Bo Ruoyou woke up in the morning and was having breakfast when there was a knock on the door of the house.
She was a little surprised, and soon saw Hou Yang coming in from the outside covered in sweat, and Bo Ruoyou stood up to meet him, "Why did you come so early? But what did the arrester find out last night?"
Bo Ruoyou knew that Wu Xiang had captured the suspect and found the coffin nails. Seeing Hou Yang coming in such a hurry, Bo Ruoyou thought that the murderer had a clue, but Hou Yang breathed out, "It's not the girl, it's Bai Niao. There was another murder case in the garden, and the head catcher sent me to ask you to go over for an autopsy—"
Bo Ruoyou's heart sank to the bottom in an instant, and while asking Zhou Liang to get the autopsy cage, he asked, "How did the deceased die?"
Hou Yang said with a pale face, "I was pierced through the head with a nail."
Bo Ruoyou clenched his knuckles tightly in his sleeves, shuddered for a moment, and was pierced through the head with a nail. Isn't this the way to torture and kill the blood sparrow
Getting into the carriage, Bo Ruoyou went straight to the Bird Garden.
When he arrived at the Bird Garden, Wu Xiang was already waiting at the door. He interrogated Song Zhongming in the middle of the night last night, and now his eyes are black and black, and the stubble on his chin is half exposed. Seeing Bo Ruoyou coming, he wiped his face and woke up before getting up welcome.
Bo Ruoyou couldn't help asking: "Didn't you catch a person who hid the coffin nails yesterday?"
Wu Xiang cursed in a low voice, "He is a bird trainer. He confessed later that what was hidden there were not coffin nails, but the money he got greedily by relying on fodder and other birds in the garden. About a hundred Two pieces of silver, which have been hidden in the treasury, did not expect that the silver disappeared, turned into coffin nails, and was captured by the yamen."
Bo Ruoyou was surprised when he heard that, "The silver was replaced by coffin nails?"
Wu Xiang nodded, "We are investigating this matter, but in the early morning, the servants in the garden discovered that someone died again, and his suspicion was completely removed. As for whether he was greedy for money, it is secondary."
Bo Ruoyou pondered for a moment, "Is the murderer trying to transfer you away on purpose?"
Wu Xiang gritted her teeth and said: "It's probably true, and I was careless. After I caught the man, I thought he was the murderer. Last night, there were only two people left in the garden. After midnight, they also rested, and they didn't know Something happened in the garden, if I knew it, I should leave people to guard it as before."
Bo Ruoyou raised her eyes and looked at the lush Bird Garden. The two cases happened in the middle of the night, so it was already certain that there were people in the garden, but there were hundreds of people in the garden, and the murderer was so thoughtful during the period of hiding. It's easy to deal with, "The murderer will use such tricks to divert the tiger away from the mountain. It is indeed quite tricky. Who is the dead? Where did he die?"
"The name of the deceased was Ye Fei, who was also an actress in the garden. As I said yesterday, several of them were originally apprentices of a teacher, and this Ye Fei was one of them. They died in the rockery by the Moon Lake. "
Bo Ruoyou thought about it carefully, "Ye Fei, when he asked Yu Xun's boy in the garden that day, he mentioned this person and said that this person would also tie the auspicious knot on Xun's belt."
"Yes, I did mention it." Wu Xiang said in a cool voice, "Liu Qing, Ye Fei, and a man named Chen Mo, as well as a steward of the Bird Garden, Yu Xun and Jiang Xing's servants, all I took them back to the Yamen for careful interrogation, and they were released early yesterday morning, and in the afternoon I got the news that the coffin nails were found to bring them back, no one expected that something would happen in the evening."
"The murderer must have been waiting for this time a long time ago. He had already set his target. He had to wait for Ye Fei to come back before framing Song Zhongming. He took the courage to strike while most of the government servants in the garden were gone."
Wu Xiang said in a deep voice: "This person first foreshadowed that he was going to kill someone, and even foreshadowed the method of killing. We guarded against it for a few days, but we still asked him to make a move. After nightfall last night, there was no one walking around in the garden. This Ye Fei even took a rest early, but she doesn't know how she got out of her yard."
After a slight pause, Wu Xiang said: "It was a coffin nail that killed Ye Fei, you will know after a while."
Bo Ruoyou nodded, and the two walked along the path to the Moon Lake. When they got to the front, they saw that the Yacha had already surrounded the rockery, and the King of Nan'an stood outside with a pale face, two attendants, one on the left and the other on the other Support him who is crumbling.
Seeing Bo Ruoyou and Wu Xiang, the king of Nan'an County said: "Hurry up and catch the murderer, it's too scary, I won't come here for a few days, if you have anything to do, just ask the manager, after this time , My garden will also be destroyed by that murderer!"
He tremblingly wiped the sweat off his face with a handkerchief, but the cold sweat dripped down as if it couldn't be wiped clean. Bao Ruoyou looked at him, shook his head and walked towards the hole guarded by the yamen.
This rockery is about two feet high, with dwarf pine trees planted on it, it is a wonderful sight in the garden, and the middle of the rockery is hollow, there is a corridor half the height of a person passing through it, Wu Xiang took the lead to walk in the corridor, The Yacha who followed behind said: "Just now, the king of Nan'an County went in to see the deceased, and was almost fainted by fright at that time. We carried him out."
Bo Ruoyou pursed her lips, and soon, she smelled blood.
The corridor was not high, even if she had to lean over a little, it was dark inside, only the occasional hollows could be filled with bright light, the uneven stone road was under her feet, and turning a corner, Bao Ruoyou saw the lying on the ground. corpses on the ground.
This is a hollow stone room with a square meter of one zhang in the mountainside. The overhead is quite high. Finally, everyone can stand up straight and enter from the entrance. The exit is directly in front of it. It is also a dark corridor with a height of half a person.
Lying on the ground was a young man with his hands and feet tied, half-curled up on his side, a sharp coffin nail pierced through his right temple, passed through his entire head, and protruded from his left temple, bleeding It flowed down the wound and gathered into a lake of blood in the low-lying place under the dead body. Because of this, the place was not as well ventilated, and the bloody smell gathered here, which was so pungent and disgusting.
Even though Bo Ruoyou had seen many cruel killing methods, when he saw the corpse, his heart still couldn't stop the chills, and he wondered that Zhao Yue could faint from fright.
Because of the dim light, a yamen guard lit a torch, and Bo Ruoyou put on the gauntlet and rolled up her embroidered mouth, and went forward to do an autopsy.
The body of the deceased was still a little stiff, and the blood flowed down the forehead, covering the face. Bo Ruoyou cleaned the blood on the face, first checked the head, face and the surface of the corpse, and soon, Bo Ruoyou said: "There is a small amount of blood on the eye membrane of the deceased. And white point-like turbidity, the diffusion is not obvious, the corpse spots are dark purple, and the finger pressure does not fade. They are mainly distributed on the left half of the body. , the whole body is stiff, and the body has the same cold and heat as here, and it is preliminarily speculated that the time of death of the deceased should be around midnight last night."
After Bo Ruoyou finished speaking, Wu Xiang asked the yamen officer on the side to check. She briefly checked the neck, hands and feet, etc., and then carefully looked at the wound on the head pierced by the coffin nail. After Ruoyou cleaned it up carefully, the bloody wound was exposed. Cheng Yunzhi said that the forehead is the most vulnerable place, and now, the coffin nail is pierced from here.
After half a stick of incense, Bo Ruoyou straightened up, "The flesh and blood on the wound curled inward. The deceased was nailed to death with coffin nails. This wound is also fatal. The coffin nails are brand new and seven inches long. It is much longer than the coffin nails used to kill the bird last time, it should be that the murderer had planned this long ago and prepared longer coffin nails early in the morning."
The coffin nails were also stained with blood. Bo Ruoyou looked carefully for a moment, "The diamond-shaped engravings on the top of the coffin nails are slightly worn..." She thought for a moment, "What did the murderer use to smash the coffin nails? into the temple of the deceased, although the temple is fragile, it is not easy for the coffin nails to pass through the head, the murderer must have used something like a hammer or a stone."
The time of death was at Zishi, which was almost the same as the time of Yu Xun's death, and the method of killing this time was exactly the same as the method of killing the blood bird by nailing the coffin. Now it can be concluded that the murderer is indeed foretelling the murder.
Wu Xiang showed a dignified look that hadn't been seen for a long time, "I searched his garden, but I didn't see any signs of fighting, but his hands and feet were tied up, what do you think?"
Bo Ruoyou leaned over to look at the knot, "The rope is tied with a slipknot, and it is a very common three-set knot. This kind of knot can be tied by anyone who has done a little bit of binding. The murderer tied the hands and feet of the deceased. , should be to make him suffer the pain of being crucified alive.”
At this point, Bo Ruoyou checked the mouth and nose of the deceased, "there is also a lot of blood in the mouth and nose of the deceased, which must have penetrated the meninges and overflowed. In addition, there are many abrasions in the mouth of the deceased, which should be caused by something stuffed. Let him speak."
Hearing Bo Ruoyou said that the murderer wanted the deceased to suffer from being crucified, everyone felt their scalps go numb. At this moment, Bo Ruoyou frowned, "Except for a few scratches, there are no other external injuries on the deceased. The knots at the wrists and ankles are also very strong, but there are no signs of struggle on his hands, as if the deceased was tied up unconsciously."
Bo Ruoyou looked at Wu Xiang, "Check what Ye Fei ate and drank last night. I suspect that the deceased was unconscious before he was tied up here."