Chapter 108 - 107: Foolish and Cowardly

Chapter 108: Chapter 107: Foolish and Cowardly

Xu Jing’s words immediately left everyone present in astonishment.

The murderer is someone very familiar with the victim? This... isn’t this saying it’s a crime committed by someone they know!

Xiao He and Zhao Jingming couldn’t help but be a bit surprised, but their reasons for surprise were different from the others’.

They were surprised because—this Xu Siniang really knows how to conduct an autopsy!

Although they had heard about it from Dongli before, anyone who had seen Xu Siniang before wouldn’t easily believe that she had completely transformed into another person!

It’s not just about Xu Siniang; how many women in this world can conduct autopsies, solve cases, and have extraordinary medical skills? Even if Dongli were talking about other women, they would still be skeptical.

Wei Dadong was the first to react, incredulously saying, "How is that possible? When we went in to check the situation, we found that Wan’s jewelry box was opened, and everything inside was gone. I thought... I thought Wan was killed by some intruding bandits..."

The maid named Xinghua also said, "You... you mean the murderer is someone familiar with Madam, and after killing her, they took all her valuable things? Could it be they killed her for money...?"

Xu Jing glanced at her and said indifferently, "No, the murderer took the money not just out of greed. It’s also possible they wanted to create the illusion that they killed for money.

The murderer in this case, it is clearly the latter. They took the victim’s jewelry to mislead us into thinking that the murderer killed for money!"

The County Magistrate of Jingning County frowned slightly and couldn’t help but look inside the bedroom a few more times, saying, "How can you be so certain that the murderer took the jewelry to mislead us?"

Xu Jing glanced at him, a smirk forming at the corner of her mouth, saying, "That’s a good question, for two reasons. One, if the murderer came for money, why not choose to come at night when everyone is asleep, or spend some time in advance to find out when the family is not home, and then sneak in? Yet they chose the morning, when there’s a high chance someone is in the owner’s bedroom?

Theft and murder are two completely different things, and legally speaking, the consequences of murder are much more severe than theft! Therefore, except for cold-blooded robbers, most thieves would avoid killing and instead choose times when no one is around to steal."

The County Magistrate of Jingning County was a bit stunned, instinctively saying, "Though... though that’s true, who knows if there might be exceptions to every rule..."

"Indeed, while such exceptions are one in a thousand, we can’t say it won’t happen. Perhaps there just happens to be such an imprudent, ruthless thief who chose this time to break into an acquaintance’s home to steal."

Xu Jing chuckled, her words carried no mockery, yet people would feel that if someone so foolish existed, why bother killing? They might as well finish themselves off!

"Therefore, there is a second point that leads to my judgment—the disarray of this room and the bloodstains all over the floor were clearly fabricated by the murderer!

The murderer is an acquaintance of the deceased, familiar enough to approach the deceased closely without causing alarm.

Such a person is likely someone around the deceased, who surely knows where the deceased’s valuable items are. In that case, they could directly find valuable things, why make the whole room a mess, even overturn several chairs? Would the deceased hide valuables under chairs?

This is something even an ordinary thief wouldn’t do!"

Xu Jing’s smile was slightly cold, saying word by word, "This robbery scene is too deliberately and poorly fabricated."

Before anyone could say anything, Xu Jing turned around and pointed to the bloodstains on the floor, saying, "These bloodstains are also fabricated. The County Magistrate often investigates cases and surely must have seen many murder scenes. You should be able to tell what’s wrong with these bloodstains, shouldn’t you?"

Saying this, Xu Jing looked at the County Magistrate of Jingning County.

The Magistrate was startled, especially with Vice Minister Xiao present, he was immediately nervous, feeling a sense of urgency as if his superior were inspecting his work. Extremely careful, he looked closely at the bloodstains Xu Jing pointed at, frowning uncontrollably, "These bloodstains don’t look quite natural, they look more like... like something was dragged over them..."

"Exactly! I call this kind of bloodstain ’wipe mark bloodstains.’ It’s very simple to create—they just need to take a cloth and dab it with blood, then wipe it on the desired place to create the bloodstains."

Xu Jing continued, "If you don’t believe me, you can ask someone to bring a basin of chicken blood and a cloth to verify on the spot. These are clearly stains fabricated by the murderer to create the illusion that the room was plundered by bandits after a murder took place!

So, why do I say this scene is poorly fabricated? If they wanted it to look more natural, they could have replaced the floor bloodstains with bloody footprints. After all, considering the victim’s fatal wound, there would have been a significant amount of bleeding when they died, and the murderer would certainly have bloodstains on them. Those bloodstains would spread throughout the room as they moved, naturally, but the murderer wouldn’t dare to do that.

After all, footprints can provide a lot of information to others!"

Xu Jing said, glancing at everyone present with a half-smile.

It seemed like she was mocking the foolish and cowardly murderer.

Xiao He and Zhao Jingming, though, became increasingly silent.

This woman’s transformation was not something easily fabricated.

After all, a person’s character can be faked, but the small expressions in the eyes, on the face, and the aura cannot be easily changed!

They could somewhat understand why Dongli had such a complex expression of unwilling admiration from the heart when speaking about this woman.

If it’s such a woman, no wonder Yanci, an old iron tree a thousand years old, would suddenly bloom, even changing his temperament for her.

Xiao He looked at her deeply, suddenly letting out a slight smile, seemingly casually saying, "The reasons you mentioned are indeed very reasonable, but your last reason is entirely based on the murderer being familiar with the deceased.

How can you be so sure that the murderer is an acquaintance of the deceased?"

Everyone was suddenly in an uproar.

Yes, she never said why she believed the murderer was familiar with the deceased. Does she just say so, and that’s that?

If the murderer isn’t an acquaintance of the deceased, then her second reason doesn’t hold much weight!

Before Xu Jing could say anything, Xiao Yi looked coldly at Xiao He, with a clearly written expression—mind your own business.

Xiao He helplessly smirked.

It’s like they say, doing a hundred good deeds isn’t as good as doing one bad thing.

Yanci was wary of them from the bottom of his heart.

But he asked mainly out of curiosity, wanting to probe further to see how capable this woman really was.

Xu Jing glanced at Xiao He with indifference. She could sense the purpose behind his question, but although she disliked people’s sly probes in her daily life, it was the opposite in her work.

She should say, she welcomes others questioning her work, as if those criticisms were correct, they provide an opportunity for improvement. If they were wrong or unfounded, she’d relish slowly shaming them.