The Famous Detective of the Red Mansion

Chapter 202: One-Armed Devil

"Yes. Go for it if you like."

From an unspoken ”eye,” he pulled out a thin wooden stick covered with a velvety soft cloth, put it in front of his eyes, and carefully looked at it for a while. Lao Xu nodded and said, "This sticky, dirty thing is really much more than normal."

"In the future, just call this thing ”secretion” for short."

Although Sun Shaozong proposed the method of inspection, he was not a pervert with some special hobbies, so when he needed to do it, he naturally gave it to Lao Xu.

Seeing Lao Xu holding the unidentified liquid, Qiu Yunfei hid in the distance with disgust on his face. He questioned from the air, "Whatever it is, what's the use of checking it?"

"Of course."

Sun Shaozong said positively, "Through this evidence, it can be basically determined that the two dead people had witnessed blood-ridden things before their deaths. That is to say, they were likely to have been seduced."

"Seduction?"

When Qiu Yunfei heard this, he was immediately refreshed and couldn’t afford to be sick. He came up and said with a lewd smile, "Listen to this, did they go to the brothel before they died?"

"It is possible."

Sun Shaozong shook his head and said, "But I think it is unlikely to be a brothel."

"Why?"

"Because the place they can afford to spend is only some obscene brothels, and the women there don't care about the foreplay of playing, dancing, and singing." Sun Shaozong explained, "It's really necessary to make people feel good. At least there should be some happy traces on the body, but look carefully at these two people."

As he said this, he pointed to the older dead man and said, "Apart from the sperm spots and secretions, are there any signs of intimate contact with women?"

Qiu Yunfei was amazed. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes and heard it with his own ears, he couldn't believe that someone could analyze it from these clues.

But because of his bad relationship with Sun Shaozong, he decided to pick the bone in the egg.

Then he said with a lewd smile, "Lord Sun, how can you be so familiar with the things in those dirty kilns? Did you often..."

Sun Shaozong interrupted him with his eyes and said, "If you dare to speak nonsense with me again, I will let you use your mouth to thaw it next time!"

Thaw it with my mouth?!

Qiu Yunfei's face immediately turned pale green, and he stepped back half a step in horror, with a look of nausea and vomiting.

Sun Shaozong, however, was too lazy to pay any attention to him. He said to Lao Xu, "Now we have made a breakthrough. Let's check it carefully and see if we can find any other clues.”

"Okay!"

Lao Xu agreed with great care, and soon he took a complete set of autopsy tools and distributed gloves, masks, and anti-poison pills to Sun Shaozong and... Qiu Yunfei.

"No way! Another autopsy?!"

Qiu Yunfei picked up the mask and felt that the breakfast he ate was in his throat.

He was thinking about how to avoid this disaster when he heard Sun Shaozong’s "Eh." He carefully lifted the dead man's left hand, then used wood tweezers to gently poke a few times on his forefinger, and suddenly pulled out a piece of sawdust the size of a toothpick and the length of a thumbtack from the nail seam!

After a few careful glances, Sun Shaozong put it under his nose and sniffed. Suddenly, Sun Shaozong said with great joy, "Quick, quickly lift the lid of the stove!"

Isn't it just sawdust? What's so surprising?

Qiu Yunfei curled his lips there, but Lao Xu was moved by the wind and immediately lifted the stove to reveal the red and silver frost inside.

Sun Shaozong took a brush and carefully brushed off the soil on it. He then carefully clamped it with tweezers and baked it over the fire. At the same time, he said, "Don't talk, come and smell it carefully."

What does a small piece of wood smell like?

Qiu Yunfei continued to curl his lips in disdain, but he couldn't help but be curious. He leaned his neck and sniffed hard, then said suspiciously, "It's not..."

"Shut up!"

When Sun Shaozong scolded him, Qiu Yunfei was worried and was ready to retract his head, but at that moment, he smelled a faint smell, and it was quite familiar, like what he often smelled recently...

"It's sandalwood!"

Before he remembered it, Lao Xu had firmly said, "It's the smell of sandalwood! I often use sandalwood to remove the odor, and I can't be more familiar with it!"

"Right, right!"

After what he said, Qiu Yunfei suddenly realized, "This is the smell! I was wondering why I am so familiar with it. Lao Xu has always given me this stuff recently!"

Lin Delu asked, "Did the sawdust come from sandalwood?"

No.

Sun Shaozong shook his head and said, "The smell is not the wood itself, but the smell that has been smoked over the years! If I'm not wrong, it should be something from the altar or shrine of a temple, a Taoist temple, or an ancestral hall!"

Temples, Taoist temples, ancestral halls?!

"That sounds reasonable."

After giving it some thought, Qiu Yunfei questioned, "But did not you just say that these two people were seduced by women before they died? Otherwise, the temples and Taoist temples..."

"There are Kun Tao [female Taoist] in the Taoist temple and nuns in the temple."

Sun Shaozong said categorically, "Plus the inference that the right arm of the mastermind is disabled, the target we are looking for now should be a one-armed god... no, one-armed devil!"

"One-armed devil?"

Lin Delu repeated the nickname and immediately cheered up. "Master, I will inform Constable Zhao of the news and ask him to focus on investigating those nunneries and Taoist temples with nuns!"

Sun Shaozong hastily added, "Remember to let him start from the east and south cities!"

"I understand!"

Lin Delu arched his hand and went away in high spirits.

Sun Shaozong, however, copied the tools used for dissection and said calmly, "Come on, see if there are any other clues."

He still wanted to continue the autopsy?!

Qiu Yunfei was dumbfounded and ran out, shouting, "Hmm, I'll go to the temple with Constable Zhao to catch people!"

When he ran into the yard, he saw that Sun Shaozong didn't want to catch up with him. He was relieved and slowed down to go out of the yard. Suddenly, he felt a chill on his face. He looked up in surprise and saw countless snowflakes floating down.

"No way, I only said it casually, the dark clouds really came!"

Qiu Yunfei mumbled a few words and then quickly stepped out of the morgue.

Behind him, Sun Shaozong came out and frowned at the falling snowflakes.

The murderer committed the crime for the first time during a night of heavy snow. If there was no accident, he would not miss the snow today.

At present, he could only hope that his reasoning this time would not make any mistakes.