With the sunlight shining into the room, Yao Shu held up a toe bone of her left foot to compare with that of her right foot. "Although the bones of the two feet are not much different in size, if you look closely, you can still see that the joints of the right foot are more worn than the left foot." It's serious. The leg bones of this set of bones are symmetrical, which rules out the possibility that the deceased had long or short legs. The murderer probably did this to make Mr. Chen and others think that Chen Suqing was dead."
Zhou Wuzuo stroked his mustache and listened carefully, nodding from time to time. He has a lot of experience, and he thinks Yao Shu's test is correct.
"Also," Yao Shu changed her tone, "This unknown female corpse should be a person who has been doing manual labor all year round. The wear and tear of her knees and wrist joints are relatively serious, and her lumbar spine has bone hyperplasia. It should be caused by long-term malnutrition, calcium deficiency and heavy lifting. .”
"Based on this inference, we can narrow down the scope of the identity. Tomorrow, we will have someone pull up the list of people who disappeared in a similar period of time three years ago. Maybe we can find the identity of this unknown person." Fu Xiujin knocked on the table and turned to Yao Shu. Approving glances.
The bones were revealed, and good news came from Zhao Shaobai.
He walked into the Silent Hall at full speed, waved the booklet in his hand towards Fu Xiujin and said, "We have investigated all the circumstances of the five people given by Mr. Chen when the crime occurred. Two of them did not have alibis on the day of the crime. Yes, Fu Kang, the young master of the pastry shop, and Chen Zhinian, the young master of Jinxiu Cloth Shop, and this Chen Zhinian is also the most enthusiastic pursuer."
Unexpectedly, in just half a day, this case that had not been revealed for three years would make rapid progress. Yao Shu scolded the government office in her heart. She didn't even notice that the bones were wrong, and wasted so much time. It took so long, no wonder Fu Xiujin didn't want to see Magistrate Pei.
By the time they returned to Xiuyuan Pavilion where Fu Xiujin was working, Fu Kang and Chen Zhinian had been waiting nervously for half an hour. When they saw Fu Xiujin stepping in with a sullen face, they both stood up and saluted, nervously shaking their hands. Know where to put it.
"Your Majesty, I really didn't kill anyone. I was pursuing Chen Suqing, but my family is not short of money, so there is no need to kill her. If you want to say that you are short of money and you like Chen Suqing, the manager of their Shantang is even more suspicious. And if I really need a woman, I will go there. Hua Jie grabs a lot of them, and it’s really not me.”
Chen Zhinian didn't even wait to ask questions and took the lead in defending himself.
He was tall, thin and pale, with obvious dark circles under his eyes. When he spoke, he couldn't help but glance at Yao Shu. The desire in his eyes made Yao Shu feel sick.
Fu Xiujin slowly sat down on the Grand Master's chair, raised his eyelids and glanced at Chen Zhinian. Chen Zhinian immediately withdrew his eyes and remained silent.
"It's not him." Although Yao Shu felt Chen Zhinian was disgusting, she still had to explain out of professional ethics, "His body was hollowed out by wine and sex, and he was too weak. It took a certain amount of strength to cut off the left foot of the corpse, and the incision of the bone It's very smooth, the entire foot was cut off with one knife, and he couldn't do it with his strength."
"My lord, look, it's really not me, or this girl is discerning. I don't know her name, who lives where?" When Chen Zhinian saw Yao Shu speaking for him, he immediately started asking with a shy face, looking like a bird. A drooling toad.
"Zhao Shaobai, I don't remember that irrelevant people can stay in Dali Temple."
Fu Xiujin's tone was cold, like Yama crawling out of hell. Zhao Shaobai immediately waved to the guards and dragged Chen Zhinian out in three strokes.
"Don't worry, Yao Wuzuo. With the relationship between you and the prince living together, Chen Zhinian will never dare to get involved with you."
Zhao Shaobai didn't know when he stood next to Yao Shu, tilted his head and whispered to her. After hearing this, Yao Shu looked up and looked at Fu Xiujin, and met his gaze. The two of them were chatting with primary school students in class and were caught by the teacher. They immediately looked ahead and pretended do not know.
"Fu Kang, you are now the only person who can't prove that you have nothing to do with the case." Ignoring the little actions of Yao Shu and Zhao Shaobai, Fu Xiujin turned his attention back to the only suspect at present.
Fu Kang hesitated for a long time, and finally took a look outside, as if he mustered up the courage to speak, "I, actually I have an alibi that day, I...I was in Tingyulou with my father's aunt... …drink tea.”
Fu Xiujin said no more, and Yao Shu was a little confused. Why didn't she tell someone at first that there was a witness? She turned to look at Zhao Shaobai. Zhao Shaobai said jokingly, "He was having sex with his father's concubine. I'm going to ask for the confession." At that time, he didn’t dare to say it in front of his father.”
Now, both suspects have been cleared, and the case has reached a deadlock again.
Fu Xiujin and Zhao Shaobai sat down and started to flip through the files. Yao Shu originally wanted to go back to Wuyan Hall to see the bones again, but suddenly an idea flashed when she turned around, "Zhu'er said that Chen Suqing was kidnapped on the way to buy new rouge, and the murderer was a man. He probably won’t pay attention to makeup and powder, but he knows how to ambush on the rouge shop, and there might be something to gain by checking the rouge shop.”
Fu Xiujin agreed.
The Rouge Shop is located on a bustling street. The alley where Chen Suqing was kidnapped is at the first corner of the Rouge Shop. Zhao Shaobai checked the people nearby but found nothing. The three of them could only go to the people in the Rouge Shop to ask for clues.
The waiter in the store came up to him with a smile, thinking he was an honored guest. Zhao Shaobai showed his black gold waistband, and his smile immediately disappeared. He asked tremblingly, "I wonder what the honor of the master of Dali Temple is for?"
"Call your shopkeeper and all the waiters to come over and talk."
After receiving Zhao Shaobai's words, the waiter ran away like a storm, and within a moment he brought the shopkeeper and other waiters over.
The shopkeeper who walked in front was a charming woman. She twisted her waist and gave Fu Xiujin a wink, and asked softly why.
Fu Xiujin didn't even look at it and went straight to the topic, "Do you have any memories of the kidnapping of the Chen family's legitimate daughter three years ago? Did any suspicious man come to ask about Rouge a few days before the incident?"
The waiters looked at me and I looked at you and shook their heads. Only the landlady thought for a while and mentioned someone.
"There are very few men who come to me to buy rouge, except Wang Baichuan, the steward of Putuo Shantang in the south of the city. Before the incident, he would come to visit from time to time and also bought some rouge. I asked him at the time who the person he was interested in was, and he only said He is a person as bright as the moon, and he cannot reach such heights."
When they came out of the rouge shop, the three of them had already realized that Wang Baichuan was very suspicious.
"Chen Zhinian also mentioned the manager of this charity at that time. Now the owner of the rouge shop also said that he often came here before the incident. However, there is no such suitor in the list that Mr. Chen gave me. This is very strange."
