With a hideous smile, Gao Yan approached me step by step, the machete in his hand flashed a chilling silver light. However, just as I closed my eyes and waited for her to end my life, Zi Die's voice sounded: "Put down your weapons and raise your hands, or I'll shoot!"
When he opened his eyes, he found that Zi Die was grabbing with both hands, and the muzzle was aimed at Gao Yan. The latter was stunned for a moment, then the machete slipped from his hand, and his hands were slowly raised. The machete landed between my legs, almost severing Xiaomu, causing me to sweat. I quickly picked up the machete, scrambled to the side of Zi Die, pointed at Gao Yan with the tip of the knife and shouted, "What do you want!"
"You, you want money, I'll give it to you, don't, don't hurt me..." Although Gao Yan's answer was a little stuttered, her tone did not give people a sense of panic.
Zi Die said sharply: "Who wants your money, why are you attacking us!"
"You, aren't you thieves?" Her answer still felt very contrived.
I suddenly realized that she was trying to kill us in the name of thieves! In order not to let her continue to act crazy and foolish, I immediately turned on the light so that she could see us clearly.
After the light was on, she immediately showed a shocked expression: "It turned out to be you, I thought a thief slipped in!"
I was too lazy to act with her, so I asked directly, "Where is Gao Qiang?"
She hesitated for a moment before answering: "He, he said just now to go to the toilet, I thought he was caught by a thief."
She obviously had the intention to hide it, and it would be a waste to continue asking her, so I told her to open the door. She told us to wait a moment and then went to get the keys. I thought she would try her best to delay the time, so as soon as she turned around, I signaled Zidie to leave the window.
After leaving Gao Qiang's hidden crisis house, Zi Die said to find Gao Cai first, because Gao Qiang would probably attack him first. But we didn't know that Gao Cai lived there, so in the end she still went to the fourth wife's house with me to find Feifei, although she was a little unhappy about it.
We ran to the fourth husband's house as fast as we could, but when we got there, we found that although the door was open, there was no one inside, and the electric light was not on, only the dim candlelight was flickering. Just when I was worried that Feifei might have suffered an accident, Mei Po appeared in front of us. When she saw us, she came over and asked, "Didn't you guys go to Gao Qiang's place, why did you come back?"
I explained to her that it was because we were worried that Feifei might have an accident, so I ran back and asked her where Feifei went. She frowned and said, "Fifi should be fine, she just went to her aunt's house to rest." She took us outside the house, pointed to a two-storey house not far away, and said, "That's it. , I just watched her go in with my own eyes, so there should be no problem."
I was relieved to learn that Feifei was all right, but Zidie did not relax, and asked Madam Mei if she knew that Gao Cai lived there. Granny Mei replied, "He doesn't have a house in the village, and he didn't stay overnight when he came back, but this time he had to live for a while to hold the funeral for the fourth wife, so he stayed at Yu Xin's house."
I asked her where Yu Xin's house was. She pointed in the direction and said, "It's over there. I'll take you there. It's almost dawn anyway, and I can't sleep." , it was almost six o'clock.
Madam Mei took us to Gao Cai's residence with a cane. On the way, she mentioned to us about Yu Xin: "He was originally a poor boy, but then he went to the province to work for Gao Cai. It has been almost ten years now. Make some money! Two years ago, he came back to beg his wife and built a new house, and Gao Cai lived in his new house."
"Is he still working for Gao Cai now?" I asked casually.
"Yeah! This time they came back together." Mei nodded, then added: "It's strange, they never came back together before, I heard that someone has to take care of the company in the provincial capital. , but this time they came back together, maybe because now Yu Xin's wife is helping, his wife also went to work at Gaocai's place after giving birth to a child last year."
"Is Gao Cai not married yet?" I ask because if he is married, he can just let his wife take care of him, and he doesn't need to let his fellow villager's wife take care of him.
Granny Mei sighed and said: "Gao Cai is a child with a hard life. The most worrying thing about the fourth woman is his marriage. He was married twice, but he divorced twice. The second time It's just last year." Speaking of which, she suddenly stopped and pointed to a brand new house and said, "This is Yu Xin's house."
I went to the door and wanted to ring the doorbell, but I couldn't find it for a long time. I thought that there should be no habit of installing doorbells in the backcountry, so I had to use the most primitive method - knocking on the door! However, when I was on this iron gate, from knocking to patting, to patting my hand, there was still no movement inside the door.
Is Gao Cai already killed? Just as I was thinking about whether I should break through the door, Zi Die's cell phone rang. After she answered the call, her face changed drastically, and she exclaimed in astonishment, "What! Gao Qiang is dead?"
I was stunned for a while, and hurriedly chased Zidie: "What happened?"
She hung up the phone in a hurry, and replied in a panic: "Gao Qiang is dead. The security team found his body in Litchi Garden. Let's go and see now."
The sudden death of Gao Qiang overturned our speculation that he was the murderer, so Gao Cai and Feifei would not be in danger for the time being. So, we didn't go past Mei Po and immediately went to retrieve the police car, trying to get to the Lychee Garden as soon as possible.
When we came outside the lychee garden, the first morning light had already lit up the sky. Xiaojun and other security guards waited in the garden in panic, and immediately surrounded us when they saw us. As soon as Xiaojun stepped forward, he said to Zi Die in a panic: "Director Hua, when a villager passed by just now, they found the body of Village Chief Gao, which is in this garden."
"Let's take us there first and see." Zi Die didn't stop for a moment, and walked into the garden while talking. I followed closely into the lychee garden.
Although I came here last night, I couldn't see the surrounding environment clearly because the light was dim at the time. Now I can see the whole picture of the lychee garden, and I can't help but be surprised. There are a total of 63 lychee trees in the whole lychee, which are divided into two parts, each arranged in bean sprouts, and the arrangement direction is opposite, it feels like a Tai Chi picture. The strangest thing is that the center of the left part is not a lychee tree, but a clump of bamboo.
Gao Qiang's corpse was lying in front of the clump bamboo. When I was about to check the corpse, I suddenly found a simple tombstone next to the clump bamboo. When I looked closely, it actually read "Shen Gao Gong Taboo the Tomb of Lord Gao Yao". It turns out that Gao Yao was buried in his own lychee garden. Could Gao Qiang's death be related to his father's grave? After all, his body was lying in front of Gao Yao's grave.
To know whether Gao Qiang's death is related to Gao Yao's grave, the best way is of course to find the answer on the corpse.
Gao Qiang's fatal wound was on his forehead, and there were two finger-sized blood holes on his forehead. Like the two previous deceased people, the wounds seemed to be poked with fingers. Other than that, I found no other scars on the body. I suddenly thought of a suspicious point. Before, Zidie and I speculated that Gao Qiang might be the murderer, and thought that he killed him because he failed to obtain clues about the treasure from the deceased.
However, seeing his body now, I remembered that the two deceased people had no other scars except one fatal wound. If the murderer had threatened the deceased, it was impossible not to do anything to him, as long as there was a physical conflict, it would definitely leave traces. That is to say, the murderer did not intimidate the deceased at all, but immediately killed the other party as soon as he shot.
Could it be that the murderer's motive was not to find treasure
Just when I was thinking about the murderer's motive, Zi Die suddenly called out: "He has a note in his hand." Then he took out a pair of gloves from his pocket and quickly put them on, breaking the clenched fist of the corpse. Kai took out the note, read it and said, "Do you work all day?" and then handed the note to me.
I took the note and found that it only had these four characters written on it. I remember that in Gao Yao's Book of Changes, the hexagram of Qian Gua Jiu San was "a gentleman works hard all day long, and is vigilant at night, without blame". Although I don't quite understand the meaning of the hexagrams, the deaths of the three deceased are related to it. Feifei said that Gao Xian once muttered "Don't use Qianlong" before his death, and the corpses of Gao Hao and Gao Qiang were found on the corpses with the words "Seeing the dragon in the field" and "Dry all day long". These three words come from The first three hexagrams of the Qian hexagram in the Book of Changes.
I suddenly remembered that when Gao Hao's body was found, it was in the center of the right side of the Lychee Garden. So he asked Zi Die where Gao Xian's body was lying when he was found. After thinking about it, she pointed to the other side of the clump bamboo and said, "It should be around here, anyway, I remember it was next to this bamboo."
The lychee trees here are arranged like a Taiji map, and the three dead were found at the yin and yang poles of the Taiji map. Could it be that they have discovered the privacy of the treasure's location and were killed for it? In that case, the murderer must have known the exact location of the treasure, so he did not ask any question of the deceased, but just killed them in order to prevent them from getting there first. But assuming the murderer already knew the location of the treasure, why didn't he just dig up the treasure, but kill again and again
Could it be that the real murderer is the fourth woman
According to the current situation, the fourth wife is the most suspicious, because she is the only one who doesn't care about treasures. However, with her current situation, it should not be possible to kill someone so cleanly. The case seems to have returned to the starting point. The current situation is even worse than when I first arrived last night. The suspicions have not decreased but increased, making me a big head and three.
Just when his thoughts were in chaos, there was a frivolous laughter behind him: "Hahaha... Another one died! It's good to die, it's good to die, it's better to die, hahaha..." Looking back, A man in his 30s or 40s was found driving a moped into the Lychee Garden, with Gao Cai sitting in the back seat of the motorcycle. In my impression, Gao Cai also walked with this man last night. I think he should be Yu Xin. When they got out of the car and approached, I could smell a strong odor of alcohol, apparently because they had just drunk.
Gao Cai walked over to his brother's body, spat hard on the ground, gritted his teeth, and said, "I told you earlier, my mother will come back to you sooner or later!" Saying such things in front of him, and the other party is still his own brother.
One thing suddenly occurred to me. Three of the four wives and five children have died, and the only ones left are Gao Cai and the youngest daughter Gao Shun, who was unable to return to the funeral due to illness. Now that Gao Cai is the only son in the family, if he finds the treasure left by Gao Yao at this time, he can inherit it logically. Assuming he is the murderer, then the previous mysteries can be solved one by one - he already knew where the treasure was buried, and just killed other heirs for the legitimate inheritance.
However, according to the provisions of the Cultural Relics Protection Law, “all cultural relics left in the underground, internal waters and territorial seas within our country belong to the state”. If the unearthed treasure is identified as a cultural relic, everything he has done will be in vain. This is why Gao Qiang was reluctant to let us intervene in the investigation after we learned about the treasure.
Although there are still many things that I haven't figured out, Gao Cai is the biggest beneficiary of this case, and he is the most suspicious, so I asked him, after leaving the Lychee Garden last night and before Gao Qiang's body was found, the period of time Been there, done what, with whom.
As soon as I asked, he had a wicked look on his face and exclaimed with great dissatisfaction: "What's the matter? Doubt is on my head! Do I need to deal with him, if he does too much injustice, he will kill himself. He has done so many bad things. , I will suffer sooner or later, and I won't get my hands dirty for him." After that, he lit a cigarette and smoked to himself, without even looking at me.
When I wanted to pursue further questions, Yu Xin stepped forward and interjected: "The boss was with me last night, don't try to wrong him!"
"Then where did you go after leaving the Lychee Garden?" I asked.
I thought Yu Xinhui would say that he was going home to rest, so that I could arrest them immediately, because Zidie and I had just been to his house, and there was no one in his house. However, his answer was: "I went drinking with the boss, and we were very happy. If we didn't know that a big happy event happened here, we wouldn't want to come back so soon!"
I asked him if there is any place to drink at this time
"Damn it! My boss has money, but he has nowhere to drink!" He pulled Xiaojun over and said, "You can ask him, when will Ford's restaurant run out of wine!"
Xiaojun explained to me timidly: "Feder is from our village. He opened a restaurant next to the road several miles away from the village. Because he is mainly in the business of road drivers, he always has a door. Food and drink."
Yu Xin is Gao Cai's subordinate, and his words are not credible. To prove whether Gao Cai has alibi, he can only find out in Fud's restaurant. Therefore, after dealing with the murder scene, Zi Die and I took the small army who was about to leave, and immediately went to the restaurant where there was food and wine at all times, and planned to have breakfast there.
On the way, I called Xueqing and asked her to help investigate the situation of Gao Cai in the provincial capital. Then he called Liu Nian's phone and told him about the fourth wife, hoping to get a medical explanation from him.