A night of silence.
The next day, in Jiulong Mansion, just after breakfast, Gongsun took Han Tong to Gyeonggi Mansion. They planned to cut open Min Lin today to see if they could determine the exact cause of death.
It sounds like this should have been done a long time ago.
After all, just using the naked eye and spiritual sense to investigate is still too little information. If you can cut open the internal organs and take a look, maybe you can determine the real cause of death.
However, the father-in-law of the Gyeonggi Prefecture was an old man and was somewhat inflexible in this regard. According to regulations, he had to wait for Min Lin's family to agree before going under the knife.
Gongsun wanted to use the knife after seeing the corpse yesterday, but the old man in Gyeonggi Prefecture refused to do so. Gongsun didn't have much to say. Although the matter involved human lives and was extremely urgent, the other party also acted according to the rules and was justified.
Last night, the Gyeonggi Prefecture sent someone to inform him that Min Lin’s family had received a letter, saying they agreed to the autopsy.
In fact, this letter arrived in Xing Enming's hands early yesterday morning.
It's just that yesterday, Xing Enming first attended the reception banquet of Jiulong Mansion in the palace, and then went to Guanyi with Chen Yutian to test Liu Kong. He didn't return to the government office until the evening and told the old man the content of the letter.
Except for Gongsun who took Han Tong to Gyeonggi Mansion, the remaining people divided into three groups to investigate the fire outside the city.
Chen Yutian took Xuan Xi, Ling Miaoyin and Xue Tianhan to the fire scene to investigate, while the remaining people divided into two groups to interview the witnesses who witnessed the fire that day.
Thatched hut outside the city.
After being devastated by the fire, this abandoned hut was basically reduced to a ruin, with scorch marks everywhere.
Seeing this scene, Xue Tianhan stopped at a distance and refused to move forward.
Chen Yutian knew that he was guilty of mysophobia, so he ignored him and took Xuan Xi and Ling Miaoyin to the ruins.
Xue Tianhan stood in the distance for a long time, and then with a movement of power, the inner force of ice instantly surrounded him for three inches, turning into an invisible ice cover, isolating all external objects.
Only after he was sure that there would be no dust, did Xue Tianhan walk in with satisfaction.
Chen Yutian and the other three were speechless when they saw this.
The disadvantage is that the skill is deep, otherwise this hand consumes a lot of internal energy. Using most of one's internal energy on this is very retarded no matter how you look at it.
Xue Tianhan raised his eyebrows as soon as he walked in.
Because of mysophobia, he has always been very sensitive to dirty things. So as soon as we entered the fire ruins, we discovered something.
"What is this?" Xue Tianhan pulled out a white handkerchief and picked up something from the ground.
Chen Yutian took it and looked at it, and saw that it was a charred object, the size of a palm. The original shape could still be vaguely seen, which was wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, with a pointy top.
He couldn't help but frown.
The shape of this thing is a bit like... a command arrow?
But why is there this thing in the fire scene? And compared with the kind of command arrows used in the government, this one is obviously much smaller and thicker. Whether it is really a command arrow has yet to be determined.
Xuan Xi and Ling Miaoyin also looked at the burnt thing, frowned and shook their heads.
"It looks a bit like the order arrow in the court case, but it is smaller and thicker than that one." Xuan Xi said.
Ling Miaoyin also nodded. She thought so too.
Chen Yutian put away the charred object. Since he didn't know what it was, he put it away first. It was important to investigate the fire scene.
Looking around, his brows furrowed more and more.
Somehow, I always feel that something is wrong with this scene.
I always feel like I might have overlooked something.
Xue Tianhan also frowned, and their eyes moved inch by inch at the fire ruins. Suddenly, they looked in a certain direction at the same time, and they suddenly realized!
"I see, no wonder I always feel like something is not right!"
The two said in unison almost at the same time.
Xuan Xi and Ling Miaoyin looked back at them at the same time, "What did you find?"
Chen Yutian nodded and asked, "Do you feel that something is not right about this scene?"
Xuan Xi and Ling Miaoyin looked at each other, both stunned.
Something's wrong?
There's nothing wrong. Isn't that what fire scenes are like? There are burnt marks everywhere...
Wait... scorch marks?
The two women seemed to realize something. They looked at where the door of the abandoned hut should be, and then looked at the large scorch mark on the wall opposite the door, and were slightly startled.
Something is indeed wrong!
If it was a man-made arson attack, the fire point should be near a door or window, because the murderer could start the fire directly from the outside.
Moreover, most people who set fire to and kill people will choose to pour kerosene on the ground of the entire house. This way the fire will spread very quickly and the things they want to burn or the people they want to burn can be wiped out in a short time.
But in this way, if the flames burn on the ground that has been poured with kerosene, it will inevitably turn the ground into a piece of scorched earth.
But the scene in front of us, the land at the door, and the land under the window sill, did not have much scorched earth. Obviously, this should not be the starting point of the fire.
On the contrary, the wall facing the door... was almost completely burnt.
"It seems you have noticed it." Chen Yutian smiled, "Indeed, if this is where the fire started, then where did the murderer light the fire?"
The two women looked at each other.
Yes, where did the murderer light the fire?
Naturally, it's impossible from the outside, unless the murderer used a rocket to start the fire.
But there are no such marks on the walls.
But if he lit the fire from inside, wouldn't he be afraid that it would spread too fast and he wouldn't be able to escape?
Even if he was confident in his speed, there was still something he couldn't explain.
"Do you still remember?" Chen Yutian suddenly said again, "The file records that when the fire broke out, the doors and windows were locked from the inside. In other words, this place at that time was equivalent to a secret room."
Hearing this, the two women were shocked.
At this moment, they really couldn't figure it out. How did the murderer light the fire in the closed chamber?
…
Gyeonggi government office.
Xing Enming, who had just returned from the morning session, was writing and drawing with a pen behind the desk.
On the paper on the case, words such as Min Lin, Bozhou, Liu Kong, Fire, etc. were written. It could be seen that he should be thinking about the case.
This is a method given to him by his teacher Chen Yutian's father. If there is something he doesn't understand clearly, he should list the clues of the case on a piece of paper and sort out his thoughts.
Chen Yutian usually does this kind of thing, but in most cases, he does this step in his own mind.
While he was deep in thought, a dull drum beat broke his thoughts.
This is the drum of grievance ringing outside the government office.
Xing Enming immediately put on his official hat, put away the pen and paper on the table, and walked towards the court.
When they arrived at the court, the three squads of yamen servants and the chief registrar were already in place. Xing Enming sat in the court and knocked on the gavel.
"Bring the drummer to the hall!"
After a while, the Yamen servant brought a crying woman to the hall.
The woman's eyes were red. After she came forward and knelt down, she said her surname was Li.
Xing Enming nodded and said: "Ms. Li, if you have any grievances, tell me quickly."
The woman fell to her knees in tears and cried, "Sir, my master, he, he is missing."
"Missing?" Xing Enming narrowed his eyes and asked, "Who is your master? Do you know where he went this morning?"
The woman cried and said a name, and Xing Enming immediately stood up from behind the court case.
His eyes were full of shock!
"My master is Liu Kong, the governor of Bozhou who has just resigned and returned to Beijing."
