Chapter 92: Suspicion
It turned out that on the night of the crime, the fox responded to the quarrel with the Chong family.
Although Chong's was born well, but because he was introverted since he was a child, he spoke little, he rarely talked on weekdays, and even if he didn't talk much at home, Fox Yingsheng had something to ask her, and she only answered one word, and Fox Yingsheng was extremely annoyed by this. Her language skills are poor, which cannot be changed, but Hu Yingsheng wants to move around more outside the women's family, so as to get closer to the people in the village.
Especially if the Chong family can get close to Wei Qifeng, what will happen in the village in the future, their family can get some benefits if they don't talk about the relationship, but at least they won't be left behind. But it backfired, Chong's cherished words like gold, few words, few people in the village could talk to her in one place, and she herself didn't like to talk, she came and went, even if someone wanted to have a good relationship with her, she didn't have that enthusiasm.
There are five people in Hu Yingsheng's family, his father Hu Minghe is in his fifties this year, and his mother Hu is forty-eight, all of whom are extremely thrifty and stingy people.
The old couple are authentic croppers, there is no extra input, weekday food and clothing are saved and saved, and something at home is also a matter of the east and west, for example, when the fox Yingsheng and the heavy family got married, they received the gifts of relatives and friends, but the banquet was not presentable, and the last table fell to the bottom, which made people see a lot of jokes.
Fox Yingsheng is Chinese New Year's Eve today, and Fox Yingtian is a generation, but his age is not much different from Fox Fence Bai, when he was young, Fox Fence White was very good, and then Fox Fence Bai won the show, out of luck, and did copywriting in the county government, which people in the surrounding villages did not praise it. At that time, Fox Yingsheng gradually understood the gap between himself and Fox Fence Bai, and Fox Fence Bai was often not at home. The two gradually drifted apart. But he always had a stalk in his heart.
So he later found an opportunity to sell pork in the market, but because he had no connections, he nodded and said all the good things before finding the source of pork, but it was his turn to wait for others to finish picking, the meat was not good, the price was naturally cheap, and the business was naturally worse.
It's just that the family is not very happy, Chong's can't do things, and he can't be a big man who can't make up for women all day long. Thereupon. The long period of unpleasant fatigue made him full of resentment.
It just so happened that the Shige's doing something wrong that day angered the fox Yingsheng, and he finally lost his temper and had a big quarrel with the Shige's at home, saying that it was a big quarrel. In fact, he lost his temper alone. Chong's only promise is not. In the end, the fox slammed the door in a sullen voice.
Shigeshi was worried about him, so he followed him silently. The two of them went one after the other, and no one paid attention to anyone. After the ghost messenger turned to the village, he did pass by Lao Li Tou's house, but they really didn't go in, but when they passed by the wall of their courtyard, they saw that there were dim lights inside.
Fox Yingsheng didn't think much about it at the time, at that time they didn't sleep, and it was normal for others to not sleep, so he didn't think much about it, and he was angry when he turned around in the field, and saw that although Chong's work was not as good as he wanted, she usually managed the family well, and she was very filial to the two old people, and gave birth to a son for him.
Thinking like this, Hu Yingsheng lost his anger in his heart, and later returned home with the Chong family.
Chong's words echoed the fox's words, and he kept nodding.
Only then did Hu Xiaomei understand why Fox Yingsheng and Chongshi had been uneasy. For Hu Yingsheng's words, Hu Xiaomei believed seven or eight points, but what happened was still up to the people of the yamen to decide.
Wei Ziyu listened calmly to the fox's answer, and he didn't interject in the middle, and he didn't ask much about the others, but said: "You said that when you passed by Lao Li Tou's house, the lights in his house were on?" ”
"Yes." The fox nodded in response.
"What time was it?"
Fox Yingsheng thought about it, when he and Chong's quarrel at home, he just walked around the village, walked slowly, and when he arrived outside Lao Li's house: "It's about a moment." Then we went around the back of the village and went home, and it was not yet midnight when we got home. ”
That is, at 9:15, he passed outside Lao Li Tou's house. And Lao Li Tou was killed in the middle of the night, that is, at ten o'clock in the evening.
"Is there a witness?" Wei Ziyu said.
"Yes, yes." The fox replied busily.
As soon as the words fell, Wei Ziyu, the officials in the courtyard, and Hu Xiaomei all looked at him.
"Who is it?"
"Zhou Chengqi." The fox responded with certainty, and was afraid that he would remember to make a mistake, so he asked Chongshi on the side, and Chongshi also nodded: "Yes." ”
In this way, Zhou Chengqi's confession is indeed false.
Wei Ziyu picked up the pen and wrote down a note in the notebook, while asking, "Do you remember what time it was?" ”
"We passed by Lao Li Tou's house for a moment, and then met Zhou Chengqi in the vegetable field of Fox Dayou, I only said hello to him and went around the field, as for when he went back, I don't know."
In this way, the suspicion shifted to Zhou Chengqi.
Wei Ziyu asked a few more words and asked Hu Yingsheng and Chongshi to go out, and the official called Zhou Chengqi in again.
Standing outside just now, Zhou Chengqi had already heard Liu Yayi's loud shouting at the fox, and now seeing that his two husbands and wives came out intact, he already understood in his heart, I am afraid that the fox Yingsheng had already told the story of the meeting of the three on the night of the crime.
Originally, this was nothing, because Hu Yingsheng and Zhou Chengqi were afraid that they would be known by the officials that they came out that night and passed by Lao Li Tou's house, and there would be an incident, so when the two officials came to the house for the first time to record a confession, they both said that they were at home.
Who would have thought that someone would report the fox response, and now, Zhou Chengqi knows that he can't hide it anymore, otherwise, there is only a dead end.
Without Wei Ziyu asking, Zhou Chengqi took the initiative to explain the events of that night.
What is said is the same as the fox response, Zhou Chengqi did go out every night in those few nights, his wife Wang ignored the work of the field on weekdays, all of which were handled by Zhou Chengqi, and the family had little income, relying on Wang's help to embroider things, and their family's life was okay. But this time the opportunity to cook is rare, Zhou Chengqi's vegetable plot is only two points, he regrets that he doesn't have that vision, and he began to regret it after the penny of the dry land rented by Fox Dayou and Wei Sanniang grows out.
You must know that one acre of penny, picking three times, will produce a lot of income!
Because of this matter, he nagged with the Wang family several times, but the Zhou family had little labor. Unlike the Fox Dayou's family, there are three children, just because of the hoeing of that piece of dry land, Wei Qingbao of Weijia Village did not run to the Fox Dayou's house, and many people in Hujia Village knew about it.
It is not easy to hoe dry land, so it costs a lot of money for an ox to plow, and it takes him only ten days and half a month to hoe out an acre of dry land by relying on his labor.
Moreover, I haven't grown anything in that dry land for a few years, and now I look good. I don't know what will happen at the time of harvest. So. Zhou Chengqi has been hesitant.
For this reason, he could not sleep well every night, for fear that he would not be able to earn money by renting it, and for fear that he would be delayed for a long time. Someone rented it first. So he wandered around the field every day. If you can't sleep at night, you have to go out to see how you can feel at ease. Who knew that this would happen that night?
You must have known that Lao Li Tou would be killed. He won't go to Fox Otomo's vegetable patch at night when he is killed.
Zhou Chengqi pounded his head, he was remorseful and resentful!
Wei Ziyu looked at Zhou Chengqi, who was squatting on the ground and regretting it, and said with rare comfort: "The body is not afraid of shadows." As long as you really don't do anything, you don't have to be afraid. ”
Zhou Chengqi almost cried with joy, he didn't expect Master Wei to be so fair and honest. These hard-working people need such a blue sky master!
It's a pity that he didn't wait for him to laugh, and heard Wei Ziyu say: "But if you can't find a witness, you are still the number one suspect in this case!" ”
Zhou Chengqi suddenly lost his breath and became uneasy: "When I was in the vegetable field, I met Hu Yingsheng and Chongshi, and then I stood in the vegetable field for a while and went home directly. "As for the other witnesses, there really aren't!
"What was the hour when you met Fox Yingsheng?"
"It was past midday, and I came home just in the middle of the day." Zhou Chengqi said.
"What have you been doing out there for so long?"
Zhou Chengqi looked at the fox Dayou and his wife standing at the door of the hall embarrassedly: "I just studied the soil quality of Dayou's dry land, and looked at the difference between the penny planted by his family and the penny grown in the vegetable field?" ”
"The result?" Wei Ziyu said.
Speaking of these, Zhou Chengqi's expression calmed down, he shook his head, and said: "After all, the soil quality is not good, the water source is insufficient, of course, it is not as good as the vegetable field, but the water source can be sufficient, and it should be able to grow well later." But judging from the current penny in the dry land, one acre of penny can also be sold for a lot of silver. ”
"And how long have you been in the field?"
"Less than a quarter of an hour."
"Where did you go to the vegetable field, and where did you go home, did you notice anything unusual outside Lao Litou's house at that time?"
"When I came, I passed outside Lao Li Tou's house, and the lights seemed to be on in the house at that time, and I went back from that side, but the lights were out by then."
Fox Yingsheng's house is only one family away from Fox Xiaomei's house, and Fox Yingsheng and Chong's family walked slowly around the village and returned to it at about midnight. And Zhou Chengqi's house is far away from Lao Li Tou's house, he must go out first before he can meet the later fox Yingsheng couple in the vegetable field, then, when Hu Yingsheng is still quarreling at home, Zhou Chengqi should go out.
The three of them met in the vegetable field at a moment, and the fox responded to the sound of Hai from Lao Li Tou's house at a moment, so Zhou Chengqi should have been less than a moment when he passed from Lao Li Tou's house, and then he stayed in the vegetable field for a while, and at about a quarter of an hour, at this time, Lao Li Tou's house had already turned off the lights.
If the murderer is not Hu Yingsheng or Zhou Chengqi, and Lao Li Tou's death time is in the middle of the day, then, let's not say that the murderer was not there when Hu Yingsheng and Zhou Chengqi passed Lao Li Tou's house for the first time, but when Zhou Chengqi passed Lao Li Tou's house for the second time, the murderer must have been at Lao Li Tou's house. After Zhou Chengqi left, the murderer killed Lao Li Tou.
In this way, the murderer must know Lao Li Tou, if he doesn't know him, it is impossible, the murderer climbs over the wall and enters the hospital, and then slowly enters the house, and then approaches Lao Li Tou, these will take time, so it is impossible for him not to be discovered by Zhou Chengqi who is passing by.
And Lao Li is a single man and has nothing, how can a thief steal things for no reason? Even if it is a real thief, after entering the yard and finding that there is nothing to steal, he will come out quietly and will not kill anyone.
But if it is an acquaintance of Lao Li Tou, he must have entered the house early in the morning, and the strange thing is that the host's house has turned off the lights and gone to sleep, and the guests have not left? There is only one possibility, that is, the murderer rests at Lao Li Tou's house.
After inquiry, Lao Li Tou has no relatives. I haven't seen him bring any friends home for more than ten years.
So who is this man?
If this person didn't come out of nowhere, the people in Hujia Village wouldn't know, or Zhou Chengqi would have lied. (To be continued......)
PS: Today's update, it's cold, everyone pay attention to adding clothes.