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Chapter 6 He's a Murderer
"This is?" Cui Datou was taken aback, while the crowd stared at Chu Qing with wide eyes, isn't this too childish?

Chu Qing lowered his eyes: "If Liu Erhun kills himself, he will definitely struggle before he dies, so it is very likely that there are scratch marks on the back of the deceased's hand, so Brother Cui checks these people first, if there is no scar on the back of the hand, then It can be ruled out directly."

When everyone heard this, they breathed a sigh of relief. They definitely didn't have wounds on their hands.

So in order to remove the suspicion, they immediately stretched out their hands for the government officials to check.

Chu Qing followed behind Cui Datou and looked over one by one. The man in green robe stared at Chu Qing, with a flash of interest in his eyes, and stretched out his hand to her. There was a layer of calluses on the open palm and the tiger's mouth.

Chu Qing glanced over the thin cocoon, and looked more at the man in the green robe. He calmly suppressed the doubts in his heart, and only said softly: "Liu Erhun's death has nothing to do with him."

There was a faint light in the eyes of the green-robed man: "Then brother, can you see who the murderer is?"

Chu Qing didn't answer him, but turned to Cui Datou and said: "The murderer is about 50 years old, with only nine fingers on his hand. Following these two clues, Brother Cui should not be difficult to find in the town."

Just as Cui Datou wanted to ask why, Liu Cui looked at a gray-haired old man with resentment, rushed up and howled, grabbed the old man's clothes and beat him: "It's you! You damn it Old Xu, how can you be so cruel--my man just blackmailed you so little money, how can you be so cruel and able to kill him?! How can we live after leaving us orphans and widowed mothers! Wuwu, you pay back my man's life! You give me my life!"

The old man is a well-known good old man in Longmen Town. He has been celibate for so many years, and most people in the town have received his favor, but Liu Cui insisted that he killed the man?And this time Liu Cui's family wanted to defend her husband, old Xu Tou also enthusiastically helped Liu Cui's to bring Liu Erhun's body. Seeing Liu Cui's crying, it didn't look like it was fake.

Everyone exploded, "This, this is impossible, old Xu is a good man, how could he kill someone?"

"It's just...it's absolutely impossible!"

"Young people are impetuous. Even if a man is dead, he can't catch a man and call him a murderer..."

"..."

The old Xu head looked innocent and said: "Liu Cui's new widow, my old man can understand your grief, but the crime of murder can't be pointed at randomly." As he said, he looked pitifully at Liu who was crying Choi.

Liu Cuishi tightly grasped his collar, and cursed: "I can't tolerate your sophistry. Who here doesn't know that when you were young, your father cut off a finger for gambling? Although Liu Erhun has bullied you many times, you just I'm afraid you've already hated him to the core, even though he's a jerk, he's not deadly! You're so vicious!"

Chu Qing looked at the old Xu Tou carefully. Although the old Xu Tou behaved calmly and calmly, even if he pretended to be calm, the slight trembling of the little finger of Liu Cuishi's left hand that wanted to brush away could not conceal that his heart was actually Fear.

The old Xu Tou smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Chu, don't accuse me of accusing me. You just say that the murderer only has nine fingers without any basis. Does anyone here know that I, Old Xu Tou, are all in line?"

Chu Qing went to the corpse again, raised Liu Erhun's hand, "It has been written on the autopsy sheet that there is a little floc in his fingernails, it's not accidental, it's because you covered it with something. When he grabbed his upper body and pressed it into the water, he was eager to pull the things off his head and grabbed what was left behind. Since his hands were also in the cloth bag, he couldn’t catch the back of your hands naturally. What about scratches? This is also your cleverness, but you have forgotten, another suspicious point."

Everyone was curious, but Cui Datou even asked: "Where is it?"

Chu Qing looked at Old Xu and said, "Although you restrained his upper body to prevent him from leaving traces on your body, you forgot that you left clues on his body instead. You When he drowned in the water, his chest struggled against the ground, leaving nothing behind, but after death, the corpse spots appeared. The same appeared, but there was another one." Chu Qing put the body Flipping it over, the back of the neck was exposed, and there were a few corpse spots left on it, but they couldn't see what it was.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and they were bold enough to fight against old Xu Tou: "Brother Chu, can you do it? Just these few small spots can prove that Old Xu Tou is the murderer? Who is this? ?”

Chu Qing raised her eyes and glanced at the man, the old Xu's head was tightly locked on Chu Qing, her Adam's apple rolled up and down a few times because of nervousness, her back was arched, and her wrinkled face was sad: "The old man also wants to know, what is this?" What? How can you prove that you are an old man? Although the old man has not achieved much in his life, he would never dare to do such a murder."

"That's right, little brother Chu, why don't you just arrest someone to take the blame if you can't find someone?" Someone who had been favored by old head Xu couldn't help but say a few words.

Chu Qing hummed, didn't say much, stopped looking at the old Xu head, first went to the box, opened the bottom layer, and took out a small bottle of something, everyone couldn't tell what it was, and saw Chu Qing walking to the corpse Beside, on those few inconspicuous dots, just smear it a few times, and then a surprising scene appeared.

It was just a few bruises that were not much the size of a bean, but it was just like a trick, the color became darker and darker, and then spread, and finally formed a few clearly visible fingerprints.

The crowd onlookers gasped, rubbed their eyes and looked carefully, in amazement: "Chu, brother Chu, what... what's going on here? You, what did you paint?"

Cui Datou couldn't help being stunned: "Yes, yes, why is this so amazing?"

Chu Qing looked at the old Xu's head who changed his face slightly, and said indifferently: "This is vinegar. After a person dies, corpse spots will start to appear in half an hour to an hour, but the formation and development of corpse spots is very difficult. The difference is that it is clearly visible three hours after the death of the corpse. But after four hours, the corpse spots no longer disappear completely, but gradually fade, and the corpse has been soaked overnight. It is caused by blood circulation and precipitation, but after soaking in water, it is not obvious. But when you apply vinegar, it can reveal all the hidden things that were exerted by the internal force before the corpse died. So, old Xu, you still have What do you say?"

Old Xu's whole body was tense, he stared at the dots on the corpse, and continued to argue: "My old man is just a farmer and doesn't understand these things. Even if these fingerprints appear, what can they explain?"

Everyone also nodded: Yes, this can only prove that Liu Erhun was killed by him.

But then they saw Chu Qing stretching out her hands, overlapping them and pointing her fingers down at the few fingerprints, and everyone immediately understood.

It should be the fingerprints left on Liu Erhun's neck by the murderer when he pressed down on Liu Erhun's head and neck with both hands, but when Chu Qing raised his hand, everyone was surprised to find that where there should have been ten fingerprints, But there were only nine of them, alone...they thought of old Xu Tou's nine fingers, and immediately understood why Chu Qing suspected Old Xu Tou.

They stared at old Xu's head in disbelief, and took a few steps back.

Old Xutou clenched his hands tightly, and pushed her away angrily at being pulled by Liu Cuishi like this, his eyes widened and protruded, bloodshot all over the place: "Even if it was nine fingers who killed Liu Erhun, this Qingshui Town It’s not just the old man, I’m Nine Fingers!”

Everyone was startled by the appearance of old Xutou. Liu Cuishi was pushed like this, just about to continue howling, she silently closed her mouth, and shrank behind Cui Datou, not daring to say anything.

Chu Qing unhurriedly put the things in the box back in, and at the same time said slowly: "There are indeed a lot of nine fingers in Longmen Town, but there are nine fingers in contact with Liu Erhun last night, but Only you, Old Xu, are alone."

Old Xu couldn't stop taking a step forward: "What nonsense are you talking about? What evidence do you have to prove that I came into contact with him last night?"

Cui Datou couldn't help standing in front of Chu Qing because of the strange behavior of old Xu Tou.

Chu Qing bypassed him, walked straight to the old Xu, and said in a calm manner: "The marks left on the dead will not lie. Since you want evidence, then I will give you the evidence."

Old Xu met Shang Chuqing's black and white eyes, and panicked inexplicably, "Wh, what evidence?"

Chu Qing's gaze shifted from his face to the hem of his shirt. Because of embarrassment, he must have worn this outer shirt for many years and it was washed white, so a not-so-obvious silt on his hem was particularly obvious. At the beginning, the sky had just been polished, so I couldn't see it clearly if I didn't look carefully.

Her gaze became aggressive in such an instant: "The evidence is the foot mud left by Liu Erhun on your clothes."

"What, what?" Old Xu was taken aback.

While talking, Chu Qing stretched out his hand to touch the little mud stain on the clothes on the chest of old Xu Tou and said: "When you press Liu Erhun's head and neck under the water with both hands, People instinctively struggle before they die. Although you have considered that your hands will be scratched, you forget that he still has feet. The mud he stepped on by the Qingshui River naturally appeared on your body. You last night After killing someone, you should be very panicked, so you didn’t sleep all night, right? Look at your dark circles? You even forgot to change your clothes. People in Longmen Town say that you are a good person, who likes to be clean and has a stable schedule. But you didn’t know about this small smear of mud on your body. You were disturbed, so you went to the vicinity of the murder scene early in the morning. Seeing Liu Cui’s so sad, you pretended to be kind and helped her carry the body. Of course, if you still don’t recognize it, then you might as well ask Brother Cui to compare it with Liu Erhun’s shoes.”

After Chu Qing finished speaking this time, Old Xu's head looked like a defeated rooster, completely wilted down, his head drooped deeply, his eyes were red, he stared at Chu Qing and gritted his teeth, and suddenly rushed towards her with fierce eyes... ...But before he got close, he was held down by several yamen servants, lying on the ground and still growling, with unwilling grunts in his throat.

(End of this chapter)