Chapter 1248 Murder During the War (3)

All the villagers looked at Shang Zhen, and when they followed Shang Zhen's gaze, they quickly looked away.

That was of course because Shang Zhen was staring at the dead man.

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

But only Shang Zhen himself knew that it was okay for him to fight a war, but if he solved the murder case, it would be the first time that a big girl got into the sedan chair.

He didn't expect to be able to solve this case, he just tried his best.

All he could see now was that Liu Neng had his head chopped off with a sharp weapon. The neat cuts reminded him of the Japanese sword.

It is undeniable that the steel mouth of the Japanese swords is very good and sharp, but the swords are not like the large blades used by Chinese soldiers, but the blades are very narrow.

But no matter how good the knife is, it depends on what kind of person it is used in. It is impossible for such a narrow knife to cut off a person's neck in the hands of ordinary people.

As far as Shang Zhen knows, this situation is similar to the sword used by Chinese practitioners.

Chinese swords are not the thick cross swords used by Westerners. In fact, Westerners use swords that are thick and hard enough for chopping. That means the sword has a long blade. In terms of function, it is the same as a chopping axe. reason.

The swords used by the Chinese are relatively "soft" and so soft that when the sword is danced, the blade will shake around.

But this does not mean that the lethality of the Chinese sword is weak. Sword masters can also use the sword to cut down small trees as thick as a bowl. As for whether it can cut off a person's neck, Shang Zhen is not sure.

Regarding "sword", he also heard it mentioned by Qingfeng Li and Big Boss. As for the more profound truth, Shang Zhen didn't understand it either.

Now this is all Shang Zhen can infer from looking at the cross section of the neck. What can be inferred from this clue? Okay, let’s ask the people around Liu Neng what else they know.

Shang Zhen stood up and started asking about other things.

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

The reason was that Liu Neng's ten-year-old son got up to urinate in the middle of the night and accidentally stepped on Liu Neng's body, causing Liu Neng to step on him with an "ouch" sound.

Although the Liu Neng family's house was not burned down, the roof did not fall down, and the house was also burned. Their family did not live in the soot-filled house, but in the yard.

And it is normal for a child as old as Liu Neng's son to wake up in a daze in the middle of the night and pee and step on his father's body.

It was already early summer, and it was getting bright early. But at dawn, their family discovered that Liu Neng's head was missing.

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

According to Liu Neng's wife, the door of their house was bolted inside before dark.

Shang Zhen also took a closer look at the door stick. It was made of hard wood and was intact. There were no marks like being stabbed by a knife.

The reason why he looked at it this way was because he was thinking that someone might be outside using a knife to insert a knife through the crack in the door and pierce the stick on that day and move the stick away bit by bit.

Moreover, Liu Neng's wife also said that she had inserted the stick in the door herself, and she remembered it clearly.

Shang Zhen asked again if his child had opened the door to pee after being discharged from the hospital.

And the answer he got was still impossible, just because his hut was at the corner of the yard, which meant leaving no room for outsiders.

After ruling out the possibility that the murderer came in through the door, Shang Zhen looked at Liu Neng's yard again, and found something new and strange.

This was a mountain village, and there were no wealthy families, but Liu Neng had tidied up the courtyard walls of his home. Shang Zhen was surprised, how did the murderer get in?

It's not that Liu Neng's family built a brick wall two or three people high. Where can you find bricks in a mountain village like this? The houses are all made of stone or adobe.

So, the courtyard wall of Liu Neng’s house is not made of bricks or adobe, so what is it? That's made of rows of wicker as tall as one person!

Moreover, the willows are still alive, and then they are clamped together with branches. In the Northeast, this kind of courtyard wall is called "banzhangzi", but here it is called a tree wall.

Can a person climb such a tree wall? Of course it is possible to climb up, but the problem is that such a wall should not be able to bear a person's weight.

The thickest wicker sticks are only as thick as a thumb. It is hard to imagine that countless thumb-thick wicker sticks arranged in one or two rows can forcefully lift a person weighing more than 100 kilograms without being crushed. Then that person can still cross the wall.

The willow branches are all alive, it's early summer, and there are already green willow leaves on them.

It's just that some of the willow leaves have been scorched and have not burned after all. This is naturally the result of the Japanese army setting fire.

The wicker was alive and contained moisture, which was probably the reason why Liu Neng's courtyard wall made of trees was not severely burned.

Shang Zhen carefully observed the tree wall again, but the rows of willow branches had been roasted by the fire, and many leaves had fallen to the ground. He did not see why.

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

If I only weighed 60 or 70 kilograms, I could still give it a try, but now this 100 kilograms has crushed someone else's tree wall. They have just suffered a misfortune. Who will do the work if the wall collapses?

Unable to figure out how the murderer got into Liu Neng's house, Shang Zhen thought that the murderer was unlikely to be someone from the village. Is that what ordinary people can do by cutting off a person's neck with a knife? Then 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 felt helpless. It would be too easy for outsiders to enter this village!

Because this village is in a mountain valley, the surrounding fields are not large, as well as woods and grasslands. There are no natural chasms or the secrets of the legendary Peach Blossom Land.

Then the village is open, there are no walls at all, and you can come in through the gap between any two houses. Then even if you know that the murderer came in from outside the village, how can you possibly know which direction the other person came in from? ?

There is no road to the village, but there are roads everywhere. If Shang Zhen looks at it from the perspective of a soldier's defense, where is the position? This is a sieve with big holes and leaky eyes!

"Are there any dogs in the village?" Shang Zhen asked Xiao Jiu, who had been following him.

"No." Xiaojiu replied, "It turns out there is, but when there was a war, it was said that barking dogs would attract the Japanese, so every family was killed."

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

It makes sense for Shang Zhen to ask this. After all, as a rural person, we all know that not only dogs can look after the house, but also geese. The geese will also quack when strangers enter the village, and they will even bark. Will peck the pants of strangers.

But Xiaojiu's answer disappointed Shang Zhen again.

"When the Japanese didn't come, there were still a few in the village, but when we came back this time, they were gone. They must have been captured by the Japanese." Xiaojiu answered again, and Shang Zhen appeared in front of his eyes. The scene of a Japanese soldier carrying a Type-8 rifle with a big goose hanging on the hook on the bayonet handle.

What the heck, the Japs haven't been beaten away yet, and another murderer has come to join in the fun! Shang Zhen cursed in his heart.

But what if I scold you again? Now that I'm here, I always want to have peace of mind.

Shang Zhen went with Xiao Jiu to get some food. He planned to keep vigil for the village.

But Shang Zhen didn't have much hope for this kind of night vigil, of course because he was the only soldier, so how should he keep watch? You can't take care of it alone!

In the end, Shang Zhen could only choose a few roads into the village and turned himself into a wandering sentry.

However, Shang Zhen wandered around like this all night, but he didn't encounter anything unusual.

But just when he was about to go to Xiaojiu's melon shed to sleep again, he heard Xiaojiu calling him "Hey" in the village.

And when Shang Zhen rushed over after hearing the sound and appeared in front of the panting Xiao Jiu, he heard Xiao Jiu shout: "No! Liu Neng's son is also dead. He was also beheaded, and he is still there." In the yard of the house!”