"Okay, you listen to me." Lang Xiaobai lit a cigar and put it in his mouth.

Old Conkinson's hands trembled, perhaps from a mixture of anger, and he picked up his glass from the table and drank without stopping.

Yingzi stood at the edge of the room at a loss, looking at the faces of the two.

"More than twenty years ago, in that ancient village, there lived your cousin Kang Jinyu and his adult. In addition, there is a couple who also live in that area, let's assume that the couple's surname is "A B", Kang Jinyu and the couple surnamed A often correspond and have a deep friendship with each other.

Kang Jinyu has long been disgusted with his wife, but he is greedy for his wife's large amount of property, and he has been planning how to keep the property in his heart. ”

In order to achieve this goal, this sinister and cunning black-hearted fellow actually planned to use his friends to frame his wife, and take the opportunity to get rid of her. He planned to get rid of both of them at the same time, so he pretended to be tender and deceiving A's wife: As long as A dies, I will marry you. That Kang Jinyu kept bewitching her. ”

"Unfortunately, Mrs. A also happens to be a vicious woman, and she has long been in love with Kang Jinyu, who is richer than her husband, and longs for that luxurious and extravagant life, so when Kang Jinyu bewitched her, she immediately agreed, as if she had been waiting for his initiative for a long time, and the two of them were embarrassed, and immediately decided to get rid of both of them."

"It is indeed extremely sinister, one is a wicked man, and the other is a poisonous woman."

"Really, is it really such a horrible villain?" Conkinson wiped the sweat from his face.

After the two of them secretly made plans, on a moonlit and beautiful night, Kang Jinyu asked his wife to visit A. Therefore, A and Kang Jinyu's wife went to their own tower to admire the moon. ”

"At this moment, Kang Jinyu, who was hiding in the attic here, saw the two of them with a telescope, and then immediately took the Rifle gun from the weapons storage room, took aim, pulled the trigger, and fired two shots in succession, and the two people on the tower fell down one after another."

"When he had done that, he stuck out his tongue with a hideous face, and then plugged the gun hole in the wall with a ready-made block of earth and mud so that no one would find the body on the tower over there."

"However, he is a new hand after all, and he is flustered, so he didn't block it, and I easily used those seven tools to open the gun's hole."

"Then, Nakang Jinyu came to Jia's house again, blew up the tower there from the third floor with explosives, and blew up the stairs together, so that people could not go up the tower again, and the corpse was naturally unknown all the time."

He spread rumors that A and his wife had been having an affair for a long time, and that the two had eloped together that night, and pretended to be furious, and ordered people to track down their whereabouts, but of course, no news was found at all. In this way, everyone thought that the two men were missing and did not know where to go. ”

"Twenty years ago, on the night of September 5th, at nearly eight o'clock, he committed murder and destroyed the evidence of the crime."

He didn't bother to wipe the beads of sweat from his head, so he took the weapons he had used to commit the murder just now, namely the rifle and the binoculars, and walked down from the tower, and when he reached the living room, he suddenly remembered that the telescope in his hand was useless in the forest, and it was impossible to look into the distance in the forest. If, on the way back to the estate, a peasant or a passer-by sees him, the rifle could be interpreted as a bird-hunting operation, but the telescope could not explain it, which would certainly arouse suspicion. ”

"Once the future homicide comes to light and security investigates the case, it would be bad if someone had been pointing out that he had walked through the forest with binoculars at night. With this in mind, he decided to hide the telescope, and slipped it into the big clock. However, what he didn't expect was the key to his conspiracy. ”

"Why do you say that?" Old Conkinson asked closely.

"There is a way to solve any case in the world, and although the murderer thinks that he has done a good job, he will always leave a flaw or unexpected situation caused by negligence."

He hid his telescope in the clock, but the pendulum got stuck, and he left the living room without noticing. But twenty years later, last night when I struck the door of the drawing-room, the whole house shook, and the telescope shook with it, and the pendulum swung again. ”

"Ah......" Yingzi exclaimed, this is what happened, finally knowing the answer to this mystery.

Old Conkinson's face grew whiter.

"The clock was wind-wound, so after a short time there were eight chimes. And on the calendar on the pillar, the most superficial one shows the fifth of September, so the time of the murder is nearly eight o'clock in the evening. That's my reasoning. ”

"So...... In this way, it was Kang Jinyu who killed his uncle, where is he now? Dead?"

Yingzi was sad and indignant in her heart, and asked Lang Xiaobai again and again.

"He's not dead, he's still alive."

"Oh? So, where does his family live?...... Far away?"

"No, he's right here."

Lang Xiaobai raised his right hand and pointed hard, like a sharp sword light, his index finger pointed at Old Kangkinson's face. Old Conkinson's face turned pale, he stood up trembling slightly, and fell into the sofa weakly.

"That Kang Jinyu is this Kang Jinson."

"What do you say? Why do you say that?" Old Conkinson stammered.

"Who else can shoot a target 400 meters away in the moonlight and shoot accurately at a target 400 meters away, who else is so good at shooting, except for you, a famous hunter? There is no second person who can have such a level. ”

"Moreover, I have other evidence, and that proof is that you have a heart disease. Every year on the 5th of September you have a big hunt, and at 8 o'clock in the evening, you start to feast and revelry. This is because you have not lost your conscience yet, and you can't bear it psychologically after killing, so when this moment comes to this day, you drink like crazy to have fun in order to forget about it. ”

"For twenty years your conscience has been condemned incessantly, and you have repented of your deeds, and your spiritual punishment has been tormented far faster than you have received that day. You are a wretched wretch, living in hell for twenty years, suffering from pain. ”

Old Conkinson covered his face with his hands and sobbed silently, his gray-haired head trembling.

Lang Xiaobai looked at him with pity in his eyes:

"It's been twenty years! You can no longer be prosecuted for murder, but you will never escape the condemnation of your conscience. However, there is another way to offset some of the sins you have committed, if you will, and to lighten some of the burden on your soul a little. ”

"Yes...... What's the method?"

"That is, sign a check for Yingzi and return to her the property she inherited from her parents, are you willing?"

Old Conkinson staggered to his feet and signed a check equal to the amount of Yingzi's inheritance.

"Alright, that's all done, it's time for me to get out of here, and I'll leave tonight. Yingzi will probably leave tomorrow, and she may not return here in the future. ”

Accompanied by Lang Xiaobai, Yingzi left the study.

"Mr. Lang, thank you so much, not only did you save me from that villain of He Song, but now, you are fighting for my property and freedom, I really don't know how to thank you......"

"I don't want any thanks, doing these things in itself makes me happy. Discovering some deep mystery and solving it to punish the villains and give some help to the unfortunate who are lonely and helpless is what I am most willing to do. “

"It's really awesome, this is what the big husband does!"

"No, women can do the same! I want you to be my assistant and join me in helping those who are in need, would you?"

"I'm more than happy if I can do it."

"You definitely have the ability...... Well, let's make a deal. Let's take the bell that rang eight times as evidence, and the two of us tried to accomplish eight difficult and dangerous things in three months. We've just done one, and now we have seven more things to solve. ”

"Then, on the last day of the three-month period, which was the fifth of December, the two of us made an appointment to return to Dafu Ancient Village and go there to see the big bell."

"There's a bit of a wave in my heart. However, in the face of any danger and difficulty, are you sure to solve it?"

"Naturally, nothing can stump me."

"Well, I have a short tunic left by my mother, and I used to have a jade pendant on it, but I lost it. It's a beautiful antique, and it's said to bring good luck, and whoever owns it is a lucky one. I don't know when I lost that jade pendant, can you help me find it?"

"How long have you been lost?"

"Seven or eight years...... No, it's probably been nine years, and it's hard to figure out exactly where and when it was stolen. ”

"Well, for your happiness, I will do everything I can to get it back.