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“No?”
“No.”
“No one?”
“My disciples and servants in Beijing are gathered here now. If Sun Shaoqing doesn’t believe it, he can measure their height one by one.”
Sun Shaozong was silent.
Zhenren Hongyuan said it firmly, and this is something that can be verified at the moment. It shows that there are indeed no such tall Kong Wu among the disciples and servants of the Tianshi Mansion in Beijing.
Could it be that my own inference is a problem?
But I have carefully checked the traces on the scene several times, and it is logical that there will be no omissions.
In addition…
Sun Shaozong looked at the middle-aged Taoist priest who was suspected to be a housekeeper from the corner of his eyes.
When I asked for the first time that there was someone over six feet tall in the mansion, the middle-aged Taoist seemed to have thought of something, but before he could speak, he was intercepted by the true man Hongyuan.
If the true man Hongyuan had hurriedly concealed him just now, he might have seen some flaws from this middle-aged Taoist.
However, after looking over, I saw that the middle-aged Taoist priest had a disdainful expression on his face, as if he was despising Sun Shaozong’s absurd reasoning.
Tsk~
Is this guy so good at acting?
Or did you misunderstand something just now?
Slowly retracted his eyes, Sun Shaozong made up his mind to find another breakthrough, while pretending to be unwilling to give up, and continued to ask, “There are people close to the mansion…”
“Sun Shaoqing.”
Zhenren Hongyuan interrupted Sun Shaozong’s words and said seriously: “I have always lived in a quiet place. I am not from my Tianshi Mansion. I am afraid that even if she is in the capital at this time, she may not know.”
Is this to clear the disciples of the sect, or to tell myself that even if the real murderer is not included, there must be an internal response in this mansion?
Sun Shaozong lowered his head and pondered for a while, then he said, “Since that’s the case, please concentrate everyone in the front hall to wait, don’t walk around casually – wait until the official has inspected the traces around him, and then investigate them one by one.”
After a pause, he said, “Please send someone to Dali Temple for a walk, so that the yamen runners on duty and the prisoners who specialize in the women’s prisons can come as soon as possible.”
Zhenren Hongyuan was about to nod, but the middle-aged Taoist on the side was a little annoyed and said angrily: “Everyone said that there are no ones above six feet tall here, why are you still unable to get entangled?! I heard that you just went to see the old Taoist Zhang, so that it would be…”
Zhenren Hongyuan shouted in a low voice, and the middle-aged Taoist talent closed his mouth reluctantly and reluctantly., he looked at Sun Shaozong, but he was still not very friendly.
This attitude…
It doesn’t seem like he has a ulterior motive.
Did you really read it wrong just now?
Or is his hesitant attitude actually has nothing to do with the case itself?
Sun Shaozong was suspicious, but only Zhenren Hongyuan bowed and said, “I’m working hard.”
Then he lifted up the lantern and started a carpet-style search of the garden with the body as the center.
Seeing this, the middle-aged Taoist glared at him again and then went away angrily.
Not long after, two short and fat mothers rushed over again, saluted Sun Shaozong first, and then followed him like guarding against thieves.
With two tails in this way, Sun Shaozong searched the garden and found that the soil close to the corner of the wall was unexpectedly wet and soft.
This is probably because the snow on the previous two days has not melted clean until today, and the temperature has warmed up today and the surface has not frozen.
Fortunately, Sun Shaozong found several clear footprints in the corner of the left wall.
Through the comparison of footprints and pace spacing, Sun Shaozong further confirmed his previous inference–the murderer who killed Ma’s family was indeed over six feet tall.
From the atrium to the back of the wall, I saw two long rows of houses facing each other, and I glanced at the mother-in-law and the men, but it turned out to be the dormitory of young disciples of the Tianshi Mansion.
The same footprints were found under the south wall of this collective dormitory and the north and south walls of the wood-room courtyard next door.
Considering that there is no such burly and tall person in this mansion, there is basically no possibility of forging traces of invasion.
Therefore, it can be basically concluded that the murderer did come and go over the wall.
According to the mothers, because there was no evening class today, four Taoists returned to the dormitory together at the beginning of Youzheng [6:15 pm].
The time when Ma entered the back garden alone to relax was the third hour of You [5:45 pm].
The time for the body to be discovered was around the Xu hour [7 pm].
The time of death is determined from about 6 o’clock to 7 o’clock.
In other words, the time left for the murderer to commit the crime is only the two quarters of the hour of You to the first two quarters of the hour of You.
Considering the existence of front and back deviations, the time may be shortened.