The person who first reported the case was a vendor selling steamed cakes who lived next to Zhou Dexing's house, and when he returned home in the evening, he found that the door of Zhou's house was open, and he opened the door curiously, and a strong smell of blood suddenly greeted him.

At that time, it was already dark, and there was no oil lamp or candle in the house, so the vendor took the fire fold he brought with him and shone it inside, and saw a black figure lying on the ground of the hall by the light of the fire, and shouted a few times but did not respond, there seemed to be a large amount of blood in the house, so he hurriedly ran to the mansion, and happened to bump into Niu Dali, who came out to find Zhou Dexing.

Qin Lin led the crowd to the scene, and there were already a lot of onlookers, so he first ordered the Jinyi Official Academy to play light balls and torches to shine inside and out.

So, from the half-hidden door, it could be seen clearly that Zhou Dexing in the house was lying in a pool of blood, and based on the amount of bleeding on the ground alone, Qin Lin knew that this person was definitely hopeless.

First of all, observe the scene, this is a house facing the street, and entering the gate is the hall, which is the central scene of the crime. There are two doors on the east side of the hall that lead to the two rooms in the east wing, and one door on the west side that leads to the kitchen and latrine. The windows are intact and closed with pins from the inside, that is, no one can enter through the windows, and there is nothing unusual about the iron locks and buckles on the doors of the halls.

The hall is only one zhang wide and ** feet deep, there is a fire kang, there is an oil lamp with a lampshade on the kang table, Zhou Dexing fell under the fire kang, the ground seems to have been soaked with blood, there is nowhere to put his feet, and there are many splashes, pumps and rubbing blood stains on the walls and the doors on the east and west sides.

Zhou Dexing's eyes widened, his mouth opened in despair, he finally waited for Qin Lin, but unfortunately he couldn't tell Qin Lin what he wanted to say in the afternoon.

Zhang Zixuan was very remorseful, wrinkling her nose as if apologizing: "It's all my fault, I shouldn't beat him with bitter tricks, so that he is afraid of me, and the words I wanted to say in the afternoon didn't come out after all......"

"Forget it, people are not as good as the sky," Qin Lin comforted his wife: "Besides, Zhou Dexing is a tiger and hunts down Qi Saihua and Xi Dongsheng, and he is not a good bird, and he will die if he dies." ”

is also Zhou Dexing's ghost, because he was beaten, he felt that Zhang Zixuan was "born with a strict surname", in comparison, Qin Lin seemed to be easier to speak, and he refused to tell Zhang Zixuan what he knew in the afternoon.

Qin Lin instructed the lieutenant brothers to irradiate the corpse with lampball torches, and found that the head of the corpse seemed to be somewhat deformed, the flesh and blood of the entire neck were blurred, and there was a deep knife wound.

"Fatty, up!" Qin Lin was not polite at all.

Lu Yuanzhi had already come to his senses, put on cocoon silk gloves, squatted in front of the corpse without saying a word, touched the corpse's head, and looked at the wound on his neck.

"Brother Qin, Zhou Dexing was smashed in the head by something like a hammer, and he was stabbed in the neck again, and his trachea, esophagus and blood veins were all cut off, damn, they all cut into the big vertebrae!" Lu Yuanzhi opened the wound and showed it to Qin Lin.

But isn't it, there is a huge incision in Zhou Dexing's neck, the carotid artery and jugular vein on both sides, as well as the trachea and esophagus, are completely severed, revealing Bai Sensen's cervical vertebrae.

Because the amount of bleeding was very large, the blood flowed out of the body, of course, there would be no obvious corpse spots, and the cornea of the eyes was also clear and did not become turbid, Lu Yuanzhi reached out to the armpit of the corpse and touched the temperature, feeling only a little cold, so he said: "It seems that the time of death is about half an hour, that is, when the neighbor hawker found out that he died, he had just died." ”

Zhang Zixuan became more and more remorseful when she heard this, as long as she sent Niu Dali over earlier...... Qin Lin tilted his head thoughtfully.

"Hey, you bring the lantern closer, I want to see it too, Miss Ben will solve the case too!" Xu Xinyi is not very afraid of the dead, and probes his brain from the window.

Qin Lin laughed, took out the fingerprint brush and silver powder from the raw cowhide bag, walked to the oil lamp, and began to brush the silver powder on it, slowly revealing the fingerprints.

Zhang Zixuan suddenly realized that when Zhou Dexing was killed, it was already dark, why was there no light in his room? Apparently the murderer blew out the lights before fleeing, trying to delay the crime, but he was still discovered by a curious neighbor - of course, even if the hawker didn't pay attention, Niu Dali would soon come here and find out about Zhou Dexing's death.

The oil lamp has a cover made of yarn, and if you want to blow it out, you must not remove the cover, and the murderer's fingerprints will remain on the oil lamp!

Sure enough, with Qin Lin's movements, several silver fingerprints were gradually revealed, one, two, three...... Shades of color vary and overlap each other.

Qin Lin asked Lu Yuanzhi to rub the red seal mud on the deceased's ten fingers, pressed the white paper and took fingerprints for comparison. While doing this, they found several marks on the deceased's fingers, which were associated with the wounds on his head, and it was easy to explain that it was a resistance wound formed by the deceased when he was smashed and used his hand to protect the top of his head.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, this case should not be very difficult, at least the fingerprints can be compared with the suspect, of course, if the people related to Zhou Dexing are not murderers, it may also be the killers sent by the White Lotus Sect from elsewhere.

Unexpectedly, Qin Lin compared for a while, his brows furrowed, and he said stupidly: "It's all the deceased's own, and there are several fingerprints with female surnames, which are covered by his fingerprints, and they probably belong to his wife." ”

In this way, it is equivalent to having no fingerprints, because Zhou Dexing is the last person to hold the lampshade, it is impossible for him to smash a few hammers on his head, cut his neck with a big cut, and finally blow out the oil lamp in an orderly manner.

"Didn't Zhou Dexing light the lamp?" Xu Xinyi muttered at the window.

Zhang Zixuan was also strange: "It was already dark at that time, and Zhou Dexing didn't sleep, he was neatly dressed, why didn't he light the lamp?" ”

Lu Yuanzhi's small eyes narrowed: "Ha, I know, he may have just come home, and he was killed before he could light the lamp!" ”

Qin Lin nodded, not ruling out this possible surname, he thought for a while, also put on gloves, and squatted in front of the corpse.

Zhou Dexing's head suffered multiple blows from a blunt hammer object, distributed on the top of the head, front and back, left and right, and almost the entire skull was smashed and collapsed, which was enough to cause death, and at the same time, the wound on his neck was bleeding very obviously, and the skin and flesh were also rolled up, and there was a very normal life reaction, indicating that this huge wound was a wound formed before Zhou Dexing's death.

Qin Lin flipped the corpse over and examined the huge wound on his neck. If it weren't for the cervical vertebrae, the huge wound could have caused the deceased's head to be in a different place.

Lu Yuanzhi couldn't help but mutter: "Brother Qin, look at the murderer's method, don't you want to cut off the head and take it away, right?" ”

"There should be another reason," Qin Lin said, pointing to the ends of the neck wound, "Look here." ”

Lu Fatzi took a closer look at the wound and found that both corners of the wound had obvious tails, just like crow's feet at the corners of the eyes, and counted carefully, there were four or five tails, which were relatively shallow, and only scratched the epidermis.

"Fatty, what does this mean?" Qin Lin asked.

Lu Fatzi stretched out his palm to simulate a knife and made a back and forth pulling motion.

The drag marks at both ends of these wounds are actually formed by repeatedly cutting the same position many times, because the human neck is similar to a cylindrical shape, and the cut surface of the knife contact is a convex arc, so the position of the center of the wound will be forced, and the force at both ends will be much lighter, and the neck will be cut back and forth many times, forming a huge wound, and a number of thinner knife marks will be formed at both ends of the wound.

Qin Lin said: "The injury of the neck has a characteristic compared to the injury of the head, that is, it is particularly concentrated. Injuries to the head are scattered, consistent with formation in struggle, and there are resistance injuries to the fingers as evidence; The damage to the neck is concentrated, and you look at the direction of the blood flow. ”

The deceased was lying on his back facing the sky, and the blood from the neck wound was flowing down to the ground, and there were relatively few blood stains on the front placket and other positions.

This shows that when his neck was cut, Zhou Dexing's posture of falling to the ground on his back never changed, and the cut was formed when the deceased had fallen to the ground and lost his mobility.

"Hey, Brother Qin, I understand!" Lu Fatzi slapped his thigh: "Brother Qin, you mean that the deceased has obviously lost his ability to resist, and the smashing and knife wounds are enough to cause his death, but why did the murderer cut the neck of the deceased back and forth?" Is that so? ”

"It shows that the murderer must die of Zhou Dexing, and Zhou Dexing's life is very unfavorable to the murderer!" Xu Xinyi looked proud of the success of the answer, and added: "This kind of crime is either committed by acquaintances, lest the deceased himself will fall into the legal net if he is alive; Either kill people and kill people, Zhou Dexing must not tell a secret. ”

"It may also be both," Qin Lin stretched out his hand and posed as if he wanted to shoot Xu Xinyi's head out of the window, which frightened Miss Xu and quickly shrank her head, Qin Lin's hands were covered with blood.

Since Zhang Zixuan entered the scene, her face has never been very good-looking, and she pulled Qin Lin: "Little sister, little sister is a little uncomfortable, go out for a while first." ”

Qin Lin nodded, no matter what, Zhang Zixuan would have a little self-blame, this kind of death caused directly, watching the living people turn into corpses, and the number of killing three thousand people in a certain place on paper.

Only by solving the case as soon as possible, finding the real culprit, and bringing him to justice can Zhang Zixuan get out of this negative emotion.

Summoning up his fighting spirit, Qin Lin looked at the scene again, as if he was talking to himself: "There are no traces of damage to the doors and windows, how did the murderer enter the scene?" It seems that the murderer's martial arts are not high. ”

If he is a martial arts master, he can kill Zhou Dexing with one blow, and he can use it to smash his head full of holes, and then use a knife to cut back and forth on his neck?

Of course, it is not ruled out that the murderer deliberately disguised himself, but combined with the bloodstains at the scene, those bloodstains in the form of pumping, splashing, and dripping are very natural, Qin Lin believes in his own experience and judgment, the murderer is not a person with superb martial arts.

Zhou Dexing, as the head catcher of Yanzhou Mansion, although he is not a martial arts master, he is also athletic, who killed him?

Lu Yuanzhi looked at the situation in the entire room: "Could it be that the murderer followed him in from the outside and gave him a fatal blow?" In that case, the door is a good place to attack, ah, here, there are some traces here, Brother Qin, come and see! ”

Lu Fatzi's small eyes shone brightly, as if to confirm his statement, a dark bloody handprint was found on the lower edge of the gate.

The night is too dark, and there are blind spots with light ball torches, and this door is made of old wood, and the color is close to sauce, if Lu Yuanzhi hadn't discovered it in time, maybe it would have to come out tomorrow, and it would be seen by natural light.

Qin Lin was overjoyed, hurriedly walked over to take a closer look, and painted it with silver, and sure enough, it was Zhou Dexing's handprint.

Combined with the handprints, Zhou Dexing's head wounds, finger resistance injuries and neck cuts, the entire case was restored to Qin Lin's heart.

There is a bloody palm print of Zhou Dexing on the door, but there is no trace of a fight at the door, and there is no blood on the ground. Why do fighting and being injured in the hall leave bloody handprints on the gate?

Obviously, the bloody handprint at the door should be Zhou Dexing's blow from behind when he first opened the door and went home, and his head suddenly broke and bled out, he subconsciously covered his head with his hands, and his hands were stained with blood, because a head injury would cause a feeling of fainting, and he would subconsciously hold on to the door, so he left this bloody palm print.

The attack at the gate was easy to be discovered by passers-by on the street, so then Zhou Dexing was pushed into the hall by the murderer, and there was a fight with the murderer, in the process of finger protection and head was smashed, resulting in resistance injuries, he was bare-handed, and was attacked at the beginning, seriously injured, and finally killed by the murderer.

The facts of the case have been deduced to this point, and it seems that in the absence of new clues, it can no longer be carried out, Qin Lin asked the land security who was raised: "What about Zhou Dexing's wife and children, he won't live alone, right?" ”

Dibao nodded and replied: "Lord Qiqi Qincha, Zhou Zhutou has a wife and children, but his wife has taken the children back to her parents' house, so I will send someone to call, I think it is still on the way." ”

Qin Lin walked out of the door and looked at the surrounding situation, the expression on his face became more and more solemn.

"Brother Qin, what did you find?" Lu Fatzi grinned and leaned in.

Qin Lin pointed around: "Look here, although it is a street, but the location is relatively remote, it is more detour from the street, just now we came from the government, in order to hurry up is the small road, I think Zhou Dexing usually takes the small road - so why didn't the murderer ambush in an alley somewhere, but ran to his house to do something?" ”

Lu Yuanzhi's eyes lit up: "The murderer is looking for something in his house!" ”

Quite possibly! Qin Lin nodded without thinking, the murderer came to Zhou Dexing's house exactly what he was looking for, the question was what he was looking for, did he find it?

instructed the captains to carry the corpse out, and asked everyone to thoroughly search Zhou Dexing's house.

is busy working, Zhou Dexing's wife Wu is back, this woman is white, looks good, crying all the way back, before entering the house, she fell to the ground, crying loudly: "Boss, you died so miserably, how can you live if you leave our orphans and widows......

Qin Lin motioned for A, B, C, and D to go over to comfort her, and when she gradually sobbed and calmed down, he asked, "Where were you when the accident happened?" ”

"The people's women, the people's women are taking care of the children at their parents' house," Wu replied in surprise, looking incredulous, as if he was very puzzled by Qin Lin's question.

Xu Xinyi had a sympathetic attack, and quietly pulled Qin Lin's back swing: "Hey, won't she, she is so thin, can she pick up a hammer and smash her husband to death?" ”

"There may be more than one murderer," Qin Lin paused, and reminded in a low voice: "There are two kinds of murder weapons at the scene, one is a blunt weapon like a hammer, and the other is a sharp weapon like a kitchen knife. ”

"But there is a chronological order of use, so one person can complete it," Xu Xinyi's beautiful apricot pit eyes blinked.

Qin Lin smiled and asked, "But when a person kills someone, will he carry two tools?" ”

Xu Xinyi was stunned, it is true, no tools were found at the scene, so he was taken away by the murderer, if it was a tool that Zhou Dexing's family was looking for temporarily, why did he take it away? At this time, few people know about fingerprint recognition! It can only be said that these two tools were prepared by the murderer and brought to the scene by himself.

"But no fingerprints were found on the lampshade other than the deceased." Miss Xu was still a little unconvinced.

"Could it be gloves?" The fat man held his face and fell into deep thought.

"Wearing gloves before making a surprise attack on the deceased? Can the dead not be noticed? Or is it on this not cold day, wearing gloves all the way home with the deceased? And the blood that sticks to the gloves will also stay on the lampshade. Qin Lin smiled, and a question appeared.

"Could it be that after killing someone, wear gloves...... Flipping things, huh? ”

Qin Lin still shook his head: "But the scene didn't turn." ”

The emergence of this problem made the whole inference full of contradictions, and Qin Lin had to order someone to take care of the Wu family.

After hurriedly eating dinner, Qin Lin convened everyone to hold an analysis meeting, but there is no basis to support whether one person committed the crime or two people committed the crime.

At night, Qin Lin tossed and turned in the dormitory and couldn't sleep. Zhou Dexing was attacked by the first blow at the door, and then fought in the hall, and this process was no problem.

If Zhou Dexing lights the lamp and blows out the lamp when the murderer leaves, there is no reason not to leave fingerprints and blood stains on the lampshade. Could it be that he lit the lamp to fight first, and then accidentally touched the lampshade during the fight and turned off the lamp? It can't be.

If Zhou Dexing lights the lamp and blows out the lamp when the murderer leaves, there is no reason not to leave fingerprints and blood stains on the lampshade. Could it be that he lit the lamp to fight first, and then accidentally touched the lampshade during the fight and turned off the lamp? It can't be.

If Zhou Dexing lights the lamp and blows out the lamp when the murderer leaves, there is no reason not to leave fingerprints and blood stains on the lampshade. Could it be that he lit the lamp to fight first, and then accidentally touched the lampshade during the fight and turned off the lamp? It can't be.

(To be continued)