The body was put down and temporarily placed on the bed, and Liang Yuanque began to pace around the small room, looking for clues.
The corpse had not changed into pajamas and was still wearing the same coat he had seen during the day, but there were no shoes on his feet.
It seems that she was sleeping with her clothes on last night, that is, lying down on the bed. Suddenly she thought of hanging herself, so she got up and hanged her neck?
The whole scene didn't seem unreasonable at first glance, but Liang Yuanque always had a weird feeling.
The body was put down, and the homemade rope hanging the body was still hanging under the beam.
Liang Yuanque walked over and could touch it with his hand raised due to his height.
The side house was built very low. A tall man like Zhuang Youjie might not be able to hang himself.
Xiaolian's height was a bit shorter than Liang Yuanque's, but she was tall enough to hang herself.
Liang Yuanque turned his attention to a round stool leaning to the side. It was the only stool in the room.
He closed his eyes and simulated in his mind the actions Xiaolian had done last night.
She tore up the sheets on the bed, tied them into a simple hanging rope, and used a stool in the room to put her head into the rope.
Then she kicked her foot and the stool was kicked away. Under the influence of gravity, her neck bones broke instantly and she died.
The stool was kicked away, the stool was kicked away...
Liang Yuanque thought about this action over and over again, and finally discovered the irrationality of this scene.
If Xiaolian kicked this stool down by herself, it would not have fallen in this direction at all!
Huang Jingye didn't even put down the body. He kept maintaining the scene and waiting for Liang Yuanque to come back, so it was impossible for the stool to be kicked by them and lose its direction.
In an instant, the entire case changed its nature.
Liang Yuanque lifted the body again and carefully inspected the strangulation marks on the neck.
Because the body was hung up with a wide sheet for a long time, a wide red mark formed on the neck, and even if a piece of the sheet was torn off and turned into a rope, it would still pile up on the neck, forming many wrinkles.
Due to hanging for too long, these folds also left marks of varying depths on the neck.
These traces were one of the reasons that affected Liang Yuanque's judgment just now.
Because among the traces of ravines, one was the real cause of Xiaolian's death from suffocation.
After careful searching, Liang Yuanque finally found a strangulation mark that was deeper than the other marks and directed towards the back of his neck.
Sure enough, Xiaolian did not commit suicide, she was killed by someone.
Judging from the behavior of the corpse and the situation at the scene, last night, after the housekeeper and Huang Jingye left their hands one after another, someone quietly sneaked into the side room with a rope.
Xiaolian was supposed to be sleeping at the time, and the murderer strangled her neck with the rope directly from the bed.
Lying flat on her back, it was difficult for the murderer to strangle her to death and had to drag her up from the bed.
It can be seen that the murderer must be stronger than Xiaolian.
During the murder process, Xiaolian should have struggled, but at that time, Mr. Huang's men had already withdrawn from the side room, and no one nearby could hear it.
After the murderer strangled Xiaolian, he tore up the sheets and hung her from the rafters, pretending to be a suicide.
"Mr. Huang, you were resting in the main room last night. Didn't you hear anything going on here?"
Huang Jingye thought for a while, "In fact, there was movement everywhere in the Song family last night. I couldn't tell whether it came from here."
Sister Huang died so violently. The Song family wanted to leave her funeral affairs alone, but Huang Jingye refused. So yesterday, Mr. Song ordered his servants to tear up the white cloth and visit the mourning hall all night long. There was no silence all night.
Liang Yuanque thought to himself, after working hard all night, why didn't he see any actual results? Could it be that he did it deliberately to deceive others?
Huang Jingye saw Liang Yuanque frowning and knew something was fishy.
"Sir, what's going on?"
Liang Yuanque frowned and glanced at the open door. Huang Jingye understood immediately and asked his men to go out first and close the door.
In an instant, only the two of them and a corpse were left in the room.
"Two things," Liang Yuanque tidied up his words because he was afraid that someone would break in, and kept the story short.
"First, this little maid was indeed killed. She was Sister Huang's personal maid during her lifetime. She probably knew some secrets, so she had to die."
"Secondly, the midwife who delivered the baby yesterday was also silenced because she was the one who directly killed your sister."
Liang Yuanque said, taking out the small porcelain bottle from his bag, "Well, this is the bottle containing the poison. I found it at the midwife's house."
Huang Jingye took the bottle, the veins on his forehead almost bursting out, "I'm going to confront Song!"
"Hey wait!" Liang Yuanque saw that he was impulsive and grabbed him, "Mr. Huang, we have too few clues now, so don't alert the enemy."
Huang Jingye's fist was almost broken, "Then what should we do next?"
Liang Yuanque pulled Huang Jingye to sit down, and after he calmed down a little, he told him what he had discovered at Mrs. Fang's place.
"So we should go find the murderer now?"
"Yes," Liang Yuanque nodded, "Although the insider is dead, the murderer is still there. If the murderer can be controlled, maybe we can pry out something useful."
"Of course, we have to hurry up before it is silenced."
The murderer of Mrs. Fang was most likely her maternal nephew, but the small porcelain bottle containing the poison was not taken away properly, which made Liang Yuanque suspicious of the incident again.
Does that mean that the purpose of his killing was not to help silence the Song family? If the murderer was to be silenced and such important evidence was not taken away, wouldn’t the person’s death be in vain?
Or maybe what Mrs. Fang's grandson said was the truth. A fourth person entered the Fang family last night.
It killed Granny Fang and knocked her grandson unconscious. Granny Fang's nephew might have just left before it, or he might have been poisoned when he was unprepared.
In short, no matter whether this nephew is the murderer or not, we must find a way to find him.
Since Huang Jingye chose to entrust the case to Liang Yuanque for investigation, he naturally believed in every decision he made.
Liang Yuanque described to Huang Jingye the appearance of Mrs. Fang's nephew that he heard from Aunt Wang, and asked him to arrange for people to search throughout the county.
Fortunately, Mr. Huang came back with enough people this time, otherwise this matter would be really difficult to handle.
"Then the Song family no longer needs to guard?"
"We already know the cause of Sister Huang's death. Let her be buried in peace. The Song family no longer needs to guard her. Xiaolian's body should also be taken away by her family," Liang Yuanque said.
No more information could be found on Xiaolian's body. Since the Song family moved in with her family to put pressure on Mr. Huang, they might as well grant their wish.
Anyway, Liang Yuanque had a rough guess about her murderer.
