ushernet Chapter 348 Guard Zhan, now get someone to carry the body out.
Chapter 348 Guard Zhan, now get someone to carry the body out.
Because He Xiaofeng was greatly frightened and mentally exhausted, and having already learned the other necessary information, she was taken away by He Xiaohui to rest, while the others remained at the crime scene to continue their investigation.
"The body is gone, only the carved blue human skin is left here. If the murderer killed Wei Qingchou for the carved blue human skin, why didn't he take the skin with him?" Fang Duobing wondered.
“Since no one went out all night, then…” Li Lianhua’s eyes slowly swept across all the corners: “The murderer and the body may not have left at all.”
Upon hearing Li Lianhua's guess, Fang Duobing immediately held his sword horizontally in front of his chest, and Li'er also hid behind them in a panic. Zhan Yunfei immediately told the guard Jingjie to stay outside.
"Aside from us, although I haven't sensed any living beings in this house, it's possible that the murderer is carrying a treasure that conceals their presence. Everyone, be careful."
Zhan Yunfei first searched several places where people could hide, and then the rest of the group began to search every detail inside the house, trying to find the hidden corpse and the murderer who was hiding.
"Miss Li'er, why are there such large red candles here?"
Looking at the unusually thick red candle, about the thickness and length of an adult man's arm, Li Lianhua was a little curious. These were usually only seen in places like temples.
"These were all specially ordered by the head of the hall. The second head of the hall likes luxury in everything. She likes a lively atmosphere and hopes that the bridal chamber will be lit with candles for three days and three nights. So these huge red candles were specially ordered."
Li'er walked over to the cabinet and said, "Besides these that are burning, there are more in the cabinet. Come and take a look."
Li'er opened the cabinet, only to find that there were none left: "They're all gone. It seems they've all been burned."
Li Lianhua also took a closer look and indeed, not a single stick was left: "How could the wedding have burned so quickly in just one night?"
Li'er shook her head: "Yesterday I did bring people to put a lot of them into the cabinet."
"Obviously, not all of these lights were burned together last night; otherwise, how could Guard Zhan have missed the unusually bright room? Perhaps someone else used them!"
"Miss Wu, red candles can be used for lighting, but what other uses do they have?" Li'er didn't know either.
"I found this." Zhan Yunfei approached, holding a vase. "There's something inside."
Fang Duobing took it and poured it into his palm. It was some irregular red fragments, like the aftermath of something breaking.
"what is this?"
"This is a fragment of a red jade bed. It's warm in winter and cool in summer, and very useful. My mother got some fine red jade stones a few years ago and made a bed for us."
"The jade bed?"
The group quickly arrived at the bedside, lifted the mattress, and saw a complete and undamaged piece of red jade bed.
Zhan Yunfei stretched out two fingers and rubbed them on the bed, then rubbed them together with his thumb: "This isn't red jade." He then brought it to his nose and smelled it: "This is wax."
“Miss Li’er, now we’ll show you the other uses of the red candle.”
Wu You lifted the straw hat on his head; wearing this thing was just not as convenient as a mask. Although he was still wearing a mask under his hat.
"Therefore, the disappearance of the red candles in the cabinet, and the uneven growth of the red candles on the candlestick, are all because someone broke the red jade bed and melted down the red candles in the room to cover it."
"It seems the fragments of the red jade that were chiseled off are scattered in various corners of the room. If I'm not mistaken, they're hidden under the red jade bed. Guard Zhan, have someone carry the body out now."