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Chapter 70 Confused (8)
In the Buddha Hall of the Liu Family, Zhuo Yun lit a candle, squatted aside, and carefully observed the scene of the first crime.

In front of the Buddhist hall are the spirit tablets of the ancestors of the Liu family. There is a futon under the spirit tablet. The futon is obviously used by Mrs. Liu to kneel and chant sutras.However, Zhuo Yun found it strange that there was a pool of water around the futon, and beside the water was a hemp rope that was neither thick nor thin.

Zhuo Yun turned his head and looked around again, the surrounding ground was very dry, only the futon was surrounded by water.He has read many files, and he has also seen many cases that were originally judged to be suicides and found out to be homicides after slow investigation. This Mrs. Liu seems to have died for her husband, but he asked the servants of Liu's mansion during the day After a while, although the Lius and his wife had a good relationship, Mrs. Liu loved her youngest son even more, and it was impossible for her to abandon her son and go with her husband.

Besides, the second young master of the Liu family is still lying on the bed sickly.

Unless there are two possibilities, the first one is that Mrs. Liu was killed by Mrs. Liu, and Mrs. Liu committed suicide in fear of crime.The second is that Mrs. Liu was murdered by others, and the murderer deliberately created the illusion that Mrs. Liu died for her husband.

Just as he was thinking, there was a knock at the door, Zhuo Yun was startled, and the hand holding the saber around his waist tightened a bit.Seeing that it was Jiang Rong and Xu Shaoqing who came, he relaxed his guard.

"Brother Zhuo, what's the matter with your investigation? Is there something wrong with it?" Jiang Rong was very concerned about the situation of the case, and went straight to the point. Seeing Zhuo Yun holding a hemp rope that was neither thick nor thin, Jiang Rong raised his thick eyebrows, " What's wrong with this rope? Brother suspects that Mrs. Liu did not commit suicide?"

Xu Shaoqing glanced back and forth, then grabbed the hemp rope, took a closer look, suddenly his eyes lit up, and said: "I understand!"

"What do you understand?" Zhuo Yun and Jiang Rong blurted out at the same time.

Xu Shaoqing straightened his chest, with a serious face, imitating Zhuo Yun's usual way of deducing cases, and said in a deep voice: "Perhaps this Mrs. Liu originally wanted to hang herself, but she was afraid of becoming a hanged ghost, so she temporarily changed her way of dying more happily. , so he stretched out his hand and stabbed himself!"

Xu Shaoqing felt that his reasoning was very reasonable, but Zhuo Yun on the other side shook his head repeatedly. He grabbed the rope from Xu Shaoqing's hand and asked him: "If you say that this rope can hang a cat or a dog, how can I?" I still believe that if you hang a normal person, how do you hang it? Hang one and let me see!"

"Brother Zhuo, what do you think?" Xu Shaoqing has always admired Zhuo Yun, thinking that he is much better than that stupid Lu County Magistrate, thinking that Lu County Magistrate should be sleeping with his concubine at this time , Xu Shaoqing felt angry, "Hmph, we are working hard here, tell him to be a bad old man and have fun! There is no way to live this life!"

"Shaoqing, you still can't change your temper, you are so impetuous, how do you investigate the case?" Zhuo Yun turned cold, his seriousness was terrifying, Xu Shaoqing didn't dare to say a word anymore, just like a puppy, Shrinking his head and squatting aside.

"Jiang Rong, Shao Qing, the Liu Mansion is not an ordinary small household, we can't stay for too long, you go back to the yamen first." Zhuo Yun issued an order.

"Brother Zhuo, where are you going?" Xu Shaoqing didn't want to go back, he still wanted to find that girl, Yao Shanbao, "How about this, Brother Zhuo, you go and go, Jiang Rong, go back to the yamen first. As for me... ..." Xu Shaoqing paused, his eyes flicked around, and he said, "I'll look for Miss Yao." Then he ran away.

"Shao Qing!" Zhuo Yun roared in a low voice, but it was useless, Xu Shao ran away early in the morning.

Zhuo Yun turned his head to look at Jiang Rong, and ordered with a sullen face, "Follow him, and don't let him get into trouble! If Liu Xiangsheng knows that we visit Liu's mansion at night, I'm afraid he won't be able to tell."

"Yes, Brother Zhuo." Jiang Rong nodded and said, "I'll go find him."

"Catch him up and take him back!" Zhuo Yun had already stood up with his hands behind his back, "Don't let him mess around! If he refuses, just knock him out and drag him back!"

"Yes, I know." Jiang Rong also admired Zhuo Yun, and he obeyed him.

After Jiang Rong also left, Zhuo Yun lowered his eyes and thought for a while, left the Buddhist hall, and went to Mrs. Liu's room alone.

In Mrs. Liu's room, a light was still slightly on, and there seemed to be two figures flickering inside.Zhuo Yun moved his body to one side and hid himself in the darkness, then he listened again.It seems to be two servant girls in Liu's mansion, they are tidying up Mrs. Liu's room.

The two maids were Ziju and Baimei, Mrs. Liu's personal maids. When Mrs. Liu was chanting scriptures in the Buddhist hall, Ziju and Baimei were waiting outside the door.

Ziju sniffed, choked and said, "Madam treats us so well on weekdays, and Madam has such a kind heart, why is she so unlucky? Baimei, I don't believe Madam committed suicide. Well, even if the master goes, the madam will not be willing to part with the second master."

"Who says it's not." Bai Mei also looked sad, cleared the desk, and replied, "But Zuo has already examined the body of Madam, and it was determined to be suicide. Besides, when Madam had an accident, we were outside the door. Moreover, the doors and windows are tightly closed, so the murderer cannot be invisible, right?"

Ziju reached out and wiped her face with a handkerchief: "You're right, maybe Madam misses the master so much that she doesn't care about the second master, so she left with the master. Baimei, pack up quickly, Find all the Buddhist scriptures copied by Madam on weekdays, and tomorrow we will burn them for Madam."

Baimei sorted out a tall stack of papers, put them on the desk, turned her head and said to Ziju, "I've found them all, let's put them here first, it's getting late, let's go to rest first."

The two turned off the lights, opened the door and went out, Zhuo Yun reappeared.He pushed the door open and entered, and went into Mrs. Liu's room to check.

This Mrs. Liu seems to love Buddha very much, the desk in the room is full of Buddhist scriptures.

In the corner of the desk, there was a stack of papers stacked high, which Ziju and Baimei, the servant girls of Liu's mansion, found out just now.It seems that Mrs. Liu is usually just hiding in her room and copying Buddhist scriptures.Paper, ink, brushes and inkstones are all available on the desk, the ink in the inkstone is not dry yet, and ink is still stained on the Zihao pen.

It's just that there's always something weird about it.Zhuo Yun froze in front of the desk, always feeling that there was something wrong with this layout, but he couldn't find out what was wrong for a while.

Zhuo Yun was meditating in the room, but countless torches were lit outside, and there seemed to be the sound of servants running.He hurried to the door and listened with his ears, and sure enough, he heard a family member say: "Go quickly, there are two thieves coming to the house, I don't know if they have stolen anything, you go over there and check!"

really!Zhuo Yun cursed secretly, and hurriedly pushed the door open when no one was paying attention.But it was just hiding in the dark, and followed everyone in the Liu Mansion towards the direction of the thieves.

Holding up torches, Liu's family member Ding and his party finally chased to the West Wing Courtyard, and stopped outside the West Wing Courtyard.Just about to go in and search, but was stopped by Xirui.

(End of this chapter)