Chapter 67: Skinning

Song Shi's answer surprised Shen Huan, "Are you saying that you can remember the location of everything after you watch it on the spot?" ”

"What's so hard about this!"

Song Shi pointed to a vase in front of the screen and said, "Look at that vase, in fact, it is in the wrong position with the vase next to it!" Although these two vases look similar, the direction of the pattern on them is reversed! It's all inward-facing and inward-facing, and you're both facing outward! And the two red candles on the table were also reversed, and I remember that the one on the left burned a little shorter than the one on the right! And ......"

Under Song Shi's guidance, Shen Huan asked people to correct the mistakes he pointed out one by one, looking at the scene that was almost exactly the same as before, Liu Zhixian and Xing Zhutou were also taken aback!

"I didn't see it! You kid has a really good memory! ”

"That's it! It doesn't matter who I'm messing with! Listening to Liu Zhixian's praise of himself, Song Shi glanced at Shen Huan with a smug face, and quietly slapped him on the back with the wind.

"Okay, don't shoot me, anyway, I don't care about your meal today, you better shoot someone else! Okay, let's get down to business, I heard you just say that Miss Gu's body was hanging on the bed? ”

"That's right! The situation was like this......"

According to Song Shi's description, Shen Huan began to imagine the situation at that time. At that time, the corpse was hung on the beam facing the bed, and the bed of the big family was different from the empty kennel on all sides of their own house, and there were very fine carved wooden boards on all sides, and only one opening was left in the front of the bed for people to enter and exit, so if you want to hang the body smoothly, it is bound to alarm the sleeping man!

Thinking of this, Shen Huan was a little puzzled, the male owner woke up a long time after his wife was killed, if the male owner was the murderer of his wife, then this is a reasonable explanation for why the male owner was not alarmed! And the Gu family's son-in-law's strange behavior after his wife's death also seems to prove this! But the only thing that doesn't make sense is that if the man really doesn't like his wife and wants to take her life, there will be opportunities in the days that will get along day and night in the future! Why would he kill on his wedding night?

Looking at the beams on the top of the bed, Shen Huan instructed the servant, "Go and move a ladder."

Climbing up the ladder, Shen Huan saw an indentation on the beam, judging from the shape and orientation of this indentation, this indentation should be left by the rope hanging the body of the deceased! In addition, Shen Huan unexpectedly found that there were two shallow footprints next to the indentation! Judging by the size of the footprints, this should be a woman's footprint!

This discovery surprised Shen Huan! He could tell that the footprint had been formed recently! Judging from the direction and location of this footprint, it is very likely that the owner of this footprint is the murderer! That's a very important clue!

After getting off the ladder and looking at the situation in the house, Shen Huan couldn't help frowning again. Due to the severe damage to the scene, the marks left in the house are very messy! Trying to find out the traces related to the pair of footprints on the beams of the house is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack! But for the sake of a human life, he still has to fish for this needle......

Carefully inspected the doors and windows around him, there were no traces of prying on the deadbolt of the new house, the desk was very messy, and no useful traces were found, but in a corner of the window in front of the desk, Shen Huan found that there was a faint trace, which looked like a fingerprint! In addition, you can see a little bit of mud that has been pressed on the window edge, judging by the position and direction of the fingerprints, and the bit of mud, a person once climbed out of the window here! And this person is most likely the murderer!

"Where's the mattress in the new room that day?" Shen Huan asked.

Liu Zhixian said: "These things, including the corpses, are all kept in the yamen."

Shen Huan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, the most important physical evidence has not been lost......"

"Will you go back to the Yamen for an autopsy now?" Liu Zhixian asked

"Don't worry, when the Gu family's uncle comes back, it's not too late for us to go back! I have a few questions I would like to ask him. ”

Not long ago, Shen Huan had already asked people to invite the Gu family's aunt, and it didn't take long for the Gu family's aunt Tang Zhong to come back from outside!

Seeing Shen Huan and Liu Zhixian standing at the door, Tang Zhong hurriedly greeted him, "Master Tai is here, Tang is lazy, I'm really sorry for making you wait for a long time." ”

"Tang Zhong, you are really anxious, your wife was just killed, and you were in a hurry to throw her things, don't you do that?"

Shen Huan suddenly asked, which stunned Tang Zhong, and said with a bitter face for a long time: "Ouch, Mr. Shen, what do you think I want?" I can't help it! Ever since my wife was killed, I haven't dared to go in! I really had no choice but to live in a restaurant under the pretext of taking care of the restaurant! I'll be honest with you, I don't even dare to stay at home right now! My wife died tragically, my father-in-law and mother-in-law were too sad and both fell ill, if I, as a son-in-law, did not serve at home, it would be too unfilial! So I really can't help it, so I let the servants throw away all these things, so I dare to come back to live! ”

"I see...... I'm misunderstanding you, can you tell me what happened that night? Shen Huan smiled undeniably and asked again.

“……”

Tang Zhong's face suddenly turned a little pale when he saw him ask, thinking of the situation at that time, his legs couldn't stop trembling, obviously he was scared a lot that night!

Forcibly suppressing the fear in his heart, Tang Zhong said to Shen Huan: "At that time, I saw my wife hanging there in a wedding dress, and there were drops of blood dripping from the hijab!" That night, I drank too much, and I fell asleep after having sex, and at first I thought it was raining outside and there was a leak in the house, but later I found out that it was blood! It scared me so much that I fainted. ”

"Did you hear anything at night?" Shen Huan asked.

"No, I drank too much and was tired, so I slept so hard that I didn't hear a sound at all."

"Alright, no problem! Tang Zhong, who has recently stayed in the city, is not allowed to go out! Wait for the summons of the government at any time! Liu Zhixian, let's go. After Shen Huan finished asking, after saying this, he took the lead and walked outside, leaving Tang Zhong with a question mark on his face like this......

Ye Feixue leaned against the door, saw Shen Huan and them come out, and immediately greeted him, Liu Zhixian thought about Shen Huan, who was a little weird just now, and asked, "Virtuous nephew, did you find anything?"

"Yes, but it can also be said that there is none."

"Huh?"

Liu Zhixian was a little confused when he heard this, what did Shen Huan mean? At this moment, I only heard Song Shi babbling on the side: "I found a suspicious point!"

"Tell me about it." Shen Huan said with a smile.

"That uncle just now, I felt that something was wrong with him! He said that he threw away Miss Gu's things because he was afraid, and he specially hid in a restaurant for this, which doesn't make sense at all! They have a big family and a lot of houses! If you're really scared, can't you just change your room and sleep? Why throw things away! ”

After Song Shi finished speaking, Shen Huan gave him a thumbs up, "Yes!" There is growth! That's right! This is indeed very suspicious! But I still have to go back to the county office to see the corpse first! ”

Back at the county office, Shen Huan was about to perform an autopsy, and just as he was about to uncover the white cloth covering the corpse, he suddenly found that Song Shi, Liu Zhixian, and Xing Zhutou had taken a step back in unison......

Looking at their appearance, Shen Huan's eyes showed a trace of contempt, "I said that you have seen a lot of corpses, why are you still so scared?" Besides, is this thing scary? Emma! Holy! ”

Shen Huan took off the white cloth as he spoke, but when he saw the face of the deceased, he was really frightened and took several steps back! I almost didn't trip over the threshold! Liu Zhixian and Song Shi saw him like this, and the three of them all glanced at each other, covering their mouths and snickering......

Seeing their gloating appearance, Shen Huan couldn't help but glance at them, but he also understood why Song Shi and they were so scared now. It turned out that the deceased's face was completely stripped off by the murderer! All that remains of the whole face is blood-red flesh and white bones! The two eyeballs have no eyelids, and the wrap completely protrudes from the eye sockets! The teeth in the mouth are also all exposed to the air! It feels like a bloody skeleton is staring at you! Extraordinarily scary! The appearance of the deceased, no matter who it is, will be frightened if there is no defense!

Gradually, Shen Huan continued to perform the autopsy, in addition to the face of the deceased, there was another place that was particularly eye-catching! It's the deceased's smeared red nails! Slowly washing off the nail polish with water, the deceased's nails completely changed color, showing a strange dark purple color! As soon as he saw this situation, Shen Huan's first reaction was poison!

When the deceased's mouth is opened, a small thorn on the tongue opens, and when you press the belly, you feel a sense of swelling! After seeing these characteristics, Shen Huan picked up a silver needle and stabbed it into the stomach of the deceased, and when it was pulled out, the original silver needle became pitch black! At this point, he was completely sure that the deceased had died of *!

After carefully checking that there were no other injuries on the deceased's body, Shen Huan rummaged through the deceased's clothes, and was very surprised to find that there was a little yellow mucus stuck to the collar of the deceased's clothes! When you smell it, the liquid has a sweet floral scent! After tasting it a little bit, I was sure that it was honey!

"How can there be honey?" Shen Huan felt a little strange for a while......

After washing his hands and looking at the corpse, now the cause of death of the deceased has been determined, but Shen Huan doesn't understand, why did the murderer peel off the deceased's face? If it is so that people cannot identify the deceased, it is enough to cut off the head of the deceased, so why bother to skin people? Besides, with such a way of killing, the murderer probably didn't think about hiding the identity of the deceased, right? And where did that honey come from? Could it be that the deceased accidentally got on it when he ate before he died?

Thinking of this, I don't know why, Shen Huan suddenly thought of Chen Shijie! At the beginning, Chen Shijie was disguised as Song Shi and lurked beside him, using a mask made of human skin! Could it be that the Manichaeans were unwilling to accept defeat and wanted to make a comeback? Is this a warning to yourself?

However, this idea was quickly overturned by Shen Huan, if Chen Shijie wanted revenge, he could come directly at himself! You can't do this kind of thing like taking off your pants and farting! Besides, now that the imperial court has issued a wanted warrant, it is too late for people in Manichaeism to hide now, how can they show up openly? Thinking of this, Shen Huan couldn't help but worry about Shiqing, if she fell into the hands of the imperial court, he really didn't know how to save her......