what's in the depths

Chu Rong set up the legs of the deceased, checked the integrity of the virgin membrane with a speculum, and finally came to a conclusion:

"The hymen is intact, and she was not sexually assaulted before her death. Except for the top of the head and mouth, there are no obvious injuries on other parts of the body, and none of the valuables on her body is lost. Therefore, there is no financial plan in the murder motive. color situation."

As he spoke, he raised his pen and wrote down the results of the inspection and analysis in his notebook.

The lips of the dead body were removed and stitched with cotton thread, which had become pale and swollen due to being soaked in water for a long time, and the lips were covered with dense pinholes, but it could be vaguely recognized that the lips were always slightly open due to the fullness of the lips. .

Zhu Yuhan looked at it for a while, then turned his head away slightly.

This lip has been overlapping with the gorgeous red lips in the sedan chair in memory, and the crystal teardrop across the chin, which makes people feel very depressed.

The police officers from the criminal investigation department did not rush back from the crime scene with the investigation box until the afternoon, and sorted out all the clues.

Yang Limin, captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Yong'an County Police Department, listed the clues and posted them on the whiteboard, and analyzed them one by one:

First of all, because the river at the scene of the crime is the river where the local residents drink water, the footprints there are messy, and the characteristics of the murderer cannot be judged from the footprints at the scene. However, a dragging trace was found in the grass by the river, and a few strands of fibers were found on the grass. It is necessary to compare with the fiber identification of the clothing worn by the deceased first. If it is not the fiber of the clothing of the deceased, it is the best, so that the police can narrow the scope of investigation.

Furthermore, in the previously reported case of the boy in a long skirt and the "Hundred People's Pit" case, there was a "sorcery theory" explanation for the strange phenomenon existing on the deceased. Whether the lips, the hair contained in the mouth, the sandbag hanging on the neck, the wooden block in the hand, etc. are also related to some kind of magic, or some kind of folk tradition.

Last but not least, the deceased was wearing a red wedding dress, and he may have just been married. However, the deceased had been dead for more than two days, but no one reported his disappearance.

Moreover, the deceased's hymen was intact, indicating that if she was just married, she hadn't had intercourse yet.

Yang Limin said that in local customs, intercourse should only be allowed after the man, that is, the groom, has eaten wine, respected the guests, worshiped the ancestors, and died.

Especially in this place, the rules and customs are very important, so Yang Limin guessed that the deceased may have been killed between nine o'clock and twelve o'clock at night.

"Check the recent marriage records of local residents and see if you can get any clues from them."

Zhu Yuhan thought about it, but the family welcoming team he met when he went out to eat special dishes with Chu Rong a few days ago, and the centenarian who said he was going to marry his granddaughter-in-law when he came here on the first day came to his mind.

If the time of death was before twelve o'clock, then the victim was not the wedding team they met that night.

"Oh, who is this?" Yang Limin looked at the man who suddenly interrupted, with a slightly unhappy expression.

"Sorry, I forgot to introduce. This is the captain of the Criminal Investigation Division of our city police station, Captain Zhu." Chu Rong said, leaning into Yang Limin's ear and lowering his voice, "Last year, Cai Zhijie's case and Xiao Ya's other big cases They are all responsible for the investigation by their criminal investigation department.”

Captain Yang's expression immediately changed when he heard it, he could only kneel down and lick it, and hurried over to hold Zhu Yuhan's hand:

"It turned out to be Captain Zhu. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. You don't look like the one in the photo. I didn't recognize you at the moment. I'm really sorry."

When mentioning the award-winning photo of himself with skin whitening, whitening and slimming with special effects, Zhu Yuhan felt angry, not to mention outsiders, even his mother couldn't recognize it after seeing it.

Fu Huaiyu looked at the photo at the time, held back for a long time and said: "Suddenly I feel that my aesthetics have derailed from this society."

The corner of Zhu Yuhan's mouth twitched: "It's all right, you're too polite."

The two picked up the case again after they had blown each other's business.

The most important thing now is to speculate on the suspect's motive for committing the crime based on the existing clues on the deceased, but it is basically certain that the person who dragged the body into the river and dumped it should be a male, above the age, and judging from the footprints by the river , the local residents have no disabilities in both legs, and they are all healthy people.

Why is the silver needle on the head, why is the sandbag hanging, and why is the wooden block in the hand.

But it is basically certain that the appearance of such features must be related to local folk customs.

That night, the Yongan County Police Department and the Foreign Criminal Investigation Division conducted a detailed study on the Yongan Tulou female body dumping case. Books related to custom records were piled up on the table, and a group of people ate and ate these books without sleeping or eating.

I just gnawed until three o'clock in the middle of the night, and still had no clue.

Zhu Yuhan took a sip of the coffee in front of him, tried to open his sleepy eyes, and looked at the others.

Tong Si was sitting at the table with his head bowed in thought. A book about "Taoism" was spread out in front of him. Chu Rong was still flipping through the local customs of Yong'an. But sleepy, he slammed on the corner of the table.

"I see!" With the sound of his head colliding with the corner of the table, Tong Si let out a low cry and stood up abruptly.

It was this sound that woke up everyone present except Huang Jiu.

Tong Si took a step forward, picked up a marker pen, and drew arrows on the detailed photos of the deceased on the whiteboard one by one.

"Just now I read a book about the records of Maoshan's technique, and found some very important clues."

Several people stared wide-eyed and looked over energetically.

"The silver needle on the head of the deceased. In Taoist thought, a person has three souls and six souls, and the acupuncture point is sealed with a silver needle on the top of the head so that the three souls cannot escape."

"Is there still such a saying?" Forensic Zheng couldn't help but interjected.

"Not only that, in the theory of the five elements, the five elements are divided into gold, wood, water, fire and earth. The deceased's hands are dyed with golden nail polish, which means gold; holding a wooden block, which means wood; floating corpses on the river surface, which means water; It means earth." Tong Si recorded it under the detailed photos.

"What about the fire? Isn't there still a line missing?"

Tong Si shook his head: "I don't know about that, after all, I didn't study this."

"When you mention fire, what do you think of?" Zhu Yuhan asked thoughtfully, holding his chin.

"Hot." Xiao Liu said.

"Hot." Captain Yang said.

"Fire, probably...red?" Chu Rong said.

"That's right, it's the red cheongsam worn by the deceased."

Everyone suddenly realized, but when they heard the news, they couldn't help but feel chills all over their bodies, and the chill went straight to the top of their heads.

"This is too evil."

"In Maoshan technique, in addition to paying attention to the inability to escape the three souls, it is also important to pay attention to the fact that the six souls have nowhere to go. The red clothes make the souls disperse and cannot be reborn forever. That is to say, according to the general records of the surgery, the dead should There is something missing in the river, and that thing is for prison souls."

As Tong Si said it himself, he couldn't help but get goosebumps.

"It's too ruthless. The Chinese are most concerned about the peace of the soul after death. Let people's souls fly away. This is still a human being." Xiao Liu scratched his numb scalp.

"Then what do the lips sewn together with cotton thread and the hair in the mouth imply?" Captain Yang was puzzled.

"I don't know." Tong Si's answer was very concise.

"Maybe it's...a catalyst?" Xiao Liu pointed to the hair tied up with red thread in the photo.

"Catalyst, do you mean catalyst?" Chu Rong was also a little confused, he only knew that in chemistry, the so-called "catalyst" is another word for catalyst.

"No, no, it's not the catalyst." Little Liu repeatedly shook his head, sighing in his heart, "Sure enough, it's the thinking of a science student."

"When I was a child, I heard from my grandma that there are matchmakers and marriage matchmakers for hair knots, and hair is a kind of auspicious omen for matchmakers. If it is tied with a red string, it means to tie hair."

Several people gave a long "Oh", and then Zhu Yuhan said:

"When we were visiting earth buildings before, we happened to meet a family that was going to have a wedding in the next few days. After dawn, we went to that house to take a look and ask, to see if we could get any clues from it."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yuhan yawned and raised his hand to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes.

"Okay, sorry for the trouble, everyone, go to bed early, I'll go to sleep after I sort out the clues." Captain Yang stood up and stretched.

Several people walked back rubbing their shoulders and beating their waists. Tong Si asked them if they had nothing to do, could they go back first, and said that Zou Xintong's birthday was coming soon, and he wanted to go back before her birthday. After all, it was the first birthday together, which was very meaningful , absolutely not to be missed.

Xiao Liu also said that this year's New Year's is the first time to visit his girlfriend's home to visit his prospective father-in-law. He has to go back early to clean himself up and do a beauty treatment to treat his smelly feet, otherwise he will not even dare to take off his shoes at his father-in-law's house.

Just as Huang Jiu was about to open his mouth, Zhu Yuhan interrupted:

"You naked bachelor, want to celebrate your girlfriend's birthday or visit your father-in-law?"

"That's not true." Huang Jiu shook his head, "It's just that before I left, I only gave the dog food and water for five days."

"Huh? What dog?"

"Husky."

"Then...you go back..."

Huang Jiu cupped his fists: "Thank you for the kindness of the team to protect the dog from tearing down the house."

Then, Zhu Yuhan curled his lips, turned his head, and launched a star-eyed offensive: "Rongrong..."

Chu Rong said "ah" and waved his hands: "I don't need to visit my father-in-law and mother-in-law, and I don't have a girlfriend, and I don't have a dog at home."

"Then, is there another excuse?"

"No, I haven't figured it out yet." Chu Rong's answer was very straightforward.

"Wow, this doting atmosphere between two people is disgusting." Xiao Liu said with a look.

"Fuck off, can your Hong Kong feet be disgusting?" Zhu Yuhan cursed back.

When several people checked into the local guest house, it was already 03:30 in the morning. After washing in a daze, they threw themselves on the bed and fell asleep in a second.

The night wind blew up, like a mournful cry, hidden under the noise in the room.

At this time, outside the window, a shadow was wandering non-stop, about a few minutes later, the shadow stopped, lying on the glass, staring motionlessly at the five sleeping people in the room.