"What... what is this?" the butler asked with wide eyes.

"This is a light red soil, slightly sticky, without sand, and contains a little smell of tofu. As far as I know, only the green bamboo forest in Fengyang County has such soil."

"But how did it appear in the Cai Mansion and on your young lady's shoes?"

Qi Ying's words made the butler unable to answer for a while and became a little stuttered: "How do I know this?"

"This only shows that your young lady had been to the Green Bamboo Forest before her death. Judging from the soil under her feet, the soil was still very moist and had not lasted for more than three hours!"

Qi Ying said: "In other words, after your young lady went to Qingzhulin, she died in the room when she came back!"

As he spoke, he looked at the butler coldly and asked: "Didn't you say that she has never gone out!"

"This, this, maybe I remembered it wrong." The housekeeper was already a little panicked and began to get sloppy.

"Hmph!" Qi Ying ignored him because he knew that he could not ask anything from the butler, and the Cai family was a wealthy family, so he could not catch him and torture him.

But this case obviously made him suspicious. After observing the body for a while, he looked up at the beam of the room, then took a little ground under his feet and flew up.

He was very agile. He jumped under the beam and stretched out his right hand, gently lifted the hanging hemp rope and looked at it. Then he touched the beam with his hands, narrowing his eyes again.

After he landed, a soldier also came forward: "Brother Qi."

Qi Ying didn't explain anything, but moved a stool, stepped on it, pulled the hanging rope, and put his head into it.

Looking at his actions, not only did the Cai family housekeeper widen his eyes, but the other two officers and soldiers were even more shocked, and one of them hurriedly shouted: "Brother Qi!"

Qi Ying waved his hand and interrupted him, "Let me remember to save me when I'm almost out of here."

As soon as he finished speaking, he kicked off the stool and his body sank under the force. The rope on the beam immediately tightened his neck, and others began to struggle subconsciously in the air.

The rope swayed and dust fell on the beams.

Looking at this scene, everyone at the scene widened their eyes and looked incredible. It was not until after a while that when they saw Qi Ying waving his right hand hard there, the two officers and soldiers reacted, and then hurried forward and put him down.

"Cough cough! Cough cough!" As soon as he came, Qi Ying started coughing violently and rubbed her neck and said, "You two really want me to hang them!"

"Ah? Brother Qi, you..." The two officers and soldiers didn't know what to say.

After rubbing his neck again, Qi Ying jumped over to the beam of the room again and observed carefully.

After a while, the corner of his mouth curled slightly, pointed to the rope and said, "Look, this hemp rope is very rough. Before, I carefully checked the place where the young lady was hanging, and found that there was no trace of the rope strangling the beam of the house."

"And I, I just tried it myself. After the rope strangled my neck, I began to struggle violently, pulling the hemp rope, leaving obvious marks on the beams."

"No matter whether a person is sincerely begging for death or not, he will also struggle in the water when he is drowning!"

"This is a human instinctive reaction!"

"But from the traces just now, it is enough to prove that the young lady did not struggle before her death. She hung it onto the beam of the house after being killed!"

In the era of that time, the case cannot be judged in the present, but Qi Ying observed it in detail and regarded himself as the dead and experienced the feeling of hanging himself.

After he finished speaking, the two officers and soldiers also looked at each other, and one of them said, "Brother Qi, are you saying that the young lady was killed?"

"That's right."

"This, how is this possible!" The housekeeper began to scream in panic.

"Hmph, whether it is true, you will understand immediately. Send someone to block here." After Qi Ying said that, he waved directly: "Let's go! Let's go to Qingzhu Forest!"

He left as soon as he said, but the butler was so panicked when he saw this. He immediately said to a servant of the Cai Mansion: "Oh! It's going to be a bad thing, hurry up! Go and notify the master!"

The Qingzhu Forest is located in Fengyang County, but it is very far from Cai Mansion. Qi Ying rushed to the road for a long time before he came here with two officers and soldiers.

This is a bamboo forest with a very elegant environment. There is a village not far away. After Qi Ying arrived here, she first pinched a piece of soil on the ground and rubbed it in her hand, and then murmured to herself: "This place is so far from Cai's Mansion, why did she come here before she died..."

While he was thinking about the problem, a woodcutter was carrying two bundles of wood and just passing by here. Seeing this, Qi Ying hurriedly reached out and called out, "That woodcutter."

"The official called me?" Hearing the scream, the woodcutter came over with firewood.

Although the Qin people were warlike and had a strong folk custom, it did not mean that they were not simple.

Seeing that he was old, Qi Ying quickly took off his water bag from his waist and handed it to the woodcutter and said, "Old man, drink a little water first."

"Thank you, thank you, what do you want to ask?" said the woodcutter.

Qi Ying said: "I think the old man should be from this village and often passes through this green bamboo forest?"

"Yes, I have to go up the mountain to cut some firewood every day, and I have to pass through this green bamboo forest." The woodcutter replied.

"Have you seen a young woman recently?" Qi Ying said, adding: "She is not from the village, but she is very beautiful, especially yesterday, have you been here?"

"Yesterday?" the woodcutter thought for a while and said, "I didn't pay much attention yesterday, but after the official reminder, I remembered something."

"Oh? What's the matter?" Qi Ying suddenly felt energetic.

The woodcutter said: "In the past, there was a poor scholar who studied in this bamboo forest almost every day, and there was also a girl who, as the official said, was young and beautiful, dancing beside her..."

"Hey, that's where." The woodcutter said, pointing to the bamboo forest, then shook his head and sighed: "The two of them looked handsome, but it was a pity that something happened later."

"Oh? What happened?" Qi Ying had already grabbed something faintly.

The woodcutter shook his head again and said, "I don't know much about it, but I heard that the scholar died accidentally, and that girl was also occupied by a bully in the city."

"Bully? Is the surname Cai?" Qi Ying asked.

"This old man doesn't know." The woodcutter shook his head again, and after saying that, he was ready to leave here.

Seeing this, Qi Ying quickly bowed politely: "Ah, thank you for the old man."

"Oh? No thanks, no thanks."
Chapter completed!