copper sparrow lock nobile

To disappear is to run away, to run is to abscond in fear of crime, and to abscond in fear of crime is the murderer.

If you meet a gourd official, you can really come to the truth.

Duan Yelin narrowed his eyes, and asked Yuan Ye again: "Tell me, too."

Yuan Ye opened his small notebook, scribbled and corrected a few strokes, then frowned, and said in an orderly way: "After I came in, I asked the housekeeper and several servants for statements, roughly like this. The last one last night A girl named Chun Xing came into the room to bring tea to the governor. She said that it was 08:30 at night, and Ruan Xiaodie was playing the pipa for the governor. Later, at 09:30, she wanted to send the governor incense, but was Ruan Xiaodie blocked the door, saying that the governor had already gone to sleep, so there was no need. A servant in the backyard said that when he got up to go to the toilet at night, he heard the sound of Ruan Xiaodie's pipa in the governor's room. It was about nine o'clock at that time Around, if calculated in this way, the governor should have had an accident between 09:30 and [-]:[-]."

Qiao Song interrupted him: "It's just a maid, you can still see the clock when you pass the main hall, how does the servant in the backyard know the time so clearly?"

"He said that he would wake up at this time every day to go to the toilet, and he was used to it. I asked the person who shared the same room with him, and it was true."

At this time, Duan Yelin had already looked at Wang Ronghuo's corpse. He had seen a lot of dead people. Although he didn't have a forensic major, he could understand a lot.

He put on his gloves, pulled out the gold hairpin at once, put it in front of his eyes for a closer look, compared it with his fingers, and said, "This is interesting."

"What?" Qiao Song didn't understand, so he poked his head to look, and Duan Yelin pointed to the part where the gold hairpin was inserted into Wang Ronghuo's body.

That part is about half the length of the little finger.

Yuan Ye squinted his eyes and touched his chin: "It's so short that it can't be inserted into the heart, and judging from the angle and integrity of this golden hairpin, it looks like it was inserted after a person fell down. .”

Duan Yelin nodded: "Injured before death, the heart veins and flesh will shrink, and the blood will coagulate quickly, but it will not be injured after death. So this is pierced in after death. You say, this murderer just kills, Wouldn’t it be interesting to come here on purpose?”

Not only is it interesting, it's almost like a ritual.

At this time, Qiao Song called the girl named Chun Xing over and asked, "Is this your wife's hairpin?"

Chun Xing shook her head: "No, I've never seen it before."

"you sure?"

"Madam's jewelry box is packed by me, I have never seen this golden hairpin before!"

Duan Yelin saw a faint red mark on the gold hairpin, and couldn't see what it was stained for a while.Pass it to Chun Xing again, let her take a closer look, Chun Xing is a daughter's family, she can tell at a glance, but she is timid, so she said in a low voice: "It looks like Madam's Kodan oil..."

So I went to open Ruan Xiaodie's makeup box again, and there were all kinds of gold, silver and jewelry in it, and I didn't take any of them away. In a small drawer, there was indeed a bottle of red Kodan oil. After comparing it, the color was not bad at all. .

The butler pointed and said, "Look! The evidence is convincing! She is the one who killed her! The commander must arrest her and shoot her! It is in vain that my governor spoils her so much, who knew she was such a vicious woman..."

Although the housekeeper here was howling quite sadly, Duan Yelin didn't make a sound for a long time. He circled around the room, looked here and there, and played with Wang Ronghuo's body.

Nothing was missing from the room, not even the silver dollars and bills on the table, except for the lute on the qin stand.

He looked at it for a long time before he found a clean chair and sat down. He raised his head and met Yuan Ye's eyes.

Yuan Ye immediately grasped Duan Yelin's meaning. He closed his notebook and smiled: "It seems that the Commander and I are planning to go together."

"You also think it's too weird?"

Yuan Ye nodded: "Not only that, it can even be said that it is too obvious."

Duan Yelin supported the table with one hand: "Yeah, all the evidence clearly points to Ruan Xiaodie, but there are a few things that don't make sense. First, no matter how pampered the governor is, he used to use a knife to shoot a gun. Ruan Xiaodie Die is a weak woman, how can she kill someone? Second, there is no trace of fighting in the room except for the blood, that is to say, the governor was killed without any power to fight back, and no one in the governor's mansion heard the movement. How is this done? And—"

He pushed his chin in the direction of the bed, and motioned people to look at the corpse: "The governor's limbs are all cut with arteries and meridians, and each wound only needs one knife, and the blood is drained to death. So The skillful technique is not like a pair of hands that can only play the pipa."

The butler wiped away his tears and turned pale with shock: "So, so there are accomplices?!"

At this time, a small soldier who was patrolling the Dudu's Mansion ran in and shouted out of breath, "Commander! We found something in the backyard! The back door was pried!"

Everyone was shocked immediately, and left the scene to others to guard, and a huge group of people went to the back door.

The back door of the Governor's Mansion is usually not opened, and it is locked with a tiger head lock from the outside all the year round.The door looks clean, and craftsmen are invited to repair it regularly, but the lock has never been replaced, and now the copper is rusted and mottled.

Duan Yelin stood in front of the door and looked carefully. The lock was forcibly pried open. The keyhole had not been used for a long time, and it was very rusted. When he knocked, black powdery matter fell from the keyhole. When he twisted his fingers, it became slippery. Very dirty.

"This lock is placed interestingly. Is it not inside the door but outside the door, waiting for someone to pick it?"

The butler came up and explained: "The commander doesn't know, but the Feng Shui master said that this door is very dangerous, and it is strictly forbidden to open it. So the governor ordered someone to build a big lock, locked it from the outside, and burned the key. The lock is exposed to wind and rain, and the inside is corroded, even if there is a key, it may not be easy to open, so I ignored it."

This door is very fierce, and it is really a prophecy. As soon as the door is opened, Lord Hades will come.

What Yuan Ye paid attention to was not the lock but the edge of the door beside the lock. The paint the size of a fingernail had peeled off from the edge of the door: "There seems to be marks of a knife on the door?"

Qiao Song moved his face closer, and saw that the scratches on that small area were obvious: "This door looks like a newly painted paint, and it won't fall off so easily. It seems that it was scratched on purpose."

Duan Yelin then said: "The door is newly painted, but the lock is an old lock. Someone lubricated the keyhole with graphite to pick the lock, but after picking the lock, the graphite stained his hands, and his fingers imprinted on the door." The traces are probably fingerprints, so I cleaned them up."

"Well, that makes sense."

"If this assumption is true, then Ruan Xiaodie will be even more innocent."

Qiao Song also nodded: "The door is locked from the outside, so there must be an accomplice coming to meet her!"

Duan Yelin frowned, and said in a low voice: "Not only that, think about it, the night shift is three o'clock in the dark, a murderer who wants to kill in the middle of the night, before leaving, he can be careful enough to wipe out the little traces of graphite on the door." How could he be careless enough to leave such obvious nail polish on the golden hairpin? This is a really smart and caring master."

"In other words, he is also guiding us to use Ruan Xiaodie as the murderer? Then, who should we arrest first?"

"Of course it was Ruan Xiaodie. No matter what, she must have participated."

Qiao Song immediately stood up straight: "I understand, I'll have someone search the city right away, and then go to the train station and the pier!"

Yuan Ye added: "Also, immediately connect to the train stations in other cities and send police officers to squat and arrest people. A young and beautiful woman with a pipa should be quite eye-catching."

Qiao Song got the order, and was ready to leave in a hurry. Duan Yelin stopped him, pulled him aside and whispered in a low voice: "If you really caught it, quietly take it back to Xiaotongguan. I just want to know the real culprit, no Let her pay for that old ghost's life."

"Understood." So, Qiao Song put on his military cap and went out.

Duan Yelin took off his soiled gloves and threw them aside.Today's day is gray, the air is a little humid, very uncomfortable feeling.Although half of the soldiers in Hezhou City were dispatched right now, he had a hunch that this matter was not easy.

He closed his eyes and stroked his thoughts, then called Yuan Ye.

"Let's go, let's see what the doctor has come up with."