Chapter 485: Narrowing the Scope
Li Rizhi first asked the servants of the Dong family to inspect the wall of the courtyard to see if there were any traces of being climbed over the wall.
However, Li Rizhi estimates that there should be no such traces, because if the murderer comes in over the wall, he can only turn over the outer courtyard wall, and when the murderer climbs in from the outer courtyard wall, he doesn't have to climb the inner wall again.
The small courtyard of the new house belongs to the inner courtyard wall, unless the thief has a problem with his head, otherwise, he can go through the door, why bother to turn over the inner courtyard wall, but Li Rizhi still asked the servants to carefully inspect the inner courtyard wall, trying not to let go of any clues.
After tossing for a long time, the housekeeper finally replied to Li Rizhi, saying that there was no trace of any turning over of the inner courtyard wall or the outer courtyard wall, and the locks on all the doors of the Dong family were not broken, and the door latches were not pryed.
While Li Rizhi took advantage of the Dong family's servants to inspect the courtyard wall, he also inspected the small garden behind the new house.
Naturally, there is a small door behind the small garden of the Dong family, but there is no trace of this small door being pryed, and the small door is on the inside of the latch, unless someone in the garden opens the small door, otherwise people outside want to enter through this door, they can only jump over the wall or pry the door latch, there is no other way, there is no dog hole on the courtyard wall that can drill people, and it is impossible for the murderer to easily enter the Dong family.
After listening to the housekeeper's report, Li Rizhi said: "It seems that the murderer knows the situation of the Dong family very well, otherwise, if it is an ordinary thief, even if he does not choose to climb over such a high courtyard wall, he has to think about prying the back door!"
However, the murderer did not do this, so it means that he infiltrated the Dong family from other ways, on the night of the wedding, there should be many people to watch the ceremony, if there are too many people, it is estimated that the people of your Dong family will not be able to take care of it, so it is estimated that the murderer took this opportunity to sneak in! ”
Dong Chao's brother immediately called the housekeeper and asked: "Have you ever seen a suspicious person come in, especially a person like a coachman, the kind of person with a very smelly mouth, this characteristic should be obvious, as long as he speaks, you can find out, is there anything suspicious?" ”
On the night of Dong Chao's marriage, there were naturally a lot of guests who came to congratulate, but if the guests came, generally speaking, they would not bring too many servants, after all, they came to drink the wine, and they only needed to come by car, so in fact, most of the servants brought were basically only one coachman, and the coachman would wait at Dong's house, wait for his master to finish drinking, and then send the master home.
The servants of the Dong family naturally will not let these coachmen go hungry, after all, they are here to attend the wedding, and the Dong family will prepare wine and food for them, so that these coachmen can have a big meal.
The housekeeper hurriedly replied: "Back to the eldest master, the little ones didn't find any suspicious people, and as for the person with a particularly smelly mouth, the little ones didn't find it either." Our family holds banquets often, so the small ones are all done according to the rules, and it is really not easy for outsiders to mix into our yard, aren't we just preventing this kind of thing! ”
Li Rizhi nodded when he heard this, he knew that what the housekeeper said should be the truth, because large families often hold wine banquets, this kind of thing is definitely different from small families, for preventing mistakes in the chaos and letting thieves mix into their own houses, this is a corresponding rule, basically as long as it is in accordance with the rules, even if it is very busy, but it is difficult to make mistakes, large families have their own means for this kind of preventive measures, and it is obvious that the Dong family is the same.
Li Rizhi said: "Let's go to the kitchen and take a look, it is estimated that if the murderer did not come in by prying the door over the wall, but mixed in, then he must not be able to get in from the main entrance, and the rest of the place is the kitchen!"
On the night of marriage, even if there is no problem with the servants of the guests, but there are still outsiders in the kitchen who deliver firewood and food, if they come in through the side door, it is dark and there are many people, and you are very busy, then, even if you are strictly guarded and come according to the rules, it is impossible to say that there is no omission at all! ”
The housekeeper hesitated for a moment, and then said: "What the county commander said is that now the villain recalls, if there is really an omission, it may be in the kitchen, but the materials in the kitchen, the villain is prepared in advance, so that night, there was no one to send firewood and vegetables, so there are no outsiders in the side door of the kitchen!" ”
While talking, everyone came to the kitchen, Li Rizhi saw that this kitchen is a typical kitchen pattern of a large family, the kitchen is in a separate small courtyard, and this small courtyard is only used for cooking and cooking, the small courtyard has only two doors, one is open to the outside, firewood, rice, oil and salt are sent in from this outer door, and the other door is open to the inside, which is used to pass dishes.
However, the small door that opens inside is locked, and even if the kitchen is going to enter the inner courtyard through this door, it must be unlocked with a key.
Although this is very troublesome, it is an additional guarantee for security protection, and the security precautions are to protect the owner of the house, and it is not convenient for the servants at home, so what does it matter if the servants are troublesome or not, so that at least the thieves can not mix into the inner courtyard from here.
After Li Rizhi checked it, he found that there was a possibility of mixing in from here, because on the night of marriage, the door used to serve food must not be locked as usual, it must be open all the time, so it is also possible for outsiders to sneak in, and this possibility cannot be ruled out!
Li Rizhi looked at the kitchen door, and then looked at the door of the carriage and horse, the situation was similar, that murderer or those murderers, if they wanted to get in with an iron heart, in fact, they really couldn't prevent it.
After all the inspections were completed, Li Rizhi went to the small garden, and he kept walking around in the small garden, thinking about the whole case.
If you analyze the situation at the scene and the confessions of all the people, it is actually possible to narrow the scope of confirming the identity of the murderer, and as long as this scope is concretized, then this case can definitely be solved.
Li Rizhi walked many circles, and finally he stopped and said to everyone: "Since the murderer can say Wen Dengke's name, then it means that he knows the person on the side of the shopkeeper You, who he knows, and how good the relationship is, this is not necessarily, but it must be known, otherwise how could he know about Miss Youjia's affairs!"
There is another point, that is, this person entered the Dong family, not by climbing over the wall and prying the door, but by sneaking in, which shows that he also knows the people of the Dong family, who he knows, and how good the relationship is, this is not necessarily, but he must have been to the Dong family, otherwise it is impossible to escape everyone's attention, and then find Dong Chao's new house so accurately, and wait in it.
Therefore, now the scope of the murderer's search, let's first try to find out if there are such people who know both the You shopkeeper's family and the Dong family? ”
After Li Rizhi said this, everyone around looked at each other, in fact, according to the normal in-laws, there should be many people like this, but the reality is the opposite, but there is no such person!
Wang Jusi felt that he didn't have any strength in the whole case, so he simply created an unjust case, which is not good, he has to make up for his mistakes and make some meaningful suggestions.
Wang Jusi said: "Could it be that the people of the shopkeeper You drank too much on the night of marriage, so they regarded the matter of the young lady of his family as an interesting story and told the people of the Dong family?" ”
As soon as he said this, everyone looked at him, but they all shook their heads.