Ladies and gentlemen, today we would like to talk about a case of the death of a treasure hunter that occurred during the Republic of China period.
In this case, the perpetrator used the identity of the treasure hunter in a vain attempt to create a mysterious atmosphere to confuse the investigators, and made an unexpected situation, so that the case was finally solved but it seemed that it was not completely solved.
Gossip aside, let's get started.
Mansion during the Republic of China period
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"Li Xuedao" claims to be a treasure hunter.
What is Holding Treasure? Its practical vernacular is treasure hunting, this kind of person acts in a mysterious way, and outsiders generally rarely have their whereabouts.
Li Xuedao was very rich, and according to his words, this was what he was holding back. He was a foreigner, and the house he built in the village was very large, with three in and three out, and six yards and more than twenty rooms.
He did not have a wife and children before, because there were rules in this industry, and he could not marry or have children. A few years ago, Jin Basin washed his hands and married two wives, and the eldest wife gave birth to a son, who was just five years old.
He often wears a mask, saying that he hurt his nose when he was holding the treasure, his face was injured, it was inconvenient to see people, he was gloomy and quiet, and he had a mask on his face, which gave people a terrible feeling.
In the winter of the seventh year of the Republic of China, the eighth day of November was his birthday, and the family was very lively, and as soon as this person became rich, there were many friends. Although Li Xuedao is a foreigner, he has not been building a house and buying land here for a few years, he is already friends everywhere, and on his birthday, everyone comes to congratulate him.
He himself is not a stingy person, the banquet is done with high standards, the family has been lively since the fifth day of the first year, and there are many people who help.
On the night of the seventh day of the first month, there were seven tables in the courtyard, including friends from far away and people who helped, including Zhang Sini and Liu Wujin. In fact, the size of the two of them is also a local celebrity, Li Xuedao invited them is not unusual, everyone eats and drinks in the courtyard.
Li Xuedao this man is very self-disciplined, he married two wives, but often sleep alone, and every night at 9:30 to sleep, cold winter and heat, all the same, he sleeps alone in the room no one will let in, even the two wives will not let.
Tomorrow is his birthday, everyone is bustling in the courtyard, he sleeps when it is time, after greeting the people, he enters the room to sleep, and the people continue to drink.
The people outside have been drinking until the morning, the charcoal fire in the courtyard has been renewed three times, the sky is dark before stopping, today is the right day, these people are not ready to sleep, just began to work.
Until it was time to eat breakfast, everyone saw that Li Xuedao still did not get up, so they let the people in the family call him, the door was tied from the inside, how the next person slapped the door and shouted that there was no movement inside, when everyone looked at each other, someone suggested breaking the door.
Everyone broke the door and saw that Li Xuedao was lying on the ground in his pajamas and dying, with a rope around his neck, and the rope was crossed at the back of his neck, and his hands were clenched, obviously suffering greatly before he died.
Courtyard during the Republic of China period
The crowd was frightened by such a scene, and the big wife holding the child directly fainted to death, and the little wife lay on the threshold crying and shouting, and the scene became a mess.
Today is Li Xuedao's birthday, but he is dead, there is such a big thing, it just so happens that Zhang Sini and Liu Wujin are there, there is no need to look for someone, the two of them separated from the crowd, first stood by the door to check.
This room is Li Xuedao's one-man residence, very large, the room is against the wall, there is no window in the back, just two windows in front, there are no windows on the gable, because the gable is actually another house gable.
That is to say, if you enter and exit, in addition to the front door, it is the front window.
The door was broken, and Liu Wujin and Zhang Sini were there at the time, but Li Xuedao's appearance was that he killed him, which meant that someone killed him in the house and then disappeared from the house.
Is this really strange, Chamber of Secrets killing?
Liu Wujin looked at Zhang Sini and walked in first.
After entering, he looked directly behind the door at the crouching li Xuedao, who was crouching next to the dead, while Zhang Sini began to check and look back and forth in the house.
Li Xuedao's mask was lifted by him and he saw a very ugly face with a nose open. Li Xuedao was strangled to death by a rope, and the murderer did not think to cover up, nor did he think to hide, it should be strangled and then fled. Looking at the stranglehold marks in his neck, he struggled, but he could not break free in the end, or died.
That's very interesting.
The front door was broken by them in the morning, there was no trace of movement on the window, and last night they were all drinking in the courtyard, only to see Li Xuedao enter, did not see anyone else enter, when did the murderer enter the room? How did he disappear from the room out of thin air after killing someone?
Old photos of the Republic of China: Countryside
When he looked at the corpse, Zhang Sini walked around the room.
The room where Li Xuedao sleeps alone is particularly large, but the furnishings inside are very simple.
There was a bed in the northwest corner, a low table by the table for things, a bookcase with books on the southwest corner, a desk on one side of the bookcase, and a stool.
In the northeast corner of the house is a half-man-high cabinet with a vase without flowers on it.
There was no other decoration in the house.
Zhang Sini looked at the desk carefully, and did not see any traces of someone reading books here, Li Xuedao originally did not like to read books, this is for pretense.
He pulled open the cabinet in the northeast corner, which was an ordinary cabinet, but there was nothing in it. When I turned around to go back to Liu Wujin's side, the corner of my eye saw that the vase on the cabinet was not right, this vase was different from the ordinary vase, this was a large-mouth vase, there was no flower planted inside, and it looked very smooth on the surface.
He reached out and touched the edge of the vase, which was very slippery, as if touching a hand of oil.
He screamed unlucky, casually smeared a handful on his body and went to Liu Wujin's side.
Liu Wujin sighed, the door had not been opened since Li Xuedao had entered, there was no trace of anyone opening the window, and there were people outside who drank until dawn all night, so the murderer could not have entered from the front, but there was no place to enter elsewhere.
This is a typical chamber murder, but how did the murderer get into the chamber? This case can be said to have happened in full view of the public, but it is difficult to crack it.
Old photos of the Republic of China: Rich people's courtyards
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The two now characterize the case as a chamber murder, a chamber murder case, and the real culprit is hiding himself in a place that no one else can think of or is not easy to think. If you want to distinguish between them, there are only a few, namely: ambush beforehand, mixed in afterwards, tunnels in the secret room, and the roof to find the way.
They need to analyze these items one by one.
First of all, let's talk about the ambush in advance, and the person who wants to commit such a crime must have been ambushed in the deceased's room in advance, which will cause the deceased's door to be entered by no one else, and the window to be entered, but the person concerned died indoors.
But if you are ambushed in the house beforehand, you need to have a condition, that is, to leave afterwards. If someone had ambushed Li Xuedao's room beforehand yesterday, he must have clearly known Li Xuedao's living habits, and the problem was, how would the murderer leave after committing the murder?
This involves the second type: after-the-fact mixing.
The so-called after-the-fact mixing, it and the previous kind of pre-ambush are actually the same kind and two, respectively, the method of entering and going out. Pre-ambush is someone ambushed in the room beforehand, so as to create a mysterious and incomprehensible atmosphere for others. But how did the murderer leave after committing murder? It needs to be mixed in after the fact.
What is after-the-fact mixing? For example, when people find that the deceased is in the room is not right, when everyone breaks the door together, the murderer is actually hiding behind the door or somewhere, when everyone pours into the deceased's room, the murderer blends into the crowd from behind the door and pretends to come in with everyone.
Things are rushed, and people will be very flustered at that time, often ignoring that someone is mixed in, and the real culprit will escape under everyone's eyes.
However, Li Xuedao's death did not meet these two types. Because Liu Wujin and Zhang Sini themselves often investigated the case, and the two were at the scene at the time, after breaking the door, they did not let people in, and the two of them also stood by the door to observe first and then enter.
In this way, the murderer will not be given the opportunity to blend into the crowd, after they entered, Liu Wujin first checked the door, and indeed did not find the murderer. This shows that the murderer may have been ambushed in advance, but leaving was not an afterthought.
If it is not mixed in afterwards, then there are two remaining, namely the tunnel of the chamber and the roof to find the way.
Old photos of the Republic of China: The courtyard of the rich and noble family
The so-called secret chamber tunnel is that there is a hidden wall or tunnel in this room, and the murderer leaves the tunnel after killing people and disappears, creating a strange illusion of killing people out of thin air and disappearing out of thin air. However, Zhang Sini had already checked all the places in this room, and he had not found any tunnels, and there were not many decorations in this room, and it was unlikely that there were hidden tunnels.
Then there is only one last one left, the roof to find the way. All such people have the ability to climb, and can go up the beams to the roof and leave from the roof. And this roof they had already looked at just now, there was no trace of it being broken, which showed that the murderer did not leave from the roof.
So how did you leave?
When Liu Wujin felt that he was two big at the head, Zhang Sini found that something was wrong on the ground for him to see.
He looked down at the ground, Li Xuedao had money, the rooms in the house were all paved with green bricks, some of these green bricks had dust in some places, and some places did not, and in the places where there was no dust, it was obvious that there were traces of some utensils.
Liu Wujin frowned, he didn't understand what was going on, because he saw that there were a lot of traces like this, was there a lot of stuff piled up in this room?
After the two of them finished checking, they went out and asked the Li family what they usually put in this room.
But the people shook their heads and said they didn't know, they had never gone in, and Li Xuedao didn't allow them to go in.
Ask the two ladies again, the eldest lady will wake up and faint again, obviously stimulated by the extremely heavy stimulation, it is not convenient to ask questions, although the second lady keeps crying, but at least will not faint. According to her, she had never even entered the room, and as for the others, she didn't know, so she didn't know if there was anything in it.
The others she said in her mouth were naturally the Grand Madame, and it could be seen that these two ladies were not very old, but they had a lot of cunning and began to draw doubts to the Grand Madame.
Zhang Sini and Liu Wujin naturally would not be so easily guided by her, and the two of them had two major doubts in their hearts at this time, the most important of course was who could kill Li Xuedao in such a closed space and leave safely? The way to get in and out they need to figure it out.
Then there is, Li Xuedao's room seems to be very mysterious, he must have piled up things inside, but no one in this family even knows, no one has ever entered, this is the rule made by Li Xuedao, why does he take this room so seriously?
Old house
If you want to find out how the murderer killed people in the secret room and then left, you still need to find clues in the house, but only one person is used here, Liu Wujin let Zhang Sini interrogate others, and none of them can be let go, including the people who helped yesterday, including all the people under the Li family, and the two ladies naturally have to ask.
Zhang Sini went to do it, and he entered the room again.
The things in this room are really limited, he first looked carefully on the bed, and found that the quilts on the bed were stacked intact, which showed that Li Xuedao did not sleep at all after entering the room, he always said that he would sleep at the point, but he did not sleep after he went in, what was he doing?
There could not have been a dark passage on this bed, and he climbed under the bed to check, and there was no dark passage.
He knocked on several walls, and there were no sandwich walls and living walls.
If it is a sandwich wall, there may be Tibetans inside, if it is a living wall, then you can enter this room from another room.
He looked again at the desk and the bookcase, and found nothing, the small low cabinet was empty, there was nothing.
He walked around the room with his hands behind his back, and after such an inspection, he actually got nothing, which is strange, how did the murderer not alarm others to enter, and not alarm others to leave?
He couldn't find a clue in the house, and went outside the house, and after circling the house, he went to another yard, which was overgrown with grass, facing the back wall of the front house, and there were several rooms in the yard, which looked like there was no one living there.
There was nothing else in the yard besides that. He circled around the courtyard, did not find the secret passage or the like, and could not hear the empty sound when he stomped on his feet, and it seemed that the idea of the secret passage should be ruled out.
But apart from the secret passage, who can kill people in such a secret chamber?
This really made Liu Wujin difficult.
Standing in this courtyard, he looked out of the wall, this courtyard can lead directly to the outside, he found a cushion to put down, climbed up and looked out along the wall, found that it was a wild field, not far away there was a half-collapsed earthen house, and there was a shed on the side of the house, which was inhabited by a group of craftsmen invited by Li Xuedao to juggle on the occasion of his birthday.
After returning to the courtyard with nothing, this noon had already passed, Zhang Sini had finished asking but disappeared, and he did not know where he had gone, until it was about to get dark, Zhang Sini did not return.
Old photos of the Republic of China: eating a banquet
The two immediately crouched in the courtyard to touch the clues.
Liu Wujin did not find anything on this side, Zhang Sini asked everyone in the family again, some of the insignificant words he did not say, only focused on Li Xuedao's two wives.
The eldest lady is twenty-seven years old this year, and the second aunt is twenty-four years old this year.
Both of them were daughters of families married to Li Xuedao, and the eldest lady gave birth to a son for Li Xuedao, and the second aunt was very jealous, so there were many hints in her words.
According to the Grand Madame, Li Xuedao lived alone in the room only to him, and the Grand Madame once wanted to enter and was rejected by him, and in his words, let the child enter when she was older.
Because Li Xuedao himself was mysterious, he used to be a treasure hunter, and the Grand Madame thought that he was enshrined in it or hid the secret of the treasure, she was a little afraid, and she did not have to enter, but she was afraid of the room.
Every time Li Xuedao entered the house, he would look particularly tired the next day, as if he had done something in it to rush or work hard, sometimes he would hold on hard, and sometimes he would sleep for a noon.
A few days ago, Li Xuedao went in several times in a row, each time he was tired, and he would sometimes eat and drink inside.
According to the Second Lady, the Grand Madame coveted the room, the Grand Madame was curious about the room, she herself had seen the Grand Madame peeping into the room several times, and the Second Lady suspected that the Grand Madame's marriage was a conspiracy, and that it should have been tu Li Xuedao's family property, and this number of peeps, there may be outsiders colluding with her.
Yesterday, Li Xuedao felt that there were people outside who should have lost their defenses and been killed by the outsiders she colluded with.
The Second Lady's words did not have the slightest credibility, because what she said about the eldest lady marrying over was a conspiracy, and the matter of trying to get the family property was not true at all, the eldest lady already had a son with Li Xuedao, and in the future, this property was her son's, and there was no need for her to do anything to kill people.
Besides, what good would it do her to kill Li Xuedao? If they don't kill, they will always have a position in this family, and once Li Xuedao dies, they will be bullied. Therefore, the second lady is talking about the river, she wants to frame the big lady.
She framed her like this, but it made Zhang Sini suspicious, so after asking just now, she went directly to investigate, which is why he disappeared and came back so late.
The rural gatehouse left over from the Republic of China
According to Zhang Sini's investigation, the second lady's family is an ordinary family, with good looks have always been high or low, and later married Li Xuedao, which is considered to have found a rich family. Her mother's family is very stable, and she rarely returns to her mother's house, and there is no problem in her reputation.
Therefore, although she has the intention of framing, it is unlikely that she will kill people.
Liu Wujin listened to Zhang Sini's analysis and nodded continuously, it is true that it is unreasonable for the grand lady to collude with outsiders to kill Li Xuedao, she already has a son, and killing people is the next strategy. And the second lady's side actually has no motive for killing, she seems to have no son, it seems that she has no advantage over the big lady, but she has to let Li Xuedao live, as long as Li Xuedao is alive, she will have the opportunity to get pregnant.
The most important point is that if she has an unfathomable heart and wants to plot the family property, then it is also the Grand Madame or her son who should be killed, not Li Xuedao.
Therefore, Liu Wujin also believes that the second lady does not have a motive to kill.
The two people closest to Li Xuedao did not have a motive to kill, so did the others have? Whoever kills people must involve interest relations, and the people closest to him have no motive, so how can other people be involved in too deep entanglement of interests with him?
There must be something in it that they don't know yet.
At this time, Zhang Sini suddenly thought of something, he slapped his eyebrows and said that the housekeeper "Li Xuecheng" said that one thing was very suspicious. Li Xuecheng was originally Li Xuedao's own family, and he was also the only person who followed Li Xuedao when he came here from outside to build a house and buy land. Li Xuedao gave him full authority to handle the affairs of the family, although he was not called a housekeeper, but in fact, he was a housekeeper.
According to Li Xuecheng, he did not go into the room where Li Xuedao slept, but the strange thing was that every time he entered that room, Li Xuedao would eat a larger amount, ask for meat and vegetables, and sometimes wine, all of which were the amount of several people.
Is this possible? How can one person eat so much? And looking at Li Xuedao's appearance, he is not a gluttonous person, so Zhang Si Ni has a problem in it.
Listening to Zhang Sini's words, Liu Wujin became serious because he suddenly thought of something.
He waved his hand to interrupt Zhang Sini, and he re-entered the room to check, at this time it was already dark, he let the Li family light the lamp and began to walk around the house.
After coming out of the room, Liu Wujin waved his hand at Zhang Sini and whispered to him.
Zhang Si Ni was very surprised to hear it, and finally nodded.
In the middle of the night, the door opened, and Zhang Sini came out of the room and became invisible in the darkness.
During the Republic of China period, half-brick and half-billet houses were left behind
During the day the next day, Liu Wujin did not do anything for a day, but walked around the courtyards, and also entered the room in the courtyard of the wild grass to check, and he stood by a large dry well and meditated for half a day. Zhang Sini did not appear all day, and no one knew why he went.
After dark, Liu Wujin went to the housekeeper Li Xuecheng and asked him to call out to the next person in the family and guard the door of the room where Li Xuedao died. Li Xuecheng felt inexplicable, but he still did it.
He himself took a few people to another courtyard and stood in a room quietly waiting, which was a water room in the past of Li Xuedao's family, and inside was the big dry well that Liu Wujin had watched for a long time.
In the field outside the Li family, the jugglers had left at this time, and suddenly there was a movement inside the half-collapsed earthen house, and a person's head arched out of the ground, just arched out, the torch suddenly lit up, a group of people appeared in front of him, he shrank his head in fright and wanted to go back, but he was caught and his hair was hard to lift up.
There was a noise below, and the gang was not in a hurry, still guarding the earthen house.
A moment later, there was a noise in the dry well of the water room, and someone appeared from the dry well, and when he saw that there was Liu Wujin leading people to guard outside, he shrank his head back. After a while, there was a noise in the room where Li Xuedao died, and a person's head was stretched out in the low cabinet, and when he saw that the room was full of people, he shrank back in fright.
Liu Wujin shouted at the big dry well, all three mouths are full of people, the rats underground have no place to run, come out.
After he finished shouting, four men emerged from the dry well, all tied up and taken to the front yard, while the people who were guarding the earthen house outside also came with a person who had been caught, and there were five people on the other side, all strangers.
Everyone was astonished, they didn't expect that there was such a passage under the Li family, what did these five men do? Everyone looked at Liu Wujin together, waiting for him to reveal the mystery.
Old photos of the Republic of China: ordinary people's lives
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Liu Wujin looked at these five people for a while, and finally looked at the crowd and said his discovery and the truth:
In fact, the method of killing people in the secret chamber that they had previously reasoned about was not wrong, but after they eliminated those methods one by one, they lost the method of leaving after the murderer committed the crime, and they never understood it.
He and Zhang Sini had both seen the vase, and there was oil on the edge of the vase, and they just felt strange at the time, but they didn't think much about it, because they had checked the cabinet below.
The housekeeper Li Xuecheng's words reminded them that Li Xuecheng said that after Li Xuedao entered the room, the amount of food would become larger, and the wine and dishes he wanted were by no means the amount of one person. Combined with the traces of things piled up in the house, and then associated with Li Xuedao's usual refusal to let others enter that room.
Therefore, Liu Wujin thought of a possibility.
Li Xuedao was not a treasure hunter at all, and his wealth was not suffocated by treasure, he was either a tomb robber or a Jiangyang thief. The piles of marks in the house were their illegally obtained possessions, and after his death, those things disappeared, indicating that there must be a secret passage in the house, and it was moved along the secret passage.
A person, after entering the room, the amount of food becomes larger, it means that he is not eating alone, there are gangs in the secret passage, since it is in the secret passage, there needs to be a place to feed. In this way, the oil on the edge of the vase can be explained.
Therefore, Liu Wujin entered the room and picked up the vase, and sure enough, there was no bottom, and the reason why the low cabinet below was ignored by them several times was because they checked on the edge of the cabinet, the ground was not empty, the wall was not empty, and they thought that there could be no underground space here.
In fact, the bottom of the cabinet is a trapdoor, and below is a downward shaft, since it is directly downward, of course, they can not step on the empty sound, which will be ignored several times.
Since there really is a secret passage in this house, there must be a place to go out.
He found a dry well in a barren grass yard, and what could be more convenient than this as a secret passage? However, whether these people came and went by themselves or Li Xuedao came in and out of the secret passage, it was too eye-catching for them to appear directly in the front yard and backyard, and they must have an entrance and exit.
The half-collapsed house in the field outside the wall is the perfect location. Liu Wujin sent Zhang Sini to move people, and after bringing people, he quietly ambushed and waited at the old house. Arrested these people in the current situation.
Old photos of the Republic of China: women chatting on the street
On the night of the incident, Li Xuedao entered the room, of course, he did not want to sleep, he slept early and pretended to be out, after he went in, the subordinates below drilled out and transported all the belongings piled up inside down the secret passage, and they wanted to cash out.
After the shipment, they clashed, maybe these people were greedy, maybe Li Xuedao wanted to really wash his hands, which annoyed them, and they strangled Li Xuedao with a rope. After killing someone, I would have left overnight, and if I had left at that time, no one would have known.
However, they did not expect that there was a group of jugglers living above, and if they went out, they would be discovered, let alone take their things with them. As a result, they can only wait for the opportunity below.
Li Xuedao died, his birthday could not be done, juggling could not be played, the jugglers left, the gang wanted to take advantage of the night to escape, but unexpectedly the three exits were arranged, and they became turtles in the urn.
I see!
Everyone suddenly realized that Li Xuedao was not a treasure hunter, but a thief, and this was the thief who killed him after infighting.
The five men bowed their heads after listening to Liu Wujin's words, and the people also moved out a lot of belongings in the underground secret passage, which further confirmed Liu Wujin's judgment, and Li Xuedao's murder case was solved.
Folks, Li Xuedao is actually a thief who wanders around and settles in a strange village because no one else knows his details, and in fact he is still doing this kind of work.
But the so-called long-term evil will be rewarded. He followed the five men to do evil deeds, and eventually died at the hands of those people, which can also be regarded as retribution. As soon as he died, the Li family tree fell and scattered, the two ladies will definitely divide up the property, he did evil for half a lifetime, and finally made a wedding dress for others.
Can he think of it? From the first time he did evil, he was doomed to such an end, but he deliberately did not think about it.
Zhang Sini and Liu Wujin could not go to the banquet, but they solved a big case, which can also be regarded as luck.
Three days later, the two were eating, Zhang Sini suddenly stunned, Liu Wujin looked at him incomprehensibly, Zhang Sini was stunned for half a day and then said another possibility:
Li Xuedao wore a mask for several years, and no one in his family had seen his true face, and the dead body did have injuries on his face. But who can prove that he is Li Xuedao? The housekeeper Li Xuecheng intentionally or unintentionally told us that li Xuedao had a large amount of food after entering that room, and there was oil on the vase, but was it necessary to throw food from the vase to the people below? Is it inconvenient to directly open the trap board? So the oil is someone who wants to remind us that there is a dark passage below and it is not easy to do too obviously, we are guided.
Li Xuedao was a foreigner who settled here, no one in the village knew him, and everything was said by him.
Li Xuecheng has been following him, the two do not say, who knows what Li Xuecheng and Li Xuedao really look like? And those accomplices could have been found after he began to disguise, so they didn't know Li Xuedao before. The night before the birthday with us will not drink is not Li Xuedao, but Li Xuecheng, into the room with the thieves to carry the property is also Li Xuecheng, the gang killed also Li Xuecheng, the real Li Xuedao is not injured, he led us to catch the gang of bandit accomplices, jugglers live on the edge of the old house, these are arranged, the purpose is to make the gang unable to leave.
In this way, he went ashore, and the people who knew his identity, such as Li Xuecheng, died, and the gang of bandits also fell into the law from then on, and could no longer trouble him.
The dead Li Xuedao is not Li Xuedao, and the living Li Xuecheng is not Li Xuecheng.
What do you think is the truth?
(This article was first published by Black Sister-in-law!) )