Fu Xiujin didn't answer his words, and just asked them to tell each other what they were doing from the evening to the early morning of the previous day, and whether they had any alibi.
He Tian immediately explained that he had made dinner the evening before and cleaned up the kitchen with the maid who helped him. In the middle of the night, he made supper for Mrs. Guo and the aunts of each room. After everything was done, he returned to the servants' room and other rooms. The servant chatted and then rested.
Liu Dali, on the other hand, started playing cards with other nursing homes after dinner, and continued playing cards until early in the morning. Then he started patrolling the mansion at night.
Butler Wang called the relevant personnel, and they all confirmed the testimony of the two people one by one. At the time of the crime, there were suddenly no suspects.
Fu Xiujin thought for a while, then turned around and asked everyone who else had seen Mr. Cao since the evening before yesterday. Aunt Su immediately stood up and said jealously: "Aunt Chen, the master went to sleep in her room the night before yesterday."
Butler Wang seemed to have remembered something at this time. He patted his forehead and said to Yao Shu and others, "Yesterday morning I went to Aunt Chen's house to serve the master for breakfast. Aunt Chen said that the master had already used it and went to the study to look at the account books. Yes, and I was told not to disturb him."
This time Aunt Chen was involved again. Mrs. Guo was getting more and more troubled, so she asked someone to invite Aunt Chen out again.
Not long after, a white figure appeared in everyone's sight. Yao Shu looked towards Aunt Chen and sighed unconsciously. Fu Xiujin's eyes were also a little disappointed.
This thin and short figure is not suitable for someone who can strangle Master Cao with his bare hands.
On the way the maid went to invite Aunt Chen, Mrs. Guo had already introduced her identity.
Aunt Chen is an embroiderer. When she was selling embroidery on the street, she was spotted by Mr. Cao and forced to marry her back to the house and become his aunt. It has been more than a year since I arrived in the house. A peaceful and gentle person is not someone who can cause trouble.
Fu Xiujin still asked her what happened the night before yesterday. Aunt Chen lowered her head and shivered fiercely. She pinched her sleeves and defended herself in a low voice. She simply said that Mr. Cao drank some wine in the house and spent the night drinking. At that time, Butler Wang even came to deliver midnight snacks. Then the next morning, Mr. Cao went to the study and told Butler Wang not to disturb him. He wanted to calculate the accounts by himself.
When Butler Wang saw the mention of him, he immediately stood up and nodded, saying that Mr. Cao was indeed still alive when he brought the midnight snack in. He also complained that he came at the wrong time to bring the midnight snack and disturbed his mood.
Yao Shu took advantage of Fu Xiujin's interrogation to check the study carefully. Except for the broken cups, everything in it was neatly arranged. There was no trace of a fight. It didn't look like the scene of the first crime.
Just when she was disappointed, the bookshelf nearby suddenly caught her attention.
The dark red bookshelf is very similar to the color of the powder in Cao Hongfa's nails.
She returned to the bookshelf and looked at it from top to bottom again. However, she was a little disappointed. There were no scratches on this bookshelf. It was obvious that Cao Hongfa was not in the study when he was killed.
"Yao Wuzuo, what's wrong with this bookshelf?"
Seeing that Yao Shu had been looking at the bookshelf, Mrs. Guo thought she had discovered something and hurriedly asked.
Yao Shu was about to shake her head when she suddenly realized what she was doing. She pointed to the bookshelf and asked, "Butler Wang, where else in the house can you find furniture of this color? Can you take me to see it?"
Butler Wang thought for a moment and said immediately: "This is the red rosewood bookshelf that the master ordered last year. It also came with an Arhat bed, which is in Aunt Chen's room. At that time, Aunt Chen had just married, and the master loved her very much. It's a good thing." They were all sent to Aunt Chen's house, I remember clearly."
Aunt Chen was panicking now. She didn't understand what Yao Shu was doing by lifting up the furniture. She bit her lip with a pitiful look and didn't dare to say a word.
"I want to take a look at Aunt Chen's room. There happens to be dark red powder in the nails of Mr. Cao's corpse. I suspect it was scraped from the red rosewood furniture."
Following Yao Shu's words, Fu Xiujin strode closer to the body and carefully confirmed it, and found that it was indeed as Yao Shu said. Seeing his serious expression, Ms. Guo immediately asked Butler Wang to lead the way to Aunt Chen's room.
As expected, Zhao Shaobai and Yao Shu took a closer look at Aunt Chen's bed and soon found three scratches on the bed rail at the head of the bed. Zhao Shaobai found the scratches under the corresponding bed. A half-broken fingernail.
It seems that things happened in such a hurry that the murderer even forgot to check the scene and clean up, so that such a large piece of evidence was not seen. This shows that the murderer must have been in a panic at the time.
"Pa", the crisp slap came to mind, Aunt Chen stood aside with her face covered, Aunt Su's eyes could spit fire, she had long been dissatisfied with the sister who came in last.
"You little bitch who cheats on everything, how can you kill him when the master is so kind to you? I've given you all the good things, so why are you dissatisfied?"
As Aunt Su said this, she was about to grab Aunt Chen's face, but thanks to Zhao Shaobai's quick eyesight and quick hands, he grabbed her and pulled her away, so she didn't start a complete fight.
"I, I didn't kill the master. I was doing embroidery in the house during the day yesterday and never went to the study. Many maids can testify to me that it really wasn't me."
Aunt Chen burst into tears as she spoke. It was obvious that her height and strength were not suitable for him. After all, Mr. Cao was almost as fat as two Aunt Chens. It was impossible for her to move him to the study without moving her expression. And the voice that scolded Aunt Su in the study room the next day was definitely a man.
"It's still unclear whether Aunt Chen committed murder, but this must be the scene of the crime. You all go out first, and let us search again." Yao Shu's mind was spinning rapidly. Now that the scene was found, there was no need to stick to the crime scene. If you have time, you can first find out the method of committing the crime and the murder weapon, and maybe you can connect to the murderer.
Mrs. Guo asked everyone to leave, leaving only Fu Xiujin and three people in the room. Yao Shu started to go around the bed to check without saying a word. Zhao Shaobai also quickly joined in. Fu Xiujin went out and told Mrs. Guo to take care of the body and then looked at it pretending not to care. The ground began to sweep over the crowd of onlookers outside.
The two of them lay on the ground and walked around without finding anything, so Yao Shu took off her embroidered shoes and climbed onto the bed to take a look. Zhao Shaobai straightened up and stretched a bit. With his back to the bed, he knocked on the edge of the bed with his hand and said " "Bang" a muffled sound.
Yao Shu suddenly seemed to be inspired by something. She stood up from the bed and ran behind Zhao Shaobai. She stretched out her hand to strangle Zhao Shaobai's neck, which frightened Zhao Shaobai and almost threw her to the ground.
"Don't move. If it's this height, Aunt Chen can strangle Master Cao's neck."
