Leng Yi couldn't help but sink in his heart. Hurriedly tied it up with a rope around Uncle Qi, looked up and shouted, "Hey! Pull people up! ”

At this time, Zhuo Qiaoniang, Jiao Laosan and others had already arrived, pulled up together, and pulled Uncle Qi out. Then, he pulled Leng Yi out again.

Leng Yi checked Uncle Qi's pupils, and the squeezing deformation could not be recovered, confirming that he was dead.

Sun knelt beside the corpse and cried.

Leng Yi said: "Don't cry first, figure things out first." - How did you know he had fallen into a well? ”

Sun cried and said: "He carried water in the morning, and he didn't go back when he came, I was very strange, so I came to the well to inspect, only the bucket of my house by the well, but there was no one, I shouted a few times, there was no answer, I looked into the well, it seemed to be a person, I was frightened, so I screamed." ”

"When did he come to fetch water?"

"Every morning, he fetches water for about a meal before dawn. I came this morning and didn't go back. ”

"So, there's time for a meal?"

"Yes. I should have seen it sooner. Sun cried very sadly.

Leng Yi took a closer look next to the well, and suddenly, some floating soil by the well caught his attention. The floating earth stretched all the way to the woodcutter's house next to the well.

Leng Yi pushed the door and entered, and saw the woodcutter lying next to the fire, with a wooden plank on his legs. In the corner of the wall, there is a toilet, and the smell of feces and urine comes from the toilet. There are two stools on either side of the toilet, which are a little higher than the toilet.

As soon as he saw this, Leng Yi's eyes suddenly lit up.

Leng Yi turned around and went out, called Zhuo Qiaoniang over, and muttered a few words to him in a low voice. Zhuo Qiaoniang nodded and agreed. Leng Yi returned to the woodcutter's room.

The woodcutter saw him coming in and out and asked, "What is the matter?" I heard a commotion outside. ”

Leng Yi said: "Your house is next to the well, and the sound of talking outside is so loud, you can't hear it?" ”

"I'm asleep."

"Aunt Sun is crying so much, can you still sleep? If you want to cover it, it is easy to show your feet! ”

The woodcutter was stunned for a moment and said, "Brother Leng, what do you mean by this?" ”

"You know what it means!"

The woodcutter's face changed: "I don't know. ”

"Well, I'll tell you!" Leng Yi said: "You are the murderer who killed cow dung and Uncle Qi!" ”

The woodcutter's face changed again, and he said: "What you say is just nonsense, I have broken both legs, and you also saw it, or did you carry me back, how can I go out and kill people?" As soon as he said this, he sniffed and said, "What smell?" ”

Leng Yi glanced at his back window and shouted: "It's a fire!" He turned and ran out of the door, but closed the door.

The woodcutter was so frightened that he turned his head to look, and sure enough, he saw smoke billowing from the window, so frightened that he propped up his hands on the ground, stood upside down, bent his legs, and supported his hands on the ground, and quickly walked to the door, opened the door, and walked out quickly upside down, almost hitting a person headbutt, quickly stopped, put down his feet, and looked up, but it was Leng Yi.

Behind Leng Yi, Jiao Laosan, Luo Panya and others were standing, all looking at him in surprise.

Leng Yi said coldly: "Don't worry, it's just the cigarette that my wife burned behind your house." Not a misfire. The purpose is to refute the lie that you can't walk and kill people with two legs! Your retreat is broken, but you can walk with your hands instead of your feet, and you can kill people as well! ”

"Murder?" Jiao Laosan and the others were all taken aback, "Who did he kill?" ”

"He is the murderer of cow dung and Uncle Qi!"

Everyone was even more surprised, if you want to say that you have found the murderer who killed cow dung, it is better to say that Uncle Qi obviously died by accidentally falling into a well, how can there be a murderer?

Leng Yi said to the woodcutter: "Yesterday, I ruled out the possibility of everyone killing cow dung, and even prepared to expand the scope of suspects to outsiders to commit crimes, but Uncle Qi reminded me of a question yesterday, he asked you both legs are broken, what should you do if you urinate?" You confidently said that it was okay and that you didn't need help, and I was wondering how you solved it. Just now, I saw two stools on either side of your toilet, and I understood that you are using your hands instead of your feet to move. I asked my lady to burn some cigarettes behind your house and pretend to be on fire, and you were fooled and came out with both hands. proved my inference. ”

The woodcutter said, "Even if I could walk with my hands on the ground, I wouldn't be able to walk that far!" From here to the cow dung's house, it takes a meal to walk on your feet, who can support it for so long with their hands? ”

"You don't need to hold it that long, you just need to walk dozens of steps by hand." Leng Yi said: "You just need to walk to the river, then go down to the river, and swim to the cow dung's house, his house is by the river." After killing someone, you can swim back. You wear very little and cover very little, and I am sure you can cope with the cold waters. ”

Jiao Laosan next to him said: "He is in good health, and he often goes down to the river to fish and bathe in winter." ”

The woodcutter said, "But, my leg is broken, how can I go down to the river?" ”

"Of course you don't care about killing people. Moreover, the wound of your foot is closed, there is no open wound, don't worry. When I came to see you yesterday morning, you were sleeping with your head covered, and the quilt covered your whole head, and I wondered why you slept like this, with your head covered, and you couldn't breathe. Now I know that you're worried that people will be suspicious when they see your wet hair. In this way, you should swim down in a position like backstroke rafting, so that it is convenient to save your physical strength and kill people, and then you get your hair wet. ”

"It's all your speculation, what evidence do you have?"

"Absolutely!" Leng Yi said: "Just look at the medicine on your leg, the medicine you just applied yesterday was washed away by water, and now there is definitely nothing left." If you don't believe me, you can see it when you open your trouser legs. ”

The woodcutter's face immediately turned white.

Without saying a word, Luo Panya immediately came over and grabbed his trouser legs and rolled them up, revealing two splinted legs. The herbs in the splint are gone!

"Okay! Sure enough, you did it! Luo Bangya said.

The woodcutter hurriedly said, "No! As you said, the murderer was holding a big rock, and knocked the cow dung into the manure tank from behind, and drowned. I had broken legs and couldn't walk, so I could only walk upside down with my hands on the ground. ”

"Of course you have a way!" Leng Yi said: "There is the old locust tree next to the manure tank, there are many vines on it, you just need to tie the big oval stone to it, aim at the back of the cow dung, and let go." You know, now that spring is coming, fertilizer is being prepared, and cow dung will definitely go to the manure tank to pick up manure. That's the time to start! ”

"Why should I kill him?"

"Because you suspect that he broke the bridge, you suspect that he deliberately broke the wooden bridge! Actually, Uncle Qi and I went to repair the bridge yesterday, and the bridge was really in disrepair and collapsed, without any traces of man-made damage. You're wrong about cow dung. ”

The woodcutter paused for a moment and lowered his head.

Leng Yi said again: "Uncle Qi said yesterday that he saw a mountain demon with two horns walking from behind your house to the river, and I thought he was dazzled at the time, but now I know that what he saw was actually you, walking upside down with your feet bent." He also found him killed because of this incident. You are worried that he will tell the Yamen about this matter and arouse the suspicion of the arrester, so you kill him and kill him. ”

Sun said sadly: "My husband, yes, he pushed down the well and killed him? ”

"Hmm!" Leng Yi said: "He put a wooden board on the side of the well, where Uncle Qi often stood to fetch water, covered it with a layer of soil, and pulled a rope all the way down to his house. Because he knew that Uncle Qi had the habit of starting to carry water before dawn, and when Uncle Qi stood on the plank, he pulled the rope back violently, driving the plank to slide back, and Uncle Qi was unsteady on his feet, so he fell forward and fell into the well and drowned. It was the dirt on the ground that betrayed you, there was no such dirt on the ground yesterday, and, all the way to your house, I immediately guessed your trick. - If my guess is correct, that plank is still in your room! ”

Jiao Laosan and Luo Panya rushed into the woodcutter's house at the same time, and after a while, Jiao Laosan came out with a wooden board with a rope and smashed it on the woodcutter's body. said: "Sure enough, you thief, it turned out that you really killed Uncle Qi!" ”

Sun went up like crazy, and grabbed the woodcutter: "You have suffered a thousand cuts!" My husband healed you, cooked for you, took care of you kindly, but you killed him, are you human? You brute! You brute! ”

The woodcutter remained motionless and let Sun beat him. Zhuo Qiaoniang went up with tears in her eyes and persuaded Sun.

Then the woodcutter sighed and said, "I was wrong, I thought that the bridge was deliberately broken by cow dung, but in fact, after I knocked him down the manure tank with a stone, I regretted it, but when I saw him motionless in the manure tank, I thought he was dead, and I fled." After that, I was always scared, especially when I heard Uncle Qi say that he saw the long-legged mountain demon from the back of my house to the river, I was even more afraid, I slept until midnight, and finally decided to kill him. lest he report the matter to the yamen. Just like this Leng brother said, I set a trap with a wooden plank, which caused Uncle Qi to stumble and fall into the well. I'm sorry for him, he was so nice to me, I killed him, I'm really a brute, woo woo......"

Speaking of the back, the woodcutter masked and began to cry.

Sun slapped him twice more, turned around and threw himself on her husband's corpse, crying loudly.

After the chief arrived, he learned that the case had been solved, and the criminal confessed, and he was very happy, and wanted to meet the stranger who solved the case, but after asking, he learned that the stranger had left here with his wife.

(To be continued)