"People from all over the world," the village chief shouted.
"Uncle Shimin, uncle Shiren." Chen Chunsheng also called.
"Hey, village chief, Chunsheng." Wang Shiren greeted.
After Wang Shimin came in, he first looked at Zhang Yichi. Because Zhang Yichi was also looking at them, the two naturally looked at each other.
Looking at each other for less than a second, Wang Shimin quickly avoided Zhang Yichi's gaze, nodded to the village chief, and sat aside.
This subtle detail was captured by Zhang Yichi, but he had learned not to reveal anything, so he pretended to be nothing and continued to smoke.
"Comrade police, how are you doing now?" After greeting the village chief, Wang Shihe went to ask Zhang Yichi first.
"We have some clues, and we need to continue to investigate further." Zhang Yichi said vaguely, and did not reveal his most real and detailed progress to anyone.
In this short day, he came into contact with many people, but the information he had was still too little. He couldn't even list the main suspects. Anyone who dealt with him now might have killed Liu Cuilan. Murderer, it's better to keep some things and not tell everything.
"Okay, if you need anything, come to me." Wang Shiren said and walked to the village chief, "Village chief, my brother and I are together, we can just bury it after thinking about it, and that's it. My sister-in-law has her killed and she has a funeral. It’s not honorable either. My brother can’t save his face, and it’s better to save some money. It’s not like my brother doesn’t want a wife.”
"Oh, did you two have a plan together last night?" the village chief asked.
"Oh, that's what we plan to do, and that's all we can do."
The village thought for a while and decided not to interfere with other people's opinions: "Well... it's up to you. People will die, so it's up to you to decide."
"Okay, village chief." Wang Shiren looked at Zhang Yichi again, "Comrade police, we are planning to let my sister-in-law be buried first. You should also be considerate of us."
Zhang Yichi had been listening to Wang Shiren's words before, and now he immediately replied: "The village chief told me last night that after today, I will not interfere with any decisions about the corpse. Then you can decide how to do it." How come."
"Okay." Wang Shiren said.
During this period, Wang Shiren had been talking, but Wang Shimin remained silent. I don't know whether it was because he was more introverted or because he was deeply affected by his wife's death.
Just now, Zhang Yichi heard Wang Shimin talk about their next plan. The reason why they wanted to bury Liu Cuilan early was to reduce the impact and save money on the funeral, so that Wang Shimin could marry another one in the future.
In a place like this, Zhang Yichi couldn't comment on this approach, but it sounded a little uncomfortable.
The cigarette was almost finished. He reviewed in his mind the scene where Wang Shimin avoided his gaze just now, and thought about why Wang Shimin did this?
Is it a guilty conscience or is there another reason?
If it's because of a guilty conscience, what is the guilty conscience? Did Liu Cuilan be killed by himself? Then why did he call the police? In such a remote mountain with no traffic, even if you take a tricycle from the other side of the mountain, it will take two hours to get there. . It stands to reason that even if a person dies, it will not spread, and the murderer has faked Liu Cuilan's death. Although he has not been deceived, there is still no problem in deceiving the villagers. If he is buried like this, nothing will happen.
Zhang Yichi stared at Wang Shimin and looked at his shoes. Unfortunately, Wang Shimin's shoes were black flat shoes, which were different from the footprints at the scene. Of course, it was not ruled out that Wang Shimin changed his shoes, but the reason for calling the police was still unclear.
When looking at the shoes, Zhang Yichi also saw another special point. Both brothers Wang Shimin and Wang Shiren were wearing long sleeves. He was wearing a thin black coat because he was working, while Chen Chunsheng wore half sleeves.
"Why are you wearing long sleeves on such a hot day?" Zhang Yichi asked seemingly casually.
"If you don't wear long sleeves when you work in the fields, your arms will get scratched," Wang Shiren said.
Wang Shimin ignored Zhang Yichi.
"Oh, that's it." Zhang Yichi didn't ask any further questions to scare the snake away.
He felt that there was something strange about these two brothers, something strange that could not be described.
Wang Shimin and Wang Shiren came here today mainly to discuss Liu Cuilan's funeral with the village chief. Now that they have decided to simply bury it, there is nothing to prepare for.
"Chunsheng, help me find a flashlight." Zhang Yichi said.
"Hey." Chen Chunsheng finished his cigarette and stood up to find a flashlight for Zhang Yichi.
Zhang Yichi took the flashlight and said: "I will continue to check on Liu Cuilan. If I don't go to see you two brothers this afternoon, you will come to the neighborhood committee again in the evening and ask you more about the situation."
"Okay."
"oh."
Wang Shimin and Wang Shimin responded.
Zhang Yichi walked out.
After walking a few steps outside, Wang Shimin and Wang Shiren also followed out. Zhang Yichi didn't pay attention. After all, they were both relatives of Liu Cuilan. He probably still didn't trust him to check alone, so he had to watch from the sidelines.
Chen Chunsheng changed his shoes and followed him out.
After all four people had left, the village chief began to eat alone.
Zhang Yichi entered the woodshed first. The woodshed was a bit small. There was only a layer of blankets under Liu Cuilan's body to avoid being stained as much as possible. He piled the firewood next to it to make some room.
He knelt down and turned on the flashlight, and continued to examine Liu Cuilan's body.
After a few seconds, Wang Shimin and Wang Shiren came in, standing there like two door gods staring at Zhang Yichi.
The body was being examined in the woodshed with little light, and there were two people staring at it. Zhang Yichi felt a little uncomfortable. However, he still didn't say anything and kept a restrained attitude and looked carefully.
"Brother Zhang, what are you doing here? It's so sloppy." Chen Chunsheng also rushed over.
"Your dad won't let me move outside, saying it's unlucky." Zhang Yichi explained.
"Let's go to the village committee. It's so dark that you can see a lot."
"Your dad said it would be unlucky to let the village committee go." Zhang Yichi explained again.
Chen Chunsheng was speechless. He held it in for a while and strode out: "I'll get two more flashlights."
"Where were you yesterday morning?" While checking, Zhang Yichi also asked them about their whereabouts yesterday.
They are all standing here anyway, so we might as well go in two directions, ask as many questions as we can, and make full use of our time.
"Yesterday..." Wang Shimin rarely spoke first. He paused, not knowing whether he was recalling or organizing his words, "I got up in the morning and found my wife there. I thought she was going to the toilet, so I got off the bed and went to the toilet to look for her.
, there was no toilet, no house, no yard, so I thought I might have gotten sick again and ran out, so I quickly woke up my brother and went to look for him together."
"Then what?"
"After searching for several hours, I couldn't find anything, so I went to find the village chief. The village chief mobilized people in the village to search together. Some people went to the only road leading to the outside of our village, which was blocked, and some went over the mountains.
I searched all over the place and found nothing at noon. The village chief asked me to call the police and ask the police to come and help me find him. Then I asked my brother to borrow Uncle Chen’s tricycle to call the police. Then you can come over right now.
." Wang Shimin basically finished talking about what happened before Zhang Yichi came.
Zhang Yichi shined a flashlight on Liu Cuilan's body to see if there were any details he had missed. After listening to the story, he went through it in his mind and felt that there was nothing illogical.
Liu Cuilan must have left home before she was killed, otherwise Uncle Sun would not have seen Liu Cuilan passing by his house yesterday morning.
"Have you never looked for the location where the body was found before?" Zhang Yichi asked again.
"Looking, was there anyone there when we went to look for him?" Wang Shimin said.
"Brother Zhang, I'll give you some light." Chen Chunsheng came back, holding two flashlights in his hands and squeezing into the back of the woodshed to provide Zhang Yichi with light.
Chen Chunsheng was a very friendly person, and he didn't seem to have any bad intentions. He was busy as the village chief said.
"Thank you." Zhang Yichi thanked him.
With more lighting, it is indeed much easier to inspect.
"Who do you two think could kill Liu Cuilan?" Zhang Yichi rolled up Liu Cuilan's sleeves, exposed his forearms, and observed meticulously with a flashlight.
However, the clues may be affected due to changes in corpses such as corpse spots.
"...Do you know?" Wang Shimin said, his mood a little fluctuating, "I don't usually run around. Everyone in our village knows that I married a stupid wife, but no one would do this.
"
"You damn beast." Wang Shiren cursed.
Wang Shiren said something else later, but Zhang Yichi didn't listen. His eyes narrowed, his head lowered, and he shined a flashlight on Liu Cuilan's right arm.
Liu Cuilan had a bruise on her right arm.
He almost thought it was a corpse stain before, but he still distinguished it.
He quickly checked his left arm and found it was missing.
Then there are the two legs. When you roll up your pants, you can see that there are some bruises on the legs.
It has now been determined that Liu Cuilan did not die from a fall, so these wounds could not have been caused by the so-called fall. They should have been injured by the murderer while fighting with him.
The increase in the number of wounds found can expand Zhang Yichi's imagination, allowing him to more fully and completely deduce the situation during the fight between Liu Cuilan and the murderer.
Seeing that Zhang Yichi seemed to have made some progress, Wang Shimin and Wang Shiren watched attentively. Because Zhang Yichi only rolled up part of his sleeves and trousers, Wang Shimin did nothing to stop it.
In half an hour, Zhang Yichi had written down the location of the wound on paper and made many deductions.
When something new was discovered from the corpse, his focus was entirely on the corpse, and he had no time to ask Wang Shimin or Wang Shiren anything.
This lasted until after eleven o'clock.
Zhang Yichi squatted on the ground and checked for several hours, but he didn't seem to feel tired and was still maintaining his energy.
"Brother Shimin, brother Shiren."
Zhang Nanyang's voice came from outside the door.
"Chunsheng. Hey, Brother Zhang, are you still checking?" Zhang Nanyang walked in and said hello one by one.
"Yeah." Zhang Yichi replied without raising his head.
"How was your stay at school yesterday? Are you still used to it?" Zhang Nanyang asked.
"It's pretty good." Zhang Yichi didn't mention that someone was watching him outside the window yesterday.
"After the inspection, no, the village chief wants to go to Brother Min's house for lunch at noon." Zhang Nanyang said.
"Go to my house?" Wang Shimin himself didn't know about this.
Zhang Nanyang said matter-of-factly: "I heard from the village chief that he doesn't plan to hold a funeral. If my sister-in-law dies, she at least needs to have a meal."
This is a custom. No matter how frugal you are during a funeral, you still have to have a meal and pay your respects.
"Oh." Wang Shimin patted Wang Shiren, "I'll buy some cigarettes and wine, butcher a chicken, ask the auntie next door to help cook the meal, and ask the relatives to come over for a meal at noon."
"Brother, I'll go." Wang Shiren left the woodshed.
"Brother Shimin, the village chief asked you to come over and have a chat." Zhang Nanyang said again.
Wang Shimin still wanted to look at Zhang Yichi when he heard the village chief call him over and asked: "What to do?"
"Do you know, it's probably about lunch." Zhang Nanyang wasn't sure either.
Wang Shimin glanced at Zhang Yichi and left quickly, followed by Zhang Nanyang.
"Chunsheng." Zhang Yichi shouted.
"What's wrong, brother?"
Zhang Yichi squatted there for several hours, and Chen Chunsheng also stood there for several hours with two flashlights. Now his back is in excruciating pain.
"It seems I can't write this anymore. Please go back and help me find another pen." Zhang Yichi said.
"Okay." Chen Chunsheng just wanted to move around and stretch his body, so he put the two flashlights there and went out.
For a time, only the bodies of Zhang Yichi and Liu Cuilan were left in the woodshed.
"Huh..." Zhang Yichi breathed out.
This is actually a gap period that he deliberately created.
Liu Cuilan didn't need to spend hours checking the bruises on her arms and legs. He had actually checked them long ago. In the next few hours, he just pretended to delay time.
Yesterday, due to Wang Shimin's strong objection, Zhang Yichi only checked Liu Cuilan's head, neck, exposed hands, and steps. Finally, after all kinds of efforts, he was able to check Liu Cuilan's back.
There were no wounds on Liu Cuilan's back, which allowed Zhang Yichi to judge that she did not fall to death, so he conducted a series of deductions to find the real scene of the first crime.
During another inspection today, Zhang Yichi tried more inspections within Wang Shimin's tolerance range. This inspection found incredible clues directly from Liu Cuilan's arms and legs.
Liu Cuilan has bruises on her arms and legs!
Does that mean there are more wounds and clues in other parts of Liu Cuilan’s body that Zhang Yichi has not checked?
Looking at Liu Cuilan's abdomen and even her very sensitive chest, Wang Shimin must have definitely disagreed. So Zhang Yichi has been stalling for time to look for opportunities to examine the body alone and conduct a more detailed examination.
After waiting for several hours, he finally got this opportunity.
In the end, Chen Chunsheng was easily sent away, and Zhang Yichi gained at least a few dozen seconds.
As soon as Chen Chunsheng left, he didn't waste time and lifted up Liu Cuilan's clothes.
He was stunned as soon as he opened it.
Liu Cuilan actually has many old injuries on her abdomen!
[Digression: This is for friends who watch pirated versions. I hope to support the genuine version. The subscription performance is very poor and it is difficult to support it.]