Although Xie Yixiang had taken over the case, it was the first time she had seen the real crime scene with her own eyes, only to feel a surge in her stomach, and she almost vomited out of the dinner she had eaten in the yamen of Shaoxing Mansion. And Yang Zhutou and others had witnessed it once at Butcher Li's house in Yinshan Village, and when they saw such a scene left by the murderer again, they still couldn't hold back the fear in their hearts, and rushed outside the house one after another to vomit.

Xie Yixiang really couldn't figure out how there could be people in the world who ate human flesh, wouldn't it be equivalent to beasts? She didn't have the courage to look at the plate of stir-fried people on the stove for a while, but squatted on the ground to examine the two corpses in the pool of blood. I saw that the man and the woman were both in their early twenties, and there were no other scars on their bodies except for their chests, which were roughly inferred, and they were most likely killed by the murderer. And a kitchen knife in the pool next to it, there are still traces of blood on the handle that have not been rinsed, which is obviously the murder weapon used by the murderer to commit the crime.

Yang Zhutou had relieved himself at this time, and returned to the kitchen and said to Xie Yixiang: "This is indeed the method of the 'human kitchen', which is exactly the same as the modus operandi of Butcher Li's family of three, even the stir-fried heart slices are also ...... It's also exactly the same cooking method, apparently by the same murderer. Xie Yixiang was checking the kitchen knife in the pool, and when she heard Yang Zhutou's words, she dared to look at the plate of fried people on the stove. I saw that each piece of people's hearts in the plate is not more than an inch thick, it can be seen that the knife technique is extremely sophisticated, although it has been completely cooled at this time, but it also faintly reveals a smell of oil, and then accompanied by the green of green onions, ginger yellow, garlic white, pepper red embellishment, it can really be described as a living color. She couldn't help muttering: "The murderer didn't remove the essence of the limbs of the husband and wife, and he didn't even have time to finish this plate of heart slices, which shows that the situation at that time was extremely hasty...... Where is the person who reported the crime right now?"

Immediately, a middle-aged woman was brought in, and her face was already pale with fright, and she didn't dare to enter the kitchen again. Xie Yixiang and Yang Zhutou inquired in the hall, and it turned out that the deceased was a newly married couple from other places who had no children under their knees, among them the man surnamed Chen, who worked in a nearby grocery store, and the woman, surnamed Wan, who spent all day at home doing some needlework and private work. Although the husband and wife have no relatives in Zhuji, they can make do with their lives.

And the woman who reported the crime was a neighbor of the deceased's family, and she liked to meddle with some things on weekdays. Around this evening, she smelled a burst of fragrance coming from the man's house surnamed Chen, as if she was stir-frying the internal organs of some animal, which she had never smelled before, so she came over and knocked on the door to ask. She knocked on the door for a long time, but no one answered in the house, and although the woman was a little puzzled at that time, she did not take it seriously and returned to her own house.

After staying like this for more than an hour, she vaguely heard the sound of the man surnamed Chen opening the door, and she didn't know whether someone went out or someone came back, so she wanted to go and say hello, and by the way, ask them what kind of rarity was just stirred up at home. Unexpectedly, when the woman came out of her house, she was one step late, and the door of the man surnamed Chen had been closed again, and he did not see the person who opened the door. She knocked on the door again, but no one answered, and then she smelled a faint smell of blood coming from the room.

The woman was panicked and at a loss. Fortunately, the night watchman passed by, and the woman called for the help of the watchman and went to call the door together. The husband also smelled the smell of blood in the house, and feared that something had happened, so he kicked the door hard, but the door opened with it, but it was not bolted from the inside. The two followed the smell of blood all the way to the kitchen, only to find that the man surnamed Chen and his wife were dead in a pool of blood. The local officials saw that the murderer actually dug out the hearts of the deceased and fried them into a plate of heart slices in the kitchen, and they were horrified, and they also knew that it was a serious case, so they hurriedly whipped up their horses and told Yang Zhutou of the Shaoxing Mansion Yamen overnight.

After listening to this story, Xie Yixiang and Yang Zhutou figured out what happened, it seemed that the middle-aged woman next door was nosy, and once again disturbed the murderer of the crime, so before the newly fried plate of people's hearts could be eaten, they had fled in a hurry. Most of the sound the woman heard of the door opening was made by the murderer when he hurried away, so the door was not bolted from the inside.

Then Xie Yixiang went to look at the two corpses in the kitchen, and felt more and more confused. That day, at Butcher Li's house in Yinshan Village, she saw that the murderer only used a kitchen knife to cut slices and chop girls, and did not use Butcher Li's professional knives, so she once inferred that this "human cook" probably did not know martial arts, and could only touch kitchen knives on weekdays. But looking at the corpses of the young couple in front of them, it is very likely that they were disemboweled, and if this "human chef" does not know martial arts, how can he silently cut open the chests of two big living people?

At that moment, she discussed with Yang Zhutou, and Yang Zhutou was stunned for a moment, and then she talked about something. It turned out that according to the results of the autopsy conducted by the Yamen, the butcher Li and his wife showed no signs of struggle and resistance before they died, and it is very likely that they had already passed out of a coma, or they may have been infected with drugs such as incense. Due to the limited skills of the yamen in this small place, it has not been possible to verify this matter so far. Xie Yixiang asked Yang Zhutou to lead people to search around the house to see if there were any traces of incense, and he joined in the process.

It is said that this young couple is also a thrifty person, and the home is full of simple things, and everyone did not find anything abnormal for a while. It wasn't until Xie Yixiang opened the wardrobe that she found a freshly ripped red cloth satin in the cabinet, although it was not a precious thing, but it was obviously much more luxurious than other items at home. Xie Yixiang unfolded this piece of red cloth, but it was only four or five feet long, far from enough to sew a whole body of clothes, and I didn't know what it was for. Yang Zhutou saw her holding this red cloth in a daze, so he said: "It is said that the wife of this man surnamed Chen is closed all day long, and only takes some needlework at home to do some private work to earn some hard money. This piece of red cloth cost five coins of silver, and it should not be their own, but the needlework ordered by some guest. ”

Hearing this, Xie Yixiang also dispelled the doubts in her heart. At this time, Yang Zhutou's catcher had already discovered that in an incense burner under the corner of the table, there was clearly half of the incense thread that had been doused with water; Yang Zhutou hurriedly took it over to inspect it, but he recognized it and said: "What kind of powerful drug is my Dao, but it turns out to be a very common sweat medicine in the rivers and lakes, no wonder I can't test it." However, for ordinary people, the medicinal effect is quite powerful, enough to make people fall asleep, and this osmanthus incense thread has been soaked in sweat potion in advance. ”

You must know that this discovery can be described as extremely important, and it undoubtedly confirms Xie Yixiang's conjecture, most of the murderers have not practiced martial arts, otherwise why bother to do this? And there was no similar thing found in the house of Butcher Li in Yinshan Village before, I think it was cleaned up by the murderer, and this time because the woman next door suddenly came to knock on the door to ask, the murderer was so frightened that he didn't even have time to eat the plate of fried heart slices, where is the time to clean up the drug incense line in the incense burner?