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

Chapter 263 No Evidence

Lin Lezhi originally planned to ask the local people in Pinghai Town whether what they used in their daily lives was fish maw. Unexpectedly, Feng Yuan took the initiative to take over the conversation before he even opened his mouth to ask.

Although Jiang Lian'an was known by the people as a genius at solving cases, it was impossible for him to know everything.

this matter.

Compared to telling what you know yourself, it is far more convincing to hear it from the mouths of the people of Pinghai Town.

Thinking of his grandfather, Lin Lezhi's nose couldn't help but feel a little sour.

Lin Lezhi suppressed his thoughts, calmed down his emotions, and said slowly: "Isinglass can not only be used as glue, but also has the effect of nourishing the body, so it is deeply loved by the people. However... if it is used simply as glue, it also has its disadvantages."

"What are the disadvantages?" Cheng Su asked.

"It melts easily when exposed to heat. Besides that..." Lin Lezhi pointed the side of the dead leaf with the black sticky substance towards everyone, his eyes narrowed slightly as he said, "That was one of the evidences that caused him to fail."

Lin Lezhi further explained: "As a glue, it melts easily when exposed to heat, and after a long time, it will turn black and become like leaves. So when he was disguised with a mask, lying in the same bed with me, and saving the ship from the fire, the glue attached to his mask would drip from the gaps and drip onto the pillow and the deck."

Lin Lezhi turned to look at everyone and continued, "Think about it, if Guan Ziheng was the one who did this from the beginning, he wouldn't have to do this. He could have used his own face. He would have faked his own death to escape anyway, so why would he go to so much trouble to leave evidence to incriminate himself?"

Recalling the moments with Guan Ziheng, Lin Lezhi said solemnly, "The reason why it is so difficult is because he has to hide his appearance."

Lin Lezhi exhaled lightly and said slowly, "He paddled to the island early that morning. I chatted with him by the lake at night. Under the light of the lanterns, I found a slight scratch on his left cheek. He said he was scratched by weeds on the ground while searching for phosphorus powder in the forest."

Lin Lezhi chuckled, his laughter containing a hint of helplessness.

"Looking back now, it was just something he made up. The actual moment when his face was cut was probably at the market that day."

……

Guan Ziheng showed up at the market that day, bought a lot of food, and even handed himself an extra candied haws.

"That day, when I was playing with him, I accidentally put the candied haws stick in his hand against his face, and he immediately pushed it away with a look of disgust. Also, that day, Brother He and several soldiers were worried that the storybook would be exposed, so they pushed him to the ground. He also looked panicked, and after getting up, he rubbed his face, as if he was confirming something."

"I think he was afraid of damaging his reputation, and also worried that the other book he was hiding on his body would be discovered, and that his plan would be exposed and fail."

Although what Lin Lezhi said sounded incredible, it was reasonable when you thought about it carefully, and there was no other more reasonable explanation.

Cheng Su frowned and said in a deep voice: "You mentioned the leaves, where are the porcelain pieces?"

"This porcelain piece explains it better."

Lin Lezhi ignored the porcelain piece in his hand for the time being and looked at the place where the charred corpse fell.

"The charred corpse fell from such a high altitude, and the body would naturally be broken into pieces, just like the cigarette letter that the general ordered his personal soldiers to drop. Because of the high altitude, it is very easy to be damaged. The cigarette letter and the corpse are difficult to preserve, but the place where the medicine jar was broken, a complete pool of paste was left. Is this possible?"

Hear the words.

Everyone looked towards the pool of liquid, which was indeed very complete.

"Not only that, something falling from a high altitude will create a hole in the ground. We can tell from the cigarette smoke that the general had people drop. But there is no obvious hole around the medicine jar. What does this mean?" Lin Lezhi lowered his eyes and said, "It means that the medicine jar next to the corpse did not fall from above."

When talking about it, Lin Lezhi pointed at it with his finger, and then deduced: "This morning, Lu Xingpeng's body was burned in the fire in front of everyone. With such a big fire, the clothes on his body must have been damaged, and the things stored in the clothes would naturally fall out, just like the body and the letter, but it didn't, which means that the ointment was not placed on the body, so it naturally wouldn't fall from it."

Zhu Yang thought for a moment and asked in confusion: "If it wasn't from above, then where did it fall from?"

Lin Lezhi picked up a piece of gravel from the ground and threw it casually on the ground, saying, "That's it."

After hearing what Lin Lezhi said, Zhu Yang suddenly realized: "If it is thrown from this height, it will not break into pieces, and there will be no obvious traces on the ground."

Lin Lezhi nodded, raised the fragments in his hand and said, "Moreover, if this bottle of ointment was really roasted in a raging fire, the fired white porcelain would not remain white when roasted again, but would turn black where burned, but these fragments would remain white. This proves that the medicine jar was not on the body, nor around the body, but was thrown next to the body afterwards."

Although Cheng Su cannot be said to be knowledgeable, he has been guarding the border for so many years that he is not completely ignorant.

But Lin Lezhi was able to use these tiny details to solve the case. Cheng Su couldn't help but feel a little surprised, and also had some admiration for Lin Lezhi.

Lin Lezhi looked at the white porcelain face in his hand, lowered his eyes and said, "The porcelain jar did not fall with the body, but it had to appear around the body because the person pretending to be Guan Ziheng wanted people to think that the body was Guan Ziheng himself, because many people saw with their own eyes that day by the lake that I gave this bottle of ointment to Guan Ziheng."

"He is indeed very smart. He put on Guan Ziheng's mask and completed his plan step by step, but he planted hidden dangers for himself at every step."

As he spoke, Lin Lezhi sighed softly, his eyes filled with helplessness as he said, "The fake cover and the replaced notebook can be destroyed directly to make it useless, but this piece of white porcelain cannot be destroyed. Instead, it has become evidence to incriminate him."

Cheng Su's urging expression faded, and he said with a hint of appreciation and expectation: "The evidence you mentioned can only prove that Guan Ziheng had nothing to do with this matter, but it cannot prove who is under the mask."

"Really? I think the person behind the mask has been exposed."

Lin Lezhi smiled helplessly, then looked at the charred corpse on the ground and said slowly, "It's like he tried hard to create the illusion that this charred corpse was Guan Ziheng, in order to clear his suspicion. So he put black ash in the nasal cavity of the corpse, but he couldn't stop the charred corpse from rotting, let alone make a corpse that had been dead for three days look like a person who was really burned to death." "Bend the limbs and make fists with your hands and feet."

Lin Lezhi looked at Qiao Ying, his eyes deepened as he said, "Correspondingly, he cannot hide the traces of the truth left on him."

"But those traces don't prove anything, do they?"

Cheng Su asked with interest, wanting to see how Lin Lezhi would find a breakthrough.

Lin Lezhi was not panicked, and said calmly: "The marks on the body can't prove anything, but marks are more than just scars. A person's actions and what he did are also marks."

"Oh?"

"May I ask you, General? If you are on the battlefield killing an enemy and an enemy soldier puts a knife to your throat, what will you do?"

After Lin Lezhi asked this question, Cheng Su himself hadn't responded yet, but Hong Mingxu couldn't stand someone saying such disrespectful words to Cheng Su, and he flew into a rage and said, "Jiang Lian'an, what are you thinking? How dare you say such disrespectful words to the general!"

"Mingxu."

Cheng Su stopped Hong Mingxu.

"But the General, he..."

After Cheng Su gave Hong Mingxu another disconcerting look, Hong Mingxu turned his head away unhappily.

Cheng Su did not take Lin Lezhi's words to heart, but responded truthfully: "I will naturally resist with weapons and then chop off his head."

Life and death are already difficult to determine on the battlefield, and what Cheng Su said was just a common occurrence.

In order to save my life, I will naturally not show mercy.

However, the common people who had never seen the carnage on the battlefield, after hearing Cheng Su's words that he could easily take people's lives, even though they knew that he had no choice, still turned pale, their hair stood on end, and they gasped.

Lin Lezhi nodded slightly, his eyes also showing respect as he said, "Thank you, General, for telling me."

Then Lin Lezhi looked at everyone and said, "Whether it's a human or any living thing, when their lives are threatened, they will fight back. As the saying goes, a gecko will break its tail, a cornered dog will jump over the wall, and a rabbit will bite when it's cornered. Even a person who wants to die will instinctively resist, just because of the instinct to survive."

Lin Lezhi turned his gaze to Cheng Su again and said meaningfully: "But what if someone gave up the instinct to survive at the critical moment of life and death?"