He clearly remembered the size of the footprints of the person who had taken Tao Zhaoxue in the bamboo forest, and although there was no precise tool to measure them, he was sure that the two footprints were the same size.

In addition to the fact that the shoes are the same size, there is another thing that impresses him, that is, the bamboo footprints are also deep and shallow. At that time, he didn't think that there was anything wrong, he just felt that the murderer might have carried Tao Zhaoxue on his left shoulder when he kidnapped him, so this situation happened.

But if you think about it carefully, the footprints in the bamboo forest are deep on the left and shallow on the right from beginning to end.

Kang Xu looked at the footprints, and his face gradually became solemn.

According to the situation of the footprints, one thing can be concluded, the owner of the footprints is likely to have a disability on the right side of the right foot, so this kind of left deep and right shallow footprints will appear.

There are no coincidences in the world, and all coincidences have their inevitable causes, and Kang Xu is convinced of this.

The person who abducted Tao Zhaoxue happened to be wearing the same size shoes as the owner of the footprints in front of him, and he also had a disability in his right foot, and the same footprints left a few days ago, all of which were too coincidental and unimaginable coincidences.

Kang Xu once heard a sentence: Except for all the impossible, the rest will be the answer to the problem, no matter how unbelievable.

Assuming that these two footprints are the same owner, then Tao Zhaoxue's case may have to be overturned. Tao Zhaoxue was abducted by Lu Jitong, which he was very sure of before, but Lu Jitong flatly denied this, insisting that he had not been to the bamboo forest that night.

All the evidence came from witnesses, but none of them had ever seen Lu Jitong go to the bamboo forest.

Although other evidence conclusively points out that he is the murderer who tortured Tao Zhaoxue and imprisoned the girl, there are still many doubts in this.

Now, the footprints in the attic have further overturned his previous suspicions.

Lu Jitong has no disability in his right foot, so it is very likely that someone else abducted Tao Zhaoxue in the bamboo forest.

But if he's not a murderer. Who will be the murderer? Why did Liu Tie and Dongmei insist that he was the murderer? And why did he confess to his sins at first, and then deny them?

More and more doubts appeared in his mind, and although some of the doubts had been in his mind for a long time, when he found evidence to support those doubts, it still made him feel a little hard to believe.

"Dungeon, woman. Captivity....... Kang Xu thought back to the whole case and suddenly found some similarities.

It is also a hidden dungeon, and it is also a prisoner of women, the difference is that one is in Hetou Village outside the city, and the other is in Lichunfang in the city.

"Could it be that these two places are Lu Jitong's secret strongholds?" The more Kang Xu thought about it, the more he felt that this possibility was extremely high.

But what he was puzzled about was the relationship between the murderer and Lu Jitong.

Assuming that the murderer was someone else, why did he torture and kill Tao Zhaoxue in Lu Jitong's stronghold? If it is simply to blame him. Why did Tao Zhaoxue sink to the bottom of the river? If it weren't for a few fishermen who inadvertently recovered Tao Zhaoxue's body, Tao Zhaoxue's murder would not have been exposed. The murderer is clearly cautious, which is not like the method used to blame others.

A series of questions poured into his mind, Kang Xu didn't feel a headache, reached out and rubbed his eyebrows, simply put the mystery down for the time being, and then looked at the footprints.

The footprints stretched from the doorway to a row of bookshelves on the right side of the ashram, next to the wall. On top of it are stacked with various classics, as well as several blue and white porcelain vases.

Kang Xu touched the blue and white porcelain vase with his hand. A layer of ash had fallen on the mouth of the bottle, including those in the books.

"The footprints disappeared here, and it looks like there must be a dark room around here." Kang Xu squinted his eyes and carefully observed every corner of the bookshelf.

Soon, he noticed something suspicious, on the chest-high row of bookshelves. A few stacked books caught his attention.

The tomes were next to the wall, and the top one was covered with a layer of dust, no different from the others, as if no one had touched it for a long time.

Next to a couple of books, though. There are a few traces, and it is these traces that make Kang Xu discover the strange.

These books are all rare books bound in threads, and after binding, the lines will stand out and have a very clear sense of prominence. And the traces next to the classics are the line marks left when the classics are pushed open.

Kang Xu thought about it, since he found something suspicious, he naturally wanted to investigate it clearly, even if it was the Longtan Tiger's Den, I am afraid that he would have to break through.

Thinking of this, Kang Xu no longer hesitated, and directly pushed those classics aside, and sure enough, there was a stone ring on the wall where the classics were hidden.

Reaching out and turning vigorously on the stone ring, a secret door suddenly appeared on the wall next to the bookshelf.

Kang Xu looked back at the empty room, and then walked in on crutches.

The darkroom is simply furnished, with only a long table next to the wall with some miscellaneous items on it.

Kang Xu walked over, and the first thing he saw was not the long table, but the marks on the surrounding walls.

The marks seemed to have been cut by a sharp blade, and the entire chamber was full of them.

Kang Xu is not a person who practices martial arts, but he can still see that the marks on the wall are not left when he practiced the blade, but like he drew them with the blade when he vented.

Soon, Kang Xu found several broken blades in the corner, which also determined that the scratches on the wall were drawn by someone to vent their emotions.

Kang Xu touched his nose and walked directly to the long table to take a look, there was a set of clothes on the long table, which seemed to be worn by men.

Next to the clothes, there are several bandaged pieces of cloth side by side.

Kang Xu hesitated, picked up one of the packets of cloth and looked at it.

This piece of cloth is embroidered with delicate peonies, like the corners of a woman's dress.

When he opened the cloth, Kang Xu was stunned, and he found that what was wrapped in it was a lock of hair.

Kang Xu was a little confused, he opened several other pieces of cloth one after another, and found that all the pieces were hair.

Until, when he picked up the last packet of cloth, he found that there was a letter under this packet.

Kang Xu took out the letter and read it, his face suddenly became shocked.

He hurriedly opened the wrapping cloth, and looking at the hair inside, he instantly understood what was going on.

When inspecting Tao Zhaoxue's body, he once found that Tao Zhaoxue's skirt was missing a piece, but he didn't care about it at the time, but he accidentally broke it when the fishermen fished out the corpse.

He clearly remembered that when Tao Zhaoxue was killed, he was wearing a dress embroidered with Aoxue Hanmei.

The Tao family is a famous family, and Tao Zhaoxue is the eldest lady of the Tao family, and the clothes she wears are naturally silk and satin.

The reason why Kang Xu was surprised was because the piece of cloth and the missing corner on Tao Zhaoxue's dress were very consistent in terms of size and notch, and the lock of hair wrapped inside was likely to belong to Tao Zhaoxue. (To be continued.) )