Chapter 133: Murder on the Street

Xiao Jiading was overjoyed, this was what he was most worried about, now that Geng Changshi opened his mouth to support, he didn't have to worry, in fact, Geng Changshi was duplicitous, he could at least use chicken feathers as an arrow, this kind of thing he used to do often.

Xiao Jiading immediately arched his hand and said: "Thank you Geng Changshi for your support, I will send someone to investigate them early tomorrow morning!" ”

"Hmm!" Geng Changshi twisted his beard and smiled, "It's very good to do things vigorously!" That's great! ”

After the banquet was dispersed, Xiao Jiading said goodbye and returned home, and the next day was the Yizhou Poetry Club.

However, he failed to do so, and when he was sleeping soundly with his arms around Meimei, he was woken up by the maid Xiaomei, who told him that Dai Zhutou of the Yamen had come and reported that a murder had occurred. has already reported the Kang County order, and now I will ask Xiao Jiading to participate in the investigation.

According to the regulations, if a fatal case occurs in the jurisdiction, the county magistrate, as the official of the palm seal, must go to the scene to organize the investigation and lead the investigation work. And Kang County made himself ignorant of the law, so he must rely on his criminal name to enforce his clothes. Therefore, Xiao Jiading must participate in the investigation of such a case.

Xiao Jiading hurriedly got up, put on his robe with the help of Crazy Mei and the maid, and came to the front yard. Seeing Dai Zhutou standing there, walking around anxiously, and seeing Xiao Jiading coming out, he hurriedly greeted him and bowed down: "Big brother!" ”

Xiao Jiading said: "What's the matter? ”

"The one who died was a Fazo from the yamen of the state capital, named Ding Zhao. Died on the side of a street not far from his home, and the husband who was beaten was accidentally found out and reported to the police. ”

Although there are two levels of yamen in Yizhou, the first person who is responsible for the investigation of cases in the first instance is the Yamen of Shaocheng County. They are responsible for solving all the cases that occurred in the city of Yizhou and the villages within the scope of Shaocheng County. If the case is serious, or if it is a case that crosses counties or even prefectures and provinces, the state government yamen will participate in the investigation. Therefore, it was the Shaocheng County Yamen who took over the case.

Xiao Jiading couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard that it was an official from the yamen of the state capital who died, the crime of killing the official was very serious, and it would definitely attract the attention of the imperial court, maybe it was another tricky case. The case of the old nun Qing Shui being killed in prison has not yet been solved, and now there is another case of the murder of an official of the state government. I can't help but let Xiao Jiading not have a headache.

Xiao Jiading did not take a car, and rode directly to the scene with Dai Zhutou.

The site is located on a relatively remote street. The home of the deceased Ding Zhao was nearby.

When they arrived at the scene, there was no onlooker except for the arrest of the yamen and the relatives of the deceased. The main thing is that it happened in the middle of the night. They're basically asleep. In ancient cities, there were no street lights, and the residents on both sides of the streets had turned off their lights and went to sleep. Nothing shone through. So the streets are pitch black. There are only a few lanterns in the hands of the fast catchers, emitting dim lights, and they can only illuminate the surroundings under their feet.

Xiao Jiading turned over and dismounted, handed the reins to the soap who came up to greet him, and asked, "Where is the body?" ”

Soap Li took the reins and pointed to the opposite side of the street: "Where is it?" The relatives of the deceased have been heard. To go over to cry and mourn, we didn't let it, for fear of messing up the scene. ”

Xiao Jiading patted him on the shoulder approvingly: "To do a good job, you must have this awareness of protecting the scene." Very good! ”

was praised by Zhiyi, and the bones in Soap's whole body suddenly lightened a few taels.

Xiao Jiading and Dai Zhutou respectively took the lantern from Soap Li's hand and came to the opposite street.

The body lay in a small passage between two houses on the side of the street, face up. There was a deep cut on the right front side of the neck, which was cut diagonally, and the throat and half of the neck were split. There was a large pool of blood on the ground, and the whole body was soaked in a pool of blood. Xiao Jiading asked: "Is it coming?" ”

Dai Zhutou said: "Here, wait on the other side." ”

"Hmm!" Xiao Jiading continued to investigate, he did not hand over the disgusting thing of on-site investigation to him like other officials, but personally investigated, which made Dai Zhutou very admired.

The ground was a bluestone pavement, and there was a trail of blood from where the body was located to the top of the street outside. There were about ten steps away, and the body was turned over, and it was found that there were traces of rubbing against the ground on the back, which proved that the body should have been killed on the side of the street, and then dragged to this relatively hidden place to hide. It can be inferred from this that the murderer apparently did not want the body to be found prematurely in order to abscond himself.

Xiao Jiading began to check the clothes of the corpse, and he was surprised to find that the corpse's robe was not tied, and the money bag inside had not been stolen. In addition, a more valuable jade pendant on the deceased's waist was not robbed.

Is it not a robbery for the sake of wealth and death, but a murder for a purpose?

Judging from the deep scar on the deceased's neck, the murderer was very vicious, and the force was very great, and it hit the vital part of the opponent's neck! The goal is to deprive each other of their lives!

After discovering that it was likely to be murder, Xiao Jiading's heart was relieved a little. Because the scope of murder is generally limited to people who have a grudge against the deceased, the scope of detection is relatively small, and if it is murder for money, it may be an acquaintance, or it may be a stranger or a rogue who commits the crime! That's a much larger range.

Xiao Jiading carried the lantern and searched carefully, and suddenly, his eyes lit up, and there was half a bloody handprint on the wall behind the corpse near the root of the wall! There are also some blood stains from scratches!

It is likely that when the murderer dragged the corpse, the palm of his hand adhered to the large amount of blood gushing out of the deceased's neck, and then he said that he helped the wall, leaving half a palm print, and rubbed the palm of the hand with blood stains on the wall a few times.

If only the murderer's fingerprints could be extracted!

Xiao Jiading immediately squatted down and held the lantern to inspect the bloody handprint on the wall, after careful observation, he was very disappointed, because the place where the bloody handprint was located, there was mottled moss, and there was no way to see the fingerprints on it clearly, only the general shape of a handprint. And those scratch marks are not even recognizable in the shape of the palm, let alone the fingerprints on it.

In ancient times, the palm print was of recognizable value, and the yamen asked the prisoner to draw a seal, that is, to print the palm on the paper, and compare the shape of the palm in the future for confirmation. Obviously, such palm prints can only be used as exclusionary evidence at most, and cannot be used as evidence to determine that there is sameness, because there are too many people with the same palm size, and they are not the same as fingerprints. However, it can also be used as evidence of inaccuracy.

Xiao Jiading examined the hands and feet of the corpse and found that there was stiffness on the hands, and at the same time, corpse spots also appeared on the back of the body. There is still some body temperature in the armpits, and the time of death should be about two hours (four hours). That is, shortly after dark. The ancients rested at sunrise and sunset, and as soon as it was dark, there were basically no people on the streets, especially in this kind of relatively remote streets. So someone was killed and no one found out.

After the survey was completed, he asked him to come over and remove the half of the palm print by rubbing. When he was examining the corpse, Xiao Jiading repeatedly observed the half of the palm prints, and compared them with his own palm prints, and found that the palm prints were very slender, especially the fingers, which were relatively slender. - Was the murderer a half-grown child or a woman?

Isn't there a saying called: "Only villains and women are difficult to raise", these two kinds of people are not easy to mess with, but, after all, they are weak, and these two kinds of people want to commit murder, especially the use of knives, it is much more difficult than men. Therefore, Xiao Jiading does not think that the murderer is a half-grown child or a woman, because many men's palms are also relatively slender and slender.

At this time, after completing the inquest, he reported to Xiao Jiading that the deceased had no other injuries except for the deep cut wound on the neck. It was proved that the cause of death was the severance of the blood vessels and trachea in the neck. This did not exceed Xiao Jiading's prediction.

Xiao Jiading asked him to dispose of the corpse, and asked Dai Zhutou to send people to investigate and inquire about the residents and businesses near the scene of the crime immediately, to see if they heard any unusual movements or saw any suspicious people.

At the same time, Xiao Jiading asked the husband who found the body, and the husband turned pale with fright and was still trembling. Xiao Jiading asked what happened, and the husband said that when he was passing by here, he happened to urinate urgently, so he went to the street to pee, and saw the corpse. Xiao Jiading immediately picked up his hand and looked at it, his hand was not very clean, it should not have been cleaned, he took it under his nose and smelled it, there was no smell of blood, and it could be preliminarily discharged It was a thief who shouted to catch a thief. This situation is still relatively common, so Xiao Jiading must first exclude the suspicion of changing husbands.

Then, he asked Ding Zhao's wife. I learned that Ding Zhao received a message from the Yamen, saying that he should go to the Yamen immediately and that there was something important to deal with. Xiao Jiading listened and hurriedly asked who sent the message, Ding Zhao's wife said that she rarely went out, and was not very familiar with the people in the yamen, but she was wearing the clothes of the yamen soap, and after the person said this, he said that he was going to inform other officials, and rode away. By the time Ding Zhao came out, the man had already left Ding's house. Xiao Jiading asked the man what he looked like, Ding Zhao's wife said that he went to open the door, and the person who came was talking outside the door, and did not come in, and it was already dark at that time, and he couldn't see the person's appearance clearly, his body was relatively thin, his face was a little dark, his eyebrows were very thick, and his voice was a little hoarse. Leading an official horse. Because the official horses of the state capital yamen are all high-headed horses of Dawan introduced, they are taller and faster than the local Shu horses in Yizhou, and they have the brand of special yamen official horses on their buttocks, so they are easier to identify.

Judging from this person leading the horse, it should be a person from the yamen of the state capital. Xiao Jiading immediately asked Dai Zhutou to send someone to the yamen of the state capital to verify the matter, to see if there was any urgent official business to discuss, and if so, who was the person who gave the order. (To be continued......)