Gu Qi's case-solving manuscript

Those eyes were fixed, staring at a certain place on the ground for a moment, making Gu Qi's heart freeze suddenly.

He followed Tweety's line of sight, and saw a jade pendant lying quietly on the ground. Some faded red tassels showed the age of the jade pendant. The emerald butterfly jade pendant was unexpectedly intact without any damage. .Gu Qi bent down to pick it up, but a pair of slender hands took him one step ahead.

"This is?" Cui'er picked up the jade pendant, with a little doubt on her face.

This butterfly jade pendant is just the most common style in the jade shop, and there is nothing worth paying attention to in itself.But this jade pendant was found by Gu Qi near the scene of the second victim's crime. He speculated that it was probably left by the murderer, so he kept it with him all the time. Looking at Tweety's appearance now, could it be that he recognized a Where did this jade pendant come from?

Thinking this way in his heart, Gu Qi was also ready to test it out, staring at Tweety'er's expression unintentionally: "I found this by the river in the east of the city, maybe the murderer left it accidentally, did Tweety'er Do you recognize whose jade pendant this is?"

"I don't know whose jade pendant this is!" Tweety denied very quickly, and at the same time avoided Gu Qi's eyes looking at her again, but she seemed very disturbed, and her fingers kept pinching her. clothes corner.

The other party is lying.

Gu Qi clearly realized this, Tweety repeated his words subconsciously when answering his question, this was an instinctive reaction to her guilty answer, and wanted to use the repetition of the question itself to make the answer convincing.

"You really don't know him?" Gu Qi narrowed his eyes.

"No... I don't know." Tweety lowered her eyelids, and put the jade pendant back into Qi's hand, her expression was quite unnatural, "I still have to ask Madam for dinner, so I'm leaving first."

Gu Qi slightly rubbed the round jade pendant in his hand, frowning as he looked at Tweety's fading figure.Compared to when she just came out of the official room, Tweety is obviously more flustered now, she almost ran into a pillar at the corner of the corridor, she looks not only flustered, but also restless.

What the hell does she know?Could she be the murderer?

"She's not a murderer."

Xu Yihua directly denied this guess.

"Why do you think she is not the murderer?" Gu Qi sat across from Xu Yihua, the two sat across the table, the small case table was full of files opened by Xu Yihua, Gu Qi searched for a long time before finding a drinker Teacup, stretched out his hand to pour himself a cup of tea, and asked slowly.

"First." Xu Yihua raised his index finger and shook it, "When the first victim went back to the room to rest, Tweety did follow the victim to the guest room, but Tweety's figure is bigger than Ye Gusong's." She is much shorter, and she can't smoothly put the wire prepared in advance on the victim's neck, and if she moves too much, she will definitely be discovered by others."

"You're right." Gu Qi nodded secretly, "What about the second one?"

"The second point." Seeing that Gu Qi affirmed his analysis, Xu Yihua also had a hint of joy on his face, "The second victim, Shi Bin, is taller and more stalwart than Tweety, and he is even taller. Knowing some punches, even if Tweety is an acquaintance who can dispel the victim's defenses, a weak woman cannot subdue a tall man who knows martial arts no matter what. Although Tweety has the time to commit crimes, she does not have the time to commit crimes conditions, so she is not the murderer."

"I don't agree with it." Gu Qi objected to Xu Yihua's analysis.

Hearing this, Xu Yihua was taken aback. He has solved the case for a long time, and he is regarded as the best among them. However, there are not many people who disagree with him: "What do you think differently?"

Just like what Xu Yihua said, Cui Er didn't have martial arts, and the two victims were both men with strong martial arts and good fists, so it was not an easy task to take their lives easily.

"Although Tweety is a woman, she is quite flexible because of her petite stature and she has served Mrs. Zhong for a long time." Gu Qidao, "It would be too arbitrary to judge that she is not a murderer just based on her height and martial arts."

"Based on these, it is indeed a bit too arbitrary to judge that a person is not a murderer. But Shi Bin possesses martial arts, if Cui Er wants to kill him, how can he do it?" Xu Yihua was naturally not convinced.

Gu Qi pondered: "Now let's infer, assuming that the murderer in the two cases is the same person, then Shi Bin ruled out the suspicion of the murderer. Then what was his purpose in trying to destroy the evidence in the back alley?"

Xu Yihua frowned and said, "You want to hide the evidence for the murderer?"

"This is just one of them." Gu Qi shook his head, "Is it possible that Shi Bin guessed who the murderer was one step ahead of us, and wanted to threaten the murderer, but was killed by the murderer instead?"

Xu Yihua nodded and said: "Both of these situations are possible, so the suspicion that Tweety is the murderer cannot be ruled out."

"Whether Shi Bin wants to hide the evidence for the murderer or threaten the murderer, there is no doubt that he knows the murderer."

"You mean..." Xu Yihua excused, "If the murderer is Tweety, he can use his own advantages to minimize Shi Bin's guard against her and kill Shi Bin instead. Carefully left the jade pendant on the scene, that's why I was so panicked when I saw this jade pendant today."

"Evidence." Gu Qi accentuated his tone irritably, "What I need is evidence, this is just my speculation. In fact, there are other possibilities. For example, Shi Bin killed Ye Gusong first, and then wanted to attack another person. , but unfortunately Shi Bin fell into the water and died during the dispute between the two. Or maybe Tweety saw the jade pendant and guessed who the murderer was..."

Gu Qi was suddenly stunned.

"What's wrong?" Xu Yihua didn't know why he stopped suddenly.

"It's nothing." Gu Qi suddenly rubbed the center of his brows, "This matter must have something to do with Tweety."

"She must know the origin of this jade pendant." Xu Yihua looked carefully at the jade pendant in his hand, which was handed over to him by Gu Qi just now. He looked at it several times and felt that he couldn't find any clues on it, but Tweety could recognize this jade pendant at a glance, indicating that there must be something different about this seemingly ordinary butterfly jade pendant, "How can we find clues for such an ordinary jade pendant?"

After a moment of silence, Gu Qi knocked on the table, waking up Xu Yihua who was still studying the jade pendant from his contemplation, "What's the matter that Cui'er came to look for you just now?"

"Things?" Xu Yihua thought for a moment in a daze, "Maybe they came to call me to the main hall for dinner, but I didn't pay attention. I was looking through files from three years ago."

"I saw that Cui'er was a little flustered when she came out of the official room. Did you tell her something?"

"I seemed to have said something at the time." Xu Yihua frowned, "Tweety called me to eat, and saw that my table was messy, so she suggested to clean it up. I quickly stopped her and told me that I was checking the table. For the case from years ago, don't move things on the table. She seems to have left in a hurry. "

Gu Qi narrowed his eyes and said firmly, "Tweety must know about the case three years ago."

"She probably won't tell us." Xu Yihua said.

"In that case..." Gu Qi rubbed his fingers together unconsciously, "Did you find any unusual cases in the files?"

Xu Yihua sighed slightly, shook his head and said, "There are too many cases here, it's very messy, and it's hard to find."

"It's nothing more than the loss of Widow Li's cow in the East Village, and Uncle Zhao's dog biting a neighbor in the West Street. It's such trivial things every day." Gu Qi knew the result without guessing. Where there are so many cases, for the sake of political achievements, it is just to record some trivial neighborhood disputes, which looks better, but there are many obstacles to the real investigation of the case.Gu Qi took the pastries he found out from a large pile of files, and threw a piece into his mouth, looking a bit lazy, not interested in flipping through the files.

"I've been looking at it for more than an hour, and it's all innocuous and trivial matters." Xu Yihua was not impatient, and he was still carefully flipping through the notebook in his hand. While flipping through it quickly, he explained the situation of his inquiry to Gu Qi , "I started to investigate the first case in the first month of three years ago, and now it's September. In the past few months, there are a few suspicious cases. I have transcribed them and put them on the table. You can take a look. "

"Let me read the rest of the files for you." Gu Qi said hypocritically, but his fingers had already pinched the few pieces of paper that were put together separately, and his eyes were glued to them.

The purpose of entry is an extremely beautiful small script, the handwriting is like the person, although the strokes are restrained, but vigorous and powerful, with a hidden edge, compared to Gu Qi's beautiful but frantic calligraphy before, Xu Yihua's calligraphy is more suitable for recording, because it is very easy to recognize.

"I can do it myself, you'd better look into the suspicious points in these few cases that I screened out individually." Xu Yihua didn't look up, and continued to flip through the files in his hand.

Even Xu Yihua was so upright, Gu Qi was of course even more impolite, and took the suspicious case over and looked at it carefully.

A total of four suspected cases were selected, namely the property division case of the Sun family in the first month, the drowning case in Siqiao Village in February, the robbery case in the east of the city in June, and the hanging case in Chenghuang Temple in July.Judging from the facts of the case transcribed by Xu Yihua, there are indeed many doubts. At that time, it was unknown who was the mastermind. , On the contrary, capitalized close-ups in insignificant places.

The first is the family property division case. On the ninth day of the first lunar month, the Sun family’s father died in the morning. In the afternoon, the two brothers went to the Yamen to ask the county magistrate to divide the family property. As a result, the eldest brother was beheaded and died at home that night. His wife sued the younger uncle for money. He was murdered, but lost due to his brother-in-law's perfect alibi and insufficient evidence.Among them, the boss wrote a close-up on the flattery of the county magistrate, but on the contrary, he briefly mentioned the cause of death of his father and brother and the testimony of the plaintiff and the defendant, especially the alibi of the second son of the Sun family, which was even more vague and confusing. Can't figure it out.

The second is the drowning case in Siqiao Village. February is the season of recovery of all things. Spring rain is as expensive as oil. At this time, the rivers are usually relatively dry. For a long time before the arrival of the rainy season, the rain is pitifully scarce. .According to Zhu Bo's records, the deepest part of the river at that time was no more than knee-high, so it would be against common sense to commit suicide.However, the inspection by Wu found that there was sand and sand in the mouth and nose of the deceased, and there was no sign of struggle. In addition, the corpse stayed in Yizhuang for a long time and no one came to claim the corpse.More importantly, the deceased's family was poor, had no money, and usually had no enemies. The government could not find the murderer, so the case would naturally be closed.

Then there is the robbery case in the east of the city. On the surface, this case looks ordinary. The person who was robbed was an old man, and the person who robbed was subdued by a martial arts master on the spot. The name of the martial arts master mentioned in one stroke is Ye Gusong!

The three words Ye Gusong came into view, which immediately revived Gu Qi's spirit. He sat up straight, stared at the case and read it again.After so long, a big progress has finally been made. Regardless of other things, at least it proves that Gu Qi's reasoning direction is correct. Ye Gusong did come to Qiuxing County three years ago.

Gu Qi put down the case in his hand, picked up another piece of paper, and scanned it lightly.

The Hanging Case at Chenghuang Temple happened in July.According to the dossier recorded in the master book, this is defined as a suicide case. There were no traces of struggling and fighting at the scene, and there was no trace of the deceased being bound. Except for a stool that was kicked down under his feet, the scene was the most noticeable. The only thing is that the palm of the deceased wrote a word of hate in red cinnabar.If one can infer from the hate word in the palm, the deceased must have made a statement, but the scene was too clean to find any clues, and the deceased had no family members or relatives. If he claimed it, he could only be buried in a random grave in a hurry, and the case was shelved.

After reading the four suspicious cases, Gu Qi breathed a sigh of relief, but began to think about whether these four cases had any connection with this case.

In terms of the modus operandi alone, the first case and the second case are very similar to the murder method of the two victims this time. The first case was beheaded like Ye Gusong. The two cases drowned like Shi Bin.And the third case proved that Ye Gusong did come to Qiuxing County three years ago and rescued someone, but the fourth case...

"The third case occurred on the second day of June, and the fourth case occurred on the twelfth day of July." Gu Qi took a sip of tea, "Although the two cases occurred not long ago, the latter case seems It has nothing to do with this case, why did you filter it out?"

Xu Yihua put down the pen in his hand, and said softly: "In the three months before and after Ye Gusong's appearance, I have carefully reviewed every case, and the hanging case of the Town God's Temple is the most suspicious and the closest case, so I will naturally pick it up. come out."

Gu Qi nodded, and asked again: "After reading your file, have you discovered anything new?"

"Yes, look at this case." Xu Yihua hesitated for a moment, and put the newly transcribed suspicious case in front of Gu Qi with an unnatural expression.

Xu Yihua's expression forced Gu Qi to pay attention to this case, he quickly reached out to grab the paper, and glanced at it very seriously.

However, with just one glance, Gu Qi's heart trembled, his brows were furrowed, and an unbearable expression appeared on his face.