The long fairy road is wonderful

Chapter 93 Sword Formation (5)

The scene was close to the village, and from the murder site in the woods, one could vaguely see the curling smoke rising from every household in the village.

On Lin Tianci's left is the scene of the crime, and now there are still clues of what was burned, a faint trace of a human figure printed on the scorched soil.

He looked up and looked around, his eyes passed through the woods, and there was a not-so-narrow river less than a hundred meters away.I heard from the yamen servant that the body was found by that river.

To be honest, this river is not a suitable place to dump the body.Because there are villages nearby, a lot of people's domestic water comes from this river, and no heavy objects were hung when the corpse was found, so the probability of the sinking corpse being found here is extremely high.

This is unusual.

It stands to reason that such a premeditated murderer should try to avoid the discovery of the body after committing the crime, because the later the body is discovered, the better it is for the murderer.

Whether it's forging an alibi, or packing up your belongings and running away, it will take time.

It felt as if the murderer wanted everyone to find the body.

As soon as this thought came up, Lin Tianci seemed to have caught a glimmer of inspiration, but it was quite mischievous, and it was fleeting and there was nowhere to pursue it.

Forget it, let's watch the scene first.

Lin Tianci was not the only one who came to the scene together. Apart from the prisoner being sent to the prison for temporary custody, many other government servants also followed.

"Did anyone notice the fireworks here when the murderer burned his body?"

The location is not far from the village, even if the mountain road is bad, it is only half an hour away at best.Judging from the traces at the scene, the fire was not small, and someone should have noticed it.

"I asked the people around me, and they all said that no one had seen the smoke, but an old man said that he saw a fire on the mountain when he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet."

"Five days ago?"

"Exactly."

It seems that the murderer burned the corpse in the middle of the night, that's right, everyone has already gone to bed at night, even if they saw the fire on the mountain, no one would be too lazy to go and check it out, you must know that there are some ferocious beasts on the mountain, in the middle of the night There is still danger in running to the mountains.

But still the same sentence, the murderer chose to burn the body here is a bit unscientific, or the act of burning the body itself is very unscientific.

Because of the hatred of taking his wife?
Maybe there really is a consideration in this regard.But there are many ways to vent your anger, and you have to burn the corpse without destroying the traces, throwing the burnt corpse into the river where people can easily find it... This is a bit wrong.

Lin Tianci looked at the burnt marks on the ground, and suddenly remembered a scene from the TV drama "Redressing Injustice".

"Come here, lay out flammable materials, and re-ignite the fire."

Although the yamen servant didn't understand what the county magistrate was doing, it was the words of his immediate superior. He quickly collected dead branches and leaves to cover the ashes at the cremation site, and then set fire to it with a torch.

Looking at the blazing fire, Lin Tianci hoped that the TV series he watched back then would not be fooled.

There was not much fuel from the collected trees, and the fire burned vigorously, and it gradually extinguished after a short while.

He ordered people to sweep away the excess soot, and a disorderly trace appeared in place, and it could roughly be distinguished that it was a human figure.

After a person dies, they are roasted by fire, and the oil goes deep into the ground, and when they are re-roasted by the fire, the oil floats up, and the remaining ashes form the appearance of the dead when they died.

Lin Tianci glanced at it. The traces of the human figure were very messy. It can be seen that the victim must have struggled desperately when he was roasted by fire, but failed, and was burned to death in the end.

It is normal to struggle under the fire, but it is not normal for the victim in this case.

Once the medicine on the prescription is drunk, it is like the anesthetic used for surgery in modern hospitals. People don’t feel it at all. This is different from the sleepy medicine of Mongolian sweat medicine. The latter will definitely wake up if it encounters a fire. , the former will not.

This shows that the deceased did not drink the medicine when he was burned!

Does the order matter?
Of course it matters!

According to the dossier and the arresting head, the deceased was first given anesthesia by Ma on the grounds of a secret prescription for treating rheumatic bone pain, and then Song broke his hands and feet while unconscious, then burned the body to wipe out traces, and finally threw the body into the river.

But if the deceased did not take the medicine when he was killed, all the above guesses will change.

"What's Song's experience like? Is his body strong?"

"My lord, Song used to go out to do business with a car when he was young, because he broke his leg during a business trip and has since become disabled. He returned to his hometown a few years ago and was not strong."

A man with a disabled leg and a small body wants to subdue the victim, a farmer who is an upright man in his prime and has been working in the fields for a long time?What a joke.

Unless there is a sneak attack or medication, it is absolutely impossible to easily subdue the victim without attracting the attention of others.

"Where is Song's home? Have you searched it?"

The policeman pointed to the small village at the foot of the mountain and said:
"Song's home is just beside the village at the foot of the mountain. In his early years, he made some money from trading, so his home is relatively conspicuous."

Lin Tianci looked along, and it was indeed more conspicuous, because his family must be richer than others.

"After the incident, there were traces of a search in Song's house in a hurry, so it is believed that this person fled overnight."

"Does he have relatives?"

"No, this person is an orphan. When he grew up, he traveled with a caravan."

Lin Tianci asked again:
"Can the money be found?"

Quickly thought about it:
"About some scattered silver and hundreds of taels of silver bills hidden in a hidden place were found."

"Do you have a bank note..."

After bowing his head and thinking for a while, Lin Tianci waved his hand and said:

"Go back, call the prisoner for interrogation, and ask Wu Zuo to come up and re-examine the autopsy."

As soon as the words fell, the scenery in front of me turned back to the court again. It would be very convenient if it was a game...

Lin Tianci saw a middle-aged man standing next to Tangxia's corpse, and asked:

"Are you Zuo?"

"It's the villain."

"I have a few points that I need you to re-examine. First, cut open the nasal cavity to see if there is any dust in it. Second, whether there is any dust in the mouth. Third, whether there is any medicinal liquid in the stomach. Fourth, let me take a closer look at the deceased. Is there any disability in the leg?"

After hearing this, Wu Zuo started to get busy. If these points are proved to be the same as what Lin Tianci thought, the truth of this case will be obvious.

After a while, Wu Zuo turned around and said:
"My lord, there is a lot of smoke in the nasal cavity of the deceased, but there is no smoke in the mouth, no liquid medicine in the stomach, and there is a healed mark on the leg, which seems to be disabled."

Exactly as Lin Tianci guessed, this guy was very excited to solve the case for the first time, so he slapped the gavel:

"My official announces that the murder of her husband by Mrs. Ma and others is an unjust case and needs to be reconsidered."

"My lord, wait a minute."

The catcher stepped forward and said:

"The witnesses and material evidence all point to the convict wife Ma and the adulterer Song, why..."

In a county government, the head arrester is equivalent to the director of the Public Security Bureau, and the county magistrate acts as a judge. Seeing that the prisoner he has captured has been found not guilty, if he does not give a reasonable explanation, the arrester will definitely not accept it.

This is the most critical point in this illusion. As long as the reason and process you tell are in line with the truth, the illusion will be destroyed by itself.

otherwise……

Continue to be bounced by the sword array.

Since Lin Tianci dared to say it, he naturally had something to rely on, he explained:

"You have reversed the deceased and the murderer. The real body of the deceased is Song, and the murderer is Ma's husband."

As soon as this remark came out, there was an uproar in the hall.

"Be quiet, and listen to me slowly."

After patting the gavel tree to calm the place, Lin Tianci said:
"First of all, analyze the possibility. Song has a disabled leg and a thin body. How can he subdue a farmer who has been working in the fields for a long time in his prime?"

"It's medicine..."

The head catcher was taken aback for a moment and then suddenly realized.

"The medicine did not reach the stomach, which means that he was given the medicine after death, rather than drinking it before death. In other words, this person was quickly subdued, gagged, and then broke his limbs. In the end, he was burned to death."

The head catcher raised an objection again:

"But Song may also sneak attack."

"Yes, the possibility cannot be ruled out."

Lin Tianci talked eloquently: "Song is an adult, so it is not impossible to subdue others in a sneak attack, so there are other evidences. You once said that bank notes and a small amount of money were found in Song's home?"

The head catcher nodded.

"If I were Song, I would have to flee overnight after killing someone. Besides my clothes, I would have to bring some money. Even if the silver is too heavy to carry, why didn't he bring the bank notes?"

It doesn't make sense anyway.

"Let me tell you what happened from the beginning."

After pondering for a moment, he said:

"Ma Shi's husband must have resentment when he found out that his wife was having an affair with someone else."

After all, the hatred of killing one's father and taking one's wife is a mortal hatred.

Ma Shi, who was kneeling in the hall, was about to refute, when Lin Tianci said first:

"Whether it is true or not, you know it in your heart, I'm only talking about the murder case."

Mashi opened his mouth, but finally bowed his head and remained silent.

"At that time, he had the intention to kill, but how to kill without implicating himself required some arrangements. First, he took advantage of Song's unpreparedness to subdue him. It is not easy for a strong person to subdue the disabled Song." Then he took Song to the mountain and burned him to death. Breaking his limbs was not only to vent his anger, but also to cover up the characteristics of his disabled legs and feet. After Song was burned to death, he sank his body into the river , wait for someone to find out."

"Why did he do this?"

The head catcher said strangely.

"Exchanging the civet cat for the prince is a plan for the golden cicada to escape its shell."

"But my lord, what you just said is just speculation, the evidence..."

"Of course there is evidence, and it was given to me by the pharmacy guy himself."

Lin Tianci picked up the prescription and said:
"Look at this prescription. At first glance, the rice paper is yellowed. It is old paper, but it is where the flaw lies."

He unfolded the prescription:

"A piece of rice paper that was stacked and stored should have yellowed edges and a white center, but all of this paper is light yellow. It can be seen that a new piece of paper was forged with tea."

The police officer heard the words and looked carefully, and it was indeed as Lin Tianci said, and if he smelled it closely, he could smell the faint fragrance of tea.

"The biggest flaw in the whole thing is that since it claims to be a secret recipe handed down from the ancestors, why did the pharmacy clerk leave the prescription? This is obviously deliberate, making people mistakenly think that he was bewitched by his wife when he went to grab the medicine."

This is Lin Tianci's guess. Ma Shi's husband killed Song, and not only that, but also planted the crime of murder on his wife Ma and Song, and he escaped from his shell.

But that being said, the prescription can be regarded as a flaw, and it can also be regarded as evidence, but it is still not enough to be an ironclad proof.

So Lin Tianci said the last sentence to the policeman:

"Issuing arrest warrants based on Ma's husband's appearance, and at the same time, don't relax the arrest of Song. If Ma's husband can be caught, then the official guessed it right."

As soon as the words fell, the illusion in front of him dissipated like smoke, and Lin Tianci returned to the sword formation.

Looking down, he saw that the long sword with the golden tassel was being held in his hand.

　By the way, someone saw through the previous chapter as soon as it was published, and it was the first time that I had doubts about my own imagination.But when I think about it carefully, I still have a lot of bigger pits, so I'm relieved after thinking about it.
　　Chapter 1 is on the shelves. It is agreed that there will be three updates a week, and the daily update will be 9000~10000 words. The next update will be after noon. Please support me a lot.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)