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    very good.  The police officer thought that Ye Fan's testimony was undoubtedly false, but the problem was how to prove it was false.  There are two possible explanations. One is that Ye Fan is a liar, and the other is that Jiang Tiansheng designed to deceive him.  If the facts are as inferred from the previous one, then the police will need to spend a lot of energy to prove that this testimony is false.  If the fact is that the latter inference is true, then asking the boss of the Guangua garage for verification may help clarify the matter.

    The garage owner and his mechanics were more than happy to help.  They remembered Ye Fan very clearly - there was nothing strange about it. A complete stranger coming to rent a car was a rare thing in a small place like Guangua.  They still remembered that Ye Fan did take out his watch, compared it with the clock in the repair shop, and mentioned that his watch had stopped just now and he had to ask a passerby for the time.  Then he said, "Oh, yes, it seems like the time is right now." and asked if their clock was accurate and how long it would take to get to the village.

    "Is your clock accurate?"

    "The clock is accurate that day."

    "What do you mean, that day?"

    "Actually, it's a little slow, but we just adjusted it on Thursday morning, right?"

    The repairman said yes.  Every Thursday he would always get the time right.  Because of the market, Thursday is an important day, and all local businesses revolve around this day.

    ¡°This doesn¡¯t seem to have any swaying effect on the testimony.  It is true that neither the boss nor the repairman actually saw Ye Fan's watch, but they both stated that he did say "It seems that the time is right now." So, if there is any mistake, then Ye Fan must be  The dial is deliberately concealed.  Moreover, there is something unusual about Ye Fan being so stubborn and focused on the accuracy of his watch.  The police officer boarded his police car again and returned to the village. At this time, he was even more convinced that Ye Fan was a heartless liar.

    Sheriff Gu Pengfei also agreed with him.  "It seems very unnatural to me," he said, "that a man would obsess over the exact time he arrived at a place. But the trouble is, if he says he saw Jiang Tiansheng, there is no way to prove it.  He didn¡¯t see it, what should we do?¡±

    "Well, Sergeant," the sergeant suggested in a resigned tone, "what I'm thinking is that if Jiang Tiansheng or whoever was riding on the beach between the checkpoint and the railroad, someone would have seen him. We  Didn¡¯t you ask all the people who passed by the top of the sea cliff during that time?¡±

    "Little guy, how do you think I didn't do this?" the Sheriff replied seriously, "I asked everyone who passed by that area between one o'clock and two o'clock, but no one saw even a trace of it.  Animal skins or horse hair.¡±

    ¡°Where are the people who live in those houses by the sea?¡±

    "They?" the police chief snorted, "They didn't see anything. If, as I think, Lao Bai was involved, they wouldn't say they saw anything. I think we should assume that there is something hidden here. However,  If you are willing, you can check it out yourself, young man. If you can find out anything, I will hand over the case to you. Lao Bai is prepared, and neither he nor his brother-in-law will report anything to you.  The police told the truth. But you should go ahead, you are a standard young man, maybe you can ask something from the woman."

    The police officer blushed and ran there as ordered.  To his relief, none of the men were there, and the women were washing clothes in the washtub.  No one welcomed him warmly at first, but then he took off his uniform and helped Xiaobai's wife carry two large buckets of water from the well. After that, the atmosphere became less cold and he could finally ask questions.

    But the results of the inquiry were disappointing.  The women did not see any horses or riders on Thursday the 18th, and they had good reasons.  As usual, the family had dinner at twelve o'clock, and then the women went to do the laundry.  The officer could tell that they did have a lot of laundry to do.  The officer shouldn't have been so surprised, all those men's sweatshirts and smelly socks and this and that, every bucket of water had to be carried.  That afternoon, no one left the house. They were all in the backyard. No one went out until at least three o'clock. That was when Lu Yuanlin was preparing to take out the potatoes for dinner and peel them in the front garden.  At that time, Lu Yuanlin saw a man, wearing shorts and carrying a backpack, coming from the beach along the path, but it was probably not the man the police wanted to inquire about, because a detective came with him and told them that they had discovered  A corpse.  The officer wanted to hear what they had to say about the man.  The man wore a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles. He came up from the path "about three-thirty or four o'clock," and went straight onto the main road.  Of course, it must be Ye Fan. After a simple calculation, this time is very similar to his own story and Zhiqiu¡¯s story.fit.  But this doesn't prove anything, and the critical time period between one-thirty and three o'clock is still not very clear.

    With a very dissatisfying confusion, the police officer slowly returned to the checkpoint.  He noticed that only a little bit of beach could be seen along the way.  In fact, only within a kilometer of both ends of the flat railway does the road come close to the edge of the reef.  In other places, there is a large distance between the edge of the reef and the high sea cliffs, which prevents the beach from being visible.  It is not that risky if a person rides a horse to kill people on the flat iron in broad daylight. It would not be surprising at all if pedestrians on the road see the horse galloping past.  But did the horse really run across here?  There are horseshoes as proof, and there are rings on the rocks as proof.  What puzzled the police officer the most was the hanging ring. If no one tied the horse there, what was the hanging ring used for?  Moreover, according to the speculation of Xia Xiang, the fastest updated (Wentian www.xiarixs.com) Xia Novel Network, the horse must be put back before Zhiqiu reaches Pingtie.

    ¡°But from the perspective of the murderer, this approach is simply trying his luck.  How could he be sure that a horse would run back instead of wandering somewhere, which would draw attention to itself?  It stands to reason that after being forced to run wildly for four and a half kilometers, it would be more consistent with the facts for the horse to wander slowly.  Assuming that he had nothing to do with the sling, is it possible that the horse was tied somewhere else and was fetched later?  There are good reasons to refute this inference.  Because there are no posts or dams on the beach to tie the horses to.

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