Gu Qi's case-solving manuscript

"Death by suffocation." Xu Yihua took off the white cloth gloves on his hands, and carefully wiped his fingers with a cloth towel.

"Death by suffocation..." Gu Qi squatted beside the corpse, thoughtful.

"Yeah." Xu Yihua nodded, "The deceased had signs of struggle, bruises on the limbs, was tied up with ropes, and suffered a blunt blow to the back of the head, but it was not the cause of death, the real cause of death It should be caused by someone covering his mouth and nose and being unable to breathe. In addition, the right thumb of the deceased was also cut off."

Gu Qi grabbed the wrist of the deceased through the handkerchief, and lifted his right hand, and sure enough, just as Xu Yihua said, the thumb was cut off.

"Why?" Gu Qi didn't understand why the deceased's right thumb was cut off. Is there any meaning in it?

"What?" Xu Yihua was stunned.

The corpse was lying face up on the ground. There were a few fallen leaves on the body. It was not known whether it was sprinkled by the murderer or covered by fallen leaves. There were also no signs of struggle around, not even the ropes used for binding.Obviously, this is not the scene of the murder, but the place where the murderer chose to dump the body.

Xu Yihua wrote down a few notes on the paper: "The deceased's eyes were wide open, his eyeballs were bulging, a little blood flowed from his mouth and nose, his face was covered with blood, it was reddish black, his lower body was defecating heavily, and his mouth and nose were blocked by something foreign. You can't vent your anger and die."

After writing it down, Xu Yihua paused and asked, "Gu Qi."

"Huh?" Gu Qi raised his eyelids.

"There should be some connection between the two corpses."

Yes, there should be some connection between the two, Xu Yihua meant that they both had their right thumbs cut off, but Gu Qi felt that there was another connection.

Gu Qi squatted next to the corpse, carefully examining it: "Do you think this person looks familiar?"

Xu Yihua frowned, and stared at the corpse on the ground again.

The deceased was a male, about 27 or [-] years old. He was wearing a coarse cloth shirt. He looked ordinary, but the most striking thing was that there was a scar on the man's cheek, which stretched from the bottom of his right eye to the corner of his mouth. It looked menacing. , very uncomfortable.

Besides, this person is just an ordinary man.Xu Yihua didn't take it seriously, Gu Qi lived here for a long time, it's normal for him to see this person familiar, but he has only been here for a few days, how could he feel that this person looks familiar.

"Look carefully." Gu Qi rolled up his sleeves, frowning tightly.

Xu Yihua felt that it was strange, so he hurriedly looked it over, it didn't matter, he really found that this person looked a little familiar: "It's a little familiar, but I've only been here for a few days..."

"Don't you think this person is a bit like the dead man in the morning?" Gu Qi said.

Xu Yihua frowned and recalled, and found that the two dead men did have a certain resemblance in appearance: "Master Zhou!"

"Master Xu, what's the matter?" Master Zhou asked.

"You call Feng Qi's wife to Yizhuang to identify the corpse."

Master Zhou didn't know what to do now, he heard Xu Yihua's words as if he had found the backbone, he immediately followed suit, and at the same time sent someone to carry the body to Yizhuang, and at the same time sent someone to summon Feng Liushi.

"What do you think?" Seeing that Gu Qi was silent, Xu Yihua knew that he had something on his mind, so he asked.

Gu Qi pointed to the woods: "The trees in this forest are so tall that they can't see the sun, and there are often all kinds of wild animals haunting them, so there are many traps in the forest. Usually, there are few people coming and going, and only occasionally people who collect firewood come here. Those who can choose to throw their bodies here must be people who are very familiar with this place."

"You mean it's very likely to be local people?" Xu Yihua asked.

"The minimum is someone who has lived here for five years."

Xu Yihua nodded, Gu Qi got up and looked around, and said loudly: "Zhao Ming, Master Zhou, come here."

Zhao Ming was comforting the collapsed Master Zhou, and the two came over immediately upon hearing this.

"What's wrong, Gu Qi?"

Gu Qi bit his nails and said with a smile: "Let's brainstorm, what do you think about this case?"

Zhao Ming and Master Zhou shook their heads in unison: "I have no opinion."

Gu Qi said helplessly: "Master Zhou, do you still want to have an errand?"

This threat frightened Master Zhou to think hard: "I think the murderer must be a habitual offender!"

"Oh?" Xu Yihua became interested, "Why do you say that?"

Seeing that someone was willing to listen to his words, Master Zhou immediately felt that his role was great, and immediately said with a straight chest: "Look at this man, the way of killing is so neat, there is no valid evidence left, he must be a skilled man. Habitual offenders. I think you should look up people who have recently been released from prison."

"It makes sense." Gu Qi nodded.

"Still a man." Zhao Ming also spoke.

"Oh?" Xu Yihua turned his head, "How do you know that?"

Compared with this morning, Zhao Ming's mood is obviously much higher now: "The deceased is an adult man, although he is not very tall, but if a woman wants to transport him to this forest, it will be extremely difficult. If I She is a woman, and she would not choose to throw her body in such a place. So the murderer must be a man."

"It makes sense." Gu Qi still nodded.

"Maybe it's someone who doesn't have a right thumb." Mr. Zhou said, "That's why he cut off other people's thumbs."

"Jealousy breeds hatred." Zhao Ming nodded in agreement, "Not only did he kill someone, but he also robbed all the money from the victim, so the deceased will be completely clean."

"Perhaps a man of great strength."

"Perhaps a shadowy one."

"Maybe not live with everyone, live alone in other places."

"beggar?"

"An unpopular person?"

The more Zhao Ming and Master Zhou talked, the more they talked, the more they hit it off.He directly pushed aside Gu Qi and Xu Yihua, who were standing in the middle, and put their heads together.

"Master Zhou, I'll take someone to the neighborhood to investigate."

"Captain Zhao, I'm going to check the previous files and see the prisoners released recently."

Seeing that Gu Qi kept nodding over there, Xu Yihua suddenly got angry, and stretched out his hand to poke him several times: "Don't keep nodding, what are you talking about."

Gu Qi looked puzzled: "I think what Master Zhou and Zhao Ming said is pretty good."

"It's pretty good." Xu Yihua frowned, "It's obvious that they just gathered together to talk nonsense!"

Gu Qi put his hand on Xu Yihua's shoulder indifferently: "Now we don't know the murderer, and we don't have any useful clues. Let them check it out. If it's right, we can save some effort. If it's wrong, it can help us rule it out. Wrong lead."

"But..." Xu Yihua still felt something was wrong.

"Okay, okay." Gu Qi perfunctory him, "Let's go to Yizhuang first."

The corpse was already in Yizhuang, and the place where Feng Qi was lying was the same as Feng Qi in the morning, so Feng Liushi saw the dead as soon as he arrived in the village.

Feng Liushi was still wearing a white filial piety dress, with a white flower on her head, and tidied up her messy hair in the morning. Although her eyes were red and swollen and her face haggard, she looked much better. Gu Qi was still in the mood to sigh in his heart , as expected, she wanted to be pretty and filial, but this Feng Liushi was actually quite pretty.

"Feng Liushi." Gu Qi said with a straight face, "Do you know this person?"

Xu Yihua cooperated and pulled the white cloth off the corpse, revealing the red and black face covered with blood.

"Ah..." Seemingly taken aback by the appearance of the corpse, Feng Liushi covered her mouth and exclaimed.

"Do you know him?" Gu Qi asked again.

Feng Liushi bit her lips and said, "Master, can you let the woman come over and take a closer look?"

Gu Qi nodded in agreement, Feng Liushi took a few steps forward, she took a closer look, and tears rolled down her face again: "Master, the lady...the lady recognizes...he, he is my nephew Feng Zhuo... ..."

It seems that my previous guess is correct, this man is indeed a member of the Feng family, and has a blood relationship with Feng Qi.

"Feng Liushi, now you still want to say that your nephew Feng Zhuo also fell to his death!" Gu Qili shouted.

Feng Liushi lowered her head, and couldn't help shaking slightly when she heard the words: "I..."

"Now I have reason to suspect that both Feng Qi and Feng Zhuo were killed." Gu Qi narrowed his eyes, "What you said this morning was a lie, do you know the consequences of lying to the Yamen?"

Feng Liushi's body trembled even more, she was terrified by these words, she quickly raised her head, and couldn't stop saying: "The commoners know their mistakes, please don't punish the commoners."

Gu Qi's black face was almost singing, Xu Yihua stood up, and he said softly: "Feng Liushi, don't worry too much, as long as we ask you, you can answer truthfully."

"I will answer truthfully, and I will not hide anything." Feng Liushi hurriedly said.

"Okay, let me ask you, what kind of enemies do Feng Qi and Feng Zhuoke have?" Xu Yihua asked.

Feng Liushi told the truth this time: "They don't actually have any enemies on weekdays. It's just that they like to gamble and like to ask others to borrow money, but they have no money to pay back. Some people always come to ask for debts."

"Where was the last time you saw them?"

"It was last night." Feng Liushi said softly, "Feng Qi was in a bad mood last night and had to go out late at night. I advised him not to go out, but he beat me up. I couldn't persuade him, so I had no choice. Just worry about it, who knew that Feng Qi didn't come back all night, I was anxious, I got up before dawn today to look for him, who knew later... Then I heard someone say that a middle-aged man died, so I came here... Only then did I realize that it was Feng Qi..."

After finishing speaking, Feng Liushi wiped his tears with his sleeve again.

"Do you ever know where he went out last night?" Gu Qi asked.

Feng Liushi managed to hold back her tears: "Feng Qi would go to gamble every time he was in a bad mood, most likely he went to the casino last night."

"He often goes to the casino?"

"Yes, both Feng Qi and Feng Zhuo often go to the casino, and most people in the casino recognize them."

Gu Qi frowned, Xu Yihua asked: "I'll ask someone to bring the casino owner here for questioning."

After sending someone over, Gu Qi walked a few steps in place, and stood beside Feng Liushi: "Why did you lie to us in the morning, and lied to us that Feng Qi fell to his death?"

"I..." Feng Liushi lowered his head and refused to speak.

"Don't you want to avenge your husband?"

Feng Liushi wept and remained silent.

"Why don't you tell the truth, or do you have something to hide?"

Finally, Feng Liu raised her head and choked with sobs: "Feng Qi said...he said...if he died...let me marry someone else, so I don't have to pay those debts for him..."