Chapter 64 Chapter 64 The Midwife's Ability

Chapter 64

The bags filled with corpses in Li Quan and Qian Yaguang's hands emitted a foul odor. In less than two minutes, the stench filled the entire corridor.

Even Qin Ye couldn't stand the smell, so he pinched his nose and opened the windows on both sides of the corridor.

By the time she opened all the windows and walked into the forensic room, all the members of the criminal investigation team had gathered. Including her, there are six people in total. Except for Liang Dong, the rest of the team members are her old acquaintances.

Seeing her come in, Liang Dong looked her up and down, curled his lips, and looked full of disdain.

Then, he looked at Wen Tingting, who was retching with her back against the wall, and deliberately said, "College students are so hypocritical. They can't even stand the stench of a corpse."

Wen Tingting's eyes were still red, and she forced herself to raise her head, but her peripheral vision accidentally caught a glimpse of the mixed bones on the autopsy table, and she bent over and retched again.

Qin Ye could see that Liang Dong was actually pointing at her.

She ignored the other party's rumors, walked forward, took a glass of water and handed it to Wen Tingting to rinse her mouth, and opened the windows of the forensic room one by one, and then said: "Let me introduce myself, I am Qin Ye, let's not talk nonsense for now, let's deal with this case together."

Liang Dong originally thought that Qin Ye would take the opportunity to show off her power, and he had already thought of ways to embarrass her.

Unexpectedly, Qin Ye went straight to the point without saying a word.

He knew very well that if he didn't give Qin Ye a warning now, it would be difficult to give her a warning later.

After thinking for a moment, he opened his mouth to retort, but someone suddenly hit him in the lower back with an elbow.

He raised his head in pain and met Qian Yaguang's warning eyes, and finally shut his mouth.

…

The nineteen skeletons were placed one by one on the autopsy table.

Each skeleton was thin and small. Among the eighteen dry skeletons, six silver needles as thick as cow hair and as long as a finger were inserted in the skull and wrist bones.

The only thing that was not pierced with a silver needle was the baby's skeleton with the midwife's gold ring on its hand.

Qin Ye looked at the silver needles on the dry bones that were shining with a terrifying cold light, and his heart couldn't help but tremble. She simply couldn't imagine what kind of torture these children had suffered when they were alive.

What kind of person could be so cruel as to torture these children to death and then dump their bodies into a dry well?

"Tell me, what do you think?"

Qin Ye withdrew his gaze from the autopsy table and first landed on Li Quan and Qian Yaguang. "Starting with the two comrades who went to the scene, everyone can express their opinions in turn."

Qian Yaguang knew that Liang Dong was dissatisfied with Qin Ye's sudden appearance, so in order to establish her reputation, he immediately said: "I guess the corpse in the dry well is related to the midwife's case. Otherwise, how could the midwife's gold ring appear on the hand of the baby's dry bones for no reason?"

"I just can't understand why 19 children were killed and no relatives came forward to report the case?"

Li Quan has been serving as the chief of the police station in Wuning County for the past four years. It can be said that he has handled cases of all sizes.

In the past four years, he has never received a single report of a missing child, and even in the nearby county, there has never been a similar case.

This is totally against human nature.

Murong stared at the silver needles on the corpses for a long time and expressed his opinion: "Could the murderer be holding some kind of ritual? Why are the positions, numbers, and shapes of the silver needles on the 18 corpses exactly the same?"

After the three of them finished speaking, it was Liang Dong's turn.

“Oh, I don’t have any opinion.

When Liang Dong saw Qin Ye looking at him, he turned his head away calmly, but he secretly despised her in his heart. He thought that she must be unable to see anything, so she thought of asking other people's opinions.

Next it was Wen Tingting's turn.

Wen Tingting looked at Qin Ye, then at the other people, but she still didn't dare to look directly at the dry bones on the autopsy table. She hung her head and said in a voice as low as a mosquito: "I...I didn't find any clues."

Since she was assigned to the First Brigade of the Provincial Bureau after graduation, she has been a bench operator.

Later, when Qian Yaguang was in charge of the First Brigade, she had the opportunity to go to the scene. However, because she had never had any criminal investigation experience, she was only responsible for calming the emotions of the crowd and the victims' families at the outermost part each time.

So even though five years have passed, she is still a rookie criminal investigator who feels sick at the sight of a dead body.

…

Qin Ye saw through Wen Tingting's problem at a glance, and he had an idea in his mind. He patted Wen Tingting on the shoulder to comfort her, but did not force her to say anything.

"Next, we will split into two groups. Brother Guang, please take Liang Dong and Li Quan and check the nearby villages with the dry well as the center to see if we can find the suspect who dumped the body in the dry well."

After Qin Ye finished speaking to Qian Yaguang, he spoke again, "Murong, Tingting, I have re-investigated the midwife's case. The midwife's death must be related to the baby's dry bones."

She didn't let Qian Yaguang take over the midwife dismemberment case again.

On the one hand, it was because Qian Yaguang had already checked the case before and his thinking was fixed, making it difficult for him to find new clues.

On the other hand, this time, she did not plan to go in as a public security officer to investigate the midwife's case. It would definitely not be as convenient for Qian Yaguang to investigate the midwife's case as it was for her, Wen Tingting, and Murong.

Qian Yaguang naturally agreed, waved to Li Quan and Liang Dong, and hurried away with them.

Soon, Qin Ye and the other three were the only ones left in the forensic room.

Almost an hour had passed since Qin Ye came to the forensic room, but she still hadn't seen the forensic doctor. She couldn't help but wonder, "Who is our team's forensic doctor? Why isn't he here?"

…

"Captain Qin, what do you want me for?"

A lazy male voice sounded from behind.

Qin Ye turned around following the sound and met Yu Cheng's handsome face which had suddenly enlarged. He was leaning loosely against the wall, wearing the most popular jacket of the time.

If you could ignore his hands that were wrapped like pig's trotters, he could still be called a handsome guy.

Qin Ye's attention was completely attracted by his injured hands: "What's wrong with your hands?"

Yu Cheng smiled awkwardly and touched his nose: "I accidentally got hurt when I was fighting with the fierce bandits a few days ago."

Qin Ye: "Vicious bandits?"

She looked at Yu Cheng with a little more admiration in her eyes.

"Sister, he lied to you."

Qin Ze's voice came faintly from the corridor, "Forensic Doctor Yu sneaked out to cut the hair of the police dog in the bureau in the middle of the night, and both his hands were bitten by the police dog. It was only when Brother Hu Xuan and I used two chicken legs to call the police dog back."

Yu Cheng: “…”

Qin Ye: “…”

She was silent for a moment, pretending not to notice that Yu Cheng's face was red all the way to his neck, and went straight to the point of business: "I'll have to trouble you, the Forensic Department, for these 19 dead bones. I need to know the specific cause of death, time of death, and age of these deceased. Especially this one——"

She pointed to the baby's skeleton, which was wearing the midwife's gold ring.

…

Qin Ye took Wen Tingting and Murong to Yaoxia Village.

She and Li Quan had handled a case in Yaoxia Village a few years ago, which was another reason why she didn't come this time while Li Quan did. Compared to Li Quan, who was born and raised locally, few people knew Wen Tingting and Murong, so they could move more conveniently.

Before leaving, Qin Ye disguised himself and Wen Tingting.

She changed into Qin's mother Sun Jinfeng's old clothes, and evenly smeared her face black with stove ash, dressing like a proper country girl.

Wen Tingting tied her hair up and tied a fake bulging belly on her abdomen, pretending to be a pregnant woman in her eighth month.

"Captain Qin, I... I'm really afraid of messing up the performance... How about, how about we switch?"

Along the way, Wen Tingting was always trembling with fear, holding Qin Ye's sleeve and not daring to let go, "What if our mission fails because of me? Let's switch positions."

She has always been a drag on the criminal investigation team.

Liang Dong was right to mock her.

From the first time she met Qin Ye, she thought that if she was a female police officer as capable as Qin Ye, she would definitely not be looked down upon in the bureau.

But after several years, she still hasn't made any progress. Qin Ye, on the other hand, has transformed himself into the captain of her criminal investigation team.

Qin Ye could see that Wen Tingting was timid, but she knew that if Wen Tingting could not take this step, then she would always be a mascot on the bench in the criminal investigation team.

And her team doesn't need a mascot.

She only needs an excellent police officer who can solve the case on his own.

"We are just trying to get the opinions of the people in Yaoxia Village. It would be great if we can get something. If not, we can start from other places."

Qin Ye looked at Wen Tingting and said seriously, "We now have enough trial and error costs, and you need such practice opportunities. I will not let you be a marginal person handling miscellaneous matters in the criminal investigation team. If you can accept it, then stay. If not, I can apply to the higher-ups to help you transfer out of the criminal investigation team."

As soon as she finished speaking, Wen Tingting immediately responded: "No! I, I can do it..."

Wen Tingting dreams of becoming a real criminal investigation police officer like everyone else.

She understood that Qin Ye was giving her a chance, she was just worried about betraying Qin Ye's trust...

Thinking of this, Wen Tingting let out a long breath and kept cheering herself up in her heart, hoping that she could complete this task successfully.

…

Murong quickly parked the car at the entrance of Yaoxia Village.

This car belonged to Murong. It did not have the Public Security Bureau logo, but the imposing jeep quickly attracted a crowd of villagers.

Murong jumped out of the car first, took out the cheap cigarettes he had just bought at the supply and marketing cooperative from his jacket pocket, looked around at the villagers, picked out two men in clean clothes and handed them the cigarettes.

Then, he walked to the back seat, opened the door, and helped the "pregnant woman" Wen Tingting out of the car.

Qin Ye followed closely behind, pretending to be their nanny.

"Uncle, my wife and I came here from the provincial capital on purpose. We heard that there is a midwife named Zhang in your village, and we want to ask her to go to the provincial capital to deliver my wife's baby."

Murong smiled and told the villagers the lines he and Qin Ye had discussed on the way.

As soon as he said this, the noisy villagers immediately quieted down and looked at each other: "Little brother, are you looking for Mrs. Zhang? She has been dead for two years. But..."

The man who had just taken Murong's cigarette pointed to the house behind him and said, "That's the home of Mrs. Zhang's son. His wife is now the new midwife in our village. But... compared to Mrs. Zhang, she's not as good as she is. She can't tell whether the baby in her belly is a boy or a girl."

Hearing this, Qin Ye's eyebrows jumped.

Can Mrs. Zhang tell whether the baby in her belly is a boy or a girl? This doesn't seem to be written in the case file.