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Chapter 8 The Red Gate Inn (8) Landscape Organization

On the wall of the backrest of the chair, a landscape map was originally hanging upright. At this time, the landscape map had moved its position for no reason and moved to the left. On the exposed wall, a large space like the landscape map was exposed in front of Mo Chen and others.

Mo Chen reached out and touched the hidden space. A few gold bars and some paper were placed inside. Mo Chen took out the paper and looked at it carefully. He vaguely saw some handwriting, which said XX Money House, which turned out to be some silver notes.

"Is she here to steal money? Unfortunately, she was discovered by the owner and was brutally killed. She was hiding the body here?" Wang Lei analyzed.

Mo Chen touched the female corpse. The female corpse was dressed simply, although it was a little better than Sun Ma's coarse linen, judging from the feel of the material, it should be the identity of a maid.

"Even if she was here to steal something and was caught by the owner, the Qian family could choose to send an official or serve the family law, so there was no need to hide the body." Mo Chen said.

Wang Lei was surprised to say that the family law was "What a joke? It's not that there is no king law, how can we decide a person's life and death at will!"

"Did you forget what did the waiter say when he asked us?" Mo Chen continued, "I signed a contract with the owner, and I will be killed and cut. I will be given the emperor."

Zhang Zili added, "Even if the miserable family comes to ask for an explanation, they can only ask for some money to go back. If the officials and gentry collude, if the trouble continues, the miserable family will not get any benefits, so they can only give up."

Wang Lei still couldn't understand this era. How could human thoughts be so pathological? He sighed secretly and stopped making a sound. Zhang Zili asked, "What do you think of this, sir?"

"Since I know that there was a secret secret in the study, it must be the Qian family's work. Perhaps this girl had spyed on the owner's secrets and was silenced. For a while, the murderer could not place the body, so he had to hide it here for the time being." Mo Chen said.

"Sir, have guessed who the murderer is?" Zhang Zili suddenly felt energetic, Mo Chen hesitated a little, "Madam Qian! But it's just a guess, and it's not certain for the time being."

"Dear mother, why can't you get along with a little maid?" Zhang Zili said to himself.

Mo Chen touched the corpse, and speculated from the degree of stiffness of the corpse, the death time should not be long. However, when Mo Chen approached the corpse, he vaguely smelled some sour smell. Because there was no light, he could not see the condition on the skin of the corpse. However, from the smell, Mo Chen guessed that she should die before Sun's mother. The time could not be determined, so the candidate for the murderer naturally expanded a little. It could be what Mr. Qian said during his lifetime. After all, this is his study. If this maid was peeping into the secret when he was alive, he would kill people to silence the corpse and hide it. However, it was said that there was a monster that was missing. The incident started after the second concubine followed the master to commit suicide. Mo Chen felt that Mr. Qian was not very suspicious. As for the servants who had a dispute over the uneven distribution of spoils, there should be no need to deliberately hide the body in the master's study. After a long time, the body will smell smelly sooner or later. Isn't this waiting for the master's family to discover it? So compared with the above, Mo Chen felt that the mistress of the Qian family was more suspicious. The master had passed away. Generally, the servants had the will to come to the study to clean the rest of the time. No one would deliberately enter the study room, and the mistress was different. The Qian family was the final decision, and no one doubted where he wanted to go.

"What should I do with her?" Zhang Zili pushed down his glasses. Mo Chen thought for a while and said, "Restore to the original position so that the murderer would not find someone breaking in here."

Mo Chen and Zhang Zili worked together to lift the body back into the dark grid. Wang Lei hid far away. He was in the same room with a dead body, which made him feel unlucky, let alone asked him to touch the hard body. It was very easy to put the body back, but the landscape paintings blocking the front could not be moved back.

After carefully looking at the clues of landscape painting, Mo Chen saw that the back of the landscape painting was connected to a wall similar to a cabinet door. If you don’t look carefully, no one will notice the existence of this secret door. Mo Chen pulled the secret door a little harder and found that it seemed to be fixed in the wall. It seemed that the internal mechanism should be installed here, and the secret door could not be moved by external forces.

"What did you touch just now?" Mo Chen asked.

Wang Lei was originally playing with it on the desk without any intention, and was frightened by the sudden pop-up corpse, so he naturally didn't know what he remembered. He recalled in vainly, "It seems that I have touched these pens, ink, paper and inkstones."

Mo Chen stared at the furnishings on the desk and looked carefully. The inkstone seemed to be fixed on the table and could not be moved. Mo Chen tried to twist the inkstone in place. Zhang Zili stared at the inkstone widened his eyes, waiting to see the inkstone twist, the mechanism of the secret door would be triggered. Mo Chen sighed and let go of the inkstone. It seemed that it was simply fixed, not the secret door mechanism he guessed. Zhang Zili was also a little disappointed.

Zhang Zili learned from Mo Chen's appearance and moved the things on the desktop one by one, but they were all things in the study, so there was no mysterious mechanism.

Mo Chen squatted down, crawled under the desk, and gently tapped his hand under the table. On the inside of the legs of the table outside, Mo Chen touched the small wooden block that seemed to be supporting, and swayed slightly as Mo Chen's fingers exerted force. Mo Chen felt in his heart, and he crawled out of the corresponding corner of the table from under the table in confusion. On the table was a fixed pen holder.

"Where is the brush you took out to play with?" Mo Chen asked.

Wang Lei pulled out the brush from his pocket and handed it to Mo Chen, and said embarrassedly, "Here's here!" He was afraid that Mo Chen would misunderstand, so he quickly explained that he was just afraid and put the brush in his pocket. It was not that he deliberately wanted to go the stroke order.

Mo Chen was not interested in whether he wanted to steal the brush. The tip of the brush was not stained with ink. Wang Lei was just playing tricks and didn't really want to draw words on paper. Mo Chen picked up the brush and drew in the palm of his hand. The originally soft mane tip was actually hard. Mo Chen inserted the brush back on the pen holder, and a faint sound was creaking. The secret door that fixed the landscape painting slowly closed, returning to the original appearance when they came in.

Mo Chen and the other two stayed in the study for a while, but there was no other gain except the list that recorded the Qian family.

"Let's go! Go to another room to have a look!" After Mo Chen said that, he gently closed the window they jumped into, and glanced at the room briefly. Fortunately, there was no change here because of their visit.

Zhang Zili took off his coat and threw it on the ground, asking Mo Chen and Wang Lei to stand at the door first, and took his coat and wiped the ground where they had just moved. Mo Chen praised, "I didn't expect that you were quite careful."

"Leave these footprints without checking whether someone has touched the book and found someone breaking in. Let's be careful!" Zhang Zili said.
Chapter completed!
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