Chapter 22 Fragrance powder
"Could it be a coincidence?"
Chen Yutian looked at the list in his hand and narrowed his eyes slightly.
Liu Dahai turned out to be one of the people whose account books were missing pages in Hakka. This was beyond his expectation. At the same time, the reason for his misfortune became somewhat confusing.
Was he silenced by Huadie because of the unknown mysterious incident that happened in Haixiangju? Or was he killed by Huadie because someone didn't want him to tell Liu Jingyan's true whereabouts on the night of the incident?
Logically speaking, the former is more likely. After all, eight people including Li Ren were killed and silenced by Huadie because of this.
But Liu Dahai is an important witness who holds Liu Jingyan's alibi. And he was killed by Butterfly at the very moment when he was looking for him.
This... naturally makes people suspect that Hua Die's move is to prevent them from continuing to clear Liu Jingyan's wrongdoing.
However, this makes no sense. After all, the murder of Bai Xiuxiu has nothing to do with Huadie. Why did he kill people, silence them and obstruct the investigation of the case?
In this way, the most likely reason is because of an unknown incident in Hakka Village.
Thinking of this, Chen Yutian couldn't help but sigh.
This case started with Li Ren and so far, thirteen people have died.
And all of them were killed by Huadie because of their stay in their hometown.
On the fifth day of February, what happened in Hakka Village that caused so many people to die tragically?
And why did the flower and butterfly want to kill these people? Based on his past behavior, he would never do such a thing, so why did he act like this?
There are more and more mysteries, but the clues at hand are very few. Thinking of this, Chen Yutian couldn't help but sigh again.
His face darkened slightly, and he looked up inadvertently. With just one glance, his body suddenly shook!
"This is……"
At this moment, several government officials were loading the body onto a stretcher under Gongsun's instructions. But just as everyone was lifting the body, a place caught the attention of Chen Yutiandi.
It was seen that the shoulders of the corpse seemed to be stained with white powder.
Gongsun also noticed this. He squatted down and touched a little with his finger, put it under his nose and smelled it slightly, "This seems to be... fragrant powder."
"Powder?" Chen Yutian frowned.
"Yes, it's fragrant powder." Gongsun confirmed again and then nodded seriously.
"Why is there powder on his body?"
On the side, Huo Yuanji looked at Yihongyuan next to him and said with a smile: "What's so strange about this? There won't be any shortage of fragrant powder in a place like this, right?"
"No, it's different." Chen Yutian and Gongsun shook their heads slightly, "Although there is no shortage of fragrant powder in this kind of place, which man have you seen with this kind of thing on his body after coming out of there? At most , that is, it is just stained with the smell.”
"That's true." Huo Yuanji nodded.
"Of course, this situation cannot be completely ruled out..."
Chen Yutian pondered slightly.
"There are three or four places like this nearby. If Liu Dahai really got the powder in these places, I think the madam in the building would have some impression."
"Brother Huo, I'll ask you to investigate this matter on your behalf."
After saying that, he cupped his fists and smiled slightly at Chen Yutian.
Huo Yuanji smiled half bitterly and half helplessly, and then left the scene with the two government officials.
"What are you thinking, sir?"
Watching Huo Yuanji gradually walk away, Gongsun glanced at Chen Yutian and asked softly.
Chen Yutian looked back at him, then at the body, and sighed softly.
"I don't know either……"
Gongsun was silent.
Soon, Huo Yuanji came back.
He did not come back alone. In addition to the two government servants who followed him, there were also four pretty and elegantly dressed middle-aged women.
They are all madams from the brothels nearby.
Huo Yuanji was afraid that they would not be impressed by the description of the prisoner, so he brought them over to see the body. In this way, the confession made after meeting the real person will be credible enough.
However, after seeing the body, the four people said that they had not received this guest in the building in recent days.
"Are you sure you've never seen this person before?" Chen Yutian asked.
"It's absolutely true, my lord!"
The four of them said in unison.
The three of them frowned at the same time. It would be fine if one person said he didn't know him, but four people actually said it at the same time. Moreover, there are only these four places here. If Liu Dahai has not been to any of them, then in the five days since he disappeared, , and where is it?
And where did the fragrant powder on his clothes get stained?
And why was he killed here?
"Wait, I remember..."
Thinking of this, Chen Yutian's eyes flashed suddenly, and then he carefully inspected the scene.
"No, how could it not be?"
He frowned. Seeing this, Gongsun and Huo Yuanji were curious, "What are you looking for?"
"Blood stains."
"Blood stains?" The two of them were slightly stunned. "Hua Butterfly Killer has never had bleeding?"
"Of course I know this. But I really can't figure it out. No matter where he comes from, he shouldn't die in such a dead end?"
Hearing this, Gongsun's expression changed first.
Huo Yuanji thought about it for a moment, "What do you mean..."
"Unless... he was deliberately called here to be killed, or... his body was dumped here after death."
Chen Yutian's eyes flashed.
Huo Yuan was extremely shocked!
He remembered the previous deaths of Shen Wan and others.
Those three people were gathered together in one place by an anonymous letter and then killed. Could it be...that it's the same this time?
However, it is definitely impossible for a flower butterfly to do such a thing.
So, who did these things?
"Could it be that...there is someone behind Huadie?"
"This is for sure. Otherwise, with Huadie's style in the world, it would be absolutely impossible for him to embarrass these little people."
Gongsun nodded slightly.
"But, who could it be?" Huo Yuanji was confused.
Chen Yutian shook his head.
"I don't know. But no matter who he is, the fact that this person can let Huadie do things for him shows that he is definitely not an ordinary person."
Speaking of this, Chen Yutian's tone was extremely solemn.
Huo Yuanji was silent.
Gongsun carefully inspected the body again.
"No matter who is behind the scenes, we will find him one day. The top priority is this body."
He said.
Chen Yutian and Huo Yuanji looked at him at the same time.
"What did you discover, sir?"
"Sir, do you think Liu Dahai's death will be one of the two possibilities mentioned before?"
Gongsun asked instead without answering.
Hearing this, Chen Yutian smiled lightly.
"What do you think, sir?"
Gongsun also laughed, and the next moment, the two of them spoke almost in unison, with a tacit understanding.
"Of course it's the latter!"
"Huh?" Seeing the two people's perfect understanding, Huo Yuanji opened his mouth slightly with a look of surprise on his face.
"Why? Why the latter?"
Gongsun said: "I carefully inspected the corpse before and found that the Yang Qi in the body of the deceased did suffer a great loss before death. If he was not ill, then it can be confirmed that he did... do a lot before death... That kind of thing.”
When it came to the last few words, Gongsun's speech gradually slowed down, and he had obviously been thinking about it for a long time.
After hearing this, Huo Yuanji was surprised, "Can you detect such a thing?"
Gongsun was speechless.
"This kind of thing shouldn't be difficult for us martial arts practitioners. You can do it too, just use your spiritual sense to check it out."
Huo Yuanji smiled sheepishly, "I can indeed do this. But I can't understand the phenomenon of a person's yang energy being depleted... thinking of doing that kind of thing."
Gongsun was speechless again.
Is this indirectly saying that my thinking is wrong?
Seeing that the topic was obviously off track, Chen Yutian had to cough to remind the two of them.
"Ahem..." Gongsun also coughed twice and continued, "The deceased's Yang Qi was depleted before death, which shows that he did go to that kind of place. However, the four bustards here said that they had never Seeing him means that he has not been to the four houses here, that is to say, he was not nearby during the five days he disappeared."
Huo Yuanji nodded.
"Then why did his body appear here? I originally thought that maybe he encountered a butterfly on his way home and was killed. However, when I saw the clothes of the deceased, I rejected it. made this guess."
With that said, Gongsun pointed at the corpse.
Huo Yuanji looked at the body and then frowned.
It was seen that at this moment, the gown worn by the deceased was open, revealing the moon-white lining underneath.
This lining looks very new, and the fabric used is more expensive silk.
"Indeed. With Liu's status as a watchman and his family background, it is unlikely that he can afford such expensive silk clothes."
Gongsun nodded.
"Yes, this can be seen from the robe outside."
"But if this coat is not his own, then it must be someone else's. But why should he wear someone else's clothes?"
Huo Yuanji asked again.
"Maybe... it's because his original clothes were stained with something that shouldn't be stained, such as blood... or something else."
At this time, Chen Yutian spoke slowly.
"Blood stains should be impossible. Almost all of the people killed by Huadie died of poisoning. The fatal wound was on the neck, but because the wound is too small, not much blood usually leaks out." Huo Yuanji pondered, "Since it's not blood, it can only be something else."
"Wait... something else... could it be..."
His eyes suddenly opened wide and he looked at Chen Yutian.
Chen Yutian smiled faintly and nodded slightly, "Yes, I think it is that thing."
"If he changed his clothes because he was stained with those things, then the person who did these things cannot be the deceased himself. Because with his identity, it is unlikely that he would change his clothes because of such a trivial matter. And... "
"It is impossible to change into such expensive clothes...because such clothes should not be available in that kind of place."
Chen Yutian continued what he said.
Gongsun also added: "And it is unlikely that he would buy such clothes to wear...so the murderer can only put them on him."
"But I still don't understand why Huadie had to change his clothes if he was just stained with that kind of thing?" Huo Yuanji was confused.
Chen Yutian guessed: "Perhaps... he thinks that if those things appear together with the corpse, it will reveal some information that he doesn't want us to know."
"If this is really the case, then he was really negligent." Huo Yuanji looked at the corpse and smiled.
Chen Yutian also smiled.
"Yes... but without these oversights, how could we have seen through this ruse of killing people and dumping their bodies?"
"That's right." Gongsun nodded and looked at the body on the stretcher.
Their eyes were focused on one part of the body.
That place was stained with fragrant powder.
