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

Chapter 145 Don’t Talk About Night in Broad Daylight

Looking at the skull in front of him with smoke coming out, Lin Lezhi's eyes darkened.

The skull is tan in color.

Cigarettes can be seen placed inside the eyes of the skull, and a transparent liquid is constantly flowing down from the stove protrusion below the skull. The liquid has already flowed onto the stove, and the edges have turned white and milky white.

Moving your eyes downward, you can see sparks where firewood is being added.

After asking Cheng Su for instructions with his eyes, Hong Mingxu walked into the house, walked slowly and cautiously to the earthen stove, and after confirming that there was no danger around, he reached out and picked up the skull on the stove.

The moment it was picked up, the liquid that had not yet flowed out of the skull, all flowed out from the bottom of the skull, and the cigarette placed in the skull fell into the liquid on the stove with a "pop".

Looking at the liquid flowing down in a trickle, Hong Mingxu couldn't help but show some disgust in his eyes, but he still stretched out his finger to dip the liquid on the stove and put it to his nose to sniff it.

"General, it's wax."

Hong Mingxu looked at Cheng Su, his serious expression tinged with a hint of doubt.

"Wax?"

"General, it's wax, that's right. Some of the wax on the stove has dried up." After saying that, Hong Mingxu squatted down and looked at the fire. "General, there is also wax in the fire hole."

Cheng Su walked into the house and squatted at the fire hole. A large amount of wax had gathered next to the firewood pile. There was even so much wax that it flowed out of the fire hole.

Cheng Su took out a fire starter and shone it into the fire hole.

"General, let me do it." Hong Mingxu was worried that there was a trick, so he put the skull aside. Because he didn't put it properly, the skull fell on the stove.

Hong Mingxu took the fire starter in his hand and put it into the fire hole.

With the help of the light of the fire.

It can be seen that there are traces of wax flowing down from above on the stove wall, all of which flowed down from the stove protrusion.

Standing outside the door, looking at the skull placed on the stove, Lin Lezhi tucked the sword under his arm, then raised his hands and looked at his hands carefully.

Sometimes parallel, sometimes separate.

When separated, there was a palm's distance in between.

"What time is it that you are still admiring your hands?"

Liu Yunhe stood aside, muttering softly, with a hint of disdain in his eyes.

Lin Lezhi glanced at Liu Yunhe, smiled slightly, and whispered: "I don't just want to see my own hand, I also want to borrow your hand to see it."

"Hey…"

Lin Lezhi didn't explain and threw the sword back to Liu Yunhe. Then he pulled Liu Yunhe's free hand over, raised it in front of his eyes, and placed it side by side with his own hand.

After looking at it, Lin Lezhi let go of Liu Yunhe's hand.

Looking at the skull on the stove, his eyes darkened and he murmured, "It is so."

"Did Master Lin discover anything?"

Jiang Lian'an's voice came from the side, attracting the attention of people around.

Cheng Su stood up and walked towards Lin Lezhi, and asked with a serious expression: "What did you find?"

Seeing that everyone's eyes were looking at him, Lin Lezhi smiled awkwardly, then looked at the skull on the stove and said, "Nothing... nothing, I just think this skull looks familiar."

"Look familiar?" Cheng Su's eyes darkened. "Explain it more clearly."

"Yes, I wonder if the general could show me the skull."

After thinking about it, Cheng Su raised his hand and motioned Hong Mingxu to bring the skull over.

"for you."

"Thank you, Captain Hong."

Lin Lezhi took the skull with both hands.

There is a scratch on the forehead of the skull, and the wax at the bottom of the skull has gradually dried and turned waxy white.

Lin Lezhi turned the skull over and looked inside, and found that the wax was only concentrated at the bottom of the skull. There was no trace of wax inside, only the smell of gunpowder smoked by letter smoke.

"Why does this skull look familiar to you? Have you seen it before?" Hong Mingxu looked at Lin Lezhi with a hint of suspicion in his eyes.

Lin Lezhi nodded and admitted, "I have indeed seen it."

"what?"

"I have seen it, but I'm not the only one who has seen it."

"Who?" Cheng Su's eyes darkened and he asked seriously.

"That's quite a lot." After thinking for a moment, Lin Lezhi looked at Cheng Su without a trace of joking and said, "If you really want to count, you've seen it, General Cheng."

"What did you say!"

Seeing that Lin Lezhi was disrespectful to Cheng Suyi, Hong Mingxu looked displeased and wanted to draw the sword at his waist.

Seeing this, Lin Lezhi knew he had to admit defeat and said, "Captain Hong, please don't be angry. I don't mean to slander the general. I'm serious. If what I said is wrong, it's not too late for you to be angry."

Cheng Su raised his hand to stop Hong Mingxu.

Hong Mingxu snorted, pushed back the sword he had already drawn, and said coldly: "You'd better tell the truth."

"Of course it's true. In fact, not only General Cheng and I have seen it, but also Captain Hong, Magistrate Chang, Detective Jiang Gui, and everyone who was in the basement that day has seen it."

"Lin...Lin Lezhi, you can't talk nonsense. I...we have never seen this skull before." Chang Feizhang stood aside and said in horror.

"County Magistrate Chang, I'm not talking about this skull. What I'm talking about is..." Lin Lezhi raised the skull and said calmly, "We have seen the owner of this skull, and he is right next to us now."

After hearing what Lin Lezhi said, the expression on Chang Feizhang's face became even more interesting. His eyes quickly swept around, and he was extremely nervous.

"Lin Lezhi, why...why are you talking nonsense in broad daylight? How could a dead person be around us? This is not the way to joke."

"Yeah, Brother Lin, you can't joke like this in a place like this." Guo Yong also echoed, looking at the skull in Lin Lezhi's hand, his face somewhat panicked.

"I'm not kidding. It's right outside the courtyard. Follow me and you'll see."

As soon as these words were spoken, those who were unaware of the situation felt a chill run down their spines, and no one dared to follow Lin Lezhi to see.

"What Mr. Lin said is indeed correct. The owner of the skull is indeed in this village, and was carried in by everyone." Jiang Lian'an, who was standing aside, suddenly spoke up.

"Jiang...Jiang Guitan, how can you say such things too?" After two people said this in a row, Chang Feizhang was so scared that he couldn't even speak clearly.

Jiang Lian'an calmed everyone down and said, "Just as Master Lin said, everyone who has been to the underground chamber has seen the owner of the skull. I think the owner of the skull that Master Lin is referring to is not something extraordinary, but the headless corpse found in Wu Sanshan's underground chamber."

Jiang Lian'an looked in the direction of Lin Lezhi, and said with a smile in his eyes: "Mr. Lin, I wonder... am I right?"

"That's exactly what Detective Jiang said."

After listening to Jiang Lian'an's explanation, everyone finally felt relieved.

Everyone came outside the yard and opened the coffin that was carried out from Wu Sanshan's underground chamber. After a long journey, various parts of the body were scattered in the coffin.

There are quite a few leaves in the coffin, and judging by their freshness, they must have fallen not long ago.

"How come there are so many leaves in the coffin after one night?"

While the corpse was being restored, Lin Lezhi approached a soldier, looked at the leaves in the coffin, and asked in confusion.

A soldier nearby heard this and explained, "After the coffin was moved out from the basement last night, the general was afraid that it would disturb the people's rest, so he sent us to guard Wu Sanshan's house. We kept it in the yard overnight and moved it to the barracks early in the morning. These leaves may have fallen in through the cracks in the coffin lid."

"So that's how it is. Thank you for telling me, Mr. Bing."

As the bones in the coffin were removed, the leaves were moved aside.

There are the same cracks on the bottom of the coffin as on the coffin lid.

When the coffin was moved to the side, a few leaves fell from the cracks at the bottom.