The back of the Ying Concession of Tianjin Wei is not far from the ponds of Xindri, Sandri and Dingjia Garden, and there is a pond near the cemetery. I don't know why, the water in this pond is cold all year round.

It stands to reason that this so-called pond is just a larger puddle, and a bay of stagnant water, no matter how cold it is in winter, will inevitably grow a lot of algae in the middle of summer, and it will breed mosquitoes, all of which are water fleas, water spiders and other insects.

But this puddle is very different, there are no aquatic weeds and mosquitoes in the pit all year round, and the water surface is frozen in the middle of winter, but even in the hot summer, the water in the pit is still cold and biting, and there are never aquatic weeds, and there are few mosquitoes to breed.

Because the water in the pit is too cold, even wild swimmers are reluctant to come to this pit to play.

Some people say that because the pond is close to the cemetery, it sucks in the yin qi from the old graves nearby, so the water in the pond is as cold as ice.

It is also said that because the trees around the pond are shady, and there is no sunlight in the summer, in the severe winter, when the leaves are all gone, the pond water will freeze due to the severe cold, and then the weather will warm up and the pond water will thaw, and the young leaves will continue to shade the sky, so it will be cold all year round.

Some people say that there is a 10,000-year-old ice under this pond, so the water in the pond can chill the heart and lungs. Or that the pond looks like stagnant water, but in fact, the bottom of the pond is living water, which leads to the Nine Yin River and can go straight down to the underworld.

In short, the more it spreads, the more gods are spreading, this pond is leaning on the cemetery, and few people come here because of their superstitions, even if they are watery like Wei Xiaowu, they are not willing to come to this pond to tie their sons.

Since the place is not far from the British racecourse, the city has recently taken a fancy to the site and is discussing the relocation of the nearby cemetery and requisitioning it for commercial use.

This was not originally a cemetery, and the municipal government said that it would give some compensation to the people, so some families have accepted the conditions offered by the government and are ready to move the graves. There are also some ownerless lonely graves, and no one can be found, so the government naturally ignores them, and plans to simply dig up the graves and remove them, and bury them in random graves outside Xiguan. In the end, some benevolent believers donated a sum of money to let the veterans of the Bone Covering Society collect and bury these ownerless bones.

This year-round cold pond is also within this planning area, and at this time, it is reported that the body of a river is suppressed under the pond. Regardless of folklore, the city government immediately ordered the pond to be filled in.

Just when the workers were piling up the soil and filling the pit, they unexpectedly found that there was really a big ice mound at the bottom of the pool, and there was a naked female corpse frozen in the ice mound!

After the discovery of the woman's body, the workers immediately reported it, and the news quickly spread to the Investigation Section of the General Office.

At this time, Han Daring had just returned from visiting the art dealer outside, in fact, the director of the hall had already announced that the culprit of the caesarean section case was Nine Fingers and a Half, and said that Nine Fingers and a Half committed suicide in fear of crime, and the case had been hastily closed.

Since Huang Xiao was involved in this case, the director of the department ordered that the case should not be further investigated. However, Mei was quite bold this time, although she didn't check it on the surface, she privately acquiesced to Han Daring to continue the investigation, just don't make too much trouble.

Han Daring first examined the evidence brought back from the explosion scene, among which the leather bag containing the ripper's imitation crime tools, in addition to a few scalpels, there were charcoal strips and some drawing paper, the drawing paper material and soft leather painting folder, several pieces of drawing paper used for sketching in the sleeping position of several women were exactly the same, and they could be cut from the perimeter to form a large piece of drawing paper. Indicates that it was cut from the same piece of paper.

Two of the several surgeries have been used, and spraying luminescent ammonia will show a fluorescent reaction of blood, and the size and sharpness of the blade can also be identified in the same way as the wounds on the bodies of the three victims in the caesarean section. Basically, what can be contained in the bag is the crime tools used by the ripper impersonator.

Han Daring interrogated the habitual thief who slipped the door and picked the lock twice, this kid is also a frequent visitor to the police station, and he is familiar with the interrogation process, and without waiting for Fan Tong to be punished, he took the initiative to confess all the cases he had committed recently, which is called a thorough one.

This kid usually starts in the South City and the old city, and he won't run to the south at all. However, some time ago, there were cases of caesarean section everywhere, especially in the old city and the south market, where prostitutes and prostitutes haunted, and it was the main investigation area, so this kid couldn't do it at all.

He ran into a habitual thief nicknamed "Qi Xiaoshou" in the ghost market, and heard Qi Xiaoshou say that the bungalow in Nankai that had not been built for a few years was easy to start. And there are two rows of houses, which have been rented as warehouses to store some contraband such as opium and tobacco paste, and there is a lot of oil and water.

So I touched the piece at night, and found the rows of houses according to what Qi Xiaoshou said, but I touched a few empty houses in a row, and finally touched the room in the studio, which was worthless, only a soft leather bag was placed on the table, which was the soft leather painting folder, so the thief did not go empty, so he stole the soft leather painting folder and took it to the ghost market to shoot.

Han Daring felt that this habitual thief was an old fritter, and his words seemed to be untrue, but he couldn't ask for other clues left and right, so he simply went to the place where Qi Xiaoshou often haunted according to what the habitual thief said, and went to find a source where he checked that the empty room contained opium cigarette paste, but this Qi Xiaoshou had disappeared, and it was said that he hadn't appeared in that area for a few days.

After that, Han Daring could only go to the clue of the art dealer, but he was busy all morning but finally found nothing.

The only person who has contact with the so-called art dealer is the intermediate client, but even this client has never seen the real face of the art dealer, and every contact is either a phone call or a letter message. The money was transferred from the bank, and the sender did not provide information at that time, and it was really impossible to find out.

Every time Yang Ming completes an oil painting, it is packaged by the client and put at the front desk of the Huili Arena, and then someone will take it away, so after several times, the dealer simply contacted Yang Ming directly, and the money and paintings were arranged with Yang Ming in person. The client had never met the mysterious dealer from beginning to end.

Yang Ming's parents passed away two years ago, and there is no third brother and no fourth brother, and now he is alone. I heard from my neighbors that I hadn't been back for a few days.

Han Daring took a look around his residence, the room was very small, there were a lot of books and albums, and some of them had a few unfinished oil paintings, looking at the half-finished products, they all seemed to be the same paintings, and there was nothing else to find except for the cooking utensils.

As soon as Han Daring returned to the Investigation Bureau, he heard that a frozen female corpse was found in the pool behind the British Concession.

At first, Han Daring didn't think that this female corpse could have anything to do with the case in his hand now, but it was his duty as a police officer to investigate the homicide case, and at this time when it was close to early summer, it was unbelievable to find a frozen female corpse, which also made him curious about this case.

When they arrived at the scene, the ice mound holding the female corpse had been tied up with hemp rope by the workers and put on the ground by the pit with bamboo poles. I saw that the irregular large ice cube was two circles larger than the large coffin, and the ice cube was not rectangular, but almost square.

The surface of the ice cube is translucent, and since there are no weeds in this pond, the female corpse can be seen faintly.

This female corpse is petite, like a young girl, her long hair is scattered, although her face is not clear by the refraction of the ice, but she can vaguely distinguish her melon seed face with upright facial features, hunched on her side with her legs curled up, her arms bent at her sides, her eyes slightly closed as if she was asleep, and a young girl slept in the crystal box.

In particular, the female corpse was snow-white and naked, which made people blush and heartbeat, and the workers who carried the ice cubes, although they had been encircled by the rope circles pulled up by the police, still stretched their necks and stared in the direction of the ice cubes.

When Han Dada'er saw the female corpse sleeping naked and dead, she suddenly felt a shock in her heart, thinking of the deceased in the caesarean section. However, the female corpse was lying on her side in the ice, with her chest bowed and her hands clasped on her neck, and she could only vaguely see that there was a wound on her neck, but there seemed to be no wound on her chest and abdomen.

Because the trees around the pit are dense and the sun is very shady, even if the sun is rising, the ice mound is still bubbling cold, and there is no sign of melting at all, but anyone who is close to the ice mound will feel cold and biting, and can't help but shiver.

The ice mound is frozen solidly, and it is especially recommended to expose the ice to the sun and then chisel the ice on the surface, otherwise the corpse truck will not be able to fit it.

Han Daring knew that when the ice began to melt, it would become stronger because the internal bubbles disappeared, and at that time, the ice could destroy the corpse, and the frozen corpse would decay several times faster than usual.

He asked Chen Feiyang and Fan Tong to go to nearby Sandri to find a large piece of oilcloth, put the ice lump on the oilcloth, and then carefully chiseled the outer layer of ice with a chisel, and the ice that was chiseled down could not be thrown away, for fear that there would be important physical evidence frozen inside, so they were wrapped in oilcloth and planned to be transported to the epidemic prevention hospital with the corpse.

Han Da'er, Chen Feiyang, You Fei, and Fan Tong worked in shifts for an hour before they chiseled off the large ice cubes on the outer layer of the corpse. Just now, the whole ice cube was frozen like the transparency of a crystal race, and the face of the female corpse could still be seen vaguely, after chiseling off the outer layer of ice, the ice cube was white, but only a line of human silhouette could be seen.

The female corpse was wrapped in a layer of ice, wrapped in an oilcloth, and pulled along with the ice to the epidemic prevention center.

As soon as Lao Su saw that it was a corpse in the ice, he knew that once the ice was completely melted, the corpse would accelerate its decay, so he immediately prepared everything, and as soon as the corpse was carried to the mortuary, he immediately began to conduct an autopsy.

You Fei and Fan Tong's diaphragm responded to the bloody autopsy process, Chen Feiyang didn't look at it as a newborn calf, but followed Han Da'er's side, restrained his physical discomfort, and carefully watched Lao Su's entire autopsy process.

Lao Su used a tool to carefully peel off the ice on the surface of the corpse. He was quick with his hands and feet, peeling off the ice, and casually answering Chen Feiyang's questions.

"Master Su! How can the age of the autopsy be deduced at the time of this autopsy? ”

"Corpses that have not yet decomposed, can be inferred by their appearance, size, height, number of teeth, and degree of wear!"

Lao Su replied casually while peeling off the ice.

Chen Feiyang asked again:

"What if the corpse is decomposed, or if only bones remain?"

Lao Su is already taciturn, and he rarely talks to others except for Han Dada'er. However, he saw that Chen Feiyang was so studious and Han Daren's apprentice, so he had to answer all questions for the first time, so he replied:

"Then you have to distinguish between human and animal bones, and if you are human, you can measure the rib junction and pelvis, as well as the degree of wear on the bone surface and the degree of hardening of the laryngeal cartilage......

"If there are only bones, how can you tell the difference between male and female and height?"

Lao Su Dao:

"The femur and tibia can be used to estimate a person's height, while the gender is based on the mandible and pelvis......"

At this time, the ice on the female corpse had basically been peeled off, Han Da'er raised his hand to stop Chen Feiyang from continuing to ask questions, frowned slightly and took out a notebook from his arms, and was taken out by a few pieces of drawing paper in the notebook.

Unfolding the drawing paper, it was the few sketches of the human body that the habitual thief had stolen from the studio and stole from the soft leather folder. The sleeping woman in the four sketches, regardless of appearance and body type, is very similar to the three victims of the caesarean section, and only the girl depicted on the fourth piece of paper has not yet appeared.

Today, by coincidence, Han Daring discovered that the frozen female corpse, whether in terms of appearance, age or appearance, was the girl painted on the fourth drawing paper!