[Red Mansion] Young Master Lin Yan

out of the tabernacle.

When the cold wind blew, Lin Yan couldn't help shivering.Qiu Ming, who was waiting in front, ran over and covered him with a cloak, "Master sent someone to bring it. If you want to avenge His Highness King Ning, you have to take care of yourself."

Lin Yan stretched out his hand to tie the collar, "What else can father say?"

"The master said, let the uncle rest assured that the Lin family has him here!"

Lin Yan paused, his father is so nice!

"Master, where are we going now?"

"go to the scene!"

The scene was on the edge of the camp, a big tree four or five people tall.Branches can hide people.There was still a pair of footprints on the branch. Lin Yan turned over and climbed up the tree quickly, and took a closer look, "Have the footprints been removed?"

Following him was the person sent by Zhang Chengye, who was also the doctor who investigated the matter together.

"Extended, the footprints are incomplete, only the front half, but it can be seen that it was left by a man. The soles of the shoes are flat and there are no patterns. The same is true of Yuan Da's shoes."

Lin Yan frowned, and climbed up again, and saw the blood on the tip of the branch, which had already dried up, and presumably it was left by cutting the murderer's arm and sleeve.The silk thread scraped from the clothes that Zhang Shangshu said should have been collected and taken away.

Lin Yan reached out and touched it, but unfortunately there is no blood testing equipment in this era.Otherwise, not to mention DNA, it would be nice to have a blood type check!If the murderer's blood type doesn't match Yuan Da's, then there's no need to talk about DNA!

Lin Yan jumped down from the tree, and that's all the information on the scene seems to be.

"My lord, I wonder if you can take me to see Yuan Da's body."

The doctor agreed, but he didn't take it seriously in his heart. He didn't think that such a brat would be better than those who had worked in the Ministry of Punishment for more than ten years and climbed up layer by layer.It's just that the emperor ordered everyone to cooperate.After Zhang Shangshu confessed, he could only take over.

Yuan Da's body was placed in a small tent, which was also guarded.It seems that Situ Kun is also afraid that someone will tamper with him.

Lin Yan was wearing a spare glove, holding the rubbing footprints in one hand, and comparing them with the shoes taken from Yuanda's feet, but they were all the same. As the doctor said, there were no patterns, and the only former In half, it can be closed completely.

Lin Yan was a little disappointed, it seemed that the person who planned this matter was very careful.He even thought of this.

Lin Yan returned the rubbing paper to the doctor, but reluctantly put the shoes back on Yuanda's feet, but was taken aback for a moment, took them off, put them on again, took them off again, put them on again, and put a finger into his heel to try it out. , can accommodate a little finger.Tried another one, same thing.

Lang Zhong frowned, "Mr. Lin, what are you doing?"

Lin Yan smiled, "I heard that my lord has been working in the Ministry of Criminal Justice for many years, and I started with investigating cases. I think you should know some things when Wu Zuo is away. The student has something to ask. After a person dies, how can the feet recover?" Zoom out?"

"Of course not!"

Lin Yan took the shoes and did the dressing exercise again, and asked him to look more carefully in front of the doctor, "Then, do you think that Yuan Da will wear a pair of unsuitable shoes when he is going to carry out such an important task as assassinating the emperor?" Shoes? Even, he was wearing such a pair of shoes, and he was able to escape under the chase of many guards, and the shoes didn't fall halfway?"

Lang Zhong was stunned, his complexion turned ugly in an instant, he waved his hand to beckon the pawns who followed him, "Go and report to Master Shangshu!"

Lin Yan chuckled, put the shoes aside, and continued to check.Yuan Da's body was already stiff, his clothes were wrinkled, and there were two arrow wounds, exactly as Zhang Shangshu said, one was on the chest and the other was on the back, which completely matched the guard's confession.

Lin Yan had no choice but to regret that there was no ballistic trace detection.It is not possible to determine whether this crossbow/arrow was shot with a bow/crossbow.

"Qiu Ming, help me take off his clothes."

Qiu Ming opened his mouth wide, "Master, don't you need it? You don't know how to do an autopsy. This is my work, and I have already done it! And, this...he has been dead for several days. This smell...if it wasn't Now that the weather is cold, I'm afraid it's going to rot."

Lin Yan glared at him, hopeless!

"come over!"

Qiu Ming leaned forward in response to the scalp, and indeed covered his mouth when he saw the tragic state of the corpse, and ran outside to vomit!

Lin Yan rolled his eyes, but had no choice but to do it himself.The outer shirt is an ordinary night clothing, nothing special, and there is no evidence to see.Inside is a white shirt.There is a fingerprint on the placket.

It wasn't a bloody mess, but a bloody fingerprint that was rarely clear.

Lin Yan was overjoyed, "Qiu Ming, go find some clean white paper, and take a piece of red ink pad!"

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Holy Tabernacle.

"Besides the big doubt about shoes, there is also the second doubt. Your Majesty, please take a look."

Lin Yan put five pieces of white paper with fingerprints on it and the small piece of white cloth with fingerprints cut from the collar of Yuan Da's underwear in front of Situ Kun.

"The one on this cloth was found on Yuan Da's body. The other five were printed by students on Yuan Da's fingers. Everyone's fingers have lines, let's call them fingerprints. The fingerprints on this cloth are not spirals. , and they are ladles. Of Yuanda's ten fingers, five are spirals and five are ladles.

However, the fingerprints of each finger of each person are different.Even if they are all ladles, there are differences in the size, shape, direction, and angle of the ladles. No matter how similar they are, they are only similar, not identical.The emperor can carefully compare.These five fingerprints from Yuan Da's fingers did not match up with the ones on Yuan Da's body. "

Situ Kun inspected it carefully, his face became a little dignified.

Lin Yan continued: "If the student's guess is correct, this fingerprint is not Yuan Da's own. It is left by the murderer when he exchanged his clothes for Yuan Da. Presumably, the murderer also changed the shoes.

The students guess again, maybe someone knocked Yuan Da out first and moved him to the cave.After his own assassination failed, he fled here, forged evidence and identical wounds, and planted everything on him. "

In this way, the talents, wounds, physical evidence, and cause of death are all the same!

When these words came out, everyone was shocked.

Situ Feng's heart trembled, he opened his mouth, and blurted out in panic: "Young master Lin is too arbitrary! This king also hopes that this matter has nothing to do with the ninth brother, and he never wants his brother to do such a thing.

But even if it is true as you said, can it prove that the murderer is not Yuan Da?Is there any other possibility?For example, there are two murderers, and Yuan Da is only one of them.The other person, in order to protect himself, pushed everything to Yuan Da? "

Lin Yan's eyelashes trembled, did the Fifth Prince's move add insult to injury, or did he have a guilty conscience?

The eldest prince is in charge of patrolling the paddock. He originally thought that if a person who is not registered with the entourage is allowed to enter and escape smoothly, the eldest prince is the most likely.It's uncertain right now.

"My lord is right. Therefore, the students need to continue to investigate!"

Situ Kun put down the fingerprint paper and snorted coldly, "Zhang Aiqing, I don't know that no one in such a large criminal department has discovered these clues!"

Zhang Chengye hurriedly knelt down, "Your Majesty, calm down, this minister is not doing well! This... this is the first time this minister has heard of this fingerprint."

Situ Kun's expression became more and more ugly, and he turned to look at Lin Yan, "What are you going to do next?"

"Student wants to go to the local garrison barracks."

Situ Kun knew what it meant as soon as he heard it, "Do you want to check whether the bow/crossbow of the bow/arrow team is missing?"

"Yes!"

King Zhongshun said lightly, "Boy of the Lin family, I went to investigate with Mr. Zhang that day. Do you not trust Mr. Zhang, or do you not trust this king?"

"Students don't dare. The students don't trust the lord, nor can they trust Mr. Zhang. Mr. Zhang did not make a mistake in the examination of Yuanda's body. The matter of the shoes may be missed by the people underneath. As for the fingerprints, I can't blame Mr. Zhang. This It was taught by Mr. Xiyang when I was young. Da Zhou doesn’t seem to use this way.”

King Zhongshun's expression softened slightly, "Then what do you mean?"

"The prince also knows that these things are designed and manufactured by the students. The students know more about the secrets of these things than others, and others cannot discover them."

Situ Kun nodded, "Forget it. It's getting late today, and I'll order the guards to escort you tomorrow."

Of course, it also meant to let the guards look at him.Lin Yan complied.

Early the next morning, when he was about to set off with the guards, he saw King Zhongshun waiting beside him.

"This matter is beyond the hands of this king. This king does not want to make any mistakes. Besides, it is related to the royal family, and it is the responsibility of the clan's mansion. If there is a problem, this king also wants to find out. Besides, you kid. A few talents that others don't know about, this king is very novel, so naturally I have to follow along to see."

Lin Yan couldn't laugh or cry.Daringly, what was said in the first half of the paragraph is so high-sounding that it is deceiving people!The second half is what matters!For such a big matter, if it is not done well, it will involve the lives and wealth of many people.My lord, is it really okay for you to regard this as something new to you?

Zhongshun jumped onto his horse, "Let's go!"

Lin Yan had no choice but to keep up.It is about half a day's journey from here to the barracks.I didn't arrive until noon.

The local defense seems to have already been convinced that they will come, and they have all the bowmen/archers waiting.One crossbow per person.

King Zhongshun sent someone to bring a rattan chair and put it in front of him. He yawned while eating the fruit and watched the play.Lin Yan asked Qiu Ming to carry the roster and registration form.Read one, come up to the previous one.The radishes were washed by the river, one by one, and Lin Yan checked them all in person.

Wang Zhao.Zhang Bing.Tian Liang.WEI Cheng……

One after another people passed by Lin Yan's hand, Lin Yan's heart sank little by little.impossible.Those who are equipped with such bows/crossbows around the emperor are all confidantes, so there should be no problems.And their identities are also different. Lin Yan couldn't point his suspicion at His Majesty's personal guards from the beginning, so he came to the barracks.

And the military camp is indeed the place where weapons are most likely to be lost.

However, the current situation made him a little uneasy.

No!Will not!He can't be messed up!No one can completely forge this kind of bow/crossbow.He needs to have confidence in his design!Moreover, the bow/crossbow used for the assassination has his mark on it, which is obviously the batch sent to the army here!

Lin Yan calmed down, took the bow/crossbow from the next person, and then froze, looked up at him, "Cheng Lianjing?"

"Yes!"

Lin Yan smiled, "You haven't participated in training these days, have you? Would you like to demonstrate this bow/crossbow in front of all of us?"

Cheng Lianjing's complexion changed drastically, his body trembled suddenly, and he fell to the ground with a bang, foaming at the mouth.

Qiu Ming was taken aback by this change, and reflexively jumped in front of Lin Yan, protecting his master behind him.Lin Yan threw him away, knelt down and grabbed Cheng Lianjing, "Call the imperial doctor!"

After finishing speaking, I realized that the imperial physician did not follow, so I hurriedly changed my words, "Call the military doctor!"

As soon as the words were finished, Cheng Lianjing rolled his eyes and became silent.The guard stepped forward to check his breath, "Dead!"

"Take/poison/suicide?" Lin Yan gritted his teeth. If he survived, he would be able to ask questions, and Situ Yue's charges would be cleared.It's a pity...it's a pity that he was allowed to die!

Lin Yan was furious, "Take it back! Report to the emperor, autopsy!"

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Holy Tabernacle.

"Qizou Your Majesty. Cheng Lianjing's autopsy results have come out, and he took poison. The poison is violent, and the balls are small, sealed with wax and hidden in the tooth socket. It seems that Mr. Lin discovered the flaw and crushed the poison. pill."

Situ Kun sighed and tapped his fingers on the table. He thought it was just a conspiracy to kill his father, but now it seems that the water in it is unusual.

"How did you find out it was wrong?"

Lin Yan stepped forward, pointed at the two seemingly identical bows/crossbows in front of Situ Kun, and said, "Although they look the same, they only look the same. Although the students dare not say that what they make is the best in the world, But asking himself is not something everyone can do.

Before the military exercise, this thing was not born.After the military exercise, even if they knew there was such a thing, the students dared to say that even if they put this thing in front of others, they let them play with it and study it.I'm afraid there are not many people in the world who can imitate it.

If there is such a genius who can't wait to be born, let alone three to five years, I'm afraid it will take a year or two.The students took advantage of studying with Mr. Xiyang for several years.If there are also students who have the experience of studying Westerners like the students, they are extremely talented.No matter what, it cannot be created in such a short time.

Therefore, after all, they only made a seemingly similar appearance of this thing.Specious.Your Majesty can give it a try! "

Situ Kun really picked it up, and looked at the scope, frowning.Can't see anything.This is not a scope, it is clearly a decoration!

Lin Yan picked up another crossbow, "Please look here again, Your Majesty. When it was first manufactured, the student specially asked someone to engrave a number on the inner wall of the crossbow body. The number of each crossbow is different."

Situ Kun followed Lin Yan's point of view, and there was a trace, but it was not conspicuous, and on the inner wall, if he hadn't removed the scope, he wouldn't be able to see it.

"Jiazi one thirty seven?"

Lin Yan nodded, "Exactly. Students remember that the batch of Jiazi, from [-] to [-], was sent here for the garrison."

Situ Kun paused and frowned, "So, you knew early on that the bow/crossbow used to assassinate me came from the bow/arrow team of the military camp here?"

"I didn't know about it before. But after I accepted the matter in front of His Majesty and studied all the testimonies and physical evidence, I found out."

"Why didn't you say it then?"

"Students are afraid to speak out to scare the snake! The camp is heavily guarded. If there is no internal assistance, the students don't believe that the assassin can escape under heavy siege and interception. The students are worried that if they say this, something will happen in the camp, and some people will even kill people to silence them. So , The student wanted to go there in person, catch a person and get the stolen goods. Unfortunately, he missed it in the end. It was the student's incompetence and a wrong calculation."

Situ Kun shook his head, "It's not your fault. No one can stop the speed of the poison/drug that the imperial doctor said. Go on."

"Yes!"

After leaving the holy tent, Lin Yan returned to his small tent.Lin Ruhai seemed to have known that he would come back at this moment, and prepared a meal soup, "Let's eat some first! Qiu Ming said, you have not had a meal for the past three days. You have been like this since you were a child, and you can't take care of yourself. Let people worry about you."

Lin Yan's heart warmed, and he sat down with a smile, "Isn't this because someone will worry about me?"

Lin Ruhai stared, but his heart was mostly relaxed.Being able to joke around with him like this seems to be in good spirits.

"After eating, have a good sleep."

Lin Yan frowned, wanting to say that time is not enough, he only has four days.The words came to his lips and he swallowed them back, and replied in a low voice: "Okay!"

"You have found so many things. This matter is full of doubts. His Majesty has already believed it in his heart, and he will not be as angry and impulsive as before. Early this morning, he went to see the Ninth Prince. You can at least put it aside for a while. Most of my heart is gone."

But it's only half of it.

"Father, you are not joking. Seven days are seven days. Besides, no matter how many doubts there are, the real culprit has not been found out. It is inevitable that people will beat him up. Even if they don't, nothing will come to light. The prince will always carry this seemingly invisible stain, and so will the third prince.

Father also said that His Majesty believed it eighty to ninety percent.What about the remaining [-]-[-]%?This [-]% may not seem much, but it is fatal to the third prince who is in the turmoil of seizing the heirloom. "

Lin Ruhai was speechless.How could he not know this!The son is too smart, it really is not a good thing!

Lin Yan bit his chopsticks and couldn't help but ask, "Who does father think it is?"

"What do you think?"

Lin Yan frowned, "I thought it was the First Prince. He has the advantage of patrolling and planning this matter. But because he is in charge of patrolling, after this matter comes out, he will inevitably have lax guards on his back. The crime of dereliction of duty. It cannot escape the responsibility. If His Majesty is angry because of this, there is also some. In this way, according to the most profitable, it is the fifth prince."

Lin Ruhai smiled, "Why don't you guess the alien race? Or the remnants of the rebellious party?"

"Ah? The remnants of the rebellious party? What rebel against the party?" Something flashed in Lin Yan's mind, "Father, you don't mean Prince Yizhong, do you? He still has remnants of the party?"

"Do you think that his crown prince for so many years was for nothing? It was the late emperor who separated from him and guessed at each other, but in the previous two or thirty years, he was so favored by the late emperor that no one could match him. At the beginning, His Majesty named Qin Keqing the princess , when you promoted the Jia family, didn't you analyze well?"

Lin Yan opened his eyes wide, "Well... I thought... I thought it's been so many years. Even if there are party members, they are probably like the Jia family. They are uncertain, and they don't have the ability to do so!"

Lin Ruhai snorted coldly, "It's not necessarily true. Back then, who knew whether he had kept his hand or not! The emperor was also concerned about this, so he tolerated ministers like the Jia family and raised Princess Zhaoyang. Just want to Use Zhaoyang Princess to lead these people out.

It's a pity, but judging from the situation this year, the emperor may not gain much.But I don't know if these people have really changed their minds, or they are thinking of Princess Zhaoyang as a girl, so they can't support them. "

Lin Yan thought for a while, "If you are a foreigner or a rebellious party, I am afraid that you want to succeed in the assassination, right? But sending a bow/arrow/hand to do this, wouldn't it be too hasty? No matter how I look at it, I think Assassinating the emperor is false, but framing the emperor is true.

After all, the third prince stayed in Beijing.It is a blessing and a curse.The assassination of the emperor was brought by the Ninth Prince. This in itself is enough to make people think that it was the design of the Third Prince. Get rid of the Emperor so that he can control the capital and ascend the throne.Not to mention, the assassin came from the third prince's residence.Isn't this framing? "

Lin Ruhai shook his head, "Yes, no. You are so easy to assassinate when you are the emperor? I'm afraid they don't have such a chance! How do you know that this time they didn't think that the assassination would be the best, if they couldn't, they would still take advantage of this The prince got involved and disrupted the situation?"

Lin Yan was startled, this... this...

How did he feel that the water was deeper than he thought!

Lin Ruhai smiled and slapped him lightly on the head, "Everything is undecided, we have to investigate to find out. Maybe it's just like what you said, it's just that the eldest prince or the fifth prince simply wants to blame him. It's not that complicated.

Telling you this is just to tell you not to dismiss any possibility easily.Once you have this kind of thinking, your thinking direction will inevitably be biased.One leaf blinds the eyes, but Mount Tai cannot be seen. "

Lin Yan was in awe, "I know! Father!"

After eating and listening to Lin Ruhai's words, Lin Yan fell asleep so beautifully.Get up and read the dossier, then face the saint again.

"Students, please have your majesty send someone to examine the injuries one by one. If Yuan Da is not the real murderer, then someone intentionally caused the injuries on his body. In this way, the real murderer should still have injuries. We just need to send everyone Check them all, and see who got these injuries correctly, and you will know who was assassinated that night!"

It was about Situ Kun's own safety, and the person who was assassinated was himself. He wanted to catch the murderer even more, so he would not refuse.

It's a pity that for two whole days, everyone checked and found that even the eunuchs and maids were not spared, but no one was injured.

Lin Yan fell into a stalemate for a while.And because of this, it is even more difficult to completely get rid of Yuan Da's charges.After all, he was the only one with the right injuries.Even if he does have many doubts.

Lin Yan felt that his injury examination was as if he had lifted a rock and shot himself in the foot.Originally, His Majesty's suspicion was only [-]-[-]%, but now it is about to become [-]-[-]%.

"Awww~"

Suddenly a small thing jumped out, Lin Yan was caught off guard, startled, and only after seeing clearly did he realize that it was a little tiger.

There was a person who hurried to catch up, dressed as a eunuch, not tall, not very old, he looked no more than thirteen or fourteen years old.He caught the little tiger, hugged it in his arms, and bowed to Lin Yan repeatedly: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! The slave's guarding is not good, and this little guy's naughtiness surprised the nobleman."

Lin Yan shook his head, "Are these the pair of little tigers brought back by His Highness King Ning?"

"It's one of them."

Situ Yue himself was circled, but the little tiger was still alive and kicking. It's really... ironic!

The little tiger was dishonest in that slave's arms, beasts of prey, even cubs not long after birth were violent.He straightened up and threw himself on Lin Yan.That servant seemed to have some ability, and with a circle of hands, he lowered it back again!

The slave had kept his head down before, but when he raised his head suddenly, Lin Yan realized that he had blue and white eyes, which were different from those of the Han people.But when it comes to Westerners, Lin Yan has seen a lot of them in his previous life, so it seems a bit shallow.

Lin Yan's mind suddenly flashed, and a piece of news from his previous life appeared.Boys are born with cat eyes.

Suddenly, he had an idea!

"your eyes……"

The servant hurriedly knelt down and buried his head even lower, "I didn't mean to scare the nobleman on purpose, servant... I realized my mistake."

"What's your name?"

"Slave... The name of the slave is Azak."

Lin Yan was taken aback, "Aren't you Han?"

"The servant's mother is Han. His father is Hu."

"Are your eyes born that way?"

"Yes!"

Lin Yan smiled, "Ten days ago, around midnight that night, did you bring the little tiger out to play?"

"No! The servants always go to bed early. The little tigers are closed at night. They are also closed most of the day, and they are occasionally let out to let the wind go."

Lin Yan shook his head, "No! You didn't come out! Then the little tiger lost his temper and knocked open the cage, you come out to chase it!"

As he spoke, the corners of Lin Yan's mouth rose, revealing a delighted smile.