were all lighter."

Gu Shifeng nodded again and again but was still confused, and said, "But the problem is, judging from the results of the autopsy, the guest did die at the time when Zi Chou alternated. How should this be explained?"

Lu Xiaoning smiled: "Didn't I ask you, what was your first feeling when you first entered this room? You said it was cold, it was dark. But this room is facing south, full of sunshine, just like at this time already It's You time, when the temperature is at the bottom of the day, and there is no gloomy and cold feeling, so what caused it?"

Lu Xiaoning pointed to the big box and said, "I'm afraid this box can hold not only one person, but also other things, such as... ice cubes..."

Huangfu Shaoye's eyes lit up.

Gu Shifeng also guessed the key.

"That's right, it's ice cubes, which can explain why the guests didn't ask for footwashing water, but there was water in the footwashing bucket, and why the temperature in the room was so low, making people feel eerie and cold. The main reason for ice cubes The function is to lower the temperature and delay the degree of decay of the corpse. Therefore, the inference we made about the time of death of the deceased was wrong. The real time of death of the deceased is Shen Shichu, that is, the stick of incense that the cloth merchant stayed here Within time, they are the real murderers." Lu Xiaoning said seriously.

At this moment, Huangfu Shaoye only saw Lu Xiaoning's eyes shining with wisdom, and he felt that something was awakening in the depths of his heart. He couldn't tell what was awakened, what the specific feeling was, he only knew that at this moment he There is excitement in the blood.

All the inferences are reasonable, as if the case happened right under their noses, oh... the mystery that was so puzzling was blown away by a gust of wind, and gradually revealed its true colors.

Gu Shifeng compares his thumbs, although the fact that two big men are not as good as one woman is embarrassing, but this thumb compares him sincerely and sincerely.

"Then what do you deduce their motives for killing?" Huangfu Shaoye asked calmly.

Lu Xiaoning frowned, and pondered: "I think they are looking for something, something very important to them. Xiao Er said that the deceased would fold the quilt every day, so Shen Shichu, the deceased did not go to bed, his The quilt should be folded, but what we saw was that the quilt was refolded. What does this mean? Also, the things in the room are placed very neatly, as if someone has been turned over and is afraid that someone will take it out , put it back on purpose. So, this is another purpose of that person’s stay, to find something, from Shenshi to Haimo, nearly three hours.”

Gu Shifeng was thoughtful, and said to himself: "What could it be? What does a Korean merchant have to make people spend so much time killing people?"

Huangfu Shaoye's heart trembled: "Could it be that the deceased is..."

The three looked at each other, and said in unison: "A hidden pile?"

The so-called hidden piles are people sent by a certain country to other countries to investigate military and other aspects of intelligence, similar to modern spies.

A Korean businessman was killed and no property was lost. It was not a murder of love or vendetta, so this is the most likely reason.

(End of this chapter)