"Master! Master! Oh no, no! Something happened! ”

"What's so panicked, didn't you just finish it?"

"No, no, oops, something happened again, my master asked me to tell you to hurry to the place, quick, quick, tell you slowly on the way. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

This person's name is Wang Fugui, handsome, in his early twenties, Baishui County, in the county as an errand catcher, the person he called the master is the head catcher in the county, named Chen Jinbao, also a Baishui County person, mediocre appearance, a few years older than Wang Fugui, is the head catcher in the county, and everyone knows him in the county, because this person is the only apprentice of the "God Catcher" that they have passed on by word of mouth, and now the "God Catcher" has resigned and returned to the field, naturally this person isThe heir of the "God Catcher", but Chen Jinbao himself is very helpless about the expectations of others, because he does not have the wisdom of the master, let alone the skills of the master, when the master was still on an errand in the yamen, maybe he needed a person who served tea and handed water to drink, so he accepted this self who had no heart and honest temperament among his colleagues. Now he has also accepted apprentices, one of the reasons is that Wang Fugui has a flexible brain, and when he carries him with him on errands, his brain will be much easier. The second is that the name of "God Catcher" cannot be tarnished, since he inherited this name, he naturally has to be responsible for this name, since people have praised him to the sky, it doesn't matter if he falls down and makes jokes, but this name is used to make fun of it. I have to say that Chen Jinbao did accept this apprentice correctly, his brain saved Chen Jinbao a lot of trouble, just this afternoon, the theft case of the shopkeeper of the gold shop on East Street, if there is no Wang Fugui, I don't know when the case will be closed.

"Tell me, what's the matter, I'm in such a hurry, why do I still let me go on an errand when I'm home?"

"Whew.... Call..... Call...... Outside the West City, a peasant family of four died."

"Ahh Chen Jinbao couldn't help but be stunned, since he was on an errand in the Yamen, he has seen a lot of cases of dead people with his master, and he has also encountered serial murders, but it is the first time that all the people in this family have died.

"Rich, quick, keep talking."

"Okay, first of all, the four members of their family, an old lady, and her two sons, and the daughter-in-law of the foreign family, are all from our county, the old lady and his two sons died at home, and the daughter-in-law hanged herself from a tree behind their house, and now there is an autopsy, and the results will be available in a short time."

"Wait, his whole family is dead, who is the one who went to the yamen to report the case?"

"The report was made by the landlord's family, who originally went to his house to collect rent, but when he knocked on the door, no one should push the door in, and then he found the body and ran to the county office to report the case.

"Alright, hurry up."

The two rushed to the place in a panic, the scene of the crime had already been arrested, and they were on alert, and one of them saw Chen Jinbao, ran up and said, "Head, you can count it, wait for you for a long time."

Chen Jinbao nodded for a moment, and then asked, "Have you figured out the causes of death of the four deceased?"

"Looking back, these two houses and a livestock shed, the family's surname is Zhou, the eldest son is called Zhou Pin is twenty-seven years old, the younger son is called Zhou De is twenty-five years old, the old lady's maiden name is Qin fifty-two years old, and the eldest daughter-in-law's maiden name is Sun twenty-four years old, and she and her man have no children. In addition, the eldest son and his daughter-in-law lived in the room on the left, the old lady and the second son lived in the same room, the old lady was strangled in her own house, the eldest son was stabbed in the back and died in his own house, the younger son was stabbed in the chest and died at the gate of his own house, and the last eldest daughter-in-law hanged herself from a tree behind the middle house."

"Do you know which room to live in?" Chen Jinbao asked.

"Yes, there are old lady's clothes in the cupboard in the middle room, and the rest are men's clothes, and the old lady can't live with her eldest son."

Chen Jinbao nodded, and continued to ask, "Have you figured out the time of their death?"

The catcher replied: "This has not been clarified yet, and the results of the autopsy over there have not yet been released."

Chen Jinbao nodded, he looked at this place, there are not many people, this piece of land should be this family planting crops, although it is busy, but as long as a harvest several farmers are not as much as his family's grain, and then look at his house, two houses plus a livestock shed surrounded by a semicircle, a large square table and a few benches are placed in an open space in the middle, a few chickens are still walking around in the yard, there is a cow and a donkey in the livestock shed, plus a chicken coop and a stone mill, Chen Jinbao walked over and looked, The feed for the livestock was kept in the troughs, and it can be seen from these places that the family was quite wealthy among the farmers.

"Where is the body? Take me to see it." Chen Jinbao asked quickly.

"Which one do you want to see first, I'll take you there."

"Let's look at the old lady and the youngest son first."

"Okay, this way, please."

After speaking, Chen Jinbao and his apprentice followed the arrest and quickly entered the proper room.

"Look, there, Chief." Catch quickly pointed to the blood on the ground and said.

Chen Jinbao took a closer look at this place, the location of the body was not far from the door, the house was clean and tidy, there were blood stains on the ground, but there was no trace of a fight, the deceased still stabbed someone in the chest.

"Was he stabbed when he was about to go out?" Chen Jinbao touched his chin and asked.

"Probably not, judging by the corpse, he should have been preparing to enter the room on the left, passing by the door." Then, he pointed down to the room on the left hand side of the door.

"Are you sure about this?" Chen Jinbao looked at the room on the left hand side of the door and asked.

"The little one didn't dare to say for sure, but judging from the direction the corpse was facing, if he was going out, the corpse should be facing the door and diagonally facing the door, and the corpse was facing the room on the left, and it was not clear if anyone was doing anything with the corpse, judging from the situation of the corpse alone, he was not going out."

"Hmm......" Chen Jinbao nodded.

"With all due respect, do you care if he is going out to do something, and does it help the case?"

Chen Jinbao glanced at the catcher, then turned his head and fiddled with the door and said, "You will understand when the time comes."

When he heard this, he nodded and looked at the so-called "God Catcher" heir, and didn't ask any more questions.

"No other clues have been found other than the corpse." Chen Jinbao continued to ask.

Caught quickly thought for a moment and then said, "There's something very strange pressing under the corpse's body."

"Say something."

"Cut off a small piece of firewood."

"Chai He? Show me where you are."

"Look, it's right there."

Quickly pointed to the white cloth on the ground with his hand, Chen Jinbao walked over and took a closer look, a piece of firewood that was about the same thickness as two and a half fingers and the length of a middle finger, and there was no blood on it.

Chen Jinbao touched his chin and looked at this small section of firewood, and then looked at the layout of this room, and made a "um......" sound in his nose.

"Has the murder weapon been found?" Chen Jinbao then asked.

"No, my youngest son died here when we arrived, with a knife wound in the chest."

"Hmm...... Okay, where is the old lady's body?" Chen Jinbao asked again.

He pointed to the room on his left and said, "The old lady died in that room. Oh! I see, boss, why did you ask your youngest son if he was stabbed when he was going out, because the old lady died in the room on the left, and you want to make sure that the younger son noticed that the old lady was wrong, so he went to the old lady's side, and then stabbed someone to death, right?" Caught fast is very excited, he thinks that he has guessed the mind of the heir of the "God Catcher", and the case has made a major breakthrough.

Hearing the proud words of the catcher, Chen Jinbao just rolled his eyes at him and said to him: "You think too much, I don't know what the old lady is in the dead house."

After hearing this, he scratched the back of his head, and Wang Fugui, who had been following Chen Jinbao without speaking, held his throat and covered his mouth with his hands and laughed.

"Chief, the old lady is over here." In order to alleviate his embarrassment, he hurriedly took Chen Jinbao into the room on the left.

Once inside, it was still the same as outside, the items were neatly arranged, the room was clean, and there was no sign of any fighting.

"Chief, that's it, the old lady's body is here."

Chen Jinbao took a look at the place where he pointed at the catch, and found that this location was next to the kang, facing a large wardrobe, the position of the corpse was very close to both the kang and the cabinet, and the door of the cabinet had not been closed tightly, Chen Jinbao reached out to open the door of the cabinet, and found that the cabinet was divided into two sides, and there was a pile of clothes on one side. On top of that, there is a pile of bedding on the other side, which is a bit strange because compared to the clothes on the other side, this pile of bedding is wrinkled and untidy.

Chen Jinbao pointed to the two most untidy futons placed on top and said, "Take down those two futons and show me."

Wang Fugui stepped forward and took down the two futons, and then Chen Jinbao put his hand into the futons.

After touching for a while, he opened the two quilts again, but there was still nothing, he turned his head and said to the catcher, "This quilt was not messed up when you searched for things, right?"

Catch quickly lowered his head and clenched his fists and said: "It's nothing, boss, this is what it looked like when we opened the cabinet at the beginning, we were worried that there would be something here, but you didn't dare to move if we were not afraid of destroying the scene."

Chen Jinbao nodded, then threw the quilt on the ground and said, "This thing may be evidence, but fortunately it has not been touched."

After hearing this, he immediately raised his head, and Chen Jinbao was still looking around at the scene, looking at Chen Jinbao's appearance, he remembered the rumored "God Catcher" who opened his eyes and saw all the filth and evil in the world clearly.

But in fact, Chen Jinbao looked around, except for a piece of white cloth on the ground with a rope, nothing else was seen, nothing was unnatural. But everything is natural, and that's probably where it's most unnatural.

"This is the rope that strangled the old lady?" Chen Jinbao asked, pointing to the rope on the white cloth.

"yes, that's it, huh.......... But this is also strange to say, the murder weapons that killed the eldest son and the younger son have not been found, but the murder weapons that killed the old lady and the eldest daughter-in-law are on them."

"What?" Chen Jinbao asked suspiciously.

"Boss, that's the case, the old lady was strangled, and the rope that strangled her was tied to her neck, the eldest daughter-in-law hanged herself from the tree behind the house when we found her, there were no other injuries on her body, the preliminary judgment should be that she was hanged to death, the cause of death of both was strangled by the rope, and the murder weapon was clear at a glance, and the two sons were killed by a sharp knife, and the murder weapon has not been found so far."

Chen Jinbao nodded. There is only one word "strange" in my heart, which is too strange, maybe my own brain can't understand this case at all, and I can only go to the master for help when necessary.

"That ....." caught and stopped.

"Is there anything you're still hiding from me?" Chen Jinbao asked.

"Oh, the little one doesn't dare, it's the brothers who have rumors that the men in this family were killed by sharp blades, and the women in the family were killed by ropes, maybe this is a curse, maybe a ghost is doing it, maybe we should not get involved in this case."

Chen Jinbao glared at the catcher, and immediately lowered his head when he saw it.

"Do you believe that?" Chen Jinbao asked.

"This ....." caught fast for a while and didn't know what to say.

"Alright, take me to the body of his eldest son."

After speaking, he took Chen Jinbao's master and apprentice to the house on the left side of the courtyard, and after entering the door, Chen Jinbao looked around, and the layout of the house was almost the same as the one where the old lady and the youngest son died, the only difference was that the house on the left side of the house was not a bedroom, but a stove room.

"Chief, you see, this is where the eldest son died, he was stabbed in the back, lying here and there."

Chen Jinbao squatted down and took a look, the position of the corpse lying next to a bundle of firewood, firewood was at the door of the room on the right, and there were blood stains on the ground, but judging from the placement in the house, there was still no trace of a fight.

"Master, look, is there any connection between the corpse lying next to a pile of firewood and the small section of firewood that the younger son's corpse is pressing?" Wang Fugui asked.

"Hmm......" Chen Jinbao touched his chin and walked over to look at the bundle of firewood, and didn't find anything unusual, the most important point, is there anything related to the small section of firewood pressed by the younger son's corpse and the small section of firewood pressed by the eldest son's corpse.

"What else did you find?" Chen Jinbao asked.

"No, the eldest son was stabbed in the back, bleeding all over the ground, and there was nothing else."

"Hmm...... Okay, take me to see the last corpse."

"Okay, Chief, come with me."

Catch quickly took Chen Jinbao and his apprentice to the back of the middle house, and looked at the back of the house against the mountain, between the mountain and the house is only a zhang wide, there is a tree in this position, and the daughter-in-law of this family hanged herself here, and the stepping stone is under the hanging rope.

"Is this the upper rope?" Chen Jinbao asked, pointing to the rope on the white cloth on the ground.

"Yes, this is the rope that the eldest daughter-in-law hanged, one end tied to the branch, and the other end tied out a loop."

Chen Jinbao walked over and picked up the rope, looked at it and said, "Look at the appearance of this rope, it is similar to the one that strangled the old lady, and one end is tied to the branch and a ring is bolted out, not the general bolting method of a hanged person."

"Chief, you're right, this rope is the same as the rope that strangled the old lady, and it was used to tie firewood. It's true, generally hanging rope around one end of the branch, and then pull it down to tie a knot with the other end, the eldest daughter-in-law is a bit troublesome to tie the knot."

Chen Jinbao nodded, turned his head and asked Wang Fugui, "Do you see something?"

Wang Fugui also nodded and said: "I can see it, several corpses are related to Chai He, master, otherwise if you get all the Chai He from this house out to check, you may be able to find something."

"Okay, let's go."

After that, Chen Jinbao ordered the catchers to search out all the firewood in this house, and they didn't even let go of the firewood next to the stove, but Chai He was always Chai He, always a pile of wood, and he couldn't see any clues in it.

Just when Chen Jinbao was at a loss, he heard a few catchers whispering something.

"What are you talking about, so you don't want me to hear it?" Chen Jinbao asked loudly.

A few catch fast you push me, I push you, and finally push out a person

"Looking back, just now the brothers were talking about that all the dead in the case were related to Chai He, was it that the family committed a lonely ghost on the mountain when they went up the mountain to chop wood, so they came to his house to ask for their lives, and the brothers said that maybe the ghost is still in this house."

Chen Jinbao nodded with a smile and said, "You all think it's a ghost killing, right?"

A few catchers hurriedly clenched their fists and bowed their heads and said: "That's not what the little ones mean, the little ones just think that this kind of thing would rather be believed than not believed, let's investigate the case and investigate the case, but it's better not to offend these ghosts and gods."

As soon as he finished speaking, another catcher came over and continued: "Boss, what the second stunned said is not unreasonable, the little one who has been on an errand in the yamen has not seen a murder case over the years, but like this time, there is no trace at all, and it is the first time that people are stabbed to death with a knife for no reason, and they are strangled to death with a rope and hanged, maybe this matter is done by those lonely souls and wild ghosts on the mountain, don't you think it points out our pile of firewood?" 〞

Chen Jinbao didn't know how to answer these subordinates, because he didn't see anything that people couldn't see, and Chen Jinbao didn't believe in ghosts and gods, but the master taught him not to think of ghosts or gods when he encountered the bottleneck of the case, that would only get farther and farther away from the truth, and his brain had to follow the clues.

"Okay, okay, don't talk about it, there is still an investigation in this case, what the hell is really going on, and the results will only come out after the investigation is completed, it's not early, now take the house with a seal and seal it, and take everything that should be taken back to the yamen." “

After speaking, the catchers packed up the evidence and set off for the yamen, on the way Wang Fugui asked Chen Jinbao: "Master, have you thought of something?"

Chen Jinbao didn't reply, thinking in his heart: "Rabbit cub, I just wanted to ask if you thought of something."