fast and ferocious

Chapter 70

Chen Tuiguan was very excited when he saw Qin Wubing: "Hurry up Qin, I identified it according to what you said, including the bones of the child, they are all men! Please identify them again."

Qin Wubing nodded, knelt down and began to examine seriously.

When Qin Wubing stood up again, he pointed to the youngest skeleton and said, "Adult!"

"Yes, I saw his teeth..."

"This is a dwarf that the murderer specially sought out in order to mislead you!"

"What's the purpose? Planting? Mr. Xu didn't find the missing person. Could it be that he was trying to cover up people when he moved the corpse?"

Qin Wubing looked into the distance: "Actually, as long as the corpse is decomposed when it is found, what does it matter if it is male or female?"

Chen Tuiguan nodded, and asked again: "Could it be for the convenience of concealing people's eyes and ears when moving the corpse?"

Qin Wubing chuckled and said, "Let's go out and tell someone to bury them properly! After burying them, I'll send someone over to burn more paper money."

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The two took off their leather gloves, cotton masks, aprons, hats and shoe covers, Qin Wubing ordered them to be burned, and then they left Shanzhuang with Chen Tuiguan.

The four of Holmes only had cotton masks, which saved a lot of trouble, but the faces of the four of them were pale.

Qin Wubing walked up to the horse and asked Chen Tuiguan: "Let's find a restaurant, where we can eat and drink?"

Chen Tuiguan naturally agreed.

Qin Wubing asked the four of Holmes to go back to the inn, but the four refused and couldn't face the food calmly, so they had to squat at the door of the restaurant and wait.

Chen Tuiguan asked the shopkeeper to prepare warm water, the two of them washed their hands and faces well, ordered some vegetarian dishes, a braised yellow croaker, and a pot of wine. The two of them sat by the window and had a drink.

"What do you think of Wuzhou?" Chen Tuiguan asked with a smile.

"When I entered Wuzhou City, apart from the post house, there was Tiantai Temple, and then there was Shanzhuang. How would you evaluate me? The sky in Wuzhou is quite blue?" Qin Wubing ate a few mouthfuls of food, drank a sip of wine, He pursed his lips and asked.

Chen Tuiguan laughed twice and said, "You are quite interesting!"

"To tell you the truth! You don't look like an official. I don't care about the bigger officials I've seen. They don't look like you."

"They do theirs, I do mine, and I don't want to get promoted and get rich."

Qin Wubing suddenly stopped moving while holding his chopsticks.

Chen Tuiguan hurriedly asked: "But what did you think of?"

Qin Wubing looked at Chen Tuiguan seriously and asked:

"You asked before if the murderer would dress up the corpse like that in order to hide people's eyes and ears. I think it is unlikely, or unnecessary, that they are all corpses. Who cares if you are male or female! But when these people are killed, if Is that how you dress?"

"That's right!" Chen Tuiguan patted the table.

"It's not right!" Qin Wubing immediately overthrew himself: "They were poisoned to death. The poison they ingested, of course, can be poisoned to death when eating and drinking. Why do those people wear women's clothes to eat and drink? There is also a dwarf pretending to be children?"

"Perhaps these eleven people are not good people. They disguised themselves as trying to kill people for profit, but they were killed instead!"

Qin Wubing shook his head and said: "If that's the case, there's really no need to bother to bury them in the back mountain of Tiantai Temple. The place where they want to kill people and sell goods must not be in the city. What if they are killed and left in place?"

"That's right! Dress up like this and go into the city. It's okay if you don't look carefully at night. People will definitely recognize you during the day. They can't do anything under the watchful eyes of everyone!"

"Disguise is to deceive who, who to deceive?" Qin Wubing said, and suddenly slapped his thigh: "To deceive the officers and soldiers guarding the city at night!"

Chen Tuiguan was stunned.

"Is there such a possibility?" Qin Wubing said excitedly: "A prominent family was ordered to search, the male beheaded, and the female relatives were sent... Whatever, the old servants used their own children to replace the male members of the clan. Next, secretly send out of the city..."

"It shouldn't be difficult to replace a baby in swaddling clothes, but to replace an adult male? Who dares to do it conveniently? It will be decapitated! Besides, five big men pretend to be women, even if one looks like two , there will always be one who reveals his secrets, regardless of the day and night, the guards can't stand the guards carefully! What's more, there has been no such case in Wuzhou in the past two years, who is said to be arrested by the whole city..."

"I used to think that the purpose of burying the corpses in Tiantai Temple was to conceal the identity of the deceased, but now it seems to be wrong. The deceased may not be from Wuzhou, and the place where they were killed may not be in Wuzhou, but they were sent to Tiantai Temple for burial after so much trouble !"

Chen Tuiguan took a sip of his wine and said, "Tiantai Temple is a royal temple, not to mention burying corpses. Some people even tried to secretly go to the back mountain to see the scenery, but they didn't succeed!"

Qin Wubing also took a sip of wine, but muttered: "Why do you have to use a dwarf to pretend to be a child? It doesn't make sense to wear women's clothes when you are killed, and it doesn't make sense to change into women's clothes after you are killed."

"Whether it's the dress of the deceased or the act of burying it in the back mountain of Tiantai Temple, there is suspicion of covering it up, but I don't know what the murderer wants to cover up? The back mountain is not accessible to ordinary people, and there are guards guarding it. Poisoning is already a risk. Wouldn't it be more risky to transport the corpse to the back mountain for burial? Mr. Xu once questioned the guards one by one, and found nothing suspicious..."

"In other words, if the guards hadn't lied, wouldn't it be possible for the murderer to dig a hole in the back mountain to bury him?"

Chen Tuiguan said: "Master Xu thinks that these guards guarding the mountain all year round are very boring. It is inevitable that they are lazy and negligent, allowing the murderer to take advantage of the loopholes. No one will recognize such things."

"So the murderer must know Tiantai Temple very well, and even knows exactly when the guards change their guards."

"Master Xu also speculates in the same way. The murderer must know Tiantai Temple very well. In addition to the guards, Master Xu also found those merchants who are in charge of delivering goods. They deliver goods to the temple all year round. They must know something. Master Xu will go one by one. question..."

"Still nothing suspicious."

"Exactly, Master Xu often muttered afterwards: Who else would know about Tiantai Temple?"

"Monk in the temple!"

Chen Tuiguan was stunned for a moment before he said, "It's not easy to enter Tiantai Temple, and it's also not easy to exit."

"Oh? Can't the monks in the temple come and go as they please?"

Chen Tuiguan shook his head and said: "The monks in the temple will not go down the mountain unless necessary, so Mr. Xu has never doubted the monks in the temple. Yes, if you want to kill, it's not something that can be done overnight, so you have to go down the mountain a few more times to succeed?"

"Do you think it is possible that guards, monks, and merchants worked together on this case?"

"Master Xu once suspected that the guards collaborated with the merchant to commit crimes, but..."

"Again, nothing suspicious was found?"

"Exactly!"

"Since I can't figure out the reason why the deceased was disguised as a woman and child, let's first investigate the person who has the opportunity to commit the crime. Let's go! Go with me to meet those merchants and see if there is really nothing suspicious about it!"

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(End of this chapter)