Gu Xin walked to the table, smelled the half-finished cup of tea, and suddenly noticed a handkerchief under the table with the character "Mandarin Duck" embroidered on one corner.
She didn't pick it up; the book says you shouldn't touch things at the scene.
She suddenly realized that her observations were too one-sided, and there might be other clues. Suddenly, Gu Xin became interested in solving the case and looked around the room.
Besides the footprints on the window and the handkerchief on the ground, she also discovered something wrong with the walls of the house; behind a painting, there was actually nothing.
Since she couldn't touch anything at the crime scene, she could go check out the next room.
So, Gu Xin went to the next room and located a painting in the same spot as the one on the wall at the crime scene. There was another painting there, but it was crooked.
She summoned a bailiff: "Take this painting down, then push the wall with all your might."
The constable: "?"
Gu Xin: "Don't just stand there, go ahead and push it. I told you to do it. If anything goes wrong, tell your boss to come to me."
The bailiffs stepped forward and took down the painting.
Gu Xin stepped forward and knocked on the wall. Sure enough, it was empty. She then stepped aside and let the yamen runner push it.
With this push, it only loosened a little.
The yamen runners were dumbfounded.
Gu Xin: "Put some effort into it."
The yamen runner blushed. Although Princess Xinxin was very capable, I was a yamen runner from the Jingzhao Prefecture. Unlike others who got in through connections, I was selected step by step based on my own abilities.
So he used all his strength.
They created a hole, big enough for a short person to pass through, or a tall, thin person to pass through as well.
Gu Xin walked to the table in the room and looked at the legs of the table. There was dust and signs that it had been moved. There was also half a shoe print on the table.
She couldn't help but speculate that Li Yuyan wasn't the murderer. The murderer had knocked Li Yuyan unconscious, killed Xiao Cui, then put the knife in Li Yuyan's hand, left a footprint on the window, and passed through the hole in the wall to the next room.
In this way, the crime scene was locked, and the investigators would have assumed the person had escaped through the window if they saw the shoe prints. Probably no one would have thought that Bai Er was right across from the window and hadn't seen anyone escape.
In terms of timing, they reached the other side of the street and saw Li Yuyan and Bai Er there. They then leisurely crossed the street, exchanged a few words downstairs, and went upstairs.
It was while she was crossing the street that Li Yuyan went into the room, drank tea, and became dizzy.
When she got downstairs, Xiao Cui was murdered. The murderer set up the scene and escaped through a hole in the wall. She went upstairs.
When she went upstairs, the murderer was still in the next room, where she had cornered him.
After she entered the house, Dongxue was standing outside the door, so the murderer couldn't possibly have escaped.
After that, she talked to Bai Er, then to Li Yuyan, and then Dongxue argued with Xiao Er.
That waiter probably didn't come up from downstairs, but from the next room.
If he really came from the next room, he would have turned around and come to this room anxiously asking what was going on, and Dongxue would have just assumed he came up from downstairs.
Yes, that's very likely the case.
Fortunately, she managed to get the shopkeeper to leave all the staff behind, otherwise, if the waiter had run away, where would she have found him?
Gu Xin tapped on the walls of the room again. Except for the connection to the next room, the rest of the walls were solid and intact.
She was increasingly convinced that it was that waiter.
She instructed the constables to watch over the room as well, and then went downstairs.
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