Da Zhuang heard that I was going to enter the Xiao family's compound with him, so he simply told me that it was too late, and he would come back the next day to deliver it. After that, he didn't wait for me to answer. Turned around and left directly. Looking at Da Zhuang's distant back, Jiang Jun sneered: "He has a problem, this is too obvious." ”

I became more and more sure that Da Zhuang didn't want me to enter the Xiao family's compound, and he didn't want me to contact Xiao Lao. Da Zhuang has a ghost in his heart, and it is unknown whether the death of the camel has anything to do with him for the time being, but the nightmare of the Xiao family more than ten years ago, I am afraid that Da Zhuang will not be able to get rid of it, otherwise there is no need for him to buy a villager to make us deliberately think that the death of the Xiao family is a ghost caused by Xiao Yingfeng.

"I just secretly asked a few villagers, Da Zhuang was indeed dismissed by the Xiao family more than ten years ago." Jiang Jun said.

Originally, we all listened to the villager who was bought by Da Zhuang. I don't know if it's true or not, but Jiang Jun told me that Da Zhuang was dismissed by the Xiao family back then, and it was true. As the villagers who were bought off before said. After Da Zhuang made some money, he became arrogant, and after being dismissed by the Xiao family, Da Zhuang quarreled with the Xiao family's housekeeper, and insulted all the people of the Xiao family many times, even after the Xiao family used him again, Da Zhuang still couldn't control his mouth.

The incident was quite big, so the villagers still remember it vividly.

"Now it seems that although the buyer was in a hurry, Da Zhuang is not stupid." Jiang Jun said.

I nodded, Da Zhuang knew that he couldn't hide it, so he didn't let the villager lie, but told the truth, and the lies he asked the villagers to tell us were unknown to other villagers.

After determining that the relationship between Da Zhuang and the Xiao family is not good. He has been delivering food to Xiao Lao for more than ten years, which is even more weird.

"He didn't let us enter the Xiao family's compound. There must be some ulterior secret hidden in this compound! Jiang Jun reasoned.

Shen Nuo: "He said that it was too late today to deliver food, so we will go in with him tomorrow and see what excuses he has tomorrow." ”

In order not to lose the evidence, we moved the big stones and the carcass of the camel that we had brought up from the bottom of the well back to the camel's house, and there was a small warehouse behind the camel's house, where we put the things and the corpse. The temperature is not high, and we are not worried about the body decomposing badly.

After Jiang Jun put down the corpse, he said that he was going to guard outside the Xiao family's compound, he couldn't rest assured, worried that Da Zhuang would enter the Xiao family's compound while we weren't paying attention. Jiang Jun will go to open the road with the villagers early tomorrow morning, and the task of reconnaissance has fallen to me and Shen Nuo, after he told us to have a good rest. Out the door.

Before leaving, he left us with the ledger, and on the back of the ledger was a transcript of the interrogation he had just asked the villagers. Shen Nuo and I sat at the table and carefully flipped through the transcript. There is no electricity in the backward Xiaopan village, and the batteries for the villagers' flashlights are also bought when they enter the city.

In everyone's eyes, batteries are as precious as gold, and if it weren't for the death, they wouldn't take it out.

For the convenience of the follow-up, we put out the flashlight, and Shen Nuo found a candle in the drawer of the camel's house, and after lighting it, the small room was illuminated by the dim candlelight. Before the ashes bottle broken by Jiang Jun was picked up, the fragments fell on the edge of the table.

Like what I trusted, Jiang Jun's inquiries were very skillful, and they were also very hierarchical and orderly. Mu Gang is stupid.

Jiang Jun thought that the time of the camel's death might have been after he left home, so the period during which he inquired about the alibi also began last night. Jiang Jun asked more than 30 households in the village alone, and the workload was very large, but his handwriting was not scribbled at all, and he also replaced some places that could not be recorded.

During the day, the villagers have alibis, and they either work in the fields or cook at home. During the day, many people in the village will pass by the Xiao family's compound, so it is unrealistic for the murderer to commit the crime at that time, and the key point is the time when the camel leaves home until dawn.

The first few villagers who were questioned still had alibi certificates at dawn after the camel left, and they were a few villagers who were rushing to work all night and were going to sell them in the market in two days, and they were doing manual work together, so they could prove each other. But most of the next villagers, including Lao Shenguo, Lao Chinese Medicine Doctor, and Da Zhuang, either only their relatives can testify, or they just don't have an alibi.

This gives me a bit of a headache, which means that in terms of the time of the crime, it is basically impossible to narrow down and lock down a suspicious group of people within the village.

Shen Nuo also sighed, and we continued to look down. After questioning the alibi, Jiang Jun tried to find eyewitnesses.

We had just arrived in the village yesterday, and when we entered the village, there was no one in the village anymore. The result of Jiang Jun's inquiry was the same as what we saw, and all the villagers said that they had already arrived home and were ready to sleep. Jiang Jun asked the villagers if they had heard strange noises in the middle of the night.

All the villagers said that last night was the same as usual, there was nothing unusual, not even the village dog barked. There were quite a few dogs in the village, which made me sure that it was the people of the village who committed the crime. If it is an outsider, there are so many dogs in the village, it is impossible not to bark at all.

Jiang Jun also asked some other key questions, but the villagers' answers did not have much investigative value. The last question Jiang Jun asked was about the whereabouts of the camel, and for the first time that the whole village was here, and it was difficult for the villagers to lie.

Before the camel left, he clearly said that he was going to make the bed, and the camel had no need to lie to us, and he could not have deliberately put himself in danger, because after he had received our money, the joy was not like a pretense. However, almost all of them say that they don't want to come into contact with camels, and there are many who can prove that they hate camels very much.

The old Chinese medicine doctor has a very bad attitude towards the camel, and relying on his wife, the old Chinese medicine doctor can barely prove it.

The only ones who can't give proof are Da Zhuang and the old god stick. Da Zhuang is a bit similar to a camel, the people in the village are reluctant to contact him, but the difference is that the people in the village are disgusted with camels, and everyone is afraid of Da Zhuang. And when asked about the old god stick, the old god stick not only couldn't give a proof, but also smiled and said: If the camel goes to him to make a bed, he will definitely agree.

The old god didn't hate Da Zhuang like the others, or rather, he had the smile on everyone's face.

"I think Da Zhuang is more suspicious." Shen Nuo said.

I nodded, Shen Nuo's inference was well-founded.

The first to indirectly find the body was a few villagers, when they passed by the Xiao family compound, they saw Xiao Lao was looking into the well, and Da Zhuang desperately pulled Xiao Lao aside, the villagers felt that something was wrong, and the bold villagers found the body accordingly. Based on Da Zhuang's strange performances, Shen Nuo thought that Da Zhuang had killed someone, Xiao Lao found the corpse in the well, and Da Zhuang wanted to pull Xiao Lao away.

When we first entered the Xiao family's compound, Da Zhuang asked us not to go in, and Shen Nuo also thought that it might be because Da Zhuang didn't let us find the body, so he stopped us from entering the Xiao family's compound.

"It's indeed possible, but there are still a few doubts, first of all, it's a cloudy day, we can't see the bottom of the well at all, and Xiao Lao can't see it clearly." I replied to Shen Nuo: "There is another suspicion, Da Zhuang did not let us enter the Xiao family's compound, not only after discovering that we entered, but he also behaved like this just now, so the Xiao family has other secrets." ”

Shen Nuo and I lowered our heads and pondered, the candlelight reflected Shen Nuo's fair face yellow, and after a long time, Shen Nuo suddenly raised his head: "We all ignored one person. Shen Nuo paused: "We suspect Da Zhuang, we suspect the old Chinese medicine doctor, we suspect the old god stick, and even the whole village has become the object of our suspicion, what about Xiao Lao?" ”

As soon as Shen Nuo said this, I also narrowed my eyes.

We are different from the villagers, in our eyes, Xiao Lao's fate is undoubtedly tragic: all his relatives died, and he lived alone in the huge Xiao family compound, except for Da Zhuang, no villager dared to touch him, including the camel. Xiao Lao had no contact with the villagers, let alone made enemies with the villagers, so in our opinion, although Xiao Lao was strange, he was the least suspicious person, even if the camel died in his home.

At this moment, the door was pushed open, and Jiang Jun hurriedly ran back to tell us that Da Zhuang had indeed sneaked into the Xiao family's compound......