Chapter 50: The Tengu Heart-Eating Incident on Xinglong Street (Part 2)
A mixed-haired Tengu with a mouthful of human teeth - this seems a bit funny no matter how you think about it!
Therefore, Jia Yucun couldn't help but blurt out: "In this case, Minister Ge was murdered by someone, not by some heavenly dog?"
"certainly!"
Sun Shaozong said disdainfully: "Someone killed Minister Ge and then imitated the barking of a dog in the room, intending to pretend that the heavenly dog was seeking his life! Unfortunately, his arrangement was too clumsy, not only did it not cover up the situation, but it completely exposed his true intentions!"
Poor?
Apart from Sun Shaozong himself, no one present would use the word "clumsy" to describe these arrangements - in fact, if Sun Shaozong had not taken action personally, it would have been impossible for others to find any flaws in a pile of meat!
only……
"President Sun."
Then Ge Xiaorui, the eldest son of Minister Ge, questioned, "You just said that after the murderer killed my father, he hid in the house and barked like a dog? But if that was true, when we rushed to the courtyard, wouldn't the murderer still be in the study? Then how did he disappear out of thin air later?"
"yes!"
The second son, Ge Xiaoxian, also chimed in: "When we broke open the door, apart from my father's body, there was no one, not even a hair... not even a shadow of a person!"
He originally wanted to say "I didn't see even a single hair", but when the words were on the tip of his tongue, he suddenly remembered the tuft of dog hair, and quickly changed the following lines.
The remaining third brother Ge Xiaoyi and fourth brother Ge Xiaowen also raised questions.
The charlatan Aunt Zhang had been silent at first, but now that Sun Shaozong had suddenly become the target of public criticism, she immediately started to show off again, shouting in a shrill voice: "I told you! It must be the Heavenly Dog that killed the master, otherwise, how could it disappear without a trace right under our noses?!"
Seeing that the theory of "Heavenly Dog demanding lives" that had just been overturned was becoming a hot topic again, even Jia Yucun and others became suspicious again.
It is indeed a long and arduous journey to eliminate feudal superstitions!
Sun Shaozong smiled helplessly, pointed at the bedroom and said, "Actually, it's not as difficult as you think to disappear from this bedroom. If you don't believe me, just follow me in and take a look."
Having said that, he called Zhou Da over and whispered a few words to him, then walked into the bedroom first.
Everyone followed in and saw Sun Shaozong pointing at the body and the tub, saying, "Actually, when I first saw the body and the tub, I felt it was a little strange. Even if you want to wash away the clues left on the body, you don't have to scoop out all the water in the tub, right?"
"You know, no matter what method you use to scoop water out of the tub, it will become extremely troublesome when it reaches the bottom. According to common sense, the murderer has no need to scoop out all the water - unless he has other purposes!"
"According to these suspicions, I carefully investigated the scene and finally found out that the murderer repeatedly flushed the chest cavity with water not to clean up the traces on the body, but to achieve two other purposes!"
"The other two purposes?"
“That’s right!”
Sun Shaozong held up two fingers and continued to talk: "First of all, the first purpose is to cover up the fact that he took a bath in the bathtub after killing someone..."
"etc!"
Before Sun Shaozong could finish his words, Aunt Zhang jumped out again and questioned in a shrill voice: "How do you know that the murderer had bathed in the bathtub?"
"Of course it's because of the red marks on the inside of the tub!"
Sun Shaozong walked to the tub, pointed at the inside of the tub, and said, "Although the murderer pretended to wash the body and poured all the water in the tub onto the ground, he didn't notice that when he was bathing, the dirty blood on his body had already stained a circle of light red inside the tub!"
Everyone went up to check one by one, and indeed found a circle of inconspicuous light red marks on the inside of the barrel, near the top!
Everyone else was amazed at Sun Shaozong's insight, but Aunt Zhang was still unconvinced and questioned: "Then how can you be sure that this stain was stained while bathing, and not accidentally left by the murderer when scooping water?"
This woman is so unreasonable, could she be hiding something?
Sun Shaozong silently listed her as the first suspect, then reached into the tub and held his hand at the same level as the red mark. He then pointed at the body on the ground with his chin and said, "Given Minister Ge's plump figure, if there was originally so much bath water in the tub, what do you think would happen after he entered?"
“It will overflow!”
Zhao Wuwei was the first to answer: "Don't even mention the Minister, even if I were to take a dip in there, I'm afraid a lot of water would overflow."
“That’s right!”
Sun Shaozong spread his hands and shrugged at Aunt Zhang, saying, "The servants in your house wouldn't be so careless, right? So this layer of traces must have been left by the murderer after he went in!"
Now Aunt Zhang was finally speechless and had to retreat behind the crowd in disappointment.
Sun Shaozong raised two fingers again and said, "In addition to covering up the traces of bathing , his other purpose is to make the scene more chaotic and terrifying so that others will completely ignore his tricks!"
"A trick?"
Jia Yucun was indeed the one with the highest IQ and EQ among the people present. Upon hearing this, he immediately pointed out the key to the matter: "Brother, are you saying that the murderer didn't actually disappear from the room? Instead, he used some method to hide it from everyone?!"
“That’s right!”
Sun Shaozong paced back and forth, speaking confidently, "The murderer first stabbed Minister Ge to death with a sharp weapon while naked, then cut open his chest and ripped out his heart, arranging it so that it looked like a heavenly dog was coming to take his life, then washed off the blood in a bathtub, and then put on his clothes..."
He paused, and pointed his finger behind the door: "Hide behind the door and bark like a dog, and when someone breaks in, sneak in quietly!"
Before Sun Shaozong finished speaking, everyone in the room was already in an uproar!
“This…how is this possible?!”
"Yeah, if there really was someone hiding behind the door, how could we not see it?!"
Even Jia Yucun, who had just proposed the hypothesis, shook his head at this time, thinking that what Sun Shaozong said was as absurd and bizarre as a fairy tale.
Alas~
It is indeed difficult for a group of people who have not watched "Young Justice Bao" to understand the essence of this plan.
Fortunately, he was prepared!
"Everyone!"
Sun Shaozong raised his voice and asked in a loud voice: "Haven't you realized that there is actually a person in the room who shouldn't be there but sneaked in halfway?"
Everyone was stunned again when they heard this. They looked at each other, but they really couldn't tell who was the person who "shouldn't exist".
Finally, a skinny servant took the initiative to stand up, approached the Ge Xiaorui brothers, bowed his waist and smiled awkwardly: "Gentlemen, I am the one who sneaked in. Because I was not present when the door was broken, I was not called in by the officials of Shuntian Prefecture for questioning."
Then, he pointed at Zhou Da and said, "It was only just now that this official called me over and asked me to sneak into the house..."
"How can this be?!"
Before he could finish, the old butler of the Minister's Mansion shook his head and said, "Liu Rui, you are the master's personal servant. How could you not be there when the door was broken?!"
"this……"
Just as Liu Rui was about to explain, two familiar servants beside him suddenly realized what had happened and said, "Old housekeeper, Brother Liu was not there at the time! He had a stomachache in the middle of the night and stayed in the toilet for half an hour, so he just missed it!"
Everyone was shocked when they heard this. They found it unbelievable, but had to believe it.
"Everyone should understand now, right?"
Sun Shaozong's eagle-like eyes swept through everyone in the Ge Mansion one by one, and finally sneered coldly: "The real murderer who killed Minister Ge is among you!"
