female catcher

Chapter 90 Silver Cellar
There was a little impatience in Xia Chu's words, which made Jiang Xiyuan a little angry, and kept his head down and his face sullen for a while without saying a word.Xia Chu secretly sighed, thinking that his boss has such a temper, he looks like a child, he still needs to be coaxed!
"My lord, my lord, I was wrong." Xia Chu walked up to him, bent his head and looked up at Jiang Xiyuan's face, "I have a bad attitude, so don't be angry with me."

Seeing Xia Chu's smiling face, Jiang Xiyuan was stunned for a moment, then bent his lips into a shallow smile, and patted her on the forehead, "Okay, let's get down to business."

Xia Chu straightened up and scratched his forehead. He didn't know what kind of mood Jiang Xiyuan was in. He seemed angry but not angry, and he said he was happy but he was definitely not happy.Anyway, weird.

Jiang Xiyuan took Xia Chu to the side of the stove and pointed to the stack of firewood, "There is firewood here, but I looked around the yard but there was no ax. I asked Tang Kui, and he said that the ax was originally in the stove. The one standing at the door of the room is indeed gone now. If I guessed correctly, the murder weapon should be an axe."

"Well..., we'll find out when the body is examined. The ax blade is wide and heavy, and Yang Yuzuo can definitely see it."

"That's not the point."

Xia Chuban raised his head to look at him, and said with a smile, "He Zhe said for a long time that it's not the point."

"Be serious!" Jiang Xiyuan cleared his throat and said, "The murderer used the ax in the yard to kill people, which shows that the murderer did not premeditate the murder and did not carry the murder weapon himself. Moreover, the murderer should be someone who is familiar with this place. where."

The corners of Xia Chu's lips were about to smile when he saw Jiang Xiyuan squinting his eyes and glanced at her, so he quickly suppressed his smile and said seriously, "That's not necessarily true."

"Why not?"

"My lord is a rich man, so I don't know the reasons for doing these things. In fact, the ax for chopping wood is either placed on the woodpile or behind the door of the stove. It is not difficult to find, and it is similar in every family."

Jiang Xiyuan frowned depressedly, and asked reluctantly, "Why?"

"It's convenient to put it next to the cutting board like a kitchen knife. There is a eaves above the woodpile to keep out the rain, and the iron head and wooden handle of the axe are best to avoid water. In some homes, they are placed in the stove because the fire is lit. When adding firewood, it often needs to be reprocessed, such as chopping it thinner. And it is placed behind the stove door, because there is no place to walk through, and it will not hurt your feet if you accidentally kick it.”

"Am I wasting my analysis?"

"No." Xia Chu hurriedly said, with serious eyes, and said seriously: "The two points analyzed by your lord are extremely valuable clues."

The corner of Jiang Xiyuan's mouth twitched downwards, he hummed softly and turned his head away.

Xia Chu couldn't help laughing out loud, stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, "Don't be like this, my lord, you are lucky to have never chopped firewood, who is to blame for this?"

While talking, Xu Lu came with someone.Yang Wuzuo asked Tang Kui to find some Artemisia annua and plant ash to sandwich in the cotton cloth, and let everyone surround their mouths and noses.Artemisia annua has a fragrance, and it has antimalarial and antibacterial effects, and plant ash can be used for disinfection.

After wrapping up the cotton cloth, Xia Chu explained some precautions for on-site preservation, and then several people re-entered the house.The smell of corpses is mainly cadaverine and putrescine. This smell is very irritating, and you can still smell it no matter how you protect yourself, but after taking measures, you are still somewhat calmer than before.

There were too many bloodstains in the bedroom, Xia Chu asked Zheng Lian to record the location, size and shape of the bloodstains, and then pushed Xu Lu and Yang Wuzuo to the cabinet and camphor wood box.

Jiang Xiyuan stood at the door watching, raised his hand to tie the cloth a little tighter, and called Xia Chu: "Xia Chu, come and record the bloodstains with Zheng Lian, don't miss any clues."

Xia Chu stopped and turned around.She really didn't want to look at the corpse, she hadn't seen anything yet, she was already starting to feel sick, but she felt that she couldn't do without looking at the corpse, so she hesitated and said, "But..., the corpse..."

"I'll go there." Jiang Xiyuan walked in while talking, pulled Xia Chu behind him, pointed to Zheng Lian, and went to find Yang Yuzuo.

Before Yang Wuzuo opened the box, Xu Lu looked at the box and the cabinet carefully, and said to Zheng Lian: "Angkor, there is blood on the box, about four inches long and three inches wide. It looks like it was wiped with fingers and palms." of."

"Remember it." Zheng Lian replied.

Then Xu Lu and Yang Yuzuo gently opened the copper buckle of the box and lifted the lid.When the cover touched the wall, Xia Chu stood up, tiptoed and glanced here, "How is it?"

Both Xu Lu and Yang Wuzuo turned their heads and shook their heads, "No, it's just clothes." After speaking, Xu Lu bent down and opened the door of the cabinet again, and said, "There's nothing in the cabinet either."

"No?" Chu Xia quickly walked over and poked his head into the box, sure enough, there were some neatly stacked clothes inside.In the cabinet are some things that look like account books.

Inside the room is a carved bed, a chest, a box, a small square tea table and two crescent stools, nothing else.

Xia Chu didn't care about being afraid anymore, squatted down by the bed and looked down, it was empty.She lifted the mattress again and lifted a board.The blue bricks on the ground can be seen directly under the bed board, but there is nothing there.

She stood up and looked at Jiang Xiyuan in a daze, "Where's the corpse?"

The smell of this corpse is so strong, it is impossible that there are no corpses!But what about the corpse?She had heard of the great change to the living, but hadn't heard of the great change to the dead.

"The corpse must be here, even if it is a fake corpse, it will only jump here and will not leave this room." Jiang Xiyuan said.

"My lord, you...don't say such terrible things."

Jiang Xiyuan's eyes were bent, probably from a smile.He dragged Xia Chu to the corner on the west side of the door, "Look here, these are blood splatters, which are consistent with the blood on the door, and also on the bed curtain. On the ground, there are circular dripping blood. He should have been killed there."

Xia Chu took a deep breath with his mouth, calmed down a little, carefully looked at the bloodstains in the corner of the wall, and said after a while: "If you look at it this way, the deceased may want to leave and was killed here."

"Let me use it." Xia Chu pushed Jiang Xiyuan to the corner of the wall, fiddled with and changed several positions, "The deceased should have his back facing the wall, and then the left side of his body was injured, head or neck. Due to the force of the murder weapon, his body It will turn to the right. So there is a lot of blood on the bed curtain here. That is to say, the deceased was lying on the edge of the bed after being injured."

"I don't lie down."

Xia Chu smiled and said, "Then let's skip this step." She pointed to the ground, "Look, the deceased hit the edge of the bed first, and then fell to the ground after struggling for a while. Come here, my lord. Just do it."

The blue veins on Jiang Xiyuan's forehead popped up, and he stretched out his leg abruptly to trip Xia Chu.Xia Chu was completely unprepared, she let out an exclamation, and fell back, and she was about to fall on all fours, Jiang Xiyuan reached out to catch her again, narrowed his eyes and said, "Well, it probably fell on this position. There may be more blood in this area, and the murderer mainly wanted to clean this area, so the blood here was wiped."

"Jiang...!"

"what?"

"Master Jiang. I was wrong, please get me up quickly..."

"Are you teasing me again?"

Xia Chu blinked, "Don't dare, really dare not."

Jiang Xiyuan picked up Xia Chu, and Zheng Lian beside him smiled muffledly, "Boss, I lost."

Xia Chu cleared his throat, ignored him, and looked at the ground with his hands behind his back as he walked slowly, "This is dragged blood, not too obvious, it may have been dragged over after waiting for a while, the blood of the deceased has not flowed so well There is a lot, so there is not much blood dripping. It has been... until here."

She patted the square tea table lightly.

The tea table was covered with a cotton tablecloth dyed indigo, which was not very particular, and hung down to a height of about a foot above the ground.The pots and cups in the tea tray on the table are all intact, but they look a little messy.

Xu Lu came over and lifted the tablecloth for a look, "There is still nothing."

Jiang Xiyuan thought for a while, "Move the table away."

After the table was moved away, there was more blood on the square bricks under the table, and there was half a blurred bloody handprint.Zheng Lian came over and measured the size of the bloody handprint, and recorded it on the paper.

Jiang Xiyuan took a cup from the tea tray, squatted on the ground and tapped it lightly on the square brick a few times, "It's empty, open it up and have a look, it's probably here."

Several people gathered around the square brick. Xu Lushang tried to pick it out with his hands, and paused slightly, "It's much thinner than ordinary bricks." After speaking, he lifted up the whole square brick very easily, revealing half of the brick. The caramel-colored wooden boards come.

Xu Lu lifted another brick next to it, and a complete cellar door appeared in front of him.The lock of the cellar door has been destroyed, and it should be an ax from the stubble.

At the same time, the smell of corpses became stronger.

"What is a cellar in the bedroom for?" Xia Chu didn't quite understand.She had seen cellars in the countryside before, and in her impression, cellars should be in the yard and used to preserve vegetables.

"This is the silver cellar where the silver is kept." Jiang Xiyuan spread the knowledge to her, "Those who are in the circulation of goods or the bodyguards generally have a silver cellar, because the bank notes of most companies are not circulated throughout the country, and it is very troublesome to cash them. Therefore, cash is still used more often for goods exchanged with other cities, and it is more assured that both the cash and the goods will be settled on the spot.”

It turned out to be cash flow.She thought that in ancient times, people who did business used silver bills. Like the show on TV, after the deal was negotiated, a few pieces of paper were slapped on the table in a smart way, but in fact, they had to move money.Xia Chu nodded as if taught, "So, the murderer is indeed someone who is very familiar with Guangjitang."

"I told you a long time ago, you don't believe me." Jiang Xiyuan said proudly.

"I believe it! Didn't I say it's valuable? It's adults who don't believe me." After Xia Chu finished speaking, he lowered his head to look at the wooden door with a dignified expression, and nodded after pondering for a moment, "Open it. "

(End of this chapter)