Black Lotus Concubine's Case-solving Notes

"The first case is the disappearance of Zhou Muqi. After class that day, you deliberately sent Miss Zhou's servants away and tricked Zhou Muqi into the dry well of the private school. You pulled out her tongue, threw her into the well, and left her to starve to death."

"The second case was the case of the dean of the academy, Gu Weifeng. That day, you waited for all the students to finish their classes and left, then found dean Gu and pierced his lungs with a silver hairpin. You watched him struggle, and after he died, you dug out his heart and liver. This was your murder weapon!"

Jiang Yun threw a silver hairpin on the ground. It was a pear blossom hairpin with an ancient shape, which could be seen everywhere in the market. However, the difference of this silver hairpin was that its tip was sharpened to be very sharp, so sharp that it could kill people with one blow.

Lu Xun's eyes were fixed on the silver hairpin, and tears welled up in his eyes as if he was thinking of something.

Jiang Yun took a deep breath and said, "The third case is the case of Wang Dun in Liuhu Lane. That day, you were sick at home on the pretext of having an allergy on your face, so we sent someone to guard you. The person guarding you saw that you had never left the house and had been chatting with your mother. How did you kill someone from a distance? Xuchang, you tell us!"

The person named, Xu Chang, a yamen runner from the Dali Temple, walked forward in confusion, looked at Lu Xun, then looked at Jiang Yun, still confused: "Sir, I would never dare to leave my post without permission. I also watched this woman with my own eyes, and I did hear her chatting with her parents with my own ears. It is true."

Jiang Yun shook his head, smiling: "Xu Chang, think about it carefully, did you really see it with your own eyes? Did you really see this woman lying on the bed with your own eyes?"

Xu Chang recalled the scene of that day and suddenly thought of something: "I, I saw this girl through a screen!"

Jiang Geng smiled and said, "Yes, you saw the Lu Xun through the screen. However, that was not the Lu Xun at all, but... a shadow puppet!"

“Shadow puppets?” Xu Chang was horrified and said, “Master Jiang, that’s impossible. Even if what I saw through the screen was a shadow puppet, the sound can’t be fake. There are clearly three people in the room!”

Jiang Yun shook his head again: "That's not the case." He paused, and his eyes shot straight to a couple in wedding attire in the crowd: "There are many ventriloquist in Beijing, and these two are the best."

The crowd automatically dispersed and kept a distance from the couple.

Song's father embraced his wife, his eyes sharp, but he said nothing. Song's mother lowered her eyes, a trace of panic flashed in her eyes: "I don't know what you are talking about."

"Really? You don't know?" Jiang Yun stepped forward and said, "You and your wife moved to the capital a year ago and have been making a living by making shadow puppets. Our people went to Nanyang County and found that you only have one daughter, named Song Shu, but this Song Shu died two years ago."

When she heard Song Shu's name, a trace of sadness crossed her mother's face, but she quickly suppressed her emotion.

Jiang Yun continued, "Besides, what you do in Nanyang County is the shadow play business. The play you are best at is Lanling Prince Breaking the Formation. The scenes of thousands of troops in this play can be performed by you and your wife. Using shadow play to replace Lu Xun is a piece of cake!"

Jiang Yun looked at Xu Chang and said, "Everything you saw and heard that day was just a trick played by the couple. The real Lu Xun had already slipped out the back door and went to the Wang family in Liuhu Lane, which was just one street away, and drowned Wang Dun!"

"As for the evidence..." Jiang Yun raised the object in his hand. It was a piece of leather about the width of a finger, with several patterns on the edge. "This was found on the body of the deceased Wang Dun. We went to your house early this morning and found that a shadow puppet you hid under the bed had a broken leg, and this can be spliced ​​in. The evidence is irrefutable. Are you still going to deny it?"

The Song family's parents looked at each other with tears in their eyes, which undoubtedly reminded everyone present that they admitted it.

"Then do you know? Why should I kill them?" A cold female voice came from behind. Jiang Yun turned around and looked at Lu Xun.

She was indeed a very beautiful woman. Her long hair was scattered on her shoulders because of her panic. Even in such a mess, she was still charmingly beautiful, and her every frown and smile was lovable. No wonder Master Zhou was bewitched by her.

But all these incidents also reminded Jiang Yun that although he was a big devil who killed people without blinking an eye, he was as poisonous as a snake or scorpion.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yun's heart turned cold: "Because these cases are all related to the death of your sister Lu Qin a year ago!"

For some reason, when he heard these words, Lu Xun seemed to be relieved.

A strange feeling crept into Feng Jia's heart, and she immediately understood what was going on. So that's it, so that's it!

No wonder she deliberately left the silver hairpin that day. No wonder someone as careful as her could not check the body and just leave like that, leaving the skin at the crime scene!

No wonder she chose to marry into the Zhou family today!

She turned around and whispered something to Song Huai. Song Huai was surprised, then nodded. He quickly ran to Shi Xun and whispered something. After a moment, Shi Xun looked straight at Feng Jiabi with a slightly inquiring look. After thinking for a moment, he nodded heavily.

Jiang Yun said at this time: "Lu Qin did not commit suicide, but was forced to death by Zhou Muqi, Gu Weifeng, Wang Dun, and even..." He looked at Zhou Langyi, "even you, Lord Zhou!"

Zhou Langyi's body shook, and the memory that had been settled suddenly attacked him at this moment. His face turned pale, and his chest shook. After a long time, he said with difficulty: "Shu'er... No, Lu Xun, you know everything?"

"I know everything! I know everything!" Lu Xun suddenly laughed crazily, but tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes like beads with broken strings. "My sister Qin, she was such a lively and cheerful person, but since she entered the Gu family private school, she has become more and more taciturn day by day, as if she had endless worries in her heart, but I mistakenly thought that she was getting older and had the thoughts of a girl, and her academic performance was always among the best, so I didn't pay much attention to it. Who knows, who knows..."

Lu Xun choked up, his voice filled with sorrow: "Who would have thought that the day before she was admitted to the Imperial College and was about to have a bright future, she actually jumped into the well and committed suicide!"

"Later, Dean Gu came to me and said that my sister committed suicide because of too much academic pressure. He also gave me ten taels of silver as my pension and asked me to sign on a piece of paper as proof of receipt. I believed it and felt sorry for ignoring my sister. At the same time, I was grateful to Dean Gu. However, just a few months ago, when I was about to leave the capital and pack up my house, I accidentally found a suicide note left by my sister!"

As if infected by Lu Xun's sad mood, everyone around him held their breath and said nothing.

Lu Xun took a deep breath and said, "The signature on it was the day before she committed suicide. It records all the ways she was bullied by Zhou Muqi over the past year!"

"It turns out that my sister was not crushed by academic pressure, but was bullied by her classmates! It turns out that she had written countless letters to her beloved dean Gu Weifeng, asking him to deal with her fairly. However, those letters for help were used as table legs by the unscrupulous dean who flatters the powerful and bullies the weak! It turns out that Lu Qin had once looked for Zhou Muqi's father, the great agricultural master Zhou!"

Lu Xun turned his eyes to Zhou Langyi, gritting his teeth in hatred: "And you were afraid that she would tell the truth and ruin your daughter's reputation, so you bribed that beast Wang Dun and took advantage of Lu Qin being alone at home to give her... to give her..."

When Lu Xun said this, she could only sob. Her sister, the treasure she had held in her hands since she was a child, was treated so badly! Insulted! She was even stigmatized after her death! How could she not hate her!