Chapter 36 Lou Yiyi carefully tested the murderer
"You're here to play? What's there to do here? The man's face was defensive and suspicious.
"Hey, it's all my fault." Chu Fei's eyes rolled and he said in annoyance. "Just now I had to compete with them to see who had the best foot strength, and I didn't care what direction it was, so I went forward, and I ended up here."
"Okay." Reluctantly believing Chu Fei's words, the man opened the door and let the six people in. "You guys wait in the yard for a while, and I'll go to the house and get some hot water."
"Wangshan, what's the matter, why is it so noisy outside?" The people in the house heard the movement outside, walked out, and when they saw Lou Jinjue and the others, a trace of panic flashed on their faces for a moment, and they immediately regained their composure. "Why are there so many people?"
Of course, this trace of panic did not escape the eyes of Lou Yiyi and the others, and everyone pretended not to see it, looking around curiously.
"Oh, some passers-by, who wanted to ask for some water to drink, so I let them in." The man, that is, Lu Wangshan, replied. "Yue'er, you go get a pot of boiling water and pour it for them, and I'll go get some bowls."
Listening to the man's words, the woman's gaze fell on everyone.
"In Xia Lou Yiyi." Noticing the woman's gaze, Lou Yiyi hurriedly introduced. "I don't know...... What do you call it? ”
"My name is Qin Yue, and it is my husband Lu Wangshan who opened the door for you." Qin Yue looked away from everyone's gaze, turned around and said, "You guys wait here, I'll go get you water." ”
"Thank you." Lou Yiyi said gratefully.
With the departure of the two of them, they glanced at this small farmhouse courtyard, although it didn't look rich, but it was full of warmth.
"Yiyi."
A cold voice came from behind him, Lou Yi followed the sound and looked over, but what he saw was Leng Yan's beautiful face.
Lou Yiyi was in a trance, Leng Yan didn't seem to call her very often, she usually followed everyone quietly, and rarely took the initiative to speak, it was the first time to call her 'Yiyi' affectionately like this, and it was actually a bit nice.
"Yiyi?" Seeing that Lou Yiyi was stunned looking at herself, Leng Yan called out again uncertainly. There was still no emotion on his face, but the reddish ears revealed the apprehension in his heart at the moment.
"Oh, here we are." After coming back to her senses, Lou Yiyi ignored the throbbing in her heart and walked over. He lowered his voice and asked, "What's wrong, what did you find?" ”
"Look here." Seeing Lou Yiyi coming over, Leng Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and Bai Zhe pointed to a canoe in front of him with a slender finger.
"It's like blood stains that haven't been dry for a long time." Lou Yiyi was a little unconvinced, and took two steps forward to look at it carefully. "It's bloodstains, indeed."
Leng Yan caught a glimpse of someone coming out of the house and hurriedly pulled Lou Yiyi elsewhere, and the two pretended to be curious and looked around.
"Here comes the water, drink it." Qin Yue took the bowl in Lu Wangshan's hand and poured a full bowl.
Lin Qianyi took the water in Qin Yue's hand before everyone else, took a quick sip, and said to Qin Yue and Lu Wangshan a little shyly:
"I'm so thirsty, I'm sorry."
"It's fine." Qin Yue smiled. "It's not enough, people in the mountains, there are not many others, there are enough water pipes."
Lin Qianyi smiled at the two embarrassedly, and the other hand that did not hold the bowl was pinned behind him, signaling to everyone that there was no problem with the water and they could drink it.
Several people stepped forward in turn and took the water from Qin Yue's hand.
"Brother Lu, sister-in-law Qin, can I call you that?" Lou Yiyi was the last person to step forward to receive water, and asked with a smile.
"As long as Miss Lou doesn't dislike us, of course we can." Qin Yue also showed a shallow smile to Lou Yiyi.
Lou Yiyi nodded, and played a rich lady who didn't know anything about the world vividly.
"Brother Lu and Sister-in-law Qin live at the foot of this mountain, what do they usually rely on to make a living?"
"Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, the family usually relies on Wangshan to go up the mountain to chop firewood, go to the town and sell it to major restaurants to earn a little income, and occasionally if you are lucky, you can hunt a little prey." Qin Yue looked at Lu Wangshan with a smile. "Although life is a little harder, it is still passable."
"Do you usually hunt more prey?" Lou Yiyi pretended to be very curious.
"Not much." Lu Wangshan shook his head honestly. "When you're unlucky, you don't see a single prey in a month."
"Okay then." Lou Yiyi sighed regretfully. "When was the last time Brother Lu caught his prey? Is it a month now? ”
"It's been exactly a month." Lu Wangshan thought for a moment and replied.
After drinking the last bit of water in the bowl, Lou Yiyi put the bowl in its place, stretched her waist, and seemed to inadvertently catch a glimpse of the canoe not far away.
"I see that this car is so old, does Brother Lu usually use this car to transport firewood?"
At the mention of the canoe, Qin Yue and Lu Wangshan both had visible nervousness on their faces.
Qin Yue pretended to be calm: "Yes, my family is poor, and I don't use any means of transportation, so I have always used this." ”
"And the prey caught is also transported with this?" Lou Yiyi stared at Qin Yue curiously.
“…… Yes. Qin Yue replied to Lou Yiyi, and the handle of the kettle in her hand was tightly held by her.
With a plan in his heart, Lou Yiyi and Leng Yan exchanged glances, and no longer tempted, and took out some broken silver from his arms.
"Thank you Brother Lu and Sister-in-law Qin for their hospitality, this is a little bit of our heart, so we can use it as a new canoe for Brother Lu."
"This ......" Qin Yue hurriedly refused the silver handed over by Lou Yiyi. A little water, it's not worth much. ”
"Little sister will give it to you, you can keep it." Lou Jinjue stepped forward and greeted her little sister. "We didn't give much, just a little heart."
When it came to this, the two of them couldn't refuse, and they took a few taels of silver in a panic.
"Then thank you Miss Lou."
The sum of these pieces of silver was their income for a year of firewood.
"It's getting late, and we should go back." Lou Jinjue resigned to Qin Yue and Lu Wangshan, and everyone left the courtyard.
After walking a distance, I saw Feng Zhutou waiting on the side of the road.
"How is it, Miss Lou has something to gain?" Feng Zhutou stepped forward and took the lead in asking Lou Yiyi.
In the past few days, he has understood that among these six people, Lou Yiyi is standing at the top of the food chain.
"Hmm." Lou Yiyi didn't stop, nodded at Feng Zhutou, and said as she walked: "Feng Zhutou can gather people to come and arrest people, no accident, Lu Wangshan is the murderer." ”
"Huh?" Chu Fei looked dazed, he knew the murderer so quickly, and he didn't look for it anymore?
There is also Xia Jiangwan with the same expression.
Who am I? Where am I? I didn't just drink water, how did I find the murderer?
Ignoring Chu Fei's questions, Lou Yiyi turned her head and looked at Leng Yan beside her.
"What do you think, Leng Yan?"
It didn't seem that Lou Yiyi would ask herself, Leng Yan was stunned for a moment before she spoke.
"I have the same opinion as Yiyi, Lu Wangshan is the murderer of Chen Youyu and Jiang Wei."
"You see, I'm not the only one who says that." Lou Yiyi said proudly.
"Please also ask Miss Lou to clarify your doubts." Feng Zhutou walked quickly in front of Lou Yiyi, stopped Lou Yiyi's footsteps, and saluted her respectfully.
"What are you doing here?" Lou Yiyi was shocked by Feng Zhutou's move. "Let's talk as we go."
Realizing that his move was a bit reckless, Feng Zhutou blushed and walked aside silently.
Lou Yiyi didn't care, pretended not to see it, and said slowly: "Entering the courtyard, the first thing that caught my attention was Lu Wangshan's name for Qin Yue, Jiang Wei's women's intimate clothes and handkerchiefs collected at home were embroidered with the word 'month', and in those days, he often ran down the mountain, so coincidentally, Qin Yue's name also had a 'month' in his name, which is very attention-grabbing." ”
"Then this doesn't mean that those things in Jiang Wei's house are Qin Yue's." Chu Fei retorted.
"yes, that doesn't mean anything." Lou Yiyi continued. "So, I deliberately stepped forward to introduce myself to Qin Yue, and I caught a glimpse of the same 'month' word embroidered on the handkerchief in Qin Yue's hand, except for the color, style, material, including the position of the word 'month' are exactly the same as Jiang Yue's house."
"That doesn't mean that Lu Wangshan is the murderer." Xia Jiangwan thought of Qin Yue and Lu Wangshan's honest appearance, and was a little suspicious. "He looks honest, not like a bad guy."
"Of course it can't be determined." Lou Yiyi was not annoyed by Xia Jiangxuan's questioning, and patiently explained: "Subsequently, Leng Yan let me see the blood stains on the canoe, the blood stains have dried up, but the color is still relatively new, and it should have been stained in the past two days." ”
"So you deliberately asked them later if they had caught prey in the past few days, was it prey pulled by a canoe?" Lou Jinjue realized in vain.
"Yes." Lou Yiyi glanced at Lou Jinjue with a smile. "Not only the blood stains on the car, but I also saw that there were some weeds around the canoe, which were exactly the same as the weeds where we found Jiang Yuan's body in the morning, so I remembered again that on the grass next to the corpse, there were indeed two marks that seemed to have been crushed by the car, one was slightly obvious, and the other was almost invisible, and the attention was on the corpse at that time, so I took a quick look and didn't pay much attention to it."
Can she say that she was smoked by the smell of corpses at that time, and subconsciously didn't want to get closer, so that she skipped this clue? It's impossible, you still want face.
"Then why did Lu Wangshan go so far to bury the body, just bury it directly on the mountain." Lin Qianyi finally couldn't help it and asked the doubts in his heart.
"That's a good question." Lou Yiyi glanced at Lin Qianyi with praise. "I'm thinking about it too."
"What do you think?" Lou Yiyi stabbed Leng Yan beside her with her arm.
Leng Yan didn't answer Lou Yiyi's question directly, but turned his head and asked Feng Zhutou.
"Feng Zhutou, how far is it from the woods to Lu Wangshan's home?"
Feng Zhutou, who had been listening carefully, hurriedly raised his head and estimated: "If you rely on your foot strength alone, it will take an hour." ”
"It's so far away that most people don't choose to bury their bodies from the bottom of the mountain." After listening to Feng Zhutou's words, Leng Yan said to Lou Yiyi.