People are in Zhenguan, solving crimes scientifically

Chapter 244 Revealed! The real murderer's disguise! The most critical clue emerges!
The icehouse of the palace is located in the northwest corner of the backyard. There are some bamboos planted here. There is a rockery among the bamboos. There is a cave in the rockery facing the west, and this cave is the entrance to the icehouse.

Under the guidance of housekeeper Ma Yuan, Lin Feng and Zhao Shiwu quickly arrived at the entrance of the icehouse.

But as soon as he arrived, Lin Feng discovered that there were two government officials guarding the entrance to the icehouse.

This made Lin Feng realize that Zhou Helin had already found this place in advance after he gave the hint that Wang Jian's body was frozen.

I don’t know if Zhou Helin discovered anything here, or if he made the same judgment as himself that this was the scene of the first crime.

"Magistrate Zhou came here two-quarters of an hour ago, and it was the villain who showed him the way."

When the housekeeper saw Lin Feng's eyes falling on the government servant guarding the door, he quickly spoke and whispered: "But after the villain opened the ice house door, County Magistrate Zhou asked the officials to guard the door and prohibited anyone from entering. So I don’t know whether Magistrate Zhou found anything in the icehouse.”

After listening to the butler's words, Lin Feng couldn't help but glance at the butler.

At this moment, he finally fully understood why Ma Yuan became the butler of the palace. Apart from anything else, this vision and the ability to quickly figure out the thoughts of important people were enough to surpass 99% of people.

The butler knows what he is thinking without even having to speak himself, and can respond quickly.

Zhao Shiwu would not hesitate at all and nodded directly: "I understand, kid."

Lin Feng now has the emperor's orders, so the officials in Chang'an County naturally did not dare to stop him. He easily entered the icehouse with the housekeeper.

He thought for a while and said: "Ice is a very valuable thing that is difficult to store except in winter, so not everyone has the key to your icehouse, right?"

Ma Yuan recalled for a while and then said: "About half a month ago, Zhang Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry came to visit. The master specially ordered the best dishes to be cooked. We used ice."

"So, the key problem arises with Mrs. Wang?"

in this case……

Seeing that the next cold winter is coming, there is not much ice left in this icehouse. There is only some ice stacked up against the innermost wall.

Lin Feng asked: "Has her key been lost? Or has it been used by others?"

He thought for a while, turned to look at Zhao Shiwu, and said: "Shiwu, go find Mrs. Wang again and ask her about the icehouse key. Ask her whether the key is still there and whether the key has been lost."

But Lin Feng understands very well. In the hot summer, who can refuse any ice products? Not to mention that Datang already has simple cream ice cream.

With that said, he turned around and left.

He said: "All the keys managed by the villain are here. Because the keys are so important, the villain has always kept them close to him. Even if someone wants to use the key to open the door, it is all done by the villain himself. During this period, he has never left the keys behind. The key was given to no one.”

Lin Feng touched his chin and pondered in his mind: "The real murderer wants to take Wang Jian to the icehouse, so he must obtain the key... So which one does his key come from?"

The reason why the housekeeper is called a housekeeper is to manage all the chores in the palace. It is not surprising that he has the key in his hand. As for Mrs. Wang... The status of women in the Tang Dynasty was not low. The male was in charge of outside and the female was in charge of all affairs in the palace. They are all under the control of Mrs. Wang, so it is normal for Mrs. Wang to have the key.

According to Xiao Yu, this should be the result of a complicated struggle for factional interests... This is exactly the same as what he is facing now. It can only be said that the world is a circle, and countless the same things are constantly repeated.

With the light of the torch, Lin Feng was able to see what the butler called a large icehouse.

The icehouse in the palace was really big. Lin Feng visually estimated that it was more than fifty square meters.

At this time, in the icehouse, in addition to Lin Feng, there were some government officials walking around holding torches, seeming to be looking for clues. However, Chang'an County Magistrate Zhou Helin was not here. I don't know if he could not stand the cold here and went out temporarily, or if he had already begun to After looking for clues here, I went to look for clues elsewhere.

Mrs. Wang had never given the key to anyone else, but she was not sure whether it had been stolen... Lin Feng understood what the housekeeper meant.

Even though it was already late autumn outside and winter was about to begin, it was still nothing compared to the coldness in this icehouse.

"This……"

As soon as he entered the icehouse, the cold suddenly hit him. The sudden cold temperature made Lin Feng shiver and he quickly tightened his sleeves.

Zhang Liang is an important minister of the third rank. When he comes to Wang Jian's mansion, which is the fourth rank, he should be treated with grand ceremony.

Lin Feng let out a breath, temporarily suppressed the question of the key, and said to the housekeeper: "Let's go into the icehouse."

Of course, these things are not important in this case. What is important is that Zhang Liang came half a month ago. In other words, during this half month, no one came to the ice house again.

Lin Feng did not pay attention to these government officials and Zhou Helin. The investigation of the case could not be rushed or rushed. It had to be done slowly and steadily. Otherwise, it would be easy to fall into the trap of subjective assumptions or make mistakes due to haste. The more time was pressed, the more people were involved. When he competes, Lin Feng becomes calmer.

The butler shook his head: "I don't know, I don't know. I don't dare to ask about my wife's affairs, but in my impression, if the master and his wife want to eat ice, the servants will come directly to the villain to get ice. The lady didn’t directly give anyone the key to get the ice.”

Zhang Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry... Zhang Liang, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry?

Speaking of Zhang Liang, although Lin Feng has never met him, he indirectly knows two things. One is the small crossbow, a life-saving artifact that Xiao Yu gave him. He asked Zhang Liang to have the Ministry of Industry make it. This crossbow When he was in Banyue'an, he had helped him solve a crisis, and his life-saving artifact was well-deserved!
Another thing is that after he was promoted from the Prime Minister of Dali Temple to the Principal of Dali Temple, his original position as Prime Minister of Dali Temple fell to Zhang Liang's son Zhang Wei.

The housekeeper nodded quickly: "It's natural. Every time the icehouse door is opened, some heat will enter the icehouse, which will affect the storage of ice. So unless the master and his wife want to eat ice, we will not open the icehouse at all. The door, and in order to ensure that there is no problem with the ice, there are only two keys.”

It is by no means an easy task to dig out such a large icehouse underground, and so much manpower and material resources are spent just to store more ice. It can be seen how much Wang Jian loves to eat ice. .

"What about the key in Mrs. Wang's hand?"

He is alert and cautious enough, so he is indeed the most ideal butler candidate... Lin Feng glanced at the dozens of keys in the butler's hand and nodded slightly.

Judging from the real murderer's caution and careful planning, he definitely did not come to the icehouse to commit crimes on a temporary basis. Therefore, he must have visited the icehouse many times in advance.

He looked at the housekeeper and said, "Have you ever lost your key?"

The two passed through the iron gate and finally entered the icehouse.

I saw him putting his hand into his arms, and when he took it out, he was holding a bunch of keys. Each of these keys was strung with a rope and tied to a ring. As Ma Yuan took it out, the keys were linked to each other. The collision makes a crisp sound.

Ma Yuan quickly shook his head: "Never."

The door of the icehouse is a stone door. The stone door is very thick and the downward passage is winding. This is enough to effectively resist the heat on the ground. At the bottom of the stone steps, there is another door. The door is made of iron and has no Padlock, but completely wrapped in quilts, without any gaps. This kind of quilt is enough to prevent the cold air in the icehouse from spreading outwards. The hot air cannot get in and the cold air cannot get out. The icehouse is enough to ensure that the ice inside It will not melt even in the hot summer... I have to say that the ancients were really very wise.

He looked at Lin Feng and said proactively: "One of the keys is in the villain's hand, and the other key is in the lady's hand."

He looked away, picked up a torch, and walked towards the ice. As he walked, he said, "Steward Ma, when was the last time your family ate ice?"

And after he killed someone, he dug out the heart and pierced a hole in Wang Jian's body... Anyone who often dismembers corpses knows that this is by no means an easy task. Without the tools at hand and sufficient preparation, it would be impossible. Do it in a short time.

Not to mention that after digging out the heart, he thoughtfully sewed up the wound and glued it with hot things, all of which required tools.

And this kind of tool will never be a simple dagger that can be easily hidden, or something that will not arouse suspicion even if it is seen... Therefore, with this kind of tool, the real murderer will definitely be hidden somewhere. A perfectly safe place to be found.

There is no doubt that this is the safest place to kill, and it can be used directly. The real murderer does not have to take the risk of moving the tool a second time.

Therefore, the tool used to kill people and dig out their hearts is most likely hidden here by the real murderer in advance.

And someone came to pick up the ice half a month ago and found nothing unusual, which means... the real culprit sent tools and other things here one after another during this half month.

In other words, half a month is a very important time point!

If it was done by someone outside the palace, then he would definitely not have only come here two days after the incident. He must have come here again within the past half month.

If it was done by people in the palace, in order to transport these tools, they must have had the opportunity to enter and leave the palace many times within this half-month period.

Screening based on this condition will definitely eliminate a lot of people, and then quickly reduce the number of suspects!
Lin Feng slowly exhaled a breath, he had found a way to narrow down the scope of suspects!
If he can narrow down the scope of suspects, he can conduct a more targeted investigation.

Of course, the premise of all this is that this is really the scene of the first crime and the place where Wang Jian was killed.

While his brain was spinning wildly, Lin Feng had already arrived in front of the remaining ice.

The ice in the palace is made up of stacks of ice cubes one foot long, one foot wide, and about three inches high. The bottom of the ice cubes are flat and smooth marbles, and the tops are stacked one by one.

Between each piece of ice, there is a thin wooden board to separate it for easy separation during use.

Otherwise, these ice cubes will easily freeze together and it will be very difficult to separate them.

Lin Feng glanced at the ice cubes, and lightly traced them with his fingertips, saying, "Every time you use ice cubes, do you cut them here or take them out for cutting?"

The housekeeper hurriedly said: "Of course it should be cut here, otherwise once it is taken out and melted, it will not be able to be shaped again."

Lin Feng nodded slightly, and he put the torch close to the ice cubes. Under the light of the fire, these crystal clear ice cubes shone brightly.

His eyes swept over the ice cubes one by one. At this time, he seemed to have discovered something, and said: "When you use ice cubes, do you use the next one when one is used up, or do you cut it casually without any rules?"

"Of course there are rules."

The steward said: "It is not easy to store this ice. Every piece of ice cannot be wasted. Therefore, when we cut and use ice, we have requirements. We must use it piece by piece and never cut it randomly."

"You can't cut it randomly..." Lin Feng narrowed his eyes and said, "It's already November now, and the cold winter is coming. What will you do with the ice cubes here?"

"Replace it with a new one, of course."

The steward said: "When the temperature drops low enough for the ice to freeze, we will take out the unused ice and throw it away, and then replace it with new ones, so as to ensure the freshness of the ice."

Lin Feng nodded, the corners of his mouth curled up slowly, and a look of understanding appeared in his eyes: "So that's how it is... No wonder they chose to do it here."

"What? Do it?"

Listening to Lin Feng's words, the housekeeper couldn't help but blinked blankly, and he said doubtfully: "Lin Sizheng, you and County Magistrate Zhou came to this icehouse to inspect it one after another. Why did you choose to do it here? I don't know what is in this icehouse." Question?" Lin Feng glanced at the housekeeper and then smiled: "This is not a secret..."

As he said that, he took a step forward and came to the front of some pieces of ice. Then he stretched the torch over the ice, lighting up the ice cubes, and said, "Steward Ma, please take a closer look at these ice cubes. See if there is any difference between these ice cubes and other ice cubes.”

"the difference?"

The housekeeper Ma Yuan was startled and subconsciously stretched his neck to look.

At first, his face was full of confusion, and he had no idea what was so interesting about these cold, identical ice cubes. However, Lin Feng lowered the torch for him to illuminate the ice cubes more clearly, and deliberately moved the torch to make it clearer. After he saw clearly how the light of the torch was reflected by the ice cubes, Ma Yuan's eyes suddenly widened. He finally understood what Lin Feng meant.

"These ice cubes...their surfaces have been cut by someone!"

Because these ice cubes are transparent and the light is not good, at first glance, there is no problem at all.

But when Lin Feng moved the torch and deliberately let the ice reflect the firelight, he could see the problem on the surface of the ice!

The surfaces of these ice cubes are not of the same thickness at all, and many of them are uneven. It looks like they have been cut by someone.

"How could it have been cut by someone..." The butler frowned: "Every time I come to get ice, I stare at it. They cut it piece by piece, and they didn't cut the ice at all... So, these How did the ice cube become like this?"

Lin Feng listened to the butler's words, and the gleam in his eyes became stronger and stronger.

If it was still speculation before, now... it is completely certain!

"That's how it should be..." Lin Feng said slowly.

"what?"

The housekeeper listened to Lin Feng's words and couldn't help but look at Lin Feng and said, "Lin Sizheng, this...what on earth is going on?"

Lin Feng did not go to see the housekeeper. Instead, he held a torch and moved back and forth near the ice blocks. He looked around here and there as if he was looking for something.

The housekeeper couldn't help but said: "Lin Sizheng, what are you looking for? Do you need help?"

"found it!"

As soon as the butler's voice fell, Lin Feng's voice was heard.

Then the housekeeper saw Lin Feng squatting in the gap between two rows of ice cubes, looking inside.

Under the firelight, there were flames beating in Lin Feng's dark eyes. He suddenly turned his head and looked at the housekeeper. At this moment, Lin Feng's face was illuminated by the flames. It was as if he was surrounded by the only light. In this dark and cold icehouse, the housekeeper actually felt dizzy when facing the sun.

"Lin Sizheng, you..." The housekeeper looked at Lin Feng blankly.

"Come and see!"

Before the butler finished speaking, he saw Lin Feng waving to him.

Only then did the housekeeper react and ran over. He immediately knelt down and looked in the direction pointed by Lin Feng's finger.

"Did you find it?" Lin Feng asked.

"What?" The housekeeper looked inside through the gap between the ice cubes, but there was nothing inside, except ice, just ice.

"Where are you looking? Look, look at the ground!"

"ground?"

The housekeeper was stunned, and quickly moved his gaze downwards, following Lin Feng's prompts.

then……

"What? Red... seems like something red?"

The housekeeper subconsciously moved his body forward, and with a bang, his face hit the ice, which made him take a breath of cold air.

Lin Feng glanced at the butler, whose mind was spinning very fast but whose body couldn't react well, and said, "It's something red. Can you recognize what it is?"

When the housekeeper heard this, he had no time to rub his painful face and looked again. Then, he seemed to realize something and his expression finally changed.

He couldn't help but look at Lin Feng, swallowed, and said nervously: "It seems...it seems to be blood stains."

Facing the butler's nervous gaze, Lin Feng knew that this agile-minded butler already understood everything.

He nodded lightly: "Yes, it's blood! Your master's blood!"

Even though the housekeeper had already made a guess, after receiving Lin Feng's confirmation, he still couldn't help but his pupils contracted violently, and he couldn't control his emotional shock at all.

Lin Feng looked at the ice cubes and said slowly: "There is no blood on Wang Shaoqing's body in the bedroom, which means that the real murderer must have killed him elsewhere."

"So, where did the real murderer do all this?"

The butler's face turned pale and he couldn't help but said: "Is it... right here?"

Lin Feng glanced at the icehouse and said, "There is definite evidence to prove that your master's body was frozen and kept fresh in this icehouse."

"But that can only prove that his body once appeared here. Whether he was killed here and his heart was dug out is still uncertain... But with this blood stain and these cut ice cubes, it is different. ”

The housekeeper quickly looked at Lin Feng and heard Lin Feng say: "There is no blood on his body, and there is no blood on his clothes, but the real murderer did something to his heart, there is no way that there is no blood flowing out, so …Where did his blood go?”

"And your master has only appeared in three places these days, the room where he lives alone, the bedroom between him and Mrs. Wang, and here!"

"But there is no blood in those two rooms, only here..."

Lin Feng pointed to the blood stains on the ground under the ice crevice and said, "Only here are the blood stains found."

The housekeeper understood what Lin Feng meant, and he said: "But there is only this little blood here. The master's heart is gone, and the blood must be more than this."

"Yes, there must be more than that, so..."

Lin Feng stood up, looked at the top ice cubes, and said with a half-smile, "These ice cubes were cut by someone when you didn't use them at all."

Brush it!
The housekeeper's eyes widened suddenly, and he stood frozen for a moment as if struck by lightning.

He opened his mouth, pointed at the ice cubes, and couldn't help but exclaimed: "So... so the cut parts of those ice cubes are stained with blood?"

Lin Feng raised his fingers, gently rubbed the surface of the ice cubes, and said: "I wonder if the housekeeper has ever seen a phenomenon, that is, if you put two pieces of ice together, you only need to sprinkle water on the gap between them, and the two pieces of ice will They will be extremely tightly connected, and if you pour water again, the water will only stay on top and eventually be frozen, and will not flow to the ground under the ice. "

"The same is true for blood. As long as these ices are connected one after another and laid into a base, when the blood flows out, as long as the initial amount is controlled, the adjacent ices will be directly stuck together. When there are more After the blood flows out, because these ice cubes are stuck together, the blood will not flow to the ground.”

"At the same time, the ice is cold and will soon freeze the blood. If you want to remove the blood, you only need to cut the part with blood."

"Cut the frozen blood, take it outside, dig a hole and throw it in. The frozen blood will quickly melt and merge into the soil. Who can see it?"

"As for the cut ice..."

Lin Feng put away his red fingers from the cold, looked at the pale butler, and said slowly: "We just need to put them back to the distance again. When the light is unclear, who can find out that they have been cut... let alone , Seeing that the new winter is coming, all the ice will be thrown away, and who will pay attention to whether the thrown away ice is smooth or missing? "

After listening to Lin Feng's words, the housekeeper felt that his hands and feet were cold, not from the cold, but from the horrific facts revealed by Lin Feng.

He could definitely tell that what Lin Feng said would definitely come true. After all, he was the one who hosted the ice throwing every year.

No one really cares about this abandoned ice.

Even during transportation, there will be bumps and it will be broken directly.

And if that moment really comes, there will really be no evidence at all...

"The real murderer's plan is not subtle. He has completely calculated everything. It's a pity..."

At this time, Lin Feng's voice sounded again, and the housekeeper looked at Lin Feng subconsciously, and saw Lin Feng raised the corners of his mouth and said calmly: "It's a pity that blood not only flows out, but also sometimes splashes out. "

"And the light in this icehouse is dim. It is very difficult to find all the blood stains splattered. So he can get rid of all the blood stains he finds, but after all... there are still things he ignores."

"Of course, he may think that we can't find the icehouse at all! Or, he thinks that the light here is so dark that even someone as cautious as him can't find it, and it's naturally impossible for us to find it."

"But it's a pity..."

Under the light of the fire, Lin Feng seemed to be glowing all over: "What I am best at is finding these kinds of details that are most easily overlooked and forgotten."

"So, I found it, and I have the basis for all my inferences."

"Even if this is not a place of killing, it must be a place for digging out people's hearts! And digging out people's hearts and subsequent disposal require special tools."

"Therefore... half a month is the point..."

Lin Feng smiled and said, “It can be used!”

(End of this chapter)