At noon, the detective Han Meng sent to look for Jia Sidao came back. According to Han Meng's report, Jia Sidao had also been missing for half a month!
A glimmer of hope was lost, and the case was completely stuck.
What happened now is very consistent with Qin Tianming's previous judgment. Sure enough, someone was behind the scenes and killed Jia Sidao.
After getting rid of Jia Sidao, it would be even harder to find Wu Wan.
However, Qin Tianming was not discouraged, but directly expanded his thinking and asked the arrester to arrest all the people, relatives, friends, and neighbors who were close to Jia Sidao, and he wanted to interrogate them in detail.
I would rather kill everyone by mistake than let anyone go.
This is how to solve a case, even if you want to find a needle in a haystack!
At noon, the police arrested Jia Sidao's entire family and his relatives and friends, especially his enemies and even his friends who had been separated for more than ten years. They were taken into custody, numbering no less than 70 or 80 people.
At the same time, judicial officers Diao Shizhen and Li Tai also escorted dozens of relevant people to Xiaomei's home.
In the lobby, hundreds of people gathered, noisy and noisy, making the county government office as lively as a vegetable market.
The imperial envoy and the county magistrate Gao Buwei looked at this scene and shook their heads repeatedly, thinking that this was not about settling a case, it was just about buying and selling chicken, duck and fish meat.
However, Qin Tianming was not worried at all. He was like Han Xin ordering troops. The more the better.
He ordered the police to bring everyone to the court, and then asked the head catcher Li Tai to carry the female body from the corpse cabinet. First, he asked Xiaomei's family to come forward and identify it carefully.
Xiaomei's parents immediately came forward to identify the body.
Although the body was not well preserved, its general appearance was still intact.
Sure enough, within a few seconds, Xiaomei's parents immediately recognized that the woman lying under their noses was their daughter Xiaomei, whom they had missed day and night.
My daughter Xiaomei has been missing for half a year and is lying in the lobby of the county government office. It is really strange.
The two people burst into tears on the spot.
Xiaomei's parents identified the body as that of their daughter Xiaomei, but Li Shitong disagreed.
This corpse had been lying in the freezer for several months. How could it be identified if it was possessed by corpse wax?
Did Qin Tianming make up this pair of people who claimed to be Xiaomei's parents?
Li Shitong sneered a few times, then stepped forward to question the man and woman on the spot and said:
"You two think that this girl is your daughter, but you need proof! In court, you will be punished for speaking nonsense! Do you understand?!"
The woman who claimed to be Xiaomei’s mother replied on the spot:
"As a little girl, I liked to be fashionable, so I got a tattoo on my forearm. I can tell at a glance."
Li Shitong shook his head and said:
"Women have a lot of tattoos. This alone is not enough to be believed!"
The woman said sincerely:
"My daughter's tattoos are different from other women's."
oh?
"What is the difference?!"
Li Shitong asked hurriedly.
The woman tearfully recounted:
"The tattoos are done in different places! It's just because my daughter was scalded with boiling water on her upper arm when she was a child. My daughter loves beauty, so in order to cover up the scars, I tattooed flowers on the lower part of her left forearm. Adults who don't believe me can check it out."
Li Shitong was shocked when he heard this and hurriedly went to check.
Sure enough, there were faint scars under the tattoos on the left arm of the deceased's body.
Everyone also came forward to check, and sure enough, there was a scar under the tattoo!
Li Shitong was surprised, but pretended to be calm and continued:
"This is evidence, but this piece of evidence alone is not enough to prove that this woman is your daughter Xiaomei."
Obviously, Li Shitong was making things difficult for these two people, trying to find fault with each other.
Qin Tianming was angry, but he still pretended to be calm.
The man and woman were deliberately made difficult by Li Shitong, and they were a little timid and did not dare to say that the body was their daughter.
Qin Tianming couldn't help but stepped up and said to the couple:
"Our Mr. Li is like a god in solving cases. He turns a blind eye to the key evidence and refuses to let go of the unimportant evidence. He breaks the casserole and asks to the end. In this case, you need to take a look at your daughter's relics. Only then can Mr. Li be convinced! "
Li Shitong rolled his eyes in anger.
Qin Tianming immediately asked his master to find all the relics of the deceased from the relic warehouse.
Sure enough, the old couple quickly recognized that the hosta left by the deceased was exactly what they had given to their daughter.
There is a font engraved on the hosta, which is the nickname of the deceased's mother.
The clothes were also worn by Xiaomei during her lifetime, and they were all cheap goods. They were incomparable to Wu Wan's high-quality silk clothes, which cost tens of taels of silver.
In order to make the evidence sufficient, Qin Tianming did not forget to ask the police to find Wu Wan's parents again.
Qin Tianming asked them to identify the clothes and jewelry again. As Qin Tianming expected, this time Wu Wan's parents were sure that these cheap clothes were not their daughter's relics.
After a lot of supporting evidence, there is a mountain of ironclad evidence. All the evidence points to Xiaomei, proving that the deceased is Xiaomei!
Everyone in the hall, including the critical Li Shitong, was speechless.
With all the evidence, Qin Tianming knew the time had come to find the real murderer.
He stepped forward, grabbed the gavel on Gao Buwei's chopping board, slapped it hard, and shouted directly:
"Bring the criminal Hu Wusan to court!"
Li Tai and others quickly escorted Hu Wusan to the court.
Hu Wusan is Xiaomei's adoptive father. He has a pig's head and a pig's brain, and is fat. He comes to the hall tremblingly.
All the arresters shouted in unison:
"Still not kneeling down!!!"
Hu Wusan was so frightened that he turned sideways and reluctantly knelt down.
Qin Tianming came to Hu Wusan in a few steps and asked Hu Wusan who was kneeling in the hall:
"Are you Hu Wusan?"
Hu Wu Sanqiang calmed down and replied:
"The villain is none other than Hu Wusan."
Qin Tianming sneered a few times and asked:
"Hu Wusan, let me ask you, do you know someone? This person's name is Hu Xiaomei, are you familiar with him?"
Hu Wusan had sweat on his forehead, nodded repeatedly and said:
"Hu Xiaomei is my goddaughter, and I am her adoptive father, so we naturally know her."
Qin Tianming asked gently:
"How did you become Hu Xiaomei's adoptive father?"
Hu Wusan lowered his head and said:
"It's because when the second girl was raised, the yin and yang fortune tellers thought that she was short of fire, and I am her same clan, also named Hu, with a lot of fire, and because of the same surname, their family recognized me as her adoptive father."
Just because many children in the Hu family died in infancy, they attached great importance to Hu Xiaomei's birth. It was reasonable to find someone with a strong fire life to bless her secretly.
Qin Tianming nodded and said:
"Oh oh oh, that's it. Then let me ask you? Hu Xiaomei has been missing for many days. As an adoptive father, do you know?"
Hu Wusan looked down at the ground and said:
"The villain knows, the villain knows. Xiaomei has been missing for a long time. I was very anxious and searched everywhere, but there was no whereabouts."
Oh oh oh,
Qin Tianming looked sideways at Hu Wusan and asked deliberately:
"You must know when your adopted daughter disappeared, right?"
Hu Wusan answered without hesitation:
"I remember he died half a year ago!"
Qin Tianming was shocked when he heard this and scolded:
"Hu Wusan, you actually know that Xiaomei died half a year ago?"
Hu Wusan knew that the secret had been exposed, so he hurriedly hesitated and changed his words:
"No, no, it seems that he disappeared three months ago! He's not dead. I remembered it wrongly."
Qin Tianming roared angrily:
"Hu Wusan, how do you know that Xiaomei disappeared three months ago? Tell the truth!"
Hu Wusan hesitated and said:
"Didn't your county government say that he disappeared three months ago?"
Qin Tianming continued to ask:
"Since the county government said Xiaomei died three months ago, why did you say Xiaomei died six months ago? Missing and dead are two different concepts, don't you understand?"
This, this,
Hu Wusan was speechless and could only hesitantly evade:
"The villain just guessed that Xiaomei was killed half a year ago. It's just a guess!"
Qin Tianming immediately scolded and said:
"Bold maniac, is your guess really accurate? Damn it! It seems that you won't confess without giving you something powerful! I suspect that you killed your adopted daughter Xiaomei half a year ago, and you used this method The murder weapon!"
Before anyone had time to understand, Qin Tianming had someone bring a pair of scissors from the hall and threw it in front of Hu Wusan.
This pair of scissors looks ordinary, but it is the same pair of scissors fished out of the well. Placed together with Xiaomei's body, it is undoubtedly the murder weapon.
Qin Tianming stared at Hu Wusan, and then asked:
"Hu Wusan, do you recognize these scissors?"
Hu Wusan refused to admit it and shook his head repeatedly.
Qin Tianming sneered and said:
"Hu Wusan, it seems that you won't shed tears until you see the coffin. If I can't provide evidence, you won't give in today! Someone come!"
Qin Tianming shouted, and two people came up from the hall.
Qin Tianming pointed to the pair of scissors on the ground and said to the two of them:
"You two are experts in making scissors. Take a closer look. Do you recognize this scissor? You don't dare to hide it in court."
The two people identified each other carefully for a long time, and one of the old men immediately said:
"This pair of scissors was undoubtedly made in our workshop, I'm sure of it!"
"Do you have proof?"
The two men picked up the scissors, pointed to a faintly visible carving mark on the back of the scissors, and said:
"The scissors made in our workshop are all marked and have their provenance. This pair of scissors is a Qing-style scissor. It belongs to the 510th pair. It is undoubtedly made in our workshop."
"Sure?"
The old man nodded and said:
"Without a doubt!"
Qin Tianming was finally relieved.
He was glad that the Daxia Dynasty still had such a sophisticated workshop system, otherwise it would have been more difficult to solve the case.
With the origin of the scissors, why worry about the Hu Wusan in front of him denying it.
Qin Tianming nodded, then pointed at Hu Wu who was kneeling on the ground and asked them three questions:
"Do you two know this person?"
The two scissor masters carefully identified each other for a while and then said in unison:
"I know, I know, he is Hu Wusan who often frequents our scissor shop!"
Qin Tianming didn't believe it and asked:
"How can I see it?"
The old man from the scissors shop immediately said:
"Hu Wusan is a tailor. He uses a lot of scissors every year. He is a frequent customer of ours, so the villain must know him!"
Oh oh oh,
I see!
Hu Wusan was sweating on his forehead, but he still refused to admit it.
Qin Tianming agreed a few times, and then continued to ask the two people:
"Can you conclude that he bought these scissors from your scissor shop?"
The two scissor masters nodded affirmatively and said:
"Every time a pair of scissors is sold in our scissor shop, the destination must be registered. If we remember correctly, this pair of scissors should undoubtedly have been bought by Hu Wusan!"
Qin Tianming walked slowly to Magistrate Gao's table, borrowed Magistrate Gao's gavel, slapped it, and asked loudly:
"Hu Wusan, the witnesses and physical evidence are all there, what else do you have to say?"
No matter how cunning Hu Wusan was, he knew that he was doomed this time. In order to avoid the physical pain, he had to bow his head and admit his guilt.
