Detective in the Red Chamber

The woman's screams were still in my ears, and a half-century old man burst into tears again, "Master, lord, this slave said earlier that he would invite some experts to exorcise the evil spirits, but you refused to agree to it. This is a good thing, and he will be harmed by that ghost for a lifetime." Life! Woohoo..."

Judging by their positions and attire, they should be Ge Shilang's concubine and housekeeper.

Although the other people didn't lose their composure like them, all of them were as white as paper, and their faces were full of shock!

Even Jia Yucun changed his cold body into a face full of fear, his eyes were rolling around in his sockets, and the word "retreat" seemed to be written directly on his face.

At this moment, Sun Shaozong suddenly laughed, shook his head and said, "The purpose of the murderer's doing this is to make others think about the 'Tengu claiming his life' - but this clumsy method is like superfluous, like a dog's tail. , is really ridiculous!"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to Zhao Wuwei, and ordered, "Give me that pinch of dog hair!"

Zhao Wuwei hurriedly unfolded the paper bag, and carefully presented the dog hair.

Sun Shaozong twisted it in his hand, trembled a few times, and snorted, "The thickness, length, color, and feel of these dogs' hairs... even the smells are different, and they were obviously randomly picked up by others——Everyone What you heard last night, shouldn’t it be a group of dogs barking?”

After hearing these words, everyone looked suspiciously at those dog hairs.

But the fox-fur woman didn't believe it at all, she sneered, and said disdainfully, "This dog is not an ordinary dog, it is formed by the resentment of many dead animals. There are many different hairs growing on its body, so what's so strange about it?" ?”

I'll go~

There is such an explanation!

Not to mention others 'suddenly realized', even Sun Shaozong was a little speechless for a while.

Fortunately, he was not the only piece of evidence, so he stretched out his hand to ask Zhao Wuwei for something, held it in the palm of his hand and showed it to everyone, "Well, even if the dog was indeed a crossbreed that day, how can this thing be explained? "

Everyone looked intently, but they saw that what he was holding in his hand was obviously a small group of sticky minced meat—although some people vaguely guessed the origin of this thing, but for Sun Shaozong's purpose of displaying it, they wanted to reveal it. I can't figure it out

"Brother."

Jia Yucun couldn't help urging, "Don't be fooled, tell us quickly, what's so suspicious about this thing?"

"Master Fucheng."

Only then did Sun Shaozong explain, "If I'm not mistaken, this thing should be the broken heart after being chewed by the murderer—but don't you think that the meat is a bit too delicate?"

As he spoke, he crushed the minced meat into a thin layer on the palm of his hand, and continued to explain, "Although dogs' teeth are sharp and sharp, they are more suitable for chewing hard objects or tearing flesh than humans - but because of their sharpness Well, dogs' teeth don't have the ability to grind food into fine foam! On the contrary, our human teeth can easily achieve such an effect!"

Speaking of this, Sun Shaozong gestured at the middle-aged woman with his palm, and asked with a smile, "My aunt, you don't want to tell me that the dog not only grew a whole body of mixed hair that day, but also had a mouth full of human teeth, right?" ?!"

Chapter 50 Xinglong Street Tengu Eats Heart Incident [Part [-]]

A shaggy tengu with a mouthful of human teeth—however you think about it, it looks a little funny!

Therefore, Jia Yucun couldn't help but blurted out, "In this way, Ge Shilang was killed by someone, not by some kind of dog asking for his life?"

"Of course!"

Sun Shaozong said disdainfully, "It was someone who killed Ge Shilang and barked like a dog in the room, intending to pretend to be a Tengu claiming his life! It's a pity that his arrangement was too clumsy. Instead of serving as a cover-up, it completely exposed his flaws." !"

clumsy?

Except for Sun Shaozong himself, there is probably no one present who would use the word "clumsy" to describe these arrangements-in fact, if Sun Shaozong hadn't personally acted, it would have been impossible for someone else to get out of the pile of meat. , See what flaws come out!

only……

"Sun Tong sentenced."

Ge Shilang's eldest son, Ge Xiaorui, questioned, "You just said that after the murderer killed my father, he hid in the house and learned how to bark like a dog? But if that's true, wouldn't the murderer still be in the study when we rushed to the courtyard? Then how did he disappear out of thin air?"

"Yup!"

The second son, Ge Xiaoxian, also chimed in, "When we broke open the door, apart from my father's corpse, let alone a human being, not even a hair... not even a human figure!"

He originally wanted to say 'I didn't even see a hair', but when the words came to his lips, he suddenly remembered the pinch of dog hair, so he hurriedly changed the following lines.

The rest of the eldest three, Ge Xiaoyi, and the fourth eldest, Ge Xiaowen, also raised doubts.

The arrogant Auntie Zhang, who had already been beaten silently, saw that Sun Shaozong had suddenly become the target of public criticism, and suddenly started to shriek again, yelling in a high-pitched voice, "I'll just say it! It must be the dog that hurt the master." Otherwise, how could it disappear without a trace under the eyes of all of us?!"

Seeing that the theory of 'Tengu kills' has just been overthrown, it was once again noisy, and even Jia Yucun and others became suspicious again.

It really is a long way to go to break the feudal superstition!

Sun Shaozong smiled helplessly, pointed to the bedroom and said, "Actually, it's not as difficult as you think to disappear from this bedroom out of thin air—if you don't believe me, just go in with me and take a look and you'll understand."

After speaking, he asked Zhou Dafu to explain a few words, and then walked into the bedroom first.

Everyone hurriedly filed in, and saw Sun Shaozong pointing at the corpse and the bathtub, saying, "Actually, when I saw the corpse and the bathtub at first, I felt a little strange, even if I wanted to wash away the clues left on the corpse. You don’t need to scoop out a whole tub of water, do you?”

"You know, no matter what method you use to scoop water from the tub, it will be extremely troublesome to reach the bottom. It is common sense to deduce that there is no need for the murderer to scoop up the water—unless he has other purposes!"

"Following these suspicions, I carefully inspected the scene, and finally found that the reason why the murderer repeatedly flushed the chest cavity with water was not to clean up the traces on the corpse, but to achieve two other purposes!"

"The other two purposes?"

"That's right!"

Sun Shaozong stretched out two fingers, and continued to talk eloquently, "First of all, the first purpose is to cover up the fact that he once took a bath in a tub after killing someone..."

"and many more!"

Before Sun Shaozong finished speaking, that aunt Zhang jumped out again, and asked in a sharp voice, "How do you know that the murderer once took a bath in the bathtub?"

"Of course it's because of the red marks on the inside of the tub!"

Sun Shaozong walked to the bathtub, pointed to the inside of the bucket, and said, "Although the murderer pretended to wash the body and poured all the water in the bucket on the ground, the murderer didn't notice that when he was taking a bath, the dirty blood on his body was all over the place." There has been a circle of light red marks inside the tub!"

Everyone went up to check one by one, and they found that there was a very inconspicuous light red mark on the inside of the barrel, near the top! "

Others were amazed at Sun Shaozong's insight, but Aunt Zhang was still unconvinced and questioned, "Then how can you be sure that this mark was stained while taking a bath, and not accidentally made by the murderer when scooping water?"

This woman is so messed up, can't she have a ghost in her heart?

Sun Shaozong silently listed her as the number one suspect, then put his hand into the bathtub and hung it at the same level as the red mark, then tapped the corpse on the ground with his chin, and said, "With Ge Shilang's handsome body, If there was so much bath water in the tub, guess what will happen after he gets in?"

"It will overflow!"

Zhao Wuwei was the first to reply, "Let's not talk about Mr. Minister, even if it's a small one going in for a dip, I'm afraid there will be a lot of water overflowing."

"That's right!"

Sun Shaozong took advantage of the opportunity to spread his hands, shrugged at Aunt Zhang and said, "The servants of your mansion shouldn't be so negligent, right? So this layer of traces must be left behind by the murderer after soaking in!"

Now that Aunt Zhang finally had no words to say, so she retreated resentfully behind her.

Sun Shaozong raised two fingers again and said, "In addition to covering up the traces of taking a bath, his other purpose is to make the scene more chaotic and terrifying, so that others can completely ignore his cover-ups!"

"Blindfolding?"

Jia Yucun is indeed the one with the highest double quotient among the people present. Hearing this, he suddenly pointed out the crux of the matter. "Brother, does it mean that the murderer didn't disappear from the room at all? But what method did he use?" , Hid everyone's eyes?!"

"That's right!"

Sun Shaozong paced back and forth, and said convincingly, "The murderer was naked first, stabbed Ge Shilang to death with a sharp weapon, cut him open and gouged out his heart, arranged him to look like he was being killed by a dog, and then washed away the full body in the bathtub. Bloodstained, then put on clothes..."

He stopped in his tracks, and suddenly pointed at the door, "Hide behind the door and learn how to bark like a dog, and when someone breaks in, sneak in!"

Before Sun Shaozong finished speaking, everyone in the room was in an uproar!

"This...how is this possible?!"

"Yes, if someone is hiding behind the door, how could we not see it?!"

Even Jia Yucun, who had just voluntarily put forward the hypothesis, shook his head at this moment, only thinking that what Sun Shaozong said was as absurd and bizarre as the Arabian Nights.

Hey~

It is really difficult for a group of people who have never watched "Youth Bao Qingtian" to understand the essence of this plan.

Fortunately, he was already prepared!

"Everyone!"

Sun Shaozong raised the volume, and asked loudly, "Don't you realize that there is actually a person in the room who shouldn't exist, but got in halfway?"

Everyone was stunned when they heard the words, you looked at me and I looked at you, but they really couldn't see anyone who 'should not exist'.

In the end, a skinny young man stood up on his own initiative, leaned in front of Ge Xiaorui brothers, bowed his waist and said with a sneer, "Masters, the young one is the one who sneaked in halfway—because when he smashed the door and came in, the young one didn't He was there, so he was not called over by the officials of Shuntian Mansion for questioning."

As he said that, he pointed at Zhou Da again, and said, "It wasn't until just now that the official called the little one over, and then let the little one sneak into the room..."

"how can that be?!"

Before he finished speaking, the old butler of the Minister's Mansion shook his head, "Liu Rui, you are the master's personal servant, how could you not be there when the door was smashed?!"

"This……"

Liu Rui was about to explain, but the two acquainted servants next to him had suddenly realized, and rushed to say, "Old housekeeper, Brother Liu was really not there at that time! Because he had a stomachache in the middle of the night, he squatted in the hut for half an hour. Just missed it!"

When everyone heard the words, there was another burst of uproar. They found it unbelievable, but they had no choice but to believe it.

"Everyone should understand now, right?"

Sun Shaozong glanced over everyone in the Ge residence one by one like a vulture, and finally said with a sneer, "The real culprit who killed Ge Shilang is among you!"

Chapter 51 Interrogation of the Suspect Renewed Suspicion and Inquiry into the Case of Jia Zhengdu

"The master wants our second master to inherit the family business, and the young master has always been dissatisfied with this!"

"Aunt Zhang is the uncle's biological mother. For the sake of the uncle, what can't she do?"

"Our uncle is planning to find a serious job recently, and now is the time to rely on the master's help, how could he poison the master?! It's the third master, because when the plague broke out, the master forced Aunt Liu, Ge Xiaoyi's biological mother, to serve the dyer. Aunt Chen, Ge Xiaoxian's biological mother, was unable to keep Aunt Chen, and Aunt Liu lost her life because of this..."

"Butler Xu has always wanted his son to take over his position, but the master doesn't look down on the two sons of the Xu family at all. Butler Xu complains a lot in private..."

The flower hall across the courtyard in the east of Gefu.

Sun Shaozong and Jia Yucun sat opposite each other, looking at the newly released interrogation record in their hands, but their expressions were a little dignified.

According to repeated checks and statistics, when the body was found when the door was broken into, there were 16 people at the scene, namely Ge Shilang's concubine Zhang, the old housekeeper Xu Ren, seven servants, three maids, one woman--and Ge Shilang. The servant's three sons, Ge Xiaorui, Ge Xiaoxian and Ge Xiaoyi.

As for Ge Shilang's youngest son, Ge Xiaowen, although he also appeared at the scene of the crime, considering that he is only nine years old now, he really does not have the possibility of committing crimes independently, so he was directly ruled out.

After nearly half an hour of surprise interrogation, Zhou Da and Zhao Wuwei led the officials of the criminal department to find out quite a few motives for the murder.

but……

These people all have clear alibi, which can prove that they were not in the study when the 'murderer started barking'!

And not just the few with motives, in fact, all the people who were interrogated in isolation could show clear alibi!

As a result, the case fell into a deep fog again for a while.

"Shao Zong."

Jia Yucun put the dossier on the coffee table, patted it a few times, and asked, "What do you think of this confession?"

tsk~

This is selling Di Renjie's strength, and he has to play Li Yuanfang's job as a cameo!

Sun Shaozong complained in his heart, and threw the file on the coffee table, and said flatly, "The three people, Steward Xu, Ge Xiaorui, and Aunt Zhang, have received too much attention, and almost everyone has confirmed that they were outside the door before they broke the door." ——Thus, the suspicion of personally committing the crime can basically be ruled out, but the suspicion of paying for the murder cannot be ruled out.”

"Ge Shilang's three personal servants and two maidservants have been waiting in the warm pavilion in the East Wing all the time - the possibility of buying five people at the same time is too low for such a brain-destroying thing, so they can basically be ruled out. suspicion."

"The only ones who are directly suspected of committing the crime are the maid and mother-in-law next to Aunt Zhang, the two servants next to Ge Xiaorui, and the two brothers Ge Xiaoxian and Ge Xiaoyi who rushed over alone."

"Six people..."

Jia Yucun mulled over Sun Shaozong's analysis several times before he came up with his own thoughts: "Although it is possible to buy a murderer to kill someone, firstly, the risk is too great, and secondly, such a thing as eating a heart raw, without deep hatred, I'm afraid it's just doing it." Can't come out - so I think Ge Xiaoyi should be the most suspect person at present!"

Sun Shaozong shook his head and said, "From the perspective of motives, Ge Xiaoyi is naturally the most suspicious, but the motives may not be all overt. This Ge Shilang is mysterious, and there must be hidden secrets that we don't know-if we don't mention the motives, I think the second son, Ge Xiaoxian, is very suspicious."

"Ge Xiaoxian?"

Jia Yucun was taken aback when he heard the words, frowned and said, "But according to the confession, this second young master is the most favored in the house, and even because of Ge Shilang's doting, he had a rift with his elder brother and third younger brother, so Ge ​​Shilang's death , instead of getting any benefits, he may be jointly squeezed out by his brothers."

As he spoke, he shook his head again, "Under the circumstances, I really don't see any reason for him to kill Ge Shilang."

"That's why I said put aside the motive and don't mention it."

Sun Shaozong grinned, and said, "His alibi is from the ostentatious maid beside him—Brother Yucun should know that women with this status are the best to bribe, and they can keep secrets better than others."

Although Jia Yucun did not quite agree with this last analysis, he did not continue to refute it.

So the two agreed to temporarily designate Ge Xiaoxian and Ge Xiaoyi brothers as important suspects, and give priority to finding out their situation. As for the other four suspects, they will simply be taken back to Shuntian Mansion and carefully intimidated and interrogated. some.

After discussing the details, it was already bright outside.

Jia Yucun was trying his best to invite Sun Shaozong to his home for breakfast, when Zhou Da hurriedly reported that the second master of Rongguo Mansion had arrived and wanted to see Mr. Fu Cheng by name.

When I heard that Jia Zheng was going to see him, how could Jia Yucun dare to neglect him?