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After Xiaoyu'er woke up this morning, she felt much better. He didn't expect that a small cold would almost kill him, but fortunately, the old Chinese medicine methods of this era are relatively sophisticated.

Qiao'er saw Xiao Yu'er wake up, and hurriedly said, "Childe woke up?" "Holding a bowl of hot eight-treasure porridge. I saw her holding a bowl with her left hand and plucking the spoon with her right hand, putting it on the side of her mouth and blowing it gently, and sending it into the mouth of the little fish.

Xiao Yu'er looked at Qiao'er with affection, deeply moved, a burst of warmth in her heart, chewed the eight-treasure porridge, and said with a smile: "It's delicious." ”

Qiao'er saw that Xiao Yu'er liked it, with a smile on her face, and said happily: "If you like to eat, just eat more, open your mouth, ah~~~" stretched out the spoon as if feeding a child.

Xiao Yu'er had a smile on her face, cooperated with her mouth open, spit out the eight-treasure porridge in the spoon, and said, "You can eat some too." ”

Qiao'er shook her head and said, "I've already eaten it." Soon the small bowl of eight-treasure porridge was eaten by the little fish.

"Whoa"

Suddenly, I heard a noisy voice downstairs, and asked in surprise, "Why is it so noisy?" ”

Qiao'er cleaned up the table and said, "Oh, I heard that there was a murder. ”

"Homicide?" The little fish was surprised for a while.

Qiao'er said: "Yes." Xiao Yu'er got up and got dressed and went to the scene to have a look. Qiao'er hurriedly pulled and said, "Where is Childe going?" Is your illness not yet well? ”

Xiao Yu'er said: "If there is such a big thing as a murder, I naturally want to go and see it." ”

Qiao'er said: "Sister Xiaoling has already gone to see it, you have to press your heart to recuperate." ”

When Xiao Yu'er heard this, she hurriedly put on her boots and said, "Knowing that she went to the scene, I should go even more, so as not to offend the magistrate." You don't know that none of these officials are good things, just Xiaoling's big-breasted and brainless stupidity, she was sold, and you don't know. ”

Qiao'er heard the sound and smiled. However, there was also a sour feeling in his heart, but he didn't expect Xianggong to still think about Sister Xiaoling.

……

Zhao Qingxia and Li Gongzi looked at Ma Xiaoling's movements with a little contempt in their eyes. She clasped her hands to her chest and hummed, "So it's mysterious." She thinks that the case has been solved by her, and that is the name of the woman on the wall, and she is the murderer. Even if it's not, it has a lot to do with her.

And Ma Xiaoling learned the fur from Xiaoyuer. The woman was not the murderer.

Zhao Qingxia ordered the county order: "My lord, this case has been solved, what are you still doing here?" Should I arrest the woman named Bihe? ”

"This?" The prefectural commander hesitated.

At this time, Ma Xiaoling said: "My lord, if you can report the progress of the investigation at any time, I am willing to do my best to help." Now I have to talk to the witnesses of the present corpse. Can you tell me his name and address?

Liu Zhu said quickly: "His name is Old Man Li." It's a beater. You can go to Mong Kok Lane, Zhenbei City, to find him. Ma Xiaoling wrote it down and came out of the murder scene. I'm going to find someone who is going to play the shift.

Li Gongzi's eyes rolled, and he pulled Zhao Qingxia and said, "Brother Zhao Xian, let's go too." ”

Zhao Qingxiahu asked, "Let's go too?" ”

"Yes, judging by my father's trial, it is very likely that the first person to appear in the body is the murderer."

"Really?" Zhao Qingxia asked.

Li Gongzi acted as a dog-headed military advisor and said: "Whether it is or not, we have to keep up with Ma Xiaoling." What the hell is she trying to do? So they called for a carriage and went with them.

The county magistrate and Liu Zhukuai, who stayed at the scene, looked dazed, and said inexplicably in their hearts: Is this what is it?

……

After Xiao Yu'er arrived at the scene of the crime, she did not go in, but observed outside the house. looked at the crowd joining in the fun, frowned, hey, good deeds always make a mess of the scene.

Qiao'er asked, "Xianggong, shall we go in?" ”

Xiao Yu'er said: "Let's take a look first." "Watching the house from the outside. From the outside, it looks like a murderous house. There are four houses in a row, a little further from the street, two are inhabited, two are empty, and the number is the empty one. There are three rows of windows on the street side of the vacant house, and because it is uninhabited, the situation is extremely bleak. Dusty windows were plastered with "for sale" posts. In front of each house there is a small grass-lined garden. Separate these houses from the street. There is a yellow path paved with clay and stones in the small garden; It rained heavily overnight and it was muddy everywhere. The garden is surrounded by a low wall, about three feet high, with wooden fences at the top of the walls. A tall catcher stood against a wall. There were a few idlers around, looking in, hoping to catch a glimpse of the house, but they couldn't see anything.

The little fish walked up and down the road, staring blankly at the ground, and then at the sky and at the house opposite and the wooden fence on the wall. After he had thus looked closely, he walked slowly up the path, or rather, he walked over the grass by the side of the road, and kept his eyes on the ground of the path. He paused twice, smiled, and heard him cheer in satisfaction.

On this damp and muddy clay floor, there were many footprints; But with the catchers stepping on it back and forth, I really don't know how I can expect to make out anything from it. However, this qiē could not escape Xiao Yu'er's keen observation, and he saw things that many people could not see.

He came to the door, stopped him when he was arrested, and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

Xiao Yu'er arched his hand and said: "In the lower end of the state government, Xiao Yu'er." ”

"Huh? Why is there another little fish? The catcher was surprised for a while.

Xiao Yu'er heard the sound and felt strange, could it be that someone pretended to be him here? A wipe of his waist card, it is indeed gone. So he asked, "Dare to ask, did a young man come here with an iron medal before, and he was so tall?" "Gestured.

The catcher nodded quickly and said, "Yes, but there are still two others?" ”

Xiao Yu'er felt puzzled, how could there be two of them, Qiao'er heard the sound, and muttered in Xiao Yu'er's ear for a while. I saw Xiao Yu'er nodding. Understood.

At this moment, the county order came out of it and prepared to go home. When he saw Xiao Yu'er and Qiao'er, he asked, "What are you doing?" ”

Xiao Yu'er arched her hand and said, "Oh, my lord, don't ask me what my name is. I know a lot about the case, and I hope you can give me a chance to show it? ”

"What?" The county magistrate didn't believe this young man, he didn't know Xiao Yu'er yet. He said sharply: "Little brat, where is it cool, where to stay." ”

When Liu Zhutou heard this, he muttered in the ear of the county magistrate: "My lord, today is very evil. Mr. Boss, and King Jinling, I see that this kid reveals a heroic spirit between his eyebrows, either a heroic man or a rich and noble person. Offending people is not something we can take on as a small role? ”

The county magistrate asked; "So what are we going to do?"

Liu Zhutou said: "If he wants to check, let him check it." We'll just follow along. Once he makes any moves, maybe there will be an unexpected gain? ”

When the county commander heard this, he nodded and said, "Well, okay." Don't say that Master Ben won't give you a chance. ”

Xiao Yu'er got the consent of the county order, entered the house, and asked, "Is this scene still the same?" ”

"Yes." Liu Zhukuai said.

"But that's the exception!" The little fish stopped, pointed to the path, and said, "Even if a herd of buffalo walked through here, it wouldn't make it any worse than this." ”

"But what does this have to do with the case?"

Xiao Yu'er said: "The deceased is in the house. Someone must have been here, and if they have come, they will definitely leave footprints, can he still fly in with wings? Liu Zhutou was speechless when he heard this.

I heard Xiao Yu'er ask again, "Didn't you come in a carriage?" ”

Liu Zhutou was a little surprised when he heard this, because Ma Xiaoling had asked about this matter before.

Xiao Yu'er noticed his expression and asked; "Did someone ask this question before?"

"Yes." Liu Zhutou'er replied honestly: "It was the person who claimed to be Xiao Yu'er who asked before." ”

"How did you answer?"

When Liu Zhutou heard the news, he shook his head and said, "No." ”

"Your Excellency. Isn't there either? ”

"No, there isn't. Oh, those two people from Jinling Mansion came in a carriage before. ”

"Well, then, let's go inside and have a look." After Xiao Yu'er asked these incoherent words, she strode into the room. Liu Zhutou followed behind, with a look of surprise on his face.

There was a short hallway leading to the kitchen, and there was no flat carpet on the floor of the hallway, and it was dusty. There is a door on the left and right sides of the aisle. One of them has clearly not been opened for many weeks. The other is the door of the restaurant, where the tragedy was born. The little fish walked in. Qiao'er followed him, feeling extremely heavy. This is caused by the dead body.

It is a large square room, which is very large due to its lack of furniture. The walls were covered with cheap flower paper, and in some places there were spots of mold, and in other places large swaths of flat ground were peeling off, revealing the yellow whitewashed walls inside. On the menorah is a section of red candle head. There is only one window in the house. It is unusually dirty, so the interior is very dimly lit, and there is a dull color everywhere. The dust inside the house deepened the mood.

After the little fish went in. Straight to the corpse, which lay frozen on the floor, staring blankly at the faded beams with blank eyes. The deceased was about forty-three or four years of age, of medium height, with broad shoulders, black cure, and a short, stiff beard, wearing a thick robe and light-colored trousers. There was a neat hat on the floor beside him. The deceased was clenched into fists, arms outstretched, and legs folded, and it seemed that he had struggled painfully when he was dying. There was a look of horror on his stiff face, an expression of resentment. The menacing countenance, coupled with the strange appearance of baring teeth and grinning, was terrifying, and with the low forehead, flat nose and protruding chin, it looked very much like a strange-looking flat-nosed ape. Moreover, the extremely unnatural churning posture of pain made its appearance terrifying.

Xiao Yu'er walked up to the corpse and knelt down to examine it intently. There were no scars, but there were blood stains all around. Pause for a moment, then continue to check, with a sensitive finger groping here and there, and then unbuttoning the dead man's garment and checking it again; There was the same blank look in his eyes that I had talked about earlier. He checked very quickly, and was surprisingly meticulous and attentive. Finally, he sniffed the dead man's lips and looked at the soles of the deceased's boots.

He asked, "Has the body never moved?" ”

"Nothing has been touched other than to carry out our necessary inspections."

"Now we can send him for burial," he said, "and there's nothing more to be examined." ”

Liu Zhutou had already prepared a stretcher and four people carrying the stretcher. As soon as he beckoned, they walked in and carried the dead out.

Xiao Yu'er asked, "What about the things you found out of the dead?" ”

"It's all here," said Liu Zhu'er, pointing to a small pile of things on the table, "a heavy and strong gold chain." A gold ring with the emblem of Chen Kee engraved on it. A gold needle with a tiger dog's head on it. The dog's eyes are two rubies. The official ultimatum has "Yin Mingqiang, people from Guangzhou City, etc." There is no purse, only some change, a total of seven taels and 23 yuan. In addition, there were two letters—one addressed to Liu Chuan and one addressed to Chen Da. ”

"Where did you send it?"

"Both letters were sent from the post station, informing them of the start of construction. It can be seen that this unlucky guy is about to go back to Guangzhou. ”

"Have you ever investigated Chen Da?"

"Of course. I immediately looked into it. Liu Zhutou said.

"Have you contacted him?"

"It's difficult, after all, it's still a long way from Guangzhou." The prefectural magistrate replied.

Liu Zhutou said: "Oh, when we checked the deceased before, a woman waiting ring came out of his body. "Then I looked through the pile of evidence, a thin ring. Xiao Yu'er nodded and didn't say anything. Continuing to observe the surrounding environment, the blood word 'Bihe' appeared on the wall. He frowned and continued his investigation. He walked silently around the house, sometimes standing, sometimes kneeling, and once he fell to the ground. She was so engrossed in her work that she seemed to have forgotten them all; He had been muttering to himself. One moment exclaimed, one moment sighed, sometimes whistled, sometimes whispered as if hopeful and inspired.

He kept checking the time of a stick of incense, carefully measuring the distance between some traces with his hands; These traces are not visible to others at all. Occasionally, he also uncandidly measures walls with a tape measure. Then he very carefully picked up a small pinch of gray dust from somewhere on the floor and placed it in an envelope. Next, he examined the blood letters on the wall. Looked at every word very closely. In the end, he seemed satisfied, smiled and said, "Where did those people go?" ”

Liu Zhutou replied: "They went to find the watchman, he is in Mong Kok Lane, Beicheng." ”

Xiao Yu'er nodded and said, "Qiao'er, let's go, let's go find him." I sue you for something that will help you in this case. He turned back to the county magistrate and continued with Liu Zhutou. It's a murder. The murderer was a man, he was more than eight feet tall and middle-aged. For his size, his feet were a little smaller. Wear a pair of thick square-toe shoes and smoke. He came with the victim in a horse-drawn carriage. The carriage was pulled by a horse, and the horse had three old shoes and a new one on the right front hoof. The killer was most likely red-faced and had a long fingernail on his right hand. These are just a few signs, but they might help you both. ”

"Huh?!" Xiao Yu'er's inference surprised everyone present at the county order and Liu Zhutou, and so much information was obtained in the time of the incense just now. It's a little suspicious.

The prefectural magistrate asked, "How does this mean?" ”

"I'm absolutely right." He replied, "As soon as I got there, I first saw the traces of two carriage wheels beside the rocky edge of the road. Since it had been sunny for the past few days before the rain last night, the carriage that had left this deep wheel mark must have arrived there during the night. In addition to this, there are also the marks of horses' hooves. One of the hoof prints is much clearer than the other three, indicating that the hoof is new. Since the carriage had arrived there after the rain, and since you had said that only one carriage had passed by in the morning, and I had stopped a few dozen feet from the house, it is evident that the carriage passing through the house must have stopped there the previous night; Therefore, it was the carriage that brought the two men to the vacant room. ”

"It seems simple," said Mr. Liu, "but how do you know the height of one of them?" ”

"Well, a person's height, ten out of ten can be known from the length of his steps. The calculation method is very simple, but it is useless for me to teach you step by step now. I measured the distance of the man's steps on the clay outside the house and on the dust inside the house. Then I came up with a way to check if my calculations were correct. When a mortal writes on the wall, it is natural to write it in a place that is in line with the photo of his eye. The handwriting on the wall is now exactly six feet off the ground. It's as child's play. ”

"As for his age?" I asked again.

"Well, if a man could step four and a half feet effortlessly, he would never be an old man. There was a puddle of water so wide on the road in the small garden, and he clearly stepped over it in one step, but his shoes walked around, and his square-toed shoes stepped over it. There's nothing mysterious about this. Is there anything else you don't understand? ”

"Where's the fingernails and the smoke?" Liu Zhutou reminded him again.

"The writing on the wall is written by a man with his index finger dipped in blood. I looked closely and saw that some of the wall powder had been scraped off while writing. If the man's nails had been trimmed, it would never have been like this. I also collected some scattered soot from the floor. ”

"And the red-faced question?" The prefectural commander was also interested and asked again.

"Ah, that's my bold speculation, but I'm sure I'm right. In the current circumstances of this case, don't ask me that question for the time being. ”

The county magistrate touched his forehead with his hand and said, "I'm really a little dizzy, and the more I think about it, the more mysterious I feel." For example, if there are really two people, how did these two people get into the empty house? What happened to the coachman who sent them there? How can one person force another to take poison? Where does the blood come from? Since this case is not a murder for money, what is the purpose of the murderer? Where did a woman's ring come from? Most importantly, why did the killer write those words on the wall before he fled? To be honest, I can't think of any way to connect the dots. ”