Chapter 267 There is only one truth!
Is the truth not far away from being revealed?!
Everyone present was a little dumbfounded. Apart from Sun Shaozong's startled behavior, as if he had seen a ghost, there seemed to be nothing wrong, right?
Could it be that Master Zhizhong had just obtained some clues from the demons and ghosts?
"well."
Seeing everyone staring at each other with bewildered expressions, Sun Shaozong sighed helplessly: "Remember to read more, think more, and try more when you encounter something in the future. Otherwise, how can you be a good detective?"
"Well, I have to sort it out from the beginning anyway, so I will just briefly tell you my thinking behind the case."
When they heard that Sun Shaozong wanted to sort out the case, the detectives gathered around him with bated breath - although they might not be able to love their jobs, they were still much more concerned about solving cases than ordinary people.
"cough."
Sun Shaozong cleared his throat and said seriously, "First, let's talk about the body. Captain Jiang once inferred that the deceased was killed by blunt instruments such as sticks and bricks. Based on this, I made a more careful observation and determined that the wound should have been caused by blunt instruments such as bricks."
"Then the question is, did you find anything abnormal in the wounds of the corpse?"
Is there anything unusual about the wound?
Everyone looked at each other, feeling a little embarrassed. Although they were also exploring the site, how could their level of observation be compared with Sun Shaozong's?
Besides, with their limited knowledge, even if they really saw something strange, they might not be able to recognize it.
Of course, some of them were able to react after being prompted.
For example...
“That’s right!”
Qiu Yunfei jumped up and answered like a primary school student: "I once heard Lao Xu say that generally speaking, wounds caused by bricks and stones will inevitably be stained with some debris and powder - but that wound seemed quite clean , at least I didn't see any stone powder!"
Tsk~
This kid has learned a lot of skills from following the coroner Old Xu!
It's a pity that Old Xu can only act freely in the morgue. Once he goes out, he becomes timid and cannot display his full strength. Otherwise, it would be a good choice to pull him out to investigate the case.
“That’s right!”
Feeling regretful, Sun Shaozong loudly affirmed Qiu Yunfei's discovery and further added: "Generally, bricks and stones will always drop some powder and debris when they are hit violently - only stones that have been washed for a long time or played with repeatedly will be an exception."
"Of course, this so-called exception only applies when the exterior is intact. If it breaks after an impact, powder will naturally fall off."
"So the texture of this murder weapon should be quite hard."
"There is no river near Wumiao Street, so it is obviously unrealistic to search for stones such as pebbles on the spot - not to mention that if the murder weapon was pebbles, the murderer would not have taken it away."
"So, the murder weapon must be a stone object that can reveal the identity of the murderer and has been washed and played with for a long time."
A stone artifact that could reveal the murderer's identity and that has been played with for a long time?
When everyone heard this, and thought about Sun Shaozong's strange behavior just now, two words were on the tip of their tongues!
"Inkstone!"
The first person to say these two words was naturally the unrestrained Qiu Yunfei. He said excitedly: "It's an inkstone, right?! That's why you took that junky thing to make up the numbers!"
"That's right!"
Sun Shaozong nodded and said, "I suspected at the time that the murder weapon might be an inkstone - but under normal circumstances, who would carry an inkstone with them in the middle of the night?"
"Did he intend to use the inkstone as a murder weapon from the beginning?"
"Isn't that possible?"
"So, if the murderer brought the inkstone with him, he must have another one, such as..."
"I see!"
Qiu Yunfei suddenly started shouting, "He stole the inkstone from the owner's house and wanted to sell it to someone else!"
“That’s right!”
Sun Shaozong pointed to the place where he had just sat and said, "A dishonest merchant and a servant of a wealthy family are meeting in this restaurant in order to steal and sell the owner's 'inkstone'."
"What Xu Shengli saw was the current situation."
"However, just as Xu Shengli was greeting his regular customers and entering the No. A private room, an accident suddenly occurred - the waiter suddenly bumped into an acquaintance, the deceased Pan Youan!"
"Pan Youan arrived at the restaurant at 2:30 pm, which means he arrived at 9:00 pm, which is about 2:50 pm. Since he wanted to drink to drown his sorrows, he should have finished the half-pound bottle of yellow wine sold in the restaurant in 2:50 pm."
"So Pan Youan stuck his head out, probably wanting to ask the waiter to serve some wine, but he bumped into the waiter!"
"Pan Youan and the servant must be quite familiar with each other, so he didn't have to think too hard to figure out the conspiracy between the two."
"The servant saw that the matter was exposed, and hurried into the private room. He first pleaded with the man softly, and then began to threaten him with threats. This was exactly the quarrel that Liu Tiezhu vaguely heard when he returned upstairs."
"When Liu Tiezhu went downstairs to the kitchen to order food again, the servant and Pan Youan parted unhappily. He did not dare to stay and trade with the profiteer, so he hurriedly left Huiyun Tower with the inkstone."
"So in Liu Tiezhu's impression, the profiteer was always alone; while Xu Shengli thought that the servant was always with the profiteer."
"The matter should have come to an end here."
"But after the young man left Huiyun Tower, he was very anxious. Perhaps he wanted to negotiate with Pan Youan again so that Pan Youan would not expose what he had done."
"Or maybe he was already prepared to kill me!"
"Anyway, around midnight, Pan Youan got extremely drunk and staggered out of Huiyun Tower, and the servant followed him."
"Seeing that there was no one around, the servant became angry and, in order to cover up his act of 'stealing and selling his master's property', he smashed Pan Youan to death with an inkstone at the entrance of the alley, then dumped the body in the alley and fled in a hurry!"
"Then, around dawn, someone found Pan Youan's body, but instead of reporting it to the police, they stole the valuables from the body, leading to a misjudgment of 'murder and robbery.'"
Listening to Sun Shaozong's story, it felt as if I had witnessed the murder happen with my own eyes.
However, all the details and clues used in the process were found out under the eyes of everyone, making people feel as if they could do it as long as they worked hard.
But everyone present was a former detective, so how could they not know the difficulty of solving this kind of "headless murder case"?
The more he compared it with the cases he had handled before, the more magical and unattainable it seemed that Sun Shaozong's ability to see the truth in the smallest details and to connect and complete various clues was beyond his reach .
I'm afraid that even if they work hard for three lifetimes, they may not be able to catch up!
"Every time I hear your inferences, I am amazed!"
After all, Zhao Wuwei had spent the longest time with Sun Shaozong, so he was the first to react. Hearing him flattering him, Jiang Laoqi and others suddenly realized what was going on and immediately started to flatter him.
"Okay, there's no need to say these useless words."
Sun Shaozong waved his hands and said, "Inspector Qiu, Captain Zhao, Captain Jiang, the three of you, take Xu Shengli with you and go with me to identify the real culprit."
"Is he really that murderous?!"
Jiang Laoqi couldn't help but exclaimed: "Sir, do you already know who the real murderer is?!"
Pah~
Before Sun Shaozong could answer, Qiu Yunfei slapped him on the back of his head and angrily scolded him, "You have a pig brain?! Pan Youan is so young and works as a servant in a big mansion. How can he know outsiders?"
"Even if he really knows a few of them, he can't even handle his own affairs, how can he care about other people's private affairs?!"
After being yelled at several times, Jiang Laoqi finally came to his senses. He widened his eyes and said, "So the murderer... the murderer is also from Rongguo Mansion?!"
"That's right."
Sun Shaozong said with certainty: "The murderer must be a servant from Rongguo Mansion!"
