Chapter 27 Chapter 27 Commission 6: The Secret of the Crematorium and "...
Chapter 27
When Li Quan heard the news from Aunt He, he didn't even have time to put on his cotton coat and hurried to the backyard of the police station to call Qin Ye.
Seeing that Li Quan's nose was red from the cold, Qin Ye quickly moved aside to let him into the house.
She asked Li Quan in detail and found out that He Gongan took advantage of the Saturday before yesterday to go to the chicken farm in the neighboring Shuiquan County, intending to buy a few broiler chickens to take home and make some smoked and cured chickens for the New Year as the New Year was approaching.
Logically speaking, Public Security He should have returned home last night at the latest.
Aunt He thought that Public Security He returned to the county too late, so he did not go home and chose to spend the night at the police station. But when she arrived at the police station this morning, she found that Public Security He was not there at all, and she panicked.
"The chicken farm in Shuiquan Town? The one that was destroyed by the rioters before?"
Qin Ye recalled carefully and remembered that several neighboring counties had been affected by chicken plague before.
Some people have directed their criticism at chicken farms, believing that the chickens in the farms are the source of infection, which led to the disaster for chickens raised in each household.
Many villagers believed these remarks and ran to the chicken farm to cause trouble, which resulted in a loss of life. The chicken farm took a long time to recover from the natural disasters and man-made tragedies, and business has only recently returned to normal.
Li Quan was about to nod when his nose started to itch and he sneezed: "A-choo - yes, it's the chicken farm you were thinking of. Shall we go to Shuiquan Town to have a look?"
"Let's go, now."
Qin Ye took down the scarf and gloves hanging on the wall and was about to go out when he remembered the thin clothes Li Quan was wearing. "You should wear something thicker. It's cold now. Be careful not to catch a cold if you ride your bike over."
The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and many criminals are rushing out to boost their performance. If Li Quan catches a cold and falls ill, the police station will probably become even busier.
"Hey, I'll go get my cotton coat now."
Li Quan laughed twice, patting his sweater to show off to Qin Ye, "Look, this is my sweater, my girlfriend knitted it for me, isn't it nice?"
Qin Ye: “…”
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It was a chilly winter day, and the car was driving towards Shuiquan County. The wind along the way was like a knife, cutting people's skin and causing pain.
Qin Ye sat in her pocket, covering her face with her hands, trying to alleviate the damage done by the cold wind.
She couldn't help but think of the string of jeeps parked in the compound of the Provincial Public Security Bureau. It would be great if someday their county bureau could be equipped with jeeps.
As she got closer and closer to the Shuiquan Chicken Farm, she could vaguely see a small hill behind the farm emitting black smoke.
"Li Quan, do you know where that is?"
She raised her hand and pointed to where the smoke was coming from, motioning Li Quan to go and look.
Li Quan tilted his head to take a look and replied, "It seems to be the crematorium in Shuiquan County. Shuiquan County was hit by chicken plague before, and the provincial government sent people to build a crematorium here to cremate all the sick chickens."
Later, in order not to waste resources, this place was directly converted into a funeral crematorium.
Current policies call for cremation after death to save land resources. However, people in small towns are conservative after all, and the elderly prefer to be buried in the ground to return to their roots. Few people can accept being burned to ashes after death.
On the contrary, for some young women who died unexpectedly at a young age, their relatives would choose to cremate them because they are worried that their bodies would be stolen for ghost marriages.
Qin Ye looked towards the direction of the crematorium, thoughtfully.
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Soon, the cart stopped at the entrance of the chicken farm.
The chicken farm owner heard the noise and quickly ran out. He saw a Public Security Bureau sign on the shed. His smile froze for a moment: "This is..."
Qin Ye and Li Quan were not wearing uniforms today, so they showed each other their public security credentials.
The chicken farm owner saw the ID and quickly regained his smiling face: "Hey, two police comrades, why are you here at this time? Do you want to buy something?"
Qin Ye waved his hand to indicate that he didn't need it, and asked directly: "In the past two days, has a man in his 50s surnamed He come to your chicken farm to buy chickens?"
The chicken farm owner pondered for a moment, then clapped his hands suddenly: "Oh - you are talking about He Gongan, right? Come here, the day before yesterday, Saturday, he came to my chicken farm early in the morning and ordered 20 chickens at once."
As he said that, he hurried into the office, took out the account book, and opened it to show Qin Ye and Li Quan.
"Look, Public Security He even left his address. I'm planning to deliver a chicken to his house at noon today!"
Qin Ye took a look at the account book and found that He Gongan had already ordered chickens from the chicken farm at 9:40 on Saturday morning.
Li Quan asked quickly, "Did He Gongan leave after ordering the chicken?"
The chicken farm owner nodded and said, "Yes, I even offered to treat him to a meal, but he refused. However, before he left, he asked me what was going on with the crematorium run by Heisier in the back mountain."
Speaking of the crematorium, the chicken farm owner's tone became a little sour: "I say, what else could it be? They are thriving and prosperous."
Qin Ye noticed the change in his boss and looked up from the account book: "Is the crematorium business good?"
In this era, there are definitely only a few older people who are willing to be cremated, and even fewer young people who die prematurely due to accidents. No matter how you think about it, the crematorium business will not be very good.
"Well, when there was chicken plague, the higher-ups came to build a crematorium and asked if anyone in the county was willing to take on the contract. Everyone thought it was unlucky and afraid of getting sick, but Hei Si'er stood up and said he was happy to take on the contract for the crematorium."
The chicken farm owner curled his lips, pointed at a car passing by on the road not far away, and said, "Look, he used to be a poor second-rate guy, but now he has transformed himself and even bought a car! I don't know which expert gave him the idea."
He was jealous and hateful.
When there was a chicken plague in the county, Hei Si'er and a group of people went to his chicken farm to make trouble, insisting that his chickens had infected all the chickens in the county.
During the dispute, the two sides even beat to death the people working at the chicken farm. As the owner of a chicken farm, he paid a large sum of money to the family of the deceased.
If Zhang Zhongjian from Juexing Village hadn't come to the chicken farm and used a special medicine to save the chickens in his farm, he would probably have to sleep on the streets now!
He finally recovered from the disaster.
Turning around, he discovered that the culprit, Hei Si'er, had taken advantage of his chicken plague disaster to contract the crematorium and even drove a car! How could he not hate this?
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Qin Ye was not very interested in the grudge between the chicken farm owner and Hei Si'er, but the crematorium business was too good, which was indeed worthy of suspicion.
He Gongan is not a person who likes to chat. He asked the owner of the chicken farm about the situation of the crematorium. It is very likely that he discovered some clues.
Qin Ye and Li Quan left Caizi in the chicken farm temporarily.
The two walked to the crematorium and saw Hei Si'er's black car parked on the side of the road. A middle-aged couple was talking to Hei Si'er.
The middle-aged couple looked nervous, as if they were doing something wrong.
Qin Ye became alert and quietly hid in the woods by the roadside with Li Quan.
The intermittent conversation between the middle-aged couple and Hei Si'er reached their ears: "The First Immortal introduced us here... We want high-quality goods... Do you have any?"
Hei Si'er looked around vigilantly, made sure there was nothing unusual, and gestured to the middle-aged couple to come in.
The three of them quickly entered the crematorium and the door was closed tightly, so they could not find any clues.
"High-quality goods? It seems that they are not doing a legitimate business, right?"
Li Quan got up from the bushes and tried to knock on the door to find out what was going on. "Wait here. I'll go take a look. If there's nothing wrong, run back to the chicken farm and call the police from Shuiquan County."
Just then, there was a slight noise coming from the gate of the crematorium.
Qin Ye heard the noise and quickly reached out to pull Li Quan back into the bushes: "Wait, someone else is coming out."
Just as he finished speaking, two short and thin young men poked their heads out from the back door stealthily, one with a cigarette in his mouth. One of them took out a lighter, lit a cigarette for his companion, and then lit one for himself.
Qin Ye recognized at a glance that the lighter in the young man's hand belonged to Public Security He.
The lighter was covered with a special cloth cover, which was a gift she bought for He Gongan in the provincial capital.
Li Quan also noticed this: "Qin Ye, look at that lighter..."
…
The two young men were unaware that someone was watching them secretly. They smoked cigarettes and chatted as if no one was around.
"Did Fourth Brother tell you how to deal with that stinky old man?"
"Just push him into the furnace and burn him. Burn him to ashes and throw him away. Who will still recognize him?"
"Isn't this a bad idea? We've got a life on our hands, and we won't be able to get away from it in the future."
"Get rid of your ass! I think you are destined to be poor and suffer. We are making a lot of money following Fourth Brother. Fourth Brother said that when the time comes, he will introduce the First Immortal to us."
Hearing the conversation between the two, Qin Ye's eyes turned cold: "Uncle He is in their hands indeed. How about this, you go to the front and knock on the door, I will sneak in from the back and see what's going on inside."
Li Quan nodded seriously: "Be careful."
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Wait until the two young men finish smoking and go back.
Qin Ye took the lead and followed quietly, slipping into the yard of the crematorium through the back door that the two had just entered.
There was only a row of bungalows in the yard. At this time, the middle-aged couple and Hei Si'er were sitting in the room in the corner and talking. It seemed that there was no one else in the entire crematorium except them.
Qin Ye secretly followed the two short and thin young men and saw them go around the back of the bungalow and walk into the crematorium which covered an area of nearly 200 square meters.
"Quick! Burn the old man while the stove is still hot."
One of them urged.
The other one nodded repeatedly, opened the coffin in the corner, and dragged He Gongan out from inside: "Come and help, Brother Hu, this old man is too heavy, I can't move it alone."
The man called Brother Tiger cursed, threw away the cigarette butt in his mouth, and reluctantly stepped forward to help: "Really, what's the use of having you alone..."
Seeing the opportunity, Qin Ye pulled out the electric baton hidden at his waist and rushed forward at lightning speed. She kicked one of them away, and at the same time, she adjusted the power of the baton in her hand to maximum, shocking another person who was closer to her.
Tiger, who was kicked away by her, held his stomach and got up from the ground: "Damn it, where did this stinky woman come from to meddle in other people's business!"
As he said this, he picked up the shovel at hand and rushed towards her aggressively.
Qin Ye gave a flying kick and kicked Brother Hu's wrist. The opponent instantly lost his strength and the shovel in his hand fell to the ground with a clang.
Brother Hu realized that he was no match for Qin Ye, and immediately tried to call Hei Si'er in the bungalow in the front yard with his voice: "Brother Si, there is someone..."
Qin Ye raised the stun gun again, and before Brother Hu could finish his sentence, he knocked the other person out in the same way.
She handcuffed Brother Hu and another young man together, then quickly ran to the coffin and helped He Gongan inside to his feet: "Uncle He! Uncle He! Are you okay?!"
She patted He Gongan's face several times, and He Gongan finally recovered from the long period of hypoxia.
"Qin Ye? !! How did you find this place? !!"
He Gongan was surprised and happy, and struggled to climb out of the coffin. "Quick, call the Public Security Bureau of Shuiquan County. This crematorium sold the body of a young girl for ghost marriage without telling the family of the deceased!"
The day before yesterday, he had bought chickens and was on his way back when he accidentally bumped into these two young men, who were carrying a bag of fertilizer and walking stealthily into the woods.
Years of criminal investigation experience told him that there must be something wrong with these two people.
He followed secretly, wanting to observe what was going on in secret. Unexpectedly, he was ambushed by Hei Si'er, the owner of the crematorium, and fainted on the spot.
When he woke up again, he found himself stuffed into a coffin.
He Gongan was now terrified when he thought about it, and couldn't help shaking his head and smiling bitterly: "Alas, I'm old and useless. I couldn't even detect someone attacking me from behind. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would have to die here this time!"
Qin Ye handed the baton to Public Security He, and just in case, he temporarily put the two people who had fainted into the coffin: "You take the baton to protect yourself first, I will go to meet Li Quan."
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The main entrance of the crematorium.
After knocking on the door, Li Quan revealed his identity as a police officer: "Hello, one of my colleagues is missing nearby. Have you seen him?"
When Hei Si'er, who came to open the door, heard Li Quan's question, his face changed immediately, but he still smiled and said, "Comrade Gong'an, you asked this question. I live in this desolate mountain forest every day. How can I possibly see Gong'an?"
Li Quan also smiled good-temperedly, and according to his and Qin Ye's plan, he tried to delay as much time as possible: "Then let me go in and take a look, okay?"
"This, this is not good. There's dirt in there, if I bump into you..."
Hei Si'er secretly cursed his two subordinates for always causing trouble for him. It was all their fault that they were careless and caused him to have to take the blame for them.
If he had known that the old man following behind him was a police officer, he would never have attacked him. Now that the deed has been done, he can only hope that his two men have dealt with the person completely.
"It's okay, you don't have to go in."
A clear female voice suddenly sounded behind him, "Hei Si'er, right? You are suspected of instigating your men to premeditate and murder police officers, and of selling the remains of the deceased without authorization. Please come with us."
Li Quan waited for Qin Ye to finish speaking, then quickly took out the handcuffs and looked at Hei Si'er with a half-smile: "Do you want to do it yourself, or do you want me to help you?"
Hei Si'er knew that his resistance was futile, so he resigned himself to his fate and stretched out his arm in front of Li Quan.
Behind them, the middle-aged couple looked pale with fear, obviously they did not expect such a sudden change to happen midway.
Qin Ye also had no intention of letting these two people go: "Please both of you come with us."
Combined with the content of the conversation between the two people and Hei Si'er at the door, as well as their mysterious attitude. I think these two people are probably the buyers mentioned by Public Security He who wanted to buy the girl's body for a ghost marriage for their family members.
The middle-aged couple supported each other. The woman stared at Qin Ye, hating her for ruining her good deeds: "You made my son restless, the First Immortal will curse you!"
During the whole morning, Qin Ye heard these people mention "the First Immortal" more than once.
This rather mythical title made her alert. Perhaps an unknown evil cult had secretly infiltrated Shuiquan County: "What religion do you believe in?"
The middle-aged woman snorted coldly, turned her head away and ignored her.
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Soon, police officers from the Shuiquan County Public Security Bureau rushed over.
According to Public Security He, they found tens of thousands of yuan in cash from Heisier's office. There was a note on one part of the cash that said "ghost marriage"; and there was a note on the other part of the cash that said "offering".
Apparently, this crematorium is hiding a dirty secret.
The news that the crematorium owner Hei Si'er and his men had been arrested quickly spread throughout Shuiquan County.
The family members who had sent the bodies of their relatives here for cremation learned that the body of their daughter had long been secretly sold by Hei Si'er and others for a ghost marriage, and that the ashes sent to them were fake. They were all devastated.
They were worried that after the young girl was buried, her grave would be secretly dug up for a ghost marriage, so they thought of cremating the girl's body.
Unexpectedly, everything turned out to be a trap.
This crematorium is engaged in arranging ghost marriages!
The family members rushed to the Shuiquan County Public Security Bureau, hoping that the police could help them recover the remains of the deceased.
Among them, the remains of a deceased person were sold to Wuning County. Naturally, this task fell on the shoulders of Qin Ye, Li Quan and other Wuning County police officers.
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Unlike the busy Shuiquan County Public Security Bureau, the Wuning County Public Security Bureau at this time was harmonious and peaceful.
Li Quan held the water cup and, like a street storyteller, waved his hand and began to brag about the heroic deeds of He Gongan, Qin Ye and him in causing a scene at the crematorium in Shuiquan County.
"He Gongan is as brave as ever. He just walked out of the backyard. Hei Si'er fell to his knees and begged for mercy, shouting, 'Grandpa, spare my life. I didn't know you were a police officer at that time.' Guess what He Gongan said?"
Everyone laughed together: "Li Quan, hurry up and tell us, don't keep us in suspense!"
Li Quan cleared his throat and imitated He Gongan's usual behavior, saying, "He Gongan said - 'Am I that old? And, I won't recognize a grandson like you who does things against one's conscience!'"
"Li Quan, you're itching, right?"
He Gongan smiled and tapped Li Quan's head, then said to Qin Ye, "When my smoked chicken and cured chicken are ready, I'll leave Li Quan's portion for you!"
Qin Ye covered his ears with a smile, pretending that he couldn't hear Li Quan's wailing, and responded immediately: "Okay! Thank you Uncle He! I'm waiting!"
Everyone was laughing and chatting in the hall of the Public Security Bureau, and at this moment, Xu Libai appeared at the door.
Li Quan was sharp-eyed. He immediately poked Qin Ye secretly and winked at her: "Look, Doctor Xu, he must be here to see you, right?"
Qin Ye looked in the direction Li Quan pointed, and Xu Libai just happened to meet her eyes. He curled his lips at her slightly as a greeting.
"Comrade Public Security, I want to report a case. This morning, I received two patients from Jincun, and I suspect they were abused."
Both patients were only eight years old. They had burns all over their bodies and whip marks of varying depths.
The patient's family claimed that the child was too playful and accidentally knocked over a large barrel full of hot water, causing burns all over his body.
But Xu Libai saw at a glance that the actual injuries of the two children were completely inconsistent with the description given by the patients' families.
He smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I took the opportunity to check the injuries and tried to get the truth from the two children. They kept their mouths shut and only told me that the First Immortal doesn't like disobedient children. So, they have to be obedient and not talk to strangers."
The first immortal.
Hearing this title again, Qin Ye frowned: "Who is this Shouxian?"
After Hei Si'er and others confessed, she asked the police in Shuiquan County about the Shouxian.
The Shuiquan County Public Security Bureau's understanding of the Shouxian was limited to the fact that he suggested that Heisier contract the crematorium, and that he acted as a matchmaker between the two parties, thus facilitating the ghost marriage transaction.
According to Hei Si'er, the first immortal came and went without a trace. The two had been dealing with each other for more than half a year, but he didn't even know what the other person looked like.
He Gongan also lost his smile and his expression became serious: "Let's go to Jin Village and have a good meeting with this first immortal."
At this moment, Qin Ye once again received a reminder from the system:
[We have received a commission from Jin Xiaoqiang, please check it carefully.]
Location: Jincun, Wuning County;
Commission: Please rescue us from the First Immortal;
Reward: A sewing machine]
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