Gulou Hutong is located in the northwest of the outer city. It is relatively remote. In addition, the terrain is high and uneven, so there are not many residents. Basically, the local households are mainly run down.
In such places, the security is naturally not very good, and everyone is used to sweeping the snow in front of their doors, and seldom pays attention to unrelated others.
Therefore, last spring, there was a tragedy that an old man who lived alone drowned in his own water tank and was not discovered until midsummer.
In this case, the reason why the report was received early in the morning was because someone wrote six words in blood on the door of the murder scene: "Do your own sin, don't live".
"My lord, because I didn't know that you were going to deal with the case in person, after I checked the scene, I ordered someone to carry the body... Sir?"
Master Qi was leading the way and introduced the situation in detail, but when he got to the courtyard, he looked back, but Sun Shaozong was nowhere to be seen.
He hurriedly turned back and saw that Sun Shaozong was outside, staring at the bloody words on the door.
"grown ups."
Master Qi hurriedly explained: "I have observed carefully, these bloody words are all written with non-dominant hands, and it is not easy to find out the real murderer by means of handwriting - the only thing that can be confirmed right now is This murderer has a certain skill in calligraphy."
These remarks coincided with Sun Shaozong's previous speculation.
Sun Shaozong nodded, but after taking a closer look, he followed Master Qi into the courtyard.
As soon as I entered the gate, I saw three corpses lying in a row under the dilapidated western wall, one of which was covered with a white cloth, while the other two were unobstructed.
The reason for this difference is naturally the identities of the three—as the son of an official, even if Ma Yingjue died, his treatment was different from the two servants.
However, at first glance, the two servants and the portraits Ma Chunfeng painted during his lifetime do not seem to have much resemblance.
This is mainly because the two corpses died of poisoning. Their faces were black and blue, their facial features were ferociously distorted, and they were swollen to a considerable extent. It may be an exaggeration to say that they were completely unrecognizable, but ordinary people want to distinguish their original appearance. But it is difficult.
Only those who are proficient in on-site exploration and know how to use the facial contour and the partial distance ratio of the facial features to restore the basic appearance of the deceased can see the connection between the two.
From this, it can be seen that the professional level of this Master Qi is quite good.
"grown ups."
Master Qi led the crowd to the corpse, first lifted the white cloth, pointed at the young deceased on the stretcher with wide-eyed and mouth-opening mouths, and introduced: "This is Mr. Ma - let's examine his corpse. At that time, I found the words Changlong's old number on the boots, and the date of shipment, and then I found out his identity."
As he spoke, he bent down and carefully peeled off Ma Yingjue's collar, pointed at the blue-purple fingerprints on it, and said, "According to the investigation, Young Master Ma should have died of suffocation caused by strangulation."
"Because when we arrived, his body was still tied to a Taishi chair, and a soft cloth was stuffed in his throat, so there was no trace of struggle and resistance."
"According to the features on the surface of the body, it is speculated that the time of his death should be between yesterday afternoon and evening."
Having said this, Master Qi turned his head and pointed at the two servants who were poisoned to death: "The fingerprints of these two people have been compared below, and they do not match the marks on Ma Gongzi's neck, which can basically be ruled out. The possibility that after the two of them killed someone, they were poisoned to death again."
When investigating cases this year, it was not that they did not pay little attention to fingerprints, but the means of extracting fingerprints were limited. Unless the fingerprints were clearly printed on the neck of the corpse, it would be difficult to compare them carefully.
Master Qi obviously had intentions and wanted to show off his skills in front of Sun Shaozong. After analyzing the fingerprints, he began to analyze the cause of death of the two servants.
"There are three cups on the square table inside. There seems to be some tiny white powder stuck to the bottom of two cups, but there is no similar residue in the jug, so it is inferred that the poison should have been smeared on the cups beforehand. of."
Having said that, Master Qi stepped in and said, "Sir, do you want to go in and have a look?"
"Not for now."
Unexpectedly, Sun Shaozong shook his head and said firmly: "If my inference is correct, it should not be difficult to find out the murderer."
"Not difficult?!"
Master Qi was taken aback. The murderer seemed to have left fingerprints carelessly, but in fact he didn't reveal too much information.
Therefore, Master Qi analyzed all the details of the scene, but couldn't come up with many clues about the murderer, and when Sun Shaozong just arrived at the scene, how could he...
Could it be that he deliberately speaks loudly in front of himself
Thinking of this possibility, Master Qi couldn't help but question: "But I don't know where the adults are going to start to find the real murderer?"
"What about this—Qiu Yunfei, Zhao Wuwei!"
"Xiaguan [villain] is here."
"You immediately go to the government office to convene people. With Gulou Hutong as the center, search all the shops selling pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and ask them if they had regular customers yesterday. They used to use the cheapest and inferior pen, ink and paper, but suddenly bought high-end goods!"
Qiu Yunfei and Zhao Wuwei agreed and took their orders.
Master Qi frowned, hesitating again and again, but still couldn't help but question: "Sir, do you think the murderer bought a new brush alone to write those few words?"
Seeing that although he was trying to control himself, he still couldn't hold back the expression 'Are you kidding me?'.
Sun Shaozong took out the note from his sleeve and handed it to Master Qi: "This is a blackmail letter sent to the Ma family by the murderer on the 25th night."
After Master Qi took a few glances, he explained: "It can be clearly seen on this note that there are signs of bifurcation of curls on the tip of the pen, which shows that it is an old brush."
"Furthermore, according to the analysis of paper and ink, the quality of this brush will not be as strong as that."
"And the door panel is rotten and mottled, the surface is extremely rough, and the difficulty of writing should be more than that of poor quality rough paper - but this official has only carefully observed, the messy marks are obviously less than the former, and there is almost no hair loss. "
"It's obviously a new pen, and it's a new pen of excellent quality!"
"Considering the murderer's accomplishments in calligraphy and the long-term use of inferior four treasures of the study, it is reasonable to have a strong and urgent desire for these things."
Master Qi held the note, and after listening to Sun Shaozong's analysis of this wave, he couldn't help but sigh that he really observed meticulously, but...
"Master, even if this is the case, you can't conclude that he bought the Four Treasures of the Study in a familiar shop, right?" Master Qi questioned: "If he randomly chooses an irrelevant shop, wouldn't we be in vain? "
Sun Shaozong said with a smile: "The reason why I judge like this is because of those six bloody words."
As he spoke, he turned around and pointed to the door, and asked, "What was your first impression when you saw those six bloody words?"
"Arrogant!"
Master Qi blurted out: "The murderer is clearly provoking the government!"
"That's right."
Sun Shaozong nodded and said, "Without these six words, the neighbors may not discover the corpse until it is highly decomposed, and there will naturally be much less useful information at that time."
"But the murderer chose to take the risk and wrote six words in blood on the door, so that the government knew at the first time that three people died here, three people who deserved it!"
"This is both arrogant and showing off!"
"Such a person who is arrogant and likes to show off, but has been depressed for a long time; has a proud hand of calligraphy, but can only afford the cheapest pen, ink, paper and inkstone!"
"Perhaps sometimes he is too cash-strapped and can't afford the money for stationery - even if the store owner doesn't sneer at it, he may have accumulated a lot of resentment in his heart."
"When he suddenly got a large windfall and couldn't wait to get revenge on his past life, do you think he would choose to go to a night in a brocade and go to an unfamiliar shop?"
"So my inference should be about 70%!"