An hour later, everyone who had gone out returned except Tie Chengxuan.
But no one found any trace of Yang Qingyuan. Ji Yaohua found a scribe from Dali Temple and asked, "Do you know where Mr. Yang went?"
"The little official doesn't know"
With Yang Qingyuan's lightness skills, how could a scribe see his figure clearly while running at full speed?
Just when everyone was about to start exchanging information about the case, Yang Qingyuan also rushed back from the ice cellar, holding in his hand two paper molds of shoe prints that had just been measured.
"Sir, I seem to have figured it out!" Di Zhiyuan said as soon as he saw Yang Qingyuan.
When Di Zhiyuan went to the Li Mansion to resize shoe prints, he learned about the disappearance of Li Mansion's maid Lian Xiang.
Combined with the night he and Yang Qingyuan visited Li's house, Di Zhiyuan instantly thought that the blood stains on the ground might be the maid Lianxiang. In this way, the things were connected.
The maid Lianxiang was the first person to discover Li Bailiang's abnormality. She suddenly remembered the clues at the scene, and when she was about to inform the government, she was silenced by the murderer who learned about it.
Di Zhiyuan looked at the paper model of boots in Yang Qingyuan's hand, "Sir, you have thought of it too!"
The jade pendant around Yang Qingyuan's waist was covered with mist. Di Zhiyuan could tell at a glance that Yang Qingyuan came out of the ice cellar, so the paper model in Yang Qingyuan's hand was the size of Li Bailiang's boots.
Yang Qingyuan looked at Di Zhiyuan with a clear look in his eyes and smiled, "There should be more than one murderer!"
Ji Yaohua also took out two pairs of men's boots from the side, "These are the boots that Mrs. Li often goes to the shoe store to buy. I bought two pairs directly. I can directly compare the sizes of the two pairs of boots."
Hu Die took over Di Zhiyuan's investigation results and said, "There are a total of 115 male servants in the Li Mansion and a total of 115 people in the nursing home. I will be responsible for comparing these servants in the front yard!"
Yang Qingyuan waved his hand, "No need to go to such trouble, Zhiyuan, where are the shoe prints of the three people who first opened the door that day!?"
Di Zhiyuan took out three paper molds from a separate evidence bag, "I have already released the three of them individually!"
Yang Qingyuan first compared the paper model copied from Li Bailiang with two pairs of boots.
"This!! How can this not be right!?"
The other three people in the room were shocked when they saw this result. Ji Yaohua was the first to react.
“The two pairs of shoes Mrs. Li bought were not for Li Bailiang!!”
Later, Yang Qingyuan compared the paper models and boots of the three people who knocked open the door of Li Bailiang's room that day.
The shoes of Wangcai and Gensheng are exactly the same size as the two pairs of boots they brought back.
"The two of them are Mrs. Li's best friends!"
Ji Yaohua said in surprise, "This Mrs. Li has a big appetite and courage! How dare she have an affair with two men in the house?"
"Two?" Yang Qingyuan's brows furrowed again.
Although we now know who the people who had an affair with Mrs. Li are, there is no direct evidence that they are the murderers of Li Bailiang and the maid Lianxiang.
And how did that secret room come to be? Even for people in the mansion, it would be impossible for them to complete such a secret room.
"Sir, what are you thinking about?" Ji Yaohua also noticed the expression on Yang Qingyuan's face.
"I'm thinking, if Wangcai and Gensheng are the murderers, then how did they complete such a closed secret room?"
"A closed secret room? Your Majesty, these words are too absolute!" Di Zhiyuan looked at Yang Qingyuan who had fallen into a dead end and laughed.
"Have you figured out how to create a secret room!?" Di Zhiyuan made Yang Qingyuan's eyes light up.
"That's not true," Di Zhiyuan waved his hand, "but how do you know that it is a secret room!?"
"Of course it's because..." Yang Qingyuan suddenly couldn't continue.
Yes, no one present, including the Jingzhao Mansion police officers, had seen the secret room with their own eyes. Everything was learned from other people's mouths.
However, because no flaws were found during the inspection of the scene that day, Yang Qingyuan defaulted to it as an established fact.
According to what Butler Li said that day, he and his maid Lian Xiang only called for the door but never pushed it open. The ones who really knocked on the door were Ah Fu, Wang Cai, and Gen Sheng!
And two of them are now highly suspected of being the murderers, so this secret room may be tampered with.
Looking at the confident Di Zhiyuan, Yang Qingyuan asked the question that everyone present wanted to ask: "But what can be done to make Ah Fu, Butler Li and the maid Lianxiang who were present at that time also think that it is a secret room?"
"Who said you need to hide it from three people?" Di Zhiyuan paused and continued: "What if there are not two murderers but three?"
Yang Qingyuan heard the second half of Di Zhiyuan's sentence and instantly understood, yes, it is difficult to create such a secret room in a short time, but what if this secret room does not exist at all?
What if the door had no lock at all on that day and the door bolt had broken before the impact?
There were only three people who actually knocked on the door that day. If these three people happen to be the murderers, then they only need to perform a show of knocking on the door in front of others to hide it from everyone.
Everyone in the Li Mansion knew that Li Bailiang liked to lock the door when sleeping, so most people would not try to push the door hard. Butler Li was not young, so it was impossible for him to knock on the door himself.
Even if this plan fails, it will still not have too much adverse impact on the murderer, but if it succeeds, the suspicion will be cleared.
At this point, all the logic has been straightened out, the case is basically clear, and the only missing piece is the evidence.
Were Gensheng and the other three people the first to arrive at the scene, or were they the three who knocked open the door of the room where the death occurred, so it is normal for these three people to leave fingerprints and traces in the room.
Yang Qingyuan could not find any evidence to prove the facts for a while.
"In this case, Zhiyuan, you can first bring Li Afu, Li Gensheng, and Li Wangcai to your residence."
Yang Qingyuan immediately wrote three detention orders in handwriting and stamped them with the official seal of the Minister of Dali Temple.
"yes!"
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Outside the Li Mansion, Ye Jianhan was holding a sword and eating meat buns.
This kind of job of stalking requires a lot of patience. Ye Jianhan is a person who is very afraid of boredom. He simply has the miraculous talent of multitasking and can deduce his swordsmanship in his mind at any time.
So he is never bored.
Of course, it would be great if there was an opponent to stretch his muscles.
It's a pity that although there is a nursing home in the Li Mansion, the strongest one is Tongmai. He is not young anymore, so it is difficult to be his opponent.
"Who is it?" Ye Jianhan swallowed the remaining half of the bun in one gulp, raised his body and jumped onto the roof.
A man in black leapt over Li's house.
At this sensitive moment, an unknown master appeared in Li's house. After Ye Jianhan thought quietly, he chased after him.
Before leaving, he told the remaining detectives to keep an eye on the Li Mansion. After saying this, he flew after the man in black.