Gu Xizhou subconsciously covered his nose when he smelled the stench of a corpse. The gas was also poisonous.
"Head, head …" The middle-aged woman who came over to join in the fun was so scared that her legs went weak. She opened her mouth, but her throat seemed to be blocked by something. She couldn't speak, and her face was as pale as paper.
"Someone, someone is dead!"
"Ha! Officer, I … "Wei Zhong grabbed Gu Xizhou and wanted to ask about the reduced sentence. When he turned around, he saw the owner of the tea shop, Zhou Yiguang, staring at him with a gloomy face like a poisonous snake. He was so scared that he trembled and subconsciously hid behind Gu Xizhou. He shouted," Why, why are you looking at me? You, you said it yourself! "
In order to prevent the owner of the tea shop from acting excessively, Fang Zhi and two other criminal police officers rushed up and directly subdued him. They handcuffed the owner of the tea shop behind his back.
The owner of the tea shop was livid and ferocious. He glared fiercely at Gu Xizhou and Wei Zhong, trying to break free from the two police officers' restraints like crazy. He barked like a dog from the depths of his throat. "You're courting death!"
Wei Zhong was so scared that he shrank his neck, pointed at him, and shouted, "You, you killed someone. You'll definitely go to jail. I'm not afraid!"
"Take him to the police car first and inform the station to send someone here!" Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows. Fang Zhi immediately took out his phone and dialed the police station's number. After a few words, the other side quickly hung up.
The suspect's tea shop was surrounded by yellow cordons. Gu Xizhou stood in front of the tea shop for a while. Xiang Yuan's apprentice came over and said, "The head is highly decomposed, but because of the cement on the surface, oxygen enters slowly, so the body hasn't completely decomposed. Now we can barely confirm that it's a man's head."
Gu Xizhou nodded and teased, "Xiang Yuan is so shameless. He actually let a girl like you examine his head."
Li Yan's eyes were slightly curved, and she defended Xiang Yuan. "Teacher is on leave today. He's at home with his wife and child. I've already identified many corpses. Please believe in my professionalism, Captain Gu!"
"I don't doubt your professionalism," Gu Xizhou explained. "By the way, are all forensic doctors so psychologically strong?"
"Professional requirements." Li Yan whispered.
Gu Xizhou turned to look at the surrounding uncles and aunties. He stopped joking with Li Yan and asked, "Has anyone disappeared in your community in the past few years?"
"No!" An old lady shook her head. After recalling for a moment, she answered Gu Xizhou's question with certainty.
"We're all old neighbors in this neighborhood. If someone goes missing, we'll definitely know!" An old man wearing a red coat was waving a cattail leaf fan in his hand, fanning away the stench around him. However, he still stuck his head out to look at the position where the head was placed.
Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows and asked, "Do any of you remember when this cement block appeared?"
"This cement block has been here for many years. It was here when Zhou Yiguang opened the tea shop. We really don't know where it started!"
"That's right, that's right. How would we know how long this cement block has been there? I've always been here! "
A few children came out from the crowd, but they were stopped by their parents. "Aiya, what are you looking at? You kids should go home. Don't wander around here. I'll ask the police to arrest you later!"
"Auntie, you can't say that!" Fang Zhi suddenly said, "If the children always say that, they'll think that the police are bad people. When they encounter trouble, they won't ask the police for help!"
The auntie smiled and nodded. She explained, "Police comrade, I didn't mean that. I'm just scaring them. When these children see this head … they'll be so scared that they won't be able to sleep at night. Even we adults are scared when we see it!"
The child who was caught by the auntie poked his head out from behind the fat auntie. He raised his hand and said weakly, "Uncle, I know!"
"What nonsense are the children talking about …" The fat auntie grabbed the little boy and tried to stop him. "Police comrade, don't listen to the children's nonsense. What does he know? This cement block has been used by Zhou Yiguang for a long time!
Gu Xizhou waved his hand and said, "I want to hear it."
"Go ahead." Gu Xizhou heard this, squatted down and gave him an encouraging look. He patiently waited for the child to speak.
The little boy in yellow short-sleeved shirt lowered his head and whispered, "This stone block should have been replaced a year ago!"
"How do you know?"
The little boy scratched his head and said, "One night, I was playing with my friends in the yard. When we were playing games, we accidentally knocked over the parasol. The stone block broke into two halves, but there was nothing in it at that time!
"Back then, we were afraid that Uncle Zhou would tell Mom and Dad if he found out, so we put the stone block into the metal bucket and stuck the parasol in it. It was winter at that time, so no one used parasols. No one noticed that the cement block was broken!"
When Gu Xizhou heard this, he grunted and said, "And then?"
"After some time, we came back to confirm it again. In the end, we found that the cement block had been repaired!" The little boy explained softly. When he saw Gu Xizhou's encouraging expression, he seemed to relax a little.
"Around what time in winter?" Gu Xizhou asked.
"I only remember that it was winter vacation. Because the friends in the yard were on vacation during winter vacation, we were playing in the neighborhood!"
"Thank you, child. This information is very useful."
After confirming the approximate time of death of the victim, the scope of finding the victim's identity was greatly narrowed. Gu Xizhou thanked the little boy and returned to the police station.
In the interrogation room, Lai Li, who was in the police station, received the news that there was a human head in the cement block. Just like Wei Zhong, he was beaming with joy. The police in the station were speechless when they saw these two fools.
On the other side, Gu Xizhou sat in the interrogation room and interrogated the teahouse owner sitting opposite him with handcuffs — Zhou Yiguang.
"Why did you kill someone?"
Zhou Yiguang looked at Gu Xizhou and said, "Officer, I didn't kill anyone. That head, I don't know what happened!"
"You don't know? Just because you say you don't know, you don't know? "
After a moment, Zhou Yiguang spoke again. "I really don't know. What I said to them after I drank wasn't true. I was just joking. I'm also very puzzled. Why would there be a human head in there?
"I know. Did they listen to me after we drank that day? So they killed someone and put the head in there? Yes, that's very likely the case! They're trying to frame me! "
Zhou Yiguang slammed the table and said excitedly, "Yes, it must be so. I'm innocent!"
"Police comrade, arrest all of them! It must be them! "
Gu Xizhou glanced at him and chuckled. "You don't admit it?"
"I really didn't do it. How do you want me to admit it? You can't beat me into a confession, right? I didn't kill anyone! I don't know whose head it is! " Zhou Yiguang rolled his eyes and leaned back in his chair. He lowered his head and played with his fingers. "If you think I killed someone, you should at least find evidence, right?"
"I don't admit it anyway!"
"You want evidence? Well, don't think that you'll be fine if you don't admit it now. Your nervous eyes have already betrayed you. "Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows and said. Then he left the interrogation room with Fang Zhi.
At this time, Xiang Yuan had already rushed over from home. When he saw Gu Xizhou, he took out a cigarette from his trouser pocket and handed it to Gu Xizhou. Gu Xizhou waved his hand and said, "I quit."
"Are you serious? Don't tell me you're secretly smoking at home? "Xiang Yuan didn't look up. He took out a lighter and lit the cigarette. He smoked very slowly.
"You say that you drink red dates and wolfberries every day to nourish your health, but then you turn around and smoke. What's the point of that?"
Xiang Yuan glared at him. "Don't I feel any pressure from dissecting corpses every day?"
After smoking half of the cigarette, Xiang Yuan said, "The good news is that the DNA was extracted. The bad news is that there is no corpse, so the cause of death can't be confirmed."
"Yes." Gu Xizhou nodded. "I didn't expect that arresting robbers would lead to a murder case."
Xiang Yuan patted him on the shoulder and said, "Isn't that good? Originally, no one would find the deceased. These two robbers can be considered as doing good deeds for themselves. "
"You're a forensic doctor, and you still believe in doing good deeds?" Gu Xizhou laughed and said, "Then you dissect corpses every day. Aren't you afraid that the deceased will come back to you?"
"That's different! I dissect corpses to provide you with a complete chain of evidence. Without a forensic doctor, how can you solve a case?! "
"Yes, yes, yes. Without you, we can't do it," Gu Xizhou complimented. He turned around and said to Fang Zhi, "By the way, Fang Zhi, can you check if there are any headless corpses with only a body and no head? Especially in the winter a year ago. The deceased should have died then."
Fang Zhi: "Okay!"
When Gu Xizhou went back, he happened to hear a voice coming from the surveillance camera — —
"I really didn't kill anyone. No matter what you say, I didn't kill anyone. I didn't kill anyone! I don't care. I don't want to answer any of your questions now. I don't know anything. I hope the police can clear my name! "
Zhou Yiguang said shamelessly.
Gu Xizhou looked at him for a while and said, "This person is a little difficult to deal with. Detain him first."
"Fang Zhi, get someone to investigate his interpersonal relationships again. Gather at the entrance of Zhou Yiguang's neighborhood tomorrow. We'll visit him again."
"Okay, Gu Ge!"
After giving his instructions, Gu Xizhou stayed at the police station for a while. He took the information that Fang Zhi had prepared and took a taxi home.
Gu Xizhou entered the house and threw the information in his hands onto the table. Lying on the sofa, he complained, "Oh my god, why are you police officers so tired? I'm dying. "
Gu Zhizhi: …
Gu Zhizhi picked up the information on the table and stared at it for a while.
He wrote a few words with a pencil in a sharp, square font: There were no headless corpses at Ningqing last year.
Gu Xizhou: "You even remember this?"
Gu Zhizhi ignored his question and wrote: How did you find out about the headless corpses?
Gu Xizhou, who was lying on the sofa, said, "This morning, we met two robbers near the police station. The middle-aged woman who was robbed had 50,000 yuan in her purse. The robbery amount was huge. The two of them cried and said that they wanted to reduce their sentences. When they were drinking, they heard the owner of the tea shop say that he had killed someone, so they reported him for murder."
"They insisted that there was a human head in the cement block. They said that they had already said so, so what else could we do? We had no choice but to take a look. We really did see a human head. "
After Gu Xizhou finished speaking, another line appeared on the book: You gave the order?
Gu Xizhou reluctantly grunted in agreement.
Gu Zhizhi: The rookie devil cultivator has improved.
"…" Gu Xizhou looked at the words Gu Zhizhi had written and rolled his eyes. "I think you're treating me like a primary school student, right? Do you think I'll be as happy as a primary school student when you praise me? "
Gu Zhizhi ignored his complaints and wrote comments on the information in his hands: Corpse? Murder weapon?
A few big question marks fell on the information.
Early in the morning, Gu Xizhou took the information that his family had written and sat in a taxi to read Gu Zhizhi's comments. In this case, the first thing to do was to confirm the identity of the deceased. The second thing was to find the corpse and murder weapon. The last two were evidence. Confirming the identity was the key.
When Gu Xizhou arrived at the entrance of the neighborhood, Fang Zhi was already there. He waved at Gu Xizhou. "Gu Ge!"
"Let's eat breakfast first." Gu Xizhou led Fang Zhi to the bun shop at the entrance of the neighborhood to eat. Both of them were dressed casually. The bun shop was doing well at this time, so the table was full of people.
"Did you hear? A human head was found in the neighborhood next door! "
"Everyone should know. It's been spread around! Did Zhou Yiguang really dare to kill someone? "
When Gu Xizhou heard this, he pretended to be curious and asked the two men who were talking, "What human head? Someone died?"
The tall, thin man in a black short-sleeved shirt had a strange big belly. He looked at Gu Xizhou and gossiped, "Isn't that so? A human head was found in the cement block under the umbrella of the tea shop owner in the neighborhood next door. It's said that there's a corpse in the wall of their house! "
This rumor … Gu Xizhou and Fang Zhi looked at each other. Gu Xizhou changed the topic and said, "What kind of person is Zhou Yiguang? Why is he so cruel? "
The tall, thin man looked around and whispered, "Although I live next door, I occasionally go to his tea shop to drink tea and play mahjong. The owner is actually quite nice. He's very filial to his parents.
"His father has been paralyzed for more than ten years! Zhou Yiguang has been taking care of him at home. He used to be a construction worker, but he resigned to open a tea shop in the neighborhood to take care of his father.
"The people in the neighborhood pitied him and took care of his father, so no one reported him. Otherwise, no one would dare to open a tea shop in the neighborhood! The jealous neighbors would have already told the neighborhood committee! "
Gu Xizhou continued to ask, "What about his mother?"
"His mother … I remember it was last year. She died last year. I wanted to play mahjong that day, but he didn't open the door."
"Was it last winter vacation?"
"It should be. I don't remember clearly. Anyway, his mother died last year because they didn't have the money to pay for her treatment." The man sighed, "He's unlucky in this life. His father was paralyzed when he was supposed to get married, and no one wanted to marry him. In order to take care of his father, he had to wait at home every day. His life was wasted."
Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows. When they sealed off the tea shop yesterday, they didn't see Zhou Yiguang's father in the room. He couldn't help but whisper, "Where is his father now?"
"Dead last year, after his mother died of illness, his father died not long after. I heard … he died on a hunger strike." The tall, thin man lowered his voice and whispered to Gu Xizhou.
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