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Su Qinchao listened and thought for a moment before speaking:

"Since it is a rare item, the person who owns it must be either rich or noble, not to mention he is the Governor of the Grand Canal." It is normal to have this thing.

"You mean the murderer might be someone the governor knows? Or maybe it was someone he knew?" Qi Min looked at him in surprise.

"Yes, most of the murders in this world are committed by acquaintances, some of whom are even close relatives." Su Qinchao sighed and told Qi Min his thoughts one by one.

He wanted Qi Min to return the murder weapon to its original location and monitor the judicial officer for him so that he could get first-hand information as soon as possible.

Now due to this sudden incident, they all began to doubt whether the clues they found were true.

After Qi Min went to the Maritime Customs Office yesterday, he and Gao Zhili discussed and planned to use a different method to investigate the case while it was still unclear.

"You can order me around quite easily!" Qi Min rolled his eyes reluctantly.

Last night he was asked to go to the Maritime Customs Office to investigate a case, and before he could even catch his breath, he was asked to go back to work again.

"It's because you're awesome~" Su Qinchao flattered with a smile, saying a lot of nice things before he convinced Qi Min.

That afternoon, when the judicial officer brought the coroner and others to the Governor's Mansion to perform an autopsy.

I saw a dagger with a strange pattern stuck in the empty left chest of the corpse.

After removing the dagger, they found that the groove on the dagger was exactly the same as the wound on the corpse.

General Sima's eyes became fierce and he handed the dagger back to the coroner for further investigation.

"This is indeed the murder weapon, no doubt about it, but why did the murderer send it back?" The coroner was a man in his 40s, and his rough face was full of confusion.

"The person sent back may not be the murderer, but may be someone who has doubts about the case." The judicial officer shook his head calmly and asked the coroner to carefully observe the pattern on the dagger.

"Isn't this an imported product from Japan?" The coroner looked at the pattern carefully. Almost every powerful person in Yangzhou owned one of these daggers.

"I think this is also the reason why others sent the things back." The judicial officer paused before speaking out his thoughts: "Maybe they saw that the clues on the dagger were broken, so they wanted to use us to solve the case."

"Maybe it was a provocation from the murderer?" The coroner pressed his hand on the chest of the corpse, looking for the best place to cut the knife. He planned to perform an autopsy.

This kind of strange thing is not uncommon. There are always one or two of them every few years, so he was not surprised.

"No!" The judicial officer pointed to the wound on the body: "The wound is so rough, it's obvious that the attacker was not decisive and had little strength."

After saying that, he picked up the dagger again and pointed at the bloodstains on it: "Look here again, do you find anything?"

"The bloodstains are the same depth, which means that the person who was sent back must be an expert. He inserted the dagger from the original position and did not cause any extra wounds!" The coroner suddenly realized.

"So I said that the person sent back was not the murderer. Besides, the murderer must be someone familiar to the governor of the grain transport." Who it is specifically depends on whether there can be any other discoveries after opening the chest.

"Got it! Army officer!" The coroner used an instrument to pick up a trace of slightly sticky liquid from the corpse's stomach and said excitedly to Army Officer Sima:

"This is Xiao Qinhuai's unique peach blossom wine, which is specially prepared for prostitutes to enjoy themselves. This wine has a strong peach blossom fragrance that lingers for a long time and there is still some residue now."

"That means that the Governor of the Grand Canal was negotiating peace with someone that night. Go, order people to separate and interrogate all the servants in the Governor's Mansion and find the person who was with the Governor of the Grand Canal that night!"

"Yes!"

. . .

After hearing what they said, Qi Min, who was hiding in the corridor, did not leave immediately to report to Su Qinchao. Instead, he secretly followed the judicial officer and waited for the people below to present the results of the investigation.

However, after waiting for half an hour, the results came out one by one. It turned out that an actor had indeed entered the Governor's Mansion that night, but he left long before the Governor died.

There were also two guards who were guarding the door at the time who testified that the actor had a conversation with the governor before leaving, and they heard it clearly.

"Did you see the governor when they were talking?" The judicial officer opened several confessions presented by the clerk and read them one by one until he found the confessions of the two guards.

"It's recorded here. You heard those words outside the house, right? So you didn't see the governor speak with your own eyes, right?"

"Yes!" The two guards looked at each other and responded in unison.

"The time of death found by the coroner was 3:15 pm, and you said that the actor left at 4:15 pm." The judicial officer looked at the two people kneeling in the hall, his face becoming more serious.

"Your Excellency, we really didn't lie. When the actor left, many people saw him, including Uncle Zhou, who was in charge of the garden!"

The two guards thought that the judicial officer was angry and wanted to put them in jail, so they began to explain in panic.

After hearing this, the judicial officer signaled with his eyes to the clerk standing aside who was responsible for recording.

"Your Excellency, this is indeed the case. Uncle Zhou did mention it." The clerk flipped through the book in his hand and confirmed that the two men's confessions were true.

. . .

By the time the judicial officers searched the whole city and found the actor, it was three days later.

It turned out that this actor was the most popular star of the Xiao Qinhuai Opera Troupe. Although he was a boy, he had been handsome since childhood and had a charming demeanor.

When she was a little older, she was trained by the troupe owner to become a Hua Dan, and her every move became even more charming and attractive.

This caused several powerful people to be jealous of him, and in the past month, he was called by the Governor-General of the Grand Canal to the Governor's Mansion every day to accompany him.

The Governor of the Grand Canal was particularly good at tormenting him on the bed, often using all kinds of tricks to torture him to the point of wanting to die.

So that night, when the Governor of the Grand Canal took out new things and tried to torment him, he could no longer bear it.

When no one was paying attention, he stabbed the governor of the Grand Canal in the chest with the dagger that he usually kept on the couch for playing with.

He didn't stab the man to death at that moment, so he stabbed him again, and then used ventriloquism to imitate the conversation between the two people, and then he escaped without anyone noticing.

. . .

"That's it?" Su Qinchao scratched his ear and asked Qi Min who was sitting opposite him. He always felt that this matter would not be that simple.

It's not just one or two days for an actor to serve the powerful.

How could he be so bold as to kill the governor of the Grand Canal just because he couldn't bear it for a moment? There must be a hidden reason behind it!

"The judicial officer's analysis makes sense, and the evidence is complete. How did you know there was something hidden?"

"This case was solved so smoothly! And since the actor knew that he had killed someone, why didn't he just go away and wait for someone to catch him?"

This is obviously not in line with common sense. If it were him, he would have changed his appearance and run away without knowing how far he had gone.