Chapter 40: Case of the Headless Male Corpse (V)

Since the body has been confirmed to be Liu Shun'er, it is not a good idea to keep it in the morgue forever. After asking Liu's mother, she said that although the head has not been found yet, she also hopes that the body can be buried first.

The Dali Temple sent another bailiff to send Liu Shun'er's body back to Liu's village. They were afraid that Liu's mother was too old and might not be able to bury Liu Shun'er alone, so they left two people there to help with the aftermath.

According to Liu's mother, Liu Shun'er had not returned home for five days. Although Liu Shun'er rarely came home in the past and went out to fool around every day, he would at least return home at night.

Afterwards she went out to look for him, but she was old and frail and could not walk far, so she just looked around the village. People in the village advised her that Liu Shun'er might have gone out to play and was caught by something new, and told her not to worry.

There are many villages outside Beijing. Although the Dali Temple sent people to inquire, even if they dispersed the people and assigned them to each village, they would not be able to meet the requirements. They thought that Liujiazhuang was not a big village, so they randomly found two people in the village to ask if anyone had been missing in the village recently.

I have been very busy with farm work recently. When Liu Shuner's mother came to find Liu Shuner, few people paid much attention to him. After all, he was a local hooligans, wandering around all day, no one knew where he went, so they all said they didn't know.

Including today, five days ago was exactly the day before Liu Shuner's body was found in Xiaoqingshan.

In other words, Liu Shun'er was murdered on the night she disappeared, and her body was soon dumped on Xiaoqing Mountain.

Although we now know the identity of the deceased and the time of his murder, we still have no idea where he met the murderer and how he was killed.

In most cases, there are reasons for killing people. After all, random and indiscriminate killings are still a minority.

Although Liu Shun'er was a thief and annoying, he would not be killed for a small grudge.

The important thing now is to find out where Liu Shun'er was last seen on the day she was murdered.

This time, almost all the detectives from the Dali Temple were sent out to surround several villages near Liujiazhuang to inquire whether anyone had seen Liu Shun'er on that day.

In addition, most of Liu Shun'er's friends during his lifetime, who were thugs from various villages, were also found and questioned in the Dali Temple.

According to one of them, Fang Daqi, he met Liu Shuner at 5 pm that day and they drank some wine together. But Liu Shuner had a stomach disease and said he had a stomachache after drinking a little. Then he said he wanted to go home.

"I drank with Liu Shun'er at Li Po's wine shop outside the capital. After he left, I continued drinking. After I got drunk, it was Li Po's grandson who sent me home."

Without being asked, Fang Daqi took the initiative to explain his whereabouts that day, fearing that he would be suspected by the Dali Temple of killing Liu Shun'er.

The Dali Temple would send people to verify what he had confessed. The answer from the tavern was not much different from what he said. The owner of the tavern was Mrs. Li, who still remembered that Fang Daqi and Liu Shun'er were drinking in her store that day. Liu Shun'er left first, and Fang Daqi stayed to continue drinking. In the end, he was sent back drunk by his grandson.

This means that Liu Shun'er must have been killed on her way home from Li Po's Tavern.

It is less than five miles from Li Po's Tavern to Liu's Village. Although it is a narrow path, it is relatively flat. People with fast walks can probably get there in about two quarters of an hour.

Fortunately, a team of detectives who were sent to investigate near Liujiazhuang came back to report that a villager said he had seen Liu Shun'er not far from Liujiazhuang.

It was fine when he was interrogated by the police in the village, but when he was taken to the Dali Temple, the man trembled and couldn't speak for a long time.

Constable Xiao Luo couldn't bear to see this, so he spoke for him, "He is a villager from Dengjiazhuang next door to Liujiazhuang, named Deng Sanfu. He said that he was weeding in the field that day, and because there were too many weeds in the field, he came back late."

"Deng Sanfu, are you sure it was Liu Shun'er you saw?"

After a while, he seemed to realize that the officials here were not that scary, so he answered bravely, "That's right! They have been walking around outside for a few days, and the common people know them."

To say they were hanging out would be an understatement. According to previous investigations, they were a group of hooligans who were probably out and about flirting with cats and dogs every day, parading through the streets. It would be hard not to know them.

The land of Deng Sanfu's family was outside the village. There were two roads around it, one leading to their Deng family village and the other leading to Liu family village.

Deng Sanfu said he was very sure that Liu Shun'er was heading towards Liujiazhuang.

There were only a few steps from the place where Deng Sanfu saw Liu Shun'er appear to Liujiazhuang. If Liu Shun'er encountered the murderer at that time, it would be impossible for Deng Sanfu not to hear any movement.

"After Liu Shun'er left that day, Xiaomin stayed in the field for another half an hour before going home." Deng Sanfu rubbed his head and smiled innocently, "My wife is pregnant, so Xiaomin was the only one doing the work in the field, so he worked a little late. Xiaomin really didn't hear anything the whole time."

After Deng Sanfu finished speaking, he was told that he could leave. Before he could even breathe a sigh of relief, he was stopped again. He was so frightened that he thought he had said something wrong, but he never expected that the government was going to give him a red envelope.

"My parents said that this red envelope is for your unborn child. It's not much, just for good luck."

At this point, Deng Sanfu couldn't refuse and could only thank him profusely.

Inside the house, Shen Yun and Xie Hui looked at the interrogation records and felt that they were about to find out the truth.

"In that case, Liu Shun'er might have been murdered in Liu's village."

"I will report to the Lord Temple Minister. There is no time to waste. I will take people to Liu's Manor now."

I don't know when it started, but they all tacitly accepted the situation where they needed to go out, and they would always ask Xie Hui to take people out.

Shen Yun didn't have much of an objection. It was normal to leave some things to young people. Riding a fast horse from Dali Temple to Liujiazhuang, Shen Yun felt that his old arms and legs might not be able to bear it.

Wang Siqing quickly agreed and asked Xie Hui to take people to Liujiazhuang.

In order to solve the case as quickly as possible, Xie Hui almost galloped with his men.

After arriving at Liujiazhuang, they thought it would take some effort, but unexpectedly they soon discovered something was wrong.

A group of officials came on fast horses. The villagers in the fields stopped their farm work and followed them into the village to see the excitement. Those who were at home in the village also opened their doors and looked curiously at the officials on the tall horses.

Recently, several nearby villages all knew that Liu Shun'er had been murdered. When they saw the police coming today, they wondered if the murderer had been caught.

After Xie returned to the village, he discovered that among these villagers who were watching the excitement, there was a very strange family. The wall of this family was higher than that of other families, and the front door was tightly closed, which made them stand out from the surrounding families.

"Whose house is this?"

The villagers saw that Xie Huisheng was very good-looking, so when they heard his questions, they boldly answered him at the same time.

"This is Sun the Butcher's house."

"Butcher?" Xie recalled the beheaded Liu Shun'er...

"Yes! He is a pig killer."

Xie Hui signaled the constable to go forward and knock on the door, but after knocking for a long time, the door did not open.

"My Lord, there! Chase!"

A sharp-eyed constable saw a man carrying a bundle and acting suspiciously not far away.

"Hey! Isn't that Sun the Butcher? Why is he running?"