At that moment, everyone searched carefully in the room, and seeing that there was no other discovery, Yang Zhutou summoned the residents of this alley in turn in the hall, and interrogated him if the family surnamed Chen had recently visited the family, or if he saw a stranger in the area. Xie Yixiang stayed awake all night, but her spirit was even more excited, and she said secretly: "This 'human kitchen' has committed two murders in the Shaoxing area, but after checking and checking, there are only some trivial clues, and I don't even know whether the murderer is a man or a woman, old or young." If we can't catch this 'human chef' again, I really don't know how many more people will suffer. ”

Thinking of this, she became more and more anxious, and immediately went to the kitchen again to inspect the scene. Seeing that Yang Zhutou's subordinates were gathering the two corpses on the ground, and they were going to collect the plate of fried people's hearts as physical evidence, Xie Yixiang didn't know where the idea came from for a while, so he immediately stepped forward, took out a pair of chopsticks from the cupboard next to him, dipped some of this plate of fried people's hearts and put it on the tip of his tongue to taste.

Her action frightened everyone present, and they couldn't imagine that this young Miss Xie San would dare to taste the human remnants left by the murderer, and several people couldn't help but exclaim. I saw that Xie Yixiang had closed her eyes and locked her eyebrows deeply, as if she was carefully tasting the taste of this plate of stir-fried people's hearts, and after a long time, she said slowly: "As the so-called 'spicy in the east and sour in the west, sweet in the south and salty in the north', the taste in the south of the Yangtze River is already sweet, but this plate of heart slices is extremely spicy, and the saltiness is extremely heavy, it seems to be ...... It seems to be the taste of Huguang, Xiangxi and Sichuan, so it can be seen that the murderer is most likely not from Jiangnan. However, why did these four murders in the past six years all happen in this Jiangnan area?"

Although Xie Yixiang came to this inference, the taste of cooking is different from person to person, and it cannot be used to explain anything. Seeing that there was still no harvest from interrogating the nearby residents, and everyone stayed awake all night, Yang Zhutou had to order the team to be closed and let everyone go back to the Yamen of Shaoxing Mansion to rest first. Before leaving, he instructed the local personnel in Zhuji to take care of the scene of the crime, and to inform himself immediately if there was any new development.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and everyone was more or less lost on the way back to the Yamen of Shaoxing Mansion, obviously because this murderer committed crimes one after another on the border of Shaoxing, but the government could not determine his identity, and even the object of suspicion could not be found, so it was inevitable to hang his head. Seeing that Xie Yixiang's horse was at the end of the line, Yang Zhutou seemed to be thoughtful, so he slowed down his horse and came to her side, and asked, "The deceased family in Zhuji is indeed only a husband and wife, and there are no children under his knees, so naturally he has never adopted a girl between five and seven years old. We have searched the house thoroughly, and there is only trace of the life of the husband and wife, and the neighbors in the vicinity can confirm this. So...... So is our previous inference wrong? The three families killed before all had a daughter between five and seven years old, but in fact it was just a coincidence; as for the daughters of Zhu Yuanwai in Haozhou and Li Butcher in Yinshan Village, they were all adopted, and it is even more of a coincidence among coincidences?"

Xie Yixiang shook her head firmly and said, "You are wrong. The murder in Zhuji last night just proves that our previous inference is correct. After a pause, she said: "You must know that the frequency of crimes committed by this 'human kitchen' is not high, and now he has committed two cases in the same place one after another, with an interval of only ten days, which is unprecedented for him, and it is obviously a bit abnormal." And I had a premonition before, thinking that the murderer could not eat the broth stewed with the girl at Butcher Li's house, so it was possible to commit the crime again in the short term, but in the case of Zhuji last night, there was no girl at all in the deceased's family, so this conjecture is naturally untenable. Therefore, there is only one reason why the murderer committed the crime again, and that is that we sent people to investigate the whole city two days ago, looking for the family of the five to seven-year-old girl in the entire Shaoxing territory, which undoubtedly caused the murderer to be frightened, which made him commit this case in Zhuji, or had to commit this case. ”

Yang Zhutou was dazed by Xie Yixiang's words, and thought for a long time before asking tentatively: "Miss Xie San means that the murderer killed the couple in Zhuji not to cook the girl, but because we checked the right direction and caused him to panic......?" So the murderer committed this case in Zhuji last night, but in fact, the murderer is suspicious, trying to cover up and lure us astray, and no longer track down the family that adopted a girl between the ages of five and seven?"

Xie Yixiang still shook her head and said hesitantly: "This statement is inevitably too far-fetched, but it seems that in order to prove that our inferences are correct, we ignore the existing facts and try our best to justify ourselves." However, a guy I know once said something to the effect that there are no coincidences in this world, and that all so-called 'coincidences' actually originate from the word 'cause and effect'. Therefore, if the adoption of a girl between the ages of five and seven in the family is not the cause of the case, then what else can this cause be?"

When she asked this, her heart suddenly moved, but she thought about it first, and immediately said: "No! The first three cases committed by this 'human kitchen' were all chopped up and stewed by the girls in the deceased's family, and not a single finger was dropped. A piece of skin and flesh shows that for the murderer, a girl between five and seven years old is full of delicious food that can be cooked; compared with those adult men and women who were killed, the murderer only dug out their hearts and sliced them and stir-fried, and at most removed the fine meat on their limbs, eating very carefully, which shows that in the murderer's opinion, the meat of adult men and women in other places on their bodies is not eaten at all. So in the final analysis, what this 'human chef' really loves to eat is always a girl between the ages of five and seven, not the one that is stir-fried. And in this murder case that happened in Zhuji, if the murderer is just to spread suspicion and lead us astray, then all the people in Zhuji can become the target of his crime, so why choose a young couple to attack, and there happens to be a nosy neighbor living next door?"

When Yang Zhutou heard this, he couldn't keep up with Xie Yixiang's train of thought, and hurriedly said, "Wait...... Wait...... The family that was killed in Zhuji really had no children under their knees, let alone adopted any girls between the ages of five and seven, and this is the conclusion that you and I have personally reached......

However, Xie Yixiang had already figured out the key at this time, and before Yang Zhutou finished speaking, he had already pulled the reins and stopped the horse, and sneered: "If there is no past, it does not mean that there will be no in the future." After saying that, she shouted to the people in front of her and shouted, "Please return to Zhuji with me and go to the scene of the murder again!"