Lu Yuanzhi's oppressive body slowly approached, and the fat on his fat face trembled with excitement, and in Zhou Donkey's opinion, it was extremely hideous and terrifying, he fought with his upper and lower teeth, and said in a trembling voice: "Wronged...... I didn't kill anyone...... Who are you, who are you? ”

The fat man was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that he was just a disciple of the medical hall, and Master Zhang of Zhizhou, Hu Si of the torture room, and Cui Zhutou were all here, when will it be your turn to speak? The excitement generated by "cracking" the case immediately subsided, and he shrank his fat head back and laughed dryly: "Eh, I remembered to talk casually, haha, you continue, when I fart." ”

The people and officials in the courtyard were full of confidence when they first saw him, and they thought that they had sorted out the clues to identify the real murderer, and they were waiting for the answer with great interest, but they saw that he suddenly deflated again, and everyone was disappointed when they landed, if the disdainful eyes could have weight, the fat man would have been pressed into the soil and buried alive.

Zhang Gongyu knew that the fat man was Qin Lin's junior brother, and thought that he also had some great ability, so he gently encouraged: "This official is open and unashamed to ask, if you have any opinions, you can speak freely." ”

Lu Yuanzhi looked at Qin Lin embarrassedly, and Qin Lin nodded.

The fat man immediately became full of confidence, he was already fat, and when he mentioned his breath, it was more like an inflated leather ball, and he foamed at the mouth and said: "With the grace of the old man, I will just say it." Just now, Brother Qin had already found out that the deceased was strangled to death first, and then poured poison, this is definitely not a case done by the four members of the Wei family, not to mention that they have no reason to kill Wei Asi, first of all, the two children and the old woman Wei have no strength to strangle a man at all, and if Sister-in-law Xuehua murders her husband, strangulation is enough, and then pouring arsenic is not a snake to add to the snake, but to expose the crime? ”

Lu Yuanzhi looked at Qin Lin as he spoke, Qin Lin smiled and nodded in encouragement, and the fat man's eyebrows fluttered even more: "Then after excluding the four members of the Wei family, who is the murderer?" Who can benefit from this? ”

Qin Lin couldn't stop laughing beside him, and said in his heart that this fat man was sparse and everything else, and his storytelling skills were very good, no, he had already raised everyone's appetite.

Sure enough, Zhang Gongyu couldn't wait to ask who the murderer was.

The fat man was so excited that his fat trembled: "Everyone knows that our Qizhou government has always rewarded half of the confiscated criminal's property to the person who first reported it......"

"Yes!" Zhang Gongyu slapped his face: "It's Zhou Donkey!" ”

Lu Yuanzhi bowed his hand: "What the eldest master said is that Zhou Donkey killed Wei Asi, and then went to the state government to falsely accuse and frame Xuehua's sister-in-law, and after the case is closed, he can get half of the Wei family's property rewarded by the government."

Why use sophisticated methods of killing? Because direct strangulation will leave a handprint belonging to a man on the neck of the deceased, he can't frame Xuehua's sister-in-law, so he put a pillow on it when committing the crime, leaving no obvious traces. But in this way, there are no obvious scars on the surface of the corpse, and it looks like it has died of illness, and the government will definitely not agree to the autopsy, so he must pour arsenic into the mouth of the corpse, so that it can be found by using a silver needle. ”

Oh ~ I see! Everyone "suddenly realized".

Zhou Donkey was angry, he didn't dare to refute Zhang Gongyu, he was not so polite to Lu Yuanzhi, and scolded: "You spew blood!" If I can strangle him, why not just poison him? Quietly ran to Wei's house and poisoned it, can't you also frame Sister-in-law Xuehua? ”

Lu Yuanzhi didn't say anything about being ugly for a long time, and the expectant eyes of Zhang Gongyu and the others gradually became a little impatient.

Qin Lin kindly reminded: "Arsenic has a taste. ”

Originally, arsenic trioxide, the ingredient of arsenic, was colorless and odorless, but the ancient refining was impure and contained a large number of sulfide impurities, making it smell like rotten eggs, and it was still relatively easy to be recognized by people when used for poisoning - so to use arsenic to kill people is not so convenient and quick as the legend says.

Qin Lin rescued the emergency, the fat man was grateful, and reinvigorated and said: "Arsenic smells of rotten eggs, and it is easy to be found in the meal, as long as Zhou Donkey's crime is found once, it will no longer be able to continue, so he uses the method of strangling first and then pouring arsenic." ”

After listening to Lu Yuanzhi's analysis, Zhang Gongyu and Cui Zhutou felt that it made sense, and the officials shook the iron rope and prepared to lock up Zhou Donkey, and the head of the undertaker, who was about to take the first reward just now, had already shrunk on the ground and shook into a ball, and he couldn't stop crying wrong.

Lu Yuanzhi's face was full of red light, he came to Qin Lin's side, and asked happily: "How is it, didn't you embarrass Brother Qin?" When will you recruit me to Jinyiwei, and you can be a surplus soldier under Brother Qin. ”

Qin Lin smiled and dragged his fat face, and said with a smile: "The analysis is good, but it's a pity that the last step is missing." ”

Yes? Lu Yuanzhi's face, which was almost smiling, immediately became dejected.

Zhang Gongyu and others, who were about to arrest people and return to the state government, stopped, and the people were also staring at each other, everyone felt that Lu Yuanzhi's analysis was already very exquisite, why was it not the truth of the case?

Qin Lin smiled and patted the fat man on the shoulder: "If according to what you said, the criminal who designed this case is really very cunning and insidious, using both true and false murder methods to cover up his crimes, and at the same time blaming a weak woman like Xuehua's sister-in-law, and he is always hiding behind his back, so he can not be suspected by the government, right?" ”

Lu Yuanzhi nodded, feeling that the criminal who committed this case was indeed quite cunning and vicious.

Qin Lin shook his head when he said this: "Then Zhou Donkey tried his best to wash himself away and blame Xuehua's sister-in-law, but he personally came forward to the state government to complain, exposing his attempt to covet the bounty, isn't this kind of shirtless approach to battle contradict the insidious and cunning analyzed earlier, and judge the two of them before and after?" ”

The fat man touched his nose, pondered for a while, and felt that there was indeed something wrong: when he carried out a series of crimes and blame in the front, Zhou Donkey was really worthy of being a cunning old man, and then he personally went to the state government to complain, and he was too impulsive and eager, too much like a stunned young man, and his behavior before and after was completely incompatible!

"The real murderer has been hiding behind the crowd, thinking that his crime is seamless, but he doesn't know that he has already revealed flaws......" Qin Lin smiled mockingly, his gaze swept over the crowd, like a sharp awl nailed to the face of the boss.

Under the sun on a hot day, Boss Xie was stared at by this icy gaze, and he couldn't help but feel chills, ignoring the surprised eyes of the people, and asked in a protest voice: "You said that it was not Zhou Donkey who killed him, what evidence do you have?" ”

Qin Lin was not in a hurry, his fingers dotted in the air: "If it is poisoned, because the arsenic can be put in the water tank or the kitchen somewhere in advance, the specific time of the crime cannot be determined; But if it is determined that it is strangulation, the time of the crime can be clarified. Sister-in-law Xuehua, when did your man die yesterday? ”

Xuehua's sister-in-law did not hesitate to answer that yesterday was the time of the unitary, because in the afternoon the old woman took two grandchildren to visit the neighborhood house, take advantage of the cool, she went to the south market to buy sugar, rice and other things to make ice cream, Shen Shimo went out, and when she returned home at three o'clock in the hour, she saw her husband dead in bed, because there was a monk from Longyan Temple on this street who came to turn the fate to beat Bangzi to tell the hour, so I remember it very clearly.

There is no need for Qin Lin to ask, Zhou Donkey's face is already full of joy, he has been helping to pretend to be dead in another house from noon to midnight yesterday, and dozens of pairs of eyes of relatives and neighbors of that family have seen it, and there is absolutely no time to commit the crime.

discharged Zhou Donkey, who will be the real culprit?

"In fact, Wei Asi's death, in addition to Zhou Donkey, who was the first to complain, there are also people who can get benefits," Qin Lin paced slowly, and put forward heuristics: "As we all know, the Wei family is left with a lonely old woman and two children in addition to the two children, if the husband dies and Xuehua's sister-in-law is punished for committing a crime, then the old and young three who have no ability to take care of themselves and have no relatives to take refuge in Qizhou as outsiders will be sent to the nursing home by the government to support, and this small courtyard on the street was first confiscated from the government, and then sold by the ......government."

When Sister-in-law Xuehua heard this, she already understood who was the murderer, her eyes flashed with flames, she stared at Boss Xie in a daze, and gritted her teeth and said, "It turned out to be you!" ”

Although Boss Xie's house is three times the size of the Wei family, the pavement facing the street is the same, and because the house is curved in shape, it is not convenient to rent or sell.

Therefore, Boss Xie has always wanted to buy the Wei family's small courtyard, so that his house will become a large square courtyard facing the street, and the value can be greatly increased.

But at this time, the Ming Dynasty has been peaceful for a long time, Qizhou is located in the Yangtze River golden waterway, and there are many palaces, county lords' mansions, Zhenguo generals' mansions, auxiliary generals' mansions of the Jingwang family, and the business is extremely developed. Boss Xie offered a price of one hundred and twenty taels, and the Wei family did not agree.

Xie Boss's several times of harassment had already annoyed Sister-in-law Xuehua, and now that Qin Lin had spoken out to wake up, Sister-in-law Xuehua had figured out the reason, and cried and pounced to fight with the enemy.

Qin Lin made a gesture, and Cui Zhutou immediately scolded several official media wives to stop Xuehua's sister-in-law.

When the people heard Qin Lin's words, they immediately avoided Boss Xie as if they were avoiding the plague, forming a circle of open space around him. The guy who was still hiding in the crowd just now was smug and suddenly exposed in broad daylight, and there was nothing to hide.

"Actually, you have already shown your feet," Qin Lin smiled playfully, he first came here to buy a house, and when Boss Xie saw that it was a servant, he came up and asked, in fact, the case had not spread at that time, how did he know about it?

"You have no proof!" Boss Xie stretched out his tongue and licked his lips, which suddenly became dry, and argued, "I have been sleeping at home yesterday afternoon!" ”

Oh? Qin Lin had already found evidence of deciding his surname in the fingernails of the deceased before, so his smile at the moment was full of teasing: "Then do you dare to untie your clothes and let us see your arms?" ”

In the summer, when the heat is unbearable, the rich wear cocooned silk clothes that are so light that you can see the black moles on their skin, and the poor wear short shirts with their sleeves rolled up high.

No one noticed it just now, but after Qin Lin pointed it out, he immediately saw some clues.

The sweat on Boss Xie's face flowed like a stream.

Niu vigorously walked up, stretched out a big slap of a fan, and held down Boss Xie without saying anything, and tore off his sleeve.

I saw that on the two arms, there were many dark red scratch marks, which were impressive!