Chapter 042: Wanping County Husband-Killing Incident (Part 2)
Zhang Dalong rushed out of the door in a hurry. He originally wanted to intercept Li like last time. However, when he looked up, he saw sixty or seventy people crowded at the end of the alley, but there was no one between Zhang Erhu's house next door and his house!
Zhang Dalong was stunned. He stared at his neighbors across the street, not knowing what to do for a long time.
"Behind you!"
In the end, her wife couldn't help but remind her.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Dalong hurriedly looked back, only to see Li stumbling and running to the entrance of the alley!
"Okay, bring Li back!"
Sun Shaozong gestured to the bailiffs guarding the entrance of the alley, indicating that they should bring Li back to the end of the alley.
Then he spread his hands and said to Zhang Dalong who was at a loss, "Li is injured now, so her speed may be slower than before, but when you left, she had already escaped nearly thirty feet away - so your confession itself has proved that Li was not the one who broke through the gate and escaped."
At this point, Zhang Dalong actually realized that something was wrong, but he was embarrassed for a moment, so he hesitated for a long time before finally saying, "But that knife... that kitchen knife is what she often uses!"
“Well.”
Sun Shaozong turned around and pointed at Zhang Erhu's yard, saying, "There is a whetstone . I just saw it and there are obvious traces of friction on it. It must have been used not long ago. It is estimated that Zhang Erhu was sharpening his knife in the yard when he suddenly had a conflict with someone and was stabbed to death by the murderer with a kitchen knife."
At this time, Li had also been brought back by the yamen runners.
Sun Shaozong ignored Zhang Dalong and instead called Li back to Zhang Erhu's yard. He told her to go back to the inner room and wait as stated in her testimony, and then demonstrate the original situation again after hearing someone screaming outside.
After Li received the order and returned to the house, Sun Shaozong selected the one with the most nimble legs and feet from among the several yamen runners to play the role of the murderer.
"start!"
After everything was ready, the bailiff stood in front of the corpse, pretended to hold a branch and poked it forward, then let out a shrill cry, dropped the branch and ran away!
Bang!
Almost at the moment when the bailiff disappeared outside the door, Li rushed out of the house, shouting "husband", and pounced on the corpse and pushed it twice, then jumped up and chased out the door.
"stop!"
As soon as Li stepped over the threshold, Sun Shaozong immediately shouted. Li subconsciously stopped, but the yamen runner who played the murderer was unable to brake for a while and ran forward seven or eight steps before stopping outside a house, about thirty feet away from the entrance of the alley.
“Done!”
Sun Shaozong snapped his fingers and smiled proudly, "It's just as I thought! The total length of this alley is about 260 meters. Zhang Erhu's gate is about 45 meters to the east, and it is at least 215 meters away from the exit. From the time the murderer rushed out of the courtyard gate to the time Li chased him out, it was less than 20 seconds in total. If he wants to run out of the alley in such a short time, even Bolt can't do it!"
"But Li and Zhang Dalong didn't even see the murderer at the time." Ruan Rong suddenly realized, "So either Li and Zhang Dalong lied, or the murderer ran out of the door and immediately hid in the neighbor's house!"
“That’s right!”
Sun Shaozong pointed at the neighbors huddled together at the end of the alley and said, "That's why I insisted on bringing them back together - if things go as expected, the murderer should be among them!"
Hearing that he had deduced so many clues and even identified the suspect in advance just through the testimonies of Li and Zhang Dahu, Ruan Rong's eyes were full of admiration and pride, but she suddenly asked curiously : "By the way, what does 260 meters mean? And who is that Bolt?"
"Well……"
Sun Shaozong then realized that he had been a little too proud of himself, and hurriedly covered up, "None of this is important. Right now we need to quickly interrogate the suspect and his family separately to prevent them from colluding with each other!"
As he said this, he ordered the bailiffs to temporarily separate the two families at the end of the alley and the six families to the west of Zhang Erhu's house, according to gender, age and status - even including Zhang Dalong's family.
Although the probability is relatively low, we cannot rule out the possibility that Zhang Dalong used his superb acting skills to pretend to be innocent after committing the crime.
As for the interrogation process, it was simple. The bailiffs just asked the suspects and their families to ask what they were doing at the time.
Then, suspects with obvious alibis are eliminated first, and then further inquiries are made for details - for example, if he was resting at home, the suspect and his family will be asked whether he was lying or sitting, where he was resting, and what posture he used, and so on.
After checking one by one, two suspects gradually surfaced. They were Liu Jinbao, who lived at the end of the alley, and Xu Gensheng, who lived next door to Zhang Dalong's house.
One of the two men claimed that he was squatting in the toilet when the crime happened; the other said that he was trimming the vegetable fence in the yard when the crime happened - but their families were unable to provide any circumstantial evidence for them.
However, it is difficult to tell who the real murderer is.
Therefore, the yamen runners followed Sun Shaozong's instructions and took them to Zhang Erhu's yard.
Seeing that everyone else had been let go and only the two brothers were left, Liu Jinbao and Xu Gensheng suddenly panicked and did not care that the "divine judge Sun Tongpan" was right in front of them, and they started to argue with each other.
"Liu Jinbao, you must have been the one who killed that person, right?! I saw you arguing with Zhang Erhu just two days ago!"
"Bullshit! Everyone in this alley knows that Zhang Erhu and I have been quarreling since we were little. If I really wanted to kill him, I would have done it a long time ago!"
"Look, look, you admit that you want to kill Zhang Erhu, right?!"
"You're such a bitch..."
"Shut up!"
Jiang Laoqi, the head of the Wanping County yamen runners, shouted loudly, suppressing the verbal dispute between the two men, and then approached Sun Shaozong and said with a smile: "Master, how are we going to conduct the trial next?"
"this……"
Sun Shaozong was about to speak, but his expression suddenly changed. He pointed behind the two suspects and said in panic, "Zhang Erhu, you...how did you come back to life?!"
When Liu Jinbao and Xu Gensheng heard this, they turned around and saw a man standing behind them, his eyes wide open, his face pale, and a bloody hole three fingers wide on his chest. Who else could it be but Zhang Erhu? !
"Give me back my life, give me back my life now!"
At this moment, there was another sound of ghostly howling. Liu Jinbao was so frightened that he rolled and crawled, and went straight to Sun Shaozong's crotch. Xu Gensheng collapsed to the ground, shouting: "Second brother, spare me, second brother, spare me! I didn't mean to kill you, it's just... I really can't bear to see Miss Li being tortured by you, so..."
Plop~
Before he could finish his words, Zhang Erhu fell to the ground, revealing a yamen runner who was supporting his body with a wooden stick behind him.
