Before the sky was bright, a messy sound of horses' hooves shattered the tranquility of Xinglong Street.

However, the residents in this neighborhood have long been accustomed to it - after all, since the third watch in the middle of the night, the street is chaotic, and there is no peace for a moment.

Seeing that there were white flags erected in front of him, and there were many people surrounded by shadows, Sun Shaozong knew that he had arrived at the place, so he slowed down his horse slightly, and said loudly: "This official is Sun Shaozong, who is the criminal name of Shuntianfu, who is the main person in front of this door?" ”

"Master Sun, you can be regarded as here!"

Before the words fell, a green-robed petty official flashed out of the crowd, but it was Zhou Da, the criminal inspector, who saw him leaning over with a slanted shoulder, holding the reins and saying: "Lord Fang Cai Fu has asked several times, if you don't come again, the lower official really doesn't know how to reply!" ”

Since he was used as a scapegoat at the reception banquet, this Zhou Da simply took refuge in Sun Shaozong in anger - anyway, he was selected from the sword and pen officials, and he was not a serious scholar himself.

Although Sun Shaozong has never expressed his position, it has not stopped him from calling himself a lackey.

"Lord Fucheng?"

Sun Shaozong frowned when he heard this, this case is bigger, it should be handled by Yin Han Anbang personally, and if it is smaller, it should be Liu Chongshan, who is specifically responsible for criminal cases, came forward, but how could it fall on Jia Yucun?

Zhou Da saw that he was frowning and silent, so he vaguely guessed the reason, and hurriedly lowered his voice to explain: "Jia Fucheng just moved to this Xinglong Street yesterday, and it is next door to Ge Shilang's house. ”

This is unlucky!

If he moves in one day late, I'm afraid that this case won't fall on his head!

Sun Shaozong was a little speechless for a while, only thinking that Jia Yucun was possessed by a declining god - but he didn't know the source of this matter, but it was actually on himself.

If it weren't for his help, Jia Yucun's arrival in Beijing would have been postponed by three or four days, and his move to Xinglong Street would have been delayed until mid-February.

Now......

Sun Shaozong followed Zhou Da and hurried to Gefu's study, and saw Jia Yucun standing in front of the door that was knocked open, his face was black as if he had been coated with a layer of ink, and his eyebrows, nose, and eyes all exuded a terrifying low pressure.

That is, when he saw Sun Shaozong appear, his face showed a little joy, and regardless of the presence of Zhou Da, Zhao Wuxing and others, he stepped forward and grabbed Sun Shaozong's sleeve, and said excitedly: "Brother Xian, you have to help the old brother no matter what this time!" ”

Sun Shaozong can understand his feelings, the new official has encountered such a big case when he takes office, if he can solve the case, it will naturally be infinite, but if he misses...... The above punishment is just enough, mainly because he lost face and swept his prestige, what capital will there be to compete with Han Anbang in the future?

However, Sun Shaozong has not yet grasped the basic situation of this case, where does he dare to brag nonsense?

can only solemnly promise: "Lord Fucheng, rest assured, I will do my best to find out the truth of this case!" ”

"That's good, that's good, that's good!"

Jia Yucun said 'That's good' three times in a row, but he forgot to let go of Sun Shaozong's sleeve in his hand, which shows that he is already in a state of six gods and no master at this time.

As a last resort, Sun Shaozong had no choice but to say again: "My lord, can you let the lower officials go to the scene of the crime to investigate first, and then ask the parties involved?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Jia Yucun hurriedly pointed to the house on the east side and said, "Zhao Wuxing, quickly take Sun Tongju to investigate the scene; Zhou Da, go and call all those witnesses! ”

Sun Shaozong was able to get out.

He didn't rush into the door, but first carefully observed the layout of the study of this Gefu - the study of large families is often the place where the master lives and entertains, and this Gefu is no exception.

In the center is an elegant flower hall, the west side is where the real study is located, and the place where the crime occurred is in the bedroom at the east end.

Sun Shaozong walked to the bedroom and immediately found that the door had also been slammed open, judging from the broken bolt on the ground, it should have been in a state of anti-locking—exactly the same as the door outside the flower hall.

Murder in a closed room?!

Sun Shaozong's heart was tight, although the murderers had covered up the cases he had solved before, after all, they were done in a hurry after the fact, so there were still many clues left.

But this kind of closed room murder is generally carefully planned by the murderer, so the difficulty of solving the case is far greater than that of ordinary cases!

There is another thing that makes Sun Shaozong a little concerned, according to his experience these days, but all this kind of suite, generally only the outer room will be locked, in order to facilitate the maid to go in in the middle of the night to serve, even the chain utensils in the inner room will not be installed.

However, the door of this bedroom is specially equipped with a lock, and if you look closely, you can see that the lock was added later.

So do the two locks here and outside indicate a lack of security, or are they to hide some unknown secrets?

Thinking in his heart, Sun Shaozong walked into the bedroom, and before he could see the situation inside, he felt a wet patch under his feet.

A layer of water on the ground?

Sun Shaozong paused for a moment, but immediately understood what was going on, because not far to the left of the door, there was an empty bath bucket.

And not far from the bathtub, a fat corpse was reclining on Xiudun, with a huge opening in its chest, but inside was 'clear soup and little water', and there was not much pus and blood accumulation.

The skin and flesh at the wound are even more pink and white, and it is clear that it has been repeatedly washed after death!

Tut~

It's probably harder to find clues now.

Sun Shaozong was embarrassed and pouted his teeth, but his eyes suddenly froze, and he hurriedly went to the corpse to observe carefully, and sure enough, he found that the liver, spleen, stomach, and kidneys in the chest cavity were all complete, but only the most important heart was missing!

"It's ......"

Sun Shaozong carefully twisted a few main blood vessels, looking at the uneven and seemingly vigorously torn fracture on it, he couldn't help but gasp - the missing heart was actually torn off by teeth!

Then he found even more frightening evidence in the folds of the corpse's clothes—a small mass of chewed minced flesh!

Could it be that the heart has been eaten by the murderer?!

Is this extremely perverted behavior originating from bitter hatred, or is it trying to cover up some important clues?!

Sun Shaozong groaned for a while, and then handed over the broken heart to Zhao Wuxing for sealing, raising his eyes and continuing to look at the situation at the scene.

Curtain?

There is a thick layer of curtains in this bedroom?

You must know that these days are all paper windows, and you can't see clearly from the outside during the day, let alone at night, so few people will install additional curtains.

Sun Shaozong walked to the window, carefully opened the closed curtains, carefully observed up and down, and found that the windows were also locked.

Considering that the body was near the window sill, it should be unlikely that the murderer would have the opportunity to lock the window after the incident, which shows that the door was indeed in a state of secret room before it was slammed open.

And through this layer of additional curtains, Sun Shaozong also further confirmed that this Ge Shilang must be hiding some secrets!

And this secret, seven or eight times out of ten, is the cause of his death!

"Your Excellency!"

Zhao Wuxing saw Sun Shaozong stunned in front of the window for a long time, and couldn't help but remind: "You might as well take a look at what's on that window first." ”

Porvert?

Sun Shaozong also saw that there was an open air window in the northwest corner, but the window was not much bigger than a palm, compared to adults, I was afraid that even children would not be able to get out, so he didn't rush to check.

At this time, hearing Zhao Wuxing take the initiative to mention it, and seeing that he was full of panic, Sun Shaozong was really interested, stepped forward and looked at it a few times, and immediately 'huh', twisted a few gray hairs from the window, and muttered: "This seems to be ......"

"Dog hair!"

Zhao Wuxing said in a trembling voice: "Master, this is definitely dog hair!" You...... You think it's really a tengu, right?! ”