Chapter 26 third quarter

"Don't move! Be quiet!" He posted, wrapping his not-so-bulky arms around my neck, "You're so smart." "Li Yan! You...you...what are you doing!" Liu Guoxi exclaimed, "Let her go quickly." "Stop talking nonsense!" Li Yan snarled, "I've had enough of you self-righteous asshole scholar! You start the car for me immediately, or I will kill her!" "Brother, don't get excited." Qin Siwei took a step forward and said meaningfully, "If I were you, I wouldn't choose her as a hostage." "Back back! Back up!" Li Yan's arms became tighter.

Qin Siwei raised his hands: "Do you think this is okay? You let her go, and I swear to God that I won't make things difficult for you." "Don't fucking talk nonsense!" Li Yan pressed the knife to my face, "If you don't want her to die, get out of here!" "Siwei, back off." I lightly placed my hands on Li Yan's wrist and elbow joints. "Okay, okay." Qin Siwei sighed and took a few steps back, "Brother, don't blame me for not reminding you." Li Yan didn't understand what he meant, and seemed to be still proud of his bravery.Just when he thought everything was under control, I squeezed my hands hard.The sound of the knife falling to the ground and the piercing wailing sounded almost simultaneously.In the exclamation of everyone, Li Yan's body turned somersault in the air, and fell dully in the middle of the yard.

"Dare to use a knife with me!" I was so angry that I rode on his neck and punched him a few times.Qin Siwei decisively hugged me by the waist: "Calm down, calm down, if you hit me again, you will die, be good." I broke away from him and straightened my clothes: "This kid is lucky." "Okay, another name, get up." Qin Siwei picked up the screaming Li Yan, "I told you not to provoke her, why didn't you listen?" He asked Niu Fulai to find a rope and put Li Yan Yan bundled them up and pushed them into the main room. "I'm starving to death, hurry up and have a supper." I asked Niu Fulai, "Brother Fulai, are the noodles ready? I'm so hungry!"

Niu Fulai and his wife brought us a large bowl of hand-rolled noodles, as well as stew made of mutton and potatoes, which they called saozi.The noodles are very chewy and delicious, the dumplings are very salty, and there is a fishy smell of mutton.But when the stomach is growling with hunger, I can't take care of so much.But except for me and Qin Siwei, everyone else was holding their bowls in a daze. "Teacher Liu, take a bite." Qin Siwei persuaded Liu Guoxi, "Look, it's almost three o'clock, we probably won't be able to sleep this night, and we won't be able to survive without something to eat."

"I can't eat it." Liu Guoxi asked Li Yan who was curled up in the corner with grief, "Li Yan, why are you doing this?" Li Yan snorted and ignored him. Qin Siwei pulled the last bite of noodles into his mouth, left the bowl and chopsticks and strode to Li Yan, and asked sharply, "Where's the Jade Pig Dragon?" "In the shed in the backyard." Li Yan whispered, "I put it on my body to avoid being discovered by you. I hid it under a pile of waste wood in the corner, and planned to find a chance to take it away later." "Look at him, I'm going to look for Jade Pig Dragon in the backyard." Qin Siwei said to me, "If this kid is dishonest, don't be polite to him."

Li Yan glanced at me tremblingly, his head almost drooping to his chest. "Ying Yu, come and help me. Teacher Qian, take care of Teacher Liu." Qin Siwei borrowed an emergency light from Niu Fulai, and took Jiang Yingyu to dig the treasure. "Hey, I'm hungry too." Li Yan yelled at me, then quickly lowered her head. "Hungry?" I sneered, "Just bear with it. When you arrive at the detention center, there will be plenty of corn-bread pickles for you to eat." "I still don't understand." Qian Haowen muttered to himself, "He heard movement in the backyard, who could it be?"

"Why don't you understand! There is no one in the backyard, he just found an excuse to get out of Teacher Liu's sight, and then hid outside the door waiting for an opportunity to attack." I said, "But this kid is very dedicated, and he is not ambiguous in beating himself. So at the beginning, seeing that he was seriously injured, I really didn't suspect him, but the more I thought about it later, the more I felt that something was wrong." At this time, a shrill cry came from the backyard. The voice was trembling, full of fear and even despair, and it was particularly piercing in the quiet night.The neighbor's dog, probably startled by the shout, also barked.There was the sound of broken porcelain in the kitchen. Needless to say, it was the Fulai couple who were washing the dishes and chopsticks and broke the dishes in fright.I felt the hairs all over my body stand on end.Did something happen again?

"What... so what?" Qian Haowen and Liu Guoxi huddled together like two frightened sardines. "Stay here, don't go out." I grabbed the only available weapon in the house—a flashlight—and rushed out, just in time to bump into Jiang Yingyu who was rushing over. "Xiying, go and have a look." He grabbed my arm as if seeing a savior, "Something happened!" "What's wrong? Where's Qin Siwei?" My heart sank. "He was guarding the tool shed and asked me to call you." Jiang Yingyu swallowed, "Mr. Xie, Mr. Xie was killed! The body is in the shed in the backyard!"

"What!" Liu Guoxi seemed about to collapse.This night was too lively, weird things happened one after another, I felt like my head was getting bigger. Xie Ruhui's body was curled up in a corner of the tool shed, and there were boards and slats of various shapes scattered around the body.His face was contorted in pain, his eyes were wide open, and his mouth was gaping like a black hole, as if he was crying helplessly. Qin Siwei looked down at the hideous corpse: "As soon as we came in, we saw logs all over the ground. He was huddled on the ground—there was blood on his neck, and he was strangled to death. After searching on the mountain for most of the night, he turned out to be here. "

"Where's the Jade Pig Dragon?" "Here." Qin Siwei spread his palms, and the Jade Pig Dragon lay quietly on it, "It's just under the corpse. Li Yan!" "But why did he kill Xie Ruhui?" I was suspicious. "Let's ask him himself." Qin Siwei went to the front yard and carried Li Yan over. "Li Yan, what's going on?" I shook Xie Ruhui's body with a flashlight.Li Yan's face was pale, and he involuntarily took a few steps back, turning away from looking at the corpse, "I don't know, I, he...he wasn't here just now."

"Li Yan, the police haven't arrived yet, so it's still too late for you to tell the truth." Qin Siwei grabbed his shoulder, "Don't tell me that the corpse flew here by yourself." "I didn't do it! I didn't kill anyone!" Li Yan shouted in despair, "When I hid the Jade Pig Dragon, there were only logs here. I really didn't lie to you, really!" I knelt down and touched Xie Ruhui's body. He was killed about six to eight hours ago.Calculating it should be the time after dinner when everyone left the station.The body was very clean.If Li Yan hadn't lied, why would Xie Ruhui's body appear in the place where he hid the stolen goods?Who is the murderer?Why did he do this?This is really unreasonable. "What should I do now?" Qin Siwei asked me, "I just called, and the police are on the way, and they will arrive before four o'clock." "Four o'clock... there is still nearly an hour." I couldn't help yawning. "Brother, what's the matter?" Niu Fulai yelled outside the tool shed, startling us. "Why did you come here?" Qin Siwei walked out. "Let me see what happened." Niu Fulai whispered, "Do you want to inform the village chief?" "Not yet, he will be notified when the police arrive." "Let's go in too." I dragged Li Yan out and closed the door of the tool shed, "There's nothing to see here." "Brother Fulai, what time did you go out at night?" Qin Siwei asked. "It's a little past 7:30. You just left, and Mr. Liu and the others were about to go out. Old man Nie from the neighbor asked us two to go over and play cards." "Xie Ruhui was in the house at that time?" "Yeah, I greeted him and specifically told him that he is the only one at home and must close the gate of the courtyard." "Did the old man say he was going out?" "No wow. He was watching TV and said he was tired and wanted to lie down for a while. We packed up the kang in the Westinghouse for him and then went to the old Nie's house." "Westinghouse?" I yawned and said to Qin Siwei, "Go back to the main room first, and return the Jade Pig Dragon to Mr. Liu quickly, or he will go crazy. I'll go to Westinghouse to have a look." Westinghouse is only about ten square meters.The huge kang occupies half of the room, which seems to be the necessary bedding for local farmers.A small mottled wooden table and two chairs, plus a small long-standing cabinet are all the furniture. I turned on the dim lamp on the small table, dragged a squeaky chair and sat down.I don't really have much expectation of what to find here, just want to sit quietly for a while and sort out the mess in my mind. The kang was as clean as new. It seemed that Xie Ruhui had never really slept here, or it had been tidied up by the murderer.How did Xie Ruhui become the murderer's target?Where did the murderer hide the body after killing him?Since it was hidden, why did it move out again, and the place where the corpse was thrown happened to be the place where the Jade Pig Dragon was hidden?Everything that happened in this small courtyard seemed to be related to the ancient jade that had been sleeping for thousands of years.That being the case, why didn't the murderer take it away?There are too many problems for which no reasonable explanation can be found. No, I must have overlooked something.I closed my eyes and carefully recalled everything I heard and saw that night.Every person, every sentence, every inexplicable question, every possibility.Slowly, all the fragmented pieces began to gather, arrange, and combine.Could it be... is it him?It turns out that the crux of the matter is here.I can't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Should he be caught now, or should the police arrive?This is really a problem.While I was hesitating, there was a loud noise from the main room, as if someone was arguing.This group of big men is really worrying, so what's the matter?Let's go and have a look.I sighed, turned off the lamp, and left the deserted Westinghouse. As soon as he entered the main room, he saw Niu Fulai shouting angrily: "I am helping you with good intentions. You blame me! You are all good people in the city, and we are all thieves!" His wife Sitting on the corner of the kang, she was sobbing and wiping away tears. "Hey, brother Fulai, who are you angry with?" I asked Niu Fulai with a smile. "Sister, why do you suspect that we are murderers?" Niu Fulai stared at Qin Siwei. "Who doubts you? I just want to know your whereabouts between 7:30 and 9:30 tonight, that is, when Xie Ruhui disappeared. What are you excited about?" Qin Siwei said coldly, "It's not just you and your wife, Everyone else has to ask too." "Brother Fulai, this is a routine matter. According to the police, it is called an alibi. Siwei is not targeting you." I said to Niu Fu, "You and your sister-in-law went to the neighbor's house to play cards tonight, right?" "That's right, I told you guys earlier." Niu Fulai calmed down a bit, "We have been playing cards at the old Nie's house, and we didn't come back until half past nine. If you don't believe me, you can ask. When we came back, Teacher Liu, Qian The teacher, reporter Jiang and Li Yan are all at home." Qin Siwei hastily wrote Niu Fulai's statement on a piece of rough letter paper he found somewhere. "I... and Teacher Qian went to the ruins at seven o'clock." Jiang Yingyu was thinking, "I took pictures of the empty scene at dusk until around eight o'clock, when it was already dark. Later, Teacher Qian went back to the village to find Teacher Liu and the others. I went to the river to the east of the ruins to take some shots of night scenes, and I came back here around 9:30. At that time, everyone else came back.” "After Xiao Jiang and I broke up at the ruins, we went to Niu Cunwang's house in the east of the village to find Mr. Liu and the others." Qian Haowen said, "Because we were scheduled to visit Niu Cunwang and Nie Junpeng's family in the west of the village tonight. I dug out a few pieces of pottery when I was digging the well, and they took them away. When I arrived at Niu Cunwang’s house, I found that the house was dark and no one was there. I went to Nie Junpeng’s house, and met Teacher Liu on the way, and we came back together. .It was...about nine o'clock." "It was exactly nine o'clock when we entered the house." Liu Guoxi took the words, "It was half past seven when Li Yan and I went out. At that time, Fulai and Xiufeng hadn't gone out yet, and Lao Xie was also at home. Because the two families we were going to visit In the east of the village, the family is in the west of the village. In order to save time, Li Yan and I agreed to split up our actions—I went to Nie Junpeng’s house, and Li Yan went to Niu Cunwang’s. As a result, I went to Nie Junpeng’s house and found no one in his house, so I went to I searched in the fields beside the village, but couldn’t find it. Later, I heard from the nearby villagers that their family had gone away with relatives. They probably knew we were coming and hid. Then I came back, and I happened to meet Haowen on the way. .” "What about you?" Qin Siwei asked Li Yan who was squatting aside and almost forgotten. "After I broke up with Teacher Liu, I went to Niu Cunwang's house." Li Yan said listlessly, "There is no one in his house, so he probably hid himself. So I went to the ruins to find Teacher Qian and Reporter Jiang, but I couldn't find him." , and came back. When I entered the room, Teacher Liu and Teacher Qian had just entered the door not long ago." Qin Siwei wrote down what they said, bit his lip, looked at the time and place very seriously, and muttered something in his mouth. "Show me." I snatched the letter from his hand, "From the timetable, except for Fulai and his wife, almost everyone acted alone during the time when Xie Ruhui was killed. Therefore, no one Alibi." "The question is, why did the murderer kill Xie Ruhui?" Qin Siwei snatched the letter paper away again, read it carefully, and seemed to find something.He raised his head and cleared his throat, "From what we have so far, the murderer wanted to come in and steal the Jade Pig Dragon while no one else was at home, but his action alarmed Xie Ruhui who was resting in the Westinghouse. He was in a hurry. Then, the murderer strangled Xie Ruhui to death, hid the body, and left in a hurry." "In this case, why didn't he take the Jade Pig Dragon?" I asked. "First, the murderer didn't know where the Jade Pig Dragon was hiding, so Teacher Liu, Li Yan, and Teacher Qian could be ruled out; second, the murderer didn't have enough time to use. Niu Fulai and his wife who are playing cards in the neighbor’s house are the most suspicious. Because they can leave for a while with excuses such as going to the toilet in the middle of the game, but they can’t leave for too long.” "What about the motive?" "The Jade Pig Dragon is priceless, they don't want to just donate it like this, so they shot back." "You...have wronged a good man!" Niu Fulai said aggressively. "That sounds reasonable." I nodded, "But there are still a few questions. First, where did the murderer hide Xie Ruhui's body? Second, since he had already hidden the body, why did he move it out?" , moved to the tool shed in the backyard? Third, since his target was the Jade Pig Dragon, why didn't he take it away after moving the corpse?" "Well...let me think about it." Qin Siwei thought.The others all stared wide-eyed and held their breath, waiting for his wonderful answer. Shen Xiufeng cried even harder.I whispered a few words in her ear, she stopped crying, raised her tear-stained face, and looked at me in surprise.I smiled and patted her on the shoulder.She wiped the tears from her face, sobbing and walking towards the kitchen. "Where are you going?" Qin Siwei seemed nervous. "It's cold, I'll ask her to make some hot tea for everyone." I said nonchalantly, "Don't worry, she can't run away."