Chapter 48: Murderous Nursery Rhymes (12)

There seemed to be a ghostly sound echoing through the village, but everyone knew it was an illusion, but they couldn't stop the hallucination from whispering in their minds.

Su Yunkai sighed lightly, turned to Zhu Changrong and said, "Trouble the village chief to arrange a hut to be used as a coroner's room." ”

Zhu Changrong agreed, but the villagers made a fuss again, "You can't enter the village, and it's not from this village, how can this dead person with a foreign surname enter the village." ”

Su Yunkai didn't want to make the villagers angry anymore, otherwise there would be many disadvantages in the affairs of the yamen, "It can also be arranged outside the village." ”

Since he said so, Zhu Changrong stopped yelling, and after thinking about it, he took them out of the village.

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The cold corpse was placed in a hut outside the village that had been used as a cattle pen, and the villagers relented and allowed them to go to the banyan tree to take the people away, but they were not allowed to enter the village for fear of getting bad luck.

Changde's fatal wound was in the neck, and Xu was hung upside down on a tree shortly after he died, so the blood flowed, like countless blood strips intertwined on the man's face. At this time, the blood had coagulated, more like a network of blood, and even the blood-stained hair was clotted into a clump.

It was the first time for Mingyue to see such a tragic death, she had seen this kind of death, her throat was cut by someone, but it was the first time she had seen it when she was hung upside down.

The death of the people around him was far more shocking and uncomfortable than seeing the death of a stranger, Mingyue wiped the blood on his face with clean water, and the basin was dyed red, and the smell of blood was emitted in the hut.

She sang about Chang De's wounds one by one, checked all over her body, and then said, "The nail of Uncle Chang's thumb almost fell off, and according to the direction of the loss, it should have been grasping something hard at that time, and there were signs of valgus in the fingernails. ”

Su Yunkai looked there, Chang De's thumb nail was half torn and fell backwards, "When people struggle desperately, they will grab something that can be grasped." ”

"Then he must be the murderer who catches him."

"It can't be the ground?"

"Impossible." Mingyue lifted his palm so that he could see the nail more closely, "His left hand is mud from his clothes to the palm, but his right hand is clean. Judging from the bruises around his mouth and nose, I think that the murderer pressed him to the ground head-on, covering his mouth and nose with one hand to prevent him from calling for help, and pressing his left arm to the ground with the other hand, so his left hand could not raise to resist, and he could only grab what he could grasp on the spot, and his left hand was dirty and muddy. But the situation of the right hand was completely different, and he must have resisted vigorously without being suppressed. ”

The gap between the nails is indeed very clean, I dare not be the palm of my hand, and even the clothes on my entire right arm are clean, and there are no traces of friction.

If that's the case...... Su Yunkai thought that the murderer was probably just one person.

After reading it carefully, Mingyue said, "The fatal injury is in the neck, he has injuries on both hands, and there are bruises on his body, he must have fought with the murderer before his death." She carefully checked the things and clothes on Chang De's body again, and said incomprehensibly, "Uncle Chang has a lot of injuries, but they are all minor injuries, and the only place that can bleed should be his neck." The clothes around his neck were indeed stained with blood, but it was strange why there was a smear of blood on his knees. ”

Su Yunkai also went to see it, and there was indeed blood on the pants at the knee. But there was no blood around it, or even the entire pants. He rubbed the blood stains with his fingers, which had dried up and looked purple and black, "When did Uncle Chang die?" ”

"The hour of his death was about halfway through the hour, and judging from the blood that condensed on his face against the current, the murderer hung him upside down on a tree shortly after Uncle Chang's death."

"But when the drunken man who went out to drink returned to the village and found Uncle Chang, it was past the hour, that is, the murderer had already left the banyan tree for the next hour."

"Yes."

Su Yunkai asked, "What killed you?" ”

"The wound was very uneven, of different depths, not a sharp weapon, and it didn't look like it was caused by a knife that wasn't sharp." Mingyue opened the bloody wound and took a closer look, and in the □□, there were some small things. She took it with her fingers and looked at it, her two fingers were slightly grinded, and she was a little embarrassed, "It's a broken stone, maybe it is scraped by a sharper stone flakes." But most people don't carry a stone with him, so I think he must have died in a place where there are more stones. ”

Su Yunkai said, "The stone wall under the banyan tree was knocked open and all the stones were cleaned up on the day it was knocked open, and there were no rocks around, so Changde didn't die there, but somewhere else, and the murderer deliberately moved him there." The wound on his hand looked like it had been tied up by something, and it was full of bruises, didn't he disappear in the evening...... I think at that time, he had already been tied up by the murderer, and an hour earlier, he was killed. ”

"Why do you have to go so hard to move under the banyan tree, and hang upside down......" Mingyue suddenly understood, and was already shocked, "Does the murderer want to make the ghost sister's nursery rhyme more real?" But what was his purpose in doing this? ”

Su Yunkai sighed lightly, "Isn't his purpose already half revealed?" ”

Mingyue was puzzled.

The people of Banyan Village are in awe of the ghost sister, but the government has repeatedly said that the three people who died unexpectedly have nothing to do with nursery rhymes, and the villagers are skeptical. But now that it has come true, the villagers are afraid that they will prevent us from investigating the case. As you saw just now, didn't the villagers just stop us, or even drive us away? ”

As soon as he said this, he couldn't help but clench his fists, gritted his teeth and said, "The murderer killed a living person in order to drive us away?" ”

Su Yunkai was silent, knowing that she was angry, and said, "Find out the real purpose of the murderer's doing this, and let Uncle Chang rest in peace." ”

At this point, the only way to do this is the best way, Mingyue slowly let go of her fist, sighed heavily, and said, "What is the thing in that tree hole, it is so important." ”

Su Yunkai shook his head, "I think that the person who hid the box is the one who created nursery rhymes, but he may not be the one who killed Uncle Chang." ”

"Huh?"

"Nursery rhymes have appeared for half a month, but they are just poisoning, or scaring poison, if they really want to poison people, they would have done it a long time ago, and the box has been transferred, they don't need to do it. So I'm guessing for a moment that they're two gangs. One gang is thieves and the other gang is murderers. Su Yunkai said again, "Uncle Chang is not short, and his strength is not small, but he does not have too many scars on his body, which means that the murderer quickly subdued and tied him up, and he didn't even have a chance to call for help." It can be seen that the murderer has a lot of strength, otherwise he would not be able to move Uncle Chang here and hang him from a tree. ”

"But if, as you said, it was the three thieves who did it, then it would be easy for the three to suppress one person."

Su Yunkai looked outside, leaned over and whispered, "I sent three officials to follow Zhu Ankang Andexing and Sun He respectively in the afternoon, but I asked just now, when Uncle Chang had an accident, the three of them were all at home and didn't go out. ”

"Could it be a trick, in fact, the person has already left?"

Su Yunkai was quite surprised when he heard her guess like this, but it was not bad, and he would think about the case, "This guess is very correct, but I specially instructed the officials to see their people, so it is certain that they were indeed there at that time." ”

Mingyue covered Changde with a white cloth and said, "A wave of unevenness has risen again and again, no wonder the people in Rongshu Village are panicking." Someone wants to use the meaning of nursery rhymes to kill people, then I'm afraid that Uncle Chang will not be the last, if we don't leave, but we can't find the murderer immediately. ”

Su Yunkai also felt that this matter was in a dilemma, if one more person was killed or injured, the villagers were only afraid that they would riot, and only by trying their best to find the murderer could they stop this unknown danger. He called out "Bai Zhutou" outside, and Bai Shui, who was guarding outside, pushed the door in, and when he saw the person under the white cloth, his expression was slightly terrified, and he stepped forward and asked, "What do you command?" ”

"You go and tell Lord Xu and the village chief, and ask them to come forward and tell the officials and villagers to travel together. Also, if the nursery rhyme is still sung, stop it as soon as possible, so as not to be used by the murderer and disturb people's hearts. ”

"Yes." Bai Shui was about to leave to tell outside, when he remembered something again, turned around and said, "My lord, when I went to ask Lord Xu to come to the village before, I heard him mention something, and I always wanted to say it, but I forgot it for some reason. ”

That "so" was the matter with Qin Fang, which disturbed her heart into a mess.

Su Yunkai looked at her, "You say." ”

"When Lord Xu came to Rongshu Village before, he also heard the nursery rhyme, and he said that the tune of the nursery rhyme came from his hometown Yuanzhou, but it was refilled and became a ghost sister."

Su Yunkai frowned slightly, "Yuan Zhou...... It is also seven or eight hundred miles away from Banyan Village. ”

"Yes, and Lord Xu said that I haven't heard this tune in the city, but I heard it in Banyan Village." Bai Shui added, "My subordinates thought, could it be that someone listened to this song in Yuanzhou, and then made up the lyrics, so that if you find someone who has been to Yuanzhou, you can know who the person who wrote the lyrics is?" ”

Su Yunkai thought for a moment, although it was very difficult, but it was not impossible, "You investigate secretly, don't let people know." In addition, you asked Lord Xu to come to me, and I want to ask about the song. ”

"Yes."

Whitewater was ordered to go out, and the morgue was deserted. The two then went out, Mingyue thought for a while and said, "I don't know if the officials have found the murder place, I want to go over and take a look." ”

"Let's do it together."

Mingyue guessed that the place where Changde was killed would not be too far from the banyan tree, and the outside of the banyan tree was the suburbs, and there were many weeds, trees, and thorns, so it was not difficult to hide someone. As she walked, she remembered a question, "You said that Uncle Chang may have been tied up in the evening, but he was killed more than an hour ago, so why did the murderer hide for so long before he killed him?" Isn't it okay to do that as soon as it's dark? ”

"There may be two reasons, one is that although it is dark, there are still people coming in and out of the village, and the murderer is afraid of being exposed. One is that it is inconvenient for the murderer to kill him at that time. ”

"Inconvenient?"

"Since the murderer knows where people can be hidden in Banyan Village, and where people can be killed without being known, then he must be familiar with the village, so it is very likely that he is from the village. If this is the case, if a person suddenly disappears for half an hour, will it be suspected? ”

Mingyue understood, "So you have to wait until it's time to go to bed, everyone is lying down, and even if you sneak out, you won't be found and suspected." And many people in the village are alone in one room, even if they are checked one by one, others say that there is no witness, then you have no way to be sure that the other party is the murderer, after all, everyone is sleeping. ”

Su Yunkai nodded slightly, which is why he didn't ask the villagers. Since the murderer can hide a person for an hour or two without being discovered, he must be a careful person, and it is almost certainly impossible to find out who is not sleeping in the house.

"Do you have any doubts in your heart?"