Xie was so frightened that she screamed and collapsed on the ground, covering her face and not daring to look anymore.

Congyun rushed out of the room and shouted: "It's not good! The master has been killed! Someone come quickly!"

The concierge, cook, and painter all ran over. Mrs. Xie calmed down a little. When she saw them coming in, she quickly stopped them and said: "Get out, get out! Get out! The people are dead, and they are all waiting outside, waiting for the government officials to come to investigate the case!"

Don’t mess this up!”

The concierges were already frightened when they saw this bloody scene. After hearing this, they just left and hurriedly went to the government to report the crime.

Leng Yi and others received the report and rushed to investigate.

Leng Yi took Cheng Luojie and the others to Huang Qiang's house. Mrs. Xie was sitting on the porch crying. The maid Congyun was accompanying her and kept persuading her, but she also kept crying. The concierge, cook and gardener were squatting

On the corridor of the wing, looking downcast.

Leng Yi asked Xie and her maid Congyun in detail about the whole incident. They told them in detail, from getting up, giving hairpins, dressing up, showing off to a few people in the yard, going out to burn incense when it rained, and all the way back.

Everything was explained in detail.

After hearing this, Leng Yi admired Xie's action of preventing others from entering the scene. It was commendable that he could think of this while feeling sad.

Leng Yi asked the others to wait outside, then entered the room alone and began to survey the scene. Rigor mortis and spots had not yet appeared on the body, and the temperature had not dropped significantly. It was estimated that the time of death should be within an hour. This is different from Xie and

The testimony of maid Congyun that they were talking to Huang Qiang an hour ago is consistent with it.

A pointed sharp instrument was inserted into the deceased's eye socket and penetrated deep into his skull, resulting in death on the spot.

Leng Yi found a hosta with a broken tip next to a pool of blood on the ground. He picked it up and examined it. Before this time, Cheng Luojie had shown Leng Yi all the treasures and pictures stolen from the palace, and Leng Yi had already

The style of these stolen palace treasures was recorded in my heart. At first glance, I couldn't help but be shocked - this hosta is very similar to the hosta among the stolen palace treasures.

Leng Yi took the hosta and walked out of the door of the murder room and handed it to Cheng Luojie.

Cheng Luojie took it and took a look, and her delicate body was shocked. She looked at Leng Yi and nodded slowly. Then she showed the hosta to Cheng Luo'an and Yin Jiu, and the two of them suddenly became excited.

Cheng Luojie calmly called Mrs. Xie in. She took the hosta and asked, "Is this from your family?"

Ms. Xie shook her head and sobbed: "No, my husband gave it to me this morning. He said he bought it from a friend last night to resell. The price was very cheap. Because I kept nagging that there was no good quality.

He gave this hairpin to me. I was worried that I would lose the hairpin when I went out to burn incense, so I asked Congyun to put it back in the jewelry box in the study. - Where did you find it? How?

Broken off?"

Cheng Luojie then asked: "Do you know where your husband bought this hairpin?"

Mr. Xie still shook his head and said, "I don't know. He didn't say."

"Besides this hairpin, does he have any other treasures? I mean together with this hairpin."

"Yes, in the morning, he took out this hosta from a brocade box. At that time, I saw that there were several gold, silver and jade articles in the brocade box. However, when I looked for it just now, that box of things was gone.

It's gone! It may have been snatched away by the murderer."

Leng Yi said: "Can you see clearly what the jewelry inside the brocade box looks like?"

"I didn't see it clearly because they were piled together. This hosta was placed on top. He gave it to me, so I just looked at this hosta."

Cheng Luojie pulled Leng Yi aside and whispered: "We must find these things!"

Leng Yi nodded and said: "We'd better make sure what's in this brocade box at the same time. Is it what we're looking for, so as not to waste time."

"Well, how do I find it?"

"This woman said that her husband bought these jewelry from a friend. We need to find this person immediately. He should know what is in the jewelry box! This person was with the deceased last night, and he was the deceased.

It shouldn’t be difficult to find friends.”

Yin Jiu said hurriedly: "Well, let me go down and arrange an investigation for this person!" After that, he hurried away.

Leng Yi returned to the crime scene to continue investigating.

After a superficial examination of the body, except for the wound on the right eye orbit, there were no wounds on other parts of the body, and there were no obvious non-open blunt force injuries. It seems that the injury to the eye orbit should be the fatal injury to the deceased.

Leng Yi asked the Yamen clerk who followed him to cut open the deceased's head, and found that the injury at the eye socket had penetrated into the brain. He found the tip of the hosta at the back of the head, took it out, connected it with the one found at the scene, and broke the head.

Not bad at all, completely consistent.

This proves that this hosta is the murder weapon that killed Huang Qiang!

But why did the murderer use this precious jade hairpin instead of a knife? Leng Yi, Cheng Luojie, and Cheng Luoga thought about it for a long time, but they couldn't figure it out.

After completing the detailed investigation, Leng Yi said: "This case should be a murder committed by an insider, that is, someone from the deceased's family. We need to investigate them."

"Oh? Why do you think it's a thief?"

"There were no signs of damage to the doors or windows at the scene, especially there were no signs of turning over. The murderer just stole the box of jewelry. The target was very clear, so it was probably an internal theft!"

"Then let's conduct an investigation!" Cheng Luojie said enthusiastically: "From what I just learned, the deceased's wife and personal maid were not at home at the time and were offering incense at the City God's Temple. When they left, the deceased was still sleeping in the house.

.Moreover, since the murder weapon was this hosta, and Ms. Xie was dressing up in the study before leaving. When they left, they were worried about losing the hosta, so they asked the maid Congyun to take the hosta back to the study and replace it with the original one. Ms. Xie and

After the maid came out of the cloud, neither of them went back to the bedroom. Until they returned from the Chenghuang Temple, they found that Huang Qiang had been killed on the bed in the bedroom. Therefore, neither of them was at the crime scene and could be ruled out. Now only

Let’s leave the concierge, cook and gardener. The murderer must be one of them!”

Leng Yi nodded: "The analysis makes sense, so let's start with them and investigate!"

The first person to investigate was the old faucet, the concierge.

The concierge nodded with some fear and stood hunched over, looking at them.

Leng Yi said: "What were you doing after your wives left and before they came back?"

The concierge said quickly: "I have been guarding the door in the concierge."

"Who can testify?"

"Testify? No one testifies with me, because I am the only one."

"What were you doing?"

"Let's drink tea in the concierge. Nothing happened. It's raining heavily. In this kind of weather, we can't go out to gamble and eat wine. We can only stay here like this. What else can we do."

"Where are the cook and the gardener? Do you know what they were doing?"

The concierge shook his head and said: "I don't know, I was drinking tea alone in the room. - By the way, I doubt the cook. He killed the master."

"Why?" Leng Yi asked.

"Because the cook is very lazy. He doesn't clean the rice or wash the vegetables when cooking. He often has diarrhea after eating, and I had diarrhea several times. Our master also had diarrhea, so he scolded him. He was still not convinced.

, he once told us when he was drunk that he had been enduring it, but one day he couldn't bear it anymore and had to kill the master! So, the master probably scolded him again, and he killed the master in a fit of anger! "

"Well, what you said makes sense. We will investigate the matter you reported."

Leng Yi and the others called the cook over again and asked, "Just now, when your wife went out to burn incense at the City God's Temple, what were you doing?"

The cook nodded and bowed: "I'm stuffing sausages in the kitchen."

"Who can testify?"

"Okay, gardener. He once came into the kitchen looking for something to eat, but I kicked him out. I said it wasn't time to eat yet, so why are you in a hurry? He left."

"Have you been stuffing sausages all this time?"

"Yes! I started filling it when I got up in the morning. Before my wife went out, I had already filled one pot. Our lady likes to eat sausages, so we always have to fill them. When they left, I took the second pot and was going to the kitchen.

My wife stopped me and asked me if the new hosta she was wearing looked good!"

Leng Yi said: "Let me see your hands!"

The cook picked up his hands and handed them over, oil was sloshing on them.

Leng Yi took out the murder weapon again - half of a hosta, looked at it carefully, and said to the cook: "From the current point of view, you are not the murderer, please step back!"

The cook was overjoyed and quickly thanked him and left.

Cheng Luojie whispered to Leng Yi: "How do you know he is not the murderer? Didn't the concierge say he had a grudge against the deceased?"

"He has been handling sausages, and his hands are full of lard. However, there is no oil stain on the hosta, which is the murder weapon, which shows that it is not him. Of course, we must verify whether he has really been handling sausages."

Then the gardener was called in for questioning.

Leng Yi asked: "Have you always been working as a gardener in the deceased's house?"

"No, I just came here these days. Because the master likes flowers, but he can't grow them well, so he asked me to help." The gardener was very nervous, and his voice was trembling.

"Where were you between when the lady went out to offer incense and when she found out that the master had been killed?"

"I've been planting flowers in the back garden."

"Have you always been in the back garden?"

"Always there, but in the meantime I went to the kitchen to look for food, but the cook refused to give it to me, so I went back."

"Who can prove it?"

"cook!"

"He was in the kitchen, how to prove it?"

The gardener pointed to the back garden and said: "Sir, please see, the only way to get to the back garden is through the kitchen door. The cook has been filling sausages at the kitchen door. If I go there, he will definitely see it. When Madam leaves, I will

It was in the back garden, and I didn’t come until Congyun shouted that the master was dead. I asked the master to take a closer look."

After Leng Yi inspected it, he found that he had to pass the kitchen in the back garden. He called the cook to confront him, and sure enough he didn't see the gardener passing by.

Everyone has been questioned and everyone has alibi evidence.

Another unsolved case? (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!