Sun Shaozong raised his head slightly, pointed to the footprints on the ground and asked, "Whose footprints are these?"

"It belongs to slaves."

Immediately someone responded crisply, but who else could it be if it wasn't a mandarin duck?

She stepped forward and explained, "Because I went back yesterday, the shoes were soaked in mud and water, so the servant girl specially picked this thick-soled one--as for the pattern on it, I used to have nothing to do, so I carved it randomly." of."

When Sun Shaozong heard this, he looked at Yuanyang's feet, but Yuanyang's pomegranate skirt was almost as long as the ground, and his feet were tucked under the skirt, so there was no clue at all.

So he ordered again without doubt, "lift your feet up and let me see the soles of your shoes."

Yuanyang's face turned red, and she was quite hesitant. She originally had to hide in the Sun's house because of Jia She's coveting and molesting her, so she was naturally the most sensitive about such matters.

Just looking at Sun Shaozong's serious look, it doesn't seem like he intends to tease him, so after hesitating for a moment, Yuanyang still clenches his silver teeth, carefully lifts the corner of the skirt, sticks out his left foot out of the skirt, and shows it to Sun Shaozong.

It's just that she was nervous and inexplicable, and she wanted to assume the independent posture of a golden rooster, and her natural feet, which were neither big nor small, trembled slightly in mid-air, which was really hard for people to see clearly.

Sun Shaozong simply grasped the arch of her foot, held the thick-soled embroidered shoe in his palm and looked at it carefully.

But I saw that on the inch-thick wooden base, an oval flower was carved out with a relief technique, and the veins of the stamped petals on the foot were caused by the ravines of different depths on it.

In fact, this is similar to the patterns on the soles of the later generations. The difference is that the patterns on the soles of later generations are for anti-slip, while the patterns under the embroidered soles are purely for good looks.

"ah!"

At the same time, Leng Buding's jade feet were pinched by a big hand like a palm fan, Yuanyang couldn't help exclaiming, and wanted to break free, but how could it compare to Sun Shaozong's brute force?

For a moment, he was so ashamed and annoyed that he didn't know what to do, but suddenly he felt a slight light on the arch of his foot, but it was Sun Shaozong who took the initiative to let go, got up and said thoughtfully, "Could it be that the murderer used a method of pretending to be fake?"

Muttering a few words to himself, he ignored the mandarin ducks, and ran towards the gate excitedly, and shouted loudly from a distance, "Quick, put the carriage back on quickly, and take me to Fayuan Temple! Send someone else Notify the government office and let people send the abstinence and abstinence to Fayuan Temple!"

But he said that Yuanyang watched him go away, and he didn't know whether to be thankful or ashamed. When he turned around and saw the servants in the mansion, they all looked at him narrowly. "What are you looking at? Hurry up and plant the chrysanthemums, otherwise, if you delay like this, no one will even think about eating at night!"

Seeing her showing off her masculinity, everyone ran around in a hurry and nervously.

However, after no one noticed her, Yuanyang stood back on the path with a straight face, but her heart became more and more restless, and she always felt that her left foot was warm, as if it had been branded with some kind of mark.

And that night, Sun Shaozong made a mistake in his busy schedule, and the scene of holding himself in his arms and rubbing wantonly, was even more lingering in his mind.

Bah~ Bah~ Bah~

I specified that Ping'er had led me to the wrong, otherwise why would I keep thinking about these shameless things!

Yuanyang spat three times in her heart, tried her best to suppress the chaotic thoughts in her heart, and regained her energy to start directing on the spot.

Chapter 460

During the daytime, the Gongde Forest of Fayuan Temple is solemn and solemn, especially the reliefs of Buddha statues on the stele, all of which are majestic with treasures, showing the scenery of a pure land of Buddhism.

But on a pitch-black night, when you are in it, you can see the shadows of the stone stele, and it feels like a cemetery is only a bit of a bun.

Especially from time to time, there will be a few wild dogs barking from nowhere, and those who are less timid may not dare to go deep into it.

Sun Shaozong's courage is naturally unquestionable, so after arriving at Fayuan Temple, in order to hurry, he simply passed the temple gate and did not enter, and went directly to the back of the temple, without even picking a lantern, and strode into the merit forest .

Although it was difficult to discern the direction in the dark, following the only firelight, Sun Shaozong found the murder scene with ease.

Several yamen servants guarding this place were originally sitting around the bonfire. Seeing Sun Shaozong's sudden appearance, they hurriedly got up and went forward to salute.

It's not easy to be on duty in the wilderness this night. Sun Shaozong originally wanted to encourage them a few words to show his usual attitude of being close to the people, but as soon as he got closer, he smelled a sour smell of alcohol.

Apparently these guys were secretly drinking together just now.

Immediately, he was too lazy to waste any more words, and just ordered straight to the point, "Give me a torch!"

The yamen servants knew that they had broken the rules, and they were timid at first, lest Sun Shaozong would blame him, but when they heard that he had not pursued it, they immediately seemed to have received an amnesty, and you fought for it. Respectfully delivered to Sun Shaozong.

Sun Shaozong took the torch, first walked around the scene half a circle, and found the footprints he had stepped on during the day, then carefully arrived at the place where Jie Nian lay dead, and bent down to carefully examine the dog paw prints on the ground.

From the flower reliefs on the soles of the mandarin ducks, Sun Shaozong roughly deduced that the murderer may have used a similar technique to carve out the appearance of dog paws on the soles of the shoes. Hidden in disguise.

With this technique, if there is only one dog paw on each shoe sole, it is naturally impossible to distinguish among the many messy dog ​​paw prints.

However, the paws of ordinary wild dogs are much smaller than the soles of human feet. If only one paw was carved out, the murderer would be equivalent to stepping on stilts. On the slippery ground, the difficulty of attacking is simply outrageous.

And once Jie Nian sees his flaws, he can be killed in minutes!

Even a fool would not take such a risk, let alone the murderer was cautious.

Therefore, there should be at least two or more dog paws carved on the murderer's feet, so as to maintain a better balance, so as not to lose the game if he falls first and loses everything.

But in this way, every time the murderer stepped on the mud, there would be dog paw prints at equal intervals. If it was unintentional, it would still be difficult to distinguish. Naturally, it is much simpler.

But even so, Sun Shaozong searched for more than a quarter of an hour before he finally found what he was looking for—three dog paw prints arranged equidistantly in the shape of a character!

"What a cunning fellow!"

Looking at the dog's paw print, Sun Shaozong couldn't help laughing and cursing with anger and joy.

But it turns out that the three dog paw prints are not only different in size, but also have different orientations. At first glance, there is nothing strange about them. If it weren't for Sun Shaozong's conclusion, and repeated comparisons , I can't say I'm going to be fooled by it.

After laughing and cursing, Sun Shaozong straightened up and told the officials who were watching from afar, "Keep two people here, and the rest should bring torches and follow behind me!"

Naturally, the yamen servants did not dare to be negligent, so they hurriedly left two with bad eyes standing here, and the rest followed behind Sun Shaozong, following the dog paw prints in the shape of a Chinese character, all the way to the mountains and forests in the north.

At the beginning, it was quite difficult for Sun Shaozong to find it because the government servants destroyed a lot of traces when they searched.

But as he gradually moved away from the scene of the crime, the dog paw print in the shape of a Chinese character "pin" lost its cover, and there was nowhere to hide.

At this time, the yamen servants behind finally found out the strangeness of the paw prints, and they all became inexplicably excited. If Sun Shaozong hadn't told them to follow behind him, they might have rushed to the front in excitement.

And just like this all the way to the northeast corner of Gongde Forest, the dog's paw print suddenly disappeared without a trace, replaced by the footprints of ordinary human shoes.

Obviously, after coming here, the murderer took off the shoe with the dog's paw carved on it.

Sun Shaozong's spirit was lifted, and he wanted to start an investigation right away, and put the torch down, but he almost burned his finger - only then did he realize that the torch had burnt less than a foot long.

"Give me a new torch!"

So he hurriedly asked the yamen servant behind him for an unused torch, and after lighting the old one, he stooped down and searched the ground inch by inch.

Not long after, Sun Shaozong found some fresh sawdust among those footprints.

The murderer was indeed cautious. Before throwing away the shoe with the dog's paw print, he actually chopped it into pieces!

Rubbing the solid and heavy sawdust, Sun Shaozong looked up at the dense jungle not far away, and immediately gave up the idea of ​​going in to search for debris and murder weapons—not to mention whether they can be found, but to go in with a torch, in case Accidentally igniting a wildfire is no joke.

So after he carefully put away the fragments, he searched the vicinity carefully.

But this time, it took him about two quarters of an hour before he found two thread ends that had been trampled into the mud in the middle of a footprint.

These two thin threads are only as thick as hair, slightly curved, showing a dark yellow color, and the whole body is only as long as half a fingernail. But like finding a treasure, he burst out laughing.

It's a pity that the status of the yamen servants around him is too low, no one came up to ask "Why are you laughing?", which greatly reduced his full of surprises.

So after laughing a few times, Sun Shaozong raised his hand and said decisively, "Let's go, go with me to the temple to accuse you of being serious!"

As the saying goes, cleverness is misunderstood by cleverness. If the murderer hadn't set up a trap to try to link Jie Nian's death with the evildoer, and just discarded the murder weapon after the murder, Sun Shaozong might not be able to catch him.

But right now...

If Sun Shaozong's prediction is correct, he only needs to do a simple inspection, and the real culprit will be revealed!

Chapter 461

When Sun Shaozong rushed to Fayuan Temple, not only Jie Chen and Jie Xiu had already been brought over, but Wei Ruolan, Qiu Yunfei, and Master Qi had also been waiting in the hall for a long time.

Seeing Sun Shaozong coming in from the outside, Qiu Yunfei was the first to meet him, his eyes widened and he said curiously, "My lord, in the middle of the night, you asked someone to bring the two bald donkeys back to the temple. Did you find out some important clues?" ?!"

It is said not to scold monks in front of a bald man, but he is good. He yelled at the bald donkey and bald donkey in the temple, and he did not know how many monks and monks glared at him.

but……

Whether they like it or not!

As long as this serial case is solved, are they afraid that they will sue the Supreme Emperor because of a few words of "bald donkey"? !

Therefore, Sun Shaozong didn't bother to correct Qiu Yunfei's words, the corners of his mouth slightly curled up, and he said with a smile, "You really guessed it. I just found a key clue. If my deduction is correct, I just need to check it again. We will be able to determine who the murderer is."

"Really? What..."

"Amitabha."

Without waiting for Qiu Yunfei to ask again, the idiot monk who was behind him came out more and more, proclaiming the Buddha's name and saying, "Dare to ask Master Sun how to check it? As long as the murderer can show his original shape, everyone in this temple will definitely follow him."

"There's no need to be so serious."

Sun Shaozong smiled, his eyes fell on Jie Xiu and Jie Chen, and then slowly moved down, stopping on the dark blue shoes of the two, and then raised his hand to point out, "Just let the two masters take off the shoes on your feet." shoes and socks, you can tell the truth at a glance.”

Take off your shoes and socks to know the truth?

Everyone was a little baffled. Could it be possible to tell who the murderer is by looking at their feet?

Jie Chen couldn't help snorting, and said with a smile, "Sir, don't you think that the murderer has two dog paws?"

But even though he was laughing, he still bent down to take off the cloth shoes on his feet.

However, at this moment, Jie Xiu suddenly asked in a deep voice, "Isn't it too childish to investigate the case like this, my lord? I have practiced for more than ten years, and I have never heard that you can judge someone just by looking at their feet." Is it the murderer! If Master Sun did this just to avoid being reprimanded by the court, and prepared to make false accusations, wouldn't we be wronged in vain?!"

Jie Chen also stopped taking off his shoes, nodded his head and said, "That's right, although taking off your shoes and socks in public is nothing, but if Mr. Sun wants to convict me with empty words without any real evidence, it is Don't even think about succeeding!"

Seeing the two people's reaction like this, the smile on Sun Shaozong's face became a little bit stronger - just now he was actually only [-]% sure, but now it has reached [-]%!

"I naturally have real evidence."

He heard him say loudly, "Compared to the previous three murders, because the intention was to make Jie Nian's death look like a dog causing trouble, the murderer deliberately came up with a clever trick to confuse the fake with the real fish's eyes--as everyone knows, it was this superfluous clever trick that actually left him behind." A fatal flaw has been made!"

"so."

Master Qi couldn't help being curious and said, "My lord has successfully solved the mystery of the footprints?!"

"Yes."

Sun Shaozong nodded and said, "The mystery of the so-called footprints is actually simple to put it bluntly. It's just a pair of wooden clogs."

"Clogs?"

"That's right, but they are not ordinary clogs, but a pair of clogs with the wooden teeth carved into the shape of dog's claws!"

"The murderer confuses his own footprints with the paw prints of wild dogs, so as to create the illusion that there are only footprints in the scene."

"After a detailed investigation, the officer has successfully found the murderer's footprints - three finished glyphs, dog paw prints arranged at equal distances!"

"I led people to trace the paw print all the way, and found some debris of clogs in front of the dense forest in the northeast. Obviously, the murderer threw the clogs into the dense forest after destroying the body and removing the traces."

"absurd!"

When Sun Shaozong said this, Monk Jiexiu suddenly sneered and said, "Could it be that Mr. Sun can deduce who the murderer is based on just a few pieces of wood chips? Or is it that the name of the murderer is engraved on the wood chips?!"

At this time, everyone present, especially Wei Ruolan and others, have already seen that there is something wrong with this retired monk. During the previous cross-examination, he was obviously more cooperative than Jie Chen, and he didn't say a word of harsh words, but now he ...

However, what the monk Jiexiu said is not completely unreasonable. Just relying on some sawdust, it is indeed impossible to determine who the murderer is-not to mention the sawdust, even if the complete wooden clogs are found, it seems that it can only confirm Sun Shaozong’s inference, but not the murderer. Who exactly.

"With just a few sawdust, of course it won't work."

At this time, Sun Shaozong took out another handkerchief from his sleeve pocket, spread it out carefully, and showed it to everyone, "But it is enough to reveal the real murderer with these two hemp threads!"

Twine?

Everyone became even more baffled. Qiu Yunfei, Wei Ruolan, Master Qi, and even Monk Liao Chi went up to have a look, but they saw that it was just two small ordinary hemp threads, and the shape seemed to be from a certain hemp rope. It fell from the sky, but what's so special about it?

"What a joke!"

Jie Xiu raised his head and said with a sneer, "Master Sun said that two pieces of twine and a few pieces of sawdust are so miraculous. The poor monk is really curious now. How can you tell the truth from these two thin threads? What is the ironclad evidence!"

Faced with his aggressive attitude, Sun Shaozong became more and more confident, and grinned and said, "To be honest, it is actually very simple."

"The sawdust is tough and strong, and it should be made of red sandalwood, which is used to carve Buddha statues—although local materials are used in the temple, which reduces the risk of going out to purchase wood, but the weight of this pair of clogs is not enough. Therefore, they are much heavier than ordinary clogs."

"Especially, the murderer made the clogs wider and longer in order to separate the three dog's paws as much as possible."

"How can such a pair of heavy wooden clogs be worn out to kill people? How can they be as loose as ordinary clogs? Naturally, they should be tightly bound to the feet!"

When Sun Shaozong said this, he stretched out two fingers and said, "The murderer has two choices. One is to simply make a pair of boots with clog soles."

"However, although the shoes are convenient to wear, they are a bit difficult to make, and more materials are used, and they are easy to show flaws—besides, why is it necessary to make a pair of shoes that are thrown away after use so cumbersome? "

"So the murderer chose the second option, making ordinary clogs, then wearing a few more hemp ropes, and tying them to the feet for reinforcement!"

"However……"

The smile on the corner of Sun Shaozong's mouth turned cold, he stared at Jie Xiu's feet and said, "When you walk with such a heavy clog firmly tied to your feet, the falling force is definitely not comparable to that of ordinary clogs. Even if you wear a single shoe on your feet, There will definitely be strangle marks!"

"That's why I concluded that as long as the shoes and socks on the feet are taken off, the murderer will have nowhere to hide!"

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