Chapter 18 Inference
Several officers and soldiers came up to Li Heng and saluted. The leader said, "Your Highness, the strong rice vinegar and wine are ready. Your Highness, are you going to prepare food to commemorate the souls of the two deceased? Do you want us to buy something else?"

Hearing this, Li Heng stood up and said with a smile, "That's right, you don't need to buy anything, just clean up the place where the bodies of Fenglin County Magistrate and Cui Chong were."

"Yes." Several people took the order and left.

Li Heng mixed strong rice vinegar and wine in a certain proportion, and then asked another soldier to pour the mixture onto the cleaned area where the two men had died.

After a while, red emerged from the ground.

Everyone present was shocked.

Wang Zhongsi, who still had a prejudice against Li Heng, was particularly stunned and asked in surprise, "Your Highness, what is this?"

Before Li Ying could answer, Xin Yunjing said, "You have never seen the world."

Wang Zhongsi looked at Xin Yunjing and said, "Do you know what's going on?"

"I don't know." Xin Yunjing shook his head, "But you really haven't seen the world."

"Do you believe I will beat you?" Wang Zhongsi glared at Xin Yunjing.

Xin Yunjing and Wang Zhongsi served in the army together in Hexi and were comrades-in-arms. Both of them were children of generals, so they got along well and became friends.

But later Xin Yunjing went to Chang'an and Wang Zhongsi came to Longxi.

Logically speaking, both of them had a bright future, but because Li Heng left Chang'an, Xin Yunjing became a guard.

A dignified fourth-rank Lieutenant General became a bodyguard, and even the bodyguard of a man looked down upon by his former comrades-in-arms. Although he also looked down on Li Heng, he was still a little unhappy, so whenever he got the chance, he would say a few bad words to insult Wang Zhongsi.

Having already been hurt, Xin Yunjing said seriously: "If you want to fight, I will accompany you another day. Let your highness explain your doubts first."

"Okay." Wang Zhongsi waved his fist at Xin Yunjing, then said to Li Ying, "Your Highness, what's going on?"

Li Ying said, "If the person was killed by a knife, burn the body, pick up the bones, fan away the dust on the ground, and pour strong rice vinegar and wine on the clean ground under the body. If the person was killed, blood will flow into the ground, and it will be bright red. We must first ask where the body slept before death, but we are afraid that the body was moved to another place after the death, so it will be difficult to check the blood color."

This statement comes from Song Ci's "Xi Yuan Ji Lu".

Wang Zhongsi and Xin Yunjing were puzzled but felt it was impressive. They nodded and said, "Your Highness is wise!"

After praising him, Wang Zhongsi asked, "How did your Highness know that these two people were killed by a knife?"

"I didn't know at first." Li Heng shook his head and analyzed: "There are fragments of the Blue Spot Phoenix Pot on the ground, but these fragments cannot be pieced together to form a complete Blue Spot Phoenix Pot. And just now my wife said that this kind of pot usually comes with a cup, but the cup was not found. Imagine that if the Blue Spot Phoenix Pot was broken after the fire, then all the fragments should be there, and those cups should also be there."

Wang Zhongsi said: "So this pot was most likely broken before the fire started."

"That's right." Li Ying thought, "If it was broken before the fire started, then there was most likely a fight that broke out and the Blue Spotted Phoenix Pot was broken during the fight. Afterwards, the murderer killed someone, recognized the Blue Spotted Phoenix Pot, and took away the cup and some fragments of the Blue Spotted Phoenix Pot."

"Also, there is no grease on the surface of the soil where the body was located, which means that someone moved the body or tampered with it after the fire. In either case, it shows that the murderer wanted to cover up something. Combined with the fragments of the blue-spotted phoenix pot, the murderer might have wanted to cover up blood. Because Chen Wulang's confession said that he drugged and set the fire, but did not mention using a knife."

Wang Zhongsi was shocked after hearing this and said, "It turns out that Your Highness already knew that Chen Wulang was not the murderer."

Li Ying said, "Chen Wulang said that he tricked the Magistrate of Fenglin County and Cui Chong to come here. Although this place is far away from the city, it is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the courtyard is not small. How could Chen Wulang afford such a place? Even if there are other coincidental reasons, how dare the Magistrate of Fenglin County and Cui Chong come to the appointment?"

"Your Highness is truly knowledgeable and talented." Wang Zhongsi praised sincerely, then remembered something was wrong and asked, "Your Highness, can the coroner discover that the scene was faked?"

Li Ying said, "The old coroner should be able to do it." "Then the coroner knew but didn't tell anyone. He is just taking over the job of interviewing history, and there is no one who specializes in this field." Wang Zhongsi was furious, "Come on, follow me to get him."

"Wait a minute." Li Heng stopped Wang Zhongsi and said, "Even if we catch the coroner, Chen Wulang will change his testimony in court, saying that he drugged the man and stabbed the Fenglin County Magistrate and Cui Chong twice to vent his anger, and then set the fire. What can the general do?"

Li Heng thought of Doctor Zhang. The coroner must be the same as Doctor Zhang, seeing through everything but not saying anything, just giving everyone the result they wanted.

Wang Zhongsi was stunned by Li Heng's question. He paused and said, "Your Highness, what should we do then?"

"Find a way to make it impossible for Chen Wulang to change his confession." Li Heng looked at the blood on the ground and said, "Use a torch to burn it here."

"Here."

Wang Zhongsi no longer neglected the task and personally led the team to roast the ground.

After roasting for a while, the fat on the ground slowly seeped up.

Li Ying said: "Use cigarette ash to stick together."

"Well,"

Wang Zhongsi did as he was told and covered himself with cigarette ash. After a moment, the shapes of the two men's bodies appeared.

Wang Zhongsi was surprised when he saw this and asked, "Your Highness, why is this happening?"

"When a corpse is burned, fat will seep into the ground. Roasting it with a high fire can make the fat seep back up." Li Heng explained first, then asked, "Did the charred corpse look like this when you moved it earlier?"

Wang Zhongsi recalled it and said, "Almost."

Li Heng nodded, thought for a moment, and said, "General Wang, don't they want you to convict Chen Wulang? Then let them do what they want and convict Chen Wulang first. Also, send soldiers to guard this place, and no one can be allowed to come in. No one is allowed to tell anyone about what happened today."

"This"

Wang Zhongsi was slightly surprised at first, but after thinking about it, he understood Li Heng's intention.

Li Heng wanted to take advantage of the situation.

"I understand." Wang Zhongsi bowed to Li Heng and turned to the officers and soldiers present and said, "Anyone who dares to reveal a word about what happened today will be punished by military law! Do you understand?"

"I understand." The officers and soldiers said in unison.

Wang Zhongsi instructed the officers and soldiers, and then said to Li Ying, "Your Highness, I will keep a close eye on Huangfu Weiming and Lanzhou Wu Sicang. Your Highness, do you suspect that these two people have captured Chen Wulang's relatives to threaten Chen Wulang?"

Li Ying said: "If Chen Wulang didn't kill him, then he must have been coerced. As for whether it was these two people who coerced him, I am just guessing. Who did they capture from Chen Wulang?"

Li Ying was thinking about it, and then he saw the jade hairpin in Yang Yuhuan's hand, and suddenly understood.

"She is Chen Wulang's sister. We decided to investigate this case yesterday. It is difficult for them to go to Fenglin County to capture Chen Wulang's relatives and bring them back to threaten Chen Wulang in such a short time. So it should be Cui Chong who came to Lanzhou and brought Chen Wulang's sister here. Chen Wulang said before that Cui Chong took his sister as a concubine."

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