Gu Xin nodded: "Go on."
Chen Pengyuan gestured for her to come: "Princess, please come with me and you will see for yourself."
Gu Xin led Zheng Qiu to the fenced-off area, which was not a very flat place.
The area was surrounded by fallen leaves, weeds, and scattered rocks. There were obvious drag marks and bloodstains on the ground.
The bloodstains on a rock the size of a head were the most obvious. Without Gu Xin asking why, she could tell for herself that the bloodstains here were definitely not from the dead.
Because the deceased did not have any large wounds, only some minor injuries, it would not have bled so much.
Zheng Qiu stepped forward to examine the blood, then nodded to Gu Xin: "Princess, this is all human blood."
Gu Xin said in a deep voice, "But the deceased did not have any large wounds, so there could not have been so much blood. So, is this blood the murderer's, or is there another injured or deceased person? Also, if the deceased Feng Jinshu was killed here, then her clothes would definitely have large patches of blood on them, but Feng Jinshu's clothes were clean on the outside, except for the inside."
Chen Pengyuan stepped forward, clasped his hands in a fist and said, "Princess, I believe that besides Miss Feng, there must have been other dead last night. They were the dead, not the injured."
Gu Xin frowned: "How do you know?"
Chen Pengyuan said, "Judging from the traces at the scene, if this is indeed the primary homicide scene, then besides the murderer and the deceased Feng Jinshu, there weren't many people present. I once heard the coroner from the yamen say that a person will die from excessive blood loss after bleeding to a certain extent. I've already heard from Guard Bai that there weren't many bloodstains on the surface of the deceased Feng Jinshu's body, so I've also realized that the one who lost too much blood wasn't the deceased Feng Jinshu, and even less likely to be the murderer. Therefore, I believe that besides the deceased Feng Jinshu, there is another victim in this case."
Gu Xin thought for a moment and asked, "How can you be sure that besides the murderer, there is only Feng Jinshu and one other person here? The traces at the scene don't show that there were only three people. It can only mean that there couldn't be more than that. Maybe there were four? If there were four people, one murderer, one deceased, and two injured people, that's also a possibility. I have also studied medicine under a famous doctor for nearly eight years. Based on the bloodstains at the scene, it is possible that two people were injured and bleeding."
Chen Pengyuan was taken aback.
Gu Xin said, "Baiyi, take your men and continue searching. Whether there's one more dead person or two more injured, find them!"
The man in white replied, "Yes!"
"Third Miss, Third Miss!" At this moment, Fatty Wang and several others hurriedly came over, calling out from afar.
Looking at them, Gu Xin didn't recognize anyone except for Fatty Wang and Gu En, but judging from their clothes, she guessed they were from the Feng family, or even the head of the Feng family, Headmaster Feng.
"What's wrong?" Gu Xin asked when the others arrived.
"Third Miss, this is Headmaster Feng, he just arrived at the temple. Headmaster Feng, this is Princess Xinxin," Fatty Wang introduced, panting.
Since his uncle became the prefect of Taizhou, Fatty Wang has become quite familiar with Taizhou. He often comes here, so he knows the headmaster of Taizhou Academy. Moreover, before he got married, he studied at Taizhou Academy for two years.
Headmaster Feng was a very refined-looking middle-aged man, tall and handsome, making a very good first impression.
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