Leng Yi just smiled and listened while drinking, and after he was full of wine and food, he was drunk and stood separately, Uncle Qi said to Leng Yi with a big tongue: "Brother, you husband and wife still don't sleep with him here, he has a broken leg, and he can't take care of you, so let's sleep where I am!" ”

Leng Yi was also a little drunk, and said, "It's because he has a broken leg, so we stay and take care of him." ”

Uncle Qi said: "Don't worry, he will take care of himself, it's really not good, he still can't shout in a loud voice, a few families are close to each other, and he can hear it in his throat." Let's go! When I went to sleep, my only daughter got married last year, and we were the only ones in the family. Her house is still empty, where can you sleep, everything is complete, there is nothing in the horse face, and you have to make your own bed to find a quilt, trouble. Let's go! ”

The woodcutter said: "That's true, that's okay, then sleep with Uncle Qi." ”

Sun helped the woodcutter to make a bunk next to the fire shop, and laid out the quilt, which was very thin, and the woodcutter said that it was okay, he was not afraid of the cold. Uncle Qi and Leng Yi carried him to the ground and lay down, and then returned to Uncle Qi's house.

Uncle Qi's daughter's boudoir is sure enough, everything is really neat. The quilt has also been replaced with a new one. Sun boiled hot water and sent it, Zhuo Qiaoniang served Leng Yi to wash his face and feet, and washed himself, so he blew the lamp and lay down.

Sleeping quietly in the mountains, Leng Yi slept very well this night, until he got up on the third pole, and his head hurt a little. Zhuo Qiaoniang is no longer around, but there is an extra quilt on her body, as if her daughter-in-law came in to cover it when it was almost dawn.

He listened attentively, and there was Zhuo Qiaoniang's voice in the courtyard, who was laughing with the Sun family in a low voice, so he was relieved. got up, stretched his muscles, pulled the door out, Zhuo Qiaoniang and Sun were taking a wooden basin, half a basin of millet in it, and some empty shells floating on the water, and the two were picking it up.

Seeing Leng Yi come out, Zhuo Qiaoniang hurriedly got up and said, "Husband is up?" My sister-in-law and I are picking up empty shells. These are seeds, and the shells have to be picked out. Spring is about to begin. ”

"Oh, we disturbed the master's house for the night, and it's time to get ready to go."

Sun said: "After breakfast, I will leave, I am ready." ”

"Thank you very much!"

After eating, Leng Yi and Zhuo Qiaoniang packed up their things, came to the woodcutter's house to say goodbye, pushed open the door, and saw that the woodcutter was still lying in the quilt and sleeping, and it was not easy to disturb, and they were about to leave, when they heard a person running in the distance, panting and shouting: "Oh no!" Oh no! Cow dung is dead! ”

Uncle Qi and Sun, who followed over, were startled, and hurriedly looked over, only to see that it was Luo Panya's daughter-in-law, carrying a pair of bamboo baskets, which contained half a handful of cow dung, and ran back in a panic.

Uncle Qi hurriedly greeted him and said, "Daughter-in-law Banya, what are you talking about?" ”

Panya's daughter-in-law gasped and said, "The cow dung is dead!" I just wanted to go to him to ask for some cow dung, he has cows, there should be more cow dung, and the ground should be fertilized in the spring. He agreed, and let me pick by myself, and I could only pick three. I picked a handful of baskets to the ground and poured, came back and saw that he was gone, only to see two dung buckets in the manure tank behind the latrine, but did not see people, I was strange and shouted a few words, did not hear the cow dung answer, went over to look, the dung tank soaked a person, face down, see the clothes are cow dung, I was frightened, quickly ran back. Go and check it out! ”

Uncle Qi stomped his feet and said, "Confused, you! If you don't hurry up and pull him up, run back and ask someone to go again, he will already die! With that, the leader ran forward, and Leng Yi and Zhuo Qiaoniang followed.

Hearing the shouting of Banya's daughter-in-law, Luo Panya, Jiao Laosan, and the family members all came out. When I heard that the cow dung was dead, I panicked, although this cow dung was not very popular, in the end it was a village, and it was close to it, so I still had some feelings, so I ran to see it quickly.

Because cow dung lived in a ravine, the group ran directly along the ravine instead of taking the path. These people are accustomed to the mountains, and walking in the ditch is not slow at all than walking on flat land.

I saw the cow dung house from afar, it was next to the ravine, and the water in the ravine was full of ice, and I didn't dare to cross the river, so I went around the single-plank bridge a little below, crossed the river, and came to the wooden house.

The cow dung house is a single house, with a small courtyard in front of three wooden houses, a few steps away from the house, is a thatched latrine, and behind the thatched toilet is a manure tank. There is a huge locust tree next to the septic tank, and the tree is full of vines, and you can tell that it is at least more than 100 years old.

The manure tank was wide and deep, and the level of the manure was about half a man's height from the shore, and there was a pair of manure buckets near the old locust tree, one standing and the other falling, and throwing the flat pole on the ground. On the trunk of the old locust tree, leaning on a long dung spoon.

The corpse lay on its stomach on the opposite side of the pool, head down, in a coarse cloth shirt, and the manure tank was covered with yellow dung, apparently the cow dung was struggling and stirring in the pool. Because the manure tank was filled with toxic ammonia, he soon passed out and drowned due to suffocation.

The cesspool where the corpse rested was overgrown with thorns and weeds.

When Uncle Qi and the others began to salvage the corpse, he did not participate in the salvage of the corpse, because the cow dung was submerged in the dung water face down, even from the time Banya's daughter-in-law told them that the cow dung fell into the manure tank and died, this time was enough for a person to drown several times, not counting the time before this, so the cow dung must die. He used this time to take a closer look at the entire scene. Including the front and back of the house, as well as the small river ditch.

When I came back from observation, the body had just been salvaged and carried to the open space by the roadside, curled up by the pool in an odd posture. I touched it, and I was out of gas for a long time.

Uncle Qi asked a few daughters-in-law who came with him to quickly take buckets from the cow dung house, bring water from the small river, and rinse the corpse briefly.

Jiao Laosan asked Uncle Qi, "What should I do?" ”

"What else can I do? Find the chief to deal with it. It seems that when this kid was digging dung, he fell into the manure tank carelessly. ”

Jiao Laosan asked his child to call the lieutenant chief. Their village is relatively scattered, and the place where they live is still an hour away from the village.

Leng Yi walked over, squatted down to check the corpse, and found that the corpse was mostly stiff, so it was estimated that the time of death should be around the beginning of the morning.

Leng Yi asked Banya's daughter-in-law: "You said that you went to him in the morning to ask for cow dung, and he agreed, right?" ”

"Yes."

"When was that?"

"The sky is bright, and the sun hasn't come out yet."

"When did you take cow dung into the ground and pour it back, and you saw the body drowned in the manure tank?"

"The sun just came out."

"Understood." Leng Yi said, "This means that the time of death of the deceased's cow dung should be when the sun has just emerged from the mountain. This is very important in judging the merits of the case. ”

Leng Yi then examined the body.

Zombies appear in low places such as the distal ends of the limbs and abdomen that fall in the water, and are consistent with the posture of soaking the hands and feet face down under water. It shows that after the death of the deceased, the body has not been moved, and it has always been in this position. That said, this should be the scene of death.

Uncle Qi saw that he took off the deceased's shoes for a while, pulled up the deceased's trouser leg for a while, and looked at it, he was a little strange, and said, "Brother Leng, what are you doing?" ”

"Inquest of the body." Leng Yi said, "I have done a job before, and I know how to perform an autopsy. ”

"Oh? Did you find anything? ”

Leng Yi was checking the deceased's back, he put down the deceased's clothes, stood up, looked around the manure tank again, and said, "The cow dung was deliberately knocked down into the manure tank and drowned!" ”

When they heard this, everyone in the audience was taken aback. Uncle Qi said, "Do you have any evidence?" ”

Leng Yi didn't answer, turned around and asked Banya's daughter-in-law, who was the first to find the body, "When you saw the corpse, was he in the same position when we came just now?" Have you ever moved? ”

"No, it's there." Banya's daughter-in-law said with certainty.

"That's right!" Leng Yi said to Uncle Qi: "If you stumble and fall into the manure tank, you should find a way to climb ashore nearby." Right? ”

Uncle Qi said: "Of course, the manure tank is very smelly, I can't breathe, and if I don't climb up early, I will suffocate." ”

"That's right, if you stumble and fall into the manure tank, you should have fallen from somewhere." Leng Yi pointed to the manure tank where the corpse was salvaged and said, "But, you see, the edge of the pond above the corpse is overgrown with thorns and weeds. And I paid attention to it just now, there was no trace of stepping on it, and it took you half a day to trample the thorns just now. So, the body should not have fallen from somewhere into the septic tank. In addition, his dung bucket and dung spoon are on this side of the old banyan tree on the path, how could his body go to the other side of the pool? It can be seen that the deceased did not stumble and slide down the manure tank and died. ”

Jiao Laosan said: "Maybe he slipped down on this side of the path, he swam to that side and wanted to climb up, but if he couldn't climb up, he died there." ”

"It's not logical." Leng Yi said, "The pool is relatively low, and it is easier to come up on the side of the path, so why should he swim to the other side to climb ashore?" ”

"This ......, maybe he fell into the manure tank and panicked for a while, and he couldn't see the direction clearly."

Leng Yi pointed to the manure tank and said, "Then let's see if there are any traces of swimming past the pond surface?" Leng Yi pointed to the dung water channel where the body was recovered, "Look there, the dung water around the body has been muddied because the deceased fell into the water, so the dung water in the manure tank, if someone swims or stirs, will become turbid. But if you look at the side of the path where the dung bucket is placed, and the dung water in the middle, the same as the eyes on both sides, there is no change, which means that the deceased did not fall here and swim to the other side. ”

Jiao Laosan had nothing to say at this time, nodded and said, "This is also true." - And how did you say he died over there? ”

"Since he can't fall from that side, and he can't fall from this side and swim over, he can only fly over."

"Fly over?" Luo Panya interjected, "Brother Leng, you mean he jumped over from here, right?" ”

"Sort of."

(To be continued)