Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 395 Killing Props

"Cang Hai, what is going on here? Why do you say he is the murderer? When the king came, he asked everyone carefully. When Han Da died, he was still outside Zhang Xu, so how could he kill someone?" Li Yu was full of doubts. asked.

"That's right, Mr. Li, when the official came, he also restored the case. Judging from the situation at that time, when the deceased died, no one approached him at all. How could he be the murderer?" Luoyang Governor also followed. echoed said.

"Who says you can't kill someone if you're not around?" Li Canghai asked back with his hands in his sleeves.

Li Yu and the governor of Luoyang were stunned at the same time.

Li Yu rubbed his chin and thought for a while, then suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said, "Oh, I know, is he a master? Can he use internal force to volley the dagger into the chest of the deceased?"

Thinking of this, Li Yu took a few steps back in surprise, waved his right hand, and shouted: "Come on, take him down!"

At the same time as his words fell, Qi Yunhe's figure suddenly lost his momentum like the wind, and with one move, he held Fangzhu's pulse door in his hand.

Hearing a crackling sound, the Fangzhu's arm suddenly dislocated, and he howled in pain.

"Forgive...forgive me!" The owner of the shop was pale, with cold sweat streaming down his forehead, and he almost lost his breath due to the pain.

Li Canghai rolled his eyes and said, "My lord, I never said he knows martial arts!"

At this time, Qi Yunhe also frowned and said: "My lord, this person really doesn't know martial arts."

Li Yu grinned in embarrassment, and said with a chuckle: "This...cough, this king is testing your reflexes, to see if you can really protect this king."

Qi Yunhe shrugged helplessly, sighed, and put Fangzhu's dislocated arm on him.

"Cang Hai, don't be a fool anymore, tell me quickly, what's going on?" Li Yu asked impatiently.

"It's actually very simple, he just used some props." Li Canghai said lightly.

"Props? What props?" Li Yu looked around and asked with a puzzled expression.

Li Canghai stared at the workshop owner, and said deeply: "Since you don't want to speak, then let me speak for you."

"Caomin... I don't know what your lord is saying!" The owner of the workshop was put back in again because of his dislocated arm, but his face was still blue from the pain.

"Then I will make you understand." Li Canghai walked to the corpse and said, "Actually, the most critical part of the whole case lies in the method of killing. As everyone can see, the deceased died inside the gambling table, and There is no one around him, how did he get killed? As long as you know this, the whole case will be solved easily."

Li Yu frowned, thinking, nodded and said, "That's right, it makes sense. But the question is, how did Han Da get killed?"

Li Canghai narrowed his eyes and said, "Don't worry, my lord. I'll wait for the next official to tell you one by one. If you want to find out the murderer's method of killing, you must first understand one thing. Was the murderer impulsive or premeditated?"

Li Yu waved the folding fan, puzzled and said: "What's the difference?"

"Impulsive killings are all due to the inability to control the anger in the heart. This kind of killing is often done without much preparation, and the clues left are more obvious. Premeditated murder is different. Premeditated murder is done after careful consideration. The murder method carried out will leave very few traces and clues, because every step is within the murderer's expectation." Li Canghai explained.

Li Yu patted the folding fan lightly in his hand, and pondered: "So, this is premeditated murder?"

Li Canghai snapped his fingers and said, "Yes, because there are very few clues left at the scene, so it can be concluded that this is a long-planned murder, not a suicide."

"Oh, no wonder you didn't believe that Han Da committed suicide at first, so that's the case!" Li Yu suddenly realized.

Li Canghai nodded, and then said: "After confirming this point, all that remains is to find relevant clues. Although the murderer will try his best to erase all clues when killing people, Skynet is full of negligence, and there will always be something he misses." place."

"So, you found some clues?" Li Yu asked.

Li Canghai didn't speak, but took out a white handkerchief from his sleeve, opened the handkerchief, and what was in it was the vermilion lacquer powder he found under the pillars.

Li Yu and Luoyang Fu Yin rushed over, looked at the handkerchief, and then looked at each other, both at a loss.

"What is this?" Li Yu scratched his head and asked suspiciously.

"This is the clue." Li Canghai said calmly.

"What kind of clue is this?" Li Yu frowned suddenly, and he looked at Li Canghai with a strange look, trying to see if Li Canghai was deliberately playing tricks on him.

Li Canghai smiled indifferently, and said, "My lord, please follow me."

Li Canghai led Li Yu to the supporting beams and pillars, and said: "The thing on this handkerchief is the vermilion lacquer on this pillar."

Li Yu patted the pillar with his hand, got some vermilion lacquer, then compared it with the powder on the handkerchief, nodded and said: "This is indeed vermilion lacquer, but what does this mean?"

Li Canghai pointed to the underside of the pillars and said, "This is actually the suspicious point."

Li Yu and the others hurriedly looked in the direction he pointed, and found that there was a clear trace of peeling off of the vermilion lacquer at the place where the support beam was a finger high from the ground.

He and the governor of Luoyang looked at each other in dismay, but they were still confused, thinking, what kind of doubt is this?
Li Canghai said indifferently: "The reason why there are such obvious traces of peeling vermilion lacquer here is because a rope was once tied here."

Li Yu and the governor of Luoyang were stunned, and nodded at the same time, but he still asked in puzzlement: "What can this explain?"

Li Canghai smiled calmly, and continued: "Let's press this matter for now, and let's talk about the second doubtful point."

Li Yu looked at him inexplicably, and said: "Cang Hai, the vermilion lacquer matter has not been clarified yet, why is there another doubt?"

"Don't be impatient, my lord. These two doubts are closely related. When the next official makes it clear, my lord will understand." Li Canghai said.

After a pause, Li Canghai walked up to the corpse and said, "Back to the original question, the biggest mystery in this case is how the deceased was killed. When the deceased died, there was no one around him, and the person closest to the deceased There is also a distance of more than four feet. Beyond this distance, no one can insert a dagger into the chest of the deceased, unless the opponent is a master of martial arts."

Qi Yunhe nodded, and said, "That's right, Mr. Li is right. At this distance, it is impossible for ordinary people to insert a dagger into the chest of the deceased."

He paused for a moment, and said with certainty: "The people present are all ordinary people, and no one knows martial arts."

"This is what confused everyone the most." Li Yu frowned while rubbing his clean chin.

Li Canghai picked up the dagger, and said calmly: "Actually, when I checked the corpse, I found some dirt on the dagger."

"Strange, why is there dirt on this dagger?" Li Yu stared at the dagger carefully, and indeed found some dirt on the handle of the dagger, but the dirt had already been splashed bloody.

Li Canghai smiled slightly, and said: "At first, I also felt strange, how could there be dirt on this dagger? To figure this out, another matter must be involved."

"What's the matter?" Li Yu asked.

"During the prince's interrogation, I found a half-finger-deep depression inside the gambling table." Li Canghai said.

"Depression? What kind of depression?" Li Yu asked with a frown.

"This depression is covered by a puddle of blood. If my guess is correct, the depression is where the dagger was in the body of the deceased." Li Canghai brought a few people to the inside of the gaming table, and said, "I said before, the murderer kills people." It is the use of some props, these props are inconspicuous, and it is even difficult to make people suspicious."

Li Yu knocked on his forehead with a folding fan, shook his head and said, "The more you talk about me, the more confused I am, what's going on?"

Li Canghai narrowed his eyes, and said deeply: "It's actually very simple. The murderer first dug a depression inside the gaming table, then turned the dagger upside down in it, and cultivated loose soil around it. Wait until the deceased approached the gaming table. At that time, he was tripped by the rope tied to the supporting beam, and the dagger was naturally inserted into the chest of the deceased."

After saying this, Li Canghai looked at the workshop owner, and said calmly: "Is there anything I said wrong?"

The owner of the workshop turned pale, his pupils constricted, he gritted his teeth, and said tremblingly: "Caomin... I don't know what your lord is talking about."

"So far, you still haven't pleaded guilty?" Li Canghai changed his gentle expression before, and his eyes turned cold instantly.

"Caomin don't know!" the master bit his lip and said stubbornly.

Li Yu rubbed his chin, pondered for a moment, then slapped his chin suddenly, and said, "This king knows! So this is the cause of Han Da's death!"

Li Canghai almost spat out a mouthful of old blood, he thought to himself that the prince's reaction was really nothing.

"But this king still doesn't understand. The inside of the gambling table has a radius of half a foot, and there is only such a small area where the dagger is placed. This leg is on Han Da's body. How can he let Han Da fall? Just happened to let the dagger go into his chest?" Li Yu said puzzled.

This is something he can't figure out anyway. If Fangzhu set up these and killed Han Da, how did he make Han Da fall on the dagger?After all, as long as there is a slight discrepancy, the plan may be seen through.

Li Canghai said indifferently: "This is the most clever thing about him. It has rained continuously for the past two days, and the ground has become damp, and there is even a lot of water. dead end."

"Why is that?" Luoyang Mansion Yin wondered.

Li Canghai picked up a dice from the gaming table, threw it into the stagnant water, and said: "He made some stagnant water on the way to the inside of the gaming table in advance, leaving only one way to the inside of the gaming table, and in the Stumbled in this direction, the chest was right where the dagger was."

"It's just these accumulated water, how can a person go on the road to death honestly?" Li Yu frowned.

"My lord, if you were facing this situation, how would your lord choose to go?" Li Canghai said calmly.

Li Yu walked to the back of the gaming table, looked at the stagnant water on both sides, and the slightly protruding road in the middle, and said, "Naturally choose a place without stagnant water."

Li Canghai nodded and said, "That's right, that's exactly the case. When there is water on both sides, people will subconsciously choose to set foot where there is no water. This is a human psychological expression."

"So that's how it is." Li Yu suddenly realized, and now he finally understood completely, he shook his folding fan, and suddenly shouted sharply: "Hey, you are so brave! How dare you kill yourself! What else do you have to say now? "

The owner of the workshop turned pale, and kowtowed non-stop: "My lord, you are wronged! Caomin... Caomin didn't kill anyone!"

"You didn't kill anyone? Who can prove that you didn't kill anyone?" Li Yu said angrily with his eyes wide open.

"My lord... my lord, they can all prove that when Han Da died, Cao Min was far away from him. How could they kill him? He was tripped? Who can prove that I tripped him with a rope? " The owner of the shop was sweating and said courageously.

"Where were you when Han Da died?" Li Canghai asked lightly.

"Caomin sits there drinking tea." The owner of the workshop pointed to the tables and chairs about ten feet away from the gambling table.

Li Canghai walked over, sat on the chair, and said with a sneer, "If my guess is correct, you pulled the rope here and tripped Han Da, right?"

"My lord, there is nothing to say, and Caomin refuses to accept it! All this is my lord's guess. How could Han Da not see the dagger lying upside down on the ground? Your lord said that Caomin tripped Han Da with a prong, causing him to die. The grass people are going to ask, where is this rope?" The owner of the workshop summoned up his courage and continued.

Li Canghai glanced at him, and said indifferently: "The gaming table is a blind spot, and today is a rainy day, so your vision is getting darker, so you can't see the dagger clearly. As for the rope..." Li Canghai sneered. : "After the incident, the prince controlled everyone, so you have no time to take out the rope. The rope must still be on you!"

Hearing this, Li Yu frowned, and immediately gestured to Qi Yunhe.

Qi Yunhe stepped forward and pushed Fangzhu to the ground, and sure enough, he found a rope from his arms.

"What else do you have to say?" Li Canghai stared at him and said coldly.

"What can be explained by just a rope? I don't accept it!" The owner kept his face on the ground, struggling and screaming.

"I really don't cry when I don't see the coffin!" Li Canghai snorted coldly, and said lightly: "You have calculated everything before, but you have always neglected one point. When you tied the rope to the support beam, the rope rubbed off the vermilion paint. After the vermilion lacquer fell off, it not only sprinkled on the accumulated water, but also seeped into the rope. If you want to know whether this rope is the rope that tripped Han Da and caused his death, you just need to see if there is any vermilion lacquer powder left on the rope. That's it."

The Fangzhu's pupils contracted, and his body suddenly trembled violently.

"You...how did you know so clearly? It's impossible...I've done it very carefully, why did you still find out?" The owner said to himself in horror.

"It's unreasonable. Fortunately, I guessed that you are the murderer early in the morning. Otherwise, how could the truth be revealed to the world?" Li Yu shook his folding fan and said angrily, "Tie up this murderer!"

(End of this chapter)