Chapter 9: A Shocking Case
The sky has turned cold, Zhao Jiu's feet are longer than Wang Kangping, Xiuniang gave Zhao Jiu a new pair of shoes, Zhao Jiuru got the treasure, went back to the house and rested on the bedside, picked it up every day to take a look, but was reluctant to wear it, Xiuniang also laughed at him: "This shoe must be worn, otherwise it will become shorter if it is put on hold!" โ
When Zhao Jiu came back that day, he found that a small offering table was set up in the backyard, and there were two spiritual seats resting on the table. Zhao Jiu didn't dare to ask, but Wang Kangping quietly told Zhao Jiu that he originally had a brother and a sister, who were about three or four years older than him, but they all died young, and his father and mother had to mourn him every year.
Xu has been wandering, Zhao Jiu's mind is much more delicate than Wang Kangping, he always feels that Wang Zhutou also has an unspeakable secret like Jin Zhukuai, so Wang Zhutou hides a martial art and is willing to be an ordinary head catcher. Zhao Jiu did guess that Wang Zhutou was in trouble, Wang Zhutou did not dare to teach his son too powerful martial arts, afraid that his son would be too showy, and did not dare not teach his son martial arts, for fear that his son would be bullied after a hundred years. Kang Ping, Kang Ping, I'm afraid it's all Wang Zhutou's hopes for this son.
The Tao is to catch quickly, and what you do is not all the work of taking people, and the matter of chickens and dogs is also to be managed. If you run into a big case, it is to tie your head to your trouser belt, burn incense before going out, and thank heaven and earth again when you come back. Zhao Jiu's life in the Wang family was not rich enough, but the good times did not last long, and at the end of the winter moon, there was a sudden shocking murder in the county, which greatly affected Wang Zhutou.
There is a family in the west of the city, the owner Chen Gong is more than 40, and his wife Chen is also 30 and 2. The Chen family runs a grocery store, because the husband and wife are hardworking and well-managed, the family is quite wealthy, and they have a son and a daughter, the son is two years old, and the daughter is thirteen. Chen's parents are old, and he has a younger brother who lives in the same county but is not close, but Chen's younger brother often comes to Chen's shop to help when Chen Gong goes out to buy.
Now that it is already winter, the snow will come down when it is said to come, and the New Year's Pass is also in front of it, Chen Gong discussed with Chen, and decided to go out to buy some goods and come back while the heavens are good. However, Chen's brother-in-law was pregnant again, and Chen's brother couldn't get out, so Chen Gong invited his father-in-law to help for a few days. Early in the morning, Chen Gong was going to go out, but his nephew ran to say that his father had broken his leg in the field, and the blood was thicker than water, so Chen Gong could only ask the shopkeepers of several other shops to go first, and he went to his brother's house to take care of him for two or three days.
The Chen family's shop was always open, but the door was still closed until noon that day, and several neighbors thought that the Chen family had also gone to visit Chen's brother. When Chen Gong came back, the regular customers inevitably asked him where he had been in the past few days, why didn't he even open the shop, Chen Gong only said that his mother-in-law was at home, why didn't he open it?
There happened to be two old guests who were fine, so they accompanied Chen Gong back to the front of the house, the door was bolted from the inside, Chen Gong knocked on the door and shouted, but no one in the house answered. Chen Gongxin said no, his mother-in-law has always been diligent, and she will never open a shop for no reason, he asked someone to borrow a ladder and climbed in from the courtyard wall, and before he reached the door of the hall, he smelled a bad smell. Chen Gong trembled his hands to push the door of the hall, but he couldn't push it open, and the spectators who climbed on the wall also came down to help him, and the two of them finally opened the door of the hall, but the situation in the house almost made the souls of the people outside scattered.
I saw Chen Gong's daughter, who had just arrived at the age of cardamom, threw herself on the ground, her right hand was only one step away from the door, and under her was a pool of black and red blood that had already solidified, and there was a long bloody path behind her, as if she had crawled out of the house, and there was a crack on her back. His face was facing the door of the hall, and his eyes were about to burst out, as if he had suffered great pain in his life, and he would not blink his eyes. Chen Gong was immediately so frightened that he couldn't get up from the ground, and the regular customer who entered the courtyard ran to the wall and vomited, and the one lying on the wall fell off the wall with a scream, shouting: "Dead! Dead! โ
The neighbors immediately reported to the official, and it happened that the Wang family's father and son and Zhao Jiu were on duty that day, and Wang Zhutou personally rushed to the Chen family. Zhao Jiujing was not very afraid of the corpse after the beggar gang, but Wang Kangping was not good, and when he saw the terrible death of Chen Gong's daughter, he ran to the wall and vomited. Not only Wang Kangping, but also other young catchers couldn't hold back, some were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and some didn't dare to open their eyes to look at the house, even the old catchers who had been in big cases for a long time also felt frightened.
Wang Zhutou asked the front and back of the Chen family to be sealed, and pointed out two calm and steady old catchers, and the three followed the bloodstains behind Chen's daughter into the back room. The blood stains came out of the north house, and before I could get to the front, I saw a corpse lying on the porch, with a slightly rickety body, holding a hoe in his hand and falling to the ground on his side, his left arm falling to his chest, and his head and neck were only connected to the skin.
The door of the north room opened as soon as it was pushed, but insideโ
Chen fell on the side of the bed, covered in blood and flesh, as if he had been slashed with countless knives, and the tragic situation was outrageous. There was also a pool of blood under the big bed, Wang Zhutou bent down, and saw a dark thing lying in a pool of blood, looking at the shape, it should be Chen Gong's child. The lamp oil was also spilled on the ground, and the night pot at the foot of the bed was also knocked over, so it seems that the incident happened really suddenly.
Who did such a conscientious thing? Four lives, four lives, all hacked to death!
In addition to human life, the Chen family was also turned into a mess, and the money used by Chen Gong to buy was also missing. The man was ruthless and neat, and only a line of blood stains was left on the courtyard wall behind the house, and there was no other evidence of the crime.
The tragedy of the Chen family soon shocked Pingyuan County, and then the entire Pingyuan County, and the families closed their homes before dark. Chen's brother was shocked to hear the bad news that his hands and feet were paralyzed, and Chen's mother didn't know it, but the news of the neighborhood came, and the old man heard the bad news and immediately died. Chen Gong suddenly experienced this great creation, and people were close to dementia, and even people couldn't recognize them. The county magistrate was also frightened by the viciousness of the perpetrator's methods, and because the case was serious, the county magistrate had to solve the case within three minutes of the king's arrest.
Three to nine days, Wang Zhutou knew that this matter was difficult, but human life was at stake, and there was only one person in the county, so Wang Zhutou had to ask the county magistrate to be one more. The prefect of Nanyang City, which has jurisdiction over Pingyuan County, also received a report from Pingyuan County, and immediately sent several capable people to Pingyuan County, but the reinforcements from above will not arrive in two days at the earliest. Someone in the neighborhood of Chen Gong said that Chen Gong had made a noise on the night when Chen Gong went out, and the county magistrate arrested this person for not reporting in time, and everyone was in danger for a while.
The cause of death was roughly verified and reported by the county government, and Wang Zhutou came forward to collect the four corpses of Chen Gong's family. Because the corpse had been dead for a few days, it was not easy to put it for a long time, so it had to be buried first, and then excavated and examined after the work and arrest of Nanyang City arrived.
Wang Kangping fell ill when he got home, he couldn't swallow anything, and he spit yellow water when he drank rice soup, which made Xiuniang feel so distressed. Wang Zhutou did not return to the house for three whole days, and did not enter the water for three days, until the arrival of Nanyang City's catch and the arrival of the work was relieved, but the person almost fainted to the ground, and the doctor was invited to know that Wang Zhutou was worried too much and did not enter the rice and grain and collapsed.