Chapter 54 Chapter 54 Pit
The beggar behaved unusually when he saw Ning Hongying for the first time.
A few hours later, he was murdered. Before he died, he saw Ning Hongying and held her tightly.
What is the identity of this beggar?
Unfortunately, the murder happened in Changxia, and Sang Baiyu could not see the file.
Sang Baiyu walked to the car parked on the side of the road, opened the back door and got in.
The people in the car were startled. Before the weapons were pointed at Sang Baiyu, Sang Baiyu said fiercely, "Shut up. This is not Longxinggang. Be quiet."
Bian Bin: “…”
In the past, he was surrounded by Sang Baiyu's people, so he had to keep a low profile.
Now that he is surrounded by his own people, he has to keep a low profile!
Wronged!
The knife in Sang Baiyu's hand was against Chi Zhao's neck.
The first time is unfamiliar, the second time is familiar, Chi Zhao was very calm.
Sang Baiyu asked, "Why did you go to the jade shop? Was the dead person related to you?"
Chi Zhao took off his sunglasses and wiped them with a cloth. "Are you threatening me?"
"No," Sang Baiyu said sincerely, "I really want to kill you."
Bian Bin looked over nervously.
Chi Zhao said that Sang Baiyu would not do anything illegal, but no matter how Bian Bin looked at it, Sang Baiyu didn't seem like a good person.
Her brothers and sisters don't seem like good people either.
Chi Zhao said, "Leave as soon as possible. Find out how this person died, and we can continue our business."
Sang Baiyu asked, "Who is the deceased?"
"tramp."
"Just a bum?"
Chi Zhao nodded. "I want to know why he died, too. Find out and tell me, and we can continue trading intelligence."
Chi Zhao looked at Sang Baiyu.
Perhaps because he often wears sunglasses, his eyes are beautiful but dull, as if they have never seen the sun.
Sang Baiyu looked at Chi Zhao calmly. After a dozen seconds, he put away his knife and said politely, "Thank you for your cooperation. I'll come back to see you."
She got out of the car and it drove away immediately.
Sang Baiyu looked around and confirmed that there was no one from the Chi family nearby before calling Fang Xiaoman and Chi Xi.
Chi Xi was surprised and said, "You saw my brother? Even I can't see him!"
Chi Xi and Chi Zhao are not that close because there is a huge age gap between them.
Chi Xi likes his brother very much. Children probably like young people. When he was a child, Chi Xi liked to follow his brother more than his parents.
But my brother is weird.
He always avoids Chi Xi and he doesn't like playing with him.
It was rare for the family to get together, but he always looked at Chi Xi's mother with hatred, and even went back to his room to eat alone.
Chi Xi, who is over two years old, is very good at climbing stairs. He wants to find Chi Zhao.
However, the door of Chi Zhao's room was always tightly closed, and he never let Chi Xi in.
Later, Chi Xi understood that he and Chi Zhao were brothers, but they had the same father but different mothers.
Chi Xi still insisted on contacting Chi Zhao.
Chi Zhao only replied occasionally, and every time Chi Xi saw Chi Zhao's text messages, he would jump for joy.
Sang Baiyu said, "It's quite easy to meet your brother."
Chi Xi: "..."
Sang Baiyu comforted him, "It's okay if he doesn't like playing with you. Don't hang yourself on a tree. You are also very good."
Chi Xi's eyes lit up, "Am I good? Tell me in detail what makes me good."
Sang Baiyu: "It would be rude to ask again."
Chi Xi: "..."
There were several detectives at the crime scene, still studying the scene.
The victim was a homeless man whose identity was unknown. He had five dollars and thirty cents on him, and his luggage consisted of a set of clothes and a pair of badly worn straw sandals.
Changxia City is like spring all year round, so you don’t need too thick clothes.
Sang Baiyu squatted near the crime scene, trying to smell the evidence.
The location is too far and difficult.
So they got closer and closer, until they were right in front of the detective.
Detective: “…”
Suspects often return to the scene of the crime.
Fang Xiaoman and Chi Xi walked over to harass the criminal police, and Sang Baiyu took the opportunity to peek at the crime scene.
Dilapidated alleys and messy shoe prints.
Judging from the location of the blood splatter, the homeless man was facing away from the alley entrance and his neck was slashed.
The amount of bleeding was extremely large, and it was estimated that the artery was damaged.
The deceased crawled forward and there were many footprints where he finally fell, one of which was Ning Hongying's.
Sang Baiyu smelled the scent of many people, including Ning Hongying.
To Sang Baiyu, their breath had not been dispersed yet.
However, many people came to rescue at that time, and it was impossible to identify the murderer by smell.
Sang Baiyu was suddenly stunned.
She looked into the depths of the alley in disbelief and wanted to go over to take a look, but was stopped by the cordon.
Fang Xiaoman and Chi Xi couldn't hold on any longer.
The detective shouted, "This is a murder scene! If you want to sabotage this, come back to the police station with me!"
Fang Xiaoman was so frightened that she didn't dare to breathe.
Sang Baiyu looked at the criminal police.
Before the detective could say anything, Sang Baiyu's eyes turned red. "I'm sorry, my sister was taken away as a suspect. I know my sister. She wouldn't kill anyone. I just want to rescue her."
Sang Baiyu bit her lower lip lightly as she spoke, and after a moment she added, "She and I have no blood relationship. I am an orphan, and she raised me."
The more Fang Xiaoman listened, the more frightened she became.
The police here aren't the same detectives as those in Longxinggang. They won't fall for that! Tell the truth, or they'll suspect they're colluding to sabotage the scene!
Fang Xiaoman winked at Sang Baiyu.
The next second, the detective said sympathetically, "You are a good kid who knows how to repay a favor, but this is a crime scene and you can't just come in. You can look outside, but you can't cross the cordon."
Fang Xiaoman: “…”
The police in Changxia also look at faces.
Chi Xi admired and said: "As expected of Xiaoyu, she can handle anyone."
Fang Xiaoman said: "That's how she dealt with us back then."
Everyone likes the beautiful child when they see him.
How could she not resist and fall? !
The criminal police allowed them to stay outside, but Sang Baiyu no longer wanted to stay. She had more important things to do.
Coincidentally, as soon as they left the scene, they met a customer from a jade shop.
At around six o'clock in the evening, he bought a jade ring in a jade shop. Now he suspects it is fake and wants to return it.
The man said firmly, "I just bought it and haven't touched it yet. Don't even think about denying it! I want a refund!"
As he finished speaking, he saw three young men looking at him excitedly.
Man: "..., what's the matter? I'm just returning the goods, and you want to hit me? If you want to hit me... then I can also not return it."
Fang Xiaoman said excitedly: "Refund it, I will definitely refund it to you. What time did you go there?"
Man: "..., it's past six, I have to stay until closing time. Do you close at seven?"
Chi Xi: "Come with us and we will refund you immediately!!"
Ten minutes later, the man was taken to the police station by three people.
man:"??"
No, he just returned a product, but he still had to go to the police station?!
*
Ning Hongying was released at around 11 o'clock in the evening.
Also leaving was the man who successfully received a refund.
The man glanced at the time and smiled strangely, "That's great."
Fang Xiaoman looked at the man warily.
The man raised his head, tears streaming down his face. "I bought a ring, wasted an entire night, and even had to go to the police station to try it out. I got home late and got scolded by my wife... It was such a wonderful night."
Chi Xi: "Pfft."
Sang Baiyu took out twenty yuan from his pocket and walked over to him and handed it to him with both hands. "Brother, thank you for your hard work. My sister happened to be involved in a murder case. I am grateful that you are willing to testify."
The man looked at Sang Baiyu, then at the twenty yuan, and his sadness turned into joy. "Oh, this is what I should do. Look at you, you are too polite. Why are you giving me money?"
Sang Baiyu: "Then I put the money away?"
The man snatched the twenty yuan away and said, "I'm not doing this for the money! If you get into trouble again, come to me and I'll be your witness!"
The man went home happily.
Sang Baiyu looked at Ning Hongying, worried that she might be upset inside.
Fortunately, Ning Hongying looked normal.
Fang Xiaoman comforted him, "It's okay. You're just unlucky. How did you get harassed by a homeless person?"
Ning Hongying frowned and said nothing.
Her condition frightened Fang Xiaoman, "What happened? Are you still thinking about the homeless man? He's already dead. It wasn't your fault."
Ning Hongying said: "Before he died, he kept holding my hand."
"This can only be blamed on the murderer, not you."
Ning Hongying shook her head. "He held my hand and kept talking about... a couple."
Fang Xiaoman: "Ah? Is this a word? The language of Ninglan Country? I haven't heard of it either."
Ning Hongying said: "I have never heard of it, and I don't understand it either."
When she saw someone injured, she just wanted to get that person to the hospital as soon as possible.
The homeless man had been covering his neck, but when he saw her, he held her hand tightly and refused to let go.
She wanted to find someone to help, but the homeless man twisted and loosened her neck and tried to hold her with both hands.
His throat was cut.
Ning Hongying asked, "Could he know me?"
The more Fang Xiaoman listened, the more confused she became.
She has lived with Ning Hongying since she was a child, and she knows everyone Ning Hongying knows.
How could a homeless man know Ning Hongying?
Unfortunately, he is dead now, so I can’t ask him even if I want to.
Ning Hongying wanted to find out what "two people" meant, but she didn't know how to do it for a moment.
Fang Xiaoman said, "Let's talk to my elder sister first and ask her to help find someone."
Ning Hongying nodded, "This is the only way now."
Sang Baiyu suddenly said, "I want to go see the body."
Chi Xi: "?"
He asked tremblingly, "Seeing a corpse? Aren't you afraid?"
Sang Baiyu: "..."
Sometimes he really suspected that Chi Xi was an undercover agent arranged by the Chi family to be around them.
The Chi family is involved in all kinds of businesses, so how could they raise a fool who knows nothing?
But if you look closely at Chi Xi, Sang Baiyu feels that, well, he is indeed stupid.
Sang Baiyu said, "You haven't just met me. I've seen quite a few corpses. I've helped Uncle Wu many times."
"That was in Longxinggang," Ning Hongying said. "This is Changxia. The police won't let us see it casually."
"Let's think of a solution," Sang Baiyu walked towards the service hall, "and then go see Officer Duan."
Ten minutes later, Sang Baiyu and Duan Hao sat down face to face.
Duan Hao's sharp eyes gradually became clear and simple, "You mean, you want to pay for the burial expenses?"
Sang Baiyu said naturally, "Meeting is fate. He was a homeless man. When the case is over and no one comes to claim his body, it will be your job to store it. You have to pay to store the body. You have stored it for a few years and still can't find the family. In the end, it will have to be cremated. We hope to pay for his burial after catching the murderer."
Duan Hao: “…”
He had seen criminal suspects complain about their wronged status, but this was the first time he had seen one eager to pay.
Duan Hao said, "Ning Hongying's suspicion has been cleared. She didn't have the time to commit the crime. Why did you pay?"
"I have a kind heart," Sang Baiyu said, "and it's mainly because I'm rich."
Duan Hao: “…”
This reason sounds quite infuriating.
Sang Baiyu was willing to pay for the burial of the homeless man.
Not only did she bury the homeless, she was also willing to donate money to help the criminal investigation team.
There are several bodies that have not been claimed and are now stored in funeral homes. The expenses incurred are a huge waste and the criminal investigation team does not have that much funding.
Sang Baiyu's condition was very simple. He just wanted to meet the homeless man, and the meeting had to be under the supervision of a forensic doctor and criminal police, and he must not touch the homeless man's body.
The conditions sound tempting, but Duan Hao is a policeman, how can he give in?!
Duan Hao: “…”
He asked, "Would you like to go see it now and pay me tonight?"
*
The homeless man's body is temporarily stored in the Forensic Identification Center.
The Forensic Identification Center was not inside the Public Security Bureau, so Duan Hao drove them there himself.
It's not that Duan Hao is greedy for money, it's just that the team's funds are really tight.
It is a good thing to be able to bury the unidentified bodies that are not claimed and are not related to criminal cases.
Anyway, they will keep a strict watch on these people and never let them touch the corpse.
The people who went in to check the body were Sang Baiyu and Ning Hongying.
The female police officer took the two for a body search to ensure they would not harm the body.
Duan Hao thought about the time when he was taking the statement. One of them was a forensic doctor from Longxinggang City. He said, "You want to solve the case? You want a forensic doctor to see it? Actually, our forensic doctors are very good and they won't make mistakes."
Fang Xiaoman: “…”
Just think of them as forensic pathologists.
Duan Hao: "On the contrary, the level of forensic medicine in Longxinggang is questionable. They are too careless in handling cases. Their current director is from our country, and he is better than before."
Fang Xiaoman: "Who are you calling incompetent?!"
Chi Xi tried desperately to stop her, "Sister Xiaoman! Restrain yourself! Restrain yourself!!"
The homeless man lay calmly on the dissection table.
The time of death was less than ten hours, and the body had not changed much, but the aura of death was still strong on his face.
Ning Hongying really wanted to ask him why he wanted to capture her and what the couple meant.
Sang Baiyu stood in the distance, only his nose moving.
Five minutes later, she looked at the policewoman and said, "Sister, we can do it now."
The policewoman was surprised and asked, "Is it over? You can watch it for a while longer."
We gave them a lot of money, so we have to let them see the value.
Sang Baiyu said, "Okay."
The two walked outside.
Policewoman: “!!”
This money comes so easily.
What can you tell from watching them for five minutes? It seems they are... pure and kind-hearted!
After leaving the Forensic Identification Center, Sang Baiyu and his friends took a taxi home.
The cordon at the crime scene had not been removed yet, and passers-by would occasionally stand at the entrance of the alley and look inside.
The number of serious cases in Changxia City is far less than that in Longxinggang, but any murder that occurs will cause a small sensation.
Fang Xiaoman was anxious to know the result, "What on earth did you smell?"
Sang Baiyu glanced at Chi Xi.
She treated Chi Xi as a friend, but Chi Xi's identity was indeed too special, and he himself didn't have much brains, so Sang Baiyu was afraid that he would be tricked.
Sang Baiyu said, "There are no new clues for now. I'll go out and look again tomorrow."
Chi Xi said disappointedly: "We have to wait a little longer. Okay, I'll come to see you tomorrow."
He is a man and it is not convenient for him to stay.
After Chi Xi left, Sang Baiyu tugged at Fang Xiaoman and signaled her to check the house.
Fang Xiaoman: "Now?"
Sang Baiyu nodded.
The three searched the room thoroughly, making sure no one had broken in and there were no monitoring devices. Only then did Sang Baiyu solemnly say, "We can't sleep tonight."
Ning Hongying asked, "What exactly do you smell?"
Sang Baiyu said, "The smell of a girl."
Fang Xiaoman: "On the homeless guy? The person who killed him was a girl?"
Sang Baiyu shook his head, "Not necessarily."
"That's meaningless," Fang Xiaoman said. "After the homeless man was injured, many people came to rescue him, Hongying was one of them. It's normal for him to have come into contact with a girl at that time and leave a scent behind."
Sang Baiyu asked Ning Hongying, "Have other young girls been there since you left?"
"There's no one younger than me."
Sang Baiyu said: "That means we have come into contact with each other before."
Fang Xiaoman said, "But if we only talk about girls, it seems unnecessary to look for them. Is there any more concrete evidence?"
Sang Baiyu sighed and said, "I've smelled her scent before."
Fang Xiaoman: “?”
Sang Baiyu said word by word, "A few years ago, when I first arrived at Longxinggang, did you remember Tirad who was beheaded?"
Fang Xiaoman nodded.
She and Sang Baiyu were involved in this case together, which gave Wu Yuanqing a headache.
Sang Baiyu said: "He also has a similar smell."
Fang Xiaoman took a breath of cold air.
Why did Tirad and the homeless man come into contact with the same girl?
She was still a young girl, but Tirad had been killed many years ago.
This girl...what's her background?
Ning Hongying asked, "Do you suspect the homeless man is related to Tirad? Or is he related to the Chi family?"
"I don't know," Sang Baiyu said, "I'm more interested in confirming the girl's identity. In fact, I've smelled her scent in other places."
"where?"
Sang Baiyu said, "It's in the files found at He Li's house."
*
The murderer of Tirad and Holly has not been found yet.
Plus the homeless man who was just murdered.
They all appeared to have had contact with the same girl before they were killed.
Sang Baiyu first told Hui Haiming about this, then took a taxi and said, "Go to Yulan Mountain."
The three of them sat in the back in silence.
Fang Xiaoman said worriedly, "Isn't it too dangerous for the three of us to go? We even have to take a stranger's car."
driver:"……"
He looked in the rearview mirror, "I guess I'm afraid of you three!!"
Judging from his expression, it looks like he has eaten someone!
Yulan Mountain is located due north of Changxia City. Further north, there are no towns, only rolling mountains.
The driver stopped the car, Sang Baiyu gave him the fare and asked him to leave his contact information.
There is only a dirt road leading to Magnolia Mountain, with grassland on both sides and high mountains above.
It was late at night. Five hundred meters to the west was a village cemetery.
Fang Xiaoman tried hard to identify the direction of the mountain in the dark. A cold wind blew, and she wrapped her clothes tightly, "Let's not run into someone else's cemetery."
Sang Baiyu looked towards Magnolia Mountain and said, "Let's not go to the cemetery. He came to Magnolia Mountain when he was alive. Let's go to the mountain and take a look."
If you’re lucky, you might even find the smell of homeless people.
The three of them walked into the mountains.
Changxia City is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the stars above are clearly visible.
It is an advantage normally, but it is a disadvantage now. Fang Xiaoman always has to look back, afraid of being followed.
Sang Baiyu has been leading the way, "This way."
"Turn left."
"We have to go up here."
Fang Xiaoman hugged Sang Baiyu's arm and exclaimed, "You can even smell the smell here?!"
Sang Baiyu: "...it depends on the direction the weeds fall."
Ning Hongying said slowly: "He even forgot his own abilities. He has strong limbs but a simple mind."
Fang Xiaoman: “…”
Yes.
The three of them walked for nearly an hour before Sang Baiyu stopped and said, "I smell like him. Why would he come here?"
Ning Hongying walked to the top of the rock and looked down. "This place is not far from the city. There are people living down there. It looks like there are a lot of households."
Sang Baiyu said, "But there are families and villages nearby. Going to the city to beg is more likely to get something than begging here, right?"
Fang Xiaoman said: "He might be a criminal disguised as a beggar, and he wants to harm Hongying."
This makes sense, but not entirely.
"Keep looking. Anything more we say now is just speculation."
Sang Baiyu frowned and didn't move.
Ning Hongying and Fang Xiaoman took a few steps forward and realized that Sang Baiyu hadn't caught up with them. Ning Hongying asked, "Is it here?"
Sang Baiyu nodded gently, "It smells like a girl, and there are a lot of people."
"A lot of people?! What do you mean?"
Sang Baiyu frowned, "I can't really explain it, but there are a lot of people, and..."
"how?"
Sang Baiyu asked, "Sister Xiaoman, do you remember Zhu Jiang? I feel like he smells like me."
Of course Fang Xiaoman remembered Zhu Jiang. When He Li was murdered, Chi Zhao's people were nearby, including Zhu Jiang.
"Chi Zhao is really not a good guy! I can't trust him anymore!"
Sang Baiyu did not agree with Fang Xiaoman. She squatted on the ground looking for clues.
She smelled of many people.
Among them, the smell of the girl, Zhu Jiang and the homeless man was more obvious, and Sang Baiyu was deeply impressed by their smell.
Sang Baiyu walked towards another road up the mountain. At the other end of this road was the mountain village discovered by Ning Hongyingshan.
The smell was stronger on this road, where they were going up the mountain.
Sang Baiyu walked down the mountain.
Fang Xiaoman asked curiously, "Are you leaving?"
"Be quiet," Ning Hongying said, "give Xiaoyu some time."
Fang Xiaoman squinted at Ning Hongying and said, "I noticed that you spoke very quickly when you were teaching me."
Ning Hongying said solemnly: "In order to cure my slow speech problem, I have decided to educate you from now on."
Fang Xiaoman: “…”
Sang Baiyu didn't really go down the mountain, she just hung around the trees on the roadside for a while.
Soon she was back to where she started, "where the tramp had been behind the tree."
"What does this mean?"
Sang Baiyu affirmed: "They are not in the same group. The homeless man is following them. He and the girl are in opposition."
Ning Hongying suddenly realized, "So the homeless man was silenced by the girl."
"The homeless man followed them up the mountain and saw something he shouldn't have seen. They found the homeless man and silenced him. At least five people must have been here before. Their scents overlapped with the crime scene, and the most obvious one was the girl's. It's highly likely she's the murderer."
Fang Xiaoman looked towards Yulan Mountain, "But what are they doing in the mountains?"
Sang Baiyu shook his head, "I don't know either."
Ning Hongying asked, "Should I tell my elder sister first, or continue?"
Sang Baiyu said, "There should be no one nearby."
Since there is no one here, there is no reason to leave.
Ning Hongying took the lead and walked forward.
Although she already knew that the homeless man and the girl were not in the same group, Ning Hongying still wanted to know why the homeless man only grabbed her before he died.
Although she was the first to arrive, many people came to help later. Why did they only choose her?
He kept repeating those two words to her, and she had a feeling he had something to say to her.
Ning Hongying felt a little confused.
She didn't know how to describe the feeling. She felt that the homeless man seemed to know her and it seemed that this was not the first time he saw her.
Ning Hongying is an orphan and was taken home by Hui Haiming.
Ning Hongying has lived happily in the jade shop over the years, but she sometimes still wonders what kind of people her parents are and why they abandoned her.
Seeing Ning Hongying so active, Fang Xiaoman knew that this matter meant something different to her.
Although Fang Xiaoman couldn't understand the difference, she had to do her best to help her sister with what she wanted to do.
The three of them walked forward silently, continuing to look for clues.
The way up the mountain is not easy to walk.
Changxia City is on the border, and when you climb up, you can see endless mountains and rivers.
If you are not a professional, it is impossible to tell which countries these mountains belong to. It is possible that after you climb over one mountain, the mountain opposite belongs to Ninglan Country, or a country in the north.
If you want to do something bad here, you may not be discovered for decades.
The three of them went further and further astray.
Fortunately, they were all trained and would not get lost in such a place.
Ning Hongying made marks along the way, marks that only they could understand.
Mulberry white jade goes in the direction of the flow of the scent.
The further she went in, the more certain she became that the homeless man must have followed them.
But one person was following several people, including men. She really couldn't understand what the homeless man saw that made him take such a risk.
At this moment, Fang Xiaoman suddenly said, "Another trap."
Sang Baiyu looked over.
The mountains were covered with dense trees, and the branches blocked the moonlight, making the light unclear.
Sang Baiyu could vaguely see the rocks, as if there was a cave.
When I got closer, I realized that Fang Xiaoman was right. This was not a cave, but a pit with an inclination of about 80 degrees.
Fang Xiaoman gets a headache whenever she thinks of the sinkhole.
The first time she went to the tiankeng, she found the most bones she had ever seen in her life at the bottom of the pit, which almost cured her timidity.
Fang Xiaoman said: "It's a pit again. It's most convenient to dump corpses in a pit."
Sang Baiyu and Ning Hongying looked at Fang Xiaoman.
Fang Xiaoman: "..., no way?!"
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