First update. I'll probably have to keep at it until one or two in the morning to finish the third.
The reason Sun Shaozong concluded that there had been two attackers in this murder case was naturally because he had found more evidence on the corpse.
Let us turn back the clock a quarter of an hour.
While the servants of Rongguo Mansion hurried to the Side Room to deliver the message, Sun Shaozong naturally did not remain idle—starting with the fatal wound on the neck, he examined every inch of the marks on the body's surface.
First came the hands, the only other parts left uncovered besides the head and neck.
The left hand was relatively dry, but a trace of frost had formed on the right palm. It seemed he had sweated before his death—but aside from that, there was no further information to be found.
The deceased wore a fur coat with a turned-down collar over his upper body. The area of dust on its back was slightly larger than the area where the body had touched the ground, suggesting that after being attacked and falling, he had briefly struggled and writhed, though not violently or for long.
Likewise, the heels of the deceased's Deerskin Boots bore marks of kicking against the ground.
After unfastening the fur coat and the cotton-padded garment beneath it, he found considerable sweat stains on the body. The impromptu combination of cotton padding and fur coat had clearly been a little too warm.
But why had the exposed palms been sweaty as well?
Had he kept his hands tucked in his sleeves for a long time, refusing to take them out even when he felt stifled?
Then why were there no sweat stains on the left hand?
Could he have been