Chapter 22 Green Grassland
With a shout, the two men hurried over, and when they saw the chain, Xiao Liu jumped down without Zhao Xinli waving his hand.
After a moment, he came back with a huge pair of pliers and cut the chain.
Zhao Xinli put the chain into the evidence bag and stared at Zhou Ning with his small eyes, nervously and excitedly.
"Enter?"
Zhou Ning nodded.
"Xiao Liu held a strong flashlight and stood at the door to illuminate it. Zhao Xinli gave me the camera. I'll go in and take a look first. After all, this house doesn't look very big."
Holding the camera, I walked towards the room, and as soon as I entered, a foul smell hit my nose.
Holding his breath, Zhou Ning's high-intensity flashlight continued to scan the room.
The room is not big, only about 11 or 12 square meters, and because there is only a slit window, there is no ventilation.
At the innermost part of the room, there was a single mat and next to it was an empty dirty bucket. The foul smell came from there. Under the window at the door, there was a slightly cleaner red plastic bucket with half a bucket of water in it and a plastic scoop.
Zhou Ning gently moved the bucket away. Two wrinkled pieces of toilet paper were stuck between the bucket and the wall. There were obvious bloodstains on them. Zhou Ning observed the area next to the red bucket. According to the traces of water stains, a garbage bag or something should have been placed here, and there were signs of blood flowing.
Straw mats, clean water, toilets, garbage, bloodstains, toilet paper, what do these indicate? Zhao Xinli figured it out without Zhou Ning explaining.
"Someone has lived here. No, the murderer has lived here. This reef is very large. Otherwise, with this smell, I wonder how many flies would have bred in it."
Zhou Ning nodded, took a photo, took a sample of the blood-stained toilet paper, rolled up the straw mat and threw it into the evidence bag, then stood up.
"Keep looking and see if you find anything else."
The two men became more enthusiastic this time. After only half an hour, after checking all the stone houses in Lantaizi and finding no other signs of recent human activities, they returned to the car.
"Doctor Zhou, are we still going to the village?"
"go."
Zhou Ning nodded. Before going to bed last night, he thought about the investigation and dissection process during the day. He always felt that he had missed something, but he couldn't figure out what it was.
At this point in the investigation, it has been determined that Liu Wangcai is the murderer. Although Liu Wangcai is meticulous and has worked as an auxiliary police officer and is familiar with internal procedures, Zhou Ning does not believe in the existence of a perfect crime.
Zhao Xinli moved quickly and drove quickly to Jiushanggou Village. Coming from the seaside, he didn't have to go through the newly built road, which was much easier to drive on.
The police car stopped in front of Liu Wangcai's house. People were looking around. Zhou Ning got out of the car and carefully observed the Liu family's gate.
At this moment, there was a sound at the door of Liu Bingyi's house, the only neighbor next door. Zhou Ning looked over and saw an eye sticking out from the hole in the door lock. The man's eyes met Zhou Ning's and he quickly shrank back.
Zhou Ning glanced at Zhao Xinli, who immediately understood Zhou Ning's intention. He ran over with his arms swinging, pushed the door open, and Zhou Ning and Xiao Liu followed him to the door.
He lived next door to a murder case, tipped off the murderer, and was taken away by the police for interrogation in the middle of the night. After going through so much trouble, he didn't even bother to avoid suspicion and move out for a while after returning.
As soon as the police car arrived, she leaned over the door to look. This person must have a secret.
After all, the previous interrogators were from Tieshan Police Station. When Chief Wang met them, he had a preconceived notion that they should produce and sell their own products. He seemed to be very experienced, but he was also a little arbitrary and presumptuous.
As Zhao Xinli pushed open the door, Wang Chengjuan, who was wearing a floral shirt, had retreated to the middle of the yard, clutching two ears of corn and controlling the trembling of her lips. However, her eye sockets were bruised and the left side of her cheek was swollen, obviously she had been beaten.
"You...what are you going to do? I...I don't know anything. If the police ask me again, my husband will kick me out of the house. Please just leave. I beg you!"
By the end of her speech, Wang Chengjuan was already crying.
Zhou Ning didn't look at her, his eyes kept scanning their yard.
Although it is about the same size as Liu Wangcai's house, the yard is quite messy. There are toys, laundry basins, electric tricycles, tables and chairs, firewood, and a lot of cardboard piled in one corner.
Seeing Zhou Ning looking over there and turning around to go there, Wang Chengjuan rushed over, blocked Zhou Ning, and reached out to grab Zhou Ning's arm.
"Well, whatever you want to ask, let's go inside and talk. Otherwise, if someone hears us, I'll get beaten again."
Zhou Ning raised his hand to avoid Wang Chengjuan's pull.
Zhao Xinli grabbed Wang Chengjuan by the collar, shook his head and spoke in a very impolite tone.
"Were you called to Tieshan Police Station yesterday? How come you still don't know the procedure? We don't need your instructions to investigate the case. Hurry and stand back."
Wang Chengjuan shrank her neck and stood aside obediently. In fact, in their yard, one could still smell a faint stench of corpse. Although the doors and windows in front of Liu Wangcai's house were closed, there was a gap in the north window, and the stench of corpse could penetrate every hole.
Zhou Ning didn't believe that she couldn't smell it.
Zhou Ning turned sideways and looked at the pile of cardboard he had just been staring at. This was the most orderly place in the entire yard. What could be hidden in it?
Zhou Ning didn't stop thinking about it. He walked to the pile of cardboard. The cardboard was tied into bundles with cloth strips. There was a round object sticking out of the gap on the side, which seemed to be a wooden handle.
Zhou Ning reached out and touched it, then turned around and looked at Wang Chengjuan. Wang Chengjuan was biting her lip at this time, her face was a little pale, her legs went soft and she knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Zhou Ning with her hands clasped together.
"Don't, don't touch that thing, please!"
Zhou Ning exerted force with his hands and pulled the wooden handle out a part, but then he couldn't pull it out anymore.
Xiao Liu stepped forward, picked up Wang Chengjuan, then put handcuffs on one of her hands and handcuffed his own hand with the other.
Zhao Xinli came over and pushed the paper shells towards the door. Zhou Ning's wooden-handled hay fork was exposed, with two purple-black bloody handprints on it.
"Control your emotions. What is your relationship with Liu Wangcai? If you don't tell me now, you will never have the chance to tell me again."
Wang Chengjuan kept waving her hands, tears and snot all running down. She wiped them with her sleeves. She knew that her crying was useless to the handsome policeman in front of her, and she seemed to be extremely disgusted with him.
After controlling her emotions, she stood up with the help of Liu Yong.
"To be honest, this pitchfork belongs to me. Liu Wangcai came in to get it himself. I heard the noise and came out. I saw him returning it and threatened me to burn it."
Zhou Ning squatted on the ground and took a picture of the grass fork, followed by the location of the two bloody handprints. The bloody handprints were left in the middle of the fork, 67 cm away from the head of the fork. Liu Wangcai was 160 cm tall, and about 180 cm with his hands raised. Adding this together, he was able to reach the north window.
Moreover, the shape of this bloody handprint was very well preserved, and the fingerprint was very clear. Turning on the camera, Zhou Ning found the photo of Liu Wangcai's fingerprint and compared it. Without using any comparing equipment, he knew that this was Liu Wangcai's fingerprint.
However, how could Liu Wangcai, who is such a meticulous person, believe this stupid Wang Chengjuan?
There was not a single fingerprint of Liu Wangcai found at the entire crime scene. Even on the murder weapon, there was only a palm print left. But if Liu Wangcai was smart and said that the knife belonged to their family, then this palm print would become invalid evidence.
Zhou Ning squatted there and looked at Wang Chengjuan.
"Tell me, what is your relationship with Liu Wangcai? Don't tell me you are neighbors, and don't tell me you are hired to monitor Zhu Meifeng for 3,000 yuan to get rid of me."
At this time, Zhao Xinli was standing at the window, seemed to see something, pushed the door and entered Wang Chengjuan's house. After a while, he came out with a photo frame, with a sly smile on his face, and handed it to Zhou Ning.
"Look, I really don't know if her man is really blind or just pretending to be blind!"
Zhou Ning picked up the photo, a photo of a family of four. Liu Bingyi and the others had met him yesterday. There was a hunchbacked man who looked honest and simple, about forty years old, with widely spaced eyes and thick lips. His hands and feet were twisted into strange postures, a typical face of cerebral palsy, but his was considered very mild.
At first glance, the two boys looked like Liu Wangcai, and their facial features seemed almost as if they were peeled off Liu Wangcai's face.
Zhou Ning looked up and Zhao Xinli raised his eyebrows.
"Hey, the green prairie!"
