Chapter 344: Supernatural Events at Longsheng Old Store (Part 2)
Because the plan was too carefully planned, it was exposed?
Wei Ruolan looked confused. Master Qi seemed to have guessed something, but he couldn't believe it. After a long while, he hesitated and said, "Are you trying to say that these witnesses are... all in the same group?"
"certainly!"
Sun Shaozong said confidently: "When they first answered the questions, they were exactly the same as what they said half a month ago, so I felt something was fishy."
"Later, they were able to answer those trivial details fluently, so I was sure there must be something fishy going on. Of course there are people who have a photographic memory, but to encounter so many at once, doesn't Master Qi find it strange?"
"It's a little strange."
Master Qi hesitated and said, "But they really have nothing to do with each other. Besides, not all of them are like this. Isn't what Shopkeeper Zhao said vague?"
"hehe."
Sun Shaozong laughed and said, "He is not only the only one who is vague about the details, but also the only witness who did not see the deceased with his own eyes on the afternoon of April 7th!"
The only witness who did not see the deceased on the afternoon of April 7?
Master Qi seemed to be thinking about something, but Wei Ruolan sneered: "Are you confused, sir? Isn't there Zhang Zhou? She just heard some noises next door. How can you say that Shopkeeper Zhao is the only one..."
"etc!"
Master Qi suddenly interrupted him excitedly and said, "I understand your meaning now. Assuming that all the witnesses except Shopkeeper Zhao are accomplices, then the person who was talking to Zhang Kai at that time was not the dead man with the horse face, but his wife Zhang Zhou!"
“That’s right!”
Sun Shaozong sneered, "Since Zhang Zhou could hear the moans coming from next door, then couldn't she hear the more intense quarrels behind? Even if she didn't rush over to help her husband and the other woman, she shouldn't have just stayed in the house and not reacted at all, right?!"
"Your Excellency is absolutely right!"
Master Qi nodded heavily in agreement, but then he frowned again and said with a wry smile: "But the problem is that these five people really have nothing to do with each other. Just based on inference, we can't prove their crime of conspiracy to murder."
“That’s right!”
Wei Ruolan also interrupted and said, "This is not a joke. It is a heinous case that killed six people at once. How can a few strangers trust each other? How can they be linked together?!"
Sun Shaozong smiled slightly and asked, "Master Wei , have you forgotten your initial judgment? The only thing that could make five strangers conspire to murder someone is the four words 'share a common hatred for a common enemy'!"
"We share the same hatred and the same enemy?"
"It's 'common hatred and common enemy'!"
Sun Shaozong said calmly: "Although these five people are from different places and have no contact with each other, they may have the same enemies!"
"Of course, there must be another person or a force pulling the strings between them, so they can work together perfectly and without any mistakes!"
"Who could have done this?"
Wei Ruolan asked anxiously, "Why did he go to so much trouble to design such a bizarre method of killing people?! Does he have a grudge against these six people, or does he have other purposes?!"
Sun Shaozong spread his hands, looking like "If you ask me, who should I ask?"
Wei Ruolan felt a little disappointed at first, but then she breathed a sigh of relief and blurted out, "So there are things you don't know too!"
Sun Shaozong rolled his eyes speechlessly. Could it be that this guy thought that he was omniscient and omnipotent?
In fact, this time, the reason why he was able to see through the case as soon as he arrived was not because his IQ crushed Master Qi and Wei Ruolan, but because he had accumulated 600 years more information than the two of them - people born in 14XX certainly could not have read "Murder on the Orient Express"!
Not only had Sun Shaozong read novels and watched movies, he had also personally handled similar cases - in the Internet age, it is not uncommon for a group of people who have never met each other in real life to conspire to commit a crime!
So when he discovered that everyone's testimony was seriously inconsistent with the autopsy report, he had already suspected this possibility.
Let’s get back to the story.
However, Sun Shaozong said seriously: "Although I still can't figure out who the person behind the scenes is and what his purpose is - but there are not many feuds that can make people willingly participate in such bloody slaughter, and it is often difficult to hide it from the people around you."
Upon hearing this, Master Qi's eyes lit up and he immediately said, "I'll go call Shopkeeper Zhao and send the yamen runners to call Zhang Kai's sister-in-law for questioning!"
This Master Qi is quite clever, but it's a pity that he is related to Prince Beijing, otherwise Sun Shaozong would really want to poach him.
Not long after, Shopkeeper Zhao was brought in first.
"grown ups!"
As soon as he entered the room, he knelt down on his knees and said with a sad face, "I didn't mean to lie. It's just...it's been so long that I can't remember clearly!"
It seemed that he thought that he was called in alone because his confession was not clear enough, so he had to be interrogated again.
"Let me ask you this."
Sun Shaozong asked solemnly: "When did you and Zhou Bajin meet?"
"this……"
Shopkeeper Zhao looked up at Sun Shaozong in surprise, then quickly lowered his head and said, "I have known his father since childhood, and I can say that Zhou Bajin grew up under my watch."
It turns out they are old friends!
Sun Shaozong was delighted and asked hurriedly, "Then you should know what disaster happened in his family?"
"How did you know that there was a disaster in his family?"
Shopkeeper Zhao wondered, "Ba Jin never mentioned this to anyone."
"What are you talking about!"
Wei Ruolan scolded impatiently: "Tell me what kind of disaster happened to his family!"
Shopkeeper Zhao shrank his neck in fear and quickly told the whole story of the Zhou family.
It turned out that during the Lantern Festival six years ago, Zhou Bajin's father took Zhou Bajin and his younger brother to visit the Lantern Festival.
Because Zhou Bajin was playful and got into trouble, he accidentally knocked over someone's stall. Zhou's father was busy apologizing to the stall owner and forgot to look after his young son. As a result, Zhou Bajin's younger brother was abducted by two women from other places and has not been heard from since.
After returning home, Zhou's father almost fell out with his wife. In a fit of rage, he ran away from home and traveled around the world looking for his young son, but there has been no news of him since!
Zhou's mother lost her son and husband one after another, and became depressed and died two years later.
Later, it was Manager Zhao who took in Zhou Bajin, who was only fourteen years old at the time, out of consideration for their friendship. He recently made him a head waiter in the Longsheng old store.
Although I have only heard about the Zhou family's past and cannot be sure about the other people's situation, the truth is about to come out...
Pah~
Wei Ruolan slapped the table with her hand and cursed with gnashing teeth: "He deserves to be killed! Well done!"
Shopkeeper Zhao was frightened again and kowtowed hurriedly, saying, "I have never lied to you, sir. Please spare my life!"
"Alright, alright, Lord Wei is not talking about you."
Sun Shaozong waved his hand with a gloomy face: "You go down first."
After Shopkeeper Zhao left in fear, Sun Shaozong could not help but sigh, "Nowadays, the only people who can make these people from all over the world unite against the enemy and risk their lives are these unscrupulous human traffickers."
"Never mind!"
Wei Ruolan stood up again and said, "No matter how this case turns out, I will write a letter to ask His Majesty to pardon them!"
This guy still has some passion in his heart.
"Forget about pardoning him. The laws of this dynasty do not encourage blood revenge." Sun Shaozong shook his head at first, then said, "But it is the intention of the question to deal with him leniently as appropriate."
