Crime scene: 162 mystery solving puzzles to find out who the murderer is

Chapter 105 The Secret of "God Killing"
Zhang Laoshuan lived in a remote mountainous area. His wife died early and he had only one son, Xiaoshuan. When he was 20 years old, he married Ren Lingxiang, a girl from Li Village.One year later, in autumn, Ren Lingxiang went back to her natal home, but when the Mid-Autumn Festival approached, Zhang Laoshuan asked his son to pick him up with a donkey.

On the way back from succeeding Lingxiang, when he passed a Guandi Temple, Ren Lingxiang said that he wanted to relieve himself, got off the donkey and entered the temple.Xiao Shuan waited outside the door, and his wife didn't come out for two full meals.In a hurry, he tied the donkey to a tree and went into the temple to look for it.When I came to the statue, I was stunned.Ren Lingxiang was naked at the foot of Zhou Cang's statue.Xiao Shuan stepped forward to pick him up and yelled loudly. After a long time, Ren Lingxiang wept while putting on his clothes and trousers and said, "Zhou Cang appeared and raped me." Back home, Xiao Shuan told his father and neighbors about it. Everyone still believed in ghosts and gods, and they were all terrified when they heard it.

The next day, Lao Shuan got up and went to the field to hunt pigs and eat grass, but his son and daughter-in-law got up when he came back.Calling outside the door, no one answered, and the doors and windows were tightly closed, and they could not be pushed open.Knowing that something was wrong, he hurriedly called for a neighbor and smashed open the door with a hammer, only to find Xiao Shuan lying on the bed with his heart and liver ripped open; Ren Lingxiang was firmly tied to a bow chair with cotton stuffed in his mouth , already unconscious.

Everyone frantically rescued Ren Lingxiang. She cried bitterly and said, "A man came in in the middle of the night, killed Xiao Shuan, took out his heart and liver, and then raped me. He sounded like Zhou Cang in Guandi Temple." Seeing bloodstains on the ground, it leads all the way to Guandi Temple. When I entered the temple, I saw a heart hanging on the big knife held by Zhou Cang.From then on, people believed that it was Ren Lingxiang who went to the temple to have a small solution and blasphemed the gods, which caused disasters.

Six months after the incident, Ren Lingxiang married Li Hongchang of Li Village.Soon after the place was liberated, Platoon Leader Liu of the People's Liberation Army's reconnaissance platoon brought two scouts to the mountainous area to carry out the mission of suppressing bandits. Hearing this "God Kill" case, of course he didn't believe it.They think that this is a murder deliberately created by someone taking advantage of people's general belief in ghosts and gods, but who is the murderer: why did he kill?How did the door close after the murder?

Platoon Leader Liu discussed with the two scouts and made an experiment: tie them to the armchairs in the east and west bedrooms, stuff their mouths with cotton, and see who can lock the latch of the main room.The platoon leader was observing in the yard, and after a short time, a detective really put the latch on. The secret of the "God Killing" case was also uncovered, and by following the vines, they caught Ren Lingxiang and her current husband Li Hongchang who had an affair for a long time and set up the murder scam together.

Can you deduce how the scout inserted the latch?

[Answer] Although the scout's upper body is tightly tied, his lower body can still move. He put his feet on the ground, put his chair back on his back, and moved to the door step by step. He pushed the door latch with the tip of his nose, closed it slowly, and then moved back step by step. In situ.Ren Lingxiang closed the door in the same way back then.

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