Chapter 178 A Man and a Woman, Two Murderers
woman?
Upon hearing this, Li Jin and Jin Shu exchanged a glance.
"It cannot be ruled out that there might be a woman involved."
As Jin Shu said this, Yun Fei had already squatted down in front of the bloody footprint of a bare foot.
“This bloody footprint belongs to a woman.” Yunfei measured it back and forth with his pen a few times. “The big toe is shallower and shorter, the inner line is more curved, and the foot is narrower, which are very obvious female characteristics.”
Upon hearing this, Jin Shu, who was standing behind Yun Fei, was stunned for a moment, and almost subconsciously looked down at her feet.
Then, Li Jin, who was standing next to her, flicked his fan with a half-smile, covering half of his face, and tilted it to Jin Shu's side: "What's wrong, Mr. Jin? Do you have any doubts?"
He deliberately said in a very objective manner, "Take off your shoes and step on the ground to make a footprint, then compare them and you'll know."
His voice was laced with laughter, which sent chills down Jin Shu's spine. She raised her eyebrows and righteously refused, "How could that be? I have absolute faith in Lord Yun's skills!" She pointed to the bloody footprint on the ground, "Look how short that footprint is, it's definitely not something a real man like us would leave!"
A real man.
When Li Jin heard this term for the first time, he raised an eyebrow, used all his strength to suppress a laugh, and made every inch of his face try to appear serious. He nodded in agreement and said, "That makes sense."
Unable to figure out what Li Jin was up to, Jin Shu took a deep breath, and the hairs on her back gradually calmed down.
Just in case, she quietly took a step in the opposite direction from Li Jin.
Yunfei had no time to listen to the sounds behind him; his gaze and thoughts were all focused on the crime scene before him.
The overturned table and broken washbasin stand, though the room was a mess, the bloodstains were mainly concentrated in the corners where the victim had collapsed.
Starting from there, large amounts of splattered blood could be seen on the walls, roof beams, and beds.
There were also barefoot female footprints, and male bloodstains of the same size as those in the side room, wearing shoes.
"Sir, please lend me a hand." Yunfei carefully stepped inside. "Restore this room to how it was before the fight happened."
As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves, completely unaware that Li Jin behind him had taken off her outer garment, raised her hand to stop Jin Shu from entering the house to help, and stuffed the pale yellow garment with the scent of sandalwood into her arms.
Then he tied his cuffs and stepped inside.
Jin Shu looked at the outer garment in her arms, pursed her lips, and glanced around the room.
There really wasn't anywhere to put it at the crime scene.
“Please hold him, sir,” Zhou Zheng said, frowning as he saw her at a loss. “Regardless of the embroidery, the material of His Highness’s robe is tribute Shu brocade, worth a hundred taels of silver per bolt. If anything goes wrong…”
He hesitated for a moment, then swallowed the words "I'll definitely blame it on you, sir" back down his throat.
Therefore, Prince Jing of the Great Wei Dynasty, a noble member of the royal family, stood right before Jin Shu's eyes and, together with Yun Fei, personally restored the chaotic crime scene to its approximate state before the incident.
The washbasin and shelf were piled together, the overturned table had been righted, the fallen chest of drawers stood in its original place, and the bronze mirror and vase that had fallen from it were still scattered on the ground.
After such a simple restoration, several special items that had previously gone unnoticed in the room were suddenly revealed to everyone.
A long rope and a few pieces of white linen.
This is something that should not be found in the sleeping quarters of either men or women.
Yunfei picked up a bloodstained embroidered shoe from the corner. It was dark purple, and the bloodstains were clearly visible.
"It must have been left by one of the women." He picked up the shoes and placed them next to the bloody footprints on the ground by the door. The size of the shoes was not much different from the footprints on the ground.
“Looking around this room, there are actually many clues,” he said. “Mr. Jin, your weight and build are quite similar to the victim’s, so why don’t you play the victim?”
Having grown accustomed to being Yunfei's tool, Jin Shu nodded quite consciously: "Where to begin?"
Glancing at the mess on the floor, Yunfei's gaze fell on the bed, where the blanket was half-lifted: "Start from the edge of the bed."
He said, "This is what must have happened that night. It was past midnight, and the victim was fast asleep. The male murderer, carrying a rope and a burlap sack, entered the room silently."
As Yunfei spoke, Li Jin did as he was told.
"The perpetrator's original intention was likely to kidnap the victim, but during the process of tying her up with rope, the elderly victim, who was a light sleeper, suddenly woke up."
At this point, Yunfei took two steps forward, looked at the relative positions of Li Jin and Jin Shu, and said as if suddenly realizing something, "The victim must have known the murderer!"
Yunfei is right about that.
That night, Dr. Hua was awakened by unusual noises in his bed. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw the murderer staring at him.
Dr. Hua was taken aback and sat up in bed with some surprise.
The murderer was taken aback when he woke up and was momentarily dazed.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Dr. Hua rubbed his eyes, sat on the edge of the bed, and prepared to get up. He asked, "Why are you here so late? Are you feeling unwell?"
Then the murderer came to his senses and, taking advantage of his dazed state before he was fully awake, took out a rope to tie him up again.
Seeing that the situation was not right, Doctor Hua hurriedly stood up: "You! What are you going to do!"
Under the cover of night, in the inner room, the murderer, realizing his crime had been exposed, clenched his fists even tighter.
Yunfei felt as if he were there, watching the two wrestling, knocking over tables and chairs, scattering kettles and teacups all over the floor.
Seeing Dr. Hua struggling to leave the room, he was suddenly covered in the mouth by the murderer's hand from behind and thrown aside in the instant he cried out.
The victim, who was physically at a disadvantage, broke the wooden washbasin stand and hit his head on the side cabinet, making a buzzing sound.
He staggered to his feet, looked at the strong and burly murderer, and driven by his survival instinct, walked towards the door again and again.
But a woman blocked him at the doorway to the inner room.
In order to survive, he grabbed anything he could use as a weapon and swung it at the woman.
This action not only failed to scare the woman away, but the fight between the two people escalated into a three-person situation.
Everything that could be smashed inside the house was smashed, everything that could be broken was broken. Porcelain shards cut the murderer's fingers, and the victim, who was repeatedly thrown to the ground and wrestling, gradually lost the strength to struggle.
He was hunched over, praying, huddled in the corner of the room.
The murderer, his eyes bloodshot, held up a piece of wood he had found and stabbed it wildly at him.
The moment the artery ruptured, the gushing blood splattered onto the original white walls of the room.
As the murderer attacked in a frenzy, the wood sent bloodstains flying in a parabolic arc to the roof beams of the house.
The woman lost a shoe during the struggle and was stunned by the scene before her.
The killer only calmed down after blood was spilled all over the ground.
Looking at the scene before him, only one word remained in his mind.
"escape."
Li Jin and Jin Shu said in unison.
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