Chapter 41: Endless Darkness
Feng Zizhou was irrefutable, so he had to admit: "Well, this is really mine." But I—I didn't know at first that this case would be so complicated, and I thought it was an ordinary murder, and I thought I could handle it, so I hesitated for a moment not to alarm the two of them. Na Xia had said that there was something unusual about the blood stains on the corpse, so I ordered the corpse to be moved to the coroner's office for careful examination. But I never imagined it would be a fake show! ”
Nie Xiaoman didn't argue anymore, but nodded, and continued: "Because we didn't see the corpse, we thought that it was really Liu Hanfei who died, so our preliminary judgment was completely based on the false goal and groping in the dark. Hey, I've made a lot of mistakes myself! ”
Nie Xiaoman continued: "Looking back now, the situation when the murderer we discussed at the beginning of the game, the second time the dog barked, and the disappearance of the dog, no one in the house heard any sound of fighting, and the stone kick was used as a murder weapon, etc., according to common sense, I feel unreasonable. Supposedly, I should have turned back a long time ago. But as it happened, we found a paper cutter and a pair of women's footprints in the corpse room, plus Mrs. Xie told me about a woman in a fox fur and a tall man in a trolling sa to find Liu Hanfei, and the night before, Brother Su witnessed Han Fei falsely provoking Sima Yingyang in public, and Ah Si found that Yingyang was not in the bedroom. All this kind of physical evidence and deeds eventually misled me astray. Finally, all the forks in the road were gone, and I still wouldn't turn back, and the anonymous letter should have given me a reminder, but I insisted on going my own way and continued to make mistakes. ”
At this time, the snow dragged the gun and "meowed" softly, as if to comfort Xiaoman.
Xiao Man scratched the fluff on its head and said, "Because I have seen those half-understood manuscripts written by Han Fei, which are very similar to the apostrophes with a few words on the anonymous letter. But one is written in cursive characters, and the other is written in small letters, and the body of the book is different and deliberately disguised, so I didn't see it.
It wasn't until Sima Yingyang's repeated surprises when he read the anonymous letter that I finally began to reflect on my own thinking, and both of them believed that the murderer was also contrary to the facts, and finally Wang Zimeng's surrender made me turn around. ”
Jingmo said: "You mean ......?"
Nie Xiaoman said again: "Jingmo, isn't your height five feet six inches?" But I saw the height of the purple cloud, slightly past your shoulder, and the difference between it and yours was four or five inches. Since Han Fei is shorter than Zimeng, such a comparison, it can be seen that Han Fei's height will not exceed five feet at most. But Brother Feng Zizhou was clearly on the floor in the corpse chamber with a length of five feet and two inches. Isn't that a clear inconsistency? Because of this, I began to wake up to the fact that it was not Liu Hanfei who died, we were on the wrong path! I hurried to the coroner's office, only to find out that the man had frozen to death and then had his head shattered. Xia Yanzuo, who conducted the autopsy, was also very surprised at the time. ”
"Oh, is there anything else strange about the corpse?"
Xiao Man said: "He has verified that the deceased's hair has been recently cut, and it is cut unevenly; The blood on the corpse's face was also smeared separately, but it is not known whether it was human or animal blood. So I understood that Liu Hanfei himself was really not dead, but only borrowed the corpse of a beggar and killed a horn dog, exercising his cunning of Li Daitaozhuang! ”
"Hey! It's a shame that he can figure it out! Jing Mo couldn't help but interject.
"In the second step, I am ready to arrest Liu Hanfei and close this public case, so as to clear the grievances of the father and daughter and Wang Zimeng. It's a pity that I don't know where he is hiding, I have gone to the hotels to investigate, there is no news, because I can't imagine that he will pretend to be a woman, Jinling City is so big, I haven't found the Hengtong Inn yet. I interviewed Xie Jiaqiang again and asked Han Fei if he had any other relatives in Jinling, but I had no clue. ”
"So you made the news, but how did you do it?"
Xiao Man smiled, "It's not difficult, I didn't expect him to go far, so I arranged a small plan, I discussed it with the Lin Muke from the Criminal Department, and asked him to help create a little false information in the report." In this way, the information will naturally flow to the streets and alleys, after all, this is the first hot topic in Jinling City today, and then secretly contact the Yingyang father and daughter. I took the time to see the Zimeng brothers and sisters again and asked the truth about what had happened. At that time, the secret had been revealed, and they were all open and honest with me. ”
Xiao Man held the gun higher in the snow, and said: "Si Yingyang told me the handwriting of the anonymous letter, and he was sure that he recognized it as Liu Hanfei. But at that time, he was also convinced that Han Fei was dead, and of course the dead man would not write again, so he thought it was strange. In order to arrange it thoroughly, I specially arranged the scene where Sima Yingyang was imprisoned and took poison on a fake basis, and asked Xiutang to tell the gatekeeper to bend his back and relax, if someone went to inquire about the date of Xiutang's departure, no matter what day he asked, he only said that he would leave for Wuxi that night. ”
Jing Mo suddenly realized when he heard this, no wonder Xiao Man had many strange actions at that time.
Xiao Man continued: "When all this is arranged, although I am sure that the fish will not slip away easily, as soon as I get the news, this greedy fish will fall into the net. But I don't know when I'll be able to close the net, so I'm a little anxious because of this. Unexpectedly, the fish was even more impatient than the fisherman, and we succeeded tonight, which was not surprising to me. ”
Jingmo listened to this explanation, and finally understood all the twists and turns before and after. Unfortunately, at first, we took the wrong path and almost couldn't turn back. Later, the mountain road has turned, but if it weren't for Xiaoman's wisdom, who would have realized it if he changed to someone else?
Unexpectedly, Feng Zizhou asked again: "There is another section, what is the name of the beggar who froze to death, I have checked it once, but I still don't know." But this section is irrelevant. ”
Nie Xiaoman said: "Jing Mo should still remember that I put a lot of effort into this, disguised myself as a homeless person, and mixed into the wandering group to investigate. This beggar has two characteristics, attractive ears and pointed jaws. It wasn't until this afternoon that I found out that the man's name was Ma Cripple, and that he was only twenty-three years old, and that he was the proprietor of an incense and candle shop. ”
Feng Zizhou and Jing Mo were both taken aback, how could a young shopkeeper end up here. Xiao Man obviously knew the curiosity of the two, but he just smiled faintly and spit out a word.
"Bet!"
Oh! I see, both of them showed expressions of disbelief.
Xiaoman said: "This person has been involved in gambling since he was a child, and when his father was alive, he was beaten and scolded a lot, but he was still afraid." Later, when his father died, he gambled and couldn't clean it up. Can this kind of small shop business withstand several tosses? After tossing the family wealth, it became like this. The lame horse probably because of the severe cold, at first hid in the street and downstairs to avoid the wind, but then could not stand the cold and finally fell to the ground. ”
He sighed deeply.
The sigh led to a silence, and the three of them drank all the sprinkles in their cups, and Feng Zizhou got up to say goodbye, only Xiaoman and Jingmo were still unhurriedly roasting the fire, thinking about their hearts.
Jing Mo suddenly thought of something, and sighed: "In this way, although Liu Hanfei is hateful, he doesn't seem to have murdered anyone's life, so it can be said that he didn't commit any major crimes!" ”
Nie Xiaoman said: "Yes, he had the whereabouts of cheating on marriage at the beginning, and then he killed a dog, moved a corpse, and the crime of blaming others, which cannot be escaped." However, when these are added together, it must also be a sin that does not lead to death. ”
Xiaoman sighed again and stood up. "Jingmo, it's late at night and the weather is cold, you can live here."
The snow dragging gun jumped to the ground at once, ran into the darkness three times and two times, and was nowhere to be found.
Darkness, only darkness.
There is nothing more benevolent about this world than the inability of the world's mind to comprehend its entirety. We live on a calm island called Ignorance, surrounded by an endless black ocean, and we weren't supposed to sail far away.
Curiosity—curiosity about the truth—all go in their own direction, and therefore do little harm; But sooner or later, some seemingly unrelated knowledge will be pieced together to open up a terrifying vision of reality, revealing the terrible condition of humanity in it, and we will either go mad or flee from this deadly light and hide in a new dark age, where we will enjoy the silence and safety.