"So, Zuo Qing..."
Zuo Qing, who was wearing a mask, stretched out his right hand tremblingly. Hong Xiangsong dipped the pen in red ink and filled his right palm with it.
"Okay, cover it with paper."
Zuo Qing followed the instructions and spread his five fingers and printed his entire palm on the white paper.
Hong Xiangsong held Zuo Qing's palm tightly while looking around at everyone with vicious eyes.
"Everyone, please see clearly that Zuo Qing has stamped his fingerprints and has not committed any fraud. Captain Tian, Director Yang, please be witnesses for our mother and son."
"No problem. Madam, is it done?" Director Yang said.
After Zuo Qing withdrew his hand, Captain Tian immediately stood up and took away the white paper with the fingerprints on it.
"By the way, where's the scroll?"
"Ah! The scroll is here!"
Lawyer Gu Gong quickly took out the scroll and handed it to Tian Chunda.
Tian Chunda said to the appraisal expert Teng Liang: "I give you these two things now. How long will it take to test them out?"
"It is quite time-consuming to make a report, but if you only need to determine whether the two fingerprints are exactly the same, the result will be available in just one hour."
"Okay, I'll trouble you. Let me explain to you first that Mr. Teng Liang is an authority on fingerprints. Please feel free to rest assured. Then, Expert Teng, I'm begging you."
"Okay." Teng Liang took these two fingerprints and was about to stand up -
"Ah, wait a minute!"
Hong Xiangsong suddenly stopped him.
"Only an hour, right?"
"Yes, I will be here to report the results to everyone in an hour."
"That's it! Then, please come back to this room to gather in one hour. Captain Tian, Director Yang, Mr. Gu Gong, and Officer Hao Dong, the meals are ready. Please use them in the front hall."
After Hong Xiangsong finished speaking, he took the masked Zuo Qing's hand, stood up and left.
The others also left the room, but each had a different expression on their face.
Director Yang said as if he was relieved: "Ah! In this way, this problem is solved. Eh? I'm a little hungry! Let's go eat together!"
So they were led by the maid to another room to eat.
Just when they were about to finish their meal, the two policemen who were responsible for finding the boat ran back all wet.
"Director, there is something..."
"Ah! You two have worked hard, are you hungry? The master has prepared the meal, you two should sit down and eat too!"
"Yes, thank you. But now there is news about what the director asked us to find just now."
"Ah! Really? That's great. Captain Tian, come and see it too!"
The wind outside was still strong, and there was also a heavy downpour sweeping across.
Led by the police, the group held umbrellas and walked in the strong wind and rain, and finally arrived at the water gate. There was a small boat covered by a large canvas at the water gate.
"Ah, is this the boat?"
"Yes, we were lucky. We found this abandoned ship near Guanyin Cape in Lower Hongye Lake. If we had found it later, this important evidence would have been washed away by the heavy rain."
As the detective spoke, he lifted up the canvas covering the boat; at this time, Director Yang and Tian Chunda couldn't help but widen their eyes.
Because the boat was full of terrible blood stains, and the thick, thick black blood was all over the boat, which was intimidating.
Director Yang and Tian Chunda looked at this terrible scene and could not speak for a long time. After a while, Director Yang coughed a few times and looked back at Tian Chunda.
"Captain Tian, you guessed wrong this time. Because the murderer really used this boat to transport the headless corpse."
"Yes! It seems that I did lose. But..."
Tian Chunda cleared his throat and asked loudly: "Why did the murderer go to such unnecessary lengths? He replaced the head of the deceased on a chrysanthemum doll, but hid the body. Isn't this too unreasonable and strange?"
"I don't understand this either. But since we know that the murderer used this boat to transport the body, we have to send people to the lake to recover the body before we can know the truth. You two go and prepare it immediately after eating." Yang The director said to the two policemen.
"Yes, I understand. By the way, Director, we also heard something."
"Oh? What's the matter?"
"Kanazawa found a witness...ah! They're here."
I saw a man about forty years old, wearing dark blue clothes and a dark blue apron around his waist, walking behind the police.
It turns out that this man runs a hotel called "Kashiwaya" in Hongye Valley, and his name is Kanazawa.
Hongye Valley is divided into Upper Hongye and Lower Hongye. Hongli's house is located at the end of Upper Hongye. There are not many homes within half a mile of Hongli's house, while Lower Hongye opposite is crowded with residents.
At this time, Kashiwaya boss Kanazawa spoke.
"I just told this policeman that a strange guest came to stay in my store last night..."
According to Kanazawa, the guest was a disarmed soldier, wearing military uniform, military shoes, and carrying a cloth bag on his shoulder.
However, this kind of attire is not strange. What makes the boss of Kashiwaya deeply surprised is that this man is wearing a military skull cap, and the brim of the hat is pressed very low, even the eyebrows are covered, and there is also a band around his neck. A scarf was even worn above the nose, so only two eyes were visible on the entire face.
The boss and the waitress provide the guest with a room at his request and serve him dinner.
Unexpectedly, after the waitress came back from delivering dinner, she told the boss: "Boss, that guest is so strange! He was still wearing a scarf when he entered the room. I wanted to wait for him to eat, but he actually asked me to come out. In short, he It’s like he doesn’t want others to see his face.”
After hearing what the waitress said, the boss felt a little uneasy, so he took the passenger registration book to find the guest.
I saw that the male guest who had just finished his meal was still wearing a hat, and almost his entire face was wrapped in a scarf.
The boss had no choice but to take out the passenger registration book and said to him:
"This guest, please register your name."
"What is this?"
Although the male guest said this, he still filled in the following information in the passenger registration book shown to him by the boss——
No. 1211, Building 5, Xingwang Community, Beicheng District, Nanguang City - Unemployed - Tian Sanping - 30 years old
"Hao Dong, contact the Nanguang Public Security Bureau immediately to see if the address and name are true... I'm sorry, boss, please continue."
"Yes." Detective Hao Dong agreed and immediately went to handle it.
After urging, the boss continued: "Oh! There is something I forgot to mention. The customer came to my store around eight o'clock. Later, around ten o'clock, the customer said that he had a friend who lived nearby and wanted to go out for a while. , of course, at this time he still covered his entire face with a hat and scarf. Until two hours later, that is, at twelve o'clock, I was about to close the door, and the guest suddenly came back. He seemed to be very panicked at that time, but I I didn’t ask him specifically…”
