◎Chapter 45: The Case of Corpse Theft

In the corridor, several children are clapping their hands and singing: two tigers, two tigers, in love, in love. Both are male, both are male, true pervert, true pervert. Some elementary school students were playing games on the playground, throwing a kind of round card on the ground and swearing incessantly. A few children play with a yo-yo in their hands...... The class bell rings, and the children run into the classroom.

The campus was quiet, and in the third-grade classroom, two desks were empty, and the two children would never come to school.

The special case team patiently waited for the students to get out of class, and then conducted an interrogation investigation. On the day of the incident, there were no suspicious people or anything unusual in the school. It is said that two children stole the stall owner's eggs, and the woman who sold the eggs at the school gate once scolded Cai Mingliang and Cai Xiaoxi. Some classmates reported that Cai Mingliang and Cai Xiaoxi are doll parents, and the two children were set by their parents as soon as they were born.

Cai Mingliang and Cai Xiaoxi live in the same village, and on the day of the incident, it was dark when they left school because of the make-up exam.

Their village is called Caizhuangli, and it is a small mountain village with many persimmon trees.

The school is far from the village, and the mountain roads are so rugged that it takes the two children an hour to walk home.

Bao Chop, Hualong, and Assistant Tang re-embarked on this mountain road; Professor Liang had difficulty with his legs, so he and Su Mei stayed at the city bureau and commanded the criminal police brigade to investigate the corpse theft case. The body of the boy in red is gone, and there must be an ulterior secret behind it. What is the purpose of corpse robbery? Who would do such a devoid of morality? What can a decomposing corpse bring to a body snatcher? At present, these questions remain a mystery. Comparing the DNA test results, it was found that the green corpse liquid on the door of the forest police station, as well as the rotting little hand that fell from the crow's nest in front of the old house of the boy in red, all came from a child, Cai Mingliang.

Children in the city are picked up and dropped off by their parents.

The children in the mountain villages walk home on their own, and their journey to education is extremely difficult.

Bao Shu, Hualong, and Assistant Tang revisited the mountain road where Cai Mingliang and Cai Xiaoxi went home.

On one side of the road is a knife-and-axe-like cliff, and on the other side is a cliff with huge boulders blocking the way, and when the rainy season comes, the mud and sand fall and bury the boulders, forming a hillside. The hillside was overgrown with grass and wild flowers, and springs flowed between the wild flowers and grass. This is where the tourists admire nature, and this is the difficult road that the two children have walked.

A boy and a girl, both ten years old, they are a small couple.

They experienced wind, frost, snow and swords, walked through spring, summer, autumn and winter, and walked hand in hand on the dark mountain road.

The two children drowned in a waterhole on the side of the mountain road, and Bao Chop, Hualong, and Assistant Tang carefully observed it. The terrain is treacherous, with a large dead tree nearby, and a small flat meadow around the tree, where children sometimes play for a while, and take shelter in the hollow of the tree when it rains. Ahead is a small path, and it cannot be ruled out that someone pushed the child down the pool

Possible.

Bypassing the waterhole, there is this small mountain village called Caizhuangli.

There was no telephone in the village, and Assistant Tang was unable to contact the village committee by phone. He said: The project of connecting villages with telephones has not been fully implemented, what age is this, and some villages have no telephones?

Hualong said: Don't talk about this, it's the capital, and there are villages that don't have a phone. The gap between rich and poor is too great now.

Assistant Tang said: No, there are also villages in the capital that don't have a phone?

Hualong said: Ankou Village, Miyun Mountain, the last village in the capital that does not have a telephone.

Bao Chop didn't say anything all the way, and the dragon asked: What do you want, Xiaobao?

Bao Shu said: I think of the road I walked when I was a child in school, in fact, after so many years, nothing has changed.

The three of them inquired with the villagers and found the village committee.

The village party secretary said that Cai Mingliang and Cai Xiaoxi's parents were not in the village and went out to work. Parents have to continue to maintain their lives after the funeral, and the pain of losing a child cannot offset the hardships of life. There are only the elderly and children left behind in the village, and almost all the young and middle-aged people have gone out to work.

Assistant Tang asked: "What about the security director of your village?"

The village party secretary said: It's me, I am also the director of the village security department.

Hualong said: What about the original security director?

The village party secretary said: I also went to the city to work and worked as a security guard in the city.

Assistant Tang said: We came this time to open the coffin for an autopsy.

The village party secretary said: How can this be done? In the ground, you have to open the coffin for an autopsy, and the parents of the two children are not there. I'm the village party secretary, and I can't be the master, and the people in the village will oppose it.

Bao Chu said: You find someone to inform the child's parents and ask them to come back tomorrow.

The village party secretary said: This case has been tossed for so long, and it was finally determined to be an accidental death, is there a new discovery in your public security?

Bao Shu said: To tell the truth, the tomb is likely to be empty.

The village party secretary said: Empty? No, I saw the burial with my own eyes at the funeral.

The dragon said: The child's body should not be in it.

The village party secretary said: This is a big deal, I will take you to see it tomorrow. Both children called me grandpa, and I was in charge.

Bao Chu said: Just open the coffin, there is no need for an autopsy, and the body may have been stolen.

Assistant Tang said: We found a child's hand somewhere else!

The ancestral graves of the people in the village are concentrated on the back mountain, which the locals call "Old Forest". In the early morning of the next day, Bao Shu, Hualong, and Assistant Tang excavated Cai Mingliang's grave. As expected, the grave has been dug up, the tomb is empty, and Cai Mingming's body has mysteriously disappeared. The strange thing is that Cai Xiaoxi's body is also missing, and the two children are buried together.

The village party secretary's explanation for this is: the two children are doll parents, and the baby relatives are also husband and wife, and they will be buried together naturally after death.

Bao took samples of the soil around the grave and brought it back for testing. There is paper money in the soil,

Fragments of firecrackers were even found. This is a very strange thing, according to the local funeral etiquette, there are very few firecrackers at the time of burial, which is unreasonable.

The bodies of the three children mysteriously disappeared, and Director Wang Lingjun attached great importance to it and presided over a meeting to analyze the case. The police officers present at the meeting discussed the motive for the robbery and the flow of the corpses, and it was difficult to reach a conclusion.

There have been many cases of corpse theft all over the country, such as more than a dozen cases of corpse theft in many towns and villages near Xinwei**, and the case of Li Chenggou in Shilidian shocked the whole country, as well as Renxiang Village, Longchuan Town, where the coffin was opened to steal the corpse, cut off the head and remove the meat, and then stole the skeleton...... This kind of creepy thing has happened frequently in the past ten years.

Wang Lingjun said: Combined with the analysis of corpse theft cases across the country, what is the use of robbing corpses?

Su Mei said: In some places, if someone dies in someone's family, someone should be sent to guard the tomb after the burial, which has become a strange local custom.

Assistant Tang said: This is to prevent someone from stealing the body, which is rare here.

Hualong said: Cremation is now popular in all aspects, but many places refuse to be cremated. Some relatives of the deceased bought nameless corpses at high prices and impersonated them for cremation, and then buried the deceased secretly. Some of the stolen remains were used for impersonation and cremation.

Professor Leung said: "There are also people who steal corpses and sell them to make specimens of Chéng Rén's body bones for medical or other purposes. Most of the cases of opening coffins and stealing corpses and removing meat were motivated by this kind of crime.

Su Mei said: In the past few days, I have seen a lot of files on corpse robbery cases, one of which is used to make specimens. Grave robbers cut off the heads of corpses and discarded them, scraping off the carrion from the corpses and stealing only the skeletons. The photographs in the dossier are disgusting, with the top of a coffin lifted, the bones stolen, and a yellow plastic bag next to the mound containing carrion scraped from the body.

An old criminal policeman said: According to superstition, the Ganoderma lucidum that grows on the coffin can absorb the nutrients in the corpse, so it is very precious and has excellent medicinal effect.

Su Mei said: There is also a kind of use for stealing corpses called matching yin marriage. A yin marriage is the marriage of a dead man to a dead man. In some rural areas, there is also the custom of marrying with yin. With the increase in demand, the price of female corpses has been rising, and in order to make profits, some people have stolen corpses, and there have even been cases of killing disabled homeless women or prostitutes standing on the street to sell corpses and marry in the dark.

Bao Shu said: Cai Mingliang and Cai Xiaoxi are likely to be matched by the Yin marriage, and there is a reasonable explanation for the firecrackers that appeared in the cemetery.

Su Mei said: The two children set up a baby kiss, and after their deaths, the parents of both sides may hold a wedding for them.

Bao Chu said: That's right, their funeral is also a wedding.

Hualong said: The village party secretary is worried that his superiors will criticize him for engaging in feudal superstition, and may have deliberately concealed this, so that the villagers are also tight-lipped.

Wang Lingjun said: Find the child's parents as soon as possible and confirm the matter.

The old criminal policeman said: Stealing corpses, especially child corpses, also has a criminal motive.

Wang Lingjun said: What?

The old detective said: Raise a little ghost!