Concubine

Chapter 158 Investigating the Site
After inquiring about Mrs. Yang, I found out that at that time, Mrs. Guo became nympho and then hanged himself. Everyone thought it was very logical. No one suspected it, so they didn't report it to the police.Since he died so wickedly, he was immediately put into the coffin and invited a mage to perform rituals, so he didn't check the marks on his neck carefully.

In addition, there is another very important reason, that is, not only the courtyard door of the small attic was locked, but also the door of the room on the second floor of the small attic was locked, and no trace of outsiders breaking into the room was found.The nanny and the maid did not hear any fighting.So there is no doubt that Mrs. Guo was killed.

First of all, since it has been confirmed that Mrs. Guo was killed by someone, and Song Tongzhi is in the jurisdiction of Ningguo Mansion, Song Tongzhi is here, so he decided to file a case for investigation and find out the truth.However, how to investigate this case, Song Tongzhi's eyes were still darkened, and he asked Yang Qiuchi for help, asking him to help solve the case.

Yang Qiuchi was once again entrusted with solving the case.He took hair and blood samples from Guo's corpse, and then asked Wu Zuo to put the corpse back into the coffin and nail it up, put it in the watery grave, and reburied it.

Since he wanted to solve the case, he had to bring over his forensic evidence box, and he had to do a blood type test to determine whether Shan'er was the son of Mrs. Yang.This thing is Yang Qiuchi's treasure, and outsiders are worried about him, so he gave Feng Xiaoxue the key to the large aluminum alloy cabinet, and asked her to take Xia Ping and other five female guards back to get it for him, and sent another one. Five male guards accompanied him for protection.

Yang Qiuchi told Feng Xiaoxue that all he needed to do was bring the small box in the aluminum alloy cabinet. This small box was a forensic evidence investigation box with a combination lock on it, so there was no need to worry about Feng Xiaoxue making a fuss when he found out what was inside.

But Feng Xiaoxue was worried that Yang Qiuchi would meet a ghost again at night, so she didn't want to leave Yang Qiuchi, even after comforting him for a long time, Song Yuner finally said that he would accompany Yang Qiuchi at night and protect him personally. , and left with the guards.

It took about two days for them to come and go. During this time, Yang Qiuchi had to conduct necessary investigations to find enough criminal clues.

Yang Qiuchi didn't expect to go back to his hometown to celebrate the New Year to worship his ancestors. When he encountered this incident, it seems that if this case cannot be solved as soon as possible, this year will not pass.

Since the small attic was locked and unoccupied after being haunted, there might be traces left behind, Yang Qiuchi decided to go to the small attic to investigate the scene of the murder two years ago, hoping that he would be lucky and find something.

After questioning, it was learned that the first person who found out that Mrs. Guo had hanged her was Zhichun, her personal maid, followed by her nurse, Mrs. Lu.When the third aunt died, the doors and windows were locked, and there were only the maid Zhichun and the nanny Lu Shi in the room. Therefore, the two of them were natural suspects. Yang Qiuchi ordered the nanny Lu Shi to be guarded first, and then called the maid Zhichun. , together with Song Tongzhi and Song Yuner, came to the small attic to investigate the site.

After Mrs. Guo was hanged in this small attic, except for Mrs. Yang who stayed for one night because she missed Mrs. Guo, but was frightened to death when she saw Mrs. Guo standing by the bed and looking at her smiling. It was completely closed, so the scene at that time was still roughly preserved.

Yang Qiuchi first carefully checked all the doors and windows, and found that, as Zhichun said, they were tightly closed and could not be opened without a lot of effort.

He also checked the gate carefully. After all, it was a big family, and the door was well made. The left and right doors could bite into each other, and the closure was so tight that it was impossible to open it with a knife.Moreover, the gate not only had to be bolted, but also had to be held against the top bar when sleeping at night.

Yang Qiuchi asked Zhichun to talk about the hanging of the corpse first.According to what Zhichun said, Mrs. Guo should have hanged herself by stepping on that low stool.

Yang Qiuchi judged that the short stool was about [-] centimeters long. After the murderer strangled Guo Shi to death, it would be very heavy and soft after death, so it was difficult to pick up the corpse and hang it in the rope loop on the beam. , the best way is to put the noose around the neck of the corpse, and the other end goes around the beam, and then pull the corpse up. If this is the case, there should be traces of rope friction on the beam. This trace must be more obvious and will not be erased by two years.

Yang Qiuchi found two high stools and stacked them together, put them under the beam, stepped on it, and observed the beam. After wiping off a thick layer of dust on it, it was strange that the beam was in good shape, and there was nothing obvious on the neat edges and corners. traces of friction.

Strange, is there a problem with your own judgment?Yang Qiuchi thought for a while, and asked the servant girl Zhichun: "What kind of rope did your third aunt use to hang herself?"

Zhichun said: "It's a piece of white silk. After going around the beam, tie a knot at both ends and hang it around the neck."

"How long is the white silk?"

Zhichun made a gesture, but Yang Qiuchi couldn't understand it, and asked again: "How about this, you make a gesture, this white silk went around the beam and knotted at both ends, did it hang down to the ground?"

"No, only a small part grows after the knot is tied." Zhichun stood under the beam and looked up and down, comparing with his hands. "It can only hang down to about the top of my head."

The little girl Zhichun was right in front of Yang Qiuchi, she was half a head shorter than Yang Qiuchi, inadvertently, Yang Qiuchi noticed several scars on the back of Zhichun's neck, they were very light, and judging from the color, they were old scars.Yang Qiuchi sighed in his heart, this is a poor little maid, she must have suffered a lot of beatings, thinking of this, his heart moved slightly, and he thought of something else.

Zhichun stood there waiting for a while, but didn't hear Yang Qiuchi's question, felt a little strange, turned around to look at Yang Qiuchi, saw him staring blankly at his neck, blushed, and lowered his head.

Yang Qiuchi didn't notice his gaffe, until Song Yuner poked him: "Hey! What are you looking at?"

Only then did Yang Qiuchi come back to his senses, smiled concealedly, raised his head to estimate the distance from the beam to the top of Zhichun's head, and came to a conclusion: use such a long white silk to tie one end of the neck of the corpse lying on the ground, and the other end You can't reach the beam, let alone bypass the beam, so your original guess cannot be established.

From this point of view, the murderer tied the white silk first, and then carried the corpse up and hung it in the noose.Yang Qiuchi asked the servant girl Zhichun: "How high was her feet off the ground?"

Zhichun gestured with both hands, feeling that it was difficult to explain, and saw the low stool in the wing room, ran over to take the stool and put it away, looked at it, and said, "It's almost as tall as this stool."

From this point of view, the murderer should have hugged the corpse and stepped on a low stool to hang it up.

After the coffin was opened for an autopsy, Yang Qiuchi had a general impression of Guo's figure. Guo belonged to that kind of petite girl from the south of the Yangtze River. She must weigh less than [-] kilograms. This short stool is relatively wide, a bit like a piano player. The kind of low square stool that the murderer was sitting on was easier to maintain balance while holding Guo's body on it.

Since the murderer probably stepped on the low stool and hung the body into the noose, would there be shoe prints on the low stool?Yang Qiuchi carefully inspected the low stool, although it was covered with a layer of dust and some of his own blood, but Yang Qiuchi still hoped to find something.

Yang Qiuchi tried to blow off the dust on it and find out the footprints left over two years ago, but he had no choice but to think that two years was too long, and the dust was layered on top of each other, forming a thick layer on the low stool. The dust can be removed by adding saponin powder with clean water and brushing with a brush.However, the dust was removed, and the footprints on it were finished.

After the general survey of the site is completed, the next step is to start the investigation and visit.Yang Qiuchi asked the servant girl Zhichun to wait downstairs, and then discussed with Song Tongzhi how to solve the case.

Mrs. Guo was hanged in a room with a locked door, and there were only the nanny and the newly born Shan'er in the room, and the other person was the maid Zhichun.Shan'er is only three years old, so he can't be the murderer. Therefore, there are only two major suspects in this case, the nanny Lu and the little girl Zhichun. Of course, other people in the Yang family compound cannot rule out the suspicion of cooperating with outsiders.

It was discovered that Guo's hanged herself was Zhichun, a little girl. There were too many thieves shouting to catch thieves, so Yang Qiuchi and Song Tongzhi decided to interrogate Zhichun first.The interrogation took place in the small attic.Since it was the Ming Dynasty and Song Tongzhi was there, the trial was simply held.

The temporary lobby was set up in the living room of the haunted small attic. The tables and chairs were removed, and a long book table was placed in the middle. Song Tongzhi sat in the middle, and Yang Qiuchi took a stool and sat beside him as a temporary master of punishment.Song Yun'er wanted to stand aside to hear the trial, but Song Tongzhi and Yang Qiuchi had nothing to do with him.Let her sit next to Yang Qiuchi and stop talking nonsense.

Song Tongzhi and Yang Qiuchi came to his hometown to celebrate the New Year this time, and they only brought a few maids and servants with them, not Zaoli, so Yang Qiuchi asked Nan Gongxiong to bring three guards to act as Zaoli, each with a water and fire stick. standing.

After calling the little girl Zhichun in, the little girl saw that Yang Qiuchi and Song Tongzhi were completely different from just now, as if they had changed. She had never entered the Yamen lobby, although it was temporary, and it was far less majestic than the Yamen lobby. Yes, but after all, it was the first time I encountered such a thing, and my face turned pale with fright.Kneeling on the ground with a bang, I don't know what to say.

Maid Zhichun is only fourteen or fifteen years old, and her body is thin and petite. Under normal circumstances, her physical strength is unlikely to complete such a heavy physical work as strangling an adult to death. How much, and at that time, Mrs. Guo was already lethargic, and his mind was confused.That way, it doesn't take much effort to pull it up.
Jian Zhichun was very scared, which was not what Yang Qiuchi wanted.When people are nervous or afraid, they will forget or miss something.Yang Qiuchi comforted her first, and asked Song Yuner to pour her a glass of water, and chatted with her a bit, gradually, Zhichun calmed down.

Although Song Tongzhi was sitting in the middle of the lobby, Yang Qiuchi was in charge of the specific interrogation, and Song Tongzhi didn't interrupt indiscriminately so as not to disturb his train of thought.

Yang Qiuchi first asked Zhichun to carefully recall the process of discovering that the third aunt Guo Shi had been hanged.

Zhichun said: "I remember very clearly that the day San Yiniang hanged herself was March [-]th. That afternoon, San Yiniang went crazy for some reason, and was dragged back to the small attic. She was very excited all the time, took off her clothes and walked around in the small attic. Let's go. The nanny Lu and I forcibly pulled her back, closed the door, gave her water, and kept arguing until midnight before lying on the bed and falling asleep slowly. The nanny has to take care of the young master, so I have been alone Hold on to Guo Shi until she falls asleep."

Yang Qiuchi interrupted and asked, "Where is Mrs. Yang? Why didn't he come to see Aunt Guo?"

"The third aunt was a nymphomaniac. The old man was very angry and called her immoral, so he didn't come to see her. Later, after Aunt Guo died, the old man cried and regretted it, saying that if the old man came that night, the third aunt would not have hanged herself. "

Speaking of this, Yang Qiuchi asked curiously: "Do you know about the old man encountering a ghost?"

"I know, it was the second night after the third aunt died. The old man said that she missed the third aunt and wanted to sleep in the third aunt's room for another night. He hoped that the third aunt could entrust him with a dream. After sleeping late at night, the old man suddenly yelled. , Said that seeing Third Auntie standing beside his bed looking at him and laughing scared the old man. Since the small attic is haunted, we all moved out of the small attic from that day on. The small attic was locked.”

Yang Qiuchi thought for a while and asked, "When the old man said he saw a ghost, did you see it?"

"No, my nanny and I heard the old man yelling in the third aunt's room, so we got up and ran over, only to see the old man Yang sitting on the ground, pale with fright, pointing to the front, saying that the third aunt There. But me and the nurse didn't see anything."

Yang Qiuchi nodded as if realizing something: "You continue with what you said just now, what happened after Aunt Guo fell asleep?"

"After Third Aunt fell asleep, I went back to my room to sleep."

"Where is your bedroom?"

Zhichun pointed to the wing next to the living room: "It's there. The nanny and the young master lived in the left wing, and the third aunt's bedroom was in the right wing. Before the third aunt had an accident, Mrs. Yang often came to live in it."

Yang Qiuchi understood now, the room where he tore off the window paper and saw a woman smiling at him, that is, the room where he went later and saw a black cat jumping out of the cradle, was Guo's bedroom.Could it be that the woman I saw was Guo Shi?Or is it Guo's ghost?

There are no ghosts in this world!Yang Qiuchi firmly believed, and signaled to Zhichun to let her continue.

Zhichun said: "After I went back to my room and went to sleep, I slept very soundly. I didn't get up to see Shan'er until the next morning when I was awakened by Shan'er's cry."

It's no wonder that the little girl is only fourteen or fifteen years old, and it's the time when she grows into a sleepy body, but Yang Qiuchi still asked casually: "Do you usually sleep so hard?"

"No," Zhichun shook her head with a blushing face, "I slept very lightly, because in the past, Third Auntie often needed toilet or water at night, and she also had to urinate for the young master. I just take off my coat and drink a lot of water before going to bed."

This little girl worked very hard, Yang Qiuchi sighed, then thought of something, and asked: "Then why did you sleep so hard that night?"

"I'm also very surprised. I saw the young master crying very hard on the small bed, but the nanny was still sound asleep. I shook her vigorously, and she woke up."

Yang Qiuchi and Song Tongzhi looked at each other, thinking in their hearts, if what Zhichun said was true, then it is very likely that both Zhichun and the nanny were given sedative medicine such as Mongolian sweat medicine.

Yang Qiuchi motioned for Zhichun to continue.

Zhichun said: "I woke up the nanny to take care of the young master, and then I wanted to help the third aunt to get up. As soon as I arrived at the door, I saw the third aunt hanged on the beam in the living room."

Speaking of this, Zhichun trembled slightly, as if she was still trembling from the panic at that time.

Yang Qiuchi asked: "Remember carefully, what time was it?"

"Around Mao, because I heard from Steward Pang and the others that they were having breakfast when they got the news. We usually have breakfast at Mao."

"You go on."

"I ran back to the room and told the nanny, and the nanny ran out to see, and screamed too. Then I opened the door and shouted in the corridor, and they all came, and then everyone..."

"Wait!" Yang Qiuchi interrupted Zhichun, "When you opened the door, did you notice that the door was locked?"

Zhichun nodded with certainty: "It's locked. I locked the door the night before. When I opened the door in the morning, the door was still locked."

"You don't remember wrongly in a panic, do you?"

"No, because the door not only needs to be bolted, but also needs to be supported by the top door bar. I remember very clearly that the top door bar was well supported. I threw it on the floor, and there was a bang, and I was startled. Because I was too anxious, and the latch was too tight, I couldn't pull it out, and the nurse ran over to help me pull it out, and then opened the door."

Zhichun said with such certainty that what she said did not seem to be false. You can check what the nanny said later to see if it can be confirmed.

Yang Qiuchi then asked: "Did Third Auntie say anything suspicious to you that night?"

Zhichun lowered her head and thought for a while, then shook her head: "No, after the third aunt was a nympho and was dragged back to the small attic by us, she didn't say anything, she just kept giggling and trying to take off her clothes. She didn't say anything until she fell asleep at night. What did you say?"

"How long have you been serving your third aunt?"

"When Third Aunt married into the Yang family, Mrs. Yang asked me to serve her."

"Then have you ever seen Third Aunt becoming a nympho before?"

Zhichun thought for a while before saying, "No, never."

"Tell me about how Third Aunt became a nympho."

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