Chapter 30 I Want Your Tongue (VI) Looking for Clues
Han Jianye patrolled around the deceased's home but failed to find any valuable clues, so he decided to return to look for Ye Bai.
When he returned to the original place, he found Ye Bai squatting under the eaves, concentrating on examining a square piece of soil in his hand.
"What are you looking at?" Han Jianye asked curiously.
Ye Bai was interrupted from his meditation by this sudden voice. He looked up at Han Jianye, with a glimmer of discovery in his eyes: "Here, I found a piece of red soil with a strange shape. It was pressed into a square shape."
Han Jianye observed the soil carefully and said thoughtfully: "The shape of the soil looks like it is fixed by the hollow grid design of the sole. The soil sank in during the stepping process and was then fixed into this square shape."
Ye Bai then added: "Captain Han, did you notice? No one lives in this house."
These words made Han Jianye's eyes instantly sharp.
He realized that he was standing facing Fan Linglong's home.
This old house was uninhabited. After the news of the case spread in the village, the villagers became panic-stricken and almost no one went out during the day.
Therefore, few people pass by here during the day, let alone leave mud here.
Han Jianye turned his head and looked at Ye Bai sharply: "Do you suspect that this is a clue left by the murderer?"
Ye Bai nodded solemnly, his tone firm: "I suspect the murderer was standing here last night. There are no street lights in this alley, and the murderer standing here alone would not attract anyone's attention at all. In addition, there was a thunderstorm last night. As long as the murderer pretended to be an acquaintance and knocked on the door, it would undoubtedly be the best time to commit the crime."
Han Jianye's eyes were fixed on the red soil. "This red soil may be the key to eliminating irrelevant clues and getting to the point. If the murderer is from these two villages, then he must have frequented places with red soil, or he may have this kind of soil in his home. This soil is undoubtedly one of the important clues for us to track down the murderer."
Ye Bai nodded in agreement, his eyes gleaming with recognition: "Indeed."
It was getting dark, and they also gathered in the car with Su Wan.
"It's so hot." Su Wan kept fanning himself with his notebook. They had been visiting the village for a long time but had not gained anything. "Do all the villagers go to bed so early? But it seems so. Who would go out when it rained heavily last night?"
Han Jianye said: "So don't you think that if you want to commit a crime in this kind of weather, the chances of success are very high?"
"That's right, otherwise we wouldn't have found no clues."
Han Jianye looked at Su Wan and said, "Not necessarily." Then he looked at Ye Bai and asked him to take out the red mud he had just found and show it to him.
Su Wan was slightly shocked, "Have you found any clues?"
Ye Bai nodded and told him his guess.
Su Wan looked at the red soil in the sealed bag and said, "If it was really left by the murderer, it would be terrifying if I think about it carefully."
Ye Bai carefully put away the sealed bag, and suddenly remembered that he had not taken any vitamin supplements today, so he took out the portable medicine box and naturally nudged Han Jianye with his elbow.
Han Jianye turned his head and his eyes fell on the vitamins in Ye Bai's hand. The two looked at each other tacitly. Without words, Han Jianye stretched out his palm and Ye Bai poured the vitamins into his palm.
Su Wan saw this scene and half-jokingly complained, "Xiao Bai, you are so mean. I want some candy too."
"Captain Su, this is vitamins, not sugar."
"What? Vitamins?" Su Wan was a little surprised. He turned to Han Jianye and said, "Captain Han, when did you start taking vitamins?"
Han Jianye chewed his vitamins and said calmly, "Why are you asking so many questions? If you want to eat it, go buy it yourself."
Su Wan's eyes wandered between the two of them, and he snorted, pretending to be jealous, "The friendship between the three is really crowded."
When Ye Bai heard this, a hint of embarrassment appeared on his face.
Han Jianye raised his eyebrows and looked directly at Su Wan, "What are you talking about?"
"nothing."
I just feel a little disappointed.
snort! I only see the new people laughing, but don't hear the old people crying.
Ye Bai looked at Su Wan and said, "I still have some. I'll give you a bottle later."
Su Wan immediately smiled and said, "You see, Xiaobai is still caring."
Han Jianye snorted, turned his head and glanced at Ye Bai, his eyes sank slightly, and then the corners of his mouth gradually rose.
When they returned to the police station, before they had time to eat dinner, they heard Liao Wei say that the motorcyclist had been found.
The motorcycle driver who was questioned explained: "Yes, yes, yes, I took her to Wuliu Village that night, but I didn't enter the village."
Han Jianye asked doubtfully: "What do you mean? Please explain clearly."
"Here's what happened. She originally said we were going to the entrance of Wuliu Village, but she didn't say we were going to enter the village. So I had to pay extra to enter the village, so I asked her to give me three yuan. But she insisted that I was playing word games and raising the price halfway. She also kept scolding me, saying that I was greedy for money. I think this was related to the fact that we didn't communicate in advance. I asked her to give me three yuan but she wouldn't give in. In the end, we..."
The motorbike driver paused and thought for a moment. "It seemed like she got off outside a building. She only gave me 10 yuan and said she would walk in. Then I left. Anyway, I have never seen such a person. She deliberately said she would get off at the village entrance. Her purpose was to make me take her into the village for free. In the end, she turned the tables and accused me of raising the price unreasonably."
Han Jianye looked at the driver and found that he was dark and thin. He didn't look like he was lying, so he asked him: "Did you see anyone there when you got off the bus?"
The driver thought about it carefully and said, "When I turned back, I saw some people walking on the road. I guess they were out for a walk because it was hot. I didn't notice anything else."
Han Jianye immediately asked: "Did you see what that person looked like? Was it a man or a woman?"
The driver was startled by Han Jianye's questioning. "Short...short hair, quite tall. I didn't see his face clearly, so he should be a man."
After the driver left, Han Jianye asked someone to follow him privately, and then prepared to start the meeting.
Han Jianye took out a sealed bag of red soil and proposed a direct and effective plan: "We should narrow the scope of the investigation and focus on Wuliu Village and Luoyang Village, looking for any families with this red soil or places where red soil appears frequently. The action should be low-key and not attract the attention of the villagers. Just collect soil samples and record them, and then bring them back for detailed screening."
Facing Su Wan's question: "Captain Han, what if this mud was not left by the murderer?"
Han Jianye responded: "Your question makes sense. Ye Bai and I have both thought about this. But I think it is quite likely that this mud is a clue left by the murderer. In any case, the case is imminent, and we must seize every possible clue, even if it is a dead horse, and never miss any details."