Chapter Seventy-Five: The Hearth
After thinking about it for a while, Zhanyan analyzed:
"I walked on a dirt road and got the soles of my shoes wet...... We have a general direction on the dirt road, so let's talk about the soles of the soaked shoes, which usually have two possibilities, one is that he accidentally stepped into a shallow ditch or puddle while walking......"
Yin Seventeen interjected: "I asked Grandpa Miao, and he said that it has not rained in Bianluo Village in recent months!" ā
Zhan Yan was not annoyed that Yin Seventeen interrupted him, and only nodded after hearing this:
"Since it has not rained in Bianluo Village in recent months, the possibility of the rain accumulating into puddles is not established, only the possibility of shallow ditches and the like, this shallow ditch can be seen everywhere under the Bianluo Ridge, judging from the water stains in the black cloth shoes, although he was able to stretch back his feet in time, he was still half-wet on the soles of his shoes, the second possibility is ...... Rain! ā
Yin Seventeen said: "That's right, people walk in the rain, sometimes the rain is heavier, it is easy to wet the whole shoe, along with socks and feet!" There has not been any rain in Bianluo Village in recent days, but there is one in Bianye Village, and the dirt pits in the sandy road at the foot of Alishan Mountain are enough to prove this...... I forgot to ask about the rain in Bianye Village in recent days......"
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Zhan Yan knew what Yin Seventeen was annoying about, and said after putting the black cloth shoes back into the sack:
"When I went to Ye Qisheng's house that day, I asked Ye Qisheng when I was leaving, and he said that on the day Widow Miao was killed, it was still raining heavily in Bian Ye Village, and it was sunny the next day, saying that it had been raining for several days."
That's right.
That day, Yin Seventeen and Hua Zilai were both confused by the brutality and blood of the Great Blood Sacrifice, and they forgot to ask about the rain for a while, but fortunately, Zhanyan still kept his mind clear, and he asked everything he should ask.
Yin Qiqi looked at Zhan Yan and tied the sack tightly with the cloth rope at the mouth of the sack three or two times, and then put it on the table, she said:
"It is very likely that these black cloth shoes went to the lowest reaches of the Liuhe River in Bianye Village, that is, the sandy road at the foot of Alishan Mountain on a rainy day, and the shoes were wet with sand, but when they returned home, they were not dried, but hidden in a sack and placed in the bedroom, and finally formed rain stains...... Brother Zhan, you said that in addition to the fact that these black cloth shoes may be those of Tie Shi Niang's husband, is it possible that they are scud......"
Her tone was slightly dark, and she was very reluctant to think in the direction that the murder of Widow Miao was related to Scud.
Maybe it was because the boy was as young as she was, or maybe he couldn't bear to be destroyed when a young boy who had been subjected to great calamity at a young age came of age......
Zhan Dao swept the mess on all sides of the house, and his brain was a little swollen.
The murderer has not yet been found in the case of Widow Miao, and now there are more Tie Shi Niang killed, and Tie Shi Niang's husband and son are unknown, and they do not know their lives and deaths, and the matter is ...... It seems to be getting more and more complicated.
What she said wasn't impossible, but he knew she didn't want it.
Zhan Yan said: "Tie Shi Niang is dead, and she died in the right side of the back room, so whose blood is in the left side of the back room?" I think it's not the murderer, it's the ...... of Tie Shi Niangjun or her son."
There was still more than an hour before the middle of the night, and Yin Seventeen wanted to see Tie Shi Niang's dead words, but the time had not yet arrived.
Before she could finish listening to Zhanyan's words, she had already rushed out of the inner room on the left side and rushed to the hall.
Zhan Yan caught up with Yin Seventeen and grabbed her: "Seventeen! Where are you going? ā
Yin Seventeen was forced to stop: "Brother Zhan, I think their father and son may be around here, inside and outside this house, in the yard, or maybe outside the yard......"
Zhan Yan asked, "Your intuition?" ā
Yin Seventeen looked at him: "That's right! My intuition! ā
Zhan Yan did not make a sound, and there was an oil lamp in each room on the left and right sides, but there was no room in the hall.
The wooden door of the hall was wide open, and a shallow moonlight let in.
But tonight was not a bright moonlit night, and the light of the moonlight shining into the hall was almost none, and Yin Seventeen could not really see the expression of Zhan Yan very clearly:
"Trust me! Brother Zhan! Let's find out...... Let's find out! Father and son are happy, happy......"
Maybe...... Still alive......
But the three words "still alive", I don't know why she is like a stalk in her throat, and she can't say anything.
Hearing the eagerness and faint hope in her heart, she let go of the seventeen ways of yin:
"Okay, let's look separately, you look inside and outside the house, and I'll look for it outside the yard."
Yin Seventeen nodded: "Okay!" ā
The moonlight tonight is not very bright, and there are not many stars, sparse, and one can be seen in the distance, as small as a pea.
Zhan Yan walked out of the courtyard, carrying the lantern found from Tie Shi Niang's house and began to search the surrounding area.
Yin Seventeen stood in front of the wooden door of the hall, her eyes fell on the wooden bench that she and Zhan Yan had overturned when they broke through the door, and her mind began to sort out the sudden murder of Tie Shi Niang tonight.
Tie Shi Niang's house is divided into a hall house, left and right side rooms, in addition to the double wooden doors in the middle of the hall house, only the two window sills in the left and right side rooms are ventilated.
However, the double wooden door of the hall is bolted tightly, there is a wooden bench behind the door, the window sill of the left side of the house is closed, and the window sill of the right room is directly sealed, this is undoubtedly a secret room!
And in this secret room, Tie Shi Niang was stunned by the murderer in the back of the head, and then cut off Tie Shi Niang's left arm as if she cut off the right arm of the Miao widow.
Assuming that the latch of the wooden door is on Tie Shi Niang, and the wooden bench with a certain weight of solid wood is also caught by Tie Shi Niang in a panic to block the door, the window edge of the right side of the inner room was originally sealed, and the window edge of the left back room was also tightly closed by Tie Shi Niang to avoid the murderer, and the iron latch of the window edge was lowered.
Tie Shi Niang did this series of closing doors and windows to protect herself, to prevent the murderer from entering the house and hurting her, so how did the murderer enter the house?
After killing Tie Shi Niang and cutting off her left arm, how did the murderer leave this untouched secret room?
The wooden door was forcibly smashed open with great effort, and the iron latches of the windows of the left and right sides of the inner room are still bolted well.
Apart from these three exits, all that remains is flying into the sky.
However, the ground is not a hole that can be climbed by a person, and even half of the mouse hole has not been found.
As for the roof, there is no damage, the beams are thick and strong, the roots are good, and even the tiles are not broken.
The house was divided into three rooms, and Yin Seventeen had completely turned it over, and he had been groping for half an hour, but he hadn't found any way.
She searched the closet, under the bed, all the places where there might be people and people who could be hidden, but she still couldn't see the Scuds father and son or find any mechanism.
Yin Seventeen really can't figure out the key to killing people in this secret room.
She stood in front of the wide open door of the inner room on the right, looking at the corpse of Tie Shi Niang in the house, and couldn't help but hope - maybe after reading Tie Shi Niang's dead words, she would gain something.
There are three people in Tie Shi Niang's family, one died and two lives and deaths are unknown.
Yin Seventeen found a lantern in the hall and lit it, turned around and walked out of the house.
In the courtyard on the left, there is a small kitchen made of bricks, and outside the kitchen there are many miscellaneous items, such as small hammers, large hammers, iron clips, anvils and other necessary tools for striking iron.
But apparently these are old tools that have been used for a long time, and they are so worn out that they are almost discarded.
Such iron-striking tools, Yin Seventeen also saw a complete set in the inner room on the left, brand new.
On the right side of the courtyard outside the house there was a large furnace made of bricks, tall enough for a man, a stove used to calcine iron billets, and a large bellows was erected next to the stove.
Yin Seventeen approached the stove and looked at the big bellows, she could almost imagine the scene when the bellows were pulled, the wind entered the stove, and the flames in the hearth rushed straight up.
Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a suspicious object inside the hearth.
The pupils, which were as black as paint, contracted suddenly, as if they merged with the night in an instant, and seemed to be shrouded in the night in an instant, gradually blurring and blurring.
The stove is extinguished at this moment, and the hearth is pitch black, there is a silence that belongs to the night, and there is also a cold air that does not belong to the five days and moons, as if time is frozen at this moment, and the birds are silent.
The hearth is like a bulging belly, wide and wide, and has a large capacity.
The night breeze seemed to stand still, and time seemed to stop, and she could only hear the sound of her own heartbeat about to jump out of her chest, and her heart seemed to be hit by a fierce tiger, waiting to be knocked out of the cage and swallowed her in one bite.
Yin Qiqi raised his left hand in fear, and his trembling five fingers slowly stretched out, slowly sticking to the wall outside the stove...... Cold?
A bright smile instantly bloomed on her earth-colored face, and she inhaled and exhaled happily.
Just when she reached out to test whether the temperature of the furnace wall was cold or hot, her breath was unconsciously held, and at this moment, she noticed that the furnace wall was cold, and the shocking picture in her mind instantly shattered.
She smiled, glad!
Yin Seventeen's heart finally settled down when she raised the lantern in her right hand and shone it into the hearth......
After Zhan Yan got out of Tie Shi Niang's house, he took Tie Shi Niang's house as the center dot and started to search from the surrounding place ten zhang away.
Start on the left and end on the right in front of the gate of Tie Shi Niang's house.
There is a family on the right side of Tie Shi Niang's house, but it is about five zhang away, and there is a large melon and fruit field in the middle, and there is no house on the left, but there is a pond.
There is nothing special in front of the house and behind the house, and there are people about five feet away.
Whether it was the house on the right, or the houses in front and back, the house was pitch black, and they were all sleeping soundly at the moment, and they didn't know what was happening at Tie Shi Niang's house on their left, in front of them, or in front of them.
Zhan Yan searched very carefully, if it wasn't too dark at night and the lantern couldn't shine on the pond, he really wanted to jump into the pond and search again.
When he walked away from the pond and walked in the direction of Tie Shi Niang's house, he inadvertently stepped on something under his feet, took a lantern and took a photo, and found that it was a small hammer, still stained with ...... Blood!
He squinted, and then took a picture of the little hammer, and found that there was blood in the place where the little hammer was, but in fact, there was nothing in the place, and there was no drop of blood.
It could also be that it was dark at night, and the lantern had limited light, which made him see through his eyes.
Zhan Yan thought that he would have to come back early tomorrow morning to take a closer look.
"Brother Zhan!"
He was squatting on the ground with a lantern shining on the small hammer to take a closer look, when Tie Shi Niang's house suddenly heard the shouts of Yin Seventeen.
Zhan Yan didn't think much about it, and immediately picked up the small hammer and ran to Tie Shi Niang's house.
When I entered the courtyard gate, I could vaguely see the vague figure of Yin Seventeen in the courtyard, laboriously dragging something out of the hearth by the stove.
Zhan Yan ran over.
Yin Seventeen's lantern was hung by her on the bellows next to the stove, and when she came over, she barely needed a lantern to shine, so she could clearly see that she was dragging a person!
Yin Seventeen's side face was very happy to see Zhan Yan: "Brother Zhan, hurry up!" ā
She dragged the man's feet in the hearth with both hands, but she had no strength, and she couldn't drag half of her body for a long time.
Before the lantern was illuminated, the person in the hearth was curled sideways, face down, and the whole person was stuffed in the hearth.
I don't know if he was dead or alive, and I don't know who it was that the back of the man's head was full of blood, and even the collar and neck were dyed red.
She was afraid that she would drag it out any longer, and the person in the hearth would accidentally drag it again, and sometimes it would kill people unintentionally.
There was really no way, so she had to shout and show her face and ask him to come back and help drag the people out of the hearth.
Zhan Yan asked Yin Seventeen to go away, so that he could bring out the people in the hearth.
Yin Seventeen didn't say a word, immediately gave up his position, and took the lantern in Zhanyan's hand.
She really can't help much with her small strength, so it is better to let Zhanyan give a sharp lift, and drag the person in the hearth out half-lifted and half-dragged out.
Zhanyan lays the person flat on the ground.
Yin Seventeen squatted down and pulled out the bloody hair that covered the man's face, and then shone the lantern on the man's face:
"Fly, Scud?!"
There was surprise in her tone, but also half of what she had expected.
Hearing Scud, Zhan Yan knew who the person he dragged out of the hearth was - Tie Shi Niang's only son.
Zhan Yan first checked the injuries on Scud's body, and then raised his eyes to Yin Seventeen:
"There was no fatal injury, but there was also a bloody wound in the back of the head, and if there was more blood, he would probably die of blood later."
Yin Qiqi said urgently: "But where can I find drugs and bandages to stop bleeding now?" ā
Zhan Yan said: "I'll go to the house to find out if there is any medicine available, if it doesn't work, I have to send him to the village chief Miao's house immediately, if there is a herb doctor in the village, the village chief Miao will definitely know, and can invite him to treat the scud in the fastest time!" ā
Yin Seventeen shook his head and said, "No! When Fang Jiang was looking for people and clues, I didn't see any medicines! ā
Zhan Yan immediately hugged the hairy leg horizontally, and did not forget to remind Yin Seventeen:
"There's a little hammer on the ground, it's stained with blood, take it carefully."
When Yin Seventeen heard this, she immediately saw a small hammer shining in the slightly flustered lantern light, she carefully and quickly picked up the wooden handle of the small hammer that was not stained with blood, and trotted to Zhan Yan with the lantern:
"Brother Zhan, I'm following the road ahead, let's go quickly!"
Just as the two of them crossed the courtyard gate and ran farther and farther away from Tie Shi Niang's house, a black shadow came out of Tie Shi Niang's house.
The black shadow glanced at Zhan Yan and Yin Seventeen in the direction of running away to save people, then turned around and ran into a path in the opposite direction where the two had left, and quickly disappeared into the night. (To be continued.) )