Chapter 117: The Neglected
After listening to Li Yuntian's analysis of the facts of Wang Xiucai's case, Qi Wanlong's heart could not help but suddenly become enlightened, and he was ashamed of Li Yuntian, so he immediately sent people to the two villages closest to Wang Xiucai's house to investigate, and asked if there were any carriages and other means of transportation passing by that morning. Watch the latest chapter of Perfect World, and look at it quickly.
For Li Yuntian, the reasoning of this case is not troublesome, the key is to find the guy who murdered the Zhang family, the other party is hiding very deeply, and there are no clues, if you want to find him out, I am afraid it will take some thought.
However, Li Yuntian now has time, as long as he stays in Ruichang County, then Long Ye will live his big birthday with peace of mind, giving him a good opportunity to start.
Two days later, the officers of the raider took a dozen men from two villages, all of whom had gone out early that morning.
In order to exert psychological pressure on the dozen or so suspects, Qi Wanlong interrogated them one by one in the torture chamber, and all of them shouted grievances, and no one admitted that they had seen Zhang that day.
Li Yuntian sat beside Qi Wanlong, quietly observing the suspects who were brought into the execution chamber, looking for flaws in Qi Wanlong's questioning.
In fact, in Qi Wanlong's opinion, there was no need to be so troublesome at all, and he directly served the torture, he didn't believe that those people's mouths could compare to those torture instruments in the torture room.
"Brother Li, what clues can you see from this?" After the interrogation of the dozen or so men, Qi Wanlong looked at Li Yuntian eagerly.
"They don't have enough time to commit crimes, it shouldn't be them." Li Yuntian shook his head at Qi Wanlong, not only was the time of the crime not right, but also although those people looked flustered, their eyes were not flustered, according to the evidence currently available, their suspicion could be temporarily ruled out.
Qi Wanlong's face suddenly showed a look of disappointment when he heard this, which meant that the case had become more complicated, and if he wanted to find the murderer, he needed to increase the intensity of investigation.
"Brother Qi, tomorrow morning, the younger brother will rewrite and walk the route of the Zhang family home, and see if there are any new discoveries." If the direction of the investigation is correct, Li Yuntian feels that those errand officers must have missed someone when handling the case, and he still doesn't know which link went wrong, so he has to investigate in person, and revisiting the scene of the crime is undoubtedly the best choice.
"There's Brother Lao Li." Qi Wanlong arched his hand at Li Yuntian, he had no choice but to rely on Li Yuntian now.
Subsequently, Li Yuntian went to Wang Xiucai's village, preparing to wait until dawn the next day when the Zhang family left home and walked along the route of the Zhang family home to see if there was anything to be gained.
In the evening, Li Yuntian temporarily settled in a landlord's house in the village, and the landlord did not know that Li Yuntian had obtained his identity, but he dared to neglect the things told by the county government, and waited carefully.
Early the next morning, the group came to the door of Wang Xiucai's house, and Li Yuntian asked a young woman in the village who was close to the Zhang family to simulate the speed of Zhang's march in front, and he led everyone to follow behind.
Because it was still early, there was no trace on the road, and it was not until the first village along the way that I saw a bright light coming from a few houses, as well as scattered voices.
"It stinks!" When she came to a crossroads in the village, the tip of Zhou Yuting's nose, who was following Li Yuntian, twitched, her willow eyebrows frowned slightly, and she covered her nose with her hand.
Li Yuntian also smelled an unpleasant stench, and immediately, a dung truck full of dung appeared at the intersection on the left side of the front, pulled by a sturdy man, and walked towards everyone.
After seeing Li Yuntian and the others, the man who was pulling it was stunned for a moment, obviously he didn't expect to meet so many people here, and there were also officials from the county government inside, so he hurriedly pulled the dung truck to the side of the road, lowered his head, and made a way for everyone.
Li Yuntian walked in front of the dung truck with his nose covered, no wonder the smell was so unpleasant, it turned out to be a night incense.
Night incense is also dung, in ancient times there was no thatched toilet, no sewer system and flushing system, so whether in the countryside or town, there were people who specialized in cleaning excess feces, commonly known as "night incense".
In order to avoid affecting others, Yexianglang usually gets up in the middle of the night to collect the feces that have been left in the toilet bowl at the door, and his status is extremely low.
When he arrived at the second village, the village was already obviously lively, there were many people on the street, Li Yuntian stood at the entrance of the village, turned his head and looked at the way, judging from the current situation, the Zhang family should be in this distance.
However, he couldn't understand that the direction of Zhang's home was not consistent with the direction of the pond, and there was an oblique angle greater than 90 degrees between them.
Back at the county office, Li Yuntian listed all the clues of Wang Xiucai's case on paper, and then pasted them on the wall to look for the connection between them.
He had already thought about the case carefully enough, and the only difficulty now was that the murderer could commit the crime at such a short distance and throw the body into such a remote pond, it must have been done by the locals.
Li Yuntian had a feeling that the murderer was in those two villages, but there was a layer of fog around his body, which made him unable to distinguish the true face of the other party now.
"Well, who's missing?" Where Zhou Yuting sat looking at Li Yuntian, seeing him clasping his hands on his chest, staring at the piece of paper on the wall for a long time with a stern expression, he couldn't help but stretch lazily, "Could it be that he will not be able to stealth and sneak away from our eyes!" ”
"Invisibility?" Li Yuntian, who was contemplative, was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then a bright light flashed in his eyes, and he suddenly pulled it over, hugged Zhou Yuting's cheek and kissed it fiercely, and said with a smile, "If you have a wife like this, what more can a husband ask for!" ”
Zhou Yuting didn't expect Li Yuntian to have such a Meng Lang demeanor, her cheeks turned red when she brushed it, and Xue'er, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but snicker, she felt that Li Yuntian and Zhou Yuting were really a perfect match, Zhou Yuting didn't have the appearance of a lady, and Li Yuntian didn't have a county master's shelf.
"Xianggong, what did you think of?" Zhou Yuting touched the cheek that was kissed by Li Yuntian with a red mark, and asked shyly, looking at him with interest.
"The invisible man we've ignored!" Li Yuntian lifted the brush and drew a circle on the word murderer, and replied loudly.
Zhou Yuting's eyes lit up when she heard this, and then she felt quite proud in her heart, it turned out that Li Yuntian was inspired by her words, so if this case was solved, she would have to take the lead.
Soon after, there was a chaos in the county government of Ruichang County, and under Qi Wanlong's order, the officials of the capture class and the station class hurriedly followed him and Li Yuntian out of the county seat, causing the people on the street to be surprised, talking about each other, not knowing what was going on.
The group arrived at the first village that the Zhang family was going to pass through on their way home, and the carriage in which Li Yuntian and Qi Wanlong were riding stopped in front of a dilapidated courtyard at the head of the village surrounded by a fenced courtyard.
The gate of the small courtyard was closed and locked from the inside, and the county officials had already surrounded the courtyard.
"Brother Li, is the murderer really this person?" After getting out of the carriage, Qi Wanlong looked up at the courtyard in front of him, walked up to Li Yuntian and asked tentatively, looking a little incredulous for a while.
"It's hard to say whether he is the murderer or not, but he is currently the most suspected." Li Yuntian smiled slightly and motioned for the official to knock on the door.
Unexpectedly, those officials didn't mean to knock on the door at all, so they kicked the door open with one kick, rushed in, brought a man out, and knelt in front of Li Yuntian and Qi Wanlong.
This person is none other than the Ye Xianglang that Li Yuntian once met on the road.
"My lord, why do you treat the little ones like this?" Ye Xianglang's name was Zhao Si, and he looked very panicked in the face of this scene in front of him, and looked up at Qi Wanlong.
"Say, how did you murder the Zhang family?" Qi Wanlong's face sank, and he asked in a deep voice.
"Adult, the little one is wronged, how can the little one do that kind of hurtful thing." Zhao Si's eyes flashed with a look of panic, and he hurriedly raised his voice to quibble, "Please be aware of it!" ”
"Hmph, it seems that if I don't serve you severely, you won't be honest." Qi Wanlong sneered, waved his hand at the official standing on the side, and shouted loudly, "Come on, punish this official." ”
Li Yuntian shook his head helplessly in his heart when he heard this, in his opinion, punishment is the most inferior means, and attacking the heart is the best.
"Brother Qi, let's search his house first, maybe we can find any clues." Seeing that those wolf-like tigers on the side were about to punish Zhao Si, Li Yuntian leaned over to Qi Wanlong's ear and whispered, "After all, this is a case that the patrol lord is interrogating, so it's better to be cautious." ”
Qi Wanlong nodded when he heard this, and felt that it was very reasonable, even if Zhao Si made a move under the big punishment, if he changed his words in front of Cui Hui, it would be terrible.
Under Qi Wanlong's orders, the officials rummaged through Zhao Si's house, searching for a suspicious target.
During this period, Li Yuntian observed Zhao Si quietly, only to see that Zhao Si's face was pale, cold sweat broke out on his head, and he looked very weak, so a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, it seemed that Zhang's matter was really related to Zhao Si.
"Your Excellency, we found an entrance to the tunnel in the firewood room." After about a cup of tea, a servant walked out of the courtyard quickly and reported to Qi Wanlong.
"Authentically?" Qi Wanlong was stunned for a moment, and looked at Zhao Si who was kneeling there in some surprise.
When Zhao Si heard this, his face was bloodless in an instant, and his body collapsed to the ground, his body trembling non-stop, looking very frightened.
"Let's go inside!" Qi Wanlong's face suddenly turned happy when he saw this, it seemed that Zhao Si, this kid, really had a ghost, and gave an order in a deep voice.
"Big ...... My lord, there was a naked woman inside. Soon after, another servant rushed out of the courtyard.
"Women?" Li Yuntian's eyes flashed with surprise when he heard this, and he couldn't help but look down at Zhao Si, could it be that this kid had harmed more than one person?
"Bring it out!" Qi Wanlong was also taken aback, and hurriedly ordered.
After a while, a woman with loose hair and a tattered quilt wrapped around her body was taken out of the courtyard by several officials, and it could be seen that her expression was very panicked and seemed to be greatly frightened.
"The officer asks you, who are you?" Qi Wanlong glanced the woman up and down, and asked quietly.
"Little ...... Little woman Zhang. The woman looked up at Qi Wanlong, Li Yuntian and the others, and replied timidly.
"Zhang?" Li Yuntian and Qi Wanlong couldn't help but glance at each other, both of them looked quite surprised, wasn't the Zhang family dead? If the woman in front of you is Zhang, then who is the female corpse in the pond? One