Midsummer.

Deep in the Yuntai Mountains, Jade Girl Peak.

Jade Girl Peak is the highest peak of the Yuntai Mountains, with a maximum altitude of more than 3,000 meters.

Located at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters above sea level halfway up the Jade Girl Peak, there is a mountain village.

There are more than a dozen families in the village, all of whom make a living by herding sheep and cattle.

Although the village is small in scale, it has a long history, it existed long before the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the village has a nice name, named Yuntai Village after the Yuntai Mountain Range, which is the smallest administrative village in Lianhai City.

Because of the steep terrain and only one mountain path connecting with the outside world, Yuntai Village has been economically backward for many years, and it is the poorest place in Lianhai City.

In recent years, the Lianhai Municipal Government has stepped up poverty alleviation efforts, benefiting Yuntai Village, and the cattle and sheep raised by the villagers have regular sales channels, and the economic conditions are better than before.

However, the habits of living in the mountains that have been passed down for many years have not changed.

Although there are more than a dozen families in Yuntai Village, because of the mountainous terrain, more than a dozen families live scattered, and even neighbors who live close to each other are separated by 100 meters.

Mrs. Li's family of five, located at the eastern end of Yuntai Village, lives in a self-built house on the edge of a cliff.

Mrs. Li's home is a single-storey civil engineering structure house with an inverted "concave" shape, with a kitchen in the middle and a bedroom and a cowpen on either side.

Mrs. Li's wife was bitten by a poisonous snake when she was grazing in her early years, and she was observed at home for a day, and she was sent to the hospital because she felt something was wrong, but it was too late to treat her and died in the hospital, so Mrs. Li lived with her son, daughter-in-law and two grandsons for many years.

Mrs. Li's two grandchildren, Li Dashan and Li Xiaoshan, one is 6 years old and the other is 4 years old.

The eldest grandson, Li Dashan, reached the age of going to school, and he needed to apply for a household registration to study in the town center primary school under the mountain, so Li Dashan's parents went to the Shanxia Town Police Station to register the two children before the start of school.

Before going out in the morning, Li Dashan's parents specially asked Mrs. Li to take care of their two grandchildren and take care of the family.

Mrs. Li promised again and again, "I usually take care of the two children, and I will also take the cattle and sheep to the mountains to release them today, so you can rest assured, just come back before dark." ”

Yuntai Village is connected to the outside world by rugged mountain roads, and it takes a day to go out to run errands.

After her son and daughter-in-law left, Mrs. Li cooked a meal in the kitchen and left it for her two grandsons to eat at noon, and she prepared to drive the cattle and sheep to graze outside the village.

Before leaving for grazing, Mrs. Li specially instructed her eldest grandson Li Dashan, "Dashan, you and your brother's noon meal has been prepared, and you are in the kitchen, and when you are tired of playing, you can eat by yourself in the kitchen." ”

"Okay."

The eldest grandson, Li Dashan, agreed angrily.

After Grandma Li left, the two grandsons first went to the neighbor next door near the walnut tree to play for a while, there are few toys for children in the mountains, and the children's entertainment activities are to climb trees and dig birds' nests, or play with mud, until noon the weather gradually becomes very hot, the two children are tired of playing, and they feel hungry before returning home.

In the kitchen, Grandma Li made lunch in the morning, Li Dashan and his younger brother shared two large bowls of rice and vegetables, and after eating, the two little guys felt sleepy and were ready to go to the bedroom next to the kitchen to rest.

When I walked to the bedroom door, I found that the bedroom door was locked.

It turned out that Grandma Li locked the door before leaving, but forgot that the two little ones had to rest at noon.

Younger brother Li Xiaoshan looked at his brother helplessly, "Brother, I want to sleep." ”

Brother Li Dashan thought for a while and pointed to the cowpen next door, "It's too hot outside now, it's still cooler in the cowpen, let's go to the cowpen to rest for a while, grandma should be able to come back soon." ”

The elder brother Li Dashan took his 4-year-old brother Li Xiaoshan to the cattle pen next door.

Mrs. Li's cattle pen is a one-story civil structure shed, and the door of the cattle pen and the connection at the top of the wall are connected to the outside world, and the rest are relatively closed.

The floor of the cattle pen is covered with a large amount of dry straw, and under the straw is cow dung that has accumulated over the years.

When you enter the cow pen, there is a pungent smell.

Younger brother Li Xiaoshan covered his nose, "Brother, it stinks in the cattle pen." ”

Brother Li Dashan: "Although the cowpen stinks, it is cool, the sun is shining in the yard, it is too hot, and the grandmother in the kitchen has burned the fire and it is hotter than the yard, and our cattle can live here, and the two of us can live here." ”

The elder brother took a pile of straw from the outside and spread it out in the cowshed to form a simple bunk, "It's cool to lie on it, we'll lie here for a while, and grandma should be able to go home soon." ”

At noon, the sun was shining, and the elder brother and younger brother hid in the cowshed to rest in the shade.

More than two hours passed, and it was close to three o'clock in the afternoon, and Grandma Li came back from herding sheep.

Grandma Li drove the sheep back to the sheepfold and went back to her yard to see the condition of her two little grandchildren, but after looking around, she found that there was no kitchen and the bedroom door was locked.

The two little grandsons are missing.

Grandma Li went to the kitchen again to look around, and found that the meal prepared in the morning had been eaten, thinking that the two children might have gone to the neighbor's house to play after eating, so Grandma Li went to the neighbor's house to look around, but there was no trace of the child.

Grandma Li was in a hurry and hurriedly asked her neighbors to help her find the child.

The whole village mobilized and searched for two hours until about 5 p.m., when the child's parents returned from the town.

The child's mother found the footprints of two children at the door of the cowshed, and when she entered the cowshed, she saw the two children leaning on each other, lying on the haystack in the cowshed.

The child has white foam at the corners of his mouth, rice grains in his nostrils, purple lips and nails, and scratches and strangulation marks on his neck.

The two children were out of breath.

Heart-rending cries came from the cowshed.

Grandma Li and the surrounding neighbors all followed the sound into the cowshed, and were surprised to see the situation in the cowshed, Grandma Li rushed forward to hold the bodies of her two little grandsons and cried, "What's wrong?" The two children were fine when they went out in the morning......"

A neighbor noticed the wound on the child's body, "The child has injuries, it can't be a human injury, right?" ”

When the child's mother heard this, she seemed to be stimulated, and suddenly convulsed, foaming at the mouth and falling to the ground.

Grandma Li also began to vomit.

Seeing this, the neighbors hurriedly carried the person out, and some people shouted in the chaos, "Send it to the hospital quickly, Mrs. Li's family is afraid that they are sad." ”

"The child is out of breath and still has injuries on his body, is it murder?"

"Call the police!"

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Early morning.

Lianhai City, Xinhua Apartment.

Gu Yanan went downstairs from his bachelor apartment, walked to the parking space, and found that the car was different from usual, and after a closer look, the left rear tire was completely flat.

Double-check the flat tire and find that there is a diamond-shaped notch in the tire.

The car was fine when I got off work yesterday, but now after the night, the tire was punctured and out of breath, and I don't know which bear child did it.

It's almost time to go to work, Gu Yanan doesn't have time to deal with it, thinking about waiting for it to be dragged to the repair shop for repair after work, and it's still too late to ride a public bicycle to work at this time.

When he turned around, he looked up, but found Gu Qingcen standing aside.

Gu Qingcen walked around Gu Yanan's car and stopped next to the punctured left tire, "Judging from the place where the tire of the car was broken, it should have been punctured, Yanan, who have you offended recently?" ”