After the beginning of autumn, the weather turns cooler.
It was around eight o'clock in the evening and it was completely dark.
The land temple at this time is usually dead silent.
But the land temple in Guojiadian is particularly lively today.
The lights were hung up early.
The villagers standing on the high slopes and roadbeds, surrounding the land temple, had lost their dissatisfaction on their faces and were replaced by astonishment after hearing Xu Xinyi's words.
yes!
If there really is a corpse hidden under the base of the land temple, then aren't they worshiping a ghost every time they come to worship?
Who can accept this?
And Xu Xinyi continued:
“It’s not just about worshipping ghosts.
As we have just said, we come to the land temple to worship the land god in order to pray for blessings, to guide the dead, etc.
But the innocent ghost on the pedestal can't even save himself, so how could she possibly bless you?
She herself died unjustly, so it's good enough that she didn't curse your relatives.
It's even more impossible to guide the dead, and dragging the souls of the dead to eternal rebirth is more like it."
When the villagers heard this, their expressions became even uglier.
Let’s not talk about the trouble caused by the wronged ghosts for now.
Just talk about spring plowing and autumn harvest, weddings and funerals, praying for blessings and warding off disasters, etc. When you sincerely worship the gods, what you worship is a ghost who died unjustly. No one can accept this!
The expressions of many villagers changed one after another.
Now, not to mention the police digging up the temple for inspection, they themselves want to quickly tear open the temple to see if there is anything fishy going on inside.
Seeing this, Xu Xin struck while the iron was hot:
"We are here not only to investigate the case, not only to find the mother of a young child.
I know that everyone has such concerns, so I am here to help you solve your problems.
Even if we get the body out of the pedestal, there's no way to deal with it.
If it is too mild, it may leave a bad memory and cause nightmares in the future.
In worse cases, you may even get sick.
How about we just let you guys handle it?"
I didn't expect that Sister Xu, who looks quiet and gentle, could actually be so good at fooling people!
Shen Ting listened to Xu Xinyi's persuasion with a look of surprise on his face.
Most of the villagers present, including the village head and the village party secretary, nodded silently, obviously convinced.
They don’t want to worship ghosts every year in the future!
However, some clever villagers raised questions:
"wrong!
Everything you said is based on a premise: there really is a corpse in the base of this land temple.
But how can you be sure that there must be a corpse inside?
What if not?
You have to give us an explanation, right?!"
This time, Xiong Beibei jumped out.
He grabbed the loud speaker from Xu Xinyi's hand and shouted directly:
"Okay, that's easy to say!
Did you see him?
He didn't even turn around, but clenched his four fingers into a fist and pointed his thumb back at Shen Ting:
"Did you see this kid?
He is our boss, and in the investigative community, he is known as the King of Corpse Search.
Simply put, he is a professional at searching for corpses.
It is no exaggeration to say that there are corpses wherever you point.
This has been proven in many vicious homicide cases.
This time, it was he who speculated that the body was in the land temple.
He is fully responsible for this matter!
If you dig up the land temple and find that there is really no corpse inside, you should look for him.
There's absolutely no problem in beating him up.
Even cutting it into ten or eight pieces is no problem at all.
Hehe, of course, I'm talking about unloading clothes. Unloading people is illegal.
Look, isn’t there a crooked willow tree at the entrance of the land temple?
If you really can't dig up the body, just strip him naked and hang him on that crooked tree. Do whatever you want to help the land god vent his anger.
As long as you don’t kill him, it’s fine!
After the fight, I guarantee he won't have any complaints.
Not only that, he even had to put on a smile and give you money to rebuild the land temple!"
Shen Ting was somewhat speechless after hearing this.
Even if the body couldn't be found, it wouldn't be hung on a tree, with the whole village taking turns beating it! ?
He felt that Xiong Beibei just wanted to see him get beaten.
However, Xiong Beibei's speech did make the villagers laugh.
In view of the good attitude of the investigators, the village chief and the village party secretary finally agreed to dig up the land temple for inspection after discussing with the villagers.
Xiong Beibei grabbed the hoe from a villager:
"Come, come, let me borrow your hoe."
However, excavation work does not require simply breaking open the land temple with brute force.
One is that it might damage the body below.
Furthermore, the cement layer is a very good material for preserving physical evidence.
Evidence such as hair, fingerprints, fibers, sand and soil can be preserved in it for a relatively long time.
If this is really the place where bodies were dumped, there might be evidence left behind.
Therefore, it is also important to know how to excavate in order to protect these possible evidences as much as possible.
Several trace investigators came forward with various instruments and checked repeatedly. After discussing for a while, they decided on the excavation plan.
They marked the land temple and had the police officers dig along the marks.
The hoe that Xiong Beibei and the villagers fought over is definitely unusable.
Only delicate tools such as small hammers and chisels can be used.
Amidst the sounds of "ping pong pong", the land temple above was quickly taken down.
This was also the result of the police officers' discussion, to try their best to keep the main body of the land temple intact.
Even if the body is not found in the end, the land temple is still there, preventing Team Leader Shen from being beaten into a pig's head.
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