Chatting along the way, the car drove into the territory of Qianxian County, and the four of them got off near Liangshan. Qiu Shan asked everyone to unload and pile up their belongings such as mountaineering bags and equipment, and took off Hu Tianhua's scarf and said: "This time we are going to dress up as an investigation team, whether we can get the red bricks or not, it depends on whether they look like it." There's no need to wear this thing for now. When he turned around, he saw that Liu Qi was taking out the monitor from his backpack, so he said to him, "Liu Qi, you stay here and wait for us to come back." Liu Qi nodded again and again.

Qiu Shan also knew the way to Zhang Laohan's house, and led Ah Qi and Hu Tian through several earthen roads, and saw some villagers squatting in the open space in front of Zhang Laohan's cave from a distance, chatting with each other in twos and threes.

When the villagers saw the three outsiders swaggering towards them, they stopped talking and looked at them.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are from the province, come here to understand the situation, please cooperate with the investigation." Qiu Shan's eyes scanned the villagers.

When the villagers heard this, they gathered around. A village woman wearing a big red flower jacket said, "Oh, it's a big cadre from the province. Daddy Zhang is really a good person, if it weren't for his son working in other places, he wouldn't have no one to take care of him if he was sick......"

As soon as the village woman opened her mouth, the villagers began to talk nonsense.

"Daddy Zhang, that's an immortal, didn't you see the way he smiled?"

"If you want to be an immortal, you don't want to be an immortal, you still live and be happy."

"That's it, seeing your daughter-in-law smiling every day, isn't that just a happy life every night."

"Do you have a screeching egg? The cow unloads you. ”

……

Qiu Shan saw that this was not a solution, so he shouted: "Fellow villagers, fellow villagers, everyone be quiet." This sister-in-law, you just said that Daddy Zhang was sick, what is the situation? ”

When the village woman heard Qiu Shan ask, she hurriedly said, "What did Daddy Zhang and his family get...... Heart failure, if his son was around, he wouldn't die. The day before yesterday, two groups of people came, one group was a forensic doctor, and I heard the village chief say that the forensic diagnosis was sudden death, and he would not die if he was sent to the hospital early. You are from the province, why haven't you grasped the situation yet? ”

Qiu Shan saw that if he continued to ask like this, he might show his feet, so he straightened his face and said, "Cough, this situation is in the province's hands." We came down to investigate to get to the bottom of the situation. That one...... Where is the body? The villagers pointed to the cave.

Qiu Shan nodded and said, "Okay, we're going to go in and see the corpse." Folks, don't come to join in the fun. As he spoke, he waved his hand at Ah Qi and Hu Tian, and the three of them walked towards the cave.

In the middle of the cave was a door panel with two stools, on which lay two corpses, covered with a sheet. Qiu Shan stepped forward to uncover the sheets, and saw that it was Zhang Laohan and his wife, their mouths were slightly open, the corners of their mouths were upturned, and a strange smile appeared on their faces, and their eyelids were not closed, revealing gray eyes.

"Damn, this is a 'ghost laughing', I can't imagine that there is really such a way to die." Hu Tian shouted as soon as he saw the terrible expression.

"What the hell is laughing at?"

"Ahem, does this 'ghost smile' mean that the moment after death, the soul is out of the body, and black and white impermanence are not allowed to say some opening remarks when they come to receive their lives? When you are in a good mood, you will say that your life in the world is over, and I will go back to the Hades Palace with me to report, and take a walk in the underworld, you are a very good person, and you have suffered a lot in the world, and these six reincarnations will pick a good family in the next life. This old couple is usually not so poor that they jingle loudly, don't they laugh when they hear black and white impermanence say this? It's like taking an elixir...... Look at this smile, the wrinkles on your face are wrinkled. ”

Ah Qi put his head on Old Man Zhang's face and opened his eyes to look into his mouth. Shaoqing raised Zhang Laohan's neck slightly, pinched his chin with one hand, looked at Zhang Laohan's mouth, thought about it and reached out to untie Zhang Laohan's clothes, Qiu Shan hurriedly stepped forward to help. After untying his clothes, seeing that Zhang Laohan did not have any scars on his body, Qiu Shan was suspicious and asked Ah Qidao, "How did they die?" ”

Ah Qi stretched out his hand and pressed on Zhang Laohan's heart, thought about it, and pressed it on his wife's chest again, and then said slowly: "They did die of heart failure." ”

"Oh, that's sudden death?"

"Yes. The heart muscle is severely damaged, it becomes stiff, and the heart stops beating. ”

"So was it a natural death or something?"

Ah Qi shook his head and said, "I can't see it." ”

Qiu Shan reached out and pressed Zhang Laohan's heart, feeling that his body was hard.

Hu Tiandong looked around, and saw that there was a kang in the cave, a lame table, a few broken stools and pots and pans, etc., nothing decent, and was about to speak, when he suddenly found a large ball of newspaper spread in the corner of the house, and hurriedly ran over to pull it open, saw that there were a few pieces of cloth thrown in the newspaper, and hurriedly beckoned Qiu Shan to come over.

Qiu Shan took a closer look, and it was the cloth that Zhang Laohan used to wrap the red brick box, but the box was gone.

"Damn, the red bricks were taken away." Hu Tian had seen these pieces of cloth in the photo, and couldn't help but scold indignantly.

Qiu Shan opened the newspaper and saw a small hole in the corner of the house, with a wooden cover next to it, thinking that Zhang Laohan should usually hide the red bricks in this hole, but for the murderer, this is almost nothing. He glanced around the room again, and everything was neatly organized, with no signs of turning. At this time, Qiu Shan suddenly saw that there was a broken wooden strip near the door, so he walked over and picked it up and looked at it, it turned out to be a door bolt. This deadbolt was broken from the middle, thinking that the other party should have broken into the door and grabbed it, without the slightest intention of concealment.

Thinking of this, Qiu Shan felt that Zhang Laohan and his family might have died suddenly because of the robbery of red bricks, which caused a heart attack in a hurry. Just as he was thinking about it, the curtain at the entrance of the cave shook, and a man in his early fifties with a military coat walked in.

"Alas, you are the investigation team from the province, and you are Zhang Changqing, the village director of Erputou Village, hello, hello. The day before yesterday, someone from the county public security bureau came, but I didn't expect this incident to alarm the province. The county didn't send anyone to say hello, and I didn't know about it, so I waited slowly. The man who claimed to be the village chief walked straight over, greeting the three of Qiu Shan with a smirk and looking them up and down.

"Hmm, hello Comrade Zhang Changqing." Qiu Shan deliberately put on a straight face and said solemnly: "This matter has been reported by the media very much, and the social controversy caused by it is relatively large, and the provincial leaders attach great importance to it, so they sent our investigation team to understand the situation." This investigation is not intended to alarm anyone, but since Director Zhang has come here in person, he still hopes to cooperate with our work. ”

"It should be, it's a matter of the amount, it's all for the work. Besides, Zhang's second father is also an uncle, alas, I can't imagine that people are poor and miserable, and the village has been trying to find a way to give him a subsistence allowance, but the village is in financial difficulties, and we also ...... to the county every year."

As soon as Qiu Shan heard what Zhang Changqing meant, he interrupted him and said, "Well, I'll tell you when we need to know about these things...... Who has Zhang Erdad been in contact with recently? ”

"This ...... Zhang's second father lives relatively partially, and he usually has little contact with the village, so he really doesn't know this. However, Zhang's second father is an honest man, and he won't provoke anyone if he wants to. ”

"When did you find out they were dead?"

"The two pockmarks at the west end of the village were ...... early the morning before yesterday At six or seven o'clock, when I came to borrow a hoe and rake from Zhang's second father, I saw him and the people in his house falling into this cave, and at first I thought they were asleep, but when I walked up and touched it, I found that my body was cold and cold, and I was dead. ”

"Hmm," Qiu Shan glanced at the cave, and then asked, "Where is Er Mazi's house?" Let's go to him and find out. As he spoke, he walked out of the cave.

"Just at the west end of the village, just ask someone to recruit them, and you can wait here." The village chief said as he helped lift the curtain.

"No, we'll do it."

"Well, that's fine. I'll go with you. ”

The four of them walked out of the cave, Zhang Changqing walked in front, led everyone to the west for a while, passed through a few vegetable fields, raised his hand and pointed to a house not far away and said, "Er Mazi's house is there." ”

The four of them came to the door, Zhang Changqing knocked on the door, there was a noise in the house, the door opened with a "squeak", a middle-aged man with a dark face opened the door, and saw the village director followed by three strangers, and asked in a wooden manner: "Village chief, what's the matter?" ”

"Er Mazi, do you do the ball with the door closed in broad daylight? These three are leaders from the province who came to investigate the case of Zhang's second father. ”

"Oh." Er Mazi reluctantly opened the door, welcomed the four people in, and shouted into the house: "Osmanthus, pour tea for your guests." ”

Qiu Shan waved his hand and said, "You're welcome, let's ask a few words and leave." As he spoke, he looked around, and saw that Er Mazi's house was simply furnished, but it looked good, and then asked: "I heard that you were the first to find the bodies of Zhang Er's father and wife, so we wanted to ask about the situation at that time." ”

"Yes, yes." Er Mazi made a few stools for everyone to sit down, and recalled: "This is not going to be ploughed in autumn, the hoe and rake of the Ejia family was broken a few days ago, and E-thinking that Zhang Er's father's house happened to have it, and he went to his house to borrow it early yesterday morning, who expected that after knocking on the door for a long time and no one answered, he looked in from the window and saw Zhang Er's father and the people in his house lying on the ground. I don't think well, could it be that they are suffering from some kind of emergency? I slammed the door and went in, and when I touched them, I found that they were all dead. The day before yesterday, I told the leaders of the county that if this was discovered early, it might be able to be rescued. ”

"Ermazi, it's far away, pick it up and say it's important." Zhang Changqing interrupted Ermazi.

"Yes, yes. As soon as he saw that it was wrong, he hurriedly reported it to the village chief. ”

"When did you go to Second Daddy Zhang's house?"

"In the morning, it's almost seven o'clock. At that time, the sky had just dawned, and I deliberately looked at the time. ”

"Did you see anything unusual at the time?"

"Strange? No. ”

"If you think about it, did you notice anything out of the ordinary?"

Er Mazi frowned and thought about it, and said, "It's nothing unusual...... Oh, I turned over them and saw that they were all smiling. That expression...... I was so shocked that I thought they were alive. Er Mazi squinted his eyes and pursed his mouth, with a look of fear on his face.

"Hmm, what else did you find?"

"Nope." Ermazi shook his head vigorously.

"How hard did you go when you banged the door and entered?"

Er Mazi looked up at Qiu Shan, and quickly lowered his eyelids and said, "The door is closed, and it took several hits to open it." ”

"Honestly, what did you steal from Second Daddy Zhang?" Qiu Shan glared at Er Mazi fiercely, and asked sternly.