Chapter 65 Chapter 65: Mrs. Zhang's Abortion Hand
Chapter 65
The case file of Mrs. Zhang's dismemberment was compiled by Wen Tingting at the time.
Now that she suddenly got a new clue, Wen Tingting was even more surprised than Qin Ye, and she blurted out subconsciously: "What?! You said that Mrs. Zhang can tell whether the baby is a boy or a girl?!!"
As soon as she finished saying this, she found that the villagers' eyes on her suddenly became alert. Even the man who had just taken Murong's cigarette stopped smiling and stared at the three of them with a stern face.
Wen Tingting realized that she might have said something wrong and immediately panicked.
Fortunately, Qin Ye reacted quickly and followed Wen Tingting's words, and quickly smoothed it over: "Mrs. Zhang has this ability? The doctor in the provincial capital said that my sister's fetal position is not correct, and it is easy to have accidents during delivery, so it is recommended to abort the child. I heard from my family that Mrs. Zhang is good at correcting the fetal position, so I brought them here from the provincial capital specially to ask her to take a look at my sister."
After hearing her explanation, the villagers' vigilant eyes faded a little, but they were no longer willing to reveal anything more.
The villagers looked at each other, and finally the man who first spoke to Murong spoke: "The old lady Zhang you are looking for is gone. If you want, you can go find her daughter-in-law Cuifang. But Cuifang's midwifery skills are not very good, so she may not be able to help your wife."
They came here just to gather information, so it was naturally impossible for them to really ask Cuifang to deliver the baby.
Wen Tingting realized that because of her reaction just now, it would be difficult for them to obtain new clues here. After a brief panic, she finally came up with an idea to make up for the mistake.
She imitated the shrew she had encountered when responding to a call with the police. While cursing, she rushed forward and pretended to scratch Murong's face: "You stinky man! I knew it! I knew you still favor boys over girls! You and your sister coaxed me to this village just to find out whether the baby in my belly is a boy or a girl!!! I have a miserable life! I have a miserable life, wuwuwuwu——"
She dragged her voice and let out a long, deliberate wail.
Murong was caught off guard by Wen Tingting's sudden action, but Qin Ye understood what Wen Tingting wanted to do at the first moment.
Qin Ye took the opportunity to step forward, grabbed Wen Tingting's wrists, and continued to act with her: "Since you know everything, there is no need for us to hide it from you anymore. Yes! If the city hospital had not refused to say whether you were pregnant with a boy or a girl, we would not have brought you to this village to find Mrs. Zhang."
After saying that, she winked at Wen Tingting and pushed her cleverly.
Wen Tingting understood what he meant, and she sat down on the ground, holding her stomach and starting to scream in pain.
Murong T understood the current situation through the cooperation of the two people. He pointed at Wen Tingting's nose and began to pretend to curse: "Shrew! Don't be so desperate here! My family has been a single-line family for generations. If you can't give birth to a boy this time, we will divorce immediately!"
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As Wen Tingting cried and screamed, the villagers' vigilance gradually subsided.
It turns out that this woman had no idea why she came to see Mrs. Zhang. No wonder she reacted so strongly when she heard that Mrs. Zhang could see the gender of the baby in her belly.
Everyone present looked at Murong, and there was inevitably a bit more sympathy in their eyes.
The policy has become increasingly strict in recent years, and each household is only allowed to have one child. Only one child is allowed. If the wife gives birth to a daughter, won’t the family line be cut off? ! !
Isn't the purpose of life to have a son to carry on the family line? If the family's incense is cut off in their hands, they will not be able to face their ancestors in the underworld when they die! ! !
This young man is really unlucky to have such an unreasonable wife who thinks it doesn't matter whether she has a son or a daughter!
"Young man."
In the crowd, an old man came out with a cane, stretched out his right hand that looked like dry bark, and beckoned to Murong, "Give me a pack of cigarettes, and I'll give you an idea."
Murong quickly took out a cigarette and handed it to the old man: "Uncle, go ahead."
Qin Ye looked at the old man's mysterious behavior, realizing that he might reveal some important clues, and prepared to move forward quietly.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she took a step, the old man turned his head suddenly, waved his hands at her and scolded her: "Go away! The man is talking, why are you stepping forward? You have no manners!"
Qin Ye saw the old man's vigilant expression, and she became more convinced that the old man might know some clues that the police did not have.
For long-term considerations, she did not move forward, but dragged Wen Tingting, who was "rolling around" on the ground, and "rudely" stuffed her back into the car.
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The car was equipped with one-way glass. Through the window, Qin Ye saw the old man whispering something in Murong's ear.
Murong had a smile on his face at first, but slowly, his smile froze on his face.
After the old man finished speaking, he bared his yellow teeth that were blackened by the dry tobacco and rubbed his fingers at Murong again.
Murong understood what he meant, and quickly took out two more bills from his pocket and handed them to the old man: "Thank you, uncle. I'll have to trouble you to keep me in mind. I'll come back to you after my wife gives birth."
The old man held up the banknotes, shining them against the sunlight above his head, and smiled with satisfaction: "Go ahead, go ahead. For a man, passing on the family line is more important than anything else. Think about it yourself!"
Murong pretended to be calm and returned to the car. He stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, leaving Yaoxiacun far behind him. Only then did he meet the eyes of Qin Ye and Wen Tingting in the back seat through the rearview mirror.
"Captain Qin, the old man just said that when Mrs. Zhang was alive, she had been aborting female foetuses in the village."
Qin Ye paused while helping Wen Tingting remove the fake pregnant belly and asked, "Abort a female fetus?"
Murong nodded: "Yes, Mrs. Zhang is very famous. Many people from other villages will spend a lot of money to ask her for help after being introduced by others."
According to the old man, Mrs. Zhang can tell the gender of the fetus with just her naked eyes and has never made a mistake over the years.
In recent years, the policy only allows each family to have one child, and hospitals are not allowed to disclose the gender of the fetus, so the villagers all went to find Mrs. Zhang.
If the baby is a boy, everyone will be happy; if it is a girl, Mrs. Zhang will prescribe two doses of medicine to help abort the baby.
This kind of behavior is naturally not allowed by policy.
But for all these years, no news about Mrs. Zhang's abortions had leaked out.
On the one hand, Mrs. Zhang has good relationships with people.
On the other hand, the villagers have feudal ideas, and every family wants to have a boy who can "carry on the family line." If Mrs. Zhang was arrested, who could the women in their family turn to to check the gender of their baby if they got pregnant? ! !
Everyone in the village tacitly protected Mrs. Zhang.
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Therefore, after Mrs. Zhang was murdered, the police went to her home to investigate many times but never found this important clue.
"Luckily you acted well just now, and the old man believed me. I was introduced by an acquaintance, and I deliberately hid it from my pregnant wife and brought her to see Mrs. Zhang to check the gender of the fetus."
While Murong recounted the incident, he did not forget to flatter Qin Ye subtly, "The old man also told me that if my wife really gave birth to a girl, she could come to Yaoxia Village to find him. He has a way to ensure that my next pregnancy will be a boy."
Qin Ye could hear the flattery in Murong's words, frowned, and said directly: "Murong, we are old partners, there is no need to go through these empty workplace etiquettes."
She has only two requirements for the police officers under her command: to keep them safe and to handle the case well.
After saying that, she turned her head and glanced at Wen Tingting beside her: "You and Tingting both performed very well today, keep it up."
Wen Tingting had been immersed in the nervousness of almost messing up the operation, and she didn't expect Qin Ye to suddenly praise her.
She waved her hands repeatedly and was about to start reviewing her own problems, but was stopped by Qin Ye again: "I said, our team doesn't need these empty formalities. Since you know you have problems, just correct them next time."
Wen Tingting was stunned for a moment, but quickly came to her senses and nodded heavily.
She was used to being suppressed in the past, and the more afraid she was, the more likely she was to make mistakes. This vicious cycle made her less and less willing to express her own opinions, and instead she developed a habit of self-examination at any time.
After hearing what Qin Ye said, she couldn't help but muster up a little courage and wanted to express her own opinion: "Captain Qin... Murong said that the old man can guarantee that the first child will be a daughter, and the next child will definitely be a boy. But... doesn't the policy allow only one child? Could he... want to instigate Murong to kill the 'daughter'?"
Murong raised his eyebrows when he heard Wen Tingting's guess: "We both have similar ideas. I've heard before that in some rural areas, newborn girls are thrown into the wild to fend for themselves, forcing the wives to keep giving birth until a boy is born."
Through the brief contact with the old man for a few minutes, he could also see that this old man was definitely not a good person.
Qin Ye carefully digested the information obtained from this operation. After Wen Tingting and Murong expressed their opinions, he said, "I think it's not that simple."
If the "secret to having a child" that the old man mentioned was really as cruel and brutal as Murong and Wen Tingting guessed, he could have told Murong directly without asking Murong's "wife" to come to him after giving birth.
The two are not related at all, so why would the old man risk going to jail to help Murong kill his "daughter"?
Why did the old man dare to guarantee to Murong that his "second child" must be a son?
This old man even wants to offend the people in Xia Village. There must be something wrong with him!
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Qin Ye couldn't help but think of the eighteen dead skeletons in the well. There were silver needles inserted on the wrists of each skeleton, which looked like some kind of evil cult ritual.
The people closest to the dry well are the villagers of Yaoxia Village who had just moved from the mountain village.
Could all this be related to the people in Yaoxia Village?
What role did the deceased Mrs. Zhang play in this?
"Let's go back to the bureau first and see if Brother Guang and the others have any clues."
She had a hunch that there must be some connection between the two cases.
When the three of them returned to the Municipal Public Security Bureau, Qian Yaguang and his team had already returned to the detachment office for some time.
Seeing Qin Ye coming in, Li Quan stood up, picked up the inspection report on the desk and handed it to Qin Ye: "Captain Qin, Forensic Doctor Yu just sent the preliminary test results of the bones. Among the 19 bones, the oldest is four years old, and the youngest is this one."
He turned to the page with the dried bones of the baby wearing a ring and pointed with his finger: "This one didn't even develop to the point of being born. It was forcibly aborted when it was about eight months old in the mother's womb."
Forced abortion.
As soon as this word came out, a name appeared in Qin Ye, Wen Tingting and Murong's minds almost at the same time - Mrs. Zhang.
It is impossible for a regular hospital to force an abortion on a pregnant woman, but Mrs. Zhang just secretly induces abortions for people. The baby's skeleton was wearing Mrs. Zhang's gold ring on its hand.
If Qin Ye had only suspected that there was a connection between the two before.
Now, she is certain that the parents of the baby's skeleton are closely related to the death of Mrs. Zhang.
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Li Quan didn't know that Qin Ye and his team had obtained the latest clues about Mrs. Zhang, and continued to introduce the inspection report.
"According to the autopsy date, the baby's skeleton died two years ago, around the time when Mrs. Zhang was murdered. The remaining 18 skeletons were killed between two years and one month ago. The most important point is—"
Li Quan's expression became a little serious: "These 18 dried bones are all girls. Only this one dried bone of a baby is a boy."
After listening to Li Quan's report, Qin Ye shared with them the clues he had obtained in Yaoxia Village: "Mrs. Zhang has been helping people check whether the baby in their belly is a boy or a girl. If it is a girl, she will help with the abortion."
"Qin Ye, are you saying that Mrs. Zhang has been helping people with abortions???"
Qian Yaguang's eyes widened like bells, and for the first time in his life he began to doubt himself. "I have investigated so many times, how come I have never heard of this news?!!"
Qin Ye smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The people in the village are much more united than we thought. They are deliberately hiding some information. It is difficult for us police to get clues through conventional means."
That's why this time, she went out in disguise with Murong and Wen Tingting.
"Based on the clues we have now, I have reason to suspect that Mrs. Zhang induced the abortion of this baby boy's skeleton, and was retaliated against by someone. She was brutally killed and her body was dismembered. The ring she had worn during her lifetime was also put on the baby boy's hand by the murderer."
The remaining 18 skeletons of girls were more likely the work of another person.
It’s just that the two murderers both chose this dry well as the place to dump the bodies.
After hearing her explanation, Qian Yaguang slapped his head and said self-deprecatingly: "I thought we all made a wasted trip, but it turned out that only the three of us made a wasted trip. It's really laughable."
The three grown men ran around for the entire day, visiting all the surrounding villages and police stations, but they didn't find any family that had lost a child, and no one spotted any suspicious persons.
The remains of these eighteen girls seemed to have appeared out of thin air in the well.
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Liang Dong was used to Qian Yaguang's tough guy image and he always worshipped Qian Yaguang as an idol. Seeing his idol making fun of himself in front of Qin Ye, his resentment towards Qin Ye became even stronger.
He couldn't help but try to comfort Qian Yaguang, but his criticism was directed at Qin Ye: "Captain Qian, there are hundreds of millions of people in the country, and there are no words engraved on these 19 dead bones. Who knows whose children they are? It's hard to say, they are not from our province at all. Why should such a task of finding a needle in a haystack fall on us?"
In his opinion, this was just a show of power that the little girl Qin Ye was giving to Captain Qian!
Unfortunately, Captain Qian was too honest and didn't realize the trap set for him by the other side.
When Liang Dong said this, he completely exposed his hostility towards Qin Ye.
Qin Ye looked at Liang Dong, his eyes were calm and emotionless: "For us police officers to solve cases is like looking for a needle in a haystack. If Public Security Liang feels that he is not competent, he can directly apply for transfer from the detachment."
"I'm not leaving. Why should I leave?!"
Liang Dong sat down in his seat, feet up high, and glared at Qin Ye, "Anyway, I, Liang Dong, will not submit to you!"
He observed Qin Ye's expression out of the corner of his eye, thinking that she would definitely be angered to tears like Wen Tingting.
Unexpectedly, Qin Ye didn't even look at him, but said to the others: "Everyone has been busy all day, let's go home first. We will investigate the case tomorrow."
After saying that, she went out first and left the Public Security Bureau, leaving the others in the office looking at each other in bewilderment.
Li Quan was not very familiar with Qian Yaguang and the others, so he naturally stood on Qin Ye's side. He quickly said hello and went to chase Qin Ye.
Seeing that all the "outsiders" had left, Liang Dong began to speak up for Qian Yaguang openly again: "Brother Guang, ask yourself, you have been a powerful figure in the army for many years, are you really willing to let a little girl suppress you? ! ! I don't believe that she can find the family of those dead bones!"
Qian Yaguang wanted to scold Liang Dong, but after opening his mouth, he just said in a sullen tone, "Don't say such things again in the future."
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On the other side, Qin Ye came out of the Public Security Bureau, turned and entered the state-owned hotel next door, and found Shuanzi who was counting the accounts at the front desk.
When Shuanzi saw her, his eyes lit up: "Sister Qin Ye, when did you come back? ! ! I'll treat you to a meal!"
Qin Ye smiled and waved her hand to refuse. She walked forward and whispered in his ear, "Please help me spread the news. I brought back advanced equipment from the capital. I will go door to door to test everyone and find relatives for the dead bones in the well."
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