The new home is not as lively as the dormitory, but Xie Qing has long been accustomed to such a quiet life.

The home belongs to her alone, so she can act wildly, no longer needing to be cautious, and can even howl a few times.

She gets up at 5:30 and runs two laps on the beach. After returning, she takes a shower, gets dressed, and drives to work.

There is a cafeteria for meals.

Xie Qing eats a bowl of wontons and two buns, and starts the day's work in high spirits.

She entered the office and just picked up the rag when Li Ji came.

He said with a happy face: "Qingqing, my dad and I have made the oven. We can try the effect after it is done."

In order to reduce costs, Xie Qing taught Li Ji how to make a clay oven that can be put on a cart.

Xie Qing pulled the rag out of the basin and said, "That's great. Let Uncle Li make it a few more times so that he can master the heat and ingredients. It will be easier to make mistakes when he is proficient."

Li Ji said, "Don't worry. My dad will..."

"Qingqing, you passed." Li Ke also came. "There was an accident at the gate."

Li Ji stopped talking. "What happened?"

Li Ke said, "An elderly couple in their fifties or sixties were kneeling beside the gate, saying that their daughter was not missing, and must have been killed by their son-in-law. There was a large piece of cardboard hanging around the old man's neck, with "My daughter died unjustly, Liu Dachun killed someone to pay for her life" written in black pen."

Xie Qing began to wipe the table. "Which leader went to deal with it?"

Li Ke said, "The leaders haven't come to work yet. Should we go and take a look?"

Li Ji thought for a while. "In theory, it's the job of our second brigade. It's okay to take a look, but it's better to persuade them to report the case to the police station in charge."

"Okay, I'll go right away." Li Ke turned and left.

Li Ji chased after him, "I'll go with you."

Xie Qing thought about it and finally didn't follow him - she was a forensic doctor, and it was not her job to answer calls.

She wiped the three desks, swept the floor, and returned to her workstation to sort out the previous reports.

At ten minutes before eight, Cao Haisheng came and said as soon as he entered the door: "Xie, the second brigade has received a case, and they want us forensic doctors to go with them. You can go and take a look."

Xie Qing asked: "Are they the old couple at the door who are complaining?"

Cao Haisheng put down his schoolbag and said, "I heard that it is."

Xie Qing was a little puzzled: "Isn't she missing? We forensic doctors have no control over it."

Cao Haisheng said: "I heard that scattered bones were found. The old couple thought it was their daughter's, so they came to complain again."

"Again?" Xie Qing repeated a key word, "Have they been to our station before?"

Cao Haisheng picked up the hot water kettle, "Their daughter has been missing for four years, and the local police station has investigated many times but couldn't find her, so they came to our station once last spring, but there was no scene, no witnesses, no physical evidence, only the old couple's suspicion of their son-in-law, and there was no way to investigate, so Captain Huang sent them back."

Xie Qing put on his backpack and took out the investigation box, "Okay, Master, I'm going."

Cao Haisheng said, "Your master's wife asked me to tell you that crispy pork belly is especially delicious. I want to thank you."

Xie Qing smiled and said, "That's great. Whenever I make it in the future, I will bring you a piece."

"You kid, the master wants to compliment you, not to eat." Cao Haisheng waved his hand, "Wuling Mountain you are going to is not a scenic spot. The mountain road is not easy to walk on. Be careful on the road."

Wuling Mountain is between Wuling County and Anhai, under the jurisdiction of Wuling County. It is a famous mountain climbing and punching place - Xie Chen and his classmates like to climb this mountain.

Wuling County is one of the three counties under the jurisdiction of Anhai, located in the southwest of Anhai County.

Xie Qing paused, "I'm afraid they are going to requisition my car."

"Haha~" Cao Haisheng laughed, "It's still very possible."

Xie Qing said, "Isn't the bureau considering equipping us with another off-road vehicle?"

Cao Haisheng said seriously, "I'll call the director later."

Xie Qing laughed, "Thank you, Master, I'm leaving."

As soon as he went downstairs, he bumped into Fu Da, Liu Feng and his apprentice, and Deng Wenxiang who had just rushed out of the office.

Fu Da said embarrassedly, "Xiao Xie, Captain Tan said that the jeep was used by the first team, so let us drive your car there."

Xie Qing said, "I'm ready, let's go."

Fu Da let out a breath and said to Liu Feng, "Our Xiao Xie is really useful."

Liu Feng said, "Although my apprentice is also very good, he doesn't have a car, so I agree with your point of view, Team Leader Fu."

Fu Da smiled and punched him on the shoulder, and said to Li Ke, "Yes, that's what I mean, why don't you buy one, Xiao Li?"

Li Ke took Xie Qing's arm and replied with a smile, "Team Leader, should I buy it so that the bureau can use it for free?"

Fu Da pointed at her with his index finger, "Xiao Li, you saw through me."

...

When going downstairs, Xie Qing received a call from Tan Yi.

"Xiao Xie, I'm sorry, we have to requisition your car again."

"It's okay, Captain Tan, just reimburse the gas money."

"Of course, thank you."

"Captain Tan, you're welcome."

The call was hung up.

Li Ke asked, "Captain Tan, he asked for leave to go to Donggang Town, let's go to Wuling Mountain first to see if it's a case."

"No wonder." Xie Qing took out the mobile phone again and called Xie Chen.

Xie Chen quickly picked up the phone.

"Qingqing?"

"Brother, where are you?"

"I'm on my way to Donggang Town. The people from the Tan family and the Chai family are here, and Captain Tan will be here soon."

"I guessed it, don't be nervous, brother. Whether this succeeds or not, the land is ours, and it will appreciate in value in the future. It will be much more profitable than putting money in the bank. You have to treat it with a normal mind."

"Okay, you're right."

"Our plan is forward-looking, and I'm very confident. If they think it's not suitable, it means they have a problem with their vision. People with different ideas cannot work together, so there's no need to force it."

"Haha, my sister is still domineering. After hearing what you said, I am not nervous at all."

"It's good that you are not nervous. Come on, big brother."

...

Xie Qing hung up the phone and went to the car. She gave the key to Fu Da, and she, Li Ke, and Deng Wenxiang sat in the back seat.

The road from Anhai to Wuling County is flat, but the road from Wuling County to the crime scene is hard to describe.

The mountain is steep, the road is dangerous, and there are many bumps.

After getting off the car, Li Ke covered his chest and stood there for a long time before he returned to normal.

Xie Qing's condition was not as serious as hers, but she was not feeling well either.

Deng Wenxiang was the worst. He vomited as soon as he got off the car.

Fu Da was about to express his condolences when an elderly man in his fifties or sixties ran out of the village entrance, followed by two middle-aged people, a man and a woman.

The man asked hesitantly, "Are you police officers from the municipal bureau?"

Fu Da said, "Yes, I heard that you found a corpse here, so we came to take a look. You must be Village Chief Wang, right?"

"Yes, yes, I am. We talked on the phone before." Secretary Wang gestured to the village, "Come with me, the corpse is in front of the small temple."

Fu Da said, "Okay, you lead the way."

The five people followed Village Chief Wang into the village, walked two or three hundred meters, turned a right angle, and walked another hundred meters to the core area of ​​the village.

A large group of people had already gathered here.

Before they arrived, they heard someone shouting, "The police are here."

People made way for them, and their eyes shot over, most of which fell on Xie Qing and Li Ke's faces.

"Are there any women?"

"They are quite young, about 20?"

"People in the city look young, it's hard to say."

...

Amidst these discussions, the five people stood beside a short reed mat - a piece of white flowered flag cloth was covered on the mat, about one meter square, with only a little undulation in the middle.

Xie Qing took out a pair of gloves from her pocket and put them on, squatted down, and lifted the cloth: there were two bones on the mat, one was a skull and the other was a femur.

The two bones were yellowed, and there was no soft tissue left on them. The cartilage on the femur head was also gone, and there were some signs of weathering.

There was a big hole in the occipital part of the skull, and there was no mandible. There was no sign of injury at the fracture site. It was more like it was kicked and broken by a small animal after it became a skeleton.

Xie Qing picked up the skull and carefully studied the upper teeth. Most of the upper teeth had fallen out, only one had signs of collapse, and the others seemed to have fallen out naturally.

Fu Da asked, "How is it? Can you see anything?"

Xie Qing put down the skull, picked up the femur, and measured the neck-body angle with a protractor, which was about 132°.

She said, "This is a partial skeleton of an elderly male, including the skull and femur."

Village Chief Wang was very curious, "How did you tell?"

"The skull is larger and heavier than a woman's." Xie Qing gestured on the bone surface, "It's uneven here, the skull wall is thicker, the forehead scales are larger, and the frontal tubercle is not obvious..."

"Tsk tsk tsk tsk..." Village Chief Wang was shocked, "This young lady is not very old, but she is very brave and speaks very well."

Xie Qing ignored this and said to Fu Da, "Brother Fu, I think this is the remains of an elderly male who died of natural causes, at least ten years ago."

Fu Da understood and asked Village Chief Wang, "Where did you pick these two bones? Is it someone's grave that has never been maintained, resulting in wild animals dragging the bones out?"

"Oh, this bone was picked up from the ditch in the back mountain." Village Chief Wang thought for a while, "Don't tell me it's the old Eighth Master. He died more than ten years ago. When he was alive, he liked a quiet life, so he was buried in the back mountain. He had only one daughter, who married and moved away. She only came back once when she died, and she never came back since then."

Fu Da said, "Village Chief Wang, find someone to take us there."

Village Chief Wang was old and his legs were not very good, so he asked the middle-aged man who followed them to accompany them.

The mountain road was not difficult to walk, and it was not far from the village. It took more than 20 minutes to go around the foot of the mountain and then go up the mountain.

The area behind the mountain is relatively desolate, with rocks and little soil.

Only the soil at the cemetery is thicker, but the desertification is also more serious.

The middle-aged man introduced: "There are many mountains here, and our relatives are usually buried on the land. The old eighth master has little land, and he can't bury people on the land, so he buried it here."

Everyone climbed up to the front and was dumbfounded - the place where the grave should be had been flattened, and a big hole was dug in the bottom of the coffin by wild animals, and several bones were scattered around the hole.

There were traces of water erosion around it, and the skull and femur might have been washed down by the heavy rain.

The middle-aged man was shocked, "Sister Erhua is too outrageous. She is a child, but she didn't even go to the grave once. No wonder she is poor and can't make a living."

Fu Da said, "The case is solved. Let's go back."

Xie Qing walked to the big hole, stared at a pelvis below and said, "Brother Fu, there is also a female corpse here."