Huaxi Chronicle

After Chu Wuge left for less than half an hour, two yamen servants came to interrogate Xun Feibai in the prison.

Walking out of the cool and dark prison, the scorching sun was shining brightly, and the cold air on Xun Feibai's body was dispelled in an instant, and he felt warm and comfortable all over his body.

She raised her head slightly, looking at the sky hanging from the top.

The blue sky is like washing, and the clouds are not stained.

The sky is clear and the air is warm.

Xun Feibai took a deep breath, and there was a faint scent of sweet-scented osmanthus in the clear air, which made people feel comfortable physically and mentally.

Huaxi County, the lobby of the county government.

When Xun Feibai was brought into the lobby, he saw the envoy sitting on one side from the corner of his eye.A flash of surprise flashed in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face, but the last trace of worry in her heart also dissipated.

In the hall, the Inspectorate, who was wearing an official hat with wings and a scarlet round collar official robe, was none other than Mu Jianghan who hadn't seen him for many days.

"Who is in the hall?" Magistrate Lu asked loudly.

"Student Xun Feibai, I have met you." Xun Feibai nodded slightly, bowed his hands and saluted.

"Xun Feibai." County Magistrate Lu shouted sharply, "Yesterday you killed Qian Tan in the Qian Family Courtyard on Guangyuan Street, and were arrested on the spot by the patrolling yamen. Can you plead guilty?"

Xun Fei's face was calm, and he said calmly: "The student has been wronged, I hope the adults will see clearly."

"When the yamen servants arrived, there were only you and the deceased Qian Tan in the room, and you were covered in blood. The yamen servants also found your murder knife in the room. There are all the witnesses and evidence. Why are you wronged?"

"Yesterday at noon, the students were going home by car. When they walked to Qingyuan Street, they were stopped by a group of gangsters. They designed to force the carriage to stop. As a result, the carriage turned over and the students were knocked unconscious. Steward's house."

"Are you kidnapped to Qian Tan's house?" County Magistrate Lu asked suspiciously.

"exactly."

County Magistrate Lu shouted loudly: "Nonsense! It's so clear, how could someone in Huaxi County be abducted in the street? Why didn't I hear that someone reported the crime?"

"Students are telling the truth. The place on Qingyuan Road is close to the river, and there are not many people there. There was a heavy rain yesterday, and there was no one on the street. Maybe no one saw that scene, so no one reported it."

"That means there is no witness." County Magistrate Lu said.

"At that time, the person who drove the car was the guard at the student's home. If the adults call her here, you will know."

"She is the guard in your home, how can she testify for you?"

"If she cannot testify for the student, then the student has no other witnesses."

"So, you admit that you killed Qian Tan?" Magistrate Lu asked intentionally.

"Qian Tan was not killed by the students."

"The witnesses and the evidence are all there, so what else can you quibble about?"

"The students really can't prove that they were kidnapped to Qian's house." Xun Feibai paused, and then continued, "But the students can prove that Qian Tan was not killed by me."

"You prove it? How can you prove it?" County Magistrate Lu asked suspiciously.

"Adults and students go to Qian's house, and the students can prove that the students did not kill people." Xun Feibai affirmed.

County Magistrate Lu felt a little flustered, and wanted to stop Xun Feibai and continue talking, but he could only swallow his words because of Mu Jianghan who was at the side, and asked, "Go to Qian's house? Why go to Qian's house? "

"The evidence is all in the lobby of the Qian family."

"Nonsense! The hall is obviously full of evidence of your crime." County Magistrate Lu shouted, "Could it be that you want to destroy the evidence, I think..."

"County Lu." Before the magistrate Lu wanted to reprimand him, he heard Mu Jianghan who was at the side say.

Mu Jianghan glanced at him and asked, "Magistrate Lu has been to Qian's house?"

"Xiaguan, Xiaguan have not been there."

"You haven't been to Qian's house to investigate, so how can you be sure that she is talking nonsense." Mu Jianghan glanced at Xun Feibai again, and then said, "I want to see how she can prove herself .”

"This, this... When the police arrested her yesterday, she was the only one in the lobby with the murder weapon beside her. This person has all the evidence and evidence. According to the Lord Inspector, don't listen to her sophistry." Lu The county magistrate panicked.

"The student is not sophistry, the student also has evidence, and those evidences are in the lobby of Qian's house right now." Xun Feibai said again, "And the murder weapon is also evidence for the student to prove his innocence."

Mu Jianghan got up from his seat, and said to Magistrate Lu beside him, "Since she is so sure, Magistrate Lu will go with me to see how she can prove herself."

After walking a few steps, he turned around and said, "Don't forget to bring that murder weapon."

Two quarters later.

The county government's arresters led the way ahead, and Mu Jianghan, County Magistrate Lu, and Xun Feibai arrived at Qian's house on Guangyuan Street together.

After they left yesterday, the police quickly put a seal on the gate.Therefore, no one has set foot in the house since yesterday, and everything is just a decoration when they left.

Xun Feibai stepped into the house first. She first stood at the door and carefully looked at all the furnishings in the house. The tables and chairs in the house were tilted, and one of the chairs had a leg cut off.

Mu Jianghan and County Magistrate Lu also followed Xun Feibai into the hall.Seeing the mess in the house, County Magistrate Lu couldn't help wrinkling his nose, showing a disgusted expression.

He only glanced at it, but didn't go in, he stood at the door and looked at the two people in the house.

Mu Jianghan followed Xun Feibai to carefully examine the blood and knife marks in the house.

Yesterday Xun Feibai didn't observe carefully because he was frightened for a while.Looking closely today, starting from the place where she woke up from lying down, there were a lot of blood spots densely scattered on the ground, and where she was lying, there were still a few bloodstains where she was rubbed.

Xun Feibai pointed to the ground and said, "I woke up lying here yesterday."

She walked inward along the blood on the ground, and there was a small pool of blood on the ground.Xun Feibai then said to Mu Jianghan, "This is where the broken arm is."

After speaking, he walked a few steps further in, and when he reached the west wall, there was only a pool of blood on the ground: "Under this wall is where yesterday's corpse was, and Guanshi Qian was sitting here."

Guanshi Qian's body has been taken away, but the blood on the ground has not been cleaned up.

"His right arm was cut off, and there was a knife wound on his body, which continued from the left neck to the right chest. I didn't take a closer look yesterday, so I don't know if there are other wounds on his body." Xun Feibai explained road.

"Is Wu Zuo here?" Mu Jianghan asked loudly towards the door.

"The little one is here."

A person walked in from the door. The person was dressed in short brown and held an autopsy check in his hand.

"Qian has several stab wounds on his body, what is the cause of death?" Mu Jianghan asked.

Wu Zuo opened the post-mortem grid, looked it up, and said: "There are only two stab wounds on Qian's body, and the incisions in these two stab wounds are neat. One cut off his right arm, and the other cut on his neck. The knife here The injury extended to the chest, and the cause of death was that the neck was cut off by a sharp weapon, resulting in massive blood loss."

"What is the height of the deceased?" Mu Jianghan then asked.

"Seven feet and one inch."

"What is the body shape, fat or thin? But strong?"

"Medium fat."

After Mu Jianghan finished asking, he looked at Xun Feibai again, only to see that she was looking at the blood on the wall, thoughtful.

Mu Jianghan looked in the direction she was looking at, and saw that the wall was stained with blood, and there were several marks of knife cutting on the high part of the wall.

After Xun Feibai thought about it, he turned around and asked Mu Jianghan with a smile, "According to Mr. Chashi, can you see any abnormalities?"

Mu Jianghan looked at her and said affirmatively, "You didn't kill this person."

Hearing what she said, County Magistrate Lu called out loudly, "My lord."

As soon as the words came out, County Magistrate Lu was startled to realize that he had slipped his words, and hurriedly corrected him: "The lower officials are stupid, I don't know how Master Inspector can see that the person was not killed by her?"

Mu Jianghan squinted at him and said, "Let me ask her, a woman who is not a martial arts practitioner. With her strength, how can she cut off the arm of a grown man with one knife? How can she kill him with one knife and cut off the dead directly?" neck?"

"This..." County Magistrate Lu thought for a while and said, "If Qian was already unconscious and lying on the ground at that time, even a woman might be able to hack someone to death."

"The tables and chairs in this room are crumbling here and there, as well as the chair whose legs have been cut off, which are obviously traces of someone chasing and beating them."

"It's also possible that after she killed someone, she pushed down the tables and chairs, as if they were fighting?" County Magistrate Lu continued to speculate.

"Magistrate Lu, do you want to find out the truth of the case? Or do you just want to convict Xun Feibai of murder?" Mu Jianghan looked at him suspiciously.

"I'm an official, I'm an official, of course I just want to find out the truth of the case." Afraid that she would see the clues, Magistrate Lu hurriedly explained.

"Magistrate Lu can see the blood on the wall here?" Xun Feibai asked, pointing to a drop of blood on the wall that was one foot higher than himself.

"What's wrong with this blood seal?" County Magistrate Lu asked puzzled.

"Guanshi Qian was sitting here at the time."

Xun Feibai pointed to the wall on the west side, and then said: "According to what Magistrate Lu said, if Qian Guan had fainted at that time, I could indeed chop off his arm with one knife, or kill him with one knife."

"If that's the case, the wall with the most blood splatter should be here." Xun Feibai pointed to the wall at his waist, and then pointed to the wall above her head, "And now the blood on the wall The place with the most is here.”

Finally, she pointed to the blood drop on that high place: "If Manager Qian was killed while sitting, the blood probably wouldn't be splashed to such a high place."

"This..." County Magistrate Lu didn't know how to answer the question for a while, and then turned his eyes and continued: "But you were the only two in the room at that time, if you didn't kill it, who killed it?"

"It seems that this alone can't convince Magistrate Lu, so I'll tell you the rest of the points." As she spoke, she pointed to the clothes on her body: "Since it's talking about blood, Then I will continue to talk about the suspicious point of the blood. The coat on my body has a lot of blood from Steward Qian, but if you look carefully at the blood on my body, it is all in one piece, and there is not a drop of splashed blood. "

"The blood on the coat is the second suspicious point I mentioned. If I had killed Guanshi Qian with a knife, it stands to reason that my coat should be full of blood splashes like the outer wall, not Piece by piece like this, intentionally stained with blood."

"The third doubtful point, look at the blood stains on the ground. There are bloodstains all around this blank area. This should be the place where the murderer occupied when he killed. Because it was blocked by his feet, there was no blood dripping here. Look at this arc." Xun Feibai pointed to the dense blood drops on the ground next to the pool of blood, "There is also this arc, these two arcs together are exactly one footprint."

She stepped her foot there, "This footprint is also more than an inch bigger than mine."

"Speaking of this, it can actually prove that I didn't kill the person. But I also know the other two doubts, so let's talk about it together. This fourth doubt..."

Xun Fei paused for a moment, then quickly asked the female police officer behind Zhixian Lu: "This knife, is it the murder weapon you found in this house yesterday?"

The female catcher quickly nodded and said, "Exactly."

"Please lend me a hand." Xun Feibai stretched out his hand.

The female policeman hesitated a little and did not hand her the knife.

"Give her the knife." Mu Jianghan ordered.

The female police officer looked at Magistrate Lu hesitantly. Magistrate Lu was a little panicked by Xun Feibai's words. If Xun Feibai could really prove his innocence, then all he did was to draw water from a bamboo basket in vain. It is more likely to lose his wife and lose his army.

If Mu Jianghan hadn't been present, he would have asked someone to take Xun Feibai directly, and then put him back in prison. How could she continue talking here.

County Magistrate Lu waved his hand impatiently and said, "Give it to her."

Xun Feibai thanked him, took the knife and pointed to the place where the blade meets the handle, and said, "Guan Qian is one foot taller than me, if I use this knife to cut him, I can only hit him at the top of the blade." cut him in the neck."

"If that's the case, then the knife should have the heaviest blood on the top of the blade. Look at the top and bottom of the knife, but the bottom of the blade has the most blood and is the heaviest. This shows that the person holding the knife must at least be in charge of Qian and be of equal stature. "

After Xun Feibai finished speaking, she took the knife and walked to the wall. She stood on tiptoe with the knife and pointed to the knife mark on the wall: "In the same way, with my stature, I can't cut the knife here. .”

"It's also possible that this knife mark was left in the past, not yesterday." Magistrate Lu said suspiciously.

"Look here."

Xun Feibai pointed to the place where the knife cut the mark on the wall. There was a relatively large bloodstain there, but the bloodstain was cut off by the knife mark, leaving only half of it.

"If this knife mark is from the past, then the blood splashed on Guanshi Qian when he was killed yesterday should be a complete piece."

"However, half of this bloodstain was cut off, so this knife mark must have been left yesterday." Xun Feibai affirmed.

After hearing this, Mu Jianghan lowered his head and thought for a while, and then agreed with her statement: "It is true."

"Why?" Magistrate Lu was full of doubts, not knowing what the two of them were talking about.

Mu Jianghan pointed to the half drop of blood on the wall, and asked, "This drop of blood was left when Guanshi Qian was killed yesterday. Does Magistrate Lu have any objection to this?"

The color of that drop of blood was no different from the surrounding bloodstains, it should undoubtedly be left from yesterday.

"The lower officer has no objection. The blood on this wall should be left when Qian Tan was killed yesterday..." At this point, County Magistrate Lu stopped talking.

The bloodstain was left yesterday, so the knife mark that can cut off the bloodstain must have occurred after the blood was splashed, so this knife mark can only be left by the murderer yesterday.

Xun Feibai speculated: "I guess this bloodstain should be that when Guanshi Qian's arm was cut off, it splashed on the wall. The murderer's purpose was to kill Guanshi Qian, but he only cut off Guanshi Qian's right arm. The second cut, but this second cut did not cut Guanshi Qian, but happened to cut this bloodstain, so what we saw was only half of the blood dripping on the wall."

"I don't know if I finished talking about these doubts, but County Magistrate Lu still thinks that I killed Guanshi Qian?" Xun Fei asked with a smile.

"Indeed, it is exactly as Miss Xun said. The murderer, the murderer should be someone else." County magistrate Lu wiped the sweat from his forehead, stuttering, and asked tentatively, "Then do you know who the murderer is?" ?”

"This is what you should find out, why ask her?" Mu Jianghan glanced at him and said quietly, "Why don't you replace your county magistrate with her?"

"The lower official made a slip of the tongue, the lower official made a slip of the tongue." County Magistrate Lu bowed and said again and again.

"Premeditated murder, deliberate planting. This case doesn't look simple. Magistrate Lu, what do you think?" Mu Jianghan asked in a deep voice.

"This villain is so arrogant, the next official will order a strict investigation, and he must be brought to justice."

The county magistrate Lu made a strong oath, but in his heart he planned to delay the matter for a few days, wait for Mu Jianghan to leave Huaxi County, and then just find a scapegoat and close the case hastily.