Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1792 Mystery
During the whole process, the murderer not only thought carefully, but also designed cleverly.He acted even more calmly. After the patrol found the abandoned corpse, he could come back to collect it and continue the original plan; even when he fled in a hurry, he did not forget to use the special design of the back door of Zhenbo Garden to re-lock the back door.The audacity of this man is evident.

Judging from his method of hiding the corpse and the method of disguising Wang Xiuzhu as a suicide, this person is very familiar with the traditional yamen's thinking and methods of handling cases.Either he is an old Jianghu with a lot of criminal records, or he was once a prisoner in the Gongmen.

Judging from the murderer's untouched widow Wang's family's silver, it can be seen that this person did not kill for money, and the habitual bandit who killed for money would not deliberately dispose of the corpse, and all the methods he used were trying to cover up the case.

The murderer is familiar with the path and the Shanshan Guild Hall, so he should be a local or have lived in Guangzhou for a long time.

Based on the various clues they collected, the criminal police roughly sketched out the image of the murderer: a young man, aged between 25 and 30, without a beard, with a gentle appearance, and probably a scholar from his demeanor.The height is between 160 and 165 cm, and the foot length is about 24 cm.He is agile and may possess martial arts.He can speak Guangzhou Mandarin and is familiar with local conditions, so he probably lives in Guangzhou.

With only this image, it is natural that he cannot be wanted and arrested.The detectives need more clues.At this time, the autopsy report of Wu Zuo was sent.

The forensic doctors in one prefecture and two counties in Guangzhou have all been retained—although their techniques are crude and even erroneous, at least they are the accumulation of hundreds of years of experience, and they can only rely on these people for the time being before they have trained their own forensic doctors.

Wu Zuo not only belonged to Zao Li’s untouchables, but because of the work relationship, everyone avoided it, so it was basically passed down from generation to generation within the family, and there was some accumulation of experience. When it came to theory, it basically relied on a book "Winning Injustice Collection" .Naturally, it cannot meet the needs of criminal investigation work.In particular, the inability to dissect the corpse makes the effect of the autopsy greatly reduced.For this reason, Liu Sanquan had to be hired as a forensic doctor to handle the knife.

The autopsy report sent now is such a mixed report that has been double-checked.The conclusion is that the deceased was a middle-aged man with no clothes left on his body. He was about forty to fifty years old. He was short and fat with delicate skin on his hands and feet.The most astonishing thing was that the genitals of the deceased were cut off neatly and neatly—the report indicated that they were cut off after death.

Wuxiang was taken aback when he saw this, and the deceased had his genitals cut off—what a hatred!Looking further down, the cause of death was beheading.However, the results of the autopsy found that there was a large amount of alcohol in his stomach, combined with the fact that there was no trauma on the body, it should have been killed after being drunk.

"In my opinion, this is undoubtedly a trick." Gao Chongjiu went to track down Danhu's boat but found nothing. He rushed back to the police station only after he was notified that the body had been found.

After the victim’s head was beheaded, the murderer cut off the genitals—if the deceased was a child, it’s possible that the killer cut off the witchcraft medicine, but the victim was a middle-aged man. There is no other reasonable explanation.

Wuxiang and Li Zhenguo also agreed with him. The question is what kind of scheme is needed to provoke the murderer to behead the deceased first and then castrate the deceased. Such a deep hatred, I am afraid that the level of killing the father, seizing the wife and exterminating the son is enough. .

"Could it be Wang Xiuzhu's deceased husband's relatives did it?" Li Zhenguo put forward his own opinion, "We can start from here..."

"If her deceased husband had relatives, Wang Xiuzhu would have been married back a long time ago. Even if she didn't want to, she would definitely not be allowed to live in this house."

The wife of a poor family is also property, not to mention that she was bought in the first place.Wang Xiuzhu died of a man and child, if her man has brothers in the clan, he must marry her back to solve the bachelor problem.Even if you don't marry her, you can always get some money by selling her or pawning her.As for this house, it is even more impossible to leave it to a helpless widow like her.

"So it is impossible for her deceased husband to have brothers of the same clan in the local area, otherwise she will be allowed to live alone?" Gao Chongjiu said, "Besides, the relatives arrest the adulterer for money, so it is not necessary to kill the adulterer--they are so ruthless. "

Wu Xiang thought for a while and said, "One thing is certain, the murderer should not be Widow Wang's concubine, or in other words, not the concubine who lives in her home."

The evidence is obvious. The man's clothes found from Wang Xiuzhu's house do not match the suspect's body shape at all, but are similar to the victim's, indicating that these clothes belonged to the victim.In addition, the undigested food in the victim's stomach was extracted through autopsy, many of which were related to the leftovers found at the scene.Explain that the victim had dinner at Wang Xiuzhu's house.

"Sister-in-law Liu said that the suspect came late and left early, which means that the suspect does not live in Widow Wang's house. The evidence from the scene also proves that he does not often live in Wang Xiuzhu's house. However, the information provided by Lao Cui also shows that someone actually lives in her house— ―The victim should be living in Wang’s house. But the suspect is very familiar with the widow Wang, and it is true that he stayed at her house overnight. I think they are probably acquainted or even familiar. As for the relationship between the three, I think it is worth exploring .”

"Could it be 'one daughter, two husbands', causing jealousy?" Gao Chongjiu said.

"It's possible to be jealous. One woman and two husbands don't make much sense." Wu Xiang said, "One woman and two husbands are the last resort for poor people who can't afford a wife. Neither the victim nor the suspect is poor. I don’t think it’s necessary to make do with it. If Wang Xiuzhu has a good fortune, I think the possibility is very small. After all, she is an ordinary-looking woman, and she is not young, so how can she have such great charm?”

Everyone felt that Wuxiang was right.

"Our top priority now is to find out who the victim is." When Wu Xiang said this, he didn't know what to do. His teacher, Chief Mu, said that when investigating a murder case, the most fearful thing is to encounter a body found in the wild. Inch-length corpses, because such corpses are difficult to identify.

In the old time and space, the police had a great chance of finding out the specific identity of the unknown bones with the help of a series of scientific and technological means such as household registration, missing persons database, fingerprint and DNA database, and facial reconstruction.But in the 17th century, there was nothing but the household registration system that had just been established.In this time and space, no one reports missing persons, because the Yamen does not care about missing cases.To find out how many people have disappeared recently, the only way is to mobilize the Baojia forces to investigate one by one.Not to mention the heavy workload, it may not be possible to find out.

Wuxiang didn't know so many high-tech, but he knew that in the yizhuang set up by the police station outside the city alone, there were dozens of unidentified corpses with suspicious causes of death waiting to be identified and claimed.

Gao Chongjiu is an old man, so he naturally knows the difficulty.He thought for a while and said: "I think we should start with the things that my concubine left with Widow Wang. Her dressing box is from Zizhenzhai. The clerk may remember who bought it. And the ring, left behind You can check all your clothes."

Wuxiang knew that this was the only way, and immediately agreed.Each division of labor to check.Because the criminal police were short of manpower, Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui were temporarily transferred to "assist in the work".

Gao Chongjiu's job is to use his old connections in the lower class to investigate whether there are young people who meet the characteristics of the suspect recently.If this person was indeed born "on the rivers and lakes", it is impossible that there is no news at all among the city foxes and rats.

The general public police will have a group of so-called "eyes and ears", which are called "informants" in modern times.Gao Chongjiu has been an old man for decades, and he is also sworn brother with the head of Guandi Temple. He is a person of great status in the gray world of Guangzhou City, and his subordinates have a lot of eyes and ears.He sat in the teahouse he often went to, and after a while, he got in touch with several main informants.

Based on his experience, a major case like the one that happened in South Scissors Alley will spread throughout the city within a few days, and there will be some useful news in the city fox community.

However, when he asked about the unsolved case in South Scissors Lane, all these eyes and ears said in unison that there was no news.

This anomaly caught his attention.He asked again if he had heard of a young man like the suspect recently.The eyes and ears said no in unison.A few of them said they would go back and inquire about it, but Gao Chongjiu had sharp eyes, and he knew at a glance that they were dealing with him.

"Could it be that Boss Gao issued a gag order?" Gao Chongjiu muttered to himself.This is a rare thing.Although the people and horses of Guandi Temple are powerful in Guangzhou, they still adhere to the principle of "not fighting power".Generally, you don't do things that kill you for money. If the officials have a case to investigate, they will cooperate as much as possible. If it involves an important person in the family, they will secretly "talk the weight" with the arrester, and throw a few ghosts out— ―In short, let both the prisoner and the government live in face.

Gao Chongjiu realized the complexity of the case-it seemed that the matter was not as simple as a murder case.He thought about it, and decided to use other forces to investigate secretly to see what Gao Tianshi was up to.

As for Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui, they were assigned the most boring and tedious work, physical evidence investigation.

The work of investigation is not difficult, the key is to be careful.After Li Ziyu got the job, the first thing he did was to take the silver ingots he found from Widow Wang's house to the dumping shop to investigate.

In fact, silver ingots are not the official currency of Ming Dynasty, but just an official fact.Therefore, although the official silver ingots are the best in quality and have the most weight, the official does not monopolize the right to cast them.Any individual shopkeeper can melt and mint silver ingots himself.But this is a professional job after all, so most people still leave this job to the dumping shop.

(End of this chapter)