A river across the territory of Z City is called Honghe. It can be said to be the mother river of Z City. Before the 1990s, the river water was clear and could be eaten directly. Later, the river was once seriously polluted, and pieces of dead fish were floating. After the reform and opening up, the government began to pay attention to environmental protection. After sewage and water treatment, the second manual excavation, the Honghe rejuvenated and regained its vitality, and there were more and more fish in the river.

Xujiagou is located on the bank of the Honghe River and is a small village in the decimal place in Z City. The main source of income of Xujiagou residents is not only about going out to work, but also about farming workers who mainly grow crops and supplement them with vegetables. Nowadays, agricultural technology is developed, experts support local governments, so that many farmers have built vegetable greenhouses. In this way, fresh vegetables can be eaten in winter. The prices of off-season vegetables are relatively high, and the income of farmers in Xujiagou has also increased a lot.

On January 28, just dawn, several women from Xujiagou Village went to the field to pick vegetables together. The day before, a vegetable dealer made an appointment and drove over to collect them.

When we arrived at the vegetable field, everyone went to their greenhouses to start working.

Xu Ling, the director of the women of Xujiagou, also came. She grew cabbage. This vegetable is very cold-resistant and does not require a greenhouse, so she was going to start picking it alone.

I got off the road and picked it straight along the way. I cut more than a dozen cabbages, but nothing happened. When she cut it to the end of her own field, she suddenly felt something was wrong.

Because the old leaves outside the cabbage wrapped the cabbage very tightly, after looking carefully, it turned out that the whole cabbage was artificially tied with a rope, and she became even more confused. The cabbage was planted every year, but she had never heard of any allusion of tied with a rope.

Because of this, Xu Ling walked to the greenhouse with her cabbage. She wanted to ask her companions, could it be that there is any allusion to this cabbage inside?

Xu Ling came to the greenhouse and saw A Duo from the same village busy, she shouted: "Sister A Duo, look, is it strange? Have you ever seen this kind of cabbage?"

A Duo stood up and took the cabbage from Xu Ling, and looked around and said, "Is it because you tied it with a rope?"

Xu Ling said: "No, I just picked it up."

A Duo smiled and said, "Really? Maybe who is hiding gold ingots inside? Just open it and take a look." As he said that, A Duo picked up the small sickle in his hand and cut the rope carefully, and picked off the old leaves wrapped outside the cabbage.

The first thing that caught my eye was a tuft of black hair, Xu Ling blurted out: "Why do you look like human hair?"

A Duo's hand movements did not stop, and he pulled off the leaves outside the cabbage a few times. His smile slowly stiffened. He threw it on the ground suddenly, sat on the ground, screaming, "Oh my God!"

Xu Ling looked at the cabbage falling on the ground, and there was a head wrapped inside, and it was a female head with long hair. Xu Ling hurriedly shouted as she ran: "Come on! Something big happened!"

A minute later, his companions arrived one after another, helped A Duo up on the ground, comforted him softly, while waiting for the women's director Xu Ling to make a decision.

Among these women, the only village cadre is Xu Ling. Although Xu Ling was also very scared, she could only force herself to calm down at this moment.

"Don't move, find a woven bag to cover it, and don't get close to the rest."

Xu Ling calmed down and asked everyone not to move around. While calling the police, she asked A Duo to go to the village to call the branch secretary as soon as possible.

Everyone found an abandoned basket to cover the cabbage, and then covered it with a woven bag.

After receiving the report, the 110 Command Center immediately notified the local police station to arrive at the protection site as soon as possible and made a report to the municipal bureau.

After learning about the criminal investigation by the Municipal Bureau of Z, Deputy Director Guo attached great importance to it and immediately sent the fifth team of serious cases to the on-site investigation.

When the leader of the fifth group, Shao Dong, investigators Yu Ping, Wang Bo and others drove to the car, the scene was surrounded by villagers who watched the bustle.

When the villagers saw that a team of policemen had come, they all consciously gave up a road. Shaodong led everyone to the scene. The colleagues from the police station had blocked the scene. Forensic Wu Wei had just arrived and was inspecting the head.

The police station investigator told Shaodong that the on-site investigation did not find any valuable clues. Since Xu Ling moved her head to the second scene, the rest of the people had walked around nearby. It was winter now and found that there was no greenhouse on the head, the temperature was cold, and the soil in the ground was very dry and hard, so the footprints could hardly be identified.

Wang Bo took detailed photos and records of the head and surrounding situations.

The old detective Yu Ping was also carefully collecting physical evidence - the rope that was cut by A Duo with a sickle.

Shaodong began to observe the head carefully. Wu Wei squatted beside him and recorded and introduced: "The victim is a woman, 25-30 years old, and her death is within three days. Her face is purple. No trauma is found in the entire head. Her face is purple, her hair is black and shiny, and there is a small purple-red hair clip on her head, and her skin is swollen and swollen."

Shao Dong nodded and asked his colleague at the police station: "Are you a police officer?"

“Yes, leader.”

"Are there any small ditches, wells, septic tanks and other places nearby?"

"Should be there?" the man replied uncertainly.

Shao Dong stood up and said, "Are you a film police officer? Are you not sure?"

After saying that, he walked towards the onlookers, "Ma Si, bring the horn of the call."

Ma Si nodded and said, "Okay, Team Shao." He trotted.

Shaodong took the loudspeaker handed over by Ma Si and shouted to the onlookers: "Who is the village chief or branch secretary? Please stand up and cooperate with the police."

An old man in his forties raised his hand and said, "Report, my name is Xu Lei. I am the village chief. The branch secretary is no longer here. I'm going to have a meeting." He walked over as he said.

"Okay, Village Chief Xu, do you know about this nearby?" Shao Dong asked.

Xu Lei said: "I understand. I have been born and raised for decades, and I know every grass and every tree."

"Okay, look at the two kilometers of this place. Apart from the Honghe River, are there any small ditches, wells, septic tanks and other places?"

"There are ditches and wells, I can take you there." Xu Lei said.

Shao Dong nodded and said, "Okay, let's talk about it later. Is there a lot of cabbage fields nearby?"

Xu Lei replied: "There are not many cabbage fields, only there are nearby."

Shao Dong took out a cigarette and handed it to Xu Lei, saying, "Captain Xu, you may have to trouble you later."

Xu Lei clamped the cigarette on his ear and said politely: "It's okay, it should be."

Shaodong gathered the people brought by the Municipal Bureau and held a meeting on site.

Everyone explained the investigation results they were responsible for, but found no useful clues.

Shao Dong said: "There is no possibility that the corpse has only one head. If the criminal dismembers the corpse, there is a high chance that the remaining corpse will be thrown nearby. From the perspective of criminal psychology, after dismembering the corpse, the criminal's primary idea is to rush to dispose of the corpse and abandon it in order to reduce psychological pressure. Generally speaking, the location of such corpse throwing is very concentrated, at most no more than three places, because this can reduce the time for corpse throwing and reduce the possibility of exposure."

After hearing this, everyone nodded. Yu Ping said, "There are a lot of cabbage nearby. You can check it one by one to see if the remaining corpses are hidden in the cabbage."

Shaodong continued: "I just asked, there is only this cabbage field in Xujiagou. Zhang Hao and Ma Si. You two go check the cabbage field one by one, pay attention to see if there are any foreign objects wrapped in it. There are also canals and wells nearby. Village Chief Xu will lead the way, and the rest will go with me. What I worry most now is that the body is thrown in the Red River. In this way, it will be very difficult to find it."

The troops were divided into two groups and each took their own missions.

Zhang Hao and Ma Si and the others flipped the nearby cabbage fields, but found no abnormalities.

Under the leadership of Village Chief Xu, Shaodong and his group found no other body parts in the water wells and ditch.

Shao Dong frowned and called the Municipal Bureau. Deputy Director Guo invited a salvage team from the city to assist in the case handling.

At noon, Shaodong and others bought some buns and steamed buns in the village. Everyone ate some simple food in the car and tidied them up.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the city's salvage team led three salvage boats to the Hong River bank of Xujiagou. This professional salvage team often cooperated with the police and became familiar with this kind of thing. After arriving at the location, they immediately explored and fished near the Hong River bank.

The salvage team's tools are relatively advanced and can conduct a dragnet-style search. This tool sinks into the water and moves with the boat. Professionals wearing diving suits are ready to go into the water for visits at any time.

As a result, it came out soon. After only fifteen minutes of operation of the salvage team, two cabbages were fished out in the Red River, less than one kilometer away from the Xujiagou case site.

The outside was also trapped with a rope. After Wang Bo took a photo to collect evidence, he opened the cabbage, and there were two pieces of human tissue inside.

The salvage continued until the next night. In the Honghe area five kilometers away from Xujiagou, six cabbage-wrapped corpses and five cabbages wrapped in oil paper were salvaged. At this point, the cabbages had basically been collected.

Wuwei brought the collected corpses back to the municipal bureau and conducted an autopsy and identification overnight.

In the office of the five groups, Wu Wei sat around with everyone after entering the house and threw the appraisal book on the table. Wang Bo picked up the appraisal book and read it: "The deceased woman, between 25 and 30 years old, is about 1.6 meters tall, weighs about 60 kilograms, is relatively plump, has a slightly deformed hair on her right side, and is in a sunken shape. There is a natural black and purple birthmark on the lumbar spine, with a diameter of about one centimeter. After the body was spliced, there were obvious strangulations on the neck. Combined with the lungs and respiratory conditions, it was determined to be violent asphyxiation and died of death. It was a homicide. The death time was three days ago, that is, around the early morning of the 28th. A stomach examination showed that the deceased had eaten rice, cabbage and a little pork within two hours before being killed."

After Wang Bo finished reading, he looked at Shao Dong.

Weiwu said: "Yes, there is another point. I will add that the skin surface of the deceased's palm is relatively rough. I have been engaged in manual labor mainly holding tools for a long time before his death. However, the outermost layer of the skin of his hands has begun to soften, indicating that he had left physical labor in three months to six months before his death. In addition, the wear of the deceased's teeth is greater than that of normal age. This means that he often chewed hard foods, such as fried broad bean rice and fried soybeans. This food has always been common in rural areas of our city. And from the perspective of dismemberment, the fracture surface of the corpse is very neat. There are two possibilities: one is a sharp weapon such as an axe, a bone-cutting knife used by the murderer, and it is very powerful. It is very likely that he has been engaged in lumberjacks, butchers or manual laborers. There are also an automatic weapon used by the murderer, such as chainsaws, electric cutting knives, etc., but there are not many such tools on the market, so the possibility is smaller."

Yu Ping analyzed: "In other words, most of the deceased are from low-level backgrounds and should be economically average farmers. It is very likely that they will live in the city a few months ago."

Shao Dong nodded and said, "This case is set as a 128 murder case. The fifth group set up a special investigation team. I am the team leader. The municipal bureau requires the case to be solved quickly. The next step is to solve the case. First, find the source of the corpse, and second, investigate. Focusing on Xujiagou, where the corpse was found, the masses were mobilized within a radius of five kilometers to find clues, and finally find the real culprit!"

It is easy to say but difficult to do. City C is a large population with a permanent population of about 5 million. Although the media is now developed, it is actually very difficult to check a female missing person in her twenties among the 5 million people.

Moreover, the task force has very limited police force, and it is not easy to obtain assistance from police stations at all levels.

The task force decided to first publish the source information of the corpse through the media, so that public security organs and police stations at all levels can jointly release the invocation of corpse search.

Given that the location where the dismembered body was found was Xujiagou, the task force decided to start with Xujiagou as the center focus and radiate outward from all sides.

The Spring Festival is approaching, and every household is preparing to celebrate the New Year. Both in cities and rural areas are filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

However, the task force members had a rare breath. Deputy Director Guo called to inquire about the case every day, and everyone was under great pressure.

Tens of thousands of photos and body shape descriptions of the deceased's corpse recognition notices have spread to enterprises, institutions, community committees, public security bureaus, detention centers and police stations across the city.

At the same time, Shaodong led the task force to Xujiagou to conduct a large-scale investigation.

On the afternoon of January 31, the task force received a report from the Beiguan District Police Station in C City. There were people in the area of ​​the police station that the deceased was Wang Xingchen, the daughter of Wang Zhihui, a resident of the Xiatang Neighborhood Committee of Beiguan District. The registered staff of the police station retrieved Wang Xingchen's information, which was consistent with the age of the dead body and had similar figure characteristics.

Shaodong and Yu Ping immediately drove to Beiguan District Police Station to verify.

Xiao Liu, a registered residence officer at the Beiguan District Police Station, introduced the specific situation to Shaodong.

This morning, the Xiatang Neighborhood Committee sent the notice to the public for identification. Not long after, a retired cadre named Xia came to the police station and told the police that Wang Xingchen, the daughter of his neighbor Wang Zhihui, who lived not far from his home, was very similar to the deceased in the photo.

Xiao Liu, a registered household registration staff member, immediately retrieved Wang Xingchen's household registration information. There were indeed great similarities when looking at the photos. Moreover, his age was 21 years old, which also matched the age of the corpse.

Xiao Liu first came to Wang Zhihui's home according to his address in his household registration. Unfortunately, the door of the home was locked and no one lived there.

I came to the neighborhood committee again and found the staff to find out the situation. According to the staff, Wang Xingchen worked in City C after graduating from high school and occasionally went home to check it out, but most of the time he lived in City C.

Xiao Liu did not dare to make decisions without authorization, so he immediately reported the situation to the director. After hearing this, the director sorted out the information and reported it to the municipal bureau.

Shaodong thought that Wang Xingchen did miscellaneous work in a hot pot restaurant, and after sweeping the floor and washing the plates, the skin on his hands was inevitably rough, which was similar to the deceased and his age was consistent, so he had to find out.

Shao Dong and Yu Ping asked Xiao Liu to lead the way and came to Wang Zhihui's residence, which was still led by General Iron.

Wang Zhihui's house is very small. From the appearance, it can be seen that the family is not very rich and belongs to the relatively poor category.

This is also consistent with the characteristics of the deceased after analysis. Yu Ping thinks there is a chance, but Shao Dong always thinks something is wrong.

The three of them stood at the door for a while. Shaodong looked at the situation from his neighbors nearby and asked a few people, but they didn't know much about it.

Finally, I finally found an insider in a convenience store. According to the owner of the convenience store, Wang Xingchen worked in a hot pot restaurant in City C. He mainly did miscellaneous work, just to greet customers. After the guests finished eating, they swept the floor and mopped the floor to clean up the dishes. Because this hot pot restaurant is a national chain, the salary is pretty good. Wang Xingchen used to go home to check it out on weekends, but in the past six months, he has never seen Wang Xingchen.
To be continued...