The two of them came to the door of another house, which looked old and did not look like a place for young people.

The spring couplets are pasted on the gate, which is very new.

Chen Yi knocked on the door, and after knocking for a while, there was no movement, I don't know if he didn't get up or no one.

After a slight groan, he tried to push it gently, only to find that the door was unlocked.

"Hello, may I ask anyone?" Chen Yi shouted.

"Hello, may I ask anyone?" He raised his voice.

Qin Fei said, "Go out early in the morning, right?" ”

Chen Yi: "Go in and have a look." ”

The two came to the yard, and just saw an old man sitting at the door rolling a cigarette, very serious.

He didn't seem to hear the knock on the door just now, and he didn't even notice that Chen Yi and Qin Fei were approaching.

"Uncle."

"Uncle?"

"Uncle!!"

Chen Yi found the old man behind his ear and shouted loudly.

Only then did the old man react, slowly raised his head, and looked at the two young men who suddenly appeared in front of him with some confusion.

"Whose doll are you, I don't know you anymore." The old man's voice was hoarse and vicissitudes, and his cloudy eyes were full of stories.

There is a saying on the Internet: Sitting in the ruins, rolling cigarettes to entertain yourself, all you can see are memories, and what your heart desires is the past.

This is the state of the left-behind elderly.

For them, the only pleasure in the rest of the days is to reminisce about their youth.

"Uncle! Pump mine! ”

Chen Yi's voice was still loud, and as he spoke, he handed over a cigarette and placed it on the ground next to Mazha with the entire box of cigarettes.

The old man was so struggling to roll cigarettes that he couldn't stand it.

"Huh...... Hehe. ”

The old man smiled, put a cigarette in his mouth, lit it, and smoked it.

"It's so fragrant, it's been a long time since I've smoked such a good cigarette."

The old man's consciousness is still very clear, and his inner thoughts are no different from those of a normal person.

That's easy, let's have a good chat.

Chen Yi looked left and right, but saw no other stools, so he simply sat down on the spot and said, "Uncle! You're an old smoker! ”

Old man: "No, it's been smoking for 70 years." ”

"Seven ......" Chen Yi was surprised and looked at the other party, "Uncle! You're so long! ”

The old man did not speak, but gestured to express two numbers, which were nine and one.

He was ninety-one years old.

Ninety-one years old is just behind the ear, and he has been smoking cigarettes for seventy years, which is a bit unscientific.

Of course, this is survivorship bias, smoking is definitely bad for health, and if you don't smoke, the elderly may be healthier.

"Ninety-one years old! You're in good health! Chen Yi said.

The old man smiled and waved his hand: "No, my ears can't hear anymore, I can't walk anymore, except for cooking and going to the toilet, I sit still." ”

Chen Yi: "What about your children and grandchildren?" ”

Old man: "They are busy in the city, but they often come back to see me, last time they said they would take them to the city, where have I ever been to the big city, no, no, it's better to be in the village." ”

Chen Yi smiled: "Uncle! You're so happy! Full of children and grandchildren! They are all so filial! ”

The old man was in a good mood, and it could be seen that he was satisfied with the situation.

Chen Yi got to the point: "Uncle! Ask something! The female mute in the village remembers, right? ”

Old man: "Remember, how can I forget, I'm not Alzheimer's." ”

Chen Yi: "When did she come to the village?" ”

Old man: "Twenty-three years ago. ”

Chen Yi: "You remember it so clearly! ”

Old man: "No, I have a good memory, young man, what do you ask her for?" ”

Chen Yi: "Investigate the case!" ”

The old man was surprised: "Public security? What's wrong? ”

Chen Yi: "It's not a big problem! You don't have to worry! Uncle! Has anything happened to the mute in twenty-three years? ”

Hearing this, the old man's narrowed glasses opened a little, and he shook his palm: "I don't know!" ”

Chen Yi: "......"

He looked at the ninety-one-year-old man sitting in front of him suspiciously, feeling as if the other party had lied.

Ninety-one years old has so many hearts and eyes? It's better to be confused.

"Uncle! Can you be honest with me? ”

Old man: "I'm telling the truth, young man, why don't you ask someone, I don't know my mind, I have a very bad memory, and I have forgotten a lot of things." ”

Chen Yi: "??? ”

No, you just said that you have a good memory, and this changed too quickly.

"Uncle! Then I'll ask something else! How old was the dumb man when he came to the village? ”

The old man's memory returned: "About ten years old." ”

Chen Yi: "Have you been bullied for so many years? ”

The old man's memory is gone: "I don't remember." ”

Chen Yi stroked his forehead, this old man definitely knew a lot of things, but he answered selectively.

Although I didn't get an answer, I was basically sure that there was something wrong with the dumb girl, and no one wanted to say it.

Words at the age of ten......

"Is she a child daughter-in-law, uncle!" Chen Yi asked.

Old man: "No, she wandered here, and no one knows where she came from." ”

Chen Yi: "Has she always been stupid?" ”

Old man: "I've always been stupid, we all think of her as a godsend to the village keeper." ”

Village keepers?

Chen Yi has heard this kind of statement.

Village keepers are a special group of folklore who usually refer to those who are stupid or somewhat insane in the countryside.

Although people are stupid, they are kind-hearted, and they will take the initiative to help when there is a red and white matter in the village, just to get a bite of food in return.

To go deeper, the village keeper can be said to be superstitious, or it can be said to be traditional, and the villagers believe that the village keeper has done a lot of bad things in his previous life and needs to be punished in this life.

"Do you know the village keepers, young man?" The old man took the initiative to ask.

Chen Yi nodded: "I know!" It's a folk common name! ”

The old man smiled, and the wrinkles on his face were like ravines: "In our generation, we think that the village guards are the ascetics chosen by the city god to eliminate disasters and prevent disasters for the village." ”

Lord Chenghuang?

Temple?

Chen Yi thought about it, according to this statement, the dumb girl was used, and the old people in the village were offered good food and drink, so that she could prevent disasters for the village.

The behavior is good, but the starting point is selfish.

Of course, Chen Yi will not say these words, the ninety-year-old man, his thinking has been deeply rooted, and it cannot be changed in one or two sentences, if he says the wrong thing, it is difficult to guarantee that the other party will not beat himself out with a stick.

What the police are most afraid of is to deal with the cases of elderly people over 70 years old, which is very difficult to handle.

Chen Yi communicated with the old man for a long time, and he gained something, but not much.

The two left the house and closed the door.

Chen Yi didn't plan to go to the next one, and the result was the same, everything that should be known was already known, and what outsiders shouldn't know was in vain.

Even a ninety-year-old man knows how to hide it, and it's hard to imagine what happened to the mute girl.

"Qin Fei, do you hear the problem?"

Standing at the door, Chen Yi lit a cigarette and chatted with Qin Fei, not afraid that the old man inside the door would hear that the back of the other party's ears was quite serious.

Qin Fei was silent for a while, knowing that Chen Yi was helping him grow, and after thinking about it, he spoke: "It's all a lie, about a dumb girl." ”

Chen Yi nodded: "Well, this matter can be determined twice, and the whole village will answer the same way, what about in-depth analysis?" ”

Qin Fei shook his head.

Chen Yi smoked a cigarette and said, "The risk is evenly shared. ”

The four words made Qin Fei immediately comprehend: "Yes, the risk is evenly shared, there must be a stake in this, otherwise they won't keep silent, that's ...... What did the whole village do to the mute girl? ”

Chen Yi: "It doesn't have to be the whole village, there are many possibilities, and the top priority is to determine the identity of the deceased." ”

Qin Fei: "Lin Chen should be able to restore the skull. ”

Chen Yi: "Hopefully, there is a certain error in the reconstruction of the skull, which is different from the portrait, and needs the assistance of relevant clues, do you know what I mean?" ”

Qin Fei tried to keep up with Chen Yi's train of thought, and a flash of inspiration: "The dumb girl has been in Donghua Village for twenty years and has never left, assuming that she has a clear goal, then the person she wants to kill is most likely a nearby villager or a person from other places who often appears, and she can visit after getting the restored portrait." ”

Chen Yi smiled: "You are good at it, you are about to leave the school." ”

Qin Fei was happy in his heart, Chen Yi's affirmation was extremely important to him.

Although he did not apprentice, Chen Yi has been fulfilling the role of a master, making him from a little-known police officer in the police station to an elite backbone on the front line of the city bureau.

This is the man who changed his life.

The two stopped their visit and came to the village to wait, and occasionally met a passing villager who would ask two questions, and they got the same answer.

The result was unanimous and the confession should have been confirmed, but since there was suspicion about the villagers, every sentence needed to be re-implemented, which was very difficult given that the mute woman could not communicate with people normally.

More than an hour later, Zhuo Yun returned with all the police officers to report the results of the visit.

The clues basically coincided, Chen Yi focused on asking about the dumb girl's previous affairs, Zhuo Yun said that several people reacted incorrectly, and they were suspected of concealing and lying.

Now it is certain that there is definitely a secret in the mute girl.

"Team Chen, what about the suspect?" Zhuo Yun spoke.

Chen Yi: "Bring it back to the city bureau and pay attention to the ways and means, if it really doesn't work...... Forcibly taken away. ”

Zhuo Yun: "Yes! ”

The process was not smooth, the mute girl's resistance was extremely strong, and she kept screaming, attracting many onlookers from the villagers.

Everyone's expressions were different, the young people were puzzled, and the older ones frowned and were silent, but no one stopped them, and no one asked.

The police car left Donghua Village.

When she arrived at the city bureau, the mute girl was taken to the detention room, and Chen Yilai bought a boxed lunch on the way.

The mute woman's mood when she saw the food instantly stabilized, and she couldn't stop eating it, Chen Yi was really worried that something was wrong with her, and ordered the two policewomen to keep an eye on it.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the test results of the hammer came out, and there were blood stains on it, the blood came from the deceased, and the handle of the hammer was full of fingerprints of a mute woman.

The footprints left in the temple are also completely consistent with the mute girl.

There are eyewitnesses, murder weapons, footprints, and conclusive evidence, and it can be determined that the victim was killed by a mute girl.

Now the question arises, what is the motivation.

If the mute girl doesn't say anything about this matter herself, then she can only investigate it in detail after determining the identity of the victim.

"Take her to take a shower and change her clothes, and then go to the hospital for a full physical examination."

"Remember, be thorough, inside out."

Chen Yi gave the order, he wanted to know what had happened to the mute girl, and what the villagers wanted to hide.

The traces on the body cannot be faked, and external and internal injuries can be detected.

After that, Chen Yi went to find Shi Xin, and the other party said that he had not found any eligible missing person for the time being, and he went to Lin Chen again, Lin Chen was relying on modern technology to restore the skull, and then manually intervened according to Chai Wenfang's vague description in order to achieve the highest accuracy.

The investigation of the case is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Chen Yi came to the forensic office, and the corpse was the most important clue to the murder case, which could not be ignored.

(End of chapter)