"Then, did anything unusual happen at the inn yesterday?"
The waiter thought for a moment and shook his head.
"No!"
"Did the deceased come out after she checked in? Or did anyone come to look for her? "
"I don't think so! I remember that she went into her room after having dinner downstairs and never came out again. "
"Then when was it?" "About a quarter past five, but at a quarter to seven, I went in and gave her a pot of tea. She was still there at that time, and I didn't see her come out after that. I've been guarding her downstairs. Because her room is next to the staircase, it's very conspicuous. I'm very sure that no one went in again.
The waiter said resolutely.
Ji Yunshu trusted him!
She glanced at the corpse, her gaze falling on the unsightly hands with protruding knuckles. She turned to Jiao Shiniang's two waiters.
"What about you? Did anyone see the deceased after the hour? "
The two waiters shook their heads.
"Did she have any enemies? Before or after coming to the capital, did anyone have any disputes with her? " "This …" The slightly stronger waiter thought again, "Shiniang was famous for being a good person. She never had any disputes with anyone in business, and she had many friends in the jianghu. She didn't have any enemies! This year was also our first time coming to the capital to attend the triennial Chamber of Commerce.
Who was the murderer? How could he be so cruel? Shiniang was such a good person, but … "
Sigh!
The two waiters' eyes reddened, and they lifted their sleeves to wipe their tears.
Although Ji Yunshu sympathized with them, she continued to ask, "Did she see anyone you don't know? Or after you checked in at the inn, before the hour, did anyone go to look for Shiniang? " "No, we came to the inn as soon as we entered the capital, and no one went to look for her. Shiniang said that there were too many people in the capital recently, so she told us to stay in the inn. She didn't go out either, and went into her room after dinner. Just like what the waiter said, Shiniang never came out." The waiter hurriedly said, "Oh yes, although I didn't see Shiniang after the hour, I remember that at a quarter past the hour, I wanted to go to the toilet and happened to pass by Shiniang's room. At that time, I thought I saw two shadows in Shiniang's room, but they disappeared in the blink of an eye.
No one cares. "
"Shadow?" Everyone tensed up.
Could the other one be the murderer?
The waiter said, "I think so, or maybe I'm mistaken."
Ji Yunshu pressed on, "Describe it to me. What did the shadow look like? High? Short? Fat? Or thin? Or does it have any other characteristics? "
The shop assistant gulped, lowered his eyebrows, and opened his mouth. After a long time, he finally said something astonishing, "It's … exactly the same, exactly the same shadow!"
Huh?
Everyone present was shocked!
He felt a chill run down his spine.
Everyone knew that a person only had one shadow. How could there be two? After the waiter finished speaking, even he himself was scared. His face turned pale and his lips trembled as he said, "That's why I said I might have seen wrongly. How could there be two identical shadows in the room? At that time, I was in a hurry to go to the bathroom, so I didn't pay much attention to it.
I'm scared. "
He hugged his trembling arms.
He really hoped that he was mistaken!
Although this matter was strange, after all, only the shop assistant had seen it. Perhaps he had really seen wrongly. Ji Yunshu pondered. If what the waiter and the two waiter said was true, that no one entered or came out after 11 pm, then how did the murderer bring the victim out of the room? And why did he kill elsewhere? Why didn't he destroy the body, and then move it back? He even changed!
He was so perverted that he could do so many strange things!
Ji Yunshu's heart pounded. She walked to the window again and looked at the sand on it, deep in thought.
Jing Rong walked over and stood beside her, saying, "Are you thinking that the murderer must be an expert? That's why he was able to carry a person from such a high place and bring her back so quietly?" "Yes, but not entirely. Actually, I'm thinking of something else." "That's right. She said, "If the murderer really wanted to kill someone, based on the fact that he or she could jump over such a high wall without making a sound, it should be very easy to kill a person. Why would he bring the victim out and kill her? And then carry her back? And change the clothes of the victim?
Wear a mask? And even use wax to stick the victim's hands? Why did he or she do all this? "
She couldn't figure it out for the time being!
Jing Rong looked outside and then turned to look at the corpse. He guessed, "Perhaps … the murderer is a perverted and twisted killer. He purposely made the corpse look like this. To him or her, it was a form of satisfaction!"
There were indeed such perverted killers, and there were many of them. They killed to satisfy their own desires and pleasure, and then presented the corpse as he or she imagined it to be, not even the slightest bit different!
Ji Yunshu nodded, "What you said is not unreasonable."
After saying that, her eyes swept across the room again, and finally fell on the big boxes stacked up.
Her nose wrinkled slightly.
The air was filled with a faint fragrance from the boxes, like the smell of jasmine and cream.
It was refreshing!
The spices in the Lingnan region were famous for their good smell. Many madams and young ladies of rich families loved the spices from the Lingnan region. Not only did it smell good, but if it was made into perfume and sprayed on the body, the fragrance would last for a month.
So not only was it expensive, but it was also very rare.
She reached out to touch one of the boxes, and slowly slid it to another.
Huh?
At that moment, her eyes widened in shock.
She touched the other boxes a few more times.
She muttered, "Why is the temperature of the big box at the bottom different from the other boxes?"
The boxes at the top were normal room temperature, but the big box at the bottom was slightly colder.
"Are these all spices from the Lingnan region?" She asked the two assistants.
One of them answered, "Yes, these boxes contain our spices from the Lingnan region. Before entering the capital, they were all sealed because our spices don't get wet easily. Shiniang instructed us not to open the boxes before entering the Chamber of Commerce, so as to avoid getting wet."
"Then the box at the bottom is also filled with spices?"
"Yes!"
Ji Yunshu was suspicious, and she wanted to open it to take a look. However, the assistant said that if she opened it, it might get wet. What if she was just being paranoid? Wouldn't that ruin their business?
She couldn't!
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