"So what does this have to do with Arphyllum Zhou? She's just a child, what's the point of killing her? Sophie said.

"yes, it can't be explained." Lao Guo also said.

This is also the crux of the whole case, if it is murder, what is Zhou Jiabao's motive?

Tang Tao couldn't answer this question.

"What is your basis?" Sophie asked.

"Intuition, the reaction of the Zhou family seems to be too bland, and even said that they have given up, which can be seen from Zhou Ziqiang's preparation of the tombstone, they have long known that Zhou Shuzao is dead, if it is an accident, then he will definitely find a way to find the body, right? But they were doing funerals, and even hid Lan Xiaocao, and there were many signs that they didn't want to find the body, so under what circumstances did they not want to find the body, there was only one answer, murder! ”

Intuition, before the body is found, this is Tang Tao's assumptions, no matter how much reasoning is just intuition, it is all in vain before he can't find the body.

The group walked into a bush where the river began to slope, and they had come to the embankment of the reservoir.

That's when Sandro suddenly rushed into the grass and barked loudly.

Sandro wagged his tail and pulled through the grass, and before long he ran out with a pink object in his mouth, and he dropped it on the ground and barked twice.

Everyone saw clearly, it was a small round purse with Snow White painted on it, and it looked like it was used by children.

The wallet is very old and has faded in many places.

Sophie picked up her wallet, opened the zipper and saw that there were two one-dollar bills rolled up in a ball, and three one-cent steel hammers, a total of two three-cents, in addition to these, there was also a one-inch photo, which showed a little girl wearing a school uniform and smiling.

This smiling face Sophie is too familiar, she is Zhou Shuzao.

This is the wallet of Zhou Shuzao.

Today's children can take out dozens of dollars and hundreds of dollars at every turn, but she only has two or three cents on her, and the two dollars are crumpled and crumpled, and I don't know how long she has been saved.

Seeing that Sophie's tears could no longer be suppressed, Zhou Shuzao would not have come to such a remote place alone, and then thought of the tombstone prepared by Zhou Ziqiang.

This means that Zhou Shuzao has been killed, and it is very likely that her own grandfather killed her.

Lao Guo didn't speak anymore, he stroked Sandro s head and felt extremely heavy, Sandro smelled Zhou Shuzao's shoes, it remembered the smell.

Tang Tao quickened his pace and rushed up the steps to the embankment, under the light in front of him was a large lake, the water surface was covered with green moss, the dry grass on the shore had been cut, and the lake was three or four meters high from the embankment. Judging from the slope, the reservoir is still quite deep, surrounded by plantations, and the lights are not transparent.

The cold wind gusted, and it hurt a little on the face.

There was a dead silence all around, and from time to time the woods could be heard the commotion of some animal.

Although the reservoir has shrunk a lot, it is still very large, and it is possible for the arphyllum to fall from any place.

"No, it's been a week, and the corpse has been flatulating and floating for such a long time." Sophie said.

"Not necessarily, there are too many aquatic plants in it, and it is possible that it is entangled in aquatic plants, do you remember her schoolbag?"

"What's wrong?"

Tang Tao didn't answer, his flashlight stayed on a pile of gravel, which was originally overgrown with weeds and moss, but now there were several pieces missing, leaving only a few grass nests.

Where did the stones go?

The answer seems simple, and that is to put it in Zhou Shuzao's school bag.

It was not an accident, it was an intentional homicide.

Sophie turned her head and choked again, she didn't understand why Zhou Jiabao was so ruthless, it was his granddaughter, how could he do it?

The investigation and salvage work was carried out overnight, and a large number of policemen gathered at the edge of the reservoir, and Zhu Wanhong rolled up his sleeves and went down to the icy lake with everyone.

The lake is very deep, and the water is overgrown with aquatic weeds, and there is a lot of silt at the bottom of the water, and if you move it slightly, you will be muddy, and you will not be able to see anything.

As a last resort, everyone can only step on it with their feet and poke it inch by inch with a steel pipe.

Tang Tao also joined the search team, and almost at the same time, Sophie and dozens of people from the criminal police team galloped to Xiaolianzi Village overnight, and tonight they wanted to arrest Zhou Ziqiang and others anyway.

At half past seven in the morning, Zhou Shuzao's body was found, Tang Tao and Zhu Wanhong fished her out of the water together, the child's body was white, still carrying a schoolbag, the schoolbag was bulging, reaching out and pinching the hard one, and when I opened it, I saw that it was full of stones.

Her emaciated body lay flat on the embankment, her eyes closed, her long hair wet against her face, and her long eyelashes covering her eyes as if she were asleep.

Due to the cold water of the lake and the fact that it was winter, her body did not decompose, her hands were still clenched, and she still held a handful of aquatic plants in her right hand, she must have struggled fiercely before she died, she did not want to die.

Tang Tao carefully cleaned up the aquatic weeds and silt on Zhou Shuzao's body, and his movements were so gentle when he lowered his head, like a kind father.

"Was she killed and thrown into the lake?" Lao Guo handed a towel to Tang Tao.

"No, she was pushed into the lake and drowned."

"But how could she carry a bag of stones?"

Tang Tao sighed and said: "Because Zhoujiabao is her grandfather, grandpa asked her to carry the stone on her back, she carried it, never thought about why, she is very obedient and sensible, she did whatever grandpa said, she thought that grandpa brought her here to play, but she didn't expect to kill her." ”

Tang Tao, who has always been emotionally stable, choked up at this time.

Many of the people present couldn't accept the fact that this child was too thin and pitiful.

The police in the village went straight to Zhou's house, but they didn't expect to encounter a funeral, so they temporarily changed their minds and sent a few plainclothes people in to monitor first, and the others were on standby on the spot, and then arrested after the funeral.

Sophie entered Zhou's house again, this time first to the thatched hut in the back, where the stone tablet had been carried away.

The funeral was the climax of the whole funeral activity, everyone gathered in the courtyard, and the coffin was carried from the house to the courtyard amid the sound of crying and firecrackers, and no one noticed that Sophie quietly slipped into Lan Xiaocao's room.

Everyone else is busy at this time, and Lan Xiaocao has no one to take care of here.

Hearing Sophie's footsteps, she immediately raised her head, frowned, and said, "You are not from our village. ”

"How do you know?" Sophie was curious.

"Perfume, you have a perfume smell on you that they don't have, it smells good."

Sophie locked the door and pulled up the curtains again, and Lan Xiaocao heard her actions.

"I heard your voice yesterday, you're a police officer."