Chapter 52: Fox Fur
Some villagers said that it was a ghost and went to the ancestral hall to worship the fox fairy.
I asked the village chief about the fox fairy, the village chief said, the people of Yang village worship the fox fairy from generation to generation, this is the custom of Yang Village, every year and festival, every time you go to the grave, you have to worship the fox fairy, if there is something to ask the fox fairy, or make a wish to the fox fairy, all come to worship, has been passed down to this day.
In the five villages by the Yinyang River, each village port has a pagoda, and it is also a custom for ancestors to worship and pay tribute for generations.
After staying up for a day and a night, I asked Zheng Jinghong and Lingling to go back to rest, and I had to guard the scene in case I missed any clues, but neither of them left, saying that no matter how tired they were, they had to stick to their posts.
Zheng Jinghong's body was thin, I was afraid that he wouldn't be able to stay up, so I insisted that he go back to rest, but Lingling didn't leave, saying that she wanted to be with me.
The villagers were very moved to see that we insisted on this in order to solve the case, and the osmanthus went back to bring the carpet and food, and Lingling and I laid the carpet and rested against the cypress tree.
Osmanthus told us that Jiang Kun and others had been wandering near the cemetery, and it was Jiang Kun who told the village chief that we were digging graves, and that Osmanthus had met villagers on the way back, and it was Jiang Kun and others who had brought them.
It seems that Jiang Kun's people have not been able to investigate the clues, so they are secretly following us, seeing us digging graves, and informing the villagers, it is obvious that they want to use this matter against us and squeeze us out.
It's a pity that stealing chickens doesn't make rice, and Jiang Kun was kicked out by us.
After dark, some of the villagers went back, some of the villagers continued to dig overnight, Lingling and I went back to rest, and Zheng Jinghong came over to continue to stick to his post.
Early the next morning, Zheng Jinghong called, and the villagers made rapid progress, digging sixteen graves overnight, all the coffins inside were empty, and some strange things were found in one of the coffins.
The three of us rushed to the cemetery, and the strange thing Zheng Jinghong said was a dozen silver-white hairs more than an inch long.
Zheng Jinghong frowned and said, "Is it something that accompanies the funeral, or is it that fell from the shroud?" ”
I said, "Don't talk nonsense, it is forbidden to have stuffed things in shrouds, especially white hair, which means that children and grandchildren are cut off, and this kind of thing is absolutely not allowed in the coffin." ”
The village chief nodded, "Officer Ning is really knowledgeable, you are right." ”
I asked Zheng Jinghong to take Mao back for testing, and asked the villagers to continue digging up all the graves of people who died eight years ago until now, even those who died normally within eight years.
When the grave of an old man who died last year was dug up, it was found that ...... The corpse inside is not there either!
This information shocked everyone very much, how could the murderer even take away the corpse that died normally?
I continued to dig three graves, three years ago, five years ago, and seven years ago, two were old people who died normally, and one was a middle-aged man who died in a car accident, and the bodies were not there!
Before, we dug up two graves that were more than eight years old, and the bodies were there, but now we have dug up the graves within eight years, and the bodies are not there, which shows that in the past eight years, whether it is a person who has been killed or a person who has died a normal death, the body has been stolen!
This news is very important.
Lingling and I immediately went to visit the family of the deceased to inquire about the burial and burial, and the family members were shocked and extremely painful when they learned that the body was missing. We asked more than a dozen family members, and the answer was very consistent: they all put the body into the coffin with their own hands, and sealed the coffin with many relatives and villagers saying goodbye.
When I competed with Jiang Kun, my inference was the result of step-by-step reasoning, and my reasoning was interlocking without any problems.
Why did the corpse disappear?
I remembered that in some mythological dramas, fairies and demons and monsters can use spells to take away the corpse, this is just my blind imagination, if there are really demons and monsters to take away the corpse, kill the target at that time, take it away, why after the burial, take it away?
In the afternoon of the same day, Zheng Jinghong came back, and he told me that this white hair was ...... Fox fur.
After technical testing, it is the hair of the silver fox, and there is only this answer.
The three of us had a meeting in the corner on the side, and when we got the answer of fox hair, we couldn't help but think of the fox fairy in the ancestral hall!
Could it be that the demons and monsters took away the corpse?
Zheng Jinghong said, "You look at the test report, the silver fox is native to North America and Siberia, is a wild state fox fur color mutant species, silver fox fur color is all white, all black and white thousand black three kinds, the body length is 60 to 80 centimeters, the weight is 5 to 8 kilograms. ”
"Silver foxes are very rare in China, they are protected animals, and generally wild silver foxes will appear in the mountains, as long as they prey on some small animals for a living."
Ling Ling said, "These fox furs don't seem to have any value or clues, right?" Could it be that the fox took the corpse away? ”
Zheng Jinghong said, "It is indeed very unreasonable to have a dozen fox furs in a closed coffin, what if someone deliberately puts fox fur into the coffin? Or rather, those who dig up the coffin, put the fox fur in it? ”
I said, "You mean that the murderer is a villager who put fox fur in the coffin to confuse our eyes?" ”
"Yes." Zheng Jinghong nodded, as if he was not sure about his inference, "I have seen many criminal cases, and the murderer will do all kinds of inexplicable things in order to confuse the police investigation, just like the case in Shannan Village, which led the matter to the river demon, and as a result, all the villagers believed it." ”
Zheng Jinghong's analysis is very reasonable.
We inspected all the coffins in detail on the spot, took pictures, recorded them, and there were no other clues.
After a while, Jiang Kun came over with two people and asked with a smile what we had investigated.
I didn't give him a good look, "Team Leader Jiang, we are doing our own things, you investigate yours, I investigate mine, you are not welcome here." ”
Jiang Kun didn't get angry this time, "Ning Que, you see, now twenty-two days have passed, and we only have three months to solve the case, what clues do you have, say it, after all, we have handled more cases, and we have seen more strange things, let's discuss and analyze together and solve the case as soon as possible." ”
"In the past, it was me who was wrong, and it was normal to be noisy and noisy, we are all in the same bureau, and we are here to help."
We don't have any valuable clues, so it doesn't hurt to say it, so I said: "Now more than 20 coffins have been dug up, and each coffin is empty, and this morning, the villagers found a few silver-white hairs in the coffins, and after identification, they were silver fox hairs. ”
I also gave the test report to Jiang Kun.
Seeing the test report, Jiang Kun and the two police officers looked at the fox fairy ancestral hall at the entrance of the cemetery, and it seemed that they were the same as the idea we had just seen the fox fur.
After reading the report, Jiang Kun adjusted his mood, "Ning Que, I have been investigating with the team for more than 20 days, and this case is almost impossible to start, the law of the dead is that on the night of the wedding, the groom dies violently, and the husband and wife in the village will die violently because of something." ”
"If nothing happens, the murderer will not commit the crime, and there will be no trace of him, so we don't have any clues."
"I visited the villagers before, and several villagers said that the things in the village are ghosts, this is a ghost asking for life, as long as the man is not good to his wife and family, the ghost will ask for his life, and we have investigated, in the whole village, there are three newlyweds who have a very good relationship with their families, and there has been no accident."
I asked, "Then Team Leader Jiang thinks there are ghosts and monsters?" ”
Jiang Kun said, "What bullshit ghosts, where are there ghosts in this world?" The case in Shangnan Village has been troubled for 12 years, and in the end it is not man-made? ”
The village chief heard the shouts and hurriedly walked over with a few villagers.
The village chief said with some worry: "Officer Jiang, this is a cemetery, it's okay to talk nonsense outside, the fox fairy is here, don't talk nonsense, so as not to cause disaster." ”
"Fox fairy?" Jiang Kun sneered, "I'm upright, I'm afraid of some ghosts and fox fairies, the case in your village is man-made, I will definitely solve the case!" ”
Jiang Kun left after speaking.
More and more villagers in the cemetery helped to dig the graves, and more than 300 people came, and in the evening, all the graves of those who died violently had been dug up, and there were no bodies in them.
In the process of digging the grave, we have been making rounds, carefully observing some villagers and taking pictures.
In eight years, a total of 31 people died, I asked the villagers to continue digging, digging up the graves of the two people who died normally, and some people began to object, but under the persuasion of me and the villagers, the family members did not object, everything was for the village, for the sake of handling the case.
Before digging the grave, I personally knelt down and kowtowed in front of the grave with the villagers to ask the owner for forgiveness.
First, the grave of an old man was dug up, and in the coffin was a white skeleton, this old man had been here for nine years, and his body had long since decayed.
Then there was the grave of a man twelve years ago, who died of cancer, and when it was dug up, it was still a white skeleton.
This proves that everything began eight years ago, and that the bones of those who died eight years ago are all there.
The village chief also arranged for the villagers to fill in the graves, although the coffin was empty, but it could not be exposed, the family of the deceased brought the clothes of the deceased, as a mound for burial, many people cried to die and lived, this bizarre thing, the body of the relatives disappeared, they will not be able to accept it for a while.
Many villagers surrounded the three of us and told us to solve the case.
I said: "I will definitely do my best to solve the case, and you must also fully cooperate with me, in the past two days, everyone has worked hard, we have dug up all the graves of the deceased, it has been proved that everything started eight years ago, and the disappeared bodies were all accidents eight years ago." ”
"So, please tell me, what happened in the village eight years ago?"
The villagers began to answer my questions enthusiastically.
"The incident eight years ago, everyone remembers, it was Yang Zhihuai who married a daughter-in-law, and the day after the wedding, Yang Zhihuai died, and he was the first person to die in the cave room."
"Yes, the body was found at more than eleven o'clock in the morning, it was Yang Zhihuai's mother, Du Juan's sister-in-law, who called them to get up, Du Juan's sister-in-law thought that she was newly married, so she let them sleep more, and shouted to eat at noon, and found that her son was dead, and her daughter-in-law was not present."
"My daughter-in-law has disappeared, and there has been no news for all these years."
"Du Juan's sister-in-law was in poor health and was seriously ill, but when she saw her son die, she fainted in a fit of anger and never woke up."
"Their family lives with mother and son, and the family is also more difficult, and relatives come to do the funeral."
"Since this happened, the rest of the village got married, and the groom would die......"