Peng Ligang noticed that there was a round mark on the ring finger of Sister Hong's left hand, which was obviously formed by wearing a ring for a long time, but the ring was not on the finger.

couldn't ask what the result was, the two had to get up and say goodbye, Sister Hong was unwell Peng Ligang asked her not to send it, she remembered the way back, and let Sister Hong rest at home. The two walked back with umbrellas, and Li Shiyu suddenly mentioned Deng Qili who she met when she entered the village, she didn't seem to have seen her much in the past two days, and she didn't even seem to see her during the day, as if she didn't even see the two Xiaoqi.

"Do you think Sister Hong is a murderer?" Li Shiyu suddenly asked.

"It's hard to say, everyone in the village is likely to be the murderer now, and now the only way out of the village has also been destroyed, and the murderer is to let everyone be trapped here and suspect each other, so that he can carry out his murder plan in a chaotic situation. The elderly and children in the village account for the majority, and the remaining ten adults and women account for the majority, of which only four or five are men, they are all from the village, and the person who has such a big grudge with the village chief's family is obviously easy to be regarded as a murderer, so the possibility of a man being a murderer is relatively low. Peng Ligang was doing an analysis of the exclusion.

"It's also said that if someone in the village has such a deep feud with Zhang Xiangui and Village Chief Li's family, everyone will definitely suspect him first. However, this alone does not mean that the murderer is a woman, and the probability of the murderer's gender should be equal. Li Shiyu shook her head and denied.

Peng Ligang stopped and glanced at the rice fields under the night rain, and the visibility under the rain was very low. Peng Ligang said in a quiet voice: "If you can know the motive of the murderer, the possibility of finding the murderer will increase a lot." It's just that now I don't know what the murderer killed for, and if it is because of the relocation of the village, Li Keming is strongly opposed, so this motive is obviously not valid. ”

"Could it be because of ......," Li Shiyu slipped and almost fell on the mud in the middle of her words.

Fortunately, Peng Ligang reacted quickly and hugged Li Shiyu in time, Li Shiyu had been suppressing the fear in his heart, and the anger in his heart couldn't help but take the initiative to radiate, and he scolded this road for not being easy to walk. Peng Ligang asked Li Shiyu to stand firmly, slowly squatted down, and picked up a stone on the ground. What caused Li Shiyu to almost fall down seemed to be a stone that was not very smooth to the touch.

With the not-so-bright light, Peng Ligang could see a little more clearly, and the stone was full of holes, similar to a honeycomb. The color is also different from the ordinary stones you usually see, it is dark black, and there seem to be other impurities in it, so it is not clear what impurities are. The size of the stone is about the same as an egg, and as for the reason why Li Shiyu tripped, it was probably because she wore high shoes and stepped on empty feet.

Peng Ligang held the stone in his hand and prepared to take it back to study it, because it was not unusual to see such a stone in this small village. The more important reason is because this stone seems to be an ore, and as for how this stone appeared in this village, this one will be carefully investigated, maybe it has something to do with the whole murder case.

The two returned to the house, Li Shiyu turned on the dim electric light, Peng Ligang took off his shoes and sat at the head of the bed, and began to carefully study the stone of unknown origin. Within half a minute of sitting down, he heard the sound of children shouting for help outside, Peng Ligang immediately put down the stone, picked up the umbrella and ran out. Before Li Shiyu could change her shoes, she ran out with Peng Ligang.

As soon as he ran out of the house, he saw many people standing at the door of Deng Qili's house, Peng Ligang had a bad feeling, something must have happened again. Peng Ligang kept urging Li Shiyu to hurry up, and finally ran directly towards Deng Qili's house with Li Shiyu on his back.

The door of Deng Qili's house was open, and there were many people around the entrance of the lobby, and there was no light in the room. Peng Ligang kept shouting for a let, and finally squeezed in. I don't know who brought a kerosene lamp, so I can see the situation inside the house clearly.

Deng Qili was hung from the thick hemp rope, and the stool was not kicked over, and her whole body was suspended thirty feet from the ground. Deng Qili's tongue is very long, and her eyes are much wider than usual, which is very close to the common image of hanged ghosts in horror movies. At Deng's feet were a few dry rice stalks, apparently left over from the previous harvest, with some empty chaff on them.

A rice jar in the house was also knocked to the ground, and white rice was scattered all over the ground. The tables and chairs are in their original positions, and the uneven green mud floor is obviously caused by people twisting and twisting their feet, and the green mud that is exposed is still new, obviously just caused.

Peng Ligang held his mobile phone to illuminate the room, and there were only so many things that could be seen clearly. I don't know who walked to the wall, reached for the cable switch installed on the wall, and the sound of the wire switch was clearly heard in the quiet room, but the man pulled it several times, but the light never turned on, it seemed that something was stuck in the switch, so that the switch was pulled down smoothly.

Several male villagers helped put Deng Qili's body down and carried it to the lobby. The child's cry came in, and it seemed to be the voice of Deng Qili's son Xiaoqi, who was obviously crying very sadly. The person who found the body was Xiao Qi, so it's no wonder he was crying.

Li Shiyu kept holding Peng Ligang's hand, but after hearing the cry, she let go and walked towards the lobby. Peng Li just walked to the wall and illuminated it with his mobile phone, and then tried to pull the switch and hanging wire of the nylon rope, but when he was halfway through, he couldn't pull it down anymore, and something was indeed stuck inside. Peng Ligang held the mobile phone in his left hand to illuminate the black round switch box, and slowly unscrewed the round cover of the switch box with his hand.

The small circle of brass and iron is passed through the nylon cable, and a small wooden branch is inserted in the middle, so it is impossible to turn on the electric light smoothly. Peng Ligang carefully took out the wooden branch, and then pulled the nylon rope, and this time the electric light was immediately lit.

This time, Peng Ligang re-examined the entire room, and in addition to the situation he had just discovered, he noticed some small details. The two chairs next to the rice jar behind the door had been knocked down before, because there was dirt on the ground that had been lifted by the wooden legs of the chairs, and some small sundries were placed on the wooden windowsill, and some small glass bottles, which seemed to have been filled with medicines for injections. The wooden windowsill was mottled with rotten holes and a lot of dust, apparently it hadn't been cleaned for a while. There was a spot on it that was clean, as if it had been rubbed by something.

After Peng Ligang finished inspecting, he concluded that there must have been a fight here, and the two people fighting were still fierce, and someone around must have heard it. Peng Ligang followed to the lobby, Li Shiyu was hugging Xiao Qi who couldn't cry, Xiao Qi was holding an old yellow homework book tightly in his left hand, and the corners of the book had been rolled up, which was obviously caused by frequent use.

Peng Ligang walked up to Li Shiyu, gently stroked Xiao Qi's hair, and whispered to him: "Xiao Qi, uncle will definitely help you find out the murderer of your mother, but you have to help me, do you want to know who killed your mother?" ”

Xiao Qi broke free from Li Shiyu's arms, clenched his fists to wipe away the tears on both sides of his nose, and nodded vigorously. Peng Ligang motioned for Li Shiyu to take Xiaoqi into the room, so that he would not affect his thinking by looking at Deng Qili's corpse. Li Shiyu led Xiao Qi to the room where Deng Qili was killed, Peng Ligang glanced at the people in the lobby before entering the door, most of them had been seen at the festival, but there was another man that Peng Ligang had not seen before, and he didn't look like a local, his attention didn't seem to be on the corpse at all, but was thinking about things suspiciously.

Sister Hong stood in the crowd, tears in her eyes already overflowing her eyes. Next to the suspicious man was the woman named Fang Lin, who was obviously frightened by the corpse, biting her lower lip tightly, and her bright red lips seemed to be bleeding.

The village chief also hurried over at this time, the coat he was wearing had been wet for most of the time, and Su Ya, who was holding an umbrella behind him, was almost soaked, but he still tried his best to help Village Chief Li block some rain. As soon as Village Chief Li entered the door, he asked loudly: "What the hell is going on, why was even Qili killed, who did this!" “

The village chief's angry scolding was endless, Peng Ligang wanted to persuade the village chief, but now that so many people have been killed, as a village chief, so many people have died in the village, but he doesn't even know who the murderer is, and it is understandable that he will lose his temper.

Peng Ligang walked into the room and closed the door. It's not that I'm afraid that the people outside will know something, but I'm not afraid that the voices of the people in the lobby will make Xiao Qi noisy, maybe the content of their chat will make Xiao Qi unsettled. Peng Ligang moved a chair and sat in front of Xiao Qi and Li Shiyu, so he smiled lightly and said, "Xiao Qi, are you the first person to discover your mother?" ”

Xiao Qi gritted his teeth, the palm that had been released was clenched into a fist again, and replied with a slight cry: "Yes, I originally wanted to show this book to my mother, I just walked to the window sill outside, and found that there was no light in the house, and I looked into the house a few times, and found that there was a person hanging in the house, so I ran to someone else's house to ask for help, and then you came over." “

Peng Ligang closed his eyes and thought about it, and then asked, "Then did you come over to push the door at that time, and did you hear any sound at that time?" For example, the sound of someone fighting in the room, or the sound of someone talking. “

"No, when it was dark in the back room, I didn't see anyone else in the room except the person who was hanging." Xiao Qi shook his head decisively.

Peng Ligang lowered his head and thought about it, and said to himself: "That means that this room was not a secret room at that time. The murderer should have fled the scene immediately after the murder, and listened to Xiaoqi's plea for help, so everyone rushed here, so the murderer naturally pretended to hear the call for help and mixed in the crowd that rushed over. But how did the murderer avoid Xiao Qi, could it be that when Xiao Qi walked under the windowsill, the person was already dead? ”

Peng Ligang suddenly asked, "Xiaoqi, when was the last time you saw your mother?" ”

"At seven o'clock, my mother would go to the shower at seven o'clock every day. She said let me play by myself for a while and then put me to sleep when she was done with the shower. After my mother left, I was writing with this notebook, and I couldn't write a word at that time, so I ran here to ask my mother, but when I just walked under the windowsill, I saw ......", Xiao Qi finally didn't finish his words, and cried out.

"Then let me ask you, do you remember when you walked under the windowsill? Think about it. Peng Ligang continued to ask.

Li Shiyu held Xiao Qi in his arms and stroked his back, Xiao Qi gradually quieted down, and the book he was holding in his hand fell to the ground. Peng Ligang curiously picked up the notebook, flipped through a few pages casually, and didn't read it seriously. It is crooked and full of words, there are almost no lines available, and there are a lot of spelling letters, it seems that it should be written by Xiaoqi himself.

"It's seven twenty, and I've seen the time before I cross the eaves." Xiao Qi cried for a while, and suddenly said to Peng Ligang.

Peng Ligang took out his mobile phone and looked at it, it was 7:40, if Deng Qili had been killed before 7:20, the body should have begun to stiffen by now. Peng Ligang hurriedly opened the door, ran to Deng Qili's body and pinched her arms and several parts of her body. However, there was still residual warmth on the corpse, and there was no zombie stiffness, which proved that Deng Qili had been dead for less than half an hour.

Peng Ligang stood up and looked at the more than ten men and women in the lobby, the murderer must have been mixed with these people.

"Damn, how did the murderer deceive Xiao Qi's eyes and ears, if Deng Qili went to her room after taking a shower, found the murderer and fought with the murderer, Xiao Qi should have heard a sound or seen something, why can't he hear a sound at all?" Peng Ligang scolded secretly in his heart, but his eyes never left the crowd.

Peng Ligang walked up to Village Chief Li, looked down at Village Chief Li who was sitting on the ground and asked, "Village Chief Li, isn't there any other way to the outside in the village?" If the surrounding mountain roads can lead to the outside, if this continues, the murderer will definitely kill more people. “

Village Chief Li shook his head silently and said: "The surrounding mountain roads are not stone mountains, and it is easy to slide when it rains. “

Peng Ligang turned his head to look outside, but the weather showed no signs of clearing at all, because the whole sky looked extremely dark because of the rain. Peng Ligang said to Village Chief Li: "Village Chief Li, you should tell everyone to go back first, Xiao Qi will stay with us tonight, and we will take care of him." “

Village Chief Li nodded, Yasu originally had something to say, but when he saw the village chief standing up, he swallowed back the words that had already reached his mouth. The group of people in the lobby gradually left, but Sister Hong stayed. Sister Hong walked up to Peng Ligang, sighed and said, "Hey, a good person, just left." I don't know who is so ruthless, even the orphans and widows don't let go, it's really a sin. “

"Sister Hong, you should go back first, it's already late now, if the rain stops tomorrow, you have to find a way to go out of the village to find the police for help." Peng Ligang said softly to Sister Hong, and made a gesture asking her to go back first.

"I'd better stay and see if I can help, I won't be able to sleep when I go back now, maybe that guy will come to my house and kill me at some point." Sister Hong was a little scared, shook her head and rejected Peng Ligang's kindness.

"It's okay to have me here, besides, Sister Hong, you still have an old man to take care of at home, if you don't go back, she will not be at ease." Peng Ligang didn't want Sister Hong to stay, too many people would destroy the murder scene, and the evidence might be accidentally erased.

Sister Hong no longer insisted, held up an umbrella and walked out of Deng Qili's house. Peng Ligang turned around and walked back to the bedroom, Xiaoqi was still crying in a low voice, Peng Ligang picked up the notebook on the chair and sat down. At this time, he was also upset, and if he asked Xiaoqi some questions, he was afraid that he would not be able to ask any results, so he took the notebook in his hand and slowly flipped through it.

The handwriting on the notebook is a little immature.,It's not like I'm practicing writing.,Anyway, it's like describing a thing.。 Although it was difficult to recognize some words, Peng Ligang still looked at them carefully. Peng Ligang suddenly discovered something and asked loudly: "Xiaoqi, did you write the words on this book, who told you this story, and where did you hear it?" “

Xiaoqi may have been frightened by Peng Ligang's voice, and immediately stopped crying, Li Shiyu whispered to blame Peng Ligang for his bad attitude, but Peng Ligang ignored her and asked again. Xiao Qi rubbed his eyes and replied cringely: "This was told to me by Grandma Cui last year, and she asked me to help her write this down, and then read it to other grandmothers in the village." ”

"Grandma? Is it your grandmother? Peng Ligang asked suspiciously.

"Their grandmother here means great-grandmother, which is different from the name in the north." Li Shiyu explained.

Peng Ligang suddenly understood something, but only figured out one of the points. continued to ask: "Xiaoqi, have you read this story to the grandmother of the village chief's family?" Have you seen anything she did? “

"Last night, my mother suddenly ran out, I secretly followed her, I saw her go to Uncle Zhang's house, and when I went to the village chief's grandfather's house, I saw that the lights of the village chief's grandmother's house were still on, so I ran in. When I saw the village chief's grandmother lying on the couch and called me over, I remembered that Grandma Cui said to read the story in this book to other grandmothers, so I took the notebook and read it to her. Xiao Qi replied.

"So what did she do afterwards? Did you give her the notebook? Peng Ligang asked hesitantly.

"The village chief's grandmother snatched the notebook in my hand, and then sat under her buttocks, I heard someone outside the window coming towards the village chief's grandfather's house, so I went to grab the notebook, and then grabbed it and ran back." Xiao Qi blinked and continued to answer.

Peng Ligang looked at the notebook again, one of the pages was indeed missing a corner, Peng Ligang touched in his pocket, and found the broken paper that had been rolled up in the corner of the pocket, and after touching it, it was just right to piece together the missing page of the notebook.

"I see, so it was. Could it be that the murderer is really a descendant of this person named Atsui? Peng Ligang said to himself again.

Li Shiyu asked him what he was talking about, but Peng Ligang didn't answer, Xiaoqi may have cried for too long and fell asleep groggily. Li Shiyu patted Peng Ligang's leg twice, pointed to Xiao Qi in his arms, and motioned to take Xiao Qi back to the house to sleep first, Peng Ligang nodded, gently hugged Xiao Qi, and the two walked towards the house where they lived.