The vicious dog bared its teeth and let out a threatening growl. It brought back a human bone from outside, with half of its muddy heel attached. Bao Zhan plucked up the courage to pick up the bone, but the vicious dog swooped over and bit it.
He grabbed Bao Zhan's trousers and kept turning around and biting him. Su Mei screamed in fright. Hualong saw the right moment and flew up and kicked the dog on the head. The dog howled in pain and ran out of the courtyard.
Su Mei asked with concern: Baozi, are you okay? Do you want to get an injection?
Bao Zhan was not injured, but his trouser legs were torn by the dog. He waved his hand and said no.
Everyone looked at the human bones on the ground. The grumpy old man Li calmed down and muttered: Bad luck, the dog's paws dug out the dead bones from some grave.
Cremation has been practiced in the local area for many years. When someone dies, the coffin is usually placed in an urn, and the body is rarely buried underground. The human bones brought back by the dog are still connected to the skin and flesh that have not yet decayed, which shows that the date of death was not too long ago.
Combined with a series of recent missing cases of teenagers, it is likely that there is a connection between the two.
Hua Long and others took Old Man Li back to the police station. Several police officers searched Old Man Li's house but found nothing.
Old Man Li had a stubborn temper. Officer Mao used lynching during the interrogation. The old man suddenly suffered a stroke. Fortunately, he was rescued in time and he was not seriously injured.
Hua Long asked Officer Mao: Why did you hit him? The old man is so old.
Officer Mao offered a cigarette in a flattering manner and said: Even if he is not a criminal suspect, his dog still bit Comrade Bao Zhan.
Old Man Li couldn't tell where his dog had picked up the human bones, and the police found nothing suspicious at his home. The old man confessed that he and his neighbor Zhang Tian "sold their sons and ate them" decades ago.
In the end, I burst into tears.
Because of hunger, their children starved to death. They couldn't bear to eat their own children, so they exchanged the food with each other.
Professor Liang ordered a DNA comparison between the human bones and the missing person's family members. The case soon made a major breakthrough. The identification results showed that the bone retrieved by Old Man Li's dog came from the missing person Wei Guan!
The vicious dog has disappeared since being kicked by Hua Long.
Professor Liang mobilized police forces to search for burial sites in the surrounding areas with Zhanghe Village as the center.
Nearly a hundred public security officers conducted an extensive search in the fields and by the river under the bridge, and four people from the special case team also joined the team. Professor Liang instructed: everyone focused on looking for traces of recent landfills, and also looked for areas that had been dug up by dogs.
After digging, there may be corpses buried underneath.
Hua Long and Su Mei were both holding wooden sticks, chatting and laughing while searching the vegetable field.
The painted dragon said: There is a snake!
Su Mei said, "No way, I hate you. You're trying to scare people, but I'm holding a weapon."
Hualong said: I won't cry if I beat you. You are wearing high heels and walking in the vegetable field. You are not afraid of sprained feet.
Su Mei said: There was no time to change shoes. Besides, high heels can test the hardness of the soil and make it easier to find the burial site.
Hualong said: Xiaomei, you stepped on dog poop.
Su Mei looked down and saw a piece of black dog excrement on the heel of her shoe. She poked it out with a stick in disgust. The two of them suddenly thought that stepping on dog excrement meant that there was a dog. Old Man Li's dog might have come from here.
The bones were dug up near the vegetable field. They asked Professor Liang
After giving the report, Bao Zhan came over with several police officers.
Bao Zhan was the first to find the place where the body was buried.
He stood in front of a tall weed beside the vegetable field. Grass that grows so tall is rare. The grass is as tall as a person, with leaves as big as cattail fans and thick roots. There are some similar weeds growing around it, but they are very short and not as tall as
The grass was tall and scary. He looked at the ground and said: Dig it.
This grass grows on the corpse, with fibrous roots extending from the eye sockets and coming out of the mouth. The lateral roots penetrate the ribs and go deep into the ground. The white roots are tightly wrapped around a corpse.
The corpses become nutrients for the grass, so it grows strong and tall.
Several police officers worked hard for a long time and finally dug out the bones together with the grass on them. People found that there was a piece of blue long johns under the bones.
Professor Liang felt that these long johns looked familiar. He seemed to have seen them somewhere, but he couldn't remember them at the moment.
Officer Mao asked: Whose vegetable field belongs to him?
The village director said: This is Zhang Youmin’s vegetable field in the village.
Professor Liang remembered that he had chatted with several old people at the entrance of Zhanghe Village, and one of them was this man named Zhang Youmin. At that time, Zhang Youmin was wearing a long-sleeved top with a pattern of pigeons flying around a tree on the chest. The top and the bones were found under the
The long johns are all the same color, cyan.
Officer Mao asked: How old is Zhang Youmin?
The village director thought for a while and said: He was born in 1955 and is almost 60 years old.
Officer Mao asked: Could it be that someone else buried the body next to the vegetable field? He is almost 60 years old, is he capable of killing a young man?
The village director introduced that Zhang Youmin had killed someone when he was young. In 1978, Zhang Youmin was working in the Wayao Factory and had a good time with a teenage boy from another village. The child went home with him. He killed him in the middle of the night.
The man was killed, his limbs were broken, and the body was thrown on the river bank. Zhang Youmin was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve. He served 19 years in prison. He was released and returned to the village in 1997. It is still unclear what his motive for the murder was.
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Zhang Youmin has no children. His parents died while he was in prison.
When he returned to the village, his family's old house had long since collapsed, so he built a house out of wood to live in.
Professor Liang immediately made three arrangements:
1. Zhang Youmin is suspected of committing a crime, and Zhang Youmin is secretly monitored by plainclothes criminal police.
Second, confirm the identity of the bones unearthed in the vegetable field as soon as possible and let the families of the missing persons identify the blue long johns.
Third, expand the search scope and find other burial sites.
The unearthed corpses had turned into bones, and some family members could no longer remember what their children were wearing when they disappeared because of such a long time ago.
The father of the missing teenager Yang Zhe provided a clue to the special case team, which was also related to Zhang Youmin.
Yang Zhe's father was the first person to suspect Zhang Youmin. In 2007, his son disappeared from Zhang Youmin's cabin. He has been searching for his son for three years, but his whereabouts are still unknown. One night in December 2010, there was a boy
When he returned home from study the next night, Zhang Youmin strangled the boy's neck with a belt from behind. The boy broke away and started fighting with Zhang Youmin. Another child heard the noise and ran out to help. The two of them pushed Zhang Youmin to the ground. After calling the police, Zhang Youmin defended himself.
He said he was playing with his children, and then
He was not dealt with. After Yang Zhe's father heard about this incident, he went to the public security bureau again to report the situation. The answer he received was: This old man is a bit crazy and drunk.
This clue attracted great attention from the special case team. Professor Liang immediately sent Bao Zhan, Hua Long, and Su Mei to Zhang Youmin's house to investigate. At the same time, the police found a dry well and a round pond near Zhanghe Village.
In the pit, some of the remains of several victims, clothing and belongings were found.
The case was so shocking that local villagers ran out of their homes to watch. In order to prevent people from taking photos, the police had to put up a cordon and cover the excavation site with cloth.
Zhang Youmin was not in the village, but playing chess in the pavilion of the town's cultural park. The plainclothes detective in charge of monitoring noticed that his expression was abnormal.
Zhang Youmin's home is just a black shed made of broken wood, covered with asbestos tiles, leaking air everywhere, and with a few rags hanging on it, which is in stark contrast to the beautiful buildings of the surrounding neighbors.
A police car stopped in front of the door, and the village director, Hua Long, Bao Zhan, and Su Mei got out of the car.
Everyone had been busy all day and did not bother to eat. The case was urgent, so the village director had to buy a few cups of hot soy milk.
Bao Zhan said: There is no one at home and we don’t have a search warrant. How can we get in?
Hua Long kicked open the crumbling wooden door and said, "Why are there so many things?"
Su Mei said to the village director: You can be a witness.
There is a cart in the yard, the earthen ground is full of bumps, an adobe hut is the kitchen, the mud is peeling off the ground, there is an empty dog kennel in the open-air corridor between the kitchen and the main room, and some beer bottles are placed in the corner of the courtyard wall behind the kennel.
, some bottles have water accumulated and green moss has grown on them. Through the cracks in the wall, you can see a wooden bed in the main room. The quilt on it is so dirty that it is difficult to identify the color. Some tattered clothes are also piled on the bed. The most beautiful thing in the room is
What's valuable is a worn-out TV set.
Everyone first went to the kitchen to check. The light inside was very dark and the smell was unpleasant. Su Mei frowned and placed the soy milk cup on the wooden chopping board.
The village director said that Zhang Youmin often pushed a cart from the old house to the vegetable field. He usually liked to raise puppies. Sometimes in the middle of the night, he would turn up the TV volume very loudly, and the barking of the dogs would spread.
, maybe he wanted to hide something. Some villagers discovered that one night, Zhang Youmin was sitting quietly at the entrance of the village, silent, and looked creepy.
Su Mei picked up the soy milk and continued to drink it. She felt that the taste was a bit weird. As she drank, the straw became clogged. When she opened the lid of the cup, she saw a round object stuck in the straw, which was a little shriveled by her sucking.
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Hua Long said: Strange, why is there a glutinous rice ball in your soy milk?
Su Mei took one look and vomited, that round thing was a human eyeball!
After searching, there was a wine jar on the window sill of the kitchen. In the jar were wolfberry soaked in wine, small yellow snakes and ginseng coiled into a round shape, and more than a dozen eyeballs were found in it. When Su Mei put down the soy milk,
The cup lid slipped off, so she took the cup lid and straw and turned them around in her hands. It might have been that the mouse had picked up the eyeball from the wine jar to the beam, and it happened to fall into the soy milk cup...
Over the years, no one has ever been to Zhang Youmin's home, and the villagers have no contact with him.
A jar of medicinal wine with eyeballs soaked in it was placed on the window sill, and a marinated and dried human leg hung on the wall of the cupboard.
