Chapter 306 A Small Discovery
Huang Dazhi was in a somewhat subtle mood.
This was his third time to come to Wangqiao Town. The first time he came with his colleagues from the police station to arrest gamblers, and they arrested them very smoothly. However, he accidentally picked up a jade pendant.
Later he thought the jade pendant might be a valuable antique, so he came here again and successfully found a half jade pendant and a jade cow.
These three items are now in Gao Mingcheng's hands. Gao Mingcheng is responsible for maintaining the jade and then finding the right buyer when the time is right to sell them.
This is his third time here after Wang Zhi’s murder case.
During the visit, he got a piece of information, that is, Wang Zhi often participated in gambling games organized by different people. Although Wang Zhi was not among the people they caught last time, Wang Zhi had also gone there to gamble. Once he lost a gambling game, but Wang Zhi had no money, so he used a jade as collateral.
But the previous dealer didn’t know the value of the jade and thought it was worth more than money, so he kept asking Wang Zhi for money. In order to avoid giving him the money, Wang Zhi went to gamble in the gambling game organized by the current dealer.
He learned the news from a local gambler.
It has to be said that gambling is very prevalent in Wangqiao Town, but since the Wang Zhi murder case, those who have participated in gambling dare not gamble again.
Their families refused to let them gamble, and they themselves were a little timid, fearing that they would run into someone like Wang Zhi who would stab them in the back at the slightest disagreement.
When other police officers heard the news, they did not take it seriously, but Huang Dazhi became a little nervous when he heard it.
He guessed that the jade artifacts he found should be the ones that Wang Zhi mortgaged to the banker.
But because the dealer did not understand the value of jade, he just buried it casually in the ground. When the police officers dug money from the ground that day, they only focused on the money, so they did not notice the jade pendant which was mostly covered by mud.
It was nine o'clock in the morning. Huang Dazhi followed Gao Guobing and others into the mountains.
He came here on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year because after the holiday, he returned to his home in Junling and did not get involved in the case immediately. Later, someone brought him a message and he arrived at Wangqiao Town on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. After that, he lived and worked on the case in Wangqiao Town.
The forests are withered in winter, the deciduous trees are bare, and only evergreen trees dot the mountains and forests. The ground is covered with dead branches and fallen leaves, and people make crackling sounds when they walk on them.
Huang Dazhi has good physical fitness and is well adapted to the mountain environment, but Xiao Song, who comes from a city background, is a little exhausted at this time.
He had been here to investigate the case since the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and had been visiting the cases and going into the mountains to capture the murderer every day. He had not rested for a single day. Now he had to continue going into the mountains and even spend the night there. Xiao Song felt so miserable!
Xiao Zhang is also from the city, but his physique is better than Xiao Song's. He follows Gao Guobing steadily, unlike Xiao Song who has fallen behind.
As they entered the mountain, because this section of the mountain road had been searched before, everyone walked very quickly and did not search carefully. They planned to search carefully for signs of human activities in the mountains after they reached deep into the mountains.
Huang Dazhi looked around, not only looking for traces left by the murderer, but also looking for traces of the ancient tomb.
Gao Mingcheng said that the jade pendant he picked up before was most likely an antique, but it was hard to determine which dynasty it was from. Assuming that the jade pendant had belonged to Wang Zhi before, how did Wang Zhi, an ordinary farmer, get the jade pendant?
Therefore, Huang Dazhi guessed that Wang Zhi might have found an ancient tomb and obtained the jade pendant from the tomb.
He did not tell anyone about this guess, but just explored carefully along the way. If there really is an ancient tomb, he would tell everyone about what happened before.
But in this case, the jade pendant and jade cow might not be able to be kept, which made Huang Dazhi extremely conflicted.
They walked along the way, taking a short rest when they were tired and taking water and food from their backpacks when they were hungry.
The food that Mayor Wang prepared for them was mostly bread and small pieces of sugar.
If the food is cold, it will not taste good, but bread tastes good even if it is eaten cold. This bread was made by a retired veteran in Wangqiao Town. He learned the bread-making technique in the army. After retiring and returning home, he raised some money and opened the first bakery in Wangqiao Town.
Huang Dazhi seldom eats bread, but he felt that the soft and sweet bread tasted very good.
Soon, a day passed, and until dark, they had not gained anything, but this was expected. Everyone was not discouraged. Instead, they were happy to have found a suitable cave.
Gao Guobing said: "Everyone go pick up some firewood, we will boil some hot water tonight."
It was a dry year this year and the mountains were dry, but they were really lucky because there was a naturally formed puddle just inside the cave.
The puddle is not big, but the water quality is very good. In their backpacks, there are aluminum lunch boxes, which can be used to store rice or directly as pots.
There is also rice in the lunch box, which is prepared so that if the situation is good, you can cook rice or porridge.
That night, everyone took turns to keep watch. Apart from the harsh environment, there were no other problems. There were almost no large wild animals in the mountains now, only wild boars were more numerous. However, there were so many of them and they had guns. If they encountered a wild boar, it would be like sending them food.
Nothing happened that night. Early the next morning, everyone got up, hurriedly ate a piece of bread, and then continued to look for traces left by the murderer.
When we got here, we found that this was a place that no one had been to before, so everyone searched very carefully.
Huang Dazhi didn't know how to find ancient tombs. He had never even seen one with his own eyes, but he had heard of ancient tombs before, especially the one at Niuweiling in Gaojia Village, because it was discovered by Gao Mingcheng, and then Gao Guobing personally led people to capture the tomb robbers, and jointly with the Cultural Bureau excavated and protected it.
Therefore, he heard about this matter from Gao Mingcheng and also from his colleagues in the bureau.
On this day, everyone was in high spirits and searched extremely seriously, but still found nothing.
Gao Guobing decided to stay in the mountains for one night. If he still hadn’t found it by tomorrow, he would go down the mountain.
The food they brought was only enough for three days. Besides, people could not work intensively in the wild, as this would easily cause damage to their health.
Everyone listened to Gao Guobing's words and had no objection, but the atmosphere was relatively depressing.
It's Chinese New Year, and it's already tiring to go out and handle a case, but I didn't expect that I would have to spend the night in the mountains.
That night, even though the resting place was not good, everyone fell asleep immediately after lying down, mainly because they were too tired.
But vigil is still necessary.
It's cold and dark at night, so you have to build a fire. But if no one is watching the fire, it will easily go out. And if the wind blows away the sparks and causes a forest fire, that would also be bad.
Winter is dry and is the time when forest fires are most likely to occur.
The night passed quickly, and by the third day, everyone's energy and spirit were not as good as before. Due to lack of rest, everyone had the same dark circles and deep bags under their eyes, which was obviously the result of staying up all night for several nights.
"We will only search for half a day today. If we haven't found it by noon, we will go down the mountain immediately. Brother Wang, please find a shortcut to lead us down the mountain." Gao Guobing said to a militiaman from Wangqiao Town next to him.
Most of the people in Wangqiao Town have the surname Wang. The one who is in the same team with Gao Guobing is the younger brother of the town chief Wang.
He is very familiar with the mountains and forests here and knows the shortcut.
"Okay, Director Gao, don't worry, I know a shortcut."
After deciding on today's arrangements, everyone continued their search.
Huang Dazhi searched more seriously, his eyes scanning the surrounding environment like a radar. Finally, he made a small discovery.
He found a small piece of cloth in a thorn bush!
This is already deep in the mountains, sparsely populated, but there is a piece of cloth!
The color of the rag is black. According to insiders, Wang Zhi was wearing an old black cotton coat on the day of the incident!
Huang Dazhi pointed at the small piece of cloth as if he had found a treasure and told others about his discovery.
When everyone saw the piece of cloth, they were really excited and felt hopeful.
At this moment, I felt that all the suffering I had endured before was not in vain!
As long as Wang Zhi is arrested and brought to justice, it will be a great achievement!
As a police officer, who doesn’t want to make meritorious contributions?
"Search! Everyone, cheer up and search carefully!" said Gao Guobing.
Without him saying anything, everyone was already in high spirits.
Xiao Song knew that Huang Dazhi was attentive and had good eyesight, so he simply followed Huang Dazhi closely, expecting him to be the first to find Wang Zhi.
Xiao Song thought that Huang Dazhi was not equipped with a gun, but once he found Wang Zhi, he could be the first to rush up and take Wang Zhi down!
Xiao Song, who has a gun, is very confident.
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