Li Huaiyun glanced at the corpse and pondered for a moment, "Is it possible that the appearance of the corpse itself is also changing, so you can't recognize it?"
"What?" Yan Zheng was stunned and speechless! "What you say is a bit unbelievable! Could it be that the corpse is also getting older? Didn't you just say that her epiphyseal line was located at the age of seventeen or eighteen years old?"
"That's one thing!" Li Huaiyun pointed at the corpse and said, "Look here again. You can see wrinkles on the corpse's face and at the corners of its eyes. These wrinkles are simply impossible for a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman. have!"
Li Huai used his hands to open the corpse's mouth and looked inside carefully, "Moreover, four of the teeth in the corpse's mouth have fully grown, indicating that the deceased cannot be eighteen years old!"
"Wisdom teeth?"
Li Huaiyun patted his face and said, "You should be older at your age, you are on the inside.
Yan Zheng moved his tongue in his mouth, "This is what your aunt taught you!"
"Uh!" Li Huaiyun nodded immediately, "Yes,"
"What a strange woman, who can understand the mysteries of the body so well!"
I made it up! Li Huaiyun thought to himself, if my aunt knew that I was bragging about her outside, she would not let her beat her to death!
Mu Yuan was a little puzzled, "According to what you said, the epiphyseal line is not closed, but the appearance is getting older. This is a bit fantasy!"
Li Huaiyun pondered for a moment, "The only explanation is that the servant girl is not dead and has been living in the trunk, but the growth inside her body has stopped."
Yan Zheng frowned and looked at the corpse. He felt that Li Huaiyun's statement was quite ridiculous.
"That's nonsense! Your judgment is too subjective!"
"Remember what I said? Once the case involves monsters causing trouble, then there will definitely be things that do not conform to the normal logic of life."
"And that's why no one can figure out what's going on!"
Use this ghostly way to explain! Yan Zheng looked at him with questioning eyes, "Is this too hasty?"
"Besides, even if it is confirmed that the maidservant was not dead at the time and was still getting older, what is the use of it?"
Li Huaiyun seemed very calm when faced with this question, "This conclusion is not useless. It can be seen that the truth about the death of the princess may be caused by monsters."
"Ah!" Yan Zheng and Mu Yuan were both very surprised.
"My mother's death was related to monsters!"
"The possibility is very high!" Li Huaiyun said, "After all, a drug that can make people hallucinate and then think that they are still clear is impossible in human hands. Only those monsters with charming hearts can do it. It can be done!”
"That's what I said, the monster will make the case appear unnatural."
Mu Yuan stood aside with a solemn expression. The case became more and more complicated as she investigated it. She had no clue at all, "Then what was the purpose of this monster killing my mother?"
Li Huaiyun picked up the jade carving on the side and placed it in front of him, "Remember what this is?"
"This jade carving! It's what the widow abandoned by the well."
"Yes, the thing that can be used to hide the evil spirit has something to do with the man in black robe."
Mu Yuan gritted her teeth tightly and spat out a few words, "Damn it! It's that guy again. I didn't expect that my mother's case was actually related to him!"
Li Huaiyun stood up and came to the locust tree. In fact, most of the clues in this case can be found in this old tree.
Why would someone put the maid in a tree trunk? And it's like hibernating inside? Who is the murderous eunuch?
Faced with various problems, Li Huaiyun realized that cutting the tree trunk to find clues might be more direct than dissecting a corpse.
He had gloves on his arms, and without thinking much, he climbed up the trunk and leaned against the cut in the trunk.
Li Huaiyun was still worried, fearing that if he put his hand in, he would be attacked by unknown creatures inside.
He slowly stretched his hand into the trunk, lifting it up from time to time to ensure that he could retract his hand immediately if there was any danger. Then, he gently pressed inside with his hand, and found that in addition to the soft wood fibers, , and nothing else.
Just inside the trunk, compared to the layer inside, the wood fibers have become slightly more elastic.
He could clearly feel something stained on the gloves, and a sticky liquid was precipitating on the fiber surface.
Li Huaiyun always felt that the thing was a bit disgusting, so he directly raised his hand and found that the surface of his fist was stained with a layer of light yellow liquid, similar to gelatin.
What is this? Li Huaiyun gently rubbed it in his hands. This stuff was very sticky, but fluid enough.
Yan Zheng saw him coming down from the tree and asked hurriedly, "What did you find?"
"This?" Li Huaiyun showed the glove, "I don't know what it is."
Yan Zheng wanted to touch it directly with his hands, but Li Huaiyun stopped him because he still didn't understand the ingredients of this thing. If it was poisonous, it would be very troublesome.
Li Huaiyun carefully took off the gloves, and Yan Zheng immediately ordered his subordinates to wrap the gloves. He knew that this thing was also one of the clues.
"There is a lot of water in the trunk, and judging from the extremely cold condition when the body was first taken out, the inside of the locust tree is like a large ice cellar. As long as there is space, things can be stored inside. "
"That's why there is so much water vapor on the body, including the clothes, which are all soaked."
Yan Zheng also stood next to the tree trunk. He groped the surface with his hands. These words of Li Huaiyun made him quite puzzled, and he even couldn't understand what they meant.
"Master Li, I have never understood what you mean. I don't understand this at all."
"Normal! Mr. Yan has never been in contact with monsters. All judgments are based on normal human body behavior, so he is not clear about such things."
Yan Zheng sighed and asked quickly, "Then please sir, please help me to clear up my doubts."
"I'm just guessing, lacking actual evidence!"
Li Huaiyun was silent for a moment and then said, "Then let me tell you the general idea of this case in detail! This is a quite typical case, with clues everywhere, but the clues can never be connected in series, because we A key understanding is missing.”
Yan Zheng stood up straight, raised his ears, and prepared to listen carefully to what he said. On the one hand, he was afraid of missing something, and on the other hand, he was afraid of not understanding it in time.
Mu Yuan raised her hand and pointed at him hard, "It's better to stop talking nonsense and talk about the case quickly. I'm still waiting to kill my mother's murderer."
This woman is really anxious! At this time, I don’t even have the words to say thank you!
Li Huaiyun moved his sleeves and pondered for a moment, "This case seems very ordinary, it seems to be just an accident, but the truth hidden behind the case is not simple at all. The man in black robe obviously has an agenda.
"Let me tell you a few words first! This case should start before the princess fell into the water."
Mu Yuan couldn't stand the other party's slowness and shouted loudly, "Hurry up, just tell me how my mother died! And who is the murderer!"
Yan Zheng immediately retorted, "Princess, when we handle cases in Dali Temple, we can't just simply talk about these things."
He called the assistant who assisted in the investigation and asked the assistant to start recording what might have happened in the case.
Mu Yuan curled her lips.
Li Huaiyun said, "This case starts with the death of the princess who fell into the water. In Qihua Palace, this locust tree has been there for a long time, and at a specific time, it will emit a smell that will directly cause hallucinations. Returning is In order for people to notice that such conditions are achieved, it must be a special kind of weather.”
"The deceased had taken care of the princess's daily life, so he knew everything about the princess. All he had to do was put some hoarfrost on the princess's clothes and the clothes Mu Yuan wore when you were a child, and you could carry out the plan."
"Hoar frost!" Yan Zheng looked at Li Huaiyun with a confused look. He first asked questions about what happened after the operation. There were not as many questions as he asked. He retorted, "It was autumn at that time, so there should be no cold. To the point where there is hoarfrost.”
"I think you are all mistaken!" Li Huaiyun said directly, "The hoarfrost I am talking about is not the kind that appears only when the weather is cold. The hoarfrost that appears on the surface of the grass appears on the edges of wet corners. That kind of white frost.”
"That's because of the gypsum powder, which causes this situation."
"This also explains why there is this kind of white frost on the clothes on the corpse. It is also possible that I might get it when I touch the corners of the wall!
Li Huaiyun continued, "For this reason, the princess was unconscious and fell into the water! And Mu Yuan, you were taken out of the palace by another person and stayed in the place where you were sleeping and did not wake up."
"Afterwards, the servants in the palace discovered that the princess had disappeared, so they immediately searched for her and notified the emperor."
"After some searching, I finally found traces of the princess in the lake, so I fished her out. The emperor was very angry!"
Mu Yuan asked curiously, "Wait a minute, how do you know that Hunjun is quite angry?"
Li Huaiyun said, "I'm afraid you haven't noticed. When we were eating in the house, the prince said that when the theme was autumn, the emperor's eyes suddenly turned red!"
"The princess died in this season, and he suddenly realized that the time was somewhat similar!"
Li Huaiyun sighed, "This also shows that the emperor will never forget that scene!"
"I can't see such a scene, so I think he doesn't care!"
"Mu Yuan! He is the emperor, and he is originally in a high position. His emotions and anger are invisible, and no one can detect his innermost feelings."
Li Huaiyun said to Mu Yuan, "The two internal agents in the palace should have been arranged beside the princess very early."
"Before the case happened, the two people had been looking for opportunities to lurk in Qihua Palace. After the incident, one of them was swallowed by the locust tree and became a corpse."
"Swallowed by a locust tree?" Yan Zheng looked at him with disbelief, "You mean this locust tree is a demon?"
"Yes!"
"Then this corpse was devoured by monsters?"
