The Queen of Qing Dynasty is beautiful and kind

Chapter 33 Clues
The cold fingertips chilled Su Peisheng's heart.

He had long guessed in this regard, but there was no substantive evidence.

"Look, Eunuch Su."

Gu Qinghuan pulled Lasu Peisheng's arm, pointed to a little shallow mark on the mouth of the well, and said, "The mark here looks like the mark of Xiuying's struggle when she fell into the well?"

"The traces here are too vague and messy."

Su Peisheng came over and glanced at it, and said, "I've seen this before. There are too many traces around here, and these frictions may not necessarily be caused by struggling."

Gu Qinghuan took a closer look, and sure enough, he found many old and new traces.

Look, there are some marks that look like a bucket has been scratched on it.

Speaking of nail prints...

There are also two shallow openings.

"En." Gu Qinghuan nodded, knowing that she couldn't judge anything based on these.So I put away the bracelet first, and then looked around.

Around the ancient well, the snow was relatively clean.

The ground is not slippery, but it can be seen at a glance, and nothing can be seen.

Gu Qinghuan stretched his neck and looked inside, it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything.

"Eunuch Su."

Gu Qinghuan hesitated for a moment, then looked at Su Peisheng who was beside him, and asked, "Have you... sent someone down to look at it?"

Su Peisheng glanced at Gu Qinghuan.His eyes moved slightly, and he said, "Never."

At the same time, a bad premonition emerged in Su Peisheng's heart.

"... "

Gu Qinghuan immediately looked at Su Peisheng with some resentment.

Sure enough, as smart as Su Peisheng, he immediately understood what Gu Qinghuan meant.

"This..." Su Peisheng resisted the urge to vomit, and ordered someone to go down and have a look.

By this time, the sky had begun to get dark.

Gu Qinghuan stood beside the ancient well with a lantern in his hand, and quietly rubbed his hands.

After nightfall, it gets colder here.

Su Peisheng was directing the people who entered the water to look around, and they were busy in an orderly manner.

In a place a little further away, there seemed to be some little maids quietly running over to watch the excitement.

"What are you watching? Do you think you have less work? Catch me a spectator, and you are not allowed to sleep tonight! Hurry up and leave!"

The nanny in charge of the Clothes Bureau held a thick wooden stick for patting clothes in her hand, and waved it at the maids.

The maids shrank back in fright, and hurriedly retreated.

Under the well, the sound of splashing and tumbling in the water was heard continuously.

As time got longer and longer, Lu Qinghuan's heart sank a little.After a while, he walked to Su Peisheng who was also stretching his neck and looking forward.

"It's the twelfth lunar month, or..."

Before the words fell, the man at the bottom of the well suddenly heard a voice, saying: "I found something..."

"Quick, quickly pull people up!"

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Su Peisheng rushed to the edge of the well, and also helped pull the rope, pulling the little eunuch who had entered the water up.

After a while, a drenched little eunuch crawled out of the well.

His face was bruised and purple from the cold, and he was still shivering uncontrollably.His lips were also trembling, obviously it was extremely cold under the well.

"it is this…"

Tremblingly, the little eunuch took out an object that was tightly clenched in his hand, handed it to Su Peisheng, and said tremblingly, "Eunuch Su... remember to promise me... a tael of silver!"

"What time is it, and I'm still thinking about money!"

Su Peisheng spoke angrily, first took the things from his hands, and then instructed the people behind him, "Take him back quickly, change into clean clothes, and drink a few bowls of thick ginger soup."

The little eunuch grinned slightly, and was about to leave under the support of others.

"Take it."

Gu Qinghuan stuffed the half-warm Mrs. Tang in his hands to him, and said, "Hurry up and go back."

Life is not easy, and he is going out of his way to help them.

"Thank you." The little eunuch trembled his lips and before he could finish, he was dragged away.

Under the hazy twilight, Su Peisheng took the things that the little eunuch had stuffed into his hands just now.

Looking at the little round one, it looks familiar.

"This…"

Gu Qinghuan took a closer look, and immediately recognized it, saying: "It looks like a button."

A very ordinary button is the button on the clothes worn by ordinary eunuchs.

"There are still some thread ends at the button joint."

Su Peisheng pointed and said: "Looking at the way the thread ends are disconnected, it doesn't look like the button loosened and fell off naturally, but it seems... torn apart."

"And... the button looks relatively new, maybe it really fell off in the past few days."

Gu Qinghuan nodded silently, already had a guess.

Judging from the blood on the ground and the button, perhaps Xiuying was dragged by a young eunuch and thrown into the well.

At that time, Xiuying should have been conscious, and when she was struggling, she tore off the buttons of the little eunuch's winter coat.Together, they fell into the water.

"correct."

Gu Qinghuan seemed to have thought of something, and quickly asked, "Did you do an autopsy on sister Xiuying that day?"

"No." Su Peisheng said: "I just looked at it briefly, and then sent Xiuying's body... back to her home."

"We neglected to..."

Gu Qinghuan lowered his head, and said: "I heard people say that if the deceased had struggled before death, generally speaking, there will be some residual traces in the nails."

"Maybe it's dirt, or maybe it's some hair or something. And..."

"And what?"

Su Peisheng's heart was in his throat, wishing that Lu Qing could finish his speech cheerfully.Panting so heavily, he was really curious to death.

"And if there is some struggle, maybe it will leave marks on the murderer."

When Gu Qinghuan was young, he watched the Record of Cleansing Injustices.

At that time, there was an episode where some traces remained under the dead man's nails.Based on this, Song Ci gradually investigated and found the murderer.

"But you're just speculating."

Su Peisheng frowned, and said: "There are so many eunuchs in the palace, if you want to find them, it may be more difficult than climbing to the sky."

Could it be possible to gather all the eunuchs in the palace and check them one by one for any scars?

"It's okay."

However, Gu Qinghuan smiled mysteriously, holding the button in his hand, and said: "This is enough for us. There is a trick called leading the snake out of the hole. I wonder if Eunuch Su has heard of it?"

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