Chapter 28 Chapter Twenty-Seven

I yelled to go back to Manlong Village, nearly an hour had passed, something might have happened to the people in the village, let’s forget about these stolen goods and bandits.Liao Er didn't know why, so he asked me why I was so flustered all of a sudden, and he also said that the people in the village were just unconscious, and there was nothing serious about it.Wild beasts will not enter the village, after all, there are lights, and over the years, wild beasts have also formed a conditioned reflex, and will not rush into the village to eat people.I didn't bother to explain, the matter was too complicated, and I couldn't explain it all at once, so no matter whether Liao's second child came or not, I turned around and ran out of the forest with Li Xiuzhu on my back.

Zhao Shuai picked up Xiao Hei on his back and chased after him, leaving everything around him aside.I knew that Zhao Shuai would follow. Although he also likes money, he likes women more.Moreover, Zhao Shuai was a rich man before, and he didn't particularly care about money. This time he came to Yunnan just to make his father happy.Liao Lao Er didn't want to follow, but he didn't want to stay with the bandits. If the bandits regained their strength, he would die a miserable death. Therefore, the four of us stumbled back to Manlong Village. After turning into the village from behind Li's house, I asked everyone to enter the house to see if other people were still in the house.Sure enough, as I expected, all the sleeping people in the house disappeared, and more than forty people in the whole village were no longer in their houses.Zhao Shuai asked me what I found, where did all these people go, were they unconscious, or were they all pretending.

"They must be nearby, let's look for it again." I was flustered, prayed for everyone's well-being, and then hid Li Xiuzhu in a corner of Li's house to prevent her from being violated by others. Fortunately, Manlong Village is not big, we soon found a small hill at the gate of the village, and that hill is the people of the whole village.They were piled together at this moment, without any response, like a mountain of corpses.In the dark night, when we saw this mountain of people standing at the gate of the village, we felt trembling in our hearts, as if we had traveled to the battlefield.Zhao Shuai exhausted all his strength, and after putting Xiao Hei down, he asked me what was going on, why these people piled up together.Liao Er was also very scared. He sensed the danger and kept persuading me to leave quickly. If he didn't leave, he would leave by himself.

At this time, a black shadow came out from behind the mountain of people. We all held our breaths, knowing that the black shadow was the real culprit behind the scenes.Because they were a little far away, they couldn't see the black shadow's face clearly. Both Liao Erer and Zhao Shuai couldn't help but guess who that person was.I have always thought that this person is not a murderer and would not do such immoral things. Who knows that the most unlikely person is the most likely person.If it weren't for Xiao Hei's nagging in the ancient tea forest, I would never have thought of this person, but unfortunately things backfired, this person disappointed me so much.

I let out a long sigh, and then said to Heiying, "I really never thought that the murderer who killed the old man Hu Jie would be you——Wang Junqiang—Old Wang!" At this time, a gap appeared in the thick black clouds, a beam of cold moonlight streamed down, and the black shadow's face became faintly visible. He really was the driver of Manlong Village—Old Wang!Lao Wang's usual cheerfulness is gone forever, with a sinister smile on his face, ecstatic.We kept a distance from Lao Wang. Liao Laoer and Zhao Shuai were surprised to find that it was Lao Wang, and Xiao Hei couldn't believe his eyes, thinking that everyone was acting.

Old Wang stood straight and asked me loudly, "How do you know that I killed old man Hu?" "Because only you can do it in Manlong Village - hang Hu Jie's body on the gate of the village." I replied calmly, but I was nervously looking for an opportunity to turn the situation around. "Let's listen to it." Lao Wang threw out a sentence, not believing that someone would see through his trick. I closed my eyes, reluctant to say what was on my mind, but it was the truth and there was no getting around it.Both Liao Er and Zhao Shuai looked at me, but Xiao Hei was unable to speak, and also unable to raise his head to look at me.I ignored their gazes, paused for a while, sorted out my confused thoughts, then met Lao Wang's gaze, and finally told the secret I discovered.

"There are tea growers in the village, and the houses are all low-rise. There is no need for ladders. Even if there is a ladder, it is impossible to hang Hu Jie's body on the gate of the village, because the gate of the village is more than four meters above the ground. Likewise, you can’t fail to build a ladder overnight, and it’s hard to hide a ladder if you do,” I said. "Then how do you think I got it up?" Old Wang asked. "Should I tie a rope around the corpse's neck, then throw the other end of the rope across the gate, and then hang the corpse on a pulley? In this way, there is no need to touch the gate or step on the new shop. There will be no traces left on the cement road, will it?" Zhao Shuai guessed.

"If that's the case, then why did he tie the other end of the rope to the beam of the gate? You also saw that one end of the rope was on the neck of the corpse, and the other end was on the beam. Unless the murderer can get the beam, Otherwise, the pulley principle you mentioned would not be possible." I denied it. "Then tell me, how did you do it?" Zhao Shuai was puzzled. Lao Wang also provocatively said: "Yes, tell me." I opened my closed eyes and replied: "The reason why you can do it is because you stepped on something, so you can get the beam more than four meters above the ground."

"But, didn't you say that there is no such tall thing in the village, not even a ladder." Liao Er was also confused. "No, there is one thing that can get the beam!" I replied, "You have seen that thing, it is Lao Wang's tractor!" "Tractor?" Zhao Shuai and Liao Lao Er didn't believe it. They said, "The tractor is not so high. Even if you step on the front of the truck, it can only reach three meters, and you can't tie the rope tightly to the beam." "Yes, if I pile things on it to increase the height, then the tractor will always be pressed against the concrete road?" Old Wang asked me standing beside the mountain of people.

"Yeah, you can't just pile things up on a tractor and ride them up because it's going to leave marks on the ground," I agreed. "Then you admit that you were wrong?" Old Wang laughed. "No, that's right." I corrected, "But all tractors, or trucks, they have a function - when unloading, the box loaded at the back will stand upright, even higher than the height of the front of the car. When you step on the crate, it is easy to tie the rope on the beam. And the rear wheels of the tractor are not at the rear of the car, but in the middle of the crate, so there is no need for the wheels to be pressed on the new On the paved concrete road, it is pressed not far from the cement road!"

I didn't give any chance, and kept talking: "Actually, I have thought of this method a long time ago. When I found the old man Hu Jie's body, the first thing I said was to ask Xiao Hei to call you. I thought you were The murderer, but blinded by emotion, would rather believe that someone drove your tractor to the gate of the village, and then hung up old man Hu Jie. However, Xiao Hei just said that no one in the village can drive, except you ——Old Wang! That’s why I thought that only you can do it, which means you are the murderer!” Lao Wang clapped his hands and praised: "I didn't expect that, Xiao Lu, you are really smart. I thought you did it perfectly, and no one knew." I couldn't be happier at all: "I also know that you are the one who tried to kill Zhao Shuai twice, and if my guess is correct, you are the one who killed Mother Li!" "You are not simple, you can even guess these things." Lao Wang was very surprised. I said coldly: "I really didn't expect it at the beginning, because Zhao Shuai is new to the road, it is impossible to forge such a big hatred with others, and to kill him. The only possibility is that Zhao Shuai accidentally found out the murderer. clues, or saw evidence that could easily destroy the murderer's plan. But Zhao Shuai was with me all the time, and if he wanted to kill people, he should kill me too. I'm in this together, we were apart once!" "When did we separate?" Zhao Shuai asked in surprise, "Why don't I remember?" "Haven't you forgotten that after we found Li's mother's body, we lived in Lao Wang's house. At first we slept separately, and you lived in another room." I reminded, "You told me then, Lao Wang Said that it was his son's room, and you were not allowed to live in it, but the clothes that Lao Wang wore that day were lost on the bed, and you complained about it. But what you saw in that room is the most critical clue! " "What clue, why don't I know?" Zhao Shuai still didn't understand. "This has to do with the painting of spells and totems on Li's mother's body." I said, "Think about it, why do you have to paint on the body after killing someone? It's really the murderer's pursuit of art. Of course not. The so-called painted skin is just to cover up the place of Li's mother's death, and Li's mother was definitely not killed in Manlong Village, she was killed by Lao Wang in the city!" "Didn't Mother Li be killed by Father Li?" Liao Er was also confused. "That's what everyone guessed based on their usual impressions of Mr. Li, and it's also Mrs. Li's fault." I sighed, "Do you ever remember that the Quartet Red Seal bandits were killed on the road, and anyone who was robbed by them is There will be a square red stamp on it! The first time we saw Lao Wang, he overturned his car on the road. The bus driver said that Lao Wang was very skilled and had never overturned the car. I also felt strange at the time, could it be true? Did the horse stumble? Now that I think about it, of course not, because Lao Wang and Li's mother had both been to the city. At that time, Lao Wang's car overturned not on the way to the city, but on the way back! Li's mother and Li Lao Father quarreled, and he probably ran away from home in a fit of anger, so the people in the village claimed that they had never seen Li's mother after the quarrel. Since they ran away from home, of course they would go quietly, otherwise it would be strange if Li's father didn't beat Li's mother to death. However, the old man Hu Jie must have seen Li's mother leaving on Lao Wang's tractor, so he thought that Lao Wang was the murderer. The old man Hu Jie tried to persuade Lao Wang, but he was killed instead." "How is it possible?" Zhao Shuai asked with wide-eyed eyes. "The evidence is that Lao Wang was robbed, so he was stamped with four red marks on his body, so his clothes were also stained with red marks. When you saw Lao Wang's clothes that day, he was worried that you would think of this clue, so I just want to kill you before the plan is implemented!" I nodded to Zhao Shuai, and continued, "Mother Li was also stamped with a red seal from all directions, because it can't be wiped off for a while, so Lao Wang is on Mother Li's body." There are messy things painted on the back of his body, trying to cover up that Li's mother had been to the city and was killed in the city." "Even so, why does Lao Wang hide the fact that he has been to the city? Is this important?" Zhao Shuai asked uneasily. I glanced at the silent Lao Wang and said, "Of course it is very important. Although I don't know why Lao Wang killed Li's mother and why he killed everyone, I know that the disaster that Mu Qingxiang has been talking about is What's going on. Because—Old Wang bought soil explosives from people in the city, and he wanted to blow up all the people in the village to pieces. Now there must be a lot of soil explosives hidden in the mountain of people, right, Lao Wang?" Old Wang sneered a few times: "That's right, that's right, you're almost right. Today, I want these people to die like my own sons, without a place to die!" After finishing his speech, Lao Wang took out a lighter from his pocket and lit it.Lao Wang looked up to the sky and laughed wildly, then bent over and grabbed the lead wire connected to the soil explosives.The soil explosives probably weighed tens of catties, and now they are all stuffed in the mountain of people, and the mountains of people suppress the soil explosives. , if an explosion occurs, the power will be doubled.When Lao Wang returned from the city that day, he probably hid Li's mother's body and explosives in the tea leaves, but unfortunately no one carefully checked what was hidden in the covered tea leaves.As for why Lao Wang didn't throw away Li's mother's body halfway, I don't know. The top priority now is to prevent Lao Wang from detonating the explosives, otherwise we will also be blown up. However, before we could dissuade him, Lao Wang ignited the fuse of the soil explosives, and the sparks danced with hissing sounds.