mtlumby2d Chapter 349 The Vanished Groom
Chapter 349 The Vanished Groom
"This... how come it's a female corpse?"
Everyone assumed that the red jade bed sealed with candles contained the groom's body, but to their surprise, they unearthed the corpse of a woman they had never seen before.
"Judging from her hairstyle and attire, she should be a maid from Tianji Manor."
“This, this looks like E Yue.” Li’er glanced at the side and recognized the female corpse.
"Eyue?" Fang Duobing's uncertain voice rang out.
Li'er nodded in fear.
"How come I don't recognize her?" Fang Duobing glanced at the female corpse again, confirming that he had never seen her before.
“E’yue only arrived recently. Young Master hasn’t been home, so naturally he doesn’t recognize her,” Li’er explained.
"Recently arrived? When?"
"It seems they arrived after the news of the Second Master's wedding spread," Li'er said dutifully from the side.
"Look at the wounds on her body, it's so cruel. Was the skin on her back peeled off by someone?" It's just too cruel.
“Besides that, there were also ligature marks on the neck, and the tendons and bones were broken; it was a fatal injury,” Li Lianhua observed carefully.
Zhan Yunfei looked at the strangulation marks on E Yue's neck: "Such fine cracks indicate that this thing must be both tough and deadly, but there is no such thing in this house or even in Tianji Manor."
“Look at what’s on her wrist. It doesn’t look like a typical women’s bracelet or other jewelry. Could there be something else going on?”
After Wu You's reminder, everyone's attention was drawn to what E Yue was holding.
Zhan Yunfei carefully picked it up and examined it closely, but found nothing unusual. While turning it, he accidentally triggered a mechanism, and a very thin thread shot out from inside.
Zhan Yunfei quickly dodged, and the silk thread got stuck in the door frame on the other side.
"This is the murder weapon," Fang Duobing immediately guessed.
"She came recently and was carrying a weapon, so it seems this woman came prepared."
“Dr. Li is right. The murderer killed E Yue using something from her own body,” Zhan Yunfei agreed.
"I'm afraid she wanted to kill someone but was instead controlled by them. However, there was only the Second Master and Wei Qingchou in this room originally."
Li Lianhua continued to speculate: "Unless someone sneaked in last night, the only other possibility is that the groom didn't die at all."
Fang Duobing also figured this out: "He planned all of this. He deliberately embroidered the same pattern as himself on the murderer's back, pretending that he was murdered, and then he ran away."
“That’s right, look, there are wine stains here.” Li Lianhua pointed to the wine stains on the floor next to the table in the middle of the room.
"How come there are wine stains here? Did someone deliberately spill them here?" Second Aunt is the second head of the manor. When the head of the manor gets married, the bridal chamber must be cleaned many times and should be spotless.
"It seems this is the nuptial wine in the groom's hand."
"This means that Wei Qingchou knew there was something wrong with the wine all along, but he didn't say anything and didn't drink it himself, letting the Second Hall Master drink it, which is why the Second Hall Master remained unconscious until noon today."
"It is very likely that the drug in the wine was added by E Yue herself. E Yue carried a hidden weapon and sneaked into this bridal chamber to kill Wei Qingchou, but she did not expect to be killed by Wei Qingchou instead."
"Hua Hua, you're absolutely right. Perhaps this is overestimating oneself and having a serious lack of self-awareness."
"But I've been guarding outside the whole time, how did E'yue get in?"