Of course, the bureau attaches great importance to this case, and the director put forward two requirements: first, solve the case as soon as possible at all costs; Second, strict confidentiality.

Zhang Kailong once again organized a meeting of the task force, and the room was full of people.

"This case is in charge of our task force, if you have anything to say, just say it!"

Seeing that no one spoke, Zhang Kailong mobilized.

After being silent for more than a minute, a special police officer who looked at him about forty years old slowly stood up and said, "These two people are dead and upside down, and the clue is broken, I think we should start with this cemetery!" ”

Several others also nodded slightly in agreement.

Zhang Kailong checked and found that this cemetery was located in the middle of two villages, more than ten miles away from Nanhu Village, twenty-five or six miles away from Donghu Village, and it was very close to the Yellow River. Because it happens to be in the middle of the two villages, it is a saline-alkali land, which is usually inaccessible.

We first found the village party secretaries of the two villages and asked about the wild forest and the cemetery.

The village party secretary of Nando Village, who is in his fifties, changed his face when he heard us ask about this forest.

"This forest is haunted!"

That was the first thing he said to us.

The people in these two villages all know that the forest is very evil, and it is easy to enter and difficult to get out! The villagers also nicknamed it "Lost Forest".

A few years ago, when food was expensive, there were three families who were bold enough to try to go to the forest to open up wasteland, but before they could farm, the daughters-in-law of two families were stupid. Some say they saw the dirt in the forest, others say she ate the poisonous mushrooms in the forest. As for the real reason, maybe only these two families know!

Later, the grain was not very valuable, and there was a lot of land in these two villages, so no one had the idea of attacking this forest anymore.

Many villagers know that there is a cemetery in the forest, but no one knows which family it belongs to.

Ten years ago, there were people who had seen a funeral procession enter the woods, and these mourners were all unfamiliar faces, and they were not local. Of course, there are some other rumors, but they are not credible when you hear them.

The village party secretary was very enthusiastic and found the oldest old man in Nanhu Village.

The old man was in his nineties, clear-headed, and talkative.

He said that when he was a child, he often followed the older children to the woods to cut grass and feed the rabbits, and there were graves in the woods at that time, but not as many as now. Speaking of this forest becoming evil, it should be after the fifties, and he doesn't know the specific reason.

Leaving these two villages, we went to Lijiatunzi again.

The place of residence of the antique Li is Li's family tunzi, and if this cemetery belongs to his family, maybe some clues can be found in this village.

When Secretary Liu, the old secretary of the Li family, saw our second visit, a strange expression flashed on his face, and he asked, "Captain Zhang is still here to investigate the family surnamed Li?" ”

Zhang Kailong nodded.

Liu Zhishu continued: "I expected you to come back a long time ago, after all, ...... After all, I didn't ask anything last time. ”

"Lao Liu! Don't be nervous, we'll just ask......"

Zhang Kailong said in a soothing tone.

"After you left, I also asked the old people in the village around the corner to know what was going on."

"You asked? That's great! ”

Zhang Kailong slapped his hand and sat on the chair behind him.

"This has to start from the fifties......"

The founding of the People's Republic of China was in ruins, and the whole society was relatively turbulent, and Li Jiatunzi was no exception.

It was the third year that the antique Li family moved to this village, and the youngest son of the village fell in love with Li Guohua's sister.

Everyone in the village knows that the youngest son of the village chief is a gentleman, who has made war exploits with his father and eldest brother, and he is rampant in the township, bullying men and women.

Li Guohua's sister Li Guohua neither wants to have anything to do with him, nor does she want to offend him.

The youngest son of the village chief was used to being arrogant, and he couldn't succeed in teasing repeatedly, so he became angry and angry, and raped Li Guohua with the strength of alcohol.

At that time, the crime of rape was very serious and he was going to be shot, and his father as the village chief and his brother who was the head of the regiment naturally did not want to watch him die, so they used some means, causing the nature of the case to become Li Guohua seducing the village chief's youngest son, and finally he was acquitted.

At that time, the women were not as open as they are now, and at that time, they were all chaste and martyrs, and they definitely couldn't swallow this breath, and the day after the verdict was announced, Li Guohua hanged himself.

Seeing his daughter die a humiliating and tragic death, how can a father stand it? So in a fit of rage, he took a sickle and hacked to death the village party secretary's family of four (his eldest brother was in the army and was spared).

Kill for your life! Li Guohua's father did not run away, but calmly let the migrant workers group tie up.

A week later, the execution was carried out in a wheat field at the back of the village.

At that time, many people went to see it, and two bullets hit the head.

The strange thing happened that on the third day after the execution, Li Guohua's house suddenly caught fire, and the fire was yellow and green.

The neighbors all went to put out the fire, and one of them, who lived near the entrance of the village, ran into a horse-drawn carriage head-on and was slowly leaving the village.

When people and carriages passed by, these neighbors subconsciously glanced back.

Just this glance, they were so frightened that they almost peed their pants.

They saw a few people in the carriage, it was Li Guohua's family, including Li Guohua's father and sister, and the two of them smiled and waved their hands to the neighbors, probably meaning "goodbye!" ”

Among these people, including the long-lived old man brought by Secretary Liu when we came for the first time before.

After this incident passed, several prestigious people in the village gathered for a meeting, which can be regarded as a shame for the Li family, and everyone unanimously decided to hide the matter!

Seeing that fifty years have passed, no one has ever asked about this until the last time I spoke to Zhang Kailong.

It's strange to say, this Li Guohua family, whether they are alive or dead, since then, it is like the world has evaporated, and there is no news.

……

After leaving Lijiatunzi, Zhang Kailong was worried, I don't know how many of these things Secretary Liu said are true and how many are false, after all, it has been fifty years, who can tell if it is true or false?

Since you can't find any valuable information, let's just open the coffin! Dead people are the least likely to lie.

A group of dozens of people drove to the cemetery again.

As the saying goes, "a good man doesn't carry a gun", the work of the ancient government officials and the current police is not an easy job, and when they come here today, their task is not to solve the case and chase the bad guys, but to dig graves and dig pits.

I belong to the "special assistant", so naturally I don't have to do this kind of work, just walk around the graveyard casually.

After turning around for half a circle, suddenly, I saw the soil on the back of a tomb, the color was different from the surrounding one, and I hurriedly called Zhang Kailong.

"Brother Long, come and see! This is the new soil! ”

Zhang Kailong ran over in a few steps, took a look, and said "ah".

We quickly looked at the back of the grave, and found three such graves in a circle.

Of these three tombs, one of them is the one where Li Guohua stood yesterday, and the tombstones of the other two are Li Guohua, one was born in 1911 and the other was born in 1945.

Zhang Kailong muttered: "Could it be that these three graves have been dug up recently!" ”

I also have a lot of ups and downs in my heart, and I vaguely feel that things are difficult to complete smoothly!

Before the coffin was opened, Zhang Kailong asked me to do a ritual.

In the eyes of these special police, I am now a little Taoist.

But there are no similar rituals in the few books left by the master, and looking at dozens of pairs of eyes staring, I can't say no!

So he asked Zhang Kailong to set up the paper money, yellow incense, tobacco and alcohol and tribute prepared in advance.

When everything was ready, I followed the look of the magic stick I saw in the TV series, jumping and jumping with a mahogany sword in my hand, and chanting something nonsense in my mouth.

After dancing for a while, I asked a few little policemen to help burn a stack of paper, insert three sticks of incense, and pour a glass of wine in front of each grave.

The first ones I messed with, and the burning of paper and incense in front of the grave was told to me by my senior brother.

The senior brother once said: Before opening the coffin, burn a stack of paper in front of the grave, if the paper is not burned out, the grave cannot be opened; Burn three yellow incense, if two of the three incense sticks are burned out and one is extinguished, then the coffin can not be opened, which is called "three long and two short".

As a result, there were really three incense sticks in front of several graves, two of which were burned and one was extinguished, according to what the senior brother said, these graves must not be dug up, but at that time, Zhang Kailong was already angry, and he couldn't listen to my words at all.

After the so-called ritual was completed, dozens of special police officers began to dig graves, one by one.

Ten coffins were dug up in one go, and the special police officers were so frightened that they didn't dare to dig it anymore!

Because the ten coffins were all blood-red, the color was as if they had been soaked in blood.

Zhang Kailong pulled me aside and discussed with me in a low voice: "This thing is very strange! Have you ever seen a coffin like this? ”

I almost burst out laughing, thinking that you have lived for thirty or forty years, and you are still the captain, and you have never seen it, how can I see a country boy who is less than seventeen!

I shook my head and said, "Either let's dig up these three graves that may have been dug up and see how it goes!" ”

Zhang Kailong returned to the police car and made a phone call, and then ordered the police to dig up the three graves.

The same three blood-red coffins were pulled up by more than a dozen special police officers "hi yo".

Almost at the same time, another police car slowly drove over, and several people got out of the car, in addition to the two young female forensic doctors I knew, and three old men dressed a little strangely, and the last one who came down was the village party secretary of Nanhu Village.

"You're just in time!"

Zhang Kailong hurriedly greeted these people.

The big-breasted female forensic doctor seemed a little scared, and she glanced around, seeing the graves that had been dug open, as well as more than a dozen blood-red coffins, and let out an "ah" in her mouth.

"Hello, Team Zhang! These are the two mortuaries of our district funeral home, as well as the 'white chief' in this town. ”

The leader was a middle-aged policeman, who should be Zhang Kailong's colleague.

There is no need to introduce the mortuary, each funeral home has a full-time staff who is responsible for the appearance of the deceased and the burial matters, so they are called the mortuary.

As for this "white chief", probably only the rural people who live in the lower reaches of the Yellow River know that he is simply the steward who is in charge of the funeral in the Zhang Luoben area.

The white chief of this piece is known as Lao Hu.