Chapter 34 I Want Your Tongue (X) Catch the Murderer
Ye Bai turned around and stepped into the scrap yard again alone.
He noticed that the man on the bike had his back to them after entering the scrapyard, and then mysteriously entered the room, which was an extremely strange behavior.
He asked Shi Baoyang about the man's identity, and Shi Baoyang confirmed: "Yes, that's my father."
Ye Bai smiled and responded: "You two do look a bit alike."
Shi Baoyang smiled and nodded, indicating that everyone said so.
Ye Bai thought of the electric bike again. Because the handlebar gloves covered his hands, he couldn't see the man's hands, so he asked tentatively: "I didn't expect your father also had six fingers."
Shi Baoyang smiled and replied, "Yes, I heard that this is hereditary. My grandfather also had an extra thumb next to his thumb. It can actually be removed through surgery, but my dad said there's no need to waste money. It's just one extra thumb. It's not a big deal."
When Ye Bai heard this, although his heart was in turmoil, he remained calm. He walked out of the scrap station without changing his expression and came to Han Jianye's side.
Han Jianye just hung up the phone and turned around to see Ye Bai with a serious expression on his face. He immediately realized that the situation had changed and asked in a low voice: "What's going on?"
Ye Bai leaned close to Han Jianye's ear and told him in detail what had just happened.
Han Jianye's eyes sank slightly, and he asked seriously, "Are you sure?"
Ye Bai nodded seriously, "OK."
After hearing this, Han Jianye immediately picked up his phone and called Su Wan directly, asking them to come to the scrap yard immediately.
Shi Baoyang originally thought that they had left, but he was surprised when a group of police suddenly arrived.
Han Jianye asked Shi Baoyang to ask his father Shi Mikun to open the door, claiming that he had something urgent to ask.
However, there was no response from inside the door and no one answered the phone. Shi Baoyang felt that his father's behavior was abnormal and was full of doubts.
He kept knocking on the door, but the person inside never responded.
Han Jianye was worried that Shi Mikun might commit self-harm in the house. As the situation was urgent, he immediately led his men to break into the house.
Just as he expected, Shi Mikun was holding a knife, ready to hurt him.
Han Jianye reacted quickly, grabbed the water cup on the table, and threw it at Shi Mikun's hand at an astonishing speed, and the knife fell to the ground.
Seeing this, Ye Bai quickly stepped forward and picked up the fallen knife, avoiding further danger.
Shi Baoyang stood aside, his face pale and terrified, as if he was a headless fly, at a loss as to what to do.
His voice was trembling as he kept repeating the same words: "Why did you arrest my dad? Why did you arrest my dad?"
Han Jianye's face was grim, and he replied coldly: "Your father is now suspected of being involved in two murders of women and is an important suspect in the case."
After hearing the news, Shi Baoyang stood there stiffly, as if he was frozen.
Of course he had heard about the two murders of women in the village; it was a major event that the whole village was talking about.
He looked at his father's lowered head, his eyes full of disbelief.
He muttered to himself, "My father doesn't even dare to kill a chicken. He has never been violent with me or my mother, and he loves his grandson very much. How could he kill someone? You must have made a mistake."
"We will naturally investigate whether there is any mistake or not. We will never wrongly accuse a good person, nor will we let a bad person go." Han Jianye responded firmly, and then took Shi Mikun into the car.
Shi Baoyang looked at his father's silent back, his heart filled with shock and disbelief. He shook his head and took a step back.
Watching his father being taken away, his tears couldn't help but flow down.
Mother Li Jiaohua held Shi Kangkang in her arms and cried bitterly.
At the same time, Ye Bai, Qi Xiaolei and others stayed at the scene and continued to look for possible physical evidence.
Ye Bai accidentally found a pair of worn-out high rain boots outside Shi Mikun's bedroom. He carefully examined the boots and noticed that the grid on the sole was full of solidified mud and stones.
He thought to himself that if Shi Mikun was the murderer, then there must be blood stains on the raincoat and rain boots he wore on rainy days. As long as these were taken back to the laboratory for testing, the truth would be revealed.
At the same time, Qi Xiaolei walked into the kitchen and was immediately surrounded by a strong smell of Chinese medicine. She frowned involuntarily but did not stop looking for the murder weapon.
After Shi Mikun was brought back to the police station, he showed extraordinary cooperation during the interrogation.
He is 60 years old, 173 cm tall, wears size 41 shoes, and looks very strong.
Han Jianye noticed that there was an extra deformed finger on his right thumb, and he used his left hand to commit self-harm just now, which was consistent with their speculation about the suspect.
"Why did you kill Guo Yingping and Fan Linglong? What was your motive for murder?" Han Jianye asked directly.
Shi Mikun sighed, with a hint of helplessness in his tone, "Do you have cigarettes?"
"Yes." Han Jianye handed him a cigarette and lit it for him.
Shi Mikun took a deep puff of cigarette and then slowly exhaled the smoke, his face looking extremely heavy. "My grandson is so pitiful. His mother abandoned him when he was only 10 days old. Now he is four years old and still can't speak. The doctor ruled out autism and hearing impairment. After a series of examinations, he was diagnosed with central nervous system developmental delay, which led to speech development disorder and requires medication and rehabilitation training."
Han Jianye was confused, "What is the connection between your murder and your grandson's illness?"
Shi Mikun suddenly became a little agitated. "It's no use. We followed the doctor's advice, took medicine, did rehabilitation training, and spent a lot of money, but my grandson still can't speak."
"Then why did you kill them?" Han Jianye asked.
Shi Mikun's voice was low and trembling. "I once read a book that mentioned that like cures like, and that you can use the internal organs or body parts of animals as medicine to treat diseases. Later, I thought of the tongue, but animals can't speak after all..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Han Jianye and everyone inside and outside the interrogation room immediately understood the meaning of his words.
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Ye Bai accidentally found a grass-green raincoat in the dim corner. His sharp eyes swept over every inch of the raincoat and noticed the faint black and red bloodstains between the cuffs.
After some inquiries, he learned that this raincoat was exactly the one Shi Mikun often wore on rainy days.
Just as he was lost in thought, the phone suddenly rang. It was Han Jianye calling.
On the other end of the phone, Han Jianye's voice was urgent and clear: "Shi Mikun has confessed everything. The murder weapons used to strangle the two victims were a straw rope and a bone-chopping knife.
The straw rope was hidden in the pocket of the grass-green raincoat he often wore, and the boning knife should be in the kitchen.
Go and look for it quickly. By the way, don’t forget to check if there are any medicine residues in the kitchen trash can. ”
Ye Bai frowned and asked in confusion: "What are you looking for medicinal residue for?"
"See if there is a tongue inside." Han Jianye's voice was a little gloomy.
"Tongue?" Ye Bai's voice revealed surprise.
"That's right, it's the tongue - Fan Linglong's tongue." Han Jianye explained.
"I understand. I'll check it out right away." Ye Bai hung up the phone and took quick action.
He stood next to the raincoat, groped carefully in his pocket, and finally found a straw rope more than one meter long in the inner pocket of the raincoat.
At the same time, Qi Xiaolei also found the boning knife in the kitchen.
Ye Bai walked into the kitchen filled with the strong smell of Chinese medicine, and searched around for the trash can with a sharp gaze.
Finally, in the dark corner of the kitchen, he found the trash can full of garbage.
He carefully dumped the garbage in the trash can onto a flat cloth and began to search carefully for the possible tongue among the pile of drug residues.
However, after searching for a while, he did not find any trace of a tongue.
Confused, Ye Bai found Li Jiaohua and asked anxiously, "Where is the tongue in the medicine residue?"
Li Jiaohua's eyes were filled with tears and her voice was trembling as she answered, "Tongue? You mean the pig's tongue? I froze it in the refrigerator, thinking I could use it next time and I wouldn't have to buy it again."
Ye Bai asked: "Did you just say pig tongue?"
Li Jiaohua nodded and explained, "Yes, my husband went to the market to buy pig tongues as a medicine guide and boiled them for my grandson to drink. He said that after drinking it, my grandson would be able to speak."
Hearing this, Ye Bai felt a chill and immediately asked Li Jiaohua to take out her tongue.
The tongue taken out of the refrigerator was soft, rotten and black, and was obviously no longer suitable for consumption.
The moment Ye Bai couldn't find the tongue, he was really worried that because of their ignorance and stupidity, they would cut off the tongue and feed it to their grandson.
He couldn't help but wonder, how could she not tell the difference between a pig's tongue and a human tongue?
But fortunately, the physical evidence they were looking for was eventually found.
According to Shi Mikun's confession, his grandson Shi Kangkang's aphasia kept him awake at night.
The first time he attacked Guo Yingping was actually an accidental encounter.
That night, he was looking for his target on the roadside, but his inner fear prevented him from removing the tongue after killing the person. He fled in panic after cutting halfway through.
After a profound psychological struggle, and as the police were slow to find the murderer, his courage gradually grew and he turned his target to Fan Linglong, a single woman living alone.
He knew the deceased's situation very well because he had been in and out of Fan Linglong's home many times on the pretext of collecting waste.
On the rainy night when Fan Linglong was murdered, Shi Mikun was wearing a raincoat and walking alone on the dark path leading to Luoyang Village.
The streets were deserted, the alleys dark.
He stood under the eaves of the old house, with a boning knife on his waist and a straw rope in his pocket.
He stood in the rain for a long time, the rain dripping down his raincoat, making a dripping sound.
Even though thunder roared and lightning streaked across the sky that night, it failed to shake his determination.
The flash of lightning was brief and bright, illuminating his gloomy and focused eyes, fixed on the closed door.
He waited patiently for his opportunity, and finally at midnight, the door opened.
Fan Linglong hurried towards the cowshed in a raincoat, and Shi Mikun followed closely behind her. It was at that time that the piece of red mud fell off the sole of his shoe.
On this stormy night, he finally got the tongue he wanted.
Liao Wei commented: "Such a motive for murder is four stars outrageous."