ancient criminal minds

The ferocious fire was like a ferocious beast, and the tongue of fire licked the wooden furniture, and just when it got close, one could feel a wave of heat soaring into the sky.Villagers who had already discovered the fire were carrying water to put out the fire, but it was of no avail.

When Li Zheng arrived in a hurry with his men, he saw his wife crying and about to rush into the fire. Fortunately, several women stopped him in time.

Li Zheng was startled, and quickly pulled his wife over: "What happened? Where's Wan'er?"

At this moment, a girl's miserable cry came from the burning room: "Daddy, mother, save me... ah!"

Li Zheng's eyes were shattered, and he was about to rush into the fire. He was immediately held down by the villagers on the side, and he shouted: "Let me go! Let me go! Wan'er!"

Zhang Wan is Lizheng's youngest daughter. Because she is good-looking and intelligent, she is very much loved by Lizheng and his wife. A few days ago, she had a cold, so she didn't go to the ancestral hall to watch the excitement today, but slept in the house.Lizheng's wife was taking care of her daughter, but Zhang Wan suddenly wanted to eat egg noodles. It happened that there were no more eggs at home, so Lizheng's wife wanted to go out to borrow some. Unexpectedly, most of the people in the village went to the ancestral hall to watch the fun, so she left. I borrowed it from several houses, and when I rushed back, I saw the house was on fire, and Zhang Wan was still trapped in the house and did not come out.

"Mother! I'm in pain! Help me... woo woo woo... help me..."

Lizheng and his wife desperately wanted to rush into the fire, but the surrounding villagers dared not let go, the fire was already too big to get close to, even if Lizheng and the others went in, they would die.

Soon, Zhang Wan's crying in the fire became weaker and weaker, and finally became inaudible.

The fire burned for a whole night before it was extinguished. Almost all of Lizheng's house was burned down. Lizheng and his wife looked haggard, stumbled away from their captors, and rushed into the ruins.

Zhang Wan in the main house had been burned to a mummy. Her body was tightly curled up, and expressions of horror and pain could still be seen on her scorched face.Lizheng's wife fainted as soon as she saw her daughter's miserable state. Lizheng was holding her daughter's body, and a tall man was crying like a child.

Lu Zheng stood in the crowd, watching all this with a heavy face.

Tian Youyin wanted to laugh at them for slandering others, but Tian Youjin pulled him away and swallowed the words that came to his lips.Tian Youjin sighed, and said to the Tian family beside him, "Let's go back first."

The villagers present all felt Lizheng's pain, and even many women cried softly.For them, fire is the most terrifying demon, but now, it is not God who released this demon, but ordinary people like them, which makes everyone fall into hatred and fear.

Regardless of Qingluan's dissuasion, Lu Zheng walked into the ruins and slowly approached Lizheng.

The originally plump and lovely girl turned into a skinny and scorched corpse, it was really unbearable to watch.Lu Zheng took a deep breath, stretched out his hand to check the condition of Zhang Wan's body, but was swung away by Li Zheng.

"It's you!" Li Zheng looked at Lu Zheng with red eyes, gritted his teeth, "You made the mistake of the murderer! You killed my Wan'er!"

Qingluan had already rushed over with Lu Zheng, seeing Lizheng's devouring eyes, he frowned, the sword in his hand was slightly unsheathed, and blocked in front of Lu Zheng.

Lu Zheng shook his head at him, walked back to the front, looked at Zhang Wan's strange posture and said, "She was tied up before she died, which is different from the murderer's method of committing the crime."

Zhang Wan's hands were behind her back, and her feet were tightly pressed together, forming a very weird and awkward posture.

Li Zheng was taken aback, and couldn't help but let go of Zhang Wan's body.

Lu Zheng squatted down and looked over Zhang Wan's body. The room she was in was the most severely burned room. Almost everything in it was reduced to ashes, but he still found it from under Zhang Wan's body. He handed the half piece of cloth that was not completely burned to Li Zheng.

Li Zheng was taken aback for a moment, and replied blankly: "This is Wan'er's bed sheet..."

Judging from the situation at the fire scene, Zhang Wan was awake, so she couldn't have stayed on the bed without doing anything and was burned to death. It could only be due to limited mobility, and her strange posture also proved this point.

Lu Zheng found another wound on the back of Zhang Wan's head. This wound was not big, not to mention that the flesh of the corpse was scorched and twisted. If Lu Zheng hadn't been careful, it would have been impossible to find it.Qingluan came over to take a look, and said a little uncertainly, "It looks like he was injured."

Lu Zheng nodded.The murderer probably sneaked into Lizheng's wife's house while his wife was away, stunned Zhang Wan with something like a wooden stick, tied her hands and feet, sprinkled crude oil from the room to the outside of the house, and then lit the fire. .This is completely different from the behavior of the previous arsonist. This murderer is more vicious, crazier, and bolder.He seemed completely unafraid of Lizheng's wife returning home suddenly, and even when the fire broke out, he must have been hiding in the dark and watching all this with cold eyes.

Lu Zheng frowned, he couldn't be sure if the murderer imitated the previous arsonist, or this was originally a joint crime.

However, as if he suddenly remembered something, Li Zheng put down his daughter's body and ran towards the ancestral hall like crazy.

Lu Zheng was shocked, knowing what he was going to do, he quickly said to Qingluan: "Go and stop him."

When Lu Zheng ran to the ancestral hall, Li Zheng was being held down by Qingluan on the ground, but he still looked fiercely at Tian Wu, who had an indifferent expression.

"Bastard! Tell me... who killed my Wan'er!" Li was yelling at Tian Wu, "Say it! You son of a bitch, I'm going to chop you up and feed it to the dogs! Ah! Ah—"

Tian Wu sneered, his tongue was not completely healed, and his words were still vague, but this did not prevent the people around him from understanding what he meant, he just looked at Li Zheng and spit out two words: "You deserve it!"

This time, even Qingluan, who was subduing Lizheng, couldn't help frowning, but he also knew that Lizheng was emotionally agitated now, and once he let go, he might directly give Tian Wu kill.

Lu Zheng looked at Tian Wu with a sullen face: "You must know the murderer who set the fire last night, who is he?"

The corner of Tian Wu's mouth curled slightly, as if he was smiling, but soon he returned to his usual indifferent expression, without saying a word.

Now, even the villagers who were in charge of guarding Tian Wu couldn't stand it anymore, and said to Lu Zheng: "Mr. Lu, this kid is stubborn, let's use torture directly!"

Lu Zheng shook his head. On the one hand, he was against the use of torture. On the other hand, it was because of Tian Wu's temperament. This kind of person has a very rebellious personality, even if he was tortured, he would not be able to pry his mouth open.

Lu Zheng paused, and then said to Tian Wu: "Your revenge has been successful. So now you can admit it, you were the one who set the fire before, right?"

Tian Wu seemed a little surprised, looked up at Lu Zheng, but still didn't speak.

Lu Zheng didn't care, but went on to say: "You didn't carve those puppets, right? The people on them are all people who have bullied you. Except for Widow Wang and Zhang Wan, who are girls, the other seven The dolls are all men, and all men in their prime."

Tian Wu's body moved slightly.

"Judging from the behavior of the Tian family brothers, they don't feel that they are sorry for you, and they don't even think that you are the murderer. This is a bit strange. When ordinary people encounter such things, as victims, even if the suspect is someone close to them, You will be skeptical at the first moment. Besides, only your Tian family knows best about oil, so you have enough criminal ability, don’t you?” After Lu Zheng finished speaking, he said, “Of course, the Tian family may I think this is Li Zheng's framing, and the reason is to drive them away. Tian Youjin must not know that Tian Mao is abusing you, so he showed such a surprised expression. Then the problem comes, compared to Tian Youjin, you are more It should be Tian Mao who hates, but why did you put fire on Tian Youjin's house?"

In fact, since Doctor Wang diagnosed the toxicity from Tian Wu, Tian Wu's suspicion of arson has been confirmed.But the fire at Lizheng's house brought new changes to the case. There was a second prisoner in this case.

In Lu Zheng's heart, he believed even more that these two people knew each other from the beginning, and even these people who were set on fire did not have any enmity with Tian Wu, but with each other.No matter what reason Tian Wu wants to set fire to someone, he must know this person.

In fact, when he first saw the doll, Lu Zheng still had some doubts about the criminal in this case. Judging from the situation of the arson case, although the murderer was hateful, he did not actually hurt anyone. The living place started to be set on fire, but from the sculpture of the doll and the purposeful way of committing the crime, it shows the viciousness of the prisoner and the distortion of his heart.

When Lu Zheng was doing the profiling, he was suspicious of this situation, but according to witnesses, there was indeed only one prisoner in this case, which is why Lu Zheng finally locked the suspicion on Tian Wu.

But now that I think about it, there are indeed many things that cannot be explained.

Lu Zheng turned his gaze back to Tian Wu, and said slowly: "I guess...the other party is a girl, right?"

Tian Wu's body shook violently, and he looked at Lu Zheng in horror.

His actions have been able to confirm Lu Zheng's conjecture. Lu Zheng sighed in his heart and said, "She carved those puppets. In order to avenge her, you set fire to those people's houses, and even you deliberately Let yourself be poisoned to confirm your suspicion, just to protect her, isn't it?"

Tian Wu, who had always kept his indifferent face, finally couldn't bear it any longer. He shouted excitedly: "No...the murderer is me...it's me...only me...don't hurt her..."

Everyone around was stunned, even Lizheng stopped struggling and stared blankly at Tian Wu.

Tears flowed down Tian Wu's face, he sobbed and begged Lu Zheng: "I did all this, it has nothing to do with her... Please... please... don't hurt her..."

The entire ancestral hall was extremely quiet, only Tian Wu's low cry echoed.

Lu Zheng closed his eyes, discarded the irrelevant emotions in his heart, and then continued: "That girl is not accepted by the people in this village just like you. You two share the same disease, so you gradually develop a good impression of each other, or in other words, It was you who unilaterally developed a good impression of her, but in her heart, you are just a tool to help her get revenge!"

"No!" Tian Wu denied excitedly, "No! I did it voluntarily. Shuang'er never used me as a tool. I..." Only then did he realize that he accidentally said the other party's name When he came out, he immediately sat back in a daze.

Lu Zheng watched the expressions of everyone present with cold eyes, and sure enough, he saw expressions of guilt, contempt and disgust on some people's faces.

This kind of expression is also verifying Lu Zheng's guess in his heart. He lowered his eyebrows, perhaps, these so-called victims are the real murderers of this case, and these bystanders and innocent villagers are the ones who pushed this case to develop. Today's accomplice.