Chapter Eighteen: The Heavenly Secret

  Yang Qiuchi beckoned to Song Yun'er, who bounced over to his side. Before Yang Qiuchi could speak, she excitedly asked: "Hey! I didn't expect it, but you really have a few tricks up your sleeve! How did you know this little black dog could find the culprit?"

  That little black dog kept following Yang Qiuchi, and Song Yun'er's words had a tone of praise for the little black dog. The little black dog seemed to understand, wagging its tail happily.

  The police dog tracked, who doesn't know in modern society? Although this little black dog hasn't received formal training, its sense of smell is extremely sensitive, tens of millions of times that of humans. Tracking scents is an innate ability of dogs. This little black dog is different from ordinary stray dogs, and the culprit's body fluid scent is very strong. It's not surprising that it tracked down the culprit. However, Yang Qiuchi was too lazy to explain so much to her, and casually said: "Just a wild guess! Don't mention this for now, first help me with something."

  As soon as she heard that Yang Qiuchi asked for her help, this was a great opportunity to show herself different from ordinary girls. Song Yun'er immediately became spirited: "Okay! What can I do to help?"

  "You bring this widow into the room, take off her pants..."

  "Ah! What are you going to do? Take off her pants? I won't do it!" Song Yun'er shook her head like a rattle drum.

  "Hey! Don't interrupt, listen to me finish!"

  Song Yun'er responded with a soft "oh" and listened obediently to Yang Qiuchi's words.

  "I'm telling you to go check on her, see if she's hiding something!"

  As soon as she heard this, Song Yun'er had not reacted yet, but Xie Widow's face changed greatly. A pair of hands stretched out, but stopped in mid-air and then quickly withdrew back.

  Seeing Xie's widow with this expression, Yang Qiuchuan's heart was clear, and he guessed that something was wrong.

  Song Yun'er took a glance at Xie Widow's * and then looked at Yang Qiuchi, still not understanding why she had to take off the widow's pants herself. What else could be in this woman's crotch besides that thing?

  Song Zhi-xian was already deeply impressed with Yang Qiuchi's abilities, and upon hearing him say this, he knew there must be a deeper meaning behind it. Without asking any further questions, he instructed: "Rou'er, go ahead and do as Young Master Yang says!"

  Haha, this kid has already become Master Yang, and Yang Qiuchi is overjoyed.

  Hearing Old Man say that, Song Yuner didn't ask any more questions. She stretched out her hand and grabbed one of Xie Widow's arms, half-dragging and half-pulling her into the house.

  Don't look at this little girl who is only fourteen or fifteen years old, but she has practiced martial arts. Not to mention anything else, just this arm strength is not much worse than that of an ordinary strong man.

  After a moment, Song Yuner held something in one hand and dragged Xie Widow out of the room with the other, throwing her to the ground. Xie Widow's face was completely pale, her whole body limp as if she had been drained of all strength, collapsing onto the ground.

  Song Yun'er handed over the thing in her hand to Yang Qiuchi: "Look, this was found from the lining of her pants, it seems to be a letter."

  Yang Qiuchi took it over, didn't dare to open it, and respectfully handed the letter to Song Zhixian.

  Magistrate Song took it and looked at it, indeed it was a letter, the envelope read: "Deqian's family letter". He tore open the envelope, pulled out a silk paper letter, and carefully examined it. The more he looked, the more shocked he became, his face turned dark and then pale, his hands holding the letter began to tremble slightly. Just as Master Jin was about to take a look, Magistrate Song had already folded the letter and put it in his pocket.

  At this scene, Yang Qiuchi and Song Yuner looked at each other, then turned to look at Song Zhixian together, not knowing what was wrong with him.

  After a while, County Magistrate Song somewhat calmed down and ordered the constables in a slightly trembling voice: "You several quickly take this woman back to the county prison for close surveillance!"

  Lei Pu and others responded in unison. Song Zhixian said again: "Dispatch more personnel, and be sure to keep a close watch!"

  Lei Zhuo and others responded in unison. Just as Xie's widow was about to leave, Song Zhizhou stretched out his hand to grab Lei Zhuo's arm, instructing him anxiously: "Put the serious offenders in prison, you must guard them well, remember! Absolutely no mistakes can be made! Remember!"

  Lei Zhuo quickly saw that Song Zhi County's expression was different from usual, and it seemed that this letter contained a huge secret, so Song Zhi County repeatedly emphasized it. He hastily replied: "Your subordinate understands, sir, please rest assured, your subordinate will personally lead the brothers to escort the prisoner, and there will be no mistakes!"

  Song Zhi-xian then released Lei's arm, and Lei made a gesture to the other constables. Two of them stepped forward to support Xie's widow, while the others drew their waist knives and raised their warning batons, surrounding her with caution. Lei led the way, holding up his steel knife, as two other constables shouted loudly for bystanders to clear the way. Song Zhi-xian followed behind, with Yang Qiuchuan leading a small black dog, accompanied by Song Yuner, Jin Shiyeh and others, all heading towards the county yamen.

  Nothing unusual happened along the way. Yang Qiuchi saw that Song Zhi County was so serious and knew that this matter was not ordinary, so he didn't dare to ask more questions.

  Back at the county yamen, Magistrate Song ordered a nighttime trial for Hu San, and Yang Qiuchuan continued to investigate the scene.

  Yang Qiuchi returned to the Yin family, and the crowd of onlookers in front of the gate had disappeared. The old mother and daughter-in-law who were calling out at the gate earlier were also nowhere to be seen. Yang Qiuchi couldn't care about that now; he needed to continue examining the bodies, which couldn't be delayed. However, it was already completely dark, making it impossible to carefully examine the bodies. According to regulations, they could only transport the victims' bodies back to the county government's mortuary for temporary storage and wait for the relevant procedures to be completed before handing them over to the families for burial. Yang Qiuchi and several servants transported the bodies of Bai Xiaomei and Bai Suimei back to the government office.

  In the morgue, Yang Qiuchu continued to examine with a lamp, he wanted to autopsy and find out the cause of death, but Song Yuner kept watching curiously beside him, no matter how hard he tried to shoo her away, he had no way to deal with her, so he didn't have the chance to perform an autopsy.

  Yang Qiuchi carefully examined the two bodies again and found that Bai Suimei had no signs of sexual assault, but Bai Xiaomei's eyes were wide open, as if she had a great grievance that could not be alleviated. Yang Qiuchi reached out and closed Bai Xiaomei's eyes, silently saying in his heart: "Beauty, rest assured and go, I, Yang Qiuchi, will do my best to help you avenge your hatred."

  Re-examining the body of Bai Xiaomei, a piece of something was found in the gap between her fingernails. Yang Qiuchuan carefully picked it out with tweezers and observed it, appearing to be a fragment of human skin. Could it be that during the struggle between Bai Xiaomei and the killer, she had scratched off a piece of skin from the perpetrator? This suggests that Bai Xiaomei had put up fierce resistance before her death. If only they could examine it further, but unfortunately, all the testing equipment was in the aluminum box at the back of the truck.

  Yang Qiuchi carefully recalled that when he caught Hu San earlier, there were no noticeable marks on his face and neck. Hu San repeatedly defended himself, saying that he did not strangle Bai Xiaomei to death, and that she was still breathing when they left. Moreover, he had not mentioned anything about killing Bai Suimei. Could it be that someone else killed Bai Xiaomei and Bai Suimei? It seems that we need to find an opportunity to carefully interrogate Hu San again.

  Yang Qiuchi used cotton balls to separately collect the outer and inner epidermal cells of Bai Xiaomei, as well as skin scraps from under her fingernails. He planned to conduct DNA testing once he got his forensic equipment back, which should make things clear.

  Yang Qiuchi carefully examined Bai Suimei and found no other injuries except for the pinch marks on her neck. This case still has many suspicious aspects, it's best to go listen to the trial and see if there can be any new discoveries.

  Song Yun'er followed Yang Qiuchi, watching him examine the body, and didn't dare to ask questions. After he finished and stood there in thought, she opened her mouth and asked: "Hey! Have you found out any results? The murderer wasn't caught yet, was he? What are you still busy with here?"

  Yang Qiuchi shook his head: "Things are not that simple, it's too early to say." After a pause, he said, "You go home. I'm going to listen to your father's trial and see if there are any clues."

  "I won't!" Song Yun'er pouted, "I want to go with you too!"

  Yang Qiuchi knew he couldn't outdo this overbearing young lady, so he said, "Alright, you lead the way."

  "Alright, follow me!" Song Yuner turned around and walked out of the mourning hall, Yang Qiuchun also followed her out of the door, and the little black dog wagged its tail and closely followed behind Yang Qiuchun.