I solved crimes in the Song Dynasty and strengthened the country [Seventh Five-Year]

19 Apricot blossoms need to be remembered

Jiang Lin's words were like heavy thunder outside the window, catching Bai Yutang by surprise.

"impossible!"

Hearing Jiang Lin say with such certainty that he saw a living figure, Bai Yutang said with disbelief, "Fifth Lord, I have been walking in the rivers and lakes for so many years, and I can tell at a glance that shopkeeper Peng has been dead for a long time! How could you see Did someone hang himself?"

Bai Yutang did not have sufficient knowledge of forensic science and could not accurately state the basis for his judgment.

But Jiang Lin learned a little bit from movies and TV shows, knowing that a human corpse will stiffen immediately after death, and then gradually relax as time goes by.

Shopkeeper Peng's limbs were already in a relaxed state, and he had indeed been dead for more than a moment.

"Jiang did not deny the fact that shopkeeper Peng had already died."

These words made Bai Yutang even more puzzled.

When he was about to ask what Jiang Lin meant, Jiang Lin waved his fan and said, "What if someone pretends to be shopkeeper Peng and hangs himself?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone present was shocked.

"That's impossible." Bai Yutang frowned, not agreeing with Jiang Lin's thoughts, and said, "Even if this can explain the figure you saw, but it only takes a moment for the guys to call someone to knock on the door, and the murderer has no time to leave room, and forged a secret room."

"And if there is no problem with these two guys, how does the murderer know that the guys will go down to call someone if they can't break the door, instead of leaving someone to wait at the door? How can he ensure that he will not be seen by other tenants when he comes out to forge the secret room? "

"Let's answer your next question first." Jiang Lin said unhurriedly, "First of all, the murderer is very cautious. From the time he chose to hang himself as the fake shopkeeper Peng in the next year, it can be seen that he has a good schedule for the tavern. learn."

"During Youshi, the tavern had the least business, and most of the tenants went out. It was the most suitable for the guys in the tavern to have a hot meal, and it was also convenient for welcoming many guests who came to drink until late at night."

"Since the murderer has spent so much time observing the situation in the store, he will naturally notice that the one who calls the shopkeeper for dinner every day is the newcomer to the tavern, who happens to be relatively timid, Xiao Wang."

When Xiao Wang heard the group of masters say his name again, he trembled with fright.It was the old man who spoke for him: "It was indeed Xiao Wang who called shopkeeper Peng during this time."

Xie Ling straightened the logic again: "Brother Xiao Wang is timid. He must be shocked when he sees shopkeeper Peng hanging himself, which attracts others. But if others can't open the door, they will quickly ask others for help. Xiao Wang dare not treat him alone. Then, I will definitely follow you downstairs... right?"

Jiang Lin nodded.Bai Yutang still retorted: "But even if this is the case, the murderer has no time to forge the secret room."

"What if the secret room has already been forged?" Jiang Lin waved his fan and cast a glance at him.

"What do you mean? Please speak more clearly." Bai Yutang was very displeased with Jiang Lin's behavior, but Zhan Zhao felt that a layer of fog had been pushed away from his eyes, and he was about to suddenly see the light.

Zhan Zhao said: "Could it be that the hanged figure that Jiang Shaocheng and his fellows saw was not in Shopkeeper Peng's room?"

When Bai Yutang heard this, he immediately wanted to say "how is that possible", but stopped talking.

He walked out of the room again, looked at the almost identically decorated rooms outside the door, and said, "Hey, except for the flower shelf in front of your shopkeeper's door, the wooden doors are all connected together, and they look exactly the same."

Bai Yutang looked at the young man and said, "You've been in this shop not long ago, do you really rely on flower shelves to recognize the room?"

Xiao Wang was about to burst into tears again, and stammered: "Yes, but the grass people really didn't kill..."

Jiang Lin nodded to the little guy, and said with affirmation after allaying the other person's worries: "This flower stand is like the land statue we saw in the cannibal alley, it is easy for people to believe that what I see must be Shopkeeper Peng's room."

"Xiao Wang is not familiar with the store, and their attention was attracted by the figure hanging in the house at that time. Even the old guy who is more familiar with the tavern found something wrong, and when he opened the door, he found that shopkeeper Peng was really in front of him. hanged in the room, the wrong memory in the mind will be strengthened again, and the previous violations will be erased."

"The evidence that can explain this is that the flower stand at the door was knocked down in good condition. My next guess is that when the murderer moved the flower stand back to its original position, the position of the flower stand was slightly deviated. And there are conditions to create such a situation. The false murderer..."

"It must be one of the guests who lived on both sides of the deceased's room!" Bai Yutang said first.

Seeing Jiang Lin nod his head, Xie Ling immediately said: "Then the officials will immediately bring the residents on both sides back to Dali Temple for interrogation..."

"It's enough to bring back only one person," Jiang Lin said.

Xie Ling said pleasantly: "Shaocheng, have you identified the real culprit from the two?"

Jiang Lin smiled slightly at him and said, "Think about it, why did we see that figure when we came from the long street? Let me remind you, it has something to do with the position and the shadow."

"We can see the figure of that person in the candlelight because the Ping'an Tavern happened to be covered by the shadow of the neighboring houses, and the room where only the figure was located was lit with candles, and it happened to be at the edge of the shadow..." Xie Ling stretched out his hand He swiped twice in the air and muttered "east, west, north, south", but he couldn't figure out the direction for a long time.

When Bai Yutang heard that Jiang Lin had identified the murderer with more witness evidence than himself, he felt very upset.He urged: "Okay, don't be a fool, just talk."

Jiang Lindao: "The window is on the south side. It was already dusk when we came, and the skylight is on the west. The room covered by shadows should be on the east side."

Zhan Zhao understood a little bit, but Xie Ling was confused by his set of location words.

Jiang Lin had no choice but to explain in a simple way: "If you want to explain it more simply, the rooms on the west happen to be covered by the setting sun. In the half covered by shadows, there is only one room lit with candles, if the scholar is really reading in the room as he said, how could he not light the lamp?"

Zhan Zhao felt that Jiang Lin's reasoning was very rigorous, and said, "There is some truth. But the candidate who lives in the east is thin, how can he imitate the potbellied appearance of shopkeeper Peng?"

Jiang Lin smiled and said, "I don't know if Big Brother Zhan has noticed, but when I saw the figure, it was two or three blocks away, and when we rushed to the tavern, the guys just discovered that shopkeeper Peng had hanged himself. There was a moment in between." The timing is bad."

Zhan Zhao suddenly said: "Jiang Shaocheng means..."

Jiang Lin pointed at the big box in the room with his fan, and said in a deep voice, "Why don't you teach the examinee to open this box and have a look, maybe you can know how he imitated Shopkeeper Peng."