A medium-sized and slightly chubby French patrolman stood in front of a large vase placed against the wall, pointed to the mouth of the vase and said:

"This is it, there is blood here!"

There is a circle of low platforms against the wall around the auction hall, except for the direction of the auction table and the direction of the entrance, the other positions are placed on the low platform Chinese vases and sculptures, sculptures and vases are placed in a staggered manner, and a large vase is placed every other sculpture.

The mouth of these large vases can reach a person's chest, and if you look in from above, you can only see that the inside of the bottle is pitch black, and you can't reach it at all.

The location where this patrol stood was near the auction table, the vase on the wall of the West Village and Xie An. The vase was next to Xie An's seat, only about a person away.

Polpo walked quickly to the vase and looked towards the spot where the patrol was pointing. This vase is a colorless painted vase, and there is indeed a red blood stain at the mouth of the bottle, which looks like it has just dried up. If you don't look closely, the blood stains are hidden in the crimson painted patterns, and they will not be noticed by others at all.

Polpo took a closer look, sniffed into the vase with his nose, frowned slightly, and then said to the patrolman next to him:

"Put this bottle down!"

Burroughs saw that the patrol was clumsy and about to put down the vase, and hurriedly called two people from the Durand auction house to help. Although this vase is not worth much, it is just an ornament, but after all, it is specially made by someone. Xu Lingfeng was afraid that the vase was the same as the scabbard just now, so he also came up to help.

Several people put the vase down, and Polpo took out a flashlight, leaned down and turned on the flashlight to look into the vase. He seemed to have made some new discovery, so he reached in, and as soon as he reached in, he bared his teeth and quickly withdrew his hand again.

It turns out that the pattern of the mouth of this large vase is a little rough, and there are many spikes left by the glaze after firing at the mouth of the bottle, which are very sharp, and the fingers will be punctured if you are not careful. Porpo had his palm cut by the spike at the mouth of the bottle, and although the wound was not deep, it was bleeding all the time.

Burroughs hurriedly called for a medicine box, disinfected it with alcohol, and then helped him bandage his wounds.

Annoyed, Porpo asked his men to turn the vase upside down with the auction house and pour out of the bottle what he found.

Several people worked together to flip the big vase, and when they heard the sound of "dangchang", there was a narrow and long thing everywhere in the vase, because this thing was very long, and it was put vertically into the vase, so after adjusting the bottle mouth, although this thing fell to the ground, but more than half of it was still diagonally at the bottle mouth.

At the same time, what looked like a rag race was dropped, the rag was crumpled together, and there were a lot of blood stains stuck to it, but the blood stains had completely dried up and turned dark brown.

Several people lifted the vase upside down, and then the narrow and long thing fell to the ground with a "choking", but it turned out to be a short long knife.

The blade of this knife is very wide, the handle is the same as the width of the blade, the one-piece molding is made of gold and iron and there is no gauntlet, only at the end of the handle is inlaid with a circle of white copper edging, just like the white copper used in the edge of the scabbard of the waist knife just now, the copper color is almost the same.

I saw that there were still some blood stains on the knife that had not been wiped clean, and the blood stains had dried up at this time, and the knife edge in the middle of the knife body was also slightly curled, as if something had been chopped.

Xu Lingfeng saw this short long knife, which had a very peculiar appearance, and was about to pick it up, but Polpo, who had just bandaged the wound, took the first step and picked up the short long knife.

As he looked at the slightly peculiar knife, he asked:

"How can there be a knife in this vase?"

Then he looked at Burroughs.

Burroughs hurriedly shook his head and said:

"I don't know, why are we hiding a knife in a vase!"

Polpo looked at Xu Lingfeng again.

Xu Lingfeng said:

"I did preside over the layout of the venue, but I don't know why there was a knife!"

Polpo looked at the blood stains on the knife, reached out and gently touched the place where the blade was rolled, then turned around and glanced at the place where Lu Zhengxiong's body was ambushed, and said:

"This knife is supposed to be the murder weapon that beheaded the deceased! …… Someone must have put it here in advance, prepared in advance to commit murder to the murderer! As for the murderer...... It's you! ”

Saying that, Polpo stretched out his hand and pointed at Xie An, and then continued:

"You are closest to the vase, it must be that you took out the knife from the vase and threw it into the vase!"

Just when Xie An was about to defend himself with an innocent face, Han Da'er suddenly said:

"That can't be!"

Polpo glanced at Han Da'er with disdain and said:

"How could it be?"

Han Daring said:

"Look at your hands!"

Polpo subconsciously glanced at his freshly bandaged hand, and suddenly understood what Han Daring meant.

Han Daring said:

"Just now you reached out and wiped the mouth of the bottle, and your hand was punctured, which means that the mouth of the bottle has a lot of sharpness, but look at Xie An's hand!"

As he spoke, he walked up to Xie An, regardless of Xie An's objections, grabbed his hand, showed it to everyone, and continued:

"There is a crack in his hand, and he doesn't even have a scratch!"

Everyone looked at Xie An's hands, and sure enough, they saw that there was no damage on his hands.

Han Daring said again:

"According to what you said, Xie An took out this short long knife from the bottle, and he must reach into the mouth of the bottle. You see so many vases here, not to mention how he can accurately distinguish the position in the dark, he won't touch the wrong bottle mouth, even if he finds it, he will definitely be scratched by the sharp edge of the bottle mouth, and why did you pour the bottle just now to take out this knife, which means that from the bottle is being placed, this knife can't be reached from the bottle mouth at all! ”

Polpo was speechless when asked, and he didn't hold back a word for a long time.

At this time, Xu Lingfeng looked at the knife, thought about it, and suddenly said:

"What does this knife look like...... Seems a bit like ......"

Han Daring said:

"That's right! This long knife is the child and mother knife in this waist knife! ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his finger and pointed to the waist knife inlaid with gems that had been put back on the table just now.

Han Daring carefully picked up the waist knife on the table, gently pulled the waist knife out of its scabbard, and then said:

"Look at the short long knife in your hand, the blade is very wide and hollow!"

Polpo turned the handle and looked at the end of the handle, and sure enough, the whole short and long knife was hollow, and it was a thick iron shell!

Han Daring said:

"The short long knife in your hand is the real scabbard of this waist knife! The short long knife should be inserted into the scabbard, and then the waist knife should be inserted into the hollow of the short long knife, so there are actually two knives in this scabbard, and this used to be called the Zimu knife!

This is also the reason why the waist knife is very loose when inserted back into the scabbard alone, and the upper mouth of the scabbard is also missing a white copper swallow. Because the so-called white copper swallowing mouth is actually a short long knife, the white copper edging at the end of the handle, after the two knives and the scabbard are combined, the edging becomes the swallowing of the scabbard! ”

The so-called mother and son knives are not like ordinary single sheath and double knives, two knives are combined and inserted in one scabbard at the same time, but one in front and one behind and one inside and one outside, like a knife with two layers of scabbards, but one of them is this short-handled long knife.

In the era of cold weapons, it has an extremely important position as a short-range main battle weapon. Except for the middle and long weapons in the martial arts, there are more people who use knives than other short weapons. The design of the knife is actually a means of self-protection by surprise.

For example, if you are wearing a knife, and when you fight with the opponent, the opponent has a clear advantage, and after you draw the knife and fight the opponent, the opponent's attention is all on the knife in your hand, and then you unexpectedly pull out the knife hidden in the scabbard to attack the opponent, and it is very likely to win the surprise attack.

In addition, if the opponent is far stronger than you, and you are forced to be disarmed, you pull out the waist knife and throw it on the ground, and the other party sees that you have no weapon and lowers your defense, and when you go to pick up the waist knife thrown on the ground, you can pull out another knife hidden in the scabbard, attack it and kill the opponent. In short, this knife is an extremely insidious blade.

Han Daring had seen similar knives before, so when Xu Lingfeng said that the waist knife was a little different just now, Han Daring had already thought that this was most likely the knife of the mother and child, and the mother knife was gone.

Everyone listened to Han Daring's narration and understood that the short knife and waist knife were originally a set, and after Han Daring finished speaking, he began to observe the layout of the auction hall and the scene of Lu Zhengxiong's corpse.

Wang Weihan, who had been standing in the distance and wearing makeup, came over, he didn't hold his crutches today, so he moved very slowly in order not to make his lame feet visible. He leaned over and asked in a low voice with some eagerness:

"How's that core, has it been stolen?"

Han Da'er continued to look around and replied casually:

"That mirror core is fake, it's really good! In the hands of my friend! Do not worry! ”

At this time, Zhang Xi, who was standing in front of the waist knife and observing, said:

"Before the black light just now, I had paid attention to all the exhibits, and at that time, the white copper edging of this demon dao scabbard was still there, which means that this son and mother knife were put together at that time!"

When Polpo heard this, he immediately said:

"In this way, the knife was pulled out after the black light, cut off Lu Zhengxiong's head, wiped the bloodstains, and threw it into this big vase together with the cloth used for wiping! So my reasoning is correct, the murderer is this man named Xie An! ”

Polpo pointed at Xie An, and continued:

"Your seat is closest to the waist knife, almost within reach, and the darkness of the sudden lights out makes you suddenly kill! You took advantage of the darkness to pull out the short female knife of the waist knife, and then inserted the sub-knife back into the scabbard, and cut off Lu Zhengxiong's head with a knife from the side, so the mother knife has the phenomenon of curling the blade.

If you are afraid that the blood on the knife will attract the attention of others, you use a cloth with you to wipe off the blood stains on the knife, then retreat to your seat, and throw the mother knife and the cloth that wiped the blood into the large vase next to you.

This way, you don't have to reach into the vase at all, so you won't get stabbed in your hand, but a little blood left on the knife dripped on the mouth of the bottle, so our patrol found out! ”

Everyone present listened to Polpo's reasoning and couldn't help but nod their heads in agreement, only Xie An, whose head shook like a rattle, shouted injustice vigorously in his mouth.

Polpo couldn't help but say, he was going to handcuff Xie An, Xie Anze couldn't help but retreat, and the two patrols grabbed up, wanting to hold Xie An, who knew that Xie An was tall and thin, like an impermanent ghost, but there was a bit of kung fu under his hands, although he was far less agile and agile than Han Daring, but he also knocked the two patrols to the ground.

Seeing this, Polpo pulled out his pistol, this time he learned to be obedient, and there was still some distance away from Xie An, instead of leaning close to the cut with his gun.

When Xie An saw the cold muzzle, he couldn't help but feel a little timid, and he didn't dare to resist indiscriminately. Just as he was about to be handcuffed, Han Da'er suddenly said:

"The murderer is not him, and your inference just now is difficult to establish at all!"