The wife of the power minister's family

However, the small but warm and comfortable bedroom was now in a mess - there were blood stains everywhere in the room, and there were dots of scarlet on the walls, floor, and various furniture. Things were thrown everywhere, as if they had just experienced something. After some looting.

At the door of the bedroom, there were several pale-faced people gathered around. When they saw Xiao Yi and his group, a tall man in Tsing Yi who was the leader was startled, and he quickly stepped forward and said, "Who are you..."

Xiao Yi picked up the token in his hand and showed it in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "A certain surname is Xiao. He works in the Ministry of Punishment and happens to be staying at the inn ahead."

The man opened his mouth, as if he was very surprised. After reacting, he immediately took a step back, bowed deeply to Xiao Yi and said, "It turns out to be Mr. Xiao. It's really disrespectful. Cao Min... Cao Min is the owner of Xinghua Inn. His surname is Wei and his given name is Dadong. Mr. Xiao came just in time. Cao Min... Cao Min's daughter-in-law was brutally killed by someone unknown. Please help Mr. Xiao find the bastard who killed Cao Min's wife..."

As he spoke, his voice was a little choked, and his face was filled with grief.

Xu Jing, who was on the side, looked at him calmly, and saw that the man was about 25 or [-] years old, with a square face, thick lips, round eyes, slightly dark skin, not good-looking, but very honest.

At this time, both of his eyes were red, and there were obvious tears in his eyes. He looked really in pain.

Xiao Yi looked at him and said, "Have you reported to the official?"

The man said: "After discovering that something happened to Wan Niang, the common people immediately sent people to report it to the officials."

Xiao Yi nodded and asked again: "After finding out about your wife's accident, who has been in this room?"

"The first... the first person to discover that something happened to Wan Niang was Xing Hua, the maid next to Wan Niang. At that time, Cao Min was discussing the details of the repairs with the foreman in the building next to the house that was being repaired, and heard Xing Hua's scream. , just ran over in a hurry, and saw... Seeing that the room was in a mess, the wife was already out of breath...

In addition to Cao Min, Nian Xia, who happened to be back at that time, also entered the room. Nian Xia was another personal maid of the late mother. "

As he spoke, he pointed at the two young maids next to him. He saw that the two maids were both sixteen or seventeen years old. One was wearing an apricot waist-length undershirt, and the other was wearing a brighter pink waist-length undershirt. Both of them had red eyes. The girl in the apricot skirt was still wiping her tears, crying so hard that she kept muttering: "Madam, my poor madam." …”

Both of them wore single-snail buns. The girl in the apricot-colored skirt had a simple wooden hairpin in her bun, but the girl in the pink skirt had a silver-plated and pearl-embedded butterfly hairpin in her head.

A hairpin like that is not something a maid can afford.

Xiao Yi quickly glanced at the two maids, then withdrew his gaze, and said quietly: "I will go in first to check the situation, and I will continue to ask you about the specific situation later."

As he said that, he looked at Xu Jing who was jumping over on one foot, frowned slightly, and said, "If you want to go in, I'll help you."

It is inconvenient to walk on one foot, and they often need to use something around them to stabilize their body. However, this room is full of evidence. When they walk in, they try to avoid places with blood stains. It is more difficult to find something to hold on to. It is even more difficult.

Looking in from the bedroom door, you can only see the small hall at the entrance, and the sleeping room on the left. Because it is blocked by a curtain, you can only vaguely see a dressing table, and not even the deceased can be seen.

Xu Jing's attention was completely focused on this murder case. She nodded when she heard this and said, "Okay, I'd like to trouble you, Minister Xiao."

He had already revealed his identity as a member of the Criminal Department, so Xu Jing simply called him by his previous title.

Wei Dadong on the side looked at Xu Jing and said with some surprise: "Master Xiao, this is..."

Xu Jing had already put on a veil on the way over. At this time, he could not see Xu Jing's appearance clearly, but it did not prevent him from being surprised by this woman who should not have appeared at the murder scene.

Xiao Yi was already familiar with the situation and reached out to hold Xu Jing's right hand. Facing everyone's surprise, he just said quietly: "She is the person I brought to help solve the case."

Xiao Yi has said this, and no matter how hard the others try, they can't figure out how this woman can help solve the case, and it's hard to say anything.

Xiao Yi then supported Xu Jing and carefully walked into the bedroom. It wasn't until they walked into the room in person that they felt the brutality of the murderer more intuitively.Amid the smell of blood, the floor of the room was covered with messy bloodstains. Xu Jing and Xiao Yi could hardly find a place to put their feet.

The two of them walked forward cautiously, carefully observing every detail of the room as they walked.

Suddenly, Xu Jing whispered: "Shilang Xiao, the blood stains on the ground look like wiped blood stains."

Xiao Yi was stunned, turned to look at her, his eyes darkened slightly, "Wipe-like blood stains?"

Xu Jing thought for a while and said: "There are usually a lot of blood stains at crime scenes. When you investigated the case before, you will definitely have noticed that the shapes of blood stains formed under different circumstances will be different.

The blood stains on the ground today are typical wipe-like blood stains, which are blood stains formed by someone smearing, touching, or rubbing a blood-stained object on something. "

Xiao Yi understood immediately and looked down at the extremely messy but dense blood stains on the ground.

When he first saw the blood stains, he felt something was wrong and said, "You mean, the blood stains on the ground were deliberately created by someone?"

Xu Jing said quietly: "If the murderer didn't have some bad taste, or dragged the blood-stained victim around after being full, then someone could only have deliberately created it."

Xiao Yi nodded, looked at the blood stains scattered on other objects in the small hall, such as the walls and tables, and said: "These blood stains also look like the wipe-like blood stains you said."

Xu Jing frowned slightly. She couldn't figure out what the person who did this was thinking, and she couldn't be sure if it was the murderer, so she said, "Just keep walking inside."

This bedroom is not big, with a small hall in the middle, a sleeping place on the left, and a study room on the right.

Although the small hall and study room were also full of bloodstains and were in a mess, you could tell by the amount of bloodstains that the crime scene was in the sleeping area.

As soon as the two of them walked to the small sleeping room, their expressions darkened in unison.

But the first thing that caught his eye was a bed with exquisite carvings. There was a dressing table against the wall on the left. The table was covered with rouge and gouache for women. On the upper right corner of the table was a beautiful three-tiered bed. Jewelry Box.

There is a couch placed against the wall on the right, and above the couch is a large open window.

Whether it was on the bed, the dressing table or the couch, there were large areas of blood stains. The blood stains were much denser and richer than those in the small hall outside.

At this time, lying quietly on the bed, a young woman wearing an orange floral Uesugi, pink and red floral skirt and bustier skirt was lying quietly.

But I saw the woman with long flowing hair, a pretty and pretty face facing up, her face already smeared with makeup, her black eyebrows on both sides had been painted, her eyes were wide open, and there seemed to be cloth inside. He was completely shocked, as if he never expected that his life would end so suddenly.

It seemed that she was killed in the middle of putting on makeup in the morning.

The dressing table and the bed were the two places with the most blood stains. The wall next to the dressing table was even splattered with a large amount of blood. It was so bloody that it looked very scary.

Xu Jing's brows couldn't help but frown slightly.

There was something wrong with this crime scene. It was so wrong.