Martial Arts and Longevity: Starting from the Spiritual Beast Picture

Chapter 73 Yun Lai Inn
Serial crimes are often premeditated crimes, and murderers generally like to commit crimes in areas they are familiar with, while adhering to the "three noes" principle.

Not far, not near, not repeated.

Not far away means that the murderer generally does not go to relatively far places to commit crimes, especially places that he is not familiar with. This is a kind of psychological security.

It is not close and easy to understand. The risk of committing crimes at the door of the house is high, and it is easy to meet acquaintances when going in and out. As the saying goes, "rabbits don't eat grass by the side of their nests."

Non-repetition means that the crime does not take place in the same location.Vigilance will be strengthened in places where murders have occurred, and the vigilance of the people is also high, increasing the risk of committing crimes.

The five crime spots on the map form a five-pointed star, and Zhao Lin sees a familiar name in the blank area of ​​the intersection: Yunlai Inn.

"Isn't this the inn where the secret room murder case is located?"

Zhao Lin opened his mouth in surprise, recalling this bizarre case.

Earlier this year, a businessman with a foreign accent stayed at the Yunlai Inn near the pier.

The merchant claimed to be a seller of jade wares and came from Wanli Jade Ware in Zhoucheng.

He lived in the inn for half a month, carrying jade articles around the city every day for business.

One morning, the man came to the merchant's room to deliver hot water, but no one opened the door after shouting for a long time.

The guy was a little strange: This merchant gets up very early every day, what's going on today?

The man thought the merchant was sleeping late, and he didn't take it seriously, but at night, there was still no answer when he knocked on the door.

Now the clerk felt something was wrong, he went to the shopkeeper and said, "The guest in Room No. [-] didn't know what happened, and he didn't go out all day, and he locked himself inside, should he go and have a look?"

When the shopkeeper heard this, he hurried to room No. [-] and shouted at the door.

There was no movement inside the door, and it was bolted so that it could not be opened from the outside.

The shopkeeper set up a ladder, climbed to a high place, pierced the window paper on the top of the door, and looked inside.

I saw a person lying on the floor, and there was a pool of blood around him.

The shopkeeper yelled in fright and almost fell off.

When the other guests in the inn heard the news, they gathered around one after another and began to make guesses.

Some people said that the merchant committed suicide because he hadn’t sold a single piece of jade in half a month; others said that the No.

The more the shopkeeper listened, the more wrong he became. If he continued to talk about it, he would become a murderer. He hurriedly said: "Everyone, if a customer has an accident in the store, I, the owner of the store, must be responsible."

"But before finding out the truth, everyone, don't make wild guesses. The door is locked, and it's not clear what's going on inside."

"Since everyone is here, please be a witness, I will open the door and go in to have a look."

When everyone heard what the shopkeeper said, they stopped talking and helped him smash the door open.

After entering the house, everyone looked carefully with the lamps on, and saw that the merchant's chest and lower abdomen had been stabbed in many places, and blood was spattered everywhere.

Someone died in the store, and the shopkeeper immediately reported it to the police.

After Sun Zhang arrived with his people, the guests all testified that the doors and windows of the room were closed before entering.

The same is true for the site inspection: there is a small hole in the window paper on the top of the door, and the door bolt is broken in the middle, obviously it has just been knocked open.

There is a square-earth kang in the room, and the quilts on the kang are neatly folded, and there is no trace of turning over.

There is a square table against the west wall, and on the table is a package containing tea, cigarette bags and other trivial items.

Turn the package over, and there is the imprint of Wanli Jade Ware Company.

Sun Zhang pondered: If it was murder, how did the murderer manage to lock the door from the inside when he escaped?
If it was suicide, how could anyone stab themselves so many times?Besides, there were no sharp weapons in the house.

Another point is that the merchant's jade wares are missing.

He asked around, but no one saw anyone entering or exiting Room No. [-].

Room [-] was empty and the door was locked, so Sun Zhang called the guest in Room [-] and asked him if he heard anything special last night.

The guest in Room [-] said he heard nothing.

Now Sun Zhang was stumped, and a policeman reminded him: "Could there be a secret passage in the house, and the murderer escaped from it?"

Sun Zhang was right when he thought about it. He ordered the whole house to be turned upside down, and the kang and the floor were scraped clean.

In the end, I didn't even find a mouse hole.

At this time, someone gave him an idea: "Since the murderer stole the jade, he must find a place to sell the stolen goods. You can secretly monitor the shops in the city that sell jade."

"As long as someone sells jade from Wanli Jade Store, they should be caught first."

Sun Zhang knew that this method was actually looking for a needle in a haystack. The Wanli Jade Ware Shop was well-known throughout Yingzhou, and it was difficult to find the real culprit through jade wares.

Besides, the murderer was not an idiot, he shot right after he got the stolen goods.

But he had no choice but to notify the city gate guards to step up their search and secretly send people to monitor them. After more than half a year, nothing was found.

"It's not such a coincidence, is it? Could it be that the two cases were committed by the same person?"

Looking back on the files, Zhao Lin found it very strange that the serial rape and murder case was seeking sex, and the secret room murder case was seeking money, but they could not be contacted.

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Since the locations of the two murders both point to Yunlai Inn, Zhao Lin decided to conduct a field investigation.

After midnight in the morning, I changed into casual clothes, slightly changed my appearance, and walked into Yunlai Inn.

"Guest officer, are you staying at the hotel or at the top?"

The shopkeeper was in his fifties, with a kind face, his gray hair was mostly bald, and his voice was deep and mellow, reminiscent of an announcer in his previous life.

Zhao Lin had just taken over the area, and he didn't know him yet, so he thought it was an ordinary customer and greeted him with a smile.

"Stay at the hotel."

Zhao Lin replied bluntly, and glanced at the hall at the same time.

In addition to accommodation, Yunlai Inn also runs restaurant business, and many people in the lobby are drinking tea and chatting.

"May I ask the guest officer to live in the upper room, the middle room or the lower room? How long do you plan to stay?" the shopkeeper asked again.

"Middle room, maybe three to five days, maybe seven or eight days, it's hard to say for the time being."

Zhao Lin stayed at an inn when he was selling Xiong Juan and Zhu Hao's mane, so he knew the inside story better.

The upper room is the best room in the inn, mostly on the second floor, with good lighting, ventilation and quietness.

The price of the next room is low, but the conditions are very poor. A room can accommodate seven or eight people or even a dozen people.

The middle room is in between, there are single rooms and double rooms.

Room No. [-], where the merchant died, is on the first floor and belongs to the middle room.

The shopkeeper looked back at the sign on the wall, and read: "There are ten middle rooms, rooms [-] to [-] are occupied, and rooms [-], [-], and [-] are vacant. The guest officer can choose one."

Zhao Lin deliberately asked, "Can't people live in Room [-]?"

The shopkeeper glanced at the hall, and said in a low voice: "To tell you the truth, there was a murder case in Room [-] this year. The guest died in the room, and it hasn't been broken yet."

"And this, did you see it with your own eyes?"

"Of course, not only me, many people have seen it."

Zhao Lin let out an "oh" and said, "Thank you for telling the truth."

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "Our store opens the door to welcome customers, and we pay attention to reputation. If I deliberately conceal it, the guest officer will know sooner or later, won't it be trouble for me then?"

"Why don't you choose Room No. [-]? No. [-] and No. [-] are next to No. [-], which is not very auspicious."

Zhao Lin thought for a while and said, "I like cleanliness. Which room is the furthest?"

"Room ten."

"Then number ten."

Since it is necessary to investigate the case, it must be as close to the crime scene as possible.

At that time, the guests in Room [-] did not hear anything, so Zhao Lin wanted to live in Room [-] to see if he could find anything.

Seeing that his suggestion was not adopted, the shopkeeper didn't care. Anyway, he had fulfilled his duty of reminding, and agreed, "Then live in Room [-] according to the request of the guest officer."

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