Daqing Criminal Division

Because of this conversation, the two of them seemed to have to work together to solve the case.

One of them is a detective and the other is an actor.

Although they had never met each other before, since they encountered the same murder case on the first day they came to Songyang County, they must be involved together.

Fucharzi seems to believe that this was a premeditated murder, and the murderer who committed the murder in the Stone Buddha Temple is very likely to commit another crime within a few days. This view is very rare.

After all, in the eyes of ordinary people, handling cases for the government is nothing more than collecting physical evidence and interviewing witnesses, but this person has his own unique and different way of thinking about problems.

Four-question method-this method was really unheard of by Duan Xiao before.

But it is said that this is exactly the "A, B, C, D" four-question method created by the Fucha detective in his life. These four questions are nothing else, only four original questions about the case, namely:

A, is a murderer a murderer?

B, is the victim a victim?

C. What are the tools and methods used by the murderer to kill the victim?

Ding, what is the murderer's motive for killing the victim?

Starting from the simplest and most popular four questions as the consideration of the case, looking for many suspicious points after the murder case, the real murderer can be found in all murder cases in the world, and it is completely logical to put it into the present.

It just so happened that Zakshan, who released the pigeons, also arrived at this time.

It turned out that when he got up early, he forgot to bring his purse when he went out, and was pointed out by his colleagues in the government halfway, so he had to rush home to get it like a madman.

Now I heard that the two of them met so early and had already had tea in the teahouse and finished talking about the case. I was quite surprised.

Zha Keshan didn't know that this friendship was not that friendship.

When two people who are naturally incompatible meet each other, it is actually a way to make friends with each other - Detective Fucha and Duan Xiao are almost the latter at present.

"Fuchaerzi, why did you suddenly come here again? Haha, is it because I told you that Mr. Duan is very powerful, and he is very good at autopsy?"

This also explains why someone came again.

It turned out that it was Zach who told about Duan Xiao afterwards, and a certain Fucha detective seemed too lazy to pay attention to the winking guy beside him, and just said something while drinking tea in a business-like manner.

"I only care about the physical evidence on the body, and other things have nothing to do with me."

"Okay, okay, you always have something to say, but having said that, in fact, it's weird for Mr. Duan to come and go to Mr. Duan all day long. A rough person like me is not a scholar. Mr. Duan, do you have any fine print or something?"

Zakshan asked again suddenly.

"I don't have a name, if you don't mind, just call me Duan Xiao."

Duan Xiao replied.

"Ah! Really?!"

"Well, as you like."

"Haha, Duan Xiao, very good very good!"

Duan Xiao didn't really care about this most common addressing problem between friendly people.

Zha Keshan was very happy, he felt like he had a detective friend, and he also had another friend as a friend. Now he didn't have to worry about being beaten by the magistrate.

After that, the three of them drank a cup of tea together in the restaurant, and planned to chat about some serious matters of the case first.

It just so happened that today was also the first time to visit the case together, so Duan Xiao also showed them part of the autopsy results from last night in this teahouse.

On the dark old pear blossom tabletop in front of him, the extra tea sets have been moved aside first.

Duan Xiao poured the clear water from the cup, and carefully wiped the palms and backs of his hands twice with a cloth towel before he went to get the bag he brought in his sleeve, and opened it with his fingertips.

In the middle are a dozen autopsy files.

A box of silver needles dipped in the gastric juice of the corpse, with some yellow and black things stuck to it, and the durian flower earrings and the wound skin from the insect bite taken from the cardia of the corpse.

Among them, the dossiers recorded by Duan Xiao mainly focus on Rui Qiong's trauma and internal injuries.

In terms of trauma, that is, the fatal wound on the neck, and the unnamed insect bite wound.

But according to Zha Keshan's current statement, the murder weapon on the government side has not been found yet. It seems that to find out what caused this fatal injury, I am afraid that another search will be needed.

About that black dot-shaped bug bite.

Later in Yizhuang, Duan Owl roughly deduced that it was bitten by a tick through the small piece of light yellow skin flakes and a black barb carefully pinched out of the hair follicle.

"Ticks?"

Looking at the black thorns on the white cloth with that hand, Fucharzi, who was sitting opposite him and listening to his statement, also asked a question.

At this time, at the end of summer, Songyang County is located in the mountains.

The summer heat has not dissipated, and there are many poisonous insects.

Ticks are a common type of insect in the south. Once they are bitten in the woods and pulled by hand, they will leave the stinger in the skin. This is probably how the stinger is left on Ruiqiong's body.

"Well, ticks are mostly found on the vegetation in the mountains in summer. Once humans and animals are bitten, they will inevitably leave trauma on the skin. You have heard before that there are ticks infesting the mountains around Songyang?"

"Hey, this is strange. It seems that there is no such thing. The woodcutter usually walks on the mountain. If there are ticks and insects hurting people in the Bodhisattva Temple, he should have gone to the yamen to find the medicine."

Speaking in his mouth, Zakshan was also puzzled.

"So, the tick may not have come from the vegetation on the mountain. It may have been carried by the people and animals infected with the tick, or it may have been brought by the murderer himself."

Duan Xiao helped draw this conclusion.

Because of the tick injury, even the murderer himself didn't know that he left evidence in Ruiqiong that night, so following this clue in the dark, maybe the current evidence can be concentrated on a tick-infested person or livestock.

As for the internal injuries of the corpse, it was the part that Duan Xiao obtained when he dissected Ruiqiong's corpse overnight again last night.

But Zha Keshan, a tall and burly guy, noticed the big dirty thing wrapped in black and black at the first sight, so he moved away with an 'ouch', with nausea in his throat.

Fortunately, there was no one around the teahouse except for one waiter who went down and two or three tea guests.

The movement here did not attract more people's attention.

On the contrary, Fucharzi, who was already used to such things to a certain extent, casually took the things Duan Xiao handed over, glanced at them, and leaned against his nose to smell them before commenting.

"The contents in his stomach hadn't been chewed until he died. He should have been swallowed whole before he was killed by that person."

Fucharzi said this, and after thinking about it, he slowly knocked on the table, searching for clues in his mind, and speculated on the spot,

"He and that person should know each other."

"As the previous witness said, at Shen time four days ago, the witness saw Rui Qiong go up the mountain. He didn't eat in the academy that night, so he walked much faster than usual, but he was a frail boy. It will take more time to go up the mountain, and walking so fast is not in line with the physical strength of a child, presumably he is rushing to make an appointment."

"Oh, so someone was waiting for him in the ruined temple in the mountain that night, and then the two of them used the wine and dishes together?"

Dizzy from the pungent stench even though the gastric juice had been cleaned, Zakshan, who was looking at each other, asked while holding his nose.

"Almost, during this hour, he was very tired from walking. When a person is tired from walking, his stomach will move faster than usual, which is what we usually call loss of appetite. As soon as he went up the mountain, he met that person. , and used these wine and vegetables in the temple.”

"The witness said he saw a woman."

"But according to Lan Chunlian's confession, she was also on the mountain, but she said that she didn't see any other women at all. There must be some reason for this."

"I'm afraid that's the case. In addition, there are two other points in the autopsy results, which I haven't figured out yet."

Duan Xiao said again.

"Where, what two o'clock?"

"First, there is a durian flower earring in his stomach, which probably belonged to the murderer, but I don't know why it was in Ruiqiong's stomach; second, Ruiqiong has the habit of regularly trimming his skin and hair, including his penis. , His obscene pants and lower body are stained with long-dried semen/water, I’m afraid he still had sex with someone that night.”

Everything is used to detail, and the evidence on the body of the deceased is even more so. Duan Xiao, who remembers everything firmly, did not forget to add this slowly.

These scattered clues of the case are what he has found from the dead body.

He will hand over all these things to the government in the future, but telling Fuchaerji and Zakshan right now, he has fulfilled his duty as a coordinator.

"Uh, okay/room room/thing?"

In broad daylight, when he suddenly talked about such an indecent topic, his face turned red with embarrassment. Zach was afraid that someone might hear him, so he covered his mouth and thought for a while, then whispered in doubt,

"But it's not right, Lan Chunlian is a woman, how could she have sex with Rui Qiong secretly with her body, but the witness said he saw her, what could be the reason for this?"

Zack asked kindly.

"There are two possibilities."

Fucharzi said so.

"First, Lan Chunlian lied, but you also said that she is a woman of the fifth class, and it is impossible for her to have an affair with others. She and Ruiqiong cannot have sex. Second, that woman is not Lan Chunlian, but The woman Rui Qiong knew was mistaken for Lan Chunlian by the witnesses, which also caused a misunderstanding in the evidence of the two parties."

This is probably the most likely explanation for the current Stone Bodhisattva murder case.

It turned out that Ruiqiong didn't go to burn incense in the temple that night, but went to meet another woman, but this boy never thought that after eating and drinking in the temple, he would die before he got a beautiful woman in his arms.

It's just that the real culprit of the murder is now at large, so I'm afraid he needs to collect evidence carefully.

This morning, the three of them said something else based on the facts of the case.

Because the three of them were supposed to go to the yamen together first to deal with the case.

But Fucha Erji said that he was not in a hurry to go to the Yamen now, and he should go out of the city to take a closer look at the scene of the first crime.

"To solve a case, all foreign objects that destroy the physical evidence at the scene are taboo, such as wind, rain, and the footprints of the folks and elders outside who are not afraid of big troubles, but the scene of the first case is also the place where the murderer committed the crime. Why don't you look at how you deduced the circumstances of the murder that night?"

When Detective Fucha said so, it seemed reasonable.

Fortunately, it was quite convenient to go out of the city early in the morning. The three of them found a passing carriage and went up together. After getting down, they began to measure the scene of Ruiqiong going up the mountain that night.

Among them, Duan Xiao was the first time to see someone measure the path with a pen and paper ruler to accurately calculate the time for others to go up the mountain.

But Fucharzi's calculations are very accurate, and he can even calculate the errors completely in his mind.

This made Duan Xiao, who was watching silently, be a little curious for a moment about what kind of medicine was sold in the detective's gourd, and even thought about it secretly because of this man's actions.

After that, the three went up the mountain together.

The journey was uneventful.

Cloud blue mist shrouded the mountains.

The white air filled the air, like a place of spirit and soul connected with all living things in the world.

Duan Xiao sat on the side of the bumpy carriage and looked outside without saying a word. Seeing the white air covering the Bodhisattva Temple in the distance, his thoughts gradually drifted away.

three quarters of the hour

Stone Buddha Temple

The outside is surrounded by a group of wooden fences temporarily erected by the government to prevent other people who don't know the truth from breaking into the ruined temple.

During this first visit to the scene of the crime, Fucha Erji and Duan Xiao were pushing the door together and entering the ruined temple in the mountain.

There was only a sound of "squeak", and the two painted temple doors were pushed open, and there was not much dust falling on the brick roof with the movement of the doors. It is expected that there were murders in the past two days, and there were also officials who came to collect them. The reason for the dead body.

Because the weather was still early, some mist shrouded the ruined temple.

The government surrounded the entire area yesterday, and it was because Zakeshan was willing to bring them here that they could step over the white cloth surrounded by the Songyang County Yamen.

After the three came in, they walked back and forth in the temple, looking for some clues together.

At this moment, most of the wood on the beam above the head has been eaten by moths, and the smell in the temple is also unpleasant.

Not far away, on the blue brick floor facing the incense table, the place where the deceased had been lying was circled with white paint.

The place was heavily flooded, and the corpse would rot after soaking in it for many days. When Ruiqiong died, he was facing the Bodhisattva statue, with his left fingers pointing at the statue, with his feet flat and facing inward.

As soon as Fucharzi walked in, he saw chaotic footprints in front of the hall.

He just looked down at the next person standing in the middle.

That gray eyeball could clearly see the blurry footprints in the temple in front of him that had been destroyed by rainwater and incense ash, and could barely see their original appearance.

It wasn't something he was born with.

Although his eyes can't see the light, he has to be careful to avoid some light whenever he is in the scorching sun, but as long as he is in this obscure place, he can see some trivial evidences that ordinary people can't see clearly, he can see more clearly.

Because one eye is useless, the other eye is more useful.

Over the years, he has always paid more attention to details than ordinary people when handling cases, such as the footprints on the stone brick floor, such as a drop of water on the eaves, such as the shape of four seasons in the mountains, all of which he would usually notice.

But at this moment, what he saw in his eyes for the first time made Fuchaerzi, who knelt down to carefully identify the footprints covered in incense ash, think a little bit.

Because the officials were sent to handle the case the day before yesterday, the row of official boots and footprints on the left side of the temple near the corpse belonged to the people in the yamen.

In addition, there is some incense ash on the side, which is Lan Chunlian. Because the ground was wet, the footprints were not wiped clean, but they were left in the temple.

But outside of this, there are only some messy footprints of men, and there is no trace of another woman who came to the Stone Bodhisattva Temple.

But at this time, Zha Keshan, a tall and burly man, followed in nervously.

But as he walked in, he took a knife and looked around warily where the murder had happened.

When he saw the bodhisattva statue in the temple where the surface of the stone was rotten, so the expression looked much more gloomy. God bless gesture.

"...Bodhisattva bless you, bless me, Zakeshan, to marry a wife and have children as soon as possible, so that my ancestors will be honored."

It's funny to mutter this.

"Hey, Bodhisattvas give birth to women. Are you planning to pray for a son for yourself now, Zakeshan?"

Fucharzi, who was going to squat down directly to collect evidence, saw him praying vigorously over there, so he suddenly reminded him lazily behind him.

Duan Xiao, who didn't speak, raised the corners of his mouth suspiciously when he heard it. Zha Keshan's face flushed when he heard it, and he stammered before he opened his eyes and yelled.

"Hey, who said that? I've heard people say that not all Bodhisattvas in the world are women. For example, Guanyin, who said she must be a woman..."

Zha Keshan's words made Fuchaerji and Duan Xiao pause for some reason.

Immediately, the two of them looked up quickly, but saw that the stone bodhisattva showed compassion, like a woman, both male and female, which confused the eyes of the world for a while.

——Now, they finally knew why the witness said that he saw a woman with Rui Qiong.

Lan Chunlian insisted that what she saw at Shen Shi was the back of a tall and burly man.

Because Ruiqiong's lover is not a woman at all, but a man who met him privately here on the fourth day wearing a woman's clothes and murdered him.

This is the case of the murder case at night in the Shitou Bodhisattva Temple.