Chapter 23: The Second Witness
After walking for about an hour and a half, Xu Tian and Vanilla finally came to Hongmei's house, if it weren't for Xu Tian's extreme fatigue, for Vanilla, running five miles would be as simple as eating. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Hongmei's house is surrounded by tall weeds, and there is a dry river thirty meters behind the house, and there is a white stone along the river, and Vanilla can't help but feel sad when she looks at everything familiar around her.
"This is the place where my aunt and my cousin lived happily at that time."
"Hasn't anyone been here for twenty years?"
"I don't know, but I don't think anyone will come here!"
Xu Tian stood in front of the house, three steps away from the door, the dagger that stabbed Hongmei in the photo was thrown there, Xu Tian put the scene in the photo in front of him, at this time in Xu Tian's eyes, the scene of the crime came alive in front of him.
Xu Tian imagined himself as Xu Fugui, and Xu Fugui should have looked into the house at the place where the dagger was located, what could make Xu Fugui run away without telling the villagers?
In the hypothetical crime scene, many of Xu Tian's reasoning were moved in, and at this time, there seemed to be someone moving in the room, and Xu Tian opened his eyes wide and looked closer.
Suddenly......
The murderer's eyes looked outside, Xu Tian was taken aback, turned around and ran away, about twenty steps away, Xu Tian looked back, and the murderer chased out with a dagger.
Xu Tian was even more flustered, and ran down the mountain with big strides, and the murderer threw the dagger at him in a fit of rage, but the murderer's strength was not so great, and the dagger was only thrown five meters away.
Xu Fugui ran away like this, Xu Tian immediately changed into the identity of another person, this person must be someone Hongmei is very familiar with, he saw Hongmei chase out, and saw the two children next to the house.
The dagger on the ground was already stained with blood, what could this eyewitness who suddenly appeared at this time do? Do you rush into the house to see if Hongmei is okay, or fight this murderer?
Just as he hesitated, the murderer had already run down the mountain, and this second witness incarnated by Xu Tian picked up the dagger that had just been thrown on the ground by the murderer.
The blood on the dagger was stained on one of the hands of the second witness, "Oh no, now am I not a murderer?" No, I want to wipe my fingerprints, but what about Hongmei? ”
At this time, there was a faint noise of villagers behind him, someone came, and the second witness, after wiping the fingerprints on the dagger, threw the dagger in a very conspicuous place, that is, outside the door of the house.
Xu Tian speculated in his heart at this time, the scene of the crime at that time was vivid, and the outline of the second witness had also appeared, in the mountain village twenty years ago, in such a crisis situation, he could indifferently wipe off the fingerprints on the dagger, except for Officer Zhang, who was a policeman, who could think so meticulously in the mountain village?
But Officer Zhang didn't see the murderer clearly, and now that the legal prosecution period is about to pass, Officer Zhang still begged Xu Tian to find out the murderer 20 years ago, what is the purpose of this?
"That's not right." Xu Tian muttered quietly. "It's impossible for Officer Zhang not to see the murderer's face, at such a moment of crisis, the murderer was witnessed by Xu Fugui, how could he still have time to cover himself, Officer Zhang must know who the murderer is."
"Xu Tian, what's wrong with you? I've been in a daze since just now, what are you thinking? ”
Vanilla interrupted Xu Tian's thoughts, and Xu Tian's mouth, who had come to his senses, suddenly opened, and the unnatural phenomena that had been bothering Xu Tian before were all unraveled.
"Vanilla, let's go, make sure we find a cell phone signal by tomorrow morning."
"But...... Are you okay? I think you're so tired, do you want to get some sleep? ”
"There's no time, I can't sleep, otherwise, you give me your phone, and then you go back to the village, if the murderer finds out that you escaped from the trap and didn't go back to the village, we will definitely show your stuff."
"No, I'm not going back, I'm going to look for a signal with you."
Vanilla was very firm, her dirty face flashed with big watery eyes, Xu Tian stared at Vanilla, and suddenly there was an inexplicable feeling, Xu Tian felt that his chest was faintly dull, and a trace of excitement suddenly surged into his heart.
"Alright, let's go together."
Hearing Xu Tian's promise, Vanilla became happy like a child, and the two unconsciously had a subtle feeling.
Xu Tian seems to have unconsciously become a leader, and Vanilla has unconsciously become a character who obeys Xu Tian's orders, the two are like the relationship between superiors and subordinates, and they are also like partners who push each other forward.
Vanilla kept her phone aloft, and the further she walked into the mountains, the more bumpy the road became, and it was as if no one had ever been here, and the weeds on the ground were already all over the area.
"Vanilla, if, I mean if, when you see your cousin and cousin when you were a child, can you still recognize their appearance?"
"This ...... I can't say for sure, to be honest, I can't remember my aunt's appearance clearly, and I only vaguely remember my aunt's behavior and tone of speech. ”
"I heard Officer Zhang say that Hongmei used to work in the art troupe, is that true?"
"That's right, my aunt is amazing, proficient in blowing, playing and singing, I used the tape recorder when I was a child because I wanted to learn to sing from my aunt, but what my aunt taught me was some opera and the like, and I didn't like to learn it, and finally the tape recorder became my own toy."
"Does your mom know how to sing?"
"My mother? A little bit! But not as good as my aunt, I haven't even heard my mother sing. ”
"After all these years, has Vanilla ever thought about looking for her cousin?"
"Of course I thought that after my mother died, I would have no relatives, but the address given to my cousin by the old village chief has also changed, and the orphanage that took my cousin in can't find any information about my cousin, so I can only come back every summer to pay respects to my mother and aunt."
"We're supposed to be high school classmates, right? I've never seen you before, and I still don't think I've got you in my memory! ”
"You were like a freak back then, and your classmates were talking about you like this behind your back."
"Look at what you say, it's like how I don't eat the fireworks of the world."
Xu Tian stopped, and after Vanilla took a few steps, he noticed that Xu Tian had stopped, so he turned back to look at Xu Tian.
"What's wrong? Why don't you go? ”
"I said." Xu Tian lowered his head deeply, "Vanilla, if this case is not as simple as you imagined, can you accept it?" ”
"What do you want to say?"
"I mean, if the murderer is someone you don't expect, please don't be too upset, okay?"