Chapter 23: Two Pairs of Footprints

Suddenly, the man stopped moving, and he turned his eyes to look out the window, which was facing the direction of the backyard.

Before Liu Ruyan could make any moves, the man suddenly turned around and jumped out of the window around the corpse on the ground.

In the next moment, Liu Ruyan opened the suitcase and came out, she sat on the ground, looked at the direction of the murderer's escape with a pale face, and laughed at herself: "After so many years, you are still so useless." ”

Through the live broadcast system, the audience in front of the screen was also scared into a cold sweat:

"If you don't agree with each other, you will kill people, who is so wild!"

"It's a pity I didn't see the murderer's face."

Liu Ruyan glanced at the corpse on the ground, then closed her eyes, swept out along the half-open window lattice, and her figure disappeared outside the bamboo house.

Soon, the guys in the pharmacy heard a strange noise from the backyard, and when they saw the dead Cangshu, their faces were all panicked, and the bamboo hut was in chaos.

"Let's see if he still has a pulse?"

"I can't save it, my organs are damaged, and I can't help it."

"Which one is crazy, get out of here!"

"Otherwise, let's report to the official."

"Yes, yes, hurry up and report to the official, there may be clues in this room, don't mess with it."

As soon as these words came out, everyone hurriedly silenced.

At this time, there was a noise outside the house again, and a guy grabbed a strange man, pushed him, and walked over.

"Look, this person is probing his brain outside the house, maybe he killed Cangshu."

The guys all gathered around, stared at the man angrily, and blurted out: "Dog thing, why do you want to kill Cangshu!" ”

The man hurriedly shook his head and shouted with a red face: "It's not me, I didn't kill anyone." ”

"It's not who else you are, I saw you hiding under a tree just now, sneaky, it's not a good thing at first glance." The guy also argued.

"I ......" the man said, "Actually, I was sent by Zhao Fangshi to teach Bai Zhi some lessons, who knew that as soon as he came, he would encounter such an unfortunate thing......

The guy took a sip: "I'm a nest of snakes and rats." ”

The man waved his hand again and again: "But I really didn't kill anyone, and I didn't dare to kill anyone if I had ten guts." ”

"Beat him up first, see if he can recruit him!"

"He didn't kill anyone." Suddenly, a clear voice came from the crowd.

Everyone was stunned, and when they turned their heads to look, they saw a figure in the bamboo forest, dressed in a gray short-cut costume, thin but not weak.

The man grabbed the suspicious wrist and handed it to the pharmacist: "Will you take the pulse and see if he has internal strength and martial arts?" ”

The pharmacist paused, stretched out his finger to call his pulse, in order not to be mistaken, he also tried several acupuncture points on the man's body: "Look at his body shape, try his key acupoints, this person is not a practitioner, but what does this have to do with the murderer?" ”

The young man, that is, Liu Ruyan, who went and returned, asked rhetorically: "As a pharmacist, you can't even see the cause of death of the deceased?" ”

"This ......," the pharmacist said with a red face and red ears, "the internal organs are broken, but they are shattered by external forces." ”

Liu Ruyan squatted down and stroked the deceased's chest: "There are many cracks in the ribs of the front chest, and blood is spilling out of the ears, nose, and mouth. Look at this man again, does he have internal strength, can he do martial arts? ”

The crowd began to riot, and at this time, there were still unconvinced people shouting: "Even if he didn't kill anyone, he is also Zhao Fangshi's accomplice!" ”

Liu Ruyan raised her eyes: "Since this is the case, the county officials will make their own decisions, and a private brawl is also a violation of the Han criminal law." ”

The man was speechless.

Liu Ruyan glanced at everyone and said loudly: "I just passed by the door of your pavilion and happened to bump into a man with suspicious appearance, so Liu Moucai came uninvited, just to provide you with some clues." ”

After hearing this, the guy asked excitedly, "Have you seen the murderer?" What did the man look like, and in which direction did he go? ”

Liu Ruyan shook her head regretfully: "The other party is very skilled, but I just glanced at it in a hurry at that time, and I don't remember it clearly." However, there may be some other characteristics that I have missed. ”

As she spoke, she closed her eyes and relied on the playback function of the system to reproduce the scene at the time of the crime.

In the picture is the silhouette of the murderer and Cangshu, the murderer is wearing a placket and a wide brim to hide his face.

At this time, the sunset was slanting westward, and in the backyard of Yaoshengchen, everyone looked at Liu Ruyan intently.

"The murderer is six feet tall, wears a navy blue placket, and the embroidered picture on the inner lining is ......"

She frowned, and saw that the murderer happened to turn around, revealing the corner of the inner lining: "This embroidery technique is not Su embroidery and Shu embroidery...... It's not Hunan embroidery. ”

She tried hard to discern the embroidery picture, and unexpectedly showed a Buddha's hand with flowers, which was as lifelike as a relief.

A word suddenly flashed in Liu Ruyan's heart, and blurted out: "This is a pile of embroidery!" Based on the story of Buddhist scriptures, it is cut into patterns with various colors of silk and satin, piled up and pasted into paintings, and finally embroidered with colored threads. ”

She opened her eyes and said to everyone, "The murderer is a white barbarian. ”

"Bai Man?" The pharmacist was surprised, "Isn't that an alien race?" ”

The ethnic minorities in the southwest are known as the Baiman, and they are similar to the Chinese people and believe in Buddhism.

Liu Ruyan bowed her head and explained patiently: "The so-called pile embroidery appeared in the southwest, such as the Tubo Kingdom and the Dali Kingdom, and combined with the embroidery on the murderer's body, it was a Buddha's hand, which only nobles could wear." ”

The pharmacist suddenly said: "I'll let people look for him, if it's a foreign race, it's not difficult to find his whereabouts." ”

She narrowed her eyes and raised her hand to stop the pharmacist: "Waitβ€”"

As she spoke, she leaned down to see the golden powder spilling from the deceased's waist and glanced at the ground again. She was in a hurry, and she didn't notice the golden powder for a while.

The medicine man also saw this, he twisted the powder, put it under his nose and sniffed it, and then crushed it with his fingers: "It's orpiment." ”

The pharmacist hurriedly untied the deceased's belt, revealing a small pinch of crystals: "It was originally a piece, brittle and fragile, presumably it was shaken into powder by the murderer with internal force." ”

Liu Ruyan immediately got up, stared to the ground, followed the faint powder to the window, and suddenly her eyes lit up.

The murderer did not see the orpiment powder sprinkled on the ground, so the sole of his left foot was stained with some of it, leaving footprints along the way.

She followed the footprints to the backyard, then suddenly stopped and hung her head in silence.

"What's wrong?" The pharmacist and the buddy followed.

"There's something wrong with the footprints." She said, using her fingers to measure the distance between the two footprints, "When the man walks, the distance between each step is about eighteen inches, but here, the murderer's steps suddenly become smaller. ”

The pharmacist also felt strange, and measured the footprints along the way: "It's really weird." ”

Liu Ruyan lowered her eyes and pondered, what was the reason why the murderer's walking pace suddenly became smaller?

She looked back and saw that one end of the backyard led to the medicine fairy's bamboo house, and at the other end was a wooden door that led to the street outside.

The snow in the courtyard had been cleared, the ground was smooth, and the golden orpiment powder could be faintly seen until the footprints disappeared completely.

Maybe the powder is exhausted, but there is another possibility, that is......

Liu Ruyan asked people to bring the bamboo ladder, and finally found footprints again on the wall not far away.

Everyone wondered, how could there be two pairs of footprints in the snow on the wall?