Little Detective of the Tang Dynasty: What to do if you are beheaded at the beginning?

Upon hearing the report, Di Renjie, who was about to go to Lu Yang's house for a dinner, immediately turned his horse around and headed out of the city.

Song Zhen had just arrived at Lu's house with Cui Mengzhu, but he didn't expect to see Lu Yang rushing out.

"Seventh Uncle, where are you going?"

Lu Yang looked helpless: "Shouzheng, there was a murder in Yihe Village outside the city."

He didn't dare to ask Song Zhen to follow him directly as before, so he could only say something in a veil, hoping that Song Zhen could help.

But Song Zhen didn't even have the title of a temporary position in the Dali Temple now, so he wouldn't go there to join in the fun out of boredom.

He wasn't a pervert who liked to look at corpses all day.

Besides, if he participated in solving a case in the Dali Temple again, he might be lectured by Li Zhi.

The last case of Wugenmen in Jiangzhou had already made Li Zhi dissatisfied with him.

Unless Huaiying asked him to go, there was no need to talk.

So Song Zhen looked regretful.

"Is that so? That's really unfortunate. Uncle Qi, let's make an appointment next time."

Lu Yang watched Song Zhen leave, and he was stunned for several seconds.

Di Renjie arrived at the crime scene soon, and he found that Ouyang Yu had already arrived.

He walked up and asked, "Did you find anything?"

Ouyang Yu covered his mouth with a handkerchief, his face turned even paler, and he uttered a few words with difficulty.

"Go up and see for yourself."

As soon as Di Renjie entered the courtyard, he smelled a strange meaty aroma.

The Dali Temple clerk took him to the backyard.

There were two figures lying in a tile jar.

"This is..."

Di Renjie's pupils shrank.

Two children with drooping hair, one boy and one girl, their hands and feet were tied with vines, lying in the tile jar.

The murderer was so unscrupulous that he put two children in the tile jar and boiled them?

To be honest, this was the first time that Di Renjie had seen such a perverted killing method.

When he thought of two children with their hands and feet tied being put into a clay pot filled with water, and then adding firewood under the pit...

Di Renjie felt a chill.

However, strangely, the two young dead had a smile on their faces, and seemed to enjoy this torture very much.

"What's going on?"

It seemed that they were willing to be boiled.

Di Renjie ordered people to fish the two young dead out of the clay pot.

The Dali Temple clerks tried hard to hold back their nausea, and they were very careful and moved very lightly.

Because the dead had already been cooked, a little force might cause the skin and flesh to fall off.

Di Renjie noticed that the water in the clay pot did not have any spices added.

In other words, this time the boiling was done with plain water, not for that.

Ouyang Yu covered his mouth and nose and came over. When he saw Di Renjie wearing a mask, he couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Huaiying, where did you get this?"

"Oh, this is made by Shouzheng specifically for me, it's called a mask."

Ouyang Yu showed envy in his eyes. The deep relationship between him and the Minister of Taichang Temple is really fascinating.

Di Renjie looked for clues again around the courtyard.

However, in the backyard of the crime scene, there were no other traces except some footprints on the ground.

Ouyang Yu leaned over and pondered: "Looking at the size of this trace, it should be a woman."

Woman? Is the murderer actually a woman?

"Shouldn't it be a woman?"

In Di Renjie's inherent image, he didn't think a woman could do such a cruel thing.

So, he leaned over and continued to observe.

"Huaiying, what are you doing?"

"Hush."

After a quarter of an hour, he finally found a loophole.

"Sure enough, the murderer deliberately faked the murderer's traces to look like a woman!"

Ouyang Yu asked curiously: "How did you see it?"

"It's very simple, the depth of the footprint." Di Renjie pointed to the footprint he had just stepped on.

"Look, this footprint is obviously smaller in size. It should be a petite woman. That's the problem."

"The depth of the footprint is almost the same as the depth of my footprint, or even deeper. Do you think it's reasonable?"

It's impossible for a monster with short lower limbs and a fat upper body to appear, right?

It's not that there is no such thing, but the probability is smaller. Di Renjie tends to think that a murderer deliberately wore a woman's shoes and then stepped here, deliberately faking the scene and letting the clues deviate from the truth.

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Unfortunately, the courtyard at the scene, except for the suspicious traces in the backyard of the crime scene, other places are all white and no clues can be found.

Di Renjie found the neighbors of this house in the crowd.

They are neighbors, but in fact, the two houses are only ten feet apart.

"Are you familiar with this family?"

The neighbor replied in fear: "Sir, of course I am familiar with this family.The owner's surname is Niu, and his single character is Ma. He started doing business in Luocheng five years ago. "

"Doing business? What kind of business?"

"Selling some fruits. His family has planted a fruit forest in the back mountain."

Di Renjie continued to ask: "While Niu Ma is out selling fruits, where is his wife?"

"His wife is farming at home. The couple seems to have a good relationship."

Ouyang Yu ordered people to move a corpse out for the onlookers to identify.

This action scared the onlookers and their faces turned pale.

"It is..."

"Who is it? Do you know him? "

The neighbor rolled his eyes and passed out.

Then, a strong man in the crowd who was probably brave enough came up to identify the two young victims. He could tell at a glance that they were Niu Ma's children.

Di Renjie and Ouyang Yu looked at each other and saw each other's doubts.

The murderer brutally killed the owner's children in the yard. What deep hatred did the murderer have with the owner, Niu Ma?

Ouyang Yu frowned: "Huaiying, do you think the murderer could be? Niu Ma himself? "

Di Renjie's face darkened, and he did not rule out this possibility.

Although even a tiger would not eat its own cubs, what if there was a hidden secret? Who knows.

Di Renjie walked back to the crime scene alone in silence.

He held his chin and observed the tools used in the crime. He was trying to infer the murderer's method of committing the crime.

He slowly closed his eyes and listed the tools related to the murder in his mind one by one.

"The clay jar was filled with water and burned with fire. The hands and feet of the two dead were tied with vines..."

Suddenly, he opened his eyes abruptly.

"The clay jar is made of clay, which represents soil, and the water boiled on the fire represents water and fire. The hands and feet are tied with vines, which represents wood!"

"No! There must be another gold! I didn't find it!"

"One woman and one man, representing one yin and one yang! Is this the Taoist Yin and Yang and Five Elements? ”

The state religion of the Tang Dynasty was Taoism, so Di Renjie was naturally familiar with Taoist theories.

After Ouyang Yu heard Di Renjie's speculation, he immediately thought of a book.

"The method of killing, sinking into water and entering fire? It's a sentence in the Yin Fu Jing!"

"The Yin Fu Jing?"

Ouyang Yu explained: "The Yin Fu Jing, according to folk legend, was accidentally discovered by Taoist Quan (quán) in the rock wall of the Tiger's Mouth of Shaoshi when he traveled to Songshan in the fifth year of Yonghui."

"Later, Chu Suiliang, who was the then recorder, copied and excerpted it and presented it to the saint."

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