Chapter 001: The Woman in the Graveyard

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The evening in Zhujiazhuang was disturbed by the sound of sirens.

As several vehicles flashed their police lights appeared, all the villagers, both those who were eating and those who were about to eat, walked out of their homes. These villagers watched or whispered, each speculating on the significance of the police car's appearance.

Police cars drove through the village to the fields, and some of the brave and lively ones had already ridden to follow.

In a relatively remote cemetery, the stench is blowing in the wind, and the informant and the local police are squatting aside with their noses covered.

"What's the situation?" Liang Zhijie, the deputy captain of the criminal police team who had just taken office, stepped out of the police car, she is a dashing and capable female police officer.

Liang Zhijie asked while shaking hands with the police of the local police station, and glanced at the informant with a sharp gaze.

"The deceased's surname is Zhu, his name is Zhu Lili, and this cemetery belongs to their old Zhu family." The police officer at the police station is surnamed Wang, his name is Wang Quanan, he is 50 years old this year, and he has reached the age of retirement.

He is the policeman in charge of public security in Zhujiazhuang, and he has a good understanding of the situation in Zhujiazhuang.

"The situation of the old Zhu family is a bit special, Zhu Lili's father entered the city when he was young, although the household registration is still in the village, but except for the New Year's back to paste a pair, Qingming Festival to the ancestors of the grave, rarely come back. This piece of land is the land of their old Zhu family, which was contracted to the people in the village a few years ago, and then because of the problem of contract fees, the old Zhu family took back the land. There is no one in the Zhu family to plant, no one in the village to pack, this land is deserted, except for those who herd sheep, no one usually comes to this area. ”

"What's the situation with the informant?"

"I don't know, this person is not from our village." Wang Quanan hit the informant with his elbow: "Which village are you from?" How did you run into the graveyard of the old Zhu family? ”

The informant's face turned pale, as if he had not recovered from the previous fright, and when he heard Lao Wang's inquiry, he was stunned for a long time before replying: "My name is Li Kun, and I run a chicken farm in the town, and I supply all the eggs in the supermarket near here." I'm not from Zhujiazhuang, I'm here to run errands, and when I drove over there, I suddenly felt anxious, thinking that it would be convenient in this cemetery, who knew that I would see a dead person. ”

"Do you know the deceased Julie?" Liang Zhijie stared at Li Kun's eyes: "What was the situation when the deceased was found?" ”

"I don't know, how can I know her, her death has nothing to do with me." Li Kun waved his hand in a panic: "It's convenient for me to have a stomachache." The grass is high here, so it's not easy to be seen when it's convenient. As soon as I walked in, I saw a person on the other side of the tombstone, with her back to me, undressed, and I thought it strange and took two steps forward. As a result, it was a dead man. ”

"Don't you smell the stench?"

"I have rhinitis, and I still have a cold for the past two days, so I am not very sensitive to taste." Li Kun's eyes dodged: "I only smelled a little, but this is a cemetery, it is normal to have a little smell, I didn't expect it to be the smell of corpses on people." Seeing that it was a dead man, I ran out of my legs, and only came to my senses when I got to the car, and then I called the police. ”

"When did he call the police?" Liang Zhijie asked Wang Quanan.

"It's more than four o'clock in the afternoon, I have to check the specific time." Wang Quanan touched his head, his hair was freshly dyed and very black.

"There are a lot of miscellaneous things in our grassroots police station, but this life lawsuit has not been encountered for more than ten years. When I first came out of the police, I really didn't think about the murder, thinking that someone was drunk and joking with us. ”

"Have you seen it in there?" Liang Zhijie glanced at the graveyard demonstratively.

"I looked, I didn't look too carefully, I was afraid of destroying the scene of the crime, and I confirmed that it was a dead person and contacted our criminal police team. You see, I've been here since I reported the crime. ”

"Well done." Liang Zhijie put on gloves and walked to the middle of the cemetery.

Behind him, Li Kun and Wang Quanan muttered.

Li Kun: "The criminal police team is here, when can I leave?" My wife has called several times, and if I don't go back, she will think that something is wrong with me. ”

Wang Quanan: "What's the hurry?" I'll get you home when things are cleared up. Wait, I'm all this old bone, aren't I waiting here. ”

Li Kun: "Why is this police officer a woman?" ”

Wang Quanan: "I don't know, I heard that it is the newly appointed deputy captain of the criminal police team, and it is the first time I have seen it, but I didn't expect it to be so young." ”

Liang Zhijie shook his head lightly, picked up the cordon and got in.

Two medical examiners have conducted a preliminary examination of the deceased, and based on the extent of the decomposition of the deceased's body, she was estimated to have been dead for more than three days, between 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. According to the living habits of the villagers, there will be people in the village after 9 o'clock in the evening, and if the murderer chooses to do it during this time, it is very likely to be discovered.

Although the crime site is remote, there are roads around the farmland, and there will be vehicles passing by on the road, mainly vans, tricycles, and electric vehicles that are common in rural areas.

The deceased suffered injuries on the body, and it is not excluded that he was bound, imprisoned and violently used during his lifetime. The cause of death, as well as the exact time of death, also requires the body to be brought back for further autopsy.

After listening to the forensic report, Liang Zhijie nodded lightly, squatted in front of the corpse and took a closer look: "What are the stains on this tombstone?" ”

"It was left behind by the dead." The forensic doctor made a gesture: "The deceased is tied to the tombstone, and from a distance, it looks like he is holding this tombstone." The murderer used a straw rope, which is quite special. ”

"It's quite special." Liang Zhijie took the grass rope and looked at it: "What else did you find?" ”

"Not for the time being, this is a deserted cemetery, and ordinary people will not come here." The police officer in charge of the scene investigation had a headache: "This grass is too thick, we didn't extract any useful footprints at the scene!" No items related to the deceased were found at the scene, not even clothing. The deceased was not tied up with an ordinary rope, but an artificially woven straw rope, which should not be mass-produced, and it cannot be ruled out that the murderer made it himself. We found a fiber on the straw rope, which was carefully identified and confirmed to be from the glove. ”

The police officer shook his white gloves: "This kind of gloves are very common, whether they are sold in large supermarkets, small stores or online, and the range of applications is also relatively wide, I am afraid that I will not find anything through this clue." ”

"Let's start with the deceased's social connections." Liang Zhijie inspected the grave: "Does this tombstone have any special meaning?" ”

"I just asked Lao Wang, this is the family grave of the deceased, and what is tied to her is her grandfather's tombstone. Since the rural funeral reform, it is not allowed to erect monuments in the ground, and everything else has been pushed, but because the location of their land is relatively partial, it does not affect normal farming, and the village has not moved, which is also the only tombstone left by Zhujiazhuang. ”

"Tie your granddaughter to your grandfather's tombstone, and still in this posture, this image, do you think this murderer has a temporary intention, or does he have another idea." Liang Zhijie pondered: "Does the murderer know that this is the ancestral tomb of Julili's family?" If he had known, he would have known Julie and had a relationship with him. ”

"The old rule, let's start with Julie's social relations."

"Focus on checking her relationship in the village, especially those who have conflicts and contradictions with the Zhu family." Liang Zhijie turned his head and looked in the direction of Zhujiazhuang.

"I think we have to expand the scope, the murderer is not necessarily from Zhujiazhuang, but he may know about Zhujiazhuang."

Liang Zhijie pondered: "Zhu Lili's age should be around thirty-five to forty years old, at this age, if he gets married at a normal age, the children should go to primary school." We have to investigate not only Julili's relationship in her mother's family, but also her relationship in her in-law's family. ”

"That's a lot of work." The police officer pouted: "I'm afraid there will be no weekends in the future." ”

"When this case is solved, I will give you two days off." Liang Zhijie took off his gloves and walked out: "Check the informant as well, and don't allow him to leave the city until the case is clear." ”

There were a lot of people standing on the ridge watching the excitement, Liang Zhijie was not surprised, his eyes swept around the crowd lightly, and he was about to turn his head to the car, when he saw a person.

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