After asking Mr. Yang, I learned that Guo was crazy and hanged him. Everyone thought it was natural and no one suspected him, so he did not report to the official. Because he died evilly, he immediately went into the coffin to ask the wizard to do a ritual, so he did not carefully check the traces on his neck.

In addition, there is another very important reason, not only was the yard door of the small attic locked at that time, but the door of the room on the second floor of the small attic lock was also locked, and no signs of outsiders breaking into the room were found. The nurse and the maid did not hear any fighting. So there was no doubt that Guo was killed.

First, since it was confirmed that Guo was killed and within the jurisdiction of Ningguo Mansion, Song Tongzhi decided to investigate and find out the truth. However, how to investigate this case, Song Tongzhi still looked at Yang Qiuchi and asked him to help solve the case.

Yang Qiuchi was entrusted to solve the case again. He extracted the blood type material of hair from Guo's body, and then asked Yu Zuo to reinstall the body into the coffin and nail it, put it into the watery tomb pit, and buried it again.

Since the case is to be solved, my forensic evidence investigation box must be taken over. Besides, blood type identification must be made to determine whether Shan'er is the son of Mr. Yang. This thing is Yang Qiuchi's treasure. It was not worrying for outsiders to take him, so he gave Feng Xiaoxue the key to the large aluminum alloy cabinet, and asked her to take Xia Ping and five female guards back to get it for him, and sent five male guards to protect him.

Yang Qiuchi told Feng Xiaoxue that he just needs to bring the small box in the aluminum alloy cabinet. This small box is a forensic evidence survey box with a password lock on it. There is no need to worry about Feng Xiaoxue making a fuss when she discovers the things inside.

But Feng Xiaoxue was worried that Yang Qiuchi would meet another ghost at night and was unwilling to leave Yang Qiuchi. She comforted her for a long time. Finally, Song Yun'er said that he would accompany Yang Qiuchi to protect him in the evening. Feng Xiaoxue was relieved and then took the guards away after giving many instructions.

It took about two days for them to come and go. During this period, Yang Qiuchi had to conduct necessary investigations to find enough criminal clues.

Yang Qiuchi didn't expect to go back to his hometown to celebrate the New Year and worship his ancestors. When he encountered this incident, it seemed that if this case could not be solved as soon as possible, he would not be able to live this year.

Since the small attic was haunted and locked it and no one lived there, maybe some traces would be left behind, Yang Qiuchi decided to go to the small attic to investigate the murder scene two years ago, hoping that he would be lucky and find something.

After asking, I learned that the first thing I found out was that Guo was her close maid Zhichun, and the second was her nanny Lu. When the third concubine died, the doors and windows were locked. There were only maid Zhichun and nanny Lu in the room, so they were of course suspects. Yang Qiuchi ordered her to take care of her nanny Lu first, and then called her maid Zhichun and went to the small attic to investigate the scene with Song Tongzhi and Song Yuner.

After Guo was hanged in this small attic, except for Mr. Yang who lived for one night because he missed Guo, but was scared to death by seeing Guo standing by the bed and smiling at him, the small attic was completely closed, so the scene at that time was still roughly retained.

Yang Qiuchi first carefully inspected all the doors and windows and found that it was indeed the same as Zhichun said, and it was closed tightly and could not be opened without any effort.

I carefully checked the door again. After all, it was a wealthy family. The doors were well-made. The left and right doors could be bitten together and closed tightly, so they could not be opened with a knife. Moreover, the door not only had to be bolted, but also had to be pressed with a top door bar when sleeping at night.

Yang Qiuchi asked Zhichun to talk about the situation of the corpse hanging first. According to what Zhichun said, Guo should have been hanging on the ground while stepping on the short stool.

Yang Qiuchi judged that this short stool was about fifty centimeters. After the murderer strangled Guo, it would be very heavy and soft after death. Therefore, it was difficult to pick up the body and hang it in the rope cover on the beam. The best way is to put the rope cover around the neck of the corpse, go around the beam on the other end, and then pull the body up. If this is the case, there should be traces of rope friction on the beam. Pull the corpse weighing dozens of pounds. This mark must be more obvious and will not be erased by two years.

Yang Qiuchi found two high stools to stack them together, put them under the beam, stepped on them, and observed them. After wiping off a thick layer of dust on it, it was strange that the beam was fine, and there were no obvious friction marks on the neat edges.

It was strange. Did you have any problem with your own judgment? Yang Qiuchi thought about it and asked the maid Zhichun: "What rope did your third concubine hang it with?"

Zhichun said: "It's a white silk that goes around the beam, tied knots on both ends and hung them around your neck."

"How long is the white silk?"

Zhichun gestured for a moment, and Yang Qiuchi couldn't understand it, so he added, "Let's do this, you can gesture, the white silk goes around the beam and tie knots at both ends, has it hung to the ground?"

"No, only a small piece grew after the knot was tied," Zhichun stood under the beam and looked up and down, comparing with his hands, "It can only hang to the point above my head."

The little maid Zhichun was right in front of Yang Qiuchi's ground. She was half a head shorter than Yang Qiuchi. Inadvertently, Yang Qiuchi found a few scars on Zhichun's back neck, which were very light. Judging from the color, they were old scars. Yang Qiuchi sighed in his heart that this was a miserable little maid and must have been beaten a lot. Thinking of this, his heart moved slightly and thought of something else.

Zhichun stood there and waited for a while, but didn't hear Yang Qiuchi's question. She felt a little strange. She turned around and looked at Yang Qiuchi. Seeing that he was staring at his neck in a daze, his face turned red and his head was lowered.

Yang Qiuchi did not notice his incompetence until Song Yuner stabbed him: "Yu! What are you looking at?"

Yang Qiuchi then came to his senses, smiled concealedly, looked up and estimated the distance between the beam and Zhichun's head, and came to a conclusion: with such a long white silk, one end of the neck of the corpse lying on the ground, the other end could not reach the beam, let alone bypassing the beam, so his initial speculation could not be valid.

It seems that the murderer first tied up the white silk, then carried the body up and hung it in a rope tent. Yang Qiuchi asked the maid Zhichun: "How high was her legs hanging from the ground at that time?"

Zhichun gestured with his hands, feeling that it was not easy to explain, so he saw the short stool in the wing room at first sight. He ran over and took the stool and put it in, looked at it, and said, "It's almost as tall as this stool."

From this point of view, the murderer should have hugged the corpse and stepped on a low stool and hung the corpse on it.

After the coffin was opened and the autopsy was examined, Yang Qiuchi had a rough impression of Guo's figure. Guo was a petite and delicate little girl in Jiangnan. She weighed less than fifty kilograms. This short stool was relatively wide. It was a bit like a short square stool that a piano player sat on the ground. The murderer hugged Guo's body and hung it up. It was easier to maintain balance.

Since the murderer may have stepped on this short stool and hung the body into a rope cover, will he leave shoe prints on the short stool? Yang Qiuchi carefully checked the short stool with footsteps. Although it was covered with dust and some blood from his own body, Yang Qiuchi still hoped to find something.

Yang Qiuchi tried to blow off the dust on it and find the footprints left two years ago, but he had no choice but to find the footprints left two years ago. Two years were indeed too long, and the dust was layered one after another. A thick layer was condensed on the stool. It was estimated that it would take clean water and soap bean powder and brushed with a brush to remove the dust. However, if these dusts were removed, the footprints on it would be finished.

After roughly the investigation of the site, the investigation and visit began. Yang Qiuchi first asked his maid Zhichun to go downstairs and wait, and then discussed with Song Tongzhi how to solve the case.

Guo was hung in the locked room, and there was only the nurse and Di Shan'er who had just been born in the room. Another person was the maid Zhichun. Shan'er was only three years old and could not be the murderer. Therefore, there were only two major suspects in this case, namely the nurse, Lu and the little maid Zhichun. Of course, other people in the Yang family compound could not rule out the suspect of co-operation between inside and outside.

The first thing I found out was the little maid Zhichun who hung Guo. There were too many things to call for catching the thief, so Yang Qiuchi and Song Tongzhi decided to interrogate Zhichun first. The interrogation was held in the small attic. Since it was the Ming Dynasty and Song Tongzhi was there, the trial was just opened.

The temporary lobby is located in the living room of the haunted small attic. The tables and chairs were removed, and a long desk was placed in it. Song Tongzhi sat in the middle. Yang Qiuchi held a stool and sat aside as a temporary master of criminal justice. Song Yun'er was silly and wanted to be on the side of the trial. Song Tongzhi and Yang Qiuchi had no choice but to sit next to Yang Qiuchi and not be allowed to talk nonsense.

This time, Song Tongzhi came to his hometown to celebrate the New Year with Yang Qiuchi, and only brought a few maids and servants, but did not bring a detective Zao Li. So Yang Qiuchi asked Nangong Xiong to bring three guards as Zao Li, each with a water and fire stick and two stood on the side.

After calling the little maid Zhichun in, the little girl saw that Yang Qiuchi and Song Tongzhi were completely different from the previous one, as if they had changed. She had never entered the yamen lobby. Although this was a temporary place and was far inferior to the majesty of the yamen lobby, after all, the first time she encountered such a thing, she was so scared that her face turned pale. She knelt on the ground with a gurgle, not knowing what to say.

The maid Zhichun is only fourteen or fifteen years old, and she is thin and petite. Under normal circumstances, she is unlikely to complete a heavy physical job of strangling an adult to death. However, Guo herself is also relatively small and thin, not much better than Zhichun. Moreover, Guo was already sleepy at that time, and his mind was confused. In that case, it would be no trouble to strangle.

Seeing Zhichun was very scared, this was not what Yang Qiuchi wanted. When people were nervous or afraid, they would forget or miss something. Yang Qiuchi comforted her first, and asked Song Yuner to pour her a glass of water and chat with her. Gradually, Zhichun calmed down.

Although Song Tongzhi was sitting in the middle of the lobby, Yang Qiuchi was responsible for the specific interrogation, and Song Tongzhi did not interrupt, so as not to disrupt his thinking.

Yang Qiuchi first asked Zhichun to carefully recall the story of the third concubine Guo's hang.

Zhichun said, "I remember it very clearly that the third aunt was hanging on the 20th day of March. That afternoon, the third aunt was a slut, and after being pulled back to the small attic, she was very excited and took off her clothes and walked around in the small attic. My nanny and I forced her to pull her back, closed the door, and gave her water. We made a fuss until the third update at night before we lie on the bed and fell asleep slowly. The nanny wanted to take care of the young master, so I stayed with Guo until she fell asleep."

Yang Qiuchi interrupted and asked, "Where is Old Master Yang? Why didn't he come to see Aunt Guo?"

"The third aunt is crazy. The old lady is very angry and scolds her for being unfair, so she didn't see her. Later, after Aunt Guo died, the old lady cried and regretted it. She said that if the old lady came that night, the third aunt would not have been hanged."

Speaking of this, Yang Qiuchi asked curiously: "Do you know what the old man has encountered when he encounters a ghost?"

"I know, it was the night after the third aunt died. The old man said that she missed the third aunt. She wanted to sleep in the third aunt's room for another night, hoping that the third aunt could give him a dream. After sleeping until late at night, the old man suddenly shouted, saying that he saw the third aunt standing by his bed and smiling at him. He scared the old man. Because the small attic was haunted, we all moved out of the small attic from that day. This small attic was locked."

Yang Qiuchi thought for a while and asked, "Did you see it when the old man said he saw the ghost?"

"No, my nanny and I heard the old man yelling in the third concubine's room. We got up and ran over. We only saw Mr. Yang sitting on the ground, frightened to death. We pointed to the front and said that the third concubine was there. But my nanny and I didn't see anything."

Yang Qiuchi nodded as if he had some understanding: "You continued to say just now. What happened after Aunt Guo fell asleep?"

"After the third aunt fell asleep, I went back to the room to sleep."

"Where is your bedroom?"

Zhichun pointed to the wing room next to the living room: "It's there. The wing room on the left is where I live with my nanny and the young master, and the wing room on the right is the bedroom of the third aunt. Before the third aunt had something to do, Old Master Yang often came to live."

Yang Qiuchi now understood. He tore the window paper and saw a woman looking at the room where she smiled. That is, when he went in, he saw a black cat jumping out of the cradle. It was Guo’s bedroom. Could it be that the woman he saw was Guo? Or Guo’s ghost?

There are no ghosts in this world! Yang Qiuchi firmly believed it and signaled to Zhichun to let her continue.

Zhichun said, "After I went back to my room to sleep, I slept very hard. Until the next morning, I was awakened by the crying of Shan'er, and then I got up to see Shan'er."

It's no wonder that the little girl is only fourteen or fifteen years old, and she is just when she is sleeping soundly. However, Yang Qiuchi asked casually: "Do you sleep so hard on weekdays?"

"No," Zhichun shook her head with a red face, "I slept very lightly because the third aunt used to have convenience or drink water at night, and she also had to urinate the young master. In order to avoid sleeping too hard, I only took off my coat and drank a lot of water before going to bed."

This little girl was very hard-working. Yang Qiuchi sighed, and then thought of something and asked, "Then why did you sleep so hard that night?"

"I'm also very surprised. I saw the young master crying very hard on the bed, but the nurse still slept soundly. I shook her hard and she woke up."

Yang Qiuchi and Song Tongzhi looked at each other, thinking in their hearts that if Zhichun was saying the truth, then it is very likely that Zhichun and her nurse were both sweating drugs and other sedatives to calm the mind.

Yang Qiuchi signaled Zhichun to continue.

Zhichun said, "I woke up the nurse and took care of the young master, and then wanted to serve the third aunt and get up. As soon as I arrived at the door, I saw the third aunt hanging on the beam of the living room at a glance."

Speaking of this, Zhichun's whole body shivered slightly, as if she was still trembling at the horror at that time.

Yang Qiuchi asked, "Recalling carefully, what time was that time?"

"Around Mao hour, because later I heard from Butler Pang and others that they were having breakfast when they got the news. We usually eat breakfast at Mao hour."

"You continue talking."

"I ran back to the room to tell the nurse, and the nurse also ran out to see it, and screamed in fear. Later, I quickly opened the door and went to the corridor to yell, and they all came, and everyone..."

"Wait!" Yang Qiuchi interrupted Zhichun's words, "When you opened the door, you noticed that the door was bolted?"

Zhichun nodded with certainty: "It was bolted. The night before was the door I bolted. When I opened it in the morning, the door was bolted well."

"You won't remember it wrong in panic, do you?"

"No, because the door of the room not only needs to be bolted, but also needs to be pressed with the top door bar. I remember very clearly that the top door bar was well-pressed. After I took off the top door bar, I was anxious and couldn't put it down, so I threw it on the floor. There was a bang, which scared myself. Because I was too anxious and the door bar was too tight, I couldn't pull it off, so the nurse ran over to help me pull it off before opening the door."

Zhichun said so surely, but what she said didn't seem to be fake. You can check the nurse's statement later to see if it can be confirmed.

Yang Qiuchi then asked, "Did the third aunt say anything suspicious to you that night?"

Zhichun lowered her head and thought for a while, shook her head: "No, after the third aunt was pulled back to the small attic by us, she didn't say anything, just kept smirking and trying to take off her clothes. Until she fell asleep at night, she didn't say anything."

"How long have you served your third concubine?"

"When the third aunt married into the Yang family, Old Master Yang asked me to serve her."

"Then have you seen the third concubine beggar before?"

Zhichun thought about it again before saying, "No, never."
Chapter completed!