Lu Ming

Chapter 354 Opening of Port (twenty)

Xie Yuanwai spent the night in his own house last night.

Time went back to this morning, when the excrement collectors woke up and found the door of the Xie family's outer house was ajar, the long-term worker Li died in the gatehouse, and there were more dead people in the front yard, they immediately reported to the police.

When Cao Butou of the yamen walked into the courtyard with a group of servants and foremen, he found that in this second-entry courtyard, corpses could be seen at intervals.

These corpses are divided into two types: one is masked in black, and the other is guarding the bodyguards in ordinary short shirts. There are three corpses on each side.

From the scene, it is clear what happened last night: the killers in black broke into the house and fought fiercely with the nursing home along the way.After paying the price of three lives, the killer finally managed to get rid of the bodyguard, and then found Xie Yuanwai in the inner house and killed him in the house.

There were bloodstains, daggers and corpses along the road, and Cao Butou of the county government came to the inner house, and saw Yuanwai Xie lying on the ground at a glance.

Xie Yuanwai was stabbed into the back with a dagger and bled to death.His body was at the threshold, with his head facing the door, and there were pools of blood and crawling marks under his body; it could be seen that Mr. Xie went through a period of struggle and hard work before he died.

In addition to the maid in the side room, there is also a dead person in the house who is the concubine Hengxiang.The young and beautiful woman died on the bed.Beside her body was not only blood, but also messy jewelry and gold and silver lockets.

The scene was simple and clear: after the killer broke in, the soldiers split into two groups, one went to kill the maid, and the other killed Hengxiang with a knife, and then the killer inserted the dagger into the back of Mr. Xie who had climbed out of bed.While Mr. Xie was struggling to crawl out the door, the killer also raced against time to search the jewelry box next to the bed and took away some of the belongings inside.

However, the above reasoning is not important anymore, because the most important evidence is at Yuanwai Xie's hand: on the smooth green brick floor, the words "Murderer Deng Hu" in blood have revealed the murderer.

At this moment, the person in charge of caring for the corpses outside also reported another piece of news: the masked dead were all Deng Hu's subordinates.In fact, those few people and the guards were all acquaintances, so they were recognized immediately after taking off the black cloth.

By this time, the truth of the case seemed to be revealed.

The only thing that made Butou Cao a little puzzled was: when he visited the neighbors around, he found that no one heard the shouts of killing last night.But strictly speaking, this doesn't mean anything. Maybe the battle ended quickly?There are so many silent cases, and if something happens in the middle of the night, you can't ask the sleeping neighbors to hear something.

When Butou Cao was visiting the neighboring houses, Bian Jing, the magistrate of the county government, had already placed all the corpses in the front yard, and began to undress one by one for inspection.

Bian Jing was young, fair and clean, and looked only in his twenties.Bian Jing, who was born in a family of writers, has followed his father to appear on the scene since he was a child, so he handled this scene with ease today.

It didn't take long for Bian Jing, who covered his mouth and nose with white gauze, to discover something - besides the knife wounds on the bodies of the three dead bodyguards, there were also small inconspicuous wounds between the eyebrows and the heart.After picking up an iron needle, the next moment, Bian Jing quickly pulled out the lead from the wound.

After seeing these pieces of lead, based on Bian Jing's experience, he immediately judged the truth: these few pieces of lead were the real weapon that killed the bodyguard.Then a dynamic scene appeared in his mind: the killer with the three-eyed gun first drove the lead into the escort's body, then took out a knife, and stabbed the dead several times.

After the screen got here, it suddenly got stuck, and then went back: "No! The three-eyed gun is not so accurate. Besides, even if it is accurate, why bother?"

Bian Jing, as a member of the Gongmen family, has three-eyed guns and bird guns, although he is not equipped with them, but he has always played them.So he was very clear in his heart: not to mention it was late at night, even in the daytime, the three-eyed blunderbuss would never be able to shoot so accurately, every shot was between the eyebrows and the left chest.

Thinking of this, he looked up at the environment in the front yard.The observation results confirmed his idea: In ancient times, for fire prevention, candles were extinguished at night.In Bian Jing's sight, there was obviously no trace of a lantern in the front yard, which meant that everything that happened last night happened suddenly in the dark.

Then Bian Jing couldn't figure it out even more: Even if a master killed the opponent instantly with the three-eyed gun, why did he need to make up the knife?Isn't it superfluous to make up for such a ruthless and precise killer?

Thinking of this, he lowered his head to check the knife marks on the bodyguard again.He guessed the truth again: the few knife marks were obviously cut randomly, and they were completely incompatible with the steadiness and ruthlessness of lead bullets.

As far as Bian Jing's personal experience is concerned, whenever this happens, it proves that there is something hidden behind the case, or there are some details that he has not discovered.

"Isn't it right for the scene?" Bian Jing stood quietly in front of the corpses lined up in a row, closing his eyes.The clip of the killer holding a three-eyed gun killing people in the dark replayed over and over again in his mind, but there was always something wrong, so his film got stuck halfway through: "Could it be that you want to cover up something?"

Suddenly, Bian Jing opened his eyes.The sudden thought made him feel that he had grasped something, but his thoughts were like a layer of paper, so he couldn't get the point.

Quickly leaning down, Bian Jing touched the gun holes of the corpse with his fingers, and then slowly walked around where he first found several bodyguards.

"It's supposed to be hiding here." As Bian Jing walked, he found all the places where the bodyguards were hiding on duty at night, and then he stretched out his arms, imitating the killer's movement of raising the gun.

"There is absolutely no reason to make up the knife!" When he found a piece of brown blood among the flowers, his heart couldn't help but beat violently.

This rose bush is in the center of the courtyard, the area is not big, just big enough for a person to hide in.The blood in the center of the flower bushes indicated that one of the bodyguards had been shot here.

However, the reality is: the bodyguard died outside the flowers, and beside him lay the dead body of a killer with knife wounds all over his body, which seemed to be a fierce battle.

"Why do you want to drag someone out of the flowers to make up the knife? What are you trying to cover up?" Bian Jing was very sure at this moment that the bodyguard was shot between the eyebrows first, and then dragged out of the flowers to fake it.So he walked into the middle of the flowers, faced the courtyard door, squatted down slowly, and closed his eyes again.

The silent movie in my mind began to play again: In the dark night, a group of black figures walked in from the direction of the courtyard door. Under the starlight, the first person raised his hand and fired from more than ten meters away. After a gust of blood, he fell down.

Then the group of ghostly shadows dragged the bodyguard out of the flowers, and then they pulled out their knives, slashed a few times on the bodyguard and a shadow that came with them, and then left the body and walked away
"No, no! Since it was a one-shot death, why did you kill your own people for a show?"

Bian Jing’s films couldn’t be put down here: the logic doesn’t make sense.However, the next moment he jumped up from the flowers: "The killer is someone else! The one who did it was planted!"

Bian Jing suddenly understood at this moment.He didn't need to close his eyes to see scenes flying by before him: after the man in black shot the bodyguard, he quickly brought in three gagged, tied hands, still struggling. Hit people.

In order to cover up the weird marksmanship and create the illusion that the two sides fought each other to death, the killer hacked all the fighters to death and threw them together with the bodyguards.

These people are veterans. In order to prevent the wounds of the deceased from being seen, they spared no effort to bring the "live luck" of the fight to the scene to kill while the blood is hot.

Bian Jing, who had guessed the truth, was drenched in sweat at this moment. At the same time, a huge sense of fear also enveloped him. Even in the daytime, Bian Jing felt his hair stand on end.

Immediately afterwards, he ran quickly to the corpse: the above are all speculations, and he needs evidence.

However, when Bian Jing took a look at the black clothes that Da Xing wore, he was dumbfounded—there were no traces of binding on the wrists and ankles of these people.

"Is it because I guessed wrong?" Bian Jing fell into the myth again at this moment: the five gangsters who have been fighting for many years are all strong and strong men. Did you detain this generation here quietly, and then kill them all?
"It's probably Mongolian sweat medicine." Thinking of this, Bian Jing couldn't help sighing: even if there was Mongolian sweat medicine, he couldn't detect it.So up to now, even though he is very confident in his own judgment, Bian Jing, who can't produce strong evidence, has no way to report the truth to the head arrester.

Bian Jing was born in a family of Wu Zuo, and he is too aware of how dull and dark the current Yamen is.This kind of "story" lacking evidence, once he told the head arrester, it would be provocative: should the head arrester investigate or not?
Since there is such a powerful killer behind this, the water must be very deep.If the head catcher is able to investigate, if he kicks the iron plate, he will be executed later; if the head arrester does not investigate, maybe the mysterious killer has already received money from the mysterious killer, and his shaking away is the way to death.

Therefore, Bian Jing, who is well versed in the joints, can only suppress the doubts in his heart secretly and report the case in the normal way before there is any solid evidence.

In other words, what he finally reported to Butou Cao was the superficial situation that everyone could see: it was a gangster who rushed in and killed someone.

Ten people died in the city in one breath. The key is that if Xie Yuanwai died, then the headhunter could not be the master. The county magistrate got the specific news immediately.

In this era, there is no such thing as confidentiality regulations, not to mention the county government, even the inside of the imperial city is like a sieve.So as the news spread, everyone who should know or not should know.

The Xie family immediately became fussy.Although he is not a gentry, the Xie family also belongs to the rich and powerful family; now that Mr. Xie has been slaughtered by thieves, his uncles, brothers and several adult sons who work as shopkeepers in the semicolon are naturally relentless. The government asks for an explanation.

(End of this chapter)