In order to get on their way as soon as possible, Lin Chong and the others must clear their suspicions quickly. But because they are outsiders, they are more susceptible to suspicion, and the government cannot agree to let them leave for the time being.
After some discussion, the few people had no choice but to reveal his identity as the Minister of Rites, and asked the government to provide all the information they could about the case.
After reading these so-called investigation results, Lin Chong was angry: "This woman clearly lives alone in the inn. How could other people in the inn know her? Even if they have spoken a few words and called her several times in the past few days,
If you say hello, you won't let a woman open the door in the middle of the night."
"And we are strangers to this woman, how could we be suspicious?" Mu Mu was also very angry.
Mu Xi thought for a while: "I think he wanted to catch a scapegoat in this inn because he saw that this case was difficult to handle."
"Scapegoat? How could they do this? Isn't this a waste of human life?" Lin Chong felt unreasonable.
"Actually, most cases handled by local officials are like this. The motives for committing crimes are very obvious, or someone witnessed the murder process with their own eyes. In ordinary cases, it is difficult to find the murderer. Either they become unsolved cases, or they are arrested casually for performance evaluation.
Several people used severe torture to extract confessions." Zhou Ze sighed.
"Now that Mr. Zhou has revealed his identity, we might as well take this opportunity to leave as soon as possible. They don't dare to say anything anyway." Wang Chengen suggested.
Lin Chong disagreed: "If that's the case, then we can't leave. Now an innocent person has died unjustly, and if we just leave like this, there will be other people who were wrongfully imprisoned and died like this."
Lose."
Seeing his resolute attitude, Wang Chengen couldn't say anything else.
Zhou Ze smiled and said: "Okay, it just so happens that it's been too boring to stay here for such a long time. It would be good to stretch your hands and feet here."
Jonathan had no expression on the surface, but a hint of appreciation flashed in his eyes.
Now that he had decided to stay and investigate the matter thoroughly, Zhou Ze came forward to communicate with the officials, and they also joined the investigation.
First of all, we need to find out the identity of this woman. The first thing that comes to mind is to check the inn registration. The government has also checked. The name of this woman registered at the inn is Song Fang. Of course, the authenticity of this name has yet to be confirmed.
Verify.
The luggage she brought with her was very simple, except for some banknotes and broken silver, a few sets of clothes and some small items commonly used by women. Since the silver is still there, it means that the purpose of the murder was not to steal money, and he did not even take the opportunity to do so.
Take these silver coins away, then she is here specifically to kill people.
There was no sign of a struggle at the scene, indicating that this person had no hesitation. A living person, just someone he was very familiar with. He could insert a knife into the other person's body without hesitation the moment she turned around. This is a person who
What kind of person? Wang Chengen felt that this was very similar to what those killers in the world could do.
Lin Chong asked Wang Chengen to conduct an autopsy alone, and the conclusion he came to was not significantly different from that of Zuo. "Can you tell what kind of short sword it is? Just like some famous people in the world, they have their own unique weapons and
The method of killing?" Lin Chong asked.
Wang Chengen shook his head: "They are just ordinary knives. You can see them everywhere on the street. You can buy a lot of them for ten taels of silver from a blacksmith shop."
Lin Chong was very disappointed. Song Fang's identity could not be determined, nor could the murderer's murder method and weapon. He had looked through Song Fang's small pile of luggage several times, but he could not see any clues.
The only thing that is a little special is probably one of the jade pendants. This jade pendant is made of Hetian jade of high quality. People who can afford such a jade pendant are probably not poor. But since they can afford to live in the best room, the package contains
Naturally, people who have so many banknotes and broken silver cannot be poor.
There was a small word "Sha" on the jade pendant. Lin Chong could not tell whether it was some kind of proof of identity.
"It stands to reason that most girls wouldn't choose jade pendants like this for decoration, right?" Zhou Ze touched his chin.
"I also think so. If this is really some kind of proof of identity, then why didn't the murderer take it away? I think since he dared to leave this thing behind, it means that his identity should not be exposed."
"Is it possible that he left in a hurry and didn't have time to go through his luggage?"
"No, the luggage had been turned over when the detectives found it. Not only the luggage, but also the room had been turned over. If the deceased had not moved it himself, then the murderer had turned it over. We now have two hypotheses. One is that the murderer just wanted to
The person who committed the murder did not even go through the luggage. He left directly after killing the person. Secondly, his main purpose was not to kill people, but for something. He went through the luggage and took away the thing."
Mu Xi came over and said, "There is another possibility. He did come for something. Killing this person might just be a way to kill him. But he didn't find that thing. If this is the case, then he must still be nearby.
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"How can you be sure that he didn't find anything?" Lin Chong asked.
"The banknotes and broken silver in this package were randomly placed inside, mixed with these small items. Song Fang should be a very particular person, so logically there should be something like a purse to store them.
Did you notice it? We didn't find any small packages or anything like that in the room." Mu Xi explained.
"You mean someone took them away?" Zhou Ze asked, "What's the use of taking these things away?"
Lin Chong had a flash of inspiration and understood what Mu Xi wanted to say. "What this person is looking for is most likely something similar to a drawing or a letter. If he finds it, there is no need to take away all the small bags."
. He took everything away precisely because he was not sure where the things he was looking for were. He wanted to find clues in these things."
"Then why didn't he just take everything away? Isn't it possible to find it slowly?" Mu Xi was puzzled. Mu Xi explained to him: "Maybe he was sure that the things wouldn't be here, or he didn't want us to know.
Who knew the existence of such a thing?" Mu Mu nodded, seeming to understand something that made everyone laugh.
Although I guessed that the other party was most likely looking for some kind of blueprint or letter paper, and that they might not have found it yet, this did not help in inferring the identity of the murderer.