Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 24 The Truth
Huiguang first silently recited a rebirth mantra to the corpse, and then began to take out a piece of frozen entrails from the corpse, and put it in his hand for careful observation.

Watching Huiguang carefully observe the internal organs, Di Qingxiu frowned slightly, almost vomited, and hurriedly left the firewood room.

Li Canghai couldn't help with biological research, so he simply stood in front of the corpse and observed the head of the corpse.

He has always had a doubt, which is the real cause of death of the deceased.

Mysterious ice Gu worms are very rare after all, he didn't believe that a servant would have such a rare thing, so the real cause of death might still be on the deceased.

There were no wounds on the deceased, which he and Zuo had checked.

For a long time, Li Canghai was at a loss as to how the deceased died. It wasn't until he heard that an inch-head nail that was originally used to repair the house beam was lost, which reminded him of some strange killing methods.

Before doing this, Li Canghai had re-examined the corpse and found a bloodstain the size of a fingernail on the skull of the corpse, which allowed him to confirm the real cause of death of the deceased.

While thinking, Huiguang has checked the Gu worms.

He washed his hands, chanted the Buddha's name and said: "Benefactor, this little monk has identified that this insect is indeed a 'Xuanbing Gu'. This kind of Gu grows in the extremely cold places in the north and has always used dead bodies as hosts. But according to As far as I know, there is no such Gu worm in the Central Plains."

Li Canghai's eyes lit up, and he said in surprise, "The master said that the Gu worm entered his body after his death?"

"Although this kind of Gu insect can penetrate the skin of a living person, it cannot penetrate the skin of a dead person. They use the skin as a barrier to insulate the temperature, so that they can survive inside the corpse. There is no trace of Gu insect penetration on the body of the deceased, Yi Xiaoseng In my opinion, these things probably entered the abdomen of the corpse from the mouth." Huiguang recited the Buddha's name in a low voice.

"With Master's words, I feel at ease." Li Canghai breathed out, Huiguang's words reassured him, and also explained from the side that the real cause of death of the deceased was not caused by Gu insects.

At this time, nearly an hour had passed, and Li Canghai felt that the time was almost up, so he greeted everyone again.

"Tianzun, one hour has passed now, where is the evidence you said?" Li Er seemed to feel that Li Canghai was delaying time deliberately, and there was no real evidence, so he gradually became more courageous.

Li Canghai sneered at him a few times, and said indifferently: "The evidence is on the corpse."

He lifted the straw mat, tore off the clothes covering the corpse's head, and then shaved off the hair on the head with a razor.

At this time, everyone found that there was a piece of blood in the middle of the corpse's head.

Li Canghai released blood with a knife, and a wound as thick as a finger appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Then, something that terrified everyone happened.

Li Canghai used tweezers to pick up an iron nail from the wound, an iron nail more than three inches long and as long as a finger!

Everyone gasped, even Liang Xiu, who had been calm all the time, showed shock on his face and his mouth grew wide.

"Using red-hot iron nails to nail into the cranial cavity, this kind of burning nails will not see the wound, and will not bleed. It is a very clever method of killing."

Holding the iron nail between his arms, Li Canghai said coldly, "If I hadn't inspected the corpse many times, perhaps no one would ever know the real cause of death of the deceased."

Everyone was shocked on the spot by such a cruel method, and Li Er's courage that he had forcibly built up before was also sluggish at this time.

Li Canghai shook the iron nail in front of Li Er, and said, "Do you still want to deny it? It takes a fire to burn a red iron nail. Just ask who has been to the kitchen and used the stove recently, and you can confirm the evidence."

After a pause, he said, "After you killed someone with a red-hot iron nail, you moved the body into the ice room, didn't you?"

Li Er's mentality was constantly attacked by Li Canghai's words. After Li Canghai finished speaking, the defense line in his heart suddenly collapsed, and he fell to his knees on the ground with a plop.

"I'll do it, I'll do it all. I pretended to be Mr. Di, and I killed him too. I was just delusional and deluded by lard, so I did such a thing." Li Er knelt on the ground and wept uncontrollably.

"Recruit everything you do!" Li Canghai sternly shouted, flicking his sleeves.

"He is the master's new servant. He came to Di's mansion about a month ago. The two of us share a room, and our relationship is not rough on weekdays. Until that night, the master said that he saw Di Gongyinghun , Since then, I have discovered that he often wanders around the clan hall in the middle of the night."

Li Er was dripping with cold sweat, he was already on the verge of collapse, how could he dare to hide anything.

"One night, I discovered that he was planning to steal something from the clan hall. I discovered his secret while he was asleep. It turned out that what he stole was actually the three imperial edicts."

Hearing this, Li Canghai frowned slightly, "You mean, he actually stole the three imperial edicts?"

"Exactly. I didn't pay attention at first, but later I discovered that there is a secret hidden in the three imperial edicts."

"Secret? What secret?" Li Canghai asked hastily, and his intuition told him that this secret must not be simple.

Li Er hesitated, and after a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "One of the imperial decrees recorded a treasure in invisible characters!"

When this statement came out, everyone was in an uproar.

"What treasure?" Liang Xiu asked hastily, his heart tensed.

Li Er shook his head and said: "The little one doesn't know what the treasure is, but only knows that the above said that if you get the treasure, you can own the world. The little one was greedy for a while, so he nailed him with a red-hot iron nail while he was asleep. died, and put it in the ice room."

Li Canghai and Liang Xiu glanced at each other, then calmed down and asked Li Er to continue.

"In order to continue searching for the treasure, I thought of Di Gong's apparition, so I decided to pretend to be Di Gong. First, to create panic so that everyone can't take care of the lack of a servant, and second, so I can go to the clan hall to find related objects with peace of mind. Plus I made some accidents from time to time, making everyone think that it was Di Gongying's spirit, so no one paid attention to the existence of the newcomer."

Li Er paused, his breathing became short of breath, and he continued: "Until last night, the mage said that he was going to catch ghosts. In order to make everyone believe that it was the heroic soul, I performed a scene with others. It is indeed as Tianzun said, After I jumped out of the window, I didn't leave, but went back to the clan hall and hid."

"I would like to ask you, since he has been dead for some time, why did 'I' see him before hunting ghosts?" Li Canghai frowned. He mistakenly thought that the deceased had just died at that time.

Li Er took out two masks from his pocket and said, "Because the mage is a newcomer, in order not to make the mage suspicious, I put on his human skin mask."

(End of this chapter)