It's a bit messy.

Xie Jin rubbed his eyebrows and decided to ask one by one, he waved his hand at Jian Qing, indicating that he didn't mind, and asked the shopkeeper after finishing, "Pay it off, what's wrong?" Why is there no one guarding the shop in front of you? ”

After paying off the name, Jian Qing thought to himself, no one should want to owe money to this silk shop.

"Young Master, not to mention that this cloth is wasted, and the dye in this vat is also broken." Fu Qing was about to cry, and pointed at Jian Qing, "It's all your fault, didn't you say that your short blade fell?" I think you must have fallen into my vat, or else how would a good vat of dye change color? ”

Jian Qing is a layman, and after looking at the dyed cloth for a long time, he finally saw some clues, and the color is indeed not very correct.

In other words, a different color has been added.

"Why did it change color?" Jian Qing deliberately asked, "Isn't this good?" ”

"Is there any discoloration, I have been working in the dyeing workshop for more than 30 years, I can not see it, there is clearly ochre added here. Is there blood on your short blade? ”

Jian Qing was a little puzzled, "This vat of dye, even if it is stained with blood, how much can it have?" Why is it so serious? ”

Fu Qing was almost stunned by Jian Qing's words, and almost jumped up, "What do you know?" The color of the dye must be pure, and there must be no discoloration. This vat of dye is a waste. ”

After speaking, Fu Qing ordered someone to fish out the short blade from the vat, and he determined that Jian Qing and the others had dropped the blood-stained short blade into his dye vat. Jian Qing didn't care, she just watched everywhere in this courtyard, like a robber, she didn't intend to let go of the slightest clue.

Leaning against the wall, about two feet away, there was a deep footprint, which was filled in with his foot, but because of his hurry, it was clearly recognizable in the eyes of a professional like Jian Qing. Jian Qing lay on the ground and measured the footprints.

Luck is really good, this yard dyes cloth, dries cloth, and water on the cloth will drip on the ground, and the cloth is lifted high to dry, and the ground does not see light, so the land is a little wet all year round.

If this footprint can be concluded to be the murderer's, then the murderer jumped from the six-foot-high wall with a strong momentum to leave such a deep left footprint on the ground. It's just, how can there be only one? Shouldn't it be on both legs?

The distance between the soles of the feet in front of the footprints, and the shallow and unrecognizable right footprints, that's right! Jian Qing breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking at the tip of his toes, the murderer ran forward, could it be that he threw the axe into this dye vat?

Fu Qing arranged for someone to salvage a cup of tea, and he didn't get up from the vat, so he couldn't help but say angrily, "You kid, didn't you say that you have a short blade?" Where did you throw it? Don't tell me quickly, or we'll take you to the officials." ”

"Are you sure it's a short blade?" Xie Jin asked next to him, pointing to the next door, "Boss Gu of the car dealership over there was killed, did you do it?" ”

Zhao Er's face turned white, and as soon as he heard this, he hurriedly ran out. Jian Qing was directly restrained by the shop work and sent to the next door.

Zeng Zuochao was still working in the car shop, and when he heard that the dyeing workshop next door had caught the murderer, he hurriedly asked someone to send it up, and when he saw that it was Jian Qing, he asked, "Why are you?" ”

Fu Qing hurriedly said, "My lord, this kid used a blood-stained short blade to break our dye vat, and it happened that Boss Gu was killed here, it must have been this kid who killed someone with that short blade." ”

Zeng Zuochao knew something was wrong and asked, "What's your name?" ”

"The villain is simple."

Zeng Zuochao was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "What do you have to say?" ”

"The villain didn't throw the short blade into the dye vat next door, and the reason why the villain said this was because he wanted to go in and have a look. Now, a dye vat over there is polluted with different colors, and the villain thinks that this is a good thing for adults. ”

"What's good?" Zeng Zuochao asked suspiciously.

"Fu shopkeeper, you said that there is a touch of ochre in the blue dye vat there, is this true?"

Fu Qing didn't understand, why he originally sent the murderer, and now why the murderer began to interrogate himself. But seeing Lord Zhizhou staring at him, Fu Qing reluctantly said, "The old man has been doing this business for more than 30 years, and it is impossible to make a mistake, besides, the fabric is dyed, can you still see the mistake?" ”

Jian Qing didn't know how to dye cloth, but she also believed that the eyes of these old craftsmen were indeed vicious, and she arched her hand towards Zeng Zuochao, "My lord, the villain thinks that the ochre color that the shopkeeper said is very close to the blood color that has been exposed in the air for a long time. ”

When the blood is oxidized, isn't it close to ochre?

As soon as these words came out, the audience was shocked.

Zeng Zuochao didn't have time to ask about the work of the car dealership, so he took people to the dyeing workshop next door. The people watching the excitement at the door also moved their positions with hulala.

When he arrived at the back door, the people who followed Zeng Zuochao were about to enter, but Jian Qing stopped him and said to Zeng Zuochao, "My lord, please say a little word." ”

"You speak!"

"The small one thinks that there are many clues hidden in the backyard here, no less than the crime scene opposite, if everyone rushes in together, there are many people and their hands and feet, and it is easy to destroy the clues at the scene. Why don't you go in and have a look, and then let other people in when the clues are clear? ”

"Who are you?" He Jiu asked very unceremoniously, "In the affairs of the Yamen, naturally there are adults who decide, what do you want to say next to you?" ”

Zeng Zuochao raised his hand to stop He Jiu, "This little brother is right, you follow me in." ”

Although He Jiu is a good worker, his qualifications in Ying Tianfu are much older than Zeng Zuochao, and the seven counties under the jurisdiction of Ying Tianfu are not familiar to He Jiu. He Jiu always thought that Zeng Zuochao appreciated him, but he didn't expect that before he had time to cover his favor, he was infected by this boy who didn't know where to come.

Jian Qing had already led Zeng Zuochao to take a look at her discovery, the two of them stood in the middle of the courtyard, the dyed fabric was floating in the sun and the breeze, Zeng Zuochao asked, "According to your meaning, what does the murderer look like?" ”

"It's not more than five feet tall."

"How so?" Zeng Zuochao was taken aback.

"It can be seen from the victim's wounds. The height of the victim is about 5 feet 1 inch, and if the murderer is about the same height as the victim, then the axe should be slashed, and the wound should be in the back of the head. The victim's fatal wound was near the back of the neck, and in addition to indicating that the murderer was a few inches shorter than the victim, the axe should have been short-handled. ”

Zeng Zuochao was taken aback again, and said again, "Please speak!" ”

"If the axe is a long handle, under normal circumstances, when cutting someone, it should be held at the end of the handle, so as to save effort. It can be seen from the footprints left by this person that this person is at least four feet five inches tall. The handle of a normal axe is about ten inches long, and even if it is held in the middle of the handle, it is at least five inches from the end of the axe, and if it is five inches, plus the height of the person, it should hit the back of the victim's head, not the part of the neck that is now close to the neck. ”

Zeng Zuochao thought about it, and suddenly brightened, he stared at Jian Qing with burning eyes, "Your father is Master Jian Chong?" ”