"What's that?" Cheng Luojie asked.

Leng Yi said: "It's the belt that strangles the neck." ”

"Belt?"

"Yes, I found the deceased's belt intact on his trousers, and this belt was of good texture and obviously not possessed by a poor child like the victim, so it was most likely the deceased. ――Why did the murderer choose to use his own trouser belt when there was a victim trouser belt to use? You know, it's not just a question of what to use to strangle the victim, it's also a question of consequences. ――I used my own belt to wear my pants, so what about my pants? Carry it and go? This doesn't make sense. ”

The pants of the ancients were very loose and had to be tied with a belt, and if they didn't, they would all fall off.

Leng Yi said: "According to common sense, after the murderer commits the crime, unless he sincerely repents, the first reaction is how to escape responsibility. Usually they take away things that they might recognize themselves. If this Zhu Peng was a murderer, he gagged his mouth with his own handkerchief, and it can be said that he did so in a panic, but it was not normal to strangle the victim with his trouser belt instead of the victim's own trouser belt, and he threw a pair of shoes at the scene. This is even more abnormal. Isn't he afraid that others will recognize something that is his? Moreover, in rape cases, because of the tension and time constraints, the murderer will generally only put his pants under his legs and will not take off his shoes. Shoes left on the spot, contrary to common sense. ”

Cheng Luojie said: "Well, it makes sense. So what's going on in this case? ”

Leng Yi said: "After the little maid listened to your words, she had already decided to do this, and it happened that Zhu Peng slept alone in a room and had a back window, so she decided to implement her plan." Zhu Peng said that before he went to bed, it was the little maid who served the wide clothes to wash, and after washing, the little maid served Zhu Peng to lie down on the bed, and then opened the back window and poured the water into the open space behind. She must have taken the opportunity to pour out the footwashing water from the back window, threw Zhu Peng's belt and handkerchief out of the window, hid her shoes in her arms, and then closed the back window and tied it, and pulled the door out. Put on the shoes of the deceased, and walk back and forth, leaving those two lines of shoe prints. Then the scene was faked in the firewood room. ”

Cheng Luojie said: "However, her hands are dislocated, how can she fake the scene?" ”

She first took off her clothes and pants, scratched ** and **, then stuffed a handkerchief into her mouth, and then tied her neck with a belt to tie a dead knot. - After strangulation, there is still about half a cup of tea (about two minutes) to stay awake. She thrust her hand into the gap under the door and lifted her body violently to break her arm. Broke both arms, then lay down and died. -- The dislocated arm was very painful, and the child really suffered a lot in order to achieve his goal. ”

Cheng Luojie sobbed softly, looked at the corpse, and sighed: "You are so stupid, if you tell me the truth, I will kill him!" ”

Leng Yi sighed and said, "You are a head catcher, you can't kill people casually." That's where you grieve. ”

"I'm different from others, I won't be limited by those rules!" Cheng Luojie smiled astringently, "Brother Yi, do you know that Zhu Peng is not a murderer, so you proposed that Zhu Peng use money to atone for his crimes, so as to benefit the local people?" ”

"Well, over the years, Zhu Peng has been rich and unkind, and he must have insulted the people a lot, and the wealth he exploited from the people was returned to the people, which is right."

"Okay, I'll wait for you to finish these things, and then I'll do my business."

Leng Yi was slightly surprised, and said, "You, you still want to kill him?" ”

"What I say, it never counts!"

"I just hope you are cautious and don't embarrass me."

"Don't worry."

Leng Yi looked at her and said in a low voice, "Do you know what kind of case is the most difficult to solve?" ”

Cheng Luojie is actually not a head catcher, she doesn't know much about the work of catching fast, and when she heard it, she immediately understood that Leng Yi was instructing her how to commit a crime without being caught, so she shook her head and listened with her ears pricked up.

Leng Yi said: "The most difficult case to solve is the case where no one is alive or dead. If the victim's body cannot be found, in many cases, it can only be treated as a disappearance, and there is no way to file a case as a homicide unless there are eyewitnesses at the scene. ”

Cheng Luojie's eyes lit up, she nodded, held Leng Yi's hand, and said, "I'll thank you for this child!" ”

Leng Yi said in a low voice: "You can't start for the time being." ”

"Why?"

"Start now, it's easy for people to suspect you, so you have to bear with it."

"How long will it take?"

"After the Chinese New Year. The Spring Festival is easy to distract everyone, and at the same time, if he wants to visit relatives and friends in the New Year, he will definitely have to go out, and it will be easier to start at that time, and it will not arouse suspicion. ”

Cheng Luojie nodded: "Okay, I'll listen to you." ”

"Very well, ma'am, let's go back and rest."

Cheng Luojie couldn't help but be ashamed and happy when she heard her call her wife, but when she saw the corpse on the ground, she was sad and sad, her eyes were a little red, she knelt on the ground, tidied up the corpse's pants and clothes, and then followed Leng Yi out of the firewood room, closed the door of the firewood room, and returned to the kitchen.

Li Fen was lying on the ground, still holding the firewood in his hand, and asked, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? ”

Cheng Luojie said: "It's okay, you take care of your injuries, don't ask anything else." ”

Leng Yi added a few sticks of firewood to the stove to make it a little stronger, and lay down on the ground with Cheng Luojie. Cheng Luojie curled up in Leng Yi's arms, and the two hugged each other. was still the same as before, Leng Yi fell asleep quickly, but Cheng Luojie snuggled up to Leng Yi and couldn't sleep for a long time.

Early the next morning, Cheng Luojie bought a piece of white cloth from Zhuang Laoshi's house, wrapped the maid's body well, and asked the nursing home to chop wood and prepare a stretcher, so that Zhu Peng and the nursing home could carry the corpse, and Li Fen only broke her right leg and had already bandaged it, so she prepared a cane to support her, and she could read and walk, so she left Zhuang Laoshi's house, went down the mountain and detoured, walked dozens of miles, and returned to Hongsong Village at noon.

carried dozens of miles of mountain roads, and Zhu Peng's class was about to fall apart, and he couldn't take a break, so he invited Leng Yi and them to the living room and instructed the servants to prepare a banquet, but Leng Yi categorically refused, and whispered to him: "Do you still have the heart to drink?" Don't get things done right away! This county doesn't have so much leisure to rub shoulders with you! ”

Zhu Peng hurriedly ordered the account room to bring all the cash in the house to the living room. The tent didn't know the reason, but seeing Zhu Peng's urging in a stack, he hurriedly brought several large boxes of silver money to the servants.

Before entering the village, Leng Yi had already warned Zhu Peng that after arriving, he would immediately prepare the pension for the family of the dead maid, and then prepare all the relief money that he should not have received before, and they would come to take it when they returned. At the same time, let the housekeepers sell their fields, land, and houses, raise money, and food, and donate them to the yamen to help the poor people who sold their sons and daughters.

can't let him give it directly to those people, first, those people don't dare to ask for it if they don't know, and second, to prevent him from leaving Yinling County in the future, this kid's family will come to change the sky account, and then ask for it back, it will be troublesome, so let him donate directly to the yamen, and then spend from the yamen, their family will have no way to ask for it.

Zhu Peng's wife and children didn't know why he sold all the fields and houses to the yamen like this, and asked crying. Zhu Peng was dumb and couldn't say what was going on when he ate Coptis chinensis, so he could only cry and shake his head with a sad face and asked them not to ask.

Leng Yi and the others escorted Zhu Peng overnight and set off again, taking the pretty maid's body and the pension to the maid's parents' house. Because Zhu Peng really couldn't lift it, he was allowed to find a family member to replace him to carry the body.

The maid's family lived alone at the foot of a mountain, and when they arrived, it was already evening. Leng Yi ordered to rest in place, and let Cheng Luojie go to the maid's house alone to inquire about the news. In this way, we can know the truth, if Zhu Peng is allowed to go with him, the family of the deceased may not dare to tell the truth.