Chapter 34: Negligence
The people who came were all familiar faces, Lao Ma and Lao Gao came, as well as the villagers who were seen in the courtyard of Mr. Xu's house during the day.
"What are you doing?" Lao Gao pointed to Xu Tian and Teacher Jin and said.
"We found this corpse and were about to put him down!" Teacher Jin immediately untied the rope.
Anyway, now that things have come to this point, instead of explaining everything, it is better to follow the words of the villagers, Mr. Jin feels that it is useless to explain more, this time it is planted here.
"You're all mentally retarded when we're all handicapped, aren't you? What's the matter with you entering the ancestral hall in the early morning without turning on the lights? Lao Gao asked.
"We did sneak in, because we investigated that this ancestral hall is one of the dead people's graves, so we want to come in and investigate, without you following the two of us, the investigation will be better, so we sneaked into the ancestral hall, we found this corpse as soon as we came in, and when we were about to put this corpse down, you broke in, and I want to ask you! Why do so many people come early in the morning? Teacher Jin said.
"Because there were fewer people in the troupe, the class owner called me up early in the morning, so I mobilized the villagers to find someone." The old horse said calmly.
"Is that the man?" Xu Tian and Teacher Jin put the corpse down and said.
The old horse took a closer look, he seemed a little surprised, but quickly answered Xu Tian's words.
"It's him, I saw this person yesterday, it seems to be a porter recruited by the troupe." The old horse said.
"Didn't the class master come?" Xu Tian asked.
"Don't mention that guy, let's come out and find someone, and he'll go back to sleep by himself." Lao Gao complained.
"Three died last night, one was unconscious, and then another was lost, and he still has the leisure to sleep back to the cage?" Xu Tian was skeptical.
"By the way, the unconscious man last night is out of breath, and I said that anyone who enters the Huangquan intersection will definitely have an accident as long as they are sick and bedridden." Lao Gao said.
"Can I meet the class master?" Xu Tian asked.
"It's at my house, I'll take you there." The old horse said.
Xu Tian and Teacher Jin finally breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, these villagers did not suspect them, this situation made Xu Tian and Teacher Jin both a little surprised.
When he walked to the door of the ancestral hall, Xu Tian saw that the person who was on the shift was the old man who was addicted to alcohol, and the person who came to the ancestral hall to inspect before should be him, Xu Tian wondered, why did he still let the old man stay in the ancestral hall to play the watch?
"Why is it a laid-back again? He is so disrespectful, you still let him come to the ancestral hall to play the watch? Xu Tian asked.
"Huh?" Lao Gao seemed to panic when he heard Xu Tian's question. "Because no one wants to stay in that cold guard room in the winter, everyone can only let Lao Lai stay here."
"That's too disrespectful, isn't it? Are you at ease here? Xu Tian asked.
"What's not to worry about? There are urns in the ancestral hall, who can come in and steal them? Lao Gao said.
"By the way, why didn't I see the women in the village? Do the women in this village stay at home? Xu Tian asked.
"So many bizarre things have happened recently, and the women are afraid to come out and hide at home! When they sleep, they don't dare to move in the bed, and the women in the village are more timid. Lao Gao said.
Xu Tian and Teacher Jin glanced at each other, and I have to say that the reason that Lao Gao said was more reasonable.
However, Xu Tian felt a little awkward at this time, what was wrong?
At this moment, Xu Tian suddenly turned around and ran towards the ancestral hall, and the villagers who followed behind were all a little overwhelmed.
"Xu Tian? What to do? Teacher Jin shouted.
Xu Tian ignored Mr. Jin, he ran directly to the window of the watchroom, illuminated it with a flashlight, and found that Lao Lai was sleeping very dead, and he was still holding a wine bottle in his arms.
At this time, Xu Tian suddenly thought of the person who was similar to Lao Lai's walking that he heard hiding in the ancestral hall, that person's footsteps were very similar to Lao Lai, and he hiccuped a few times, but Xu Tian didn't hear the sound of that person drinking.
"What's wrong? What do you come back to see? Teacher Jin chased after him and said.
"We missed a very important clue, if we just walked through the front door at the beginning, if it was the old Lai Shou at the front door of the ancestral hall, we could have swaggered in and didn't have to jump off the back wall at all." Xu Tian said.
"What the hell is going on? Why do you regret doing such a thing? We didn't know in advance that it was Lao Lai who was guarding the door of the ancestral hall. Teacher Jin said.
"So it's getting late, do you remember the sound of walking we heard in the ancestral hall?" Xu Tian said.
"That person is here to inspect the ancestral hall?" Teacher Jin said suspiciously.
"We thought so, but we were all wrong at the time, that person scanned the inside of the ancestral hall with a flashlight, but it didn't sweep the two of us, you should understand, right?" Xu Tian said.
Teacher Jin suddenly felt a shock in his heart, such a simple truth was so neglected, and at this time, Teacher Jin also began to regret it.
"It's broken! We missed the murderer, and we were escaped by the murderer. Teacher Jin said.
"That's right, the reason why that person didn't use a flashlight to sweep us after opening the door of the ancestral hall is because that person must have known in advance that there was a person hanging on that position above our heads, and that person disguised himself as an old man and came to the ancestral hall to check the corpse, so when that person swept to our position with a flashlight, he directly swept the corpse on our heads too high, so that person's flashlight did not sweep us." Xu Tian said.
"Lao Lai was holding a wine bottle in his arms, and at that time we only heard the sound of the person walking outside a bit like being drunk, and the person's burping also seemed to be cooperating with acting, and the hiccups made others think that he was walking with a drunken mengzi." Teacher Jin said.
"That's right, the tone of hiccups between ordinary people and drunk people is different, we were deceived by that person, the person who came to inspect the ancestral hall must be the murderer, the murderer came back to check the scene, that person approached us disguised as an old man, but we neglected this, and let the murderer appear in front of us and escaped." Xu Tian said with a grudge.
"Ridiculous! We're ridiculous. Teacher Jin said with annoyance.
"Now the only entry point of the case is the troupe, let's investigate this troupe in depth, why are most of the people who died all night out of the troupe? What is that troupe here for? All of this needs to be investigated. Xu Tian said.