"Brother Six, how did you know that the last case in the criminal records was a tip from the former official?"
"Sister, look at this."
"Yuan Da, a blacksmith from Shilipu in the outer city, sued Yan Cheng, a quack doctor, for misdiagnosing a child's illness, causing his youngest son to become ill, and his mother to become angry and fall ill... So what's going on?"
"Two things are strange: first, before Sun Hong, the head of the family who was killed, returned to secular life, his legal name was Cheng Yan, and he was a pediatrician. The quack doctor here also diagnosed children, named Yan Cheng; second, the old mother was angry and fell ill. This is what the people know The accusation written in the pleading emphasizes the hatefulness of quacks, but Yuan Hongjing, as the referee, will not include these contents in the record of the punishment. This special description is very different from the streamlined writing style of previous cases!"
"I see!"
Di Xiangling understood and was quite impressed: "It seems that this official recommendation is not simple. He can actually leave such a complicated reminder!"
"Complexity is not a good thing. This person left such a code in the criminal record and placed the record at Lu'an Road. I'm afraid he doesn't want this friend to be involved, and he is unwilling to allow the truth of the case to sink in forever. Not seeing the light of day, this idea is really too complicated!”
After a rough analysis, Di Jin put the transcript on his desk.
It is said to be a stack, but in fact it is only eight pieces of paper. Considering the writing habits of ancient people, it cannot contain a lot of content.
And these pieces of paper written by Yuan Hongjing are not transcripts in the conventional sense. Some of them have clear handwriting, while others are quite messy. They were obviously recorded in a hurry.
This has become the most breakthrough clue so far: "Sister, take a look!"
Di Xiangling couldn't bear to be curious for a long time, so he picked it up and started reading: "Are the first two pictures an autopsy? The fracture at the beheading site is flat, thirty-five corpses are scattered in various rooms, and the blood stains on the ground are similar. It is suspected that they were killed by one person? This coincides with your blood spatter morphology analysis!"
Di Jin nodded: "Not bad."
Blood spatter morphological analysis was originally a more effective autopsy method when ancient instruments were backward. However, the ancients were by no means stupid. Many of their foresights even amazed later generations. Yuan Hongjing, an old criminal, inferred in a similar way, Totally normal.
Di Xiangling also looked at the autopsy carefully, and thought about how to assassinate someone in the future to prevent them from looking back after finding flaws in the autopsy.
This third record is particularly detailed. It is a simple map of the residence, marking the distribution of Sun Hong's houses and corpses.
After entering the door and turning around the screen wall, you can see the five rooms used as the main hall for entertaining guests, surrounded by seven rooms used as servants' rooms. The bodies of the Sun family's elder and eleven servants are located in these rooms;
The second entrance is to the main hall with three rooms, two wing rooms on the left and right, and three east and west wing rooms across the corridor. This is basically where the family usually study and live. The body of the head of the family, Sun Hong, his wife Zhu, and Concubine Bai Shi, concubine Wu Shi, concubine Qi Shi, the elder eldest son, second son, and third son, and the corpses of eldest lady, second lady, and third lady appeared in this house;
The third entrance is where the children live. There are sixteen rooms arranged neatly, but only twelve people died inside, the fourth son, the fifth son, the fourth lady, the fifth lady, the sixth lady and the remaining seven servants. Among the rooms in the inner house after death, four rooms were left vacant.
So presented, clearly and clearly.
There were twelve corpses in the first, eleven corpses in the second, and twelve corpses in the third. A total of thirty-five members of the family were brutally wiped out.
To be honest, when I talked about the case of the extermination of thirty-five people, I felt it was tragic, but I didn't have any deep feelings. But now when I saw such an intuitive sign, even Di Xiangling frowned: "The extermination of the entire family is just a matter of time." Killing a whole family, killing one person in one house, how much hatred there is?"
Di Jin said: "The key is that based on Yuan Hongjing's inspection of the blood stains at the scene, the murderer actually took two steps -"
"The first step is for the murderer to control the thirty-five members of the Sun family, stun or knock them out, and then move them to the center of each room in this three-entry house;"
"The second step is for the murderer to enter every room with a murder weapon and kill the people he had controlled before!"
"Only through such a process, the blood stains at the scene will not be too different. Otherwise, if you kill one person and move another person, it is inevitable that the body will be stained with blood during the move. And those corpses only have their heads separated, and all the blood stains will be sprayed to the back. Splashing, consistent with the characteristics of being decapitated after falling to the ground..."
Di Xiangling felt a little chilled when he heard this: "What is this picture about?"
Di Jin said: "For now, one possibility I can think of is sacrifice! Gongsun Ce mentioned that there was a similar case of family extermination and beheading in Hezhou. The result of the local government investigation was that human heads were sacrificed to 'headless ghosts', and Regardless of whether this result is correct, at least this behavior has a sacrificial basis."
"It's easy to handle if this is the case!" Di Xiangling said: "Anyone who believes in obscene sacrifices and evil sacrifices are extremely crazy. They will not commit crimes just once. But in this case of massacre in the capital, this time, could it be the murderer? Fleeing somewhere else?"
"It's not impossible..."
Di Jin did not reject this possibility and changed the topic back: "Let's not talk about the motive first. Just look at the process. If there is only one murderer, even if he is a highly skilled martial artist, will it take a lot of effort to do so many things?"
"Of course! Just kill people, why do you do this? It sounds tiring..."
Di Xiangling said solemnly: "Besides, Sun Hong is the master of the martial monks. He can teach those five disciples. His skills are definitely not weak. Even if he is old and caught off guard... No! His youngest son and daughter died in infancy. It’s impossible to be caught off guard. If this murderer dared to act like this even though he was prepared, that’s really how brave a skilled person is!”
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Di Jin said: "So this person may have made a mistake. Wu Jing concluded that there was no Sun Hong in the body of the deceased, because there were no scars and physical features left in his early years. This judgment is credible. If the person who died was really not Sun Hong, Then there is an extra body, whose is it?"
Di Xiangling suddenly understood: "The murderer's? Sun Hong took advantage of the murderer's support to kill him, then placed his body in the main hall, the golden cicada escaped from the shell, and faked his own death?"
As she said this, she turned to the fourth page of the transcript and found that there was a similar judgment on it.
Yuan Hongjing did not get any clues about the abnormalities in the corpses from these disciples, but he carefully examined the corpses and discovered the abnormalities in several corpses.
First of all, the body of Sun Hong, the head of the family, entered the main hall. Although he was over fifty years old, the clothes he wore did not fit him to a certain extent. The deceased was thinner and the clothes were wider. For the head of the family, Generally speaking, clothes are cut close to the body and should not have such traces.
As for a servant who entered, something didn't look right either. There were obvious traces of calluses on his hands, as if he had practiced martial arts all year round. There were stab wounds on his abdomen and back. His body was lean and he was less than thirty years old.
Based on the analysis just now, Di Xiangling speculated: "Does this mean that Sun Hong killed the murderer instead and wanted to disguise it as his own body, but the difference in body shape and age between the two was too big. In order to avoid being After finding out, he replaced himself with the body of an old servant in the house, and then disguised the murderer as a servant?"
Di Jin nodded: "It's very possible."
"This person is not simple! His whole family was slaughtered, and he was able to escape so calmly..." Di Xiangling said in a deep voice: "If this Yuan Tuiguan hadn't been different from other perfunctory officials in the yamen, I would have been deceived by him. Got it!"
Di Jin said: "But this creates two more problems!"
"First, Sun Hong Jinchan escaped from his shell and faked his death. Was he preparing to take revenge? If his enemies are Jianghu people, then according to Wu Jing, there is no reason for Sun Hong not to return to Wutai Mountain, drag his disciples and disciples together, and come to take revenge. , if his enemy is a powerful person in the imperial court and is unwilling to drag down his fellow sect, and there have been no similar cases of extermination of sects in the capital in recent years, and no powerful and high-ranking officials have died accidentally, does it mean that his revenge has failed and he has died silently? "
"Second, Yuan Hongjing left this transcript through covert means. He obviously realized that he would be in danger long ago. This is actually a key clue. As a judge of Kaifeng Prefecture, in the process of investigating major murders, , why are you so restrained?"
Di Xiangling preferred the latter: "It must have been the pressure from those powerful people who killed Sun Hong's family. Although Sun Hong took advantage of the killer's unpreparedness, he killed him and escaped, but in the end he still failed to avenge his family. Died quietly in a high-rise compound!"
Di Jin pondered.
From a motive point of view, there is no need for the imperial dignitaries to use such extreme means to deal with a pediatrician. Killing everyone in the family and beheading them is more like the cruel work of the Jianghu people.
However, judging from subsequent developments, the official disappeared, the case files were burned, and the Kaifeng government kept the case secret. It seemed that the senior officials suppressed the case to prevent it from exploding.
The strange thing about this case is that two extremely contradictory aspects are intertwined.
Di Xiangling looked back again. There were eight records in total. Two were autopsies, one was a map of the home, one was identification, and the last four were dental records. He said softly: "These are the records of the Sun family." Deeds for hiring servants and maids? Why did Yuan Tuiguan collect these specially?"
Di Jin said: "I don't know yet, but it will definitely be useful, and it will be of great use!"
Di Xiangling read the eight notes from beginning to end again, his eyes were filled with circles, and he said irritably: "This official Yuan has already left these, and they are still mysterious, hiding his works. What? Just tell us the murderer he investigated!"
Di Jin thought that it would be good if he did not leave any death information that "the murderer was...", and he could understand Yuan Hongjing's concerns: "He may not have fully found out the truth back then, but only discovered some clues. If he rashly left There will be the possibility of misleading in the future, and this kind of cover-up is also to persuade others to retreat, so that latecomers will not follow his old path..."
"If that's the case, he is a respectable and good official!" Di Xiangling, who knew clearly what he liked and hated, sighed: "Then how should we investigate now? Should we start from the last step of the investigation?"
Di Jin thought for a moment and said slowly: "Sister, help me check a few things. I will make the next judgment based on these results..."
"good!"
Three days later, Di Xiangling returned to the study and presented the results of the investigation.
After listening carefully, Di Jin nodded slightly: "In this case, the private investigation ends here, and the next step is to hand over the case to the Kaifeng government office to restart."
"Leave it to the government?" Di Xiangling shook his head: "But the question is who is willing to restart the investigation? That Chen Dafu is not afraid of trouble, but it does not mean that he will cause trouble for himself!"
Di Jin said: "The Kaifeng government office is handling the case of the capital. Of course, the people of the capital will come forward. It's best to beat the drum!"
Di Xiangling frowned: "Are you going to bribe a few people to sue?"
"No! That will be exposed..." Di Jin shook his head and said with a smile: "For the three houses in Yulin Lane, my sister is collecting the rent now, right?"
"Of course!"
When Liu Mei accepted these house deeds, she was obviously unkind, so she did not tell her eldest son Liu Congde and second son Liu Congyi. Only the youngest son Liu Congguang and his concubine Madam Hu knew the specific location of the house, and both of them are now dead. Di Xiangling naturally pocketed the monthly rent without hesitation.
Di Jin said: "Okay, let's break the news first. The three-year period has come and the massacre of the family has not been solved yet. The grievances in that house are really going to turn into evil spirits and spread to all directions. Then notify Yaxing and give those people The tenant took the initiative to lower the rent~”
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