Chapter 26 Chapter 26 Angry? Captain Ji made someone angry...
When Deng Xingwang learned that Qiu Jiang was coming, he was overjoyed and repeatedly asked her to bring him a bottle of floral water, otherwise he would have lost his life here today.
Qiu Jiang naturally promised that when she arrived she would bring him something that was particularly effective in relieving itching, even more effective than the floral water.
Although they had only known each other for over a month, Deng Xingwang believed that she would not lie, so before she even showed up, he began to look forward to her arrival. Especially after he had gone up the mountain twice more, his longing for Qiu Jiang had reached an unprecedented level.
We have to be thankful that although Kailu Town is not part of Anxi City and is even separated by a province, the distance between the two places is not too far. In fact, because of the close distance, there are many intermarriages and many people are related, so people often travel back and forth between the two places to visit relatives and friends, making transportation between the two places quite convenient.
After Qiu Jiang made up her mind to come here, she ran to a Chinese medicine clinic not far from the hospital to find her elder brother to see if there was any way to get there.
"There are buses and rideshares going there, but rideshares are not safe. If you want to go, you'd better take a bus."
Despite this, he was still a little worried. If his leg hadn't been crippled, he would definitely drive her there himself. Knowing that she was very anxious, Qiu Hengan directly borrowed the phone in the store and called someone. He quickly asked for the contact information of the bus. After confirming the time the bus would arrive nearby, he pushed her wheelchair and took her to the agreed location.
They were right when they said it would be quick. In just ten minutes, a blue bus arrived. She hurriedly got on the bus, sat down, opened the window, and told him to go back quickly.
"I understand." Qiu Hengan said this, but he still watched the bus leave for a long time before slowly heading back.
The bus wobbled as it drove towards Kailu Town. She got on the bus at around eleven in the morning, and it was already a little after two in the afternoon when she arrived.
Deng Xingwang was scratching his head while waiting in the car. After receiving another important call, he got out of the car with a look of despair on his face and rushed to the mountain.
The mountain wasn't very big, so after walking about two hundred meters, he saw his colleague searching with a police dog. Seeing him reappear, he jokingly said, "Going up the mountain again?"
"Don't mention it, I'm just a mosquito feeder."
Seeing his back with red spots all over his face, scratching left and right as he ran up the mountain like a monkey, was so miserable and funny.
But who wouldn't be miserable? They've been searching for almost a whole day. If they can't find the body, he wants to lie here.
Or just carry him away as if he were a corpse?
He swat away a few flies and mosquitoes buzzing around his ears, and then continued the carpet search with the police dog.
Just then, a question came from behind him.
"Excuse me, are you the Anxi City Criminal Police?"
"No." The man responded subconsciously, but then felt something was wrong. He immediately turned around and saw a pretty little girl with big watery eyes looking at him with a slightly disappointed look.
It was Qiu Jiang who got off the bus according to the address left by Deng Xingwang.
She had originally thought they were the police from Anxi City, but unexpectedly, they weren't. Undeterred, Qiu Jiang asked again, "Are they looking for Li Chengbin's body?"
"Li Chengbin?" Seeing the man's confused face, Qiu Jiang followed suit and changed his name.
"We're looking for Niu Yong's body. Who are you? How did you know?"
Qiu Jiang immediately gave him a very standard salute, "Hello, big brother, I'm Qiu Jiang, a criminal police officer from Anxi City, and I'm here to participate in the search."
Li Weimin confirmed with her several times before he was sure that she was not joking.
"I know Deng Xingwang, Wang Li, and our team leader Ji Mingcheng. They are all here."
After hearing her say these three names, Li Weimin finally believed her and shook hands with her enthusiastically. "Hello, I'm sorry for what happened earlier."
"It's okay, it's okay." Qiu Jiang waved his hands repeatedly, and then asked him where Deng Xingwang was now.
"You came at an unfortunate time. He just went up the mountain. If you follow this road, you might be able to catch up with him."
Qiu Jiang was immediately delighted. After thanking him again and again, she quickly ran up the mountain along the path he had mentioned.
As soon as she arrived, she discovered several colleagues. When someone asked her, she also learned about the situation. She found out that they were criminal police colleagues from Changhua City, and this time they were helping them find the body.
It’s no wonder that there are so many people on the mountain. Although the mountain is not big, it is difficult for the police from both sides to search the entire mountain quickly. It’s no wonder that Li Chengbin’s body has not been found so far.
"I'm afraid you'll have to wait a while if you want to find that tall guy. He has no idea where he's gone right now. It would be better to wait for him at the bottom of the mountain."
When Qiu Jiang heard this, she felt a little conflicted. After thinking it over again and again, she didn't want to waste any more time and joined the team searching the mountain.
She refused several colleagues who wanted to take her with her. After looking around carefully and making sure that there was no one around, she tapped her feet lightly and flew past as quickly as a butterfly in the rain. The wind from the mountain passed through her hair, as if wanting her to stay. Unfortunately, she was too fast, and even the wind could not catch up with her speed, and was soon left behind by her.
Qiu Jiang didn't pay attention to these things. Her whole mind was focused on the pain in her abdomen. Although she felt so much pain every time she saw a murdered corpse, she was now grateful for having this magical skill.
Her figure lightly touched the low bushes on the ground, and she deliberately moved past her colleagues who were still searching, specifically looking for areas that were difficult for ordinary people to set foot in.
At this moment on the mountain, Deng Xingwang finally found Ji Mingcheng and told him a great piece of news.
"Captain Ji, Captain Ji, the bureau has news. The DNA test results for Niu Yuling and Li Chengbin confirm that they are brother and sister. This means that Li Chengbin can be determined to be Niu Yong, who replaced Li Chengbin's identity. Based on this, we can overturn the mental health evaluation report from eight years ago, because the one with mental illness is not him, but Li Chengbin who returned home from working in Fengping City eight years ago."
His words were a bit confusing, but everyone present could fully understand what he meant. After hearing the news, they finally breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at Ji Mingcheng subtly.
After all, based on the current evidence, Niu Yong can be convicted. If Li Chengbin's body can be found, it will be icing on the cake. But if it cannot be found, it will not have any impact on the result. So is it necessary for them to continue searching endlessly in the mountains?
Putting aside whether it would cause a waste of police resources, it is not certain that this person was really thrown into the mountains by Niu Yong. What if he was just buried in a hole dug anywhere? It is hard to say.
Ji Mingcheng was turning a branch in his hand with a frown on his face, not looking very happy, but sometimes one has to admit that there are really not so many things that can be had in one go.
It was he who guessed that this might be the burial place of Niu Yong. No one said anything and accompanied him in searching for so long. If there was a result, everyone would be happy. But there has been no discovery so far. Can all the brothers continue to search endlessly?
Ji Mingcheng took out his walkie-talkie and said, "Everyone, everyone, stop searching the mountain and gather at the foot of the mountain immediately."
"yes--"
People kept answering on the intercom, and at the same time they began to rush down the mountain. About twenty minutes later, everyone had gathered in front of all the cars at the foot of the mountain.
Deng Xingwang was naturally among them. At this moment, he was comforting Wang Li, "Brother Wang, this can't be helped."
"I know, it's just..." Wang Li frowned, finding it difficult to explain his feelings at the moment.
"I know you're upset, but isn't Captain Ji upset too? If he had the chance, he would definitely want to continue searching and give Li Chengbin and Xie Youlian an explanation, but we either haven't looked or we can't find it."
Wang Li sighed deeply, "Xingwang, I understand."
"That's right. Besides, instead of searching the mountain here in uncertainty, we might as well go back and teach that bastard Niu Yong a lesson and make him confess as soon as possible."
That's all we can do.
Wang Li nodded, and after the team was organized, he prepared to get on the bus.
At this moment, a colleague from Changhua City suddenly stopped them and handed them a small transparent bag wrapped in white powder. If the person who handed it to him was not a policeman and it was not in public, Deng Xingwang almost thought that this was the stuff he found at the service station last time.
It's just scary.
"Xingwang, right? Your colleague over there asked me to pass this on to you. Her name...what was it?" The older man scratched his head several times but couldn't remember, so he just started describing her. "She's a thin, very pretty girl with sparkling eyes that seem to talk. She looks to be around twenty, and she's very likable."
"Qiu Jiang?"
The one who answered him was not Deng Xingwang, but Ji Mingcheng.
The older brother didn't expect it to be him, and quickly replied, "Yes, Captain Ji, it seems that's her name."
"Jiang Jiang is really here?" Deng Xingwang finally had time to speak. He immediately guessed what the powder was. He didn't care whether it really worked or not. He quickly opened it and tried it on his arm. He looked more anxious than if he saw his idol.
As he rubbed it, a cool feeling spread instantly, and the place that was itchy and frightening just now no longer felt anything. If it weren't for the big red bump that was particularly creepy, who would have believed that he had been bitten by vicious mosquitoes all day and was so itchy that he wanted to bang his head.
But where was she? Deng Xingwang looked around, but he saw only smelly men around him, with only two policewomen from Changhua City. He couldn't see her anywhere. Before he could ask, Ji Mingcheng spoke for him.
"Where is she?"
"She said she came to look for you, didn't you see her?" As soon as the eldest brother spoke, Ji Mingcheng and the others' faces suddenly looked a little bad.
"Is Jiang Jiang still alone in the mountain?" Deng Xingwang said with horror.
"Captain Ji, what happened?" asked Li Mingyuan, captain of the Changhua City Criminal Police Team.
"We have someone still on the mountain. Let's go up and look for him. Thank you for your hard work." Ji Mingcheng was the first to extend his hand, and Li Mingyuan immediately shook hands with him. "Of course, we are brothers. If you have anything to say, just ask. Do you need us to go find your person?"
"We can do it. You guys can withdraw first. Thank you very much."
The two of them pushed and refused several times, and Li Mingyuan agreed, "Okay, then we'll go first."
Ji Mingcheng nodded slightly and watched them get into the car. Then his men got ready to go up the mountain to look for people.
"Captain Ji, I'm going too." Deng Xingwang said anxiously, "Jiang Jiang came to bring me medicine, I want to go too."
"Yeah." Ji Mingcheng agreed and took the lead to look for someone.
Because they all carried walkie-talkies, they were not afraid of being separated from each other. Soon the group split into several groups and searched in different directions.
"Qiu Jiang——"
"Qiu Jiang——"
The whole mountain was filled with voices calling her, and these voices gradually spread in the mountain. Amid the shouts, Qiu Jiang, who was in a big pit, came back to her senses covered in cold sweat.
She touched her lower abdomen with trembling fingers. This time the pain was particularly severe, much worse than last time, even more painful than the first time. She couldn't help but wonder if the more desperate the deceased was before death, the more pain she would feel when she reacted.
She half-knelt on the ground, staring blankly at the dense dead branches around her, swallowing her saliva continuously to relieve the dehydration she felt after the pain in her lower abdomen.
At his feet were the bones that had been corroded for eight years. A shrub rose from the ground at the position of the chest of the bones. Its dense yellow branches just covered the bones underneath, as if giving this poor man the last bit of shelter.
After the pain in Qiu Jiang's lower abdomen gradually subsided, she slowly stood up with the help of the slope next to her. When she was completely standing up, her legs were still shaking like sieve chaff. In the end, she could not stand anymore and had to continue squatting.
When she heard the voice calling her, she thought she was hallucinating. Until she heard it twice more, Qiu Jiang stood up straight and responded in a hoarse voice, "I'm here."
Over there, Ji Mingcheng suddenly heard her voice and ran over here quickly, but still did not see anyone.
"Qiu Jiang——" he shouted again.
"Team Ji, I'm in the pit."
Ji Mingcheng glanced around and quickly locked onto the pit she mentioned. He stopped at the edge of the pit and looked down. Finally, he saw her next to a branch of a bush. She was half-crouching, her legs seemed to be shaking. He frowned and shouted at her, "Don't move. I'll be down right away."
Without waiting for her response, Qiu Jiang saw him quickly sliding down the soil at the edge of the pit. When he reached the bottom of the pit, he stood steadily and immediately came towards her.
Qiu Jiang was still half-squatting. When she saw him, her face was full of joy and she said, "Captain Ji, I found Li Chengbin's body. This proves that the man was not Li Chengbin. Our efforts were not in vain."
Her mind was filled with joy at the moment, and she couldn't wait to tell him the good news. Her eyes were full of stars, twinkling, showing her excitement without reservation.
"Are you stupid? How dare you act alone?——" Ji Mingcheng said fiercely with a gloomy face.
It was the first time Qiu Jiang saw him angry. She grabbed her clothes with both hands and was a little at a loss for what to do.
"Yes, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have acted alone." This was indeed her fault. She came to her senses and admitted her mistake honestly, but her little face was red and full of apology, and her eyes were aggrieved, and she looked like she was about to cry.
At this time, Deng Xingwang and others also rushed to the edge of the pit. When they saw the situation, they were also a little scared and did not dare to come down.
He unconsciously treated her as a tough boy. Seeing that she seemed frightened, Ji Mingcheng felt a little annoyed and apologized immediately, "I'm sorry, my tone was a bit fierce."
"I acted on my own, you are right." Qiu Jiang quickly shook his head.
Ji Mingcheng pursed his lips lightly, and said nothing else. He just looked down at her and asked, "What's wrong with your foot? Is it injured?"
"It's nothing, my legs are just shaking a little." Qiu Jiang said in a low voice.
He bent down to pull her. Qiu Jiang's body trembled, and she was pulled up by him without any resistance.
After pulling her up, Ji Mingcheng turned around and called out, "Two of you come down and take Qiu Jiang up."
"yes--"
Wang Li and Deng Xingwang were the first to come down. They took Qiu Jiang from him and carefully led her upstairs. When they were a little further away, Deng Xingwang quickly asked her, "Are you okay?"
Qiu Jiang shook her head.
Deng Xingwang scratched his ear and said to her, "It's not uncommon to be scolded by your superiors. When I first arrived, Captain Chen scolded me every day. It was a bit uncomfortable at first, but then I realized it was nothing serious. Don't take what happened just now to heart. Captain Ji was just too worried and worried that something might happen to you."
Qiu Jiang lowered her head and said "hmm" in a small voice, "I know."
Although she said she understood, she felt like the matter wasn't over yet. He continued to scratch his head, feeling very conflicted.
Wang Li winked at him and told him to speak less.
Deng Xingwang immediately fell silent.
After sending her to the hillside, he still couldn't help but say, "Jiang Jiang, what kind of luck do you have? Why are you so destined to be with pits?"
He did not forget what Wang Li told him. It was she who found the body of the missing member in the Chenlin City robbery case in the big pit, and she also caught another criminal in the robbery case from there.
As a result, the body was found in another pit this time. It was such a coincidence.
Qiu Jiang smiled bitterly, "What a coincidence."
Deng Xingwang: “…”
Wang Li didn't even look at him. He just said, "I'll go help first," and left.
"Why don't I... go down with them to see if the body is Li Chengbin." Deng Xingwang said hesitantly.
"It must be." Qiu Jiang raised his head and answered with certainty.
"Ah? Why?" Deng Xingwang didn't understand.
Qiu Jiang said without even a pause, "Did you see a single body on the entire mountain?"
"No." Deng Xingwang did not participate in the mountain search, but he had heard about it from other colleagues.
He said he found it very strange at the time. After all, this mountain was said to be a place where locals often dumped corpses, so how could there not be a single body there?
Later I realized that the families of the deceased might not have had a good relationship with the deceased, so they dumped the bodies on the mountain and made a small grave without even erecting a tombstone. But at least, whether it was out of a desire to prevent people from gossiping or because they couldn't get over the hurdle in their hearts, they buried the bodies properly. Naturally, it's impossible to come across a corpse here just by strolling around as imagined.
But we can't conclude that the body is Li Chengbin's just because we see a naked body exposed.
This reason couldn't convince him.
Qiu Jiang continued, "Because this body was thrown from above, and the fall must have broken his sternum and leg bones, that's why there are still obvious marks on the bones. In addition, there are also signs of hacking on his skull. Although I'm not sure whether they were inflicted before or after death, such horrific wounds are enough to kill someone. How could such scars be left on someone who died of natural causes?"
"Even if someone else in this town had killed someone, would they have to dump the body here? Aren't they afraid of being discovered and exposed? Besides, this town isn't very populated. Could it be that the feng shui is abnormal and can only breed so many murderers?"
"And even if this person isn't Li Chengbin, and the small probability guess just now really comes true, he was still murdered. We should find out the truth and seek justice for him."
She spoke eloquently, her eyes shining as she spoke, and she spoke in one breath without taking a breath. Her energetic look was very different from her listless and worrying appearance just now.
This is what she really looks like.
Deng Xingwang applauded her from the bottom of his heart and was stunned by her enumeration method. "Don't miss any possibility, Jiang Jiang, you've made it."
He couldn't help but applaud her.
Qiu Jiang's eyes couldn't help but brighten, and then she felt a little embarrassed, but she was still happy to be recognized. She curled her lips and was so energetic that she had to clench her fists to suppress her excitement.
This happiness came to an abrupt end when Deng Xingwang asked a question with some doubt.
"Didn't you just get here? How do you know the situation of the entire mountain?"
Oh no.
Qiu Jiang didn't know how to explain that she could perform Qinggong. She frowned slightly due to anxiety and lowered her head slightly, thinking about how to cover up this.
Deng Xingwang thought he had said something wrong again, and immediately apologized repeatedly as if frightened, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was just talking nonsense, Jiang Jiang, please don't take it to heart. If you really want to, just beat me up."
He looks pathetic.
Qiu Jiang blinked, completely unaware of where this was going, but when she raised her head she didn't know what to say, so she just kept her head down.
Deng Xingwang was like stepping on the tail. Seeing Wang Li coming out of the pit again and waving at him, he quickly said, "Jiang Jiang, Brother Wang is calling me. I'm going to go work first. You rest here first."
After saying that, he ran very fast and soon followed Wang Li far away.
call.
Only after he left did Qiu Jiang breathe a sigh of relief and slowly relax, even though she was confused by the direction of the conversation.
Fortunately, she no longer had to rack her brains to come up with an excuse. Qiu Jiang was now sitting under a tree, watching her colleagues busy collecting evidence and picking up bones. Her hands were still clenched, wishing the results would come out today so that Niu Yong could be executed immediately.
Patience, patience.
Qiu Jiang brainwashed herself repeatedly, telling herself not to be so anxious, but unfortunately, this brainwashing was obviously not very successful, so after handling the situation on the scene, she went down the mountain feeling a little excited and a little depressed.
"I don't care. The results must be out by Monday at the latest. If they are, I'll treat you to a meal. If not, just wait for me to expose all your embarrassing stories." Ji Mingcheng leaned on his cool jeep, giving urgent orders to the person on the other end of the phone with ease.
In the laboratory, Lu Jianian, who had just finished working on the DNA identification report for Niu Yong's siblings, suddenly burst into laughter while talking on the phone.
"Ji Mingcheng——"
"Don't call me, remember to make a report."
"I……"
Ji Mingcheng didn't care what he said and held the phone away. "Hello, what did you say? My signal is bad."
After saying this, he hung up the number neatly, and his skillful manner left Qiu Jiang, who was paying attention to him the whole time, stunned. But it didn't matter, as she liked the final result anyway, although she felt a little sorry for Forensic Doctor Lu.
Qiu Jiang still couldn't contain her joy. She happily made a "yeah" gesture and excitedly got into the car of her colleague from the Municipal Bureau who waved at her.
Is she still mad at him? She even refuses to ride in his car.
Ji Mingcheng glanced at the scene and touched his nose, looking a little annoyed.
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