Qin Lin made a look, and the ox vigorously pulled out his feet and chased after Xie Laoshi, bypassing a small earthen hill, passing through the shady headland, and suddenly opened up in front of him—this was a south-facing bay, with bright sunshine and lush plants.

In the direction where Xie Laoshi ran wildly, on the undulating gentle slope facing the sea, there was a toon tree among the many trees, and the red toon buds exuded an attractive fragrance.

Shockingly, a bamboo basket was knocked over under the toon tree, and there were some vegetable leaves with yellow edges.

Xie was going crazy and wanted to rush over, because he recognized that the bamboo basket was the vegetable basket used by his wife to pick vegetables with seaweed!

"Don't worry, if you break the scene, Chief Qin won't be able to help you!" Niu Dali shouted loudly, hugging him from behind, Xie Laoshi struggled frantically, even Niu Dali, who was born with divine power, also struggled with his old nose and was so tired that he was sweating.

Qin Lin led everyone to hurry over, and when he looked at the vegetable basket, he understood that the yellowed vegetable leaves in it were exactly the ones in the vegetable field behind the Xie family's house.

Although Lu Yuanzhi's eyes were small, his eyesight was not bad, and he pointed to the toon tree from a few feet away: "Brother Qin, there is blood on the branches." ”

It has been exposed to the sun for a few days, and the color of the bright red blood stains has become black, and Lu Yuanzhi found out so quickly.

It's okay not to say it, hearing this, Xie Laoshi suddenly collapsed all over his body, and he stopped struggling, he collapsed to the ground softly, and kept chanting in his mouth: "Seaweed, seaweed, I hurt you, what is not good to eat, what do you want to eat Tsubaki sprout scrambled eggs......"

Xie honestly loves to eat Tsubaki sprouts, this Tsubaki sprouts are wild vegetables, the poor family has a cold rice, and the rich family tastes it fresh on a whim, but it is not worth a few dollars.

This toon tree was discovered by him when he was a child, and the seaweed and seaweed sisters of his childhood sweetheart, growing on the southern slope of the sea to the sun, and the annual germination time is ten days and half a month earlier than that of other toon trees, but the location is relatively remote, and no one in the village will go so far to pick.

Only the virtuous seaweed comes here every year in early spring to pick the sprouts and make them into her husband's favorite dishes.

Judging from the situation at the scene, the seaweed was picking some vegetable leaves in his vegetable field, and suddenly remembered to pick toon sprouts, so he came here with a vegetable basket, but was attacked under this toon tree.

"I think the attacker followed her here," Qin Lin observed the footprints on the ground in front of him, and then instructed Lu Yuanzhi to find a ruler to measure, and then take a pencil and draw it in a sketch way.

There are indeed two kinds of footprints at the scene, one is smaller and thinner, and there are also prints on the soles of cloth shoes if you carefully distinguish them, which belong to seaweed; The other is larger and wider, with a straw sole pattern.

After observing for a while, Qin Lin said to himself: "This man's footprints once appeared next to the vegetable patch at the back door of the Xie family, and I noticed it when I searched the vegetable patch, and it showed signs of wandering back and forth. Considering that it was a small road that many people walked during the day, I couldn't say for sure at the time, but now there is no doubt that the murderer was tracked here from the Xie family......"

Lu Yuanzhi had already completed the measurement and sketching, "Report Brother Qin, this footprint is eight inches long and wide, deeper than your footprint, slightly shallower than mine, and the average distance between the two footprints before and after is more than two feet and two inches. ”

Qin Lin nodded: "Then this murderer is a male surname, five feet two inches tall (one meter seventy-seven), weighs about one hundred and thirty catties (one catty in the Ming Dynasty is now one and two city catties, that is, weighs one hundred and fifty-six city catties), he should be engaged in heavy physical labor, he is in good health, and he is between twenty-five and thirty-five years old, well, for the time being, I only think about so much." ”

Only, still "only" think of so much? Yu Zhigao, Shen Yourong and the sailors were all dumbfounded, even if they dreamed, they couldn't imagine that someone could deduce their height, weight, age and even health with just a few footprints!

It's a god!

The sailors whispered, no wonder they all said that Chief Qin's eyes were like lightning, and when he saw it today, he felt that those stories were not as magical as real people.

Qin Lin himself didn't think so, he knew the method, and it was natural to get these conclusions: a person's height is generally 6.88 times the length of the footboard, subtract a little extra length of the shoe from the length of the straw sandal's footprint, and then multiply this coefficient to the person's height; Usually people who are engaged in heavy physical labor will have wider soles of feet;

The depth of the footprint depends on the pressure exerted on the ground by the ball of the foot, in other words, the weight of the person; The gait of the elderly, the center of gravity is relatively backward, and the young people are the opposite, and the distribution of the center of gravity under the normal gait can be used to delineate the age range of the owner of the footprint; In addition to the age range, the stride length also reflects the health status, the same height, the stride length of the sick seedling is small, and the stride of the healthy person is large.

Therefore, Qin Lin only saw a few footprints, and he could give a "simulated portrait" of the criminal and delineate the scope of suspicion.

Qin Lin observed the footprints, walked towards the camphor tree step by step, and said in a deep voice: "The footprints left by the seaweed, some overlap the footprints of a larger man, and this man's footprints are deep and shallow, which proves that he was tiptoeing and walking on tiptoe at that time, lest he be discovered by the seaweed...... Hey, here he quickened his pace, ready to attack, and finally under the tree, he swung with a blunt object, and blood splattered—no! ”

Everyone listened to Qin Lin's description, as if they had returned to the scene of the crime at that time, the black figure who couldn't see clearly followed the poor victim, the seaweed was happily picking toon leaves, and they never dreamed that the demon shadow behind them was quietly approaching, smiling and raising the stick...... Who knew that Qin Lin suddenly said something was wrong, which made everyone's hearts jump suddenly, and asked in unison, "What's wrong?" ”

"Ah, I mean the direction of the blood splatter is wrong," Qin Lin stretched out his usual right hand and simulated the action of swinging in the air: "If you swing like me, the blood stains on the trunk and leaves should be a twitching blood stain from right to left, but now the direction of the blood splatter is just the opposite." ”

"So, the murderer is a left-hander!" Lu Yuanzhi's little eyes were bright and bright.

"Exactly right," Qin Lin switched his left hand to make a swing motion, and then continued to reconstruct the scene.

Observing the height of those dotted blood stains on the toon tree, Qin Lin compared, the height of the seaweed was four feet nine inches, so when it was attacked, the part that hit it should be the left temple.

"This blow was quite powerful, she lost consciousness at that time, and even ......" Qin Lin squatted down and observed a broken shrub branch: "Look, the break of this shrub branch has not completely dried up, and there are still green leaves in the upper section of the broken one, which means that it was broken a few days ago, and this is the location where the seaweed fell unconscious after it was attacked." ”

"Seaweed, seaweed!" Xie honestly burst into tears, pulling at his hair in pain, thinking of the broken body found the day after his wife's disappearance, anyone could guess what had happened after she was attacked.

Qin Lin made a look, and Shen Yourong immediately went to comfort Xie Honest.

The case finally made progress in breaking through the surname, not only finding the real victim, but also finding the first scene of the murder.

However, the dismemberment of corpses does not happen here, because a large amount of blood is produced when the corpses are mutilated, the smell of blood on the ground will not dissipate for a long time, and the climate here is warm, which will inevitably breed mosquitoes and flies.

That is, after the murderer attacked the seaweed, he took her away.

Qin Lin soon spotted the murderer's footprints on another path behind the toon tree, and this time the stride was much smaller, and the footprints were deeper than when he came.

There is no doubt that this indicates that the murderer carried or picked up the seaweed and left from this direction.

"With a woman in a coma, he's not afraid of being hit on the road?" Lu Yuanzhi followed Qin Lin all the way to search, and his heart was extremely puzzled.

Qin Lin pointed to the south: "I think that's how he took away the seaweed." ”

It was the coastline, Lu Yuanzhi blinked his eyes: "Brother Qin, do you mean...... Boat?! That's right, it's a boat! ”

Many families here have small fishing boats, small rows, and bring seaweed to the boat, which can hide people's eyes.

Moreover, the place where the seagrass was found was at the Wharf of Yuegang, and the possibility of throwing the corpses by boat is obviously very large.

Qin Lin led the crowd to chase down, and the footprints followed the path until it was close to the ** line before disappearing, it seems that the murderer did use the boat to transport the seaweed, and it is very likely that the boat was used to carry out the criminal act of breaking up and throwing the corpse!

Then now the scope of the murderer is further narrowed: an adult male surname, strong body, about 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighing about 130 pounds, aged 25 to 35 years old, a left-hander, owning a small boat, or can easily borrow a small boat, and has time to commit the crime in the afternoon of the day of the crime.

"Check according to this standard, and be careful not to let him run!" Qin Lin patted Yu Zhigao and Shen Yourong on the shoulders and asked them to send local sailors from Haicheng to conduct a secret investigation visit.

Yu Zhigao and Shen Yourong hugged their fists together and gave a military salute: "Obey Jun's orders!" ”

Every murder suspect stays at the scene, waiting to play a puzzle game with the detective, which is the only situation in China, on the contrary, the vast majority of real murders, the criminals have long been hiding in the shadows, and it takes a lot of probing and interviewing to catch them out of the vast sea of people and expose the crime in broad daylight.

Looking at Xie Laoshi who collapsed again, Qin Lin ordered Niu to vigorously help him go home, and when he walked to the small courtyard of the Xie family, he saw the third aunt holding her grandson from afar, leaning against the door frame with her eyes, and her wrinkled old face was a little sad. Hopefully, time will heal the pain.

Qin Lin sighed and quickened his pace, only by returning to Lin Ying as soon as possible and returning to Gentle Township could he offset the negative emotions brought by the case.

On the Lin Ying, the two beauties were indeed "looking forward to it", but it was completely opposite to Qin Lin's imagination, and the golden cherry blossom Ji braided her shell-like teeth grinding fiercely: "Dead Qin Lin, rotten Qin Lin, I'm really angry!" ”

(To be continued)