Return to the place where the small footprints walked in parallel, and follow the small footprints again. This time, it didn't take more than ten minutes to find that the little footprints were just going around the mountain, and then returned to the cave where Shi Yimu's father lived. Perhaps, the murderer deliberately lit the firewood in the cave after arranging these footprints to attract the attention of the people down the mountain, and then found the snow corpse on the top of the mountain.

In the weeds behind the cave, Liu Nanhe found a piece of wool about ten centimeters long. If it weren't for the wool hanging on the top of the weeds, it would not be easy to find on such a snowy night. Shi Yimu glanced at it and said, "My uncle...... When my uncle went up the mountain, did he wear a gray woolen hat?"

Liu Nanhe thought about it for a moment and nodded slowly.

Shi Yimu shouted angrily: "I knew that damn old man would not let my father go...... It's all his fault, if it weren't for the crazy woman he found, so many things wouldn't have happened......"

Liu Nanhe knew that Shi Yimu had been hiding a lot of things all along, but he didn't expect Shi Yimu to say this at this time. Listening to the meaning of his words, the woman named Zhao Lianhua seemed to have been killed by his father. Shi Yimu grabbed the flashlight and ran down the mountain violently, falling down several times along the way, and his head was covered with blood. Liu Nanhe couldn't pull it back, so he could only follow him and run down at risk.

It took a lot of time to go up the mountain, but it only took more than ten minutes to go down. Liu Nanhe's face was also scratched by the branches, and he grabbed the snow and covered his face, the cold feeling covered the pain, and the bleeding quickly stopped.

Running near the village, thick flames and black smoke rushed out of Uncle Shi's stone house. The head of fire licked the trees around it like a raging monster. Fortunately, there was snow everywhere, and the melted water stopped the fire from spreading, so it didn't reach other people's houses.

Shi Yimu walked to the outside of the stone house in a daze, and the firelight illuminated his face. His eyes were red, his fists were clenched, Mu Ran looked at it for a while, and threw the flashlight in his hand into the stone house with all his might. Liu Nanhe saw Qin Yiyan and Zhao Hongyan, who were sweating profusely, and also saw Shi Anning, who was terrified, Fang Yaya held his little hand tightly, for fear that he would run around and fall to his body. The other villagers were watching and whispering something to each other. No one went to fight the fire anymore, because the fire was too strong, and the water supply on the mountainside was insufficient, so it was difficult to work at all.

Seeing Liu Nanhe coming down the mountain with an embarrassed face, Qin Yiyan came over and touched the wound on his face, and asked in surprise: "Didn't the three of them go up the mountain?"

Liu Nanhe said in a low voice: "On the top of the mountain, Shi Yimu's father was killed. ”

Seeing Liu Nanhe's strange expression, Qin Yiyan's heart tightened, and said, "It's a snowman again?"

Liu Nanhe nodded and said, "It's a snowman again." ”

After briefly explaining the situation on the mountain, Qin Yiyan turned his head and was about to go up the mountain. Liu Nanhe and Chi Wei repeatedly dissuaded them, but they were rejected by Qin Yiyan. Qin Yiyan said with a resolute expression: "The previous autopsy report, in fact, we have read it several times, and we didn't find any problems at all. Now that I have direct access to the scene of the murder, I must find out clearly and solve this case as soon as possible. ”

Liu Nanhe stared at Qin Yiyan for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll go up with you." ”

Called Chi Wei and Fang Yaya to him, and told them to take out Shi Yimu's words and find out the murder more than ten years ago, Liu Nanhe borrowed two flashlights, took a few small cups casually, and accompanied Qin Yiyan up the mountain again. As soon as he took a few steps, Zhao Hongyan, who was eager, chased after him and said, "Officer Liu, Officer Qin, this is the file I found from the office." ”

Liu Nanhe stretched out his hand to take it, but handed it to Chi Wei again, and said, "We have to go up the mountain, Weizi, you and Yaya carefully study this dossier." ”

Fang Yaya agreed, Liu Nanhe and Qin Yiyan glanced at each other and strode towards the mountain. Zhao Hongyan hurriedly followed and said, "I'll go too, Qiangzi is alone in the mountains, I don't worry." ”

Liu Nanhe replied and said, "Find a wooden stick and bring it, there are wolves on the mountain." ”

Zhao Hongyan paused for a moment, and then turned around to find a wooden stick. After looking around for a while, I couldn't find it, so I came out with a villager's shovel. The three of them formed a team and quickly went up the mountain, Liu Nanhe ran two or three times in two hours, and he was also familiar with the road conditions here, plus they were very agile, and they came to the top of the mountain without encountering any danger on the road.

At the top of the mountain, Liu Qiang, who had stayed here, was gone. And Shi Yimu's father's body was also missing, and in the woods dozens of meters away, there was another snowman. Liu Nanhe's face turned pale, and Zhao Hongyan also ran over quickly, and the three of them grabbed the snowman's face, revealing Liu Qiang's desperate and frightened face. Zhao Hongyan slapped Liu Qiang's face vigorously, and Qin Yiyan probed his snort with his fingers, and said, "There is still qi." ”

After removing the snow blocks, they found that Liu Qiang had no knife wounds on his body at all. It's just that his body was stuck there by two paulownia planks, and there was a snowman built outside, so he couldn't move. The lower end of the paulownia plank was stuck in the crack in the stone, and I don't know how the murderer came up with it. Seeing the three of them coming, Liu Qiang coughed for a long time before he shouted emotionally: "Uncle Shi, it's Uncle Shi, he knocked me unconscious." ”

Liu Nanhe hurriedly said: "Where is he?"

Liu Qiang pointed in the direction of the cliff head. Liu Nanhe looked around for a moment, and then asked, "What about Shi Yimu's father's body?"

Liu Qiang said: "I was carried away by Uncle Shi." ”

Liu Nanhe looked at the footprints in front of him for a while, and sure enough, he saw the footprints of more than fifty yards again. Quickly followed the footprints to the edge of the cliff, only to see that there was an extra scratch mark on the footprints, and a lot of snow fell on the branches and weeds. Qin Yiyan and Zhao Hongyan chased after them, looked at the bottomless cliff in a daze, and said, "Uncle Shi...... Did you jump off a cliff?"

Liu Qiang staggered over, and said with a wry smile: "I heard his cry when I was confused, I don't know if he jumped off the cliff." ”

Liu Nanhe looked back at Liu Qiang and said, "Are you okay?"

Liu Qiang touched the back of his head and said with a bitter face: "It's okay, this little injury is still worth eating." ”

Qin Yiyan ran back to the top of the mountain to investigate the situation at the scene of the snow corpse. Their things were left in Uncle Shi's house, and all the collection utensils were burned, but fortunately, Liu Nanhe thought about it well and brought a few small cups of liquor with him. Handing over the cup, Qin Yiyan glanced at Liu Nanhe quietly and said, "Thank you." ”

She collected the bloodstained snow and put it in a cup. The gray yarn that Liu Nanhe found before was also put up by Qin Yiyan. Liu Nanhe squatted down and accompanied Qin Yiyan to carefully inspect everything on the ground. When Liu Nanhe saw those plus-size footprints again, Qin Yiyan suddenly whispered: "This shouldn't be left by Uncle Shi, his feet are very small, and the shoes at home are obviously small." ”

Liu Nanhe said: "You mean, if he drags such big shoes on the mountain road, it will affect his movements?"

Qin Yiyan nodded solemnly.

Liu Nanhe was silent, and only after a while did he say, "I agree with you on this point. ”

After carefully checking all the traces on the top of the mountain, several people slowly descended the mountain. On the way down the mountain, they encountered the wolves again, but the wolves did not attack, but just looked in the direction of the four people vigilantly, and after a few minutes of confrontation, they turned around and left.

Halfway up the mountain, Uncle Shi's stone house had burned out, and only faint flames and green smoke remained at the moment. The Gucheng Township Police Station has already called, saying that the car that came to support had encountered a breakdown on the way and was now parked a few kilometers away from Lianhuashan Village. Liu Nanhe shook his head helplessly, and could only tell Chi Wei to get up early tomorrow and go to the vicinity of the Lotus River to find the trace of Uncle Shi.

Zhao Hongyan saw Liu Nanhe's dissatisfied expression, and said with a wry smile: "There are actually not many cars in the office, and they are all old police cars, in fact, the folk customs here have always been very simple, and these murders have been the most serious thing in the past ten years." ”

Liu Nanhe pointed to the old Jetta he drove and said, "Is it older than our car?"

Zhao Hongyan shook his head wryly and didn't say anything more. Back at Shi Yimu's residence, Shi Anning had already slept, Shi Yimu was sitting on the sofa with red eyes, and a large number of cigarette butts were thrown in the ashtray in front of him. Fang Yaya hadn't slept yet, curled up and sat in the other corner of the sofa, carefully studying the dossier brought by Zhao Hongyan.

Seeing Liu Nanhe and Qin Yiyan coming back, Fang Yaya got up and said, "Boss, Sister Yiyan, you come and see here." ”

Liu Nanhe leaned his head over, and Qin Yiyan also stretched out his head, and the heads of the two slammed together. Fang Yaya looked at the two of them with her mouth wide open, as if she couldn't understand how two people who were so smart could do such a retarded thing. Qin Yiyan touched her head and glared at Liu Nanhe angrily. Liu Nanhe could only smile helplessly and didn't say anything.

Fang Yaya put the dossier on the table. Judging from the appearance of that file, it has indeed been many years, and the book of that kind of record is also printed with the headhead of the Gucheng Township Police Station in Xinzhong County, Zhengzhong City. Fang Yaya's slender finger pointed to the third line of the record. The police officer wrote in handsome italics: "The deceased Zhao Lianhua, a native of Lianhuashan Village, Gucheng Township, Xinzhong County, Tuobin Province, died at the age of 22 and lived in the family community of the old coal chemical plant in the county seat for a long time, and his address was No. 124 Renmin Street. ”

"Zhao Lianhua is a native of Lotus Mountain Village?" Liu Nanhe and Qin Yiyan were all stunned. Although I had known that she had a local accent, I never dreamed that she would be a local. But in this case, why didn't the people in the village know about her existence, and why did she marry the old man in the village, Uncle Shi?

Liu Nanhe continued to look down: "According to the police investigation, the cause of the deceased's death was excessive blood loss caused by a knife wound, but the handle of the knife was in the deceased's hand, and there was muscle tissue in her own face between her fingernails, plus she had a mental illness, so it was concluded that it was a suicide." Due to the heavy snowfall in the mountains that day, snowflakes piled up on the corpses, so the snowman was formed. The case was reported to the Xinzhong County Public Security Bureau and forwarded to the Public Security Office of the Gucheng Township Government. ”

There was no other mention in the file, and Liu Nanhe couldn't guess how the body stood up, so he could only take out his mobile phone and open the two mobile phone numbers provided to him by Zhu Jianfeng. These two people were both working in the Gucheng Township Police Station at the beginning, and this case was also handled by the two of them. Liu Nanhe decided to call them early tomorrow morning and inquire in detail about the circumstances of the day.

Although they have been transferred out of the public security system for a long time, as Zhao Hongyan said, the people here have always been very simple, and he believes that these two former policemen will not forget all about such a murder.