Wei Yi ordered the young shopkeeper to invite Li Zheng, who was guarding the scene in the red maple forest. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"I—I pass through the red maple forest every hour to the mountains to the east to cut wood. I didn't think about it, but I encountered such an infiltrating thing today! You see, that Taoist priest is covered with red maples, and he can't tell that it's a person at all when he's far away! The woodcutter, who was the first to find the body, was apprehensive, and told the villagers who came to hear the news about what he had seen.

There was a lot of talking.

"Wasn't the Taoist priest okay yesterday?"

"Yes, yesterday I was still doing the altar in this forest, why did I die today, and I still died so rarely!"

"Will it be ......?"

"What?"

"Kaede God's curse!"

"Huh?!"

For a while, everyone was frightened, and many good men and women knelt on the ground and kowtowed on the spot.

Wei Yi frowned.

He has always disbelieved in ghosts and gods, especially in the face of murder, and he must not have any illusions or slackness.

He only trusts his eyes and his brain.

A Taoist priest with red maples painted all over his body died in a red maple forest, so that the carefully arranged crime scene itself can reveal the murderer's scheming.

The Taoist priest was **** all over his body, and his feet were more than three feet from the ground, it was obvious that this was a murder.

After the murderer killed, he did not choose to cover the corpse, abandon the corpse or burn the corpse, but openly hung in the red maple forest, obviously, the murderer hoped that the body of the Taoist priest would be found by the people of Hongfeng Village.

So, the first suspicion comes, why did the murderer do this?

Is it an attempt to intimidate and intimidate the people of Red Maple Village, or is it a blatant provocation, or what special meaning do "Red Maple" and "Red Maple Forest" represent?

In contemplation, the young man and Ri were hurrying to the scene.

Li Zheng saw Wei Yi many years ago because of the theft and murder case of the Red Maple Wine Shop, and when he saw him again, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed without saying a word.

"Big, my lord, Hongfeng Village has been safe and sound since the theft and murder case of the wine shop, and there has never been a single person who steals chickens and dogs. It's really a coincidence, it's a coincidence both times, if you don't believe it—"

Li Zheng casually pulled an old man over half a hundred years old, and said with a look, "Hu, Hu, Zhang Lao'er, you are the most learned person in this village, do you say so?" ”

Zhang Lao'er really thought about it seriously and said, "Then-does the dumb girl who hanged herself in this forest half a year ago count?" ”

Li Zheng's face changed instantly, and he shouted, "Don't be presumptuous in front of adults!" The old thing has long been over, but it is just a woman who has found a short-term view, can it be called a case? My lord, the village has always been peaceful, and the people are simple......"

Wei Yi frowned again.

Li Zheng, who is an official, is bent on covering up, and the onlookers insist that it is related to the gods, if he wants to rely on these two to solve the case, I am afraid that he will not be able to count on it.

He interrupted Li Zheng's confession and said coldly, "Is there a work in the village?" ”

Li Zheng hurriedly replied, "The population of the village has been seriously lost in recent years, and the only Yizhuang was demolished the year before last, and the nearest Yizhuang is in Jingzhao ......, a hundred miles away."

"Alright." Wei Yi put his hands behind his back.

The murderer has gone to great lengths to arrange a murder scene full of mysteries, and no matter what the motive is, there is no doubt that the murderer will never leave Hongfeng Village.

Therefore, this time he not only has to catch the real culprit, but also has to race against time. Catch the killer before he leaves Red Maple Village!

He didn't have time to wait for the work from Jingzhao, so he had to conduct an autopsy himself.

"You, take the two young men to the wine store and bring a table, two sticks, and pen and ink." He gestured to the young shopkeeper.

"Go and invite the deceased's family, relatives, and clansmen, and anyone who is familiar with the deceased." He pointed to the old man called "Zhang Lao'er" again.

"You, bring a few people to come and surround the red maple forest, and no one is allowed to enter without my order. Also, bring the village chronicles of Hongfeng Village in the past three years. He finally commanded the right way.

Li Zheng replied "yes" repeatedly, but he didn't move.

He hesitated for a moment, and asked honestly frightened, "What do you dare to ask your lordship?" ”

It's moving the table again, and it's moving the pestle again, and he's really confused.

"Solve the case on the spot." Wei Yi replied.

******

The onlookers whispered and looked at Wei Yi in the red maple forest.

The official solved the case on the spot?!

That's unheard of, not to mention the red maple village, even the people of the neighboring villages also dragged their families to see the excitement, and the red maple forest was densely surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside.

Wei Yi's eyes were calm, he calmly put on gloves and a face towel, and jumped on the branches of the maple tree at the sound of everyone's exclamations.

I saw that his body was as light as a swallow, falling silently, and I didn't see the branches and leaves swinging, and the person was already standing firmly.

He nodded to Zhang Lao'er under the tree, who held a pen and a scroll, listening intently to the record.

"The deceased's whole body is ****, and the whole body is covered with maple leaf patterns with red lacquer."

"Purple-red and dark purple-red corpse spots appeared on the lower limbs, lower abdomen and distal upper abdomen of the corpse, and the corpse mortis has not yet spread to the whole body, and it is believed that the deceased died less than 4 hours ago, and it is initially estimated that it was between last night and today."

"The deceased's eyes were closed, his tongue could not be spoken, and his neck was scarred and gray, and the deceased was hung here after his death."

"The deceased had multiple scratches on his wrists and neck, and many bruises on his body, and had fought with people before his death."

He carefully examined the deceased's head, "the deceased's skull was shattered, and there were obvious blunt force blow wounds on the right side of the brain. The wound was sleek and concave, presumably the tip of a cylinder or something like a hammer—"

"That's not right." The new discovery made him frown, "The deceased had two blow wounds on his forehead, the wounds were triangular in shape, and it looked like he had been hit hard by bricks or rubble. And-"

Moving his gaze downward, "The deceased had a knife wound on his left abdomen, the knife was two inches wide, no more than a finger deep, and not as deep as the liver and lungs. ”

He frowned, "A hammer, a brick, a dagger, any kind of murder weapon is enough to kill the dead, why do murderers take turns to use three?" The hammer is intended to kill in one blow, the brick may be handy, the dagger is intended to intimidate and defend oneself, three murder weapons, wounds everywhere, and the second suspicion. ”

He hesitated for a moment, then rolled over and jumped down.

Seeing him fall, Li Zheng hurriedly stepped forward, diligently handed over warm water and cloth towels, and said continuously, "The hard work of the adults has opened the eyes of the little ones." ”

Seeing that Wei Yi's face was always calm, Li Zheng asked curiously, "I don't know what the adults have tested?" ”

"Man, angry, powerful, hateful."

Wei Yi washed his hands, sat down behind the table, picked up his pen and ink, and drew a young man with angry eyes, powerful limbs, and a hateful face.

Li Zheng looked over and was surprised, "Is this person the murderer?" The small one is wanted by posting the portrait at the entrance of the village. ”

Wei Yi laughed dumbly.

Only a young and strong man can hang a man in the woods, and only a murderer full of anger and hatred will choose to pick up a hammer and deliver the final blow to the already scarred dead.

The characteristics and motives of the murderer determine his behavior, and as a murderer, he wants to deduce the murderer's behavior from the corpse and the scene of the murder, and then depict the characteristics and even appearance of the murderer.

However, it is still too early to tell.