Detective in the Red Chamber

"However, I still found a strange place on the body."

As Wuzuo Lao Xu said, he tore off the icy clothes with all his strength, exposing the two arms of the deceased, and then stepped aside, saying, "My lord, please take a look."

Sun Shaozong stepped forward to take a closer look, and Qiu Yunfei also put his head up, but he saw that the two arms were almost the same edema, and there was no difference.

At this moment, Sun Shaozong murmured, "The subcutaneous bleeding of the right arm is obviously more than that of the left arm..."

Subcutaneous bleeding?

What the hell is that?

While Qiu Yunfei was wondering, he saw Sun Shaozong reached out his hands on the two arms, kneaded each of them, and then rolled up the trouser legs of the deceased, rubbing the swollen place for a while.

Not to mention, after touching the first corpse, Sun Shaozong went to the second corpse silently, took off his clothes and did the same thing, then frowned and muttered.

Qiu Yunfei looked at it inexplicably, so he went up and poked Lao Xu's waist, and asked in a low voice, "What is subcutaneous bleeding? Also, what exactly do you want him to see?"

"Look carefully."

Old Xu pointed to the two unicorn arms and explained, "The right arms of the two corpses are obviously more swollen than the left arms and legs, and the blood-red spots oozing out from under the skin are also more than the latter..."

The more Qiu Yunfei listened, the more confused he became, he stomped his feet anxiously and said, "Just tell me what's going on!"

Only then did Lao Xu conclude, "I suspect that the deceased's right arm should have been hit many times with a blunt instrument, unlike other parts where the bones were simply broken."

Qiu Yunfei managed to understand a little bit, but fell into a bigger doubt, scratched his head for a while, and asked subconsciously, "But what's the use of the murderer doing this?"

Unexpectedly, Sun Shaozong said, "You should ask, what is the purpose of the murderer doing this."

Just now when Sun Shaozong was slapped, Qiu Yunfei naturally wouldn't give him a good look, so he slapped his neck and said arrogantly, "Aren't they all the same!"

"Of course not."

Pointing to the right arm of the other corpse, Sun Shaozong said, "The other parts are only broken, but the right arm has multiple comminuted fractures. In terms of actual effect, there is not much difference between the two in a short period of time."

"So what the murderer wants to do is not the effect, but to satisfy a certain purpose."

"Cut~!"

Qiu Yunfei squinted his eyes, and said provocatively, "Listening to what you said, you must have already guessed the murderer's purpose?"

Sun Shaozong shook his head, "I'm not sure yet."

"what……"

Qiu Yunfei smiled complacently, and was thinking of taking the opportunity to belittle Sun Shaozong, but he saw Sun Shaozong put up two fingers, and said seriously, "At the moment, I can only roughly make two kinds of inferences."

"First, the murderer was motivated by revenge. For example, the two men once attacked the murderer with their right hands, which caused injury or psychological shadow to the murderer, so the murderer specifically targeted the right arms of the two men."

"Secondly, the murderer has a problem with his right arm and is likely to be disabled, so he hates people with intact right arms, so when he committed violence, he deliberately targeted the right arms of the two victims."

"If it is the second case, the murderer has at least one accomplice, because it is difficult for a person with a disabled right arm to complete the process of dumping the body alone."

Qiu Yunfei heard what he said logically, but he didn't dare to make mistakes for a while.

When Zhao Wuwei heard this, his face was already full of joy, and he couldn't help saying, "My lord, in this case, as long as the identities of the two deceased are found out, and then they follow the clues to find their enemies, or people with disabilities, this case will be solved." Wouldn't it just break?!"

As he spoke, he was a little eager to try.

At the end of this year, there were two murder cases suddenly, so it is natural that they need to be solved quickly.

Qiu Yunfei on the side said sourly, "It's easy for you to say! These people are dead. If someone reports their loss, it's fine. If no one comes to claim them, where do you go to check their identities?"

"Report to Lord Qiu."

Zhao Wuwei bowed his body, and said in a rather doggy manner, "I'm not talented in a lowly position, but I've seen some tricks. Judging from the outfits and physiques of these two people, as well as the calluses on their hands and shoulders, these two should be two people who are not talented. Liba, who does the work in the market, just need to take their portraits and walk around the market, and you should be able to check them out."

Grandma, this little headhunter actually has better eyesight than her own!

but……

This title of 'Lord Qiu' is not bad, much more pleasing to the ear than any small yamen.

For the sake of the 'Lord Qiu', Qiu Yunfei decided not to worry about it for the time being, he was shrewd in front of himself - but it is still necessary to show off his authority.

So he puffed up his chest and folded his belly and scolded, "Since you have figured out the way, what are you still doing here? Why don't you rush to investigate the case!"

"Follow your orders!"

Zhao Wuwei bowed and shouted to obey, but his eyes were always paying attention to Sun Shaozong's expression. Whenever the judge showed a little displeasure, he would not care about pleasing the small yamen.

But Sun Shaozong just spit out three words indifferently, "You go too."

Although he didn't mention his name, one inspection and one operation in this room, no matter how you look at it, the former is more suitable for investigating the case.

Qiu Yunfei was very reluctant - it's not that he didn't want to investigate the case, in fact, he was very itchy.

This so-called reluctance is mainly because he doesn't want to be ordered around by Sun Shaozong.

Sun Shaozong saw what was going on in his heart, and added, "If you don't want to go, you can stay and help Xu Wuzuo. Cut open the right arms of the two corpses, and see if you can identify the murder weapon through the wound."

"Go, go! Who said I won't go!"

Qiu Yunfei rushed out of the door with a stride, turned around and urged cursingly, "Zhao Wuwei, what are you dawdling about? Why don't you hurry up and investigate the case with me!"

Zhao Wuwei hurriedly went up to him, and carefully corrected, "My lord, I have a humble job and a name of Wuwei."

"What are you talking about, let's go!"

Seeing the two of them leaving the courtyard in a hurry, Sun Shaozong looked back at the corpse on the bed, but there was still a bit of solemnity between his brows.

"grown ups."

Old Xu asked suspiciously, "Could it be that you think there is something strange about this case?"

"I wish I was paranoid."

Sun Shaozong sighed, as if he was answering Lao Xu's question, and also seemed to be talking to himself, "If the murderer and these two people have no enmity, we may have a difficult year."

Chapter 200 Five Dead in Three Days

As the saying goes, a good spirit does not have a bad spirit.

Sun Shaozong's hunch came true!

Although Qiu Yunfei and Zhao Wuwei followed the clues and found out the identities of the two victims in the city, they had nothing to gain except bringing back a group of crying parents and children from their homes.

Those two Liba were not completely without enemies.

But first of all, there is not much enmity between each other, so it is not worth this kind of torture;

Secondly, their enemies are also hard-working Kuhaha, if it is possible to say that killing people is possible, but if it is said that they are willing to pour out a jar of Fenjiu and rent a carriage to throw the body - that is pure nonsense !

And these few days are approaching the New Year's Eve, and the market is very lively, no one noticed at all whether the two Liba left on their own or were hired by others.

As for what Sun Shaozong deduced from the corpse, the person with the disabled right arm was not even seen, which provoked Qiu Yunfei to say a lot of sarcastic remarks behind his back.

And then……

By the next morning, there was another corpse in the morgue!

This time the victim was a beggar, who was also splashed with alcohol and froze to death after his limbs were broken.

The only difference is that the last time the corpse was dumped was in the South City, but this time it was changed to the East City.

"There are about nine miles between the two places where the corpses were dumped. It is almost certain that the corpses were dumped in a horse-drawn carriage."

"And in view of the scope of the deceased's regular activities during his lifetime, there is not much overlap with the two Liba. It can be inferred that the possibility of vendetta killing can be basically ruled out-and it is very likely that it was a cathartic crime without a fixed target."

Sun Shaozong muttered to himself, and on the rough map of Shuntian Mansion, he marked the approximate locations of the two dumping sites, connected them with straight lines, and drew a circle with a radius of four and a half miles from the center point.

Tapped the self-made charcoal pencil on the map, and asked, "Zhao Wuwei, don't mention the inner city and outside the city, within the area I roughly circled, all the people with disabled right arms, How long will it take to check again?"

Zhao Wuwei stepped forward and looked carefully for a while, his face was like a bitter melon, and he said cautiously, "Reporting to the master, this should be left in normal times, if the humble job goes all out, it will be about three or four days, but right now It’s the end of the year, and there are so many people…”

Sun Shaozong didn't bother to listen to his complaints, so he asked straight to the point, "Can the investigation be completed by 28?"

Zhao Wuwei's face became even more bitter, and he said with slumped shoulders, "This is really..."

"If you want to talk about people's hands."

Qiu Yunfei listened for a long time on the sidelines, and suddenly interrupted, "there are plenty of them in the city defense camp, and they are all my father's old units. If I just say hello, young master, I can call hundreds of people to help investigate the case in minutes."

As he said that, the guy pointed his nostril at Sun Shaozong, with a proud expression of 'come and beg me, as long as you beg me obediently, I will help you'.

Unexpectedly, Sun Shaozong shook his head without hesitation and said, "No! In this year's foundation, using the city defense battalion to investigate cases is really too eye-catching, and it will easily cause panic among the common people - if it really messes up this year's festival , even if we can catch the murderer, we are afraid that it will be useless."

"Cut~"

Qiu Yunfei's face collapsed, and he simply stopped talking.

"Xiao Ya Nei is also anxious to solve the case, so he didn't think so much."

Lin Delu on the side hurriedly smoothed things over, "Team Zhao, this matter is hard to return, but you have to investigate what needs to be investigated. You should go to Daxing and Wanping counties to negotiate first, and see if they can deploy some people from there. , try to catch up before the 28th, and screen the places designated by the adults."

"Honestly obey orders."

Zhao Wuwei had no choice but to take orders.

Lin Delu asked Sun Shaozong again, "My lord, do you have any other orders?"

"Not for the time being, there are really few clues right now."

Sun Shaozong shook his head helplessly. If in an ordinary ancient city, a clue of a disabled right arm would be enough to locate the murderer.

However, the permanent residents and temporary residents of Shuntian Mansion have a population of no less than 130 million. Especially now that the New Year is approaching, a large number of foreign merchants and returnees have flooded in. In addition, many people from all over the world have come to Beijing to prepare for the exam in advance...

How easy is it to rely on the hundreds of guards under the jurisdiction of the criminal justice department to conduct screening?

"Governor Lin, keep an eye on the front. If there is any news from Zhao Wuwei, report it to me immediately." Sun Shaozong said, and waved to Qiu Yunfei again, saying, "Come on, follow me to the morgue for a thorough examination. Let's see if we can dig out some clues from the dead beggars."

As he said that, he stepped out of the courtyard of the criminal department first.

Although Qiu Yunfei was very reluctant, but he was afraid that Sun Shaozong would give him a few more slaps in the name of official duties, which would completely embarrass him, so he could only follow along grumblingly.

So on the 24th, Sun Shaozong took Qiu Yunfei in the morgue and spent most of the day, but in the end, except for a pile of vomit from Qiu Yunfei, and the confirmation that the murder weapon was a thick wooden stick like a door latch , there is no gain.

So much so that Qiu Yunfei insisted afterwards that Sun Shaozong deliberately abused the corpse because he wanted to see him make a fool of himself!

The time passed by like this one minute and one second...

In a blink of an eye, it was the 25th of the twelfth lunar month.

"grown ups!"

Early in the morning, as soon as Sun Shaozong got off his horse at the gate of the government office, he saw Lin Delu come out in a hurry, shouting, "Two more died last night! They also broke their limbs and froze to death, and then threw their bodies away!" "

Another crime? !

Killed five people in three days!

This murderer is really rampant!

Sun Shaozong walked in with his face sinking like water, and asked, "Where was the body found? Has it been sent to the morgue?"

"It's still Dongcheng!"

As Lin Delu said, he looked carefully at Sun Shaozong's face, and said, "But it's not within the range you set before."

However, Sun Shaozong didn't respond at all. His delineation yesterday was originally a rough search range. It can only be said that it was the most suspicious place at that time, and it is not certain that the murderer must be within this range.

Lin Delu breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "The body has already been sent, but..."

"But what?"

"However, my lord, please go back to the Criminal Department first—Liu Zhizhong wants to see you first."

Sun Shaozong's feet faltered suddenly, since Liu Chongshan was determined to be promoted, he became a hands-off shopkeeper, in the name of letting Sun Shaozong familiarize himself with the heavy burden of governance in advance.

Now he suddenly summoned himself...

"Has the case already spread outside?"

"No."

Lin Delu smiled bitterly and said, "Five of them died in three days, and they all died so badly—you also know that our Shuntian Mansion has never been able to hide things, and now it has spread all over the city."

As he said that, he hastily added a flattering sentence, "But the common people are not too panic-stricken. They all feel that you are here, and you will be appointed to solve the case as soon as possible!"

tsk~

The expectations of the common people are both motivation and pressure!

Chapter 201 Hand Oven Roasted 'Little Bird'