flstandardbreds Chapter 142 The Bottom Of The Strange Well, The Eighth Knife Mark
Chapter 142 The Bottom Of The Strange Well, The Eighth Knife Mark
The work of cleaning up the mud continued until noon.
But they had just set up the pot, and it was originally a cloudless and sunny day.
Suddenly, it was cloudy again, and within three minutes before and after, a rain that was heavier than yesterday fell like a spray.
The platoon leader saw that if things continued like this, the whole morning's work would be in vain.
Immediately arrange a few people to prepare to build a waterproof circle around the well to prevent more rainwater and silt from flowing into the well.
And with plastic sheeting, a shed was built above the well.
After finishing the work, everyone returned to the courtyard at the entrance of the village, except old man Jin and his children.
The three of them continued squatting in the donkey shed, eating hard dry food.
A rain, from noon to the next morning, it stands to reason that it is not the rainy season at this time, and there should not be such continuous rainy days.
The next morning, the platoon leader continued to arrange for people to go down to the bottom of the well to clean up the silt.
This time was not bad, because the waterproof belt was made at the wellhead and the shed was built the first day.
There is not much silt in the well.
This time, four people were arranged to go down to work.
But a strange thing happened again. Not long after the four of them went down, they started yelling at the same time.
Moreover, it does not end after a few seconds.
They howled for a full minute. At first, everyone thought they were bored, learning from yesterday's people, and teasing them.
Old Jintou, tell someone to pull the four of them up quickly.
Strange to say, they kept yelling in the well, but they stopped yelling when they were pulled to the mouth of the well.
Everyone gathered around to ask what was going on, but the four of them couldn't remember what happened after they went down the well.
Although these people are all soldiers of the motherland, this kind of thing is too strange, and these soldiers are all quite young.
People panicked for a while, at this time old man Jin said, "This incident is too weird. I suggest that this well be backfilled, and the drill bit should be drilled again in another place."
When the platoon leader heard this, he was unwilling. The platoon he led was delayed for three days in this village, and a single well was not completed.
If the superior knows, he will definitely think that he is not capable, and the things he proposes in the future will not be in vain?
So he resolutely disagreed, and ordered four people to go down the well and continue working.
The four went down, and nothing strange happened.
In order to catch up with work, the platoon leader ordered no fire to cook at noon, and everyone just continued digging the well with a mouthful of dry food.
Baskets of soil were brought up, and the well was dug deeper and deeper, and it seemed that it was about to reach the water outlet point drilled by the drill bit.
Suddenly, the person working below screamed, "Why are Li Ergou's clothes here?"
This man pulled out a set of military uniforms from the soil under his feet. This is the clothes they usually wear, with their names on the chest.
It says three battalions and four rows of Li Maoshan.
The strange thing is that this dress was dug out from the soil at the bottom of the well.
After the platoon leader found out about this, he thought it was Li Maoshan who dropped the clothes. The people below didn't see them, so they thought the clothes were dug out from the soil.
Because the weather is too hot when everyone is working, most people take off their coats and put them aside.
When he was about to find Li Maocai, the people below screamed, "Pull us up, quickly pull us up."
The people at the well didn't know what happened, so they quickly pulled them up.
After the four people came up, their faces were blue and trembling, obviously terrified.
Pressed by the platoon leader, they stammered and said, "Clothes, the bottom is full of clothes..."
When the platoon leader heard this, he pushed them aside, "Damn it, a few clothes scare you like this."
"Platoon...platoon leader, we dug out those clothes from the soil, they didn't fall off..." one of the older people stammered.
When the platoon leader heard it, he was stunned for a moment, then took the rope and tied it around his waist, "Let me down, I'll go and have a look."
Just as he stepped into the well with one leg and rode the other leg beside the well, a soldier crawled out of the village.
"Platoon leader, platoon leader, something happened..."
The platoon leader who was about to go down the well was in a bad mood, so he quickly asked, "What's wrong?"
The whole young soldier ran out from the entrance of the village, pointing to the courtyard in the village and saying, "Dead...dead."
"Dead?" The platoon leader didn't ask much, and ran directly towards the courtyard.
It's a big deal to die, and if you make trouble, you, the platoon leader, will be kicked out.
For a while, everyone ran back, and no one was in the tube well anymore.
When they came to the courtyard and ran to the door of the room facing the gate, they all stopped.
Some people even took two steps back, and everyone was petrified.
There are eight people hanging on the main beam in the room.
Eight people, all upper body naked.
Their lips were turned outwards, their tongues were sticking out, stretched out very long, their eyes protruded from their sockets, and their expressions were extremely ferocious.
The old man Jin was also in the crowd at this time, and he was equally shocked. He muttered, "Why did eight people die at once?"
"Put them down quickly. Everyone puts on their weapons and surrounds the village. No one can be let go." The platoon leader was sweating coldly at this moment.
Xin Dao must find the murderer, otherwise, as the platoon leader, he will be the end.
Seeing the platoon leader's arrangement, the old man Jin smoked a couple of pipes and followed a group of soldiers into the house.
He raised his head and checked on the beams in the house.
Suddenly, his eyes froze, staring at the position near the big gable, and found a shallow knife mark.
This knife mark is very shallow, and it looks like it was cut many years earlier than the seven knife marks found the night before yesterday.
Moreover, although the knife mark hurt the inner trunk, it was not deep. It should be the beam before the bark was removed.
If you don't look carefully, you won't think it is a knife mark cut by man.
Old man Jin, before the liberation, was a master of swordsmanship and had killed many little devils.
He could tell at a glance whether it was a knife mark or not.
At this time, the eight hanged soldiers hanging on the beams of the house were all untied.
The villagers of the entire small village, from the elderly to the young in their arms, were all gathered at the entrance of the village.
"What are you doing?"
"Why did you arrest us?"
"What's the difference between you and bandits doing this? Is there any law for the king?"
The villagers shouted in the crowd, but seeing the heavily armed soldiers, no one dared to stand up and really resist.
The platoon leader looked at the group of people with a cold look in his eyes. He knew that if the murderer was not found among them.
After he led the team back, his platoon leader must have come to an end, and the lightest punishment would be to directly turn him into a leader.
Even if he was directly expelled from the army, he would have spent all these years in vain.
Just when he was leading people to press the villagers to hand over the murderer, the village chief said, "I told you that day that this place is not clean, and you insisted on living in it.
If something happens now, you can blame us. I don't see any difference between you and bandits! "
His words irritated the platoon leader even more. He took out his gun and pointed it at the head of the village chief.
Just when he was about to speak, old man Jin came out from the courtyard, "They committed suicide..."