Chapter 60 Catching the murderer
"Xie Shaoqing? Who is that girl?" Zhang Hui asked Xie Hui in a low voice while hanging the knife back on his waist.
He was also frightened by Shen Yuan's shout just now and almost drew his knife.
"Shen Shaoqing's daughter. She was the one who discovered the crime scene today."
"It's true that a good father will have a good daughter!" Zhang Hui sighed, thinking that Shen Yuan, a little girl, was not afraid of seeing the bones and could stay here without changing her expression.
In fact, Shen Yun had already seen what was happening here from a distance. The helpless old father could only look up at the sky and sigh in his heart that girls should not be kept for long when they grow up!
When the coroner saw that both of them had arrived, he began to report the results of the autopsy.
In fact, it has all turned into bones, and there is not much that can be tested on this corpse.
"Shen Shaoqing, Xie Shaoqing, we can confirm that these corpses belong to the same person. This person must have been chopped on the head by a sharp weapon. Judging from the marks, the cut is so deep and located at the back of the head. He must have been killed by a single blow.
Apart from this, no other injuries were found on the body.”
The body has been put together and laid out on the ground. The skull, trunk, and limbs are visible, but the bones of the right forearm are missing. They may have been washed away by the heavy rain a few days ago. People have also been sent to search downstream along the stream.
In addition, smaller parts such as toe bones were not found.
After Shen Yun discussed with Xie Hui, they decided that Xie Hui would lead a group of people to explore along the stream to see if there were any missed clues and to seal off the forest here, while Shen Yun would lead people back to Du'e Temple to question the people in the temple.
When Shen Yun returned, he took his daughter with him.
"Can we go down the mountain now? I have to go to the temple to ask questions later, so I will be busy and I won't be able to take care of you."
"Okay." Shen Yuan also knew that she couldn't be present during the interrogation in the Dali Temple.
"Dad will find two people to take you down the mountain. You go home first. When we come back to the Dali Temple to question you, you can go there later."
"No need, Dad. I can go down by myself. Bai Zhi must be on her way back now." Shen Yuan asked the constable to take her down because she was afraid that her father would be considered as using his power for personal gain by his subordinates. Seeing that her father was still worried, she said, "Or I can wait outside the temple for a while until Bai Zhi comes back. There is no danger in going down the mountain here, so don't worry."
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For the first time, Shen Yuan realized that he was still a crow-mouth.
Just now, she waited for Baizhi to return outside the temple. After letting Baizhi rest for a while, she took her and Qingdai, and the three of them went down the mountain together.
They were not going down the mountain very fast, and occasionally they would meet people who had just come out of the temple from behind. Most of them were complaining about what had happened in the Du'e Temple that so many soldiers had gone there.
At this moment, Shen Yuan suddenly saw a strange man walking quickly past him. The strange thing was that in such a hot day, he was actually wearing a hood covering his head and face.
When she looked again, the man's thoughts flashed through her mind. Without time to think about it, Shen Yuan immediately whispered to Bai Zhi to find a way to stop the man.
It seems that this person is the murderer in today's case.
When Bai Zhi heard Shen Yuan's order, she quickly stepped forward and grabbed the man's shoulders. Soon the two began to wrestle with each other. During the fight, Bai Zhi pulled off the hood on the man's head, revealing a bald head with ordination scars.
"Qingdai, go back quickly to find my father! He said the murderer is here!" Shen Yuan knew that he could not run as fast as Qingdai, so he told Qingdai to go back and look for someone.
She simply picked up a fist-sized stone from the bushes on the side of the road.
When passers-by saw this, some screamed and ran away, some said they would report to the police, and some jumped up to try to separate the fight. Seeing a fierce man on one side and two young girls on the other, passers-by wanted to separate the man, but were kicked away. No one dared to come forward.
The monk just wanted to leave as soon as possible, and seeing Bai Zhi holding him, he also exerted ruthless force. Shen Yuan saw that Bai Zhi was gradually losing her strength, and in desperation, Shen Yuan grabbed a stone and ran forward. While the monk was struggling with Bai Zhi and didn't notice what was behind him, he jumped up and hit him hard on the head with the stone.
Thanks to the fact that the opponent had no hair, Shen Yuan was knocked dizzy by the blow. Although he did not fall down, he was subdued by Bai Zhi in a few moves. Bai Zhi took the stone from Shen Yuan's hand and hit him again, knocking him out completely before she breathed a sigh of relief.
As for Qingdai, she was worried about the safety of her daughter and Baizhi, so she ran back to the temple risking her life.
"Master! Master, something bad has happened! The girl has met the murderer!" As soon as Qingdai saw the gate of Du'e Temple, she ran and shouted. When she reached the door, Shen Yun had already rushed out with the constables.
Without even having time to ask any more questions, Shen Yun led his men and rushed down. This time, his speed was so fast that the constables behind him almost couldn't catch up.
Shen Yun felt as if he had lost his mind. It was only when he saw his daughter sitting safely on the stone steps that he felt alive again.
"Manman! Are you okay? Are you hurt?"
"No, Dad, this man must be the murderer." Shen Yuan blinked twice at her father, and Shen Yun immediately understood what his daughter meant.
He immediately ordered his subordinates, "Take this man and all the monks in the temple back to the Dali Temple, and send someone to the mountain to find Xie Shaoqing and tell him that the suspect has been caught."
"Manman, do you want to go home first, or go back to the Dali Temple with Dad? Now that you have caught the suspect, we will definitely question you."
"I'll go to the Dali Temple with you." Shen Yuansi said without hesitation.
When Xie Hui heard the report that the suspect had been caught, he was also a little shocked. He didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
"Is he a monk from the temple?"
The person who replied thought that the man was a monk, so he nodded and said yes.
"Lord Shen has brought the person back to the Dali Temple. I asked this subordinate to tell you."
He didn't say how the suspect was caught, so Xie Hui thought that he was the one caught by Shen Yun during the interrogation in the temple, and thought to himself that the case was going smoothly this time.
He asked a few people to continue the search, and then led the rest back. Xie returned to the Dali Temple without stopping, but was told that the suspect had not woken up yet.
Shen Yun also saw the man, whose head was covered in blood. After returning, the doctor said that it was nothing serious, so he was relieved. He was still worried that the lady had hit him too hard, and if she had killed him in one blow, it would be a big trouble.
"When Manman came down the mountain, he saw that the man was a monk. Thinking that I was still questioning him in the temple, he became suspicious and asked his maid to stop the man. But when he saw someone stopping him, he immediately started fighting with Manman's maid. During the fight, his head was smashed and he is still dizzy now."
This was the explanation the father and daughter had agreed upon. The man was trying to escape while he was being interrogated in the temple. This was indeed suspicious, and this explanation was reasonable.
"Manman also came to the Dali Temple with me. If Master Xie has anything to ask, I will have someone call her over."