In the middle of the crowd, there was a circle of more than thirty square meters pulled up with a rope, and two policemen and several middle-aged men stood outside the rope circle to maintain order.

Director Wang called one of the middle-aged people, he was the informant Wang Youli, this person was about 40 years old, about 1.69 meters tall, dark skin, wearing a hard hat on his head, a towel hanging around his neck, this person was wearing an old man's shirt printed with the words "Serve the People" on his upper body, a pair of yellow military pants rolled up to his knees, and a pair of patched liberation shoes on his feet.

Ouyang Ping, Chen Jie, and Han Lingling asked Director Qi, Director Wang, and Wang Youli to understand the situation, while Liu Dayu led others to investigate the scene and make preparations before the autopsy.

Let's talk about the situation on Ouyang Ping's side first.

Ouyang Ping learned that the situation was as follows:

In the spring of 1994, the "Former Residence of Xie Xi" was approved by the Provincial Cultural Protection Department as a provincial first-class cultural relics protection unit. "Xie Xi's former residence" is surrounded by many years of disrepair and dilapidated bungalows, since "Xie Xi's former residence" has been upgraded to a provincial cultural protection unit, it involves the problem of new and demolition, after the study of the planning department, a total of 17 families have been moved.

There is a courtyard in front of the "former residence of Xie Xi", called the Chen family compound, which was originally a house of a family surnamed Chen, before the liberation, the family ran to Taiwan, and after the liberation, the district housing management office took over the Chen family compound. There are four families living in the courtyard.

There is a well in the courtyard, and the body seen by the informant Wang Youli and others is in this well.

The well is at the courtyard gate (backyard gate. The Chen family compound also has a front yard gate, and the back yard door is in the alley to the west of the Chen family compound; The front yard door is on the street of Xie Juren Lane, across the street from Xie Xi's former residence. On the left side, only a dozen meters away from the backyard door, there are two houses in the Chen family compound, and there are two courtyards, and the courtyard we are talking about is a courtyard in the south. In the past, because the water from this well was better and deeper, nearby aunts, aunts, girls and daughters-in-law all came to this well to use water. For this reason, the gate of the yard is not closed during the day. The doors open at around 7 a.m. in the morning and close at night.

Now, the courtyard walls and the four-family house are in ruins.

In the plan, a plaza (along with a parking lot) will be built on the site where the four families are located. ）

This morning, Wang Youli and others came here at dawn, ready to clean up the ruins, and when they cleaned up to the well, they found a big stone, and everyone used a pickaxe to pry up the stone, and it turned out that there was a relatively large bluestone slab under the stone - 30 centimeters below the ground level, and when the bluestone slab was opened, a well was presented in front of everyone, and when everyone pried open the bluestone slab, a very unpleasant smell rose from the well, and it was this very special smell that attracted everyone's attention.

According to Director Qi, the well was sealed a year ago, that is, in the spring of 1994. I don't know who stole it.

The well was sealed because: in the spring of 1994, the four families of the Chen family compound paid someone to dig the well, and as a result, a corpse was taken up in the well, so the four families and the neighbors did not use the water in the well, at first, the naughty boys came to the well to play, and later, the adults were afraid that the children would accidentally fall into the well, so they covered the wellhead with bluestone slabs, and the rainy season in 1994 fell for many days, and the house of the Gandejun family in the Chen family compound leaked very badly, after the rainy season ended, The district housing manager helped Gan Dejun's family repair the house, and finally, the workers piled up the construction waste above the wellhead.

He lived in four families with the surnames Gan Zhang and Zhao Men. It is this Gan family who repairs the house, and the house number is No. 187 Xie Juren Lane (the house numbers of the three houses of Zhao Zhangmen are No. 186185 and No. 184 respectively. ）

The above is the basic situation, and more detailed information should be further understood after the on-site investigation and autopsy are completed.

There is no way to talk about the on-site investigation work, because the current scene is no longer the scene at the time of the crime, because of the demolition, the original scene no longer exists, and it is difficult to say whether the well is the first scene. It is highly likely that the murderer took advantage of the chaos before and after the demolition to hide the body of the deceased in the well, and if this analysis can be established, then the well should not be the first scene.

As a result, the autopsy became the only thing the comrades could do, and whether they could obtain valuable clues depended on the autopsy.

Wang Youli led a few workers to dig up the wellhead, saying that the wellhead was no longer accurate, because the edge of the well above the well was no longer there, and it was only after the identification of Director Qi and nearby residents that it was originally a well, and the original yard and the house of four families had become ruins, and the original reference had ceased to exist.

The location of the wellhead is 50 centimeters below the ground, and the bluestone slab covering the top of the wellhead is about 40 centimeters from the ground. Wang Youli and others recalled that before they pried up the bluestone slab, in addition to the stone, there was a relatively thick layer of soil on the top of the bluestone slab. Needless to say, the man who removed the edge of the well and the long stone below the edge of the well wanted to erase the well from people's memories and lives.

In the original demolition plan, a square and parking lot will be built in front of the gate of "Xie Xi's Former Residence", and nearby residents know about it. In the case of plazas and parking lots, workers simply clear the rubble, level the ground, and lay cement – or tiles – on the ground. It was with this in mind that the murderer removed the stones from the edge of the well and the edge of the well, and since it was a square, he would not dig deeper, and it was safest to hide the body in a well fifty centimeters below the ground, as long as the floor was leveled - or the tiles were laid, the corpse under the well would become a permanent secret.

So, why did Wang Youli dig three feet into the ground?

Here's the thing, in the planning, to build a big wall here, the wall has two functions: first, there are many dilapidated bungalows in the south of the square, after erecting a big wall, it can not only beautify the environment of "Xie Xi's former residence", but also cover up the ugliness; Second, the details of the "Former Residence of Xie Xi" engraved on the wall -- since it is a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit, there should be a commensurate introduction -- let the visitors know something!

The location of the wall is just above the well, and the nearby residents do not know about this situation, which is also something that the murderer did not expect.

This can be regarded as providence!

On the planning drawings, the wall is 12 meters long and 3.5 meters high.

Since it was necessary to build such a large wall above the well, it was necessary to dig the foundation, and it was while clearing the ruins and digging the foundation that the workers dug the well below the ground level. Thus, a homicide case surfaced.