"Don't panic." The old man made a gesture that reassured us, "You are so young, you are not holding a camera, and now is not the day of the students' vacation, you should not be the classmates of the children in the village." As soon as you came to me in the village, there must be something very urgent, looking at your age, if Peng Wen is still alive, he should be as old as you. You found me without saying a word, you should have questioned me about Peng Wen's matter, right? I thought it would be the little girl next to Peng Wen who came to me, but I didn't expect that it would be you who finally found me. ”

"She asked us to come." Li Jing retorted to the old man, this 'she' I think the old man on the other side should know who Li Jing is referring to.

"Then why didn't she come by herself?" The old man looked at Li Jing meaningfully.

The eldest aunt brought the brewed tea, and I remembered that the fat police officer had told us not to eat and drink the things in the village casually, probably because I was afraid that we would be allergic to urushiol like Peng Wen.

Li Jing looked directly into the old man's eyes and said, "Village Chief, we really came back not only for Peng Wen's affairs, but we also want to know the truth about Jia Xiaoyu's death five years ago. ”

Hearing the words 'Jia Xiaoyu', the old village chief's hand trembled, and the teacup fell to the ground without holding it. When the aunt heard the sound of the teacup breaking, she hurriedly came out to see the situation, and found the debris in one place, first looked at us with some reproach and vigilance, and then cleaned up the debris on the ground under the guidance of the village chief's eyes.

"I was careless." The village chief waved his hand at the aunt, but I could still see the aunt glancing at us hatefully as she entered the house with the pieces.

"Don't blame them, they're worried about me, after all, my days are short." It's not so much comforting us as it is self-deprecation.

Li Jing didn't pay much attention to his words, took out the iron piece found in the hibiscus flower field from his bag, and showed it to the village chief: "Do you know what this is?" I found it where Kuroko was tethered. ”

The village chief looked at it confidently for a while, his face suddenly became a little ugly, he shook his head and said, "I don't have good eyes, I can't see what it is." ”

Looking at the village chief's slightly evasive eyes, I knew that the village chief was lying. But in our current situation, it seems even more inappropriate to debunk him. Li Jing didn't follow up as I expected, but changed the topic: "Village chief, can you tell me about Jia Xiaoyu's situation in the village?" ”

The village chief heard this. His face softened slightly, and he looked at us suspiciously. But he still answered Li Jing's question: "Jia Xiaoyu was bought by a good old man with money." The good old man has a disability and is not very able to work in the fields, but he has a bit of culture and teaches in the village. Write letters for others to make ends meet. I never married a daughter-in-law. You know, the girls in the village and outside the village still want to marry the farmer who has the strength to work and earn money. The good old man once rushed to the big market, and was stopped by a matchmaker in a neighboring village, saying that there was a little daughter-in-law in Jiajia Village, because the family was poor, it was like marrying her, so that she could save money for her brother to marry a daughter-in-law. I don't know if it's because of sympathy, or because the good old man is too lonely alone, and in the end, the matchmaker married Jia Xiaoyu. ”

"You haven't doubted Jia Xiaoyu's background?" Li Jing looked at the village chief.

The village chief shook his head, and his face was gloomy and he did not speak. The stalemate eased a little when the aunt brought the tea out again, and the village chief watched the aunt go back to the house before he spoke again: "What is there to doubt? What kind of movement can a little girl make in a film? ”

"But it's just a commotion." Li Jing smiled slightly, "And I also recruited people from outside." You shouldn't have seen Jia Xiaoyu's family either, right? ”

The village chief's face became more and more difficult to look at, and he closed his mouth and stopped talking. Li Jing didn't care about his silence, and always maintained a smile with a slight sense of distance: "If you don't want to say it, then I'll do it for you." All you have to do in the end is say 'yes' or 'no' to me. ”

After hearing this, the village chief only raised his eyelids and glanced at him, then lowered his eyes again and stopped talking, as if he acquiesced to Li Jing's suggestion. Li Jing played with the iron piece in his hand and said: "I have been curious about one thing all the way, why no one has come to look for Jia Xiaoyu's husband Liang Laohan after she died. She wasn't very old when her husband died, and it wasn't a shame to remarry at that time. Jia Xiaoyu was originally sold to Beifu Village. With no children, it shouldn't be difficult for her to remarry, and her income was not high at the time, so it was not too wise to stay in the village. And whether it's a widow or a miscarriage. No family member has come to see Jia Xiaoyu, and Jia Xiaoyu has never gone back to her parents' house. There are only two possibilities for this abnormal reaction: one is that Jia Xiaoyu's family is indeed too indifferent, but this is against human feelings; Second, Jia Xiaoyu's family has been silently stationed in the village. Personally, I believe that the second possibility is possible. ”

The village chief moved his eyes slightly, and his expression of indifference was the same as just now.

Li Jing saw the change in the village chief's expression, and the smile just now gradually turned into a sneer, and he continued: "I shouldn't be wrong. Jia Xiaoyu's 'family'" Li Jing added emphasis to the word family, "They should have moved to the village." I checked the time when Peng Wen's family moved to Beifu Village, which happened to be the second year after Jia Xiaoyu married here. Then in the third year after Jia Xiaoyu's marriage, the good old man died of illness, and Jia Xiaoyu miscarried. But Jia Xiaoyu, including the good old man, went to the city to do everything, and the only person in the village who had contact with the city at that time was the Peng family. First of all, Jia Xiaoyu's identity without a background, you also said that it was introduced by the matchmaker, then the Peng family of unknown origin, and then to the death of a good old man and Jia Xiaoyu's miscarriage, and then to Jia Xiaoyu's state after returning to Beifu Village, and the strange routine of the Peng family's work, these subtle connections I have to doubt the purpose of Jia Xiaoyu and the Peng family to come to Beifu Village. And all of this, when I learned about the legend of the village of Befort, finally had an answer. We had visited the fat police officer in the county before we came, and he said that he had talked to you about Peng Wen's death, but you only said 'it is retribution' and did not care about him anymore. ”

The village chief opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but finally swallowed the words back, and from his eyes he could see the acquiescence to Li Jing's words just now.

"This retribution should refer to the real purpose of the Peng family and Jia Xiaoyu coming to this village." Li Jing suddenly stopped when he said this, and his eyes turned to the aunt who had been hiding behind the door to observe us. The village chief followed Li Jing's gaze, smiled dejectedly, looked at Li Jing and asked, "Young man, even if you tell the truth, what can you do?" Have you thought about the consequences of speaking out? It could be a disaster, young man, I've lived so long. I have already seen through everything in this world, and there are some things that I am ready to take to the grave with him rotting in his stomach. You know, the reason why I'm considered the village chief is because I have been getting it for a long time. You can tell those things clearly, and don't say those things for the rest of your life. So, young man, go back while you haven't told all the evils. The village chief waved his hand. motioned for us to leave, but he underestimated Li Jing's stubbornness.

Li Jing just sat on the stone bench like he did just now, he ignored the advice of the old village chief, and continued to himself: "You didn't deny it, which means that you still agree with what I just said, that is, the Peng Wen family had an ulterior relationship before Jia Xiaoyu's death. And this relationship is equivalent to a catastrophe for the village, or an unimaginable change, which will shatter the peace maintained by the principals for generations, and this terrible consequence that no one can afford. So you have to stop that from happening. And the only way to do it is to secretly put the culprit to death. ”

The village chief's eyelids jumped visibly, and his clenched fists could make people sense the anger and uneasiness of his being exposed.

Li Jing took out a photo from his bag. It was the photo of Jia Xiaoyu's death scene that he asked Shi Hao to prepare before coming to Beifu Village, and the bloody scene in the photo made me feel creepy.

"People only do such grandiose things when they are at the height of anger. For Jia Xiaoyu, a 'good person' recognized by everyone in this village, to be able to do such a cruel thing, it must be the evil hidden under the beautiful surface, and deception is the most emotional. I think the person who killed Jia Xiaoyu must be the most deceived person, and the person who can let Jia Xiaoyu's family's nursing dog let it go at will, and even take medicines such as ** medicine with peace of mind must be the person who is most familiar with the sunspot and the most trusted person after the owner. After this person got rid of the sunspot, he transferred all his anger at being deceived to Jia Xiaoyu. Bandura, a behaviorist analyst, has analyzed the criminal behavior caused by the frustration of being deceived and disadvantaged. And gave a good explanation for the brutality of this behavior, according to his moral detachment point of view, the murderer brutally killed Jia Xiaoyu and spared the guard dog Kuroko, which can be seen before he killed the killer. He has a twisted set of moral standards. The murderer's distorted moral standards made him rationalize his killing and revenge, and he weakened the conventional moral code to get rid of his sense of self-blame, believing that his killing was a kind of righteous revenge, so he let Kuroko go, believing that Kuroko was innocent. But he froze his own moral standards for killing, so that he could easily escape the sense of self-blame that sometimes comes with bad behavior. He was blinded by revenge, and he deliberately ignored Jia Xiaoyu's essence as a human being, instead treating her as the embodiment of evil and inhumanity. So when he wantonly killed Jia Xiaoyu, it was cruel and terrifying, but for the sunspot, he just threw it in the mountains and forests. The same principle can also be applied to Peng Wen, but Peng Wen's matter has another meaning. ”

The village chief let go of his fist and glared at Li Jing with his eyes, as if there was unspeakable anger.

"But when the murderer dealt with the sunspots, there was a small episode, which not only made the later things take a turn, but it helped them at the time, but it also buried a lot of hidden dangers later." Li Jing played with the iron piece in his hand, "This is the evidence." ”

"Say no more." Without waiting for the village chief to speak, the aunt standing at the door shouted, "Get out of here now, you are not welcome here." ”

Auntie's expression was very terrifying, I was stunned in the courtyard for a while and didn't know what to do, Li Jing was not deterred by her momentum, and continued to hold the iron piece in his hand and said: "This is part of the murder weapon back then, and now it can be detected in the DNA in the residual blood stains when it is taken to the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and through the restoration of the fragments, it is not difficult to find the prototype of the murder weapon, I am like a fixed iron piece that unfortunately fell off after being tripped when dealing with sunspots, and the shape should be from an old-fashioned folding fruit knife, When he slid down, he hit a small piece of decorative iron sheet that bounced off the stones on the ground. And this episode was only connected yesterday when we were in town and happened to hear about a model who had lost her clothes. This episode helped the murderer and ultimately killed the murderer. Because the murderer cleverly took this episode as something to his advantage, but he didn't notice that any knowledge has its two sides, and it will help you as well as hurt you. ”

"I've told you to shut up." When my aunt rushed out from behind the door, she was holding a folding knife in her hand, and I subconsciously pounced on Li Jing, "Be careful", I closed my eyes but didn't feel the pain I expected. I heard someone shout, and I was pulled backwards and opened my eyes. I saw that the three people who had come to Beifu Village with us appeared in the courtyard, and many onlookers had gathered outside. The long-haired man fiercely suppressed the red-eyed aunt, and the short and fat man snatched the folding fruit knife from the god's hand. I saw that there was just a decorative patch missing from the fruit knife, and the notch was exactly the same as the shape of the iron piece in Li Jing's hand. It seems that the murderer has been found.

I just wanted to talk to Li Jing about my discovery. I found that he looked at me with a gloomy face, and pulled me aside and scolded me: "Did you die first?" What are you doing in that situation? Think you've lived too long? ”

I was scolded very aggrieved and whispered: "Then you don't even hide from it, don't you think you have too many lives?" ”

"You." Li Jing was so angry with me that he couldn't speak, I knew that he thought I was too risky just now, and I didn't know why I was thinking about how to make a human shield as soon as my brain twitched.

Li Jingchan sighed, and checked me back and forth a little worriedly: "You're not injured, are you?" "I saw the tea on the table spilled on the floor. Quickly look nervous to see if I have any water stains, "I haven't been splashed with water, have you?" If there is poisonous lacquer vine in it, you will be allergic. He turned me around and checked it several times before he knocked me on the head again: "What nonsense." Then he turned his head to look at the other people in the courtyard.

"Who are you?" I'm a bit of a blind eye to what's going on.

The curly-haired girl who came to the village with us kindly extended her hand to me: "Hello, we are the police of the county public security bureau, and the fat officer is afraid that something will happen to you, so let's disguise ourselves as photography enthusiasts to enter the village with you to ensure your safety." He said that according to the personalities of the two of you, there will definitely be a big disturbance, and I am afraid that you will not be able to get out, so let us come with you. On the one hand, in secret investigations, and on the other hand, in case of danger you can lend a hand. Thankfully, it caught up. The curly-haired girl had a happy expression on her face.

Li Jing nodded and thanked him, and he had already controlled it, but the villagers outside the courtyard were about to move because of this matter, and they had a tendency to solve it on the spot.

The village chief looked at us and raised his hand to signal the villagers to be quiet: "Since we have already alarmed the police, we can only make trouble for the whole village." You all go back first, and I'll take care of the rest. I hope you don't make any more troubles. There are some things I do wrong that I do wrong. ”

The villagers were still reluctant to disperse, and it seemed that we had indeed provoked the anger of the public, and the village chief coughed loudly and said, "It was your Aunt Lin who attacked the case-handling personnel first. So there is no doubt about the presence of comrade police here. If everyone continues to make trouble, they will be destroying the judicial process, which will ruin the reputation of our village. We can't afford to make mistakes again and again. ”

"It must be that they are wrong, so Sister-in-law Lin will do it." A villager shouted in the courtyard. The other villagers nodded in agreement.

"No, it's our fault." The village chief scolded the person who spoke, "It's always been our fault. ”

"So what kind of case can they investigate?" The reprimanded man muttered stupidly.

"We are here to investigate the case of Jia Xiaoyu's murder." The female police officer explained, the expression on her face was quite stern.

"Didn't Peng Wen kill him?" The villagers were talking.

The village chief faced the noisy scene in front of him and said, "No, Peng Wen was wronged, and the person who wronged him was me." ”

The words of the village chief caused quite a stir among the villagers. Everyone started talking. A villager boldly asked, "Did you kill Aunt Jia too?" ”

The village chief nodded heavily, this point was like a small stone thrown into the calm water of a lake, and the villagers instantly shouted for the village chief to explain. The village chief breathed a long sigh of relief, knocked on the stone table beside him, and said loudly: "Everyone be quiet for a while, and I will give you a reasonable explanation later." ”

"You can sue us now. Aunt Jia is so good, why did you kill him? "The villagers may have been surprised, and everyone became bolder.

Looking at the persistent villagers, and then at us, the village chief pondered for a while: "Okay, I'll explain it to you." But. He glanced back at us, "Can you wait until you've listened to my explanation, and then judge what I'm doing right or wrong?" I don't have distorted values, I'm just fulfilling my duty as a village keeper to protect the last bit of peace in the village. Now it seems that I should be the most failed village keeper. The village's secrets can no longer be kept. (To be continued.) )

PS: The real culprit of the murder in Beifu Village has been found, but what kind of secret is hidden behind the murder? For more information, see the next breakdown.