Chapter 2 Puzzled
After returning to the yamen, the first thing Chen Jinbao did was to find a table and take out pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, these things were originally not commonly used by the fast catchers, but Chen Jinbao was different, without these things, he couldn't solve any case.
At this time, a catcher came to Chen Jinbao with a man in his thirties.
"Boss, the results of the autopsy are in."
"Ouch, there's a result, say it, say it."
The servant who followed behind the catcher stood up and said: "If you go back to the card, the results of the autopsy, the old lady at home died of suffocation in the rope bondage, and the time of death should be Mao Shi (five o'clock in the morning to seven o'clock in the morning), and the rice porridge that was also found in her abdomen should have died after eating it early at dawn, the eldest son died from being inserted into the right side of the heart by a sharp blade from behind, and the time of death should be untimely (one to three o'clock in the afternoon), the younger son died from a sharp knife inserted into the chest from the front, and the wound was on the left side of the chest. The time of death is still not time, and the daughter-in-law also died of suffocation from rope bondage, scratches on her neck, and the neck bone has a downward fracture, so she should have hanged herself, and the time of death is also timeless, and she is incompetent, and these three corpses really can't find out the specific time of death, only that the three deceased have had lunch before their deaths."
Chen Jinbao nodded and said, "Okay, it's enough, I'll trouble you."
"Ah, the head of the card is serious."
"Fugui, you send it away."
After speaking, Wang Fugui sent the servant to the yamen, and the catcher who brought the servant had also left, Chen Jinbao began to grind the ink, spread the paper, took the pen, and began the so-called hypothesis of the case in his mouth.
Chen Jinbao has nothing to do with this, he can be the head catcher all thanks to his master's name of "God Catcher", if there is no master of his master, Chen Jinbao is just a fast catcher in his life, and he is the most inconspicuous one among his colleagues, even so, Chen Jinbao still has a heart that wants to peel off the cocoon and solve the strange case, and has a belief that he does not want to smash the "God Catcher" signboard, but it takes brains too much because of all this, fortunately, the master taught him the phrase that a good memory is not as good as a bad pen, so every time he encounters a case, he writes everything he sees and hears on paper, There are too many things in the brain that are too complicated to think of, so they are written on paper, and the eyes look at the brain, and the master also told him that the clue is the point, the logic is the line, and the line is worn through the point, which is reasoning, but the helpless thing is that Chen Jinbao does not have the brain of "catching the god", he doesn't know which line is suitable for wearing these points, which line is not suitable, the only thing he can do is to sprinkle a lot of threads out, try one by one, to see which line can be worn to the end, which means to assume countless possibilities, and then find the most reasonable, with this stupid and stupid method, Chen Jinbao has been the head catcher for several years, and he has never smashed the signboard of "God Catcher".
Let's say you start:
The deceased's family was originally a wealthy farmer, why did the murderer want his whole family to die?
Love killing? Vendetta? Robbery and murder? Others are jealous? A house thief? Ghost?
According to the results of the autopsy, the old lady in the family was the first to die, the time was at midnight (5 a.m. to 7 a.m.) The specific time was after breakfast, it was estimated that it was dawn, and the other three died at the end of the day (1 pm to 3 pm), why did only the old lady die so much difference between the four deceased?
No one to find at home? The old lady was not in the house when she died? What did the family do, hiding their bodies?
The old lady was strangled to death, and it is impossible for a person to strangle herself to death, because once she is out of breath for too long, she will faint, and if she faints, she will not be able to strangle herself, but the murder weapon rope is tied to her neck, why?
Forgot to take it? Is there any other use: put the corpse "on the body" first? The murder weapon is not this rope, and the murderer is confused?
The position of the old lady's body is facing the cabinet door, next to the kang, the items on the kang are placed neatly, the cabinet door is not closed, and the door is not closed tightly, the cabinet is divided into two sides, one side of the clothes, the other side of the quilt, the quilt is not as neat as the clothes, especially the top two quilts, why?
Someone looking for something where the quilt was placed? Hiding the corpse? The search is so fast that you don't dare to tell me?
The youngest son died from being stabbed into the chest with a sharp weapon to the left position, the left position of the corpse's chest is the heart position, there is no murder weapon on the body, and the corpse is pressed under the broken small section of firewood, there is no blood on the firewood, the other end of the broken firewood is not found, the room is clean and tidy, there is no firewood in the house, where does the firewood come from, and is there any connection with the case?
There is no connection, and the deceased does not know where to get it? On the murderer? The murderer used to confuse the public? In the deceased's big brother's house? Hints of the deceased, the murderer's surname Chai or something else?
The location of the younger son's body is next to the door, but judging from the direction the body is facing, the deceased did not want to go out, let alone enter the door, as if he was going to the room on the left, where the old lady's body was, and the old lady had been dead for several hours when the younger son died, what was he doing there?
The youngest son didn't see the old lady for a long time and felt something strange to go and see, and was killed by the murderer halfway? The old lady was killed by her youngest son, and she went to that room to get the murder weapon and was killed by someone else?
The body of the eldest son was in the house on the left side of the yard, and he was stabbed in the back, the wound was on the right side of the heart, and it looked like he was killed by a sneak attack, the house was also clean and tidy, and there were no traces of fighting, and the body was lying next to a pile of firewood, and the firewood was at the door of the room on the right, the reason?
Is this pile of firewood a hint for the deceased? The deceased wanted to crawl back into the house after being stabbed, but he died next to Chai He? The body of the deceased was not there, and the murderer deliberately confused?
Is there a connection between the Chai He in the eldest son's house and the Chai He pressed by the younger son's body?
No connection, by chance? There is a great connection, but the broken piece was taken away by the murderer, and the murderer didn't find the firewood under the younger son's body?
The time of death of the eldest son and daughter-in-law is the same as that of her husband and brother-in-law (1 pm to 3 pm), the specific time is unknown, there are no other wounds on the body, and the results of the autopsy show that she hanged herself, did she commit suicide?
Was it suicide, seeing her husband and uncle die, or was there another reason? Not suicide, was it forcibly hung on it and hanged?
A family of four, the body of the eldest son was lying next to a pile of firewood, and the younger son's body was pressed under a small section of firewood, and the old lady and daughter-in-law were strangled to death with a rope tied to firewood.
No connection, just a coincidence? There is a connection, but there are not enough clues and have not yet been discovered?
Chen Jinbao rubbed his eyes, put down the pen, and stretched, he found that all the clues were either connected to one and not connected to the second, or they were almost finished, but there was one place that never made sense.
"Hey......." Chen Jinbao sighed helplessly, it seems that he really has to visit the master.
"Master, write such a big bunch."
"Oops!" Chen Jinbao was startled, and looked at it when it turned out to be Wang Fugui standing behind him.
"You are here, you say, it really scares your master, and you can't sit in my position."
Chen Jinbao rubbed his chest when he said this, and Wang Fugui looked at it and smiled secretly.
"Hahaha! Master, what did you say, I never thought about your position, hahaha! But master, to be honest, I really have some thoughts about today's case."
"Listen to what you think, your master's head is about to break, so I think you can come up with some ideas."
"Okay, master, listen to me, the first thing I think of is the body of his eldest son, the wound is on the back, and it is the right side of the heart, isn't the heart on the left? Master, do you think, could the murderer be a left-hander?"
Seeing Wang Fugui say this with a smile on his face, Chen Jinbao shook his head and said: "I thought about this just now, but the possibility is not certain, the eldest son looks like he was killed by a sneak attack, what if the murderer is stabbed down by pointing to the heart?" Are you thinking about your youngest son's wound, isn't that just a sharp weapon inserted head-on, and the wound is on the left side of the chest?"
Wang Fugui scratched his head and continued: "Master, you said that you should be bold in your assumptions, what if the murderer of the eldest son and the younger son are not the same person?"
Hearing Wang Fugui ask, Chen Jinbao rubbed his eyes again and replied: "It's possible, but your argument is untenable, it would be ridiculous for us to go and check the left-handers in the entire Xicheng area and even the whole county based on this alone."
Wang Fugui nodded and continued: "Then master, let's not talk about this left-handed man for now, let's think about it first, the old lady died early after eating (from five o'clock in the morning to seven o'clock in the morning), and the younger son and the old lady live in the same house, could it be that the younger son killed the old lady, of course, the reason is not clear."
Chen Jinbao twisted his neck, turned his head and said to Wang Fugui: "Well, go on, I'll see if what you want to say is the same as I think."
Wang Fugui smiled and continued: "Then, after the youngest son killed the old lady, he hid the body on the side of the quilt in the cabinet. After cleaning up the quilt, and then told his eldest brother and sister-in-law that the old lady was very sleepy and couldn't get up, and then the three of them ran to do farm work, originally his family had more land than other people's homes, and there were so many livestock to feed, so he was naturally busy, so he didn't care about the old lady until noon (11 o'clock in the morning to 1 o'clock in the afternoon), but the old lady's body was hidden in the cabinet, but the problem was that the cabinet was not closed tightly, and the old lady fell out of the cabinet directly. It's time to eat at noon, the eldest son and sister-in-law want to call the old lady, at that time, the younger son said, I'll call her, how can I call it, and finally the younger son walked around and went out, but there was an unexpected situation, the cabinet was not closed tightly, the corpse fell out, and there was no condition to transfer the corpse, the younger son hurriedly stuffed the corpse back, and then came out The eldest brother and sister-in-law said that the old lady hadn't slept enough and was still sleeping, but the eldest son saw that something was wrong, but it was not good to care about brotherhood and make it clear in person, When the family rested enough, they went to work in the field again, and the younger son took a moment to run back to the house, ready to take away the old lady's body, and destroyed the murder weapon by the way, but the eldest son found that his brother was gone, and the eldest son was already a little suspicious when he thought about the noon meal, so as soon as he saw that his brother was gone, he picked up a knife and ran back to the house to find it, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw the old lady's body lying in front of the cabinet, and there was no way that the cabinet was not tightly closed, and then the eldest son was furious. A knife stabbed his brother to death, after the stabbing to death, the eldest son panicked, what to do to kill someone, immediately ran out to discuss with his daughter-in-law, and then the result of the discussion should be to run, and then the two went back to the house to pack up their things, and then they should have a dispute after entering the house, I guess it should be the eldest son said that if I am arrested and sent to prison, you are my woman, you have to accompany you or something, so his daughter-in-law was very afraid, and when the eldest son turned his back, he picked up the knife that the eldest son put down, A knife was inserted into her husband's back, her husband died, she came back to her senses, she panicked, she didn't know what to do, she didn't dare to report to the official, she didn't know where to run, and going back to her mother's house would implicate her mother's family, so everything was lost, and she took a rope to bundle firewood on the tree behind the old lady and her youngest son's house, and hanged herself.
After listening to Wang Fugui's words, Chen Jinbao's face was expressionless, which was a bit unexpected by Wang Fugui, he thought to himself, even if the master listened to his own words and didn't praise a few words, he should laugh.
Just when Wang Fugui didn't know what the master was thinking, Chen Jinbao opened his mouth and said, "First thing, where did the knife that stabbed the two brothers go?"
Wang Fugui replied: "I threw it away for my eldest daughter-in-law."
Chen Jinbao turned his head to stare at Wang Fugui and said, "We have searched so many times and haven't found them for so long, do you think a person who is desperate will still find a way to hide the murder weapon?"
"This...."Wang Fugui was speechless for a while, not knowing what to say.
"Okay, even if she hid the murder weapon, then let me ask you the second thing, the eldest son ran to his brother's house to look at it when he noticed that something was wrong, and then found the body of the old lady, you recall the appearance of the second son's body a little, he wanted to go to the old lady's house, and suddenly someone came in from outside the door and stabbed him to death, or someone stuck him in the neck with his hand in the back and stabbed him to death with a knife, It can also come out of the old lady's room on the opposite side, and a person walks up to him and stabs him to death while he is not paying attention. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info And then look at what you said, as soon as the eldest son entered the door, he found the old lady's body in front of the cabinet. We all went to that room to see, at that time you were still laughing at the little treasure, you didn't go into the old lady's house to see that you didn't know there was a corpse, how did the eldest son of his family see the corpse at the door and then stabbed his brother to death? Then stuck the second son's neck from behind and then stretched out his hand to stab him to death, according to your statement, it is even more impossible, the only possibility is that the eldest son ran into the room on the left and saw the old lady's body and then came out to stab the younger son to death, then have you thought about it, the younger son saw his brother rush into the old lady's house and saw the body, and then rushed out to kill himself, so why can't there be any traces of a fight at the scene? The younger son is willing to let his brother stab him to death, this is impossible, do you want to say that the eldest son cleaned up the house after killing his brother? If that's the case, why don't you hide the body? Also, even if the eldest son killed his brother, it was because the old lady was killed by his brother, and he ran to report to the official and surrendered, this matter must have been taken lightly, why did he run? Also, the knife that stabbed his youngest son to death, according to you, he must still have it in his hand, and he also showed it to her daughter-in-law. The two brothers who were stabbed to death did not find any other blood stains at the scene, could it be his daughter-in-law? Even if it was for his daughter-in-law, his daughter-in-law was afraid that people would find evidence so she wanted to take the knife away, according to what did the eldest son say to stimulate his daughter-in-law, and his daughter-in-law stabbed the eldest son, that is still the same sentence, where did the knife hide for the eldest daughter-in-law? Why do you want to hide when you want to kill yourself? “
"Hmm...... Master, do you see anything in this case? Wang Fugui scratched the back of his head and said.
Chen Jinbao shook his head and said, "Now you ask me if I see something, according to the current situation, I can only tell you that the ghost did it." “
After hearing this, Wang Fugui felt a chill on his back, turned his head to look behind him, and said, "Master, don't you scare me?" Just tell me you're a little bit of an eyebrow. ”
"I didn't scare you, as far as the current situation is concerned, I can only tell you that it was a ghost, I tried several times, and the clues are either connected to one or not the second, in addition, I think that the younger son is not the first of the three people to die, and this matter is likely to be an accomplice, because the situation of several corpses, including the situation at the scene, is too natural, maybe because of this, it is unnatural, if it is an accomplice with a ghost, then it makes sense, maybe the accomplice is the younger son and the eldest son, Maybe it's the eldest son, maybe it's the younger son and the eldest daughter-in-law, or maybe it's a person in the family who commits the crime with an outsider, or even three young people in the family who commit the crime together. I had an idea at first, maybe it was three people in the family who killed the old lady together, and for what reason the body was hidden in the cabinet and never go, but what, the door of the cabinet was not closed tightly and the body fell out, this can be ignored, it was originally committed by three people, and then the eldest son and the younger son for what reason the two of them teamed up to kill the eldest daughter-in-law, this method is very simple, the two big men took her to the tree at the back of the house, put the rope around her neck with the buckle prepared in advance, and then put the other end of the rope around the trunk, A person grabs her to pull the other end of the rope alone, and then you can create a hanged appearance, as long as the action is fast enough, the daughter-in-law can only scratch her neck no matter how she struggles and scratches, and it is normal for the person who hangs to have uncomfortable scratches on the neck, secondly, the second person who died among the three I suspect that it is the eldest son, because the eldest son was killed by a sneak attack, if the crime is committed by someone at home, the younger son dies first, who will attack him? Then after the younger son killed the eldest brother, maybe the eldest son left some clues on the firewood before he died, so the younger son took the firewood that left the clue to destroy, but he thought about it if he took it to burn, he was worried that the traces of the burn would be found, and it would not work to burn it under the stove, and then the youngest son went back to the house to prepare to make a vendetta or someone to rob and kill the illusion, he took the knife that killed his brother, and wanted to stab himself, this is to wait for the government to come to the person, he can also say, who came to strangle the old lady first, killed his eldest brother, and stabbed him, and finally the sister-in-law saw the family of the people in this situation like ashes and hanged herself, but there is a problem, the knife to his body can not be stabbed too deep, otherwise he will really die, and he can't stab too shallow, the wound is not very deep, and it is easy to be suspected, so he pulled the door over, the tip of the knife against his chest, the handle of the knife against the door, and slowly moved forward, but at this time, the firewood that was broken and not thrown out fell to the ground, and he stepped on the firewood and slipped down, and when he hit the door, the knife was inserted into his chest, and then he fell on his back at the door, and the body still looked like he was walking towards the old lady's house. ”
Wang Fugui nodded again and again when he heard this, but looked at Chen Jinbao suspiciously and asked, "Hmm.... Master, your statement is very reliable, but there is one thing that doesn't make sense. ”
Chen Jinbao yawned and replied: "Yes, according to my statement, the knife should be inserted into the corpse of the youngest son, even if it is pulled out for him, it should not be far from the corpse, but the problem is that I don't know where to run, so my statement can't connect to the last clue, it is definitely not the truth, and it is really possible that a broken firewood as long as the middle finger of a section is missed and not thrown out?" And the old lady couldn't figure out why she didn't get rid of the rope around her neck. “
Wang Fugui sighed, touched the back of his head and said, "Hey, there are too few things in the place where the crime occurred, if only I could give more clues over there." ”
Chen Jinbao put his head on the paper and said with a sad face: "Hey, if only you could figure out the specific time of death of everyone, and the case of knowing who died first and who died later would be much clearer." ”
"Hey....." Wang Fugui sighed helplessly with the master.
Chen Jinbao patted his official hat and said dejectedly: "Fugui, you and I have thought so much and said so much, in the end, we must start thinking again." ”
"Hmm....." Wang Fugui let out this voice in his nose, and his brows began to wrinkle, as if he had thought of something.
"Eh, master, if this is a crime committed by someone from the family and someone outside, then many places can make sense."
Chen Jinbao wiped his face with his hand, and then said, "Yes, yes, but I didn't receive a report from the searcher that someone had come to their house today......... Huh! Someone has been to their house! By the way, there are four dead people in this family, I listened to you about this, who did you listen to! ”
Chen Jinbao sat up suddenly, looking at Wang Fugui with light in his eyes, Wang Fugui thought for a while and said: "Let's finish the errand of the gold shop today and go home, and then the two stunned ran to my house to say that a family of four died in Xicheng, and the grandfather asked me to go with you, hey, these two stunned looked at the fat head and fat waist with a stupid look is actually quite fine, the grandfather obviously asked him to call you, but my house is closer to the yamen than you, and he came directly to call me to call you." ”
"Okay, okay, don't talk about it, two stunned, two stunned, come here."
Chen Jinbao shouted anxiously, and was about to turn his head to let Wang Fugui look for it, when a fat catcher came over, he stepped forward and said to Chen Jinbao: "Boss, you call me?" “
"Four people died in this case, who did you listen to?"
Fat Catcher thought about it and said, "I didn't listen to anyone about the little one, I saw it in the place." Oh, by the way, when you went back, the yacha came over and said that three people died in the Xicheng family, and the master asked us to hurry over, at that time we hurriedly passed, forgot to find someone to call you, and only remembered after arriving at the place, and then the little one ran to Fugui's house to call Fugui, and let Fugui tell you. “
After hearing the stunned words, Chen Jinbao said even more anxiously: "Hurry up, where is the yacha, call him over to me." ”
"He is on an errand today, and he should be in the yamen."
"Hurry up, call him to me."
After a while, Fat Catcher quickly walked up to Chen Jinbao with a messenger and said, "Pai Tou, are you looking for me?" ”
"Come on, today's murder case of a family of four in Xicheng was reported to the master by you?" Chen Jinbao became more and more anxious.
The yacha listened to Chen Jinbao's words, thought for a while and said: "If you go back to the card, it is a small case, but the small one is said that a family of three is dead." ”
"Tell me what the person who reported the crime said?" Chen Jinbao said more anxiously.
"Hmm.... At that time, it was the family member of Liu Yuanwai's family in Xicheng who reported the case, and he was in a hurry at that time, saying that in the house outside Xicheng, one was hanged, and another was stabbed to death at the door, and one was stabbed in the back or something, these were all written in the book, and the small one was a little unclear. ”
Chen Jinbao and Wang Fugui stared at each other with wide eyes, and then Chen Jinbao shouted: "Second stunned, hurry up and find a few people, go to Liu Yuanwai's house and get that family over, this slave must know something we don't know." ”
"The little one understands." The second stunned replied, turned around and ran.
"Fugui, hurry up and call the master, tell him about it, and we have to judge the slave."
"The little one understands." After responding, Wang Fugui turned around and ran.
Chen Jinbao exhaled, then moved his gaze to the yacha again, and said, "Brother, this time you have made meritorious service." ”
"Huh?" Yacha looked at Chen Jinbao blankly, not understanding what Chen Jinbao said at all.