It jumped back from the tree to the shoulder of its original owner, and skillfully handed Dong Rui a small bag:
I got all the candies back, leaving none for the little P kid.
Dong Rui put it into his arms unceremoniously.
He gave the monkey away on the spot. As for whether others could keep the ghost monkey, what did it have to do with him?
The cowshed is very close to the west gate of the village, and the thatched house is just next to the shed, which is only five square meters. You can smell the unique smell of the cattle pen without leaving the house.
This was originally a hay room, with only one more wooden door than the shack, and the walls made of nailed boards had air leakage on two sides.
There is a table here, which is broken but heavy, and two benches, but there is no bed.
For the mother and daughter, the thick haystack was their bed.
"It's such a big place, let's start looking for clues."
Dong Rui first found a long, sharp pitchfork behind a haystack. The fork tips were rusty. He looked at it carefully and saw that it seemed nothing special.
The ghost monkey jumped around and found several spider webs on the beams.
There were several broken pieces of pottery in the corner of the room, either pots or bowls.
"It's been a month. Even if there are any clues, they may have been covered up by Chenjiazhuang." Dong Rui muttered as he searched, "No matter how you ask, the Chen family chief said there was nothing unusual about the convoy entering and exiting Zhuangzi. It's so important.
Why didn't he mention the clues, but instead wanted to cover up the existence of the mother and daughter? He must know something. If you ask me, you might as well catch him and have a good interrogation."
As soon as he finished speaking, the telescope in He Lingchuan's arms shouted: "Look at the corner of the table!"
Table corner?
He Lingchuan turned around and walked out of the hay pile, squatted down and looked at the table.
The bare broken wooden table was in full view, and no one had the intention to take a second look at it.
But the soul-capturing mirror gave a definite answer: "Look carefully, there is a little black stain on the sharp corner of the table!"
Black stain? He Lingchuan saw it, it was indeed an inconspicuous little spot.
"This is blood."
Dong Rui also came over, took out the potion and dropped it on the corner of the table.
The corner of the table turned purple.
"Yes, it's blood, human blood."
Dong Rui thought thoughtfully: "If there is one on the corner of the table, then——"
He casually cleared away the hay under the corner of the table and dripped a dozen drops of potion on the floor.
As everyone watched, the ground slowly turned red.
"Someone hit the corner of the table hard and was injured, bleeding all over the floor." Dong Rui shook the medicine bottle in his hand, "As long as there is blood on it, even if it is cleaned up afterwards, I can use this medicine to develop the image.
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This guy is showing off again.
"With so much blood, this man is seriously injured." Lieutenant Li murmured, "Could it be that a monster attacked a living person here?"
He Lingchuan walked out of the hay room and asked Old Man Chen outside: "Has this door been replaced?"
"No, not really." Old Man Chen looked at it carefully and pointed, "It hasn't been replaced. There was a wooden scar on the door, and it's still there."
He Lingchuan immediately told the others: "That afternoon, the thatched house was locked. If the monster rushed in, the wooden door would not be intact."
Therefore, this bloody conflict occurred before the monster attacked Chenjiazhuang.
"None of the five people who died had serious external injuries. Except for Chen Fuang's hand, which had tooth marks, the blood belongs to other people." When County Lieutenant Li said this, he finally realized, "Ah, could it be the blood of the mother and daughter?"
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"These five people all returned home and died mysteriously at night." He Lingchuan further analyzed, "But Aunt Wu said that when she came to the hay room again later that afternoon, Ah Hui and her daughter had disappeared."
Fierce conflicts, bloodshed, mother and daughter missing.
Putting all these together, County Lieutenant Li understood: "These five people sent away the injured mother and daughter?"
"It seems like this." He Lingchuan pointed to the west, "This place is very close to the west gate of Zhuangzi. As long as they hide people in the forage truck, they can leave easily without attracting attention."
Dong Rui chuckled: "These are five murderers."
County Lieutenant Li was startled: "You, how did you know that the mother and daughter were dead?"
"If they were only injured, why weren't they treated in Chenjiazhuang? Instead, they were sent out?"
"Uh, maybe the injury is too serious. Let's go out and find a doctor?"
"There are no people inhabited for many miles around. How long will it take for them to go to the nearest Liu County to find a doctor? Don't forget, these five people went home for dinner before evening." Dong Rui rubbed his hands, "So in the end
What may have happened is that they quietly dumped the body in the countryside and then returned to Chenjiazhuang."
"Oh -" Lieutenant Li finally figured it out, but then he thought again, "But, how does this relate to the more than 100 murder cases we investigated?"
"The little girl kept saying that the monster was coming, but no one believed it, but the monster really came."
"Five Chen Fuang killed the mother and daughter and dumped their bodies in the wild. As a result, the monster attacked Chenjiazhuang that night."
Dong Rui counted on his fingers and told him: "This is the correlation."
"Then what should we do now?" Lieutenant Li scratched his head, "Find the bodies of the mother and daughter?"
"Yes." He Lingchuan was experienced. "To the west of here, are there any mountain streams or cliffs that can be reached by carriages and horses?"
"have."
"That's an excellent place to dump the body." He Lingchuan pointed out to him, "If you can't find it, go to the dense forest within seven miles to the west of Zhuangzi and have a look. Avoid places frequented by locals, and avoid this place in Zhuangzi.
Water source.”
What he didn't say was that the latter method would be difficult to find, and the five grown men had the strength to dig the ground and bury the body.
"Ah yes." Lieutenant Li quickly responded, "We will arrange it at dawn!"
"Based on the current clues, it is inferred that there is something on the mother and daughter that attracts those monsters." He Lingchuan pondered, "They were no longer in Chenjiazhuang that afternoon, and the monsters still rushed here. In other words-"
"That thing was still here that day, at least until the monsters arrived." Dong Rui understood, "No wonder they went on a killing spree to the west of Zhuangzi. What should we do now? Search the belongings of these poor bachelors again.
Home?"
"No need." He Lingchuan waved his hand, "They died the most peaceful death. Obviously these monsters who eat people alive didn't come after them."
"Aren't you here for them?" Yes, the person named He is still careful.
"It's not for them. So even if this thing really exists, it's not in the hands of these five people." He Lingchuan turned his shoulders and made a few clicks. "That's it for tonight. Let's go back and rest."
The three of them walked towards the yard assigned to them by the head of the Chen family. Lieutenant Li dismissed the old man Chen who was following him like a follower, and then whispered: "Master He, look, why did Chen Ling hide the existence of this mother and daughter?
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Chen Ling is the head of the Chen family and the person in charge of Chenjiazhuang.
It was clear that the official investigation could avoid detours, but Chen Ling insisted on concealing it.
Is there any reason that is more important than the dozens of lives of my own family?