Is there something wrong with the things he just analyzed? What is the problem? Why is Wang Shiren not the murderer? Does this mean Zhang Nanyang deceived him?
After staying there for a long time, Zhang Yichi took a deep breath, returned to the mountain road, and went down the mountain with Zhang Nanyang.
Zhang Nanyang said nothing on the way down the mountain, while Zhang Yichi analyzed the situation in his mind.
Is the murderer Zhang Nanyang or someone else?
At present, Zhang Nanyang does not have any major omissions. The only suspicious thing is that the little boy witnessed an argument between him and Liu Cuilan. However, he also gave a logical explanation for this.
Zhang Yichi still agrees with Zhang Nanyang's words and thinks he is not lying. But now that Wang Shiren is not the murderer, he has to continue to doubt Zhang Nanyang.
However, there is only one chance to testify, and Zhang Yichi does not dare to make a rash decision anymore. There is still plenty of time now, and he still has time to do more investigations.
All in all, the situation is not too bad, at least the Wang brothers have been ruled out as suspects.
Zhang Yichi was not discouraged and maintained a good attitude. He and Zhang Nanyang walked down the mountain quickly. After walking for a while, they saw a boy in front of them.
"Hey!" Zhang Yichi shouted and rushed to the little boy's side, "What a coincidence, we met again."
"Aren't you going down the mountain?" The little boy looked at Zhang Yichi in confusion.
"Come here to do some business again." Zhang Yichi explained and touched the little boy's head, "Are you going home late today?"
"Yeah." the little boy replied.
Zhang Yichi glanced at the time on his watch: "It's already past eleven o'clock. Didn't you go down the mountain at ten o'clock?"
The little boy looked at Zhang Yichi and said, "Did you come here yesterday? I have to chop more firewood today."
"Let me hold it for you." Zhang Yichi helped the little boy hold the firewood and found that the weight was not light. Thinking that the little boy, who was only about ten years old, walked such a long mountain road every day to chop firewood and collect herbs, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
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Zhang Nanyang also rushed over: "Yangyang, are you here to cut firewood?"
"Uncle," the little boy said.
"Brother Zhang, let me get it. It's quite heavy." Zhang Nanyang took the firewood from Zhang Yichi's hand.
The three of them went down the mountain together, and it was almost twelve o'clock when they returned. Zhang Nanyang and the little boy went to Uncle Sun's house, while Zhang Yichi went to the village committee for lunch.
When we arrived at the village committee, only the village chief was there.
"Come here." The village chief was busy writing something in the room.
"Well, where are they? Aren't they all here?" Zhang Yichi entered the village committee and found a chair to sit down on.
"Shimin, Shimin, they are busy with funeral arrangements, Chunsheng is going to buy groceries," the village chief said.
"Okay." Zhang Yichi sat and waited while planning the afternoon's arrangements.
Uncle Sun's purpose of spying on him was unknown. He planned to get some laxatives in the afternoon, put Uncle Sun's local dog down, and then sneak in to investigate the situation at night.
As for Zhang Nanyang, if he is really the murderer and the villagers already know it and are covering it up, then it won't actually be that difficult. The more people know who the murderer is, the better. As long as there are more people, there will inevitably be omissions.
At that time, Zhang Yichi visited the villagers to investigate Zhang Nanyang and compiled the villagers' confessions. It would be easy to determine whether Zhang Nanyang was the murderer.
While Zhang Yichi was making plans for the afternoon, Chen Chunsheng came back with a bottle of white wine and some snacks. The village chief heated up some more staple food, and the three of them started to have lunch.
"Officer Zhang, do you have any clues?" During the meal, the village chief poured Zhang Yichi a glass of liquor and asked about the situation.
"The time of Liu Cuilan's death is almost confirmed. It should have been between ten and eleven o'clock the day before yesterday." Zhang Yichi revealed some progress appropriately and at the same time tested the village chief, "Do you know who died during yesterday's time?"
Is it on the mountain?"
"I don't know." The village chief shook his head, "That day, the people of the world were asked to help look for Liu Cuilan, so I mobilized people to search together. At that time, people scattered to look for her, and they didn't know who was where."
The village chief did not reveal any useful information, nor did he reveal whether he knew or not. Zhang Yichi decided to continue testing: "After you decided to call the police that day, did you continue to look for Liu Cuilan?"
"Well, just find a few people to block the mountain road. If she doesn't get out of the mountain, she will definitely not be able to get out if the mountain road is blocked." The village chief said.
"Who is blocking the road?"
The village chief gave a few names that Zhang Yichi had no memory of.
Zhang Yichi nodded and asked: "Except for these three people, everyone else came back before calling the police at twelve o'clock, right? Then do you still remember the time when Wang Shiren and Zhang Nanyang came back?"
"Oh, this..." The village chief looked like he was remembering.
Chen Chunsheng was grabbing his rice and looking at the village chief and Zhang Yichi from time to time.
"These two people came back after eleven o'clock, right?" Zhang Yichi asked when he saw that the village chief had not spoken.
"Shiren didn't go up the mountain, but he stayed with me all the time. Nanyang seems to have gone up the mountain, but I don't know when he came back," the village chief said.
The village chief's words were very unfavorable to Zhang Nanyang.
After Zhang Yichi clarified the place and time of Liu Cuilan's death, and still said this, anyone would be suspicious of Zhang Nanyang.
This made Zhang Yichi somewhat confused about the situation again.
If Zhang Nanyang is the murderer, the village chief should protect him instead of pushing him into the fire pit. Now the village chief's remarks have made Zhang Nanyang's situation very bad. This means that the villagers do not know who is the murderer of Liu Cuilan.
, or is there some other secret?
There is another crucial point.
In their speeches, Zhang Nanyang and the village chief had conflicts about the time and location of Wang Shiren's search that day.
One said that Wang Shiren went up the mountain around eleven o'clock that day, and the other said that Wang Shiren did not go up the mountain that day.
"Village Chief." Someone outside was looking for the village chief.
The village chief heard the sound and put on his shoes and went outside.
Chen Chunsheng sat on the kang and glanced outside from the window. While grabbing some food, he said, "Uncle Sun is here."
"Oh." Zhang Yichi pretended not to care, but in his heart he was thinking about why Uncle Sun came.
Could it be that the little boy told Uncle Sun what happened to him?
Zhang Yichi felt that the little boy would not be able to tell, but Zhang Nanyang, who went back with the little boy, could not tell. When the group parted, Zhang Nanyang said that he would help the boy bring the firewood back, but he could not tell.
Plot.
The village chief came back after more than ten minutes. When he came back, he was holding a cigarette and glanced at Zhang Yichi sitting on the kang.
"Chunsheng, go help your uncle Shimin, they are busy with funeral arrangements." The village chief obviously wanted to send Chen Chunsheng away.
"Then I'll go back by the way." Zhang Yichi didn't plan to stay at the village committee any longer.
"Officer Zhang, let's talk about the case again, I still have some ideas." The village chief wanted to keep Zhang Yichi.
Zhang Yichi couldn't guess what the village chief had planned, so he decided to stay and see the situation.
After Chen Chunsheng left, the village chief frowned and lit another cigarette: "Officer Zhang, who do you suspect is the murderer now? Shimin? Shiren? Or who?"
"Until there is conclusive evidence, I doubt everyone." Zhang Yichi gave an ambiguous reply.
The village chief took a deep breath from his cigarette, surrounded by smoke: "I don't think the murderer can be found, or you won't pursue it, Officer Zhang. I'll ask someone to send you back after this, so you can tell the leaders what's going on."
.Otherwise, it will be in vain to trouble the murderer."
"It doesn't matter, we still have to look for it." Zhang Yichi was already sure that the village chief knew who the murderer was.
From this point of view, the murderer should not be Zhang Nanyang, otherwise the village chief would not have told Zhang Nanyang an unfavorable confession while making Zhang Yichi's big problem become a trivial matter.
The village chief stopped talking and smoked silently.
With the extra gains, Zhang Yichi does not intend to stay longer: "If there is nothing else, I will leave first."
The village chief still didn't speak, so Zhang Yichi stood up and prepared to leave.
When he just walked to the door and pushed it open, he suddenly felt a strange feeling in his lower back, followed by severe pain and weakness all over his body!
When Zhang Yichi collapsed, he looked back and saw the village chief holding a knife stained with red blood, holding a cigarette in his mouth and frowning at him.