Gu Qi's case-solving manuscript

Master Zhou was dizzy standing in front of the corpse.

In just a few days, several corpses appeared, which was undoubtedly an extremely sensational event in this small county.

First, Feng Qi was found dead in the grass beside the official road in the early morning, then Feng Zhuo was found dead in the woods outside the city, and now Feng Da's body was found in the cemetery, so the next body will be who is it?

Is it the newly married Feng Liushi, or Liu Ying who is at odds with Feng Zhuo and Feng Qi, or Xin Yanniang who has hidden a lot of secrets and is unwilling to tell?

The successive murders made Mr. Zhou very anxious. He supported Zhao Ming with one hand, and kept stroking his chest with the other. Looking at Xu Yihua who was still examining the corpse, he couldn't help asking: "Mr. Xu, Did you find anything?"

No one is more anxious than Mr. Zhou, and no one is as anxious to solve the case as he is, not only because he is afraid that someone will be murdered again, but also because the new county magistrate is here in less than three days. .

Time is running out, he must bring the murderer to justice before Xinzhi County takes office!

Xu Yihua didn't have time to talk to Master Zhou, but turned to Gu Qidao: "Feng Da was killed three days ago, his abdomen is slightly bulging, and the inside of the body has begun to rot."

"Is the cause of death strangled by the murderer with a rope?" Gu Qi pointed to the bruise on the neck of the corpse.

"That's right." Xu Yihua nodded, bent down and pressed his fingers on the marks on the corpse's neck, "The murderer should have strangled Feng Da's neck with a rope from behind, and then crossed the victim's body slowly from the back of the neck. strangle."

"Slowly?" Gu Qi caught a key word.

"Well, slowly." Xu Yihua pointed at Feng Da's hand again, "The deceased had obviously struggled and resisted before he was alive, his fingers were bent, and besides bruises and small wounds on his neck, he probably wanted to tear off the rope Because of the struggle of the deceased, the murderer never succeeded, so the bruises on the neck are uneven."

"Any other discoveries?" Gu Qi wrote down the clues Xu Yihua said, and asked again.

"Yes." Xu Yihua continued, "The murderer should be taller than the deceased. Judging from the marks on the neck, the rope crosses upwards at the back of the neck, indicating that the murderer may be taller than the deceased. However, it does not rule out that the murderer was standing The assailant was carried out at a higher position than the victim."

"The victim's thumb was not cut off." Gu Qi said suddenly.

Xu Yihua nodded: "That's true, this time the murderer didn't cut off the victim's right thumb."

"Why is that?" Gu Qi asked.

"Maybe it's because the murderer didn't want to reveal more information."

"Have you found out what Feng Dalai is doing here at Wanyin Mountain?" Gu Qi checked the surrounding environment and turned to ask Master Zhou.

"Find it out." Master Zhou hurriedly responded loudly, walking towards Gu Qi and the others while talking, holding a booklet in his hand, "Not far ahead, a cemetery was dug up, and the coffin cover It was also pried up, and the funerary objects inside were gone, I suspect that Feng Da may be a tomb robber."

"Feng Da, Feng Qi, and the others are locals?" Gu Qi seemed to have thought of something.

"No, they came to settle here four years ago, they are not locals."

Gu Qi narrowed his eyes: "Check to see if there was any major cemetery robbery four years ago, investigate it as soon as possible, and then verify the true identity of the Feng family."

Xu Yihua asked: "Are you suspicious..."

"Yes, I suspect that not only Feng Da is a tomb robber, but maybe the Feng family is also a tomb robber."

"What?" Master Zhou couldn't believe it. If Feng Qi was a tomb robber, he would believe it for a while. After all, Feng Qi's character is not very good, but if he said that Feng's family is a tomb robber, what would Master Zhou think of him? I can't believe it, let's not talk about Liu Ying's mother-in-law, just look at Xin Yanniang and Feng Liushi, they don't look like grave diggers.

Gu Qi continued: "In addition, it is necessary to find out Feng Liu's identity before marrying Feng Qi, and what Xin Yanniang did after Feng Qixiu."

"If Feng Da is really a tomb robber, then the funeral objects that were stolen from the coffin should still be nearby." Xu Yihua said to Master Zhou, "Master Zhou, send someone to look for it nearby, and send it there if you find it." The home of the deceased in the grave, let the family re-bury it properly."

"I see." Master Zhou nodded.

After giving the order, Gu Qi squatted next to Feng Da's body and inspected it carefully.

Xu Yihua followed suit and squatted down: "I have checked the way the rope is tied, and there is nothing special about it. I have also checked the tombstone in this tomb, it is just an ordinary old man."

Feng Da's body was tied to the tomb, lying quietly on the tomb, with his head up and his feet down the mountain, but his neck was bent at a strange angle, his eyes were open and his head was tilted. where to look.

Gu Qi stood up and turned to the tombstone under Feng Da's body. An old man was buried in this tomb. He died at the age of 89. It was a happy funeral. It was indeed as Xu Yihua said, and there was nothing special about it. The place.

"What did you find?" Xu Yihua followed behind him.

Gu Qi didn't speak, he walked to the side of the corpse again, was silent for a while, then suddenly lay down straight.

"You..." Xu Yihua was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Gu Qi meant by this move.

Following Feng Da's example, Gu Qi tilted his head and looked to the right side of his body. There was nothing there, only a solitary bamboo, which was bare and nothing special.

"What exactly do you mean?" Gu Qi said to himself.

Is there any special meaning for the murderer to put the body here?Is there anything special about the place Feng Da looked at at the end?

Both of them were conveying information, but Gu Qi didn't know what they were talking about for a while.

Gu Qi sat up, put his right hand on the ground, and had already stood up, who knew that he got up too quickly, his eyes darkened for a while, and his whole body shook several times, Xu Yihua saw that the situation was not good, so he quickly reached out to support him.

"what happened to you?"

"He's not feeling well." Gu Qi pursed his lips and pushed Xu Yihua's hand away, "It's nothing serious."

"What were you talking about just now?" Seeing that Gu Qi didn't want to talk more, Xu Yihua changed the topic.

Gu Qi repeated his question in this way, but Xu Yihua suddenly said: "There is nothing special about the grave below, maybe there is something about the grave above?"

This proposal is not bad, Gu Qi and Xu Yihua strode away.

The head of Feng Da's corpse was facing a tomb. If one stood on this tomb and looked down at the corpse, it would unconsciously bring a feeling of looking down on the trial.

"Whose grave is this?" Master Zhou was a little puzzled.

There is no name or age written on this tomb, nor is it written on the time of death, where is the family, it is empty without a word, it is clearly a wordless stone tablet.Who set up this stele, what is the significance?

Gu Qi and Xu Yihua looked around in a daze, but had no clue about it.

"Master Zhou, I still need to trouble you to check." Xu Yihua cupped his hands.

Master Zhou had a bitter expression on his face: "Young master Xu, there is nothing here, how can we check?"

Gu Qi was puzzled by Master Zhou's ability to work in the yamen for so many years and still be praised for his cleverness: "The names of the deceased's family members are always written on the steles around here. You can always find out if you visit once or twice. Qingming In every season, this wordless stele will definitely be visited by people."

Master Zhou slapped his forehead: "Gu Qi, you are still the smartest!"

"Now." Gu Qi took a deep breath, and then exhaled slowly, "Let's sort out the current doubts and clues."

Xu Yihua nodded and said with a smile: "It should be so."

"First: Feng Da's body was found in the grass beside the official road. Why did the murderer choose to throw the body in such a place? The place where the body was found is not far from the city gate, and it is an official road, so people come and go In the past, if you don’t pay attention, you will be discovered.”

"The murderer must have chosen to throw the body at night, so that he can hide better. There will be people who watch the night in the county. We also asked about it and found nothing wrong that day, so the murderer must be lying in ambush when the victim came out. He committed the crime on his way home." Xu Yihua analyzed, "The murderer threw the body on the side of the road, and someone will find it soon in the morning. It is very likely that his purpose is to let others find Feng Qi's body. "

"Why did the murderer do this?" Master Zhou didn't understand, "Wouldn't it be better for him to kill quietly, why is he so swaggering?"

"Because the murderer wants us to find out the truth behind Feng Qi." Xu Yihua affirmed.

Gu Qi winked at Xu Yihua, expressing his affirmation.

"The truth behind it?" Master Zhou suddenly realized, "The truth that the Feng family is all grave robbers?"

"No." Xu Yihua shook his head, "If you just want us to find out the truth about the tomb robber, you can achieve your goal by killing Feng Da alone."

"What is that?" Master Zhou was confused again.

Xu Yihua just smiled and said nothing.

Gu Qi said again: "Second: Feng Zhuo and Feng Qi died at about the same time, why did their bodies appear in two completely different places? One is on the side of the road where people come and go, and the other is in a sparsely populated forest. "

"Whether it is a man or a woman, it is impossible for one person to transport two corpses to two different places in a short period of time. Therefore, the murderer will have a tool to transport the corpses when committing the crime." Xu Yihua continued to analyze, "The most convenient and least noticeable thing is the wheelbarrow. The murderer chose two places to dump the body. According to the murderer's treatment of the other two bodies, there must be some clues hidden in Feng Zhuo's body. The murderer wanted to tell us."

"I'll order someone to find out what's unusual about that forest." Mr. Zhou said.

"Third: The people who died were all members of the Feng family, Feng Da, Feng Qi, and Feng Zhuo." Gu Qi retracted his fingers and put them into his sleeves, "Why?"

"If the members of the Feng family are all grave robbers, then the murderer may be someone who was dug up by them." Xu Yihua said, "This is not a personal hatred, but a family hatred. The murderer's killing should not stop here. Next There may also be Liu Ying, Feng Liushi and Xin Yanniang."

"Then what should we do now?" Master Zhou asked.

Gu Qi rubbed his fingertips and glanced at Xu Yihua: "Call them all to the yamen, and we will watch in person."