Ch. 50 - The Case of the Heavenly Hound Eating Heart in Xinglong Street [Part 3]
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A miscellaneous hair dog with a mouthful of human teeth... No matter how they thought about it, it seemed a little funny!
In response, Jia Yucun exclaimed, "In this case, Vice President Ge was killed by someone, not by some Heavenly Hound?"
"Of course!"
Sun Shaozong disdainfully said, "It was someone who killed Vice President Ge and barked like a dog in the room, intending to pretend to be a Heavenly Hound, that claimed his life! Unfortunately, his layout was too clumsy, which not only didn't cover up his actions but completely exposed oneself away!"
Clumsy?
Except for Sun Shaozong himself, they’re afraid that no one in the audience would use the word ”clumsy” to describe these arrangements. If it weren't for Sun Shaozong himself, it would be impossible for others to see any flaws in a mass of minced meat residue!
It was just that...
"Assistant Prefectural Magistrate Sun."
Ge Xiaorui, the eldest son of Vice President Ge, questioned, "You just said that the murderer hid in the house to learn dog barking after killing my father? If that's true, when we arrived in the yard, wasn't the murderer still in the study room? Then how did the murderer disappear out of thin air?"
"Yes!"
Ge Xiaoxian, the second son, also said, "When we knocked open the door, except for my father's body, let alone people, not even a hair... I didn't even see a single shadow!"
He originally wanted to say, “I didn't even see a single hair,” but when it came to his mouth, he suddenly remembered the handful of dog hair, so he quickly changed the following lines.
The remaining third son, Ge Xiaoyi, and fourth son, Ge Xiaowen, also raised doubts one after another.
Concubine Zhang, who was full of the divine spirit, had been beaten and kept silent. At this time, seeing that Sun Shaozong had suddenly become the target of public criticism, she immediately burst into a snarl and shouted with a sharp voice, "I told you so! It must be the Heavenly Hound that killed The Master, otherwise, how can it disappear without a trace under the eyes of all of us?!”
Seeing that the theory of ”The Heavenly Hound claimed his life” had been overturned, it was noisy again for a time, and even Jia Yucun and others were suspicious again.
It was a long way to get rid of feudal superstition!
Sun Shaozong smiled helplessly, pointed to the bedroom, and said, "Actually, it's not as difficult to disappear from this bedroom out of thin air as you think. If you guys don't believe it, you'll understand it after going in with me."
With that, Sun Shaozong whispered a few words to Zhou Da and then walked into the bedroom first.
The crowd also hurriedly followed in succession and saw Sun Shaozong reaching out and pointing to the body and the bath bucket, saying, "When I first saw the body and the bath bucket, I felt a little strange. Even if I wanted to wash away the clues left on the body, I didn't need to scoop out the whole bath bucket of water, right?"
"As you know, no matter how you scoop water from the bath bucket, it will become particularly troublesome at the bottom. According to common sense, the murderer doesn't need to scoop up the water at all, unless he has other purposes!"
"Following these doubts, I carefully investigated the scene and finally found that the reason why the murderer repeatedly washed his chest with water was not to clean up the traces on the body but to achieve two other purposes!"
"Two other purposes?"
"That's right!"
Sun Shaozong stretched out two fingers and continued to talk, "The first purpose is to cover up the fact that the murderer once took a bath in the bath bucket after killing..."
"Wait!"
Before Sun Shaozong finished speaking, Concubine Zhang jumped out again and asked in a high-pitched voice, "How do you know that the murderer once took a bath in the bath barrel?"
"Of course, it's because of the red mark on the inside of the bath barrel!"
Sun Shaozong went to the bath bucket, pointed to the inner side of the bucket, and said, "Although the murderer pretended to clean the body and splashed the water in the bucket on the ground, the murderer didn't notice that when he took a bath, the dirty blood on his body was already inside the bath bucket and had dyed a circle of light red marks!"
Everyone went up one by one to check. Sure enough, they found a circle of inconspicuous, light red marks on the inside of the barrel near the top! "
Others were amazed at Sun Shaozong's insight, but Concubine Zhang still questioned, unconvinced, "Then how can you be sure that this trace was caught in the bath and not accidentally made by the murderer when he was bailing out?"
This woman was pestering him so endlessly that she didn’t have a bad conscience in her heart, did she?
Sun Shaozong silently listed her as the first suspect. Then he reached into the bath bucket and hung it at the same level as the red mark. He pointed to the body on the ground with his chin and said, "With Vice President Ge's rich body figure if there was so much bath water in the bath bucket, what would happen after he went in?"
"It will overflow!"
Zhao Wuwei hurriedly replied, "Let alone the Vice President, even if it's me, I'm afraid it will overflow a lot of water."
"That's right!"
“The servants of your mansion should not have neglected it to this extent, right? Therefore, this layer of trace must have been left by the murderer after he soaked in it,” Sun Shaozong said, spreading his hand and shrugging at Concubine Zhang.
This time, Concubine Zhang finally had no words, so she had to step back bitterly.
Sun Shaozong raised two fingers and said, "In addition to covering up the traces of bathing, the murderer's other purpose is to make the scene more chaotic and terrifying so that others can completely ignore his deception!"
"Deception?"
Jia Yucun deserved to be called the smartest in the crowd. Hearing this, he suddenly pointed out the key to the matter, "Does it mean that the murderer didn't disappear from the room at all, brother? But what method did he use to hide it from everyone's eyes?!”
"That's right!"
Sun Shaozong paced back and forth and said firmly, "The murderer first stabbed Vice President Ge naked with a sharp weapon, ripped him out of his heart, arranged for him to be killed by the Heavenly Hound, washed all over his blood in the bath bucket, and then put on his clothes..."
He paused and suddenly stretched out his hand behind the door and said, "Hide behind the door and learn to bark. Wait until someone breaks through the door and blends into the crowd silently!"
Before Sun Shaozong's words fell, everyone in the room was in an uproar!
"How... How is this possible?!"
"Yes, if someone really did hide behind the door, how can we not see it?!"
Even Jia Yucun, who had just taken the initiative to propose a hypothesis, shook his head at this time and felt that Sun Shaozong's words were as absurd as an Arabian Night.
Sigh~
A group of people who haven't seen ”Young Justice Bao” wanted to understand the essence of this plan. It was still a little difficult indeed.
Fortunately, he was ready!
"Everyone!"
Sun Shaozong raised his voice and asked in a loud voice, "Haven't you found that there is a person in the room who shouldn't exist but sneaked in halfway?"
Everyone was stunned when they heard the speech. They looked at each other, but they really couldn’t tell who ”shouldn't exist.”
After a while, a skinny boy took the initiative to stand up, approached the Ge Xiaorui brothers, bowed his waist, and smiled while saying, "Masters, I’m the one who sneaked in halfway. Because when the door was first smashed, I wasn’t present, so I wasn’t called by the Official of the Central Judicial Office for questioning."
With that, he pointed to Zhou Da again and said, "Until just now, the Official called me over and let me sneak into the room..."
"How is this possible?!"
Before he finished speaking, the old housekeeper of Vice President Ge’s mansion shook his head and said, "Liu Rui, you are the Lord's personal servant. How can you not be there when we’re smashing the door?!”
"This..."
Liu Rui was about to explain, but the two familiar boys next to him had a sudden realization and rushed to say, "Old housekeeper, Brother Liu was really not there at that time! Because he got up in the middle of the night and squatted in the cottage for half an hour, he just missed it!"
Hearing the speech, everyone was in an uproar. They felt beyond comprehension, but they had to believe it.
"Everyone should understand now, right?“
Sun Shaozong's eagle-like eyes also glanced at the people of the Ge Mansion one by one and finally sneered, "The murderer who killed Vice President Ge is among you guys!"