Thinking about Sun Wuji's case, Chu Nanzhi asked directly without hesitation: "Did any other villagers see Zhu County Cheng leave here that night?"
Sun Lizheng shook his head blankly: "I heard from Yan Fang's mother that Wu Ji and Mr. Zhu chatted very late that night. Several families next to ours had to get up early to go fishing, so they went to bed very early.
I didn’t know Master Zhu had been here.”
"Can you take me to the place where Mr. Zhu salvaged it first?"
Chu Nanzhi asked anxiously again.
"Okay, I will take my wife over now."
Sun Lizheng said as he stood up slowly and led a few people to the place where the incident occurred.
Stepping out of the hut and looking around, the houses are scattered everywhere. It can be seen that the living conditions of the fishermen here are obviously much better than those in the villages that just came out of the mountains.
While walking, Sun Lizheng did not forget to introduce to everyone: "Wu Ji is a real person. As long as he is willing to work with him, he will never be treated poorly. These old people have watched him lead the nearby villagers one after another.
He continued to live in the huts of various families from the ship. Everyone remembers this kindness, but unfortunately no one can help him with what he committed this time, so he can only do a little bit of effort."
"What do you think about this case with your neighbors? Do you think Prime Minister Zhu was killed by the head of the Sun family?"
Chu Nanzhi asked tentatively.
"We absolutely don't believe it."
Sun Lizheng answered decisively, but after thinking for a moment he became hesitant: "It's just that Mr. Zhu's body was indeed fished out from the fish pond of Wu Ji's house, and people from the county government said that Mr. Zhu's last resting place on the night before his disappearance was
And at Wu Ji’s house, Chief Tan’s words were so conclusive that we had to believe them.”
Chu Nanzhi pursed her lips tightly and nodded, and did not ask any further questions.
The group of people walked around to the back of the hut and saw green willows supporting embankments everywhere, and high embankments were built all around.
Climbing to the top of the embankment, Sun Lizheng patiently introduced several people again:
"The Lanjiang River flows through this county and branches into many tributaries. Some are natural lakes, and some are artificially dug canals. The canal in our village was artificially dug. Back then, Wu Ji led everyone to build nets downstream.
Every flood season, a large number of fish will gather in the canal. After the flood season, everyone will catch them together, and the ones that weigh enough will be dried, pickled, and sold to the county. The smaller ones will be distributed as fry to various fish ponds for stocking."
"So this ditch does not belong to Sun Wuji's family?"
Chu Nanzhi asked.
"Of course not."
Sun Lizheng replied: "When this canal was dug, due to limited manpower, it was not wide and only about ten feet deep. It could not store water. After the flood season, it would gradually dry up. Sometimes the bottom of the canal could be seen, so
It was just a channel to ensure the fish source in the village, and because the embankment to block the water was right behind Wu Ji's house, Chief Tan concluded that Mr. Zhu was killed by Wu Ji."
While Chu Nanzhi listened carefully to Li Zheng's answer, he looked around and saw several large and small pools around the hut. When he was guessing which pool Zhu Xiancheng salvaged from, he saw Sun Li pointing at
The embankment not far from the canal said: "The county government officials fished out the body directly under the fence that day."
When I heard the sound, I saw that there were some piles and iron pillars faintly visible on the water surface of the broken dam in the middle of the canal. It was the flood season now and I couldn't see the whole picture.
Chu Nanzhi could only imagine in her mind that it was something like a barbed wire fence woven to stop fish crossing the water.
I originally thought that the corpses were fished out from several fish ponds around the huts under the embankment, but I never thought they were in the ditch.
If you look carefully, you can see that the dike fence is located directly under a slope. The water must be quite deep, and the murderer was quite clever in throwing the deceased into the canal.
After all, unless this canal encounters a severe drought, the water level at the fence must have been maintained at a certain level, enough to hide the corpse.
But when I thought about it more carefully, I felt that my idea was a bit outrageous. The flood season has not passed yet, not to mention that the corpses may float up, and clues will be found sooner or later when fishing.
Looking for the canal, we first looked upstream. We saw that the water flowed rapidly and accumulated at the dike. The water level was almost submerged in the dike. The water from the canal that passed through the fence poured down the slope, forming a bottomless pool.
Flow out slowly.
Looking at the gentle downstream direction, Chu Nanzhu asked with a lot of thoughts: "Where does this canal eventually flow into?"
"Going down the canal, it is said to be an unnamed mountain stream at the foot of Duanlong Mountain, and it should eventually merge into Songhai."
Sun Lizheng also followed her gaze and looked out.
"In this case, if the head of the Sun family wanted to deliberately murder Zhu Xian Cheng, he could have thrown the body downstream, so there was no need to leave the body in the canal to attract people's attention."
Chu Nanzhi couldn't help but laugh, this was obviously a frame-up.
The pool downstream is so deep that even if the body cannot go down the canal, it would be better for the body to sink to the bottom of the pool than to sink into the unworked dam. The distance between the body and the body is only about ten meters.
Sun Lizheng also thought of this, but the county government did not believe this argument, so he had to tell her in detail with a grimace:
"Ms. Chu's words are indeed reasonable, but according to Master Tan's inference, Wu Ji and Mr. Zhu had a dispute that day. He killed someone in a panic and had no time to take care of other things. He was afraid of being noticed, so he just threw the body behind the house.
In the canal, furthermore, the water level downstream is still shallow, so it is easily noticed by people."
After thinking about it, he immediately added: "As for the canal where the corpses were buried, it is the flood season now, and there are a large number of fish gathering there, which can also eat the corpses."
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Chu Nanzhi cursed secretly in his heart, with a slight sullen look in his eyes: "From the time the person disappeared to the time the body was recovered, did you find any spots on the body that had been eaten by fish?"
Sun Lizheng shook his head: "Except for the knife marks on the neck and a few bruises from a few scuffles, no other wounds were found."
Chu Nanzhi asked again: "What kind of fish are caught in this canal every year?"
"Most of them are grass carp, herring, carp, silver carp, and bighead carp."
"Have you ever heard of fish eating people?"
Sun Lizheng shook his head blankly again: "Many people drown in the water every year, but I have never heard of such a situation, unless fishermen fishing in Songhai are occasionally attacked by giant toothfish."
"So that Master Tan is just talking nonsense. Freshwater fish won't eat dead bodies."
Chu Nanzhi replied thoughtfully, then raised his eyes slightly and looked upstream again:
"The water flow is so fast that if a body is thrown into the canal from anywhere upstream, it will eventually flow here and sink to the bottom of the dam. What's more, the head of the Sun family, his wife and children were all at home that day, how could he watch Sun Wuji helplessly?
If you cut a living man's neck to death, is it possible that the whole family is a very vicious person?"
Sun Lizheng heard this and it made sense. He nodded repeatedly and said, "I wonder what Madam Chu is going to do next?"
"From the current point of view, it is not difficult to exonerate Sun Wu Ji. What is difficult is to find out the real culprit behind the scenes."
Chu Nanzhi secretly thought that the first step now was to clear Sun Wuji's suspicion and defend his innocence.
Looking at the entire case, the favorable basis that can directly overturn the case is the lack of key witnesses. Therefore, as long as this is used as a basis and the water is muddy, the county government cannot conclude the case as a solid case.