Section 8 - Revealing the Secret (I)

When the two came to Fang Lin's house, Fang Hong's sister Li Yuanqiang was grabbing Fang Lin's wrist, Fang Lin kept struggling, and she also had a kitchen knife in her hand, wanting to kill herself. Li Yuanqiang was shouting loudly, asking Sister Hong to take the knife from Fang Lin's hand, but Fang Lin never wanted to stop, and kept twisting her body to get rid of Li Yuanqiang's shackles, Sister Hong and the few around her did not dare to approach Fang Lin, for fear that the kitchen knife in her hand would hurt herself.

The kitchen knife in Fang Lin's hand finally injured Li Yuanqiang's arm, although it only cut a not-so-deep wound, but the bright red blood immediately seeped through half of his arm and dripped to the ground along his fingers. Fang Lin suddenly became quiet when she saw the blood, threw away the kitchen knife and ran into the room. Sister Hong turned around and said to Peng Ligang and his wife: "We have Yunnan Baiyao to stop bleeding at home, please come to my house and bring it over to help Yuan Qiang stop the bleeding, I'll go see Fang Lin, she is very unstable now, maybe there will be some chaos later." “

Sister Hong dropped this sentence and ran into Fang Lin's house, Peng Ligang suddenly had something in his mind, but when he thought about it again, he couldn't think of anything. Li Shiyu saw that Peng Ligang was still stunned, pushed Peng Ligang and said, "What are you still doing in a daze, go to Sister Hong's house to get medicine." “

When the two came to Sister Hong's house, Li Shiyu began to look for it in the iron bucket containing the medicine. Peng Ligang was still thinking about the thoughts that flashed in his mind just now, and walked into the lobby unconsciously. Next to the gate are agricultural tools, knives for chopping wood, hoes, nail rakes, and shovels. There were a lot of ants crawling on the wood knife, which attached to it and refused to leave, and there was a long nail missing from the nail rake, which seemed to have been pulled from the wooden length.

"Let's go, I've found the medicine." Li Shiyu walked out of Sister Hong's room and said to Peng Ligang.

Peng Ligang casually answered and walked out of the house, but still looked back at the tools behind the door. Peng Ligang suddenly took out the stone he picked up last night from his pocket and looked at it carefully, at this time the sky was already bright, and the light was obviously not as bright as a sunny day, but it was enough to see everything clearly. The stone seems to contain some kind of ore, and Peng Ligang is not a geography major, so he is not prepared to determine what kind of ore is in the stone.

The legend of the Japanese soldiers, the death of Zhang Xiangui, the suicide of the mother of the village chief Li, Li Keming was cut off by the river, Deng Qili was hanged in his own home, Fang Lin's husband Zhibao was killed in the back mountain, Peng Ligang has solved most of the mystery, and now only Deng Qili's death has not been figured out. Peng Ligang already knows the true face of the murderer very clearly, and all that remains is to solve the strange cause of Deng Qili's death.

"Shiyu, you go and tell everyone, saying that Xiao Qi remembers what he saw at the time, and he has already seen the appearance of the murderer, and after breakfast, he will tell everyone what he saw. I'll go to the village chief's house first to bring Xiao Qi back, and I'll rush over after I settle Xiao Qi. Peng Ligang suddenly thought of a way to let the murderer show up by himself, and was ready to let the murderer tell the truth by himself.

Although Li Shiyu didn't understand what Peng Ligang meant, but after living for so long, of course she knew that Peng Ligang had his intentions, so she took the medicine and went to Fang Lin's house without asking too much. Peng Ligang walked towards Village Chief Li's house, still speculating in his heart whether the murderer would be fooled.

When he came to Village Chief Li's house, Xiao Qi was placed on the bed by Su Ya and fell asleep, Peng Ligang asked Su Ya to borrow a pen and paper, took down a piece of paper, and asked him to hand it over to Village Chief Li in half an hour, and Village Chief Li would naturally understand after reading it.

Time was not running out, and it was already more than six o'clock in the morning when Peng Ligang returned to the house where he lived with the sleeping Xiaoqi in his arms, and the rain outside the house was getting heavier and heavier. Peng Ligang looked at Xiao Qi lying on the bed and shook his head a few times. sighed in his heart: "After all, they are children, they can do nothing when they are tired, and sleeping quietly is their hobby." Fortunately, the murderer didn't find Xiao Qi outside the window at the time, otherwise it would be ......, otherwise. “

Peng Ligang suddenly figured out the killing of Deng Qili, all the doubts have been solved, and now he is just waiting for the real murderer to surrender himself and tell all the truth. Peng Ligang changed his clothes, walked out of the house with an umbrella, and walked towards Fang Lin's house.

"Was Xiao Qi seen me yesterday? I was hiding behind the door, so I shouldn't have been seen from the window. No, this plan can be completed immediately, and as long as Village Chief Li and his wife are eliminated again, the wish of so many years can be fulfilled. Regardless of whether Xiao Qi really saw me or not, he must be killed. He stood still, his mind racing through the next steps.

He walked into the lobby and looked, most of them had already gone back to their homes, and a few people were medicating and bandaging the injured Li Yuanqiang in another room, and they didn't seem to notice him. He looked at the corpse on the ground, and originally had a heart that he couldn't bear to do to the child, but he immediately became firm, he must kill Xiao Qi, and he can't destroy his entire plan because of him.

Taking advantage of the fact that everyone's attention was focused on Li Yuanqiang, he secretly left Fang Lin's house from the side.

"Did you just strangle him with your hands, or did you use something else?" He was still struggling with which method to use to kill Xiao Qi.

"He should still be in their house now, then just use the rope, anyway, someone in that room has been hanged, and when he dies, he won't suspect me, so it's decided." He suddenly remembered that Peng Ligang had hanged himself in the room where they lived.

He went home and got a rope that was not too short, thick enough to hang a small child. He hid the rope in his umbrella and walked towards the hut where Peng Ligang and his wife lived, and no one knew what was going on in his heart at this time.

The wooden door was unlocked, so he easily entered it. Quietly closed the door and closed the deadbolt with his backhand, and the wooden windows in the room were not propped up, so it also saved him a lot of time. He walked towards Xiao Qi who was lying on the bed step by step, and Xiao Qi, who was asleep, did not know that danger was quietly approaching him, and he could be killed at any time.

The light in the room was not very sufficient, it could be said that it was a little dim, and all he could see clearly was that there was indeed a small child lying on the bed. The rope had slowly approached Xiao Qi who was lying on the bed, and Xiao Qi, who was facing away from him, suddenly turned over and opened one eye to stare at him.

"I didn't expect it to be this Xiaoqi on the bed, I've been waiting for you for a long time." Peng Ligang suddenly walked out of nowhere and said contemptuously.

He didn't speak, just turned to look at Peng Ligang.

"Don't you plan to speak, I thought you wouldn't come, it seems that you are still afraid that the matter will be revealed, and finally decided to kill an innocent child as well." Peng Ligang took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it, took a puff of the cigarette, and said coldly.

"What are you talking about, I just wanted to come and see how Xiaoqi is, that child has no mother at such a young age, it's so pitiful." He suddenly showed a relaxed smile and said to Peng Ligang, who was smoking.

"Don't you want to admit that you are the murderer, then what are you trying to do with the rope in your hand, do you want to kill yourself here?" Peng Li pointed to the rope in his hand with two fingers holding the cigarette and asked.

"No, I want to take the rope to Fang Lin's house, Fang Lin's family doesn't have enough rope, she wants to take the rope to charge things." He raised the rope, put it aside casually, and said.

"Oh? Where should I start, let's start with the first deceased Venerable Zhang. Peng Ligang flicked the cigarette ash and said.

"What do you mean?" He asked, pretentiously.

Peng Ligang took a deep puff of his cigarette, ignored him, and said to himself: "Zhang Xiangui received the benefit fee of Shiyu Company, so he was happy to lobby Village Chief Li for their company. However, because Zhang Xiangui has been running outside the village a lot recently, he has discovered a secret that no one in the village knows. It was precisely because he discovered this secret that he was killed. And this secret is something you don't want to be known by people outside the village, so you have to find a way to get rid of Zhang Xiangui, because once this secret is known to people outside the village, all your hard work that has been lurking here for years will be in vain. ”

"I don't know what you're talking about, didn't the dignitary die by accident?" He asked.

"Zhang Xiangui did die in an accident, but this accident was deliberately created by someone."

"Can accidents still be made? This is the first time I've heard of it. He ruffled his hair and said wantonly.

"I have already said before that Zhang Xiangui was strangled to death, and then alcohol was poured on his corpse. The murderer deliberately made it like this, firstly, to cover up the real cause of the deceased's death, and secondly, to mislead everyone and make others think that Zhang Xiangui accidentally spilled the wine on himself after being drunk, and then accidentally burned himself to death when he lit a cigarette. Peng Li just finished his last cigarette and threw away the cigarette butt.

"Oh, I remember you said that." His answer was quite simple.

After killing Zhang Xiangui, the murderer thought that he had escaped and that no one would know the secret anymore. But that night, another person ran to the back hill of the village, and the murderer had to pretend to cooperate with that person because he didn't have the time to do it. At the festival ceremony the next day, the murderer was planning how to kill that person, maybe God would help him, but at this time, Village Chief Li's mother died mysteriously at home, which did the murderer a big favor, so that he could kill people in the name of the legend in the village. Peng Ligang explained.

"How did the murderer kill the village chief's mother, didn't you say that she died between eight and nine o'clock that night? At that time, the village chief and the others were all at home, how did the murderer silently pass through the room of the village chief and his wife to kill people, is there any other secret passage in the village chief's house? He looked at Peng Ligang with an exaggerated expression and asked suspiciously.

"Of course, there is no secret way, because Village Chief Li's mother was not killed by the murderer at all, but committed suicide. The murderer knew very well that the people in the village were quite afraid of the legend of the curse of the Japanese soldiers, and on the same night, two people died one after another, and the way of death was very strange, everyone naturally thought of that terrible legend, and the murderer just took the opportunity to commit murder and get rid of the people he was going to kill one by one. Peng Ligang said.