Gu Qi's case-solving manuscript

The case of dead babies in the snow in December.

On December 23, the day when people in the north celebrate the new year, the Yang family rang the Dengwen drum at the gate of the yamen in the middle of the night. The family broke down and told the county magistrate that their daughters under the age of one had disappeared. Five days later, the pair of daughters were found in the snow, but they had no breath of life.

Such a horrific case was not written much, it was just brought up in a hurry, and then it was directly written that the murderer was the baby's grandmother, and because she disliked both being daughters, she threw it out cruelly.But the pleadings written by the master Bo did not contain the murderer's signature, because when the answer was announced, the murderer was so emotional that he didn't bring it up and died on the spot, so the case was hastily closed.

It was hard for Xu Yihua to imagine that this seemingly peaceful small town had so many murders three years ago.

He came to this small town for only a few days, and according to Gu Qi, the most incidents that happened this year were that Uncle Li in the East Village stole the clothes of Aunt Zhang next door, and Uncle Zhou’s cattle ran into the vegetable field of Wu’s family to make a mess. Step on, and three years ago...

What happened three years ago?

Are there any unknown secrets between these seemingly unrelated cases, and what are the similarities between these two cases today?

Apart from being able to prove that Ye Gusong has been to this county, can he prove anything else?

Is Ye Gusong related to these cases? Is he a murderer, a victim or a witness?

How did Shi Bin meet Ye Gusong, and what kind of relationship did they have three years ago?

If these things can be found out and connected in series, can the murderer be found out?

With so many thoughts in his mind, Xu Yihua had to think about everything seriously.

"go!"

Gu Qi stood up suddenly as if he had made up his mind.

Xu Yihua looked up: "Where are you going?"

"Investigate the case."

Ignoring lunch, the two simply locked the door of the crime scene and left the county government office, visiting several parties involved in the chronological order of the suspicious cases three years ago.

The first is the first month Sun family property division case.

The Sun family is a well-known family in Qiuxing County. The house was built in a very grand style. The eldest son of the Sun family was murdered. Snatched it over, needless to say, several shops were also owned by Sun Changde.

When Gu Qi and Xu Yihua knocked on the door of Sun's house, they happened to meet Sun Changde going out. The latter had a folding fan dangling in his hand. Man, it's hard to be liked.

"Where are you going, Young Master Sun?" As soon as Gu Qi saw Sun Changde, he smiled and went up to say hello, showing a very understanding expression and a wretched face, "Go to Xinghonglou to find your little Liuhong again?"

"Nonsense." Sun Changde seems to have said these glib words to Gu Qi at ordinary times, and now he pretended to hit Gu Qi on the head with a fan. The girl is still resting, young master, I am going to eat. What's the matter, Butou Gu, I invite you to have a meal together today?"

Gu Qin pointed at Xu Yihua who was following him, leaned into Sun Changde's ear and said, "Master Sun, it's not that I don't show face, it's really because of this person that I can't go with you."

"Who is this?" Sun Changde frowned, remembering what happened to his servants before, "Could it be that this is the noted Mr. Xu Yihua, a master criminal?"

Xu Yihua nodded and said, "It's the students."

Sun Changde suddenly became uncharacteristically enthusiastic, and quickly stretched out his hand to push Gu Qi away, walked quickly to Xu Yihua, and said eagerly: "Mr. Xu came to the humble house, but because of the murder of my brother three years ago?"

Xu Yihua was taken aback for a moment: "Exactly, we came here for this matter, can I ask Young Master Sun to explain clearly what happened back then."

"When my father passed away due to illness, my elder brother came to look for me in the afternoon, saying that he wanted to divide the family property. My elder brother was determined to separate the family as if he had eaten a weight. That night, I was irritable and angry and didn’t keep the vigil. , he looked at Xu Yihua earnestly, "Master Xu, please find the murderer, I must avenge my brother!"

"Master Sun, I don't know if Sister-in-Ling is in the mansion now?" Xu Yihua asked.

When Sun Changde heard the words, he said bitterly: "My brother died only half a year ago, so she made another family. Now she is no longer a member of my Sun family."

"Where is she now?" Gu Qi asked.

"I don't know." When Gu Qi asked about something that happened three years ago, Li Ru, the woman who remarried another man, burst into tears and almost fell to the ground, "I just get up at night to go to the toilet. Who would have thought that her husband would die when she came back, and the concubine is just a weak woman, so what the elders say is so, now you come to ask the concubine what to do?"

Xu Yihua frowned calmly, and took a step back quietly as if he couldn't resist.

Seeing this, Gu Qi couldn't help laughing out loud, and hurriedly lowered his expression and asked, "How long did it take you to go to the toilet?"

"About half a stick of incense..." Li Ru was not very sure.

"When did you wake up? Did you wake up Young Master Sun when you woke up? Did you go to the toilet with your maid after you woke up? There was a toilet in the room, why did you go so far away to go to the toilet in the courtyard, Mr. Sun?" The young master has obvious signs of struggling, didn't you notice the slightest movement of struggling?" Gu Qi asked a series of questions.

Li Ru was obviously a little flustered, with sweat on his forehead, subconsciously looked outside the door, trying to find someone: "I don't know who I am..."

"Do you know Ye Gusong?"

Hearing this question, Li Ru showed a little bewildered face: "What?"

Gu Qi sighed and shook his head at Xu Yihua.

This case has nothing to do with this case.

This was followed by the second case, the drowning case in Siqiao Village in February.

The deceased in this case was a male, and his family members were away when the accident happened, so the body was not claimed for a long time, and the house was empty, so there was nothing to worry about.In addition, three years have passed since the incident occurred, so there are almost no clues.However, when Gu Qi asked about the inspection of the deceased's work at that time, the case was immediately clear at a glance.

Wu Zuo had acquaintance with the deceased several times, so after the deceased won a bet, he became malicious, so he drowned the deceased in the river, pretending that he committed suicide by throwing himself into the river.In addition, as a foreman, some important clues were concealed when examining the corpse, so the case was classified as suicide.

After locking Li Ru, who killed the eldest young master of the Sun family, and Wu Zuo, who murdered on purpose when he saw the money, into the prison, Gu Qi stood on the street and couldn't help sighing: "Do all the servants in the county government eat shit? Such a simple case, Still can't catch the murderer?"

Xu Yihua coughed, and said in a low voice: "You are also the arresting officer of this county government now."

This sentence scolded himself, Gu Qi thought for a while, and added: "Three years ago, the servants all ate shit."

Xu Yihua felt a little helpless, so he had no choice but to change the subject: "Next is the robbery case, and it is also the time when Ye Gusong appears."

"Although the previous two cases have nothing to do with this case, the parties involved in this robbery must know something." Gu Qi stretched his waist, looked at the sky, "while it is still dark, we hurry up."

Xu Yihua secretly touched his empty stomach, feeling that Gu Qi was more serious about investigating the case than him.

"You said Ye Xiashi." The old man still remembered this incident, and he didn't forget it because it was too long and he was older, but he spoke a little inconspicuously, "At that time, the little old man's purse was robbed. , it was this chivalrous man who came forward and caught the money robber. That was the money that Xiao Lao used to buy medicine, thanks to Ye Xiashi, good man, really good man..."

"Uncle Chen, do you remember anything else besides this?" Xu Yihua asked after hearing the words.

Old Uncle Chen was sitting on the small bench in front of the door, holding a smooth crutch in his hand, squinting his eyes as if he was trying to remember: "Ye Xiashi also sent Xiao Lao home, and helped Xiao Die Xiaolao decocts medicine, they are all good people, Miss Xiaodie is also a good person, she cooks for Xiaolao, and even washes clothes for me, an old man..."

"Xiaodie?" Gu Qi asked suspiciously, "Old Man Chen, who is this Xiaodie?"

"Xiao Die is a good girl. Xiao Lao likes her very much. Unfortunately, she has no father and no mother. Such a good girl died so early... Alas, what can't be overwhelmed... Ye Xiashi also likes her, And asked Xiao Lao to be a matchmaker... What a wonderful thing..."

Gu Qi and Xu Yihua looked at each other, and asked in unison: "Where does she live?"

Uncle Chen stood up tremblingly on crutches: "It's right there, you can see Miss Xiaodie's home from my hometown."

After hearing Uncle Chen's words, the two immediately turned around and hurried to Xiaodie's house. On the way, Gu Qi asked: "I remember the fourth case, the woman who committed suicide was called Xiaodie, right?"

"Not bad." Xu Yihua nodded, "According to the address, this one should be a good one."

Pushing open the half-hidden door, the tiny air current brought up countless dust and danced in the air.It smelt of damp, slightly musty and had a bad smell inside.

This is the home of the deceased Xiaodie, and no one has stepped into it since his death three years ago.

"Ahem." Xu Yihua coughed a few times, covering his mouth and nose, "The record on the household registration is that Xiaodie was abandoned by her family when she was seven or eight years old, and she grew up slowly with the help of her neighbors, so she has no relatives. In the end, even the corpse was not claimed, so it had to be carried to a random grave by two yamen servants for burial."

"En." Gu Qi hummed subconsciously, and pushed Xiaodie's bedroom away.

Although there were a lot of cobwebs and dust in the dormitory, the things were well preserved. Gu Qi searched around the room, but found no clues.

"Who are you?" A woman's voice suddenly came from the door, "What are you doing inside?"

Gu Qi came out from the inside, only to find an elderly woman looking inside the room with her head stuck out.

"Are you from the yamen?" The woman was carrying a bamboo basket with a lot of wild vegetables in it. She was wearing a blue kerchief on her head, and she seemed to be going home to cook.

"Yes, this sister-in-law, have you ever known the people in this house?" Gu Qi asked quickly.

"I know you, this girl had dinner at my house when she was a child." The old woman laughed.

"Do sister-in-law know why Xiaodie committed suicide?" Gu Qi asked.

The old woman was taken aback when she heard the words, as if she wanted to speak, but she held back when she remembered something, and just waved her hands again and again: "I don't know about such things, I have to go home and cook."

Gu Qi poked Xu Yihua's waist.

Xu Yihua didn't understand, so he turned around, only to see Gu Qi winking at him, beckoning to the old woman with his mouth, and lowering his voice next to his ear: "Quickly, sell your beauty, and ask about it. "

Xu Yihua didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he also felt that this method was feasible. He smiled kindly according to the words of Gu Qi, and quickly caught up with the old woman and said softly: "Sister-in-law, don't be afraid, we are just here to ask a few words, you can treat it as a story Just tell us."

When the old woman saw this smile, she felt as if she had taken ecstasy. She thought that the young man was so handsome, so she unknowingly let go: "Then I'll tell you, don't tell others that it's me." Said."

Gu Qi pricked up his ears and nodded.

"I just heard about it, don't blame me if I'm wrong." The old woman first warned the two, and then she couldn't wait to say, "Three years ago, a martial artist suddenly came to the village and guarded the village every day. At the door of Xiaodie, we all thought that Xiaodie would marry sooner or later. Who knew that Xiaodie committed suicide a month later. At that time, everyone didn’t know why Xiaodie hanged herself. Thinking about it, one night, it rained suddenly, when I came out to collect corn, I saw Xiaodie stumbling home from a distance, and there seemed to be two men behind her..."

"Two men?" Gu Qi had to interrupt the old woman.

"That's right, it's two men, one of them is the one who comes to guard her door every day, and I don't know who the other one is." The old woman continued, "I was in a hurry to harvest corn, I didn't look carefully, but I heard Xiaodie seem to say something... Brother Ye, Brother Shi, you are drunk, go back quickly... Then Xiaodie hanged herself the next day, I was wondering if it was that night ..."

The old lady didn't say any more, but both Gu Qi and Xu Yihua understood what she wanted to explain.

Gu Qi paused and asked, "Did Xiaodie lose a tooth?"

The old woman wondered: "How do you know? Xiaodie was playing with my girl back then, and accidentally fell and lost a tooth."

Gu Qi suddenly reached out and grabbed Xu Yihua's wrist, staring at him fixedly.

"What?" Xu Yihua said dryly.

Gu Qi lowered his voice: "Open the coffin for autopsy."