After the "task force" in the county town set the direction for solving the case, the prison Cao and the county lieutenant immediately issued an order to each pavilion in Anlu County, asking the pavilion chiefs to investigate the men who are more than eight feet tall in their respective jurisdictions - although the footprint technique can calculate the approximate height, it will inevitably vary from person to person and there will be slight deviations, so Heifu suggested that when visiting the suspect, it is more appropriate to set the height at more than eight feet.

During this time, Heff further used his knowledge of footprints to find traits that a suspect was likely to possess.

"The front part of the track is densely patterned, four inches long; The middle pattern is sparse, five inches long; The heel pattern is dense, and it is three inches long......"

Heifu raised his head and asked angrily, "Ling Shi, do you think there is anything wrong with this footprint?" ”

Angrily touching the beard under his chin and thinking about it, he said: "What this thief is wearing should be a boat-shaped cloth with two mouths, and it is normal for the front to be wide and the back to be narrow, but this footprint is narrow in front and back and wide in the middle, which is really a strange thing." ”

Heifu knew that the reason for this situation was related to the strong force on the forefoot and back heel of the suspect. And the pattern of the arch of the foot is sparse, rather than showing a state of half-presence and half-absence or non-existence. It can be inferred that the tall suspect had a low arch or even a collapsed arch, possibly flat feet or even inflated feet.

"Judging from this, the person who left the footprints is not only tall, but also has a bit of a problem with his walking posture."

After Heifu and Nu reached an agreement on this issue, they said to the pavilion chiefs who came to receive the order: "Gentlemen, you must strictly check those who are more than eight feet tall, who have recently gone out, and who are more prone to swords and wooden sheaths, especially those who walk differently from ordinary people!" ”

"No!"

After the pavilion chief took the order, as soon as he walked out of the door, he began to whisper.

"He, the head of the Huyang Pavilion is also a pavilion chief, how can he give orders to us now." Some people are unwilling.

Another pavilion chief said sourly: "It's not the right lieutenant of the county who is carrying him, let him handle the case with Wei Shi and Ling Shi, look at it, just like our superiors." ”

However, his words were not responded, and the rest of the pavilion chiefs sneered: "Hugh wants to say cool things here, this is why the Heifu pavilion chief has the ability, if you two have the ability, why don't you sit in his position?" But he was commanded to toil with us? ”

Because Heifu, the pavilion chief, made meritorious contributions to the thieves and passed the performance appraisal. After taking office, he made many great contributions, and gradually gained fame in the county, so that people couldn't find fault with it, and even a few pavilion chiefs began to admire this peer......

"Let's listen carefully, maybe by next year, he will really become our superiors!"

……

On the other hand, Heifu arranged for the pavilion chiefs to visit, while he himself stayed in the township, sitting in front of the case and continuing to think about the case.

In the course of the previous investigation, the historians had questioned the relatives, friends, and neighbors of the two deceased in detail, and it was recorded in the book as follows: "I also asked if there was a township party that fought and grudged with each other, and took Baoyong, and the people in the village were poor in knowledge and brothers, and they were suspected of stealing and killing the people in the prison gate, and said: The prison gate is good for sending pigs, and often corresponds with the widows in the prison, so there is no need for him to complain." ”

This dead prison keeper was really romantic before his death, he had a wife and children at home, and he was also messing with flowers and grass everywhere, hooking up with widows, and even rolling sheets with married women. In addition to Orion being kept in the dark, in the willow tree, there are really many people who know and can't get used to this matter, but it is not to the extent that they have to kill him for the sake of the moral atmosphere in the willow tree.

In addition to the indiscretion in his private life, he has done well in other aspects of the inner prison gate, he has a high prestige in the inner prison, is kind to his neighbors, is good to the mediocre cultivators in the family, often supports the poor Luzuoli people, has not had a quarrel with anyone for so many years, and is not rich......

In this way, several possibilities such as vendetta and love killing are ruled out, and the biggest possibility is only one: killing for money.

Ling Shi Nu is good at doing on-site investigations, and Le is good at being an insider, and after careful interrogation, he told Heifu and others about his new discovery.

"The wife of the prison gate said that a few days before the crime, the prison gate suddenly brought home 2,000 yuan and asked him where the money came from, but the prison gate did not say."

"In my opinion, most of these two thousand dollars are the reason for the death of the prison gate!"

"But the two thousand coins in the prison gate were hidden in his house, and they have now been sealed, and he only brought two or three hundred coins with him when he went out."

Heifu raised his doubts, these days, you go out with more money and less money, you can see the weight of the blanket, since the murderer has been planning for a long time, it is impossible not to see it.

"If it's for robbery, why don't you just go to the empty prison gate's house to commit the crime, but choose Orion's house? Judging from the methods and plans of the murderers, such mistakes will not be made. ”

"Isn't the murderer also greedy for a while, looting all the money of the Orion family, and taking away the sword of the prison gate, maybe he is not as smart as Heifu thinks."

"It's two murderers." Hefu emphasized.

Because the killers were very tall and deduced from the footprints, it can only be assumed that the murderers were two people, and the tall one was outside the house, helping the other person break the window and use his body as a ladder to send him into the house to kill people, so the other person did not leave footprints in the mud.

However, all this is just speculation, and the real facts of the case may not be known until they find one of them......

In the evening of that day, Wei Shi Anpu, who was in charge of arresting people, brought back good news.

The suspect has been caught!

……

"We caught him in Yidongli, which is adjacent to the willow tree."

Anpu took the clay pot and poured water into his throat in a big gulp, apparently starving.

After drinking the water, he continued: "This man's name is 'Shi', he is eight feet two inches tall, and he walks with a slight limp on his right foot......

At this time, the suspect was also brought in, and he was like a captured beast, in a fishing net, and was dragged in by four people. But seeing his tall figure, even if he was curled up at the moment, he could still feel the strength of his body, his body was covered with rice, his bare hands and feet were cut by the nets of fishing nets and covered with blood, his expression was very depressed, and there was a trace of anger in his eyes.

"Sure enough, it's a big man." Le Haha laughed, then straightened his face and asked the man: "Let's talk about it, the pavilion chief routinely asked, why did you want to escape?" ”

The big man was also tired after a chase and fight, and after a while of gasping in the fishing net, he said: "I am afraid of the officials, so I panic and leave, and I have no other intentions." ”

"If you have not sinned, why should you be afraid of the officials?"

"Hundreds of people are detained at every turn, and more than ten are executed, how dare you not be afraid?"

"You guy, you dare to be hard-mouthed!" Anpu kicked him in anger.

Heifu shook his head, feeling more and more suspicious of this person: "Although the person seems to be fat, he can't see the sharp teeth. ”

Le liked the cat-and-mouse game very much, and he picked up the knife that the man was wearing, and said with a smile: "The blacksmith in the middle said that you made a clap at him three months ago, and let us see it." ”

As he spoke, Le pulled the weapon out of the scabbard, but instead of a short sword, it was a short sword!

Seeing this, Shi's face suddenly changed greatly.

"But there is a sword in the scabbard, if you guess correctly, this sword must be from the dead prison gate in the willow tree!"

According to the pavilion chiefs, after questioning Shi's neighbors, they learned that the day of the crime was a busy farming, but Shi used the excuse that he was going to the township and city, and left before dawn, and returned to the food party, during which he didn't know where he went or what he did.

In the face of such evidence, Shi lowered his head and said as if in resignation: "In this case, I admit that I did kill the prison gate there...... The two were very close to each other, and when I saw the inner prison door with a blanket and go out of the inner wall that day, I coveted him for money, followed him to the house, jumped in the window, and killed the two......"

"Hugh wants to talk nonsense again, you fat body, how can you jump out of the window to commit a crime?" Heifu interrupted Shi's nonsense and asked, "Tell me quickly, who is your fellow party, the real murderer, and where is it!" ”

If Fang Caishi was just surprised, now he was stunned, but after being told by Heifu, he actually closed his mouth and didn't say a word.

Heifu pressed several times to no avail, so he had to say: "Ling Shi, this person has a hard mouth, and he should be detained immediately." Wei Shi, it is better to interrogate his family relatives and friends first, and see who this person has been close to in recent years, and those who can take the risk to commit crimes together must be acquaintances. ”

After Anpu left, Le asked Shi a few more words, but he didn't get a response, so he said angrily: "Since you don't say it, then there is no way, we can only use the next strategy." ”

He waved his hand: "Drag it down, let's use corporal punishment!" ”

Half an hour later, after a whipping, the bloodstained stone was dragged up, and he was already very weak, and was pressed in front of Wei Shi, Heifu, and Le by two pavilion guards.

Wei Shi Anpu said: "Shi, your township party has said everything, you have been very close to a group of mediocre cultivators in the past year, is it that one of them committed the crime with you?" ”

"I ...... say" After hearing this, Shi raised his head and said weakly: "I said, I hope that Ling Shi can untie my rope a little, the binding is too tight, I can't speak......"

There were five people in the room, all with swords, and there was no doubt that he was there, and people let Shi loosen.

Shi seemed to feel better, and he muttered, "The person who committed the crime with me, his name is ......"

Suddenly, Shi stood up suddenly, and the strength of the eight-foot-two-inch man was amazing, his hands were tied together, and he was able to knock the two pavilion guards behind him and fly out! Wei Shi Anpu was shocked and wanted to draw his sword to stop it, but he was also hit by Shi bowing his head! Suddenly leaned against the wall, only to feel a sharp pain in my chest, and my ribs were about to break!

Immediately, Shi pounced on Ling Shile in front of him, and he sat down on the ground in fright.

However, Shi's goal is not to be happy, but to be a sword on the table! The sword as evidence!

Grabbing the sword in his hand, Shi raised his hands with difficulty, but did not slash at anyone, but aimed the bronze blade at his neck!

He's not trying to run away, he's trying to kill himself!

"Bang dang!"

It was too late, and then it was too late, and the farthest away black man made a move, and he drew his sword in his hand, and smashed it into Shi's hands with the blade of the sword, and the weapon in his hand was knocked away in one fell swoop!

"Good man, want to hide his comrades with his death? Unfortunately, it's not that easy! ”