This was also a question that Bai Song had considered before coming.
There are planting areas nearby, and there are also people selling pesticides. This kind of pesticide is also quite common, a bit like dichlorvos, and the specific ingredients are almost the same. But this family is a pure herder, and they shouldn't always have this kind of thing at home.
If someone deliberately bought pesticides to commit suicide, it is not impossible. The local public security authorities have begun to check nearby pesticide shops, but with little success. Because it is the Chinese New Year, it is impossible for anyone to buy pesticides at this time, so most of the shops are closed. Even after the Chinese New Year, many shops will not open for business until March or April.
When Bai Song investigated the Tian Fang case, there was a middle-aged woman working at a seed station in the shantytown of the village. The seed station and the pesticide store are usually integrated, and there is little work in winter.
Therefore, whether it was suicide or homicide, the pesticide must have been prepared in advance. According to the business hours of most stores, it took at least a month to prepare.
There is a logical problem here. If it is suicide, it means that the deceased had suicidal tendencies a long time ago and committed suicide yesterday. This means that the deceased was depressed for a long time, which is problematic for the evidence collection at the scene and the villagers' oral statements.
Judging from the scene, the deceased had maintained different relationships with at least three women in the past month. This is why the deceased's adopted daughter would not easily enter the deceased's room. For the adopted daughter, there were always some aunts coming to her adoptive father's room.
According to the villagers, the deceased was a normal person and had been living a happy and romantic life recently.
"It's useless to say so much. We still have to investigate it as a homicide case. Is that what you mean?" Huadong asked.
"Let's go in this direction first." Bai Song nodded: "Analyze the cause of death first."
"Drank pesticide..." Huadong bit his lower lip and said, "I can say responsibly that there are definitely no signs of a struggle in this room. This pesticide tastes very bad, even if someone drinks too much, it is difficult to swallow. And although the deceased drank and was drunk, he was not completely unconscious."
"Yes..." Bai Song felt that he was stuck at this step and couldn't understand it.
Historically, almost all cases of drinking pesticides were suicides. Pesticides are the worst way to poison people. Again, the purpose of pesticide manufacturing is not to poison people. You will vomit after drinking a sip, and the lethal dose is relatively large.
For example, for highly toxic pesticides such as paraquat, the lethal dose is less than 50 ml and the lethal time is very long, so the poisoned person has plenty of time to call the police.
There were no signs of a struggle at the scene, and the deceased's fingerprints were detected on the bottle, and there was the deceased's saliva and other secretions at the mouth of the bottle.
All signs indicate that the deceased drank the pesticide voluntarily, and no other psychedelic drugs or other ingredients were detected in the deceased's body.
"In such a remote rural area, there is no such thing as a high-IQ murder case?" Wang Huadong looked at the heavy snow outside and said, "Are you being too sensitive? Maybe the deceased was really tired of living?"
"Honestly, I really don't believe that such people would commit suicide..." Bai Song said: "When I first started working, there were two suicide cases. One was because of desperation for the child, and the other was because they felt they were too unsuccessful and had no expectations for the future. One of them was because of love, and the other was because of ideals. Apart from them, suicide cases..."
Bai Song looked around, and there was no third person who could hear him: "Have you ever heard of animals committing suicide?"
"I've heard that some animals will commit suicide when they are in desperate situations." Huadong nodded.
"Well, it's not uncommon for humans and animals to commit suicide when they are in desperate situations. Old elephants plagued by diseases, horses crawling with leeches, and so on, will all do this, but this is against instinct after all. If an animal does not cherish its own life, it would have become extinct long ago. But this person is far from the word desperate. Not only that, he is not the kind of person with high spiritual pursuits... I just don't believe he will commit suicide." Bai Song was a little stubborn.
"You're being unreasonable." Huadong shook his head: "Although you're good at psychology, the world is not black and white."
"That's right." Bai Song said, "Let's not investigate the scene yet. It's too cold outside and we don't have enough clothes on. Let's stay here tonight and wait for Brother Jie and the others to come back. Then we can talk slowly."
"Okay." Huadong nodded.
If it weren’t for Bai Song, Huadong wouldn’t even bother with this.
This place is so remote, a high IQ murder case? Huadong doesn't believe it!
In the afternoon, local police set up a cordon here and then evacuated.
Sun Jie completed the autopsy thoroughly and found nothing abnormal.
In the evening, Political Commissar Wang arranged a Mongolian meal for everyone. Because he was not very familiar with the personalities of Bai Song and others, the reception was quite standard. The only difference from outside was that there was a lot of beef and mutton.
Many people mistakenly believe that beef and mutton in such places are cheap, but in fact, because of their excellent quality, the price is not low at all. Generally speaking, mutton in larger stores costs 80 to 100 yuan per catty.
This is a bit like the time when Bai Song and his friends went on a self-driving tour to Ning Province.
After this dinner, the relationship between the two sides became closer, and Political Commissar Wang also felt the pressure reduced.
The local authorities initially classified the death as suicide, but later a higher-level inspection team came to look at the case. The authorities immediately reopened the investigation, but were still worried that there might be a problem.
If Bai Song and his team realized at first sight that this was not a suicide case, then the local leaders would be to blame. But if Bai Song did not find the problem on the first day, then even if this was a murder case, the local authorities would not be held responsible.
After all, the experts didn't find any problems after spending a whole day on the site, so it's not shameful if the grassroots level can't find any.
After a simple meal, Bai Song and others went to a hotel in the county to rest, and then the four of them started a discussion together.
What we are discussing...
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"Although the environment of this store at night is better than that of the village committee at noon, the mutton is not as delicious as the one at noon." Bai Song said.
"Yes, it's okay to eat it once a day, but it would be a bit unbearable to eat it three times a day." Sun Jie nodded.
When they went out to play, they found their own places to eat, so they didn't necessarily have mutton for every meal. But these two meals were all whole plates of hand-pulled lamb, which was a bit too much.
"What are we going to eat tomorrow morning?" Wang Huadong asked.
"It's Chinese New Year, there's nothing we can do, we can only listen to their arrangements." Bai Song said, "Since we are here, we should make the best of it."
"Indeed, it's New Year's Day and not many places are open. Let's just listen to their arrangements tomorrow. This place is not far from Linyang, but the living habits are indeed different." Huadong nodded.
"Mutton..." Bai Song smacked his lips a few times: "Uh...what mutton? Let's talk about the case. We came here, and it would be boring if we just go back like this."
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