Gu Qi's case-solving manuscript

It's only before five o'clock, and it's still dark at night. The heavy rain, which is rare in early autumn, has not stopped all night, and Gu Qi's last bit of drowsiness has been taken away.

Zhao Ming was outside holding an oil-paper umbrella in one hand and a rickety lantern in the other. The weak candlelight would not play much role in the rainy night, but would be extinguished by the rainwater that drifted in.He walked on the road in a hurry, and the hem of his clothes was completely soaked, but he didn't care.

Gu Qi only hurriedly put on a coat and rushed to Yizhuang.Almost everyone in the Yizhuang has arrived. Apart from Xu Yihua and Zhong Benli, there is also an old man, wearing a coir raincoat, barefoot, and his trousers are rolled up high, splashed with mud.

Reaching out to take the cloth towel handed over by Xu Yihua, Gu Qi casually wiped off the rainwater on his body, picked up a pen and paper and asked, "How is the situation?"

"Shi Bin's body was discovered by this fisherman." Zhong Benli was wearing casual clothes, and he must have rushed over before he could put on official uniforms. He pointed to the old man beside him and said, "You tell me." .”

"Yes, magistrate." The old man hastily bent down and made a big bow, then straightened up again, his face concealed his excitement, but he talked incessantly, "My lords, listen to what the villain said, this matter is In this way, the villain is a fisherman, and he lives in the east of Laixi Village. If you don’t believe me, you can go to Laixi Village to inquire. The old Zhangtou that everyone always mentions is me. It’s been raining tonight , it was windy, raining and thundering, so the river where the villain was fishing rose, and was awakened by thunder in the middle of the night. The villain was thinking about his own fishing boat, so he put on his coir raincoat and went to the river Looking at it, who knows that this look can scare the villain!"

When the old Zhangtou said this, he slapped his thigh excitedly, and bought it deliberately: "Guess what, my lords, there is a person entangled on the boat rope of the villain, floating around on the water, the villain Thinking it was okay, he quickly carried the man up, and it was amazing! The villain found that the man floating on the water was actually wearing the clothes of a policeman, and when he touched his nose again, he was out of breath. It was cold and cold, so dead that I couldn't die anymore. At that time, the villain was scared out of his wits and nearly rolled into the river. It was still raining heavily at that time, and the villain..."

Gu Qi couldn't bear it any longer, he slapped the table and shouted: "Get to the point! If you talk about this to me again, I'll beat you thirty!"

The old man trembled in fright, and felt that although the person in front of him was only writing with a pen, the way he slapped the table and stared at him was really scary, and there was only one sentence left in his heart: "The villain hurriedly came to the Yamen to report to the officials with the corpse on his back. He didn't dare to delay for a moment."

The old man spent half a day talking about it, but his useful words were very limited. Gu Qi only wrote down a few strokes on the paper.

"Do you remember when you found the body?" Xu Yihua asked.

"I remember." Old Zhangtou nodded quickly, "The villain glanced at the clock when he got up, so I remember it very clearly. It happened to be the third watch at that time."

"Did you find anything unusual before?"

"No." Old Zhang shook his head blankly, and after thinking about it for a while, he couldn't think of anything. "It was raining so heavily at that time, so he couldn't hear anything."

At this time, the door creaked and was pushed open, Gu Qi looked up, it turned out to be Mrs. Zhong and the two maidservants, and the cool wind outside brought a little bit of rain.Xing'er shook off the rainwater from the oil-paper umbrella, and placed the umbrella next to the wall.

"What are you doing here?" Zhong Benli hastily stretched out his hand to support Mrs. Zhong, with blame on his face, "Didn't I tell you that it would be fine to let you stay at home? It's raining so hard and you can't see the way clearly." , what should you do if something happened to you?"

"You'll talk nonsense." Mrs. Zhong said angrily, "With Cui'er and Xing'er here, I'm just worried about what could happen if you come here to see."

"What are you worried about, am I fine?" Zhong Benli helped Mrs. Zhong to the stool beside her.

"What's more, look at you." Mrs. Zhong stretched out her hand and patted Zhong Benli's back a few times, "I told you to walk slowly, but you didn't listen. Look at you, you are covered in mud."

"Oh, ma'am." Zhong Benli shook his head helplessly, asked Madam Zhong to sit down, and said to Xu Yihua, "Master Xu, what do you think of this matter?"

Xu Yihua frowned slightly: "The student needs an autopsy."

Zhao Ming called clear water to let Xu Yihua wash his hands, and the latter took out a pair of white cloth gloves from his arms and put them on his hands, then nodded to Gu Qi, leaned over to check.

"The deceased man, at the age of [-], was confirmed to be Shi Bin himself." Xu Yihua pressed his fingers lightly on the corpse, "The face is blue and purple, the eyes are slightly opened, the eyeballs are protruding and covered with bloodshot eyes. The hands are open, the abdomen is swollen, touch it Slightly hard, head and hair scratches, fingers and toes crevice, clothes and shoes are filled with sand."

After Gu Qi wrote them down one by one, Xu Yihua took off Shi Bin's clothes again, and took a closer look at his face: "There are water foam, sand and some light-colored blood stains in the mouth and nose, and there are many scratches and bruises on the body, and the skin is wrinkled. disease."

"It's impossible." Zhao Ming thought it was ridiculous, "How could Shi Bin, who is so good-looking, suddenly be unable to think about throwing himself into the river?"

"I didn't say he threw himself into the river." Xu Yihua covered Shi Bin's body again, pulled off the gloves on his hands, and washed his hands with clean water from the side. "If you smell it carefully, you can still smell it on Shi Bin's body." The faint smell of alcohol may be due to accidentally falling into the water after being drunk."

"It's possible." Zhong Benli recalled, "I remember that Shi Bin was a drunkard."

If it was true as everyone said, it seemed that Shi Bin might have just accidentally fell into the water, but Gu Qi didn't believe this answer at all, and scoffed at the answer that he fell into the water by mistake.

In the morning, he and Xu Yihua found the sneaky Shi Bin together. As soon as the other party saw them, he ran away in a hurry and didn't see anyone all afternoon. It's too late to change out of the police uniform, so how could it be possible to have a leisurely drink, and get so drunk that he stumbled and fell into the water?

"Have you ever found out when he died?" Gu Qi frowned.

Xu Yihua shook his head: "The corpse has been soaked in water for too long, which affects the judgment of the time of death. We can only roughly determine the time of death between Shenshi and Haishi."

"This time is too long." Gu Qi was not satisfied with this answer.

For investigation, it is very useful to determine the time of death of the victim. The more detailed the time of death, the more things can be guessed, and the more clues that can be found on the corpse, the better it is to solve the case.

Gu Qi habitually folded his hands in his sleeves, frowned tightly, and thought to himself.

It was only in the morning that they discovered that Shi Bin was inextricably linked to this case. They might know something, and they were planning to arrest him and ask some questions, but it just so happened that Shi Bin died that night.

"Wait, what is this?" Gu Qi found something in Shi Bin's hair, and he reached out and picked it up carefully.

Xu Yihua came over and took a look: "It's probably aquatic plants in the river, there's nothing unusual about it."

Gu Qi stared at the aquatic plant in his hand for a few moments, the leaves of this aquatic plant are slightly different from ordinary aquatic plants, the leaves are sharper, maybe...

Gu Qi suddenly waved to Old Zhangtou: "Old Zhangtou, you said you are a fisherman, so you must be familiar with the nearby waters, right?"

As soon as the old Zhangtou heard Gu Qi ask him this, he quickly blew it up again: "That's right, don't steal the big brother, it's not a villain boasting, the villains in the nearby rivers are all familiar with it, just like my own wife, what are the twists and turns, where are the fishes?" many……"

"All right." Gu Qi frowned and interrupted him, "Look at this, can you recognize where these aquatic plants usually grow?"

"Hey, okay, let's take a look." Old Zhang leaned over and carefully identified the water plant.

In fact, it is just a water plant. Gu Qi also feels that the possibility of distinguishing it is relatively low, and it is normal that there is only such a one. He just asked casually with a little hope. Maybe this old man knows, so You can find the first crime scene, so as to find more clues.

"I know the villain!" Old Zhangtou suddenly became excited.

"Say it!" Zhong Benli asked anxiously, "Don't be a fool."

"It's from the east side of the city, only the aquatic plants over there look like this!"

east of the city.riverside.

"This is probably the place that old Zhang was talking about."

"Hmm." Gu Qi squatted by the river with an oil-paper umbrella in his hand, looking thoughtfully at the rippling river surface.

It had been raining heavily all night, and now it was about to stop at dawn.The river was rising rapidly and was extremely turbid, and both sides of the river bank were extremely muddy. When one stepped on it, all the muddy water seeped into the inside of the boots, and the damp and wet feeling was disgusting.

Gu Qi found a relatively large stone, and beckoned Xu Yihua to stand on it too.

"Look around here." Gu Qi raised his chin, "There are many trees and rocks, it is an excellent place to kill."

Xu Yihua nodded and said, "You're right."

Zhao Ming and the others got orders from Zhong Benli, and they were still searching around the river, trying to find the scene of the crime.

Time has passed for so long, and the heavy rain has never stopped, even if there are any clues here, they have probably been washed away, and nothing can be found.

"Did you find anything?" Zhong Benli followed him personally, and also stepped on the stone.

"No." Gu Qi shook his head, "The aquatic plants here are indeed the same as the aquatic plants in Shi Bin's hair, and the possibility of being the first crime scene is very high, but now that the river has risen, the crime scene may have been submerged."

"Then...then what should we do?" Zhong Benli said anxiously, "Wouldn't it be impossible to find out whether Shi Bin fell into the water by mistake or killed him?"

"Shi Bin was murdered by someone." Xu Yihua said, "It wasn't suicide, nor did he fall into the water by mistake, he was murdered deliberately by others."

Zhong Benli was taken aback when he heard the words: "What the hell is going on, I'm a little confused."

Xu Yihua sneered: "The murderer may be very smart, and even God is helping him, but it is because of his unnecessary actions that I am sure that this is a murder. Because the murderer did not know that Shi Bin had liver disease , it is impossible to drink alcohol!"

"So it's like this..." Zhong Benli suddenly realized.

Gu Qi jumped off the rocks behind everyone and walked towards the yamen together. He lowered his head and casually held up the umbrella, but his mind was thinking about the mystery of the secret room over and over again.

He felt as if he had vaguely overlooked something. If he could think of that, it would be possible to solve the mystery of the murderer's mysterious disappearance in the secret room. But what exactly did he overlook? The secret room has been checked several times by him and Xu Yihua Yes, and indeed there is no corner left behind.

what is it?

Suddenly there was a sharp pain in his toe, which woke him up from his contemplation. He gasped in pain several times, tears almost fell down.It turned out that he was too focused on thinking about the things in his mind just now, and he didn't pay attention to the road under his feet at all. Then he kicked a rock, and he was about to step on the rock to vent his anger because of the pain. As soon as he lowered his head, he found something unusual.