Chapter 39 [Mouse again, human smell]

Since we are here to investigate a case, we can't just stay at the door.

But because Zhang Jingxu had been looking at the plaque, the government officials did not dare to remind them. Instead, they dispersed and surveyed around the courtyard wall of the house.

After a while, they gathered again. Li San approached Zhang Jingxu and reported in a low voice: "The front and back walls are all normal, and there are no signs of climbing. The roots and surfaces of her walls are all covered with moss. If someone climbs

Climbing will inevitably leave some footprints..."

He paused for a moment, then continued his report: "No matter how nimble the snitch is, he can't leave no trace."

Zhang Jingxu nodded and said with deep meaning: "So what you are saying is that we can exclude outsiders from entering for the time being, right?"

Li San hesitated for a moment and whispered: "This is not certain yet. We need to go into her home and have a look..."

Zhang Jingxu nodded again, looked at the woman, and said, "Can you open the courtyard door? We want to go in and check."

The woman nodded quickly and said eagerly: "Yes, yes, you must go and have a look. The civilian woman will call the door now, the civilian woman will call the door now..."

Zhang Jingxu was startled by these words and asked in astonishment: "You want to call the door? Isn't this your home? Why do you want to call the door? Can't you open it yourself?"

The women's faces were full of sorrow.

He had a serious face and a vague look of confusion in his eyes. He was twitching his nose as if to establish his confidence.

Zhang Jingxu sighed and said: "Perhaps it is because of the tragedy that the old man has experienced that he has developed such a weird character. It is a coincidence that this arrester just happened to have witnessed such a situation. In the county jail

The cell leader also has a very weird personality..."

Was bitten by something!

There are many bloody holes in the thighs and calves...

What you see is all wood. Some of the wood has been sawn and made into semi-finished boards, and some of it is neatly stacked, obviously reserved wood.

The woman was still wiping tears from her eyes, but her face was dazed, and she murmured: "Maybe, probably, a common girl will suffer for the rest of her life with such a father-in-law."

The woman looked sad and sobbed sadly: "Yes, my father-in-law was injured. I don't know what he was bitten by. There are many bloody holes in his thighs and calves. Mr. Head Catcher, please tell me, can he go away in this condition?"

Looking for a child?”

Do you really need to suffer poverty to have this ability?

But there was a vague idea in my mind, and this idea was a bit strange: if I insist on doing it all the time, maybe it's not that I'm insisting on doing it, but that I'm willing to do it, or I have to do it for some reason.

It was so weird that he couldn't wait any longer. Zhang Jingxu turned his eyes slightly and glanced at Li San.

…

Children are their heaven.

"It's very strong, very strong, and I'm very familiar with it. It's a very familiar smell of rat."

"Is it because your father-in-law is not willing to spend money to repair it, or because you and your husband-in-law are not willing to spend money to repair it..."

…

In addition to the wood and boards, there are also several coffins parked in the small courtyard, but they are all unfinished semi-finished products, so it is not clear what level they are.

The woman wiped her tears and sobbed: "But although I stopped my father-in-law, I couldn't find Niuniu..."

Then, as if to prove himself, he started to twitch his nose again.

But when Zhang Jingxu looked across the small courtyard and towards the woodshed of the main hall of the family, she discovered that there were coffins placed in each room, and these coffins were all completed products.

Zhang Jingxu's heart moved again, and she keenly captured a few words.

As he spoke, he glanced at the woman and said, "Your baby is missing, which is a disaster. However, your father-in-law is injured and his legs and feet must be inoperable. If he goes out to look for the baby, he might fall.

Old people have brittle bones and a fall can easily cause serious trouble."

The door is bolted, but no one is there. Could it be that this old man is a master who once practiced his skills in the army, so he can fly over the wall and jump out of the wall without using the door?

The government officials all felt inexplicably strange.

He asked four questions in a row, and the woman's eyes suddenly turned red, as if she had been greatly wronged, and she even started to sob.

You have to shout when you enter the door..."

"Everywhere in this house smells like mice."

"It's strange that your father-in-law is hiding at home with the door bolted. This makes me think that he doesn't care about the child at all."

"Not long ago, my nephew just smelled it, but that place was the prison of our county government."

There was no one in the main hall.

I saw his eyes staring straight at the main room, with a hint of fear in his confused eyes. He first took a deep breath, and then hid next to Zhang Jingxu.

Zhang Jingxu sighed and said: "That's it."

Li San understood immediately, climbed up the courtyard wall twice, jumped into the courtyard, and opened the door directly from the inside.

Li San scratched his forehead while reporting. Although he was sure that there was nothing wrong with his nose, he became less confident after he was convinced.

Zhang Jingxu answered: "He doesn't listen to your persuasion at all, right?"

He seemed to be teasing Li San, but also seemed to mean something. He said with a deep look: "There are many rats in the world. They run around in the dark and come back and forth to burrow into any place. So even if you feel familiar,

, it’s not a strange thing…”

When a mother loses her child, the panic and urgency in her heart are beyond words.

Li San stood aside and observed the words. At this time, he had vaguely figured out Zhang Jingxu's intention, and quickly cooperated: "It's a coincidence, it's really a coincidence. Then Sun Dashan is a retired soldier, and your father-in-law is also a retired soldier. Could it be that this retired soldier?"

The old soldiers have very strange temperaments. Could it be that the brutality of that war frightened them?"

Zhang Jingxu kept speculating in her mind, but her expression showed no abnormality at all. Instead, she nodded slowly and said deliberately: "After hearing your explanation, I really shouldn't let him go."

The woman was stunned for a moment, but the government servants rushed in. Some rushed to the main hall, and some rushed to the side house and woodshed. In the blink of an eye, they started searching every corner.

On the other hand, Zhang Jingxu didn't feel any weird, she just let out a slight breath.

The boy first gave Zhang Jingxu a look, suggesting that Zhang Jingxu go to a quiet place to talk. After Zhang Jingxu followed him to the corner, the boy actually made a strange move.

The woman banged on the door and kept shouting to her father-in-law to open the door quickly. However, after a long time, there was no movement in the yard.

Very weird!

It shouldn’t be!

Ordinarily, with such a loud banging on the door, the door should have been opened long ago.

After a pause, he said in a warm voice: "Stop crying, please open the door. The government officials have just checked around the yard, and now they need to go to the house where Niuniu was lost."

The only abnormal thing is that the father-in-law is not at home.

But this guess was so bizarre that Zhang Jingxu herself felt baffled.

After a pause, he added miserably: "But my father-in-law has no other way to make money except this craft, so even if he makes little money making coffins, he can only keep doing it."

This made the woman even more panicked, thinking that something had happened to her father-in-law who was staying at home. She suddenly turned pale and banged on the door harder.

At this moment, the government officials had searched everywhere and gathered around to report the situation.

but……

The woman was startled at first, and then said with a bitter look on her face: "Master Catcher, you are an official, so you don't know how difficult it is to work in a lowly profession. This business is not profitable at all, and it is not even as good as a common woman washing clothes for others."

Earn a lot."

Finally, the boy lowered his voice, but his tone was inexplicably doubtful, and said: "Uncle Zhang, it's so strange. You may not believe it, but I smell something..."

Zhang Jingxu couldn't help but sigh again when she heard her plaintive tone.

However, another half time passed, and there was still no response inside...

Even the bed where the civilian women lived was opened and searched by the government officials. Nothing was found. Everything was normal.

His heart moved slightly, and he turned to look at the woman who was about to run into the house, pretending to be curious: "With all the coffins in your home, someone must have ordered them, right?"

"So if you persuade him to stop him, you can be praised as a filial piety."

Zhang Jingxu deliberately pretended to sneer and said: "Since you love your children, why are you indifferent? Shouldn't you get angry and run around looking for your children? Hiding at home with the door bolted, I think he doesn't care at all..."

Zhang Jingxu's heart was moved, but he pretended to be curious on his face. He deliberately raised his eyes to look at the plaque and asked meaningfully: "I saw a sign for a coffin shop hanging at the door of your house. I can generally infer that your family is running this business.

Since you are doing business, you should open the door to welcome customers. If the door is bolted from the inside every day, it will be difficult for your business to prosper, right?"

However, he continued to stare at the plaque and said deliberately: "No matter how weird your personality is, even if you are really frightened by the battlefield, your father-in-law is not worried at all if your baby is lost at home? A grandfather in this world,

Normally, we should kiss each other in the next generation."

But the next moment, the boy's expression changed.

Li San quietly approached Zhang Jingxu.

All mothers in the world are the same.

Moreover, the old man who was doing carpentry work at home and making coffins was not a hunter who had to face wild beasts when hunting in the mountains. Why was the injury caused by being bitten by something, and the bite on his thigh and calf were bloody?

"No, no, no, no!"

Zhang Jingxu's heart moved, but she pretended to be curious on her face and asked: "He was injured just now?"
To be continued...