The voice was neither too loud nor too soft, just right into Liu Xiaoran's ears.

He also felt the same way. Ding Ziping's reaction was not like that of a woman who lost her husband. It was more like she knew something, and she was deliberately concealing it. However, there was no real evidence to point to her at the moment, and Ding Ziping returned to the room.From the perspective of time, she should have no possibility of committing a crime.

Then why is she hiding it?

Su Mu stroked the bangs on his cheeks, and suggested: "Since we have been able to determine the cause of Master Hong's death this time, why don't we go to the scene again? Maybe there will be other discoveries this time."

After getting tacit approval, the two walked silently into the study where the crime happened.

After receiving Liu Xiaoran's order, there were guards at the door of the house, so the house remained in its original state.After a long time, all kinds of dirty things left on the ground began to emit a smell, which was quite disgusting.

Su Mu frowned and sighed secretly: Masks are considered one of the greatest inventions of mankind.

And when he turned his head slightly, he saw that Liu Xiaoran didn't seem to feel anything, not to mention frowning, his face was as expressionless as an iceberg, as if Su Mu was the only one in the room who had a sense of smell.

Now Su Mu felt a little embarrassed, so he could only slow down his breathing and try to relax his facial expression, which barely looked the same as usual.

"There are no traces of dragging around the chair, but here on the chair..." Su Mu twisted it carefully with his fingers, and some grass clipped on his fingertips, "This wooden chair is made of mahogany., there will never be such things as grass clippings, so this should be the trace left by the rope when the murderer borrowed the back of the chair to strangle the person, and it can be regarded as supporting the previous conjecture."

"There are very few people who know how to judge the scars of life and death. Even the foreman may not be able to see clearly. It is really rare for this murderer to take this into consideration." Su Mu shook his head, "It's justIn my opinion, the risk is even greater, if Master Hong wakes up halfway, human instinct will prompt him to save himself, and it will be a waste of effort. Could it be that the murderer has other considerations?"

He talked on his own for a long while without waiting for anyone to speak to him, and when he raised his head in doubt, he met Liu Xiaoran's eyes, only then realized that Lu Lingjue was not by his side at this moment, and it was quite normal for him not to respond.

"Perhaps when the murderer thought Hong Chengyu was dead." Liu Xiaoran said indifferently, "If a person's breathing and pulse are so weak that it is almost impossible to detect, then it is easy to be regarded as dead."

"Status of suspended animation?" Su Mu thought for a moment, and felt that it was quite reasonable. Thinking about it this way is much more reasonable. The murderer must have thought that he had succeeded, but Hong Chengyu still had a glimmer of life, so the wound appeared not very obvious.life reaction.

"I didn't expect Liu Shaoqing to know this?" Su Mu clapped his hands and straightened his waist. "Is this a special requirement for entering Dali Temple?"

Liu Xiaoran paused, and an unnatural look flashed across her face: "It's just that I've heard someone say it before, and I have some impressions."

Su Mu didn't care, and turned his head to look at other places, but in the ancient times without fingerprint technology and various trace trace detection, no matter how carefully he looked, he couldn't find any useful clues.

He and Liu Xiaoran went out the door one after the other, and just after taking a few steps, Lu Lingjue rushed up again.

"My lord! You really guessed right. Someone in the Hong Mansion bought some unusual things." Lu Lingjue obviously rushed back in a hurry, and took a big breath after speaking, "Mandala.”

After a while, several people gathered again in the main hall of the Hong Mansion.

It's just that compared to the situation just now, there are a few more people now.

County magistrate Wu went to the pharmacy with Lu Lingjue just now, but he turned around after asking about the result, and Lu Lingjue disappeared without a trace. He thought that most of the people were in the Hong residence, so he hurried over with the pharmacy manager.

Ding Ziping's face became even more ugly when a circle of people stood in the main hall.

Liu Xiaoran still had the same expression, and he still couldn't hear any emotion when he spoke: "Mrs. Ding, do you know what a mandala is?"

Ding Ziping became hesitant.

"Master Liu, is this...?"

"Bring it, bring it." Lu Lingjue's voice came from outside, and Hong Chengyu's only heir, Hong Nianan, who was thirteen years old at the time, followed him.

Seeing Lu Lingjue with Hong Nianan, Ding Ziping was a little confused: "My lord! Why did you bring the child here, he is only this age, he doesn't know anything!"

"Yes, he is only thirteen years old, but he already understands the function of mandala, doesn't he?" Lu Lingjue retorted nonchalantly, "It's just that children are not careful enough in doing things, even buying medicines is a big deal.I went there in person, isn't this something that can be caught immediately?"

Although Hong Nianan is only thirteen years old, he has a calmness and calmness that does not match his age when he encounters this situation, and he does not refute the accusation of the pharmacy manager.

"Yes, I drugged him." Hong Nianan's eyes darkened, "I just wanted to kill him."

He answered simply, but the people around him were shocked.Su Muben also thought it was incredible that a thirteen-year-old child could plan to kill his own father like this, but he didn't expect Hong Nianan to admit in front of everyone that he wanted to kill his biological father.

County Magistrate Wu trembled even more. When Hong Nianan spoke, he was full of coldness, and his own child was also of this age, which made him feel a little shivering down his spine.

"That's your father..." he started, before he was interrupted by Hong Nianan.

"Father? He is worthy too?" Hong Nianan's expression was full of disdain, "A person who has always only vented his anger on his wife and children?"

Ding Ziping was so shocked by this series of accidents that she almost collapsed to the ground, she sobbed even more after hearing this, and then suddenly knelt down in front of Liu Xiaoran.

"My lord, my lord Liu!" Ding Ziping raised her head, her eyes were red, and said almost pleadingly, "My lord, Nian An is still a child and he doesn't know anything, my lord, it's me, I bought the medicine and gave it to the masterand then strangled him with a rope, I did it all by myself, it has nothing to do with Nian An, my lord!"

Seeing his mother pleading, Hong Nianan began to break down even at a young age, and shouted hoarsely: "It has nothing to do with my mother! The mandala I bought has not been used up, and it is on my bedside."I left a copy, you can all check it! I just want to kill him, I just want to kill him!"

"Why does he? Why does he beat and scold my mother at will? He and—" Hong Nianan suddenly paused, "He had an affair with another woman, and after being discovered by my mother, he beat her on the head with a stool., if I hadn't been at home that day! My mother...my mother..."

"A few days ago he was in a bad mood and got drunk. My mother took good care of him, but she was beaten again, saying that it was my mother's broom star that made the family restless, and even threatened to kill my mother one day..”

It seemed that recalling the past experience made his hatred more obvious, Hong Nianan rushed towards Liu Xiaoran, like a little wild beast, and asked, pulling at Liu Xiaoran's sleeve.

"Do you check? Will you check? Do you know how stupid he is at home!"

He looked at Liu Xiaoran without showing any sign of weakness, and the innocent look that a teenager should have had completely disappeared in his eyes, "He has been like this since I can remember, he said that a husband is a wife, and even if he beat my mother to death, the government will not give up.There is no reason to arrest him. I would like to ask, the government is said in the book to be the parent's official, do you really care about people's life and death? I once went to the county government to play drums, but everyone said I was just kidding around, if I didn'tIf you kill him, do you really want to wait for the day when he kills my mother?"

Years of dissatisfaction and hatred are intertwined to form the most absurd story.

But Su Mu knew that even if Hong Nianan really wanted to kill someone, he didn't kill him.

The author has something to say:

Mandala was introduced to China in the Tang Dynasty, and it is commonly known as Mongolian sweat medicine.And "Compendium of Materia Medica" has a record of it. Since I didn't find any more accurate and earlier records of its name, I directly used the name of Datura flower in the Compendium of Materia Medica.