The Golden Hairpin

"Yes, Lu Zhiyuan had planned all this when he learned that Sun Laizi was looking for someone to reinforce the house. He first got an amount of money in the Qian's shop-anyway, the batches ordered at the time were all with the same pattern-renovation Inside, sealed it as it was, and then carried the toolbox over, deliberately pretending that he had just found out that he was setting up a lamp for Sun Laizi at this time. After a loud noise, he left. None of the people who rushed to work inside found out. Actually He has already replaced the iron forehead he originally prepared. Anyway, the masters are very dexterous, they just hold things and insert them into the gaps left, so they won't even look at them."

"However, if this is the case, all the craftsmen present at the time were suspected of replacing the iron forehead, didn't they?" Cui Chunzhan said immediately, "Moreover, as long as we see the poisonous iron piece on his body, we can find out from the angle. It's a murder weapon. However, neither Ziqin nor Dali Temple's works have been able to find anything like iron on Sun Feizi!"

"Yes, the poisoned iron piece will completely reveal the secret of Sun Feizi's death in the secret room, and there is no way to make people think that it is a scourge. So the murderer must go to Daningfang that afternoon, and he needs to arrange a game. The drama, to open up Sun Laizi’s death, and make himself the first person to approach Sun Laizi’s body. And that afternoon, in the tavern near Sun Laizi’s house, Qian Guansuo, who was about to settle accounts, encountered the same Lu Zhiyuan, who was going to collect debts, opened the door of Sun Laizi’s house together-the small axe brought by Lu Zhiyuan, Qian Guansuo opened the door. The two of them broke in before everyone, drunk Qianguan. Suo pushed the corpse directly to the ground. Lu Zhiyuan, who pretended to be unknown, took the opportunity to turn his body over. However, no one saw it. At this moment, some of the two closest to the corpse The murder weapon pierced by Sun Leizi was pulled off, and then he pretended to be afraid, and retreated to the door with the other party. In the chaos of people reporting to the government and watching the corpse, the murderer could take the opportunity to remove the mechanism in the iron forehead "Huang Zixia said, looking around everyone in the hall with clear eyes, "So, after Sun Laizi's death, the first person to approach his body was the murderer."

She turned around, her eyes falling on Qian Guansuo, who was still kneeling there. He had a complex expression on his face, not knowing whether he was shocked or pleased, but he looked at Lu Zhiyuan, the fat on his face trembling slightly.

Li Run asked: "Qian Guansuo and Lu Zhiyuan were the first people to approach Sun Laizi's corpse at that time. You are right, only they have the opportunity to take away the murder weapon from Sun Laizi's corpse. But why do you think that the murderer is not money? Guan Suo, but Lu Zhiyuan?"

"It's simple, isn't it? First, Qian Guansuo didn't have the opportunity to look at the painting, so it was not him who could kill according to the second graffiti. Second, the only two of them were the first to approach the corpse at the time. In the middle, Lu Zhiyuan is in a sober state. If Qian Guansuo takes the murder weapon, he will definitely be able to detect it; but if Lu Zhiyuan takes the murder weapon, Qian Guansuo's state may not be able to detect it."

Lu Zhiyuan still stood there, hunched back, head down, motionless. It's just his eyes, staring at the blue bricks on the ground.

There, there is a wet trace, I don't know whether it is the sweat dripping from his cheeks or the tears falling in his eyes.

The summer sun is shining in from outside the hall. Although everyone in the hall is standing in the backlit area, the heat wave still scorches everyone and makes people feel anxious.

In the silence of the whole hall, Lu Zhiyuan finally spoke. Although his expression was tired and gloomy, his eyes were unexpectedly sharp when he raised his head.

"Yes. I killed Wei Ximin, and I killed Sun Lezi. They all deserve to die, don't they?" His voice was hoarse and his tone was very calm, "I sometimes feel surprised, why everything I did is so smooth, in fact After I made the outer hollow candle, I also made the inner inner candle. Just before Wei Ximin came to find me, I was disappointed and decided to put the inner candle in and gave up this plan...Who knows, Just when the sky was getting dark, he came, God, after all, it made me perfect! I wondered if it’s because God was also pitying my daughter that he blessed me to kill without hindrance and smoothness... "

"However, when you were killing the princess, you appeared to be particularly hasty. I think she shouldn't be in your plan, right?" Huang Zixia looked at him and said in a low voice.

As soon as this sentence came out, the whole room was suddenly dead, and everyone's breathing stopped.

The emperor's face changed drastically, he pressed the table uncontrollably, and stood up.

He glared at Lu Zhiyuan, his eyes were full of bloodshot eyes, and he snarled, "Tongchang...Tongchang is also your...devil!"

Lu Zhiyuan stood motionless, lowered his head, and said obscurely: "I have never entered the princess mansion, and I have never even seen the face of the princess."

The Shangshu of the Criminal Department, Wang Lin, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke at this time and said, "Duke Yang, I also feel a little doubtful about this matter. Don’t forget, the princess died under Jiuluanchai, and Jiuluanchai, Before the death of the princess, she mysteriously disappeared. I think it is difficult for the owner of the incense candle shop to sneak into the princess mansion and steal the jiuluanchai among the many thieves, right?"

Concubine Guo Shu also nodded and choked: "Tongchang has always cherished Jiuluan hairpin, and this time he treasured it carefully because of his dreams. Who knows... Who knows that someone can arrange various tricks, but after all they stole this hairpin... …"

Huang Zixian shook his head and said: "No, the slave girl believes that the nine-luan hairpin who is in a tight lock can be stolen by a very simple method."

The emperor pointed at her and said sharply: "Say it!"

"Oral description may be difficult to describe. I also asked Dali Temple to prepare me a box and a large and a small lock for me, so that I can reproduce the situation of Jiuluanchai missing at that time."

Cui Chunzhan immediately ordered someone to bring a box. Huang Zixia let him put it against the wall. Then he borrowed the box containing the cotton paper from Ewang Li Run, pressed the macaroni on the hairpin on his head, and pulled out the hosta inside. , Wrapped in a handkerchief and placed in a box.

After she showed it to everyone, she asked Li Run to lock it personally. After Li Run put the box in the box, she asked him to lock the box with another lock and put the key away.

She pointed to the box and asked Chuizhu and others: "Is the situation like this when the princess put Jiuluanpin in the warehouse?"

Several maids wept and said: "It's exactly the same, it's exactly the same."

Huang Zixia nodded, and then said to the people: "You can see that I have never touched a finger in this box, but I have actually stolen the contents."

Li Run stunned: "Impossible! You have been standing two steps away from me, how can you have a chance to steal?"

"If you don't believe me, please give me the key, and I will open it to you. It is like the princess gave the key to the maids and asked them to fetch things." She looked back at the chilling maids and smiled, "Of course. A few people must go together to supervise each other."

She walked to the box, motioned the four maids to stand behind her, and asked: "There are rows of shelves in the warehouse. Where were you standing at that time?"

The maids thought for a while, then walked one by one and stood behind her.

"Because of the surrounding shelves, you can only stand behind me and see my back, but you can't see what my hands are doing, right?" She said, opening the box against the wall, and then put the inside The box was taken out, placed on the closed lid, opened the small box again, and then said loudly, "Something is missing!"

Hearing her announcement, not only the maid, but even the people in the hall surrounded her. I saw Huang Zixia standing in front of the empty box, holding the opened empty box in her hand, looking back at them.

Zhuiyu turned pale with fright, and said, "Yes! That's how it disappeared inexplicably! Chuizhu, Chuizhu, don't you think?"

Chueizhu stood there motionless, without answering.

Huang Zixian said coldly: "This is a method that can only be implemented by people who open the box with their own hands."

Zhou Ziqin suddenly realized, and immediately asked: "So, when you open the box, you put things in your sleeves or arms, and then pretend that the box is empty?"

"Impossible!" Luo Pei said immediately, "As soon as the princess found that something was missing, the princess immediately ordered a search for everyone, not to mention the Chuizhu and us who went to fetch the things, even the maids in Qiyun Pavilion. Searching the body, searching the room, a hairpin the size of Jiuluan Chai, if the bead had been hidden, it would have been found immediately!"

"Of course it's impossible to hide it." Huang Zixia rolled up her sleeves to show that there was nothing inside. "I just took advantage of that moment when the lid of the box was opened again, and no one else would pay attention to it. It’s just one place."

She dragged the empty box back, and between the box and the corner, she wrapped it in her handkerchief, and the hairpin in the box locked by King E was on the ground.

In the stunned low voices of everyone, Huang Zixian opened the handkerchief, took out the jade hairpin inside and inserted it into the silver hairpin on his head, and then held the box back to King E, saying: "When everyone is searching and searching the room, But no one thought of pulling the box out from the bottom of the shelf and looking at what was hidden in the gap behind the box. And in the warehouse of Qiyun Pavilion, only that box was padded with rags. Presumably Chuezhu had already planned it, because I was afraid that when I lifted the box and let the hairpin slip off, Jiuluanchai would make a noise, so cloth strips were laid there in advance to reduce the sound, right?"

Chuizhu listened in a daze, her knees softened, and she knelt down and collapsed to the ground.

Concubine Guo Shu jumped up and roared: "Chuizhu! It is you! You... The princess is not thin to you on weekdays, you actually... You dare to murder the princess!"

"No! The slave and maid just... the slave only concealed the nine-luan hairpin, and the slave... the slave and the maid had no choice but to..." Chuizhu cried, shaking her head repeatedly, "How can the slave and maid dare to take the initiative to the father? Even with the courage of the slave 10,000, The slave and maid would never dare!"

Wei Baoheng, his former haggard face, is now even more ugly, almost ashamed. He stood up unsteadily, opened his lips, but said nothing.

"You will recruit me honestly!" The emperor strode to her, pointed at Chuizhu and asked, "You are the person next to the spirit emblem. She has always relied on you the most, why did you deliberately steal Jiuluanchai, let Is the princess anxious?"

"Because...because..." Chuizhu trembled, but did not dare to speak, but fell to the ground crying bitterly, almost fainting.

Huang Zixian looked back at Qian Guansuo, who was trembling and knelt beside the hall, and slowly said, "Of course it's because of your father Qian Guansuo."

Chuizhu still cried and crawled on the ground without raising his head.

Qian Guansuo's body shook, and his fat and loose neck turned around inch by inch, looking at the bead that was crying too hard, and his lips trembled violently, but he couldn't squeeze it anyway. Come out a word.