Chapter 491: The Case of the Carriage Falling into the River
"Don't you really want to take shelter from the rain?" Bao Heizi asked again with great embarrassment.
At this time, the little fish put his hands in his coat pockets, and the rainwater on the hat will flow down as long as he shakes it slightly. The bad weather in the past few days made him a little unhappy, as if he had even reacted a little sluggishly, and he couldn't move his body, and grunted:
"Nope."
It should be mentioned that all cases that cause headaches have to go through hardships to solve. The ending is more or less pleasant. In such cases, people tend to go astray foolishly because of chance, or simply because they lack the courage to abandon their wrong judgments when they still have time.
This is exactly what Xiao Yu'er is facing again. The day before, he and Mr. Bao fell into the water and came to Taoyuan Village, but Mr. Bao injured his head and lost his memory.
The originally peaceful Peach Blossom Village was suddenly accompanied by two gods of death, making it not normal here.
Mr. Bao pretended to be stupid and cute, and he was very pleasing to the villagers.
It was the worst day of the year. For two weeks, people have been living in rain and fog, and the water of the Xijiang River has risen sharply, and the muddy mud flow has many branches and branches.
"You can't go wrong with this!" The little fish sighed, it was six o'clock in the morning, and the sun had not yet come out.
A moment later, Master Bao had whispered outside the door:
"Are you still sleeping?"
"Nope."
"It wouldn't be inconvenient for you if you would go with me ten miles from here now, would it? There was a strange incident in that place last night......"
Needless to say, of course Xiao Yu'er went. Because I got up early in the morning. The environment here is even more disgusting. The sky was low, the air was damp and cold, and the rain was like a note. The dirty water of the river was brown. On the opposite side of the river, a line of aspen stands against the bank. There is not a single village in sight. And the only one who is looking for it, the "Fisherman's Inn", is located 700 meters away.
It is not known who the drowned ghost of this accident was. Five or six of them were on the side of the road, stopping from time to time. Want to know what the hell is going on, and then continue on your way.
At a glance, there are famous people in the village here, and of course there are also Ah Fang, but they obviously don't need it.
One should wait, wait until the body in the rapids, and then hang up from the river. People don't have a certain number of what happened, except that the night before, a little after eight o'clock, the horse was in the book. Passing by, he crashed a fully lit carriage that had long since stopped at a turn into the river. Guan Hai, the coachman, said he heard a cry for help, and the old fisherman Yang on the boat also claimed to have heard the cry for help, when he was on the fishing boat moored in the river a hundred meters away.
The two of them met on the shore and, with the help of the firelight, searched the surroundings hastily. Then the carriage drove on the road again until it reached the village, where it was told the situation. But because nothing could be done before dawn, Mr. Bao told Xiao Yu'er about the matter at six o'clock in the morning.
The surrounding scene was gloomy. Everyone was hunched over their shoulders from the cold. Even in the eyes cast into the turbid river, there was only indifference, and there was no sense of anxiety.
The innkeeper was also present, discussing the matter with others in a connoisseur's tone.
"If only people hadn't been stuck in traffic. For a while, I thought I could find them. Because all the sluices have been raised, they will float all the way down to the west river. Unless they're hanging some roots or something......"
"They're definitely not in the carriage anymore," retorted the coachman, Lao Wang, "because it's an open-top carriage!" ”
"Oh. That's weird! ”
"How?"
"Because yesterday I had two little guests here in an open-top carriage. They slept and had lunch in the store. They should still be sleeping there. But I never saw them again. ”
It can't be said that Xiao Yu'er listened to these idle nonsense, but when he heard it, he wrote it down.
Due to the many rivers in the south, there are many good hands who know how to water. They finally surfaced.
"It's done," he said, "the rope is fastened." "People on the road have become a long line. People poked their heads out to see what the people were doing.
The village brought in livestock, horses and oxen, and dragged the carts in the water with all their might. Both feet were wet, and his trouser legs were covered with mud, and he wanted to drink a glass of wine to warm his body, but he didn't want to leave the scene and go so far to the inn, and he didn't want to disturb him again.
"Attention, lads! …… Loose on the left! …”
The marks of the collision on the front of the carriage are clearly visible, and as the coachman Lao Wang said, the front of the convertible turned in the direction at the moment of the collision.
"Up! One, two, up! "The car was finally pulled ashore. It had been knocked out of shape, the wheels were crooked, the sides of the car were like crumpled paper, and the saddle was full of sludge and debris and debris. All the people, including the dozen or so who came out of the inn to watch the excitement, gathered around the salvaged convertible, and some of them touched it or leaned over to look inside.
An unknown curiosity opened the back compartment, which, to people's surprise, was effortlessly opened, despite its deformation.
The man screamed and took a few steps back, while the others swarmed up to see what was going on.
The little fish, like everyone else, stepped forward. Suddenly, he frowned, and then, for the first time since early morning, he shouted loudly, no longer grunting, "Get out of the way!" Everybody back off! Don't touch anything! ”
He also saw a humanoid object oddly curled up at the bottom of the trunk, which seemed to have a lot of effort to close the lid. A few strands of hair peeking out of the figure, making it possible to conclude that it was a woman in the bag.
"Village Chief, can you clear the ground? There are new situations, and they are done rather despicably. "The situation they face in solving the crime will also be very bad...... Just wait to drag the woman out of her dripping bag......
Xiao Yu'er asked the amnesiac Master Bao and said, "Didn't you notice anything?" ”
Master Bao didn't remember yet, and didn't seem to care much about the case, so he asked blankly: "Aware of ......" Xiao Yu'er looked at his innocent eyes and said, "Don't you think ......" Finally, he seemed to think that Master Bao had lost his memory, and said in a different breath: "Okay, there will be evidence in a quarter of an hour." Helplessly, it seems that this case has to be done by itself.
Then the little fish went up the slope. The household was inspected. The crowd that came up to watch, especially the children, had to be dispersed constantly.
"The woman died at least three days ago...... someone tugged at Xiao Yu'er's sleeve. This is the innkeeper Luo Yong, who was surprised: "I recognize it"
"This is my two little customers' cars," he said mysteriously. ”
"Do you have their names?"
"They have government documents."
"Did you know this is a crime?"
"What did you do with the case?"
"Shaver. This woman's throat has been cut..."
The rain still kept tickling cars, corpses, and busy figures in the smoke.
Soon someone identified the car, which had previously belonged to the king of the village. However, he sold the car to the owner of the car dealership seven days ago.
"What about the boss?"
The owner of the car dealership said: "I resold the car to a young man three days ago, and I didn't write down his name because I was paying a large sum of money."
"But I've got his name here!" The innkeeper felt that others didn't pay much attention to him, and became a little anxious, "Please come to my store." ”
Overall. This is a rather bizarre case. This inn is also quirky enough, but it is located at a sharp bend in the official road. Didn't Bao Heizi just find out that it was the third time in five years that a carriage had fallen into the water here?
The other two accidents were not so mysterious: the carriage did not expect a sharp turn here and fell into the river before it could stop in time. One of them, the whole family of five was buried in the belly of the fish. In the second crash, there was only one victim. However, the nickname of the inn does not seem to be wrong, especially since on the fifteenth of July, a young woman committed suicide by throwing herself into the river for some unspeakable hidden purpose, while her husband was fishing a hundred meters away!
The "Drowned Ghost Inn" people are diving into it one by one. Everyone wants to call this inn before it gets dark. ……
The mystery of the "Drowned Ghost Inn" ...... the crime of the "Drowned Ghost Inn...... The corpse in the trunk ... The mystery of the convertible carriage......
The little fish was silent, gulping down the wine and swallowing the buns. It seems that they do not see the unavoidable chaos in front of them, and this chaos often brings a lot of trouble to the work of order.
In this group, there are only two people who interest Xiao Yu'er, Lao Yang Fisherman and Lao Wang, the coachman.
The coachman, Lao Wang, came over to find him humbly.
"You know. The speed of our shipments is related to the bonus. …… I was supposed to leave this morning,...... You see, if possible......"
"Where are you going to unload the cargo?"
"Marina ...... Start by walking in the canal for a day. Then walk in the Xijiang River for another day and a night, I'm afraid I won't be able to get there until the night after tomorrow......"
Xiao Yu'er asked him to repeat his testimony again.
"At that moment, we had just finished dinner, and my wife was already lying down. I was about to go to rest, but I heard a strange noise, which I could not hear clearly in the cabin, and I stuck my head out of the hatch, as if I heard a cry for help......"
"What kind of sound is it?" "Vocals...... The rain was beating on the deck, and I couldn't hear it clearly,...... The shout seemed far away. "Is it a man's voice or a woman's voice?" "Mostly men."
"How long has it been since the first sound?" "I can't say anything about it, I was taking off my shoes, and it took me some time to put them on."
"What did you do next?"
"I can't just come out with my slippers on. I went down to the cabin again, dressed and put on a pair of clogs. I also told my wife, who was not asleep, that she might have fallen into the water. ”
Xiao Yu'er emphasized: "How did you think that someone fell into the water?" ”
"Because we've been begging for a living on this river, it's always the case when we hear someone shouting for help. I've saved no less than five people with my iron hook. ”
"So you're on the other side of the river?"
"So to speak! Because in this place, there is only less than twenty meters between them. I saw the lights, and then dimly I saw a big man walking around. (To be continued......)