Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1791
Wu Xiang took a look at the surrounding environment, someone climbed over the wall from the Zhenbo Garden next door and entered the Shanshan Guild Hall!He first climbed a big tree in Zhenbo Garden, and then easily climbed over the ten-foot-high courtyard wall. When he descended the wall, he used the protruding lintel of the small door as a step.That's why half a footprint is left.

Li Zhenguo said: "No wonder we turned South Scissors Alley upside down and couldn't find the murderer! So he ran away from here long ago!"

But Wu Xiang said, "It doesn't make sense. If it is said that he jumped over the wall and entered the guild hall to escape, then who locked the lock on the back door? If it is said that there is a murderer locking the door outside, why is there someone else?" If you run away and someone stays behind, why do you want to kill Wang Xiuzhu? It doesn't make sense."

Old Qi said: "It's okay, you can lock the door inside."

This was incredible for the three policemen. Wuxiang had seen the locks embedded in the door panels by Australians, and they could indeed lock the door in both directions, but how could the padlock be locked outside and people go in again?Could it be over the wall?
"You will know when you get to the place." Old Qi said, "There is a door on the door."

Wu Xiang didn't care whether there was a door or not, and said, "Open the door here first."

Old Qi didn't dare to disobey, so he opened the door with the key, opened the door, and saw that there was a small courtyard inside. Although it hadn't been repaired for many years, the courtyard was overgrown with weeds, the paint was peeling off, and it looked dilapidated. Sophisticated elegance.

The courtyard was not big, so Lao Qi led them through a moon gate and entered the garden.The garden was already barren, not only was it full of weeds and trees, but most of the artificial hills in the garden had collapsed, and only one small path was barely passable.

The sun is high in the sky, if you are on the street, you may still be sweating.As soon as I entered the garden, although the wind was calm and the trees were still, I only felt a cold air blowing through my muscles and bones.The rotten leaves and grass on the ground are full of inches deep.The trees in the garden are all over five or sixty years old, and the shade of the trees is like a canopy covering the sky and the sun.The flower tree that had been planted in the vat had already burst the vat, and the black tree trunk covered with green moss was full of gorgeous flowers, which was indescribably weird.

Old Qi didn't dare to look around, he just led the way - he said that he hadn't come from the guild hall for several months.

"This place, even strong men dare not pass by once it's dark—it's not clean."

Wu Xiang was not in the mood to listen to his ramblings. He had already seen many signs of man-made disturbances from the path: trampled weeds, fallen branches...Obviously, someone passed by here not long ago.

Passing through the barren garden, I came to a courtyard wall, and the old Qi said: "This is it."

The gate of the courtyard has long since decayed and fallen off. When you pass through, you can see dead leaves everywhere in the courtyard.Yizhuang seems to be rebuilt from the original flower hall. The roofs of the wing houses on both sides have collapsed, and the roof tiles are full of weeds. Under the slanting sun, there are groups of bats flying around in the air, and the broken wooden door is half covered with paint. Half closed, creaking when blown by the wind.

Although everyone was bold, they couldn't help beating drums in their hearts when they saw such a scene, and they bravely pushed the door to come in.

Stepping into the main hall, I saw seven or eight black lacquered coffins parked inside, resting on the bench, covered with cobweb dust.In front of the coffin is a wooden tablet, each with the name of the spirit master written on it, some of which have been blurred with age.The house smells pungent and gloomy, but there is no rancid smell: as usual, the coffin is filled with lime paper bags, and there are fine pieces of fragrant wood ashes in the elegant house, and the outside is linen and lacquer that has been applied seven or eight times one by one, making it airtight .

"The door on the back wall is behind this courtyard." Old Qi didn't want to stay here for a long time, so he wanted to lead them to the back.

However, Li Zhenguo stopped him: "Don't go, it's not right." He said and pointed to the ground.

On the dusty ground, chaotic footprints were clearly left, leading to a coffin.

Old Qi screamed and fainted immediately.The policeman was taken aback by this, Li Ziyu quickly helped him up and pinched him, finally waking him up.Li Zhenguo said: "Old Qi, what are you scaring? It's clear that someone has come in!"

Wu Xiang nodded and said, "Go and have a look."

They carefully avoided the footprints on the ground and came to the coffin.Wu Xiang walked around the coffin a few times, and immediately found that there were cracks in the coffin lid and the coffin body, and there were obvious signs of wear and tear on the paint surface in several places—someone had opened the coffin!
He asked Lao Qi to come and see, and when he saw it, Lao Qi turned pale with fright. The wooden nails on the coffin lid were broken, obviously they had been pried open.

This is a big deal.Although the coffin has not yet been buried, opening the coffin privately is equivalent to stealing the grave.In the past it was a felony.If the bereaved family has certain influence, they will never let it go.

If there is a commotion, I am afraid that I, the handyman in charge of Yizhuang, will lose my job!He was so anxious that he almost cried.He said anxiously: "Hey, what's going on! I haven't left this key for a moment!"

Wuxiang comforted him and said: "Old Qi, don't worry. For the present plan, we have to open this coffin and make a decision--you can rest assured: as long as you cooperate with our work, the police will definitely clear you up!" "

Old Qi was already at a loss, so he hurriedly said: "But it's up to a few bad guys to make the decision."

"Lao Li, Xiao Li, hold hands together, we will open the coffin." Wu Xiang said, "Old Qi, you can also help me."

Although Lao Qi didn't want it in his heart, he had no choice but to listen to the police.

The four of them worked hard together, and only heard a few "creaks and creaks", and the coffin lid had been lifted.A few people looked inside, and Lao Qi called out again: "Oh my god." Then he rolled his eyes.

This time, none of the three policemen cared about him. Inside the coffin was an object wrapped in oilcloth—a humanoid-like object.There were bloodstains all over it.Li Ziyu couldn't help shouting: "This is it!"

That's right, inside the coffin was the headless corpse that he and Zhao Gui found during the rainy night patrol last night and then disappeared!

Now the truth became clear, the missing headless corpse was moved into Yizhuang by the murderer while they were returning to look for someone, and hid it in the coffin.

The coffins in the Yizhuang are used by rich people, and they are large in size, so there is no problem in putting two corpses in them.Unless the coffins in the Yizhuang were to be transported or buried, no one cared about them for many years.Even if it is revealed one day and time passes, it will really become a case without a clue.

Although the opening of the coffin and the hiding of corpses is quite a movement, Zhenbo Garden is known as the "Haunted House". Even if there are any abnormal noises in the middle of the night, ordinary people dare not come to investigate.

Li Zhenguo was secretly surprised, this murderer is really not simple!This person can carry a headless corpse quietly into the long-abandoned "haunted house" in the dark rainy night, calmly open the coffin to hide the corpse, and then quietly leave and hide in the widow Wang's house.In the morning, the police searched the police network, and without hesitation killed Widow Wang, who might be his accomplice, calmly arranged a suicide scene, and then quietly escaped from the net of the police by using the Shanshan Guild Hall as a passage.It can be called courageous and knowledgeable.

Now that the body had been found, Wuxiang immediately sent Li Ziyu to report to the city bureau, and at the same time asked the city bureau to send police and officials to come over.Conduct a comprehensive on-site survey of Zhenbo Garden and Wang Xiuzhu's home.

As for how the murderer locked the back door and entered Zhenbo Garden, it is not difficult at all.It turns out that there is another small door dug on a leaf of the back door of Zhenbo Garden, and there is another small latch on the door.People can walk in with their heads down.As long as you open the small door in advance, you can lock the door outside and go back to the garden, and then lock the small door.It does not affect opening the lock outside.

The explorers not only found the headless corpse from the coffin, but also found a discarded knife—a butcher knife used to cut pork.There is a brand name on the handle of the knife, which is the "Fuchangyu" pig shop in Scissors Alley.After comparing the traces of the wound on the corpse, the forensic personnel believed that this was the knife used to cut off the head.

Although the local police station did not receive a report, the loss of a knife in the pig shop is not a big deal, and it is normal that there is no report.To be on the safe side, Li Zhenguo still sent Zhao Gui to ask if he had lost the butcher knife.

Zhao Gui came back soon and said that the bank had indeed lost a butcher's knife a few days ago, and since it was of little value, it didn't make a fuss about it.

There are two sets of footprints extracted from the ground of Yizhuang. One set belongs to the same person as the footprints found on the small door in the back lane, and the other set should be the footprints of women in terms of size.After comparing the footprints of Wang Xiuzhu - it can be seen that Wang Xiuzhu was also one of the participants in the murder.

Investigators found fresh bloodstains covered by mud in the wing room of Wang Xiuzhu's house, and found tiny splashes of blood on the walls and wooden doors, confirming that this was the scene of the crime and beheading.And from the hearth of the earthen stove, the unburned pieces of silk and satin cloth were pulled out.Two unburnt soles were also found.

It was already the early morning of the second day of the incident when the on-site investigation ended.Wuxiang brought Li Zhenguo and others back to the Municipal Bureau, and immediately held a case analysis meeting.

Based on further on-site investigation, they initially concluded the incident: the murderer and Wang Xiuzhu conspired to kill the victim at Wang Xiuzhu's house and beheaded the victim.They stripped off the victim's clothes, stuffed them into the furnace and burned them.He also stunned the old enemy with incense, stole the stick and oilcloth, wrapped the body in the oilcloth and carried it to the back door of Zhenboyuan where the murderer had already stepped on.

Unfortunately, during the transportation, they saw a patrolman patrolling with a lantern and left the body in a hurry to escape.But the patrolmen left after discovering the body, giving them a chance.According to the original plan, the murderer opened the back door with the key left by Wang Xiuzhu's deceased husband, and transported the body into Yizhuang for hiding according to the original plan.

Then they returned to the king's house.The next morning, it was discovered that the street was blocked and the police were doing their best to investigate. The murderer thought it was too late and had to escape as soon as possible.Before escaping, he killed Wang Xiuzhu and arranged it as a "suicide" in order to silence him.Then I found the key, passed the back door of Zhenbo Garden, and escaped quietly through the Shanshan Guild Hall.

(End of this chapter)