Martial Arts: Starting from a Seemingly Real System

According to his grandfather's description, little Yunlei's personality seems to be very similar to Jiang Xueyun, which makes Qiao Rui mistakenly think that he is his and Xueyun's child.

However, Qiao Rui immediately thought of a question and denied his guess.

The Shuangjue Patriarch once said that Xueyun became pregnant in May last year. If the child was born in December now, he should be eight or nine months old. However, when Chen Nian asked the case before, he said that Xiao Yunlei was more than one year old. Obviously, the age does not match.

Since they were not the same person, Qiao Rui didn't think any more about it and continued to listen to his grandfather's story.

"Little Yunlei is growing up day by day and becoming more and more lovely. His round little eyes are bright and black, very clear and lively. He doesn't like to cry. He just likes to open his red and tender little mouth and smile innocently. He is much more obedient than you were when you were a child." As he said this, the old man also scolded Qiao Rui with a smile.

Qiao Rui also grinned foolishly, touched his nose, and did not interrupt his grandfather.

"Everyone in the village, young and old, likes Xiao Yunlei, especially Xiao Juan'er from the Ba family. She often comes to help take care of Xiao Yunlei. Everyone treats him as their sweetheart, until ten days ago..."

Having said that, the old man sighed heavily, his weather-beaten face full of regret.

"Ten days ago in the afternoon, I took Xiao Yunlei to bask in the sun under the eaves as usual. I don't know how I fell asleep, and when I woke up, Xiao Yunlei was gone.

It's all my fault. Why did I sleep so soundly? If I had been more alert, Xiao Yunlei wouldn't have been lost. My little treasure, how could he disappear?"

"Grandpa, don't get excited. This matter is very strange. You may have been tricked by someone!" Seeing that his grandfather was trembling all over and his face was full of self-blame, Qiao Rui hurried to comfort him.

He reached out and gently stroked Grandpa's back. When the old man's emotions gradually calmed down, he looked at Chen Nian and said, "Old people usually sleep very lightly. Normally, ordinary people cannot steal a child from an old man, unless..."

"Unless special means were used, such as acupressure?" Chen Nian interjected. He simulated a scene in his mind, where a martial artist with good lightness skills quietly went up behind the old man, pressed his sleeping point unexpectedly, and then took the child away and flew away.

“No!” Qiao Rui shook his head, his eyes sparkling with wisdom. “If we press the acupoints, that person doesn’t know that Xiao Yunlei won’t cry or make a fuss. If he wants to take him away quietly, he will definitely press Xiao Yunlei’s sleeping acupoints. However…”

"Children can't have their acupoints pressed?" Huang Jingxuan guessed according to Qiao Rui's tone. In fact, he didn't know whether children could have their acupoints pressed.

"Right!" Qiao Rui gave his disciple an approving look and explained, "Acupuncture points cannot be touched randomly, and pressing a fatal point will lead to death. A baby over a year old has fragile flesh and blood. If someone presses acupuncture points on them, they will be injured or even die directly."

"Indeed!"

Chen Nian also realized that acupuncture on a child was too insidious. The thief certainly didn't want to take a dead baby back with him. But if it wasn't acupuncture, how could he do it quietly? Could it be...

He suddenly looked up and met Qiao Rui's eyes, and they both said something at the same time.

"Medicine?"

"Take medicine!"

Qiao Rui nodded. "If it were me, I would definitely choose to use a drug. This drug is easy to prepare. To deal with the elderly and babies, some herbs that can calm the nerves will be enough. As long as they can make people a little sleepy, he will succeed."

After saying that, Qiao Rui stood up and looked around, then walked to the corridor and suddenly jumped up along the pillar supporting the beam in front of the door.

“Sure enough, there are footprints!”

On the beam under the eaves, a pair of shallow footprints were clearly visible.

The beam is cylindrical, so if you squat on it you can only leave a short half footprint, but because there is a lot of dust, the mark is very clear.

Qiao Rui jumped down from the top of the pillar and asked Chen Nian and Lu Jia to go up and check. He was not an expert in this area, so whether he could analyze any useful clues from the footprints depended on Chen Nian, who had been investigating cases for many years.

"Master, you are so awesome!" Huang Jingxuan had an inexplicable admiration for Qiao Rui. With the master's step-by-step reasoning, they suddenly found a breakthrough in the case that Chen Nian and the others had no clue about.

"Nothing, just thinking from someone else's perspective!" Qiao Rui smiled, and then patiently explained to his apprentice. He pointed to the position under the beam and said, "Grandpa said that he was lying on the recliner here. If I want to steal Xiao Yunlei, it would be best to hide on the beam above his head. It is both concealed and convenient. Then, I can use the smoke or powder prepared in advance and quietly sprinkle it on him."

Huang Jingxuan looked up at the intersection of the beam and the pillar. If there was a person hiding there, he would not be able to find him unless he looked specifically.

Not long after, Chen Nian and Lu Jia came down. Chen Nian said, "Based on the shoe prints at the scene, the suspect is obviously a woman, shorter than an ordinary woman, slim, not very old, and wealthy!"

"Is it true? Can we infer so many things just by looking at the shoe prints?" Huang Jingxuan opened his mouth wide, his face full of disbelief.

"I told you to study more, but you insisted on raising pigs!" Qiao Rui scolded and laughed as he slapped his apprentice on the head, saying something that Chen Nian and the others couldn't understand.

"Based on the width, length, and depth of the shoe prints, you can infer a person's gender and approximate height and weight. As for age and wealth..." Qiao Rui paused and looked at Chen Nian. He didn't know this either.

But this time it was Lu Jia who rushed to answer. Young people like to show off. He said with a little pride: "It is difficult to judge age and wealth. Fortunately, the suspect was wearing Yunjin Feifeng shoes. Its soles are made of the heart of a tree called sweet gum tree overseas. This kind of sole is extremely flexible and has its own fragrance. Its bottom has unique and clear anti-skid patterns. Chen Dianshi recognized it at once.

However, these brocade flying phoenix shoes are extremely valuable and are usually only worn by unmarried rich girls.

But after a woman gets married, her yin essence is destroyed for many years, and for some reason, the soles of her shoes will emit a foul smell, so these brocade flying phoenix shoes are also called virgin shoes. "

"Is it so magical?" Huang Jingxuan was stunned.

Qiao Rui was also a little surprised, but when he thought about the fact that the world is full of wonders and there are countless mysterious things that cannot be explained, he felt relieved.

He smiled and said, "To summarize the clues, the suspect is a petite woman, unmarried, skilled in martial arts, and rich!"

"Even if we know all this, where can we find this person?" Huang Jingxuan muttered.

"It's better to have clues than to have no clues. Let's first spread out and search around the village to see if we can find any other clues. Then we can go to the other missing case scenes to see if we can find anything related." Qiao Rui said.

"Alright!"

Everyone responded and acted separately.

……

An hour later, everyone gathered in Qiao Rui's yard again, shaking their heads and sighing, without discovering anything.

"Okay, Chen Nian leads the way, let's go to other crime scenes!" Qiao Rui waved his hand, signaling that everyone should not be discouraged, then turned to his grandfather and said, "I won't go back to the city these few days. I will bring Jingxuan to accompany you in the evening."

"Okay! Be careful on the road." The old man smiled brightly, shining in the sun.