Chapter 17 I found the murderer

"To sum up, the three suspicious points overlap. It is definitely not a coincidence, but there is another hidden reason. This case may... be more complicated than we expected."

The fiery red lantern burned calmly, and Qi Ping made the final conclusion.

In the yard, the noise disappeared and fell into an eerie silence.

After a while, Governor Li, who was wearing a crimson official robe, a goat's beard, and clear eyes, gently clapped his hands - in this world, there is also a ritual of clapping and admiring.

"Wonderful!"

Like a switch, everyone exclaimed and applauded this reasoning.

Especially the colleagues in the fast class had complicated emotions, as if they had gotten to know Qi Ping again.

This young man brought them too many "surprises" tonight.

This is true in exercises, and it is also true in reasoning cases.

"Yes, something really seems to be wrong," Princess Anping suddenly realized, and then she secretly said:

"I should have thought of such a simple thing. Well, I must have not looked at the body, otherwise I could have seen it."

Princess Yongning shook her head and chuckled.

Many principles seem very simple when told to others, but if you have to analyze them yourself, you often cannot do it.

There were many people present, including many who had been hunting for many years and were masters of spiritual practice. However, only Qi Ping could see the problem.

"As you said, this case is indeed full of mystery." Zhao Zhixian calmed down and added:

"The Sun Mansion is acting suspiciously, and there may be something hidden. But right now, the real priority is to arrest the gangsters."

After saying this, many people came back to their senses and nodded.

Qi Ping's reasoning is very reasonable and worthy of attention, but in the end... it's not the most important thing.

The top priority is not to solve the mystery, but to arrest people.

Thinking about it this way, Qi Ping's one-pass analysis is meaningless to the current problem.

Thinking of this, the defeated rooster-like Wu Captou stood up again:

"What the Lord County Lord said is absolutely true, Qi Ping. What we want now are clues to arrest the person. What you said will be discussed later."

Qi Ping's expression remained unchanged and he asked:

"Who said my reasoning is useless for arresting people?"

Wu Chuan was annoyed: "What's the use?"

Qi Ping said calmly: "The gangsters have lost their traces, but since Sun has a problem, why not start from here?"

"Who are the enemies of Mr. Sun? Has he done anything unusual recently? Mr. Sun came back early. What did the Dayun Restaurant say? These are all breakthroughs."

"In addition, I observed that the gangsters killed people so efficiently and with such strong purpose that they did not make any big noise.

For such a big house, if it was said that there were no prior visits, surveillance, and determination of the itinerary of the Sun family's personnel... without these preparations, I wouldn't believe it.

After all...I know the process of home invasion very well."

"If the gangsters have made preparations, they must have left clues... Any contact will leave traces... This principle makes sense here."

Qi Ping fired a barrage of questions, and Wu was defeated.

The others' eyes were bright.

Zhao Zhixian felt that his thoughts suddenly became clearer and he quickly said:

"Qi Ping, in your opinion, what should we do?"

Qi Ping said:

"Please send someone to ask the neighbors if any strangers have been passing by here frequently in the past few days. In addition, the Dayun Restaurant is a good breakthrough point. Please call the restaurant clerk to ask, maybe you will find something."

The magistrate of Zhao County followed the good deeds and immediately ordered the arrest.

Qi Ping hesitated for a moment, then added: "I have another worry about my humble position."

"explain."

"If there is another hidden secret in this case and the gangsters have other motives for killing, then once they learn that there is still a survivor alive, they may take the risk."

Qi Ping did not forget that the only person who could possibly be rescued had already been sent to the hospital.

This...the two civil servants looked at each other, they had not expected this at all.

Governor Li immediately said: "I have more than a hundred households, could you please go there?"

The black-faced guard nodded, turned around and left. Before leaving, he took a deep look at Qi Ping and was a little surprised.

This young man... surprised him too much.

After everyone left, the scene returned to calm, and everyone began to wait patiently.

Qi Ping walked into the crowd and found three guards who "wouldn't know each other without fighting" and said curiously:

"Is that Yu Baihu very strong? There may be more than one practitioner facing him."

The three guards admired Qi Ping very much, and the leader nodded:

"That's natural. I came from a Taoist academy in Baihu, and I am a master of the second level. I am an ordinary stranger. No matter how many people come there, it is meaningless."

"How strong is the second realm?" asked Qi Ping, a novice practitioner.

The leader choked and said for a long time:

"Among those present, he is only weaker than the governor."

Isn't it, this thin civil servant is also a master? No... He may be referring to the governor who used his official seal to mobilize the power of mountains and rivers.

Qi Ping has a headache and has no idea about it.

…

While waiting, time flies by.

Not long after, the results of inquiries about the surrounding neighbors were sent back, which was not very satisfactory. Most of the houses in Xicheng were in deep houses and compounds, with not many people and few eyes. There were some clues, but they were of little value.

After waiting for a while, the clerk from the Universiade Tower came to see them. They were all ordinary people. They had never seen such a battle, and they were frightened.

County Magistrate Zhao interrogated and asked: "I want to ask you, why did you close your business early today?"

The waiter replied: "Tonight, when the guests heard about the exercise, they all went to join in the fun, and the shopkeeper shut them down."

Zhao Zhixian glanced at Qi Ping, who was very innocent.

"Is that just that?" Zhixian Zhao asked in a deep voice, "Did Mr. Sun feel unusual today? Did he say anything strange?"

The guy was sweating like rain, thinking hard, and said:

"My lord, the shopkeeper is not very good-tempered. He got angry several times in the store and seemed worried. He said something strange... I don't remember."

"Think again!"

"The villain really can't remember..."

Qi Ping was watching the crowd and sighed, thinking that people were so scared that he couldn't remember any details, so he had no choice but to say:

"Sir, how about handing me over to a humble position for interrogation?"

Zhao Zhixian frowned and nodded.

Qi Ping took several waiters aside, smiled and comforted them a few words, and explained the situation.

After his emotions stabilized, he asked:

"Is Mr. Sun just out of temper today, or has it been a while?"

The clerk thought for a while and said, "It's been a while. It was fine at the beginning of the year, but in the past month, it's been moody."

Qi Ping narrowed his eyes: "Moody? For example?"

"For example, if a clerk in a store makes a slight mistake, or even if he doesn't make a mistake, he will be scolded. But after losing his temper, the shopkeeper will know that it is not good and will comfort him. People in the store say privately..."

"say what?"

"The shopkeeper may be afraid that the gangsters will come over. Every time he hears about another case, he loses his temper."

Qi Ping was thoughtful, asked a few more questions, and finally said:

"Did you receive any strange guests in the restaurant today?"

The guy shook his head first, then nodded:

"This is a special day. There are not many customers, and most of them are regular customers, or strangers... When the store was closing, a few traders came in. I haven't seen them before, so I gave them to the shopkeeper."

peddler?

Qi Ping's eyes lit up and he asked: "How many people are there?"

"The five of them are all young and strong men."

Qi Ping breathed rapidly: "Of these five people, two are thin, one is short and fat, and the remaining two are stocky and burly?"

The waiter was stunned for a moment and wondered: "How does Master Cha know? These are the five of them, have you seen them?"

Qi Ping suddenly turned around, faced the crowd, and said loudly:

"As you have heard, if my inference is correct, these five people are the murderers!"

Wow——
Chapter completed!