Lin Jue invited Yang Xiu and Yu Deshui to go with him to Li Yuanwai's house to ask about the situation. Seeing Lin Jue's confident look, Yang Xiu and Yu Deshui were very interested and wanted to know why Mr. Lin was so sure that the case had been solved, so they happily went
When they arrived at the Li family, the Li family took Lin Jue and others to the house where member Li Wai died mysteriously. Lin Jue looked up and down, left and right, and touched here and there.
Touch. Then he called the Li family servant and asked a few words, then showed a satisfied smile.
"Brother Lin, what's the matter? You don't look like you're investigating at all. Can you solve the case like this?" Yang Xiuxiao asked.
Lin Jue said: "Brother Yang, Mr. Yu, the case is really solved. I already know how Yuan Li died, and I also know his murderer."
"Who is the murderer?" Yang Xiu asked hurriedly.
"If you're not busy, let's go back to the Yamen. Let's do an experiment and you'll know everything. Let's go back to the Yamen." Lin Jue waved his hand.
On the way, Yu Deshui couldn't help but ask: "Sir, since you know who the murderer is, why don't you arrest him immediately? Your Excellency said this in front of the Li family. If they were the murderer, wouldn't they run away immediately?"
Lin Jue laughed and said: "Master Yu, your brain is not working well. If they are the murderers, why haven't they been interrogated before? Just by my words, they were scared away. Once they ran away, they were convinced.
The crime? Besides, they are not the murderers."
Yu Deshui finally worked up the courage to ask, but was told that he was having trouble with his brain, so he blushed and remained silent. It was true that he was having trouble with his brain. During the whole process, he didn't know what Lin Jue was doing.
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In the yard of the Punishment Division Yamen, a group of government officials and police officers gathered around to watch the fun. According to Master Lin's instructions, Old Wu led people to catch a wild dog from the street and brought it back. At this moment, he tied it next to the stone mill in the yard. Lin
The master said that he wanted to do something that could catch the real culprit who killed Mr. Li. This made everyone confused and thought that Mr. Lin had lost his mind and gone crazy. Therefore, everyone came after hearing the news.
Watch from the sidelines.
"Sir, according to your instructions, the warehouse has been tidied up. What other instructions do you have?" Yuan Captou walked quickly from the west end and reported to Lin Juexin who was standing there making eye contact with the wild dog.
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Lin Jue nodded and asked, "Have the doors and windows been sealed?"
"It's all done. It's airtight and there's only a little gap in the door and window, but there's nothing we can do about it," Yuan Captou said.
"A little gap doesn't matter. Old Wu, take this dog to the warehouse and tie it up." Lin Jue ordered.
Old Wu agreed, stepped forward, grabbed the rope and dragged the howling wild dog into the warehouse. Everyone followed closely, full of doubts in their hearts. Old Wu forcibly dragged the wild dog into the house and tied it up.
On the wooden stake in the middle.
"Have you bought the meat buns?" Lin Jue asked the four advisors on his left and right.
"Here, come, I bought it. It's hot." A government servant squeezed in with a plate of meat buns.
Lin Jue reached out and grabbed a meat bun and ate it up in three bites. He smacked his lips and said, "It tastes good, and the meat is very fresh."
Yang Xiu scratched his head and said, "Brother Lin, are you hungry?"
Lin Jue said with a smile: "I had breakfast, but I'm not hungry. I bought this bun for this dog. It's a pity that he was born as a stray dog. He probably didn't have a few full meals. On the street, everyone shouted
Come on. Let him eat all this plate of steamed buns. Take it over."
Everyone rolled their eyes. What's so pitiful about a mangy dog? Adults are also very sentimental, so they sighed with emotion. The meat bun people didn't have money to eat, but they fed the dog.
The old yamen officer placed all the meat buns on the plate in front of the stray dog. When he turned around, the dog had already begun to eat. In a short time, eight or nine meat buns were eaten by it. After eating, the dog was full.
The dog visibly calmed down and lay in the middle of the house, licking its tongue.
"Hey! This beast has become comfortable and considers this place his home. Mr. Lin, what kind of medicine are you selling in the gourd? We are all confused." Yu Deshui said.
Lin Jue smiled and ordered: "Old Wu, light a brazier and put it in the house, then lock the doors and windows. You will guard here personally and no one will be allowed to open the door and go in. You are not allowed to go in if you hear any movement.
You’re not allowed in, you hear me?”
Everyone rolled their eyes. The adults were very kind to this mangy dog. They gave it meat buns and built a brazier to keep it warm because they were afraid it would get cold. Is this mangy dog some kind of bad luck? Could it be that he is asking for confession?
Can't he raise him? The adults say they want to catch the murderer, so how can they get a dog to serve as a father? These two things are completely unrelated.
But the puzzle was over, and something had to be done. Immediately, someone scrambled to light a brazier, move it into the house, and put it in a corner. The doors and windows were closed and locked, and Lao Wu led people to guard outside.
Lin Jue personally supervised the completion of these things, waved his hand and said: "It's time to go, let's go do some work."
"Sir, where is the murderer? Where is the murderer who killed Mr. Li? Why haven't you seen him?" Yu Deshui said.
Lin Jue laughed and said: "Master Yu, I am too anxious to eat hot tofu. Do your work first, and I will let you see who the murderer is in the afternoon."
Everyone dispersed with suspicion. From noon to afternoon, for more than three hours, everyone actually had no intention of doing anything. What they were thinking about was what Mr. Lin was up to, and they were all waiting for the answer to the mystery to be revealed.
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Finally, at half time, Mr. Lin came out of the public room and walked to the yard to stretch his legs. Almost instantly, all the government officials rushed out and gathered around the yard, looking at Lin Jue eagerly.
"What are you doing?" Lin Jue stared at everyone.
"Sir, please stop playing riddles. Everyone is so anxious. We don't even have the energy to do anything," Old Wu said with a smile.
Lin Jue rolled his eyes, smacked his lips and said, "That's all, I won't play riddles with you. They are really impatient and don't know if they have enough time. Come, open the warehouse and see what happened to the dog."
After hearing this, everyone couldn't wait to come to the warehouse door, unlocked it, and opened the door. A burst of hot air spurted out, which was a bit pungent and unpleasant. "Bah, bah, bah!" Old Wu fanned his nose and frowned.
"How is the dog?" Lin Jue asked.
"I'm sleeping very comfortably, this beast is so comfortable." Old Wu scolded.
"Oh? Then take it out." Lin Jue said with a smile.
Old Wu agreed, entered the house, and suddenly let out a surprised cry: "Huh? What's going on?"
"What's wrong, Lao Wu?" everyone asked, stretching their necks.
"The dog...the dog seems to be dead." Old Wu said tremblingly.
"Ah?" Everyone roared.
Lin Jue said: "Take it out and put it outside."
Lao Wu hurriedly called for people to carry out the dead wild dog. Lin Jue ordered them to put the dog on the millstone. Everyone gathered around to look at it and talked about it.
"How could he die? He was fine. He had food, drink, and a brazier. Why did he die?"
"Yeah, it's very strange. Oh, look, this dog's blowhole is bleeding. Could it be that he died of poisoning? Could it be that there was poison in the bun before?"
"Are you pulling your daughter-in-law's thigh? Mr. Lin also ate steamed buns before. If they were poisonous, wouldn't he also..."
"Oh, yes, Mr. Lin also ate the steamed buns. It can't be because the steamed buns are poisonous. What happened? Did he see a ghost? Did he die just fine?"
Lin Jue smiled and pinched his chin, listening to the buzzing chatter of the surrounding police officers. Yang Xiu frowned and said, "Brother Lin, what on earth is going on?"
Lin Jue coughed, and everyone around him stopped and listened. Lin Jue said: "Everyone, the murderer who killed this dog is the murderer who killed Li Yuanwai. Mr. Qin, read the on-site investigation file transcript of Li Yuanwai's murder case.
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Master Lao Qin hurriedly went back to his office, took out the file and read it aloud: "... Mr. Cha Li died in the middle of the night. His mouth and nose were bleeding, and the blood was rose red, but there were no wounds on his body. He seemed to have been poisoned.
He died. The doors and windows in the house were closed, and there were no signs of fighting. The property was intact. The furnishings in the house were the same. There were vomit objects beside the collapse, and a pot of charcoal fire, which had been burned out..."
"Okay." Lin Jue raised his hand and said, "That's it. You have all heard that the doors and windows were closed when Mr. Li died, and there were burned out braziers in the house. It is similar to the situation I designed today. This dog is also stupid
In the house with the doors and windows tightly closed, I also lit a brazier for it, and then you see, the dog is also dead. Look at the dog's mouth and nose, and the pores are bleeding. The blood is mixed with the hair and cannot be seen.
It’s very clear, Lao Yuan, make a cut on the dog’s leg and let’s see the blood.”
Yuan Captou drew a knife and made a small cut on the dog's leg, and immediately blood dripped down, like plum blossoms splashing on the ground. The color turned out to be really rose-red, and it felt very weird.
"Did you see? The blood that a normal person sheds is dark red, and when it dries, it turns black and purple. The blood droplets are rose red, which is consistent with the blood color of Mr. Li recorded in the file. It can be seen that the cause of their death is the same. Someone just now
It is half right to say that the dog died of poisoning. It was indeed poisoned, but there was no poison in the bun. I ate the bun, and as you can see, I didn’t show any signs of poisoning. There is another culprit.
That person." Lin Jue said slowly.
Yang Xiu shouted loudly: "I understand, what Brother Lin means is that the cause of death of Yuan Li is the same as that of this dog. Is there something weird in the brazier? Someone poisoned the brazier? The smell of the burning poisoned people."
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Lin Jue laughed loudly and said: "Brother Yang, your imagination is too big. But what you said is not entirely wrong. There is indeed something strange in the brazier, but no one poisoned the brazier, but it was the charcoal fire itself.
The poisonous gas. This poison is called carbon monoxide..."
"...What egg?" everyone asked, rolling their eyes.
Lin Jue smacked his lips and said, "How should I put it? When the charcoal fire burns, there is a smell that irritates the nasal cavity. That is the poisonous gas produced by the burning charcoal fire. This poisonous gas is harmless in small amounts, but if it accumulates in too much, it will cause poisoning and death.
.Especially in a room with closed doors and windows, as the charcoal fire in the brazier burns, this poisonous gas will slowly accumulate, and eventually the person will be killed in his sleep. And if he is poisoned by this poisonous gas,
The most obvious feature is that the blood is rosy in color. The color is delicate and bright, which is different from ordinary blood. It is the color produced by the integration of this poisonous gas into human blood. The symptoms of death will be bleeding from the stoma, and it is easy to be infected.
People mistakenly thought that he was poisoned. This is also the reason why Li Yuanwai was found to be murdered in the previous files. But in fact, the murderer was not a person, but the poisonous gas. The burned brazier in Li Yuanwai's house today is in the warehouse
The burned out brazier inside is the culprit. This is the answer to the mystery."
Everyone stood there dumbfounded. Their first reaction was: nonsense. But after thinking about it carefully, they found that there was no refutation. Mr. Lin actually restored the environment of the scene where Mr. Li was killed today. This
After the dog was tied in the house, no one touched it, but it died just fine. And the blood on its body was rose red, which was consistent with the color of Yuanwai Li's blood recorded in the file. If we talk about Yuanwai Li's cause of death
Unlike this dog, why are all the characteristics consistent? What is the explanation for this?
"I know it's hard for you to understand. That's why I did this experiment to restore the scene of the case, just to restore the truth. The reason why Yuan Li's death has become an unsolved case is because he had no enemies and was not seeking money or killing.
Everything was safe at that time, and there was no trace of any suspicion. I couldn't find the murderer. Could it be that a ghost killed him? I looked through the files and found that the crime occurred in the twelfth lunar month. I also saw the color of blood in the record, so I guessed that there must be a brazier in his room that night.
.So this morning, Mr. Yang Xiu and Mr. Yu Deshui went to Mr. Li's house again and inspected the scene. Mr. Li's house was renovated last spring. The gaps between the doors and windows were sealed with wooden strips and the window paper was intact.
, it can be said that it is airtight. In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the weather is very cold. It is common for a fire to be lit in a sealed bedroom. The servant who found Mr. Li dead outside told me that two charcoal fires were lit in Mr. Li's outer room that night. When he broke the door and window and entered,
There was also a strong smell of charcoal fire, and the servant felt dizzy afterwards. However, when the officials arrived, the smell in the room had dissipated. In a sealed room, two pots of charcoal fire, poisonous gas gathered, and Mr. Li was poisoned in his sleep.
He bled to death from his seven orifices. The murderer was none other than these two basins of charcoal fire. The same happened to this dog. Because the warehouse was not big, I only put in a basin of charcoal fire, and the dog also died inside. The situation was similar and the manner of death was similar.
The same, the blood color is the same. The cause of death must be the same. Isn’t this case solved? Hahaha.”
Lin Jue laughed loudly. The fog in everyone's minds was blown away, and they finally realized that there was no more doubt. After thinking about it, some people spontaneously applauded.
The yamen servant Lao Wu shouted: "It's strange that I felt a little dizzy when I entered the house just now. It's because the poisonous gas inside has not dissipated? The villain will not be poisoned to death, right?"
Lin Jue smiled and said: "Don't worry, you won't die if you smell this kind of poison, otherwise we wouldn't need to warm ourselves up by the fire. It accumulates slowly. When you come out and take a breath of fresh air, the dizziness will go away after a while, and you will recover."
Already."
"Oh, then I'm relieved." Old Wu wiped his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's wonderful, it's wonderful. Who would have thought that this is the reason. How can we find out just by looking for the murderer? It turns out that there is no murderer in this unsolved case, but only the poison of charcoal fire. Brother Lin is knowledgeable and knowledgeable.
, It’s really eye-opening.” Yang Xiu smacked her lips and sighed.
Lin Jue laughed and said: "Lucky, lucky. Fortunately, I know that this poisonous gas can kill people. I still remember when I was a child when I was burning charcoal fires in the winter, my mother always told me to open half the window or leave some gaps in the doors and windows. We were older
Most people do the same thing, and the reason is to prevent charcoal gas from killing people. But we forget this reason when we investigate the case, and we are completely wrong."
"It's really... when you said that, I also remembered something. When I was a child, someone died for no reason at the house of a wealthy family in the village. After several years of trying, I couldn't find the murderer. Now it seems that maybe it's because of this.
This is the reason. My family is poor and cannot afford to burn a charcoal pot in winter. It seems that someone from a rich family must be poisoned to death by the poison of charcoal fire. A poor person cannot afford to burn a charcoal pot, but he will not die from this.
Yang Xiu said with a smile.
When all the government officials heard this, they felt inexplicably proud. It turned out that poverty was not all bad. At least this way of death would not happen to them. Although the room was cold in winter, at least they would not become stiff as soon as they slept.
It became a corpse.
"Mr. Lin, I don't understand something. Why did Mr. Shicai give a plate of steamed buns to this dog? Is it because Li Yuanwai also ate steamed buns before his death, and does the poisonous gas attack have anything to do with what he ate?
"Yu Deshui asked, cupping his hands.
Lin Jue laughed and said, "Master Yu, you think too much. This has nothing to do with what you eat."
Yu Deshui said: "Then why did you do this? If you hadn't eaten a bun in front of everyone, we would all have thought it was poisonous. Since it is a restoration, why bother to create variables? If someone questions your Excellency,
The one I ate was not poisonous, but the other buns were poisonous. Doesn’t that mean it doesn’t support what you said?”
Lin Jue laughed and said: "I'll say it again, whether you eat the buns or not, the dog will be poisoned by the poison of the charcoal fire. The reason why I bought a plate of buns for this dog to eat is because..."
Lin Jue paused, stretched out his hand to wipe the messy hair on the dog, and sighed softly: "That's because... I know it will die, so I want it to have a good meal before dying. God has the virtue of a good life.
Although the life of an animal and mosquito is low, it is still a life. If I want to take its life, how can I not let it have a full stomach before it dies. In the next life, it will be reincarnated as a human, and it will run faster when it is full."
When everyone heard this, they secretly approved in their hearts. It turns out that Mr. Lin is so kind-hearted and even pities the life of a dog. It seems that he has followed the right person. If he treats dogs like this, how can he be bad to people?
"Okay, I declare that the case has been solved. Master will record the case and give it to me to see. In addition, this case may not be an isolated case. Mr. Yang and Mr. Yu, I hope you two will read through all the cases immediately.
case to see if there are any similar cases. Perhaps, there are still the same cases that have not been solved, and this time we may be able to solve multiple unsolved cases at the same time." Lin Jue laughed loudly.
Yang Xiu and Yu Deshui perked up after hearing this. Not to mention, it was really possible. Since the Kaifeng Mansion had not solved this case, there was no guarantee that there were similar cases among the previous unsolved cases. Maybe it was real.
can be found.
So Yang Xiu and Yu Deshui immediately started searching and browsing. Sure enough, when Lin Jue came to the Yamen the next morning, Yang Xiu placed a stack of files in front of Lin Jue's desk with red eyes. Lin Jue read through it carefully.
, these five unsolved cases are very similar to the death of Yuan Wai, and basically meet the characteristics of carbon monoxide poisoning.
In order to further confirm, Lin Jue spent two days going to the case scene to collect evidence and testimony, and supplemented the weather, doors, windows, charcoal fire, witness testimony and other evidence that had been ignored in the previous government investigation. In this way, plus Li Yuanwai's case, six
Within one day, six unsolved cases spanning five or six years were solved. This kind of speed in solving the cases was simply amazing.
On the morning of the eighth day of March, Lin Jue brought the files to see Zhu Zhirong, the powerful magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture, and reported to Zhu Zhirong the circumstances of the six cases he had solved. When Zhu Zhirong first heard that Lin Jue had solved six cases, he did not believe it at all. When Lin Jue told him about the investigation process and
After presenting various evidences one by one, giving a detailed description of the case and some popular science, Zhu Zhirong finally believed that these six cases were really solved. Although these six cases were not big, they were just six deaths separated by many years.
case, but the impact is actually not small. Because the cause of death is unknown and the murderer has no trace, it has caused a lot of panic among the people. Stories of serial killings and ghosts seeking souls are flying everywhere, bringing a lot of pressure. Zhu Zhirong was also involved in political affairs
Tang Shen reprimanded him many times, but he didn't expect it to break down like this.
Zhu Zhirong immediately ordered people to report the investigation of the case to the court. Two days later, the court sent someone to announce the results. According to Lin Jue's evidence and investigation results, the evidence in these six cases was conclusive, strong and credible, and the court recognized the six cases and confirmed them.
Commendations are given to all the staff of the Kaifeng Prefecture’s Sentencing Department.
As the news spread, the reputation of the Kaifeng Prefecture's Punishment Department grew. Someone in the Punishment Department revealed the process of Mr. Lin solving the case, and it was even talked about. Especially the fact that Mr. Lin prepared a meal of meat buns for the dog before he died.
This move was even called a heart-warming move by dog lovers in the aristocratic circle of Beijing. But they completely forgot that the dog was the victim of this experiment.
