Chapter 34: Strange Things in the Village
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"Can you tell me more about what's going on?" Fang Yuan asked seriously.
The Straw Hat looked at the curled trouser leg and asked, "Aren't you a cop?" Do you believe in these too? β
Fang Yuan also followed Dai Xu's appearance this time, and came to a noncommittal position, and said vaguely: "Believe it or not, don't you have to tell the matter first to hear it." β
The trouser leg should be usually a more talkative person, originally a little worried, now see that this little girl is willing to listen to herself say these things, and the other party is still a young policeman, suddenly came to the momentum, the mysterious Fang Yuan said: "It's not the last time that Shangtou County wants to make this messy grave, this piece is usually not willing to come over, there are some old graves I don't know how many years, I have been playing since I was a child, no one dares to touch, you look around here, who has opened up the wasteland and farmed?" Not at all! Seriously, sometimes, you can't be too hard-mouthed, don't believe anything, when we were young, the old people at home told us, don't come to play around here, in case you provoke something unclean, then it will be a big trouble. When we heard that this blockbuster was going to be cleared, we all panicked, but something happened in the end. Seeing that the deadline was approaching, an old house in our village was haunted! β
"What's the old house haunted? That's what the family said? Fang Yuan asked.
The rolled trouser leg waved his hand: "If there are people in that house, it won't be haunted!" That's how it goes. We have an old house in our village, halfway up the hill, and there are no neighbors around. It turned out that someone lived, and that family moved to our village later, so there was nothing else, there was a vacant lot halfway up the mountain, and it was quite flat, and they built a house there and settled down to live, but the man of that family left early. It seems like a long time ago, when I was working in the production team, there was an accident. I don't know what happened when I was stoned to death by a big rock, and then it was the old lady who pulled three or four children by herself, and it was not easy to listen. And that old lady has a very stubborn personality. She pulls three or four children alone, and other families want to help, she is quite vigilant, always afraid that people have any bad intentions, and slowly no one wants to deal with their family. Later, her children were all older. It seems that they are quite powerful, and they have never come back since they went out of school. The old lady lived alone in her old house, for many years, until the old lady died, the house was deserted, no one had the leisure, nothing to run to the broken house of someone else's house in the middle of the mountain, the house was in tatters on the side of the mountain for a long time, but a few days ago, one morning, someone in our village found that the old lady's broken house was actually smoking from the chimney early in the morning, and thought that someone from that family had come back, and thought it was unlikely, so I ran to see itAs a result, I went to the back kitchen to take a look, scared to death, the hearth in the kitchen is still hot, there is still burned firewood ash in the hearth, there is a smell of meat in the kitchen, but there is nothing in the pot. Oh my mother, this scared the man in our village to death, and he ran home with a crawl, and almost fell off his head halfway up the mountain, and when he got home, he fell ill with a high fever, and asked the little doctor in the village to come and help him, saying that he was frightened, and the man told us that the ghost of the old lady must have returned, and he was cooking on the fire as before. β
"I also heard about that, isn't it the big man Li, I also went to his house to see him, and he was really scared, that face was so frightened that he had a high fever, and he didn't have a serious face, he was miserable." The Straw Hat also helped out, "Fortunately, my house is far away from there, and I don't have the problem of getting up early in the morning and going out to look around, if I catch up, I guess I will be scared half to death." β
"Wouldn't it be that someone in the village was bored and ran away?" Fang Yuan asked deliberately.
"That can't be! Up and down in our village, who doesn't know that the old lady died a little miserable, the head of the body at home for several days, all stinky before being found, the old man spoke, this kind of death is too miserable, it is not peaceful after death, so we usually no one in the village dares to go to the broken house she left to move, even if there is that kind of leather boy at home, it must be a thousand instructions, not allow the child to run over there to play, it is best not to even go near the hillside! The man who rolled his trouser legs said, "That day, the big man Li probably got up early in the morning, and before he woke up, he ran away with the wrong tendon in his brain, so he scared himself!" β
"That's it, and you see that this time is also in a hurry, why is it just in time for the deadline for moving graves!" The straw hat also had a question, "And the old lady of that family, in fact, is not buried in us, even if it is troublesome, it shouldn't be made in our place, right?" Why is this still dead, dead and so nostalgic! β
"Oh, don't talk about it! Listen to my panic! The man who rolled up his trouser legs shuddered.
For Fang Yuan, this story obviously sounded a bit absurd, just because it was an abandoned deserted house, and suddenly someone had burned a fire, as if they had cooked a meal, just talking about haunting or something, it really sounded very ridiculous, but combined with the situation they had encountered before, Fang Yuan attached great importance to this somewhat absurd and ridiculous rumor, maybe for the villagers, it was one thing for the old lady's deserted house to smoke, and now the headless male corpse was found in the mass grave, this was another matter, but for Fang YuanIt is very likely that there is some kind of connection between these two things, in the same area where the headless male corpse was found, in a deserted house that has been uninhabited for a long time, someone suddenly cooked something on the fire, and there was a so-called smell of meat, and the skull they found. It was precisely the flesh on the head that was cooked and shaved off, and as soon as the two compartments were connected, it was very revealing.
After Fang Yuan listened to them. Hurriedly went over to find Dai Xu, she communicated with the two villagers, Dai Xu had already walked out a long way, when Fang Yuan went to look for him, he was squatting on the ground and picking the dirt on the ground with his fingers, when he saw Fang Yuan coming, he beckoned to her. Motioning for her to come to him, Fang Yuan saw him digging a small pit on the ground with his hands that was not too deep, and waited until he came to him. Dai Xu pinched a handful of soil from the ground of the pit, held it up and handed it to Fang Yuan, and said to her, "Can you smell this soil if there is any special smell?" β
Fang Yuan was also scared of the smell just now, and Dai Xu asked her to smell it. She knew there had to be a reason. It was definitely not for the sake of pranks or anything like that, but she was still extra careful, leaning over little by little, and sniffing it carefully, there was no other smell other than the natural smell of earth.
Fang Yuan was afraid that he wouldn't smell carefully, so he hurriedly wiped the cool oil around his nose as clean as possible with a tissue, and then got closer to smell it. It's still the same, with an earthy smell. Nothing else. So she shook her head at Dai Xu and said, "I've smelled it, and it doesn't seem to have any special smell, just an earthy smell." β
"That's right." Dai Xu nodded, as if what he wanted was such an answer, "I just took the place where the body was dug up as the center of the circle, and I have already turned around it, except for the part of the area where the body was dug up, the soil in other places is just ordinary soil, and there is no other smell, why is it only the place where the body was dug up stinks?" Do you think it's a coincidence? β
Fang Yuan thought for a moment and shook his head: "If it were somewhere else, I might think it might be a coincidence, but it will definitely not be here, a large area of mass graves, I asked the villagers just now, the villagers said that the local residents are quite taboo about this side, so they basically walk around, don't come here to move, the place where the body was dug up just now is indeed just like Tang Hongye said, there is a heavy smell of feces, I think even if the countryside uses manure, no one will come here to fertilize the wasteland near a mass grave." β
"That's right, that's what I thought too, so you see," Dai Xu took out three small evidence bags from his coat pocket, each containing a little dirt, "I took a little soil sample near the burial site, and took it to the others later, and brought it back with the soil sample around the corpse, and compared it with the test." I think the murderer we met this time, if he has no experience in rural life and is not very familiar with these things like farm work, then he must be a person who is not too low in education, if my judgment is not wrong, the soil where the body is buried must have been mixed with manure, and the manure will make the bacteria in the soil become active, and the direct result of bacterial activity is to accelerate the decay of the corpse. If there is really manure in the surrounding soil, then the actual time of death may be shorter than the corpse itself seems, and the murderer's purpose in doing this is either to speed up the decomposition of the corpse and strive for the actual destruction of the corpse as soon as possible, or to mislead our judgment of the time of death through the method of accelerating the decay, so that the murderer may have evidence of an alibi. β
Fang Yuan nodded hurriedly, a little surprised in his heart, it was really unimaginable that they had investigated the people around Guan Yongfu before, who among them would have such a meticulous mind, they knew how to use manure to speed up the decay of the corpse, further disturbing the sight of the police, and why did they go to great lengths to toss the corpse into this small village that was not close to the city and bury it around the mass grave.
"Of course, the premise of these hypotheses is that this headless male corpse matches the skull we found earlier, otherwise it would be meaningless." In a cautious manner, Dai Xu added another sentence, and then asked Fang Yuan, "What did you just talk to those two people?" β
Fang Yuan hurriedly told Dai Xu what Fang had just learned, and after listening to it, Dai Xu also felt that the incident she had overheard was very significant, he praised Fang Yuan a few words, put away the soil sample, and hurriedly turned back with Fang Yuan, looking for Forensic Doctor Liu to hear what the results were after examining the corpse.
Forensic Doctor Liu has also conducted a preliminary examination of the basic situation of the headless male corpse, the weather is already very hot, although it was found that there is an old willow tree with a crooked neck not far from the location of the headless male corpse, which can slightly block the scorching sun, but squatting next to a rotten corpse that exudes a pungent rancid smell Cheng DΓΉ is very busy for a long time, it still makes Forensic Doctor Liu look a little tired, he saw Dai Xu come back with a few bags of soil samples in his hand, his eyes lit up, he smiled at Dai Xu and nodded, and said: " You're quite thoughtful, I'm still thinking about what I want to tell you, when I checked the corpse just now, I felt that there was indeed a smell of fertilizer in the surrounding soil, and it wasn't the smell of fertilizer, and it was more like feces when I asked, and I was about to say that this matter was related to the decay of the corpse, and I wanted to see if there was such dung around, and you had already collected the soil sample! Not bad! You're the one who really does things, and you're going to do it with your heart! β
Dai Xu smiled and waved his hand, handed the soil sample to the colleague of the criminal technique, and asked Forensic Doctor Liu: "Does it feel like the same person?" β
"It's very likely, I look at this corpse, although it is rotten badly, but it can be seen that the section of the neck bone was also sawn off with a saw or something, from the condition of the section, it is very gentle with the skull we found before, and when I go back, I will compare it carefully, and I can draw conclusions to see if the cross-sectional texture of the sawn out is also consistent. In fact, in other words, the security of our city A should not be bad enough to have two headless cases in a short period of time. Forensic Doctor Liu smiled bitterly and sighed, he suddenly thought of something again, "Oh, by the way, have you two read the newspaper recently......"
Dai Xu nodded, sighed a little helplessly, waved his hand, and said that it was useless to say more, and Forensic Doctor Liu also understood, patted his arm, which was a kind of understanding and sympathy, and then went to work on something else.
"Let's go, there are still Tang Li and Tang Hongye here, it's okay, let's go to the village committee." Dai Xu motioned for Fang Yuan to go with him, what Fang Yuan had heard from the onlookers just now was extremely likely to help them find the first scene where the murderer killed and dismembered the body and cooked the deceased's head, this clue was very crucial.
Fang Yuan nodded, the information she had inadvertently captured was very likely to be very important now, which made her heart full of confidence and confidence, and she had an indescribable sense of achievement. (To be continued......)