It's a pity that until the day of his little granddaughter's death, he couldn't fulfill this little wish in his heart.

They have a custom that minor children who die young, especially those who are not yet a year old like their granddaughters, cannot be given funerals, and even the elderly cannot be sent. He could only stand at the door of the house with his old wife, waiting for his daughter to send his granddaughter's small body to the crematorium in exchange for less than a handful of ashes, and then there was no evidence of his granddaughter's existence in this world.

After this blow, Xu Chongli's whole person was rickety, he left home every day after breakfast, and never came back until it was dark, he walked on the crowded street every day, his eyes scanned all kinds of people around him like a searchlight, hoping to find the younger brother he hated deeply.

Going out every day makes his relatives very worried. Although the disappearance of a young life has already made their family feel painful, but life and death are fateful, the child is gone, they must accept this fact no matter how sad they are, the dead are gone, and the life of the living always has to go on, Xu Chongli, who is the pillar of the family, has an old mother to support, and a wife and children below, if something really happens to him, this already crumbling family will be completely dispersed.

The daughter didn't have a regular job, she had a part-time job before she got married, she became pregnant soon after she got married, and she had been resting at home, and then she experienced a series of blows such as divorce, the child fell ill and died, and the body was not as tough as before. But without a house and a shop, it is not a matter to always sit and eat like this, the mother and daughter discussed, it is better to be cooked than to be cooked, or rent a small shop in a suitable area of the surrounding community to open a small supermarket, as long as they are diligent and steadfast, the business should be reasonable.

Just when the mother and daughter were thinking about how to persuade Xu Chongli to regain his belief in life, he suddenly went home like no one, seemed to have returned to normal, actively listened to the opinions of his wife and daughter, and began to look around for a suitable shop.

Lao Zhang and Lao Liu are a pair of good friends who have known each other for more than 30 years, two people work in the same factory, retire with their feet in front of their feet, and at the same time they are obsessed with fishing. When the fish floats up and down on the water, and when the rod is harvested to catch one fish after another, no matter how big or small the fish is, what kind of species it brings, the kind of satisfaction brought is incomparable to buying fish in the vegetable market. People, retired at home at a certain age, and have nothing to do, they always have to find some sustenance and have some fun, so the two of them went together on the fishing road and couldn't look back. Obsessed to the end they actually became obsessed with night fishing, the family persuaded how dangerous night fishing is, how the body of the two old people can not hold on, but there is no result, they still go their own way, always go to rivers, lakes and seas or inaccessible reservoirs together, the interest comes, you can not go home for a day and a night. If it weren't for the development of communication now, and a phone call could tell them that they were safe and sound outside, the family might not have been in a hurry.

No, some time ago, it rained heavily in the city, and even the water on the city streets was sometimes more than one meter deep, and it was very difficult to travel, but this pair of fishing enthusiasts was as excited as picking up gold ingots, because the upstream reservoir was going to open the flood gate, and they usually went fishing in a river, at this time the water surface rose two meters more than before, and the reservoir was discharged, and a lot of big fish would definitely be put down, this is common sense, how can the two of them not be excited. The wild fish in the river are getting smaller and smaller, there are too many anglers, there are not enough fry stocked, and the biggest fish they have caught recently is only the size of a palm, which is too unfulfilling. Therefore, when they heard the news of the flood discharge, they excitedly sharpened their knives, sorted out all their equipment, prepared their coats and dry food, and wanted to do a great job, catch a thousand eight hundred catties of fish, and have a good time.

The two had already stepped on it beforehand, because the water level of the small river that was close to withering was now skyrocketing, and the old place where they used to go fishing was no longer safe, and they decided to go to the famous stone bridge on the outskirts of the city. To say that this stone bridge still has a certain origin, is the middle and late Qing Dynasty, a rich merchant donated money to build, legend because a rich merchant a close neighbor, walking the night road wading misfortune drowned, the rich merchant hopes that such a tragedy will not be repeated in the future, on the fund to repair this stone bridge, 200 years standing, it is also a landmark building in the city, until today can still be used normally, but because the bridge deck is narrow, vehicles can not pass, become a special pedestrian bridge for pedestrians to walk.

Because there are no more inhabitants on both sides of the bridge, even during the day, there are very few people crossing the bridge, not to mention that they are going to go fishing at night, and at night there is not even a ghost shadow on the bridge, and they will not be disturbed by the bait. The bridge deck is about two meters above the water, and even if the flood is discharged, the stone bridge is not in danger of flooding, but because the water level is rising slightly, the height is just right for them to fish, which is an ideal low point for night fishing.

At about eight o'clock in the evening, with the last rays of the sun shining on the earth, the two old men set up their seats, put down their fishing rods, tied an emergency light to the stone pillar in the middle of the bridge to attract fish, and began to sit down comfortably, smoking and chatting while paying attention to the shaking of the fishing rod in their hands.

The two of them had a very happy night, they kept harvesting at an average rate of one big fish every 15 minutes, and the fish caught in one night could not even fit the few empty buckets they had prepared in advance, and at the end of the fishing, they had to choose to throw the smaller fish back into the river, but they were still reluctant to go home. Fishing, cultivating sentiment to pass the time is the main thing, and catching fish is secondary.

At half past four in the morning, the east has revealed the white of the fish belly, and a thin layer of white mist has appeared on the river, even if it is in the middle of the day, there is a little chill on the river, and the two old men have taken out the long-sleeved jackets that have been prepared and put them on. The pleasure of constantly lifting the rod made them forget the fatigue of fishing all night and still stared at the rod in their hands excitedly. At this time, the emergency lights at the bridgehead flickered a few times and then gradually went out, and the batteries of the three lights they had prepared were usually exhausted. But it didn't matter, it wouldn't be long before the sun would rise, and they couldn't see the fish floating, not because it was too dark, but mainly because there was fog on the river, and this fog would disperse when the sun rose.

At this moment, Lao Zhangtou's fishing rod suddenly trembled violently, and then the two of them took advantage of the light in the sky to clearly see that Lao Zhangtou's fishing rod was dragged into a full bow shape by the fish in the river, and it was about to break.

There is a big fish on the hook, Lao Zhang is so excited that his face is flushed, he has been fishing for seven or eight years, and he has never seen a fishing rod bent into this shape, I don't know what kind of big guy he hooked, they are not a sea rod, but a bargain of a few hundred yuan, it is really going to be broken, the fishing rod money he is not distressed to say, such a big fish, has not seen the appearance and escaped from under his nose, which makes him unwilling to fish anyway. He clutched the rod tightly, sometimes bringing it to the surface of the river, sometimes pulling it back, sometimes carefully reeling the line, sometimes quickly releasing the line, thinking that the big fish that had slipped into the river was weak, and then lifted it up with all his might.

Lao Liu also put down his fishing rod and came over to help, I don't know how big this fish is, when they pull the rod back to reel in the line, they feel extremely difficult. The excitement of the imminent harvest sustained them to repeat the above actions impatiently over and over again, but the fish seemed to be forever tireless, and no matter how much they slipped around, whenever they remembered the rod, the head of the rod would always fall to the surface of the river, and there was no intention of raising its head at all. As for the fish in the river, they didn't even see a single sight.

The two of them were a little depressed, after all, they were almost seventy years old, no matter how excited they were at night, they couldn't hide the fact that their bodies were tired, and they persevered for half an hour, and the sky was bright, and they still couldn't pull this stubborn fish ashore, but they were really reluctant to give up, thinking that even if they couldn't catch it, it would be good to see how big the fish essence was.

Lao Zhang held the fishing rod and was reluctant to let go, and was even more reluctant to cut the fishing line, just waiting for the sun to be a little bigger and the fog on the river surface to disperse, so that they could take a look. After holding on for another half an hour, Lao Zhang's arms trembled, and he couldn't hold it anymore when he saw it, and the fog on the river surface finally dissipated under the direct sunlight, and the thousand-year-old fish essence revealed its true face!

But where is there any fish essence! The "big fish" that they couldn't drag up with all their efforts had arms, legs and a head, and it was simply a dead man who was blistered white!

The two of them, who were not the slightest psychological preparation, saw this scene, they were so frightened that they couldn't hold the fishing rod in their hands, and they watched the dead man drag the fishing rod, lose his restraints, and continue to float downstream along the water. They sat down on the ground and slowed down for a long time before they shivered and took out their mobile phones to call the police, saying that they had found a river drift.

According to the description of the two old men, the dead body was still white and naked, with its back facing up, drifting downstream somewhere. Before the reservoir was released yesterday, although residents along both sides of the river were repeatedly told not to approach the river, it is not excluded that some people want to take advantage of the big water, or come to fish like the old Zhang Tou and the two, or think that they are good at water and go into the water to bathe, and it is not strange that there is an accident, but why the corpse is naked makes people feel a little weird.

In any case, it is better to salvage the corpse first, otherwise the corpse will easily decay on this hot day, and it is estimated that even the face will not be recognizable at that time, and it is a big problem to find the source of the corpse. Generally, there will be a professional salvage team in a waterfront city, but although there are several rivers around this small city, because the amount of water is too small, even children are not easy to be flooded when they go into the water, so this professional salvage team naturally does not have it. The police, who arrived after receiving the police, had to borrow kayaks and life jackets from the flood control and rescue headquarters, and with ropes, they tied the kayaks to the jeep and drove towards the lower reaches of the river. Normally, as long as the corpse surfaces, it is unlikely that it will sink again, they just need to look carefully and then kayak to the nearest place to fish it up.

Because of the turbulent current, it took them only 5 minutes to arrive at the scene after receiving the police, but they chased out another 6 kilometers before they found that there was a white humanoid object rising and falling in the water on the river surface and continuing to go downstream.

Putting down the kayak, the two policemen who knew how to swim put on life jackets and paddled desperately towards the center of the river, which took two hours before tying up the body and dragging it back to the shore about two kilometers away from the place where they had lowered the kayak into the water.

When the body came ashore, several policemen present couldn't help but gasp. The rest of this corpse was not strange, there were no fatal wounds on the body, there were a few holes, and they were also blistered white, and they were weakly opened twice, as if they were drawn by the branches and other objects in the water when they fell into the water after death.

But it was such a corpse with no serious injuries on the surface, but no face. His entire face was carefully cut off with a sharp weapon, leaving a pair of eyeballs without eyelids, because after the vitreous of death slowly became turbid, he stared at a dead fish eye and looked at everyone present, coupled with his nose with only two holes, no upper lip, a mouthful of white teeth, and a mouth that looked like a smile, so that the policemen who thought they were well-informed stood on end.

Who is it? Who is so psychopathic, killing people is not enough, but also tearing off the whole face of others. If it is to hide the identity of the deceased, and does not want people to recognize it, then his methods are too clumsy, with the current criminal investigation technology, fingerprint DNA, tooth X-rays, can be used as a method to identify the identity of the deceased, simply to destroy the face of the corpse, can not achieve the purpose of hiding the source of the corpse.

The river drifter was undoubtedly murdered. In their small city, the level of economic development is not high, but the public security can be counted, and there are naturally fights and brawls over trivial matters, but there are only three murders in the first half of the year, and the murderers are very clear, and the cases were quickly solved. Therefore, when the criminal police team of the city bureau received the corpse, they also thought that it was just a small case of some grievances and angry murder, as long as the source of the corpse was clarified, starting from the social relationship of the deceased, the murderer would definitely have nothing to hide.

At the time of the autopsy, the physical characteristics of the corpse were strictly recorded, and that night, the police issued a warning on the local television station, saying that the physical characteristics of the corpse and the marks on the body were roughly repeated, hoping that if there were lost people in the family, if they found that the river drift had a high similarity with their lost relatives, they would come to the criminal police team to identify the body. (To be continued.) )