"Hey, hey," Xu Xinyi's shout woke Qin Lin up from his contemplation, and the eldest lady crossed her hands on her hips: "I think instead of wasting time here, it is better to investigate and visit the situation at the time of the crime, maybe Lu Fatzi and these stupid fools have ignored, what do you find at a glance." ”

Lu Yuanzhi cried with a sad face, and said in his heart, Miss, you are really fast-talking, we are embarrassed - but it is also, usually the big guys ignore the situation, but Brother Qin saw the truth hidden behind the fog at a glance.

Qin Lin nodded in agreement, as the scene of the abandonment of the murder weapon and the burning of bloody clothes, it seems unlikely that it will provide more clues.

While walking to the first scene of the crime through the alley, Qin Lin reasoned the case in his heart, and it can be determined that there are three links:

First of all, before the crime, the murderer was very familiar with the crime scene and the surrounding environment, and he should have learned that only the deaf old woman in the left neighborhood was at home, and the whole family in the right neighborhood was out, so he killed the killer;

Then at the time of the crime, the murderer attacked the door of the deceased Zhou Dexing's house, smashed Zhou Dexing's head with a hammer, and then pushed him into the hall, cut back and forth seven or eight times with a knife, and almost cut off his neck;

Finally, the escape process, the murderer escaped from Zhou Dexing's house, through a remote alley with few pedestrians, to the second scene in the riverside depression, abandoned the murder weapon, burned the bloody clothes and fled.

In addition to the identified link, there are three questions:

First, why didn't the murderer attack outside Zhou Dexing's house, but chose to come to his doorstep? Isn't it easier to succeed and escape by sneak attacking in the back streets and alleys outside?

Second, why is there no fingerprint of the murderer left on the lampshade in the house? In the hall where the black light is blinding, of course, it is impossible to accurately cut off Zhou Dexing's neck, if the lamp was lit at that time, how could he remove the sand-woven lampshade and blow it out without leaving fingerprints? If the lights in the house are not lit from beginning to end, is there an accomplice who provides him with the light?

Third, in the second scene of the riverbank depression, why can't you find the murderer's burning stick that stirs up the ashes of the bloody clothes? Did the murderer understand the principle of fingerprints, so he threw the burning stick into the river and washed away? Or is he simply an unconscious discarding action?

With these questions in mind, Qin Lin tried to explain them from the perspective of criminal behavior, but he always felt that there were several contradictions that were difficult to explain.

Zhou Dexing's house was not far from the river, and he quickly came to the scene after passing through a remote alley, and the body was moved to the mortuary of the government office, leaving many blood stains in the room, giving people a strange feeling that was difficult to explain.

Lu Yuanzhi and Xu Xinyi both wanted to solve the case as soon as possible, and the two carefully inspected the scene again, looking for omissions inch by inch.

Qin Lin seemed to be casually rummaging through all kinds of things in this house, but he was thinking quickly in his heart, he had a vague feeling that this time, from the very beginning, his detection ideas had gone astray......

"So many plasters for bruises?" Qin Lin opened the wardrobe and found a stack of plasters on the neatly folded floral cotton jacket and embroidered armor, and he frowned.

Xu Xinyi said casually: "It's not that Sister Zixuan ordered Zhou Dexing to beat dozens of boards, this is his treatment of stick sores." ”

Qin Lin smiled, put the plaster back down, and picked up a beautiful copper kettle: "Hey, there are traces of depression at the bottom of this copper kettle, as if it has hit something hard, and there is still a little black thing in the gap and in the crevice, very much like dried blood." ”

"Ah, Brother Qin, you said that pot," Lu Yuanzhi raised his head: "We also found it last night, but the seal is relatively old, and the blood is also an old mark, so it won't be left from yesterday's murder." ”

What's a little blood in the house? Nosebleeds, blood from cutting fingers while chopping vegetables, blood from children playing with them, and even women's surnames come every month...... In any case, this old little mark will not have anything to do with yesterday's murder.

Lu Yuanzhi and Xu Xinyi finally ended the search, the fat man investigated the case overnight last night, and he didn't rest well, he was so tired that he was panting at this time, Miss Xu's spirit was not bad, and she clapped her hands: "I didn't find anything, Qin Lin, what do you say to do now?" Why don't we ask the deaf old woman next door? ”

Lu Yuanzhi pursed his lips, "That old woman is so deaf that she can't hear the thunder in the sky, what's the use of looking for her?" ”

"Yes," Xu Xinyi scratched her scalp embarrassedly, she was also a dead horse as a live horse doctor, but if she thought about it carefully, she felt that it was unlikely that there would be any new discoveries.

Qin Lin thought for a while, then waved his hand and said, "Wait, go to her house and have a look, it's a neighbor, maybe she knows something else." ”

The deaf old woman is over 60 years old, about the hardships of raising her eldest son alone, coupled with the helplessness of her daughter-in-law's early death and her son's widowhood, she looks like she is in her seventies, her body is rickety, her hair is full of silver, and her face is wrinkled like bun folds.

At the time of the crime, this old woman was the only "present" nearby, but she was so deaf that she was completely deaf, which was completely equivalent to not being there, which really made Qin Linxiao depressed.

"Well, old woman, you're deaf, aren't you?" Qin Lin touched his nose and asked for help to look at the steamed cake vendor next to him who was a little panicked, not knowing how to communicate with the old man.

Who knew that the legendary deaf old woman actually smiled kindly: "This descendant, the old body knows what you say, you can ask if you have anything to say, although the old body is deaf, but he is not dumb." ”

Qin Lin opened his mouth and stammered, Xu Xinyi was also dumbfounded, two people, you look at me, I look at you, like falling into a dream.

The peddler hurriedly explained: "The villain's old lady has been deaf for more than ten years, as long as you talk to her, you can know what you are talking to her from the shape of your mouth - mother, this is Qin Shaobao, the minister of the Qincha!" ”

"Green vegetables and green onions Qin roast buns?" The old woman nodded: "Oh, it turned out to be your friend, you sell steamed cakes, and he sells vegetable buns." ”

Qin Lin is absolutely down, okay, I still sell human meat barbecued pork buns!

Xu Xinyi, Lu Yuanzhi and the other officials laughed straight down, it seems that the old woman's ability to distinguish the voice by looking at the shape of the lips is still passable, at least the pronunciation of the words is mostly correct.

Xu Xinyi's eyes rolled, and she said in her heart, don't pretend to be deaf this old woman, I'll give her a try! The eldest lady slipped out quietly.

Qin Lin carefully interrogated the deaf old woman, most of the time she could talk directly, and a few times she needed her son to translate on her behalf, in fact, she read the accent of the official dialect according to the native pronunciation of Shandong Yanzhou dialect, and the old woman understood through the shape of her son's lips.

Boom~~ Suddenly there was a loud noise, which shook people's ears and buzzed, their heads were dizzy, and their hearts beat twice.

Just as the captains were about to draw their guns to deal with it, Miss Xu appeared at the window with a big gong and a smile, pointed to the old woman and said, "Ha, she can really read lip language!" I saw that she understood what you were talking about, and I thought she was pretending to be deaf, but when the gong sounded, you were all startled, and only she stood in a daze, and it seemed that she was indeed completely deaf. ”

Hey, hey, everyone is full of black lines, and their hearts say Miss, you are really ......

Qin Lin rubbed his buzzing ears, and was about to rectify Xu Xinyi with a black face, but Miss Xu grimaced at him: "Can you catch Miss Ben?" The old woman has been deaf for a long time and can read lips, Miss Ben has been harmed by you for a long time, and she has escaped for her life, oops~~"

As soon as his feet slipped, Xu Xinyi was about to fall down, and the gong he found out of nowhere also flew out.

Thanks to Qin Lin, who had already walked out of the house, he was very close to her, and rushed up with an arrow step, hugging the eldest lady's small waist with both hands, and taking the nephrite jade warm fragrance into his arms.

It seems that Xu Xinyi's escape kung fu has not yet reached home!

"Let go, let go! There are so many people, and the old husband and wife are not ashamed......" Xu Xinyi blushed and struggled to get up from Qin Lin's arms, but this guy seemed to be frozen, and he hugged Miss Xu in a daze.

Ahem, we didn't see anything! Lu Yuanzhi and the brothers of the official school turned their backs and smirked at each other.

The deaf old woman's shriveled lips moved, and she seemed to feel something: "Alas, it's good that both of them love each other like this, and I haven't seen such a loving couple since my daughter-in-law passed away......"

"Hey," Lu Yuanzhi stretched out his hand and shook it in front of the old woman's eyes: "Old woman, are you confused, the two of them must respect each other like guests and raise their eyebrows to be considered love, let's Brother Qin and the eldest lady are also like this?" ”

The old woman pouted: "Young man, what do you know, the two of them are kissing, scolding is love, fighting at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed, if you don't make noise, you don't make a noise, then it's a big trouble!" ”

Lu Yuanzhi was stunned when he heard this, and then he was overjoyed, the female soldier and he were also happy enemies, so it seems very good.

Xu Xinyi, who was held in Qin Lin's arms over there, his honey-colored face was already red with shame, and he patted his heart: "I'm going to die, the public, you, you ......"

Unexpectedly, Qin Lin suddenly laughed, let Xu Xinyi go, and waited for her to stand firm, before she asked with a smile: "What did you just say, yes, it is the sentence you said before you fell." ”

What am I talking about? Xu Xinyi thought for a while before saying: "Well, I said that the old woman has been deaf for a long time and can read lips, Miss Ben has been harmed by you for a long time, and her kung fu to escape is naturally powerful, but she fell down before she finished speaking, hum, don't laugh!" ”

"No, no," Qin Lin smiled and waved his hand, I don't know when it started, the essence in his eyes was already shining, and the corners of his mouth were crooked: "I didn't laugh at you, I think what you said is too reasonable, wake up the dreamer with a word!" ”

Xu Xinyi also became serious, she understood the meaning of Qin Lin's expression, if this expression appeared on his face, I am afraid that he would be very close to solving the mystery of the case.

At this time, Niu Dali led the brothers of the official school to come over dejectedly, and saluted Qin Lin with his fists clasped: "Qin Shaobao, my subordinates took people to check the hammers and sharp knives, and the results are all the products of the largest blacksmith shop here, and the same style is sold for thousands of pieces every year, and there are more than 10,000 pieces on the market, and I really can't find who is its owner." ”

Qin Lin smiled, beckoned to Niu vigorously, and asked him to come over with his ear, and give a few words of command.

Niu Dali's eyes lit up all of a sudden, and he clenched his fists and said, "Subordinates obey orders!" ”

This giant-like man immediately turned around and went with the brothers of the official academy in a hurry, not knowing what orders Qin Lin had to carry out.

Xu Xinyi and Lu Yuanzhi didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Qin Lin's gourd, and they were about to ask this guy, when he made a gesture: "Let's go, let's go to the prison of this mansion and have a look." ”

The prison in Yanzhou Mansion, of course, cannot be compared with the edict prison under the management of the Fusi of Jingshi Jinyi Weibei Town, but it is also full of an unpleasant musty smell.

As a women's prison, it is darker and more terrifying than an ordinary prison, and there are a few stable women with a full face and a very arrogant expression sitting at the door.

There are not many female prisoners in the prison, but Yanzhou Mansion is a large mansion in Shandong, with a radius of more than 1,000 miles and a population of millions, and there are always more than a dozen female prisoners here, who are sloppy in their clothes and look frightened, and occasionally cast their eyes on Wen Po with cringe and flattery.

All convicted female prisoners would be tortured by Wen Po in various ways, and then coerced them into selling their bodies, so that Wen Po could make a small fortune or use this method to curry favor with powerful and greedy officials.

"Wu family, do you think you are still Zhou Zhutou's wife, and you don't take us seriously?" An official media woman with a plaster in the corner spit the melon seed skin to the ground: "I advise you to know each other better, hurry up and take the money to honor us, otherwise we can't take care of the incense between the past and Zhou Zhutou, so we have to do it according to the old routine!" ”

Of course, Wu knew what the so-called old practice was, and she saw a good-looking female prisoner smeared with grease and whitewash last night, and then was taken out by a grinning bookseller.

But she didn't mean to give in: "I'm not a prisoner, I'm just a witness in temporary custody, what do you dare to do, I'll die on the ground, see how you get out?" ”

"Okay, you little!" Wen Po was angry, and rushed over to tear Wu's mouth, but when she saw the awe-inspiring light flashing in Wu's eyes, she was immediately defeated and walked to the side stupidly.

"Sister-in-law Chun, I advise you to save trouble," a companion persuaded this stable woman: "The Wu family is very hard-hearted, we should serve her, otherwise she will do what she says, and she will die if she says she will die, but we will fall into sin, Qin Qin asked him, who will take it?" ”

Wen Po shuddered, Qin Qin's reputation for sawing people's heads and digging people's hearts is not covered, looking at his old man and pleasant face these days, who knows if he will turn his face ruthlessly in the next moment?

As he was talking, he shouted one after another outside: "Qin Shaobao, the minister of the Qin Mission, has arrived!" Mention the criminal woman Wu! ”

Prisoner Wu Clan?

Prisoners?

Prisoner!

Several stable women were taken aback, looked at Wu stupidly, and said in their hearts, Could it really be this woman......

Wu gritted his teeth vigorously, his expression was unapproving, he straightened his clothes, and walked outside with his head held high.

(To be continued)