Chapter 247: The Corpse Reappears
Luo Xun followed Lin Wenjue to the backyard of the Tu family's old house, where colleagues from the county public security bureau had just carried up the last corpse.
"There are five bodies in total." Lin Wenjue looked at Luo Xun: "We need to contact Lao Ning to come over."
Luo Xun hummed while wearing gloves, and squatted down to check: "Lao Lin, call Heizi first and ask him to go find Uncle Ding."
"The one who helped you check the body last time?" Lin Wenjue took off his gloves and called: "Is he reliable?"
Luo Xun laughed: "Twenty years ago, we wouldn't be qualified to hire him."
"So awesome?"
Lin Wenjue was a little bit unconvinced. Heizi's call had already been connected. He stopped and walked aside to explain to Heizi.
When Lin Wenjue came back from the phone call, Luo Xun leaned on his knees and looked at him: "Three women and two men, the time interval between their deaths should be very large."
Lin Wenjue also squatted down: "How long will it take?"
Luo Xun pointed to the corpse on the far right: "This one should have died the shortest time, but he was also killed five years ago."
"Five years ago? Wasn't that when Tu Guoan was in prison..."
Lin Wenjue frowned: "Old Luo, according to our current speculation, could these people have been killed by Tu Guolin, the real Tu Guolin, the one who went to prison five years ago?"
Luo Xun patted his arm with the back of his hand and stood up: "It remains to be discussed. Don't forget that the unconscious man in the hospital is also a suspect."
Lin Wenjue cursed in a low voice: "These two brothers are sick, damn it."
Luo Xun smiled, asked his colleagues in the police station to look for clues more carefully, and took out his phone to ask Chief Zhao to come over.
After receiving the call, the black guy immediately went to find Uncle Ding.
At this time, Uncle Ding had just come back from buying vegetables, and Zhang Jinguo was greeting him at the door. Heizi called out to him enthusiastically when he saw him.
Uncle Ding froze, and immediately stuffed the dish in his hand into Zhang Jinguo's hand, turned around and closed the door: "Little Blackie? Why did you come to see me?"
Heizi ran up, glancing at his house: "This is what happened. My brother and his friends found some old skeletons, but the forensic doctor hasn't come yet. I'd like you to come over and take a look."
"Body?" Uncle Ding frowned: "Where is it?"
"The Tu family's old house." Heizi retracted his gaze: "Shall we go take a look now?"
Uncle Ding thought for a moment and said, "Wait for a moment. I'll go change my clothes."
Heizi wanted to go in and have a drink of water with him, but was ruthlessly blocked outside the door by Uncle Ding: "Wait outside. I don't have any big girls at home. What's the point of going in?"
The door slammed shut, and Heizi shouted from outside: "I'm coming in to have a drink of water!"
Not long after, Uncle Ding came out and threw an unfinished bottle of mineral water into his hand: "Drink it."
Heizi curled his lips: "Then I'd better endure it..."
He laughed, took out his cell phone and sent a message, then opened the car door and invited Uncle Ding to get in. However, Uncle Ding walked straight to his tricycle.
"You drive it yourself. I'm not used to sitting on a bicycle. I'll just drive my tricycle."
"That's fine too! As long as you're happy!"
Uncle Ding entered the Tu family’s old house and saw the yard full of police officers. He suddenly stopped where he was.
He glanced at the people passing by in a trance, and finally his eyes fell on Luo Xun and Lin Wenjue, as if he could see through them into their youthful past.
Luo Xun turned around and saw him, waved and walked towards him: "Uncle Ding."
Uncle Ding glanced at him with disdain: "Why do you come to our place every other day? Where's your young wife?"
Luo Xun was a little embarrassed by what he said: "Chi Xia has another mission. You were not so gossipy when I came last time. Come and help me find out when the five corpses were killed."
Uncle Ding looked in the direction where the corpses were placed. When he saw the five corpses lined up, his face darkened and he stretched out his hand: "Give me the gloves."
Lin Wenjue immediately handed him the gloves.
Uncle Ding walked over wearing gloves: "It looks like the interval between deaths is quite long. The one at the edge should be the shortest."
Luo Xun glanced at Lin Wenjue with a grin and raised his eyebrows at him proudly.
Uncle Ding went up and carefully examined several corpses. His brows relaxed and then twisted again from time to time, and finally he sighed.
"The exact time of death still needs to be examined in detail, but the interval between the first and second skeletons was at least three years. As for the remaining skeletons, the interval should be between one year and six months."
"What about the cause of death? Can we roughly tell it?" Luo Xun asked.
Uncle Ding pointed to the first corpse and said, "From the condition of this corpse, it seems that this was the first time the murderer committed a crime. The murder was brutal but full of uncertainties. There are many messy knife wounds on the corpse. Looking down, by the time he got to the last victim, the murderer's murder method was very neat."
"A serial killer who is gradually growing up." Luo Xun's face was solemn.
Lin Wenjue was a little confused: "But this killing cycle is a bit long, isn't it? Generally, serial killers don't have such a long interval between crimes."
"You also said that it is general, so you have to allow for the existence of special ones."
Uncle Ding stood up and said, "Let your professional forensic doctor come and check the rest."
Uncle Ding looked at the sky and said, "I have something else to do. I have to leave first."
"Okay, I'll bother you if I have anything to do with you. Don't mind." Luo Xun smiled at him ingratiatingly.
Uncle Ding glared at him with disdain, and he didn't know what he was thinking: "Well, come here, I have two questions to ask you."
Luo Xun agreed and walked with him to a quiet place: "What's wrong?"
"Yuji has been pretty messy lately, hasn't he?"
Luo Xun looked at him in surprise: "Yes, a little bit."
"What case? Can you tell me?"
Luo Xun became interested and even wanted to recruit him: "Are you interested?"
"A little bit." Uncle Ding answered honestly: "Whether you want to say it or not, forget it."
He was about to leave angrily, and Luo Xun quickly chased after him: "It's related to a criminal organization, Uncle Ding, you have a lot of connections, help me find out."
Uncle Ding sneered: "What connections do I have? I can't even find an extra pair of cards."
Luo Xun just smiled and said, "A man named Huang Weisheng, help me check it out, I know you have a way."
Uncle Ding shook off his arm in disgust, got on his tricycle and left.
When Uncle Ding's tricycle disappeared from Luo Xun's sight, Heizi 's phone call came again.
When Luo Xun picked up the phone, he heard him say, "Brother Xun, do you remember the old man who guards the door at your police station?"
"Nonsense, I still have some brains as your brother, what's wrong?"
"I sent you a photo, see if it's him," Heizi said.
Luo Xun lowered his head and enlarged the photo on his phone. It was a side profile photo of a person in the yard. Luo Xun was very familiar with that figure and posture. It was indeed Zhang Jinguo.
"Where did you take the photo?" Luo Xun asked.
"Uncle Ding's house."
Heizi said: "When I went to see Uncle Ding, I felt something was wrong, so I called my brothers and asked them to take a look. They took these photos secretly."
"I see." Luo Xun exhaled: "You did a great job on this."
Heizi laughed twice and pressed on: "Then can you not be angry with me? I really didn't mean to hide it from you..."
"It depends on my mood." Luo Xun sneered and hung up the phone.
He walked back in, and after thinking for a while, he sent a message to Chi Xia.
Chi Xia didn't see his message at first, as she was wandering around the police station with Zheng Jinghuai at that time.
Ten years later, Zheng Jinghuai stepped into this place again for the first time since leaving the police station.
