Chapter 189: Crime scene
Chapter 189 The crime scene
Thinking about Sun Wuji's case, Chu Nanzhi asked directly without hesitation: "Zhu Xiancheng left here that night, did other villagers see him?"
Sun Lizheng shook his head blankly: "I heard from Yan Fang's mother that Wu Ji and Mrs. Zhu talked very late that night, and the families next to us all got up early to fish, so they went to bed early. I don't know Master Zhu has been here."
"Can you take me to the place where Mr. Zhu salvaged first?"
Chu Nanzhi asked anxiously again.
"Okay, this old man will take the lady there."
Sun Li was talking, got up slowly, and led a few people to the place where the incident happened.
Go out of the hut and look around. The houses are scattered all over the place. It can be seen that the living conditions of the fishermen here are obviously much better than those in the villages that just came out of the mountains.
While walking, Sun Lizheng did not forget to introduce to everyone: "Wu Ji is a real person, as long as he is willing to work with him, he will definitely not be able to bear the mistreatment. Over the years, I have watched him lead the neighbors in the vicinity one after another. He continued to live in the huts of various families from the boat, this kindness is remembered by everyone, but no one can help him with what he committed this time, and he can only do a little bit of hard work."
"What do Zheng and the neighbors there think of this case? Do they all think that Zhu Xiancheng was killed by the head of the Sun family?"
Chu Nanzhi tentatively asked.
"We absolutely do not believe."
Sun Lizheng answered decisively, but after a little thought he became hesitant again: "It's just that Master Zhu's body was indeed salvaged from the fish pond of Wu Ji's house, and the person from the county government said that the last place where Master Zhu stayed the night before his disappearance It was at Wu Ji’s house again, Master Tan’s words were so convincing, we had to believe them.”
Chu Nanzhi pursed her lips tightly and nodded, without further questioning.
A group of people went around to the back of the hut, only to see green willows supporting the embankment everywhere, and high embankments were built in all directions.
Climbing to the embankment, Sun Lizheng patiently introduced to several people again:
"The Lanjiang River flows through the county and divides into many tributaries, some are natural lakes, and some are man-made canals. The canal in our village was dug by hand. At that time, Wu Ji led everyone to pull the net to build Every flood season, a large number of fish will gather in the canal, and after the flood season, everyone will salvage together, and the catty ones will be dried and marinated and sold to the county, and the small ones will be distributed as fish fry to various fish ponds for stocking."
"So this aqueduct doesn't belong to the Sun Woogies?"
Chu Nanzhi asked.
"Of course not."
Sun Lizheng replied: "When the canal was excavated, due to limited manpower, it was not wide and the depth was only Zhang Xu. It could not store water. After the flood season, it would gradually dry up. Sometimes the bottom of the canal could be seen, so It is just a channel to protect the fish source in the village, and because the dam built to stop the water is just behind Wu Ji's house, Master Tan decided that Mr. Zhu was killed by Wu Ji."
While listening carefully to Li Zheng's answer, Chu Nanzhi looked around and saw several ponds, large and small, around the hut. When she was wondering which pond Zhu Xiancheng salvaged from, she saw Sun Lizheng pointing The embankment not far from the canal said: "The officers of the county government salvaged the corpse directly under the fence that day."
Hearing the reputation, I saw some piles and iron pillars on the water surface of the broken embankment in the middle of the canal. Now it is the flood season and I can't see the whole picture.
Chu Nanzhi had no choice but to think about things like barbed wire woven by passing water to stop fish.
I thought it was the corpses salvaged from several fish ponds around the hut under the dike, but I never thought it was in the canal.
Taking a closer look, the dam fence is located directly below a slope, and the water must have been quite deep. The murderer was a little clever in throwing the dead into the ditch.
After all, unless the canal encounters a severe drought, the fence must always maintain a certain water level, enough to hide the corpse.
But after thinking about it carefully, I feel that my idea is a bit outrageous. Now that the flood season has not passed, let alone the possibility of corpses floating up, they will find clues sooner or later when fishing.
Looking for the canal, I looked upstream first, and saw that the water was rushing to the embankment, and the water level was almost submerged in the embankment. The canal water poured through the fence and poured down the slope, forming a bottomless pool. Flow out slowly.
Looking at the gentle downstream direction of the water, Chu Nanzhu asked with a lot of thoughts: "Where does this canal finally flow into?"
"Down along the canal, it is said that it is an unnamed mountain stream at the foot of Duanlong Mountain, and it should eventually flow into Sanghai."
Sun Lizheng also looked out following her line of sight.
"Since this is the case, if the Patriarch of the Sun family wants to deliberately murder Zhu Xiancheng, he can throw the body downstream. Why leave the body in the canal to attract people's attention."
Chu Nanzhi couldn't help but sneered, this was obviously framed.
The water pool in the lower reaches is bottomless. Even if the corpse cannot go down the canal, sinking the corpse to the bottom of the pool is better than sinking into the unworked dam, and the distance before and after is only about ten meters.
Sun Lizheng also thought of this, but the county government didn't believe this kind of rhetoric, so he had to talk to her in detail with a bitter face:
"What Mrs. Chu said is indeed reasonable, but according to Master Tan's deduction, Wu Ji and Mr. Zhu had a dispute that day. He killed someone in a panic, and he had no time to take care of other things. He was afraid of being noticed, so he directly threw the corpse behind the house. In the canal, besides, the downstream water level is still shallow, and it is easy to be noticed by people."
After thinking for a while, he immediately added: "In the sinking corpse ditch, it is now the flood season, and there are a large number of fish gathering, which can also eat the corpses."
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Chu Nanzhi cursed inwardly, with a slight sullen look in his eyes: "From the time when the person disappeared to the time when the body was recovered, did you find that the body was eaten by fish?"
Sun Lizheng shook his head: "Except for the knife marks on the neck and a few bruises from the scuffle, I haven't found any other wounds."
Chu Nanzhi asked again: "What kinds of fish are salvaged in this canal every year?"
"Most of them are grass carp, herring, carp, silver carp, bighead carp."
"Have you ever heard of fish eating people?"
Sun Lizheng shook his head blankly again: "A lot of people drown in the water every year, but I have never heard of such a situation, unless fishermen fishing in Songhai are occasionally attacked by giant toothfish."
"So Mr. Tan is talking nonsense. Freshwater fish won't eat dead bodies."
Chu Nanzhi answered after deliberation, and then raised his eyes slightly to look upstream:
"The current is so fast that if you throw a corpse into the ditch from any place upstream, it will eventually flow here and sink to the bottom of the dam. What's more, the head of the Sun family, his wife and children, were at home that day, so how could he just watch Sun Wuji Cutting the neck of a large living person to death, is it possible that this family is full of vicious people?"
Sun Lizheng listened quite reasonable, nodded repeatedly and said, "I don't know what Miss Chu plans to do next?"
"From the current point of view, it is not difficult to exonerate Sun Wuji, but the difficulty is to find out the real culprit behind the scenes."
Chu Nanzhi thought secretly, the first step now is to clear the suspicion for Sun Wuji and defend his innocence.
Looking at the entire case, the favorable basis for directly overturning the case is the lack of key witnesses, so as long as this is the basis for insisting on it and muddying the water, the county government cannot judge the case as an iron case.
Well, that's the only way to do it.
(end of this chapter)