Tiger Police

Chapter 260 Little Novice

Hu Pingtao squatted even lower.

The weather is fine today, the sun is shining brightly.The water quality in the pond is good and crystal clear.It can be clearly seen that it is a rusty old iron nail.Judging from the marks around the nail, it was not recently nailed.

After taking a few photos with his mobile phone, Hu Pingtao stood up and asked Zhang Qingwei, "Was it the deceased's clothes or pants that got caught?"

"Pants." Zhang Qingwei remembered it clearly.

"Which position is it?" Hu Pingtao asked, "Give me a sign."

"Here." Zhang Qingjia turned around, with his waist on his side, his upper body down, and his right hand turned behind him, pointing to the trouser leg of his calf, which is about five centimeters from the knee bend: "It's hanging here, the trousers are all scratched You'll know when you go to the clinic later."

Hu Pingtao narrowed his eyes slightly.

Why is it in this position?

Zhang Qingwei moved closer and lowered his voice: "I also find it strange. If you enter the water at a normal angle, the possibility of being caught is very small."

Hu Pingtao smiled: "You are still modest with me, saying that you are not familiar with criminal investigation. Just what you said is already quite professional...Third brother, just pretend!"

Zhang Qingwei smiled nonchalantly: "At least I have been trained in the police academy, and I have taken several criminal investigation courses. But this is all I have in my stomach, and I really can't afford more goods!"

Hu Pingtao put away his smile and began to analyze: "The angle of entry into the water you mentioned is indeed a problem. This nail is on the edge of the pool, and the protruding part is very short. If the deceased jumped off by himself, the gap between the body and the side wall of the pool There must be a jump difference, even if there is resistance after entering the water, the body will still move forward under the action of inertial force, and the chance of being caught by the nail is very small, almost negligible.”

"Just now you also said that the deceased's pants were "hung up" instead of "hung up". This involves a problem of strength. If the deceased struggled after falling into the water, the force generated would be enough to tear the cloth. If he was in Static, the body is floating, then it can only be hooked."

Zhang Qingwei hastily added: "The institute has already done a preliminary autopsy on Yan Zai, and the alcohol content in his body is very high."

Hu Pingtao pointed to the pond with a serious expression: "The water in this pond is not deep. I just passed it sideways, and the average value is only 1.2 meters. This depth can even stand up to a child, let alone drown a person... ...Of course, if you accidentally fell into the water while drunk, you have to discuss the situation differently. That is a static drowning, but in this way, the trousers are broken by nails, which makes no sense."

Zhang Qingwei looked solemnly: "You mean, this is a murder?"

Hu Pingtao squatted down again, and made a movement of pushing forward on the edge of the pool with both hands: "Based on what you said, and the circumstances of the scene, I think the deceased should have been brought here by the murderer in a drunk state. It taps, then pushes down."

Zhang Qingwei was a little puzzled: "Why?"

"Before you told me that Yan Zai died at around one o'clock at night. This is the public pond of the whole village. The water is taken from Longquan on the mountain with bamboo. There is an outlet at the end of the pond over there. Flow down the ditch. Although the water flow is slow, it is running water."

"This pond has a flat bottom, and there is a sloping slope near the tail. This is done for the convenience of cleaning the bottom of the pond and the maintenance of various equipment near the dam. So if you want to drown a person, you can only Choose on both sides of the pond."

"The murderer should have used some excuse to ask the victim out to get drunk, and helped him to the pond. Throwing people down directly made too much noise and made a lot of noise...Have you ever watched diving in the Olympics? In diving from a high platform, the fewer contact points between the body and the water surface, the smaller the splash. Of course, it is impossible for a drunk to do that, so we can only put him on the ground and push him forward slowly. In this way, never When rolling down the steps, the distance between the dead man's body and the side of the pond was very short, which explains why his trouser legs were caught by the nails instead of being caught."

Zhang Qingwei was full of admiration: "You are amazing! You can tell so much with just a single nail after watching it for a few minutes, no wonder even Ran Ting said that as long as you are here, you can investigate this case to the bottom. .”

Hu Pingtao waved his hand quickly: "I'm really not that good. I just analyze the clues you provided and the scene environment."

"That's enough!" Zhang Qingwei smugly said, "With you here, I won't be afraid... Ping Tao, if you need any help, just ask, I will fully cooperate."

Hu Pingtao nodded, and said earnestly: "Let's do a survey in the village first! Ask door to door to see who was outside last night, and check one by one."

……

Death in the village is a big deal at any time.

The village chief, Yanxiang, is a veteran who is almost 70 years old.Back then, he fought back in self-defense, and half of his right foot was blown off by a landmine.Wearing crutches, he led Hu Pingtao and others to visit the village from house to house.

I went to more than a dozen houses and found nothing.

Seeing his walking speed never dropping, Hu Pingtao admired his physical fitness and strength, and praised him repeatedly: "Old village chief, your strength is beyond words. Few young people can match it!"

Walking on crutches is far more strenuous than normal people.Especially the coordination between the hands and the body, which is a habit that has been accumulated over the years and requires years of sustained exercise.

Yanxiang smiled and said as he walked: "I have no other choice, I was forced out. When I was discharged from the army, I received a military disability certificate. When I arrived at the place, I was arranged to guard the feed factory. At that time, there were still cows in the county. , and set aside a large piece of land dedicated to planting grass."

Hu Pingtao smiled and asked, "State-run ranch?"

Yanxiang nodded: "That's right, it's state-run. At that time, there was no silage, and it was all hay collected from farmers' homes. I can't walk, so I guard the warehouse and distribute the forage every day."

Hu Pingtao asked: "Since it is a state-run ranch, you should have an establishment?"

Yan Xiang showed an expression of reminiscing about the past: "It is said that it is a pasture, but in fact there are only fifty or so cows, and they are all old breeds. Think about it, what can you do with this amount of milk production? And there were very few people at that time. The consciousness of drinking milk. Because it is directly squeezed and sold, many people don’t like the smell... Anyway, the ranch collapsed within a few years.”

Hu Pingtao continued to ask: "Then how much is your current pension?"

"How can there be any pension!" Yan Xiang sighed: "I was young at the time and didn't understand anything. My colleagues in the unit were very cunning. They bullied me as a foreigner and didn't tell me anything. The unit They are about to be disbanded, and no one is in the mood to go to work. Everyone is like a monk hitting the clock for a day, and I am the only one who stupidly counts the inventory every day, and goes to the director's office to ask when the new materials will arrive... When it is time to withdraw, I only get Hundreds of severance pay, and those who have known the news and operated in advance will have a good place to go."

Hu Pingtao nodded slightly: "Yes! After all, it is a state-run ranch with a staff."

Yan Xiang waved his hand: "It's all a thing of the past, and I've looked away. Anyway, I have land at home. As long as I have strength and don't be lazy, God won't starve hardworking people to death. When I was on the ranch, I had a good relationship with the technician. , he introduced friends from the Agricultural Science Station to me. After I came back, I changed to plant pineapples and bananas, and I made a lot of money."

Hu Pingtao remembered what Zhang Qingwei said before that "Mengsuo village mainly produces rice", and asked with a smile: "I remember that the paddy fields in this area are all planted with rice. Have you seen bananas and pineapples?"

"That happened later." Yan Xiang walked with a cane, and the muscles on his arms swelled and bulged, full of strength.He explained as he walked: "In the early years, bananas and pineapples were really easy to sell. There was no need to wait until they were fully ripe and still green. Someone would come to negotiate the price, and the transportation was free. When the harvest was the best, One year’s worth of pineapples is worth more than two years’ grain.”

Hu Pingtao understood: "You mean, later on, many people followed suit and grew fruits?"

"Yeah!" Yan Xiang said with a wry smile: "In the past, no one knew what market rules were. They only knew that planting bananas and pineapples could make money, so we all went together. Mengsuo is a remote place, but the location is good, and it's a dam. You can grow anything... But think about it, how many villages are there in the whole Banna? There is also a specially set up fruit planting area. Pineapple and bananas are easy to grow and easy to live in. The more you harvest in a year, the lower the price .”

"Later, it was the idea of ​​the leaders above to replant rice. Covered rice is still improved seeds. Someone in the state harvests it, as long as it is cultivated according to their technical requirements."

Hu Pingtao asked: "After this year, how is the income?"

Xiang Yan thought for a while: "It's okay. Anyway, you can't get rich, and you can't get poor. Of course, in addition to eating enough, you can save tens of thousands of dollars all year round."

Hu Pingtao couldn't help laughing and said: "Old village chief, you are demanding too much. According to the national standard, not only is poverty lifted, but also a well-off life has been achieved."

Yanxiang also smiled: "People, you have to have some ideas. If you have five hundred, you want one thousand, if you have one thousand, you want ten thousand, and if you have ten thousand, you want more... It's normal."

……

Yanhan is the No.20 villager from nine households interviewed.

He is in his 40s, and his elderly mother and wife are doing the housework all year round.They have a son and a daughter, and the daughter is very young, less than three years old.

Like the previous interviewees, Yanhan knew nothing about what happened last night.

"I went to Yan Wenlong's house at the east end of the village to play cards after dinner yesterday, and I didn't leave until after two o'clock at night."

Men of the Dai nationality do not do housework, and almost all the work is done by women. "Playing cards" is divided into two situations. One is the health bureau, which is a normal game that does not involve gambling.Most of the time, I play "double pick", and if I pay attention to it, I play bridge.

The other is gambling, mainly "Zha Jinhua".Influenced by foreign film and television, especially Hong Kong films, he started to play "Stud", and later he also played Texas Hold'em.

Yan Wenlong is a relatively wealthy person in the village, and he often invites friends to play cards at home.During the previous visit, someone mentioned that Yan Wenlong had invited someone to play cards last night.Yanhan mentioned a few people who were present at the time, and they all matched up with the previous information.

While making notes, Zhang Qingwei asked earnestly, "Who were with you when you left Yan Wenlong's house?"

Yanhan said three names, all of whom had been interviewed before, proving that he did not lie.

Zhang Qingwei asked a few more programmed questions, and after getting an answer from Yanhan, he turned to Hu Pingtao who was sitting next to him, his eyes and expression were a little tired.

Still nothing.

Just when they were about to get up and leave, a short figure ran up the stairs.

It was a young monk wearing a yellow robe.

Yanhan smiled and introduced: "This is my son, Yanpa."

Although the country has a nine-year compulsory education policy, for ethnic minorities, especially the Dai people, they are more accustomed to sending boys to local Buddhist temples to become monks.

This is the belief and tradition of the Dai people.Usually, when a boy is eight years old, he enters a temple as a novice novice, where he learns the knowledge of his own nation.When you finish your studies, you can choose to continue practicing in the temple or return to the vulgar.So in the Banna area, you can often see young monks playing games with little girls. All this is normal, after all, they are not yet adults, and they are not monks in the true sense.

The word "Pa" is not his real name, but a monk's name with religious significance, which was given by his master after he became a young novice monk.

When you become an adult, you will return to vulgarity, and you will change it again.

After all, Yanpa is a child, even though he is wearing cassock, he can't change his greedy temper.He saluted to everyone in the room, then walked to the cabinet, picked up a piece of malt candy on the plate, licked it, and wanted to stuff it into his mouth, but found that everyone was looking at him, so he touched it in embarrassment. He patted the bald top of his head and put the candy back in place.

The village head, Yan Xiang, was overjoyed by his series of actions, and said quickly, "Eat, eat! This is in your own home, there is nothing to be embarrassed about. If it is not enough, I will buy it for you."

Yanpa quickly stuffed a piece of candy into his mouth, ran to sit down beside his father, smiled foolishly, and did not speak.

Yanhan looked sideways at his son and asked suspiciously, "Why did you come back today? Does master know?"

According to the custom, once a Dai boy becomes a young novice monk, he will live and eat in the temple.If you don't get the master's permission, you can't go home.

After all, this is a practice.

Yanpa nodded: "Master told me to come back. There are rumors in the temple that someone died in the village, and the police are investigating from house to house. Master asked us to come back to cooperate with the investigation. We will go back at night after the questioning is over."

Monks are also advancing with the times.In fact, this approach is very clever. There are dozens of people in a temple, and by the time the question is finished, it will be dark.It's better to simply give the little novice monks half a day off and go back to their respective homes, which will save trouble.

Yanhan smiled and said, "Alright. Your mother made sweet glutinous rice, and originally thought of sending it to you tomorrow, so you can take it with you when you leave at night."

(End of this chapter)