Gu Qi's case-solving manuscript

The dusk is heavy and the summer wind is blowing.

It was already nightfall when Gu Qi and Xu Yihua returned to the Yamen, dimly lit lanterns were lit on both sides of the street, swaying in the wind.

Tonight's night is extremely dark, there are no stars in the night sky, if it is not for the dots of lights, I am afraid that I really can't see my fingers.

When they came to the backyard, Zhong Benli and Mrs. Zhong were preparing to have dinner, Cui'er and Xing'er had just put the food on the table, when Gu Qi and Xu Yihua stepped into the door in the dark.

"Master Zhong." Xu Yihua naturally provoked the topic, cupped his hands slightly and said, "Student has an unfeeling request, and I hope you can agree."

"Young Master Xu, it's all right." Zhong Benli said with a smile, "If I can help, I will definitely help."

"Students want to do an autopsy."

"Open the coffin for autopsy?" Zhong Benli didn't understand, "Hasn't Mr. Xu already experienced the corpses of Ye Xiashi and Shi Bin, and their corpses are now in Yizhuang, and they have not yet been put into the coffin. .”

Xu Yihua raised his head and said slowly: "The students are not examining their bodies, but the body of Xiaodie, a woman from Zhangjia Village who died three years ago without a father or mother."

"Snapped----"

The clear and crisp sound of porcelain falling from the bowl and chopsticks startled several people in the room, and Tweety stood there, thinking of something, staring blankly at Xu Yihua, her face turning pale.

"Tweety, why are you so careless." Mrs. Zhong tapped Tweety's forehead reproachfully, "Myolie, help her clean up the debris on the ground."

After listening to Mrs. Zhong's words, Tweety'er was still as dazed as before, until Xing'er gently pulled her sleeve, then squatted down, picked up the broken porcelain and left in a hurry.

"Alas." Seeing Tweety's leaving back, Mrs. Zhong sighed helplessly, got up and said, "Master, I feel a little uncomfortable, I should go back to rest first."

Zhong Benli hurriedly got up and said with concern: "Why do you feel unwell, did you eat something bad?"

"It's nothing, just rest and rest." Mrs. Zhong said indifferently.

"Forget it." Zhong Benli said, "Later, I'll ask Tweety to heat some food for you and deliver it to your room."

"En." Mrs. Zhong nodded in response, turned and left.

After sending Mrs. Zhong away, Zhong Benli took Gu Qi and the two to the study room where they usually deal with official business, and asked everyone to sit down before asking: "Mr. Corpse?"

"Not bad." Xu Yihua nodded.

"This... I don't understand." Zhong Benli asked, "How is this matter related to the current case, and why is it suddenly related to the matter three years ago?"

"My lord, this subordinate checked the connection between Shi Bin and Ye Xiashi with Mr. Xu before, and only then did I find out that they might have raped Xiaodie three years ago..." Gu Qi paused when he said this, " We want to do an autopsy to see what the truth is."

Zhong Benli frowned slightly: "Let's not say that this person is called..."

"Little Butterfly."

"Let's not talk about whether this girl named Xiaodie has anything to do with this case, just say that this person has been dead for three years, what else can be found out?"

Xu Yihua firmly said: "As long as you test it for the students, you will definitely find some evidence."

Gu Qi glanced at him.

Both of them knew very well that three years had passed, if Xiaodie committed suicide after being raped, there were no signs of rape at that time, how could she detect it now, and besides, the corpse has already rotted, even if it is I'm afraid there are no clues to find any traces on the surface of the body.What they wanted to check was whether Xiaodie had lost a tooth as the old woman said.

Zhong Benli was still a little hesitant. As a parent official, he naturally cared about the people in the entire county. For such a dead person who has been buried in the ground, it is considered extremely disrespectful for the dead to open the coffin for inspection. For matters, if the family members of the deceased are present, they can also seek their opinions.But Xiaodie has no father or mother, so she still needs the county magistrate Zhong Benli to make up her mind.

"That's good." Zhong Benli thumped his hands and made up his mind, "I will stamp your official seal on you tonight, and you can open the coffin for an autopsy tomorrow morning."

Xu Yihua and Gu Qi looked at each other, and said: "The students want to have an autopsy tonight, the sooner the better."

When the moon is dark and the wind is high, when digging a grave.

The mass graves outside the county seat are extremely messy, and the forest of steles is chaotic and disorderly. Some of them have a few words carved on the stone steles, while others not only have no tombstones, but even just a small bump of earth.

On weekdays, even if the sun is shining brightly, few people pass by this gloomy place. At night, it is even more quiet here, not even the chirping of insects can be heard.

Tonight, like any other night, the night without any stars is extremely dark, you can't see your fingers, the mass graves are quiet, the tombstones are lined with uneven heights, weeds are overgrown, and you can hear whimpering when the wind blows The sound seemed to be the faint cry of a woman, it was extremely miserable.

But tonight, it was so unusual.

A row of torches appeared outside the county seat, and they were slowly moving towards the mass grave. Accompanied by a little noise, the torchlight illuminated the dark forest of steles. The slender shadow reflected on the tombstone was extremely strange.

Zhao Ming rubbed his arms, shrunk his head and looked around vigilantly.He felt that it was extremely cold here, and the faint sobbing of a woman could be heard between everyone's conversations, which made the hairs all over his body stand on end.You must know that he, Zhao Ming, is not afraid of anything, but he is afraid of this ghost...

"Look around, where did you bury him when you carried him to bury?" Gu Qi tugged at the clothes of a policeman behind him.

The arrester's name was Wang Zhi, and he was the one who carried the unclaimed Xiaodie's body to a mass grave three years ago.In fact, there were not many murders in the county, only a few in a year, so Wang Zhi naturally had some impressions of what happened three years ago.He was found by Gu Qi, he was threatened in a daze, he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, he quickly put on his clothes and came over, now he arrived at the mass grave, looked around with his eyes wide open, trying to recall what he would have done in the past Where are people buried.

"I remember it seems to be here..." Wang Zhi pointed to a single stone tablet on the left with uncertainty, frowned, and said, "No, it seems to be here..."

"Where is it!" Gu Qi smiled and put his arm on Wang Zhi's shoulder.

Wang Zhi shivered, and said in a low voice, "I remember it was here. I also erected a monument for her with her name written on it. It should be easy to find."

"I found it, here it is!"

As soon as Wang Zhi finished speaking, a voice came from the front right. A policeman held a torch, bent over to check the name on the tombstone, and then turned his head and shouted to this side.

"Go over there." Gu Qi walked over first.

Xu Yihua followed closely behind.

As a county magistrate, Zhong Benli was naturally there. He greeted the calm Zhao Ming, and walked quickly by the light of the torch.

Xiaodie's tombstone is different from Xu Yihua's imagination, Xiaodie has no father or mother, has been dead for three years, and was buried in a random grave, the grave must be barren.But now Xiaodie's original wooden tombstone has been replaced with a stone monument. The tomb is clean and has been carefully cleaned. There are even traces of burnt paper money in front of the tomb. fresh.

Xu Yihua subconsciously turned his head to look at Gu Qi, only to see such an expression on his face.

"Did you know something?" Xu Yihua leaned over and lowered his voice.

Gu Qi shook his head, he didn't want to speak for now.

He felt as if he knew who the murderer was, and he didn't seem to know who the murderer was. He had no evidence, but his feeling was almost right.He lowered his eyelids, put his hands in his sleeves, and no longer cared about the movement of the scene.

Under Zhong Benli's order, Zhao Ming and others had already picked up the hoes and shovels, and dug up the soil on the tomb bit by bit.

The heavy rain that fell some time ago made the soil here a bit soft. Zhao Ming and the others didn’t take too much effort to dig it up. The soil was still moist with moisture. Although it was relatively heavy, Zhao Ming and the others quickly dug up the corpse. .

"Be gentle, don't damage the corpse." Xu Yihua warned from the side, on the one hand, he stared at everyone to prevent any mistakes, and on the other hand, he stared at Gu Qi, paying attention to the other party's movements all the time.He didn't understand why he did this, but he always felt that the current Gu Qi was a little too abnormal, and he suddenly thought, is there something else that he doesn't know?

The police officers acted lightly, and the corpse was quickly cleared out. Xu Yihua put on white cloth gloves, tucked the hem of his clothes into his belt, and bent over to examine the corpse.

Three years have passed, and Xiaodie's body has long since decayed, but her black hair is still hanging on the white bones.The clothes he was wearing when he died were also in tatters, turning into pieces of cloth and falling apart at the slightest movement.

Xu Yihua waved his hand, indicating that the torches should be brought closer, he wanted to look carefully.

All the policemen didn't feel anything when they just dug the grave, but now they calm down, everyone feels cold sweat all over their bodies, and being blown by the night's wind makes it even colder to the bone.In addition, the bone under the torch seemed to be glowing with a dark fire, making everyone's scalp numb.Everyone pushed and pushed Zhao Ming out.

Zhao Ming was also terrified, but usually he boasted too much, so now he could only bite the bullet and approach carefully, stretching his arms long, so that the flames could illuminate the bones without looking at them himself.But at this time, Xu Yihua asked him to get closer. Zhao Ming had no choice but to grit his teeth and go a little further. He lowered the torch so that the other party could see the skull of the deceased clearly. Now, Zhao Ming's hand was almost touching there. With bones.

Xu Yihua was so close to the corpse that he was almost touching it. In the middle of the night, even with torches around, he couldn't see the corpse clearly, so he could only reach out and touch the corpse bit by bit based on his feeling.He started along the skull, slowly down the cheekbones, spine, ribs, arm bones, phalanges, pelvis... until the phalanges.After touching everything, Xu Yihua put his fingers into the mouth of the corpse to touch the teeth of the deceased, and then a smile appeared on his face.

This smile was a little distorted under the jumping firelight, Zhao Ming felt for a moment that this Xu Yihua was like the legendary murderer without blinking an eye, because the other party touched Bai Sensen's bones so calmly, yet he could still laugh , Just looking at it, he felt like he was about to pee his pants.

"We thought well." Xu Yihua took off his homemade white cloth gloves with a smile, folded a few stacks, and stuffed them into his bosom.

"En." Gu Qi simply responded.

"What's going on?" Zhong Benli didn't know what kind of charades these two were playing, and he was very curious, so he asked repeatedly.

Xu Yihua said: "The deceased should be Miss Xiaodie who died three years ago. According to the calculation of bone age, the age of this corpse is between 16 and [-] years old. It is a female. The spine between the necks is slightly deformed. It is an obvious sign of suicide by hanging. Features. In addition, the corpse has one missing tooth, and all the features are consistent with Miss Xiaodie."

As he spoke, he glanced at Gu Qi, Gu Qi hung his head half-deadly, as if he couldn't lift his spirits up, and was lazy.

Not knowing what Gu Qi was planning, Xu Yihua could only tell what he had discovered: "This tooth mark is also exactly the same as the tooth mark on the shoulder of the dead victim Ye Gusong, so the students can be sure that after three years It was Ye Gusong and Shi Bin who raped Miss Xiaodie before, causing Miss Xiaodie to commit suicide."

"There are still some things I don't understand." Zhong Benli looked a little confused, "Ye Xiashi...Ye Gusong and Shi Bin raped Xiaodie, Xiaodie hanged herself, three years later, Ye Gusong and Shi Bin Also died one after another, you mean..."

Zhong Benli looked around and suddenly lowered his voice: "... Xiaodie's ghost has come back to take revenge?"

"Ah!!! Ghost!!! Where is it?!" Suddenly there was a scream, Zhao Ming hung onto his companion with a clunk, hugged him tightly, and wished he could wrap his legs around his waist On the ground, the whole person was trembling.

The faces of the companions were all black.

"Zhao Ming, get out of here quickly!"

Zhao Ming hesitated, and looked around again, until his companion started to beat him, and then he hurriedly got off the opponent's body.

Gu Qi suddenly sneered: "Ghost? I'm afraid this murderer is someone smarter than ghosts."

Xu Yihua felt that this sentence meant something, and wanted to ask more questions, but Gu Qi had already lifted his legs and was about to leave, so he quickly chased after him, but suddenly heard rustling sounds not far away, as if something was on the ground The rapid movement above is ordinary, but it is especially clear in this quiet mass grave.

Something is approaching them.

In an instant, everyone's hearts were raised.

"Who?!" Gu Qi focused his eyes, grabbed the torch in the hand of the person beside him and swept it in front of him, his movements were clean and neat, as if he knew martial arts.

"Master...Master..." A small voice came from the front.

"It seems to be... Myolie's voice?" Zhong Benli was a little uncertain.

"Master! Master..." Xing'er's crying voice made everyone stunned.

Everyone hastily raised the torches in their hands to guide Xing'er. With the direction and light, Xing'er soon came to everyone.I saw Xing'er flustered, the lantern in her hand had been extinguished long ago, but her pretty face was covered with tears.

"What's wrong, Myolie?" Zhong Benli was taken aback.

Xing'er seemed to have found a backbone, she threw the lantern in her hand to the ground, and almost couldn't stand when her legs were weak, Zhao Ming stretched out his hand to support her.

"Master..." Xing'er's mouth puckered, and tears flowed down again, "Sister Cui'er...Sister Cui'er hanged herself..."