Having said that, Murong Ci and Shen Zhiyan came to the gate of Li's house, but they saw that the gate was ajar and the seal was lifted.
They looked at each other, someone went in
Shen Zhiyan gently pushed open the door and went in, looking inside vigilantly.
Murong Ci walked in while gesturing, and saw a woman sneaking around in the room in the atrium.
The woman turned her back to them, and the light in the room was dim, so they couldn't see her face clearly.
They were about to look from the window ledge when they saw the woman come out
"ah"
The woman screamed in fright, her body shook, and she instinctively stepped back.
Shen Zhiyan and Murong Ci were startled by her scream, she looked up at the sky speechlessly, "What's your name?"
It turned out that this woman was Murong Shi, Princess Duanrou. Seeing who was coming, she walked out patting her chest, and said with lingering fear: "His Royal Highness, Mr. Shen, why are you? I was scared to death by you."
Murong Ci rolled his eyes, "I was scared to death by you. What do you call me when you're fine?"
"This is a haunted house. You came out suddenly without making a sound. I was shocked when I saw someone when I came out."
"Aren't you afraid of what the princess is doing here?" Shen Zhiyan asked with a frown.
"Of course I'm afraid, but I want to help you solve the case, so I came in with the courage to think so." Murong Shi smiled cheerfully, "Your Highness, are you also here to find clues?"
"You didn't destroy the scene environment, did you?" His handsome face turned into a bitter gourd.
"No, I'll take a look." She waved her hands again and again.
"Really not?" Murong Ci asked with a cold face.
"Your Highness, really not." Murong Shi shook her head firmly.
"Then what did you find?"
"I've only been here for a while, I didn't notice it" Murong Shi lowered her head and muttered guiltily, the more she spoke, the lower her voice.
"The scene of the murder is very hostile, the murderer may come, it's too risky for the princess to come here alone, the princess should go back." Shen Zhiyan persuaded earnestly.
"Aren't you and Your Highness coming? I'm in no danger. I won't go." She pursed her lips resolutely, with "unyielding" written all over her face.
"The murder scene is too dangerous. It's not where you should come. Go back." Murong Ci had a straight face, very displeased. "I'm here to handle the case, not to play. You will only hinder us here."
"I'm not here to play, how can I hinder you, can I help you?" Murong Shi muttered softly, not being able to hear clearly.
"Princess, you don't know anything about investigating cases. You may have destroyed the scene when you came here, and some clues have been destroyed by you, so we can't investigate." Let's go back."
"I was very careful, I didn't touch anything, let alone damage it"
"Which are important clues and which are irrelevant, you can't tell at all, how do you know there is no damage"
"Your Highness, just this time, let's not make an example, okay?" Murong Shi begged with a mournful face, her facial features all wrinkled together.
"This time, Ben Gong let you follow, but you are not allowed to bump into random things, you must obediently listen to Ben Gong, you know?" Murong Ci reluctantly compromised.
Murong Shi was excited and pleasantly surprised, clapping her hands and cheering: "That's great!"
Shen Zhiyan was quite speechless, "Princess, you can't make such a fuss about this murder scene."
She immediately calmed down and acted obediently, "Oh."
Murong Ci winked at him, asking him to look at her, then walked inside and began to investigate.
They focused on inspecting the living room of the master of the Li family. In the dormitory of the young lady of the Li family, Murong Ci suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said, "You know what is said, why don't we perform it."
"What do you mean by deduction?" Shen Zhiyan asked in confusion.
"That's how we imagined and speculated about the situation when Miss Li was killed."
"That's a good idea. Let's start now."
"It's great, I want to speculate together." Murong Shi excitedly said.
"Stand by and don't move. If necessary, I will ask you to help." Murong Ci said.
"Oh." Murong Shi pouted her lips in disappointment.
Shen Zhiyan pointed to a pool of dark red dried blood four feet in front of the bed, "At that time, Miss Li's body lay here, lying on her side."
Murong Ci nodded, "It was past four o'clock that night, she must have heard the noise in her sleep, and thought it was unusual, so she got up to see if there was a thief breaking in." She walked to the side where Miss Li's body lay, "The bedroom is very dark, there are no lights and candles, she can't see clearly, and she feels more and more scared. She walked here slowly, looked around, and suddenly, she saw a black shadow appearing in front of her eyes, she was so frightened that she screamed instinctively."
He continued: "Maybe she didn't have time to scream, and the murderer raised his sword and stabbed her in the heart."
She nodded in agreement, "She was killed by the murderer before she could see what the murderer looked like. Next, let's play it again."
Murong Shi listened to their reconstruction of the night when the crime happened, and was at the scene of the murder again, seeing such a big pool of dark red blood, thinking about it again, she couldn't help but feel dizzy.
Numb and swallow hard.
But seeing Murong Ci get out of bed, walking in small steps, looking at the dark dormitory with fear and vigilance, acting vividly, as if he was really in the dead of night, trembling with fear.
Suddenly, the murderer appeared.
Shen Zhiyan appeared like a ghost holding a long sword, like an eerie ghost from hell.
She was shaken all over, frightened out of her wits, her eyes were wide open, and she was about to shout, when the long sword stabbed over her chest and passed through her chest.
The sword was raised and lowered, swiftly and fiercely, without hesitation.
Then, he pulled it out violently.
She stared wide-eyed and watched the murderer slowly fall down, like a delicate flower in full bloom was broken by life and discarded in a pool of blood.
Blood gushed out like spring water, staining her moon-white pajamas red, and flowed all over the floor.
At the last moment before she died, she saw a pair of black boots leaving without a sound.
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Murong Shi clapped her hands and praised: "That's great Your Highness, your acting is so good that it's like a real murder case."
Murong Ci stood up, patted the dust off his body, "Zhiyan, do you think there's something wrong?"
Shen Zhiyan shook his head, stroked his chin and thought, "The murderer has to strike very quickly, as fast as an electric shock, in order to kill the deceased before the deceased screams."
She agreed, "The fat aunt only heard a scream, which means that only one of the forty members of the Li family has time to shout. With your martial arts, can you do it?"
"So ashamed, I can't do it."
"I will try it."
They switched identities, she acted as the murderer, when Shen Zhiyan saw her, she shot immediately.
As fast as a frightened bird, as fast as a ghost.
He only shouted when the tip of the sword touched his chest.
Murong Shi guessed: "The murderer's martial arts are very strong. Could it be that he bought the murder and killed all the Li family?"
Murong Ci's eyes were gloomy, if the murderer was highly skilled in martial arts, if the murderer was paid to kill, then it would be more difficult to solve the case.
After that, they inspected Li's house, but found no clues left by the murderer.
After coming out of the Li residence, she gave Shen Zhiyan a wink, he understood, and said to Murong Shi: "Princess, you go back first, Your Highness and I have to go to another place."
Just now after watching their interpretation of the murder case at the scene of the crime, Murong Shi felt more and more interesting to solve the case, and said coquettishly, "I want to go too."
"The princess just said that, it's not an example. Could it be that you forgot?"
"But"
"I still have important things to do, but it has nothing to do with the Li family's massacre." Murong Ci was very displeased.
Seeing that His Highness was angry, Murong Shi had no choice but to leave reluctantly.
They made sure she didn't follow secretly and went to Gao's house.
I had inquired about the address of the Gao family and the Wang family with those aunts before, and they decided to go to the Gao family, which is closer.
The residence of the Gao family was similar to that of the Li family, and the steward learned that they were officials of Dali Temple, so he quickly invited them in.
Mr. Gao is not there, only Mrs. Gao is there. She received them in the lobby, she was polite, kind, and well-bred, "My lords, but because of the tragedy of the Li family, sister Zhu's family is too miserable. They were wiped out overnight. How could such a thing happen? It's so tragic. "
As she spoke, she sighed sadly, her eyes turned red immediately, and tears swirled in her eyes.
It can be seen that her sad and sad mood is real, compared with Mrs. Zhu's hypocrisy, it is a world of difference.
"My condolences to Mrs. Gao, when was the last time you saw Mrs. Li?" Murong Ci asked lightly.
"I think it was half a month ago." Mrs. Gao wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with a silk handkerchief, and said sadly, "The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, and sister Zhu wants to make new clothes for her children. I went to the silk and satin shop to see the silk and satin, and then went to cut new clothes. After that day, I never saw it again. But a few days ago, Gouzi went to Li’s house and sent a Mid-Autumn Festival gift to Li’s house.”
"I heard that you and Mrs. Li are sisters in the boudoir. Mrs. Li wants to betroth the eldest daughter to your son."
"Yes. Although Sister Zhu and I are not biological sisters, the decades of sisterhood is closer than that of our own. Sister Zhu's eldest daughter is educated, talented, and beautiful. I like her very much. I always want her to be our Gao family. daughter-in-law. It’s just that Mr. Li disapproves, so the marriage has not been settled.”
"My son must be very sad that Miss Li has suffered such an accident." Shen Zhiyan said suddenly.
"That's natural. Quanzi really likes Miss Li. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, when we learned that Li's family had suffered such an accident, our family was very sad. We didn't have much dinner. Quanzi locked himself in the room and didn't eat or drink. No sleep, no one knocks on the door, no one persuades anyone, he only opened the door today, and lost a lot of weight." Mrs. Gao wiped her tears sadly, sniffing her nose.
He and Murong Ci glanced at each other, and the same question was circling in his mind: Since Mr. Gao likes Miss Li so much, why didn't he go to Dali Temple to see her for the last time
She asked again: "Is your son in the house?"
Mrs. Gao replied: "He ate some food, I asked him to go out to relax. I was worried that he would not think about it and do stupid things"