The War of Resistance - #1249 - Chapter 1241: Homicide in wartime (3)

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

Of course it was because Shang Zhen was staring at the dead man.

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

But only Shang Zhen himself knew that he was fine in terms of fighting, but if he was to solve the murder case, it would be the first time a big girl got on the sedan chair.

He didn’t expect himself to be able to solve the case, he just did his best.

Now all he can see is that Liu Neng’s head was cut off by a sharp weapon, and the neat cut made him think of the Japanese Japanese sword.

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

But no matter how good a knife is, it doesn’t matter what kind of hands it is used in. It is absolutely 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 also like the sword used by Chinese Lianjiazi.

Chinese swords are not the kind of thick cross swords used by Westerners. In fact, Westerners use swords to chop by being thick enough and hard enough. That means the blade is long, and its function is actually the same as that of a chopping axe. reason.

The swords used by the Chinese are relatively “soft” to the extent that when the sword is swung, the blade will shake wildly.

But this does not mean that the lethality of Chinese swords is weak. A master swordsman can also cut down a small tree with a sword that is as thick as a bowl. As for whether it can cut off a human neck, Shang Zhen does not know.

About the “sword” he also heard Li Qingfeng and the old man mention it. As for the more profound truth, Shang Zhen couldn’t understand it either.

Now Shang Zhen can only infer this from looking at the section of the neck, so what can be deduced from this clue? That’s enough, let’s ask the people around Liu Neng what else they know.

Shang Zhen stood up and began to ask about other situations.

And then, 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 accidentally stepped on Liu Neng’s body when he got up to urinate in the middle of the night, causing Liu Neng to groan.

Although Liu Neng’s house was not burned down, the roof did not fall off, and the house was also on fire. Their family did not live in the house full of soot, but lived in the yard.

And it’s normal for a child as old as Liu Neng’s son to sleep obsessively in the middle of the night to get up and pee on his own father.

It’s early summer now, and it was early in the day, but at dawn, their family members discovered that Liu Neng’s body was already in a different place.

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

According to Liu Neng’s daughter-in-law, the door was closed inside before dark.

Shang Zhen also took a closer look at the door where a stick was inserted. It was made of hard miscellaneous wood, and the top was intact, without the marks of being stabbed by a knife.

The reason why he wanted to look at it this way was because he was wondering if someone had inserted a knife through the crack of the door and stabbed the stick on that day to move the stick away little by little.

Moreover, Liu Neng’s wife also said that she inserted the stick in the door herself, and she remembers it very clearly.

Shang Zhen asked again, could it be that his child opened the door to pee when he was 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 that no outsiders would be left with the fertile water.

After ruling out the possibility that the murderer came in through the door, Shang Zhen looked at Liu Neng’s courtyard again, and had a new strange feeling.

If you say that this is a mountain village, and there are no high-ranking families, but Liu Neng tidyed up the walls of his house, 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 I find bricks in such a mountain village? The houses were all stone or adobe.

So, the courtyard walls of Liu Neng’s house are not made of masonry or adobe, so what is it? That’s a row of willow branches as tall as a person!

And the wicker is still alive, and then clamped together with branches horizontally. In the northeast, this kind of courtyard wall is called “banzhangzi”, but here it is called tree wall.

Can a person climb such a wall of trees? Of course it is possible to climb up, but the problem is that such a wall should not be able to hold a person’s weight.

The thickest kind of wicker is only as thick as a thumb. It is hard to imagine that a row or two rows of countless thumb-thick wickers can force a person weighing about 100 catties without being crushed. Then that person can still jump over the wall.

The willows are alive, it is already early summer, and there are already green willow leaves on them.

It’s just that some of the willow leaves have been scorched, and they didn’t catch fire after all, which is naturally the result of the Japanese army setting fire.

The wicker was alive and had water in it, presumably it was also the reason why the courtyard wall made of the tree in Liu Neng’s house was not seriously burned.

Shang Zhen carefully observed the tree wall again, but the rows of willows had been roasted by fire again, and many leaves had fallen to the ground, and he didn’t see why.

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

If I only weighed sixty or seventy catties, I could still try it out, but now this one hundred catties will collapse the tree wall of the family. The old men have just suffered a disaster. Who will do the work when the wall collapses?

Thinking about how the murderer got into Liu Neng’s house, Shang Zhen thought that the murderer was unlikely to be from the village. Is it possible for ordinary people to cut off a person’s neck with a knife? Then see how the murderer got into the village.

Shang Zhen left Liu Neng’s house and started wandering around the village.

But looking at the situation of this village, Shang Zhen was helpless again, it was too easy for outsiders to enter this village!

Because this village is in a mountain depression, the surrounding fields are not large, and there are woods and grasslands. There is neither a natural chasm nor the secret of the legendary Peach Blossom Spring.

Then the village is open, there is no wall at all, you can enter from any gap between two houses, then even if you know that the murderer came in from outside the village, how can you know which direction he came in from? ?

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

“Are there any dogs in the village?” Shang Zhen asked Xiao Jiu who was always by his side.

“No. UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com” Xiao Jiu replied, “So there was, but when there was a war, it was said that barking dogs would attract the Japanese, and everyone killed them.”

Shang Zhen frowned, but then raised his eyebrows and asked again: “Is there a big goose?”

There is a reason for Shang Zhen to ask this question. After all, as a rural person, he knows that dogs are not the only ones who can watch the house. Big geese are also allowed. When a big goose sees strangers entering the village, it will quack, and even Will peck at the bottom of a stranger’s pants.

It’s just that Xiao Jiu’s answer disappointed Shang Zhen again.

“When the Japanese didn’t come, there were still a few in the village, but when we come back this time, there will be none. They must have been captured by the Japanese.” Xiao Jiu replied again, and Shang Zhen appeared in front of him. The situation of the Japanese soldier carrying a big eight-type rifle and a big goose hanging from the hook at the handle of the bayonet.

What’s the matter, the Japanese devils have not been beaten away, and another murderer has come to join in the fun! Shang Zhen cursed in his heart.

But what if you scold again? Now that you’re here, you always want to feel at ease.

Shang Zhen and Xiao Jiu Shang Zhen went to get some food, he was going to keep vigil for the village.

It’s just that Shang Zhen didn’t have any hope for this kind of night watch. Of course, it was because he was the only soldier, so how should he guard? One person can’t take care of it at all!

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

However, Shang Zhen just swayed like this all night, but he didn’t encounter anything unusual.

But just as he was about to go to the melon shed at Xiaojiu’s house to sleep again, he heard Xiaojiu calling himself “hey” in the village.

And when Shang Zhen heard the sound and rushed to appear in front of Xiao Jiu, who was out of breath, he heard Xiao Jiu shout: “It’s not good! Liu Neng’s son died too, and he was beheaded by others, and he is still in his body.” In the courtyard of the house!”