Riverside police

The little fish is the furthest away and the latest to arrive.

When Xiaoyu arrived at Xu's house, the criminal police from Dongqi Public Security Bureau had already completed the investigation of Xu's two-story small foreign-style building, and the forensic doctor had also examined the old lady's corpse.

An old man in his seventies was standing tremblingly at the gate, pointing at the policemen and scolding him. A fair-skinned middle-aged man wearing sackcloth and wearing filial piety was supporting the old man and persuading him. There was also a man with a wrinkled face and a slight back. The man, who was hunchbacked and also wearing sackcloth and mourning, squatted beside the brazier at the door with a numb expression, burning paper.

A cordon was set up at the gate, and police and police assistance were deployed to maintain order. Relatives and friends who came to express condolences, neighbors and villagers who came to watch the excitement could not enter and could only stand on the roadside or even in the vegetable field.

As soon as Xiaoyu squeezed in, officers Tan and Jiang from Xinghe Police Station, accompanied by a middle-aged plainclothes policeman, came to greet him.

"Yuzhi, you're finally here. Let me introduce you. This is Chief Shen of our criminal police brigade."

"The fish fortune is good, I have long admired your name."

"Shen Da, Tan Institute, Jiang Institute, I'm sorry to keep you waiting for so long." After working in the Political Department for more than half a year, Xiaoyu is no longer careless when dealing with others, and has learned to be polite.

Tan Suo felt a little uncomfortable for a while, but now he couldn't think about how Xiaoyu had changed so much, and whispered: "Yuzhi, this is not the place to talk. Let's go to the alley to talk."

"Okay." Xiaoyu looked back at the crowd crowding outside the cordon to watch the fun, and asked as he walked: "Tan Suo, where is Uncle Zhu?"

"Smoking in the alley."

Tan Suo brought Xiao Yu into the alley. Zhu Baogen, who was squatting at the foot of the wall and smoking a cigarette, subconsciously stood up. Before Xiao Yu could say hello to Zhu Baogen, the head of the Criminal Police Brigade of Dongqi Public Security Bureau, Shen, called the forensic doctor over.

"Yuzhi, this is Lao Cai, the forensic doctor in our bureau. Lao Cai has just examined the body of the deceased. Let Lao Cai report to you."

"What are you reporting to me? What's going on?"

"The fish is good," forensic doctor Lao Cai took out his notebook and read and reported: "The deceased, Yu Guizhen, was 66 years old. The body was 151 centimeters long. He was malnourished. There were no scars on the body surface and no current spots. There was white foam in the nasal cavity. Liquid, and several bleeding points were visible in the conjunctival fornix of both eyes.

Judging from the medical records provided by relatives of the deceased, medical test reports from several hospitals, and the drugs the deceased took during his lifetime, it can be seen that the deceased suffered from esophageal cancer and the cancer cells had spread. He also suffered from gastrointestinal diseases such as gastric ulcers, angina pectoris, and chronic cardiac function. Incongruent cardiovascular disease and lumbar disc herniation and osteoporosis. "

Tan Suo couldn't help but add: "The deceased's malnutrition and low weight should be caused by disease. Through interviews and inquiries, we found that the deceased had not gotten out of bed for more than half a year before his death, especially for more than a month before his death. He had difficulty eating. I have to spit out most of the bowl.”

What do you mean by these things? Could it be that Uncle Zhu made a mistake?

Xiaoyu didn't think Lao Zhu would be mistaken, and was about to ask Lao Zhu when the forensic doctor emphasized: "Yuzhi, if the deceased was electrocuted, there should be electric current spots on the body, and even burns and scalds, but these marks cannot be detected during the examination." Didn’t find it yet.”

Xiaoyu reacted, turned around and asked, "Shen Da, are you saying that the old lady died normally?"

"We conducted careful and detailed inspections upstairs and downstairs. The power socket was about two meters away from the deceased's bed. There were no household appliances on the bed or at the head of the bed, and the bed was made of wood. We can basically rule out the possibility of being electrocuted on the bed."

Shen Da lit up his cigarette and continued: "Xu Chuanming's house does not have a bathtub, electric water heater or gas water heater. Their family uses a long red plastic bucket to take a bath. The bathroom is in the stairwell, far away from where the deceased usually lives. The distance between rooms is about twelve meters.”

"Does his house have electrical wiring?"

"Yuzhi, this is a rural area, who doesn't have a power line?"

"Then what are you going to do next?" Xiaoyu asked in a low voice.

Tan Suo took over the conversation and said helplessly: "To be sure, we would like to conduct an autopsy on the old lady's body. But there is no conclusive evidence that the old lady died abnormally, which means that for an autopsy to be done, relatives of the deceased must be obtained. Agree. You just saw the situation at the gate. If they don’t agree, what can we do?”

Xiaoyu thought about it and then said: "Uncle Zhu said that the old lady had been soaked in water, otherwise the dead skin on her feet would not be so soft. This is a major doubt!"

"Yuzhi, you mean the cuticles of the deceased's feet."

Forensic doctor Lao Cai picked up his notebook and analyzed: "We noticed during the examination of the body that Shen Da and Tan also arranged for people to go to the Xinghe Town Health Center to interview the deceased's daughter-in-law Wang Qiulan. Wang Qiulan fainted because of emotion in the morning, half She just woke up an hour ago. At first she said she didn’t help the old lady take a bath, but then she said she helped the old lady scrub her body with a hot towel last night, including her feet.”

"Did you wipe the old lady's feet with a hot towel last night?"

"That's what she said. Taking care of patients is very tiring. Whenever she has time, she has to work for a local contractor to earn money to support her family. It can be said that she is exhausted both physically and mentally. It's normal that she can't remember some things."

"Shen Da, I'm not saying that the old lady's daughter-in-law couldn't remember what she did last night. I meant that she wiped her feet with a hot towel last night. Logically speaking, after a night, the old lady's feet should be dry. Well... …The cuticle shouldn’t be so soft that it can’t be scraped off.”

"This is indeed a doubtful point, but it is obviously not enough to conclude that the old lady died abnormally."

Xiaoyu couldn't help but think of Sister Zhang Lan, who had been at odds with her mother-in-law for more than ten years, and asked: "How is the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law? Are there any conflicts between the old lady and her daughter-in-law?"

"Everyone outside, whether relatives, friends or neighbors, praised the deceased's second daughter-in-law Wang Qiulan. We also asked the village cadres, and several village cadres said that Wang Qiulan was very filial and had a good relationship with her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Over the years, I haven’t seen any conflicts between them.”

"Where's the eldest daughter-in-law?"

"The deceased's eldest son went to Donghai to do business very early. From setting up a stall selling snacks to opening a restaurant, he bought a house in Donghai and even moved his household registration to Donghai. He seldom came back. The deceased has been living with his second son. Together."

There is nothing suspicious except that the cuticles on the old lady's feet are relatively soft.

Xiaoyu didn't know what to do for a while, so he could only ask: "Uncle Zhu, you are well-informed and experienced in this area, what do you think?"

Zhu Baogen did not expect that things would turn out like this. He hesitated and threw away the cigarette butt and came over: "Forensic Doctor Cai, people who are electrocuted may not have the spots you mentioned."

"Master Zhu, how did you know?"

"I have seen."

Compared with the forensic doctor from the Dongqi Public Security Bureau, Xiaoyu believed in Zhu Baogen who had watched him grow up. He couldn't help but ask: "Forensic doctor Cai, how many electrocuted corpses have you seen?"

Forensic doctor Cai was stunned by the question. He was silent for a moment and said, "Two bodies."

Xiaoyu looked back at Zhu Baogen: "Uncle Zhu, how many have you seen?"

Zhu Baogen asked: "You mean the person who was electrocuted?"

"Um."

"There should be seventeen or eight."

"Impossible, how could you have seen so many corpses!" Forensic Doctor Cai couldn't believe his ears, with a look of shock on his face.

"How is this impossible?"

Lao Zhu asked in reply, twirling his fingers and saying, "In 1974, there were two children in Bailonggang. They pulled wires from their homes to the river to learn how to fish electric fish. As a result, both children were electrocuted to death. In 1978, the Red Star Three Team Because of the rain and the power outage, a villager took a bamboo pole to the power distribution room of Team 3 to deliver power, but he was also electrocuted to death.

In 1983, when the No. 4 Textile Factory built a family building, it was also because of heavy rain that the mixer leaked electricity. A worker touched the tip of the mixer and was electrocuted to death. Another worker went up to help him, but he was also electrocuted to death. In 1987, a worker in your Xinghe Pipe Factory was drilling and welding in a pipe. For some reason, there was an electric leakage. Anyway, he was electrocuted and died in the pipe..."

Forensic doctor Cai was stunned for a long time before he asked doubtfully: "Master Zhu, have you seen the corpses of these people?"

"I've seen it before. It's all me who restrained myself."

Lao Zhu looked at the shocked expressions of several Dongqi policemen, and then thought about it and said: "Being struck by lightning can be considered as electrocution. I have seen several people struck to death by lightning. The burns you are talking about are those who were injured by high voltage." Some were electrocuted to death, and some were scorched by electricity. As for the current spots you mentioned, some had them and some didn’t.”

Seeing everyone looking at him in unison, Forensic Doctor Cai said with a bit of embarrassment: "What Shen Da, Tan Suo, and Master Zhu said makes sense. As far as I know, in many cases of electrocution, there is indeed no obvious current on the surface of the corpse." spot."

This is meeting an expert!

The way Shen Da looked at Zhu Baogen was different from before. He took out a cigarette and asked, "Old Cai, if he was electrocuted, can you test it out?"

"Yes!" Lao Cai said without hesitation: "Electric shock can cause ventricular fibrillation and paralysis of the respiratory center. If you can find the site of the electric shock, you can also do a microscopic examination to see if there is polarization in the skin of the deceased."

Master Zhu has seen many people electrocuted to death, which does not mean that the old lady lying in the Xu family hall was also electrocuted to death.

Shen Da was silent for a moment and asked: "Master Zhu, you must have a basis for thinking that the deceased was probably electrocuted. In other words, how did you tell?"

"Look at the death state, the old lady's face, especially the old lady's mouth. If you ask me, I really can't tell. Anyway, it looks like she was electrocuted."

"Shen Da, Uncle Zhu has been helping people collect dead people since he was a teenager. Not to mention other things, he has personally fished out not one hundred but eighty corpses from rivers and rivers in these years. The dead people Uncle Zhu has seen, The deceased are residents of your jurisdiction, so I suggest you take them seriously."

"But the problem now is that the relatives don't agree to the autopsy."

"This is none of our business, Uncle Zhu, let's go."

"Oh, I'm going to pack my things."

"Yuzhi, wait! Master Zhu, don't leave in a hurry. We'll discuss it later." Tan Suo was anxious and grabbed Xiaoyu.

Xiaoyu knew that this matter was very difficult for them, and said with a bit of schadenfreude: "Tan Suo, this is not the jurisdiction of our branch. It is not appropriate for Uncle Zhu and I to stay here. People will think that we are dogs and mice." Too nosy."

Tan Suo smiled bitterly and said, "This is no trivial matter. You really can't leave. Mr. Shen, why don't you call and report to the bureau leader first and see what the bureau leader says?"

Shen Da sighed lightly and said with a wry smile: "What can the bureau leader say? We will definitely be allowed to do the work for the relatives of the deceased."

"The key is that this job doesn't work."

"You have to do it even if it doesn't work. Try it first and see."