"So that's it? Is this how traces are created?" Anna was overjoyed, feeling that Gu Chen's understanding of traces far exceeded that of herself and her colleagues.
With just a few traces on the wall, Gu Chen was able to perfectly restore the scene, which seemed incredible to Anna.
"When the murderer picked up the brick and threw it at the beggar, due to the narrow space, the brick leaned back and hit the wall, forming this mark."
"After that, when he repeatedly hit the beggar, such marks appeared many times until the beggar was beaten to death."
"Officer Gu." After listening to Gu Chen's words, Uncle Sam asked hesitantly: "How can you conclude that the beggar was beaten to death?"
"Because of the corpse." Gu Chen gave the answer directly, saying: "When I inspected the charred corpse before, I had clearly discovered that there were several grooves in the skull of the corpse."
"So, that was the wound caused by the murderer?" Lu Weiwei asked.
Gu Chen nodded silently and said: "I could only make a rough judgment before, until I came here now and found traces on the narrow wall."
"So now it is basically certain that the burnt corpse is not Paul, but the beggar monkey."
"Really?" Uncle Sam seemed to be in disbelief. He was stunned: "Officer Gu, this monkey is a very responsible person. He has never provoked anyone, I swear."
"It's no use swearing." Gu Chen clicked on the shoe print on the photo, showed it in front of everyone, and said, "The most important thing now is to find the person wearing these leather shoes."
"Only by finding him can we know who the murderer is and why he burned the monkey to death."
Anna took Gu Chen's cell phone, thought about it carefully for a moment and said: "The soles of these leather shoes have an eagle totem. I want to go to the shoemaker's shop in Luocheng and ask, and I should be able to find it out."
"Then what are you waiting for?" Gu Chen couldn't wait any longer and reminded: "It's not too late, we should act immediately."
"Okay, I'll take you there." Anna agreed readily.
After all, being able to find this clue will be very helpful to the detection of the case.
Gu Chen simulated the situation at the scene, and from Gu Chen's analysis, the man wearing leather shoes was obviously the key murderer in this case.
The heavy rain gradually dissipated, and everyone returned to the police car and drove directly to the famous Shoemaker Street in Luocheng.
Italian handmade leather shoes are famous at home and abroad, and it is also one of the origins of modern leather shoe craftsmanship.
Wen City, Zhejiang Province, China, once learned from Italy, learned advanced shoemaking technology and level from Italy, and combined with local conditions, thus opened up the glory of Wen City's shoe capital.
In Italy, customized leather shoes have always been popular with customers, but due to high labor costs, customized leather shoes are also expensive in Italy.
Anna took Gu Chen's Chinese team to an ancient street in Italy.
This is the birthplace of early hand-made Italian leather shoes, and the birthplace of many well-known leather shoe brands.
But compared to other well-known brands, there are still some old shoemakers who are content with the status quo and open a customized leather shoe store as their daily work.
Depending on the brand positioning, a pair of leather shoes in the studio of well-known shoemakers and artists can start at a minimum of 1,000 euros, and even depending on the material, leather shoes can cost tens of thousands of euros.
In recent years, many apprentices from East and Southeast Asia have set up their own businesses and started to run handmade customization businesses in Lao Cai.
But most of them take the affordable route...
Therefore, in this old street, you can find suitable customers for handmade customized leather shoes stores of various price ranges.
"This is it." Anna turned to look at Gu Chen and said, "The craftsmen who know the most about shoes in Luocheng basically have their shops here. If you want to know where the pair of shoes in the photo in your hand came from, it's best to ask a senior craftsman.
ask."
"Then who is the senior shoemaker?" Gu Chen asked.
Anna hesitated for a moment, and an old man holding a shoe box happened to pass by. Anna simply stopped him and asked: "Who is the most senior shoemaker in this street?"
"A family of craftsmen." The old man turned around and pointed to a shoe store not far away and said, "On this street, his shoe craftsmanship is the best, and the owner has a lot of knowledge about shoes and is a leather shoe expert."
"If you can afford the price, you can ask the boss to personally make a pair of high-quality leather shoes for you. They are guaranteed to be the best on this street."
"Okay, thank you." Anna nodded silently, sent the old man away, and then turned her attention to the "Artisan Family" not far away, an old shoe store decorated in a medieval style.
"Let's go take a look." Gu Chen said with a smile.
A group of people walked into this shoe store one after another.
From the moment they walked in, everyone was attracted by the various exquisite leather shoes in the display cabinets in the living room.
Not only that, there are also photos with exquisite wooden frames hanging on the background walls of some leather shoe styles.
According to the text introduction, many of them are customized leather shoes from local celebrities, and there are photos with the bosses.
Of course, in addition to business chaebols, there are also some entertainment stars and sports stars who are regular visitors here.
The boss is uniquely favored and has been photographed with almost all celebrities. This is invisibly promoting the "family of craftsmen".
"No wonder this hand-made leather shoe shop is doing so well. One order of business is enough for them to eat and drink for a year. They are all high-end custom-made." Yuan Shasha pointed to several business celebrities taking photos with the boss, turned to Gu Chen and said:
"I know these people, they are all regulars on Forbes Europe's wealth list."
"It seems that the boss is very good at doing business." Gu Chen walked to the front desk and saw no waiter. He couldn't help but asked out of curiosity: "Does this store only offer walk-in appointments? Why is there not even a waiter?
."
"Hehe, Brother Gu, you guessed it right." Yuan Shasha, who was standing aside, said with a smile: "This store really accepts walk-in appointments. It is normal that there are no store employees. The group photo in the exhibition hall is actually the owner.
An image display to customers.”
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "What kind of service can you enjoy at any price? The boss has several of the top handmade shoemakers in Italy, and all of them are outstanding."
"Eh?" Listening to Yuan Shasha's words, Lu Weiwei said in confusion: "I mean, Xiao Yuan, how do you know this shoe store so well? Have you ever been here?"
"Well..." Yuan Shasha felt that she had slipped up, so she quickly shook her head like a wave and retorted: "How could I have been here? This is one of the most expensive shoe shops in Italy. I...I
Just, I heard from my friends that they have been here."
"I really envy you, Xiao Yuan, your friends are all very powerful." Although Gu Chen knew that Yuan Shasha was lying, he did not expose it intentionally.
Yuan Shasha nodded silently and said with a smile: "Yes, my friends like to travel and are well-informed. I heard from them that this store has a different shoemaker on duty every day to accept reservations."
"If we want to find the shoemaker, we can just go to the second floor."
"Really?" Anna, as an Italian, has never heard of such a statement.
However, looking at Yuan Shasha's serious face, it didn't look like she was telling a joke, so she readily accepted it and said, "Okay, let's go to the second floor."
The group continued upstairs and came to an exhibition hall decorated in a style similar to an old castle.
To say that the "Artisan Family" store in this old street can be considered a giant, at least compared to other mini stores, it seems a bit bullying.
The area of a toilet on the second floor is equivalent to that of a mini store in the old street.
How about you being rich? Being able to accept orders from many celebrities also requires some face-saving work.
"Is anyone here?" After Gu Chen looked around for a week, he found that there was no one in the huge space.
Seeing no one answered, Gu Chen spoke again: "Excuse me...is anyone here?"
"Are you here to customize leather shoes?" Just as Gu Chen finished speaking, an old man wearing a brown shoemaker's apron suddenly walked out of a hallway.
He adjusted his glasses and realized that the people coming were a group of policemen. He was stunned and asked, "Excuse me, police officers, are you here to customize leather shoes?"
"But let me tell you first, our leather shoes are expensive. If the police officers are not well-off, I can recommend some cheap shoe shops next door to you."
"Haha, you are so interesting." Gu Chen also took a step forward and said with a faint smile: "There is no reason to recommend business to outsiders. It shows that your shoe store is not lacking in business."
"Young man, are you a policeman?" The confused old shoemaker looked up and down at Gu Chen's clothes and couldn't help but squinted his eyes, feeling baffled.
He quickly looked at Anna and George beside him, then at Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha.
Although everyone is wearing police uniforms, there are obviously some differences.
The old shoemaker doesn't use social networks very much, so he always misses the so-called hot news.
He didn't know which country Gu Chen was a police officer, but he could speak fluent Italian, which surprised the old shoemaker.
"Old man, this is a Chinese police team that came to our country for exchange and study. We are currently handling a case and we need your help with something."
Anna was as polite as ever and stepped forward to communicate with the old man.
The old shoemaker was stunned for a moment, and then he suddenly realized: "It turns out they are Chinese police. I'm glad to see you."
"Me too."
Gu Chen accepted the old shoemaker's handshake.
The old shoemaker said with a smile: "So you came to the store today not just to customize leather shoes, but to investigate the case?"
"Yes." Gu Chen said without hesitation: "I have a question about leather shoes that I would like to ask you. I don't know if you understand it."
"Haha, young man, you are just joking." Also under Gu Chen's provocation, the old shoemaker suddenly frowned and said lightly: "Don't ask me, in this old street, what is the knowledge about leather shoes?
If we say second, no one will dare to say first."
"Real or false?" Lu Weiwei was doubtful and urged Gu Chen directly: "Junior Brother Gu, show him the picture and see if this old master is really as powerful as he said."
With the mentality of giving it a try, Gu Chen simply opened the photo album on his phone and showed the shoe print with the eagle totem to the old shoemaker for details.
"Master, this is a footprint we found at the scene. It is crucial to find this person. However, we don't know much about this pair of leather shoes and would like to ask you for advice."
"Let me take a look." The old shoemaker adjusted his glasses and squinted to look carefully.
In just three seconds, he burst into laughter.
This puzzled everyone in the room.
Lu Weiwei took a step forward and asked, "Master, why are you laughing?"
"I laugh at how lucky you are." The old shoemaker smiled calmly, holding Gu Chen's mobile phone and instructing: "This sole with the eagle totem is currently the latest mold developed in our store."
"The style of this kind of rubber outsole changes every year. I'll look for it for you and you'll know."
Having said this, the old shoemaker walked back to the entrance. Not long after, he took a copper mold in his hand and came to everyone.
Throwing the copper mold casually on a wooden table, the old shoemaker smiled and said, "Look, is it this?"
Gu Chen laid the mobile phone flat on the wooden table, and then placed the bronze eagle mold on one side. Comparing the two sides, the details were fully revealed.
Gu Chen used his expert observation skills to compare the detailed textures in the photos with the copper molds repeatedly, and found that they were almost identical.
"How is it?" the old shoemaker said proudly.
"It's really the same." Gu Chen said.
"Let me take a look." Anna on the side couldn't believe it, so she came over again for verification.
Lu Weiwei was very curious and said: "Master, you can also make copper molds. How can you be sure that these are your shoes?"
"It's very simple." The old shoemaker pointed to a logo on the bronze eagle totem and said, "This is the trademark of our store. Anyone who dares to steal my trademark on this street will be prepared to go bankrupt."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "But..." Gu Chen hesitated for a moment and said with confusion: "Your copper mold is not a shoe sole mold, but a high-frequency hot stamping mold.
mold."
"Even if the rubber outsole is pressed with high frequency, it is impossible to have such deep lines. How did you do it?"
Listening to Gu Chen's words, the old shoemaker was also quite stunned, with a look of astonishment on his face.
"Young man, you know so much about the craftsmanship of shoemaking? You even know the craftsmanship of high-frequency hot stamping?"
Gu Chen smiled calmly: "I know a little bit."
"It's already very good." Seeing that Gu Chen knew some shoemaking skills, the old shoemaker who was a little proud before suddenly became polite.
He walked to a wooden frame, picked out a semi-finished outsole from it, threw it in front of Gu Chen and said: "We use high-frequency hot stamping, mainly to position the outsole."
"And the pattern you are talking about is actually carved by hand according to the positioning of the copper mold after high-frequency hot stamping."
"Wha...what? The texture of your rubber outsole is actually hand-carved?" Gu Chen was also quite shocked when he heard this exaggerated craftsmanship.
I have heard that Italy is famous for its handmade products, but I never thought it would be exaggerated to this extent.
The hand-carved outsole is indeed a bit difficult to understand in Gu Chen's opinion.
It can be seen that the leather shoes in this shoe store are the Rolls-Royce of leather shoes, so they are expensive.
Anna was quite shocked when she saw this and said: "According to what you said, there shouldn't be many people coming to the store to customize this kind of leather shoes, right? You should have customer information, right?"
"Of course, but..." the old shoemaker just started, but suddenly stopped.
"What? Inconvenient?" Gu Chen asked.
"Haha, that's right." The old shoemaker felt helpless and laughed dryly: "These customers' information is absolutely confidential. I have no right to disclose it to outsiders. This is a rule."
"But we are handling a case, and we hope you can cooperate." When Anna encountered this reason, she was not very angry.
But the old shoemaker still seemed unwilling to reveal too much, even though what he was facing was a mixed formation of Italian police and Chinese police, but so what?
The old shoemaker from a family of craftsmen will never admit defeat...
Seeing that the old man was a little stubborn, Gu Chen simply explained the reason and said: "Master, this person is probably the murderer of a murder. What you are doing is somewhat unjustifiable."
"You have rules, but the national law does not allow it. After all, you don't want to shield the murderer because of your so-called rules, right?"
"If you don't confess, the murderer is likely to commit another crime. By then, how many innocent people will die? Have you ever thought about it?"
When it comes to being reasonable, the Chinese police will never admit defeat.
After what Gu Chen said, the old shoemaker began to waver.
In order not to embarrass the old shoemaker, Gu Chen directly said: "Then let me ask you, how many people currently customize this kind of leather shoes? You can always tell me, right?"
"Just one." The old shoemaker finally relented.
Gu Chen looked back at everyone. Everyone was overjoyed and felt that the truth was gradually approaching.
Excited, Gu Chen looked back at the old shoemaker again and asked: "Then the customer who made custom leather shoes, is his name Simon?"
When he heard Gu Chen say the name "Simon", the old shoemaker's eyes changed.
The whole person was stunned, as if he felt a wave of deep thought and fear.
Seeing the old shoemaker's unusual reaction, Gu Chen actually knew the answer he wanted very clearly, so he smiled and said: "Looking at your expression, it seems I was right."
"No... that's right." After Gu Chen's repeated questioning, the old shoemaker confirmed: "The customer who came to our 'Family of Craftsmen' to customize leather shoes is indeed named Simon, and he is a tall and thin man."
"And he manages several charity funds." Gu Chen answered the call and found the business card Simon sent to him. He showed it in front of the old shoemaker and said, "Check the phone number and charity fund carefully. Let's see.
See if it matches the information Simon left in the store."
"If it's him, you don't need to speak, just nod and blink."
The old shoemaker could no longer remain calm.
He adjusted his glasses again, this time studying the business card handed over by Gu Chen like a lottery ticket.
After some final confirmation, the old shoemaker finally nodded and admitted: "Needless to say, the person you are looking for... is him." If you like me, I am a super policeman. Please collect it: (www.sodu777.net) I am a super policeman.
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