On the sixth day of the fourth lunar month, around the end of the evening, two men, four women and six outsiders chartered an independent courtyard behind the 'Longsheng Old Store'. {with}{dream} щ{suimеng][lā}

After nightfall the next day, when the shopkeeper went to the backyard to ask 'whether he needed hot water' according to the practice of the store, he found that the courtyard door was wide open, and there was no light at all in the black rumbling inside.

Zhou Bajin was worried that he had recruited a thief, so he hurriedly called the shopkeeper Zhao in the store and went into the house with a lantern to check.

It turned out that the six guests were all lying on the ground naked, and the boss had a hole in his heart!

Even though Shopkeeper Zhao fainted in fright, Zhou Bajin called the guests in the courtyard next door for help before carrying him back to the front.

It's just this delay, and things naturally can't be covered up.

By the time Zhao Wuxing received the report and arrived overnight, he didn't know how many people had been in and out of the scene, and there was a lot of vomit left.

After an on-site investigation, it was confirmed that the six people had traces of being restrained on their hands and feet, and there were multiple wounds on their bodies, which should have been severely beaten before their deaths.

The fatal wound was a cut open chest and a heart removed.

In view of this detail, after Wei Ruolan took over the case, she pointed the finger at the vendetta and instructed Master Qi to carry out a more detailed investigation.

However, this careful investigation does not matter, the case has become confusing!

I heard Master Qi smile bitterly: "At first, I interrogated the people in the inn to determine who had been in and out of the inn before and after the crime. ”

Since entering the door, it has been this Master Qi who has been speaking, and Wei Ruolan has only occasionally responded twice, obviously feeling that she has lost face by asking Sun Shaozong for help.

"Are you alive and well before evening?"

Sun Shaozong frowned, picked up the case file and looked at it, and then questioned: "But on the autopsy report, it is clearly marked that they died from midnight [seven o'clock in the morning] to noon [eleven o'clock at noon], how can they still be alive in the evening?" ”

After a pause, he said suspiciously: "Could it be that the corpse has used any hands and feet that caused a misjudgment of the time of death?" ”

"The students were skeptical."

Master Qi spread his hands and continued to smile bitterly: "But after a few days of investigation, I didn't find the slightest trace - besides, the person in charge of the autopsy is Lao Xu in our house, if there is really anything boring, he should be able to detect it." ”

Not to mention Lao Xu's professional quality, this Master Qi is also an old criminal name, since he is already suspicious, it stands to reason that he is unlikely to be fooled.

"Also."

Master Qi said again: "Not only were the clothes of those six people stripped of themselves, but all their luggage was gone—they were not locals, so it was difficult to confirm their identities until now, and it was impossible to judge the motives of the murderers. ”

Even if there is not much luggage, plus the clothes, shoes and socks of six people, there should be a considerable lump, and it is not easy to transport it out quietly......

It should take a lot of time to tie up, beat, rip out your heart, and maybe even ask something......

Could it be that the inside should be the outside?

Sun Shaozong went through all kinds of suspicions in his mind, and asked, "Where are the confessions of those eyewitnesses?" ”

Master Qi hurriedly stepped forward, and from the nearly 100 pages of investigation records, he selected a few and pointed them to Sun Shaozong: "My lord, please see, all the time-related confessions have been sorted out in one place. ”

Looking at the thick stack of records, and then looking at his appearance like a treasure, you know that he really wasted a lot of effort for this case.

Sun Shaozong read these pages of confessions carefully, and found that nearly half of them were confessions from shopkeepers and eight catties, and the remaining half belonged to the couple living in the courtyard next door, the shopkeeper of the old Longsheng store, the guy from a nearby restaurant, and a wandering Taoist priest.

The content of the confession is roughly as follows:

The shop is small two weeks and eight catties: the little one was called over in the morning, asked what we have to eat in the store, the villain recommended some specialty dishes, who knew that the guests were very dissatisfied with the food, and ordered a table of wine and food in the nearby restaurant at noon.

Wang Ergou, a guy from a nearby restaurant: Yes, yes, when the villain brought the wine and food, the guests were still alive and well - before [two o'clock in the afternoon], the villain came to close the meal, and they were all fine.

The shopkeeper must have eaten a few more cups, so what did they do...... Hehe, you also know that this man and woman are not so innocent when they are outside together.

It was about too much movement, and the noise reached the two people next door, and the male guest next door came to the door to theorize, and a female guest inside quarreled very fiercely, and when I rushed over with the shopkeeper to persuade the fight, the man had been driven out.

The two of us talked about it, and the guest surnamed Zhang who was persuaded was angry.

Shopkeeper Zhao of Rongsheng Old Store: I heard the quarrel inside first, so I shouted eight catties to go over to persuade the fight.

Zhang Kai, who lives next door: Lord Hui, Humble Jing and I, I did hear that they were next door to Emperor Hu Tianhu—it should have been around three o'clock in the afternoon.

I came to the door and wanted them to be quieter, but who knew that a spicy woman came out and scolded me!

Yes, yes, one of them died, and this woman had a horse's face, and I would recognize it even if it was burned to ashes!

Zhang Kai's wife: I wanted to stop the prime minister at the time, but he insisted on theorizing, but fortunately he only quarreled a few words, otherwise there would be so many people......

Eight catties in the second week of the shopkeeper: In the evening, a wandering Taoist master somehow touched the backyard, saying that he wanted to help a few guest masters touch the bones and tell fortunes, but he was driven out by the head and face.

Shopkeeper Zhao of Rongsheng Old Store: When the old man went in, I actually saw it, but anyway, the next few guests were in the house, so I didn't care too much.

Daoist Li who traveled all over the world: In order to rebuild the temple gate, Poor Dao wanted to make some incense money in this capital, and walked dozens of inns in Xicheng in the past half a month.

Because the guests may not be in the house during the day, the trail is all in the morning, noon and evening.

That evening, before I could explain the matter clearly after I went in, a fat man pushed and shoved me out - if it wasn't for the shopkeeper who helped Xiaodao, Xiaodao would have been injured by him.

The shopkeeper helped the old man out, and after about a quarter of an hour, the shopkeeper told me to go around the houses to see if the guests wanted to use hot water at night......

What the? You say they died in the morning? This...... How can it be?! It's impossible!

Zhang Kai next door: This is impossible! Unless the woman I'm arguing with is actually a demon!

Zhang Kai's wife: Dead ...... Dead people, too...... I can do it too...... Do you do that?!

Zhao shopkeeper: big ...... Don't joke adults, the little old man is obviously ...... I heard that the woman was arguing with the guest next door!

Daoist Li: No wonder that fat man insisted on driving me out, it turned out that he was actually a ghost! Poor Dao forgot to open the eye of heaven at that time, otherwise ......

Zhang Ergou, a guy from a nearby restaurant: My lord, ...... you The villain will not understand what you say, only the living have to eat, and the dead ...... Dead person...... Dead people shouldn't eat it, right?

At this point, the confession came to an end.

But it's really ...... It's so bizarre!

Six people who had died in the morning had interacted with so many people in the afternoon!

Moreover, Li Daoshi and Zhou Bajin, the last time they saw the deceased, and the time before and after the discovery of the corpse was only a quarter of an hour, this time, don't say that it is murder and digging out the heart, even if you only strip off your clothes and take away your luggage, I'm afraid it will be difficult to do it, right? !

That's not all, Master Qi next to him saw that Sun Shaozong had finished reading it, and hurriedly added: "According to the investigation these days, Zhou Bajin grew up in Xicheng since he was a child, and he worked as a partner in the old Longsheng store four years ago, and never left the capital. ”

"The three generations of Zhao's shopkeepers have run the old Longsheng store, and they have never left the capital."

"Zhang Kai and his wife next door are from Jinmen Prefecture, and they came to the capital for the first time in their lives, in order to visit their wife and sister who married two years ago - because they had a dislike with their brother-in-law, they temporarily stayed in the inn."

"Daoist Li is a person from Cangzhou Mansion in Hebei Province, who became a monk in Qinglongguan in Tongzhou six years ago, and traveled to Beijing for half a month, making a living by touching people's bones and seeing their faces."

"Wang Ergou, the guy in the restaurant, was originally from Baoanzhou, Hebei Province, and has been living in the capital after the disaster last year, and only went to the restaurant a few days ago."

After hearing this, Sun Shaozong was silent for a while, and then said, "You mean, there is nothing to do with these witnesses?" It's impossible to cover each other's up, right? ”

"Exactly!"