276. Start with a cat and end with a cat
Although Uncle Lao was confused again at this time, he still couldn't stop Zhang Lei's eagerness.
Jiang Feng just came over temporarily, and he didn't know the reason, and his colleague surnamed Sun also pulled the corner of Zhang Lei's clothes, saying that people are confused again, don't be stimulated anymore, and ask again when they are sober.
However, at this critical time, waiting for an extra minute is tormenting.
Xiao Ran knew what Zhang Lei was thinking, if Uncle Latch's cat really scratched Ruan He, and then was killed by Ruan He immediately, in the case that the cat corpse was not cleaned up, there would definitely be DNA left on the cat's paws, and combined with circumstantial evidence, it was the most convincing direct evidence!
However, what is worrying is that it has been nearly two weeks since the 29th, and what happened to Uncle Latch's cat after it died, if it was thrown directly into the trash can, or thrown to some fur dealer, this result was like a bolt from the blue for everyone who was struggling to find the truth.
Even if the cat corpse can be found now, judging from the performance of the old uncle, he is quite affectionate for his cat, otherwise he would not be stimulated and confused when he mentions this matter, so whether he cleaned up after the death of the cat at that time is another worrying matter.
But now Uncle Latch is confused again, and it is not good to say when he will be sober, without his answer, there is no direction to find it.
"Uncle, think about it again, where did you throw your cat?"
Zhang Lei persevered in asking, seeing that the case was about to make substantial progress, but he was suddenly hung here without getting up or down, this feeling is uncomfortable and can be devastating.
But the confused old uncle couldn't feel the anxiety in Zhang Lei's words, he just stalked his neck, spread his hands, closed them, and spread them out again, and muttered in his mouth: "Puff...... Dead ......"
"Oh my God!" Zhang Lei scratched his scalp fiercely, feeling that his head was about to explode.
Xiao Ran patted Zhang Lei on the shoulder, and said calmly and firmly: "What's the hurry, pay attention to your mentality! It's been so many days, if you have an accident, you will be out early, if you can find it now, you won't be in a hurry for a few hours!"
Zhang Lei nodded, took a deep breath and calmed down, as for the colleague surnamed Sun and Jiang Feng, the two didn't know what the case was to be investigated, and listened in confusion throughout the whole process.
"What are the two little police officers talking about my father's cat?" The old bolt's daughter-in-law was buttoning the coat of the old bolt, and when she heard the conversation between Xiao Ran and Zhang Lei, she raised her head and asked.
Looking at the clear eyes of the old daughter-in-law, Xiao Ran's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked, "Do you know?"
"Huh
The old bolt's daughter-in-law was stunned for a moment, nodded and said: "It's dead, that cat is super fierce, and it's very weird, no one is allowed to touch it except my dad, once I want to feed it and scratch me with a claw, my dad has fed it for several years, and he takes it with him wherever he goes, and he is closer to the cat than to his son."
Then a few mornings ago, I saw my dad in a daze at the cat on the table, I looked dead, there was blood on the neck and belly, I had already told my dad that the cat was too weird, to take a rope in his hand, otherwise something would happen, now it's okay, it must have provoked or bitten someone, and someone killed it!"
"The cat is dead, what happened to the corpse, can it still be found?" Xiao Ran said with concern.
"It's been stinky for so long, why are you looking for it......"
Uncle Latch's daughter-in-law said, seeing Xiao Ran's serious face, she quickly changed her words: "My dad took the iron box and buried it under the road in front of the door, the old man was sweating and digging the pit so deeply......"
The old bolt's daughter-in-law knew everything, and when they heard this, Xiao Ran and Zhang Lei breathed a sigh of relief for the time being, and it was good that they could find it.
So they followed the old man and his daughter-in-law back to their residence, and the old man's daughter-in-law took care of her father-in-law into the house, and then came out with a small shovel, and pointed to the brick and stone pavement under the chassis of the car, "I remember to bury it in this piece, you can look for it." ”
"Get out of the way!"
Xiao Ran took the small shovel, took off the recorder on his chest and handed it to Jiang Feng to continue recording, and when he saw Zhang Lei retreating the car to the side, he squatted down and carefully observed the ground.
Finally, I found a few crevices near the root of the wall, which were obviously fresh, and I thought they were the places where the old latch buried the cat.
Xiao Ran used a shovel to pry open the stones and bricks covering the ground, and dug up the solid soil under it little by little.
After digging down about 30 centimeters, a red-lacquered iron box that had been squeezed by the dirt and somewhat deformed was revealed from the soil, and the word "so-and-so" was still written on the cover.
Xiao Ran put on gloves, carefully removed the surrounding debris, and waited for Zhang Lei to put the label to take a photo, and then took out the iron box about a foot long.
When the box came out, it was Zhang Lei's business, Xiao then took a few steps back, if the cat was in the box, dead for so many days, and the underground temperature was relatively high, it was definitely rotten and smelly.
Although Xiao Ran is not afraid of this smell, as long as he is a normal person, he will definitely not like to smell this smell, even if Xiao Ran sometimes does things that make people scratch their heads, but that is the price of being handsome, not psychopathic!
Zhang Lei took a deep breath and forcefully lifted the iron box, and sure enough, as soon as the box was opened, a strong rancid smell that seemed to have accumulated to the point of being about to explode suddenly burst out of the inside of the iron box.
"Oops......"
The old daughter-in-law was poking her head out to look into the box, and when she saw the rotten cat corpse and the mucus foaming at the bottom of the box, she screamed strangely, and ran into the house with her mouth covered in disgust.
Zhang Lei held his breath and didn't feel anything for the time being, although he had some spicy eyes, but Jiang Feng, who was standing next to him, was blinded by Chong's brain, pursed his lips tightly, and the horizontal flesh on his face became more and more protruding, but he still tried his best to maintain his posture and not let the recorder in his hand shake.
Xiao Ran put on a mask and took over the recorder, Jiang Feng jumped to the side in just a few steps, gasped violently, and shouted in pain: "Grandma, why is it so stinky, it is heavier than the smell of those rotting corpses at the scene!"
"That's for sure, it's all the essence that is concentrated! The box that has been saved up for such a long time must be incomparable to those corpses whose stench has been spreading!" said a colleague surnamed Sun on the side, which seemed to have some truth.
Xiao Ran and Zhang Lei turned a deaf ear to these, and after sticking the label and taking pictures, Zhang Lei looked at the cat corpse, "It shouldn't have been cleaned up." ”
"Back to the team, send to the forensic department, these are their specialties. ”
Xiao Ran took a large number of physical evidence belts, wrapped the iron box and the cat corpse in it, filled the pits on the road in a few clicks, and the group immediately got into the car and returned to the team.
"We first found Wang Xiaomei's body because of a cat on the construction site, right?"
On the way, Zhang Lei looked at the pet cats that walked by from time to time on the side of the road, and suddenly sighed: "If this cat really has her DNA on its paws, it really starts with cats and ends with cats!"