Chapter Seventy-Six: Show Your Hand Again
Today I obviously came out to play and relax my mood, but I didn't expect such a thing to happen again, but what can I do, who let them do this business, and if something happens, it will naturally be solved.
In this way, he went directly and called Chu Xi and Yin Chen.
At this moment, Shen Lian was standing next to the corpse and observing the corpse carefully, although the corpse had shown signs of decay, she could still judge that the person should not have been dead for a long time.
Because the formation of corpse spots on the corpse is not particularly obvious, it can be seen that the time of death is not particularly long, because it is in the scorching sun for a long time and it is in the wild, so it is easy to attract some insects and other things, and it is normal to accelerate the decomposition of the corpse.
When observing the corpse, Shen Lian also found a very important problem, that is, there were many obvious wounds on the body of the deceased, and there was such a mark on the arm that had not yet decomposed.
After careful identification, she temporarily determined that it should be the scars on the body caused by sickle-like tools, this kind of scars, many places on the body can be clearly seen, it seems that when the murderer did not show mercy to his subordinates at that time, but wanted to kill him.
When Chu Xi and Yin Chen came over, Shen Lian also directly told the two of them about his new discovery.
"The deceased was a man, probably around 30 years old, and the cause of death should have been hacked to death with a sickle or other tool, and the time of death was probably within a week, and I have no way to determine the specifics."
After glancing at the corpse, Chu Xi sighed helplessly.
"What the hell is going on? Recently, various cases have happened frequently, making us more and more busy, and we can't write at all, this is the rhythm that will tire us to death, and even we finally want to take a day off and don't give us such a chance. ”
Shen Lian just looked at his hand and didn't say anything, she had seen too many things like this, and she had already attracted others.
"And how do you bring this corpse back?" Yin Chen asked curiously.
After all, the corpse has begun to decompose, and it is not easy to bring it back, and the smell is a little unacceptable, so I don't know what to do for a while.
After thinking about it for a while, Shen Lian temporarily thought of a solution, "Let's put the corpse here first, and then cover some of the things we brought on it, so that these insects have no way to continue to stay on the corpse, and then send someone to ask from door to door to see if there is any missing person, if there is, bring it for him to identify the corpse, whose family it is, let whoever bring the corpse back and buy it." ”
Chu Xi nodded in agreement, it is true, this is the only way at present, after all, the smell of this corpse is so big, if it is really brought back to the county office, I am afraid that the entire county government will not be able to continue to stay.
However, when she went back, those catchers still brought back all the things that Lian had brought for barbecue, ready to let her show her hand again after the case was over.
Now that the identity of the deceased has been confirmed, the next step is to search for the deceased's family, so that someone can collect his body, and more importantly, perhaps because of this, more details can be known, and the real murderer may be found.
When the murderer killed the deceased, he caused a lot of injuries on his body, many of which were caused after the deceased died.
It can be seen that this murderer has a great hatred for the deceased, otherwise, he would not have done such a thing at all.
Therefore, only after the identity of the deceased is determined first, can we investigate some things related to him, and we can know who he has such a grudge with, so that the other party can be ruthless.
In this way, Shen Lian and Yin Chen, as well as the prefect Chu Xi, still had some plates, and they divided into two routes, investigating and questioning one by one from house to house.
Naturally, Chu Xi took his subordinates all the way, while Shen Lian and Yin Chen were together.
After a day-long search, I finally got the good news at a farmer's house, the family's son has indeed not returned, and many people have been sent out to look for it recently, but they have not been found.
After hearing the news, Shen Lian and Yin Chen took the farmer to the river and asked her to identify the body.
Although the peasant woman was mentally prepared when she went, she couldn't help crying when she saw her own son lying there and dying miserably.
"How could such a thing happen, my poor child? What are you going to do with me......" No matter how hoarse she screamed, it didn't help, the corpse was still cold, lying there without any reaction.
This peasant woman is dependent on her son, and now that such a thing has suddenly happened to her son, she naturally has no way to bear it.
After crying for a long time, her mood slowly improved, but she still kept sobbing, and I am afraid that she could not relieve it for a long time.
From everything she showed, it was clear that the dead man was none other than her son.
However, the peasant woman had no relatives, and her only son had such a thing.
Seeing this, Shen Lian and Yin Chen kindly helped to bury the body together.
After dealing with these things, the peasant woman directly knelt down for the two of them, and just as she was about to kowtow, she was stopped by Shen Lian in time, and the two of them helped her to stand up.
"Don't do it, we're just doing what we can."
The peasant woman shook her head with tears on her face, "I don't know what to say except thank you, but I really thank you two this time." ”
The two of them helped the peasant woman to go back, and happened to meet Chu Xi and his party, so they went directly back to the county office.
After going back, Shen Lian brought a cup of warm tea to the peasant woman who was sitting there silently wiping her tears, and put it next to her, trying to take care of her emotions, so the voice of inquiry was also very gentle and soft.
"Hasn't your son been home for the last few days?"
"Nope."
The peasant woman sighed, shook her head and said, "My son is not worrying, he often gets into trouble, and he usually goes out to squander a few dollars in his pocket, and he will come back when he has no money, and he will live for a while, and sometimes he will secretly take my money, and now that I am hiding, he will not find it." ”
It is not difficult to hear from the peasant woman's mouth that her son is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he should also be a thug who has no serious work and has nothing to do on weekdays.
"So has he usually offended anyone? Or maybe it's someone who has had some grudges, the kind that's bigger. ”
Hearing this, the peasant woman shook her head, "I don't know this very well, he usually doesn't spend a lot of time at home, and he often goes out, so I don't know very well, but I know that he and Zhang Wei are relatively close." ”
"Zhang Wei?"
"Zhang Wei is a man near our house, about the same age as my son, and the two of them often play together."
The peasant woman couldn't ask anything, so Chu Xi directly asked his subordinates to send people home, and at the same time gave a little rice and noodles.
This kind of thing has happened, she must be uncomfortable in her heart, and the family situation is so difficult, so she is also a helper.
After the front foot was sent away, they also came to the house of this man named Zhang Wei on the back foot.
Zhang Wei is 27 years old and still unmarried, and usually makes a little hand-woven cage and sells it at the market.
He seemed a little uncomfortable with the sudden arrival of so many people in the house, and after seeing the prefect Chu Xi, he asked suspiciously, "My lord, why are you here?" ”
"We are here for Sun Jian's business."
Sun Jian was the dead son of the peasant woman.
After hearing this, a nervous look appeared on Zhang Wei's face, and the expression on his face was a little unnatural.
"The two of us haven't seen each other in a while, so I don't know exactly where he is now."
At this time, Shen Lian took the conversation.