Hou Lejia put his hands in his pockets and came to the village group office of Yuguang Village. While waiting for someone, he looked around at the small Yuguang Village.
In order to keep confidentiality, they did not contact the locals in advance. They just asked people from the township police station to come with them and call people on the spot.
The unit of village group is rarely mentioned nowadays. It is actually the former production team, usually a natural village, or a village, or something like that.
The unit of village recognized by the state is actually an administrative village. Under an administrative village, there are multiple natural villages. In the past, the administrative village was the production brigade, and the natural village was the production team. The person in charge of the brigade was the production team leader, and often also
Has quite a bit of power.
Jiayuan Township, where Yuguang Village is located, has 16 administrative villages, more than 200 and nearly 300 natural villages like Yuguang Village. In the upper reaches of the Lishou River, there are at least three or four towns in the area where corpses may be dumped, with almost 1,000 people.
A natural village.
Therefore, after the simplest missing persons investigation, the case of Unknown Corpse 122 came to a standstill.
The Hou Le family once thought that the deceased came from out of town. If this was the case, the hope of finding out would be even slimmer.
In fact, Yuguang Village is indeed far enough away. To reach the nearest bank of the Lishou River, you have to climb a mountain. It is most likely that the body was dumped. Of course, this is not certain. Maybe the victim was brought to the river.
It's possible to kill someone later.
"Brigade Hou. This is the village chief of Yuguang Village, Zhang Xuejie." The policeman from the police station who came with him brought an old man in his fifties.
In his fifties, he was considered a young person in the village. Zhang Xuejie looked quite capable, but he looked a little flustered. When he arrived at Hou Le's house, he asked, "How big is the case?"
He saw the people coming. The last time more than three police officers came, there was a fight between two villages and several were seriously injured. This time, there were several police cars alone.
Naturally, the Hou Le family would not answer such a question, so they saw that the policeman next to them had already taken out the photo and asked Zhang Xuejie, "Do you know this person?"
"This is... my eyesight is bad..." Zhang Xuejie took the photo away and saw it clearly, and said: "This is Zhang Lv's mother-in-law, Li Fang, right? Have you found her?"
He looked at the police around him again and couldn't help but frown: "Isn't that a good thing?"
"Is Zhang Lu at home? In the village?" Hou Lejia asked the main question first.
Zhang Xuejie thought for a moment and said, "I think he must be there. I was there the past two days. They have a motorcycle at home. Sometimes they go down the mountain to go to the market or something. I have also ridden on it."
"Take us to his house." The Hou Le family took the lead and asked at the same time: "How many people live in Zhang Lu's house now, and how many people live in his house now?"
"It's just two people. His mother-in-law ran away, and it's just him and his son..."
"Li Fang ran away? Why do you say she ran away?"
"Pack up all the clothes and jewelry. My husband and son have been left at home, either running away or something." Zhang Xuejie said nonchalantly: "His son is in elementary school, and the family doesn't have much money. He is in the central elementary school right next to him.
Reading, Zhang Lv didn’t want to work, so he just did some farm work in the village. In today’s rural areas, there is no money for farm work. It’s just us old men who do it. If my wife keeps quarreling, we can leave.”
Zhang Xuejie said it very naturally.
"Is this common?" Hou Lejia asked.
"what's going on?"
"The situation where my wife ran away."
"Many of them can't get a wife. Those who do get married, stay for a few years, and then run away when they can no longer live. Some go to the city, some find a good one, it's all like this. Some even take the baby with them.
They ran away together. If this doesn't work, the husband's family will find the mother's family to cause trouble." When Zhang Xuejie talked about the current situation in the village, he also sighed.
At this point, the Hou Le family's alarm bells were already ringing.
For further confirmation, Hou Lejia asked: "What did Li Fang's husband say? Has he gone to find his wife?"
"Let's just say they ran away. If they run away, there's no need to look for them. We have a lot of them here, so what are you looking for?" Zhang Xuejie was a little nagging, probably thinking of something.
Hou Le's family knowingly asked: "His husband ran away when he said he was going to run away. Are they divorced?"
"No, it's impossible to get divorced even though it's a fight. Now that you have a wife with so many betrothal gifts, who would be willing to divorce?" Zhang Xuejie paused and then said: "Couples who go to work outside will get divorced easily.
Well, Zhang Lu lives in the village and will definitely not want to leave."
"Then no one has looked for Li Fang?"
"The phone didn't get through either. We thought at that time that she might have found a good family..." Zhang Xuejie realized that something was not right, so he spoke in a lower voice.
Hou Le's family continued to ask, and while they were talking, the criminal police came to Zhang Lv's house, surrounded his house, and then knocked on the door.
Zhang Lv's house is a bare tube building with four floors. There is not even a single tile on the facade, and the red paint on the door has fallen off piece by piece, giving it a very casual appearance.
Crunch.
The mottled red-painted door opened directly, and inside was a sloppy middle-aged man rubbing his eyes.
"Zhang Lu?" A criminal policeman stepped forward and asked.
"What's the matter?" The man still didn't react.
"Are you Zhang Lu?" As the criminal police officer was speaking, two other colleagues had already passed him and blocked the door, preventing Zhang Lu from suddenly closing the door and turning a good arrest into a battle royale.
"Yes." The middle-aged man frowned, but with so many policemen in front of him, he still acted a little timid and did not dare to speak forcefully.
"Is there anyone else at home?" The detectives began to enter.
"No."
"Where is your son?"
"Go to school."
"Do you have any relatives? Arrange someone to pick you up." The Hou Le family frowned. This is a relatively complicated situation.
Zhang Lu hesitated for a few seconds and asked, "What do you want to do?"
"We are from the Longli County Criminal Police Team. Do you know what we want to do with you?" The leading criminal policeman looked at Zhang Lv's cowardly look and suddenly asked.
Zhang Lu barely kept his eyes open, his head felt stuffy, as if he had been put into a pressure cooker, and he didn't know what to say for a while.
He had actually rehearsed the conversation in front of him, but the serious faces, neat uniforms, and stern voices in front of him made his throat speechless.
Time has also passed a little long, it has been more than a year, the string that was stretched has become loose, and it will not be easy to tighten it again.
…
The induction cooker was on high and it was cooking gurglingly.
The boiling soup pot is milky white, much cleaner than the water in the steel pot for boiling bones. The pork belly and fat intestines that are turned up from time to time are large and complete.
The induction cooker is the same model used in the autopsy room. Dr. Ye bought it in his early years and it was not broken after using it for more than ten years. So he bought more for his own home, his father-in-law's house, and his parents' house. Later, he also equipped it for his office.
.
There is a fool button on the induction cooker. Press the hot pot and the water will boil. No matter what is cooked in it, it will boil to a pulp very quickly.
Hou Xiaoyong added cabbage and radish to the soup pot of fat intestine, pork belly and chicken, and then began to boil easy-cooked tribute vegetables, kelp sprouts, etc...
Even if Dr. Zhai had something on his mind, he felt warm and comfortable all over as he ate.
The basement is still a bit cold. Although there is air conditioning and so on, human bones are still different from boiled bones. If you stay there for a long time, you will still feel stiff.
After eating a few more chopsticks of fat intestines, Forensic Doctor Zhai felt half full. He put down his chopsticks and said, "I just said that we did three skull reconstructions. What case are the other two?"
"The other two are cases in Changyang City. They should have fallen off a cliff together, but no identity information was found." Jiang Yuan said simply, and then added: "They have also been placed in the ice coffin for more than a year. Because
The situation is similar to the case here in Longli County. I heard that my case was going well, so I called over."
More than half of Jiang Yuan's backlogged case team were kidnapped from Changyang City. It was almost time to work on two cases for others to pay the rent.
In terms of the number of cases, Changyang City, the provincial capital, definitely ranks first in the province. Jiang Yuan had previously helped them clear up their backlog of cases, and all they had done were confirmed criminal cases. This time, the one who came to their door was
If it's not a criminal case, it still needs to be studied further.
After all, if someone falls off a cliff and dies, it could be due to a mistake, it could be suicide, or it could be someone pushing him down.
That is to say, two people fell off a cliff together, which is a rather special situation, but it cannot be ruled out that one person pulled the other person to jump off. Therefore, although there was no victim, Changyang City still stored the body in an ice coffin.
Forensic doctor Zhai is not interested in the case itself. What he cares about is the skull reconstruction surgery.
After thinking back to the middle picture of the skull restoration that he just saw, Forensic Doctor Zhai couldn't help but feel a little itchy and said: "If you don't mind, can I help you?"
Forensic Doctor Zhai is too old, and has passed the time period for learning magic... and skull restoration techniques. Moreover, there are some things that can be said to be "learning XX with zero foundation", but it can be said to be "learning skull restoration techniques with zero foundation", then
It's just a little bit off.
Not to mention the many prerequisite skills required for cranial restoration, the cranial restoration technique at LV1 is actually not very useful. It is impossible to see the appearance of the victim in the photo. It was not until the case was solved that I felt that the photo had something to do with the victim.
Like cranial reconstruction, what does that mean in practice?
As for teaching forensic doctor Zhai about cranial restoration techniques up to LV3 or LV2, that is not just looking down on skull restoration techniques, it is also looking down on the sacrifices of Guihua and criminals at all levels in Miaohe County!
"I don't do cranial reconstruction very often, so I can't do it in a free and easy manner. If you want to do it together, you have to follow my pace." Jiang Yuan said more tactfully.
Forensic doctor Zhai agreed immediately, and then asked: "Will it be done in Longli County?"
It’s always a bit strange to do a case in Changyang City in Longli County.
"Do a few cases first, and then move the equipment." Jiang Yuan paused and said, "If you find it inconvenient..."
"It's nothing inconvenient. I'm quite familiar with Lao Hou. Although he is a bit stingy and sometimes silly, his thinking is not very clear, and he is not particularly good at making decisions, but... when working on a case,
He is still obedient." Forensic Doctor Zhai gave a very fair evaluation.
Everyone eating and drinking around the pork belly and chicken, especially the police from Longli County, nodded silently, including Hou Xiaoyong.
"Then let me get started. What should I do first?" Forensic Doctor Zhai was not hungry to begin with, and now he has no intention of eating or drinking. He did not want to learn the skull restoration technique, but if he had a deeper understanding, he would know what was really going on inside.
That's right, it's still very important.
Jiang Yuan didn't expect him to be so active, and he still underestimated the appeal of skull restoration to high-level forensic doctors.
After thinking for a while, Jiang Yuandao said: "Why don't you take a look at the photos I made before, so that you can follow the next part. I may have something else to do this afternoon, let's start officially tomorrow?"
"I can do it. Even if I don't sleep at night, I will try to keep up with the progress." Forensic Doctor Zhai is an older person, and he still has a very positive attitude towards learning.