Yipin County Magistrate: Start with invincibility

Chapter 243 Jumping out of the rumors and suddenly enlightened

Wu made a pitiful look, clenched his teeth while watching Ling Chong, and gave Qin Feng a questioning look.

Qin Feng stood there blankly, as if he had been immobilized by someone, without any reaction.

Naturally, he was not fixed, but because of the sentence "the rumors of evil spirits eating people" in Wu Zuo's words, he suddenly understood something.

That's right, all along, when he investigated the case, he was thinking about the rumors in the market, thinking about the magistrate's narration of the case, and putting those clearly "other people's ideas" in his mind to think about the problem.

Using the thoughts of a group of people who failed to solve the case as the basis, and focusing on the facts of the case described by those people, how can it be possible to solve the case?

He had to get out of the "rumors" and rely on the clues he found to make inferences!

After thinking about this, Qin Feng suddenly felt refreshed and enlightened!
What "the dead are all related to the magistrate" is someone else's conclusion!
What "revenge of evil spirits" is an absurd judgment made by others!
It may be a big misunderstanding that the murderer must have hatred against these six people!
seeing is believing!
You must empty out all other people's things in your mind before you can open up a new way of thinking!

When he came back to his senses, he glanced at Wu Zuo, Qin Feng didn't know whether he should be grateful to him, and said.

"Since he said that he can't help much, let him go. People who talk about ghosts and gods all day long are not very helpful for investigating the case."

Wu Zuo finally heaved a sigh of relief, walked to the gate of the small yamen, turned back unconvinced, and said, "My lord, don't be so sure. If you are really brave, you might as well go to the morgue to watch the night. Maybe you can still see the evil ghost." Don't wait for the body to disappear tomorrow morning, you have to go everywhere to find out who stole the body..."

"Since my lord let you go, you should go quickly! Stop talking nonsense."

Wan Kunming, who was beside Qin Feng, saw Qin Feng's frowning and knew that Qin Feng didn't like to listen, so he hurried forward and pushed Wu Zuo out of the door.

Qin Feng, on the other hand, was stunned for a moment.

He didn't believe that evil spirits devoured corpses, but could someone really come to steal those three corpses?
"Ling Chong, ask someone to send a letter to the magistrate, and send a few more people to the morgue, so that they can look after the three corpses."

Qin Feng asked.

It is daytime now, and there are people inside and outside the yamen, so Qin Feng is not very worried.

Since Wu Zuo hadn't inspected the three charred corpses properly, he had to inspect them himself, maybe he could find some new clues.

"Let's look around and see if there are any clues."

Qin Feng ordered the two of them.

The three of them split up and looked inside and outside the small yamen.

"My lord, boss, come and see!"

Wan Kunming's voice came from the main hall.

Qin Feng and Ling Chong rushed to the front immediately, while Wan Kunming was staring at a pillar in a daze.

"what happened?"

"Please look, my lord. There is a notch on this pillar. It looks very new. I don't know... can it be a clue?"

Wan Kunming pointed to one of the pillars.

There is a shallow and long mark carved by a knife on the pillar, which is a little taller than Qin Feng's height, vertical and inclined at about [-] degrees.

Qin Feng stepped forward and touched it lightly. The knife mark was deep in the middle and shallow at both ends.

"It's not a clue, is it? It's just a notch. I just don't know who is so bold that he dared to carve the pillars in the small yamen carelessly?"

Ling Chong frowned, looked at the knife mark and said.

Qin Feng remained silent, walked around the master, walked to the other three pillars in the lobby, and inspected them carefully.

The other pillars were all clean, only this one had knife marks on it.

"It was never engraved on it."

Qin Feng said.

“How come you see?”

Seeing that Qin Feng directly denied his opinion, Ling Chong was a little unconvinced.

The corner of Qin Feng's mouth curled up slightly: "Hehe...you can carve marks on the pillar with a knife yourself, and you will understand after touching both marks."

Ling Chong didn't want to understand, so according to Qin Feng, he took out a short dagger from his arms, imitated the original marks, carved the same one next to it, and reached out to touch both marks.

"Did you notice the difference?"

"Different shades."

"That's right, this mark was not engraved by someone, but it was left on the pillar by someone accidentally wielding a knife. Give me the knife..."

Qin Feng stretched out his hand to Ling Chong, and after receiving the knife, he stood in front of the mark, adjusted left and right, back and forth for a while, finally stood still, and raised the knife to make a gesture.

"Do you see it?"

Wan Kunming and Ling Chongchu didn't understand what Qin Feng was asking at first.

Qin Feng gestured a few more times before Wan Kunming came to his senses, slapped his palms suddenly, widened his eyes and said, "Could it be that this... is the place where Li Qiqiu was killed?"

"Most likely."

Qin Feng nodded approvingly, and handed the knife back to Ling Chong.

The posture Qin Feng drew according to the direction of the knife mark is a gesture of swinging a knife when beheading.

Ling Chong finally reacted, took the knife, and stood in Qin Feng's place to try it out. The moment the long knife was swung down, the tip of the knife drew a knife mark on the pillar that was exactly the same as the original mark.

And the knife flashed, Ling Chong seemed to see a person standing in front of him, begging desperately, he turned sideways to himself, defenseless against himself, the steel knife fell, and his head fell off in response.

Ling Chong imagined that scene, raised his head suddenly, and widened his eyes again.

"My lord, there is blood on the beam."

Qin Feng looked up at the sound, nodded and said: "Well, the color of this piece of ground is also different from other places, and the different areas are quite large. I'm afraid there were bloodstains in the first place, but they have been cleaned up. "

"Ling Chong, before you desperately seek death, will you be involved in a lawsuit?"

Qin Feng suddenly asked a confusing question.

Ling Chong thought for a while and replied, "As far as I know, no."

Qin Feng nodded: "In this way, the guess in my heart has changed from three points to five points."

"What guess?"

"The executioner begged seriously, he was killed by someone, and the murderer was the general judge on duty in this small yamen, or there were accomplices!"

Ling Chong and Wan Kunming couldn't help being shocked: "They? How...how is this possible?"

"Why is it impossible?"

Qin Feng closed his eyes, sorted out the clues he had found in his mind, and opened his mouth slowly.

"Officer Lin Ku was beheaded, but no one believed that he was a real prisoner and thief from the public to the officialdom. They all thought he was "unjustly killed". And it is generally believed that those who died were the targets of "revenge" by the official Lin Ku. .”

"But there is a wronged person and a debtor. Lin Zhengruo is really an evil ghost, so he should seek revenge from the person who wronged him. The executioner is just a public official who executes the execution. Why should he be the first to die? This point makes the "evil ghost ask." "Fate" is no longer tenable."

(End of this chapter)