Daming female forensic doctor

Chapter 13 Bloody Footprints

A piece of hemp rope came loose from the door latch, curled up in the air, and lay on the ground.

Now that the test has been carried out, whether it is the people inside the inn who did not see the hemp rope falling to the ground, or the bystander Shen Cang, or Zhao Di who witnessed and participated in the test inside the door, they all have to admit that the crime occurred. This is indeed how the murderer escaped from the scene.

Zhao Di opened the door and sat on the Taishi chair that was separated from Shi Xiancheng's hips.The warm autumn sun shone in from the south window, but it could not dispel the freezing chill on his body. There seemed to be a trace of world-weary sorrow in his young brows, making Jian Qing suspect that he might break out and hurt someone at any time.

Zhao Di pulled the man in and knelt in front of him without saying a word.Jian Qing couldn't understand. Should he kneel down or should he kneel down?How about kneeling? The two thoughts of kneeling and not kneeling were fighting in my mind, but in the end dignity prevailed.

Zhao Di glanced at her, and Jian Qing was confused. The mouth on this person's face was only used for breathing and eating. Didn't it have other functions?
"Ahem!" Jian cleared her throat, "Shopkeeper, on the third night of the Lunar New Year, between the first quarter and the second quarter of Hai hour, are there any customers coming in or out, and are there any waiters coming and going upstairs?"

"No, there won't be!" The shopkeeper shook his head like a rattle, "After autumn, the store closes at the end of Xu. If customers want to stay, they have to knock on the door. There is a lot of noise."

The shopkeeper said to Zhao Di, "I always settle accounts at the beginning of the day. The stairs upstairs are facing the counter. If someone comes downstairs, I won't miss it."

Jian Qing didn't believe it, the counter in the inn was erected very high, and the shopkeeper sat behind, with his stature, if the guests didn't go and pat the counter, he would straighten his neck so that he wouldn't be able to see anyone.The counter was so tall that he covered himself and the people outside the counter. How could he see it?

Zhao Di glanced at the shopkeeper lightly and said nothing, but his expression was obviously unbelieving.Jian Qing felt that Zhao Di was a very responsible mascot.

"To answer the main question, did the waiters in the shop notice anything unusual when they went up and down the stairs? Even if they felt something was abnormal, that's fine. If you don't answer, or say something wrong on purpose, that's a crime of covering up!"

The three shop waiters knelt on the ground, their whole bodies were like sifting chaff.Jian Qing was not used to it, maybe he was used to seeing some vicious criminals before, or maybe the lowliness of ordinary people who were trampled into the dust after seeing Zhao Di made Jian Qing feel sad.

Jian Qing couldn't bear to see it.

"The little one was in charge of the Tianzi Room that day. I was very happy to see the guests talking and vomiting alcohol. I didn't have to serve the guests to eat. When I helped the guests carry the water to the room, the guest said that there was no need to come back and clean it up. It would be the same tomorrow morning. Xiao I thought that the guest would definitely not want anything more, so I asked him to take care of the little one on Tuesday, and he said something responsibly, and then the little one went to sleep."

It's normal for colleagues to ask each other for help. It probably happened a lot in the past. If nothing happened, that would be fine. But now something has happened.In front of Zhao Di, the shopkeeper couldn't restrain his expression of wanting to kick Li San to death, and said viciously, "I told you to be lazy!"

"Stop talking nonsense." Jian Qing asked, "When did the guests in this room move in? Did they go out? When did they come back?"

"The guest in this room is the young one who is waiting on me." Tuesday said, "He moved in at [-]:[-] am, and it was the young one who picked up his luggage. The guest ordered food, soup, and bathing until the end of the [-]th day of the lunar month. It's only now... that it's all over."

The details are the same as those explained before, and there are no differences.

The person living in this room is He Donglai, a native of Jinhua County, Zhejiang Province.Speaking of which, like Wang Pu, they all came from the south.Wang Pu was from Yingtianfu, and Jinling is also called Nanjing by later generations.

They all came from Nanjing and stayed in an inn. One of them died and the other left early in the morning. Is it a coincidence, or is Jian Qing overthinking it, or is there really something fishy going on?
Jian Qing is not a newbie in the workplace, nor does she rely on imagination and various speculations to solve cases. She does not associate the two together, and all reasoning ultimately needs evidence to support it.

In a word, everyone is willing to stay on the hot kang in such a cold weather during Hai hour.Therefore, after Xu hour, basically no one was moving upstairs or downstairs. There were no witnesses as to how the murderer left.

Maybe the murderer walked away from the door without knowing it.

Zhao Di stood up and walked from the ground to the sky.Jian Qing was with him. The shopkeeper and others wanted to go in, but Shen Cang thoughtfully stayed behind.

Standing next to the bathtub, Zhao Di looked at the blood on the ground and asked, "You said before that this footprint could be inferred to be that of a man, and then you said that the murderer was a woman with good skills. Why is this?"

Jian Qing followed Zhao Di's gaze and said, "Your Highness should have the answer in mind. In the demonstration just now, how wide the door can be opened depends on the angle at which the door latch can be erected. If the angle is too large, the door latch will come out of the door slot. The inside of the door fell off, and the movement caused was too risky for the murderer. The untouchable had just raised the door latch to the maximum angle, and it could only barely allow the untouchable to pass."

A strong person would not be able to pass through such a narrow gap.That's why Jian Qing said, "He is only four feet eight inches tall, on the thin side, and weighs no more than a hundred pounds."

But how to infer that it must be a woman?
Zhao Di understood and nodded, giving a clear approval to Jian Qing for the first time.Zhao Di pointed at the trampled blood on the ground and the footprints of a man and asked, "How can you tell it's a woman?"

"If the murderer must be a man, there is no need for a pool of blood here." Jian Qing is full of confidence, leaving an obvious footprint on the pool of blood is to cover up, and it can also be understood as contempt for the Lingqiu county government patrol squad .

"I heard that your autopsy showed that a dagger hit the heart?"

"Yes! Because it was a direct hit to the heart, there should be very little blood stains. For such a wound, it is basically impossible for the blood to shoot out so far from such a high bathtub. Moreover, judging from the distribution of the blood stains, this is also It's not blood spurting from the wound. On the contrary, your highness, please see that the blood stains are diverging from the side away from the wall in the direction of the bathtub. The pariah understands that this is artificially done. The murderer was standing to the left of the blood stains at that time. Facing the wall, with your arms waving in the direction of the tub, creates this distribution."

Jian Qing made a bare-handed demonstration. Even if she didn't do it, Zhao Di had already understood and approved her inference.

Jian Qing did not breathe a sigh of relief, because in an era like the 21st century, a bare-handed demonstration would not be enough. They would need to perform a unique reproduction and provide physical evidence before they could testify in court.

This is obviously a loophole in this era. The law has only been improved step by step with the progress of society. The concept of human rights will not appear in a society that still divides people into three, six or nine classes.

"This pool of blood, including the marks on the wall, the untouchables thought they were all used to confuse people." Jian Qing remembered the mystery of the width between Tianzijian and Dizijian, and said, "The murderer is a man who is very fond of Xinglai Inn. People who are familiar with it may even be more familiar than the shopkeeper.”

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