Detective in the Red Chamber

"My lords..."

"Louder!"

"My lords, this is the place!"

In the end, Chen Jingde almost yelled at the top of his voice, and the earthen wall finally heard it clearly.

"This……"

Huang Bin was puzzled and said, "It didn't seem so difficult when the villain passed the message just now."

"That's because you are talking to the wall with holes, and he is talking with his back to the wall, and there is a considerable distance-if the murderer is really hiding behind the wall, it is not difficult to hear the temptation , but it’s not so easy to hear what the other party is saying.”

"and……"

Sun Shaozong pointed to the hole in the wall. If he really wanted to hide behind the wall to commit murder, he should at least make a hole so that he could peep outside, right?

"What do you mean, my lord?"

"The person who triggered the mechanism is probably not inside the wall, but outside the wall—that is, in the alley or in the courtyard!"

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Chapter 723 What is the motive?

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The person who triggered the mechanism was either in the alley, or in the house at the bottom of the alley? !

Huang Bin was shocked when he heard the words, and for a moment he forgot the superiority and inferiority of the upper and lower levels, and blurted out a question: "My lord, you must have made a mistake, right?!"

It's no wonder he reacted like this. Before Sun Shaozong and others rushed over, the alley was blocked, and all the people who could go in and out were government servants.

Didn't Sun Shaozong's words just now mean that among the yamen servants present at that time, there were gangsters' accomplices mixed in, and they even intended to assassinate senior officials of the fourth rank? !

This

How is this possible? !

However, after questioning, Huang Bin quickly realized that Mr. Sun has a reputation for divine judgment, even if he is just an ordinary official who does not know the name of punishment, how can he allow mere government officials to question him face to face?

Thinking of this, Huang Bin's knees suddenly softened, he knelt down hastily, and said in a trembling voice: "The villain's mouth is clumsy for a while, there must be no other meaning!"

As he spoke, he slapped his two big mouths heavily.

Sun Shaozong ignored him, but frowned as he stared at the hand crossbows all over the wall. First, he looked carefully at the middle and upper parts, then slowly moved his eyes down, and then looked at the head, neck, waist, and back.

In the end, he was almost invisible, lying under the wall and his sight was fixed on a hole almost touching the ground.

This was the only hole that didn't have a hand crossbow set up, but it could never be used for snooping unless what the dead wanted to see was the dirt in the alley on the other side of the wall.

Looking at the slender traces on the inside of the cave wall, Sun Shaozong frowned more and more.

This small hole is very likely to be the fuse of the killing round just now.

And

It has also been given the purpose of recovering evidence!

As I said before, the brackets of those hand crossbows have traces of being rubbed by something, and the marks on each bracket are slightly different.

The difference is the location of the friction marks.

For the hand crossbow located on the left side of the earth wall, the friction marks appear on the upper left of the machine bracket; on the right side, it appears on the upper right; on the central one, it appears directly above

This sounds like nonsense at first glance.

But it actually vaguely indicates where the fuse that pulls the mechanism extends from. If the thief is operating from the front, the most important force-bearing surface is undoubtedly the inner side of the mechanism, not the upper side.

Now these traces fully prove that the strength of the pulling mechanism actually comes from the foot of the earth wall, that is, the hole that is almost close to the ground!

Moreover, after the hand crossbow was triggered, the fuses tied to the machine bracket were further torn off by the murderer, and then passed through the hole.

The evidence is the linear traces in the hole, almost covering the entire body of the cave wall. This must be the trace that can only be left when many thread ends pass through the hole at the same time.

Sun Shaozong got up abruptly, and under Huang Bin's puzzled gaze, he took a few steps back, grabbed the earthen wall with a run-up, and turned back to the alley neatly.

Jumping to the ground against the south wall, Sun Shaozong immediately lowered his body and looked at the hole close to the ground.

But I saw that the ground was empty, and there were no traces of thread slipping.

What's going on here?

It stands to reason that since the lead wire was triggered from outside the hole, some traces should be left behind.

Even if there were no traces left on the ground at the beginning of the layout, traces should be left when all the thread ends are pulled out later.

This is really strange, could the traces have disappeared?

and many more!

An idea flashed in Sun Shaozong's mind, and he didn't bother to get up. He moved five or six steps away with his hands and feet, stretched out his hand to grab a ball of air, but as if he wanted to hold something in his hand, he covered it with his body and pulled it slowly.

wrong!

It should not be pulled like this, because it is too conspicuous.

Sun Shaozong stopped the movements of his hands, thought for a while, and then his fingers began to scroll strangely again, as if something was constantly wrapped around his hands.

After a while, he suddenly stopped all his movements, then suddenly stretched his hand towards his bosom, and reached out to grab it with his left hand.

Yes!

Yes, that's right!

You only need to arrange the thin rope of the trigger mechanism a little higher than the ground in advance, and when you pull it, it will always be taut, and finally use the rings to get stuck in the hole, and then use force to pull it out in one fell swoop.

In this way, there will be no traces left, and the thin ropes on the brackets will be stored in the bag without any traces.

If so, there should be another

Sun Shaozong turned around and began to search the ground.

Not long after, he pulled out a slender iron wedge from not far away.

Sure enough!

This should be what was originally used to hold the leads.

But if this is the case, isn't it only that person can do it?

But it doesn't make sense, does it?

Not to mention that he had no reason to attack Daoyan's master and apprentice, even if there were some shady reasons, he shouldn't have harmed his uncle, right?

He is a well-known filial son in the capital!

That's right, the object of Sun Shaozong's suspicion right now is Su Xingfang who died of his uncle and left in grief.

He was the only one who had the chance just now, he could take advantage of the opportunity of stumbling towards his uncle, and then helping the corpse to cry, to untie the noose on the iron wedge, and then quietly take back those thread ends.

Thinking about it now, he was still wearing a big cloak, not to mention Sun Shaozong, even the two guards on the right front could hardly see his every move clearly.

It was in chaos at the time, and the alley was already dark, so this trick under the watchful eyes of the public also had the prerequisites for its completion.

But what about his motives? !

What motive did Su Xingfang have, to concoct such a trap, and even pay his own uncle for it?

In fact, it’s nothing more than just my uncle, and I can barely explain it by docking my tail for survival.

But if Sun Shaozong hadn't made a timely move at that time, he would probably have been hit by a few poisonous arrows himself!

If all of this was really designed by him, how could he not be on guard in the slightest?

He couldn't have set up these traps just to get him buried with him, right?

Or did he think he would definitely save him?

But at that moment, even Sun Shaozong himself might not be able to escape

Makes no sense!

It really doesn't make sense!

The traces at the scene all showed Su Xingfang's suspicion, but his actions really didn't seem to be the culprit behind all of this.

"grown ups."

Frowning, squatting on the ground thinking hard, Chen Jingde, who finally regained his strength, approached cautiously and inquired: "Do you think we should check the blood in the room?"

"Check, of course we have to check!"

Sun Shaozong suddenly got up and ordered: "You take that Huang Bin and investigate carefully here!"

"As for my officer?"

"Maybe there are still some things to talk about with Suzhi County!"

Chapter 724 Su Xingfang [Part [-]]

on the carriage.

Sun Shaozong opened the iron box on the right, and took out a clay pot filled with hot water from between the two hand stoves, one cold and one hot.

Because it is placed with the hand stove, the hot water poured in by the servants when I go out in the morning is still at [-] or [-] degrees until this time.

He poured some warm water on the veil, soaked the mud on his hands, and after rubbing it several times, Sun Shaozong lifted the curtain and threw the veil casually.

Not long after, I heard a commotion outside, but it turned out that a roadside peddler and two beggars were arguing over the fine brocade veil.

Although this piece of handkerchief is nothing to rich and noble families, if it is washed clean, it can be sold to those shabby households to support the scene, and it can exchange for a lot of copper.

The noise was quickly left behind by the carriage, and Sun Shaozong's mood returned to the current case.

In fact, according to deduction based on the traces at the scene, the murderer has basically been identified, and it is undoubtedly Su Xingfang.

But so far, the two most important things are still missing: motivation and evidence.

Needless to say the lack of motivation.

And although those traces can be linked together, it can be inferred that Su Xingfang is the result of the real murderer behind the scenes, but it still owes some weight to win a sixth-rank county magistrate based on this.

pity!

I was actually coaxed by him at that time, otherwise, if I could find out what was wrong earlier, I would be able to find the rope on the mechanism from him.

In this way, the case will naturally be as solid as a mountain of evidence.

It's too late to regret now, so I can only think of ways to collect other evidence.

Fortunately, although the string that pulls the mechanism can be disposed of, the traces on the body are not so easy to remove...

"grown ups!"

Sun Shaozong was thinking about the case, when the leading yamen officer suddenly flew to report: "The magistrate of Su County is not in the county yamen, I heard that he went home with his uncle's body!"

Went home with the dead body?

Sun Shaozong thought for a while, then opened the curtain and said: "Go and call Jiang Laoqi, the leader of the express team in Wanping County."

The yamen servant agreed, turned his horse's head and rushed to Wanping county yamen again.

Not long after, that Jiang Laoqi [appeared in the case of the naked corpse in Yunshui Lane] was brought to the front.

Through the curtain, Sun Shaozong ordered his servants to give up a horse to Jiang Laoqi, and ordered him to accompany and guide the way to Su Xingfang's house.

That Jiang Laoqi has been the team leader in Wanping County for more than ten years, and he has survived four county magistrates. Naturally, he is not a fool—so he heard that he was guiding the way, not leading the way, so he vaguely guessed Grandpa has something to ask himself.

Therefore, he first smiled and told Zhang Cheng the general route, then slowed down the horse and retreated to a position flush with the car window.

Sure enough, after about a hundred steps, he heard Sun Shaozong ask through the car window: "How is the relationship between Suzhi County and his uncle on weekdays?"

"Alright!"

Jiang Laoqi smiled and said: "The grandfather is very respectful to Cao Butou-to tell you the truth, Cao Butou's wife died two years ago, and he was alone and had no children, so he simply moved to live in the grandfather's house. "

Speaking of this, he suddenly felt that something was wrong - his own words, wouldn't Mr. Sun mistakenly think that the grandfather did not distinguish between public and private, and was seeking benefits for his relatives?

It doesn't matter if Mr. Sun misunderstood, but what should we do if it gets to the grandfather's ears?