Chapter 14 Peeling the Cocoon
"Xiaoqi, Xiao Chongliu is really a ghost!"
I guess he was too excited. Wang Jian even had a local accent, but Shen Hao could understand that "ghost" actually means "there is a big problem".
“How to say it?”
"Xiao Chongliu's case in the yamen is very clear. His ancestral home is Jingxi, and his hometown is Shiyuan Town, about a hundred miles east of Wuyang City, belongs to the good people's mouth. His parents are no longer there, and only one sister has married Jingbei, so he is considered a lonely man and has a clear and simple way. When we first checked it, we didn't think there was any problem.
But I went back in the morning and went back to Shiyuan Town according to your wishes. Then I asked someone to go back to Licheng to find the general flag and coordinate with Jingbei to investigate Xiao Chongliu's girl who married far away. The result was very interesting.
There was indeed a family named Xiao in Shiyuan Town. The basic situation was basically the same as Xiao Chongliu’s desk description in the yamen, but none of the elderly in the town knew Xiao Chongliu in the portrait.
Jingbei found Xiao Chongliu's sister, but there was someone who didn't know Xiao Chongliu at all. No, it was because she didn't know the Xiao Chongliu in our portrait. She also said that her brother Xiao Chongliu died on the road when she fled the famine many years ago."
Shen Hao pulled his mouth and clicked heavily on Xiao Chongliu's portrait on the table, saying, "Is this "Xiao Chongliu" an impostor?"
"right!"
“It’s interesting.”
"It's very interesting. According to the neighbors, Xiao Chongliu has been in the Qi family for more than ten years. Do you think the Qi family knows that Xiao Chongliu is actually a fake ghost?"
"Haha, it's hard to say."
After a while of silence, Wang Jian leaned closer and whispered: "Xiaoqi, did you think the Qi family was destroyed by Xiao Chongliu?"
"Haha, you have some hypothesis deduction?"
"Hehe, I hope the little flag axe will correct it."
"Tell me, I'll listen carefully." Shen Hao sat upright, put away his smile, and looked serious. Wang Jian has been with him for four years. He is a capable person and has been taking care of him. So he also wants to hear how capable Wang Jian can be when facing such difficult cases.
Deduction, an inertial guess based on logic and clues. The level of this ability directly means its potential in Xuanqingwei, especially for people like Shen Hao who have no heels.
"Xiaoqi, there are three clues in our hands: First, 90% of the Qi family's behind their backs may be in human blood business, and they also have direct contacts with evil monks, and they may even hire evil monks to take charge of the guest officials.
Second, there are real corpses in the Qi family with 61 people but only fifty-eight people. Three of them were killed by Chen Erniu and three unlucky guys who were killed to make up for their numbers. It is obvious that some people want to hide the whereabouts of Qi Wenyuan and Qi Hengbing.
Third, Xiao Chongliu's identity is fake, and 90% possibility is that Chen Erniu and the other two he killed were used to make up for the numbers.
So based on these three clues, I made an assumption that Xiao Chongliu is the key figure who can be involved in these three clues at the same time. In this way, there is a possibility of deduction.
Xiaoqi, I speculate that Xiao Chongliu is probably not just a stealing other people's identity. He is the housekeeper of the big house in Qi's family, who manages the accounts and warehouses of the big house. It can be said that he is an important figure in the Qi's family. Such a person cannot know nothing about the Qi's family's activities behind their backs, and is likely to be involved.
In this way, the question arises. Why should the Qi family dare to sell human blood to the business of extermination of the nine clans to let a person in another family know?
Unless they have absolute confidence that this person will not betray them.
So, I infer that the reason why Xiao Chongliu can reassure the Qi family is his true identity? For example, a evil cultivator?
Anyway, the human blood business is also connected with evil monks. If Xiao Chongliu is the secretly engaged in the Qi family, it will be able to explain many problems. And do you think the evil monk who came to attack our station last night would be Xiao Chongliu?"
Shen Hao was neither sure nor deny, but just looked at Wang Jian and signaled him to continue.
"If Xiao Chongliu is an evil cultivator, I can continue to deduce it below. For example, I think at least 70% of the deaths of the entire Qi family may have been done by Xiao Chongliu, an evil cultivator. This also coincides with the evil aura that appeared on the scene, and also in conjunction with him finding Chen Erniu's three "scapegoats" in advance.
As for the motivation, I guess it has something to do with the Qi family secretly making Yin Tofu, and it should also involve some interest disputes..."
Shen Hao listened very seriously and agreed very much, but in his opinion, Wang Jian's reasoning was still a bit bad, and the general direction was correct, but he missed a lot.
He picked up the teacup on the table, blew the foam on it, and asked with a smile: "You missed Qi Wenyuan and Qi Hengbing, father and son."
"This...is a clueless thing. I thought about it for a long time but couldn't quite understand. What clues should be missing."
"Not bad, you just didn't notice it."
"Please correct me with a little flag."
Shen Hao put down the teacup and reminded: "According to your deduction, the people of the Qi family are likely to die at the hands of "Xiao Chongliu", and "Xiao Chongliu" is still an evil monk, right?"
"Yes."
"Since that's the case, why did Xiao Chongliu kill two more irrelevant homeless men to act as the corpses of Qi Wenyuan and Qi Hengbing? It would make sense for him to make a fake death for himself, but it's not reasonable to help the two Qi family escape? He destroyed the Qi family."
"You mean... Qi Wenyuan and Qi Hengbing have already..."
"Die, I'm sure they are dead. It's impossible for the whole family to miss these two people."
"Then why do you have to kill two homeless men to make up the numbers? Isn't this an unnecessary move?"
"Haha, maybe Xiao Chongliu doesn't want people to see the bodies of Qi Wenyuan and Qi Hengbing? Or maybe the bodies of Qi Wenyuan and Qi Hengbing are very important to Xiao Chongliu, and he doesn't want to abandon them just like that?"
Corpse? Very important?
Wang Jian changed his mind quickly, and he soon thought of a possibility: According to his deduction, Xiao Chongliu is an evil monk. Many of the methods of evil monks are refining corpses, and he even thought of a very terrible possibility...
"Xiaoqi, you are not saying...Xiao Chongliu is...that group of people, right?"
"There is nothing impossible. Your deduction direction is not wrong, but there are some missing corners. If you substitute my judgment into your deduction, you have passed your mind and see if everything is smooth?"
After hearing Shen Hao's words, Wang Jian unconsciously deduced it quickly in his mind. As Shen Hao said, the entire deduction process was smooth and no longer as awkward as before after joining Shen Hao's guess. But because of this, Wang Jian's face turned pale.
"Xiaoqi, if it's really those people, then this case is..."
Chapter completed!