When the book-traveling little detective meets the two-faced prince

Hearing the name of the dead person, and a tragic death at that, everyone present showed expressions of fear and shock.

"Le...Lezhi, you must be kidding. Wu Sanshan is already dead. How...how could he possibly speak?"

Guan Ziheng had a look of fear on his face and his speech was slurred.

Not only Guan Ziheng, but everyone else also felt unbelievable and horrified by what Lin Lezhi said.

Wu Sanshan's death was witnessed by everyone.

Dead to the point of death.

Seeing the incredible and horrified expressions of the crowd, Lin Lezhi raised a smile, and without any panic in his eyes, he looked at Guan Ziheng firmly and said, "Of course it's possible."

Facing the confusion of the crowd, Lin Lezhi said seriously: "Since he wants to say it himself, we should go to him in person to listen to it out of courtesy."

Say it.

Led by Lin Lezhi, everyone passed through the tomb and returned to the ground. Worried that the bodies of the dead soldiers would be attacked by poisonous snakes and beasts if left in the forest, Cheng Su ordered them to take the bodies of the dead soldiers to Huaifeng Village together.

Half an hour later, everyone returned to Huaifeng Village again. Wu Sanshan's body was still lying in the corner of the courtyard.

Two consecutive nights passed, and a lot of fallen leaves accumulated on the blood-stained white cloth covering Wu Sanshan's body and on the stove where the skull was placed.

The injuries on his body, coupled with the long journey, had worn out Hong Mingxu's patience. He urged impatiently: "Tell me how he spoke!"

"Captain Hong, please wait a moment. I will go and listen."

As he spoke, Lin Lezhi walked over to Wu Sanshan's body, squatted down, put his hand to his ear and leaned over to listen.

Lin Lezhi seemed to be listening very seriously and attentively, nodding his head from time to time.

Looking at Lin Lezhi's behavior, Jiang Lian'an seemed to find it very interesting, with a hint of curiosity in his eyes.

"Lin Lezhi, have you had enough of this? I think you are just playing tricks here. The corpse talking is fake, and the deliberate delay is real. The general brought people here to track down the murderer. He has no time to accompany you to make trouble here!"

Hong Mingxu's rebuke frightened Guan Ziheng so much that he trembled several times on the spot. Liu Yunhe, who was standing beside him, was also worried about Lin Lezhi.

However, Lin Lezhi himself was not in a hurry. He continued to listen with his ear tilted and made a "hush" gesture, asking Hong Mingxu not to speak for the time being.

Hong Mingxu looked at Cheng Su, and Cheng Su looked at Lin Lezhi with calm eyes without saying anything.

Since Cheng Su did not make any statement, Hong Mingxu naturally had no way to continue to make trouble. He suppressed his dissatisfaction and looked at Lin Lezhi with eyes that seemed to be able to spit fire.

After waiting for a while, Lin Lezhi slowly straightened up, nodded, looked up at everyone, and a meaningful light flashed in his eyes.

"Well, what did he say?" Cheng Su asked in a deep voice.

"He said it." Lin Lezhi said with a firm expression: "He said that he and County Magistrate Chang planned the Huaifeng Village incident together. And the evidence is in his hands."

"On your hands?"

Hearing this, everyone looked towards the place where Bai Bu had made his move, with puzzled looks on their faces.

"Impossible. We salvaged his body with our own hands. There was nothing else on the severed hand except the flesh burned and festered by the fire." Meng Dafeng objected.

"Brother Meng is very close. The evidence is on the rotten flesh on Wu Sanshan's hand."

Lin Lezhi's calmness and affirmativeness made everyone even more confused.

Seeing everyone's puzzled expressions, Lin Lezhi looked at Guan Ziheng and said, "Ziheng, is the towel I used to wipe your face still with you?"

After hearing this, Guan Ziheng was slow for a moment before he suddenly remembered. He hurriedly took out a handkerchief from his arms and handed it to Lin Lezhi.

Since he and Guan Ziheng put out the fire together the day before, he saw that Guan Ziheng's face was smoked into a tabby cat shape by the black ash. After wiping Guan Ziheng's face, the ash has remained on Guan Ziheng's body.

Guan Ziheng looked embarrassed and said with a wry smile, "Please let me use it. I left in a hurry yesterday and didn't have time to wash it clean."

"fine."

After taking the handkerchief, Lin Lezhi did not lift the white cloth covering the corpse. He only lifted one side of the white cloth to reveal half of Wu Sanshan's body, and then carefully picked up Wu Sanshan's severed hand with the handkerchief.

Two days later, Wu Sanshan's body and severed hand, which had been burned and soaked in water, became more and more festering, and the stench of decay could be smelled even from a distance.

Many people couldn't bear the discomfort when they saw it, and turned their heads slightly to look away.

Deng Yang, in particular, could not suppress the fear in his heart when he saw Wu Sanshan's severed hand. His face turned pale and his body trembled uncontrollably.

Another person who looked surprised was Zhou Yuanliang.

However, a complex emotion could be seen in Zhou Yuanliang's frightened expression. Panic and helplessness were intertwined on Zhou Yuanliang's face, and he did not dare to look at Wu Sanshan's body.

"How do you think the injury on this broken hand came about?"

"The fire burned the boat, and the injuries on my hands were naturally caused by the fire." Meng Dafeng said in an obvious tone.

"Can I ask Brother Meng one more question?"

"Just ask."

Lin Lezhi stood up holding the severed hand and asked, "Brother Meng, do you remember which side was facing down when the severed hand was salvaged?"

Meng Dafeng thought for a moment and said, "Palms facing down."

Meng Dafeng's answer was also unanimously recognized by other soldiers.

"Thank you, Brother Meng."

After getting the answer, a gleam of light flashed in Lin Lezhi's eyes.

Then Lin Lezhi turned to look at everyone, his gaze deepened as he said, "If this hand had been burned by a raging fire, shouldn't it have been burned like the other burned parts, becoming burnt brown, with a large area of ​​carbonization and cracking in the area closest to the fire?"

Lin Lezhi paused for a moment, his eyes darkened as he continued, "But this severed hand only had blisters on the palm due to the fire. Other than that, there is no trace of being burned by the fire on the hand."

After hearing this, the brave ones compared the severed hand in Lin Lezhi's hand with the charred part of the corpse on the ground, and found that it was indeed as Lin Lezhi said.

Liu Yunhe thought for a moment and said, "It should be that the boat burned down, and his hand fell into the water before it was completely burned by the fire, so it was not burned by the fire."

"Okay, according to your speculation, the blisters on the severed hand were caused by the high temperature for a while, and then the severed hand from the hull fell into the water and avoided being burned by the fire."

After listening to what Lin Lezhi said, Liu Yunhe nodded.

"But if that's the case, why are there blisters only on the palms and not on the backs of the hands?"

Lin Lezhi raised another question and then asked: "Under the high temperature, even if Wu Sanshan's left hand was not completely burned to charcoal, the palm and the back of the hand should have been burned with blisters at the same time. How do you explain this?"

"This……"

Liu Yunhe was confused by Lin Lezhi's questions. He felt his head was swollen and couldn't answer.

"What do you want to clarify?"

Lin Lezhi's words were confusing and his meaning was unclear. Cheng Su frowned and asked in a deep voice.

"General, I am not deliberately beating around the bush. I am just eliminating all unreasonable points."

Lin Lezhi looked at Cheng Su's clear and polite question, "That day, the people accidentally knocked over the lanterns on the boat in panic, and the fire spread from the deck downwards. The severed hand slid into the water with the palm facing down due to the cracks in the hull, but only the palm was burned and blistered, while the back of the hand was intact. What do you think, General?"