Daqing Criminal Division

What does a criminal who is cold-blooded and cruel in heart and can truly kill without opening his eyes look like?

Before that, Duan Xiao had also seen all kinds of heinous and murderous people in prison.

He was in the capital at that time, and he had seen hundreds if not thousands of felons who were imprisoned in the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Most of these people are bandit caravans who rob and kill people, and they look like gangsters who commit crimes.

But they are all different from the man named Guan Peng in front of him.

Because at first glance, Guan Peng really didn't look like a murderer at all.

He was wearing a gray shirt with spotless uppers, a braid on his shoulders, and he was from a poor background.

A pair of thick eyebrows and tiger eyes, wide lips, long middle and a little weak, a pair of big ears set off this person's excellent temper.

He should be a very honest, very timid, even somewhat gentle, ordinary person. His sister and his neighbors usually say that he is an excellent person.

Although he is not very capable, he never does evil.

As Fucharzi said before, his superficial camouflage is perfect, he is just a timid and somewhat fearful ordinary person, who has carefully learned this craft, and he should be an ordinary person that can be seen everywhere in Songyang County .

But it is also such an ordinary to inconspicuous person.

He has the ability to easily take away a human life with a bone-crushing knife used to kill cattle, and even set up a series of tricks to turn the entire yamen around by the government's army.

"The prisoner under the hall, do you know what crime you have committed?"

Because of the process of going through the process of being promoted to the court, Ma County Magistrate patted the gavel on top.

There had never been such a major case in Songyang County before, so facing the vicious criminals, the county magistrate also wanted to frustrate the murderer's spirit under the witness of the people in this area.

But under the eyes of everyone, Guan Peng, who had been shackled by Zha Keshan, knelt down in the hall, but his expression was very dull.

There is no ups and downs in the corners of his face and mouth.

Even in court, he didn't have the slightest bit of fear and panic brought about by being a criminal.

"...Hey, that's weird, is this person still dumb?"

I guess it was a little strange why Guan Peng kept silent, and Zha Keshan, who was watching Ma County magistrate's promotion, muttered something.

But someone doesn't seem to think so.

"It's not that he can't speak, nor is he timid, but what you see before your eyes is not his true character."

"Ah? True character? But such a person, can he still have two looks?"

Zakshan suddenly felt even more strange.

"People's hearts have two sides, real and inner. One side is for others, and the other side is for himself. He hasn't admitted that he is a murderer until now. It's not because he is afraid. It is impossible for a person who can kill so calmly. He will be afraid of the court, but his true character has not been stimulated."

He began to say some half-incomprehensible words again, and Duan Xiao, who was silent at the side, listened to Fuchaerzi's words.

Because he knew that what this person said was actually true.

Everyone has two sides.

Like ordinary people, being able to combine the two will not cause any bad effects, but people like Guan Peng will have a personality split when facing one thing.

His personality is completely different when he is evil and when he is normal.

The more he faces the external environment, the more impossible it is to reveal it easily, which is why Guan Peng's state looks so out of place, even very weird.

With such a state of mind, Duan Xiao, who just watched this scene without moving his eyes, but didn't want to speak, inevitably thought of himself.

For a moment, his slightly changed expression avoided others.

It was also under such circumstances that Wang Guan, who was being escorted all the way and chased down the hall, knelt down and yelled, breaking the conversation in the hall.

"My lord! My lord! You are wronged. There must be wrongs in this matter. How can a knife or a tick count as evidence? How could my younger brother kill someone? He was a cowardly crook. If there is no trouble, there must be someone who wants to frame my younger brother. How can this gang of murderers frame good people..."

This Wang Guan family has also yelled all the way before.

She acted like a woman who is used to being a rambunctious woman in the street at first glance, stealing other people's conversation with a few words, and then biting back at her just to protect her relatives.

She seemed to firmly believe that Guan Peng beside her would not commit murder.

Duan Xiao, who was standing by the side, saw that the woman was so eager to love her younger brother, but kept silent while talking about crooked things. It was also at this time that Fucha Erji, who had just been on the sidelines on the way to the yamen, didn't speak much. Then he stretched out his hand suddenly.

"Magistrate Ma, the grassroots have a message."

As soon as he interrupted from the side, Magistrate Ma noticed that this person was also here.

He was originally listening with Duan Xiao.

Duan Xiao is a clerk, according to the rules of the yamen, he can come and go from the courtroom at will, but this man is thick-skinned, so he insists on standing here with him.

Also over there, County Magistrate Ma was interrupted at first glance, and turned his head to find that this person had also come to the inner hall of the government in a grand manner.

"Fu, Fuchaerji! This is a court and not a restaurant. Why are you interrupting when the official is talking? If you want to say something, say it quickly!"

He was scolded by Ma County Magistrate in front of so many people.

Because Fucha Erji has been in Songyang County for several years, although usually everyone only treats this person under the banner of a detective as a swindler, but today this matter is actually credited to him.

"Caomin dare not, and Caomin just wants to spread out all the evidence, and then Duan Wuzuo and I will ask Xia Guanpeng about the case."

"After all, in front of so many people in Songyang, it's not good to just judge an innocent person as the real murderer. Evidence is needed for everything, are you right?"

The way Fuchaerzi folded his hands is quite playful.

He didn't say what he wanted to do, but dragged Duan Xiao into the water first. After hearing this, Duan Xiao, who came back to his senses, cast a glance at the man, and then refused expressionlessly,

"Who are you, do I know you?"

"You and I are friends who have taken a bath and saved lives. Why do you have to be so unpopular thousands of miles away?"

The man spoke out of nowhere.

"Mr. Fu Cha's ability to add oil and vinegar is pretty good."

Duan Xiao squinted his eyes when he heard which pot he was lifting.

"Hey, it's all because Brother Duan is too seductive, it makes me feel so relaxed and happy, I get so carried away that I start talking nonsense."

Duan Xiao: "..."

These words are really unbearable for ordinary people.

Seeing this, the man not only didn't blush.

On the contrary, he was extremely thick-skinned, and he wasn't afraid that the two of them would fight if they didn't agree with each other afterwards, and they would really drive ducks into the shelves.

But the two of them secretly ran on this discrepancy, and Ma County Magistrate, who had almost lost his position just now, was playing in his arms, and hurriedly ordered the master to summon someone to come up first.

"Okay, okay, it's up to the two of you to talk, come on, Fucha Erji, Duan Xiao, come up quickly! It's up to you to tell me what's going on in this case."

Ma County Magistrate asked this impatiently.

Even in the courtroom, Duan Xiao wouldn't act hastily and argue with him, but instead made a salute, replied yes, and walked away with someone quite politely. come out.

Because this square inch court is not big.

The two walked out like this.

Naturally, it attracted the attention of many people around. Guan Peng, who had not pleaded guilty, knelt beside him and did not move. Fucha Erji didn't feel anything in front of everyone, so he began to state the case.

During this period, although he and Duan Xiao were not familiar with each other, it was only the first cooperation.

But the two of them are very capable people in scheming, so singing in unison made the atmosphere of the court formal.

"Duan Zuo, you are using your identity as a guarantee that the murderer is this man named Guan Peng under the hall?"

Fucharzi asked him.

"Yes."

Duan Xiao replied.

"Oh, then why does Duan Wuzuo think that the murderer is actually this Guan Peng?"

"The bone-crushing knife in his home matched the wound. There were ticks on the cow in his home, so people also carried it on their bodies."

Duan Xiao spoke again.

"But that night, why did the two witnesses say they couldn't see clearly who the murderer was, and the testimony clearly conflicted?"

"He is a bricklayer, and he is best at climbing house beams. The roof of the stone Bodhisattva temple has been damaged all year round, and it always attracts thunder. If a bricklayer wants to get in and out of the roof at will, I think he has a way to do it."

This speech caused a lot of discussion among the people watching.

Because just now, the two police officers had also presented the bone-crushing knife used to kill cattle that they found from his home.

Although the bone-crushing knife with some scratches on the handle looked no different from other knives in the past, the edge of the knife coincided exactly with the fatal wound on Ruiqiong's body.

Kill people and let blood, smash bones and skin.

It was this long knife capable of stabbing a cow to death that killed Tongsheng that night.

This, combined with the fact that Ruiqiong was bitten by ticks on his body, and Guan Peng was a bricklayer, basically it can be determined that this person is the real culprit in the Stone Bodhisattva case.

After all, he couldn't catch him with life or death.

There is a very important reason, that is, everyone ignored the rain that night, and the Stone Bodhisattva Temple has been in disrepair for many years, and the masons came to repair it for a legitimate reason.

At the beginning, the witness who said he saw Lan Chunlian should have seen Guan Peng who was wearing women's clothes at that time.

But afterwards, Lan Chunlian said that she didn't see anyone in Shenshi.

It is very possible that Guan Peng himself was hiding in the temple at that time.

He is a bricklayer, so he was able to go up to the beam to hide so skillfully. Lan Chunlian didn't know that there was someone on the beam, but she thought it was a mistake. Whoever wanted to kill the real murderer was looking down on her from the top of the temple.

——This scene, just thinking about it in my head, is terrifying.

As we all know, this case originally happened seven days ago. Tong Sheng Ruiqiong's body was discovered in the Stone Bodhisattva Temple in the mountains.

At that time, Rui Qiong had been dead for three days.

Duan Xiao's post-mortem examination also verified that he had been dead for three days.

At the beginning of the murder, everyone thought that Lan Chunlian and Rui Qiong, the daughters who lived in the Shitou Bodhisattva Temple, had an affair, which made the murder happen.

But afterwards, this point of view was overturned because of the hint left by Rui Qiong before his death.

Because the autopsy revealed that Ruiqiong had sex with someone, but Lan Chunlian couldn't do it, so afterward, the yamen turned their attention back to Wang Pin.

Because the modus operandi of this case is actually very simple.

The method used by the murderer is only the simplest and most brutal method of killing with a knife.

But the only question here may be why Wang Pin disappeared, why he and Guan Peng had a grudge, and where is he at the moment.

It was also at this moment that Fucha Erji told the story of Ruiqiong's bad bet that he had collected from the gambling shop before, and told others that he was about to get rich.

"Zhang Bing, a boy from the academy, is also one of the witnesses in the hall. He and the previous thugs in the gambling shop can prove that Ruiqiong had a hobby of gambling, because he loved gambling and was also fond of petty theft. Zhang Bin was in the academy before. Hands off with him once."

"Before Rui Qiong died, he once told people in a gambling shop that he would soon get a stone bodhisattva and win a fortune. He was originally a poor scholar. How did he get the so-called 'big fortune'? This is true. Thought-provoking."

"But for two days, I have been making friends with him. Wang Pin, who used to have a lot of money in his family, disappeared like this. Afterwards, Rui Qiong also died in the temple. All these are combined. You may wish to think about it. At the beginning, Rui Qiong Did you really go to the temple because of Buddhist worship? Why did the person who provided him with food and clothing meet him in that temple and didn’t want others to know about it?”

"..."

"Because there is only one fact behind this."

"That is——Rui Qiong and this person in the hall wanted to capture Wang Pin and seek his family's wealth, but before the money was obtained, the boy Ruiqiong himself was stabbed in the back and became the victim of the knife. Undead, these two people, one is greedy for money and seeks other people's money, the other is out of murderous intentions, killing two lives, it was because of the blood-colored mandarin duck, who was extremely vicious and cruel, that's why they committed this kind of conspiracy to kill others in the temple. A matter of money and life!"

The accusation that Fuchaerzi blurted out suddenly finally caused the silent Guan Peng to react a little bit.

The development of this case, which is weirder and weirder than the storytelling in the stories, took a turn for the worse, which is simply jaw-dropping. Even the Ma County Magistrate in the hall was shocked by this trick.

As the person involved, Rui Qiong's numb face twitched a few times, but he still lowered his head and remained silent.

Upon seeing this, Fuchaerji knew that he thought he was defrauding him.

As soon as he was in the sun, the guy strode up to the hall, and pointed to the stone statue of Bodhisattva that was carried up earlier in the morning and said so.

"Guan Peng, I know you are still wondering why you were caught, but I also want to ask you a question."

"Do you really think that with your cautious personality, no one in this world can guess where you hid Wang Pin's body?"

"Then let this Duan Zuo come and tell you well, the soybeans you happened to throw on the mountain, and the durian flower earring that Rui Qiong bit off from your ear before he died, have already exposed what you did."

As soon as the words fell, Duan Xiao, who had been waiting by the side, didn't say anything. He walked slowly to the center of the courtroom under the gaze of everyone, took another tool and knocked open the door like knocking on a thin wall. Stone Buddha.

Strange to say, this 'Stone Bodhisattva' was supposed to be made of hard stone, and it was difficult to knock it open.

Unexpectedly, after this slapping, the surface is easily cracked with fine and dense lines like broken four sides.

It was also when the extremely fragile stone chips fell down that the stunned bystanders could see that there was a Bodhisattva under the stone shell made of soybeans and rice milk.

It was clear that it was a head whose body, limbs and feet had been poured with cement, and whose face looked like it was when it was cut off!

This horrifying scene shocked the audience and screamed in fright.

The dead man's head and five sense organs were complete, and he did not rest in peace. After being knocked open, he only looked straight at everyone with a pair of empty eyeballs.

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that this is Wang Pin who has been missing for many days.

The corpses are separated, only the head is here.

It is clear at a glance who the murderer is. Witnessing this extremely cruel scene with his own eyes, Zha Keshan and all his servants looked ugly, and even Wang Guan, who had spoken so clearly before, was so frightened that he hugged his head. shouted.

At this time, even Guan Peng, who had refused to admit a word before, finally spoke.

"...Yes, it was me, I killed this man."

"You, this bird/good, what nonsense are you talking about! Can you talk nonsense about killing people!"

Hearing this, Wang Guan's eyes turned red, and he wanted to hit him with his hands.

But Guan Peng was expressionless when he saw this.

Once again, she was beaten twice by her only relative like before, and now she looked numbly but somewhat sadly at Fuchaerji and Duan Xiaodao in front of her,

"Heh...heh, Mr. Detective and Master Wu Zuo, you are all normal people, so naturally you don't understand how difficult it is for a monster like me to live in this world..."

"I didn't want to kill him at all, how could I kill him, but who let him let me find out, he also called me a monster behind his back..."

"My body has been broken since I was a child. Being a man is so uncomfortable for me, so I am just a man wearing a man's shell, looking for a woman who understands my pain... I want to tell others that I am really I want to be a woman, this secret, I only told him to one person..."

"He wants money, I will give it to him, and kill him, and I will accompany him, but in the end... He also called me a monster. It rained heavily that night, and my head was just a mess. The stone Buddha was at that time It was right behind him, but he was still pointing at the Bodhisattva to taunt me, and said he wanted to leave me..."

"I hate it, I really hate it."

"I can't wait to kill all those people outside who look down on me with winks."

"Then, I raised my knife and killed him too."

"With just one knife, I heard that goddamned dog fell to the ground like a cow, heh...heh, the chest was cut so that the air leaked, and the lungs thumped, spraying blood all over my head and face, I Kneeling in front of him, rubbing it for him, rubbing it over and over again, but he just pointed at me... stared at me... and bit off the durian flower earring that was specially worn for him on my ear swallowed..."

"Double flower earrings...that was originally given to me by him...that was given to me by him..."

Durian earrings.

Speaking of these four words, I no longer speak.

Pomegranate originally alluded to the relationship between the two that is not known to outsiders, and the combination of husband and wife produces blossoming pomegranate flowers.

But Fuchaerji and Duan Xiao understood what happened to the durian flower earring that Ruiqiong swallowed in his stomach after his death.

"Guan Peng, do you know the law?"

After hearing so much from him, Fucharzi suddenly asked such a question.

Kneeling in the hall waiting for the murderer, Guan Peng was silent, but he was waiting for him to say something.

"Do you know why all dynasties and dynasties have to repair and set up laws?"

"Because whenever a murder or crime occurs, there must be a law to follow."

"At any time, any ordinary people should not use killing to express their grievances, love, and wealth. It is the same. This world needs justice, but it does not need crimes in the name of revenge. This world needs order, but There is no need for rulings that override the law, and the only thing that maintains justice and order in this world is the Qing law."

"No one is qualified to go beyond the law to be an executioner, because killing is always just killing, and there is no other excuse at all."