"It must have been noon on the 11th of this month, and I received a report from a villager. The villager who reported the incident said that his child had been lost and that he wanted us to help him find his child. ”

"But I think maybe it's just because of the playfulness of the children, and somewhere to play a little more. Because the county government has to manage the affairs of many nearby villages, it is impossible for anyone to say that their children are missing, and the county government has to go out to help them find them, because there are not so many officials in the county government, so I let him go home first. ”

But the next day, the day of the crime, the villager came to the county office again, saying that his child still hadn't returned. The official thought in his heart that the child had lost somewhere, so I sent the officials to look around. However, the officials searched for a whole day, but they still did not see the child, and I thought that this matter was a big problem. But what I was thinking at the time was whether the child had been abducted?"

I comforted him a few words and told him to go home and wait for the news, and I said that the government would definitely investigate this matter to the end and give him an explanation. He finally went back, but after a short time he came back in a panic, and he told me in a panic that his child had returned home, but had hanged himself. ”

"Hanging himself? How could such a big child know that he hanged himself? So the official immediately thought of killing him. So the official took the officials and went to his house with the villager, but when they saw the child's tragic sight, all the officials turned around and vomited. It was originally a very handsome boy, but he was put on a women's red dress, which looked particularly weird. He was hung on the beam of the room with white silk, and the old man with his tongue sticking out, and a heavy weighing stone tied to his feet, was constantly dragging his body down. ”

"The murderer was so cruel that I immediately opened a case and investigated. However, on the afternoon of the crime, basically all the villagers were doing farm work in the fields, and there was basically no opportunity to commit the crime. The official suddenly thought of Li Ergou, this guy is idle all day long, so if you want to say who has the time to commit crimes, then it should be only this Li Ergou. ”

But the officer did not draw conclusions, but only asked him some questions, and who could prove it for him when he was at the time of the crime? But he could not say anything, and finally I said that if I did not answer, I would be imprisoned, and he slowly told me about it. ”

He said that at the time of the crime, he was drinking with his friends, as if he was drunk, so he didn't know what happened later, but said that he was lying on the back mountainside when he woke up. But I asked him who could prove it, and he said nobody. ”

There are many loopholes in his words, the first is that he is idle and lazy all day long, and all the people basically hate him very much, so where will he have any friends? The second is that when he wakes up, he is on the back mountainside, not to mention that the mountain will be closed at night, and no one can go up again, and even if someone can carry him up, the back mountain is a mass grave, and that person can go there? Third, no one can prove to him what he said. ”

"But I still didn't jump to conclusions, but sent officials to keep an eye on him twenty-four hours a day, and I wanted to use this method to gather evidence against him. But for six days in a row, he was just idle. On the seventh day, another villager reported that his child was missing, and almost at the same time, the guards came back to tell me that Li Ergou seemed to know that there were officials following him, so they tried to get rid of him. ”

"Hearing this, I immediately gave an order, and the whole village went to search for the child and Li Ergou. But as a result, this time all the people didn't find them, and I immediately thought about the situation of the last case, so I didn't bother to find them, but went directly to the villager's house. Sure enough, the child had returned to his home, but his heart had been punctured by a sharpened bamboo. ”

"The blood hasn't flowed much yet, and there is still residual warmth, so this means that the murderer, he has not been murdered for a long time, so I quickly sent the officials to look around. And as a result, next to a bamboo forest, the officials found Li Ergou. ”

"I thought that there had already been two cases, so whether there was evidence or not, I couldn't leave Li Ergou outside anymore, maybe he would kill another person that day, so I immediately took him into custody. ”

"After I was taken into custody, I began to look for evidence myself, and I took the sharpened murder weapon and compared it with all the cut bamboos one by one, and finally it took me five days to compare a bamboo on the mountainside behind me, from which the murder weapon was cut from that bamboo. ”

Then I started to visit the villagers again, asking them if anyone had seen Li Ergou at the time of the crime, but the villagers' answers were exactly the same, none of them had seen Li Ergou. ”

In this way, the human and physical evidence all point to the murderer Li Ergou. Although the evidence is insufficient, he cannot get rid of suspicion. ”

The official told the walker all the ins and outs of this matter in one go. After a long time, he sighed again.

"But it seems that I was too arrogant, and this time I guessed wrong. ”

But after hearing his words, the walker thought about it for a long time. Suddenly, the walker opened his mouth and said to the official master, "No, you are not completely wrong. Although Li Ergou is not the murderer in this matter, it is definitely inseparable from him. ”