Qin Xiao's heart sank and he immediately asked: "Where is the body?"
"People from the Nancheng Department carried it away!" The man said, "Didn't I just say that I was carried away by official officials?"
Qin Xiao asked: "I know he was taken away by official officials. Where is the Nancheng Office?"
This is not because Qin Xiao is not careful.
After stationing in Guangning, Long Ruijun had too many things to deal with. If he had to deal with every detail, even if Qin Xiao had three heads and six arms and stayed awake day and night, it would not be enough.
Therefore, Qin Xiao only controlled the overall situation, and could only let his subordinate officers and generals take charge of specific affairs.
Matters of money, food, military equipment and logistics should be handled by Huo Mianzhi and others.
The criminal law matters in western Liaoning were handed over to Yunlu, while Song Shilian was responsible for the evaluation of officials.
After many officials who defected from Kyoto came to Liaoxi, they naturally did not just sit and eat, but were assigned things to do.
Logically speaking, the security of Guangning City is actually the responsibility of the county lieutenant Yuwen Chengchao. However, after the construction of the camp outside the city, Yuwen Chengchao almost all trained troops in the camp. Naturally, he cannot personally intervene in the security of the city, so he usually leaves it to the police.
Xing Cao will be responsible.
Guangning City is a big city. Long before Qin Xiao entered the city, there were four offices in the city under the jurisdiction of the prefecture, which were in charge of the four sides of the city.
The pawnshop is located in the south of the city, so the Nancheng Department is directly responsible for the security of Nancheng.
Qin Xiao naturally knew about the four offices in the city, but the specific locations were not clear.
The man's shoulder had just been pinched by Qin Xiao. Although he was a little unhappy, he knew that this young man was not a good person, so he immediately pointed out the specific location of the Nancheng Department.
Qin Xiao didn't waste any time and rode directly to the Nancheng Office.
It's early now
It was already dark, Qin Xiao arrived at the Nancheng Bureau, and without any nonsense, reported his home address. After the Nancheng Bureau Chief received the report, he thought that the general had suddenly become interested and wanted to inspect the post in person, so he hurriedly greeted him, and then asked the Nancheng Bureau Chief to hurry up.
All businessmen, big and small, were called to the front yard to wait for the general's inspection.
Qin Xiao was worried about Sister Rong. When he saw the director, he went straight to the point and asked about the pawnshop fire.
"Returning to the general, it happened on the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month." The director said: "That night, a fire broke out in the pawnshop. The people in the department saw the fire on the other side reflecting the red sky. When they knew there was a fire, the little one immediately
I personally led people to the scene. At that time, many neighbors of the pawn shop were already putting out the fire. However, the fire was too strong that night and there was no water nearby. We tried our best and it took more than an hour to completely put out the fire."
Qin Xiao asked anxiously: "I heard that someone was burned to death inside? Is there a woman's body?"
"Yes!" the director immediately said: "There are six corpses in total, including a female corpse."
Qin Xiao's expression suddenly changed, his heart sank, and he asked, "Where are the corpses now?"
"General, at first we thought it was just an accidental fire in the pawn shop, but after a careful inspection of the scene, we found that there was something wrong with the fire." The director said: "We suspected that someone set the fire deliberately, and after inspection, it was found that there was something wrong with the fire."
This is almost certain. If someone set the fire, it would be a criminal case, so the case was reported to the criminal cao. The criminal cao sent people to investigate the case, but the bodies are still parked here at the police station.
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"Take me to see it." Qin Xiao said immediately, "Let's talk while walking."
The director hurriedly raised his hand and said: "Big
General please!"
In fact, every department in the city has a morgue. After all, they are responsible for the security of each place, and homicides occur from time to time. The departments are always used as temporary places to park corpses, so morgues are indispensable.
The morgue is an unlucky place, so naturally it is located in the corner of the backyard of the department.
"Why do you think it's arson?"
"Because after careful investigation, we can find the ignition points." The director said: "There are several ignition points. Although after the fire, the ruins were broken, and the firefighting destroyed the scene, those ignition points still remain.
There are traces.”
"What traces?"
"Residual oil!" The director said: "There are traces of residual oil in many places in the pawn shop. It can be determined that before the fire broke out, someone sprinkled kerosene in the pawn shop. This was obviously to increase the intensity of the fire and make it difficult to extinguish the fire.
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Qin Xiao frowned.
In fact, he had thought on the way that Wujian Pawnshop was not an ordinary shop, but a secret intelligence base disguised as a pawnshop.
The shopkeeper and the clerk in the pawn shop may not look special to ordinary people, but they are not ordinary people.
Whether it was the Night Owl in the pawn shop or Tang Rong herself, they were not ordinary people, because it was really strange that they were all burned to death in the pawn shop in a fire.
If the fire killed many people, it might still be possible, but all the people in the pawnshop were killed in the flames and the entire army was wiped out. Qin Xiao knew that there must be something fishy in this.
When I heard what the director said, my heart trembled.
"Just because of this, it is determined that someone set the fire?"
"I dare not be so arbitrary." The director hurriedly said: "After discovering the traces of residual oil, Xing Cao was also very concerned and felt that
There is something fishy about this fire, so we sent people to conduct a detailed autopsy." After a pause, he whispered: "After the examination, it was determined that there was something strange in the stomach of the corpse, and it seemed that it had been poisoned."
Qin Xiao's body was shaken and he said in surprise: "Poisoned?"
"Xing Cao still hasn't been able to find out what kind of poison it is." The director said, "But I personally saw that as long as the silver needle touches the intestines and stomach of the corpse, the silver needle will react quickly. He said it was poisoned.
reason."
"So were these people burned alive, or were their bodies burned to eliminate traces after death?"
The director immediately said: "They were burned alive. The operator checked their nasal cavities and found that there was charcoal ash in them, which proved that these people were not dead when the fire broke out in the pawn shop. The charcoal ash entered their nasal cavities when they breathed.
, leading to death of suffocation." After thinking for a moment, he said: "But the strange thing is that the female corpse's nasal cavity was very clean, so she was the only person who died before the fire burned."
Qin Xiao frowned, quickened his pace, and arrived at the morgue, where he saw two government officials guarding him.
After opening the door, the yamen officer took an oil lamp and followed him in. Qin Xiao ignored the others and asked the director to take him to the female corpse and lifted the white cloth. Qin Xiao was afraid that the corpse was Tang Rong, so he did not dare to go directly.
He looked, turned his head, waited for a while, and then looked over with a heart, and found that the female body was completely black, but it was burned beyond recognition. The body was deformed and twisted because it was burned in the fire.
Although his hands were burned beyond recognition and distorted, his approximate height could still be determined.
The height of the corpse was actually very similar to Tang Rong.
Qin Xiao remembered that Tang Rong usually wore earrings, but her body was burned
There was no jewelry on his charred ears, and he asked: "Do you have any accessories, madam?"
"Yes, they are wearing earrings." The director said, "But they have been taken off and included in the evidence of the case."
Qin Xiao's eyes moved and landed on the belly of the female corpse. He reached out and took the oil lamp from the Yamen's hand, and took a closer look at the belly of the female corpse. He finally let out a sigh of relief, and the nervous and worried expression on his face relaxed.
Quite a few.
The woman's belly was flat and showed no signs of pregnancy.
And Tang Rong has been pregnant for a long time, and has been pregnant for more than half a year now, so there are very obvious signs of pregnancy in her abdomen, which cannot be so flat.
From this, it is almost certain that this female corpse is definitely not Tang Rong.
Qin Xiao originally suspected that the fire was strange. With Tang Rong's shrewdness, how could she die in a fire so easily?
Now that I have been confirmed, I feel a little more relaxed.
But he did not relax.
Although the owner behind the pawn shop is Mr. Da, Tang Rong is in charge of the pawn shop in Guangning, and it serves as an intelligence base for Long Ruijun.
Mr. Da was cruel and ruthless, treating human life as nothing and causing a great epidemic in Modong. Qin Xiao naturally hated this man's cruelty and madness, but he had no hostility towards this pawnshop.
Now that the pawn shop was destroyed and people were dead, Qin Xiao was naturally shocked.
From the clues left behind, it can be judged that the people in the pawnshop were poisoned first, and then the pawnshop was set on fire, and these people were burned alive in the fire.
In other words, after being poisoned, the people in the pawn shop lost the ability to move and were unable to escape from the pawn shop. They could only perish in the sea of fire.
If this was the work of a rival of the pawn shop, it was certainly an elaborate conspiracy.
when
The people in the shop are not ordinary people. They are good at secret operations, but someone sneaked into the pawn shop to poison and set it on fire. Of course, this cannot be caused by the pawn shop's negligence. It can only prove that the opponent's skills are extremely powerful.
The presence of poison was found in everyone's intestines and stomachs, which indicated that there was something wrong with their diet.
In other words, someone poisoned their food or drinking water, but these people didn't notice it at all.
This is of course incredible.
When this happens, there are only two possibilities. Either the medicine is too special and cannot be detected when put into the diet. The other possibility is that everyone is unprepared for the diet and has great trust and trust in the person who provides the diet.
rest assured.
In either case, something is definitely wrong with the person responsible for the diet.
But there is another very strange problem here.
This is the female corpse.
If the female corpse is really Tang Rong, Qin Xiao can completely conclude that the pawnshop was plotted. There were spies inside the pawnshop who collaborated with the pawnshop's enemies to destroy the pawnshop in one fell swoop, leading to the death of people and the destruction of the pawnshop.
However, the inexplicable appearance of this female corpse forced Qin Xiao to wonder about the mystery.
Qin Xiao had been to the pawnshop many times and knew that there were no other women in the pawnshop except Tang Rong. It was very strange that the extra female corpse was not Tang Rong.
Moreover, the female corpse is very different from the other deceased people. She had died before the fire burned down the pawn shop. That is to say, either there was a female corpse in the pawn shop, or there was a female corpse in the pawn shop.
A woman's body was deliberately placed in a pawn shop and left to be burned.
If a female corpse was deliberately burned, there would certainly be a motive.
Qin Xiaozhi
After pondering for a while, I thought, could this female corpse exist to replace Tang Rong?
The height of the female corpse was very similar to Tang Rong. After the corpse was burned, he even needed to judge whether the female corpse was Tang Rong through the physical signs on her abdomen.
Tang Rong was pregnant. This matter was very secret. Apart from herself, Tang Rong seemed not to let anyone else know and had been covering it up.
So if other people don't know the truth about Tang Rong's pregnancy, but they know the personnel structure of the pawn shop quite well, once they know that there is a burned female corpse in the pawn shop, they will definitely think that the female corpse is Tang Rong.
Qin Xiao's thoughts were racing.
Could it be that the existence of this female corpse is because someone deliberately wanted to replace Tang Rong, making people mistakenly think that Tang Rong had been buried in the sea of fire?