Chapter 005: Hell Before You Die
There is a reason why I am suspicious of the people at the local police station.
If there are people who die unnaturally in rural areas, as long as no one calls the police, the local police station generally won't ask about it, and of course I know about it.
However, even if no one calls the police, according to the regulations, the village cadres will report to the higher-ups. And the family of the deceased also has to go to the police station to cancel the household registration, don't those staff members feel a little suspicious?
Thinking of this, I already have a plan in my heart. I'm going to go and secretly investigate all the people who have worked at the local police station in recent years. However, of course, I can't act until I get Zhang Yihan's approval after recording the confession.
A few hours passed in a flash, and after they had all been recorded, and as soon as the villagers left, I told Zhang Yihan about the corpses I had seen in the well and the suspicion that there was something wrong inside the police station.
Zhang Yihan didn't react much when he heard this, and only said that the first task for the time being was to summarize the confessions of the villagers.
Seeing that Zhang Yihan said that, I didn't dare to say anything more, so I had to put my thoughts in my heart first.
When we returned to the courtyard of the Guo family, it was already half past twelve at noon.
At that time, Xiao Li was following behind Ge Lao to help Ge Lao hold a sun umbrella, while Ge Lao kept circling around the Guo family's courtyard, like crazy, and pulled his white hair after walking a few steps
We asked Ge Lao what he was doing, and Ge Lao didn't say a word, and continued to circle around the house.
Seeing that Ge Lao ignored us, we went to ask Xiao Li, but Xiao Li spread his hands to us, saying that he didn't know either.
As soon as Ge Lao gets to work, he can reach the realm of selflessness and forgetting sleep and food, and we don't dare to disturb him. Don't look at him usually very talkative, once he is obsessed with work, if he is disturbed by someone, he will definitely be scolded by him.
Zhang Yihan returned to the courtyard to sort out some of the confessions he had recorded for the villagers. I'm not a diligent person, and since she didn't arrange anything for me, I'm happy to be at ease.
When I was idle, I followed Ge Lao around the Guo family's yard.
After following Ge Lao for a few walks, I found that there were only four of us left around the courtyard of the Guo family, and the other policemen had all left.
I don't have to think about it to know that it must have been Zhang Yihan or Ge Lao who withdrew. Because when we handle a case, what we are most afraid of is that there are too many idle people, which can easily destroy the scene.
As for Xiao Li, the policeman who stayed at the police station, it was because of work needs. He is from the village, he is very familiar with the situation in the village, and we have to rely on him for many things.
I followed Ge Lao for only a few laps and then didn't turn, because I found that Ge Lao seemed to be really crazy. Every few steps he would look towards the plains or hills in the distance, and every time he did, he would pull his hair at every turn, and I felt the urge to hit 120.
Fortunately, it didn't take long for me to see Ge Lao pick up the camera and start taking pictures of the scenery of this village, and I knew that Ge Lao should be fine, and my worries were unnecessary.
Seeing that Ge Lao was fine, I pulled Xiao Li aside and asked him a few questions.
One of the questions is: Xiao Li, I just heard a few people in your village say that they saw a female ghost with a cloak at the gate of the Guo family's courtyard, what do you think about this?
Brother Xiao Li's face was a little unsightly: Let me tell you this, our village is really a bit evil, especially the well in the Guo family's yard, which is very evil. There are some things that you can't believe in it, and there are few things in this world that scientists can't explain? I think you'd better not investigate this case, and you won't find any clue when you investigate
I know that some feudal superstitious ideas have taken root in Xiao Li's heart, and I can't make sense in just a few words. It's like telling a senior missionary not to believe in Jesus in the world, maybe you didn't make sense of him, but he believed Jesus what you said first.
At this moment, I heard Zhang Yihan's shout: Xiaolin, come here.
What's the matter, senior sister, I ran towards Zhang Yihan in a hurry. Seriously, if Zhang Yihan is not a little cold, and sometimes even a little perverted, she is indeed a very good woman. Not only is his appearance and figure great, but even his voice is very good.
I think I'm pretty cheap sometimes, obviously I hate her in my heart, but as soon as she calls me, I can't help but stick to her.
You hurry up and make these phone calls and ask if there has been anything special happening in the Guo family in the past three years? Zhang Yihan handed me a few phone numbers.
Of course, I have no reason to refuse this little thing. In fact, even if she asked me to go to the next well again, I wouldn't dare to refuse.
I took the note and started to touch my phone on my body, and after touching it a few times, I realized that my love crazy 5 was still lying at the bottom of the well.
So I asked Zhang Yihan to borrow a mobile phone and start making calls. After some inquiry, I got the following clues.
First, the well in the courtyard of the Guo family is indeed an ancient well, according to what they said, the well was left by the ancestors of the Guo family, and it is estimated that it is at least a hundred years old, and they can't say why it is at the specific time.
Second, since four or five years ago, several members of the Guo family have been working outside most of the time, eating and living outside, and rarely living at home. As a result, they are not very clear about the situation at home. As for the haunting stories from the villagers, they had never encountered them, and it seemed that the haunted time happened when they were not at home. But when I asked about a female ghost in front of their house, he said that their children seemed to have seen it a few days before the accident. It's kind of like that, and it makes me feel a little hairy.
Third, they said that three years ago, a foreigner asked the two brothers of the Guo family to buy this old house, and it is said that the price was quite high at that time. However, they felt that the house had been passed down from generation to generation, so they were not willing to sell it. Of course, the main reason is that the well in the Guo family's yard is a well that has never dried up. Whenever there is a drought, the well is the only water source within a radius of ten miles, and the Guo family can make a lot of money by selling water from the well when it encounters a drought.
As soon as I learned the news, my first reaction was to immediately link the murders that happened in the Guo family with the person who asked the Guo family to buy a house.
It's a pity that they said that the man was a foreigner, they didn't know him, and he never appeared after coming once. After a few years, they couldn't even remember the general appearance of that person, only that the person's left foot seemed to be slightly lame. The worst thing is that they can't remember whether they were lame on their left foot or on their right foot.
However, based on the fact that most of the dead people were from this village, I deduced that the murderer should not be far from this village, and it is even likely that he was from this village.
After I told Zhang Yihan all the clues and some thoughts I got, Zhang Yihan also felt that my analysis was very reasonable.
At this moment, two policemen drove to the gate of Guo's courtyard and handed some test sheets to Ge Lao. As soon as I looked at it, I knew that these were the results of the tests of the deceased man yesterday.
But seeing that Ge Lao flipped through the test sheet a few times, his brows suddenly wrinkled: Only a few days old?
Hearing what Ge Lao said, Zhang Yihan's faces and I changed slightly. There is no doubt that if the corpse had died in the last few days, the murderer would have had too much courage. This is a crime against the wind, and it doesn't take us police seriously at all.
Zhang Yihan immediately made a phone call to the director of the county public security bureau, and she asked the county public security bureau to immediately send someone to cooperate with her to carefully investigate the family members of people who died in this well in the village in the past few years, and she must let them tell the truth, even if there are any ghost remarks, let them say it in detail and make a record.
Of course, the entire county of missing persons will also be investigated so that the identities of the two people who died before can be investigated.
At that time, as long as we summarize the confessions of those villagers, we can find out what they have in common and deduce why the murderer did what he did. If we want to solve the case, we must first find out the murderer's motive and purpose of the crime.
Soon, with the strong support of the Baiqu County Public Security Bureau, we really found a common denominator. The family members of those who died said that the deceased had seen a female ghost at the gate of Guo's courtyard the night before he died, and then died in the well of Guo's courtyard the next day.
As soon as Zhang Yihan and I heard what the policeman who reported to us said, we couldn't calm down anymore.
In response to this question, we pulled Xiao Li over and asked about it, and Xiao Li said that the family members of the deceased had indeed said so, but they were not allowed to spread the word about it, so many villagers did not know about it.
Senior sister, do you remember that Xiaohong said that she saw a ghost at the gate of the Guo family's courtyard last night? I suddenly remembered the words of that little red.
What do you mean? Zhang Yihan's face was obviously a little unnatural, and immediately after, I heard her say: Let's go, let's stare at Xiaohong tonight. I still don't believe she could have died in this well.