"The skeletons have all been assembled. There are three sets in total, one large and two small. The older one is an adult woman, estimated to be about thirty years old based on the bone age. Her head was split into two. From the joints, it can be seen that she was injured by a sharp object during her lifetime. Preliminary guess is that it should be a machete or a large watermelon knife. The other two are a boy about three years old and a baby about six months old. Time of death."

At [-] o'clock at noon, the gentle and soft sunshine shines on the earth. In a courtyard in the northwest corner of the old city, investigators in police uniforms come in and out, and the clicking sound of cameras is endless.

"Xu Qian?"

Zhou Youming couldn't help but pull the little girl who had been squatting in a corner of the courtyard in a daze. She had been there all morning. She was as motionless as a sculpture and her face was pale. It looked quite worrying.

The assembled bones were placed in the yard and covered with white cloth. Xu Qian's eyes were fixed on the largest one in the middle.

When she heard Zhou Youming's shout, her eyes moved and she finally reacted.

"Uncle, is that really my mother?"

This depends on the results of the identification. A forensic doctor has already come to take two hairs of Xu Qian and will do a DNA identification with the female corpse.

Zhou Youming tried to comfort her, "Maybe not."

He could understand her feelings. After all, it was one thing to face the death of the person closest to her, but it was another thing to die in such a cruel way, which was difficult for people to accept.

"Uncle, can they catch that person?"

"Definitely!"

"thanks."

Zhou Youming sighed softly, "Go and sit in the police car, it's too cold here."

Xu Qian stood up slowly. Because she had been squatting for too long, her head felt dizzy when she got up, and her legs were a little stiff, so she closed her eyes and waited for a while before lifting her feet and walking out.

"Uncle, can I ask, who are you, that little sister?"

"It's my sister."

"If I have a chance, can I meet her?"

Zhou Youming nodded, "I will convey your words to her."

"Thank you uncle!"

"Zhao Youshun, male, 45 years old, never married. He left Yunzhou fourteen years ago and never came back. However, his mother, Mrs. Zhao, denied that Zhao Youshun killed anyone, saying that the person was killed by a friend he brought with him, and also described the person in detail She has a medium build, slightly fat, a scar on the left corner of her eye, a flat nose, and thick lips. She heard her son call Fang Lao Pan, but the specific name was unclear, and said that the man was sharpening his knife in her yard when he was fine. , it’s a very long watermelon knife.”

"The cause of death of the two boys was suffocation. It was initially presumed that they were suffocated to death. Mrs. Zhao said she didn't know why the children died. Her son thought the two boys were crying all the time, and then the knife sharpener came into the house. After a while, there was no crying. She found out that the child was dead after several people left. Because she was too scared, she dug the hole her son had dug under the bed in the west room to bury the female body, and stuffed the two children into it. . Later, fearing that ghosts would kill me, I reinstalled the door god and burned incense, candles and ingots, and I still burn them every year."

"According to Mrs. Zhao's recollection, the woman was killed in the middle of the night. She first set fire to the curtains in the west room, and then took advantage of the chaos to escape with the two little girls. Later, she was slashed by the fat man with the scar at the corner of his eye. Mrs. Zhao said that the woman was very evil. , his head turned into two halves, and he still clung to the fat man's legs, making it difficult for him to move even an inch. Others were also shocked, and in the end they were unable to catch the two small children back in time."          Because of fear. The noise the first night alarmed others, and the group left in a hurry the next day with a few children. The woman's body was buried under the bed in the west room by Zhao Youshun."

"Seventeen years ago, the earliest case of cutting a person's head in half with a watermelon knife occurred in a small mountain village at the junction of Northern and Eastern Provinces. The deceased, Li, insulted his neighbor Pan Dalong because the sheep ate his vegetables. Pan Dalong was killed An ax cut his head in half. Pan Dalong fled without a trace. In [-] years, a female body with her head cut in half was found in an abandoned factory on the outskirts of Lingzhou. At that time, the Lingzhou police concluded that the person who had cut the person was a watermelon. The knife is similar to the case of the female corpse fourteen years ago."

"The identification results have come out, and the mother-daughter relationship between Xu Qian and the deceased woman has been established."

Thursday, December [-]th.

Jiang Yan was lying on the railing of the balcony, holding a mobile phone to his ear in one hand and holding a cigarette between his index and middle fingers.

"Pan Dalong was originally a wanted criminal, and now Zhao Youshun is also wanted across the country. In addition, according to Mrs. Zhao, her son accidentally revealed to her that their boss is in Kyoto and is a big shot who can lead them to make a lot of money. So it is initially speculated that Zhao Youshun and Pan Dalong is very likely to be in Kyoto now. The Yunzhou police have contacted the Kyoto police, and what they do next is their business."

After Zhou Youming finished telling the whole story, Jiang Yan asked, "Do you know the name of that aunt?"

"Xu Qian only remembers the word 'Fang' in her mother's name, but she doesn't remember the full name."

"What about her biological father? Is there any news?"

"Not yet. Computers were not popularized more than ten years ago, and it was not easy to query missing persons from the system. Therefore, it is not clear whether Xu Qian's mother and daughter disappeared fourteen years ago and whether her father reported the case. Of course, Mainly because Xu Qian can't remember where her hometown is."

"Jia Jia can vaguely remember the appearance of that aunt now. She drew a sketch. It's not very clear, but the facial features should be the same. I'll send it to you later. She also wants to draw those traffickers this week. The psychiatrist will also hypnotize her to see if she can remember it by then."

Zhou Youming frowned and said, "Why do we have to use hypnosis? Can't we not think about it? The police will naturally solve the case and will not rely on her as a child."

In his view, it was not easy for Gaga to grow up smoothly and not succumb to the shadow of childhood caused by that experience. At the age of three, it is better to forget some things.

It would be great if I could really forget it!
  Jiang Yan did not explain to Zhou Youming that she had constant nightmares and poor sleep, but simply said, "Don't worry, Gaga is stronger than you think."

The two exchanged information again and hung up the phone after a while.

Jiang Yan remained lying on the railing and slowly blew out a puff of smoke into the cold air outside the window.

The group of people caught at the train station last time, a couple who claimed to be the girl's adoptive parents went to the criminal police team to pick up the girl. The adoption procedures were complete, and they adopted the girl at a certain orphanage on a certain day of a certain month and a certain year.

In this case, it is said that he has to be released.

Lin Fei, deputy captain of the criminal police detachment, separated the "family of three" for questioning before releasing them. When the questioning was over, the couple was also left behind.

The reason is very simple. Even the little girl's nickname, what she likes to eat, what she likes, and even what grade she is in are all different from what the little girl said.

If you say this is a family, you won’t even believe it!
  morning!

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