Snow and ice don't lie

Five Bridges Village is located on a cliff, named because it can only be connected to the outside world through five small bridges, which has attracted many writers and painters to create here. To conceptualize a new novel, Sun Zhe, a writer of deduction, rented a private house here. Although the so-called "five bridges" one of them has been broken due to old age, Sun Zhe every time he goes out to walk a few hundred meters more, from the penultimate bridge through.

This evening, Sun Zhe was planning to perfect the outline but heard a noise from next door to Song Jinglong's home. Song Jinglong is a painter who came here for a short stay, and he heard that he was preparing to create a long scroll on the theme of five bridge village scenery. Sun Zhe visited his home, the canvas alone is several dozen meters long.

The noise interrupted his thoughts, Sun Zhe simply went out to see the action. Villagers Wang Er and Song Jinglong, Song Xiaohu's father and son are confronting each other.

It turns out that once Song Jinglong driving accidentally hit and killed Wang Er's cattle, originally paid 5,000 yuan to settle the matter. Unexpectedly, after a few days, Wang Er bites that the cow is a good quality breeding cattle, and had to let Song Jinglong pay another five thousand. Song Jinglong refused to do it, and the two parties quarreled in front of the house.

Song Xiaohu, his son, couldn't stand it and said, "Just pay for it, it's only five thousand dollars."

Song Jinglong immediately gave his son a slap: "Is this a matter of money? How did I give birth to such a wimpy son like you!"

Song Xiaohu's glasses were knocked off his face, and he covered his hot face and said viciously, "I didn't force you to give birth to me!"

Neighbors saw this, and have come forward to persuade the fight, but it was difficult to persuade.

A few days later, when Sun Zhe went out in the morning, he found that he passed by the bridge every day crowded with people. At this time has come winter, and the bridge is frozen. Under the bridge, the small river called Liang River has not yet frozen, there is a lying body in the river, look at the clothing should be Song Jinglong.

Song Jinglong every day the habit of the morning running, before dawn on the run, from the small bridge to pass, in the town around the circle and back, it seems that he ran accidentally fell.

The village chief hurriedly came to the river from the path with the villagers. The village chief dared to turn the body over but found that the deceased was not Song Jinglong, but his son Song Xiaohu!

Song Jinglong who came to hear the news cried his heart out: "We father and son love to run in the morning, have a set of the same parent-child sportswear. I didn't run with him today because I had a cold, so how come I went out for a while and lost this person?"

Soon, the town's police department sent police officers to investigate, this person happened to be Sun Zhe's high school classmate Li Qiang. That afternoon, Li Qiang found Sun Zhe to understand the situation, asking him how the father and son usually relationship. Sun Zhe said, Song Jinglong lived in the village for many days, I heard that his wife passed away long ago. Son alone in the city to study at university, it seems that only on vacation to live for a while, father and son relationship is not too good, the other day the two also fought. Song Jinglong slapped his son in the face, Song Xiaohu then looked as if to kill.

Li Qiang listened and said, "As far as I understand, Song Xiaohu is spending his time at school, and every time he comes to ask his old man for money. Recently he gambled 600,000 yuan in debt, the other party threatened to cut off his hand if he did not pay. That's why he ran to the village to find his old man to ask for money."

Sun Zhe sucked in a breath of cold air: "You mean, Song Xiaohu is desperate for the money owed?"

Li Qiang said, "Yes if the old man died, the inheritance to him can be a different story. But now it's Song Xiaohu himself who died! It seems we need to meet Song Jinglong."

Song Xiaohu's casket was placed in the compound at the entrance of the Song family. Song Jinglong bought a cemetery on a nearby hill and prepared to be buried on the spot.

When the two arrived, Song Jinglong had already put on his presbyopic glasses, and the glasses his son had broken that day were sitting next to his hand. Both father and son have poor eyes, which I'm afraid is one of the reasons why Song Xiaohu accidentally fell to his death. Li Qiang asked, "Mr. Song, I heard that your relationship with your son is not very good?"

Song Jinglong alerted, glared at Sun Zhe, and said, "Who are you listening to, Xiaohu and I have quarreled, but it does not mean that the relationship is poor."

Li Qiang added: "I heard that your son owes a large amount of money outside. Has he been acting differently lately?"

Song Jinglong finally couldn't help himself: "What do you mean, Officer Li? Is it that my son has a reason to be against me, or that I will be against my son? It's only 600,000 yuan, but it's only the money for two or three pieces of my artwork, I wouldn't kill someone for this amount of money; likewise, I also agreed to help my son pay his debt, and I don't believe he would do it for this reason. Didn't you also decide that he died of natural causes? Even if I don't like him, can I remotely control his death?"

Song Jinglong's words were not many, but every word hit Li Qiang's soft spot. Even if there was a motive for father and son to turn against each other, but how did it happen?

The two sides did not have a good conversation, so Sun Zhe and Li Qiang intended to say goodbye. When they left, the two passed by the Song family's miscellaneous room, Sun Zhe found a piece of human-shaped cardboard in the miscellaneous room, but it had been painted, so it was impossible to see what it originally looked like. He suddenly had a strange feeling that the Song family seems to be missing a certain thing, but for a while could not remember.

Unexpectedly the next day, the case has a major development: the police found several footprints on the small bridge has not been covered by snow, and have now identified the owner of the footprints, it is with the Song family father and son clashes Wang Er. More eyewitnesses said, Wang Er's first night in the Internet cafe played all-night games, early in the morning to get off the machine home, and that small bridge is his way to go. According to the time projection, this person who arrived at the small bridge should be in Song Xiaohu morning and run past the small bridge before and after.

Not long after, Wang Er was invited to the police station. Li Qiang accused him of saying: "You saw Song Xiaohu, remembering the past disputes, and pushed him off the bridge, did not you?" Wang Er said, "I have a grudge against his old man, why to push him?"

Li Qiang said, "But he was wearing the same hooded sweatshirt, and Song Jinglong, wearing a windproof mask, looks the same as Song Jinglong." Wang Er said nervously, "Don't accuse me, I didn't meet Song Xiaohu when I crossed the bridge."

According to the time projection, Wang Er was home when Song Xiaohu's morning run time, but he claimed not to see, what is going on. In any case, Wang Er was still detained by the police.

At this point, things are regenerating ripples. Song Xiaohu fell off the bridge incident was somehow rumored that he was hooked by the river monster soul. Several children in the village teamed up to go to the river to explore and fight the monster and did not return until it was almost dark.

The village chief had to mobilize Sun Zhe, and Li Qiang to find them, finally, they met in the lower reaches of the Liang River crying children. The village chief severely criticized them, but Li Qiang's attention was caught by the situation downstream of the Liang River.

It was the confluence of the Liang River into the big river, when the unmelted snow and ice and floating debris built a small dam, blocking a pile of garbage coming from upstream, a few broken strips of wood, a pile of dry grass, and a cut of unburned paper remnants.

Sun Zhe asked curiously, "What do you find?" Li Qiang, however, asked instead of answering, "Do you believe Wang Er?"

Sun Zhe replied, "I can't say. To say do not believe, he said and quite sincere; to say belief, but not with the time." Li Qiang said, "Have you ever thought about the possibility that Wang Er did not meet Song Xiaohu, because Song Xiaohu simply did not fall to his death there."

Sun Zhe heard, suddenly hit a jolt, he suddenly remembered, the Song family less what that thing is!

After taking care of his son's funeral, Song Jinglong planned to leave this sad place. Early this morning, he was ready to leave alone but met Sun Zhe and Li Qiang. Sun Zhe said that Li Qiang was also leaving, and he was coming to see him off. The two proposed to go together, and Song Jinglong did not refuse. On the way, Sun Zhe and Li Qiang kept talking to Song Jinglong, which almost made Song Jinglong's brain dizzy. He walked to the bridge in a daze and was about to get on the bridge when he suddenly stopped.

Li Qiang asked: "What's wrong? Mr. Song, why don't you go, is this bridge can't go?" Song Jinglong's heart was astonished, two people with words to wind him up, it turns out to bring him here.

Sun Zhe explained: "We pass every day which bridge, there are no specific coordinates in mind, but subconsciously go to that 'closest' bridge. That bridge is not the closest, a few hundred meters closer than it, there is a broken bridge. Song Xiaohu thought of this technique, with two long wooden sticks to do the banner, the middle of laying something to do the bridge plate, and then put on the dry grass, overnight can be frozen into an ice bridge. But such a bridge can not walk, bad eyes you see this bridge, you will subconsciously think is the nearest bridge through every day, step on it will be doomed."

Now the three are in, is by Song Xiaohu's technique of"recovery" of the broken bridge.

Li Qiang continued: "This trap was originally prepared for you by Song Xiaohu, but you are the other way to return the favor. That day, you pretend to get up early to go running, deliberately putting the will in Song Xiaohu easy to find a place. Song Xiaohu panicked when he saw that the will said that all the money was left to charity and hurriedly chased him out. You also stood at the end of the broken bridge for realistic effect, the human-shaped cardboard printed with his back stood in the middle of the ice bridge. Song Xiaohu's eyes are also bad, mistakenly thought that his father had gone on the bridge, panicked and chased after him, then fell to his death!

"To cover up this maneuver, you built an ice dam in the Liang River under the real small bridge, so that Song Xiaohu's body floated down the water and stayed just below the small bridge. Then you melted the ice dam to make it look like he fell to his death on that intact bridge. That's why Wang Er claimed not to have met Song Xiaohu because he had never set foot on that bridge. I originally couldn't think of this technique either, until I realized that your Song family was missing one thing. Didn't you prepare a painting on dozens of meters of white paper? Where is the paper?"

After hearing this, Song Jinglong suddenly turned pale. The piece that Song Xiaohu used as a bridge board was exactly the long scroll of white paper that Song Jinglong intended to paint.

Li Qiang took out a scrap of paper and said, "Unfortunately, there are still a few bloodstains on this white paper. When you handled the wooden strips and dead grass, you should have been stabbed in the hand and stained the blood on it, right?"

It turns out that Song Jinglong used the ice dam to determine where Song Xiaohu's body eventually stayed, while the naturally formed ice dam downstream blocked the key evidence that he originally intended to wash into the river.

The case came to light, but Sun Zhe is still very confused: "They are not father and son, why do you want to make a death?"

Li Qiang said, "I have tested the blood on the paper left by Song Jinglong, Song Xiaohu is not Song Jinglong's son."