Chapter 58 Chapter 58 The "water ghost" kidnapped the brave child...

Chapter 58

Several people in the live broadcast room gathered in front of the screen, talking one after another about a water ghost killing people, but for a long time no one could talk about the key details of the case.

Qin Ye coughed lightly, interrupting the noisy chatter of the victims' families.

Everyone immediately fell silent, staring at her from a distance with tears in their eyes.

She sighed and gestured to the woman who seemed to be the most stable in the picture, "Don't worry, you should speak first. If what you say is not complete enough, others can supplement it."

The woman who was named nodded hurriedly and choked up as she spoke: "The four of us, our children, were drowned one after another in the fish pond around the Spring Festival in the late 1980s. The police didn't find any suspects, and everyone said that the four of them were killed by Old Qiao who turned into a water ghost..."

As soon as the woman finished speaking, another mother of the deceased continued, "Our old Qiao's full name is Qiao Dongfu. He is a well-known scoundrel in our county. He took advantage of the fact that no one was around in the middle of the night and went to someone else's fish pond to electrocute fish. Our child sneaked out to play and happened to see it. He shouted to him to stop, but he fell into the pond and drowned when he ran away!"

Almost all the fish in the pond were electrocuted to death by Qiao Dongfu. Because there were four children as witnesses, Qiao Dongfu's family had to bear the loss.

As a result, over the next six months, the four children died one after another in the fish pond where Qiao Dongfu died.

The police in charge of the case investigated for many years but still failed to catch the murderer. There were all kinds of speculations about this case among the people, and over the years, this case even became an urban legend.

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After listening to the stories of several people, Qin Ye glanced at the desk calendar on the table next to him.

According to the timeline given by several clients, Qiao Dongfu had drowned in the fish pond, but the four children are still alive and well.

And tomorrow night, the first child will disappear on the way home after evening self-study, and his body will not be found until a week later in the fish pond.

Qin Ye realized that time was running out and immediately accepted the commission, hoping to prevent the murder from happening before anything happened to the first child.

She said goodbye to her family and went out for a walk, put on her clothes, and went straight to the county public security bureau.

The person on duty in the lobby today was Hu Xuan from the laboratory. Seeing her coming, he stood up cheerfully: "Hey, Qin Ye, why are you here? Didn't I remember Director Wu said that you don't have to come to the bureau for duty?"

Qin Ye is still a public security officer in the county bureau, but before going to the capital, she took the initiative to find Director Wu and proposed to temporarily pay her salary for the next four years.

After all, she couldn't participate in the county's work while she was studying, and she couldn't just get a salary without doing any work.

Director Wu was very surprised by her proposal, but he couldn't resist her insistence and finally agreed. Before she went to the capital to study, Director Wu gave her a very thick red envelope for her studies.

After returning from vacation, she went back to the bureau to report for work, but Director Wu waved his hand and refused.

Although she is not receiving salary now, we cannot let her work for free, so she can be exempted from routine tasks such as patrolling and other duties. If you encounter any difficult case, call her to handle it.

Qin Ye knew Director Wu's good intentions, so he didn't refuse, but he still went to the local police station and bureau almost every day.

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"I heard someone say that someone in Miaoping Village had an accident in the fish pond recently?"

Qin Ye pulled a stool and sat next to Hu Xuan, asking him about the case of Qiao Dongfu's electric fishing.

Hu Xuan pulled out a case report from the folder on the table and handed it to her, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "Here - I just finished writing the report on this case. There is nothing suspicious about this case. The deceased Qiao Dongfu secretly used a generator to electrocute fish, but when he was discovered, he ran away and drowned."

Several children tried to jump into the water to rescue him, but they were not good swimmers and were nearly dragged into the river by Qiao Dongfu and drowned together.

Because these four children bravely rescued people and exposed Qiao Dongfu's electric fishing, the school awarded them all with bravery awards in order to set an example.

"One of the kids was called Bai Jie. Qiao Dongfu scratched his ankle and left a circle of bruises on it. It was really scary."

Hu Xuan recalled the injury on Bai Jie's ankle and couldn't help but feel scared for him. "You said these stupid kids didn't understand that you can't save a drowning person. Most people lose their minds when they fall into the water and always try to grab something to save themselves. If Bai Jie wasn't lucky, he would have been dragged to death by Qiao Dongfu."

Qin Ye paused as he was flipping through the case report.

Bai Jie is the first child who disappeared and died tomorrow night.

She quickly scanned the report and found no problems in it. Both Qiao Dongfu's autopsy report and the testimonies of several children seemed to be flawless.

If nothing had happened to the four children, the case would have ended perfectly.

But something bad will happen to these four children soon.

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Qin Ye didn't believe that there were any water ghosts taking lives in this world. She was more inclined to believe that someone was deliberately seeking revenge on these four children.

The people most likely to take revenge on the four children are Qiao Dongfu's relatives.

So she asked, "Does Qiao Dongfu have any relatives?"

When she asked this, Hu Xuan sighed heavily: "They are all dead."

Qiao Dongfu electrocuted almost all the fish in the pond, and with four children as witnesses, the Qiao family could not deny this debt.

The contractor of the fish pond came to claim compensation and asked for 20,000 yuan.

When Qiao Dongfu's son was in technical secondary school, he got into a fight and was expelled. It was said that he ran away and died outside. Now Qiao Dongfu has gotten into trouble again, and Qiao Dongfu's wife is the only one left at home.

When Qiao Dongfu's wife heard that the owner of the fish pond asked her family to pay 8,000 yuan, she did not refuse.

She knelt down in front of the owner of the fish pond and begged him to give her a few more days. At least after she buried Qiao Dongfu, she would find a way to raise the money quickly.

The fish pond owner agreed to extend the time until Qiao Dongfu was buried. No one expected that

She sold almost everything in the house that could be sold, folded the money neatly and placed it next to the kang, and then hanged herself on the kang.

Hu Xuan finished speaking and sighed again: "She is also a miserable woman. She left an apology letter to the fish pond owner next to the money. She said that she really couldn't raise 8,000 yuan, and the rest she could only pay with her life."

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Qin Ye originally wanted to find the murderer directly and prevent the death of the four children.

Now that she knows that all of Qiao Dongfu's relatives have passed away and no one will avenge him, she can only start with these four children.

The four children are of similar age and are good friends who have grown up playing together naked. The oldest among them is Bai Jie, who is a sophomore in high school.

He was also the murderer's first target.

Seeing that she asked about the case in detail, Hu Xuan couldn't help but feel a little nervous: "Do you think there is something wrong with this case?"

Qin Ye closed the case report, put it back into the folder on the table, and shook his head: "I read the case report and can't see any problems."

What's more, it has been almost half a month since the incident. Even if there is really something wrong with the case, it would be difficult to find new clues from the scene of Qiao Dongfu's death.

She couldn't tell Hu Xuan that the four children would be killed one after another in the following period of time. She could only deliberately frown and said worriedly: "I'm just worried that someone might want to do something to these four children."

Although Qiao Dongfu was breaking the law by electrofishing, he slipped and fell into the fish pond and drowned, and his wife hanged herself at home in order to compensate the owner of the fish pond for the loss.

It can be said that a family is broken up.

People who don’t know right from wrong may think that it was these four children who caused the Qiao family to end up like this.

"We thought about this at the beginning and even sent people to protect them secretly."

Hu Xuan took out the duty roster from the drawer, opened it and showed Qin Ye the date, "Yes, we have been squatting for half a month, and we didn't find any suspicious people around the children."

The police have confirmed many times that Qiao Dongfu has indeed lost all his relatives and has no good friends. There is basically no possibility that anyone would harm these children in order to avenge him.

In addition, the New Year is approaching and the bureau is unable to spare any staff, so after confirming the safety of the children, the secret guards were withdrawn.

…

The bureau has already done this much, so Qin Ye naturally cannot propose again to transfer more personnel to continue protecting these children.

After she left the police station, she thought for a moment and called Qin Ze out from home: "Did you know how many children have won awards for bravery recently?"

“Yes.”

Qin Ze raised his eyebrows and said teasingly, "Sister, it seems that you are not as well-informed as I am. Those four children are very popular among the children now. One of them even ran to find Shuanzi and wanted to be Shuanzi's younger brother."

In the past, Qin Ze had always been the "little bully" in the county.

The adults were annoyed to see a group of little kids hanging out on the street, but many students in the county spoke of them with admiration on their faces.

Because Qin Ze never formed gangs to bully others, but would punish some scoundrels who bullied others from time to time.

Later, Qin Ze was busy running the tailor shop with Qin Guman, and the "little brothers" following behind Qin Ze were led by Shuanzi.

When Qin Ye heard what Qin Ze said, she had a rough idea in her mind, and instructed: "Then I have to trouble you for something. Ask Shuanzi and the others to look after these four children. Don't let them be alone. It's best if three or four people go together each time."

There are always police officers patrolling the streets. As long as a few children walk together, the possibility of the murderer finding an opportunity to strike will be much smaller.

Qin Ze made an OK gesture and patted his chest: "No big deal, I'll take care of it."

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Except for Bai Jie, who is about to be a senior in high school and is still attending classes at school, the other three children are on winter vacation. Every day, they either stay at home or run to the streets to play.

Now that Shuanzi and others have accepted them, a large group of people are almost inseparable, and it is difficult for the murderer to have a chance to strike.

Qin Ye arranged everything and began to ask Qin Ze to escort Bai Jie to and from school in secret every day. Every night, they would watch Bai Jie return home safely before going home.

For a week, everything went peacefully, and Bai Jie successfully survived the time of his previous life's murder without knowing anything about it.

Qin Ze had been on the lookout for a week and couldn't help but doubt his life: "Sister, are you sure your hunch is right? Is there really someone who wants to do something to these four people? I don't know who Bai Jie is, but the other three are really... "

To be honest, if Qin Ye wasn't worried about something happening to the three of them, he wouldn't even bother to have any contact with them.

He swears all the time and brags about his heroic deeds every day, which makes people's ears callused.

Qin Ye patted Qin Ze's shoulder and said, "Just bear with it for two more days. I have found some clues."

If the murderer is really as she expected, she must stop him before he makes a big mistake.

At this moment, Shuanzi hurried over from a distance: "Sister Qin Ye, it's bad, Huang Haozi has been kidnapped!"

Huang Haozi was the second of four children to be killed by the "water ghost".