When everyone heard Shen Lian's words, they couldn't help but show admiration on their faces.
Zhao Yeqin and Han Xun couldn't help but nod.
They knew that there was nothing wrong with Shen Lian's inference!
At a fire scene where almost all evidence had disappeared, Shen Lian was able to deduce the truth of the matter in such a short period of time, which made them all feel amazing!
…
Du Chuke, on the other hand, had a look of surprise on his face.
The cause of the fire was found and it was the thief who deliberately set the fire. In this case, his responsibility can be reduced a lot.
Du Chuke hurriedly said: "Master Shen, you are so awesome!"
"sharp?"
When Shen Lian heard this, he shook his head.
He said calmly: "It's not that I am powerful, but the evidence is too obvious."
"In other words, Zhang Qin had no intention of hiding his evidence of arson."
"Otherwise, he might not have time to deal with the dripping kerosene, but he can bring only one of those porcelain bottles."
"However, there are several identical porcelain bottles on his bookshelf. There is no doubt that he left them here on purpose, so that you can eventually find out that he set the fire!"
"this……"
Du Chuke was stunned for a moment.
"He, why would he do this?"
"Why deliberately leave evidence?"
Du Chuke was really confused after listening to Shen Lian's words.
He didn't understand what Shen Lian meant.
"Why did Zhang Qin leave such conclusive evidence when he set the fire?"
"Isn't he afraid that he will eventually be discovered, arrested, and held responsible for this matter?"
Shen Lian said calmly: "Why should he be afraid of being discovered?"
"What?"
Du Chuke was startled.
Shen Lian glanced at Zhao Yeqin and Han Xun, and said slowly: "Because, his original plan was to escape from the Ministry of Industry directly after setting the fire."
"From now on, he can hide his name anonymously, the sea is wide enough for fish to leap, and the sky is high enough for birds to fly. So, why should he be afraid of being discovered?"
"Even if he is discovered, what will happen? You want to arrest him, but where will you catch him? He may have left Chang'an City long ago."
"And he deliberately left these porcelain bottles. There is no doubt that he was deliberately mocking you. He was mocking you for finding out it was him so late. He was mocking you. Even if you found him, what would happen? He is still living freely, and You can only jump in place!"
Hearing Shen Lian's words, Du Chuke was completely stunned.
He never thought that the truth of the matter would be like this!
After Zhang Qin set the fire, he actually wanted to escape immediately!
He couldn't help but said: "Zhang Qin, do you really want to escape?"
Shen Lian nodded slightly: "I have been to Zhang Qin's office, and I found that Zhang Qin did nothing the whole day today."
"He did not do any official duties and set such a fire at night... He could never have imagined what kind of investigation would be launched within the Ministry of Industry after such a fire occurred."
"And he has done nothing today. This very obvious anomaly will definitely be treated with emphasis, and it is very likely that he will be suspected directly."
"But he still did it, so this evidence also corresponds to the evidence of those porcelain bottles."
"You can compare each other."
"Zhang Qin planned to escape directly. He didn't even think about trying to get through or pretending."
Du Chuke frowned.
He gritted his teeth and said: "This traitor, he set the fire and still wanted to escape!"
"Originally, I felt a little sorry for his death, but now, I just feel happy!"
"He deserves it!"
"If he hadn't been killed, he would have gone out to enjoy himself long ago!"
Shen Lian nodded slightly.
He played with the stone tiger sculpture in his hand, and gently stroked the tiger's missing ear with his fingertips.
"He was very conceited and deliberately left so many obvious clues to help us find him as the arsonist."
"He wanted to run away and be free outside. He looked at us from a distance and looked at us, even if we found him, there would be nothing we could do."
"It's a pity that he calculated everything, but he failed to calculate that he would die in this inconspicuous stone sculpture."
Shen Lian looked at Han Xun and said, "Actually, this tiger's ears were not knocked off by Zhao Yeqin a few days ago, right?"
"Its ears should have been accidentally knocked off by you when you attacked Zhang Qin!"
"Also, his special pair of scarlet eyes..."
Shen Lian said calmly: "Similarly, you didn't do it on purpose, right?"
"These eyes should have been colorless originally, but after killing Zhang Qin, their eyes were dyed bright red."
"And because the eyes were sunken when this stone sculpture was made, they were small and sunken. In a short period of time, it was impossible to find a convenient tool to wipe away the blood stains on the eyes."
"So, you can only lie and claim that the eyes of this stone sculpture were drawn that way on purpose."
Zhao Yeqin couldn't help but swallow and spit.
Han Xun looked at the stone sculpture in silence and said nothing.
Shen Lian said: "When we did the autopsy, we found that there were some stone chips near the wound of the deceased."
"So he concluded that the murder weapon might be a stone."
"However, there were no stone weapons at the scene."
"It was obvious that the murder weapon was hidden."
"At that time, I was very confused. If it was just an ordinary big stone, there would be no need to hide the murder weapon. After all, someone might hit it while hiding the murder weapon."
"But the murderer still hid the murder weapon. So, there is no doubt that this murder weapon is special and cannot be thrown away casually. Once it is discovered, the murderer's identity will be directly guessed."
"At that time, I was thinking, what kind of murder weapon would it be, so that if it could be found, the murderer would be known?"
"until……"
Shen Lian lowered his head and looked at the lifelike stone sculpture in his hand, and said calmly: "I discovered it."
As Shen Lian's voice sounded.
Everyone's eyes also fell on the stone sculpture of a tiger descending from the mountain that he was playing with.
I saw this tiger, one of its ears was missing, and it looked very strange.
His eyes were sunken and bright red, like blood.
When Shen Lian didn't explain, although everyone also saw the tiger, they didn't pay too much attention.
But now, following Shen Lian's explanation, if you look at the stone sculpture again, you will find that there are indeed clues everywhere!
Du Chuke couldn't help but sigh: "Master Shen, you once again made me feel the gap in wisdom!"
"Who would have thought that in just a moment, you could connect all the doubts and clues together to form a perfect logical closed loop."
When Wang Xiaohua heard Du Chuke praise Shen Lian, pride and admiration bloomed in her beautiful eyes.
It was as if praising Shen Lian made her happier than praising her ten thousand times.
Shen Lian shook his head: "This closed loop is actually missing one link."
"What link is missing?" Du Chuke asked.
Shen Lian looked at Han Xun and said, "These can only prove that this stone sculpture is a murder weapon, but they cannot prove who used it."
"And it wasn't until you entered this office that I allowed my officer to transfer the suspect's suspicion to you."
When Han Xun heard this, he couldn't help but frown.
Zhao Yeqin looked at Shen Lian hurriedly.
"Oh, I forgot to mention that."
Shen Lian looked at Zhao Yeqin and said, "You are right. In fact, I was the one who suspected you at the beginning."
"I have always suspected that you are the murderer of Zhang Qin."
"It's not that I have any evidence, it's mainly that you act too guilty."
Zhao Yeqin's expression suddenly froze.
"Heart...feeling guilty?"
Shen Lian nodded: "Yes, it's the same as your expression now."
"Your little actions and many of your details show that you lied to me."
"So, I almost went in the wrong direction because of your lies."
"But fortunately, Han Xun was afraid that you would make too many mistakes and that I would find key evidence, so he had to enter here. This allowed me to remove the suspicion from you."
At this moment, Zhao Yeqin didn't know whether he should be happy or sad.
He said: "Master Han, where did he show his flaws? Do you want to doubt him?"
Shen Lian looked at Han Xun and said calmly: "His biggest flaw is that he was too eager to take away this stone sculpture."
"Although you always acted very calmly, you didn't feel any panic when you picked up the stone sculpture and put it in the box."
"But by that time, I had already noticed the problem with this stone sculpture, and was almost certain that the stone sculpture was the murder weapon."
"So at this time, you have loaded up the murder weapon and are about to leave. This makes it impossible for me not to doubt you."
Han Xun was silent for a moment, and finally sighed: "So is there a flaw here?"
Han Xun's words were tantamount to confirming all of Shen Lian's assumptions.
Zhao Yeqin was shocked and hurriedly said: "Master Han, you..."
Han Xun shook his head, stopped Zhao Yeqin's words, and said, "There is no need to insist any longer."
"Master Shen is the most intelligent man in the Tang Dynasty. He has already reached this point. No matter how much I persist, I will just act like a funny monkey in front of Master Shen."
Shen Lian looked at him and said, "Actually, you can still persist."
"Because so far, I can only prove that the murderer was sitting in your seat, drinking tea together, and that he used your stone sculpture to kill him."
"But I can't completely confirm that you are the murderer."
"Although you want to take away the murder weapon, you can always find a reason to say that you didn't know it was the murder weapon. As long as you keep denying it, there will be no ironclad evidence."
When Zhao Yeqin heard this, he quickly said, "Yes, why did you just admit it?"
When Han Xun heard this, he looked at Shen Lian and asked, "Master Shen, is there really no ironclad proof that the third person sitting here is me?"
When Shen Lian heard this, he glanced at Han Xun, and then said slowly: "Of course there is."
"However, it's not because there are witnesses or physical evidence."
"It's because of your relationship with Zhang Qin."
Hearing Shen Lian's words, Han Xun's pupils trembled slightly.
Wang Xiaohua and others all looked at Han Xun.
Du Chuke hurriedly asked: "Master Shen, what is the relationship between Han Xun and Zhang Qin?"
He frowned and said: "According to my understanding, Han Xun and Zhang Qin have almost no private contacts except for normal official business."
"Normally in the yamen, they only have an ordinary relationship as colleagues and don't talk much at all, so what relationship can they have?"
When Wang Xiaohua heard this, she couldn't help but said: "In other words, on the surface, there is no relationship between them at all?"
After listening to what everyone said, Shen Lian looked at Han Xun and said, "Do you say it or does I say it?"
Han Xun sighed: "Thank you, Master Shen."
Zhao Yeqin on the side looked anxious, but in the end, he only let out a long sigh.
Shen Lian nodded slightly: "In that case, I will tell you."
Everyone's eyes fell on Shen Lian again.
Shen Lian picked up the tea cup and said, "I just said that Zhang Qin had already made the decision to escape before setting the fire."
"So, under normal circumstances, after setting up the ignition device, he should actually leave."
"The fire hadn't broken out at that time. If he left, no one would stop him."
"And if you leave at this time, you will have more time to escape from Chang'an City, a place of right and wrong."
"But, he didn't."
Du Chuke said: "The Ministry of Industry has many tasks today, and I ask everyone to stay and handle official business."
Shen Lian shook his head and said: "Master Du, your order may be useful to others, but it will have no effect on a person who has already decided to escape."
"Let me ask, if Zhang Qin makes excuses, saying that there are important things at home, or that he is not feeling well, or that he has to go back to his hometown to do official business, Mr. Du, will you disagree and insist on letting him stay?"
Du Chuke was stunned for a moment.
Then he shook his head and said: "Of course I will not be so unreasonable."
Shen Lian shrugged: "Look, if Zhang Qin wants to leave, who can stop him?"
Du Chuke was silent for a moment and said, "Then why didn't he leave?"
"Yeah, why didn't he leave?"
Shen Lian said: "I was very curious at first."
"Moreover, even if Zhang Qin did not leave in time before the fire, he still did not leave in time after the fire broke out."
"This is even more unreasonable."
"At that time, I was really troubled by this problem."
"Based on my speculation, I think the reason why he didn't leave immediately was because he had other things to do that he felt were very important."
"This matter must be done before he leaves."
"But what is this matter? I still haven't guessed it."
"until……"
Shen Lian paused for a moment and said slowly: "When I came here and discovered the first scene of Zhang Qin's murder, I realized that the important thing for Zhang Qin was to come here to drink tea. "
"Come here for tea?"
Wang Xiaohua blinked: "What kind of important thing is this?"
Shen Lian smiled and said: "Of course, drinking tea itself is not important, but the people you meet while drinking tea are important."
Wang Xiaohua blinked: "What kind of important thing is this?"
Shen Lian smiled and said: "Of course, drinking tea itself is not important, but the people you meet while drinking tea are important."