Chapter 304: Case of the Male Corpse in the 422 Machine Well
Fu Daqing did not open an ordinary fruit store at the beginning, but engaged in fruit wholesale. That is, he purchased fruits and then sold them to fruit stores for retail, making a profit from the difference.
That's why he frequently travels to other places to purchase goods. For example, watermelons from Anyuan are one of his biggest commodities.
This is also why the tax bureau has records to check.
After Zhou Yi wrote down the message, he hung up the phone.
I don’t know what progress the investigation in Anyuan has made. I’ll have a good discussion with them tomorrow.
After cleaning up, Zhou Yi went to sleep.
The rain outside the window seemed to be a little lighter, but it was still falling.
Zhou Yi gradually fell asleep in the sound of rain.
When he woke up the next morning, Zhou Yi found that it was still raining outside the window, and the rain was still heavy.
I thought to myself that I had forgotten to watch the weather forecast on TV, and I didn’t know how long the rain would last.
The most important thing is that this heavy rain will definitely have an impact on Anyuan’s investigation work.
After breakfast, seeing that it was almost time, Zhou Yi went to the hotel front desk to ask if there was an umbrella he could borrow.
The lady at the front desk shook her head, then pointed to the side and said, "They sell it in the store next door."
Zhou Yi went out in the rain, ran to the next door convenience store, bought an umbrella, and after thinking about it, bought a pack of good cigarettes.
When paying, the boss couldn't help but curse: "It's raining so hard, the melon farmers will have nothing to eat this year."
"Boss, does the weather forecast say how long the rain will last?" Zhou Yi asked.
"Who knows? It's going to rain and my mother is going to get married. No one can stop her."
March to April is the time for melon farmers to plant seedlings and sow seeds. The rain is so heavy that the melon seedlings that have just been planted will be washed away by the rain. Even if a greenhouse is built, it may not be able to prevent the continued rain. Then the melon farmers will have no harvest.
Making a living by farming means relying on the weather.
Zhou Yi held an umbrella, identified the direction and walked forward.
By the time he arrived at the gate of Anyuan City Public Security Bureau, his trouser legs were soaked and water had gotten into his shoes, making him feel extremely uncomfortable.
Zhou Yi identified himself to the guard room, showed his ID, and registered before finally entering the Anyuan Municipal Bureau.
Following the instructions, he came to an office and knocked on the door.
The door opened, and a young man with a crew cut opened the door and looked at him, asking doubtfully, "Who are you looking for?"
"Excuse me, is this the office of the Second Brigade of the Anyuan Criminal Investigation Detachment?"
"Yeah, what's up?"
"I'm here to see Captain Pan Hongjie. I'm from Hongcheng. My name is Zhou Yi, and I'm from the Hongcheng Criminal Investigation Detachment."
When the crew cut heard this, he was surprised and said, "Oh, it's Officer Zhou. Welcome, welcome."
Zhou Yi shook hands with the other party.
"Oh, I just heard Captain Pan mention it yesterday, saying that Hongcheng would send someone here. I didn't expect them to arrive today. You're so fast."
The crew cut said enthusiastically, "Officer Zhou, please come in. My name is Xia Yu, and I was the one who contacted Officer Chen there."
Zhou Yi immediately remembered that he had indeed mentioned the person in front of him before, and quickly said a few polite words.
Zhou Yi looked around the room and saw Xia Yu was the only one there. He didn't see anyone else, so he asked, "Officer Xia, where is your Captain Pan?"
"Oh, Captain Pan hasn't arrived yet. He checked the weather forecast yesterday and knew it would rain for several days. He was afraid it would affect the search for the murder weapon, so he took a few seniors to the crime scene." Xia Yu said, pouring a cup of hot water for Zhou Yi, "Officer Zhou, warm yourself up."
When Zhou Yi heard that the rain would continue for several days, he sighed inwardly.
However, Pan Hongjie is quite experienced and he knows that in this situation he must hurry to search for the murder weapon.
Because the body was found in a remote, sparsely populated farmland, a few days of heavy rain would greatly complicate the search for the murder weapon. If there were a river near the farmland, soil erosion could have swept the weapon away.
"Have Captain Pan and his team found the murder weapon?" Zhou Yi asked.
Xia Yu scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, Officer Zhou, I may not be able to tell you this..."
"It's okay, I understand." Zhou Yi looked at the police officer Xia Yuxia in front of him. He was very young and seemed very green in his dealings with people. He was probably a "new recruit" like himself.
"Officer Zhou, how about I page our Captain Pan?"
Zhou Yi waved his hand and said, "No, no, it's raining so hard outside, safety first, I'm not in a hurry."
Xia Yu nodded, then rubbed his hands, as if he wanted to find some topic to break the awkwardness, but he didn't know how to start. In the end, he could only smile and say, "Officer Zhou, have some water."
Zhou Yi really wanted to ask about the case and whether there were any clues, but he guessed that Xia Yu didn't dare to tell him, so he had to give up.
"Officer Xia, please go ahead and do your work. Don't worry about me."
"Okay, then please do as you please."
Zhou Yi walked around the room with his hands behind his back, but because his shoes and socks were wet and uncomfortable, he sat down again.
Compared to the somewhat awkward Xia Yu, Zhou Yi was obviously much more relaxed and began to observe the office.
Finally, his eyes fell on a blackboard on the east wall, on which a bunch of case information was written in chalk.
The top few characters are "422 Machine Well Male Corpse Case".
Zhou Yi didn't stand up, but just sat there holding a cup of water and watching, afraid of attracting Xia Yu's attention.
One of the pieces of information caught his attention: it was written on the blackboard that the wells and farmland were not equal to the first crime scene.
They must have discovered something during their on-site investigation. Zhou Yi actually had this suspicion before, because according to their description, the location of the well was quite open and covered a large area of farmland.
Luring someone to the wilderness can easily arouse the victim's vigilance.
The reason why the word "cheat" is used is because the forensic autopsy determined that the cause of Li Youqiang's death was a blunt object blow to the left back of the head, causing severe brain damage and death.
Simply put, it means being shot in the head with a weapon like a hammer from behind.
However, the possibility of a person who goes out with a knife and a gun being lured into the wilderness and shot in the head by someone is very small.
Therefore, Zhou Yi tends to believe that the well was the place where the body was dumped, and the first crime scene was not there.
Of course, this is just logical reasoning and needs to be combined with on-site investigation.
However, dumping the body in such a remote place requires suitable transportation.
Zhou Yi was about to continue looking back when the office door that Xia Yu had just closed opened and a man who looked a few years younger than Wu Yongcheng walked in.
"Oh, why is it raining so hard?" the man said, shaking off the rain on his body.
When he turned around, he saw Zhou Yi and was stunned.
"This is..."
Xia Yu quickly stood up and said, "Captain Pan, this is Officer Zhou Yi from Hongcheng."
Zhou Yi also stood up immediately. The other party’s leader had arrived.
"Hello, Captain Pan, I'm Zhou Yi. I've heard a lot about you." Zhou Yi said with a smile.
Pan Hongjie looked at Zhou Yi, stretched out his hand in surprise and said: "Oh, you are Zhou Yi, you came so quickly."
"Speed is of the essence in war." Zhou Yi stretched out his hands to shake hands with the other party.
"You look very young, even younger than you sound. How old are you?" Pan Hongjie asked.
"Twenty-three." Zhou Yi said with a smile.
"How much?" Pan Hongjie asked in surprise.
"Twenty-three."
"Xiao Xia, he is one year younger than you." Pan Hongjie said to Xia Yu.
Xia Yu was also surprised, "I... didn't notice it."
Zhou Yi laughed and said, "I look old, that's what they all say."
Pan Hongjie patted Zhou Yi on the shoulder and said enthusiastically: "Come and sit down, you are young and promising."
But in fact, he felt a little disappointed. At the age of twenty-three, his experience was too shallow, just like Xia Yu on his side, who was too green.
I thought, this young man from Hongcheng is just for show. I guess it's because this case is related to them, so they want to send someone to follow up on the case and increase their sales.
Pan Hongjie didn't take Zhou Yi too seriously and just said a few polite words.
Zhou Yi followed the rules and first took out the letter of cooperation in the case. Then he said that our Captain Wu had specifically instructed him to obey Captain Pan's orders after he came.
Pan Hongjie immediately asked Xia Yu and Zhou Yi to become temporary partners, and asked Xia Yu to learn more from Zhou Yi.
But Zhou Yi guessed that Pan Hongjie probably didn't take him seriously and was just following the rules.
But Zhou Yi remained calm. He didn't care about these empty things. He just wanted to solve the case as soon as possible and then return to Hongcheng to deal with the big case.
Then, Pan Hongjie's people arrived one after another. In addition to Xia Yu and Pan Hongjie, there were four male criminal police officers, all of whom were in their thirties and forties.
After Pan Hongjie introduced a few people to Zhou Yi, he said that someone from Hongcheng had arrived, so everyone should hold a case analysis meeting and exchange information.
The biggest gain for Anyuan was that before the rain came yesterday, they salvaged a hammer, suspected to be the murder weapon, from a river channel more than 800 meters away from the well.
Because from the surface condition of the hammer, although it had been soaked in the river water for some time, the metal hammer head and the wooden hammer handle did not show any signs of long-term use.
It was handed over to the technical department for testing last night to see if blood could be extracted from the hammer, and then the forensic doctor would do a wound comparison.
In this way, we can determine whether this hammer is the murder weapon of Li Youqiang. After confirmation, we can start to investigate the origin of the hammer.
Then, the on-site investigation found no footprints matching those of the deceased, but dragging marks were found near the wellhead. The small amount of blood and human tissue extracted from the edge of the wellhead completely matched some of the abrasions on the body.
In summary, it can be determined that the well was the scene where the body was dumped, not the first crime scene.
This also supports Zhou Yi's speculation.
So the next step is to expand the scope of the investigation to see if nearby farmers have seen any suspicious people or vehicles.
The third point is the issue mentioned at the beginning, the whereabouts and social relations of Li Youqiang and Fu Daqing after they came to Anyuan.
After listening to this, Zhou Yi sighed inwardly. There was nothing wrong with Pan Hongjie's directions.
The only problem is that it is extremely time-consuming and laborious.
"Zhou Yi, do you have any additional information?" Pan Hongjie asked.
"have!"
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