Chapter Twenty-Nine: Bottled Eyeballs

The vicious dog grinned and let out a menacing growl, and it retrieved a human bone from the outside, with half of its mud heel attached. Bao Chop had the courage to pick up the bones, the vicious dog rushed over and bit Bao Chop's trouser legs, kept turning his head and biting, Su Mei screamed in fright, and the dragon saw the right time, flew up and kicked on the dog's head, and the dog ran out of the courtyard with a screaming in pain.

Su Mei asked with concern: Baozi, are you okay, do you want to get an injection?

Bao Chop was not injured, but his trouser leg was torn by the dog, and he waved his hand and said no.

Everyone checked the human bones on the ground together, and the grumpy Li Laohan calmed down and muttered: "Bad luck, the dead man's bones were dug out of which grave by the dog's paws."

Cremation has been practiced for many years, and when people die, coffins are usually filled with urns, and the remains are rarely buried in the ground. The bones of the dog's mouth are still attached to the flesh that has not yet decomposed, suggesting that the date of death is not too long, and combined with the recent series of disappearances of juveniles, it is likely that there is a connection between the two.

Hualong and others took Li Laohan back to the police station, and several police officers searched Li Laohan's house, but found nothing.

Li Laohan has a stubborn temper, Officer Mao used lynching during interrogation, and the old man suddenly suffered a stroke, but fortunately, the rescue was timely and there was no major problem.

Hualong asked Officer Mao: Why are you beating him, the old man is so old.

Officer Mao flattered him and handed over a cigarette and said: Even if he is not a criminal suspect, his dog still bites and beheads comrades.

Mr. Li could not say where his dog had taken the human bones, and the police found nothing suspicious at his house. The old man confessed to the incident of "changing children and eating" with his neighbor Zhang Tian decades ago, and in the end, the old man burst into tears.

Because of hunger, their children starved to death, and they couldn't bear to eat their own children, so they exchanged food with each other.

Professor Liang ordered a DNA comparison between the human bones and the family members of the missing person, and the case soon made a major breakthrough, and the identification results showed that the bone that Li Laohan's dog came from the missing person Wei Guan!

The vicious dog has disappeared since he was kicked by the dragon.

Professor Leung mobilized police forces to search for burial sites in the surrounding area, with Zhanghe Village as the center.

Nearly 100 public security officers and police officers conducted extensive searches in the fields and along the river under the bridge, and four members of the special case team also joined the team. Professor Liang instructed that everyone should focus on looking for the latest traces of landfills, and also look at where the dogs have dug up, and there may be corpses buried underneath.

Both Hualong and Su Mei are holding wooden sticks, laughing and searching in the vegetable patch.

The dragon said: There are snakes!

Su Mei said: What's the matter, I hate it, you scare people, I can hold a weapon.

The dragon said: Sample, don't cry when you are beaten, you still wear high heels, walk in the vegetable field, and are not afraid of broken feet.

Su Mei said: I didn't have time to change my shoes, besides, high heels can test the hardness of the soil layer and make it easy to find the burial site.

Drawing the dragon said: Xiaomei, you stepped on shit.

Su Mei looked down and saw a piece of black shit on the heel, and she poked it with a stick in disgust. The two of them suddenly thought that stepping on dog poop meant that there were dogs, and Li Laohan's dog might be the bones dug up from near this vegetable field. They proceeded to Professor Leung

After reporting, Bao Shu came over with a few police officers.

Bao was the first to find the place where the body was buried.

He stood in front of a tall weed at the edge of the vegetable patch, it was rare for grass to grow so tall, the grass was more than a man tall, the leaves were as big as a fan, the rhizomes were thick, and some of the same weeds grew around it, but they were very low, not as tall and frightening as this grass. He looked at the ground and said, "Dig it."

The grass grew on the corpse, the fibrous roots protruding through the eye sockets, coming out of the mouth, the lateral roots penetrating through the ribs and deep into the ground, the white roots tightly wrapped around the bones.

The corpse becomes the nutrient for this grass, so it grows thick and tall.

Several police officers worked hard for a long time, and finally dug up the bones together with the grass on them, and people found that under the bones, there was also a blue autumn pants.

Professor Liang felt that this autumn pants were a little familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere, but he couldn't remember them for a while.

Officer Mao asked: Who owns the vegetable patch?

The village director said: This is the vegetable field of Zhang Youmin in the village.

Professor Liang remembered that he had chatted with several old people at the entrance of Zhanghe Village, including this man named Zhang Youmin. At that time, Zhang Youmin was wearing a long-sleeved shirt with a pattern of pigeons flying around a tree on the chest. The tunic and the autumn pants found under the bones were the same color, both cyan.

Officer Mao asked: How old is Zhang Youmin?

The village chief thought for a while and said: He was born in 1955 and is almost 60 years old.

Officer Mao said: Could it be that someone else buried the body next to the vegetable patch? He is almost 60 years old, can he kill the little youth?

In 1978, Zhang Youmin worked in a tile kiln factory and played well with a teenage child in another village, and the child went home with him. He killed people in the middle of the night, broke limbs, and threw their bodies on the ridge of the river. Zhang Youmin was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, and he spent 19 years in prison before returning to the village after his release in 1997, and it is still unclear what his motive was for the killing.

Zhang Youmin had no children and no daughters, and when he was in prison, his parents died.

When he returned to the village, his family's old house had long since collapsed, and he built a house out of wood to live in.

Professor Leung immediately made three arrangements:

1. Zhang Youmin is suspected of committing a crime, and the plainclothes criminal police are to conduct secret surveillance of Zhang Youmin.

2. Confirm the identity of the bones excavated in the vegetable field as soon as possible, and let the families of the missing people identify the blue autumn pants.

3. Expand the search area and find other burial sites.

The exhumed bodies have been ossified, and some family members can no longer remember what their children were dressed when they disappeared because of the long time that has passed.

The father of the missing teenager Yang Zhe provided a clue to the special case team, which is also related to Zhang Youmin.

Yang Zhe's father was the first to suspect Zhang Youmin, and in 2007, his son disappeared from Zhang Youmin's hut. He has been searching for three years, and his son's whereabouts are still unknown. One night in December 2010, when a boy came home from self-study at night, Zhang Youmin strangled the boy's neck with a belt behind his back. The boy broke free and fought with Zhang Youmin, and another child heard the sound and ran out to help, and the two of them pressed Zhang Youmin to the ground together. After calling the police, Zhang Youmin argued that he was playing with the child, and after that

Not treated. When Yang Zhe's father heard about this, he went to the public security organ again to report the situation, and the reply he received was: This old man is a little neurotic and drunk.

This clue aroused the great attention of the special case team, and Professor Liang immediately sent Bao Shu, Hualong, and Su Mei to Zhang Youmin's house to investigate. At the same time, the police found part of the bodies, clothing and belongings of several victims in a dry well and a circular puddle near Zhanghe Village.

The case was so shocking that local villagers ran out of their homes to watch, and in order to prevent the crowd from taking pictures, the police had to pull up the cordon and cover the excavation site with cloth.

Zhang Youmin was not in the village, but playing chess in the pavilion of the town's cultural park, and the plainclothes criminal police in charge of monitoring noticed that his face was a little abnormal.

Zhang Youmin's home is a black shed made of broken wood, covered with asbestos tiles, leaking everywhere, and a few rags hanging, which contrasts sharply with the beautiful buildings of the surrounding neighbors.

A police car stopped in front of the door, and the village director, Hualong, Bao Shu, and Su Mei got out of the car.

Everyone was busy all day, and they didn't care about eating, and the case was urgent, so the village director had to buy a few cups of hot soy milk.

Bao Chu said: There is no one at home, we don't have a search warrant, how can we get in?

The dragon kicked open the crumbling wooden door and said, "What are so many things?"

Su Mei said to the village chief: You can be a witness.

There was a cart in the courtyard, the dirt floor was potholed, an adobe hut was a kitchen, the mud skin was peeling on the ground, there was an empty kennel in the open air between the kitchen and the hall, and some beer bottles were placed in the corner of the courtyard wall behind the kennel, some of the bottles were filled with water and green moss. Through the cracks in the walls, you can see a wooden bed in the hall, the quilt on which is dirty and unrecognizable, some tattered clothes are piled on the bed, and the most valuable thing in the room is a dilapidated television.

Everyone went to the kitchen to check first, the light inside was very dim, the smell was unpleasant, Su Mei frowned, and put the soybean milk cup on the wooden board.

The village director said that Zhang Youmin often pushes a cart from the old house to the vegetable field, and he usually likes to raise puppies, sometimes in the middle of the night, he will turn up the volume of the TV very loudly, and the sound of the dog barking will also spread, perhaps to cover up something. Some villagers found that one night, Zhang Youmin sat quietly at the entrance of the village, silent, looking creepy.

Su Mei picked up the soy milk and continued to drink, feeling that the taste was a little weird, drinking and drinking, the straw was blocked, opened the lid of the cup, and saw a round thing inserted on the straw, which was a little shriveled by her.

Drawing the dragon said: Strange, why is there a glutinous rice ball in your soy milk?

Su Mei glanced at it, and spit out, the round thing is a human eyeball!

After searching, there was a wine jar on the windowsill of the kitchen, in which the wolfberry was soaked in wine, the small yellow snake coiled into a circle, and the grass ginseng was found, and more than a dozen eyeballs were found in it. When Su Mei put down the soy milk, the lid of the cup slipped off, and she took the lid and straw in her hand and played with it, probably because the mouse took the eyeballs in the wine jar to the beam, and it happened to fall into the soy milk cup......

Over the years, no one has ever been to Zhang Youmin's house, and the villagers have no contact with him.

The jar of medicinal wine soaked in eyeballs was placed on the windowsill in a grand manner, and a pickled and dried human leg hung on the wall of the cupboard.