Chapter 15 Chapter 15 The third commission: The truth behind Xie Le's drowning...

Chapter 15

"Xie Le? Are you talking about the soldier who was discharged due to injury?"

Qin Ye just asked.

The woman opposite suddenly rushed in front of the camera, nodded frantically, and tears welled up in her empty eyes: "Yes, Officer Qin, you know my fiancé, right? He is a very good person, right? Help him, please help him."

The woman's scattered hair was stained with tears and stuck to her cheeks in a mess, hiding her expression but not her desperate plea: "Please... he couldn't have drowned in the water tank accidentally, this must have been a murder! A bad guy killed him! Hahahahaha, someone killed him, I'm so useless, I haven't been able to help him catch the murderer for all these years."

Qin Ye tried to comfort the woman and calm her down so that she could tell the whole story clearly.

The buzzing sound of the motorcycle broke the silence of the village night and interrupted Qin Ye's comfort that he had not yet had time to express.

The live broadcast was forcibly interrupted, and she had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, there was a knock on the door, and Qin's mother called her to get up: "Ye Ye, are you asleep? Li Gongan is here to see you!"

Qin Ye quickly put on a thin shirt and walked out of the house.

The night was as cold as water. Li Quan squatted in the yard with his head in his hands. The moonlight stretched his shadow very long, and he looked helpless and sad.

She took a deep breath, prepared herself mentally, and then spoke: "Li Quan, what happened?"

"Qin Ye, Xie Le is gone. Director Wu has left Lao He on duty at the bureau, and the other police officers must report to Miaoping Village immediately."

Li Quan looked up at Qin Ye, his eyes were bloodshot, and his voice was filled with tears. "His sister just ran to the police station to report the case. She said that his family went to bed early today, and she woke up in the middle of the night thirsty and wanted to drink water. She found that Xie Le had fallen into the jar at some point and was dead."

He has been working at the police station for two years and has been looking forward to handling a big case.

This time, a big case really came, but he didn't expect that the deceased would be his future colleague whom he had never met.

He heard from He Gongan that Xie Le was about the same age as him and was a combat hero who came down from the front line. In order to protect his comrades, his arm was blown off by the enemy and he was forced to retire.

He hadn't had the chance to meet the war hero.

I heard that the county is still preparing to hold a commendation meeting for Xie Le in a few days.

Li Quan pursed his lips, trying to suppress the sobs in his voice, but he couldn't hold it back: "Qin Ye, how could Xie Le be gone for no reason? He didn't die on the battlefield, but drowned in his own home..."

Qin Ye's heart skipped a beat. Just as she had expected, the person in trouble was indeed Xie Le.

At the same time, the system's prompt sounded in my ears——

【Location: Miaoping Village, Wuning County;

Commission: Please find out the truth about my fiancé's death for me;

Reward: One textile factory quota]

It seems that every time, the time when the commission is received is one step later than the time when the case occurs.

Qin Ye looked at Li Quan's appearance and felt bad. He stretched out his hand and pulled Li Quan up from the ground: "Let's go, let's go to Miaoping Village."

…

At midnight, in Miaoping Village, which should have been shrouded in darkness, every household held up kerosene lamps and gathered outside the courtyard wall of Xie Qiuping's house to watch the excitement.

When Qin Ye and Li Quan arrived at Xie Qiuping's house, there were already several police motorcycles parked on the dirt road, and even a military jeep.

The police officer who was setting up the cordon at the door nodded slightly to the two men as a greeting, then lifted the cordon to let the two men in.

"Public Security Qin, Public Security Li, you are here."

Hu Xuan met Qin Ye and Li Quan in the yard, pulled them aside, and briefly explained the current investigation results.

"When Comrade Xie Le was found, most of his body was soaked in a large jar filled with water. There was no sign of a violent struggle at the scene. It is very likely that he lost most of his consciousness after drinking too much. After falling into the jar, he did not feel much pain, so he did not struggle and eventually drowned peacefully."

Qin Ye recalled Xie Le's fiancee's crying, looked up at the crowded room, and asked Hu Xuan: "I want to go in and take a look at the scene, is it convenient?"

Hu Xuan scratched his head, feeling that things were a bit difficult to handle: "The county leaders rushed here overnight, and are now inside with colleagues from the county bureau's criminal investigation department. Logically speaking, the police from your police station cannot go in, and can only be responsible for maintaining order outside."

Miaoping Village is not under the jurisdiction of Qin Ye’s police station, so she shouldn’t interfere.

Not to mention major cases involving human lives, which have always been handled by the Criminal Investigation Department, and the police from the police station only lend a hand when necessary.

Seeing Hu Xuan's embarrassment, Qin Ye stopped forcing him: "It's okay, I can listen at the door."

…

Just then, colleagues from the Criminal Investigation Department filed out of the room, each with a gloomy look on their face.

Seeing Qin Ye, a familiar colleague from the Criminal Investigation Department shook his head at her and said in a low voice: "What a pity, Comrade Xie Le lost his balance when he was drinking water from the jar, and he fell into the jar and drowned. If his right arm was not broken, perhaps the accident would not have happened."

Tonight, Xie Qiuping specially prepared food to welcome Xie Le. Her husband Lu Peng also called Lu Quan, the production team leader of Miaoping Village, to join them. The four of them drank a lot of wine together.

Xie Le must have felt thirsty in the middle of the night, so he got up from the kang drunk and fell into the jar while scooping water to drink. The jar was too deep and he only had one arm left. He tried to hold on to the edge of the jar to prop himself up, but he didn't have enough strength to get up.

"We took statements from Xie Qiuping, Lu Peng and Lu Quan, and found nothing unusual. There were no signs of intrusion by outsiders at the scene."

The colleagues in the Criminal Investigation Division knew that Qin Ye was following the case, and told her in detail, "The kitchen is right next to the couple's room, but Xie Qiuping and Lu Peng were also drunk and didn't hear anything unusual in the kitchen. Of course, Hu Xuan did a simple autopsy and found that Comrade Xie Le showed no signs of excessive struggle before his death, so it was normal that the couple couldn't hear anything."

Qin Ye listened silently, trying to sort out the clues he had learned now.

She subconsciously looked into the room. Only the county leaders and Lu Peng and Xie Qiuping were left in the room.

Xie Qiuping sat on the edge of the kang, where Xie Le's body, covered with a white cloth, was placed. She held Xie Le's only remaining left hand tightly, shedding tears silently.

No matter how the county leaders squatted beside her and tried to comfort her patiently, she never responded.

Lu Peng squatted in the corner of the kang, slapping himself repeatedly like a self-torturer, his face flushed red, "I'm so damned, I'm so damned, why did I agree to let Lele drink so much? He was clearly walking with weak feet, and he said he wanted to drink, that's all he wanted in the army, and I... why did I just give in to his weakness?!!"

Qin Ye couldn't help but look at Lu Peng twice more and found that he was wearing a white Dacron shirt, which seemed to be the same style as the one worn by Xu Libai, the doctor she had met in the county hospital.

However, the same clothes look fashionable on Xu Libai, but look a bit funny on the dark-faced Lu Peng.

The clothes are very new, as if they were bought not long ago.

"Comrade Xie Le is so nice, but it's a pity that good people don't live long."

A colleague from the Criminal Investigation Division noticed Qin Ye staring at Lu Peng's white shirt and sighed deeply, "This white shirt was bought by Comrade Xie Le when he came back from the department store in the provincial capital. He bought it for his brother-in-law and a skirt for his sister."

Qin Ye heard this and his eyes fell on Lu Peng's collar, which was missing a button. He frowned and said, "Newly bought? Are the clothes from the provincial capital of poor quality?"

I bought a new shirt, but after wearing it for less than a day, a button fell off?

Seeing her appearance, her colleagues in the Criminal Investigation Division knew that she probably wanted to enter the scene, but was unable to do so due to her identity restrictions as a police officer at the police station.

Many police officers in the criminal investigation department started out in their local police stations, and he was no exception.

After Qin Ye joined the job, he handled two cases in succession and became famous in the county bureau. In his opinion, it was only a matter of time before Qin Ye joined the Criminal Investigation Department, so it would be better to take her to see the scene more in advance.

The colleague from the Criminal Investigation Division thought of this and simply suggested: "Public Security Qin, I see that you are interested in this case. How about I take you in to review it again? Public Security Li can also come along if he is willing!"

Qin Ye was overjoyed and immediately agreed, and Li Quan hurriedly followed.

…

As soon as the three of them entered the room, they immediately attracted inquiring gazes from the county leaders. Lu Peng and Xie Qiuping also looked up blankly and looked at them.

The police officer from the Criminal Investigation Division explained: "Boss, I will take my new officers to review the scene again."

The county leader waved his hand, motioning them to go in. He had no time to pay any attention to them and continued to concentrate on comforting the distraught Xie Qiuping.

Xie Qiuping also lowered her head again and lay on Xie Le's body, crying silently.

Only Lu Peng seemed to want to move, but when he noticed Qin Ye looking at him, he quickly shrank back into the corner.

…

Qin Ye walked into the kitchen and the first thing he saw was the large urn in which Xie Le drowned.

Almost every household in the rural area will place a large jar in the kitchen to store water for daily use. There were also jars in the Qin family's kitchen, but the one in Lu Peng's house was particularly large.

Qin Ye is about 1.7 meters tall, and the height of the jar is almost up to her chest.

The jar was wide and deep, but there was not much water in it. When scooping water, one had to put most of his body into the jar.

Not to mention the drunk Xie Le, even if she was sober and fell into the jar, it would be difficult for her to struggle to stand up and get out immediately.

Qin Ye held a flashlight and half-leaned out to observe the situation in the jar, trying to see if he could find any clues.

Li Quan stood half a meter away from her, his face a little pale.

Xie Le’s body had just been fished out of this urn. How dare Qin Ye get so close? Isn’t she afraid?

Li Quan was thinking wildly, and subconsciously swallowed his saliva, trying to calm himself down: "Qin Ye, be careful, don't fall in."

Qin Ye responded casually and used the flashlight to carefully illuminate the inner wall of the jar.

Just as my colleagues from the Criminal Investigation Department said, there were no traces left on the jar. Generally speaking, when people are at a critical moment of life and death, they will burst out with a strong desire to survive, and will definitely leave certain traces during their desperate struggle.

But Scherer didn't.

The only thing that can be said is that he was either so drunk that he lost the ability to struggle, or he forcibly suppressed his body's instincts and gave up struggling on his own initiative.

Qin Ye's brain was working rapidly, and he did not stop shaking the flashlight in his hand to observe.

When the flashlight shone on the gap between the edge of the urn and the wall, she unexpectedly discovered that there was a white button dropped in the corner - exactly the same button on Lu Peng's white shirt.

At the same time, a hysterical female voice sounded outside the door: "Murderer! Murderer! It must be you who killed Xie Le! There is no way he could have an accident!"