Chapter 1248 Homicides in the War Period (III)

Author: Lao Zhe

All the villagers looked at Shang Zhen, and when they followed Shang Zhen's gaze, they hurriedly moved their eyes away again.

Of course, that was because Shang Zhen was staring at the dead.

Now the villagers are still afraid of Shang Zhen, but they are vaguely treat Shang Zhen as their backbone.

But only Shang Zhen himself knew that he was okay in terms of fighting, but if he was to solve this murder case, it was also the first time that the big girl was in the sedan chair.

He didn't expect him to solve this case, he just did his best.

All he could see now was that Liu Neng had his head cut off by a sharp weapon. Looking at the neat breaks reminded him of the Japanese army's Oriental Sword.

It is undeniable that the Japanese army's oriental swords had a very sharp steel mouth, but the sword was not as narrow as the large blade used by Chinese soldiers.

But no matter how good the knife is, it will be scored in the hands of a person. It is impossible to cut off a person's neck with one knife.

As far as Shang Zhen knows, this situation is like a sword used by Chinese practitioners.

The Chinese sword is not the very thick cross sword used by Westerners. In fact, Westerners use swords to chop and chop with a strong enough size, so the sword blade is long, which is actually the same as cutting an axe in terms of function.

The sword used by Chinese people is relatively soft and soft enough to make the sword dance, and the sword edge will sway.

But this does not mean that the lethality of Chinese swords is weak. Sword masters can also use swords to cut off small trees as thick as bowls. As for whether they can cut off people's necks, Shang Zhen is unknown.

He also heard Li Qingfeng and the big man mentioned it, but Shang Zhen couldn't understand the more profound truths.

Now Shang Zhen can only infer the cross section of his neck when he looks at the neck. What can this be inferred? Okay, let’s ask the people around Liu Neng what else they know.

Shang Zhen stood up and began to ask about other situations.

Next, Shang Zhen learned that at least in the middle of the night, Liu Neng was still alive.

The reason is that Liu Neng's ten-year-old son got up in the middle of the night and peed accidentally stepped on Liu Neng's body and stepped on Liu Neng with a "screaming" sound.

Although Liu Neng’s house was not burned, the building had not fallen down, and the house was burned out, so their family did not live in the house full of smoke and ashes, but in the yard.

It is normal for a child as old as Liu Neng’s son to sleep in the middle of the night, getting up and peeing on me.

It was early summer now, and it was early that day, but at dawn, their family found that Liu Neng was already in a different place.

In other words, Liu Neng died between midnight and dawn, and the place where he was killed was in his yard.

According to Liu Neng’s wife, their family put the door inside before dark.

Shang Zhen also looked at the door with a stick. It was made of hard wood, and it was intact and there was no mark that was stabbed by a knife.

The reason why he saw this was because he was wondering whether someone was using a knife outside to penetrate the crack in the door and tucked it on the stick that day and moved the stick away bit by bit.

And Liu Neng’s wife also said that she had inserted the stick on the door by herself, and she remembered it very clearly.

Shang Zhen asked again, could his child be discharged from the hospital and urinated because he opened the door.

The answer he got was still impossible, just because his thatched house was on the corner of the yard, which meant that there was no need to leave any land for outsiders.

Ruling out the possibility that the murderer came in through the door, Shang Zhen looked at Liu Neng's yard again, and there was a new strangeness.

If this is a mountain village, there are no high-ranking families, but Liu Neng cleaned up his own courtyard wall very neatly. Shang Zhen was surprised, how did the murderer come in?

It’s not that Liu Neng’s family built a brick wall that was two or three people high, so where can we find bricks in such a mountain village? The houses are all made of stone or adobe.

So, Liu Neng’s courtyard walls are made of bricks and stones or adobes. What is that? They use rows of willow branches that are more than one person tall!

Moreover, the willow branches are still alive, and then they are clamped together with branches. In the northeast, this kind of courtyard wall is called "shouzi", and here it is called a tree wall.

Can people climb up such a tree wall? Of course, they can climb up, but the problem is that such a wall should not resist a person's weight.

The thickest willow branches are just thicker than their thumbs. It is hard to imagine that countless willow branches lined up in a row or two rows can hardly penetrate a person weighing about a hundred pounds without being crushed, and then that person can pass by the wall.

All the willow branches are alive, it is early summer, and there are already green willow leaves on it.

However, some of the willow leaves were already burnt and did not get up after all, so it was naturally the result of the Japanese army's setting fire.

The willow branches are full of moisture, which is probably because the courtyard wall made of the tree in Liu Neng’s family was not burned very seriously.

Shang Zhen carefully observed the tree wall, but the rows of willow branches were roasted by fire, and many leaves had fallen to the ground, and he didn't see the reason.

How about trying to pass this tree wall by yourself? Shang Zhen wanted to move, but in the end he shook his head and said, forget it.

If I only weighed 60 or 70 pounds, I could try it, but now this hundred pounds have crushed the other person's tree wall. The men have just suffered a disaster, and who will work if the wall falls?

I couldn't figure out how the murderer came into Liu Neng's house, but Shang Zhen thought again that the murderer was unlikely to be a person from the village. Is it possible for ordinary people to cut off a person's neck with just one knife? Let's see how the murderer entered the village.

Shang Zhen left Liu Neng's home and began to wander around the village.

But when he saw the situation in this village, Shang Zhen was helpless again. It would be too easy for outsiders to enter this village!

Because this village is in a valley, the surrounding fields are not big, and there are woods and grasslands. There is neither the natural gap nor the secret of the legendary Peach Blossom Land.

Then the village is open and there is no wall at all. You can come in from the gap between any two families. Even if you know that the murderer came in from outside the village, how could you know which direction the other person came in?

Then there is no way to go into the village, but there are roads everywhere. If Shang Zhen looks at it from the perspective of a soldier's defense, how can this be a position? This is a sieve with big eyes leaking!

"Is there a dog in the village?" Shang Zhen asked Xiaojiu who had been following him.

"No." Xiaojiu replied, "It turns out there is, but whenever a war it is said that barking will attract the Japanese, and each family will kill them."

Shang Zhen frowned, but then he raised his eyebrows and asked again: "Is there a big goose?"

There is a reason for Shang Zhen to ask this question. After all, as a rural person, it is not just a dog who can watch the house, but also a big goose. The big goose also quacks when he sees strangers entering the village, and even pecks on the strangers' trousers' legs.

However, Xiaojiu's answer disappointed Shang Zhen again.

"There were still a few Japanese in the village when they came, but when we came back this time, there would be no more. We must have been captured by the Japanese." Xiaojiu replied again, so there was a situation in front of Shang Zhen's eyes with a Japanese soldier carrying a large eight-type rifle and a big goose hanging on the hook at the bayonet grip.

Damn, the Japanese devils were not killed, and another murderer came to join in the fun! Shang Zhen cursed in his heart.

But what if you scold me again? Since you are here, you always have to be at ease.

Shang Zhen and Xiao Jiu Shang Zhen got some food, and he planned to watch the village.

But Shang Zhen didn’t have any hope for such a night watch. Of course, it was because he was the only one in the army. How could he guard it? He couldn’t take care of him at all!

In the end, Shang Zhen could only choose a few roads to enter the village and turned himself into a swimming whistle.

However, Shang Zhen just wandered like this all night, but he didn't encounter any abnormal situation.

But just as he was about to go to the melon shed of Xiaojiu's family to sleep, he heard Xiaojiu calling himself in the village "Hey".
Chapter completed!