Chapter 16: The Four Horses' Feet
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the audience was stunned.
Ding Zhutou shouted that he was wronged.
Leng Yi said to Ding Zhutou: "The first horse foot you exposed was when you followed the maid into the yard, and after you found that the door couldn't be opened, you asked the maid to call someone!" In this case, as a head catcher, the normal reaction should be to break into the door immediately, instead of calling someone, because you yourself are a fast catcher, so you have the right to deal with this kind of urgent matter, why bother to call someone? Even if you do this in a panic, then you should let the maid go to call someone at the same time, break down the door to check the situation, instead of waiting for everyone to come before thinking about what to do! ”
Ding Zhu said quickly: "The maid said that her grandmother had an accident in the latrine, and her subordinates felt that it was inappropriate to break in rashly." ”
"After you break down the door, let the maid go in and take a look!"
"The subordinates ......, the subordinates panicked at the time, and they didn't think about it so much."
"Ordinary people maybe, but you're a headhunter! Wu Zhutou once said that the people of Yinling County are fierce, and homicides are not uncommon, he and you, you three head hunters don't know how many homicide cases have been handled, and you will panic in the face of homicides? Besides, at this time, I haven't opened the door of the toilet, I haven't seen that Lai Yuanwai's concubine has been killed, and I haven't even seen the corpse, why are you panicking? What's there to panic about? There must be another reason for you to do this, and that reason I will say later. ”
Ding Zhutou's forehead began to sweat, and he said, "When the little concubine came with the maid, I was talking with my brothers in the house. Later, when it was time to eat, we went to eat, and I wanted to go to a thatched house, so I let them go first, and as soon as I entered the yard, I met the little maid, saying that her grandmother might have had an accident. We went in together. I was with my brothers from the time they came until they had an accident, and they could testify! I don't have time to commit crimes! ”
The catchers nodded their heads.
Leng Yi said: "That's right, you weren't at the scene at that time, because he had already set up a mechanism, and he didn't need to be present to launch the murder!" ”
"I, I didn't! What organs? I don't understand! ”
"You'll get it right away. Wait a minute, I'll tell you about the layout. Leng Yi said: "I'll start by talking about the second horse foot you exposed, that is, you split the wooden board next to the toilet door." -- Under normal circumstances, when you learn that someone in the latrine may have an accident, your first reaction is that it is important to save people, and you will kick the door open, and kicking open the door of the latrine is not difficult for you, the powerful deputy catcher, right? Why should he pull out his knife, and chop a nearby plank with one slash, and then reach into the latch? This can only be said that you make people understand that this is a secret room! ”
There was not even a trace of blood on Ding Zhutou's face. He looked at Leng Yi, and his eyes began to have fear. I want to defend myself, but I only open my mouth, but I don't know how to tell the difference.
Leng Yi continued: "The third horse foot you exposed is that you let the maid Xinghua reach in and pull out the latch!" - Since you have split the planks, it is most convenient and quickest for you to reach in and pull out the latch yourself, so why should you let a little girl next to you pull it out? This is also what you want the little maid to help you prove that this toilet door is tied from the inside, and it is a secret room that outsiders cannot enter. Of course, it is precisely because of this that I understand that the maid Xinghua is innocent, she is not your accomplice, otherwise, you will not let her pull the latch, but will call another unrelated person. Ben County just used her so-called contradictions to say that she might be the murderer, and those contradictions were actually speculations after she saw them later, which is understandable. I said that on purpose, just to wronged her, to see how you reacted. If she is an accomplice, you must be nervous, for fear that she will confess you. But your silence reassures me further that Xinghua is not your accomplice. ”
Xinghua knelt on the ground and was so moved that she cried: "Thank you Lord Qingtian for clearing the little girl's grievances!" "Knock knock kowtow.
Leng Yi waved his hand and said to Ding Zhutou: "The fourth horse foot you exposed is your big footprint." Big footprints behind the latrine. -- When the county surveyed the scene, it was noticed that there were not many weeds behind the latrine, indicating that during that time, almost no one went behind the latrine. However, the county found a footprint directly behind the latrine, a footprint that only a tall person like you could have left. It was also because you were so secretive that you used a wooden barrel full of dung water as a mechanism that made you leave this horse's foot, the real horse's foot! ”
Lai Yuanwai interjected suspiciously: "Master, the villain heard Xinghua say that the toilet door was tied from the inside at that time, if it was this Ding head catcher, how could he go in and kill my concubine?" Hey, sir, it can't be a mistake, right? ”
"Of course you can't be mistaken!" Leng Yi glanced at him lightly, "I was about to talk about this issue when you interrupted, it seems that you are in a hurry." ”
Lai Yuanwai hurriedly accompanied him and said with a smile: "The villain is also anxious to know who is the real murderer who killed my concubine." ”
"You'll find out right away!"
"Okay!" Lai Yuanwai smiled and retreated, walked a few steps, and stood again, didn't the old man already think that this Ding Catcher was the real murderer, why did he say "You will know immediately"? Could it be that he thinks there is a real murderer?
Lai Yuanwai's face changed suddenly.
Leng Yi looked around at everyone and said, "The murderer actually doesn't need to enter the latrine to kill people, then he only needs to use the cracks in the dilapidated latrine like the yamen to achieve the goal!" ”
"But," Wu Zhutou said, "we have carefully observed, and the few gaps in the latrine are so small that they can't fit a single hand, let alone a person!" ”
"Just stick it in."
"Flat?"
"That's right! Carrying pole! Leng Yi looked at Ding Zhutou, "The flat pole on the pair of dung buckets next to the manure tank in the thatched toilet vegetable field." ”
Ding Zhutou's face was no longer pale, and it had turned earthy.
Leng Yi stared at Ding Zhutou and said, "You insert the flat pole into the gap behind the latrine, tie the dagger to the corner of the flat pole, and then sink the inside end into the dung water." Because the manure tank is a large round tank, half of it is buried in the earth, half is exposed to the ground, and the edge is just used as a fulcrum, turning this flat pole into a rocker. In this way, when the victim is squatting in the pit, he presses down violently from the outside, and the end of the dung water in the pit will be violently lifted up, and the dagger tied to it will pierce the deceased's lower body, completing the murder! ”
Wu Zhutou and the others were stunned, such a murder was simply too unbelievable and disgusting, too perverted!
Lai Yuanwai's eyes rolled, and he smiled and said, "But my lord, if you put a flat pole in the dung pit, won't you be suspicious when you see it?" ”
"Others may, but your concubine won't. Or maybe she didn't have time to be suspicious. ”
"Why?"
"Because she happened to have diarrhea in the past few days, a person who is in a hurry to have diarrhea can't care about other things, who would have thought that there would be a deadly mechanism in the latrine? - By the way, Lai Yuanwai, you don't know that you love concubines and diarrhea, right? Leng Yi looked at Lai Yuanwai with a smile.
Lai Yuanwai hurriedly nodded: "Yes, yes, she just had diarrhea in the past few days, and she had to go to the thatched house more than a dozen times a day." Lai Yuanwai seemed to think of something, and asked again: "Since there are these gaps in the toilet, Ding Zhutou went over to flatten the burden, wasn't it seen by the people inside?" ”
He did not need to go and flatten the bucket himself, but he had to set up a very simple mechanism with the pair of buckets, which was to fill one bucket with dung water, hang it on the end of the bucket, and use another bucket as a support, and then put a hook in front of the dog's chain and hang it on the rim of the bucket. The dog heard that he listened to Ding Zhutou, and he could make it lie there and not move. When he saw the victim enter the latrine, he squatted in the pit and knocked on the chopsticks. The dog had been fed with leftovers, and as soon as he heard the sound, he immediately got up and ran this way, as evidenced by Xinghua's testimony. As soon as the yellow dog ran, he pulled over the supporting dung bucket, and the wooden bucket of dung hanging on the end of the flat pole sank down, and the seesaw mechanism was activated. - If he hadn't used that bucket of dung as a pressure weight, I'm afraid I would have had a hard time seeing through this mechanism! ”