The ice doesn't lie

The village of Five Bridges 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.

　　In order to conceptualize a new novel, Sun Zhe, a writer of deduction, rented a private house here. Although the so-called "five bridges", but in fact, one of them has been broken due to old age, so 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 the next door Song Jinglong 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 father and son are confronting each other.

　　It turns out that once Song Jinglong drove a car accidentally killed Wang Er's cattle, which would have paid 5,000 yuan to settle the matter. Unexpectedly, after a few days, Wang Er bite 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 5,000 yuan?"

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

　　Song Xiaohu face glasses were knocked off, he covered the hot face, said viciously: "I did not force you to give birth to me!"

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

　　A few days later, Sun Zhe went out in the morning, found that he passed by the bridge every day crowded with people. At this time has come to winter, 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 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 had the courage 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: "Our father and son love to run in the morning and have the same set of parent-child sportswear. I didn't run with him today because I had a cold, how come I went out for a while, this person is gone?"

　　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 had a fight. Song Jinglong gave his son a slap 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 chop 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 for the money owed desperate?"

　　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 in the nearby hills 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 been 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 had a fight, but it does not mean that the relationship is poor."

　　Li Qiang added: "I heard that your son still 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 reason to be against me, or that I will be against my son? A mere $600,000 is only the money for two or three of my works, I would not kill for this money; likewise, I also promised to help my son pay his debts, and I do not believe he would do so. Didn't you also decide that he fell to his death naturally? Even if I don't like him, can I remote control him to fall to his death?"

　　Song Jinglong's words are not much, but every sentence hit Li Qiang's soft spot. Even if there is a motive for father and son to turn against each other, but how did it?

　　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, has now identified the owner of the footprints, it is with the Song family father and son clashes Wang Er. More eyewitnesses said, Wang Er first night in the Internet cafe to play all-night game, early in the morning on the machine home, and that small bridge is his way. According to the time projection, this person arrived at the small bridge should be in Song Xiaohu morning 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 past disputes, and pushed him off the bridge, did not it?"

　　Wang Er said, "I have a grudge against his old man, why 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 even meet Song Xiaohu when I crossed the bridge."

Snow and ice do not lie

　　According to the time projection, Wang Er home when it is Song Xiaohu 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 regenerated 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 actually 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, Li Qiang to find, 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 believe, but with the time does not match."

　　Li Qiang said, "Have you ever thought about the possibility that Wang Er really did not meet Song Xiaohu, because Song Xiaohu simply did not fall to his death there."

　　Sun Zhe listened to the end, 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 heart amazed, two people with words to wind him up, the original is to bring him here.

　　Sun Zhe explained: "We pass every day which bridge, there is no specific coordinates in mind, but subconsciously go to that 'closest' bridge. In fact, 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 in accordance with Song Xiaohu technique "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 do the same thing. That day, you pretend to get up early to go running, deliberately put the will in Song Xiaohu easy to find 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 eyes are also bad, mistakenly thought that his father had gone on the bridge, panicked and chased after him, and 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 the very 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 the location 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 actually not Song Jinglong's own son."