Section 5 - Homicide by the River (2)
When she returned to the house, Li Shiyu asked Su Ya to rest here first, and talk to her for a while before leaving. Su Ya is a very quiet woman, she usually doesn't talk much, and she treats people very well, looking at Li Shiyu, Su Ya nodded and agreed. Peng Ligang was reluctant to participate in the conversation between the women, and lay down on the bed alone, thinking about the murder of the two palms.
In a daze, Peng Ligang fell asleep again, and the dream from yesterday evening was seen again, Peng Ligang was so frightened that he quickly got up from the bed. Su Ya was still chatting with Li Shiyu, Peng Ligang couldn't sleep anymore, walked to Li Shiyu and squatted down, looked at Su Ya and asked: "Su Ya, has this house ever hanged herself, can you tell me the details, so that we can live at ease." ”
Su Ya seemed to be extremely difficult, Peng Ligang kept repeating and asked her to tell the truth, Su Ya couldn't match Peng Ligang's nagging, sighed and said: "During the Anti-Japanese War, Japanese soldiers came to our village, and many people in the village were killed. The Japanese did all kinds of evil, burning, killing, looting, raping and plundering. A widow named Sister-in-law Zhang in the village hanged herself because she was ** by Japanese soldiers, and it was in this room. Because she was a widow and her husband had died outside, the people in the village felt that the house could no longer be inhabited, so they sealed it up. “
"Then why did I hear that I had seen her ghost and sealed the house?" Peng Ligang continued to ask.
"That's the adults in the village who tricked the children not to come here to play, but someone really said that they had seen Sister-in-law Zhang, anyway, I don't know if it's true or not, I heard from the people in the village." Su Ya agreed.
"And who are they referring to when your mother-in-law is talking about? Is that the Japanese soldiers? Peng Ligang continued to ask, wanting to ask what the village chief's wife said about them.
Su Ya really didn't speak at this time, she sat on the stool in a daze, no matter how Peng Ligang asked her, she never answered. After asking for a while, Peng Ligang felt that Su Ya would no longer say any more, so he stopped asking and sat back on the wooden bed.
Su Ya got up to leave, saying that she still had things to do in her house, Li Shiyu got up to send her out, Li Shiyu handed her back the two umbrellas, Su Ya said let them keep them first, maybe they would have to use them. When Su Ya went out, she also told Li Shiyu to close the door of the house, otherwise the rain would be blown in by the rain. Li Shiyu said thank you, and Su Ya left with an umbrella.
Li Shiyu closed the door, walked to the window and prepared to close the wooden window, from the window saw Su Ya walking home, Li Shiyu shouted to her to be careful, Su Ya didn't seem to hear, Li Shiyu closed the window. Li Shiyu took out her mobile phone and took a look, it was almost twelve o'clock at noon.
Li Shiyu also lay on the bed, buried her head in Peng Ligang's arms, and rubbed a few times on his chest from time to time. Peng Ligang was so distracted by Li Shiyu that he didn't have the heart to continue thinking about things, and the two of them felt tired after teasing on the bed for a while before stopping. Peng Ligang stroked Li Shiyu's hair and asked, "What were you and Su Ya talking about just now, we've been talking for so long." “
He didn't talk anything, just asked her why she was so beautiful and stayed in this small village, and Su Ya said that he was from outside the village. Because she met Li Keming when she was working in Guangdong, Li Keming was also very good to her, so the two naturally got married. Su Ya has been living here for about a year. Li Shiyu said.
"No wonder, I said why doesn't she look like the people here, it turns out that she is not from the village. Hey, I don't know if Village Chief Li has found someone to call the police, if this continues, I don't know who the murderer's next target will be. Peng Ligang suddenly talked about calling the police again.
"When I was chatting with Su Ya just now, I seemed to see a person who was walking towards the entrance of the village, because he was wearing a raincoat, and he couldn't see his appearance clearly. However, Su Ya and I were chatting energetically at the time, so it is possible that I read it wrong, maybe I didn't go out of the village. Li Shiyu said.
"Maybe, let's wait for the police to come and let them investigate, and we'd better get out of here as soon as possible." Peng Ligang took Li Shiyu's hand and said.
The two of them lay on the bed like this, and they didn't know what to say, so they had to lie quietly like this.
"Knock knock", the knock on the door came in, and it seemed that he was still in a hurry.
Peng Ligang urged Li Shiyu to open the door, Li Shiyu reluctantly got up from the bed, opened the door and saw that it was Su Ya. Su Ya looked flustered, and Li Shiyu asked, "Yasu, what's wrong with you?" Looking panicked? “
"Oh no, someone came to the house just now and said that Keming had an accident at the entrance of the village, can you please come with me." Su Ya said with red eyes and crying. 、
Peng Ligang immediately got up from the bed, put on his shoes and walked to Su Ya's side, and asked Li Shiyu to go out with an umbrella.
The three of them held umbrellas and walked towards the entrance of the village, which could have been completed in four or five minutes, but the three of them had to walk for ten minutes to arrive. When the three of them arrived at the edge of the river at the entrance of the village, they found that the only wooden bridge leading to the outside world had been destroyed, and only one of the logs was left floating in the turbid water of the river. There was a man lying next to him by the river, his hands stretched out in the river, as if his head had been soaked in it.
Judging from the clothes, it seems to be Li Keming, Su Ya ran over as soon as she saw someone by the river drop the umbrella in her hand, Peng Li just walked quickly to the river, and immediately asked Li Shiyu to help Su Ya away after taking a look. Li Shiyu didn't ask the reason, walked to Su Ya's side and forcibly grabbed her.
The man by the river was dead, and his head had been cut off, and the corpse without a head was even more terrifying. Peng Ligang asked Li Shiyu and Su Ya to go back to the village to call someone, Li Shiyu glanced at Peng Ligang, and Peng Ligang nodded at her. Li Shiyu dragged Su Ya back to the village, Su Ya kept crying and refused to leave, Li Shiyu had to pull her away.
Peng Ligang pulled the corpse to the side and carefully examined the corpse, there were no obvious injuries on the corpse, it seemed that he was forcibly suffocated by someone from behind by pressing his head into the water. The wound on the neck is not neat, and it does not seem to have been cut off with a sharp blade, but what is the murder weapon that cut off the head? The corpse had begun to stiffen, and it had been at least half an hour or so since the person died.
Why did the murderer cut off Li Keming's head, this is simply an extra move. Peng Ligang couldn't figure out why the murderer wanted to cut off Li Keming's head, squatting next to the corpse and carefully examining the corpse.
Soon the people from the village came, and two young men came over with a door panel, lifted Li Keming on the door panel, and then covered it with a white cloth. Village Chief Li didn't come with him, and Li Shiyu didn't come either, only Wen Xida came alone with two young people. Peng Wengang walked back to the village with them, the water in the river was turbid and rapid, and it was impossible to flow through the river, so he had to find a way to go out of the village from other places.
When everyone returned to the village chief Li's house, the village chief's wife had already passed out, and Li Shiyu was sitting on a chair with Su Ya in her arms, and Su Ya's cry could no longer be heard. Peng Ligang walked up to Village Chief Li and wanted to say a few words to comfort him, but he didn't know where to start. Two people died in one day and one night, and I don't know what happened to their family.
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault, I shouldn't have gone to find any policeman, if I hadn't asked him to go, he wouldn't have died, it's all my fault." Village Chief Li suddenly knelt down next to Li Keming's corpse and began to cry.
Village Chief Li, now that the murderer has killed three people in a row, and we have no way out of the village, if you continue like this, I think the murderer will attack others sooner or later. I remember your wife saying that they would come and kill the whole village, and I don't think it was a lie, and now we have to rely on ourselves, otherwise we will all be the next target of the murderer. Peng Ligang said loudly.
Village Chief Li still didn't say anything, just muttered quietly beside the corpse. Peng Ligang continued: "Village Chief Li, if you continue to be numb like this, your wife and your daughter-in-law may all be killed. Actually, I don't want to worry about this matter, the murderer has no grudge against us, I don't think he will attack us, and now I am helping you. “
Village Chief Li stood up silently and said in a deep voice: "You come in with me, I will tell you everything I know." ”