Gu Xizhou covered his nose subconsciously as a stench of corpse smelt his nostrils, these gases were also poisonous.
"Head, head..." The aunt who came to join in the fun was so frightened that her legs became weak, her mouth opened, her throat seemed to be blocked by something, she couldn't speak, and her face was as pale as paper.
"Dead, dead!"
"Ha! Comrade police, I..." Wei Zhong grabbed Gu Xizhou and wanted to ask about the commutation of his sentence. When he turned around, he saw the owner of the tea shop, Yiguang Zhou, staring at him gloomily, like a poisonous snake, which made him tremble. Subconsciously hiding behind Gu Xizhou, he shouted, "You, look at what I do! Yes, you said it yourself!"
In order to prevent the tea shop owner from acting too aggressively, Fang Zhi and two other criminal policemen rushed up, directly subdued the person, and handcuffed the tea shop owner's hands behind him.
The owner of the tea shop had a livid face, and stared at Gu Xizhou and Wei Zhong fiercely. He wanted to break free from the restraints of the two policemen as if he was crazy. From the depths of his throat, he made a sound like a vicious dog barking, "You are courting death!"
Wei Zhong shrank his neck in fright, pointed at him, and shouted, "You, if you kill someone, you will definitely go to jail, so I'm not afraid!"
"Take someone to the police car first, and notify the bureau to send someone!" Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows, Fang Zhi immediately took out his phone and dialed the number in the police station. After saying a few words, the other side quickly hung up. .
A yellow cordon was drawn around the suspect's tea shop. Gu Xizhou stood in front of the tea shop for a while, and Xiang Yuan's apprentice came over and introduced: "The head is highly rotten, but because of the cement on the surface, oxygen can enter slowly. So the body is not completely decomposed, and now it can only be determined that it is the head of a man."
Gu Xizhou nodded when he heard the words, and joked: "Xiang Yuan, this shameless person, even asked you to check your head."
Li Yan's eyes were slightly curved, and he defended Xiang Yuan, "Teacher, he is on vacation today, he is at home with his wife and children, and I have already identified many corpses, please trust my professionalism!"
"I don't doubt your professionalism," Gu Xizhou explained, "By the way, are you all so strong in forensic psychology?"
"Professional needs." Li Yan whispered.
Gu Xizhou turned his head to look at the surrounding aunts and uncles, stopped joking with Li Yan, and asked, "Has anyone in your community been missing in recent years?"
"No!" An old lady shook her head, recalling a moment and answering Gu Xizhou's question with certainty.
"We are all old neighbors we know. If someone is missing, we will know for sure!" An old man in a red coat waved the fan in his hand, fanning away the stench around him, but poking his head towards the head location.
Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows and asked, "Then who of you remember when this cement pier appeared?"
"This cement pier has been here for many years. It was there when Zhou Yiguang opened a tea shop. There is a head in it. We really don't know!"
"Yes, yes, how do we know, how many years have this cement block been placed! It has always been here!"
There were also a few children in the crowd who got out and were stopped by their own adults, "Oh, what are you looking at, all of you children go home, don't fool around here, and call the police uncle to arrest you later!"
"Auntie, you can't say that!" Fang Zhi said suddenly, "If you always tell your children that, they will think that the police are bad people, and they won't ask the police for help when they encounter something wrong!"
The aunt smiled and nodded, and explained, "Comrade police, I don't mean that, I just scare them. These children must be scared to sleep at night when they see this head... We adults are scared to see it!"
The child held by the aunt stuck out a small head from behind the fat aunt, raised his hand, and said weakly, "Uncle, I know!"
"What is the child talking nonsense..." The fat aunt grabbed the little boy, trying to stop it, "Comrade police, don't listen to the child's nonsense, what can he know? This cement block Zhou Guang has been using for a long time!
Gu Xizhou waved his hand and said, "I want to hear it."
"Speak." Gu Xizhou heard the words, half squatted down, gave him an encouraging look, and waited patiently for the child to speak.
The little boy in yellow short sleeves lowered his head and whispered, "This stone pier 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 down the parasol, and the stone pier was broken into two halves. thing!
"At that time, we were afraid that Uncle Zhou would know and tell Mom and Dad, so we put the stone pier in the iron bucket and put the sun umbrella on it. It was winter at that time, and no one used the sun umbrella anyway, and no one found the concrete pier at that time. broken!"
Gu Xizhou heard the words, hummed, and said, "Then what?"
"Later, after a while, we checked again, and found that the cement piers are getting better again!" The little boy explained in a low voice, and after seeing Gu Xizhou's encouraging expression, he seemed to relax a little.
"Probably when is it in winter?" Gu Xizhou asked.
"I only remember that it was the winter vacation, because the little friends in the yard were on vacation during the winter vacation, so I only played in the community!"
"Thank you, little friend, this information is very useful."
The approximate time of death of the deceased has been determined, so the scope of finding the identity of the deceased is greatly reduced. Gu Xizhou thanked the little boy, and then returned to the police station first.
In the interrogation room, Lai Li, who was in the police station, got the news that there was a head in the concrete block. He smiled just like Wei Zhong. 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 owner of the tea shop, Zhou Yiguang, who was sitting opposite him in handcuffs.
"Why kill?"
Zhou Yiguang looked at Gu Xizhou and said, "Comrade police officer, I didn't kill anyone. I don't know what happened to that head!"
"You don't know? You say you don't know, don't you know?"
After a while, Zhou Guang spoke again, "I really don't know, what I said to them after drinking that time was not true, I was just joking, and I also wondered why there are people in here
"I know, did they listen to me after we drank the other day, so they killed people and put their heads in them? Yes, that's very likely! They wanted to frame me!"
Yi Zhou clapped the table and said excitedly: "Yes, it must be so, I was wronged!"
"Comrade police, arrest them all! It must be them!"
Gu Xizhou glanced at him and chuckled, "You don't recognize him?"
"I really didn't do it, how do you want me to recognize it? You can't just bend over backwards, right? I didn't kill anyone! I don't even know whose head belongs to me!" Zhou Guang rolled his eyes, leaned back in the chair, and lowered his head. Playing with your fingers, "If you think I killed someone, you have to find evidence, right?"
"I don't recognize it anyway!"
"Need evidence? Well, don't think you'll be fine if you don't admit it now. Your nervous eyes betrayed you long ago." Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows, and then he and Fang Zhi left the interrogation room.
At this time, Xiang Yuan had already rushed over from home, and 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, "Quit."
"Really? It's not smoking at home, right?" Xiang Yuan didn't look up, took out his lighter and lit a cigarette. He smoked very slowly.
"You said that you drink red dates and soaked wolfberry every day for health, and turn around and smoke again. Are you interested?"
Xiang Yuan glared at him, "I have no pressure to dissect the body every day?"
After smoking half of the cigarette, Xiang Yuan said, "The good news is that DNA has been extracted, the bad news is that there is no body, and the cause of death cannot be confirmed."
"Yeah." Gu Xizhou nodded, "I didn't expect that catching a robber would lead to a murder case."
Xiang Yuan patted him on the shoulder and said, "Isn't this a good idea? No one would have found the dead, so these two robbers are doing good deeds for themselves."
"You practitioners still believe in accumulating virtue and doing good deeds?" Gu Xizhou said with a smile, "Then you dissect corpses every day, so you won't be afraid of the dead coming back to you?"
"That's different! I dissect the corpse to provide you with a complete chain of evidence. There is no way to cure it. Your criminal police have solved a gross case!"
"Yes, yes, we can't do it without you," Gu Xizhou complimented him and turned to Fang Zhi next to him, "By the way, Fang Zhi, check if there are any headless corpses that only have bodies and no heads, especially one. In the winter of the previous year, the deceased should have died at that time."
Fang Zhi: "Okay!"
When Gu Xizhou went back, he happened to hear the voice coming from the surveillance—
"I really didn't kill anyone, no matter what you say, I didn't kill anyone, I just 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 will give me my innocence!"
Monday is just being a rascal.
Gu Xizhou watched for a while, and said, "This person is a bit difficult to deal with. Let's talk about it when we detain him."
"Fang Zhi, ask someone to investigate his interpersonal relationship again. We will gather at the gate of Zhou Guang's community tomorrow, and we will visit again."
"Okay, Brother Gu!"
After giving the order, Gu Xizhou stayed in the police station for a while, picked up the documents that he had organized, and took a taxi home.
Gu Xizhou entered the door and threw the documents in his hand on the table. A Ge You lay on the sofa and complained, "Oh my God, how are you so tired as a police officer! I'm dying."
Gu Zhizhi: …
The information on the desktop was picked up, and Gu Zhizhi stared at it for a while.
The pencil wrote a few words on a piece of text in a square and sharp pen: Last year, there was no headless corpse in Ningqing.
Gu Xizhou: "Do you remember this?"
Gu Zhizhi ignored his question and wrote: How did the brain find out
Hearing that, Gu Xizhou, who was lying on the sofa, said, "I met two robbers this morning, and they were robbing the police station. The middle-aged woman who was robbed had 50,000 yuan in her bag. The two cried and shouted for a commutation of their sentence, and when they were drinking, they heard that the owner of the tea shop, Zhou Guang, said that he had killed someone, so they reported Zhou Guang for killing."
"I insisted that there was a head in the cement pier. They said it all, so what else can I do? I had to run for a while, and I really saw the head."
After Gu Xizhou finished speaking, there was one more line in the book: Your order
Gu Xizhou hummed reluctantly.
Gu Zhizhi: There has been progress in the veggie magician.
"..." Gu Xizhou watched Gu Zhizhi write those words, rolled his eyes, and said, "I think you treat me as a primary school student? Do you think that praising me will make me as happy as a primary school student?"
Gu Zhizhi ignored his complaints, and wrote a comment with the information in his hand—corpse? Murder weapon
Several big question marks fell on the data.
Early in the morning, Gu Xizhou sat in the taxi with the documents that had been annotated at home and watched Gu Zhizhi's annotations. In this case, the identity of the deceased must be confirmed first, and the body and murder weapon must be found. The latter two are evidence. is the key.
When Gu Xizhou arrived at the gate of the community, Fang Zhi had already arrived, and he waved to Gu Xizhou, "Brother Gu!"
"Let's have breakfast first." Gu Xizhou led Fang Zhi to eat at the bun shop at the entrance of the community. Both of them were wearing casual clothes, because the bun shop was doing business at this time, and a table was full of people.
"Have you heard? A head was found in the neighborhood next door!"
"No one should know about it, it's been spread all over the world! Zhou Guang really dares to kill people?"
Hearing this, Gu Xizhou pretended to be curious and talked to the two men who were talking, "What head, dead?"
The tall, thin man wearing black short sleeves with a strange big belly looked at Gu Xizhou and said gossip: "Isn't it? Just found a human head in the concrete block where the sun umbrellas were placed in the tea shop owner's house next door. It is said that they There's a corpse in the wall of the house!"
This rumor spread... Gu Xizhou and Fang Zhi looked at each other, Gu Xizhou turned and said, "What kind of person is Zhou Guang? How can he be so cruel?"
The tall and thin man looked around and said in a low voice, "Although I live next door, I occasionally go to his tea shop to drink tea and play mahjong. In fact, the boss is very nice, and he is very filial to his parents.
"Let's just say that his father has been paralyzed for more than ten years! Zhou Guang has been taking care of him at home. He used to be a spectator on the construction site, and it was to take care of his father that he quit his job and opened a tea shop in the community.
"People in the community thought he was pitiful and took care of his father, so no one reported him, otherwise we would see who else would dare to set up a tea shop in the community! The envied neighbors told the neighborhood committee!"
Gu Xizhou continued to ask, "Where's his mother?"
"His mother... I remember it seems to be last year. I died last year. I wanted to play mahjong that day, but he didn't open the door."
"Is it the winter vacation last year?"
"It should be, I don't remember very well, anyway, his mother died of illness last year, it is said that he has no money for doctors," said the man sighed, "You said that he is also unlucky in this life, his father is paralyzed at the age of marriage, no If a person is willing to marry him, in order to take care of his father and serve him at home every day, his life will be wasted."
Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows. When they blocked the tea shop yesterday, they didn't see Zhou Guang's father in the room. He couldn't help but ask, "Where is his father now?"
"It was also last year. After his mother died of illness, his father died not long ago. I heard that... he died on a hunger strike." The tall and thin man lowered his voice and whispered to Gu Xizhou.