Detective in the Red Chamber

Although Youshi couldn't understand the twists and turns, he also knew that this Hongyuan Daoist was in the midst of his holy family, so naturally he didn't dare to neglect one bit.

On the one hand, he ordered people to serve on the saddle, and on the other hand, he ordered people to prepare vegetarian food and accommodation.

I have been busy for a long time, and I finally finished my work. I was about to invite all the high-ranking Taoists to the side hall for dinner. Suddenly, a Taoist who stayed behind stumbled in and said that it was Ma Shi, the wife of Daoist Hongyuan. Killed in his garden.

It is said that after her husband led the team to Ningguo Mansion, Ma felt irritable, so he repelled the left and right, and went to the back garden to relax alone.

As a result, the family waited and waited until it was dark and did not see her back, so they went to look for it boldly, but found Ma Shi's body in the back garden.

Moreover, on the forehead of the corpse, the word 'teacher' was written bloody by the sharp blade.

Master Hongyuan was shocked and angry when he heard about this, and was about to lead the crowd back to the house to investigate, but someone thought of the headless corpse case this morning, and felt that it might be related.

Therefore, before Master Hongyuan left, he asked Youshi to try to inform Sun Shaozong, and left two disciples to be in touch.

After hearing what happened, Sun Shaozong frowned unconsciously. The headless corpse last night had the character 'Heaven', and today this one has the word 'Master' engraved on it. Could it be that the murderer wanted to gather together the 'Tianshi Mansion'? Triple kill achievement?

Because he heard that Master Hongyuan had just left not long ago, and there were many disciples around him who could only walk around as carriages, Sun Shaozong felt that the traces left by the crime scene might still be rescued.

At the moment, he didn't care about being polite, and directly asked for two horses for the little Taoist priests, urging them to lead the way.

Hurrying all the way, he finally stopped dozens of Taoist priests near the mansion of Hongyuan Daoist.

But Daoist Hongyuan was not among them.

After inquiring with someone casually, I realized that Daoist Hongyuan really couldn't bear his temper, so he rushed back to the mansion first.

got~

This still couldn't stop it.

Right now, it is the female relatives who can only hope to die, and there are not too many people who can get close.

Continuing to set off, the group of Taoist priests arrived at the destination one step at a time, but found that this place was not the Taoist temple in Sun Shaozong's imagination, but an ordinary house.

Of course, this so-called ordinary is just a comparison between the mundane and Fangwai.

In fact, in terms of a secular family, this mansion can be called magnificent. Although it is not comparable to the Rongning Second Mansion, it is not inferior to the current Sun family.

Probably it was Hongyuan Daoist who had instructed him long ago. The two little Taoist priests who led the way had just confessed Sun Shaozong's identity in front of the door, and immediately a middle-aged Taoist came out to welcome him and led him to the back garden.

Speaking of...

Taoist priests used to use maids and old maids in their homes!

Sun Shaozong originally thought that what he saw would be a group of female champions.

"The visitor is Sun Shaoqing from Dali Temple?"

As soon as I arrived in the back garden, I heard a dull voice coming from the darkness.

The middle-aged Taoist priest who led the way hurriedly took a few steps forward with a lantern in hand. Only then did Sun Shaozong realize that there was a Taoist priest of medium stature standing with his hands behind his back in front of the flower garden.

Judging by his clothes and demeanor, it was obvious that he was Hongyuan Daoist.

But looking at the age, it seems to be only about thirty.

Become a real person at such a young age?

Or is it that this real Hongyuan has a good face?

Sun Shaozong was suspicious in his heart, but he didn't know that the real Hongyuan who was facing him was equally astonished and inexplicable after seeing his approximate age.

The two sides looked at each other for a while, seeing that this guy's pose was quite arrogant, so Sun Shaozong didn't take the initiative to salute, but raised his voice: "It's my official, you should be Hongyuan Daoist, right? But I don't know Mrs. Corpse..."

"Here, right here."

Before Sun Shaozong finished speaking, Master Hongyuan pouted his mouth on the ground, then raised his head to look up at the sky at 45 degrees.

This attitude...

Suddenly a word popped up in Sun Shaozong's mind: kill his wife to prove the truth.

But then he turned his attention to the corpse at Hongyuan's feet.

Although the opportunity to solve a case is often based on a flash of inspiration, in the final analysis it is still necessary to use evidence to speak - and according to the information obtained before, Hongyuan Zhenren has clear evidence of his absence.

Of course, the possibility of buying a murderer cannot be ruled out at the moment.

In short, everything will wait until the body is examined.

After receiving the lantern from a middle-aged Taoist priest, Sun Shaozong walked up to him and bent down to check it, but he was involuntarily stunned.

The deceased was an outstandingly beautiful woman, about thirty years old, with good facial features, and a sesame seed-sized tear mole in the corner of her left eye, which added a lot of color to her.

However, the expression on the corpse at this time was indeed a little strange.

If I insist on describing it, I'm afraid I can only describe it as "seven emotions on the face" - the emotions on her face are so rich that they don't look like a dead person.

But also because of this, Sun Shaozong looked at it carefully for a long while, but couldn't judge what kind of emotions she was harboring before she died.

But her cause of death is clear at a glance: she was strangled to death by the murderer with a rope.

There was a deep purple strangle mark on her neck. Based on the bleeding under the skin and the depth of the strangle mark, it was basically certain that it was a fatal injury.

Besides the strangulation mark, the most obvious wound is the word 'teacher' on the forehead of the deceased.

This blood character is about the size of a ping-pong ball, located below the hairline of the deceased and above the eyebrows.

Judging from the condition of the wound, it should have been engraved with a sharp blade such as a dagger shortly after Ma Shi's death.

The handwriting looks neat, but after Sun Shaozong looked carefully, he found that the stroke of the word "teacher" seems to be slightly shorter than the original vertical stroke, and the angle of the stroke is not enough.

Looking carefully, in fact, compared with the first one, the word "coin" next to it is also a size smaller.

It seems like……

In order to avoid the eyebrows of the deceased, so from the second stroke, the font size was actively reduced?

Compared with the hideous headless corpse in Tianshi Mansion, the treatment of Mrs. Ma seems to be much better.

Was it because the other party was a woman that the murderer showed mercy, or was there some other reason that made the murderer unwilling to destroy Ma Shi's face?

After staring at the word "teacher" for a long time, Sun Shaozong turned his attention to the dead man's hands on both sides of his neck.

These are undoubtedly a pair of pampered hands. The skin is delicate and fair, with slender fingers. The nails are painted with bright purple cardamom, and there are many tiny debris left in the cracks between the nails.

Hemp rope, clothing fibers, a fair amount of skin, and a tinge of blood on the right index finger.

The murderer was scratched? !

Sun Shaozong was overjoyed, but he was not in a hurry to identify the real culprit, but continued to investigate carefully.

Because the other party was a woman after all, and her husband was standing next to her, Sun Shaozong couldn't take off his clothes to take a closer look, so he had to check the traces on the surface of the corpse first.

Compared with the findings on her head, neck and hands, there seemed to be no clues left on her clothes.

However, Sun Shaozong would not be careless about this, and still looked at it inch by inch.

The coat of the deceased was the most popular hooded mink fur, with a few bright tassels playfully adorning the sides. This kind of accessory is often seen by young women who have not left the court.

In the group of Yingying and Yanyan that I saw in Rongguo Mansion in the morning, Shi Xiangyun and Xue Baoqin had similar tassels on their collars.

Does this mean that the mental age of the deceased is smaller than the actual age?

In other words, this is a master with a girlish heart?

Thinking of this, Sun Shaozong inexplicably thought of Aunt Xue.

But right now, it's not the time to reminisce about Lieyan's deeds, so he hurriedly put aside those thoughts that shouldn't have been in his mind, and continued to search for evidence wholeheartedly.

But there was no useful information found on the sable fur coat.

As for the inner layer of clothing, since I can't peel it off to see, I can only roughly confirm that it is a light yellow bijia, and then...

and many more!

Sun Shaozong leaned down again, almost touching the dead man's shoulder, but even so, he still couldn't see clearly.

Finally, he simply stretched out his hand and gently pushed aside the bijia inside, and a pair of apricot-colored shoulder straps came into his eyes clearly.

This style can never be a bellyband!

It seems that this real woman is still coquettish and coquettish...

wrong!

Sun Shaozong suddenly raised his head and asked, "Dare to ask Madam, when did you enter Beijing?"

The real Hongyuan frowned: "It's about the middle of June."

uh~

It's no wonder that the new style of underwear invented by Prince Yizhong, although it is reserved for prostitutes in the capital—it's all because Prince Yizhong designed it for fun at the beginning—but in Jiangnan and other places, it is not has gradually become popular.

Since Mr. Ma only came here in June this year, it is not surprising that he is used to wearing new-style underwear.

In this way, this thing cannot be used as a premise to infer the character of the deceased—unless there are more explosive discoveries inside after the coat is peeled off.

Sun Shaozong sighed, and was about to continue to explore other places, but someone behind him gritted his teeth and said: "Please respect yourself, Mr. Sun!"

After being reminded by this voice, Sun Shaozong realized that he was unintentionally touching the shoulder straps of the underwear with his fingers, and he couldn't help being embarrassed at the moment, so he quickly retracted his fingers.

Who would have imagined that at this moment, there was only a crisp sound, and the underwear shoulder strap broke off just like that!

awkward!

Embarrassingly capitalized!

Sun Shaozong clearly felt that the eyes in front of him and behind him became sharp at the same time.

But he didn't know how to explain it for a while, he hesitated for a while, and continued to check other parts of the corpse as if nothing happened.

Nothing new was found on the deceased's pants.

But the two embroidered shoes on the deceased's feet caught Sun Shaozong's eyes.

From the toe of the embroidered shoes to the surface of the toes, there were obvious traces of kicking and friction!

Sun Shaozong hurriedly picked up one of them, carefully inspected the sides of the embroidered shoes, and found that the top was relatively clean, and couldn't help feeling more excited, and hurriedly fumbled around with a lantern.

As expected, the surrounding footprints are a bit messy.

Most of the soles these days have no patterns, so it is difficult to identify them clearly.

However, what Sun Shaozong was looking for was not the complete footprints, but the traces of kicking and friction.

Naturally, it was easier to find than ordinary footprints, so Sun Shaozong soon found out—there were several kicking traces from front to back, diagonally, or deep or shallow marks on the ground.

After staring at those traces for a while, and measuring the height of the deceased with both hands and feet, Sun Shaozong suddenly stood up, and raised both hands in front of him, as if he was strangling something, and lifted it up through gnashing his teeth.

The ferocious expression made the middle-aged Taoist priest beside him think that he was suffering from hysteria, and asked Daoist Hongyuan repeatedly with his eyes if he should take measures against him.

Suddenly, Sun Shaozong stopped all his movements, turned his head and asked: "Is there a tall and burly person in your house? At least six feet [1.8 meters six] up!"

"What?"

The middle-aged Taoist subconsciously took half a step back, and then he realized what Sun Shaozong was asking. He frowned and hesitated to answer.

The real person Hongyuan next to him asked first: "What clue did Sun Shaoqing find?"

"It is true that some clues have been found."

Sun Shaozong nodded, pointing to the surroundings first and said: "The location of this back garden is relatively private. If you want to sneak in from the outside, you have to climb over two courtyards at least—if you are killing people without a target, there is no need to find this garden at all. Come."

"If the murderer's goal is to kill Mrs. Zun, then this opportunity is really too coincidental."

Hearing this, Daoist Hongyuan couldn't help interjecting again: "So you suspect that it was the servants of my disciples who did it?"

"That's right!"

Sun Shaozong nodded here, pointed to the corpse's feet and said, "There are obvious marks left by friction and kicking on the upper of Mrs. Madam's shoes, but there are no similar marks on the sides and trousers."

"This proves that Madam Zun didn't leave the marks left by kicking her feet indiscriminately when her legs were bent, but the friction damage caused by her body standing upright."

"And most of the traces left on the ground are left by toes!"

"There is only one possibility to cause this situation, and that is that the murderer strangled Mrs. Zun's neck and lifted her up so hard that her soles could not touch the ground, and she could only kick back and forth with her toes and struggle. !"

"And I just measured the height of Mrs. Zun, and after some experiments, I came to a further conclusion."

"The murderer's shoulder height is at most a little shorter than mine. Otherwise, if he wants to lift up Mrs. Madam, not only will he feel very awkward, but he will also find it difficult to use his strength."

"In summary."

When Sun Shaozong said this, he stared at Master Hongyuan and asked word by word: "Please ask the real man for his famous words, is there anyone in the family who is six feet tall and powerful!"

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