fast and ferocious

Chapter 133 The Death of Gu Hao ([-]) Second Watch

The Eldest Princess shrugged and said:
"Many people only know that it is difficult to save their lives after being bitten by a poisonous snake, but they don't necessarily know that different snake venoms have different symptoms, except for doctors, pharmacists, and villagers living near the mountains... Your family is rich, although You are a catcher, but you don’t necessarily know it.”

"The villagers are all talkative! It's been passed on from generation to generation. Don't talk about it, you didn't go to Baojuan Pavilion to read the blueprints, did you?" Qin Wubing straightened his waist, showing a calm and confident look: "If you want to see the blueprints, let alone river boats, you can also look at sea boats. There is no need to come to Caobang to see them."

"But Caobang has the largest boat among river boats! The hull is more than 30 meters, and there are eighteen bulkheads in the horizontal direction. In addition to the living quarters, there is also a shed on the upper part. The upper deck is more than one meter. You know that it can be transferred at a time. How much food? About five hundred shi!" The eldest princess's eyes shone with excitement, which made Qin Wubing not only dare not look at it, but also frequently frowned to pretend to be thinking.

"What are you thinking?" the Eldest Princess asked inquiringly.

"I was thinking..." Qin Wubing thought hard, "Which kind of snake's poison can make people's skin fester?"

"Oh? The skin on the deceased's wound is festered? Are there blisters and blood blisters?"

"Have!"

"Five-step snake! "Taiping Guangji" records: There are poisonous snakes in the five rivers and Guizhou in the south of the mountain, with black and anti-nosed noses, and they are coiled in the grass. Their teeth are hooked upside down, and they go straight. When a person dies immediately, the hand will be cut off, and the foot will be cut off, otherwise, the whole body will swell and rot, and there will be no life."

Qin Wubing's head swelled when he heard it.

The eldest princess didn't notice Qin Wubing's expression, and continued: "Actually, in terms of toxicity, the corona snake is more poisonous than the five-step snake, but after being bitten by the corona snake, the wound is neither painful nor itchy, only lethargy and fatigue Many people just fell asleep and died."

"Why doesn't the murderer use a Coral Snake? Maybe it can be more silent."

"I once specifically asked a snake breeder which kind of snake is the most dangerous. He said that the silver ring snake is relatively gentle. If you don't provoke it, it generally doesn't attack people. The five-step snake is not. It has a fierce temperament and is more aggressive than other snakes. The snake breeder said that more than half of the people who died of snake venom on the mountain near his house were bitten by five-paced snakes."

"That is to say, the murderer may not necessarily raise snakes. I thought that snakes would only attack people if the snake breeder gives orders, while five-step snakes do not need orders, and snakes are not allowed in the gang... But how does the murderer protect himself? What about him? Isn’t he afraid that the snake will turn around and bite him?”

The eldest princess shrugged, just about to answer that she didn't know, but found that Qin Wubing didn't seem to be asking her, but rather talking to himself.

"The deceased lived alone. The murderer and the deceased must have known each other. The murderer knew we were here and hurried to find the deceased. Even if he happened to have a five-paced snake in his hand, how did he bring it to the deceased and let the snake bite while the deceased was not paying attention? Why didn't the deceased scream loudly after being bitten by a snake? No matter how fast the poison is, it is impossible to spread it to the mouth immediately."

The eldest princess followed Qin Wubing's train of thought, and suddenly said: "The wound bitten by the five-step snake is very painful!"

Qin Wubing turned his face away and looked at the eldest princess excitedly and asked, "How much does it hurt?"

The eldest princess thought for a while and said:

"I remember the snake breeder said that people who are in pain can't walk, maybe it's because walking is difficult, and they die after walking five steps, so they are called five-step snakes, haha, I guessed."

"Can't walk?" Qin Wubing stood up, and suddenly shouted: "Holmes, search the entire courtyard and room, and see where there is blood besides the dead!"

While talking, Qin Wubing entered the house again, entered the inner room neatly, forgot to wear gloves, directly grabbed the dead man's chin with his hands, and looked closer to see if there were marks on the mouth and nose.

Although Gu Hao's courtyard is a bit out of the way, if the roaring sound lasted longer, there must be many people in the Cao Gang who could hear it, but Huang Zongxing said that no one around heard or saw anything.

Qin Wubing has never missed trace inspection and forensic medicine so much!He knows that he can use his brain, but in the work of trace inspection, without the help of equipment, many clues are ignored, and the same is true for forensic medical examination. He looked at the clues in the room, but they could not become evidence. Unspeakable boredom in my heart!

Qin Wubing got up, looked around the furnishings in the room, walked to the hall and stood still, looking up at the beams in a daze.

The four of Holmes had a clear division of labor, each of them lowered their heads to check in their own area, but they didn't find anything.

The eldest princess entered the room with her hands behind her back, and glanced at the corpse on the floor of the inner room from time to time, but she didn't dare to look directly at it.

"If no blood is found in other places, then the first scene of the crime is the inner room, that is to say, the place where the deceased lay down. The deceased would scream in pain, and the murderer covered the mouth and nose of the deceased. What about the snake? Even if it is yourself The raised snake also needs to be settled first before covering the mouth and nose of the deceased, the pain of the deceased must be unbearable, and there must be a moment of great strength..."

"The harder he tried, the faster he died!" The Eldest Princess answered.

"That's right! If he doesn't move and doesn't use force, maybe he still has a breath now."

"You know this too?" The eldest princess was surprised.

"So the murderer may not be alone! One person killed the snake quickly after releasing the snake to bite the deceased, and the other covered the deceased's mouth and nose tightly to prevent him from making a sound. The deceased must have resisted at that time, but was restrained by the two. Die until you are out of breath."

The picture of what Qin Wubing said flashed through the mind of the eldest princess, she was still looking for something wrong, but she heard Qin Wubing ask again: "How did you trick the old monk away?"

The eldest princess was stunned by Qin Wubing's jumping question.

Qin Wubing hurriedly explained: "Usually he is by his side, and he would say a few nonsense from time to time, but suddenly his surroundings are clean, and he is not used to it."

The Eldest Princess snorted and said, "I told him that there was a one-meter-long fish in the kitchen, so he ran to the kitchen."

"Is anyone following?"

"Don't worry, we people will not be in danger wherever we go."

Qin Wubing looked at the Eldest Princess with a chuckle and said, "You are quite confident."

Qin Wubing suddenly realized that his tone was more or less indulgent, he took a breath, restrained the smile on his face, and said seriously: "The murderer thinks very carefully, or is very experienced in certain aspects, so he There were not enough traces left at the scene."

After saying this, Qin Wubing sighed in his heart. There must be traces, but they can't be seen. First of all, there must be the murderer's fingerprints on the door, because Huang Zongxing said that he pushed the door in, which means that when the murderer left , closed the door.

Secondly, is there snake blood in the pool of blood at the feet of the deceased?If there is, it can confirm Qin Wubing's speculation that the murderer beat the snake to death immediately after letting the snake bite.

There are also shoe prints. The floor tiles in the house are not very smooth, let alone clean and bright. There must be shoe prints, but there is no equipment, so use the naked eye to observe...or don't observe.

There is no need to observe the few hairs on the ground that flutter occasionally with the wind. If you see them, they are treasures.

The last is what was left between the nails of the deceased during the struggle, which may be the skin flakes of the murderer or the fibers of clothing.

(End of this chapter)