Concubine

Chapter 225 Traces

Yang Qiuchi asked Nan Gongxiong to go into the warehouse and take out the replaced iron fence in the corner and put it on the ground.Going over and squatting down, he waved to Kang Huai, and Kang Huai also came over and squatted down. Yang Qiuchi pointed to the broken part of the iron fence on the iron frame: "Look, my lord, what does this broken part mean?"

Kang Huai identified it carefully, and there were many thin saw marks in the front and rear directions on the fracture, but he shook his head without seeing any tricks.

"The saw marks on this fracture run from left to right," Yang Qiuchi pointed to the outside of the fracture, "My lord, pay attention here, the last connection point is broken, that is to say, after sawing off the lower end, When the upper end of the saw was about to be cut off, the thief did not continue to saw, but broke it off forcefully, which is enough to prove that the thief saw from right to left."

Kang Huai looked at it carefully and nodded: "Yes, Mr. Yang is right."

"But the direction we are looking at now is from the inside of the iron window. From the inside, it is from right to left. However, the thief came in from the outside, so, from the outside of the window, the sawing is from left to left." Right."

Kang Huai lifted the window with difficulty, turned it over, looked at it, and nodded: "Yes, from left to right."

"If so, the person is left-handed."

"Yes," Kang Huai said excitedly, "Only left-handers can complete this action."

"However, left-handed people are very rare on weekdays, because they are often laughed at."

"Yes, I remember that when I was young, I used my left hand to eat with chopsticks, and I was beaten by my father." Kang Huai said a little embarrassed.

"Therefore, this person is probably not left-handed." Yang Qiuchi smiled.

"No, if you saw with your right hand, you can't saw from left to right."

"So, this man sawed from the inside!"

ah!Kang Huai exclaimed in a low voice. After thinking for a while, his eyes lit up: "So you suspect that the guard is stealing himself and sawing off the fence from the inside?"

"That's right! The guards saw from the inside. When the five railings are about to be sawed off, they don't saw. If you don't come up and look carefully, you won't find that the railings are almost broken. When you need it, Break it off again."

"It makes sense!" Kang Huai said.

"After entering the border of Yunnan, I found that our place is very cloudy and rainy in winter, so these iron fractures are easy to rust." Yang Qiuchi pointed to those fractures, "Please look, my lord, these fractures are of different degrees Some are already rusted, while others are relatively new, indicating that these fractures were not sawed at the same time."

Yang Qiuchi's analysis made Kang Huai repeatedly nod in agreement, but he thought about it, hesitated, and asked, "What if the thief is really left-handed?"

Yang Qiuchi nodded: "It's possible. Then let's think about it from this angle. There are two possibilities for the thief to come in from the outside. One is to come down from the roof, and the other is to go up from below."

"The roof of the silver warehouse is sloping, and the eaves protrude very long, so it is very difficult for a thief to get down from the roof to reach the window, and it will be very troublesome to escape from the night watchman. At the same time, Repeatedly going up and down will leave traces of rope friction on the eaves, but I noticed the eaves just now and found no traces of friction, so the possibility that the thieves came down from the roof to saw the windows can be ruled out."

"Then there is only one possibility left, to grab the iron fence with flying claws and climb up to saw it. The adults said that they will patrol here almost every half hour at night, and the five iron fences are two sections up and down. It will take at least two hours to cut off all of them. Therefore, the thief needs to avoid the night watchman, that is to say, he can only saw for a while. After Geng left, he climbed up to saw again, and repeated this many times until he could saw off the iron railings intermittently.”

"If this is the case, the thief should have left more footprints on the wall. But," Yang Qiuchi stood up, pointing to the few shallow shoe prints on the wall, "Please look, my lord, from the wall Judging from the course of action of the shoe prints left by pedaling, it is obvious that they are only left by the upper and lower rounds."

Kang Huai stepped forward to identify it carefully, and nodded repeatedly.

Yang Qiuchi pointed to the small transom again: "After the five iron fences were sawed through the transom, it was just enough for one person to barely get in and out, and it was very laborious. If a fatter person might not be able to get in. Therefore, the thief If he stole the silver from this window, it would be impossible for him to carry it on his back, the most likely way would be to wrap the silver in one or several bags and throw it out, and then climb out by himself."

Yang Qiuchi pointed to the grass under the window and said: "Master Kang, please look at the grass again." Yang Qiuchi took off on the spot and stamped the ground with his heels, then stepped aside, pointed to the shallow footprints on the grass, and said, "The 2000 Even if the two pieces of silver are divided into several packages, if they are dropped from such a high transom, one or several pits will definitely be left on the grass.”

Kang Huai already understood Yang Qiuchi's meaning, squatted down and carefully inspected the grass under the transom, then stood up and shook his head: "The grass is very flat, there are no obvious pits."

"Yes! This further proves that it is impossible to steal Ku Yin through the transom."

Hearing the analysis of the two of them, the guard was already covered in chaff and his face was pale.

"Let's take a look inside the warehouse again." Yang Qiuchi said to Kang Huai.

The two entered the warehouse, passed through a row of shelves that lined the silver boxes, and came under the transom. Yang Qiuchi pointed to the wall under the transom: "Did you notice it? Are there any traces on this wall?"

Kang Huai went up to take a closer look, and said, "I've observed carefully before, and there are two sets of footprints, which should be left by the thieves' upper and lower transoms."

"Except for these two rows of shoe prints?" Yang Qiuchi asked.

Kang Huai went up to observe carefully again, took another two steps back to look, and shook his head: "There are no more traces."

"That's right!" Yang Qiuchi said with a smile, "Since the thief climbed in through the transom and only left two sets of footprints, it means that the thief only went up and down once. However, what he stole was 2000 taels of silver, if He wrapped the silver in a bag and carried it on his back, and climbed up the rope. The silver is too heavy and it will be very tiring, and it is inconvenient to get in and out. If it were you, an adult, what would you do?"

Kang Huai thought for a while and said: "Of course, put the silver on the ground, tie the bag of silver with a rope, then climb up the transom first, flip out and ride on it, drag the silver up, and grab the remaining bag of silver with one hand. Iron fence, and then throw the silver bag outside."

"Yes! The 2000 taels of silver are too heavy to wrap in one bag. I'm afraid there is no fabric that can bear such a heavy weight. Therefore, the best way should be to wrap the silver in several bags and prepare a few more ropes to tie them together. Pull them up separately, which saves effort and is convenient.”

Kang Huai nodded. Yang Qiuchi's analysis made sense, but he didn't understand what Yang Qiuchi's analysis meant.

Yang Qiuchi pointed to the wall and said, "If this is the case, since these are saddle-shaped silver ingots with edges and corners, even if they are wrapped in cloth, these silver ingots will leave drag marks on the wall."

Kang Huai suddenly realized: "There are no such traces on the wall, which further proves that the silver was not stolen through the transom at all. These are all illusions deliberately created by someone!"

Yang Qiuchi nodded: "If you want to steal the silver from this impenetrable silver vault, if you don't steal it through the transom, and there is no trace of digging holes in the room, there is only one possibility, go out through the gate! It is impossible for outsiders to deliberately forge these traces in the warehouse, only the guards have this opportunity!"

"And the keys are kept separately by the two. Without any one, it is impossible to open the silver vault. Moreover, it takes a long time to saw through the iron fence and forge the scene. One of the guards has to hide it from the other. It is also impossible, therefore, only the two guards collude can it be possible to complete this conspiracy of self-stealing."

"Master Kang said just now that the guards are rotated once a day, and each time they have to count the warehouse silver before they can change shifts. Therefore, they can only do it when they are on duty."

Yang Qiuchi walked back to the rotten window on the ground, looked at the sawn iron fences, picked one up, handed it to Kang Huai, and said, "There is blood on this iron fence, sir, you can smell it. .”

The iron railing was already stained with rust, and the blood had been covered by the rust, so Kang Huai took a closer look, but found no blood on it, took it under his nose and smelled it, and sure enough, there was a faint smell of blood.

Yang Qiuchi said: "This should be the scene where the guard forged the scene. When he broke the iron fence that was about to be sawed off, a sharp cut somewhere cut his palm. The guard grabbed the iron railing with his injured hand, so the blood stayed on it. I found that there was a lot of blood on the iron railing, and I guessed that the man's wound was relatively deep and would not heal in a short time, so I checked their palms, and one of the guards' palms was indeed wounded, thus identifying the suspect."

After Yang Qiuchi finished speaking, he walked up to the two guards and asked, "How is it? What else do you have to say?" The two guards were limp on the ground with pale faces.

Song Yun'er has been following An Jingjing and listening to them, and finally couldn't help but praise at this moment: "Brother, you are so amazing, you can tell it at a glance."

Yang Qiuchi smiled: "Didn't I say that any crime will leave traces, it depends on whether you can find it."

Kang Huai praised: "Master Yang is well said!" He walked over and stared at the two guards, and asked bitterly, "Are you recruiting yourself, or are you using the punishment?"

The two knelt down and kowtowed: "We have recruited, my lord, please spare me!"

Kang Huai asked, "Where's Ku Yin? Where are you hiding?"

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