"Did you get scratched on your left arm? What's the matter?" Murong Ci asked coldly.
"This..." Feng Ying stammered, a little embarrassed.
"Say" Shen Zhiyan snapped.
"Caomin rested at home for a day, and Xiaohong next door sent some buns. It happened that the old mother was asleep, so Caomin forced himself to go out and talk to her." Feng Ying rolled up the sleeve of her left arm and showed it to everyone. Look, "Caomin saw that Xiaohong was neatly dressed that day, with red lips and white teeth, and he couldn't hold back for a moment, so he touched her twice. She got angry and grabbed Caomin's arm, which was Xiaohong's grab."
"What a coincidence," she asked suspiciously.
"There is nothing wrong with what Caomin said. If you don't believe me, you can ask Xiaohong." Feng Ying swore.
"I will send someone to check." Shen Zhiyan said in a deep voice.
"You have had diarrhea for two days, and you haven't been out of the house." Murong Ci asked again, thoughtfully.
"I didn't go out in those two days, and Caomin went to the hut several times a day, and I was so weak that I couldn't walk anymore." Feng Ying replied, "Later, there was nothing I could do. The old mother gave Caomin some medicine. Get better."
"I can't walk, but I still have the strength to look down on the girl." Shen Zhiyan sarcastically said.
Feng Ying touched her nose in embarrassment.
Murong Ci frowned slightly, "Take him down."
Shen Zhiyan frowned and pondered, "Is what he said believable?"
Gu Huai has been listening outside, and sent someone to find Xiaohong to check, and then walked in and said: "The following officer has many years of experience in handling cases, he should not lie."
She stared and said: "Feng Ying is indeed not a good person, he is cunning and cunning, but he did not lie."
Then, Feng Ying can rule out the suspicion.
Shen Zhiyan suddenly remembered an important matter, and said, "By the way, we found the murder weapon."
When he put a pack of "murder weapons" on the case, Gu Huai was taken aback, "There are so many murder weapons"
"These are the knives used in the kitchen, I think one of them should be the murder weapon." Murong Ci smiled lightly.
"This knife fits the wounds of the dead best." Shen Zhiyan picked up a knife and waved it in a serious manner.
"There is no blood on this knife, maybe the murderer has cleaned the murder weapon. Even if it matches the wound, it is difficult to prove that this knife is the murder weapon." Gu Huai said.
"I have my own way." Murong Ci pursed his lips and slipped a mysterious smile.
After a while, in the front yard of Dali Temple, there was a low and long table in the middle, with six extremely sharp knives on it.
The sky is bright and bright, the autumn is bright and beautiful, the bright sun shines down, the cold light and the sun shine together, dazzling.
Gu Huai was very puzzled and asked, "What is this?"
This question asked the doubts in the minds of the small officials and yamen servants in Dali Temple. What kind of medicine does His Royal Highness sell in the gourd
Shen Zhiyan put his arms around his chest, eagerly waiting for the result, as if he had guessed the mystery.
Murong Ci stood aside, waiting quietly.
Seeing that she didn't intend to answer, Gu Huai had no choice but to ask Shen Zhiyan quietly: "What is your Highness going to do? Put these six knives under the sun to let you know which one is the real murder weapon."
Shen Zhiyan smiled mysteriously, "The mystery will be revealed later."
Without an answer, Gu Huai shut up embarrassingly.
Those officials and yamen servants whispered, is His Highness the Crown Prince playing tricks or is he really talented
The waiting process was really boring, Shen Zhiyan ordered some cups of tea.
Murong Ci picked up the tea and drank it leisurely, watching the clouds roll and the clouds relax.
After finally waiting for nearly a cup of tea, suddenly, Gu Huai found some flies flying from nowhere, flying around above the knives, and two or three flies landed on one of the knives. What he hated most in his life were flies, and he personally stepped forward to drive them away.
"Master Gu, don't move." She hastily stopped her.
"What's the matter?" His outstretched hand froze in mid-air, "These flies are too annoying. There have always been no flies in Dali Temple. These flies must have come from somewhere else."
"Master Gu, don't underestimate these flies, maybe they can help us solve the case." She raised her eyebrows and smiled, her eyes sparkling.
"A few flies help us solve the case, is it true or not?" He was puzzled and murmured in his heart. The crown prince came to Dali Temple to make such a big battle just to ask a few flies to solve the case.
"Master Gu, I'll explain to you later when I get down from office." Shen Zhiyan walked over and squatted beside the long desk.
The golden and transparent sunlight shone on his jade-like skin, soft and thin like porcelain, as if it would break at the touch of a finger.
He stretched out his fingers: "One, two, three"
Gu Huai also came over, squatted beside him, staring at the knife without blinking, "Why do these flies only stay on that knife?"
Murong Ci walked over and stood on the other side of Shen Zhiyan, "These flies are either flying around that knife, or living on it, while the other knives are destroyed
The flies were left out in the cold. "
Gu Huai tilted his head, a little cute, "Yes, why?"
Shen Zhiyan raised his eyebrows and explained: "Flies like to go where the dirtiest and dirtiest place is the most. Another point is that flies like blood. Aren't the stalls selling fish and meat the most flies? Therefore, flies smelling blood is like bees smelling blood. The scent of flowers. This knife smells of blood, so all the flies land on this knife. Your Highness, am I right?"
She nodded, "Exactly."
Gu Huai was still puzzled, "But the blood on this knife has been cleaned so cleanly, these flies can still smell it"
"This murder weapon has killed so many people and been stained with so much blood. Even if it is washed clean, it will leave a bloody smell. Flies can naturally smell it." Murong Ci's delicate and jade-like face was slightly reddish by the sun, and was slender. The thick eyelash feathers outlined a small arc of crow blue color under the eyes, so delicate and charming under the sunlight.
"That's exactly the reason." Shen Zhiyan laughed.
"Where did you find this knife?" Gu Huai understood, but he couldn't help but wonder, how did His Royal Highness know about it
"Zhou's kitchen." Shen Zhi said.
The murder weapon was a knife in the kitchen. The murderer should have gone to the kitchen to get the knife to kill. The identity of the murderer is still unknown.
Murong Ci raised his eyebrows slightly, "The murderer went to the kitchen to get a knife to kill, then the murderer knew the Zhou family quite well, or the murderer was a member of the Zhou family."
He happened to think of this too, and nodded in agreement, "Except for Feng Ying and Luo Quan, it is very necessary to check the relatives and friends of the Zhou family."
She nodded, "After dinner, I will go to Mrs. Zhou's natal Liu's house to visit."
Shen Zhiyan immediately said: "Your Highness, I will go with you."
The Liu family is a wealthy businessman in the city. They have a tea house, several shops and hundreds of acres of fertile land, so the Liu residence is quite luxurious.
It was heard that officials from Dali Temple were visiting, and Mrs. Liu warmly received them.
Mr. Liu is not there, he went out to patrol the shop, only the female relatives are in the mansion.
Mrs. Liu, Mrs. Chen is a capable and courteous mistress, and said politely: "My lords, please have some tea. If there is anything I can do for you, your lords just ask."
"It's just a routine inquiry." Murong Ci smiled lightly, seeing Shen Zhiyan walking around in the hall, not knowing what he was looking at.
"Excuse me, my lord. I will know everything." Chen said.
"Do you know if the Zhou family has any enemies, such as any disputes with neighbors?"
"Although our Liu family has a lot of contacts with the Zhou family and the two families have a good relationship, I really didn't hear my sister-in-law, that is, Mrs. Zhou, say which family their family has had a grudge with." Chen said kindly, "Just As far as I know, my sister-in-law is good-natured, behaves generously, and won’t have any grudges with her neighbors. Her husband, Mr. Zhou, is a good old man with no temper, and obeys my sister-in-law. If it wasn’t for my sister-in-law to ask her mother-in-law to help her with money , Mr. Zhou still can’t be the head of the Ministry of Industry.”
Speaking of this, she suddenly realized that she said something she shouldn't have said, and she wanted to take it back but she couldn't take it back, so she hurriedly explained: "But the errand in the Ministry of Industry, the adults above already belong to him, he is hardworking, willing to bear the burden of hard work, Never make irresponsible remarks, so"
When Shen Zhiyan heard the words, she became interested, so she also came over to listen, which startled her, thinking that he was going to get to the bottom of this matter.
Murong Ci didn't take it seriously, and asked again: "Did the chief offend any high-ranking officials in the officialdom that week, or did he have any disputes with his colleagues in the Ministry of Industry?"
Mrs. Chen smiled, and said: "His temperament, if you put it nicely, he is honest, hard-working, hard-working, and if you put it badly, he is cowardly and useless. If others bully him, at most he will suffer a little bit of idleness, and he will die in his stomach." How can you offend a high official, let alone argue with others."
Shen Zhiyan didn't quite believe it, "It's true that there is no such thing as you don't know."
"My lord, I know everything about the Zhou family. My sister-in-law often comes back to gossip with me. Besides, Mr. Zhou and my husband often go to the teahouse to drink tea together. My husband will always tell me what he hears. "Chen said proudly.
"So, the Zhou family has no enemies in recent years?" Murong Ci asked solemnly and repeatedly.
"No." Chen replied affirmatively.
"In the early years, think about it carefully."
"Let me think about it." Chen thought seriously, "Oh, yes, there is one thing that has been going on for so many years, so it's unlikely."
"what's the matter"
"Before my sister-in-law married, Mr. Zhou's family had a maid who was a singer."
"Oh, let's hear it in detail." Shen Zhiyan was very interested. The legends of the geniuses and beauties are a bit glamorous, which can most arouse the curiosity of the general public.
Chen said with relish: "Before my sister-in-law married, the old lady ordered people to inquire, because the old lady only had such a daughter, so she was in pain, and she didn't want her only daughter to suffer any grievances. The ancestor who was in charge that week was an official. , It’s just that the family has fallen, and it’s not as good as our Liu’s in the past few decades. When Mr. Zhou was young, he was tall, handsome and suave. I met a few singers during my night tour, one of them was called Bingyu, who fell in love with Mr. Zhou, and the two fell in love with each other, so they fell in love with each other."