07 Visiting the Butcher (Page 1/1)

The so-called "Yinshan Village" is a village more than ten miles away in the eastern suburbs of Shaoxing City, where more than 100 families live. Xie Yixiang rode all the way, and before noon, he had arrived here. Because such a tragic homicide case just happened a few days ago, it can be regarded as a major case that caused a sensation in the local area, so the home of the deceased Li Butcher is not difficult to find, but a house at the end of the village, which has long been sealed by the Yamen of Shaoxing Mansion, and there are still two guards outside at this time.

Xie Yixiang dismounted outside the courtyard of Butcher Li's house, and showed the waist card of the torture room and the official document of dispatching him to take over the case to the two left-behind guards, only saying that Yang Zhutou from the yamen of Shaoxing Mansion asked him to investigate the scene. The two men didn't see Yang Zhutou coming together, although they had some doubts in their hearts, but when they saw that Xie Yixiang's waist card and official documents were genuine, and reported Yang Zhutou's name, they didn't dare to ask more questions for a while, so they hurriedly opened the courtyard door and accompanied Xie Yixiang inside.

Xie Yixiang walked through the small courtyard in front of the house, and as soon as she entered the house, there was immediately a faint smell of blood, although it had been many days, it had not been able to disperse, and the tragic situation at that time could be imagined. The two men told Xie Yixiang that Butcher Li was the only butcher in this Yinshan Village, and that if there were pigs, cows, chickens, ducks and other living creatures in the village to be killed, they would be sent to Butcher Li for processing; in addition, Butcher Li himself raised more than a dozen pigs in the backyard to provide meat for a restaurant in Shaoxing City, so his life was quite prosperous.

And in the early morning of the day when the murder was discovered, it was because a descendant in the village came to Butcher Li with an old hen that could not continue to lay eggs, and wanted him to help slaughter it, but he knocked on the door for a long time and did not hear a response. That Housheng thought that Butcher Li was not at home and was about to leave, but suddenly smelled a smell of meat wafting out of the kitchen at the back, it was obvious that a large pot of meat was stewed on the stove, how could no one be at home?

The latter and Butcher Li's family already had a good relationship, and immediately greeted a few more times, but seeing that no one answered, he went straight over the wall and entered the hospital, and went around to the kitchen in the back, wanting to see what kind of meat was stewed on Butcher Li's stove. When he pushed open the kitchen window, he found that Butcher Li and his wife had died tragically in their kitchen, and one of their hearts had been gouged out, and blood flowed from all over the place.

Looking at the pot of broth stewed in the pot, through the thick layer of grease on the soup surface, it can be vaguely seen that there are hands and feet in the hot soup, and it is clearly a chopped human corpse stewed; looking at the size of the hands and feet, it looks like the corpse of a girl at the age of five or six years old, isn't it the daughter under the knee of Butcher Li and his wife? And one of their daughter's heads, which had been split into two pieces at that time, was thrown into the pot and stewed, and a black eye on half of the head was soaked in the broth of the boiling soup, staring at the latter life, until he was so frightened that he was so frightened that he came out of the house like madness on the spot.

The people in the village saw that Hou Sheng suddenly went crazy, and it took a lot of effort to hold him down, and after asking for a long time, they found out that it was the three members of Butcher Li's family who were tragically destroyed, and hurriedly came to check. Seeing this scene in the kitchen, they were all frightened, so they immediately sent someone to the government to report the case.

Xie Yixiang had already taken a cursory look in the room at this time, and when she heard the difference talk about the situation at the time, she couldn't help frowning slightly, and asked: "In this way, there is still a gap between the time when the posterior who found out about the murder was so frightened that he fled, and then the villagers learned about it and rushed over. Is it possible that when he knocked on the door of Butcher Li's house, the murderer was actually still at Butcher Li's house? Because the reason why the murderer chopped up the girl's body and stewed it was to eat it on the spot, obviously he did not expect that his crime would be discovered so quickly, so he did not have time to escape. It wasn't until the latter was scared away by the scene in the kitchen that the murderer took advantage of the air raid to slip out, and he was never seen by the villagers who arrived later. ”

Hearing Xie Yixiang's question, the two couldn't help but glance at each other, and said almost at the same time: "Yang Zhutou is also conjecturing like this!" Yang Zhutou, who was originally in charge of the case, also thought of this at that time, so he immediately checked all the villagers in the entire Yinshan Village and asked them to give an alibi when Butcher Li's family was killed. However, the more than 100 families in the village are familiar with each other, and they know each other well, and the villagers and the Li Butcher family are not only innocent and innocent, but also have no habit of eating human flesh. So Yang Zhutou locked the suspicion on the outsiders, since the Li Butcher's family lives here all the year round, they have always been safe, and now they are being poisoned, it is very likely that it was done by outsiders. Therefore, in the past two days, Yang Zhutou has been thoroughly investigating the outsiders who had been to the Yinshan Village at the time of the crime.

Xie Yixiang nodded slightly, according to this, this Yang Zhutou didn't know that the tragedy of Butcher Li's family was a serial murder case, as early as six years ago in Haozhou and two years ago in Zhenjiang, similar murders had occurred, and then the criminal arrest room called it a "human kitchen case", so this case was still investigated as an independent homicide case. But this is not Yang Zhutou's mistake, after all, he is just a small head catcher in the yamen of Shaoxing Mansion, how can he have the opportunity to look through the files of the Jinling Torture and Arrest Room.

At the moment, Xie Yixiang was noncommittal, and went to the kitchen, the real crime scene, to check. As recorded in the file given by Sister Yue, it is said that both Butcher Li and his wife were dug out of their hearts by the murderer, fried into a plate of heart slices and eaten, leaving only a plate of onions, ginger, garlic and pepper crumbs; As for the corpse of the daughter who was chopped up and thrown into the pot for stewing, when it was found by the villagers, the corpse parts in the broth were not completely cooked, so it was estimated that if a pot of cold water was boiled into a pot of hot soup, the corpse would not take more than half an hour at most. Therefore, as Xie Yixiang speculated, if the murderer's purpose was to eat the broth stewed from the girl's corpse, then when he climbed over the wall and was admitted to the hospital and peeked out of the kitchen window, most of the "human chef" who killed Butcher Li's family remained at the scene.

At this time, the body of the girl in the pot has also been fished out by Yang Zhutou one by one, and the corpse of Li Butcher and his wife was sent back to the Yamen of Shaoxing Mansion, only a small half pot of broth was left in the pot. Xie Yixiang saw that there were six or seven knives of different shapes hanging on the wall in the kitchen, but they were the tools used by Butcher Li to slaughter livestock on weekdays, so he asked if the murder weapon had been found.

The two men immediately replied, saying that when Yang Zhutou first investigated the scene, he had confirmed that the murder weapon was a kitchen knife commonly used in the kitchen. Whether it was disemboweling the Li Butcher and his wife, cutting two hearts into thin slices, or even chopping up their daughter's body, the killer used nothing more than a kitchen knife from beginning to end. Because when chopping the girl's body, the blade touched the hard human bone, and a kitchen knife had many wounds, which shows that the murderer's strength is really not small, and it is very likely that he is an adult man, of course, it is not excluded that he is a woman with considerable strength. And the kitchen knife had also been brought back to the yamen as physical evidence at this time, and it was not left here.

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