Chapter 43: The Nether Bride
"If you're bored, I can tell you about a murder that hasn't been solved yet, are you interested?" Dr. Lim said.
"Let's talk about it! It's okay to do anyway, but you'd better not play tricks with me. Xu Tian said.
"Humph!" Dr. Lin sneered. "You should have heard of this case, it is the Netherworld Bride Incident that once resounded for a while." Dr. Lim said.
"I knew that this was an unsolved homicide case that happened in a remote mountainous area, and the investigators examined all the suspects, and those people had alibis, and in the end they did not find valuable clues at the scene of the crime, and the case was closed." Teacher Jin said.
"That's right, but this case was not famous for not finding clues, there are a lot of cases like this without clues, and there are too many unsolved cases to count." Dr. Lim said.
"Of course, when this case happened, I had just entered the police academy, and I had read the case file, and the police academy teacher used it as a teaching material to teach students, but in the end, no one solved the truth." Teacher Jin said.
"What the hell is that case?" Xu Tian asked.
"I'll tell you!" Teacher Jin said. "The location of the crime is in a mountain village with inconvenient transportation, but that mountain village used to be a very prosperous township, because it was swept away by foreign enemies during the War of Resistance Against Japan, so it became depressed, and it was still like that until 15 years ago."
"But the people in that mountain village are not poor, they live almost in isolation." Dr. Lim said.
"It's strange, why haven't I heard of you talking about the case so famous?" Xu Tian said.
"Fifteen years ago, you should have been a primary school student, this kind of weird case will definitely not reach your ears, because it is too weird, the news is only reported once, since people know the case, people thousands of miles away feel creepy, all the follow-up will not be reported, you haven't heard of it It's normal." Teacher Jin said.
"So what's the case?" Xu Tian asked.
"Now I remember very clearly that although the case file is a rubbing, the copied case file is handwritten, written in a very neat regular script." Mr. Jin recalled the case file he saw back then, and his body couldn't help but shudder. "The case happened at a wedding in a mountain village, and the wedding was a traditional Chinese wedding, and the groom even rode a horse to win the bride."
"Then the bride's family background should be noble, right? Since it is a traditional wedding, I know this etiquette, if the groom is asked to pick up the kiss, then the bride will definitely get married. Xu Tian said.
"You're right, the bride is the daughter of a local grain merchant." Teacher Jin said.
"The bride died at the wedding?" Xu Tian asked.
"No, the wedding was normal during the day, and although it was a traditional wedding, it was already the 21st century, and after the bride and groom had a wedding ceremony, the bride and groom toasted the guests together. At that time, everyone at the wedding had seen the bride, and there was nothing strange about it for the whole day, but in the evening, strange things soon happened. Teacher Jin said with a frown.
"What happened?" Xu Tian asked.
"In the evening, the young men and women of the village went to the bride's house to make a hole in the house, and while a group of young people were having fun, the bride died in the courtyard." Teacher Jin said.
"What's going on? The bride walked out on her own? Xu Tian asked.
"The bride said to go to the toilet, but because it was not too late, it was about seven o'clock in the evening, and there was still a banquet in the courtyard that had not been removed, and the villagers who came to help build the pot and cook had not left, after all, they helped to work for free, and all the parents of the groom opened a dinner for those who helped in the evening." Teacher Jin said.
"Those people saw the bride back in the house, didn't they?" Xu Tian asked.
"No, they didn't see the bride walk out of the house at all, and there was a scruffy young man who happened to have diarrhea that day, and he was using the toilet since it was just getting dark, and during that time the scruffy young man also saw a couple in the village stealing near the toilet, and three of them could prove that the bride had not been to the toilet." Teacher Jin said.
"So how did the bride appear in the courtyard, and has not found out the truth yet?" Xu Tian asked.
"This incident was actually just a fuse, and the really puzzling case actually happened in the morning." Teacher Jin said. "After the bride died, everyone must go to inform the bride's parents, they all live in the same village, and the people who went to report quickly found the bride's parents, but the bride's parents ignored those people at all, until everyone carried the bride's body back to her mother's house, and the bride's parents were shocked."
"The bride is already dead, isn't she?" Xu Tian said.
"Yes, the bride's parents told the police that on the eve of the wedding, the bride hanged herself at home, and no one was picked up by the groom on the wedding day. Teacher Jin said.
"Wait, what about the corpse that was carried back to its mother's house?" Xu Tian asked.
"She was missing, but the villagers insisted on carrying the bride back, but the bride's parents insisted that their daughter was buried during the day." Teacher Jin said.
"Sounds a lot like a made-up story." Xu Tian said.
"It's not a made-up story, it's a planned homicide, at least that's what I think." Teacher Jin said.
"The key is the body of the bride, where is the body of the bride who was carried back to her parents' house by the villagers? Then the bride's parents led the police to dig up the body, which means that the missing bride's body should have been buried in the cemetery, and it may be more difficult for a person to bury the body, and there must be a group of people who buried the bride. Xu Tian said.
"Almost everyone speculates like this, but the bride's parents insisted that their daughter hanged herself last night, but during the day, all the villagers witnessed the bride's wedding, and the two sides were at a stalemate, and finally the police drew up a list of suspects." Teacher Jin said.
"I think the bride's parents are more likely to lie." Xu Tian said.
"At that time, the police also thought so, but the bride's family was not only her parents, it was a large family, and there were more than 20 workers and handymen employed in the family, and everyone could testify that the bride committed suicide the night before." Teacher Jin said.