"So, after Qu Hui killed Lian Xiaoshuang, he did not dispose of the body, but ran away in a hurry," Jin Ruo scratched his head, "In other words, there was another person who rearranged the crime scene and placed the corpse on Lian Xiaoshuang's body. Stamped with peach blossoms, packed the body into boxes, transported it to the sewer, and set up a timer so that Lian Xiaoshuang's body would appear in Huanhua Creek the next day - what is this man planning?"
No one answered him.
Everyone was sitting in the Judicial Department, staring at the dense wall of clues in a daze.
Lian Xiaoshuang's case is settled. The "lover" was marked with "Wu Zhengqing (dead)", the "murderer" was marked with "Qu Hui", the "murder weapon" was marked with "embroidery thread", and a new line was added "throwing the body away" "--blank.
Hua Yitang drew the word "peach blossom brand" in a red circle, "Why must Lian Xiaoshuang's body be stamped with peach blossom brand?"
Ling Zhiyan: "Placing the blame for the murder on the Peach Blossom Murderer and covering up the crime for Qu Hui?"
Hua Yitang: "If this is the reason, then this person must be very familiar with Qu Hui. Not only are they familiar with each other, but they also have a good relationship. He wants to protect Qu Hui - who could it be?"
Jin Ruo: "Since Qu Hui married Wu Zhengli, she has almost never left the house. She has even alienated her relatives. Among the people who are familiar with her, except for the damn Wu Zhengli, Wu Zhengqing can barely count. But It is impossible for these two people to help Qu Hui, and they both have alibis."
Hua Yitang shook his head, stared at the three words Taohua brand, and murmured, "It's not them, there is another person..."
Jin Ruo: "Who else can it be?"
Lin Sui'an was silent for a long time, "Lian Xiaoshuang."
As soon as these words came out, everyone's scalp went numb, and they all remembered Qu Hui's words:
[Could it be Xiaoshuang’s soul that drove her body out of the door...]
"Master, please don't sound so scary!" Jin Ruokuang rubbed the goosebumps on his arms, "I've been digging graves all day, and I can't bear to hear this now."
Lin Sui'an was startled, "What kind of grave are you digging?"
"Ah, I forgot about Wu Zhengqing's case!" Jin Ruo slapped his forehead and hurriedly recalled how Wu Da found out that there was a problem with the Yizhuang planned by the Wu family, how he and Fang Ke found the Yizhuang, and how they met Wuweizi gave a brief report on how he went to the mass grave and how he discovered the bones of the white animal. He especially boasted about the handsome scene of his fierce fight with Yun Zhongyue.
"When Wu Da and I tied up Wu Weizi, we noticed something was wrong. The man's weight was completely inconsistent with his physical appearance, and his footprints didn't have any heels." Jin Ruo patted his thigh, "Sure enough, it's Yun. Zhongyue is pretending!"
Hua Yitang narrowed his eyes: "In other words, it was Yun Zhongyue who led you to find Bai Sheng's bones?"
Jin Ruo: "The strange thing is that Yun Zhongyue himself doesn't seem to know what is buried in the mass grave?"
Lin Sui'an felt a strange feeling in his heart, and couldn't help but think of Man Qi from Duan Jiu's family, and the mask on Man Qi's face.
Could it be that the person behind Yun Zhongyue is Master Qi?
They actually hooked up together?
Good guys, one is civilized and the other is martial, one is smart and the other is difficult to deal with, this combination is too bad!
Fang Ke fiddled with the autopsy knife in his hand, obviously impatient, "Why is Wu Da so slow?"
Before he finished speaking, there were noisy shouts from outside, and a government official with his face covered in mud ran in, "Report—Captain Wu has brought back all the bones from the mass grave!"
Fang Ke rushed out with a swish of movement, and everyone hurriedly welcomed him out. They saw a team of government officials pulling six bullock carts into the Judicial Department. Each cart was lined with six coffins. , Wu Da took the lead in reporting to Hua Yitang, "Qi Hua joined the army. His subordinates led a careful search of the mass graves and found that there were not twenty, but thirty-six, similar coffins, so they made arrangements accordingly." The instructions were shipped back together."
Hua Yitang nodded, "Very good."
Fang Ke, dressed in red, walked at the middle door of the coffin cart, instructing the government officials to move and place the coffins. He unloaded all the coffins in the yard and arranged them neatly in four rows, with six people in each row. Atractylodes and soap locust were burned in the four corners of the yard, and after a cup of tea was smoked, the coffin was opened.
It was almost Chouzheng at this time, the sky was as dark as a bottomless abyss, and the smoke of atractylodes and soap locust wandered in the night wind, like homeless wandering souls.
One after another, the coffin boards were opened, and bunches of white bones were exposed. Lin Sui'an suddenly felt an indescribable chill, and piercing screams penetrated his brain from all directions, and his vision was blurred by countless The white light tore into pieces, whizzing and swirling into the eyes——
Damn it!
Before Lin Sui'an even had time to hum, he fell straight down, and his remaining consciousness was immersed in the sweet fruity wood fragrance.
It doesn't matter, Lin Sui'an thought, Hua Yitang would definitely be able to catch her.
A group of wet things crawled up along her ankles. It was slippery and squirming. She wanted to pry open this disgusting thing, but her hands were imprisoned. No matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't break free. The wet things got harder and harder. More and more came, wrapping around from all directions, including ankles, wrists, neck, face, thighs, ribs... and soon covered the whole body.
They were squeaking, and the sound was extremely sharp. Gradually, I could hear it clearly. It was not a cry, but laughter. There were many people, they were laughing, singing, cheering, and there were music, Pipa , drums, harp, sweet aroma, choking smoke, pungent smell of alcohol, bizarre pictures swaying like a revolving door, carved pillars, resplendent, countless twisted smiling faces floating over and away again , she finally saw clearly that those disgusting things on her body were actually the claws of wild beasts, wandering around, caressing, tearing, and pressing dirty marks one after another——
Suddenly, a ray of white light penetrated her body, almost tearing her in half. Everything turned into blood red, screams and cries roared out, her body turned into a stone and fell into the mire, and was The smelly black mud was submerged, covering the mouth and nose, and kept falling...
Then, there is endless darkness.
All the sounds have gone away, all the light has disappeared, and there is only the smell of blood and earth in the nose, which is the breath of death.
The darkness lasted for a long, long time, like a dream that would never wake up.
Suddenly, a wisp of floral fragrance appeared, faint and gentle, stroking | the hair on the top of my head.
A faint light appeared in front of her eyes, guiding her to stand up and walk forward slowly. The floral-scented light struck the dark shell, and the shell shattered, and more light shone down, and the veil As hazy as the sky, a cluster of fiery red Begonia flowers bloomed intensely at the end of the light. A person stood in the fragrance of the flowers, wearing a skirt and long hair like ink. He turned his head and smiled brightly, revealing two white eyes. Little tiger teeth.
It's Lian Xiaoshuang.
"Dingle, Dingle, Dingle."
The ringing came from far away. Lian Xiaoshuang smiled even more and pointed to the place where the ringing came from, which was the direction of the light——
Lin Sui'an opened his eyes.
A silver wind chime hangs above the head. There is no paper sign hanging under the wind chime, but a rough-made green bamboo tube. When the wind blows, the bamboo tube sways, jingle bells, jingle bells - and sprinkles a tiny piece of sunshine.
Lin Sui'an was a little dazed and looked around. She was still in the Judicial Department. There was a spacious couch under her body. It looked like a special object carved in square. Hua Yitang was sitting on the edge of the couch, holding her cheek with one hand. One hand held his wrist, and his long eyelashes trembled gently in the ringing. Lin Sui'an thought of the stamens in the spring breeze.
The night has passed and day has broken out.
Lin Sui'an exhaled lightly.
Hua Yitang's eyelids twitched, he sat upright, looked around blankly, a little sleepy, and when he saw Lin Sui'an, he broke out into a big smile, "Are you awake?"
Lin Sui'an nodded and stood up with her arms supported. Hua Yitang hurriedly placed two large soft cushions behind her. Lin Sui'an then realized that her whole body was sore and painful, and she couldn't use any strength at all. It felt like she had climbed twenty miles of mountain road overnight. .
Sure enough, the stronger the obsession of the deceased, the greater the side effects of the golden finger. Those white animals must have been extremely frightened before they died, so they would have such strong obsessions.
Lin Sui'an rubbed his temples: "What time is it?"
"At the second quarter of the morning, you slept for three full hours." Hua Yitang carefully observed Lin Sui'an's condition, "How do you feel?"
"It's okay, I'm just a little tired."
Hua Yitang's Adam's apple moved, "What did you see?"
"There are a lot of beast claws on the body... no, they should be human hands. There are laughter and screams. It's very messy, very painful, very... disgusting..." Lin Sui'an closed his eyes, his stomach was churning, and he almost vomited. come out.
Suddenly, the gentle fruity fragrance enveloped her. Lin Sui'an opened her eyes in shock and found Hua Yitang hugging her gently, patting her back gently with his palm.
The incense smelled particularly good on this guy today. Lin Sui'an's nausea became weaker. "What's the name of your incense today?"
Hua Yitang's shoulders trembled, and he rushed back suddenly, letting go of Lin Sui'an, his eyes wandering, "Mu Xia's new tune, called - Plum Blossom Snow, Pear Blossom Moon, Acacia Begonia Yizhichun..."
"Haitang..." Lin Sui'an murmured. She had only seen Lian Xiaoshuang's body, but not her appearance in life. Why did she dream of her, she still looked so vivid and bright.
Or is it not her dream, but the memory of some in vain?
Or maybe Lian Xiaoshuang's soul fell into a dream and wanted to tell her something?
"We missed a key point in Lian Xiaoshuang's case," Lin Sui'an said.
Hua Yitang lowered his eyelids, "Is this what you're talking about?"
As he spoke, he took out the evidence of the murder weapon from his cuffs - the crabapple embroidered silk handkerchief that Qu Hui kept close to his body. Half of the crabapple cluster seemed to have been split open by a sharp knife. The fracture was extremely neat, which happened to be the same as the one at the scene of the previous crime. The embroidery rubbings are spliced into a complete cluster of crabapples.
"Qu Hui said that Lian Xiaoshuang had completed the embroidery before his death," Hua Yitang said, "but what we found at the crime scene was only half of the embroidery."
"Elder Shen said that the embroidery was embroidered before, but it was dismantled, and then half of it was embroidered back. It was not Lian Xiaoshuang's stitching skills. If it was not done by Qu Hui, it was done by Lian Xiaoshuang. The Frost Corpse people did it.”
While recalling the previous clues, Lin Sui'an deduced, "In other words, when Qu Hui left, the embroidery was still intact, so it would be impossible for Qu Hui to use murderous embroidery thread to embroider half of a perfectly seamed Begonia. Therefore, This silk handkerchief should have been embroidered by the person who dumped the body, and later it ended up in Qu Hui's hands for some unknown reason."
Hua Yitang frowned and nodded in affirmation.
Lin Sui'an looked at Hua Yitang's expression and had an ominous premonition in his heart.
"Where's Qu Hui?"
Hua Yitang was silent for a long time, "You suddenly fainted. Doctor Fang gave you medicine and gave you an injection, saying that you just fell asleep. I... I and everyone were frightened at the time, and our hearts were in a mess. For a moment, the door , unexpectedly ignored the flaw in the silk handkerchief. By the time he discovered it, more than an hour had passed. Ling Liulang hurried to the prison to interrogate Qu Hui, not wanting to-" Hua Yitang's eyes turned red, "Qu Hui is dead. .”
Lin Sui'an's head buzzed and he grabbed Hua Yitang's wrist, "How did he die?!"
"She secretly ate the fake flower tea hidden in her bun. The vomit blocked her trachea and suffocated to death." Hua Yitang whispered, "It turns out that she had also been forced to inhale the smoke of the Dragon God Fruit by Wu Zhengli before. , but she never said it."
"Where did she get the fake Hundred Flowers Tea..." Lin Sui'an asked half a sentence, but he already understood.
It must have been found in Wu Zhengqing's room. Qu Hui had seen Ma Biao and others in the toxic state at Qiuyue Teahouse. Of course, she knew the consequences of eating fake tea, so this was her plan.
The wind chimes were swaying "ding bell, ding bell". Lin Sui'an's eyes were sore and he pushed himself out of bed, "Take me to see her."
Hua Yitang grabbed her elbow and frowned into a big knot.
Lin Sui'an's eyes were firm, "I must go."
Hua Yitang's eyes flashed red, his jaw tightened, and his chest rose and fell violently several times. He squatted down, put on Lin Sui'an's shoes, turned his back to the bed, and whispered, "I'll carry you."
small theater:
An hour ago.
Mu Xia watched Hua Yitang tie a bamboo tube under the marriage wind chime and wondered, "Why does this bamboo tube look familiar?"
"This is what Lin Sui'an gave me with Qianjing split during the day-to-day examination. It can ward off evil spirits." Hua Yitang looked at Lin Sui'an's pale sleeping face steadily, "It will definitely help her wake up early."
Mu Xia: "..."
Use the bamboo tube that Mrs. Lin split by herself to ward off evil spirits for Mrs. Lin? Sure enough, it was only Shiro who could come up with this method, it’s amazing! :,w,
