Seeing that the eldest princess of Deqing had no way to ask further questions, the palace maid in charge, Ling Qiu, suggested: "Your Highness, these palace maids and chamberlains cannot be proven to be related to the death of Liang Guiren for a while. It is better to find a place to imprison them first. If there are any questions later, we can deal with them one by one." trial."
The eldest princess turned sideways slightly, glanced at the body of the noble man in the palace, frowned and moved away, silently waving her hand, and approved her suggestion.
Ling Qiu took the palace people down.
Jade Comb is still supporting Linglong, the two of them walk awkwardly, and their backs are thin.
Linglong's feet were still bare, and her white socks were stained with a lot of dust.
The eldest princess looked at her and accidentally saw the jade comb next to her standing on her heels slightly, and she seemed to be walking a little strangely. Then he called out: "Yushu, what's wrong with your feet?"
Yushu paused and looked back at the eldest princess. However, she was pulled by Linglong who continued walking beside her and almost fell down. She whispered "Ouch" softly, then she apologized and said: "At that time, I went to report the news at the banquet. I ran a little hastily. My feet may have been worn out and a little painful, so walking was a little uncomfortable."
The eldest princess nodded and signaled for them to leave.
Not long after, people from Dongchang rushed over.
Qin Zeng's aura was unparalleled by ordinary people. When everyone standing outside the hall saw him, they subconsciously lowered their heads to avoid his gaze.
Only Li Qingyi, with her pretty face flushed by the cold winter wind, was as dazzling as a colorful phoenix surrounded by hundreds of birds.
She smiled slightly at Qin Zeng as a greeting, but she didn't expect Qin Zeng to stop in front of her, "Miss Li is very smart, why don't you come with me to the hall to check on the body of the noble nobleman."
Li Qingyi was slightly startled, and everyone looked over in surprise.
It is said that Li Qingyi and Qin Zeng have an extraordinary friendship, and it seems that this is indeed the case.
The eldest princess of Deqing was old and mature. Seeing Qin Zeng acting like this, she didn't show any signs of strangeness and said, "Since Mr. Qin trusts Miss Li, please ask Miss Li to help."
Li Qingyi responded happily: "Yes."
The eldest princess did not say anything, and everyone present did not dare to move without permission, and could only stand quietly outside the palace and wait for instructions.
Li Qingyi, under the strange gazes of all kinds, and Qin Zeng followed Ling Qiu into the palace and inspected the body of the noble nobleman together.
More than an hour had passed since Liang Guiren was killed, and the blood flowing on the ground all over her body had turned black and solidified.
And the way she died was so hideous that even Qin Zeng couldn't help but frown and look slightly surprised.
Qin Zeng had probably seen a lot of corpses or made corpses with his own hands, so autopsy was not a problem. He took out several things and handed them to Li Qingyi, including a silver needle for poison testing and a thin-skin gauntlet for autopsy. Hold it for yourself.
While inspecting the corpse, he said: "Try not to let the blood of the corpse touch the skin. If it accidentally gets it, clean it immediately. Otherwise, if the body is poisoned and the silver needle cannot detect it, you will suffer. .”
"Why are you telling me what you are doing? I don't know how to do it."
Qin Zeng raised his eyelids and glanced at her, "I'm not teaching you to look at corpses anymore, but I'm trying to prevent you from turning yourself into a corpse."
"..."
Li Qingyi was speechless and turned to ignore him.
The murder weapon was thrown into the pool of blood. It was a sharp dagger inlaid with gems.
It was blocked by Liang Guiren's dress before, so I didn't see it.
Qin Zeng picked it up, looked at it carefully, wrapped it in a piece of white cloth, and prepared for people to inquire about its origin later.
He first took blood and tested it with a silver needle. Then he observed Liang Guiren's face, ears, nose, throat, mouth, eyes and other places, and found that Liang Guiren was not poisoned.
The wound on the abdomen is much easier to identify for someone like him who often uses swords.
"The murderer seemed to hate Liang Guiren very much. He stabbed her abdomen more than ten times with a dagger crazily, then opened the abdomen with force and picked out the baby."
The stewardess Ling Qiu couldn't help but asked: "With such a drastic method, why didn't the noble nobleman do it?"
She called out for help, but it was Linglong who screamed in surprise before someone came to check? "
Li Qingyi moved her body, half-knelt on Liang Guiren's upper body, gently raised her head, and found a very swollen wound on the back of her head. She asked Qin Zeng to look at it, and guessed: "I think the injury here is It was also one of the reasons why Mr. Liang died. The murderer first knocked Mr. Liang unconscious with a heavy object, then immediately raised a knife to kill him and cut his belly open to take out his son. So Mr. Liang was stabbed while he was unconscious. "
Qin Zeng looked at her movements, raised his eyebrows and said, "You are very brave. How come you are not afraid of such a horrific death?"...
It would be good for an ordinary lady not to be paralyzed with fear when encountering such a bloody and strange scene.
Li Qingyi not only dared to look closely, but also dared to touch the corpse.
Li Qingyi replied: "I think living people are actually much scarier than dead people. Sir, am I right?"
Qin Zeng raised the corners of his lips slightly, "Indeed."
Ling Qiu looked at the interaction between the two and was slightly surprised, but she didn't say anything. Instead, she looked at Liang Guiren's body, and then asked doubtfully: "Since the murderer wanted to kill someone, why didn't he just kill him neatly? ……so?"
"It must be because of hatred." Li Qingyi has no doubt about this: "The murderer had the opportunity to kill the noble man with a knife, but did not do so. Instead, he killed him in such a cruel way. He obviously wanted to vent his anger."
Qin Zeng nodded in agreement and said, "More than that, there is something very strange. Look at the wound here. Judging from the traces of the broken skin, the dagger should have penetrated from bottom to top. Therefore, the murderer It was neither from the side nor from the back, but after Liang Guiren fell, he squatted on her head to commit the murder."
Hearing this, Ling Qiu asked doubtfully: "Isn't this... too weird?"
Qin Zeng frowned and thought for a while, then looked at the already-formed baby on the ground. He made a slight distinction and said, "It's a baby boy."
When Li Qingyi heard that it was a baby boy, he had some guesses in his mind, but he couldn't say it in front of Ling Qiu, lest it would backfire, so he got up and looked at the blood on the ground.
"It seems that Mr. Liang fell here from the beginning. He didn't struggle too much. There were only sporadic blood spots around him. There was nothing unusual in the rest of the room."
Li Qingyi covered Liang Guiren's eyes with his hands and tried to close her eyelids. He tried twice to no avail.
She sighed and stopped trying, but suddenly saw a piece of ash on her left cheek. Upon closer inspection, there were several patterns: "What is this?"
Qin Zeng moved over to check, and Ling Qiu also bent down and stretched his neck to look at Liang Guiren's cheek and said, "This... seems to be a shoe sole print?"
"Maybe you can tell the date from the marks on the soles of these shoes?"
Ling Qiu said: "All the clothes and shoes of the maids in the palace are distributed uniformly, and the marks on the soles of the shoes are naturally the same. The difference is only in size, and the marks are too small and narrow, and the slaves really can't tell them apart..."
Li Qingyi nodded and looked at the two shoes that Linglong ran away in panic.
The shoes were indigo cloth-covered soft-soled shoes. One of them fell on the threshold, and the other fell near Mr. Liang. There was some blood on the side of the shoe nearby.
Ling Qiu frowned and said, "Could it be that the murderer is Linglong? Is she pretending to be delirious just now? But even if she was panicked, she didn't run away with both shoes? Could it be that she was stained with blood? Are you afraid that others will suspect you, so you deliberately get rid of it?"
Li Qingyi asked back: "But, wouldn't this make her more suspicious? Think about it, when the incident happened, she was the only one guarding the palace. When something happened, everyone was the first to suspect it. It's her. Can taking off her shoes help her get away with it? Obviously not, but it makes it even more difficult for her to explain. So, there must be other reasons."
After Qin Zeng saw the body, the group left the inner hall and explained the detailed situation to Princess Deqing one by one.
The eldest princess of Deqing looked solemn and said: "Since the maid immediately came to report the incident, within such a short period of time, the murderer must still be in Fanghua Palace. Everyone entering and leaving Fanghua Palace today must undergo strict investigation !」
