"Third Miss, why did you come down?" Officer Gao was surprised that Gu Xin didn't even need a rope to come down.
"I've asked them about everything up there. Master Xie asked if Miss Xie's body could be taken back, and then you said you found something, so I came down here," Gu Xin explained while looking down into the well.
“Third Miss, look, these flowers were found down here. Although they’re withered, I searched the whole well and didn’t find any plants like this. That means either the murderer brought them down, or they were from the deceased and just fell here when they were moved up.” Zheng Qiu showed Gu Xin the withered flowers and continued, “The environment at the bottom of the well suggests that the deceased didn’t die here, but died elsewhere and was then moved to the bottom of the well. So, every day from the seventh day of the month until today could have been a time when the murderer moved the body here.”
"Is this flower common in the capital? Or rather, where in the capital might this flower be grown on a large scale?" Gu Xin asked, looking at the flower in Zheng Qiu's hand.
Zheng Qiu could only look at Constable Gao, who had only recently arrived in the capital and certainly didn't know about this.
Officer Gao rubbed his nose: "Third Miss, Xiao Qiu, I'm a grown man, and I don't usually pay much attention to this. Why don't we ask the other girls?"
Gu Xin is quite familiar with flowers; her family has many flower fields, and her grandfather also loves to grow flowers.
However, the flowers in their backyard were either various precious flowers planted by Grandpa Gu, or they were cultivated from seeds that Grandpa Zhou originally had, which were directly transported from Kunzhou by Uncle Gu.
The flowers in Zheng Qiu's hand were wildflowers from the roadside, and she had just seen them in Mrs. Song's room next door.
Song Yi said that his mother liked flowers and plants, so he picked them and brought them back from their academy.
Gu Xin then asked, "Has Officer Gao ever been to Sanhong Academy? Does it have these flowers there?"
Officer Gao was taken aback. Sanhong Academy? Wasn't that where the young master of the Song family, the owner of this house, studied? Could it be that Princess Xinxin asked something earlier?
Gu Xin explained directly, "I saw this kind of flower in Mrs. Song's room just now. It looked like it was picked only three or four days ago. Song Yi said he picked it at the academy because his mother likes it."
Officer Gao immediately perked up: "This subordinate will immediately send someone to investigate at Sanhong Academy."
Zheng Qiu said, "But that doesn't mean the flowers in my hand also come from Sanhong Academy and are related to Young Master Song."
Officer Gao continued, "We can't say for sure, but we can't say for sure either. If there's any doubt, we have to investigate. Besides, judging from the appearance of these flowers, they should be wildflowers by the roadside. If the deceased never left the city, then we can narrow down our search area. The murderer might be connected to a place where these flowers grow, or the deceased might have picked these flowers, or perhaps we can find the murder scene. In any case, it's a good thing for us; we have a direction to investigate."
Zheng Qiu thought he was right and didn't argue further.
Gu Xin asked, "When can the Xie family take Miss Xie's body back?"
Zheng Qiu hesitated for a moment, then said, "Tomorrow night, please! I only gave Miss Xie a preliminary examination just now, and I only found out the time of her death and the fatal wound. Perhaps I can find out something else."
Gu Xin nodded: "Okay, I'll tell Master Xie when I go upstairs in a bit."
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