Life has passed unusually, and in the past few months, Linghui's body has almost recovered.

Soon it was the plum rain again, the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River is always extraordinarily long, and the daily life of the Li family's ladies and wives is either spent playing mahjong or listening to dramas or gossip anecdotes, and a major event has happened recently.

The fourth wife has always been well-informed, she said clearly: "Just yesterday evening, there was a big case in the town, it is said that in the moat, several corpses floated up, and the death was very strange, the whole person was thin without a little flesh and skin, the eyes were bulging, and the hair fell out, that look like being sucked out of blood, tsk, it was really terrible!" ”

The more she spoke, the more energetic she became, not noticing the frightened expressions on the faces of the ladies at all.

She also didn't forget to add two sentences: "I heard from the people who fished out the corpses that those people were dragged to the bottom of the water by water ghosts and absorbed all their essence!" ”

It is not uncommon to find corpses in moats, especially in summer, when a person who jumps into the river and commits suicide by swimming and drowning, or a gang who makes trouble and is hacked to death and thrown into the river, almost every month several corpses or the remains of the corpses can be fished.

It was a very common thing, but the body recovered this time was not quite the same as before.

Lin Zichuan has been inspecting the scene for a long time, these corpses are almost all the same features, skinny, gray complexion, some corpses have different degrees of scars, old and new scars, these scars do not look like they were scratched but like the deceased was left when he was self-harmed.

Looking at the deceased's hands again, the nails were blackened and seriously deformed, Lin Zichuan concluded that these people should have been addicts before their deaths, their bodies were emaciated, they should have taken opium excessively, and they had banned smoking for so long, but opium was still in circulation.

The body was transported back to the police department and temporarily placed in the morgue, where he and Hu Mouran went to examine it again.

A total of five corpses were recovered, four of them were dressed ordinarily, but their palms were calloused, which should have been left by years of manual work, and their skin was dark, indicating that they were often exposed to the wind and sun, like long-term workers carrying goods on the dock.

The last corpse in addition, a green cloth gown, was also covered with a small vest, and there were marks on the thumb with a wrench for many years, which should have been touched after death.

This person appeared to be slightly more robust than the other four, but his face was slightly swollen with blisters, and he could not distinguish his appearance, so the identity of the deceased could not be determined.

I took out a pass from him, and the handwriting on the certificate was vaguely recognizable, and the name signed at the bottom was Li Binghai.

The Li family is a businessman, and when they go out to pass through certain military zones, they must have this kind of pass.

This Li Binghai usually almost ignores business matters, and all obeys the arrangements of his two elder brothers, but in private, he often mingles in casinos and brothels.

He was hesitating whether to call the people of the Li family to come and identify the body, when it suddenly became very noisy outside, and one of the women was spilling at the top of her throat.

"You are bullying me with too many people, and there are no orphans and widows, are you? I am pregnant with your own seed. ”

This kind of civil dispute rarely comes to the bureau, especially daring to shout in the bureau, Lin Zichuan put down his work and walked out.

Outside, a woman wearing a pink gauze vest and a layer of gauze clothes on the outside is a dusty woman, swinging her waist, scolding, seeing her lower abdomen bulging slightly, she is indeed pregnant, because of this, she is so arrogant, relying on others to dare not touch her, and she happened to be splashing and rolling in the hall of the police department.

Coincidentally, the object of her abuse was the fifth wife of the Li family.

When the woman saw Lin Zichuan coming out, she ran straight over: "Sheriff Lin, you quickly give me a comment, look at my face, I eat with my face, you see that little girl caught me, I will have to recover in ten days and half a month, in case there is a scar, how can I meet the guests!" ”

Lin Zichuan didn't raise his eyelids, he has seen a lot of this kind of woman, bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, she saw the fifth wife and Ling Li who had been standing there without speaking, walked over, and asked with concern: "Are you all right?" The wound on the woman's face was cleverly scratched, and an hour ago, she was accompanying her mother to the pastry shop to buy pastries, and she happened to meet this woman.

This woman is Du Hong, the dancer of the Daxing Hotel, and she is also a concubine raised by the fifth master outside, and the fifth wife knows that there is such a person, because she is born with a weak personality, she has always turned a blind eye, where do you know that she just happened to meet.

Du Hong is notoriously spicy, with a bit of grace, and there is the seed of the five masters in his stomach, so he is disrespectful to them.

Lingli is relatively quiet and introverted on weekdays, and her demeanor is also very ladylike, but today she couldn't help but hurt someone, she was very flustered, first, she was worried that she would damage her image in Lin Zichuan's mind, and secondly, so many people looked at her and felt thin-skinned, lowered her head aggrievedly, and whispered: "It's that woman who talks nonsense and humiliates my mother, I can't help it, I just... ”

Lin Zichuan had the impression that Ling Li was the youngest of the sisters in the Li family, and she was used to being cared for, but she didn't expect to have a pungent side, he felt a little funny, but when he thought that her father was still lying in the morgue, he was a little distressed, thinking about how to tell her.

Du Hong rolled her eyes, crossed her hands on her waist, and looked domineering: "Where am I talking nonsense, the fifth master said, marry me into the door in a few days, and wait for the child in my belly to be born, if it is a man, I will divorce you and make me bigger, if you don't believe it, you go and ask him!" ”

The fifth wife's eyes were red, and they all said that the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, this woman is good, in front of so many outsiders, she said such a despicable thing so loudly, she couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into

Lin Zichuan said to the fifth lady: "This is your own family matter, and our police station has no right to interfere, as for the beating of people, I don't think it hurt anyone, you can solve this matter yourself." ”

When the fifth wife heard this, she immediately took Ling Li's hand and wanted to go out, Du Hong stopped doing it, grabbed her, and the spit was about to splash out: "You wait, you beat me and left like this?" Officer Lin, I want you to lock them up on charges of intentional wounding, or I won't leave today!" ”

Lin Zichuan frowned, this woman was really not a fuel-efficient lamp, he had to say: "Ms. Du, if you don't leave, then I can only send you in on the grounds that you are obstructing the normal work of our police department!" ”

When Du Hong heard this, she hesitated a little, thought for two seconds, and then let go of her hand very unconvinced, Lingli looked at Lin Zichuan with a grateful face, and walked out with Mrs. Fifth in her arms.

At this time, a person came over to Lin Zichuan for instructions: "The missing population has been counted in the past few days, do you need to notify the family to come and claim the body?" ”

Lin Zichuan paused for a few seconds and called out to them again: "Wait a minute." ”

He originally wanted to go to Li's house and call someone to come and identify the body, but now that they happen to be there, he doesn't have to run again

"What's wrong?" Mrs. Fifth wondered.

Lin Zichuan was a little entangled, he glanced at the fifth wife, then at Linglong, and said with a solemn face: "I guess you have also heard about the corpses in the moat." ”

Du Hong interjected: "What does the corpse in the river matter to us?" ”

Lingli had an ominous premonition in her heart, and she hurriedly asked, "Brother Zichuan, is something wrong?" She didn't dare to ask questions, for fear of asking something bad.

However, Lin Zichuan didn't elaborate, after all, they hadn't seen the corpse yet, and the family had to confirm whether it was the corpse of the fifth master.

"There's a corpse here that you need to identify."

When they heard the word corpse, Ling Li and Mrs. Wu looked at Lin Zichuan with a frightened face as if they had been struck by lightning.

Lin Zichuan didn't say a word more, and led them to the morgue, Du Hong protected his stomach all the way, and kept chanting in his mouth, "Amitabha, Amitabha, good luck, good luck!" ”

Lin Zichuan lifted the white cloth on the fifth master's body, waiting for them to recognize the corpse, Du Hong suddenly rushed over, knelt on the ground as if he was crazy and cried: "Fifth master, what's wrong with you, how can you say that you will leave, which god killed you, how can I live with the child in my belly when you leave!" ”

She cried so darkly, hysterical, completely ignoring the people next to her, the corpse was obviously soaked and she couldn't see her face, how could she recognize it as the fifth master so quickly.

Ling Li and Mrs. Wu stood in place, probably frightened by the corpse, and forgot for a moment whether to be afraid or sad.

"How do you know this is the fifth master?"

Du Hong wiped her tears while crying: "Three days ago, he went to look for me and wore such clothes, can I not recognize him after I have been with him for so long?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Mrs. Fifth suddenly stepped back, a dry howl stuck in her throat, and she rolled her eyes and fainted.

Lingli how dare she believe that her father is lying in the morgue coldly at the moment, and her mother fainted due to excessive grief, she is still a little girl, and she has never experienced such a big blow. Fortunately, Lin Zichuan was there, he helped Ling Li to support the fifth wife, and sent someone to help Du Hong, who was still paralyzed on the ground crying and grabbing the ground.

Lingli's steps were a little faltering, and she resisted to prevent herself from fainting.

Lin Zichuan was a little sympathetic to them, but there are always a lot of helpless things in this world, they have to face it sooner or later, he sent the fifth wife and Ling Li back to the Li Mansion, the fifth wife woke up and looked sluggish, fortunately, Ling Li was still a little sensible, she held Lin Zichuan's hand while crying: "Zichuan, you must seek justice for my father!" ”