Chapter 21 The Murder Scene
In the afternoon, Shenshi.
Su Dawei followed Gao Dalong and Xiaosang to an alley.
This is Yonghefang among the 64 fangs in Chang'an County.
It is only separated from Fengyifang by Huixianfang, and Gao Dalong and Su Dawei are very familiar with this place.
There are many religions and nobles in the West City, and no one will live nearby. Generally, the residences of senior officials and nobles in the court are close to the palace.
Yonghefang is close to Yanping Gate, both of which belong to the nearest periphery of Chang'an.
Most civilians live here.
Some bad people will also settle here, hoping that the houses here will be cheap.
Bypassing the alley, Gao Dalong took Su Dawei to a secluded house and pointed to one of them: "It's this one."
Su Dawei looked around and saw that there was no popularity in the alley and he didn't see any strangers.
"The residents here?"
"There were several idle investors. After the incident, the county government sent a servant to visit. Our people scrambled among the servants to check the scene. Then, in the name of the county government, sealed the house, and the neighbors on both sides also cleared them out and moved them elsewhere."
"Will it be a little extravagant?"
"If the people from our Wazheng Camp come to investigate the case and are seen by those people, it will be bad if they spread it."
"Too."
Su Dawei nodded: "Go in and have a look."
After seeing the external environment, it is nothing surprising. It is a row of low-rise earthen houses, which are common in civilian areas.
It is far from the Imperial City and has cheap housing prices. Most of the people living here are civilians.
The houses at the scene of the murder were cleared out from left to right, which was indeed quieter and convenient for investigation.
When he walked to the wooden door, Su Dawei stretched out his hand and found that he could not push it.
There was also an official seal on the door.
"The door must be locked, otherwise if you are used to being poor here, you may not be able to leave your family's things."
Gao Dalong was familiar with the situation of the three religions and all kinds of things. In the past, he got up step by step from the bottom before he was a group leader in Fengyifang.
It is naturally clear that the neighbors of Yonghefang are not that reliable.
If the door is not locked, I'm afraid that someone can emptie the house.
Now that the seal from the government is pasted and locked, it should be safe.
"Come over the wall?"
Su Dawei glanced at the earthen walls on both sides.
This kind of small wall is only about one person tall. If you really want to go over it, just a thief will go in.
"Come over the wall."
Tall dragon said, with a little bit of foot, and his body rose into the air and flew over the wall.
Xiaosang followed with a knife in his arms.
Su Dawei looked around and jumped, slapped his hand on the wall, and leaped over it with all his strength.
"Hiss~"
When landing, Su Dawei shook his hand.
Gao Dalong turned around and curiously said to him: "What?"
"Are broken pieces buried on the wall?"
"I have had it before, but other families haven't seen this. It may be because of the snake head to prevent theft."
"This guy is very careful."
Su Dawei shook his hand again.
With his extraordinary ability, some broken porcelain will naturally not hurt him. He is just a little careless and his palm is a little numb.
"Let's go in." Gao Dalong said to him.
"Wait, I'll look at this yard."
Tang Shi's courtyard is standard, unless it is really poor and saves the yard.
The snake head is obviously not in this case.
Although this dirt house looks dilapidated, it also has a small courtyard and a main house.
Su Dawei and the others climbed over the wall and stood in the front yard at this time.
Of course the yard is not big, it is only about ten square meters.
Not far ahead is the main house.
Su Dawei's gaze swept through the yard and noticed that there was a vegetable garden in the corner of the yard. Now the vegetable planted inside has turned yellow and there is no way to see what has been planted.
The path leading to the main house seems to have been compacted and the footsteps are flat.
Rich families usually pave the road with pebbles or bluestone chiseled from the mountains, so that it will not be muddy when it rains.
Poor families are naturally not so particular.
It is already very thoughtful to be able to ramm the soil on the road.
There are several shelves on both sides of the road, which seem to be used to spread things.
But now the shelf has long disintegrated half of it, looking depressed.
After looking around, he didn't see anything useful. Su Dawei said to Gao Dalong and Xiaosang who were waiting beside him: "It's OK, come in and take a look."
The door of the main house was not locked and half-closed.
The tall dragon stretched out his hand and the dust fell down.
He glanced at Su Dawei, ignored the dust falling on his head and shoulders, and walked in first.
Su Dawei couldn't help but say, "How long has this room been idle? Why is it so much dust?"
"This is the case with the beams and earthen walls rotting."
Xiaosang said something aside.
Su Dawei nodded and followed into the house.
The room is not big, the only window is closed from inside.
So the air is a little turbid and the light is not very good.
Su Dawei couldn't help frowning, and inhaled in one breath, all the damp musty smell, like rotten vegetable leaves in the refrigerator.
"What's corrupt?"
"Oh, maybe there is some blood and minced meat in the corner, we haven't moved it." Gao Dalong looked indifferent and even smiled with a little bit of bad taste.
Su Dawei frowned: "You can't mention these disgusting things?"
"The smell is all in the room, you have sucked it in. If I don't say it, you won't feel disgusted?" Gao Dalong scoffed.
"Pretty."
"Evil thief!"
Su Dawei cursed, thinking about what kind of corpse and blood she had never seen before when he was expeditioning the Western Turks?
It seems to be really pretentious.
Thinking to himself, he walked to the window with his left hand, reached out and pulled the window bolt, pushed the window open, and let the light outside come in.
After taking a breath of the smell of earth coming in from the window, he suddenly thought that when he was expeditioning the Western Turks, there were ice and snow.
Even though I saw many broken limbs in the battle formation, there was no such meat that rotted and made people vomit.
Forget it, you can’t think about life, and you don’t have to eat dinner if you think about it again.
The light outside the window was like a faint, translucent light column pouring in and landing in the center of the house.
The surroundings were covered in darkness, and the atmosphere was strange.
This light is the only light source in the house.
"This house is too dark. After staying for a long time, I am afraid of depression." Su Dawei raised his eyebrows and began to observe the situation in the house in line with the light.
"What is depression? It sounds like a disease." Gao Dalong said curiously.
"It is a mental illness that makes people feel hopeless, depressed, and even commit suicide."
"You mean, this snake head died of suicide due to depression?"
"My mother, how could I say that, this is impossible... It's simply impossible. Try to kill yourself and cut off your head? Isn't it okay?"
"I can do it."
Gao Dalong glanced at him strangely: "When fighting with the three masters of the Ba Mansion, I once died and ran away."
"Bah! Do you think everyone is like you? How many anacondas can there be in this world?"
Su Dawei was so upset by him: "At least this snake head would definitely not work, otherwise he would not have been cut off."
After saying that, he waved his hand and said, "Stop talking nonsense. I have never been to the first scene. You have seen it. Tell me where the body was, what postures, and what details are worth paying attention to?"
The room was not big, just about ten square meters. Xiao Sang stood beside the bed and Su Dawei stood at the window.
Gao Dalong stood in the middle of the light column, pointed to the ground and said, "It's here, the center. At that time, we couldn't contact this snake head and sent someone to the house. But no one responded. Later, he climbed over the wall and found that the main house was also locked from the inside.
After slapping the door for a long time, he broke into the door."
Su Dawei followed his words and glanced at the bedroom door.
The door bolt is broken, which corresponds to it.
"Cui Liulang's subordinates entered the door and saw the snake head kneeling here at a glance.
The man is right, but his head is gone, and he is just a headless corpse, still in a kneeling position."
The picture is enough to make the hair stand upside down when you think of it.
In the dim room, a man was kneeling in the middle, his head disappeared above his neck and the body remained unfolded.
The splashing blood was on the wall, on the ground, on the beams, and on the fallen parts.
It seems to have been washed with blood.
"How long has it been since the death of the snakehead?"
"About ten days."
Su Dawei's eyes were on the ground, then moved to the wall, bed, beams, and dark red patches were seen everywhere.
I didn't care at first, but now I know that those are blood spurted out from the neck and carotid artery.
“What do you say about coroner?”
"Broken the head with one knife, and the blade penetrates through the bone seam, clean and neat."
"Where is the head?"
"We didn't see it on site. We searched everywhere in the yard for a long time, but still couldn't find it."
"The headless case."
Su Dawei said to himself: "No, you said just now that when Cui Liulang got down, the door was locked from the inside."
"Yes, this is also something I haven't figured out."
Gao Dalong pointed to the window: "Not only the door, but also the window. This room is locked from the inside and cannot enter the outside at all."
Xiao Sang remained silent and said, "I think the person who killed the snake's head may know him."
"Oh, tell me what you think, why do you say that?" Su Dawei's eyes turned to him.
"I used a knife. I knew that I would cut a person's head with one knife and penetrate through the bone seams. What kind of skills would it take to do with such a knife?"
Xiaosang's gray-blue eyes flashed slightly: "With a gap in the world, this person either uses a knife to perfection. Even if the snake head sees him slashing his sword, he will not dodge it.
Either it was an acquaintance who committed the crime and both parties knew each other, so the snake head relaxed its vigilance.
From the scene, the deceased was kneeling, which was a hospitality posture, and there seemed to be no trace of struggle and fighting on the scene.
So I guess, both sides know each other.
When they met and spoke, the other party stood up and stood beside the deceased.”
Xiaosang said, taking a few steps forward from the edge of the table, facing the center of the room, and swinging his knife with his hand: "Then accidentally, draw the sword and slash it down."
Su Dawei thought, and the picture of the day seemed to appear in front of him.
A messy and somewhat unkempt Western City, a little unkempt, was kneeling in the room and was talking to the guests.
The guest stood up, walked to the window intentionally or unintentionally, and closed the window.
Then the man nodded and followed the snake head's words, and walked to him and suddenly drew his sword...
"Even if this is the case, if you can be beheaded with such a smooth sword, this person is so accurate and ruthless that he is in Chang'an may not be able to do it. If both sides do not know each other, it will be even more impossible to kill the head like this in the struggle and confrontation."
Xiao Sang finished speaking in one breath, touched the hilt of his knife, took two steps back, his body sinking into the shadow, and he fell silent again.
His words made Su Dawei think deeply.
It makes sense.
What Xiao Sang said really makes sense.
Su Dawei himself is also a master of swords.
To be honest, if you are in a battle, it is not difficult to kill your opponent.
But as the pestle test says, it is necessary to penetrate through the bone crack and cut the head cleanly with one clean knife.
If you are not lucky, you will cut the neck bone with one knife, and maybe the horizontal knife will break the gap.
Chapter completed!