Everyone in the company didn't know what this Miss Xie San wanted, so they had to look at Yang Zhutou one after another. At this time, Yang Zhutou knew that this little girl did have some ability, and she was able to serve as the head catcher in the Jinling Torture and Arrest Room, not just by virtue of her family background, at this time, she was so instructed, even if a few people were allowed to send the bodies and evidence of the deceased couple back to the Yamen of Shaoxing Mansion first, the rest of them all returned with Xie Yixiang. Along the way, Yang Zhutou asked Xie Yixiang many times if he had any new discoveries, but Xie Yixiang shook his head and did not answer, only saying that he needed to verify before he could reach a conclusion.

Returning to Zhuji all the way in this way, the local officers stationed at the scene of the murder were puzzled when they saw everyone going and returning. Xie Yixiang didn't pay attention to others, went straight into the deceased's house, took out the red cloth satin found last night from the closet, and asked the local standard: "Do you know which cloth shop or silk village sells such red cloth satin?" Hearing this, Xie Yixiang didn't say anything more, so he asked the answering man to lead the way and went to the north street to ask. Yang Zhutou and the others were all inexplicable, so they had to follow closely.

It is said that there are only three cloth shops on the north street, and there is also a high-standard silk village. Xie Yixiang went to the cloth shop to inquire first, and when he asked about the second one, the shopkeeper really recognized the red cloth in Xie Yixiang's hand, saying that it had just been sold yesterday morning. Xie Yixiang's eyes lit up suddenly, and he asked the shopkeeper about the buyer's physiognomy, and the shopkeeper tried his best to recall that he vaguely remembered that it was a young man in his early twenties, with a foreign accent, which was very consistent with the man surnamed Chen who died at the hands of the "human kitchen" last night. Next to him, Yang Zhutou hurriedly asked his subordinates to roughly draw the appearance of the man surnamed Chen, and after the shopkeeper confirmed, the buyer was undoubtedly this person.

Yang Zhutou couldn't help but be secretly shocked in his heart, he had thought that this red cloth satin was a needlework brought back by the wife of a man surnamed Chen, if it was bought by the man surnamed Chen himself, according to the use of the two of them, it was undoubtedly a bit extravagant. Xie Yixiang had already unfolded the whole red cloth in her hand at this time, and asked the shopkeeper: "It would be a pity if this kind of fine satin is used to pull curtains and quilt covers, but if it is used to sew women's clothes, it is very suitable." But this red cloth is only a little over four feet, and where is it enough to sew a woman's clothes?"

Hearing this, the shopkeeper suddenly remembered and blurted out, "Exactly, exactly! The girl said a good point...... No, that's right. I remember that yesterday morning, when the man was choosing the cloth, he said that he wanted to make women's clothes, and finally he chose this one, but I only had to pull it for him. I asked something similar at the time, where is five feet enough to make a shirt, but the man said...... Yes, he said that he wanted to make clothes for his daughter, but he was only seven years old, and five feet of cloth was enough. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone present was shocked, Xie Yixiang raised her eyebrows, and said coldly: "Sure enough! Although the deceased couple had no children under their knees, they had just adopted a girl home in the past few days, so they had to come and tear cloth to make clothes. Due to the suddenness of the incident, the nearby neighbors did not know about it. ”

If this is the case, then the family killed in Zhuji last night is not a special case, but like the previous three cases, it belongs to the consistent target of the "human kitchen". Thinking of this, he couldn't help but ask, "So...... So where is the girl who was adopted by the deceased and his wife? According to the murderer's style, shouldn't the girl be chopped up and stewed on the spot......? Could it be that the woman next door came to visit suddenly, and the murderer was in a hurry, so he had to take the girl away and find another place to cook?"

Xie Yixiang groaned for a while, shook her head and said: "This case spans six years, which can be described as complicated, and I am afraid that there is another mystery in it." It's too early to tell. Then she instructed: "The shopkeeper's remarks alone are far from enough to prove that the deceased couple really adopted a girl to return home, and we still need to sit on the matter." They went their separate ways to investigate all the whereabouts of the deceased couple in the past few days, where they had been, and who they had met, and to check them one by one to find out whether they had brought a girl back to their home. In addition, I found a famous doctor in Shaoxing City and cooperated with the yamen to conduct an autopsy to see if the couple in Zhuji had fertility disorders. At the same time, it is necessary to ask the local personnel to fully cooperate, and take Zhuji as the center to search whether there are any lost girls within a radius of 30 miles, or...... Or the bones of a girl. ”

At that moment, all the officials arranged according to Xie Yixiang's instructions to conduct an inventory in the entire Zhuji. Xie Yixiang and Yang Zhutou rushed back to the Yamen of Shaoxing Mansion and asked them to carefully examine the bodies of the murdered couple. In this way, in the evening of the next day, someone finally got the news from the grocery store where the man surnamed Chen had worked before his death, saying that the day before the murder, when the man surnamed Chen had returned from Jinjiashan in the east, he had brought home a girl in tattered clothes, about six or seven years old, because the sky was too dark, and he could not see the appearance clearly at that time;

Getting this news undoubtedly confirmed the words of the cloth shop owner, proving that the deceased in Zhuji really adopted a girl to go home, and Yang Zhutou immediately sent more people to search for the missing girl in the entire Shaoxing territory. At noon on the third day, the official in the yamen suddenly came to report that an old man who was delirious had come to report that there was news of a missing girl. Xie Yixiang and Yang Zhutou hurriedly asked someone to invite the old man into the hall, but he was a dirty old man from the countryside, and he was really a little crazy in his words, and his legs were already crippled, and he was still carried in by two officials.

Xie Yixiang and Yang Zhutou patiently interrogated for a long time before they finally understood the old man's words. It turned out that the crippled old man in front of him was an old man in Wenshan Village, southeast of Shaoxing City, his son and daughter-in-law were doing some small business along the coast, but unfortunately died under the knife of the Japanese Kou, leaving only one granddaughter to escape from death, and was also hit in the back of the head by the back of the Japanese Kou's knife, and the whole person became a little demented, and has been living in the old man's house, and only the grandfather and grandson rely on each other all day long.

Who knew that just more than ten days ago, after the old man's granddaughter went out to play, there was no news and she has not returned home. The old man was already a little delirious, and his legs were crippled, so he never reported the case to the government. It wasn't until early this morning that Yang Zhutou sent people to Wenshan Village to inquire about the missing girl and asked about the old man's home, that the old man desperately pestered the visiting man and said that he would come to Yamen to report the case.

After figuring out the meaning of the old man, Xie Yixiang and Yang Zhutou were disappointed, it turned out that the old man did not have news of the missing girl, but the disappearance of his own village girl, so he wanted to report the case. Yang Zhutou was in a hurry, and he wanted to send the old man away, but Xie Yixiang suddenly had a flash of inspiration and asked, "How old is the granddaughter of the old man?" The old man talked for a long time, and finally replied: "After the seventh day of October this year, it will be six years old." ”