Chapter III: Unsolved Cases
Li Tianfang didn't say anything to her grandfather that day, and she insisted that she didn't know anything.
After he left, his grandfather stood at the door, watching him.
After walking a long way, Li Tianfang looked back with a weak heart.
On that day, the female corpse was buried by her grandfather in a special thin coffin and placed under the locust tree by the water.
The coffin board is not good, the cheapest kind, but on the wooden box and lid, my grandfather has drawn a lot of strange words in ink.
In my eyes, those words are as alive and very smart.
Such a coffin, usually someone comes to ask grandpa to sell it, and it costs thousands of yuan for a piece, which is several times more expensive than the coffin shop.
There is a coffin like this, and there is not a single villager in the waterhole that is usually used as a place to spend summer, not even birds.
Until the police came to investigate.
The female corpse was manipulated by my grandfather, and she was straight and lying quietly in the coffin.
The police brought police dogs over and searched the mountain, but like Wu Da, they found no clothes and no traces of a fight.
I was so busy that the moon went down, and I didn't find a fart.
No one had ever seen her enter the village, no one knew her.
Contact the bureau, and there is no body in the database that reports missing persons.
This woman seems to have come out of nowhere.
The police also called Wu Da over and asked where the pool leads, and whether it is possible that it has floated through the water eye from somewhere else.
Wu Da shook his head, who would know, this pool is very deep, and no one has ever been to the bottom of the water.
The police have been busy for a day, and I think it is about the same level of investigation as Wu Da, and they want to take away the female corpse before leaving.
When the police left, all the villagers came to watch, and someone whispered, "Can't the police solve the case?" “
"Tsk, that's stupid."
I saw Li Tianfang among the onlookers, his face was pale, and there was no smugness in his eyes that he had escaped by chance.
On the contrary, he seemed to be frightened. When his gaze met that of his grandfather, he lowered his head and left the crowd.
Except for Uncle Tianfang, no one else in the Li family came to see the excitement.
Wu Da was indignant and a little nervous, "Uncle Fang, is this the end?" Is this over? “
Grandpa smiled meaningfully, "We'll see." “
The police drove three police cars and a white van.
The white body was painted with police logos, and four policemen carried the coffin into the ambulance and closed the door.
The police car had already driven out for more than ten meters, and the ambulance started to follow a few steps, and suddenly turned off.
There was a driver and a co-pilot in the car, and the kind with refrigeration in the back compartment was probably used to pull corpses.
The driver started a few times, and the sound of the car was like a shabby turntable with a piercing "hiss", but he just didn't leave.
"Yikes! Water! Several villagers screamed and pointed to the bottom of the car.
A puddle of water flowed out along the car door, and soon a large puddle was wet underneath the car.
The driver and the co-pilot got out of the car, inexplicably opened the door, and the thin coffin seeped water out of the crack.
The coffin was made like a box, which could be opened sideways, and there was a lock on the buckle with a copper lock hanging from it.
The police opened the lock, lifted the lid of the coffin, and everyone squeezed forward to watch the excitement, half of the coffin was full of water.
The female corpse was wrapped in a white cloth and lay in the water with her eyes open, showing no signs of decay.
"Drowned ghosts!" I don't know who took the lead and shouted.
The crowd was like an explosion, and no matter how much the police shouted, they couldn't suppress the chaos.
Grandpa took advantage of the chaos but pulled me away quietly.
I was very unhappy, and my grandfather whispered as he walked, "Silly boy, I'm there, and someone who wants to come out won't dare to come out." “
We hid behind a thick old tree, waiting to peek at who this "someone" was.
A policeman went to the car to start the car, and the other looked at the coffin from behind, and the car started, just started, planted forward, and then turned off.
This time, I don't know what happened, the coffin fell out of the car with the opening opening, flipped over, and buckled downwards on the corpse.
The water in the coffin all flowed out at once, frightening the crowd to flee in all directions, and the corpse water was too unlucky.
A large crowd was huddled in a mess, and only the village head, Wu Da, was helping the police.
I didn't find anything suspicious.
When it was cleaned up, everyone gathered around again, the coffin was set up in the car again, the water was drained, and the female corpse was put back in and locked.
The car started again, and it lit up without any problems.
"See, you are feudal superstition! Where are the ghosts? This is the coffin that originally carried water and was cleaned, is there anything else? “
He spoke in a very strong tone, everyone dispersed, the police got into the car, the car was dusting away, and I asked my grandfather, "Did you see anyone?" “
Grandpa stared at the crowd until everyone had dispersed, and there was no answer.
Not long after we went home, Wu Da came running again, "Master Fang, did you say that the police can find the murderer?" ”
"How do I know?" Grandpa was cold.
Wu Da was a little bored, "You really don't care?" ”
Grandpa held a bundle of wood and prepared to make a fire, Wu Dachang sighed, as if he was very sorry, "It seems that the new society does not need to suppress officials." ”
When he left, I asked my grandfather, what kind of official is the press? How I haven't heard of it.
"If you ask more, don't eat today." Grandpa's tone was full of fire.
"How many days?" He stood up with a muttering to himself and muttered to himself, "It's been three days." ”
"Four days to go."
"Grandpa, what are you talking about?" I answered.
"The woman has been dead for three days."
That night, I felt the dogs in the village bark in my sleep for a while, and then it was quiet again.
In the second half of the night, someone knocked on my door carefully, and it was like a burst.
Finally woke me up, and I sat up in a daze to find that my grandfather was not in the room.
I opened the door first, Wu Da was sweating, and his face was as white as a dead man under the moon, "Where is Master Fang?" ”
He stared at me with a frenzied look in his eyes, and I was too scared to look at him.
There was a knock at the side door, a warm light lit up in the room, and Grandpa came in through the side door with a candle in his hand.
He fixed the candle on the table, turned on the lamp again, and asked Wu Da, "What's the matter?" ”
"Master Fang, you expected that, right?"
Grandpa shook his head, "I don't know what you're talking about?" ”
"You know the corpse will be back. So you didn't block the car when it was gone. You knew she wouldn't be able to leave. ”
Grandpa stared at Wu Da's eyes and said word by word, "That car shouldn't have been able to drive away in the first place." ”
Wu Da's eyes flashed with a layer of water, and he gasped, "Li Tianfang's wife is dead." ”
"Li Tianfang is not in a hurry, what are you in a hurry."
"This has nothing to do with Shuzhi!!" The green tendons on Wu Da's neck burst out, and even I couldn't hear it right now.
Shuzhi is Li Tianfang's wife.
"Uncle Da, how do you know that it has nothing to do with her. What does her death have to do with you? I answered.
Wu Da stopped squeaking, tears flowed down his face, "This damn Li Tianfang, Shuzhi can't live a good life." ”
"So how do you know it's a tie-in? Aunt Shuzhi didn't do anything, how did she die? What does it have to do with you whether she is doing well or not? I see how well she is doing. ”
Wu Da lowered his head and ignored me, "When the car couldn't move, I used a box of red paint given to me by Shuzhi to pour it on the coffin and paint some on the wheels of the car. ”
"Gave back a strange tooth, which I shoved into the female corpse's ear while it was turning over."
"Think about it, what does she have to do with a strange woman, it must be a good thing done by that wolf-hearted Li Tianfang."
Wu Da gritted his teeth, it seemed that Li Tianfang was going to be here, he had to pounce on him and bite off a piece of meat.
"You know what, tell me."
I thought I was going to hear a bizarre story, who knew that Wu Da shook his head dejectedly, "I don't know anything, I just know that Shuzhi is innocent." “
Wu Da was only in charge of this matter at the beginning, just out of the duty of the village chief.
Seeing Shuzhi come to his grandfather that night, he changed his motives.
Shuzhi was his high school classmate and childhood sweetheart's girlfriend.
It's a pity that Shuzhi's family doesn't look down on Wu Da, a poor student.
When he was in college, Shuzhi's family received a bride price of 150,000 yuan from Li Tianfang.
Nineteen-year-old Shuzhi married Li Tianfang, who was ten years older than her.
The whole village was in a sensation, Li Tianfang was very old, and she was so old and so old.
People in the village said that Shuzhi was sold to the Li family.
On the day of the wedding, Wu Da came back, and he drank a bottle of liquor at the wedding alone, and he didn't even have the courage to cry on the spot.
Shuzhi's family was afraid that he would embarrass his daughter, so they asked someone to send him home.
Until Shuzhi returned to the door, he cried at home for three days.
Later, the two never contacted each other again, until he graduated from college and returned to the village to become the village head, and Shuzhi had been upgraded to a mother.
Wu Da has always been single.
With his understanding of Shuzhi, it must have been Li Tianfang who did something worse than pigs and dogs, and the weak Aunt Zhi was threatened and did not dare to resist.
As for when Aunt Zhi stuffed the box into Wu Da's hands, he didn't say in detail.
"How did Aunt Zhi die?" My mind is full of ghostly scenes.
No one may believe it, Aunt Shuzhi drowned in the washbasin.
At night, Aunt Shuzhi heard a noise outside the door, and said that because something had just happened, Li Tianfang was also very alert, so she let her go.
Ten minutes later, before she returned, Li Tianfang turned on the courtyard light from the house and looked out of the window.
The yard was empty, and the wife who had gone out a few minutes ago was nowhere to be seen.
Li Tianfang called the whole family up, and took a hoe to find Shuzhi who fell to the ground in the kitchen.
Her hair was all wet, sticking to her face, her eyes bulging like goldfish, and an enamel basin with "fish playing lotus leaves" was placed on the washstand.
The ground was full of water, as if Shuzhi had been pressed into a basin of water and spilled it desperately.
Her chest and the front of her pants were soaked. A black box dropped at hand, and the lid opened.
Aunt Zhi's hand is the same as Tie Shan's, and her hands are full of red paint.
Li Tianfang wanted to wait until dawn to report the crime, so he turned on the light and walked around the kitchen, where a pair of dirty handprints were printed on the window glass.
Each finger was slender and slender, and the handprints were still wet, as if someone peeking from the window had just left.