Volume VIII

Highway man cake

I have told him when we met, but I can never say where we met. – Hertha Miller

How does a person become a pie?

On the outskirts of Pujiang City, there is a remote road with potholes, and the construction department repaired the road overnight, filling each pothole with asphalt concrete, and then laying straw felt for maintenance. The next morning, a driver noticed that one of the straw felt was red, he stopped the car, carefully lifted the straw felt, and found that there was a corpse lying flat on the asphalt road, which had been crushed and flattened by passing vehicles, like a large cake.

Chapter 36: The kidnapping of the juvenile

After on-site investigation, the police in Chibei District, Pujiang City, determined that this was not a traffic accident, but a body dumping site.

Bodies were dumped on the road at night and straw felt was placed over the body, and large trucks often passed on the road, and after a night of crushing, the wheels crushed the body like a rolling pin, and the body was crushed into a cake. Several criminal investigators used small shovels to separate the cake-shaped corpse from the asphalt pavement, and the color of this "big cake" was shocking, with black hair, red bloodstains, gray-white brains, and yellow fat...... It's shocking. Some bones are already powdered, and some hard bones are still intact. A pile of intestines was squeezed far away, crushed as thin as a cicada's wings.

The forensic forceps ripped open the shattered skull, and the scalp was still attached to the hair, and he rummaged through it, everyone looked for their eyes.

A little policewoman named Ah Zi looked around, and suddenly, she took two steps back and found something, an eye was at her feet, which had been crushed and flattened, like a large round black and white coin.

Ah Zi covered her mouth and rushed to the grass on the side of the road and threw up.

The medical examiner regretted that the other eyeball was not found, and it may have been stained by the wheels of some car.

Despite the severe damage to the body, the forensic authorities were able to obtain accurate autopsy results through technical means, and the deceased, a 12-year-old boy, had been severely injured by a blunt object suspected to be a hammer and had fatally wounded himself at the temple. The killer abandoned the naked body on the road at night, covering it with straw felt, the section of the road without surveillance probes, and several street lights were broken.

The Chibei District Public Security Bureau organized police forces to investigate the highway construction party on the night of the crime, and found no clues, and found the victim's clothes and schoolbag on the side of the road not far from the scene of the dumping of the body, which contained a red scarf and a textbook, and the class and name were written on the textbook, and the police quickly found out the identity of the deceased.

The twelve-year-old boy, Wang Jia, is a devouring elementary school student who is in the sixth grade at the Chibei District Experimental Primary School.

A week ago, Wang Jia disappeared after school, and that night, Wang Jia's parents received a phone call from the kidnappers demanding a ransom of 500,000 yuan. Wang Jia's parents were anxious and quietly reported the case, and the Chibei District Public Security Bureau set up a special team, but after the police intervened in the case, the kidnappers never made any more extortion calls...... Until the child's body was found on the road.

In the office of the special case team, Bai Jingyu was holding a summary meeting, and when he was drowsy, Su Mei's phone rang suddenly.

Su Mei went to answer the phone outside the conference room, and her face became solemn.

Bao Qi asked: Sister Xiaomei, whose phone is it?

Su Mei said: My mother called.

Professor Liang said: Is there something wrong with your family?

Su Mei said: Boss, I want to go through the back door, my mother said, a little girl in the neighborhood was kidnapped, can our special case team go to help, that girl's name is Xiaoxi, so cute,

So beautiful, only thirteen years old, she called me sister-in-law, if you don't approve it, I'll ask for leave.

Bai Jingyu said: No, our special case team only takes over extraordinarily large homicide cases, and the kidnapping case should be handed over to the local police!

Su Mei said angrily: Boss, you are really hard-hearted, my mother is looking for me to intercede, that is my neighbor's child.

Hualong said: Xiaomei, I also ask for leave, I will accompany you.

Bai Jingyu said: No, no one died, our special case team doesn't care about this kind of small case, this is not in line with the procedure.

Professor Leung said that most kidnapping cases are characterized by the kidnappers who kill the kidnapped person after receiving the ransom.

Bao Chu contacted the local police and learned that there have been two kidnapping cases in Chibei District, Pujiang City, the first kidnapping case, the kidnappers killed a boy named Wang Jia, the two cases have the same modus operandi, it is likely that the same criminal committed it, the local police have decided to investigate the case, and they expressed their unbelievable welcome to the assistance of the special case team.

Bao Shu said: Now the procedure is in order.

Bai Jingyu said: Okay, then what are you waiting for, set off immediately!

Su Mei said excitedly: Boss, you are really wise!

Bai Jingyu said: Don't be a sycophant, you must successfully rescue the kidnapped child, and say hello to your mother for me.

Su Mei is usually busy with work and hasn't been home for a long time, she bought a lot of things for her mother, and Professor Liang, Hualong, and Bao Chu also prepared gifts. Su Mei's father is a diplomat who is abroad all the year round, and there is only his mother and a small nanny at home.

After the greetings, the little nanny went grocery shopping to prepare lunch, and Professor Liang asked Director Ye of the Chibei District Public Security Bureau about the case on the phone.

Painting Dragon and Bao Chop sat on the sofa in the living room, speechless for a while, a little restrained.

Su Ma quietly pulled Su Mei aside and asked mysteriously: Which of these two is your boyfriend?

Su Mei said: Mom, what did you say?

Su Ma said: Meimei, you said last time that the next time you go home, bring your boyfriend home to show me.

Su Mei said: They are all colleagues.

Professor Liang gave him a beautiful photo album, which contained various photos of Su Mei after joining the special case team; Hualong specially bought a pair of jade bracelets as a gift; Bao Chop gave some supplements to Su Mei's mother.

Su's mother chattered and said: This pair of bracelets is very valuable, eyebrows, if you want to find a husband, you have to find someone who is willing to spend money for you, this is really good for you. Older men know that they hurt people, so they have to find someone who can control you. However, I heard you say that this painting dragon has been divorced once, and the children have returned to his ex-wife, and he has a bad temper, and after he gets married, he may beat you.

Su Mei said: He dares! Mom, we're here to handle the case, are you picking a son-in-law at the right time?

Su Ma pointed to the bag and said to Su Mei: This child has a heart, but he is not handsome, although these supplements are not valuable, but they are all I need, it is estimated that you usually say that I have high blood pressure and tracheitis, and this child has it in mind.

Su Mei said: Then which one do you think I should choose?

Su Ma said: Do you like both?

Su Mei said: I don't like it, I hate both of them.

Su Ma said: I don't know you yet, then you just like it. If you like two people, choose the second one, because if you really like the first, you won't like the second.

Su Mei said: Mom, you're too anxious, I can't get married.

Su Ma said: You are like this, I asked the little aunt to clean up a few guest rooms and let them all live in our house, I have to observe it carefully,

It's your life's work!

Su Mei's family and the kidnapped Xiaoxi family are neighbors, and both families live on the sixth floor, with balconies and attics next to each other. Director Ye changed into civilian clothes according to Professor Liang's request and came to Su Mei's house, and the little nanny came back from shopping for vegetables, and Bao Chu took the initiative to help cook. Although the case was urgent, the kidnappers did not call again, and the police had no good plan but to wait.

Hualong walked into Su Mei's bedroom, picked up a relaxed bear next to the bed, and Su Mei screamed: Ah, don't touch my big fruit!

The painting dragon put it down, picked up the fluffy toy dog on the bookshelf again, and Su Mei shouted again: Put down the sugar monster.

Su Mei's toys when she was a child are still kept, and she has named each of her toys, the dog is called Sugar Monster, and the easy bear is called Daguozi. Su Mei hurriedly hid toys, albums, diaries and other things, and locked the drawers.

The dragon said: How can it be like a thief, I will steal your things?

Su Mei said: Don't look, don't move, this is the girl's privacy, do you understand?

Hualong pushed Su Mei to the corner of the wall, pressed the wall with both hands to prevent her from running away, and Hualong said: Believe it or not, I will beat you at your house.

Su Mei said: You hate it, my mother is staring at it, you better behave better.

The meal is on the table, very rich, yellow stewed chicken, stewed pig's trotters, braised osmanthus fish, stir-fried shrimp, clear meatballs, camellia yam, pine nut bracken, three fresh miscellaneous mushrooms, eight dishes are fragrant, make people appetize, everyone sits together, full of praise.

Su Mei's mother asked Bao Shu: You made all these dishes?

Bao Chu said: Yes, aunt, I used to work as an apprentice in a restaurant, and I could only cook some home-cooked food.

Su Ma nodded and glanced at Su Mei meaningfully.

Director Ye briefly talked about the facts of the case, both of which happened at 5 p.m., just as the students were out of school, and there were no witnesses. On the night of Wang Jia's abduction, his family received a call from the kidnappers, demanding a ransom of 500,000 yuan. The second victim is named Xiaoxi, his whereabouts are unknown, his fate is uncertain, the kidnappers asked Xiaoxi's family to prepare 500,000 yuan within three days, so far, the kidnappers have not called.

Bao Shu asked: Have you checked the phone number used by the kidnappers?

Director Ye said: The caller was a man, with a relatively young voice, using the kind of phone card that has no identity registration, and there are no other call records, probably bought in a small supermarket.

Bao asked: Where did the kidnappers make the blackmail call?

Director Ye said: After technical positioning, it was a phone call made near the victim's home.

Professor Liang said: There is negligence in your work, and the kidnappers probably secretly observed and learned that the victim's family had called the police, and they killed people and dumped their bodies, and gave up decisively. Kidnapping a child again, this time, we can't afford to act rashly and startle the snake.

Director Ye said: Yes, this time we are at the disposal of the special case team.

Hualong said to Director Ye: What are you eating, a child died, and now another one is kidnapped, a group of waste, if it is your child, you must not be so calm, you are looking forward to our special case team to help you, isn't it, if it weren't for my aunt's intercession, we wouldn't come, and you, the director, wouldn't do it.

Obviously, this passage made Su Ma very impressed, and she looked at the painting dragon with that kind of approving gaze.

After eating, Su Mei helped clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and Su Mei said to Su Mei: Girl, I think about it, your two colleagues are good, whoever catches the bad guy first and rescues Xiaoxi girl, you will marry whoever you want.