Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 443 Questioning Ling Ji
He looked at his sleeve, and there was a pool of dark blood on the sleeve, which was the blood stained when he wiped the seven orifices of the female corpse before.

After all, Conan is a master with experience in solving crimes. He looked at the blood stains and the seven orifices of the female corpse, and suddenly understood. He was surprised and said: "The princess died of poisoning! How could this happen?"

Li Canghai nodded, the seven orifices were bleeding, and the blood was dark, which was a sign of poisoning, and judging from the degree of blackening of the blood, it seemed to be extremely poisonous.

"Judging from the degree of stiffness of the corpse, the time of death should be between eight and twelve hours, that is, between last night and this morning. Didn't brother Conan see the princess during this period?" Li Canghai asked.

Conan was a little surprised, he said in surprise: "I didn't expect you to be proficient in autopsy? But then again, the princess really hasn't seen anyone since yesterday."

"It's not proficient, I just know a little bit." Li Canghai said casually. He thought for a while and said, "Brother Conan, why do you think the princess is poisoned?"

Conan frowned, and pondered: "The princess has been spoiled since she was a child, how could she come here alone? I think there must be something hidden in this poisoning incident."

Li Canghai did not speak. He touched his nose and said, "Brother Conan, if you want to know what happened, you must know how the princess was poisoned. In my opinion, it is better to carry the princess back to the shrine. This will avoid The princess died in the wilderness, and secondly, the cause of death of the princess can be found in the inquest."

Conan didn't have any objection to Li Canghai's proposal, and hurried to the forest to cut branches and make a stretcher.

Li Canghai also helped to get those vines so that they could be used to weave stretchers.

After walking a few steps, Li Canghai felt a little heavy on his feet, and subconsciously flicked his feet, and the wet mud sticking to the soles of his shoes was immediately thrown out by him.

Li Canghai suddenly thought of something, hurriedly threw the vines in his hand out, picked up the torch and looked on the ground with his waist bent.

This place is located near the swamp. Although there is not as much mud as in the swamp, the soil here is soft and it is easy to leave footprints when stepping on it.

Li Canghai started from the corpse and carefully looked for footprints on the ground, but the footprints on the ground were messy, and most of them were stepped on by him and Conan. It can be said that the first scene has been destroyed.

Li Canghai cursed secretly, he often said to Xiao Wu, Chang Feng and others that the first thing to do was to protect the scene when a corpse was found, but he made such a low-level mistake, it was simply unforgivable!
Although the footprints at the scene had been destroyed, Li Canghai did not give up. There is no fixed road here, and the place where the corpse is located can be reached from anywhere. That is to say, there may be traces of the deceased walking anywhere.After he selected eight directions, he immediately searched from the opposite direction of the corpse.

Sure enough, the hard work paid off, and he found a clear footprint on the muddy ground ten feet away from the corpse.

Li Canghai was overjoyed, hurriedly tore off a piece of cloth from his clothes, went to the campfire and took a charcoal-black firewood, squatted next to the footprints, and began to copy them carefully.

"Brother Li, what are you doing?" Conan had already chopped the branch, he came dragging the branch, and asked strangely when he saw Li Canghai squatting on the ground.

Li Canghai put away the cloth with footprints on it, and said, "It's nothing, I'll see if I find anything here."

"Brother Li, it's getting late, hurry up and help me bring the princess back to the shrine!" Conan didn't care, he said while tying the stretcher with vines.

Li Canghai nodded, then walked over to help Conan make a stretcher.

A quarter of an hour later, the two carried the body onto the stretcher. Li Canghai looked around again, and he and Conan carried the body back to the shrine.

When they returned to the shrine, it was already midnight, and the guards were a little surprised when they saw the two carrying a dead body back, but they didn't dare to ask after seeing Conan's extremely ugly face.

Carrying the corpse to the side yard where Wanyu was, Conan walked towards the shrine with a gloomy expression and angrily.

Li Canghai told the guards to take care of the corpse, and he hurriedly followed.

When he came to the shrine, the skinny guard was still sleeping soundly. Seeing this, Conan became more angry, and he just kicked the skinny guard.

"Ouch~." The skinny guard finally let out a cry of pain, but when he saw Conan who was furious, he yawned lazily.

"Nobi, where is the princess?" Conan grabbed the skinny guard by the collar and asked angrily.

"Princess...?" The thin guard's sleepy eyes seemed hazy, as if he hadn't woken up from a deep sleep. After a moment of stupor, he yawned and said, "Princess, it's inside!"

Conan pushed him violently, and said fiercely: "You'd better pray that the princess is inside, otherwise, even if you have ten heads, it's not enough to chop off!"

The thin guard seemed to be frightened by Conan's angry expression. He leaned against the wall and stared at Conan with sleepy eyes, his eyes full of confusion.

Conan walked to the door and knocked hard on the door: "Open the door! Open the door!"

Lingji's voice came from inside: "My lord, the princess has already rested, what's the matter, please come back tomorrow!"

"Stop talking nonsense! Open the door quickly!" Conan tried his best to control his emotions and shouted sharply.

After a while, there were footsteps in the room, and Ling Ji seemed to have come to the door, and said through the wooden door: "My lord, the princess has ordered that no one should disturb her when she is sleeping, my lord, please go back!"

Conan snorted coldly, and said, "Well, Ling Ji, you still dare to lie to me now? You said the princess is resting inside? Well, I'm going to offend you once today and see the princess with my own eyes!"

As he said that, Conan kicked on the wooden door suddenly, and kicked the wooden door open with a creak.

Ling Ji seemed to be taken aback. She looked at Conan and Li Canghai who entered the room in astonishment, and said in surprise, "My lord, you... how dare you trespass on the princess' residence?"

Conan grabbed Ling Ji's neck and said angrily in a low voice, "I ask you, where is the princess?"

Ling Ji's face turned pale. She seemed to have thought of something. Seeing that the matter was revealed, she suddenly burst into tears: "My lord, spare my life, my lord, spare my life! This servant did not mean to deceive you, all of this was arranged by the princess! The princess now Where, the slaves don't know, my lord!"

"Okay, I'll let you meet the princess!" Conan gritted his teeth, grabbed Ling Ji and walked to the side yard.

In the side yard, several guards lit torches, illuminating the entire yard.

Conan grabbed Ling Ji, came to the corpse, and yelled, "Look carefully, who is this?"

As he spoke, he took off the gauze covering the corpse's face.When Ling Ji saw the corpse, her face turned pale for a moment, and then she let out a miserable cry: "Princess! What's wrong with you, princess? What's wrong with you, princess?"

The guards were also stunned. They never expected that the corpse was the princess they wanted to protect. They all turned pale and fell to their knees at the same time.

(End of this chapter)