When Leng Yi was preparing to organize the third donation mobilization, he finally saw a glimmer of hope,—— the rain for a month finally stopped! The sun was revealed, and the flood in Bazhou City, which continued to rise to the top of the river embankment, finally stopped rising!

The people who have been fighting against the flood for several days and nights without closing their eyes can finally show a smile.

Leng Yi stood on the embankment, looking at the rolling torrent, his eyelids couldn't support it because of the number of opens, and he kept fighting, he was about to go home to sleep, suddenly, people on the embankment shouted chaotically, pointing to the middle of the river and shouting: "Someone! There are people in the river! ”

Leng Yi tried to open his eyes wide, and sure enough, a person floated along the flood from above, and this person was holding on to a piece of wood and struggling in the flood.

Upstream floods washed away trees and houses, so there were often logs, planks, and trees floating down the water, but this was the first time I saw someone holding a log and drifting down the river.

"Help!" Leng Yi roared loudly, although he knows water, but the surname of water is average, such a rolling flood, full of whirlpools and rapids, he has a water surname, it may be okay to swim alone, if you save people, I am afraid that both of them will be drowned!

Many people on the embankment began to undress, but they all hesitated when they looked at the rolling flood.

Leng Yi gritted his teeth and began to undress, he decided to swim over and push the man back to the shore along with the log. That might work.

Cheng Luojie hurriedly said: "Is your surname Shui okay?" The flood was very urgent. ”

"If you can't do it, you have to try, you can't see death without saving ......"

At this moment, a soap officer grabbed him and said urgently: "Master, don't go, I'll go!" With that, he quickly took off his shirt and plunged into the raging flood.

The surname of the soap was very good, and he quickly approached the man.

Due to the rapid flow of the river, the two had already drifted down the river. Leng Yi and the others ran down the riverbank, loudly reminding him of the logs, branches, and so on that washed down from time to time upstream. There are often such things floating on the surface of the river, and swimming in the flood is like dodging arrows on the battlefield. If you are hit in the head, your life is in danger!

Soap finally swam to the man's side, and he tried to push the log to the shore, but the wood was too heavy to push. Soap Li had no choice but to give up the effort and reach out and grab the man's arm.

The man didn't know how long it had been since he had been floating, he was obviously exhausted, and he had many injuries on his body, and he couldn't tread water at all, so he only knew that he would hold on to the soap's hand and not let go.

Soap supported him and swam to the shore.

When they approached the riverbank, they had drifted to a more turbulent part of the river, and Sooli's feet could already step on the riverbed on the bank, but the flood was too strong for him to stand, so he struggled to hold the man and leaned towards the shore, and at last, stepping on the shore, he carried the man to the shore.

The people on the embankment let out a burst of cheers, and several soaps and people jumped into the water to help him. At this moment, I heard a miserable scream from Soap Li, and a person who stumbled and fell into the water with his hand in his hand!

Holding his waist with both hands, he seemed to be being dragged by something underwater, and turned in a half-circle, when a log rolled out of the muddy flood behind his waist. One end of the wood broke, revealing sharp spikes and blood stained on it!

It turned out that the soap was hit in the back by a broken log under the muddy flood and stabbed into it!

Soap fell into the flood.

Fortunately, a few soap subordinates and Minzhuang went into the water to respond, and quickly brought him up, and at the same time, rescued the person who fell into the water.

Leng Yi ordered to hurry up and call Lang Zhong on the river embankment, and there were many Lang Zhong from the city on the river embankment who came to help with voluntary treatment. Lang Zhong hadn't come yet, and Leng Yi squatted down to inspect the injury to that soap li. Soap's back was blurred with flesh and blood, and he lay on the river embankment and moaned incessantly.

After Leng Yi's examination, he found that although his injuries were serious, fortunately, his hands and feet could still move, and it seemed that the lumbar spine was not injured, and judging from the condition of the wound, it did not pierce the abdominal cavity. After all, the broken wood can't be compared with the sword, the sharp tip pierces in, and the thick part behind it is blocked.

Leng Yi patted the soap on the shoulder and said, "You are very brave!" What is your name? ”

"Thank you, big man, for the compliment, the little one is called Hong Jie. It's the yamen that catches fast. ”

"Excellent! Don't worry, you're just a flesh wound, Lang Zhong will come soon, and he will treat you! ”

"Okay......

Leng Yi went to inspect the rescued man again, a young man who had passed out in a coma. One of his hands and one leg had been broken, so it was no wonder he couldn't swim to the shore.

At this time, several Lang Zhong came and rescued the two of them.

Leng Yi was very tired, and he urgently needed to rest. However, he still walked to Hong Jie's side to see if he had made a mistake in judgment.

At this time, Lang Zhong had already cleaned the wound on Hong Jie's back, Leng Yi saw the wound, and suddenly sighed, he squatted down, checked it carefully, stood up with a sigh, and said to Cheng Luojie and Yin Ying: "Go back to the Yamen, our case has eyebrows!" ”

Cheng Luoyan and Yin Ying immediately understood what kind of case he was talking about, and they were immediately in good spirits, and they didn't ask much, and hurriedly followed Leng Yi back to the prefect's yamen.

Leng Yi went straight to the morgue of the yamen. The body of the eunuch who stole the treasures of the palace and killed him with a sword by the river is temporarily stored here. Not yet buried.

The corpse had already begun to [***] and was emitting an extremely unpleasant smell.

Leng Yi lifted the covered sheet and observed the diamond-shaped wound that was elongated on one side again. In the morgue, there are knives and pliers for dissecting corpses. Leng Yi took a knife and carefully cut open the abdomen of the corpse.

The belly is full of black-green corpse water!

Leng Yi didn't frown, took another wooden spoon, and carefully scooped out the corpse water in the corpse's stomach. until the stomach and intestines underneath are exposed.

Looking at those stomachs, Leng Yi smiled.

Cheng Luojie pinched her nose and asked, "What's wrong?" Did you find anything? ”

Leng Yi pointed to the piles of things scattered on his stomach and said, "You say, what are these?" ”

Cheng Luojie had the courage to look at it and said, "It seems to be ......, it's mud and sand!" ”

"That's right! It's mud and sand! Leng Yi said: "The place where the deceased went out of business was in the grass on the riverbank. How could there be so much mud and sand in his stomach? ”

Cheng Luojie thought about it and shook her head blankly.

Yin Vulture next to him said in a deep voice: "It should be that after the sword, the wound sank into the flood, and the flood with a large amount of sediment rushed into his wound and into his stomach, and there was only mud and sand in all stomachs!" ”

"That's right!" Leng Yi said: "To be precise, the deceased was the one who was stabbed in the flood. When we were examining the corpse by the river, you all said that his wound was very strange,—— he pierced the abdomen with a vertical blade, and instead of dragging the sword down, he dragged it horizontally, blocked by the ribs next to him. Doesn't make sense, right? ”

The two nodded together.

Leng Yi said: "Now I know, this sword is actually in line with common sense. ”

"Why?" Cheng Luojie asked.

"Because he was not stabbed with a sword, but with a sword tied to a log!"

Cheng Luojie and Yin Eagle were both taken aback: "A sword tied to a wood? ”

"Yes!" Leng Yi said: "He tied the sword to the wood and rushed down the turbulent flood, while others stood waist-deep in the flood and let the sword pierce into the chest and abdomen, because the wood would roll in the turbulent river, so that the sword that was originally pierced vertically turned into a flat one, and then driven by the flood, the wood tied to the sword dragged the sword out of his body, which formed a diamond-shaped exit that was dragged on one side." - The flood is not a swordsman, so it doesn't know that it should drag its sword down and not sideways like this. This wound and the way the sword was dragged that did not conform to the common sense of the swordsman, as well as the large amount of cement and sand in the stomach of the deceased, were the evidence of my inference! ”

Yin Eagle and Cheng Luojie looked at each other and nodded slowly together.

Cheng Luojie said in a low voice: "So, the deceased committed suicide? ”

"Yes!"

"But why did he kill himself?"

"Undisguised suicide is generally due to misanthropy! However, if it is a suicide forged as homicide, it has another purpose. What is the purpose of this, maybe it is the path we can find those missing treasures! ”

Yin Vulture hesitated: "He's ...... Make matters worse by attempting a coverup? ”

Leng Yi nodded approvingly: "That's right!" From what we know from the case we investigated earlier, at that time, this eunuch used gold to pay the bill, and the three gangsters saw it, so they followed and robbed. Before he was robbed, the eunuch threw the one-foot-long goose-yellow scroll into the flood in front of the three looters, but kept the other treasures for the looters to snatch, because he estimated that we would soon find the three thugs, and from their mouths we knew that the scroll had been thrown into the flood. The thing is no longer there. ”

"Then why did he kill himself?" Cheng Luojie asked.

To his surprise, the three thugs didn't kill him. And he knows that if he is caught, he will not be able to resist your torture and will tell the truth. Therefore, he killed himself, and made us break our minds, believing that that thing had been thrown into the flood and destroyed! ”

Cheng Luojie and Yin Ying's eyes suddenly lit up. Cheng Luojie said happily: "You mean, he took out the contents of the scroll, and threw the scroll into the flood, deceiving us and making us believe that the contents of the scroll were thrown into the flood along with the scroll?" ”

Leng Yi smiled and nodded.

"Where's the contents of the scroll?" Cheng Luojie's breath became short.

Leng Yi walked back and forth a few times, as if he was sorting out the thoughts in his mind. Finally, he stood still and said, "If my guess is correct, the things should be in the scholar's house where the eunuch entrusted him with his safekeeping!" ”

Cheng Luojie and Yin Ying were stunned, and Cheng Luojie said, "Why? ”

(To be continued)