The mind-reading coroner drove the court crazy

The owner of the tofu shop was taken away again by the yamen runners. Qin Miaoxi and Lu Qingchen left the government office together and returned to the tofu shop.

Qin Miaoxi walked straight towards the woodshed next to the kitchen. According to the yamen runners who had come to investigate earlier, the bloody shoe prints were found here.

Sure enough, in the woodshed where firewood was piled, there were four bloody shoe prints.

However, judging from the shape of the prints, it looked like someone walked in wearing blood-stained shoes, but there was no trace of shoe prints leaving.

Lu Qingchen murmured softly, "Could it be that the murderer noticed that he had left shoe prints on the ground, and then took off his shoes and left barefoot?"

Qin Miaoxi immediately shook her head again, frowning and muttering to herself, "No, these shoe prints only appear in the woodshed and are not seen anywhere else. How did the murderer get in?"

Suddenly, Lu Qingchen's eyes lit up, as if he had thought of something crucial, and blurted out, "Could it be... this is the murder scene?"

The two men acted quickly, launching a carpet search, leaving no corner untouched, carefully checking every nook and cranny. They were completely focused, not missing any clues.

Soon, a bloody bundle came into view in the firewood pile.

"I'll do it, don't get your hands dirty."

Lu Qingchen spoke softly, carefully opening the bundle. Soon, the contents were revealed: a bundle of women's clothes.

"I've seen this dress." Lu Qingchen frowned slightly and said.

"How have you seen him before?" Qin Miaoxi looked surprised.

Qin Miaoxi's eyes were determined, and she said in a firm tone, "In Sun Dong's painting, Tofu Xishi is wearing this dress."

"So, this is Tofu Xishi's clothing?"

As Lu Qingchen spoke, he took out everything in the bag. In addition to the complete dress, some women's jewelry, there was also a pair of men's shoes with the soles stained with blood.

He compared the shoe with the footprints on the ground, "They are exactly the same. These shoes belong to Sun Dong."

Qin Miaoxi frowned and stared at the dress. "Based on the amount of bleeding, Tofu Xishi will definitely die."

Lu Qingchen's face was filled with shock. He asked anxiously, "Is she really dead? Could that almost burnt body be her?"

Qin Miaoxi carefully examined the clothes and jewelry, and a wave of doubts arose in her heart, "I'm not sure."

"What's so uncertain about this? There were bloody shoe prints from Sun Dong in the firewood room, and Cuihua's bloody clothes and Sun Dong's shoes were hidden in the firewood. Sun Dong must have asked Cuihua to elope with him, but Cuihua refused. Sun Dong was furious and killed her. The body was decomposed and thrown into the kitchen. Her husband, without knowing it, boiled it until it was rotten, and then threw the bones under the stove and burned them."

Lu Qingchen spoke very clearly, as if he had really seen it.

"Then how do you explain the bloody shoe prints only in the woodshed?"

"It's not that simple. After Sun Dong killed someone and found traces left behind, he eliminated the other traces."

Qin Miaoxi frowned slightly, looking at Lu Qingchen sharply, and continued, "If Sun Dong deliberately killed Cuihua, how could he be so careless? Why did he leave these four behind?"

"This……"

Lu Qingchen was speechless for a moment. After a moment of contemplation, he said, "Perhaps he was too hasty to deal with it, or perhaps he thought that this woodshed was usually unattended and no one would notice it."

Qin Miaoxi shook her head and retorted, "That doesn't make sense. If Sun Dong could think of dismembering the body, how could he not think of dealing with these traces? Besides, the woodshed isn't a hidden place. If someone finds bloodstains, it would be easy to track them down."

Lu Qingchen bit her lip and asked, "Then in your opinion, what's going on?"

Qin Miaoxi pondered for a moment and said slowly, "I think this was probably done intentionally by someone, trying to pin the blame on Sun Dong."

Lu Qingchen opened his mouth in surprise and said, "But there are bloodstains and clothes in the woodshed, as well as Sun Dong's shoes. And he was the one who reported it to the authorities. It's like the thief crying 'stop thief', very suspicious."

Qin Miaoxi looked at Lu Qingchen and said, "These evidences seem solid, but they are actually full of loopholes. The murderer deliberately left these traces to mislead us."

Lu Qingchen scratched his head and asked, "Who could be the murderer?"

Qin Miaoxi said seriously, "I don't know."

Lu Qingchen: "..."

"Let's go back to the government office first! I suspect the cleaver stolen from the shop is the one used to dismember the body."

The two men left immediately, and when they returned to the Jingzhao Yin's government office, the "pig-killing king" had also been brought into the government office.

But no matter how much Shi Xinzhe questioned him, he gritted his teeth and refused to admit that he had killed someone.

Not long after, the yamen runners who had gone to the "Pig Killing King" shop and home for a thorough investigation came back one after another. They all reported to Shi Xinzhe that after a thorough investigation, they did not find anything suspicious in his home.

Shi Xinzhe frowned, thought for a moment, and then asked, "Do the tofu shop owners often buy meat from you?"

The Pig Killer King raised his head slightly and replied, "Yes, he often comes to me to buy bones, saying that he takes them back to make soup."

Shi Xinzhe then asked, "When was the last time he came to buy bones from you?"

"About three days ago!"

"How do you remember it so clearly?"

"Because I would leave bones for him every day, but he didn't come to pick them up for the past two days, so the bones went bad. That left a deep impression on me."

Qin Miaoxi walked closer and whispered in his ear, "He didn't kill the person. Judging from the bone remains, the time of death should have been the night of three days ago. The time doesn't match."

In the end, because there was no evidence, they had to let the "Pig Killer King" go.

"Master Shi, I'd like to see the meat cleaver that the tofu shop owner brought."

Shi Xinzhe winked at the person beside him, and the knife was sent to Qin Miaoxi.

"Mr. Qin, I wonder what's wrong with this knife?"

"See those flies around the cleaver?"

Shi Xinzhe understood immediately, "You suspect it's human blood?"

"Please give me a glass of water and a handful of glutinous rice."

"Go and get ready."

After the two things were prepared, Qin Miaoxi immediately scraped some powder on the meat cleaver into clean water. Soon the particles dissolved in the water and the water turned red.

Then she sprinkled glutinous rice in, took out some unknown powder and sprinkled it in, waiting quietly for the changes in the water.

Lu Qingchen asked in surprise, "Are you using glutinous rice to test human blood?"

Qin Miaoxi raised her eyebrows, "You also know this, the young marquis is very knowledgeable!"

Lu Qingchen was a little anxious. "You still have the mind to joke now? Isn't it just that glutinous rice will turn red when it comes into contact with human blood? But this method of measurement is not accurate."

Qin Miaoxi nodded in agreement, "Yes, I think so too."

"Then you still...?"

She pointed to her medicine bottle, "But I have this, which can test human blood more accurately."