Dreaming back to the Tang Dynasty, I was working as a detective in Chang'an

We finally got a clue in Mai Laoguang's kitchen, which is the chimney next to the stove. This is the only place in all the rooms that can communicate with the outside world.

The chimney was built with bricks. The closer we got to the chimney, the more obvious the aroma of the flowers. We finally understood why Mai Laoguang didn't resist, because when he was working in the kitchen, the murderer had already put in the fire from the chimney exit outside. Inhaled by poisonous smoke, Mai Laoguang, who was unconscious, had no power to fight back.

So, how did the murderer get out after killing someone? The door was bolted on the inside, and people from the outside couldn't lock the door, so his only way out should be the chimney, but how could this chimney accommodate an adult to get out?

We took off the pot on the stove and found that the vent between the chimney and the stove was not very big. Fatty and I could never get out of the chimney. At this time, Xiao Tianbao said: "Let me try it, maybe it can work."

Little Tianbao is thirteen or fourteen years old, but he is very thin and looks like an eight or nine-year-old boy. He moves very quickly and goes out of the chimney very flexibly. It seems that this secret room is not a real secret room. You can go out. This also proves that the murderer is not too tall and is very thin.

Xiao Tianbao said: "It doesn't have to be very thin. Some people can crawl out if they practice bone shrinking skills. I have seen a friend of the master who can shrink himself into a small box."

Another point is that we turned over the pot where Mai Laoguang cooked rice that day, and we could see a pair of handprints on the bottom of the pot, in a holding position. The handprints were very large, and they were the fingerprints of an adult man. This also means that he had completed the killing. Man, after putting out the fire, move the pot away a little, get in, turn around, hold the bottom of the pot and put the pot back into the stove.

It can be seen from this evidence that the murderer is a man, but he is not tall, only as tall as a teenager, and is very thin, or has some bone shrinkage skills. Moreover, he had just put out the fire on the stove. Even if he waited for a long time, the temperature in the chimney was still very high, and he was likely to be burned.

After returning to the Yamen from Mai Laoguang's home, we received reports from the masses that a male body was found in the Baqiao River. It was put in a sack and floated on the water. It was found by an old man fishing. Discover.

Lao Jintou, who loves fishing, got up early again and came to the Baqiao River. He had been very lucky these past two days. Yesterday, he caught more than a dozen silver carp and river carp in half a day, and they tasted very delicious.

This morning he also hoped that he could continue to have good luck. When the fishhook was lowered, he felt something heavy being pulled. He felt that it was definitely a big fish today, and it would definitely weigh dozens of kilograms. But he felt that today's fish were different from yesterday's. They were dead and heavy. When he used the strength of feeding to pull the thing out of the water, he found that it was a sack, a bulging sack.

Curiosity killed the cat, Lao Jintou thought that there must be a lot of valuable things in such a big sack. When he happily opened the sack, he was shocked by the contents inside. There was no gold or silver jewelry inside, but a male corpse that was almost bloated!

He was so frightened that he peeed and sat down on the ground. He couldn't recover for a long time. When he regained his breath, he shouted: "Killing, killing!"

When we arrived at the Baqiao River, it was already evening, and the surrounding area was surrounded by people who were watching the fun and not taking it too seriously. They were all whispering:

"I heard that the person who died was Ge Dazhi from the village. He usually seemed quite honest and peaceful. Why was he killed?"

"Yes, a man who is very polite to others also married a beautiful woman. Now his wife must be miserable."

"By the way, I also heard that there was someone outside his wife who cuckolded him without saying a word. She must have been killed by the adulterer."

"He is just a bastard and deserves to die."

Alas, these old ladies should keep their mouths full of virtue. This man has been killed, and he is still being talked about by these bastards. I was a little angry and stepped forward and said:

"This is a crime scene. All innocent people need to stay away. Don't hinder us from handling the case. Anyone who disturbs the situation will be taken back for questioning."

After saying that, the villagers reluctantly left.

The fat man was in position and we lifted the deceased out of the sack. This was a 35-year-old man with a very burly build. His body had the same wounds as the first two male victims. He had been stabbed dozens of times, and the knives were not at the vital parts, and they were also cut off. Second child.

After visiting nearby villagers, I found out that this man's name is Ge Dazhi, a Cantonese. He came here from Guangdong more than ten years ago and makes a living by farming. He also goes to the city to sell some mountain products. He was very active, so he was also very good at making money, so he was relatively wealthy in the local area, so he married a very beautiful woman.

We met his wife, who was indeed quite pretty.

I asked: "When did your husband go out?"

The woman wiped her tears with a handkerchief, but there was no sadness in her eyes. She said, "I don't know. I went back to my parents' home a few days ago and have been living there. I just came back today. Who knew something like this would happen." She started wailing.

I asked her to calm down for a while, and then asked: "What brought you back to your parents' home?"

The woman cried even harder and said, "He beats me. He always doesn't trust me and is suspicious of me. I can't talk to any man. He beats me as soon as I say a word. He is a devil." He only knows how to beat his wife and act like a grandson when he goes out. Anyone can bully him.

Once when he was working in the fields and I was delivering food to him, he was molested by a man as he passed by the entrance of the village. Several ladies at the entrance of the village saw this. They gossiped and said that I was seducing people, so they told him that he didn't say anything. He said that he beat me half to death, so I said, if you have the ability, you can settle the score with that man. What is your ability to beat your wife? He almost beat me to death without thinking. "

"Don't you hate him?"

"I hate him, but every time he beat me, he would kneel on the ground and beg me for forgiveness. If he didn't forgive me, he would say he would commit suicide. One time, he even cut off his little finger with a knife and vowed never to hit me again. , but within two days, he started beating me again. I was really beaten by him and couldn't do anything, so I went back to my parents' home. Fortunately, my father was still there and allowed me to hide in my parents' home."

"Is your husband from Cantonese?"

"Yes, he is from Guangdong. He came here 13 years ago. Because he had money, he bought land and real estate in Murakami. When he doesn't hit me, he can still make money."

"Did he come alone, or did he come with an accomplice from Chang'an?"

"I don't know much about this. He married me a few years after he came to Chang'an."

After returning from the village, Fatty began to formally examine Ge Dazhi's body.