On the sixth day of April, around evening, two men, four women, and six foreigners set up an independent courtyard behind the 'Longsheng Old Store'.
After nightfall the next day, the shop assistant went to the backyard to ask 'whether you need hot water' in accordance with the shop's practice, and found that the courtyard door was wide open, and there was no light inside.
Zhou Bajin was worried that he had recruited a thief, so he hurriedly called shopkeeper Zhao, who came to the store, and went into the house with a lantern to check.
It turned out that the six guests were all lying naked on the ground, with a hole in the heart of the boss!
Even though the shopkeeper Zhao fainted from fright, Zhou Bajin called the guests in the next yard for help before carrying him back to the front.
It's just this delay that things can't be covered up.
When Zhao Wuwei received the report and arrived overnight, he didn't know how many people had entered and left the scene, and there was still a lot of vomit left.
After on-site inspection, it was confirmed that the hands and feet of the six people were bound, and there were multiple wounds on their bodies, which should have been severely beaten during their lifetimes.
The fatal wound was that the chest was cut open and the heart was removed.
In view of this detail, after Wei Ruolan took over the case, he pointed the finger at vendetta, and instructed Master Qi to conduct a more detailed investigation.
However, this careful investigation does not matter, the case has become confusing!
Master Qi said with a wry smile: "At first, I asked the people in the inn to cross-examine, to determine who had been in and out of the inn before and after the incident. Who would have thought that when I asked this question, everyone was unanimous, saying that the six People are still alive and well before evening!"
Since entering the door, Master Qi has always been the one who spoke, and Wei Ruolan only responded twice occasionally, apparently because she felt that she had lost her face by turning to Sun Shaozong for help.
"Are you still alive before evening?"
Sun Shaozong frowned, picked up the case and looked at it, then questioned: "But the autopsy report clearly states that they died from Mao Shi [seven in the morning] to noon [11 noon], how is it possible Still alive in the evening?"
After a pause, he asked suspiciously again: "Could it be that the body had been manipulated by something, which led to a misjudgment of the time of death?"
"Students have been so skeptical."
Master Qi spread his hands and continued with a wry smile: "But after several days of interrogation, no traces were found. Besides, the person in charge of the autopsy is Lao Xu from our house. If there is anything tricky, he should be able to detect it. That's right."
Not to mention Lao Xu's professional quality, this Master Qi is also an old criminal. Since he has already become suspicious, it is reasonable to say that he is unlikely to be fooled.
"in addition."
Master Qi added, "Not only did the six people have their clothes stripped off, but their luggage was also gone. They are not locals, so it is difficult to confirm their identities until now, and it is impossible to determine the motive of the murderer."
Even if there is not much luggage, plus the clothes, shoes and socks of six people, there should be quite a large pile. It is not easy to transport it out quietly...
Binding, beating, gouging out the heart, and possibly even asking something, should also take a lot of time...
Could it be that the inside should be combined with the outside
Sun Shaozong went through all the suspicions in his mind and asked, "Where are the testimony of those witnesses?"
Master Qi hurriedly stepped forward and selected a few from the nearly 100 pages of investigation records to point out to Sun Shaozong: "Lord, please look, all the confessions related to time have been organized by the students in one place."
Looking at the thick stack of records, and looking at his precious appearance, he knew that he had really spent a lot of effort on this case.
Sun Shaozong read these pages of confessions carefully, and found that nearly half of them belonged to the shopkeeper's two-week eight-pound confession, and the remaining half belonged to the couple living in the next courtyard, the shopkeeper of the old Longsheng store, the man from the nearby restaurant, and a wandering Taoist priest.
The content of the confession is roughly as follows:
The shopkeeper is eight pounds for two weeks: Xiaoxiao was called over in the morning and asked what we had in the store. The villain recommended some special dishes. Who knows that the guests were very dissatisfied with the food, and the luncheon is nearby. Ordered a table of wine and food in the restaurant.
Wang Ergou, a guy from a nearby restaurant: Yes, yes, when the villain brought the wine and food, the guests were still alive and well—before [two o'clock in the afternoon], the villain came to collect the dishes, and they were all fine. of.
The shopkeeper has eight pounds for two weeks: The guests must have eaten a few more cups, and then they got up... Hey, you also know that this man and woman are not so innocent when they are playing outside together.
It was probably because the noise was too loud that the couple next door quarreled, and the male guest next door came to the door to argue, and quarreled fiercely with a female guest inside. When the shopkeeper and I rushed over to persuade him, the man had already been kicked out.
The two of us talked at all costs, and the surnamed Ke Ye, who was persuaded, was relieved.
The shopkeeper Zhao of the old Rongsheng store: I heard the quarrel inside first, and then I shouted Bajin and went over to persuade them.
Zhang Kai, who lives next door: I report back to my lord, Zhuojing and I did hear that they were next door to Emperor Hu Tian and Emperor Hu—it should have been around 'Shen Shi' [three o'clock in the afternoon].
I came to the door and asked them to be quieter, but a savage woman came out and scolded me badly!
Yes, yes, one of them is dead, this woman has a horse face, even if it is burnt to ashes, I can recognize it!
Zhang Kai's wife: I wanted to stop my husband at the time, but he insisted on reasoning. Fortunately, he only quarreled a few words, otherwise there would be so many people...
The shopkeeper is eight jin for two weeks: In the evening, a wandering Taoist also entered the backyard for some reason, saying that he wanted to help a few guests feel the bones and fortune-telling, but he was kicked out again.
Shopkeeper Zhao from the old shop in Rongsheng: I actually saw the old man when he entered, but anyway, the following guests were all in the house, so I didn't care too much.
Taoist Li, who traveled around the world: In order to rebuild the temple gate, Pindao wanted to make some incense money in this capital. In the past half month, he has visited dozens of inns in Xicheng. If you don't believe it, you can inquire.
Because the guests may not be in the house during the day, the trails are all fortune-telling in the morning, noon and night.
That evening, before I went in, I didn't explain the matter clearly, a fat man pushed me out - if there was a shop assistant who helped Xiaodao, Xiaodao would have been injured by him long ago.
The shopkeeper has eight pounds for two weeks: I helped Laodao out, and after about a quarter of an hour, the shopkeeper told me to go around the houses to see if the gentlemen wanted to use hot water at night. Who knows...
What? You say they died in the morning? how can that be? ! This is impossible!
Zhang Kai next door: This is impossible! Unless the woman who was arguing with me was actually an evil spirit!
Zhang Kai's wife: Death... a dead person, also... can do... do things like that? !
Shopkeeper Zhao: Big... adults, don't joke, little old man... I clearly heard that the woman was arguing with the guest next door!
Taoist Master Li Yunyou: No wonder that big fat man insisted on driving me out. It turned out that he was transformed by a ghost! Pindao forgot to open his eyes at that time, otherwise...
Zhang Ergou, a guy from a nearby restaurant: Sir, you... The villain doesn't understand what you're saying, the living have to eat, the dead... the dead... the dead shouldn't eat, right
The confession came to an end here.
But what this content is really... is really bizarre!
Six people who died in the morning actually interacted with these many people in the afternoon!
Moreover, Li Daoshi and Zhou Bajin, the last time they saw the deceased was only a quarter of an hour before and after the body was found. At this time, not to mention murder and digging, even if they only stripped their clothes and took their luggage, it would be difficult to do so. Are you there? !
That's not all, Master Qi next to him saw that Sun Shaozong had finished reading, and he added: "According to the investigation of these days, Zhou Bajin grew up in Xicheng since he was a child, and he worked in the old shop in Longsheng for four years, and he never left the capital. ."
"The three generations of shopkeeper Zhao's grandparents have run the old store in Longsheng, and he has never left the capital."
"The Zhang Kai and his wife next door are from the city of Jinmen. They came to the capital for the first time in their lives. The purpose was to visit their sister-in-law who married two years ago. Because they had a quarrel with her brother-in-law, they temporarily stayed at the inn."
"Li Daoshi is from Cangzhou Prefecture, Hebei Province. Six years ago, he became a monk at Qinglong Temple in Tongzhou. He traveled to Beijing for half a month and made a living by groping people's bones and seeing things."
"Wang Ergou, the restaurant guy, was originally from Baoanzhou, Hebei. After the disaster last year, he has been living in the capital, and only came to the restaurant a few days ago to run the hall."
After Sun Shaozong heard it, he was silent for a while, and then he said, "You mean, there is no connection between these witnesses? It's even more impossible to protect each other?"
"Exactly!"