It was a small courtyard, with three grass-made houses in front of a clearing with a lot of farm tools, and outside was an earthen wall more than half a man high. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info just look at these somewhat dilapidated houses and farm tools, you can know that Qi Tiezhu's family is not rich, so he is not afraid of someone coming in over the wall to steal.

After settling Qi Tiezhu into the room to the west and lying down, Aunt Li wanted to go to Zhang Luo for some tea. However, this was rejected by Yang Zhen politely, they did not come here to drink tea and chat, but to investigate the case, so they first turned around in the courtyard and three rooms.

There are three rooms, Qi Tiezhu's on the west, his mother Li's bedroom on the east, and the room in the middle is the scene of the murder that day. With everything in the courtyard clear at a glance, this guest hall naturally became the focus of Yang Zhen's search.

The room was only four or five feet square, and in addition to a table and a few stools, there was only a cabinet for daily utensils such as dishes and chopsticks, and a wooden bed against the wall.

Yang Zhen first set his gaze on a window on the wall above the bed. However, the window was not large, only for children of four or five years old to pass through, and there was a wooden fence on it, so naturally it was impossible for anyone to get into it and kill people.

Then he looked around the bed and asked Aunt Li, who came over, "Did the guest who was killed that day die on this bed?" Have you cleaned this house carefully? ”

"If you go back to the master, the guest will die in this bed. When my son found his body and screamed, the old woman also hurried over to see it, it was really ......" Qi's mother still recalled the events of that day with lingering palpitations, and the little joy that had just been generated because of her son's return dissipated: "...... It's miserable. Half of the bed was soaked in blood, and some blood was on the floor. The guest just lay on his back on the bed......"

Yang Zhen walked to the bed and took a closer look, although the covering and other things on it had long been removed, there were still traces of blood on the wooden bed, which had penetrated into the texture of the wood. This alone shows how much blood was shed by the deceased that day. Come to think of it, someone who cuts off the enlarged artery outside the throat will naturally bleed heavily.

Aunt Li continued: "Except for taking the cover away, the old woman has not touched any other objects in this room...... My son was wrongfully imprisoned, and my wife didn't want to do anything, let alone clean up the house......"

Yang Zhen nodded in understanding, no one would be in the mood to do things as usual at this time, and this was a good thing for them, at least the scene was not completely destroyed. He then half-bent down, squinted his eyes, and looked closely under the bed and at the edge to see if there were any clues that had been missed by the previous officials.

There was indeed some gain, and there were some dried blood stains running down the outer edge of the bed. And on the side leaning against the head of the bed, there are rare marks of two toes. Although it was only a little trace, and it couldn't be seen at all if you didn't look carefully, Yang Zhen still found it.

"It seems that this should have been left behind by the murderer after the murder to ensure that the deceased was dying." Yang Zhen reasoned in his heart, but this alone obviously did not help much in finding the murderer. Now it is the Ming Dynasty, but it is not as developed as the criminal investigation science of later generations, and the height, weight and other characteristics of its owner can be deduced from a footprint.

"Erlang, look at this latch." The two brocade guards who had come with him were carefully inspecting the room, and when they came to the door, they saw that the wooden latch had been cut by a sword.

Yang Zhen turned around and observed carefully. On the rough-and-coming latch, there was indeed a small notch that had been scratched by a sharp object. Although it is only a little bit, it is enough to prove how the murderer entered this house.

"Just pried open the latch in one fell swoop, this person is indeed a master of this way." Yang Zhen judged, but then a question arose in his heart: "If the murderer wants to pry open the door, there will inevitably be some movement, so since the deceased is full of martial arts, how can he not know it at all?" Unless ......"

With this thought, Yang Zhen looked at Qi Mu: "On the day you found out about the murder, did you feel anything different?" ”

"Something different?" Qi's mother recalled, fortunately, that day was too important to her, even after a few days, she still remembered it vividly, so she said: "If you want to say the difference, it is that the pillar rose later than in the past that day, and the old woman felt a little dizzy when she got up, and she only thought that she was suffering from the cold." ”

Yang Zhen didn't say a word, he came to Qi Tiezhu again and asked him the same question. Qi Tiezhu's answer was also average: "When I woke up that morning, I felt dizzy...... When I came to the courtyard, I found that the door of the guest hall was ajar, and when I went in again, I saw the guest...... Then I went to the city to report to the official......"

Only then did Yang Zhen confirm his judgment: "It seems that the murderer also used incense on both you and the deceased before committing the murder, so that he can kill people without the slightest obstacle." No wonder the deceased, although he was a good martial artist, died by the sword without even a little struggle......" Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of a little more: "Did the guest bring weapons in addition to the package containing silver?" "Yesterday's autopsy, Yang Zhen clearly found that he had put a lot of effort into weapons such as swords, would such a person hurry without weapons?

"Weapons?" After his reminder, Qi Tiezhu also recalled: "By the way, he still carried a long package on his back when he came that day, but then it disappeared." But because the government insisted that I was the murderer and tortured me, I forgot about it. ”

Yang Zhen sighed secretly, maybe through that weapon, he could find out the identity of the deceased. But apparently the murderer was also concerned about this, or for some other reason, the murderer did not take the silver, but took the weapon.

Drugged and took away weapons, the murderer may have secretly embellished the deceased, but it wasn't until he lived in Qi's house that he found an opportunity to do it...... These were all clues that the government had not found before, but they were seen by Yang Zhen. But even so, it didn't help much in the case, after all, none of these clues could point to someone as the murderer.

After checking the house again and confirming that nothing was missing, Yang Zhen and the others walked to the courtyard. His eyes wandered over the low courtyard wall, but his mind was thinking about how the murderer would infiltrate. Suddenly, a picture flashed in my mind, a dark shadow came to the outside of the courtyard, suddenly jumped up, pressed on the wall, and then flipped into the courtyard.

One press ...... Yang Zhen suddenly rushed to the courtyard wall and carefully observed the traces above. When he saw the far right, his eyes narrowed, and he had already made a discovery—there was a bloody palm print on the top of the courtyard wall. Although the bloody palm prints were not conspicuous because they were left on the black earthen wall, they could not escape his eyes.

After staring carefully at the bloody handprint for a long time, the corners of Yang Zhen's mouth curled up slightly: "Finally, I have gained something." ”

"How?" Several other people also hurriedly gathered around to take a closer look.

"This palm print is very different from the palm of an ordinary person." Yang Zhen lit the bloody palm print and said, "You see, there are actually five finger marks left here. ”

"What's this, doesn't everyone have five fingers?"

"If you want to climb over the wall, don't you have your hands on the wall? The thumb should be buckled to the side. Yang Zhen said and pointed to a little blood stain on the wall: "That's it." This person's thumb is already here, why is there five fingers on it? ”

"So, the murderer has six fingers?" The others finally understood the key and said with joy on their faces.

"Yes, the murderer should be a man with six fingers on his right hand. This trait should be of great help in finding him. "Indeed, there are only a few people with six fingers in this world, and this characteristic cannot be concealed, so it is much easier to find someone than to find the murderer without any clues. But Yang Zhen is still not too sure in his heart, after all, after nearly half a month, the murderer is likely to have left Hangzhou, or even the boundary of Zhejiang, and it is difficult for Pei Xuan and other officials to find out even if they have mastered this characteristic.

Then, Yang Zhen and the others visited the village to see if any villagers had stumbled upon such a suspicious person that night. However, at this time, there were few people walking around the village after nightfall, let alone discovering such a hidden killer. After asking this circle, there was almost no gain, and even the neighbors near Qi Tiezhu's house did not hear anything unusual.

"Let's go back." Seeing that there was no gain, Yang Zhen had to beckon everyone back to the city, and their faces were not too good-looking. I thought that it was just because the government was not meticulous enough to investigate the case that they would wronged people, but now it seems that although they have the behavior of arresting random people to make up the number, they are also out of helplessness. After all, whether it is an official or a below, there is pressure to close the case quickly, right?

But no matter what, there is still something to gain today, and it is enough to give those officials an explanation, and the next thing is to cast a wide net and carefully search for the tactics of the sea of people, which has nothing to do with Yang Zhen and them.

In the days that followed, the Hangzhou government pursued and searched for them according to the only clues, especially those with six fingers, who became the focus of their interrogation. But after a few days, although some suspicious people were found, but under some interrogation, they all denied them one by one, but they were busy with those errands, but they didn't even find the shadow of the murderer.

Days of hard work, but no achievements, this is a great drain on everyone's fighting spirit, and the huge Hangzhou Mansion has other things, and everyone can't put all their strength on it, and by the end of March, even Tang Feng and the others no longer paid special attention to this matter because the Criminal Division gave them a case that they could handle.

Seeing that this case will eventually become an unsolved case and it will not be resolved, only Yang Zhen still feels that there must be something to do in it because he is a White Lotus Sect who died, and it is always difficult to feel at ease.

That's when another, bigger case popped up......