Serious Case Tracking

Chapter 2 Murder in Sparrow Village

Adjectives such as the rustling autumn wind and falling leaves seem inappropriate to describe the autumn of this southern coastal city. It has already entered November. In this time in the north, I believe it has already been "bleak, and the vegetation is shaking and decaying." ", the temperature is even more obvious, people can feel the feeling that autumn and winter are alternating.

But in the city, although the trees on both sides of the road also shed some leaves from time to time, there was no sign of decay.In addition to the drier climate, the temperature sometimes even exceeds 25 degrees, but fortunately, there is a cool autumn wind that blows past from time to time, reminding people that it is autumn now, otherwise it is really easy to make people feel uncomfortable. An illusion that summer has just begun.

Sparrow Village, at first hearing the name, people will misunderstand that the village must have some inseparable relationship with sparrows. Is it because there are so many sparrows?Or is it that the villagers in the village make a living by raising sparrows?However, these answers are not correct. In our daily life, besides the sparrows flying in the sky, there is another thing called "sparrow", but this kind of thing is called "mahjong" more now.

This time, Meng Shaohui went to Mahjong Village to handle the case, and it was the first time in his life that he entered this small village, which was only known by its name but never seen.And his knowledge of Mahjong Village is limited to the name of the village. He only knows that the village is famous for making mahjong, and he doesn't know anything else.After all, his work has nothing to do with mahjong, so there is no reason to know such a small village.

Sparrow Village is about 400 kilometers away from the urban area. After getting off the expressway, there is only a winding and rugged mountain road in and out of the village. The road surface is very narrow, just enough for two small vehicles to drive side by side. For larger trucks, it's time to test the driver's driving skills.In addition to the narrow road surface, the road condition is not very good, there are potholes everywhere, the vehicle driving seems to be bumpy and ups and downs like a boat on a rough sea, and the side near the mountain is even more dangerous, because there is no protective fence installed, it is just simple Scattered and symbolically installed a few concrete pillars on the road section with sharp bends.

Fortunately, there has been no rival car coming on the mountain road, and the road seems to be much wider. I believe that on weekdays, except for the trucks that pull mahjong into the village, no outsiders will be interested in visiting the village. This is a trip in and out of the village. , can be called an out-and-out life adventure.

It took nearly half an hour to complete the more than ten kilometers of mountain road, but finally entered the village safely without any danger.

At the entrance of the village, the first thing I saw was a stone tablet about 1.6 meters high. The stone tablet was covered with moss, but the red "Sparrow Village" was still clear. There is a row of smaller red letters next to the three red letters of "Village", which looks like a doggerel: "The sparrows return to their nests: the holy monks take the scriptures from the west, and save all the common people in the world. The Buddhist scriptures relieve suffering, and the birds return to their nests." Wealthy."

Beside the stele, a middle-aged man in his early 40s with a beard and a plain dress saw our car and immediately came forward to greet us.

"Hi, I'm the director of village security, and my name is Zhao Tietou." The middle-aged man introduced himself.

"Hello, I'm Meng Shaohui, captain of the Municipal Criminal Investigation Brigade."

Meng Shaohui got out of the car and shook hands with the other party politely.

"I'll take you to the scene of the crime now." Zhao Tietou said.

"Okay, isn't the scene damaged?" Meng Shaohui asked.

Because nearly four hours have passed since receiving the police, and in this kind of place, if a murder occurs, it will soon spread to every corner of the village. Once uninformed villagers enter the scene of the crime, That will undoubtedly increase the difficulty of the subsequent investigation work, and in more serious cases, it will directly lead to the destruction of the murder scene, destroying the clues left by the murderer at the scene.

"Probably not. After I found out about the situation, I have already found a few strong villagers to stop there and prevent any villagers from entering the scene."

"Who died?"

While asking questions, Meng Shaohui observed the situation of the village through the car window along the way.

The environment here is much better than he originally imagined, perhaps because the transportation is not convenient enough, which makes the village well isolated from the hustle and bustle and pollution in the city, and the incomparably fresh air makes people feel refreshed and refreshed .

Looking from both sides of the village road, there are green trees, and all kinds of crops are planted in the farmland, but the amount of planting is not much, and it should be grown by the villagers for their own consumption.

"Wei Qiuyuan, the head of our village." Zhao Tietou replied.

"Who found the body first?"

"A villager in the village named Hu Gui passed by Village Chief Wei's house on his way to work in the morning. He found the door was wide open and a row of bloody footprints stretched all the way to the outside of the gate, so he boldly went in to have a look. Look, it turned out that Village Chief Wei had died in the living room, and then someone came to inform me."

"Does Village Chief Wei live alone? Does he have no family?"

"Oh, it's like this. Village Chief Wei has three sons and one daughter, but they all moved to the city, and they only come back during the Chinese New Year, and his wife Feng Yao also went to the city to take care of the newborn. The little grandson has gone, so now village chief Wei is alone at home."

While speaking, Meng Shaohui had already arrived at Wei Qiuyuan's residence at the scene of the crime. It was exactly as he had imagined before. Villagers were crowded around the gate, and a few strong villagers Zhao Tietou found were blocking the crowd to prevent them The crime scene was destroyed.When the villagers saw the police car coming, they quickly gave way to a passage.

Wei Qiuyuan's residence covers an area of ​​more than 300 square meters. Its shape clearly resembles the shadow of an old Beijing courtyard house. It is surrounded by walls and has only one courtyard door leading to the outside world. There is a majestic stone lion on each side of the courtyard door. , as if to warn people who come here not to trespass without authorization.

"This is the home of Village Chief Wei, and the four houses scattered around this house were originally built by Village Chief Wei for his four children. Unfortunately, they are not used to the monotonous life in the village, so most of them Time is idle." Zhao Tietou introduced.

Following the direction Zhao Tietou pointed, Meng Shaohui took a glance, and sure enough, there were houses in the east, south, west, and north directions around Wei Qiuyuan's house that were fairly well-built, but compared to Wei Qiuyuan's old-fashioned The courtyard-style buildings are much more monotonous. They are all two-storey modern villa-style buildings. Although they are quite fashionable, they are not that grand.And these four buildings are about 200 meters away from Wei Qiuyuan's house in the middle.

Although Wei Qiuyuan's residence looks like an old Beijing courtyard house from the outside, its internal structure is much simpler than that of the old Beijing courtyard house. There are no screen walls, verandas, inner and outer courtyards, and no lush trees and The rockery and pond are simply laid with cement tiles on the ground in the courtyard, and a few potted plants are scattered here and there.

Diagonally facing the gate is the living room, and on the left and right sides are four symmetrically built rooms.

At this time, on the cement tiles laid in the courtyard, two groups of shoe blood can be clearly seen, one is the muddy prints extending from the outside to the inside of the courtyard, and the other is the bloody shoe prints extending from the inside to the outside of the courtyard. The scene is located in the living room diagonally opposite the door.

Entering the living room, one could immediately smell a strong smell of blood. Wei Qiuyuan's body was lying on the floor near the door in the living room. His entire head was smashed by the murderer and it was completely deformed. Clinging to the ground like a piece of paper.The left cheek of the corpse was slightly tilted upwards, and there was a scar about the size of a palm on the exposed face, as if it had been burned by something.The objects around the body, the walls and the door were splattered with blood and brains, which shows how vicious the murderer was when the crime happened.

"Is there any result of the preliminary autopsy?" Meng Shaohui asked the forensic doctor after carefully inspecting the living room.

"After checking the liver temperature, the time of death should be about 12 hours from now, that is, between 10 and 11 o'clock last night. The cause of death was that someone hit the back of the head with a hard object, resulting in a comminuted fracture of the skull. Judging from the damage situation, it should be caused by multiple strikes with hard objects, but because the scars caused by multiple strikes are too confusing, it is temporarily impossible to determine what the murder weapon is. Moreover, judging from the situation at the scene, it is not like it used to be. There was a fierce fight, and no signs of struggle were found where the deceased fell to the ground. It is believed that the deceased was attacked from behind by the murderer without any precautions, and the murderer did not give the deceased any chance to resist. It's what you're seeing now when you hit the dead man on the head after he's down."

"It seems that the murderer's purpose is obvious, that is to kill people."

"You can put it this way! The detailed situation can only be concluded after the autopsy is completed."

"Are there any traces of prying on the door?" Meng Shaohui turned to the on-site investigators and asked.

"No pry marks found."

"The time of the murder was between 10 and 11 o'clock. According to common sense, the deceased should be resting in the bedroom at this time. Here, combined with the fact that the door has not been pried, the murderer and the deceased probably knew each other." Meng Shaohui thought to himself.

Obviously, judging from the murderer's method of attack, he wanted to put the person to death. Even judging from the cruelty of the method, he should have a deep hatred for the deceased, otherwise it would be impossible to smash a person's head into the present state. In this way, perhaps for the murderer, this may not be able to relieve the resentment in his heart!Of course, this is just Meng Shaohui's guess.

"What about the shoe prints?" Meng Shaohui continued to ask.

"The two sets of shoe prints should be left by the same person from the grain, and belong to men's leather shoes of size 42. However, the specific situation must be sampled and collected for evidence, and an accurate conclusion can be drawn after detailed analysis."

"En." Meng Shaohui nodded, and then asked the investigator, "Where are the family members of the deceased?"

"We have notified the deceased's wife and four children."

"Well, what's more, find out the situation from the villagers as soon as possible, and see if anyone saw the murderer before 10 to 11 o'clock last night, or if any suspicious people came to the village yesterday." Meng Shaohui ordered.

(End of this chapter)