Chapter 52: Footprints in the Snow

One of the floors in the room was wide, with a broken carpet on it, but the carpet that should have been flat was very messy, with many folds and protrusions, and there were many wet marks from the melting of the snow, and the living room was in the front room, and it was also messy, and two chairs had been broken, and the table had fallen to the ground, and there were many fragments of window panes and vases on the floor.

"Maybe it's a terrible fight, oops! The bell is crooked, too!" Shi Baoan turned the bell over to observe the position of the long and short hands.

"Eleven o'clock, it's time for fighting."

"In that case, that's exactly when the snow stops! Mr. Security. ”

Lang Xiaobai thought for a moment and continued, "However, we have been here for a long time, why haven't we seen Jiang Zhize and Su Fengnan?" Where the hell did they go?"

"Something is wrong! Mr. Lang, I want to go to the second floor to check it out, and you can come along!"

"Okay!"

"You're guarding downstairs." Shi Baoan ordered his two men. Then, he walked upstairs, followed by Lang Xiaobai.

"Oh my God! It's a terrible place to be!"

Shi Baoan muttered. The door of the residence above the second floor was beaten beyond recognition, and there was no one inside, and there was no trace of Jiang Zhize and Su Fengnan at all. They have a large mallet underneath their bed. Presumably the utensils that destroyed the door.

The two then walked down the stairs to the kitchen, which was located at the front of the hallway, where nothing unusual happened.

The kitchen had a side door, and from there they went outside, where there was a narrow open space. There is an old well in the corner of the clearing.

"I'm afraid this well is the reason for the name of the well garden, right?"

The ground was covered with snow, and there were traces of heavy things dragging on top of the snow, and there were many messy shoe prints around the well. It seems that there is another extremely tragic fight here, with both stupid and large footprints and small and delicate footprints.

"This footprint was left by Jiang Zhize." Shi Baoan looked down at the footprints on the snow. No, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, it's the same as the footprints inside and outside the door, and the nails on the heel are exactly the same shape.

"But whose other footprints are they?"

And the footprints appeared from the well and extended into the orchards over there. Then, they followed the trail, about 30 meters, and they saw a gun buried in the snow. Shi Baoan took out a handkerchief from his coat pocket and picked up the gun lightly, while also avoiding his own fingerprints from being left on it.

The bewildering trail stretched straight to the edge of the fence at the top of the orchard, and then across the fence and continued to stretch far ahead.

So, no longer following the footsteps, the two men turned and returned to the living room, and then showed the pistols they had picked up. A farmer said, "Ah, this pistol seems to belong to Jin Hao." ”

"How did you find out?"

"I'm not sure it's his, but the last time I saw him in a restaurant in town, he wanted to get it."

"What day did you say last time, do you remember what day it was?"

"Well, that day happened to be the day of the town, at that time, Jin Hao also came to the restaurant, it is said that the holster was opened, and took it to the old cobbler to repair, but unfortunately, the cobbler was not at home, and the door of the shop was closed, so he handed the holster to the manager of the restaurant and entrusted him to the old cobbler to repair. That gun happens to be the same as this one, you say?" He turned his head to his other partner

"That's pretty much it."

The farmer said the same, and such a testimony is important. There were seven rounds of ammunition in the gun, three of which were fired.

"Three shots...... Three gunshots...... The time of the fight was 11:12, and at that time, the snow had stopped falling, so the footprints on the snow did not move. Lang Xiaobai thought to himself,

Then, Jin Hao's pistol was found on the snow - but, well, wait, this alone can't be concluded that Jin Hao is the murderer! Even though there was a gunshot, the body was not found! What's more, there is one more thing that is elusive. ”

"Mr. Lang, Jin Hao is the murderer, there should be no more doubts, right?"

"Why?"

Shi Baoan said: "The evidence is there, pistols, footprints and fights...... And Jin Hao ...... Jiang Zhize's wife Su Fengnan Therefore, Jiang Zhize hated him very much. At the same time, they are enemies of each other, and Jin Hao always carries a pistol with him in order to prevent himself from being killed by the old drunkard father and son. The night before, when Jiang Zhize was drinking at his old drunkard father's house, Jin Hao took the opportunity to have a tryst with Su Fengnan, but unfortunately he was bumped into by Jiang Zhize, who came home drunk. The drunk Jiang Zhize couldn't beat Jin Hao, and Jin Hao hated Jiang Zhize's abuse of Su Fengnan very much, so unless he didn't fight, he would be beaten to death. After a while, Jiang Zhize escaped from the side door of the kitchen, ran to the snow, and was chased by Jin Hao. So, the two men fought again by the well. In the end, Jin Hao finally pulled out his pistol and shot, and threw Jiang Zhize, who was shot and killed, into the well, and escaped across the fence. That's my guess. ”

Shi Baoan said smugly.

And Lang Xiaobai was smiling quietly. "Your reasoning is reasonable, but is it really what you say?"

One of the floors in the room was wide, with a broken carpet on it, but the carpet that should have been flat was very messy, with many folds and protrusions, and there were many wet marks from the melting of the snow, and the living room was in the front room, and it was also messy, and two chairs had been broken, and the table had fallen to the ground, and there were many fragments of window panes and vases on the floor.

"Maybe it's a terrible fight, oops! The bell is crooked, too!" Shi Baoan turned the bell over to observe the position of the long and short hands.

"Eleven o'clock, it's time for fighting."

"In that case, that's exactly when the snow stops! Mr. Security. ”

Lang Xiaobai thought for a moment and continued, "However, we have been here for a long time, why haven't we seen Jiang Zhize and Su Fengnan?" Where the hell did they go?"

"Something is wrong! Mr. Lang, I want to go to the second floor to check it out, and you can come along!"

"Okay!"

"You're guarding downstairs." Shi Baoan ordered his two men. Then, he walked upstairs, followed by Lang Xiaobai.

"Oh my God! It's a terrible place to be!"

Shi Baoan muttered. The door of the residence above the second floor was beaten beyond recognition, and there was no one inside, and there was no trace of Jiang Zhize and Su Fengnan at all. They have a large mallet underneath their bed. Presumably the utensils that destroyed the door.

The two then walked down the stairs to the kitchen, which was located at the front of the hallway, where nothing unusual happened.

The kitchen had a side door, and from there they went outside, where there was a narrow open space. There is an old well in the corner of the clearing.

"I'm afraid this well is the reason for the name of the well garden, right?"

The ground was covered with snow, and there were traces of heavy things dragging on top of the snow, and there were many messy shoe prints around the well. It seems that there is another extremely tragic fight here, with both stupid and large footprints and small and delicate footprints.

"This footprint was left by Jiang Zhize." Shi Baoan looked down at the footprints on the snow. No, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, it's the same as the footprints inside and outside the door, and the nails on the heel are exactly the same shape.

"But whose other footprints are they?"