Gu Qi's case-solving manuscript

"Master Xu, do you think the murderer who killed Shi Bin is the same murderer who killed Ye Gusong before?" Zhong Benli asked.

"It's very possible." Xu Yihua said, "There must be some relationship between Shi Bin and Lone Pine. It's just that the students haven't found out yet, so they need to investigate."

"Did you know Ye Gusong three years ago?" Gu Qi, who came up from behind, suddenly asked such an endless question.

Xu Yihua nodded and said: "That's right, I met Lone Pine exactly three years ago. He was working as a nursing home in an inn at that time. I saw that he was quite extraordinary, so I started to make friends with him. Since then, Lone Pine has been with him all the time. By my side."

Gu Qi rubbed his chin, and fell into deep thought after asking this sentence.

Seeing his appearance, Xu Yihua was really strange, and couldn't help but doubt in his heart, so he couldn't help turning his head and asking the magistrate: "Master Zhong, has Butou Gu always been like this?"

Zhong Benli turned his head when he heard the words, and saw Gu Qi casually holding the umbrella with one hand, his shoulders were half-drenched but he didn't know it, the other hand was tucked inside his sleeve and he was shaking it back and forth, muttering in disbelief. I know what I'm talking about, it looks a little weird.

"Perhaps I wanted to learn some skills, so I paid attention to this case." Zhong Benli said with a smile, "If that's the case, I still have to thank Mr. Xu, you have quite a lot of experience, and you should take the trouble to give me some advice on weekdays."

Xu Yihua repeatedly smiled and declined, saying he dared not.

"What is the murder weapon...how did the murderer kill...what's going on..." Gu Qi pointed at his temple with his index finger, his brows were so frowning that they could catch flies.After the group broke up at the gate of the Yamen, he came to the largest teahouse in the county alone. The more irritated the environment, the more Gu Qi could calm down. My heart can't calm down.

"Xiao Er, change the tea." Gu Qi knocked on the table irritably.

"Hey, Butou Gu, come right away." Xiao Er responded from a distance, and quickly came over to help Gu Qi replace it with new tea and tea, "Why is Butou Gu so angry today?"

"Don't mention it." Gu Qi waved his hand, unwilling to mention it.

Xiao Er didn't ask any more questions, turned around and left after changing the tea.

"Isn't this Miss Qianqian? She came here quite quickly. There is a place reserved for you. Play more festive tunes, you know?" Xiao Er asked with a big teapot.

Gu Qi looked up and found that it was the girl Qianqian who often played the piano here and his grandpa and grandson.

Gu Qi is also a regular customer here, and when he comes to sit and have nothing to do, he can often see Miss Qianqian playing a little song, and sometimes chatting a few words, if they come and go, everyone is considered an acquaintance.

"Brother Gu." When passing by Gu Qi, Qianqian bowed her knees slightly and gave a salute, and then she sat down with the guqin in her arms.

Reaching out to pour himself a cup of tea, Gu Qi tapped his fingers on the table, squinted his eyes slightly, and lazily raised his head to listen to the faint sound of the piano.

Although the sound of the qin is a bit dull, Qianqian is quite proficient in playing this kind of cheerful tune, and it also won the applause of the group of people who don't know the rhythm.

"Miss Qianqian, come one more!"

The singing was cheerful, and Miss Qianqian played it in one go, which also relieved a little of the boredom in Gu Qi's heart. He was listening to it with great interest, but suddenly he heard a "clank", another cry of pain, and the sound of the piano stopped abruptly.

Gu Qi hurriedly raised his eyes to look over, it turned out that Miss Qianqian's strings were broken and her fingers were hurt, she couldn't continue to play, so she had to say goodbye to everyone.

Unexpectedly, the strings are so sharp that they can cut your fingers. Girl Qianqian is holding her fingers, and it seems that she is still seriously injured...

Ok?

Harmful strings?

There seemed to be a ray of light passing through Gu Qi's eyes, lighting up his pair of pitch-black eyes, and soon the light was carefully restrained by him. He looked up and looked around, and threw three coins on the table. Leave in a hurry after the copper plate.

Xu Yihua was sitting on the stool, his brows were furrowed, and there were a few pieces of paper in his hand, which were densely written in small script, and a cup of tea was placed on the other side, but it was already cold.

After returning from the river, Xu Yihua shut himself in the room for a long time, pondering over and over again the mystery of the secret room, but no matter how he speculated, there were still a few links in the middle that he couldn't figure out.

Suddenly there was the sound of hurried footsteps outside the door, and then the door of his own room was pushed open: "Follow me."

Gu Qisan walked to Xu Yihua's side in two steps, pulled his wrist and pulled it out: "Quick!"

"Is there any progress in the case?" Xu Yihua probably guessed what was going on when he saw Gu Qi's reaction, and quickly asked, "Is it the mystery of the secret room?"

"I'm only [-] to [-]% sure, and I still need your help." Gu Qi confirmed his guess.

Although what he said was [-]% to [-]% sure, but he had already deduced it in his mind on the way when he came here, and he was [-]% sure that his conjecture would succeed, and now the only thing left is to finally restore the case Found the scene.

Hearing this, Xu Yihua couldn't help feeling a little sour in his heart. He was conceited and smart, and the mystery of the secret room that he had been thinking about for so long was thought of first by a person who had just been investigating the case with him.

The room where the crime occurred was sealed again to prevent irrelevant people from entering, Xu Yihua reached out to remove the seal, and the two entered the room again.

"You live in the backyard, did you see anyone sneaking in?" Gu Qi walked around the room, feeling something was wrong, but he couldn't tell.

"No one has entered this room." Xu Yihua shook his head, "Did you find something?"

"Hmm..." Gu Qi hummed subconsciously. After thinking for a long time, he still didn't know what was wrong, so he put the matter aside first, turned his head and said, "I probably guessed what method the murderer used to commit the crime."

"How did he create this secret room?" Xu Yihua asked.

Gu Qi paused: "Master Xu, is it possible that the victim himself created a secret room instead of the murderer?"

"How could this be?" Xu Yihua shook his head instinctively, "How could the victim..."

Xu Yihua suddenly stopped his words, his eyes lit up: "You mean the victim locked the doors and windows by himself, and then the murderer killed him in the air?"

"No, it's impossible... How did the murderer manage to kill people in the air? It's simply impossible."

However, Gu Qi seemed to know that Xu Yihua was going to say this for a long time, and explained calmly: "Because the murder weapon is special, the murderer can easily cut off the victim's head outside."

"The weapon is special... what kind of weapon is that?" Xu Yihua looked puzzled.

"Don't be in a hurry." Gu Qi rubbed his palms together and laughed twice, "I'll tell you."

"This morning, I saw a girl playing a ditty in a teahouse whose finger was injured by a string that broke suddenly, shed a lot of blood, a short string can cut a person's finger just by plucking it... ..." Gu Qi folded his sleeves, "Then if this string is suddenly pulled away by a great force, will it cut off the person's head?"

"You mean that carriage!" Xu Yihua's eyes lit up, and he immediately thought of the carriage that appeared in the alley behind the wall before. If the murderer really used this carriage to commit the crime, there is a great possibility Yes, but soon Xu Yihua frowned again, "The strings are too short, you can't kill people outside the house, it can't be the strings..."

Gu Qi nodded in agreement: "You are right. The strings of the zither are really short. It is unrealistic to use them to kill people, but if you use iron wires, they can perfectly replace the strings. Compared with them, iron wires can follow the murderer Mind, you can intercept as long as you need, even if it is outside the house, it can also be used to kill people by remote control."

"I still don't understand." Xu Yihua shook his head.

"Look here." Gu Qi pointed to the bed frame near the pillow, and under the buried blood that had dried up long ago, he could still see an obvious gap in the wood, "Such a gap, on the day of the incident, I was in the air hole. It was also found on the ground. Wires, air holes, strange gaps, and a frightened carriage rushing out of the alley, all of these have exposed the murderer's methods."

"According to the clues, the murderer prepared a carriage outside in advance, wrapped one end of the wire around it, then passed through the air hole, and wrapped the wire around the victim's neck when there were many people, and waited until the victim locked it After passing the door and window, once the carriage runs wildly, you can use the power of the horse to quickly cut off the victim's head." Xu Yihua had figured everything out now, and he murmured while sorting out a bunch of clues in his mind , "It turns out that this is the murderer's method of killing, it is indeed very clever... No wonder the wound is so smooth, it doesn't look like it was caused by an ordinary murder weapon..."

Gu Qi shook his head: "It's still too early to draw conclusions. Sometimes it's untenable to just rely on speculation. If we want to prove it thoroughly, we need to try it ourselves."

After hearing Gu Qi's words, Xu Yihua couldn't help but come back from his thoughts, nodded and said, "Alright."

Taking out the wire that had been prepared in advance, Gu Qi passed one end through the air hole, and grabbed the other end in his hand and said, "Mr. Just quickly pull the wire out."

Although he had already confirmed the feasibility of this technique in his heart, Gu Qi still didn't get careless. He carefully wrapped the wire in a circle, bent over and pressed the wire with a pillow, guessing that the time was almost up, gently He pulled the wire.

The wire was dragged away by Xu Yihua with a whistling sound, and it went out of the air hole smoothly, exactly as Gu Qi had imagined in his mind. At this point, he finally felt relieved.

"How is it?" Xu Yihua came in from the outside and couldn't wait to speak.

"There is no accident. The air hole and the gap on the bed frame, as well as the faint blood stains on the ground in the alley are all evidence." Gu Qi turned around a few times, "Now this is the murderer's motive."

"Generally speaking, there are only three motives for a murderer to commit crimes, killing for love, killing for money, and killing for revenge." Xu Yihua frowned and thought, "Lonely Pine doesn't have much money, and has never had romantic debts..."

"If we regard the murderer who killed Ye Gusong and Shi Bin as the same person, it means that there is some kind of connection between the two victims." Gu Qi asked, "Do you still remember that I asked you this morning, you When did you meet Ye Gusong?"

"Naturally remember."

Gu Qi nodded, and continued: "You said that you met Ye Gusong three years ago, and Shi Bin just happened to come to the county government three years ago. If it is not for love for money, it is naturally for revenge. People, according to this speculation, there must be something that we don't know three years ago, only the two dead victims and the murderer knew the truth."

Xu Yihua agreed: "That's right, now we should find out what happened three years ago."

"Okay." Gu Qi immediately agreed with Xu Yihua's proposal, turned around and walked outside, "You go and ask Mr. Zhong for permission to look through the files from three years ago to see if there were any cases or things that happened three years ago. Discover."

"Then what are you doing?" Xu Yihua was puzzled.

Hearing this, Gu Qi stopped in his tracks, coughed and teased, "I'll ask others to find the carriage and murder weapon for me, and come back right away, don't miss me too much."

Xu Yihua's imposing manner froze, and he pressed five deep fingerprints on the table with a smile.

Gu Qi hurriedly fled.

After leaving the yamen, Gu Qi habitually turned several corners, and then got into an abandoned house with familiarity.The ground is neatly paved with bluestone slabs, but now it is full of potholes and rotten leaves. If you step on it, small puddles of muddy water will form next to it.Although the drizzle had stopped, there was dirty sewage everywhere in the courtyard. Gu Qi stepped on it indifferently and walked quickly.

The whole yard is quiet and extremely desolate. The littered branches and leaves that can be seen everywhere, and the weeds growing from the cracks in the stone slabs add a touch of eerieness to the yard.Even when it is almost noon, you can't add a trace of fireworks to the yard, it will only make you feel cold all over your body.

"Zhao Dagou!" Gu Cheng patted the dilapidated wooden door a few times before stepping into the hall, skillfully pulled out a stool from the straw pusher and sat down, and spoke.

"What do you want me to do?" As soon as Gu Qi finished speaking, a childish voice came from behind the table.Zhao Dagou came out from behind with his messy hair, with sleepy eyes open, and sat cross-legged across from Gu Qi, "What are you doing?"

"Do me a favor, okay?" Gu Qi took out a money bag from his pocket and shook it a few times in his hand, "This is the reward."

"If you have money, of course you can do it." Zhao Dagou slapped his hands, and suddenly there was a chattering sound, and more than 20 little beggars squatted in front of Gu Qi with broken bowls and grinning.

"Gu Butou, long time no see."

"Are you looking for us to do business again?"

"How much are you going to give us this time?"

"Everyone is a family, and we can discuss things."

"What are you going to do about Widow Liu at the East Gate? I was beaten up by her in order to monitor for you."

"Ahem." Gu Qi coughed in embarrassment, and quickly threw the money bag in his hand to Zhao Dagou, "Help me find a carriage. There may be a wire on or near the carriage, so we have to find it together."

Zhao Dagou touched the money in the purse, curled his lips: "It's only a tael of silver, you've become more and more stingy recently."

Gu Qi: "...This is half a month's wages for my uncle."

"What kind of carriage are you looking for?" Zhao Dagou casually put the money bag into his arms.

It was already noon when Gu Qi returned to the yamen, Xu Yihua was still in the office looking through the files from three years ago, trying to find clues inside.

Cui'er, who came out of the official's room, hurriedly walked, seemed a little flustered, and bumped into Gu Qi.

Tweety was knocked to one side, and fell to the ground with a cry of surprise.

Gu Qi quickly reached out to help her up, and asked, "Why are you so flustered?"

"No..." Tweety lowered her head slightly to avoid Gu Qi's eyes, but soon, her eyes suddenly fixed on one spot.