Chapter 13: The Beehive Thief

The killer used honeycombs to lure hornets to the village, which happened to have a wasp breeding base in the mountains behind the village.

Just as we went to investigate, the beekeeper said that someone had stolen one of his beehives on the night of the crime.

"It was about ten o'clock last night, and I faintly heard footsteps outside." The beekeeper slowly told us what had happened last night......

"I am a farmer, I don't have much education, and I usually farm in the village. With the strong support of the government's tourism policy, the people of the village have turned their homes into farmhouses and set up resorts. However, I didn't know how to run a business, and I lost a lot of money by opening a farmhouse for a year, so I told the village government that I wanted to continue farming.

At that time, the county government was going to make some special products in the resort, and at first it was going to do bee farming to produce honey, but honey was sold everywhere, and the grades were different, and the farm yard was not easy to sell, so the government decided to breed wasps and produce bee pupae for sale.

The government was the first to think of me and asked me if I would like to breed wasps, and the government paid me to learn how to breed, and prepared a breeding base for me in the back mountain, and regularly sent technicians to help me solve problems. In this way, I started raising hornets after studying the system, and with the help of the government, my hornets are getting better and bigger year by year! I can leave nearly 200,000 yuan a year, which is much more profitable than farming! I thank the government! Thanks to the government for helping me! Without the government, I would not be where I am today!

I live here from March to October every year, collecting pupa and selling them in bulge. Because every year after October, when the weather turns cooler, the hornets will enter the hibernation period.

It's a remote place and I was worried about the wasps and decided to stay here. The government helped me get the electric light, but the current water needs to be picked up from the mountain, and the government promised me to help me solve the water problem next year.

Because it's so far away, and there are swarms of ferocious hornets, no one usually comes here at all. So my life on weekdays is relatively boring, there is only one radio around, and I sleep every day when it gets dark.

Last night, I didn't know what time it was, it must have been about ten o'clock, when I suddenly heard a voice outside.

No one comes here during the day, so who comes at night? Besides, I don't have anything to steal here, so who would dare to steal a beehive? Messing with hornets kills! In addition, there are often rats here, so I thought it was the sound of rats, so I didn't pay attention to it and continued to sleep.

But when I woke up this morning, I realized that I had lost a beehive! There's a queen bee and a pupa in there! You know, it's very difficult to breed a queen bee! The queen bee will directly affect the production of bee pupae next year, and the market price of a queen bee can be sold for 200 yuan!

Thinking of the footsteps last night, I immediately decided to go down the mountain to the police station to call the police. As soon as I came down the mountain, I heard all over the village that there were dead people, and that they had been stung to death by wasps.

I thought it was the thief who stole the beehive who was stung by a wasp and deserved it, who made him steal. But after all, there was a fatality, and I was afraid of being responsible, so I didn't go to the police.

Comrade policeman, that thief is self-inflicted, and it has nothing to do with me! The beehive is mine, but it has nothing to do with me if he was stung to death! I didn't let him steal my beehives! ”

The beekeeper may have had no one to talk to him for too long, sitting on the tightrope bed and spitting, the more he talked, the more excited he became, and he talked for a long time.

If what he said was true, then the situation that night should be as follows: the murderer came here at night to steal the beehives, then returned to Liu Changchun's residence, anesthetized him with tranquilizers, tied him to a large willow tree on the side of the road, and then killed him with honey and wasps.

Combined with Wang Dahai's own way of strangling himself, the murderer seems to particularly like to use this method of delaying killing, so that the victim can go through a long torture to satisfy the murderer's pleasure of revenge killing.

"Where was the hive before it was lost?" I asked.

"I'll take you."

The beekeeper got up and led us out of the tent and straight to the outermost part of the hive field, where he pointed to the ground: "This is it! ”

We went up to check and saw a deep beehive imprint on the ground, and next to it was a broken beehive. This beehive is the outermost part of the entire hive colony, and it seems that the killer took the nearest beehive and left.

"I went down the hill and found the broken beehive that had been lost on the side of the road, but there was not a single bee in it, and there were a lot of chrysalis, alas! I'm really unlucky, who did I recruit to provoke?! In this way, I lost a lot of money! Tomorrow's harvest will also be reduced! The beekeeper gritted his teeth and said, and the already red and swollen side face turned a little redder.

Xue Hang and I looked carefully around the beehive, hoping to find some valuable footprints, but the soil here was relatively hard, and it was difficult to leave footprints on normal walking, so we found nothing.

After finishing the investigation of the hornet breeding base, Xue Hang and I prepared to leave.

Before leaving, the beekeeper did not forget to shout to us: "Come back after you have eaten!" I'll give you a discount! ”

Walking down the hill, the criminal policeman who stayed at the foot of the mountain looked at the bee chrysalis held by the two of us, and couldn't help laughing: "Was it forcibly bought and sold?" ”

"No! It cost me eight hundred and eighty dollars! I patted the pupa jar in my hand and said loudly.

"This thing is so nutritious! Eight hundred and eight is not expensive, this thing can't be bought outside. The detective nodded, and echoed with a smile.

I glanced at him and immediately asked him, "Why don't I resell it to you for 800 yuan?" ”

After hearing what I said, the criminal policeman laughed a few times and quipped: "Team Qin, don't make trouble, I'm a small policeman, how can I afford to eat this thing, your serious crime team is so hard, it's just right to eat this, hahaha." ”

"In any case, through this case, it has brought us a lot of warnings, especially the security of the resort, the monitoring facilities must be fully equipped, and the beekeeping base in the back mountain, do a good job of anti-theft, and also need to install monitoring." I looked at him, changed my serious face, and said seriously.

"Knowing the Qin team, we are already working on the installation of monitoring facilities. At present, the surveillance is installed in the farmhouse, but the place where the deceased lived in this case is a private rented residence, and it is not easy to install the surveillance. However, we have decided to install surveillance on the road in front of the door. The detective nodded and reported to me about the current situation.

"Have all the wasps in the village been cleaned up?" I asked again.

"Everything has been dealt with, and the injured villagers have been treated." The detective said.

Xue Hang and I, each holding a can of bee chrysalis, returned to the office of the Serious Crime Team of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.