Detective in the Red Chamber

"Uh……"

Han Anbang originally thought to launch a surprise attack first, and when Sun Shaozong opened his mouth to distinguish, he would be charged with crimes such as abolishing public affairs for private purposes and not paying attention to stability and unity, and then took advantage of the situation to put the case on his shoulders.

Who would have thought that Sun Shaozong would react so quickly, without any impulsiveness or rashness of a young man, he would take the responsibility without hesitation, and then pointed out tactfully that Wei Ruolan was in charge of this case.

Han Anbang couldn't find any faults in his words, he was at a loss for words for a while, and then said with a straight face after a long while, "Since that's the case, after Sun Zhizhong returns, he might as well discuss with Wei Tong, and settle this case as soon as possible, or In order to prevent the outside world from boiling."

As he said that, he picked up the tea bowl, as if he was "good to go but not to send it away".

It's almost becoming a "hollow big man's house", and he is still putting on an airs to make a face. It seems that this Shuntian Mansion will sooner or later be the world of Jia Yucun.

Sun Shaozong left with a slander, and it took only a quarter of an hour to return to the Criminal Department.

Seeing that Cheng Rixing had already returned, based on the principle of not bothering the two masters with one thing, he ordered him to make another trip and asked Wei Ruolan to come over to discuss the case with relevant information about the 'heart-stealing case'.

"Dong Weng."

Cheng Rixing heard the words, but he was not in a hurry to leave, but cautiously reminded, "That Wei Tong has been sentenced to fight against you several times, and now he has brought it upon himself, why do you bother to help him..."

"Others don't care who takes the case."

Sun Shaozong said helplessly, "As long as people outside hear that Shuntian Mansion is investigating the case, they will definitely think of me - besides, six people died, so we can't let it go, right?"

This is the embarrassment of Shuda attracting the wind. If Wei Ruolan is really embarrassed by abolishing the public because of personal interests, I am afraid that it will be Sun Shaozong's own reputation that will be ruined in the end.

As he said that, he waved his hand again and said, "Go, remember to call that Master Xing as well."

Chapter 342 The Supernatural Event in Longsheng Old Store [Part [-]]

On the sixth day of April, around dusk, two men, four women and six outsiders rented a small independent courtyard behind the 'Longsheng Old Store'.

After nightfall the next day, the waiter, Zhou Bajin, went to the backyard to ask 'do you need hot water' according to the store's usual practice, but found that the courtyard door was wide open, and there was no light inside.

Zhou Bajin was worried that he had recruited a thief, so he hurriedly called the shopkeeper Zhao to come to the store, and they went into the room together with a lantern to check.

It turned out that those six guests were all lying naked on the ground, with a big hole gouged out of their hearts!

Even though shopkeeper Zhao fainted from fright, Zhou Bajin called the guests in the yard next door to help him before carrying him back to the front.

It's just this delay, and things can't be covered up naturally.

When Zhao Wuwei received the report and arrived overnight, he did not know how many people had entered and left the scene, and a lot of vomit was left behind.

After the on-site inspection, it was confirmed that the hands and feet of the six people had been restrained, and there were many scars on their bodies, which should have been severely beaten during their lifetime.

The fatal wound was that the chest was cut open and the heart was removed.

In view of this detail, after Wei Ruolan took over the case, she pointed the finger at vendetta and instructed Master Qi to carry out a more detailed investigation.

However, this careful investigation does not matter, the case has become complicated and confusing!

Master Qi said with a wry smile, "At first I questioned the people in the inn to ascertain who had entered and left the inn before and after the incident. Who knew that after my questioning, everyone agreed that the six people Before the evening, you are still alive and well!"

Ever since he entered the door, Master Qi has been talking, Wei Ruolan only responded occasionally, obviously feeling that asking Sun Shaozong for help would be a great loss of face.

"Are you alive and well before evening?"

Sun Shaozong frowned, took a look at the case, and then questioned, "But in the autopsy report, it is clearly marked that they died from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] noon, how could they be alive in the evening?" ?”

After a pause, he asked suspiciously again, "Could it be that the corpse has been tampered with, resulting in a misjudgment of the time of death?"

"Students have been skeptical too."

Master Qi spread his hands, and continued to smile wryly, "But after several days of investigation, there was no trace of it - besides, the person in charge of the autopsy was Lao Xu from our mansion. If there is something tricky, he should be able to detect it That's right."

Not to mention Lao Xu's professional quality, this Master Qi is also an old criminal name, and since he has already become suspicious, it stands to reason that it is unlikely that he will be fooled.

"in addition."

Master Qi said again, "The six people were not only stripped of their clothes, but also all their luggage disappeared - they are not locals, so until now it is difficult to confirm their identities, and it is even more impossible to judge the motive of the murderer."

Even if there is not much luggage, plus the clothes, shoes and socks of six people, there should be quite a big lump, and it may not be easy to transport it out quietly...

It should take a lot of time to tie up, beat, cut out the heart, and maybe even force him to ask something...

Could it be that the inside should cooperate with the outside?

Sun Shaozong went through all the suspicions in his mind, and then asked, "Where are the confessions of those witnesses?"

Master Qi hurriedly stepped forward, and from the nearly one hundred pages of investigation records, he selected a few and pointed them to Sun Shaozong, "Please look, my lord, all the confessions related to time have been sorted out by the students in one place."

Looking at the thick stack of records, and looking at his appearance, one can tell that he has really wasted a lot of effort for this case.

Sun Shaozong read these few pages of confession carefully, and found that nearly half of it was the confession of Er Zhou Bajin, the owner of the shop, and the remaining half belonged to the couple who lived in the courtyard next door, the shopkeeper of the old Longsheng shop, the clerk of the nearby restaurant, And a wandering Taoist priest.

The content of the confession is roughly as follows

The waiter Zhou Bajin was called over in the morning and asked what we have to eat in the shop. The villain recommended some specialty dishes. Unexpectedly, those guests were not satisfied with the food, so they went to the nearby restaurant again in the afternoon I ordered a table of wine and food.

Wang Ergou, the waiter in the nearby restaurant, was right. When the villain brought the food and drinks, the guests were still alive and well—the villain came to collect the dishes before [-] o'clock in the afternoon, and they were all fine.

The waiter Zhou Bajin must have had a few extra drinks, so they just started... Hehe, my lord, you also know that it is not so innocent for these men and women to fight outside together.

It was probably because there was too much noise, and the couple next door were arguing, and the male guest next door came to the door to argue, and quarreled fiercely with a female guest inside. When the shopkeeper and I rushed over to try to persuade the quarrel, the man had already been kicked out.

The two of us chattered and talked, and the one who persuaded Mr. Zhang, surnamed Ke, calmed down.

Shopkeeper Zhao of the old Rongsheng store was the first to hear the quarrel inside, so I called Bajin and went over to persuade the fight.

Zhang Kai, who lives next door, reported back to my lord that Zhuo Jing and I did hear them Hu Tian Hu Di next door—it should be around three o'clock in the afternoon at "Shen Shi".

I came to the door to ask them to keep their voices down, but a vicious woman came out and scolded me instead!

That's right, one of them is dead, this woman has a horse's face, even if it is burned to ashes, I can recognize it!

Zhang Kai's wife, I wanted to stop my husband at the time, but he insisted on arguing. Fortunately, it was only a few words, otherwise there would be so many people...

In the evening, Zhou Bajin, the waiter of the shop, a wandering Taoist somehow got into the backyard, saying that he wanted to help a few Hakka masters touch their bones and tell their fortunes, but he was kicked out again.

I actually saw it when Mr. Zhao, the manager of Rongsheng's old store, entered the room, but I didn't pay much attention to it since the guests behind were all in the room.

Daoist Li Pindao, who traveled all over the world, wanted to earn some incense money in this capital in order to rebuild the temple gate. In the past half a month, he visited dozens of inns in the west city. If you don't believe me, you can go and inquire.

Because the guests may not be in the house during the day, so the trail is always divination in the morning, noon and evening.

That evening, before I could explain the matter clearly after I went in, a fat man pushed me out—if it wasn’t for the waiter from the shop who helped Xiaodao, Xiaodao would have been injured by him long ago. .

Zhou Bajin, the shopkeeper, helped the old man out, and about a quarter of an hour later, the shopkeeper told me to go around the rooms to see if the guests would like to use hot water at night, but I found out...

What?You said they died in the morning?how can that be? !This is absolutely impossible!

Zhang Kai next door is impossible!Unless the woman I was arguing with turned out to be an evil spirit!

Zhang Kai's wife is dead... dead, can... also do... do those things? !

Shopkeeper Zhao... my lord, don't be joking, the little old man clearly... clearly heard that the woman was arguing with the guest next door!

Daoist Yunyou Li, no wonder that fat man insisted on driving me out, it turned out that he was transformed by a ghost!Pindao forgot to open his eyes at that time, otherwise...

Mr. Zhang Ergou, the clerk of the nearby restaurant, you... I can't understand what you are saying. The living have to eat, but the dead... the dead... the dead should not eat, right?

The confession came to an end here.

But this content is really... really bizarre!

Six people who died in the morning had interacted with so many people in the afternoon!

Moreover, the last time Li Daoshi and Zhou Bajin saw the deceased was only a quarter of an hour before and after the discovery of the body. This time, not to mention murder, even if they just stripped their clothes and took away their luggage, it would be difficult to do. Are you there? !

That's not to mention, Master Qi next to him saw that Sun Shaozong had finished reading, and hurriedly added, "According to the investigation of these days, Zhou Bajin grew up in Xicheng since he was a child, and worked as a waiter in the old Longsheng shop for four years, and has never left the capital. "

"Shopkeeper Zhao's grandfather and grandson have run the old Longsheng store for three generations, and they have never left the capital."

"The Zhang Kai couple next door are residents of Jinmen Prefecture. They came to the capital for the first time in their lives. The purpose was to visit their wife and sister who married two years ago. Because they had a rift with their brother-in-law, they temporarily stayed at the inn."

"Daoist Li is a native of Cangzhou Prefecture, Hebei Province. He became a monk at Qinglong Temple in Tongzhou six years ago. He traveled to Beijing for half a month and made a living by touching people's bones."

"Wang Ergou, the waiter of the restaurant, was originally from Baoan Prefecture, Hebei Province. After the disaster last year, he has been living in the capital. He only came to the restaurant a few days ago."

Sun Shaozong was silent for a while after listening, and then said, "You mean, there is no relationship between these witnesses? It is even more impossible to cover each other?"

"Exactly!"

Chapter 343 The Supernatural Event in Longsheng Old Store【Part [-]】

However, Sun Shaozong said that after understanding the general case and carefully reading the autopsy report several times, he decided to go to the scene for careful investigation and interrogation.

Although Wei Ruolan didn't say much all the time, when Sun Shaozong left, he quietly followed him - obviously he was quite concerned about this case in his heart.

The old Longsheng store is located in Jingxi Mawei Hutong, which was originally considered a prosperous area, but now...

Because of the recent rumors of "evil ghosts picking their hearts", the streets around here are obviously deserted, and it is said that the restaurants and shops are even more empty at night.

If people continue to panic like this, even the sisters in the brothel will be forced to do good!

Less gossip.

When the group arrived at the old Longsheng store, they saw a catcher leading five white servants, drinking, drinking and munching in the store. Let's have fun together.

Others were fine, but Wei Ruolan was very angry when she saw this - after all, he was the one who assigned this job.

So Wei Ruolan didn't even think about it, stepped forward and kicked the table over, and said angrily, "Damn it! I spend all my time investigating cases, and you are here to enjoy yourself!"

Unexpectedly, the policeman and the white guards knelt down on the ground in a panic, and what they yelled was "Master Zhizhong, please spare me!"

Now Wei Ruolan was even more annoyed, and was about to give these unsightly things a long memory, when she heard Sun Shaozong raise her voice, "Master Zhao, have they ever paid for this table of wine and vegetables?"

Shopkeeper Zhao said fearfully, "If you go back to the master, the villain can't go out now. These things are bought by the officials themselves, and have nothing to do with the small shop."

Sun Shaozong nodded, and then turned his attention to the leader of the policeman, and said in a deep voice, "Although you didn't take the opportunity to blackmail, how dare you drink and gamble for fun while on duty?!"

The catcher hurriedly knocked his head on the ground, and said in a trembling voice, "The little one led the brothers to guard here day and night. I was really worried every day, so I secretly bought some wine to strengthen my courage during the night watch. Later, I saw that no one was restraining me." , then...then I became more and more confused."

Wei Ruolan and Master Qi were a little embarrassed by the word 'unmanned', so they couldn't do anything to these yamen servants.

So Sun Shaozong asked Lin Delu to write it down first, and then deal with it as appropriate after returning, and then ordered them to gather all the witnesses.

Now in this inn, except for the people involved in the case, everyone has already dispersed, so it only took a moment for everyone to gather in this hall.

Among them, shopkeeper Zhao and Daoshi Li are the oldest, probably in their early fifties.

Zhang Kai and his wife are around [-], so they should have some wealth.

The difference between Zhou Bajin and Wang Ergou is almost the same, they are both ten-year-old young people.

Under Sun Shaozong's gaze, these six people seemed a little uneasy, but they were not beyond the normal range.

Starting from Zhou Bajin, Sun Shaozong asked them one by one, and he didn't ask any new questions. They were all asked by Master Qi and Wei Ruolan before, and the answers he got were naturally the same as those recorded in the file. No two.

Seeing him turning over and over again, Wei Ruolan just repeated the questions she and Master Qi asked, she felt a little impatient, and said in a muffled voice, "Master Sun, we have asked these questions before, don't you think they still have questions?" What can't be hidden?"

"Ha ha……"

Sun Shaozong smiled noncommittally, and suddenly asked Zhou Bajin, "The fat man who drove Daochang Li out in the end, but the one with a mole on the left corner of his mouth?"

Zhou Bajin scratched his head, frowned and said, "Master, did you remember wrongly? The one with the mole on the corner of her mouth is obviously a woman."

"Is it?"

Sun Shaozong asked Zhang Kai again, "You said that you once quarreled with that horse-faced woman, so do you remember what she was dressed at that time?"

"The villain will naturally remember."

Zhang Kai bowed and said, "The woman is wearing a yellow bijia with a white lining and a skirt..."

Sun Shaozong suddenly interjected, "What shoes is she wearing?"

Zhang Kai hesitated for a moment, and then said affirmatively, "It's a pair of blue embroidered shoes with hard soles!"

Sun Shaozong nodded in satisfaction, and asked Wang Ergou next to him, "When you went in to prepare vegetables, did you ever have someone help you?"

"Yes, yes!"

Wang Ergou hurriedly said, "There is a woman with a jade bracelet on her hand, who helped me serve dishes together."

"Is the bracelet on the left hand or the right hand?"

"Left hand!"

Second Brother Wang said without hesitation, "That woman is left-handed, so the bracelet is worn on her left hand."

Sun Shaozong asked Zhang Kai's wife, Li Daoshi, and shopkeeper Zhao several questions in turn. Two of them answered fluently, but shopkeeper Zhao faltered, saying that he was too old to remember clearly.

After asking one by one, Sun Shaozong asked Zhou Bajin to lead him to the back, and carefully inspected the small courtyard occupied by the six people.