Hearing the old man's answer, Yang Zhutou was also suddenly alert, how could things be so coincidental, and a girl between five and seven years old was implicated? Xie Yixiang next to him had already muttered: "Since the founding of this dynasty, the imperial court has always ruled the country with an iron fist and strictly ruled the world, how can there be so many cases in the world? As the saying goes, there must be a cause for effect, and the granddaughter of this old man is also five or six years old, and she also lives in Shaoxing, and the time of disappearance happened to be more than ten days ago, I am afraid that it really has something to do with this case, maybe...... Maybe ......" Seeing that she didn't say the following words, Yang Zhutou immediately asked: "Do you suspect that the girl that the young couple in Zhuji just adopted is actually the lost granddaughter of this old man?"

Xie Yixiang didn't answer, she pondered for a long time, and finally decided that she would rather believe it than believe it, so she asked Yang Zhutou to find someone to paint the portrait of the old man's granddaughter, and took the portrait to the grocery store where the man surnamed Chen worked before his death to ask if it was the girl that the man surnamed Chen brought home that day. When Yang Zhutou's subordinates made a portrait based on the old man's narration, everyone stepped forward to see that she was an ordinary girl, and she could not see the slightest peculiarity; in addition, the level of painting in the yamen was limited, and only one ink line was used to outline the portrait, so where could they sit down and identify the missing girl? Yang Zhutou remembered that the old man had said that his granddaughter had been hit in the back of the head by the back of the sword, so he asked the painter to add a note under the portrait, indicating that the girl had a scar on the back of her head.

Then the catchers copied this portrait, prepared one for each person, and went to Zhuji to search. Unexpectedly, at this moment, the servants in the yamen came to tell the truth, saying that they had examined the bodies of the young couple in Zhuji with Lang Zhong, and that the woman's palace wall was like a piece of thin paper, obviously there had been many miscarriages, and it was indeed not suitable for childbirth. However, Xie Yixiang and Yang Zhutou had already confirmed that the couple in Zhuji had indeed adopted a girl home, and it was obviously useless to get this conclusion from the husband at this time.

In order to verify this matter, he had stayed up all night, but when he heard his own message, everyone in the hall ignored him. In desperation, he had to look at the portrait that the hunters were copying, and then muttered: "Looking for a missing girl of five or six years old, with a scar on the back of her head...... Isn't Butcher Li's daughter already chopped up and stewed by the murderer, what are you looking for her to do?"

As soon as these words came out, it was as if a thunderclap exploded in the hall of the yamen, which frightened everyone to stop their movements at the same time and look at this work together. Unexpectedly, everyone in the hall had such a big reaction, and couldn't help but stammer: "I...... I'm just casually saying this, the Li Butcher's family who was killed in Yinshan Village before, that ...... The girl's body had been chopped up and stewed, but it had not yet had time to be cooked, and her face was barely recognizable, and it was clearly very similar to the portrait you are copying at the moment. And behind the girl's left skull, there is clearly an extremely deep scar, and even the skull is a little sunken in, is it ...... Isn't that the girl in your portrait?"

As soon as the words fell, Xie Yixiang and Yang Zhutou couldn't help but look at each other, and they both had the same thought in their hearts: Could it be that the girl who died in Butcher Li's house was actually not the daughter adopted by Butcher Li and his wife, but the granddaughter of the old man who came to report the case today? You must know that the daughter of Butcher Li's family is six years old, and the granddaughter of this old man is also six years old in October this year.

However, if this is the case, then the girl who was just adopted by the man surnamed Chen in Zhuji could never be the granddaughter of the old man's disappearance, and the daughter adopted by Butcher Li and his wife was naturally not stewed on the spot by the murderer, so where is she now? Xie Yixiang did not dare to make a judgment for a while, and said in a deep voice: "Please also ask the teacher to spend some time to reconstruct the broken body of the girl in Butcher Li's house, so that the old man in Wenshan Village who reported the case will come to identify the body, and at the same time, call the villagers in Yinshan Village who know Butcher Li's daughter to come and see." ”

When he heard Xie Yixiang's order, his eyes widened in fright. You must know that the girl has been chopped into fifty or sixty pieces of large and small by the murderer, and thrown into a large pot to stew, if you want to splice and restore the corpse, how easy is it? However, seeing that Yang Zhutou also agreed, he had no choice but to accept the order. It took four or five hours like this, and finally the broken body of the girl who was stewed was barely put together, Xie Yixiang and Yang Zhutou went to check, and immediately gasped.

It turned out that the girl's body had been stewed in a pot to a half-cooked purpose, and it had been stored in the yamen's morgue for more than ten days, and the skin and flesh had already begun to deform. Especially the girl's face, which was already extremely distorted, like a melted candle, which was divided left and right by a thin thread that was stitched, Xie Yixiang only glanced at it, and she was already frightened and cold, and she didn't want to take a second look for the rest of her life.

Then the official brought the old man who reported the case to identify the body, and the old man was also frightened on the spot, and finally with the scar on the back of the girl's head, he finally determined that the girl was indeed his missing granddaughter, and his face was full of snot and tears. Xie Yixiang was still not at ease, so she asked people to go to Yinshan Village to find more than a dozen villagers, and asked them to enter in turn to identify the girl's body and see if it was the daughter of Butcher Li's family. Although several villagers were frightened by the stitched corpse and did not dare to confirm it, many villagers denied it on the spot, saying that the girl was not the daughter of Butcher Li at all. And the old woman who invited Xie Yixiang to have lunch at home before was also among them, and after seeing the girl's corpse, she shook her head like a rattle and said: "Where is this Butcher Li's daughter, it is clearly the granddaughter of Jiang Laohan in Wenshan Village in the south." It is said that this girl once retrieved a name from the sword of the Japanese when she was a child, and since then she has been frightened, and she is an out-and-out fool. ”

After verifying this result, Xie Yixiang and Yang Zhutou were both speechless for a long time. In the end, Yang Zhutou couldn't hold it back, and finally asked tentatively: "Miss Xie San, Yang has a conjecture about this 'human kitchen' case, and it is also the most factual conjecture, the most common sense, and the most logical. But...... But after thinking about it, Yang's conjecture is actually the most unrealistic, the most unreasonable, and the most illogical conjecture. So...... So I don't know whether to talk about it or not. ”

Hearing this, Xie Yixiang already knew what his conjecture was, but he still said slowly: "If all the impossibilities have been ruled out, then the only remaining possibility, even if it seems impossible, must be the only possibility. Yang catches the head, but it doesn't hurt. ”