Having an old injury means that Liu Cuilan had been beaten by others earlier. Zhang Yichi's first suspicion was Liu Cuilan's husband Wang Shimin. If this is the case, then Liu Cuilan is also a victim of domestic violence.

Judging by the old wounds on the abdomen, it is also possible that the newly discovered bruises elsewhere were not caused during the fight with the murderer.

Did Liu Cuilan run away from home because she couldn't stand domestic violence?

Zhang Yichi had a lot of questions in his heart.

At this time, there was the sound of footsteps outside, and Zhang Yichi hurriedly sorted out Liu Cuilan's clothes.

"Brother Zhang." Chen Chunsheng ran over, for fear of delaying Zhang Yichi's time, "You see if this will work." ”

"Yes." Zhang Yichi took the pen and wrote symbolically on the paper, "Thank you." ”

"What's the matter?" Chen Chunsheng smiled and was about to go in, get a flashlight, and then illuminate Zhang Yichi.

Zhang Yichi got up and stopped Chen Chunsheng: "No need to take a photo, I'm almost done with the inspection, let's go out." ”

"Oh, okay." Chen Chunsheng took two flashlights and followed Zhang Yichi out.

Except for some places that Wang Shimin is not allowed to check, Liu Cuilan's head, hands, and feet Zhang Yichi has been checking for several hours, he is not a professional, he has done his best to check it, and he can't see the reason if he looks at it again.

The investigation of the body was over, and the two walked towards the village committee, where Wang Shimin was talking to the village chief with his back to them. When the two were about to pass, Wang Shimin should have finished talking to the village chief, and hurriedly turned around and wanted to go back to the firewood room to continue looking at Zhang Yichi, but when he saw that Zhang Yichi had come back, he stood still.

"Done?" The village chief asked.

Wang Shimin looked at Zhang Yichi.

Zhang Yichi said: "After the investigation, if you want to bury the corpse, bury it first." ”

"Shimin, then I'll be busy after eating at noon." The village chief said to Wang Shimin.

"Oh." Wang Shimin nodded and lit a cigarette.

Zhang Yichi stared at the smoke, his pupils shrunk. Chen Chunsheng once gave him this kind of money, and the tobacco was inferior but cheap. And the person who watched himself by the window last night and left four or five cigarette butts on the ground smoked this cigarette.

Chen Chunsheng swept a few people into the house to put things, he went in with his front foot, and Zhang Nanyang came out of it with his back foot: "Village chief, uncle, you're ready." ”

"Wait for Chunsheng, let's go together." The village chief said.

"Go to Wang Shimin's house?" Zhang Yichi asked.

"Yes, Brother Zhang will also go with us." Zhang Nanyang said.

Chen Chunsheng came out, and the village chief said: "Chunsheng, you go over with Nanyang first and help your uncle in the world, your uncle in the world can't be busy." ”

"Huh!" Chen Chunsheng should go down.

Zhang Nanyang sneered: "I can't kill chickens, I can't work." ”

"Oh, you're a literate person, you can't even do it." The village chief said a word, and Zhang Nanyang was a little embarrassed, "Chunsheng, you go over first to help your uncle of the world." ”

Chen Chunsheng ran away before them.

"Let's go, too." The village chief walked away slowly.

Zhang Yichi, Wang Shimin, and Zhang Nanyang followed the village head.

"The firewood room is locked." The village chief asked a little uneasy.

"It's locked." Zhang Yichi replied.

"Oh."

"Brother Zhang, smoking." Zhang Nanyang took out a pack of good cigarettes from his pocket and gave Zhang Yichi one.

Zhang Yichi took the cigarette and was a little surprised: "I remember that you don't smoke?" ”

"I have this cigarette specially for people to distribute, the village chief and Uncle Shimin are here." Zhang Nanyang diligently went to disperse cigarettes for the village chief and Wang Shimin.

"Huh." Zhang Yichi lit his cigarette and took a puff.

He smoked a lot today, but he didn't touch a single bag in his pocket.

After a long time, the four of them staggered to Wang Shimin's house.

Wang Shimin's house is also very simple, with three rooms, a fence on the side, and some lambs.

There was a pool of blood on one side of the ground, and there was a chicken feather on the ground, which was probably just processed by the chickens.

Chen Chunsheng's hands were stained with blood, and he came out of the house: "Uncle Shiren went to call his relatives, Aunt Niu is helping to cook, and I just slaughtered the chicken." ”

"Chunsheng moved the table out, wow, there is not enough to borrow from the neighbors." The village chief said.

Chunsheng went in and moved out of the table and put it in the yard, except for the three stools in the table room, after taking it out, the village chief, Zhang Yichi, and Wang Shimin sat on one, and Zhang Nanyang waited for Chunsheng to borrow some more from the neighbors.

It didn't take long for Chunsheng to come back with a stack of stools: "Brother Nanyang, there is a table next door with four or five stools." ”

"Okay, lift it slowly, don't be in a hurry." Zhang Nanyang looked concerned about Chen Chunsheng's appearance.

Zhang Yichi understood what Chen Chunsheng meant, he couldn't take it because there were a lot of things, and when he saw that Zhang Nanyang was unwilling, he got up and said, "Let's go, I'll go with you to get it." ”

"Let's go and walk Chunsheng, didn't my legs just walk a little sore." Seeing this, Zhang Nanyang hurriedly got up, "Brother Zhang, you sit down, I'll just go with Chunsheng." ”

Zhang Yichi sat down and watched the two go to the neighbor's house.

"This Nanyang, relying on a bit of culture, is a bullish thing." The village chief said disdainfully with a cigarette in his mouth, "At that time, it was all the money we made up in the village to go to high school in the town. said that it was a good card to study, and he was admitted to the university after he finished the exam, and he was so angry that he couldn't look down on ordinary jobs, so he came back to teach in the village. ”

"The conditions in the village are poor, and it is not easy to train individual talents." Zhang Yichi said, "It's also a good thing to come back to teach the children, and if you can get out of the mountains in the future, you will try to get out of the mountains." ”

"There is a very good one out there, and there is no shortage in our village." The village chief seems to have his own set of opinions.

Zhang Yichi did not have any arguments with the village chief in this regard.

It didn't take long for Chen Chunsheng and Zhang Nanyang to come back with their things, and set up two tables in the courtyard, enough for a dozen people. Zhang Yichi shared a table with the village chief and Wang Shimin, and Wang Shiren sat at another table after returning with his relatives.

Wang Shiren and Chen Chunsheng helped Aunt Niu and worked for more than half an hour, and the meals were ready.

Zhang Yichi and Wang Shimin sat on both sides of the village chief, and the village chief served wine to the two of them: "Shimin, this has happened, you are too sad, the person who killed Cuilan is here, there are police comrades, you can rest assured." ”

Wang Shimin didn't speak, and so did Zhang Yichi.

"Here, drink one." The village chief raised his glass.

Zhang Yichi raised his glass and touched it with the village chief and Wang Shimin, and then took a sip of liquor.

His mind is a little messed up right now, and he's still working on the situation.

Wang Shimin should have had domestic violence against Liu Cuilan, and Zhang Yichi preferred to think that Liu Cuilan couldn't stand the domestic violence before leaving.

As for the murderer, none of the people he has met so far can fully match the characteristics of the murderer, is the murderer not in this group of people, still hiding in the village?

"Village chief, how many people are there in our village?" Zhang Yichi asked.

The village chief sandwiched a piece of chicken thigh, and the mouth of the food was full of oil: "There are more than 150 households in our village, and there are about 800 people. ”

"How many men are there?"

"More than five hundred." Village Road.

"So much?" Zhang Yichi was a little surprised.

He thought that the number of men and women in the village was almost even, with some small ups and downs at most, but he did not expect that there were so many more men than women in the village.

"Not much." The village chief still doesn't think it's much, "When the boy grows up, he can support Lao Tzu, what can the girl do, it's not that she has to go out, it's very useful." ”

"Ah......" Zhang Yichi understood.

It turned out to be because of the patriarchal concept. As for how to achieve such a large ratio of men and women, he did not choose to ask deeply.

"Wang Shimin." Zhang Yichi shouted.

He originally wanted to call Brother Shimin, after all, the other party was more than ten years older than him, but because the other party may have abused Liu Cuilan many times, and this morning he also mentioned that he would have the money left for Liu Cuilan's funeral and marry a daughter-in-law after a while, which made him feel uncomfortable and his perception of him became very bad, so he simply called him by his name.

"Why don't you see Liu Cuilan and their family?"

Wang Shimin was eating steamed buns with his head buried in his head, and when he heard Zhang Yichi's question, he suddenly stopped.

"Cuilan's family is not in our village." The village chief explained with a smile, "Their family is far away, and they are married far away." ”

"They don't know about her being killed, right?" Zhang Yichi asked again.

"Then you'll have to write a letter." The village chief said.

Zhang Yichi had more and more doubts in his heart, so he had no intention of eating: "How did you know each other so far away and get married again?" ”

Two places far apart, one is still in the mountains, why did Liu Cuilan come to marry Wang Shimin, who is in his forties and has achieved nothing? I also have to endure domestic violence.

"Ah......" the village chief took a sip of liquor.

"We met on a blind date." Wang Shimin replied.

"yes." The village chief echoed, "Isn't Cuilan a brain problem, the blind date just happened to be the two of them looking at each other." Shimin gave a lot of gift money to his in-laws, and his in-laws also felt that it was not easy for a silly girl to see that it was right, so they agreed. ”

Zhang Yichi didn't speak.

After lunch, Wang Shimin didn't drink much, unlike yesterday, when he drank in a big gulp, he cried and scolded his mother after drinking. The two brothers of the Wang family were talking to those relatives, and Chen Chunsheng wanted to send the village chief home. Zhang Yichi planned to stay and look for clues from Wang Shimin's house, but Zhang Nanyang said that he would follow Zhang Yichi.

Zhang Yichi entered Wang Shimin's house, which was very simple, there were no valuables, and there was no trace of a new marriage. It seems that not only the funeral, but even the happy event is very simple.

After all, the family is poor, Zhang Yichi tries to understand.

After checking at Wang Shimin's house, Zhang Yichi did not gain anything.

This instead aroused his suspicions.

The two have been married for three months, why don't they even have a little Liu Cuilan's things at home? There are no photos, no clothes, as if Liu Cuilan has never lived in this house.

There must be something hidden in it.

Even if it has nothing to do with the murderer, there must be some secrets between Wang Shimin and Liu Cuilan.

"Brother, what's wrong?" Zhang Nanyang followed Zhang Yichi's ass and circled around.

"Nothing, let's go." Zhang Yichi still didn't directly ask Wang Shimin why there was not even a trace of Liu Cuilan's existence at home, so he said hello and went out of the yard directly.

"Where are you going now?"

"Just walk around the village and get a feel for the terrain." After speaking, Zhang Yichi raised his head and looked left and right, "Where else is it a little higher, I'll go over later." ”

Zhang Yichi wanted to find a high point overlooking the entire village, so that it would be easier to understand the village.

"I know where it is." Zhang Nanyang said, "But now it's so hot at noon, after getting around the heat, why don't you go to my house to sit for a while?" I just happen to have something I want to talk to you about Brother Zhang. ”

"Do you have a problem?" Zhang Yichi looked at Zhang Nanyang who was smiling.

"Huh."

Zhang Nanyang didn't explain what it was now, probably because he didn't want to say it for the time being, Zhang Yichi didn't ask deeply, just stared at Zhang Nanyang's eyes for a while, and agreed to his request.

Zhang Nanyang was overjoyed and took Zhang Yichi to his house.

It didn't take long for the two to arrive.

Zhang Nanyang's house is also quite simple, he pushed the door and beckoned Zhang Yichi to enter.

Zhang Yichi walked in and saw that it was cleaned up, the desk on one side was full of books, and he found a stool to sit down: "Are you alone at home?" ”

"My father and mother left early, when I was in junior high school, I left because the people in the village helped me to raise money to go to high school." Zhang Nanyang also sat down, looking very sincere.

"What's the matter with me?"

Zhang Nanyang didn't speak, got up and went to the table and took out a few books and showed them to Zhang Yichi: "Brother Zhang, look at it, although I was admitted to university, I have been reading books since I came back, you look at these notes, they are full." ”

Zhang Yichi took the book and looked through it symbolically, it was indeed full of notes.

"I've been studying hard, these are all of them, I've taken all the notes." Zhang Nanyang went to get the book on the desk.

It seems that only these books can prove that he is still working hard and learning all these years.

"Tell me something." Zhang Yichi's front was already full of books.

"Uh......" Zhang Nanyang was a little emotional, "I, I just want to get out of the mountains, find a decent job, and live in a big city in the future." ”

"Is it hard to get out of the mountains?" Zhang Yichi was puzzled, "You have a high Chinese certificate, it should be okay to go out and get a job, right?" Didn't you say that Wang Shiren still went out to work? He can get out, why can't you get out? ”

"That's not the same brother!" Zhang Nanyang was a little anxious, "Uncle Shiren went out to be a migrant worker to move bricks, a cultural person with high Chinese, why did he go out to move bricks like him?" I've been reading and studying all these years, and I have something in my stomach! ”

Zhang Yichi understood that Zhang Nanyang wanted to find a good job outside through him: "I am a policeman, how can I help you?" ”

"The police are also decent in the town, who doesn't give the police a face, Brother Zhang, your connections are wider than ours in the mountains, you help me find a decent job." I can teach or anything, I can memorize these books backwards......"

Zhang Nanyang chattered endlessly, trying his best to show his strengths, so that Zhang Yichi could look down on himself.

"I'll give you a suggestion, you can listen to it." Zhang Yichi interrupted Zhang Nanyang.

Zhang Nanyang listened.

"You go out of the mountains first, don't have any requirements for the work, even if it is to do the most basic work, at least you have already gone out. Slowly you get a foothold on the outside, and then you continue to improve yourself, try to find a better job, and climb up. Zhang Yichi gave Zhang Nanyang an idea, "I'm just a little policeman, I really can't help you with this, and if you keep thinking that you must get a decent job first when you go out, I guess you won't be able to get out in your life." ”

Zhang Nanyang was deflated and sat down in his chair.