Daqing Criminal Division

"Boom—clang—"

At about two o'clock, there was a sudden sound of a gong on the gate tower of the east city of Chuzhou.

The people passing by pushing carts and picking up baskets from all directions looked sideways when they heard the sound, but they didn't know what was going on above.

Just now, people from the government surrounded the entire outside of the East City Gate.

He also told the passers-by one by one that from the moment of Sishi, this place will be the same as the day of the Ghost Festival last month for the time being.

The East City Gate neither allowed people from outside to come in nor people from inside to go out, which made the people in Chuzhou feel a little puzzled at first.

But since the yamen has already said so, the people inside and outside the city gate can only temporarily detour to go elsewhere, leaving only a few idlers who are blocked and do not leave here to watch the excitement.

At this moment, when I looked up, I saw a group of knife catchers on the top helping to carry a gong, and another man who looked like a blind man in broad daylight stood aside in a dark place, and looked at the city gate in the distance. edge situation.

The position where he stood was the watchtower that originally guarded the station.

Then, it will be clear at a glance who Fucharzi himself will play next.

This scene was just like the night of the Ghost Festival last time.

The 'guard' will temporarily leave for half a moment when he is deserted, and everyone who enters and exits the city gate will be discovered by him at a high place when he only runs halfway.

Seeing this, it was the first time to see such a rare thing in broad daylight, and the people who surrounded it on all sides, who seemed to be lively, also started talking in Chuzhou dialect from the bottom to the top.

"Hey, what are those people in the yamen on the top doing?"

"I don't know, I just heard that the person who passed by just now muttered that the government figured out a way to catch the 'ghost' who killed the woman and threw the body on the Ghost Festival." "Catch the 'ghost'? Just by running How to catch those who ran away? Could it be that they are talking nonsense and deceiving people."

Having said that, the locals in Chuzhou didn't quite believe it.

It happened to be a sunny day today, and it was quite hot to stand here just to watch the excitement, but no one wanted to disperse or leave. In the distance, everyone saw a small yamen servant in short riding boots striding forward with half a bag. A bag of white rice, quickly ran out from the city gate.

He was originally a small yamen servant with the sharpest legs and feet in the government office of Chuzhou.

He usually runs very fast, not to mention ordinary pickpockets and thieves, even if you search the entire state government office, you may not be able to run fast.

So when he was on a business just now, he was recruited by Ma Zixiu and rewarded with some money, and he started to help with the crime simulation scene.

The so-called crime scene simulation.

It is to let an individual repeat the behavior that the murderer might have done that night under a hypothetical situation with the same conditions.

This method needs to be based on the premise that the footsteps of people's running are always the same, and the distance and time of each time cannot be too different.

That's why Fuchaerzi said to Ma Zixiu suddenly and beside him that if he wanted to prove how the other party 'walked back' to Chuzhou City, he might as well find someone to experiment with himself.

Also since just now, the little yamen servant under the tower has already done this twice running back and forth under the tower.

The role he plays is the 'murderer', and the rice bag in his hand represents the 'corpse'.

Ma Zixiu on the side is the 'bell' to remind the time is coming.

As for the distance between them, it is the road from the city gate to the river outside the city, which is also the road that the murderer walked at night when the first murder happened last month.

For the first time, the 'murderer' used the original speculation of the government at the beginning.

That is to sneak over the fence with the corpse in the dark, and use the fastest speed to reach the river ditch on the opposite side before the watchman finds himself.

The second time, he used what Ma Zixiu said to find a visual blind spot.

Sneaking past from the side, he saved himself the time of climbing over the fence, and escaped from the city with the corpse at one time during the guard rotation.

This process takes a whole moment.

Every time, the little yamen servant who played the role of the 'murderer' was immediately spotted by Fucharzi who played the role of the 'guard' halfway through his run.

And Ma Zixiu rang the gong at the side to represent the failure of the experiment.

This also shows that there is nothing wrong with the two points that Fucharzi helped deny earlier, and neither of these two methods can achieve this, that is, the 'impossible crime' is established.

But everyone understands that there are no real 'ghosts' in this world.

The person who murdered and dumped the corpse had just used ordinary people's thinking and visual deception to complete a process of dumping the corpse from the city.

Waiting for the little yamen servant to finish running again and put down the sack in his hand.

Standing on the city gate, but closing his eyes and avoiding the light, Fucharzi heard the yamen servant and Ma Zixiu shouting again, so he opened his mouth and said,

"Catcher horse, try the third method I mentioned now."

"Remember, I'm still a 'guard', but I don't know what you guys are doing. I'll leave halfway, and just tell the yamen officer running out below what we're going to do."

"Oh, oh, you wait."

Ma Zixiu answered these words crisply.

Although he has been watching from the side what Fucharzi told him to do from the very beginning, in fact, up to now, his mind has not really turned around.

It can be said that everything can only be convincing if seeing is believing.

Then this opportunity in front of him is the best evidence to prove what happened that night when the body was thrown away bizarrely.

After waving his hand, Ma Zixiu made a gesture with the little yamen servant under the city gate who was happily setting off from a distance with white rice on his back.

It's also the strange 'password' of hitting each other up and down.

The little yamen servant of Deling first bent down and set off from the city, and then trotted again.

"Boom—clang—"

Gongs and drums sounded.

It can be seen with the naked eye that the footsteps of the little yamen servant this time are basically the same as the previous two times. Even this time, he still used the stupid method of climbing over the fence at the beginning.

During this period, Fucharzi imitated the situation of that night again and left at half a quarter of an hour.

The little yamen servant with the rice bag on his back pretended to be in the middle of the night again, and stopped in the direction where the card was about to be discovered by the guards between the river ditch and the city gate.

According to the original situation, he should be caught in the next second.

But at this moment, an 'unexpected' scene happened.

Because this time, the little yamen servant who had been told by Fucha Erji in advance did not continue to run forward.

Instead, he threw the rice bag that replaced the 'corpse' on the ground in the middle, took off his official hat, changed to a different bunt, and ran back.

He pretended to be a 'murderer' and deliberately ran back, not only Ma Zixiu, but also the common people watching the excitement around him.

Because no one expected that this 'murderer' was going to escape just now, so why would he take the initiative to run back.

At this time, the 'guard' from the night of the Ghost Festival also just came back.

As soon as he lowered his head, he saw the little yamen servant running towards him like a person from outside the city. According to the 'rules', the 'guards' would not allow anyone to enter at this time.

So Fuchaerzi, who took the job of 'guard', immediately shook his hand under the eyes of everyone, and signaled that the 'murderer' was not allowed to enter the city gate.

In this way, the 'murderer' turned around and left smoothly, picked up the 'corpse' that had been left on his back, and left in a dignified manner.

From start to finish, this method is unbelievably simple.

But it was precisely because he walked forward at first, and then used the second half of the same path to go back backwards, all this completely concealed the fact that he originally went out from the city gate.

Therefore, the murderer was not a person who wanted to enter the city at that time, but a person who successfully left the city with the body and did not come back until the next day.

It was based on this that the guards said that they did not see anyone passing through the East City Gate that night.

Because, in the eyes of the guards, the person who walked out of the East City Gate was the person who wanted to come in at that time.

"Yuan, so it turned out to be like this?"

"The murderer used such a simple method to get out of the city, isn't that right? Now go and find out who are the people who wanted to enter the city that night, so that you can help the master catch the person who killed Mei Chu that night. Is it really murderous!"

"Well, that's it if nothing happens. Now you can go to the guard that night and ask him who really wanted to enter the city that night."

These words made Ma Zixiu, who had been dreaming for a month and wanted to catch the murderer, to rush there in a hurry, hating himself for being trapped in the simplest blindfold and not thinking about it.

Fucharzi also felt that there was no problem when he heard it.

After all, by any measure, the misunderstanding about how the murderer came to the city has been solved.

Unexpectedly, when Ma Zixiu went to find the guards, he wanted to quickly confirm the affairs of the people who entered the city that night.

At this time, another piece of news happened to come from the Yamen, but it completely pushed the case into another mystery.

A completely unexpected mystery that makes the case feel again.

……

At noon that day, neither Fuchaerzi nor Ma Zixiu came back.

Upon learning of this, Wu Linzhu ran out halfway to ask questions, and brought back a sentence, saying that Detective Fucha seemed to have other matters at the moment, and asked him to help pass it on, saying that he would not be back until evening .

Regarding this, Duan Xiao didn't know what someone was doing this time.

But he was already busy with the autopsy in the afternoon, no matter what the man thought this time, he just pretended nothing happened.

However, the two of them have different styles of dealing with things. If it is said that he wins by observing details, that person is relying on the sword every time.

It's also almost past time.

Duan Xiao went back to Yizhuang after eating a meal provided by the yamen by himself.

This time, he followed Zhang Meichu and Ruan Xiaoyi, who had already partially dissected in the morning, and put the autopsy on the two adult women behind.

In order to determine whether the source of the four corpses is their own, rather than someone else's impostor.

The yamen usually records whether they had any past diseases during their lifetime. For example, Cao Sun's gynecological diseases and palace pendant disease, which were detected by Duan Xiao, were specifically mentioned in the file.

But it was also he who used the needle and thread to finish sewing the stomach of No. 3 deceased Cao Sun, and after the normal search after the gastric juice in the body was emptied.

But Duan Xiao found something a little strange on the body of the last deceased, Ma Fenghuang.

Because when he was inspecting the buttocks of the severely abused corpse among the four female corpses, he happened to notice a place that was not mentioned in the files about Ma Fenghuang himself.

Of course, the inspector before the state capital was meticulous.

But the other party will not, on this basis, also verify the unknown diseases that are not mentioned in the dossier one by one.

In addition, Ma Fenghuang's chopped-up body was mutilated, and the lower half of his body was bloody and bloody. Therefore, under such conditions at that time, it was very difficult to conduct a thorough inspection.

But because of this swipe, Duan Xiao happened to notice some abnormal pustules on her fingers.

It was this detail that made him pause.

Logically speaking, Duan Xiao is not a doctor, and it is impossible for the deceased to have any hidden illness before he was alive, and he can see what it is at a glance.

In addition, the first autopsy did not mention this point, so it is not easy for him to jump to conclusions.

Therefore, he lifted the right hand of the fourth deceased through the white cloth, turned over her already swollen and white finger pads, and took another look.

--This is?

When he saw clearly the plum red sore on the finger that had been deliberately concealed, Duan Xiao's shoulders also paused.

It turned out that one of Ma Fenghuang's fingers had several small red sores sporadically distributed on the pad.

The surface of this strange rotten sore seems to have scabbed over, turning into a few small lesions.

But the round sores with powdery white dots in the middle are still densely covered on the back of the woman's fingers, and it makes people feel inexplicably numb just looking at them.

It was also this scene, and Duan Xiao, who was asked to withdraw his hand and no longer approach the corpse, lowered his head and thought for a while, then quickly called Wu Linzhu who was waiting on the side to come over.

"Wu Linzhu."

"Yes, Master Duan, what's the matter?"

"The last time the magistrate from the county government came over for an autopsy, did the government examine Ma Fenghuang's body for some internal diseases?"

"Dirty, dirty? No, no... why do you ask this?"

Wu Linzhu asked this question, but Duan Xiao remained silent.

When he saw him use another clean hemostatic forceps to tear apart the piece of rotten flesh that had formed blood on Ma Fenghuang's lower butt bit by bit, Duan Xiao saw that although there were not many pustules, the symptoms were indeed correct. It was as I guessed, so I opened my mouth and said,

"Look here."

These words attracted Wu Linzhu to look over curiously.

Seeing the weird festering circular pustules attached to the back of the female corpse's hand and fingertips like white plum blossoms, the young but disgusting apprentice was dumbfounded for a moment.

"This, this is not..."

"Well, there are red bayberry sores on her body, and it is very likely that...the murderer infected her the last time."

Duan Xiao opened his mouth again.

It turned out that Ma Fenghuang was suffering from extremely rare bayberry sore, which is syphilis, a very serious venereal disease.

Generally speaking, this disease is more common in the land of fireworks.

Once infected, the disease can spread from the body all the way to the face, hands and feet, festering hair, until it causes inflammation and death.

Intercourse with patients who suffer from such diseases will often lead to cross-infection. Once infected with this disease, it is difficult to cure it even if it takes decoctions every day.

Ma Fenghuang, as a low-level woman, has been engaged in skin and meat trading in the state capital for many years, so it is not unusual for her to have this disease all the time.

However, the bayberry sore that Duan Xiao experienced on Ma Fenghuang's upper body was more like being infected after death, and it didn't really spread on his body at all.

But if Ma Fenghuang really had heart disease early in the morning, her nose would be the first thing she would rot given how much she accompanied guests every day.

Because the most obvious thing in the middle and late stages of syphilis disease is that the nose will fester.

But Duan Xiao looked at her nose afterwards, but it was intact, which meant that the bayberry sore was not her own, but it was the last stain on it when she was dying.

However, what is even more strange is that if this is really the syphilis left in the body of the murderer who killed Ma Fenghuang when he raped her for the last time

Then the bodies of the first victim, Zhang Meichu, and the second victim, Ruan Xiaoyi, should have left traces of infection such as bayberry sores.

As Duan Xiao thought about it, he felt that the case and the autopsy had become more and more strange.

In the dark, it seems that there is a mystery in front of you, but it is difficult to get rid of it and find the truth.

Afterwards, Duan Xiao made this accidental discovery and was not in a hurry to tell anyone.

He still needs to get another person to verify it carefully before he can confirm whether the female corpse Ma Fenghuang really has the special and special 'evidence' he guessed.

However, since he had already seen the four female corpses in red sleeping shoes, so far, all the clues he could find from these corpses were almost the same.

It was night, and Duan Xiao went back to the Chuzhou mansion alone.

During the whole day, he didn't see Fucharzi's people come back.

It's getting dark now, and it seems a bit weird that someone doesn't know where he is.

But when Duan Ou returned to his place, he fetched some hot water first, and was about to wash it again to see whether it was still stained with corpses during the day, and a person appeared just like that.

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