Gu Qi's case-solving manuscript

"I... I'm Gu Qi." Gu Qi looked at him inexplicably, "Mr. Xu, what's wrong with you?"

"Who the hell are you!" Xu Yihua stared intently at Gu Qi's eyes, trying to see the hidden emotions of the other party.

"I don't understand what you're talking about." Gu Qi's expression turned a little ugly, "Young Master Xu, please let go."

Xu Yihua raised his left hand, pinching the paper with slender fingers, it was the case that Gu Qiti wrote down before: "I can read your handwriting, you can't fool anyone."

Gu Qi's heart skipped a beat.

"Your handwriting is exactly the same as that of a friend of mine." Xu Yihua paused every word.

Gu Qi started to recall, but gave up after a while and said, "But I really didn't know you before today."

Xu Yihua blushed inexplicably, and murmured: "I... just have a long-standing friendship..."

"Master Xu, I think you have misunderstood the person." Gu Qi stretched out his hand impatiently to push Xu Yihua away, "There are more than ten million similar characters in the world, how can you be confident that you can recognize them just by handwriting? Don't make trouble anymore." Okay, I have an appointment with Xiaohong next door, and I am rushing back to eat."

Xu Yihua was silent for a long time, then he suddenly let go of his hand, his expression extremely disappointed, "How could it be so easy..."

He didn't finish his words, but it was irrelevant. Just like what Gu Qi said, there are more than tens of millions of similar characters in the world. Besides, there are still some slight differences between the two. The man he imagined was not the same at all.

Even if I have stared at that person's handwriting no less than a thousand times.

The next day.

As soon as Gu Qi arrived at the yamen, he found that Xu Yihua had gotten up early and waited here. The other party had changed into a white robe of ink and ink, which made his brows more bookish.

"Have you ever had breakfast?" Xu Yihua asked.

Gu Qi was stunned for a moment: "I've eaten."

"That's good, follow me to Yizhuang." Xu Yihua handed the pen and paper to Gu Qi, and walked out first.

"Oh." Gu Qi could only follow, "Master Xu, have you solved the mystery of the secret room?"

"Not yet." Xu Yihua shook his head.

Gu Qi has always believed that there is no absolute secret room in the world, and all so-called secret room murders have certain loopholes, and cannot be called a complete secret room to a certain extent, but what is the murder weapon?

What kind of weapon would have caused such a wound.

The sword was ruled out yesterday, so naturally it is even less likely to be a murder weapon such as a knife and axe. These weapons are all too thick. If they are cut off, they will inevitably destroy some muscle tissue near the wound, but the victim's muscle near the wound has no Damaged, as if cut by a thin, sharp and hard sword.But there is no such sword in the world yet, so how could it be a sword? Gu Qi felt that his thoughts were trapped in a strange circle, and he couldn't get out.

"Wait! What are you going to do!" Gu Qi watched as Xu Yihua took out a small rolled up package from his arms, unrolled it, and skillfully took out a number of knives of various lengths and neatly arranged them, his scalp flashed in an instant. It exploded.

"I suspect that Lone Pine was drugged before his death." Xu Yihua explained, "But I couldn't find anything when I checked the body, so now I have to check his stomach."

Gu Qi only knows a little bit about the knowledge of Wu Zuo, and he knows nothing about it when he goes deep into it. However, he also knows that in some cases, when the cause of death of the victim is unknown, the victim's autopsy will be performed to find out. the real cause of death.Although it is said that the body, hair and skin are the parents, for a person who died in vain, finding out the truth is the real respect for them.

Even so, Gu Qi's hairs were still standing on end, and he even felt a gust of wind blowing in the room, like Ye Gusong's protest.

"Then do you have Master Zhong's autopsy approval?" Gu Qi asked.

"Yes." Xu Yihua took out a piece of paper from his arms and threw it into Gu Qi's arms.Gu Qizhan took a look, and it was indeed the official seal of Zhong Benli's county magistrate.

Xu Yihua washed his hands with clean water, dried them, put on white cloth gloves, ran his fingers across the row of small knives, and finally chose a small knife that was a little longer than his palm, and held it firmly with his fingers.The edge of the blade shone with a gloomy cold light, and he gently wiped it with a stack of square clean white silk handkerchiefs.

"I'm going to have an autopsy." Xu Yihua even showed a smile on the corner of his mouth, "You are ready to record."

Gu Qi quietly took a few steps back, he felt that the scene of the meeting later might not be suitable for watching, and it would be safer to stay far away.

The sound of the blade cutting the skin made Gu Qi shudder, the small voice seemed to ring in his ears, Ye Gusong was dead, so naturally he didn't feel uncomfortable, but Gu Qi felt that the knife was like It's like cutting in my own heart, one by one, it's comparable to torture.

"The blood flow is very small, it is in a semi-coagulated state, the color is dark, and there is no obvious sign of poisoning."

Xu Yihua has already opened Ye Gusong's abdominal cavity, and began to check the internal organs: "The internal organs are soft to the touch, there is no peculiar smell, and there are no obvious signs of poisoning."

"Eh?" Xu Yihua's moving hands suddenly stopped.

Gu Qi endured strong discomfort and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xu Yihua twisted something from the abdominal cavity of the corpse: "I found this in his stomach, it seems to be the residue of some kind of medicinal herb."

"Herbal?" Gu Qi frowned immediately when he heard this, and leaned over to try to identify what was in Xu Yihua's hand, but then a strong smell of blood came to his nostrils, and he was smoked away alive.

Gu Qi covered his nose and frowned: "Can you recognize what it is?"

"Yes." Xu Yihua's face was heavy, and he put the herb residue in his hand on the white cloth spread aside, tore off his gloves and threw it aside, and washed his hands carefully with clean water, then said, "This is the best way to concentrate A calming herbal medicine called Baifengcao, named for its resemblance to a phoenix tail, decoction and drinking this medicine can help people sleep. But this medicine has another effect, but few people know it. If someone Take the white phoenix grass, and then ignite the Buddha skin, which can make the person drowsy, seem to be sleepy, and move freely but lose the sense of touch. Most of them are used by doctors to paralyze the patient so that they can't feel the pain of the wound, so that they can recover smoothly. Stitch the wound."

"We must have overlooked something in that room." Gu Qi frowned, grabbed Xu Yihua's wrist and said anxiously, "Quick, go and see now!"

Xu Yihua was caught off guard and staggered by the impatient Gu Qi: "My tool!"

The room that was the scene of the murder had already been sealed by Zhong Benli to prevent people from entering and destroying the crime scene. Gu Qi tore off the seal angrily, and pushed the door straight in.

Naturally, nothing in the house has been touched, the blood on the ground and the window curtains have dried up, and there is no smell of blood in the room, so Gu Qi habitually looked around the room and searched carefully.

But no, no matter whether it was on the ground, under the bed, or even inside the suitcase and vase, they had been carefully searched, and there were no ashes of the Buddha skin after burning.

"Could it be wrong?" Xu Yihua muttered to himself.

"You shouldn't be wrong." Gu Qi habitually gnawed his thumb nails, paced back and forth by the bed, and suddenly looked up from the bed, and there was a beam on the top of the curtain. He said to Xu Yihua, "Go up and have a look, the ashes of the Buddha's skin should be there after burning."

Xu Yihua stepped on the round stool next to him, took advantage of his strength to jump, flew into the air in an instant, and soon fell to the ground: "You are right, there is indeed a small cluster of burnt ashes on it, and the preliminary identification is indeed Buddha skin."

Gu Qi pondered: "How many ashes are there?"

"Not too little."

"How are they arranged?"

"The arrangement is very neat, and there is an obvious burnt mark on the beam."

"Yeah." Gu Qi responded casually, gnawing his nails irritably.

Xu Yihua suddenly came to his senses: "Is it you who investigate the case or I investigate the case."

"Don't make noise!" Gu Qi said in a bad tone, "White phoenix grass is so common that people buy it every day. If you go to the pharmacy, you will definitely not find anything useful."

"But Buddha skins are relatively rare in the market, so we should be able to find something." Xu Yihua was led by Gu Qi's question again.

"No, according to your description just now, what the murderer burned was not ordinary Buddha skins, but made into incense sticks." Gu Qi gnawed with another finger, "The reason why Buddha skins are rare in the market is because ordinary people can't use them. Basically, they were bought by hawkers who made incense sticks, and they were used for worshiping Buddhas and gods, or for ancestor worship at home, so nothing can be found out.”

Xu Yihua's eyes suddenly became strange.

Gu Qi didn't notice Xu Yihua's eyes, he was still immersed in his own thoughts, and kept deducing in his mind.The murderer was smarter than Gu Qi imagined. The white phoenix grass can make the victim fall asleep, and at the same time, it can paralyze the victim's skin when mixed with Buddha skin incense, and the Buddha skin incense burns longer than ordinary incense sticks. This will allow you to sneak into the victim's room in advance and arrange everything.But this is why, since the murderer can sneak into the victim's room in advance, why does he need to arrange Buddha Pixiang instead of poisoning directly? What is the purpose of his act of paralyzing the victim's skin?

Xu Yihua's eyes were flickering, and the feeling from last night resurfaced in his heart again, nervousness, excitement, apprehension, suspicion, uneasiness, intricately intertwined, he looked at Gu Qi's figure standing in front of the air hole, and opened his mouth seemingly unintentionally : "If Shuiyoufeng is here, it must be very easy to solve these puzzles."

"Fart." Gu Qi retorted subconsciously, and then he reacted with a thump in his heart.

Xu Yihua was doubting himself again.

"You, how do you say swear words." Xu Yihua's cheeks flushed all of a sudden, and he looked at Gu Qi in surprise.

"What's wrong with my swearing, what I said is the truth!" Gu Qi turned his head.

"You, you..." Xu Yihua was speechless, "You are not allowed to say that about him."

Gu Qi irritatedly said: "I'm just worried about water and wind, can't I just scold myself?"

"You, you..." Hearing these words, Xu Yihua didn't feel that Gu Qi was a Shuiyoufeng anymore, he just felt that the person he had always admired was insulted by this person in front of him, and he blurted out in a hurry, "You're the one who farts!"

"Vulgar." Gu Qi shook his head, "It's an insult to a scholar to say such vulgar words."

Xu Yihua glared at Gu Qi bitterly, and kicked the table to vent his anger.

After a while, Xu Yihua asked: "Then what do you think about this secret room?"

Seeing his funny expression, Gu Qi couldn't help but want to tease him: "I think the secret room is indeed a secret room, but..."

"But what?" Xu Yihua really asked.

"But... you solved the case, and you asked me what I was doing. I was just a policeman, and now I'm also the chief bookkeeper." Gu Qi turned the brush in his hand.

This time Xu Yihua wasn't so angry, he just grabbed the pen and paper from Gu Qi's hand and put it on the table: "Then go out with me, I want to ask the people nearby if they found anything unusual when the crime happened. "

"Abnormal?" Gu Qi frowned, "I was almost hit by a crazy carriage?"

Xu Yihua said unhappily: "I'm solving a case, can you stop talking about irrelevant things?"

Gu Qi didn't think it was irrelevant. The victim died at the third quarter of the unitary hour. Counting the time, he happened to be near the county government at that time, and was almost hit by a crazy carriage. Was it really such a coincidence? , since it was an unusual thing that happened at the time of the crime, it might be related to the murder.Now that I am at a loss about this case, if I come across a clue, I must continue to investigate.

According to yesterday's memory, Gu Qi and Xu Yihua searched along the street, most of them asked some street vendors, they usually stayed in one place, and they might know something.

"I remember the carriage yesterday." I finally got the answer when I asked an old man selling bean curds, "I saw that carriage coming out of the alley in front. Like crazy, running around in the street, knocking over Aunt Li who sells tofu when running out of the alley, and now Aunt Li is still resting at home, how pitiful..."

"Thank you, old man." After hearing the answer he wanted, Xu Yihua made a bow and turned to Gu Qidao, "Let's go."

"En." Gu Qi nodded, and the two walked in the direction pointed by the old man.

It turned out that the alley the old man mentioned was located behind the county government office, separated from the backyard of the county government office by a wall. When they got to the entrance of the alley, the two found that someone had already climbed there first.

"Shi Bin, is that you?" Gu Qi was a little surprised.

Shi Bin was squatting on the ground, as if he was looking at something, but his fingers were rubbing against the ground again, as if he was hiding some evidence.

"What are you doing?!" Xu Yihua yelled.

Upon hearing the voices of the two, Shi Bin was taken aback, stood up abruptly, turned around and ran to the other side of the alley.

"Don't run!" Xu Yihua made a wrong step and chased after him with lightness kung fu.

Gu Qi looked at Xu Yihua's handsome back with envy, it was a wonderful thing to have skills.

The two chased and left, Gu Qi came to the place where Shi Bin squatted just now, and squatted down like him just now, what Shi Bin was doing here just now, what was he looking at, and what was he hiding.Gu Qi's fingers rubbed against the ground, his eyes swept over the stone slab inch by inch, not missing any point.

Ok?

Gu Qi's eyes stopped at a certain place, here is...

"Let him run away." Xu Yihua's resentful voice sounded from behind Gu Qi, and he said as if explaining, "Because I'm not familiar with the road here."

"Look what this is?" Gu Qi didn't care, beckoning him to squat down.

"This..." Xu Yihua carefully identified it, "It seems to be the blood after it has dried up."

Gu Qi stood up slowly.

The thread is broken here.

"I'll go back and tell Mr. Zhong to send his men to look for that carriage." Xu Yihua stood up, "If I'm not wrong, this should be behind the room where Ye Gusong lives."

"Almost, not much wrong." Gu Qi bit his nails, "Also remember to send someone to find Shi Bin, I think Shi Bin must have something to do with this matter."

Why on earth did Shi Bin come here? He was still inside the Yamen when the carriage passed by. How did he find out about this place? Why did he want to wipe off the blood on the ground? If it wasn't the murderer, why did he see the two of them? And run away with a guilty conscience.

If Shi Bin is the murderer, how did he mysteriously disappear in a room where the doors and windows were locked? What was his motive, and what modus operandi he used?

It seems that the mystery has not only not been solved, but more and more.

There was a rare heavy rain at night, the thunder was rolling, and the pouring rain was overwhelming, but it made people fall asleep.

The air is filled with the smell of earth and the faint scent of sweet-scented osmanthus, which is scattered all over the city by the cool breeze.

Gu Qi was sleeping soundly, when suddenly there was a thunderclap, followed by a loud knock on the door, pulling him out of his sleep.

"Gu Qi! It's bad, Shi Bin is dead!"

Gu Qi's heart felt cold, and he immediately woke up for the most part.