People are in Zhenguan, solving crimes scientifically

Chapter 202 Unexpectedly discovered that the deceased was a member of the Four Elephants!

The interrogation room filled with torture instruments suddenly fell into an eerie silence as Lin Feng's voice rang out.

County Lieutenant Zhao Xieyang's hand was still pressing heavily on the table, his eyes were still staring sharply at Lin Feng, and his face was still flushed with humiliation, but he made no next move, as if his acupuncture points had been tapped. , just froze in place.

The two jailers who were close to Lin Feng stopped for an instant and looked at Lin Feng blankly. The expressions on their faces were full of shock and disbelief. They looked completely at a loss and didn't know what to do. .

Several people present were shocked by Lin Feng's self-explosion of identity.

After three breaths, Zhao Xieyang sat up straight and stared at Lin Feng, who was wearing a Taoist robe. His face was full of suspicion: "You said you are the master of Dali Temple? That legendary figure Detective Lin Feng?"

Lin Feng looked Zhao Xieyang up and down and said slowly: "Your eyes are bloodshot and the areas around your eyes are dark. This means that you did not have a good rest last night, and there is a slightly faint red mark on the left side of your neck. , even in this bloody interrogation room, there is still a faint scent of inferior quality permeating from your body, and at the same time, there are obvious stains on your front. Not surprisingly, they should be vegetable stains from the entertainment last night."

"And you came to the inn to search at dawn this morning. I hadn't gotten up at that time, and it was far before your duty. This means that you must have been woken up in your sleep. You got up and hurriedly put on your clothes. I came to the inn to search my clothes."

"If you were at home last night, even if you had a party and drank too much, your wife would definitely prepare clean clothes for you, and would not let you, a dignified county lieutenant, come out to work in dirty clothes."

"And you, the dignified county lieutenant, are among the top in this Shenshan County. If you think about it, you will not be short of money to buy low-quality rouge for your wife..."

Zhao Xieyang was shocked. He was afraid that Lin Feng would resent his rude attitude just now, so he hurriedly said: "Xiaguan means that Xiaguan firmly believes that the person was not killed by Lin Si."

Lin Feng looked at Zhao Xieyang with a half-smile, and said lightly: "You didn't get a good rest last night. You must have been fighting in the brothel for a long time, right?"

"First, my identity and the news about the caravan of five of my officers in the Western Regions are not allowed to be disclosed to anyone, not even you, the magistrate of Shenshan County!"

Lin Feng nodded: "What about the other people in the inn?"

He was horrified and quickly lowered his head, feeling more in awe of Lin Feng.

"So the official immediately put on his clothes and didn't even bother to go back and change into clean clothes. He hurriedly took people to the inn."

When the two jailers saw this, they finally reacted and quickly followed Zhao Xieyang in saluting Lin Feng.

Zhao Xieyang took a deep breath and said: "To be honest with Lin SiZheng, the official spent the night in a brothel last night. Before dawn this morning, a government servant knocked on the door and said that he had received an anonymous letter. It says that the criminal thief Han Mo, who has been wanted by the imperial court for four years, is currently hiding in Youfu Inn."

Lin Feng didn't care what Zhao Xieyang thought. The case in front of him was full of doubts, and he had to determine whether it was related to him.

Lin Feng picked up the whip on the table, looked at the dark red blood stains on the whip, and said slowly: "Is it possible that those two corpses are Han Mo's corpses?"

When Lin Feng saw this, he smiled and said, "Don't you doubt me anymore? Do you need me to ask someone to get the identity token?"

"Han Mo committed numerous crimes during the Wude period and the first two years of Zhenguan, and his hands were stained with at least dozens of lives. The imperial court has been offering a reward for his arrest, so if he can be caught and brought to justice, it will be a great achievement for him to be demoted. Maybe I can get a chance to be promoted directly during the official assessment at the end of the year."

He came directly to Zhao Xieyang's side. Without him opening his mouth, Zhao Xieyang moved his seat very discerningly and said: "Lin Si, please take a seat."

Lin Feng smiled and said, "Then do you still suspect that I killed the person?"

Zhao Xieyang suddenly raised his head and looked at Lin Feng with surprise: "Lin Si is about to investigate the case?"

"But the result..."

Zhao Xieyang shook his head hurriedly: "I don't dare, but I have always admired Lin Sizheng's ability to solve cases. Today I am lucky enough to see Lin Sizheng investigating the case in person. I feel lucky."

Such meticulous reasoning, such accurate reasoning... Just by looking at myself, I can completely deduce what I did last night. This... this is not the legendary Lin Feng, who else could it be?

"So, if my prediction is correct, you should have spent the night in a brothel last night. The inferior fragrance on your body is the rouge used by those prostitutes. The vague red mark on your neck should be the woman who stayed with you last night. The lip marks left on your neck are because you were woken up suddenly in the morning. The brothel girls will not help you change clothes like your wife, so no one will wipe the lip marks cleanly for you. You can only wipe a few of them casually. Then, let it fade so that you can no longer see the traces left by your lips.”

Lin Feng smiled and said, "What? Do you think you can relax completely if I take action?"

The two people he chose - Bullido and himself, as Zhao Xieyang just said, are the most suspicious.

Both jailers opened their mouths and stared at Lin Feng in shock, with expressions of shock and shock on their faces.

And Zhao Xieyang felt like his head was buzzing.

Seeing that the shock effect had been achieved, Lin Feng stopped wasting time and said, "I'll tell you two things."

Lin Feng's voice disappeared, but the already silent interrogation room became even quieter at this moment.

Zhao Xieyang's expression changed slightly when he heard this. He quickly realized that Lin Feng might have some secret hidden in the Western Region caravan, and now only the three of him knew about this secret. He couldn't tell whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.

Zhao Xieyang shook his head quickly and said: "Lin Si's miraculous salvage of a sunken ship in Cizhou a few days ago has long been spread, and this Western Region caravan happened to be coming from the direction of Cizhou, so Lin Si was among them, and It’s not surprising.”

"At the same time, because you were suddenly called up to perform official duties, you had no chance to return home and change into clean clothes. That's why you can't wear clothes with obvious vegetable stains to work... Oh and..."

However, he did not dare to hesitate at this moment and said hurriedly: "I understand."

Zhao Xieyang shook his head hurriedly and said nervously: "With Lin Sizheng's ability, if he really kills someone, he won't be easily discovered by the subordinates."

Lin Feng nodded slightly: "The second thing is to tell me the complete ins and outs of this case. No concealment is allowed."

Lin Feng sat down and said, "Let's talk."

He stood up in a flash, his face full of unexpected surprise, and he quickly saluted Lin Feng: "I have seen Lin SiZheng before!"

Although Zhao Xieyang was accustomed to using severe torture to interrogate people, he did not torture just anyone.

Zhao Xieyang quickly bowed and saluted: "Lin Si is just asking for your instructions."

Lin Feng smiled and said: "Are you praising me, or are you saying that I am more cunning than the murderer?"

He looked at Lin Feng cautiously and said, "Xiaoguan did not find Han Mo. Instead, he found two corpses in the boxes of the Western Region caravan where Lin Sizheng was."

When Lin Feng heard this, he took a deep look at Zhao Xieyang.

Zhao Xieyang shook his head: "When Han Mo committed evil for the last time in the second year of Zhenguan, he was hit by the government and was slashed in the back while escaping. However, there were no scars on the backs of the two corpses."

Lin Feng glanced at Zhao Xieyang lightly, and he immediately gave Zhao Xieyang an illusion, as if all the secrets in his body were seen through by Lin Feng at this moment.

So from this point of view, Zhao Xieyang still has some bottom line, and Zhao Xieyang can quickly think of the rumors about Cizhou after revealing his identity, which means that his reaction is very quick, and he is not a mediocre person.

Zhao Xieyang said: "I haven't had time to check everyone yet...but the official is arranging his subordinates to check the backs one by one. The results should be available in a while."

Lin Feng nodded slightly and reminded: "There is no need to check the five people who came with me. They all have high status. I can ensure that they will not be Han Mo."

Zhao Xieyang nodded quickly. It was a joke. The identity of the person traveling with Lin Feng was definitely extraordinary. He didn't have time to offer his confession, so how could he dare to take off their clothes and inspect them.

Lin Feng pondered for a moment, and then continued: "You said that the yamen officer came to find you before dawn...Then how did he receive the anonymous letter? It's still dark before dawn, even if he delivers the letter, he can't deliver it to the yamen, right?"

Zhao Xieyang nodded repeatedly: "That's right, the letter couldn't be delivered into the yamen... It was caught in the crack of the yamen door. The yamen patrol returned to the yamen at night and happened to find the letter inserted in the crack of the door."

"Caught between the door?"

Lin Feng looked at the whip stained with the blood of an unknown number of people, and his brain was spinning rapidly.

It’s just anonymity, even the way of delivering the letter is so concealed, for fear of being discovered by others...

"Where's the anonymous letter?" Lin Feng said.

Zhao Xieyang hurriedly took out an envelope from his arms and handed it to Lin Feng.

Lin Feng took the envelope and looked up. He saw that the envelope was the most common white paper envelope. There was no pattern or writing on it. It was completely blank.

There are traces of torn wax oil on the surface of the envelope, indicating that the person who wrote the letter calmly sealed it with wax oil after writing the anonymous letter... and the wax oil was very smooth, and the square edges were very smooth. Neat and clearly treated with wax...what does that mean?

Lin Feng gently rubbed the envelope with his fingertips and said slowly to himself: "This is not a letter to an acquaintance, and there is no information about the person who wrote the letter. The person who wrote the letter clearly does not want anyone to find him through the letter. So, why bother to process all the wax oil so neatly and perfectly? How is this different from ogling a blind man? The government officials will not praise the person who wrote the letter because the wax oil drips so well. Besides, they don’t know who to praise. .”

"Moreover, when people write letters, they often just drop wax oil and stick it on the envelope. They don't handle the wax oil so neatly... So, why would the person who wrote the letter treat an anonymous report letter like this? How can you get the wax oil so neatly without a lot of it?”

Lin Feng looked at the wax oil, and after pondering for a while, he made some assumptions in his mind.

He is best at peeking into the whole picture from the details, and details are often a reflection of a person's personality.

"It should be instinct..."

There is no need or reason for the person who writes the letter to carefully process the wax oil. Therefore, there is only one reason why the person writing the letter does this - instinct, or a habit ingrained in his bones.

And what kind of person would pursue perfection and be so particular?

"Either like Wei Zheng, he has obsessive-compulsive disorder."

"Either... he is a person who has extremely strict requirements on details. He may come from a wealthy family with strict family traditions, or he may come from a scholarly family with a profound family background. Such people are more likely to turn strictness into habits and instincts due to their upbringing. .”

Lin Feng guessed while taking out the letter paper.

Opening the letter paper, you can see that there is only one very simple sentence inside.

"Han Mo is hiding in Youfu Inn, go quickly."

There is no signature, no extra ink marks, not even an extra ink dot.

It is enough to see the neatness of the person who wrote the letter.

However, unlike the cleanness of the content, this word... seems a bit sloppy.

It's not that the cursive writing is sloppy, but the handwriting is really bad.

It feels like it was written like a cat painting a tiger. Each word is written horizontally and vertically, and the size of the pen is different. Lin Feng can believe it if it was imitated by a child when he first learned calligraphy.

However, this was obviously not written by a child, because the handwriting has the power to penetrate the back of the paper, and children do not have this power.

"This is definitely not the handwriting of the person who wrote the letter..."

Combining the perfect wax oil and clean content, Lin Feng speculated: "The person who wrote the letter concealed his identity and handwriting. After finishing writing, he found someone who couldn't write and asked him to imitate the writing. from?"

"It should be like this... Otherwise, even if a child has been learning to write for a while, the horizontal and vertical strokes of each character will not be different. Only beginners who cannot write at all will not be able to control their hands when imitating. , did not form his own writing style..."

Lin Feng put the letter paper on the table and slowly exhaled: "It's really mysterious. I found a person who can't write to write the content of this letter. Now, no one can recognize the handwriting. Whose hand did it come from? It seems impossible to rely on this letter to find the person who wrote it." In order to hide himself, he spent so much effort... Is a vulgar thief worth such efforts?

This is obviously to deal with people who are good at tracking down clues...

Lin Feng's eyes flickered. Even though Han Mo's matter had not yet been determined, he was basically sure that the person who wrote the letter was targeting him. He was clearly aware of his abilities and was worried that he would be traced to the other party based on the letter. It takes a lot of effort.

in this case……

"Are these two corpses really related to me?"

Lin Feng frowned slightly: "Bulido said that they were disfigured and that the murderers deliberately concealed their identities. Do these two people know me?"

"Also, what is the relationship between the person who wrote the letter and the murderer? Is the person who wrote the letter sending an anonymous report letter to the Yamen to help me, or to expose me?"

Lin Feng's thoughts were racing, and countless thoughts were surging in his mind.

He originally thought it was a simple murder case, but at this moment, Lin Feng felt as if his eyes were covered by endless confusion, making this murder case also become complicated and confusing at this moment because of the identity of the person who wrote the letter and the deceased. got up.

Lin Feng took a deep breath and suppressed these complicated thoughts for the time being. For now, the only way to understand the truth behind all this is to find out the identity of the deceased as soon as possible and solve the case as soon as possible.

He looked at Zhao Xieyang and said, "Has the autopsy result of the deceased come out?"

Zhao Xieyang shook his head: "Not yet, but it should be soon..."

"No wait."

Lin Feng stood up directly and said: "Take me to see the corpse."

Zhao Xieyang quickly followed and said: "The body is still in the inn, we haven't taken it away yet."

Lin Feng nodded and said as he walked: "For those who are traveling with me, please bring the burly man and the older scholar out to me, and for the woman, find a safe place with a good environment. Let it rest."

Zhao Xieyang nodded hurriedly and said, "Is there another one?"

"He..." Lin Feng had no time to pay attention to Chen Miao now, and said, "Just let him rest in prison. Remember... don't hurt anyone in the caravan again."

Zhao Xieyang nodded repeatedly: "Lin Si is relieved, I understand."

Soon, Zhao Shishi and Sun Fuga were also taken out of the prison and met Lin Feng outside the prison.

After they saw Lin Feng, they looked up and down carefully and made sure that Lin Feng was not hurt in any way. Then they breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved.

"Zide, what's going on? Why did we get out?" Sun Fujia asked Lin Feng.

Lin Feng said directly: "I blew up my identity..."

Then, he informed Sun Fuga and Zhao Shiwu in detail about why he blew himself up and his speculations about the case.

After hearing this, both of them couldn't help showing surprise and astonishment on their faces.

"Is this case related to us?" Zhao Shiwu almost exclaimed.

Sun Fujia also looked surprised: "Zide, are you really sure?"

"Talking as we walk."

Several people got on their horses, and while riding Lin Feng said: "The probability is 60%. After all, I haven't got a more accurate and intuitive clue yet, but the probability is already more than 50%, so we must find out, otherwise we will be trapped in the situation and unable to extricate ourselves." , I’m afraid there will be a bigger crisis later.”

Sun Fujia understands how complicated the situation is now. All three forces have begun to show their fangs. Lin Feng is now equivalent to the intersection of all forces. It really needs to be investigated clearly, otherwise he will be secretly used as a pawn by which force without knowing it. , there will definitely be a big crisis by then.

"Could the person who wrote the letter have something to do with the Four Elephant Organization? Could it be that someone from the Four Elephant Organization discovered us and intentionally killed people and wrote the letter, trying to trap us in Shenshan County?" Sun Fujia couldn't help but ask Lin Feng.

Lin Feng shook his head: "Doing this is tantamount to alerting the snake and letting me know that the Four Elephants Organization has discovered my whereabouts. What if I escape from my shell and jump over the wall and escape alone? Isn't it just like a fish in the sea, never to be found again?" arrive?"

"Compared with it, it is safer to follow secretly, recall all scattered manpower, and then ambush on the road."

Sun Fujia nodded and breathed a sigh of relief: "This is not bad... at least it proves that the Four Elephants Organization does not know that we are hiding here for the time being..."

Lin Feng nodded slightly: "To confirm that there are more people in the Western Region caravan, they need to compare it with the inns in Lucheng County. This will take some time. Before dark, there should be no big problem..."

While they were talking, everyone had already arrived at Youfu Inn.

Looking at the bustling inn yesterday, it was now empty today, with only government servants coming in and out. Lin Fengrao was used to seeing such scenes, and still had a feeling of "disaster and I don't know who will arrive first tomorrow".

He took a deep breath and walked directly into the inn without any delay.

"Lin SiZheng, please come this way..."

Zhao Xieyang led the way and said: "In order not to damage the scene and facilitate the investigation, the body is still in the room where the crime occurred."

Several people passed through the back door and entered the courtyard of the inn. Before they reached the room with goods in the corner, they saw a middle-aged man walking out quickly.

"Zhao County Lieutenant."

The middle-aged man quickly saluted Zhao Xieyang.

Zhao Xieyang glanced at Lin Feng and indicated that Lin Feng was the co-author of the autopsy. Lin Feng nodded imperceptibly. Zhao Xieyang knew that Lin Feng wanted to hide his identity, so he coughed and said, "Is the autopsy over?"

Wu Zuo nodded repeatedly: "It's over."

"How?" Zhao Xieyang asked.

Wu Zuo quickly took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Zhao Xieyang.

Zhao Xieyang took the paper, glanced at it, and said at the same time: "Please pick out the important ones."

He could not directly hand over the autopsy results to Lin Feng for review, so he could only let Wu Zuo introduce them.

Wuzuo didn't think much and said directly: "Both the two deceased were men, and they were both between thirty-five and forty years old."

"Their faces were all burned by flames and were completely disfigured, making it impossible to identify their appearance. The villain checked their mouths and noses. There was no soot in their mouths and noses. It was judged that they were burned by flames after death, not before they were alive. Burn.”

"They were all wearing underwear, and their coats and shoes were missing. One person's neck bones were broken, and his neck should have been broken directly by someone. There were no obvious signs of a fight. The other person had signs of a fight, and there were abrasions and bleeding wounds on his arms. , the fatal injury was a stab wound through the heart.”

Listening to Wu Zuo's words, Lin Feng quickly realized the cause of their deaths.

The neck was broken, and there were no signs of struggle on the body, indicating that the murderer suddenly broke out at close range. Either the murderer was familiar with them, or the murderer attacked from behind. This person was killed without any precautions.

The other person discovered that the first person was in trouble, so he started fighting with the murderer, but in the end he failed to hit the murderer and was stabbed through the heart by the murderer.

"It seems that this murderer's martial arts skills are not low..."

Being able to break the deceased's neck with bare hands is absolutely impossible if you don't have enough strength, don't know how to exert force, and don't know where the bones are connected.

Lin Feng thought in his mind: "The murderer fought with the deceased. The inn was full of people last night. If the fight happened in the inn, no one would know about it... In other words, the scene of the first crime was not in the inn... The murderer was in Someone was killed outside the inn and then transported to the inn.”

"Then the question arises...the door of the inn is closed at night, how did he transport the body in?"

"Moreover...Bulido attaches great importance to the goods. He also arranged for people to guard outside last night. How did the murderer avoid the guards and hide the body in the box? Where did the goods in the box that Bullido valued very much go? Already?"

Lin Feng discovered that the more he learned about this case, the more unsolved mysteries became.

But this is not a bad thing. When investigating a case, there will be no problem. Once the problem is clear, the only thing is to find a solution to the problem.

He pondered for a moment and said, "Does the deceased have any unique characteristics? These characteristics may help us determine the identity of the deceased."

When Wu Zuo heard Lin Feng's words, he subconsciously raised his head and looked at Lin Feng. After seeing the Taoist robe on Lin Feng's body, he couldn't help but be startled. He didn't understand why Zhao Xieyang brought a Taoist priest to the scene of the crime. Did he want the Taoist priest to do this?

He couldn't help but look at Zhao Xieyang.

Zhao Xieyang said hurriedly: "What are you doing standing still? Why don't you tell me quickly!"

Lin Si was asking in person, "How dare you look at me? If Lin Si was angry with me because of this, wouldn't I have been harmed by you?"

Seeing that Zhao Xieyang's tone was not kind, Wu Zuo did not dare to delay any longer and said quickly: "They really have unique characteristics."

"What?" Lin Feng asked.

Wu Zuo said: "Both of them have a scar on their hearts, and the location and size of the scar are exactly the same... According to the villain's judgment, the scar should have appeared a few months ago, but the size and location are exactly the same. He has a scar, but the villain can’t figure out where that scar came from.”

As he spoke, he frowned and said, "Did they encounter the same accident? But the accidents were too similar. The scars were caused by fire, and there were no traces of fire elsewhere. The villain always felt that this seemed to be them. It was done on purpose…”

Wu Zuo was still frowning in confusion, but he didn't notice that when he said the first sentence, Sun Fujia's face changed drastically, his eyes widened instantly, and he suddenly raised his head to look at Lin Feng.

Lin Feng's pupils also jumped violently, and the same look of surprise and consternation as Sun Fujia appeared on his face.

The scar...the same scar that appeared a few months ago...

These keywords appeared at the same time, which made Lin Feng think it was a coincidence, but he couldn't lie to himself.

After all, there were some people who had to destroy the patterns on their bodies because of him.

After they destroy the pattern, they will leave the same scar!

And these people... were members of the Four Elephants Organization, and what they destroyed were the Four Elephants patterns such as the white tiger and the red bird on their bodies.

and so……

These two corpses are members of the Four Elephants Organization! ?

(End of this chapter)