Chapter 158: The Second Murderer

There shouldn't be an update tonight, I need to go to the hospital, tomorrow it's still morning or morning, 5,000 words guaranteed.

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Zombie Selling Mode is on~

On the second day of the month, a bird above his head sells a cute~

Something happened last night, blood pressure is a little high, dizziness at the top, writing slowly, group~

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Twilight didn't look surprised, and only asked, "Why?" ”

Lin Meng and the people of the Sima family were dumbfounded, and looked at her incredulously, as if she was joking, and no one believed it for a while.

Lin's face was as white as paper, and he smiled awe-inspiringly, "That's right, it's me." ”

Liu Heizi and the others returned to the public hall and looked at the Lin family.

But as soon as they reached the gate of the yamen, everyone stopped and turned around, as if a military order came from behind them, and then they did not leave the palace, but went back again.

The onlookers only saw a group of people striding to the door of the government outside the public hall, and when they got closer, they took a closer look, and it was actually the general of the Jiangbei Water Division. These soldiers will be soaked by the heavy rain, but their faces will be as white as stone, and they will be darker than the black clouds in the sky. The soldiers strode out, the iron boots stepped on the rain like a war song, and they all clenched their fists and were murderous, not knowing who to catch.

I don't know when the rain fell, the pouring rain poured out a lot of onlookers, half of the street people have run away, but there are still people who want to see the excitement gathered under the eaves at the entrance of the government, tiptoe to look into the court, but the sky is as dark as night, the rain is like a curtain, the situation in the public hall is no longer clear, and even the voices of people are covered by the sound of the rain.

"The murderer learned the law of Ling Chi, and he is likely to be a torturer, and if he can win the trust of his wife, he should be from a family of torturers. Coupled with his other characteristics, such as being left-handed, young, and having been a killer but not a murderer, I think it is not difficult to find people who meet these characteristics in the criminal caus. Or is it the same sentence, is Lord Lin self-examining or am I going to the court to ask for an investigation? "Twilight Qing doesn't debate right and wrong with Lin Meng and the people of the Sima family, find out this person, right and wrong!

"The Governor must have made a mistake!" Lin Meng didn't believe it, his sister had a pure temperament, how could she commit this unethical crime of humiliating the corpse?

Twilight Qing looked at Lin's hand tightly twisting the Buddha beads, and said indifferently: "It's okay if Madam doesn't understand, just if Master Lin understands." ”

Lin smiled inexplicably and said: "The meaning of the governor, the concubine doesn't understand." ”

But the people of the Sima family didn't believe it, and Lin Meng didn't believe it either.

Sima Zhong has not asked much about the case since he entered the court, and she has paid much attention to his demeanor, and he does not know about the case. On the other hand, Lin, she has never looked at Chunniang squarely, after the old lady fainted, she took care of the old lady and never turned around to look at the corpse. This may have been out of fear of corpses, but after the suspicion of the old lady and Sima Zhong was ruled out, her suspicion became even greater.

Twilight looked at Lin, "Did you say so?" Mrs. Sima. ”

"The old lady ordered someone to kill Chunniang in secret, and the murderer must have been told by someone when he learned about it, and the person who could give him Sima Mansion's waist card was likely to be someone from Sima Mansion! And there is another suspicion in last night's case, that is, the time when the body was found. The body was found by the people in Xingchun Garden this morning, and the time when Chunniang was strangled was two to three hours ago this morning, except for the time it took for her to be Ling Chi, change her clothes and be hanged, the body was hung at least for more than an hour under the archway in Lotus Lane! What about patrolling the city during this time? What about the more? Why didn't any body be found? Either it rained last night and people were lazy, or they were told or branched out. Lord Sima is the captain of the outer city, and he is in charge of guarding the city and night patrol, a person who can not only branch the guards but also get the waist card in the house, and can also find the torturer to do this, who still needs to say? ”

"His unfamiliar skills but understanding the human body indicate that he has probably seen Ling Chi's method; I was sentenced to Ling Chi, according to the severity of the crime committed by the person, ranging from eight knives to three hundred and sixty knives at the time of execution, but the female corpse was cut more than 360 knives, this matter is not something that a brave person can do, and from the knife technique on the corpse's leg, the more cut to the orderly place, the more delicate the murderer's knife, the smoother the wound, and the more irregular the two sides. The flat places are cut, and the irregular places are torn off, indicating that the murderer is decisive and fast in the knife, crazy and happy to collect the knife. ”

"It's easy!" Lin Meng wanted to explain, and Twilight gave him an explanation, she walked to the female corpse and squatted down, and once again took off the female corpse's clothes, along with her belly pocket, middle pants, dirty pants, shoes and socks, leaving only a long skirt to cover the secret place. She didn't care who dared to look at it, who didn't dare to look at it, pointed to the female corpse and said, "The zigzag cut marks on the corpse were left by me during the autopsy. The treatment of the upper body of the female corpse looks like there is no knife technique at all, but the abdomen is not cut, and the intestines are not outflowed, and the more you look down, the more you can see the traces of knife technique, and the incision at the ankle has been seen neatly. This shows that the murderer is learning, but he is unfamiliar with his skills but can still deal with the most difficult abdomen, which in addition to talent, must also have an understanding of the structure of the human body. ”

"This official can't inspect the criminal Cao just based on the governor's words, unless the governor's words can convince the official!"

"This man is a torturer! The hereditary class, who has won the trust of the Lin family, is left-handed, young, and has killed people, but there are very few people who have not committed crimes or have not been late, and they are not experienced enough. He is eager to inherit his career, ruthless and bold, not afraid of killing, but takes pleasure in it. Twilight Qing just talked about the inference of the second murderer, and then asked Lin Meng, "Lord Lin plans to check himself or will I go to the court and ask for an order?" ”

"What?" Lin Meng exclaimed, "Du Du Xiu wants to talk nonsense!" ”

"Even if he is not masked, you will not recognize him, he is not from Sima's mansion." At this time, Twilight Qing opened her mouth and suddenly said to Lin Meng, "This person is the one who tortured Cao." ”

The old lady hid the matter of Chunniang from the son, what did he think she had planned, how dare he ask? He is just a coachman next to the son, a second-class subordinate in the house, and how many people dare to interrogate the identity of the person who acts on the orders of the master?

The coachman said: "He has the waist card in the house, that, that waist card is not fake!" ”

When Sima Zhong heard this, he scolded: "Masked man, you are gullible? ”

"I don't know." The coachman thought for a moment and shook his head, "Xu also recognizes it, but the person is masked, it is dark and raining, and the little one doesn't recognize it." ”

"Do you know that man?"

"Small, small don't know." The coachman has already served, and he has long heard that the Governor of Yingrui is like a god, and when I see it today, it is true. He didn't wait for Duqing to ask, so he replied, "After Xiao Xiao was ordered to kill Chunniang last night, he was originally trying to find a way to hang Chunniang under the archway, but when the carriage arrived near the archway, he saw that there was still a measuring carriage parked in the alley next to it. The little one thought that the matter was going to be exposed, but the man didn't think that the man took out the waist card in the house and ordered the little one to hand over the body to him, saying that the old lady had other arrangements. When the little one saw that he had the waist card in the house, he didn't dare to stop him, so he helped the man carry the body into the carriage. Then the man asked the younger one to go back first, and not to talk to anyone about it. The little one thought that the old lady had any arrangements, and no one dared to say anything after returning home......"

"After you killed Chun Niang last night, who did you give her body to?" Twilight asked, "The embroidered shoes worn by the corpse are new, but there are footprints of the deceased struggling on the mat of the car, apparently the deceased's shoes were changed after his death, but the embroidered shoes and the deceased's clothes may have been changed at the same time in the box where the evidence was stored are not visible, which means that the person who changed the deceased's clothes is probably not you, you strangled the deceased and handed the body to someone else." Who is that person? ”

No one answered, and the coachman was dumbfounded, until Twilight asked him for something that he came to his senses.

When she saw the strangulation marks on the coachman's palm, she knew that there was a second person in the murderer.

"He took it with his right hand." Twilight walked up to the coachman as she spoke, took the key away, and broke his palm, "The strangulation marks on his palm are heavier in his right hand than his left, which means that when he strangled Chunniang, his right hand used more force than his left hand, and he is not left-handed, so he is not a person who cuts flesh and debones." ”

"These two things prove that the murderer is a left-hander, and he-" Twilight got up to look at the coachman, and suddenly raised his hand to throw an object, and the driver subconsciously took it, and looked down to see that it was the key on Changsui's body.

As she spoke, she walked to the feet of the female corpse to untie one of the knots, and when she untied it to the end, she looked at it with bated breath, and sure enough, it was left and right!

As she spoke, Twilight began to untie the knot, but she untied it slowly, first untying the one she had tied, and when she reached the first step of the tie, she said, "When I tie this knot, the right presses the left, and the murderer's knot is left and right." ”

"This knot is also tied by left-handers, and the way left-handers tie the knot is reversed from ordinary people, and because of the different directions of force, the direction of the knot is also reversed." Twilight said as she showed the knots tied around the cuffs of the female corpse, "This is what I re-tied after the autopsy, and it is in the exact opposite direction of the knot that the murderer was tying. ”

After saying this, Twilight put down the white silk and came to the female corpse's feet, the female corpse's trousers were tied with red ropes, these two red ropes she had never untied, and during the autopsy, she only faded the female corpse's middle pants to the knees, and did not touch the trouser legs.

The coachman was stunned, Twilight turned around and walked to the female corpse, unfolded the white silk, squatted behind the head of the female corpse, wrapped the white silk around the neck of the female corpse, restored the scene of it hanging under the archway, and said: "At that time, this white silk was strangled on the neck of the corpse like this, the end of the white silk was messy and dirty, and the edges were rubbed and hairy, and it was inferred that the murderer tied one end of the white silk to a big stone, and then pulled the body up." On both sides of the white silk, the right side is relatively clean, but the left side is full of dirt, which is obviously the force used by the murderer on the left side. Ordinary people are accustomed to exerting force on the right side, but the direction of the murderer's force is on the left, indicating that the murderer is left-handed. ”

Twilight looked at the coachman and said to him, "Chunniang was strangled by you, but you only strangled the person to death, and the body was not even hung under the archway." ”

Everyone who heard it was stunned.

What the?

"I only said that it was the old lady who ordered Chunniang to be strangled, when did I say that cutting the flesh and removing the bones was also the order of the old lady?"

"What does the governor mean?"

"It's just someone else, Lord Lin, as a criminal Cao Shangshu, is so careless in hearing the trial?" Twilight's voice was cold to the bone.

"Didn't the Governor of Wise Wisdom hear the words of the old county lord?" Lin Meng frowned and said, "There is something strange in this case, the old county lord admits that Chun Niang was strangled by her and hung under the archway, but what reason does she have to cut Chun Niang's flesh and bones?" ”

The old lady had been awakened, but she was very old, and she was frightened at first glance, and it was difficult to ease her mind. She didn't look at Twilight, she just pointed at the female corpse, her fingers trembling. Sima Zhong understood, and ordered the yacha to roll up the straw mat and cover the hideous appearance of the female corpse, and the old lady panted a little better.

"What else do you have to say, old lady?" Twilight asked.

Twilight took off one of the embroidered shoes of the female corpse, and compared them with the shoe prints left on the brocade mat - the general size, the same shoe size!

The box was locked, and Wu Ya Aji drew Yacha's knife and was about to split the lock with one sword, but Twilight stopped him, grabbed the key, and opened the box in front of the Sima family. The box that can be opened by the key on Changsui's body is the box in Sima's mansion, and Twilight Qing prevents Wuya Aji from destroying the lock in order to prevent someone from denying it. She took out the brocade mat, the group mat and the brocade that had been laid in the carriage last night and spread them on the green bricks, only to see that the brocade mat was full of rubbing shoe prints, long and deep, and at a glance she knew that it was left by Chunniang when she was strangled by her neck from the window when her feet were kicking and struggling. In addition, scratch marks can also be seen on the two pieces of brocade by the window, and a peony petal with beautiful embroidery is hooked out of filament, bright red as blood.

Twilight looked out of the public hall and saw that the black clouds were turning ink, like a torrential rain, but fortunately, Liu Heizi and others came and went quite fast on war horses, and when they came back, the rain had already fallen, but the heavy rain had not yet poured into the evidence. The evidence was placed in a wooden box, which was tied with thick rope, and Shi Dahai carried it back on the way back on his horse.

Zheng Guangqi didn't dare to sit idly by, and hurriedly sent the officials to invite Langzhong, and the people of the Sima family were busy around the old lady, and the court was in chaos.

He didn't even have a pulse, Sima Zhong also knew Wu Jin's rules for treating people, and he was willing to say a word to give Sima Mansion face, although this legal person knew everything, but at the moment, he was in a hurry, so he could only try.

Wu Jin ignored it, indifferent and detached, "It's just a convulsion, adults can pinch people and give it a try." ”

Sima Zhong's family and Lin Meng hurriedly surrounded her, Lin sat next to the old lady and hurriedly supported her, Sima Zhong saw Wu Jin here, and hurriedly said: "Please also ask the prince to take a look." ”

"Old lady!"

"Grandmother!"

"Mother-in-law!"

"Mother!"

This scene was very strange, Sima Zhong and the old lady just had doubts, and Du Qing opened the shirt of the female corpse, the bright red belly pocket, the bloody and hideous flesh and bones, Sima Zhong was startled, and the old lady touched her heart with a sound, and fell into the chair with her eyes rolled!

Twilight Qing walked towards the female corpse, squatted down and untied the female corpse's wide clothes, Zheng Guangqi raised his sleeves to cover his face, Ji Yan looked at the sky, Wu Jin raised his sleeves to cover his mouth and nose, except for Bu Xihuan and Yuan Xiu in the public hall, everyone who had seen the autopsy before turned their eyes.

"Didn't that play be strangled to death? What's going on with this cutting and deboning? Sima Zhong asked Twilight.

Sima Zhong was also stunned, and after the mansion learned that Jing'er was kidnapped to the mansion court, he hurried over, only to hear that the drama that Jing'er was raising outside died, but he didn't know much about the case.

"What?" The old lady was stunned, "What...... Cutting meat and deboning? ”

"Then why cut her off and deboned her?" Sima Jing's face was white and weak, and he couldn't stand steadily.

The old lady bit the word cheap, squinted at Twilight, and even scolded her! It's just a joke, but if you lose some money, she is the lord of the county, can she still pay for her life for a lowly actor? But now the shame of the Sima family, she wrote it down!

"That's right!" The old lady wanted to argue against it, but she didn't expect that her adult grandson would betray her grandmother for a show, and she couldn't help but be angry, "If you forget your grandmother in that play, she deserves to die!" A play, born in a lowly background, also wants to enter my Sima family as a concubine, she should die under the archway, so that she can remember her identity and shame when she goes to the underworld! ”

Sima Jing shook his body and took two steps back, "...... Is it really a grandmother? ”

This is an admission of killing Chunniang!

The old lady raised her hand, her face was fierce, and when she looked at Sima Jing, she was still so distressed, "Jing'er! Are you really fascinated by that play? Your marriage is difficult, and your wife will take a concubine before she marries, if she is a person who knows things, how can she ask you to redeem her at this time and admit her into the house? She's hurting you! The drama is ruthless, since ancient times, grandmother is for your good! ”

"Evil Barrier!" Sima Zhong raised his hand angrily, eager to kill this son with one palm.

"Why did grandmother kill Chunniang?"

"You ......," the old lady looked back incredulously, heartbroken. Since this Baihua Yandai was in the carriage, she was rewarded by her precious grandson to the play, and she knew this well, what she said just now was just to protect the reputation of the Sima family, and she didn't admit it under the pretext. Can't he see it? How can you betray your grandmother?

"This is Chunniang's, her grandson gave it to her." Sima Jing looked at the hundred flowers and smoke, lost his soul, and looked at that look as if he had some true feelings for Chun Niang.

When Twilight Qing saw that Wu Jin missed her homeland, she couldn't help but lose her mind, but Sima Jing suddenly opened her mouth and pulled her thoughts back.

Now, she's been away from home for nearly a year, and there's no one to sweep it, so the box should be full of dust, right?

Twilight Qing glanced at the flower delicacy in her hand, she just picked it up and smelled a strange fragrance and knew that this dai was an unusual thing, but at that time, she only thought that she bought it from an old rouge gouache store in Beijing, but she didn't expect it to have this origin. Comb the clouds in the morning and lean on the window at night, listen to the sound of the rain, and make up leisurely, she has not passed a day in this kind of day, her father has saved up the rouge gouache for her since she was ten years old, he has a meager amount of silver, and he doesn't want to treat her harshly, so he saved silver two to buy the rouge gouache of Drunken Huaxuan, and gave it to her on her birthday, this year is lead powder, and the next year is rouge, she remembers the year she bought Xiangdai, and her father once said that she bought the green finch head, dark gray color, less ink, produced outside the Guan. Although she had never painted it once, she remembered every word of her father's words, and she locked the rouge gouache in a small box and placed it on the dresser, wiping it every day but never opening it.

Wu Jin and Bu Xihuan were in the same year, and at the age of six, they were sent to Daxing by their homeland as a hostage, and now it has been 19 years.

I probably miss my homeland.

Wu Jin looked at the hundred flowers and smoke in Du Qing's hand, his smile was faint, and his attitude was as far away as a distant mountain.

Twilight Qing looked at Wu Jin, and Wu Jin bowed his head and said, "Yes, it's a hundred flowers." Nantu climate is hot and humid, flowers bloom all year round, this Dai is made of flowers, ink and secret materials smoked, no need to grind, just dip in water. Women use it, show eyebrows and sweep lightly, look at it from a distance, such as the mist in the mountains, and show the dust, so it is called a hundred flowers and smoke. ”

The old lady really had something to say, "This is the hundred flowers and smoke that I paid tribute to the southern map of the Daxing subordinate country, and the queen mother rewarded it, how can I use that cheap play!" ”