There are several pieces of porcelain placed on the antique shelf against the wall. Each piece is placed neatly without any displacement. There is no incense burning in the copper stove in the corner.
He reached out and touched the table top of the Eight Immortals Table. There was no dust on his fingertips. He then lifted the tablecloth and looked at the bottom of the table. There were no scratches left by the fight.
"Prefect Fang died in the bedroom?"
Su Fei asked.
"Yes, it's in the inner room."
Gao Feng led Su Fei to the bedroom door on the east side of the living room and gently pushed the door open.
The furnishings of the bedroom are more elegant than that of the living room. A bed is leaning against the wall. The bed is covered with a sky-blue brocade quilt, and the corners of the quilt are folded neatly, as if the owner is out temporarily and will come back at any time.
The dressing table was placed by the window, with rouge, eyebrows and other women's accessories placed on it. The powder box was open, with half a box of rouge left inside.
Su Fei walked to the bed, bent down and carefully looked at the bottom and edge of the bed.
There was no blood or sign of struggle. I walked to the dressing table again, picked up the box of rouge and smelled it. Apart from the fragrance of the rouge, there was no other odor.
He looked around the entire bedroom and his eyes fell on a small door by the window.
"Where does that door lead to?"
"It leads to the backyard. There is a small garden in the backyard and a well."
Gao Feng said quickly.
"I also checked the backyard and found nothing unusual. I also fished out the well and found nothing."
Su Fei walked to the small door, pushed it open, and saw a small backyard with several roses planted in the yard. There was a pressurized water well next to the flowers. The well platform was clean, and there was a bucket next to it. The bucket was still full of water.
He walked around the backyard, running God-tier Insight Technique, and even looked at the weeds in the corner, but still found no clues.
There were no signs of fighting, no blood, no suspicious footprints, not even a single discarded object.
"How was Prefect Fang's body discovered?"
Su Fei returned to the bedroom and looked at Gao Feng.
"It was discovered by the government's documents."
Gao Feng Memory.
"Prefect Fang didn't go to the office that day. The clerk was afraid that something might happen, so he went to the address Prefect Fang had disclosed before and found that the door was unlocked. When he came in, he saw Prefect Fang lying on the bed, already out of breath."
"Then they called for an autopsy. He said there were no other external injuries on Prefect Fang's body, and no murder weapon was found. There was no sign of struggle."
"My hair is all white, and my body is a little shriveled, as if I suddenly lost the vitality of my body and died."
"Suddenly lost the vitality of the body?"
Su Fei frowned and pondered this conclusion for a moment.
His eyes scanned the furnishings of the bedroom again.
It was extremely neat, with not even a trace of clutter.
He suddenly thought of something and asked.
"Liu Niang, has anyone seen her before she disappeared?"
Gao Feng shook his head.
"No one has seen it. The night before the accident, passers-by saw the lights on outside the house. There was no movement the next day. When the government officials came to check, Liu Niang's clothes and jewelry were still there, but the person was missing. I mobilized Heaven-Answering Prefecture's police officers to check."
"But no matter how much I check, there is no news at all. It's like he disappeared out of thin air."
Su Fei fell silent and tapped his fingers lightly on the top of the dressing table.
The murderer was able to clean up the scene so neatly after killing Fang Wenhan and make Liu Niang disappear out of thin air. He was either very familiar with this place or had a premeditated plan.
He walked to the window and opened it. Outside the window was a bamboo forest. The moonlight filtered in through the bamboo leaves, casting mottled shadows on the ground.
"Associate Prefect Gao."
Su Fei turned around and looked at Gao Feng.
"You have people seal everything here, especially the makeup on the dressing table and the brocade quilt on the bed. No one is allowed to touch it. In addition, check out the details of Liu Niang, which brothel she redeemed from Prefect Fang, where her hometown is, whether she has any relatives in her hometown, and who she had contact with in the brothel before she met Fang Wenhan."
"Yes, I will go and do it right away."
Gao Feng responded quickly, secretly admiring him.
Before, he only wanted to find Fang Wenhan's enemy, but he didn't expect that starting from the details of Liu Niang, Imperial Guard's Lord Su really had a method.
Su Fei took one last look at the bedroom. The faint fragrance of powder seemed to be stronger. He always felt that there was something wrong in the fragrance, but he couldn't put it into words.
"Let's go back to the government office first. I'll wait for news from you."
He turned around and walked out of the bedroom.
Take a deep breath.
This case was more difficult than he thought.
Even this time, he didn't find any useful clues in the outer house.
When we arrived at the door of Heaven-Answering Prefecture Office, Su Fei didn't forget to mention the two guards at the door.
"Remember, the government office is open day and night, there is no such thing as closing it."
"From today on, Heaven-Answering Prefecture, you must not only guard this door, but also keep it open day and night for me."
How dare the guard at the door offend a big shot like Su Fei? He kept saying yes.
Said they would never dare again.
Su Fei then walked into the government office with satisfaction.
The government officials arranged a room for him to rest.
Early the next morning, Su Fei got up and finished washing.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw Gao Feng wearing casual clothes, standing in the corridor waiting, with a little dew on his hair, obviously he had been waiting for a long time.
"Lord Su, you're awake."
When Gao Feng saw Su Fei coming out, he immediately stepped forward with a bit of eagerness on his face.
"I'm waiting for you early in the morning, for fear of delaying your investigation of the case."
Su Fei nodded with some surprise, and his heart moved. Gao Feng was so active in helping. I wonder if he was interested in the position of prefect that was vacated after the death of Prefect Fang.
Gao Feng starts reporting.
"Xiaguan sent people to check the details of Liu Niang last night. Liu Niang was redeemed by Prefect Fang at the Sleeping Fragrance Pavilion in the west of the city half a year ago. That Sleeping Fragrance Pavilion is a famous brothel in Heaven-Answering Prefecture. It is still operating as usual and has not been affected at all by the Prefect Fang case."
He paused and added.
"Liu Niang's hometown is Cloud Province Clear Creek Prefecture in the southernmost part of Great Xuan. There was a flood in Clear Creek Prefecture last summer. The whole village was flooded. Her parents did not escape, and she was the only one alive in their family."
"Then she came to Heaven-Answering Prefecture. She originally wanted to come to Heaven-Answering Prefecture to join her aunt, but she didn't know until Heaven-Answering Prefecture that her aunt died of illness three years ago. She was penniless and desperate, so she was persuaded by the Sleeping Fragrance Pavilion's madam to join the industry."
"The old madam saw that she was beautiful and came from a good family. She had also studied for several years and was a well-educated and sensible woman."
"Instead of letting her receive guests directly, she spent money to hire a master and let her learn poetry and songs from him."
"Until I met Prefect Fang later, Prefect Fang took a fancy to her beauty and talent and bought her."
Su Fei After listening to this, Liu Niang's life experience sounds reasonable. Both his parents died, he sought refuge with relatives to no avail, and he was forced to make a living by entering a brothel. There seemed to be nothing wrong with him.