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

The word "reason" is easy to say, but it is difficult to exchange it for the word "fairness".

For the refugees who were ignored and arbitrarily bullied, it was like an ant trying to shake a tree or a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

It is the word "reason" that has supported them to this day.

Beneath the withered bones of the young man named Cao An, there are already the beliefs of countless people.

Grains of sand accumulate to form a tower, gathering in the heart.

Although he does not overestimate himself, he is respectable.

Lin Lezhi slowly walked up to Shi Peng and said, "The peace knot means to ask for peace. They know that justice is hard to come by, but they still resolutely come here just for the word justice."

When Shi Peng heard Lin Lezhi's inference, his face changed instantly and he stood there in a daze.

"The refugees were wantonly abused and their lives were worthless. Even if a dead body wrapped in a straw mat was seen on the roadside, no one would care."

Lin Lezhi looked at the refugees standing nearby and felt sorry for them, but the case still had to be investigated.

Lin Lezhi took a deep breath and continued, "Rather than not caring, it was more of a tacit agreement. It was a tacit agreement that the fate of refugees should be like this. It was because of this indifference that Cao An's body was moved from the mass grave to the abandoned house."

"You can't do all this by yourself."

Lin Lezhi's eyes darkened, and he clenched the peace knot in his hand, and said slowly: "I thought you led me here just to let me help you find out the injustice of thirteen years ago and make the truth public, but I never thought that you would actually have the intention to kill me."

Hearing this, Shi Peng laughed out loud, his laughter was broken and full of coldness, his eyes were red, and then he looked at Lin Lezhi and said, "Injustice...? The truth...? Hahahahahaha, Jiang Guitan, you think too highly of me. I'm not as noble as you say. What's the point of finding out the truth? Can finding out the truth bring the dead back to life?"

"No."

Lin Lezhi did not avoid the question. He looked into Shi Peng's eyes and answered directly.

Shi Peng stared at Lin Lezhi closely, walked up to him, pointed at all the refugees present, and said in a trembling voice with anger: "Everyone here lives in fear day and night."

"In the eyes of those dignitaries, we are despised pariahs, even worse than animals."

"Even after death, there was no one to collect the bodies. The bodies were just thrown into the mass graves and eaten by wild dogs. You also say that our lives are worthless. Are we born so worthless?"

Shi Peng was so excited when he spoke that his whole body was shaking.

Listening to Shi Peng's broken laughter, Lin Lezhi's chest felt as if it had been hit by a heavy hammer. He felt depressed, and any words of comfort here seemed particularly pale.

Lin Lezhi took a deep breath, looked at Shi Peng and said, "No one's life is born to be despised, but if you choose to solve it by killing, the truth of that year will be buried forever."

"Murder, you said I killed someone?" Shi Peng smiled, then looked at Lin Lezhi and continued, "The world-famous Jiang Gui Detective must be a name for nothing. He can't just arrest anyone to understand the case."

Shi Peng pointed at Liang Gaocheng and Duan Hongzhi who were pinned to the ground and said, "As Jiang Guitan saw, you stopped me from killing these two people before I could even use my knife. How can you say that I killed someone?"

"Yes, just as you said, I intentionally led you to this Yaren Manor, and now I am indeed standing in front of you, but do you have any evidence to prove that the person who disguised himself as the manor owner and killed the manor owner and the second in command that day was me?"

Lin Lezhi slowed down, sighed softly, then looked at Shi Peng and said, "The evidence is on you."

"What did you say?"

"I said the evidence is on you." Lin Lezhi repeated his words.

When Shi Peng heard this, the smile on his face froze. He glanced at himself, unable to hide the surprise in his voice.

"What evidence do I have?"

"Can I see your hands?" Lin Lezhi asked politely.

Shi Peng glanced at Lin Lezhi, then extended his hands to Lin Lezhi.

His hands were rough, with thick calluses on the palms and many tiny scars on the fingers, just like the person who pretended to be the owner that night.

After reading it, Lin Lezhi nodded to Shi Peng, then turned to the crowd and said, "It is difficult to cover up the traces of life left on a person. I have said this before. Therefore, it can be inferred that the owner of the manor is not Yan Jingyi himself."

"The hands of refugees are often covered with scars and calluses because they have to do rough work, but even ordinary people would have the same problem on their hands, so it cannot be considered evidence."

"But..." Lin Lezhi looked at Shi Peng and said slowly: "There is one more thing, which is a flaw that only you will reveal."

"What is it?" Shi Peng asked in a cold voice.

"I remember that when we met in the narrow alley, you were holding a bamboo pole in your hand. It was dusk and the light in the narrow alley was dim. Your hair covered your eyes. Although I couldn't see your eyes, the bamboo pole in your hand unconsciously swept to the left side of your body."

Lin Lezhi calmly stated his judgment and said slowly: "I don't know...but is there an eye disease in the left eye?"

Hearing this, Shi Peng's body stiffened for a moment, and he subconsciously wanted to raise his hands, but he put them down halfway, put his hands behind his back, and said in a serious voice: "So what!"

"Since you admit it, it's easy."

Lin Lezhi walked to Xiao Yihuo's side and asked, "When the owner of the manor appeared in the lobby that night and left for the last time, do you remember what happened?"

Xiao Yihuo thought about it and simply said one word: "Door."

door?

Everyone present was puzzled as to what kind of evidence a door could be, and they talked in low voices.

Liang Gaocheng and Duan Hongzhi, who were kneeling on the ground, tried hard to recall the scene of that night, but they were too panicked that night and did not notice anything wrong.

Even when Lin Lezhi mentioned the official boots later, the two of them realized it only later, and only later did they realize that they had been deceived by Yan Jingyi and the second in command.

"Yes, it's the door!"

Lin Lezhi's affirmative words stopped the discussion of the crowd. After everyone quieted down, Lin Lezhi continued to speculate: "That night, the person pretending to be the owner of the manor left in a hurry. When he left, his left shoulder hit the left door frame."

"The distance between the door frames was not close, not to mention that the entire Ya Ren Village was brightly lit that night. If a person with normal eyesight walked in a hurry, he would subconsciously avoid obstacles around his body. However, for people with eye problems, it would be difficult to avoid them without the help of tools."

"That hit was not light. A day and a half has passed since the night before."

"According to the time, the left shoulder should have been bruised by now where it collided. If you are innocent, you can take off your clothes and let everyone see for yourself."

Hearing this, Shi Peng smiled and took off his cloak. Without the cloak covering his body, one could see a thin bamboo tube hanging around his waist with a circle of white cloth wrapped around it.

Shi Peng unbuttoned his shirt in front of everyone, revealing his left shoulder, and turned the long hair that covered his eyes to the back of his head, revealing his eyes.

The sunlight shone through the gaps in the leaves and hit Shi Peng's left eye. The people, who didn't know what was going on, showed looks of fear after seeing Shi Peng's eyes.

The sunlight shines through the gaps in the leaves, and mottled light and shadow fall on Shi Peng's left eye.

After seeing Shi Peng's left eye clearly, the confused people around showed horror on their faces and wondered why the eye had become like this.

The eyeball of Shi Peng's left eye could no longer be seen, and the muscles around the eye had also atrophied, revealing the flesh inside. His entire face looked hideous and terrifying.

The only eye was fixed on Lin Lezhi.

Lin Lezhi took a closer look and saw that Shi Peng's left shoulder was covered with scars, and his left arm was covered with scars and bruises. It was impossible to tell which scars were original and which were added later.

"General Gui Tan, you are indeed very smart. I have been blind since I was young, and it is common for my blind eye to get injured. But you can't accuse me of being the murderer just because I have scars on my arm."

Lin Lezhi shook his head, but there was no trace of dejection in his eyes when he looked at Shi Peng. Instead, his eyes were more certain. "You are right. Based on this alone, I certainly cannot conclude that you are the murderer, but there is one thing that is the evidence of your crime that you cannot escape no matter what."

Facing Lin Lezhi's firm gaze, Shi Peng's eyes could not help but flash with a trace of panic. He looked away and said, "What is that?"

"moss."

Speaking of moss, the panic in Shi Peng's eyes calmed down a little, but his gaze was still aimlessly fixed elsewhere, and he did not dare to look at Lin Lezhi.

Lin Lezhi looked at the dead second in command on the ground. There were still traces of moss on the palm of his hand.

"There is a secret passage in Yan Jingyi's room. Only Yan Jingyi and the second in command know about this. So if the murderer wants to kill someone, he can only go outside the manor through the secret passage in the room and leave his shoes inside the house. In this way, his feet must be covered with moss."

"There was no trace of moss around the deceased's body, and he had not been to any place with moss before his death. However, after his death, there was moss on his palms and the handle of the knife he often used. If it was not left by the second in command himself, there is only one possibility: it was left when he was dealing with the murderer."

Lin Lezhi paced beside Shi Peng, put his hand on his waist and cast his gaze towards Xiao Yihuo as he spoke.

"What can moss prove? Many people here have moss on their feet, including you, Mr. Jiang. Do you want to say that everyone with moss on their body is the murderer?"

Lin Lezhi shook his head again and said calmly: "In fact, the cleaner the feet are, the more likely they are to be the murderer, because only the murderer would want to cover up all the evidence on his body."

Lin Lezhi looked at Shi Peng's shoes. There was only some mud on the shoes, and no trace of moss.

Shi Peng was silent for a moment and then said, "Do you need me to take off my shoes and let Jiang Gui take a look?"

Lin Lezhi shook his head and said, "No need. The evidence I want is not there."

A hint of surprise flashed across Shi Peng's eyes, and he remained silent.

Lin Lezhi lowered his head and took out a rope stained with mud from his arms. He could only judge the shape and color by the recognizable parts of the rope.

Lin Lezhi held up the mud-covered peace knot in front of everyone and said, "Once the rope is stained with dirt, it will be difficult to return to its original state."

As he spoke, Lin Lezhi moved the rope in front of Shi Peng and said in an extremely clear voice: "Since the children said that everyone in the abandoned house has one, and you are also a member of the abandoned house, you must have one too. May I take it out and have a look?"

In a moment, Shi Peng's face turned pale, and he turned his head away and said, "I lost mine when I came here."

Lin Lezhi narrowed his eyes slightly, his eyes full of speculation, and said slowly: "Really?"

At this moment, Xiao Yihuo had somehow circled behind Shi Peng and pulled out the peace knot on Shi Peng's side with extremely fast skills.

"Give it back to me!" Shi Peng shouted excitedly.

However, the peace knot had already passed through Xiao Yihuo and was in Lin Lezhi's hands. The peace knot was shaking in Lin Lezhi's hand and had been severely deformed. There was still a lot of moss attached to it, and there was a slight loose thread at the tail, and it had already fallen apart.

Xiao Yihuo took out the handkerchief in his arms and spread it out in front of everyone. There were several thin threads wrapped inside. He said to everyone: "These threads were found in the cracks of the tunnel plywood in Yan Jingyi's room. They belong to the same thread as the peace knot on Shi Peng's body."

Lin Lezhi took the unformed peace knot and compared it with the bruise on the second in command's neck. The position of the knot just matched the oval indentation.

Lin Lezhi stood up, facing Shi Peng's panicked expression, and said slowly: "I can return this peace knot to you, but you have to tell me the whole story."

Shi Peng looked a little dazed, then he chuckled a few times, but there was no smile in his eyes. Instead, he looked full of sadness. He stood there, not saying anything.

Lin Lezhi walked up to Shi Peng and whispered a few words in his ear. Shi Peng's eyes flashed with a bright color and he looked at Lin Lezhi in disbelief.

Lin Lezhi smiled, stood up and walked to Xiao Yihuo's side, and whispered to Xiao Yihuo: "Lend me your identity."

Xiao Yihuo knew that exposing his identity was not a good thing, but he still smiled and nodded.

"Thank you."

Then, Lin Lezhi patted Xiao Yihuo on the shoulder, turned around and said to Shi Peng in a tough tone: "Since we have met before, you should know his identity. I am a detective who can solve cases. It is really useless, but with him here, are you still afraid that this case will not make a splash?"

Shi Peng took a few quick steps, knelt down in front of Xiao Yihuo, and shouted loudly: "There is indeed injustice in the case of the withered bones. I ask the King of Linnan to make a decision for me!"

After saying that, Shi Peng kowtowed solemnly in front of Xiao Yihuo. After a while, his forehead was scratched by a stone in the mud, and it was bright red.

The people around heard it clearly and all showed expressions of surprise.

The Xiao Huo who led them out of Ya Ren Zhuang was actually the King of Linnan, Xiao Yihuo.

The people were terrified and knelt on the ground one after another, their heads lowered almost to the ground. Liang and Duan, who were kneeling on the ground, now collapsed to the ground, looking as if they were about to face a disaster.

Not to mention the boss Duan Hongzhi, who had kicked Xiao Yihuo before.

"Everyone, please stand up." After saying that, Xiao Yihuo stepped forward and helped Shi Peng, who had been kowtowing, to his feet. He said gently but firmly, "What grievance have you suffered? Please tell me in detail. I will do my best."