Chapter 167 Chapter 167 Chapter 167 Chapter 167...
Chapter 167
Two days of nightmares had frightened Old Lady Qian to the point of shock, so when she saw the red sleeves, she said to people in all seriousness, "There really is a ghost."
"There really is a ghost! It really is!"
She pulled her collar, then rolled up her sleeves to let people see the red marks on her body. Seeing that the young men in red sleeves didn't believe her, she also told them about the screams and laughter that occurred in the village last night.
After he finished, he pointed at the villagers around him and said confidently, "If you don't believe me, ask them! They all heard it."
Upon hearing this, the red-sleeved men all looked towards the surrounding villagers, who all immediately lowered their heads or half-turned away. No one stood up to testify in support of Old Lady Qian, and no one even bothered to meet the red-sleeved men's gazes.
Villagers: Don’t drag us into this if you want to die.
Old Mrs. Qian: Decades of friendship as fellow townspeople were ultimately wasted.
Red sleeves: Humph! It seems that this old woman won’t cry until she sees the coffin.
The red-sleeved men who did not believe what Old Lady Qian said simply dragged her away from Yong'an Village.
At first, her family just wanted to stop the people, but later they said some words to testify for Old Lady Qian during the conflict, so they were taken to the town by the red sleeves just like Old Lady Qian.
The village chief and the village party secretary did not dare to stop them, nor could they. Seeing that Mrs. Qian's family was in trouble, the village chief called the whole village to emphasize the central idea of opposing feudalism and superstition.
After this incident, Li Yun and the carpenter no longer had the heart to gossip about the parents. However, they still speculated about the suspect who reported Mrs. Qian.
Not to mention them, the entire Yong'an Village was wondering who had done this, and when. Before he did this, he certainly hadn't thought about the screams and laughter last night...
Compared with the villagers of Yong'an Village who were concerned about who the whistleblower was, Zhen Hongtaoxiu did not care who posted the big-character poster.
The Red Sleeves had been feeling uneasy these past few days because of the two murders, and many had backed out. Now that someone had defied the odds and posted a big-character poster, they couldn't let the unsung heroes down.
This incident can be used to boost the morale of the Red Sleeves.
Old Mrs. Qian's family was taken away. Hong Taoxiu used the anger and fear he had accumulated over the past few days to greet Old Mrs. Qian's family. It is easy to imagine what the fate of this family will be.
However, Weisheng did not sympathize with them at all. After asking the carpenter to measure the size and paying the deposit, Weisheng bought a few earthen bricks made by the villagers themselves under Li Yun's introduction.
Then, under the guidance of Li Yun, a small earthen kang was built in the cowshed.
Weisheng had been tinkering with the cowshed every day, right under the villagers' noses. Since things had been busy lately, and there wasn't much farm work to do, the village chief and his colleagues ignored Weisheng's antics. However, a few educated youth living at the educated youth camp came to the cowshed with critical and disdainful eyes, pointing and criticizing Weisheng, saying he lacked the awareness of being a sent-down cadre.
Weisheng rolled his eyes impatiently and was about to say something when he heard the sound of something collapsing in the village and the villagers shouting.
Zhiqing and Weisheng ignored each other and ran towards the sound. Like them, there were many villagers who had heard the sound, and they ran while sharing various speculations.
Only when they arrived at the place did Weisheng stop with a twitching mouth.
It turned out to be the Zhu family who went swimming last night.
The ice had not melted yet, but after being soaked for so long, the adobe house of the Zhu family finally 'melted' before the ice.
Nearly 20 tons of river water rushed in all directions like a flood the moment the adobe house collapsed. The already thin ice blocks fell into the muddy water and were inconspicuous. Because the water was so fierce, the ice blocks were also washed far away. Later, due to their weight, they fell to the ground, allowing the muddy water to flow over them.
Some of the Zhu family members' bodies were crushed under the roof beams, some were stuck between windows and the remaining walls, and some were washed outside by the water...
There are deaths every moment of the 365 days of the year, and there are drownings every year in the river at the entrance of the village, but the way the Zhu family died is something no one has ever seen in their lives.
When the sun was shining brightly in the sky, everyone felt a chill in their hearts, as if they were in the coldest days of winter.
When something like this happened, even though the village chief's hair stood on end, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and lead the brave villagers in.
After making sure that everyone was dead, the village chief rode his bicycle to the town police station with an escapist mentality.
Regardless of whether the death was accidental or caused by any other reason, according to the rules, one must go to the police station and wait for the police station staff to examine the body before they can collect the body and handle the funeral arrangements depending on the circumstances.
Alas, I don’t know if the work points earned by the Zhu family this year are enough to buy coffins for their entire family.
The village chief went to the town police station to report that a whole family of villagers had been drowned.
The comrades from the police station registered and asked for details. When they heard the village chief say that he was in his own home and that the house was about to collapse due to a flood, both the police officers from the town police station and the special task force members from the municipal bureau first looked at the village chief up and down with complicated eyes. Then the leader of the special task force, Lu Weize, suddenly remembered that several of the victims in the second homicide were from Yong'an Village, and the village chief in front of him had come to the police station to identify the bodies before.
Maybe, it’s not an accident!
Because the police car's engine hadn't been found, the town police station's young chief borrowed a donkey cart and had the driver wait at the police station. Everyone thought this case might be related to the previous murder, so they followed the village chief to Yong'an Village, either by bicycle or donkey cart.
When they arrived at Yong'an Village, the driver asked the village chief in surprise, "Where is the persimmon tree in your village?"
That persimmon tree produces so many persimmons every year that it's well-known in the surrounding area. People often come to break off branches to plant back home, and 80% of the persimmon trees in the town and various villages are offshoots of this tree.
I used to see the tree whenever I passed by the village entrance. How come it disappeared after just a few days?
"Maybe it turned into a spirit and ran away with long legs."
The village chief thought for a moment and gave the driver an awkward smile.
As soon as they entered the village, the task force staff discovered that many villagers were still staying at Lao Zhu's house.
Thinking that the villagers might have destroyed the scene and evidence, Lu Weize and others couldn't help but frown.
The forensic doctor who came to Fuyuan Town with the task force was not only able to examine the bodies, but he was also proficient in collecting and examining some on-site traces.
However, when he arrived at the scene, the ice that Weisheng had used to seal the windows and doors yesterday had already melted in the muddy water.
Silver needle probing only caused the Zhu family to fall into a coma, but breathing on their own was a survival instinct. When they were soaked in the river, the effect of the silver needles would weaken over time.
The Zhu family members who woke up due to difficulty breathing found that they must have struggled in the water, which was consistent with the physical condition of drowning.
He first examined the body, then the scene, and then a mysterious look appeared on the forensic doctor's face.
The deceased had indeed drowned, and the adobe house had collapsed due to a large amount of river water. But the question is, why was there so much river water in the house, and why didn't the deceased escape?
By the way, why is it river water and not the well water in the village?
Because it is easier to collect river water than well water using space.
One just needs to put his hand in the river, the other needs to find a way to get down to the well...
The cases are becoming more and more numerous and more and more bizarre.
However, since the task force had come to the village, they borrowed the village committee office and questioned the villagers one by one.
'What is your relationship with the deceased's family?'
'When was the deceased last seen?'
"Who could the deceased's family have a feud with?"
"Has anything unusual happened in the village since last night?"
'……'
The villagers were questioned one by one, including Weisheng. However, because Weisheng had only been in the village for a short time and was a single girl, she immediately ruled out Weisheng as a suspect when she said she hadn't even recognized everyone.
Weisheng has experience dealing with the police. In one life, she was chased around the world by a special task force and became an expert in criminal psychology. In another, she became a policewoman. So she knows exactly how to respond when questioned by the police.
After successfully getting through to the police and finding out that the task force members would not leave Yong'an Village tonight, Weisheng rolled his eyes and came up with another idea.
The task force questioned the people until late at night, and because it was too late, they rested in the village committee compound. Weisheng slept until late at night, then, as usual, lit some calming incense in the cowshed. Then, wearing infrared thermal imaging contact lenses, he went to the village committee compound.
After using thermal imaging to determine the location of the people inside, he took out the incense burner containing calming incense and knocked the already asleep person unconscious.
After knocking them unconscious, he went in again and pricked each one with a silver needle to make sure everything was safe.
Weisheng rushed to the drying area where she had hung corpses twice that night, and hung all the people who had been left in the space for a day or two on the clothesline like the previous two times.
Afterwards, he ran to the Red Sleeves' office and first visited Old Lady Qian's family at the place where they held the prisoners. Then, according to the registration book he had obtained before, he found three of the Red Sleeves who did not go to Yong'an Village today and put them into the space. After finishing his work, he hurried back to Yong'an Village.
The reason why he took the red sleeves away and did not go to Yong'an Village was because he did not want to leave them unattended at Old Lady Qian's place.
The only way to muddy the waters and continue to confuse the police is to temporarily let go of those red sleeves who went to Yong'an Village today...
When he arrived at the cowshed, Weisheng released the charged small speaker and drone, and let them hover over Yong'an Village and play for a quarter of an hour. Then he finished his work and went to sleep with a smile on his face.
She is very busy every day.
The villagers woke up again in a familiar way, all scared to death, but the people from the task force and the police station had all been knocked down by Weisheng before, so they all slept very well that night.
The next morning, when the village chief tentatively asked them whether they slept well last night, they all replied "very well". Just these two words made the village chief swallow back all the words in his heart.
Village chief: ...I’m so tired!
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The people from the police station and the task force were called back. When they heard that another murder had occurred, the village chief was particularly proactive in going with them to identify the body.
How should I put it? Compared to other villages, only one of the victims in this homicide case was from Yong'an Village.
However, this did not comfort the village chief, but made him even more frightened.
What went wrong and why are there so many strange things happening this year?
Compared to the village chief who was already afraid of his own village, the people from the task force and the police station were furious.
Before yesterday, they were still considering whether to send someone to guard the drying area, but they didn't expect to find several more bodies there early this morning.
After the first case occurred, the Municipal Bureau set up a special task force.
When the second case occurred, not only did they have no clues, but they also lost two engines.
When the third case occurred, they were not in town.
After years of working in the industry, Lv Weize was also stumped by this gang's crimes.
No clue!
And very cunning!
Thinking of the transcripts he took in Yong'an Village yesterday, Lu Chuanze felt overwhelmed.
The villagers did not dare to tell Hong Taoxiu those things, but they confessed everything under the skillful questioning of the task force.
What about white smoke coming out of a well, screaming and crying in the middle of the night, and Old Lady Qian meeting a ghost...
Lu Weize sighed, feeling helpless:
How come everyone in such a nice village, from the old to the young, is so superstitious?
Lu Weize was under so much pressure that he had to call the Municipal Bureau for support.
Meanwhile, the very cunning Wei Sheng was purifying quinoline fumarate.
Purified quinolone fumarate combined with some special medicinal materials, once injected into the body, will cause dry mouth and tongue, and then make people drink a lot of water.
Weisheng remembered that the educated youth in the village pressed Zhu Shu's head into the small river at the entrance of the village, causing Zhu Shu to choke on a lot of water.
Zhu Shu had just had an abortion and was extremely weak...
Thinking of this, Weisheng decided to inject the medicine into those people, letting them die by drinking water crazily.
Originally, I didn't intend to do anything to them now, but they insisted on jumping in front of Weisheng for no reason, so Weisheng didn't mind mentioning their names.
That night, Weisheng went to the educated youth site quietly again.
They injected the specially tailored quinoline fumarate compound into their bodies, and then thoughtfully filled the water tanks at the educated youth camp with water...
Weisheng: Just ask, who else can be more considerate than her?
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