female catcher

Chapter 89
Xia Chu called Jiang Xiyuan to the door of the house, Jiang Xiyuan nodded after hearing it, "Yes, it should be here."

Tang Kui laughed and said: "The master has gone to Linfeng, and he has been away for several days. No one has entered this house. You see, the lock is very good."

Jiang Xiyuan ignored Tang Kui, walked over to smell it, and frowned slightly, "My nose is about to fail, and now I can't even smell that strange smell."

"Me too." Xia Chu tugged at the brass lock, pushed the door again, was about to turn around, but suddenly stopped, moved to the door and lifted the brass lock.

"My lord!" Xia Chu suddenly shouted loudly, "Look at this!"

"Scared me." Jiang Xiyuan also leaned over.

Xia Chu pointed to the wooden edge under the buckle of the copper lock, which was a little darker in color.The door is dark brown, and this slightly darker piece is no more than the size of the belly of a thumb. At first glance, it looks like a scar in the wood grain.

"Blood?" Jiang Xiyuan asked.

Xia Chu licked his finger, got some saliva on it, wiped it on the edge of the color, then turned over his finger, and there was a little brown-red color on the fingertip, "If it wasn't blood, it wouldn't be the color of the wood, right?"

Tang Kui came over in a panic, "Guy, what's wrong?"

Xia Chu stretched out his finger in front of Tang Kui, Tang Kui shrank his head and looked at it, not quite understanding.Xia Chu patted him on the shoulder and rubbed his fingers, "Dude, open the door."

"But I don't have a key."

Xia Chu was about to break down the door, when Xu Lu interjected, "Unlock it, easy to talk about." After that, he stood in place and searched for a couple of times, then ran to the consulting room, grabbed a silver acupuncture needle from Dr. Liu, and came out. , nestled in his hand, pulled up the brass lock, and carefully inserted the silver needle.

After three or two clicks, the lock was unlocked with a click.

"You know how to do this?" Chu Xia looked at him in surprise.

Xu Lu smiled modestly, "I used to be in the rivers and lakes, and I still know a little bit about this kind of tricks."

Talent!

Xia Chu said to Tang Kui: "When your boss comes back, if you feel it is difficult to explain, let him come to the government office." After speaking, he stretched out his hand and pushed the middle of the two doors, and the door opened in response.

The moment the door was opened, a foul smell wafted out.

Xia Chu stood at the door and observed for a while before stepping in.Facing the door is a pair of hardwood armchairs, with a tea table in the middle, a mahogany marble screen hanging on the wall behind, and a half-screen carved partition on the left side of the room, inside is a desk with a pen, inkstone and other Abacus, there is a cabinet behind the desk, and the doors are closed.

Xia Chu walked in carefully, and when she got to the side of the partition, she bent down and took a look, took out a piece of talc from her waist, drew a circle on the ground, "There is a blood mark here, look..., it looks like It was the upper of the shoe that rubbed against it."

Jiang Xiyuan patted her on the shoulder, pointed to her left, "Look at that."

Xia Chu followed his fingers to look over.On the left side is a closed double-open wooden door with swastika pattern, and the carved part is pasted with linen tissue paper, on which there is a string of blood splattered impressively.

"What's in there?"

Tang Kui also followed in. Seeing the bloodstains, his legs seemed to be a little weak. He held the edge of the desk and said with a smile and tears: "Inside is..., our master's bedroom. Sometimes the master is in the city for entertainment. It's late, I will..., I will live here."

Xia Chu took a deep breath, covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve, stretched his arms forward and walked slowly towards the door.After touching the door with his hand, he retracted as if he wanted to be electrocuted.

She didn't dare to think about what would happen behind the door.She went to the police academy and determined to be a policeman, but after all, she hadn't graduated yet, hadn't been tempered by all kinds of hideous corpses, and her psychological quality was not strong enough.

Jiang Xiyuan smiled secretly, stepped forward and pulled Xia Chu behind him, and slowly pushed the two doors open.

"There is no corpse, open your eyes." Jiang Xiyuan patted Xia Chu.Xia Chuban opened one eye and looked inside, then stood up straight and looked at the situation in the room in surprise.

In addition to the lack of corpses, the room can be said to be a hideous room. The blood on the ground has various shapes, such as splashing, overflowing, dripping, and dragging.The yellow sheets were thrown on the ground in a mess, and they were also stained with blood.

The stench here is stronger, making people want to vomit.Several people covered their mouths and noses, but they still couldn't stop the infiltration of the smell.Xia Chu wanted to go in and take a look, but he couldn't bear it for a while, so he waved to Jiang Xiyuan, turned around and ran out.

"It must be the smell of corpses." Xia Chu took a deep breath.When I came here yesterday, I felt that the smell around here was unpleasant, but at this time, the air outside is so fresh.

Jiang Xiyuan also came out of the room, raised his arms and smelled himself, and frowned in disgust.

"Boss, with such a strong smell, the corpse must be in that room." Xu Lu said.

"There is a carved bed in the room, beside the bed is a low ebony cabinet, and a camphorwood box is stacked on top of the low cabinet. It is estimated that the corpse is either in the low cabinet or in the camphorwood box." Xia Chu thought back to himself just now. Take a quick glance at what you see.

"At present, it can be judged that the deceased died of trauma, and a large amount of blood was spattered. Judging from the height of the blood stain on the tissue paper on the door, it should be a fatal injury to the head or neck. The dragged blood stain was left when the corpse was hidden. Yes. In addition, the murderer planned to clean up the scene, but later gave up. Judging from the concentration of the smell, it is estimated that he died for three or four days."

"I'll go in and have a look." Xu Lu turned around after hearing this, and was about to go in. Xia Chu grabbed him, "You go back to the government office first, and then call two people to bring Yang Yuzuo. And , get some thick cotton cloth."

"Thick cotton?"

"Hold on! Don't you think it stinks?"

Xu Lu laughed twice and walked away quickly.

Xia Chu turned around and asked Tang Kui, "Man, how long has this room been locked?"

After Tang Kui came out of the room, he had been squatting by the wall in a daze. Hearing what Xia Chu asked him, he was taken aback for a while, then got up and ran over and knelt down with a bang, his face pale, "Master, I don't know anything. I know! I don't know anything!"

"Don't panic, get up and talk."

"This room, this room..." Tang Kui stood up, scratching the back of his hand in a panic, "Seven or eight days, after I ordered the medicinal materials with the master, the master will go back to the village to prepare for the matter of facing the wind, Later..., no one went in afterwards."

"Is your boss the only one who has the key to this house?"

"This... I don't know about this! Anyway, I don't have one, I really don't know anything." Tang Kui said with tears in his voice, "I'm just a guy. Come less."

"What about at night? No one here to watch the store?"

This time Tang Kui was really crying, and wiped his tears with his sleeve, "Yes... I was the one who looked after the store. I... I slept in the consulting room, where there was a bone-setting bed. Master... I really didn't kill anyone. Am I not clear..."

Tang Kui's crying made Xia Chu amused, "I'm just asking about the situation. If you didn't kill someone, we won't do anything to you. Don't worry."

Before Xu Lu came back, neither Xia Chu nor Jiang Xiyuan entered that room again.Jiang Xiyuan simply disliked it, but Jiang Xiyuan didn't go in, and Xia Chu didn't go in either.Because she had seen the rotting corpses of the giant view before, she left a very bad impression, and she was a little afraid to face it alone.

After discussing for a while, Jiang Xiyuan stayed in the courtyard to see if he could find any suspicious points, while Xia Chu went to the shop to ask that Doctor Liu.

Dr. Liu was still sitting on the chair in the shop drinking tea. When Xia Chu said that someone had died in the backyard of Guangji Hall, he shook his hand and hurriedly asked, "Didn't he die of illness?"

"Although I haven't seen the body yet, I can be sure that he didn't die of illness, but was killed." Although Xia Chu felt that his focus was a bit strange, he still answered.

Dr. Liu seemed to be relieved, put down the teacup and stroked his gray beard, "I don't have to die of illness, otherwise my reputation will be ruined."

"You really cherish feathers." Xia Chu said with a smile on his face.

"What doctors rely on is actually reputation." He pointed at Xia Chu with his finger, "Young student, I know what you are thinking. But how did you get the reputation? It's not accumulated over the years, of course I want it cherish."

"That's true." Xia Chu nodded, but felt that there was something unspeakably awkward. After thinking about it, he said, "It's right to cherish your reputation, but when you are dying, you should care about your own reputation first..."

"I have to grieve after someone's life? You grieve yours. Why do you care what I think?"

Xia Chu licked his lips, "If you don't have a heart of compassion, how can you have the heart of a doctor's parents?"

"It's more troublesome to have intentions and incompetence. Xia Butou, I know you. You took office at a young age and solved two major cases in two months. You are young and successful, and you tend to think highly of yourself." Dr. Liu brushed his beard and smiled. "If you are a police officer, you can investigate the case; I am a doctor, and you can treat the disease. Being able to do what you should do is more practical than what kind of emotions you have. Otherwise, no amount of compassion is just a joke. "

Xia Chu looked at the gray and white Dr. Liu, and had a lot to say, but he just shook his head slightly, and didn't continue to argue with him.

She asked Dr. Liu about the recent situation of Guangji Hall. Dr. Liu said the same thing as Tang Kui, and said that he hadn't seen anyone recently, and he didn't know why there were dead people in the backyard.

Xia Chu went back to the backyard to find Jiang Xiyuan, told him what Dr. Liu had said, and asked him if he had discovered anything.Jiang Xiyuan nodded slowly, "I do have a few questions."

"Wait." Xia Chu asked Tang Kui for a pen and paper, sat down on the steps, and said, "Okay, tell me."

"Stop writing, listen to it first, I will remember it, and I will write it down for you later. I am anxious to see you writing."

Xia Chu gave him a dissatisfied look, "I think my handwriting is ugly, and they don't give me a chance to practice."

"Usually there are plenty of opportunities in the government office where you don't write, and you have time to drink, and when things come to an end, they say you need to practice calligraphy." Jiang Xiyuan snorted and pointed at her, "Are you quite reasonable?"

"Why are you so obsessed with my drinking? Yesterday you asked me to drink with you, and I drank too, and there is no end!" Xia Chu threw the pen and paper aside and stood up, before Jiang Xiyuan could speak. , He frowned and waved his hands again, "Okay, it's not the time to break this. You can say something suspicious."

(End of this chapter)