"Last night, someone sneaked into the yamen, stole the portrait of the bandits, and killed Lao Chen, and our only clue is gone." Liu Zhutou emphasized again.

"Sneaking into the yamen? Who is so bold! "Lord Zhizhou is so angry that his beard is trembling, since he can sneak into the yamen to kill people, then his life is also in the hands of others, which makes him how not to be angry and how not to be nervous.

But the crux of the matter is that the portrait is gone, the person who painted it is dead, and he can't paint another one, because there is no portrait in his hand, and he has never seen a real person, so he can't imagine what the bandit looks like out of thin air. Without certification, without portraits, how can they go to find bandits?

"What about knives? Keep an eye on the knife! Don't lose the knife again. "Lord Zhizhou gradually calmed down, no matter how crazy the bandits were, they didn't dare to hurt the court officials, unless they wanted to rebel, and they were not afraid of exterminating the Nine Clans.

Liu Zhutou answered, walked out of the lobby, and ordered: "Go to the file library and get the knife that was put in yesterday." ”

Waiting for Liu Zhutou to return to the lobby, Lord Zhizhou said: "Liu Zhutou, you have to keep the physical evidence, it's best to carry it with you, don't lose it again!" ”

"Yes!"

"What are you going to do next?" Lord Zhizhou's face sank like water.

Liu Zhutou said: "There are too many murder scenes, the murderer committed the crime at night, it is not easy to destroy the evidence and traces of the crime, and there may be a lot of useful clues. At this time, the whole city is closed, and if the murderers stay in the city, they will definitely not be able to escape, and it is only a matter of time before they are caught. ”

"Okay, then you can do it. If you don't have enough manpower, the manpower in the yamen, as well as the archers, you can mobilize them, and you must arrest the bandits! ”

"Yes, sir." Liu Zhutou responded, turned around and prepared to leave.

"My lord, the knife is gone." A servant hurried into the hall to report.

"Huh", Lord Zhizhou angrily patted the shocking wood, and said angrily: "The defense of the Zhizhou Yamen is so unbearable!" From today onwards, no one is allowed to take vacations, no leave the office, and patrols will be strengthened, day and night! ”

"Yes!" All the officials in the hall should be in unison.

"The physical evidence is gone, this case is also an iron case, as long as people are caught, these bandits don't want to turn over! Liu catches the head, go and investigate quickly! Lord Zhizhou's eyes narrowed, and his essence was exposed, as if these bandits had provoked him.

"Yes!" Liu Zhutou replied and quickly walked out of the lobby.

The sun had just risen, and a ray of light pierced his eyes, but the warmth of the sun did not dispel the chill that enveloped his whole body.

Let's go to the scene of the murder first, and hopefully the murderer will leave clues.

Thinking so, he greeted and immediately rushed to the scene of the murder under the leadership of the officials.

The atmosphere in the lobby was weird, the victim's family was still sad and crying, and the shopkeeper Lin was standing aside, not knowing what he was thinking, and Lord Zhizhou sat intently, as if he was worried.

After a long time, the family of a victim finally broke the strange atmosphere in the lobby and cried: "My lord, my husband died unjustly, he worked hard, he suffered all his life, the woman had the heart to buy a good coffin for him, but now she can't even afford a thin coffin, life is hard, there is nowhere to live when you die, my husband's life is so bitter, the life of the woman is so bitter!" ”

Lord Zhizhou's mind was interrupted by a woman's crying, and then he came back to his senses, looked at Shopkeeper Lin and said, "Shopkeeper Lin, what do you think of the victim's compensation just proposed?" How much you are willing to give, make it clear in this court today, and you will not regret it when you leave this court. ”

Shopkeeper Lin said: "My lord, it's not that the villain is unwilling to give a pension, they are working in Renhe Pharmacy, and now that something has happened, the villain is also very sad." But a hundred yuan for one person is a bit much, and it is really difficult to afford. ”

"Then tell me bluntly, how much can you afford the bereavement pension?" Lord Zhizhou just wants to appease the victim's family as soon as possible, and those who can be buried should be buried as soon as possible, so as not to cause another incident.

Shopkeeper Lin thought for a while and said, "The pharmacy can give each victim fifty yuan for a pension. ”

"My lord, my husband just left, leaving us orphans and widows, and a mother-in-law who can't move, how can we live, doesn't this make us die?" Another woman began to cry.

Lord Zhizhou became irritable as soon as he heard the cry, and immediately said: "Shopkeeper Lin, don't say fifty yuan, don't say one hundred, how about the pharmacy giving each victim eighty yuan of money?" ”

When it came to this, Shopkeeper Lin couldn't either, and he didn't promise him not to leave the yamen today, so he had to reply stubbornly: "Yes, the villain obeys the orders of the adults." ”

"Okay, then it's decided, before noon today, you have to send a lot of eighty yuan of bereavement benefits to each victim's home, if you don't send it within the time limit, or send one less penny, this official will ask you!" After Lord Zhizhou finished speaking, a sound of "Woo" fell.

"Yes, sir." Shopkeeper Lin agreed very simply.

"You should also go back to each other, and after the yamen has finished inspecting the scene, the victim will be buried properly. Retire! After Lord Zhizhou finished speaking, without waiting for everyone to respond, he got up and walked towards the back hall, and as soon as he turned the screen, he immediately clenched his fists and slammed his waist.

This morning, he really tossed him enough, not to mention that his clothes were soaked, and his waist hurt badly.

As soon as he returned to the back house, he lay down on the chaise longue and ordered to boil water for a bath.

Liu Zhutou led people to investigate the scene of the murder, this is a small courtyard with only three houses, the victim died in the leftmost room, died on the bed, after investigation there is no trace of a fight in the house, the murderer is to pry the door in, with a sharp knife cut the throat of the deceased, the furnishings and objects in the house have not been touched, the scene left no other traces.

However, Liu Zhutou inspected the doors of the other two houses, and there were no traces of the murderer prying the door, which shows that the murderer was very familiar with the deceased's residence, and it is speculated that after sleeping soundly at night, he directly climbed over the wall and pried the door and killed him with a knife, and the family members in the same courtyard did not hear any movement, so the murderer's goal was very clear, and there was no stop after killing people.

After investigation, Liu Zhutou concluded that it was a murder, not an ordinary homicide.

After examining the body and leaving a detailed examination, he immediately moved to another death scene.

The victim also died in bed, but his death was slightly different, he was inserted into his left chest with a sharp weapon, directly piercing the heart, the wound was three inches long, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, presumably by a long knife. The door was pried open, there were no signs of struggle, no rummaging or theft, and all furnishings were left untouched.

The doors of other rooms in the courtyard were found to have no signs of being pried, and no one else heard any special sounds at night. After carefully inspecting the courtyard, he found traces of climbing over the wall, and the place where he climbed over the wall was a little far away from the deceased's room, and there were several rooms in between, apparently the murderer bypassed the others, broke through the door, and killed the deceased.

The murderer was so calm, he must have been investigated beforehand, and it was obvious that this was another premeditated murder.

After examining the body and leaving the examination report, Liu Zhutou and others quickly entered the next murder scene.

Two people died at this scene, a young couple, died together in the house, the woman died on the bed, the man fell to the ground, there were no signs of a fight at the scene, both were stabbed through the body, the wound was wide on one side and narrow on the other, three inches and six minutes long. It is speculated that the murder weapon was a long knife three inches six minutes wide and two and a half percent thick.

The door was pried open, there were no traces of rummaging in the house, the door of the house was intact, there were no traces of prying, there were many debris piled up in the yard, and other family members did not hear any special sounds in the middle of the night.

Later, he found that the courtyard door was pried open by a sharp blade, but the family members said that when they woke up in the morning, the courtyard door was plugged in and not opened. After careful investigation, traces of climbing were found on another courtyard wall. Out of professional sensitivity, Liu Zhutou speculated that the murderer chose to pry the door in, it should be not easy to climb over the wall, but after he killed someone, it was obviously inconvenient to leave from the courtyard gate, what inconvenience would there be in the middle of the night?

When Liu Zhutou walked out of the courtyard and saw the location of the courtyard gate and the wall clearly, he guessed what the murderer had done, because the location of the wall was remote, in a dark corner, and the courtyard gate was facing a street.

The streets of Jianpucheng are almost empty at night, and it is not bustling here, and there is only one kind of person who will appear at night, and that is the watchman.

Liu Zhutou's mind changed rapidly, and then he quietly ordered a catcher to hurry up and take the husband who had been on duty here last night to the yamen good student to take care of.

After examining the two bodies and recording the certificates, they then went to investigate the next murder scene.

The scene was tragic, the mother and son were stabbed several times, both fell in a pool of blood, there were traces of a fight at the scene, the elderly mother had flesh and blood marks between her fingernails, and the son grabbed a piece of black cloth in his hand.

After examining the body's wounds, the physical evidence was collected and then entered into an open room.

The room is more miserable than the courtyard, a mother and son both died in the room, the three or four-year-old son was twisted and broke his neck and fell to the ground naked, and the young mother was lying on the bed naked, with nothing to cover her body, and her neck was also broken by the girl.

Seeing this, everyone didn't dare to look more, and immediately left the room.

The neighbor of the deceased said that in the middle of the night he did hear a short cry, thinking that it was a quarrel between husband and wife, and he saw the courtyard door open in the morning, he went in to see, He Laosan and his mother died in the yard, and thought that He Laosan's wife killed him, he walked into the room to see, He Laosan's wife and son also died in the house, and the family of four all died.

After investigation, there were no signs of prying open the courtyard door, and there was no trace of prying open the door, and climbing marks were found on the courtyard wall.

Liu Zhutou speculated that the murderer was over the wall to enter, somehow, just happened to meet the deceased's mother and son in the courtyard, after a short tear between the two sides, the mother and son were both killed, and then the murderer heard the shouts in the room, lest he be exposed, so he did not do anything, and then entered the house to kill the child, raped and killed the child's mother, and then left in a panic through the gate.

The case was likewise murder.