Seeing the crime scene flashbacks made me the darling of the police station.

Chapter 282 A New Case Emerges
It was already dark when we arrived at the town where Yanjing Village is located.

It's only four miles away from Yanjing Village.

It was a bit cold here, and Chu Xingrou shivered as soon as she got out of the car.

Duan Wenrui said, "Let's eat something here and stay in town tonight. It's too far and inconvenient to go back to Changshi."

Su Miaoyi looked at Lu Zhishen.

"You guys eat, I can't eat anymore." Lu Zhishen felt that his stomach didn't want to eat for the next few days.

Just as he finished speaking, Duan Wenrui's phone rang, and he went to answer it.

"Sister Miaomiao, I feel a bit nauseous too, and I don't want to eat anymore," Chu Xingrou said.

She also got motion sickness from the bumpy ride.

"Let's find a supermarket to buy some food, then head to Yanjing Village. We can have a bite if we get hungry," Su Miaoyi said.

"Row."

"Another murder has occurred in Yanjing Village," Duan Wenrui said as he walked over. "The town's police station is already there."

All three of them looked at him.

"Let's go to the village first," Lu Zhishen said.

Everyone get on the bus immediately.

The road from the town to the village is easy to travel, and we arrived in no time.

They went directly to the crime scene.

The crime scene was in the mountains.

The car couldn't get on, so we had to walk.

Several people walked up the mountain.

There are some fruit trees on the mountain, and some maple trees next to the fruit trees.

The body was hung from a maple tree.

As it grew darker, they moved closer and finally saw the body clearly.

It was a woman, around sixty years old.

He was hanging from a tree with a rope around his neck.

There was a lot of blood on his mouth and on the front of his clothes.

Su Miaoyi put on gloves, examined the body first, and then had the body put down.

Duan Wenrui brought several police officers, but no forensic doctor.

They came to the village to inquire about the details of the case, but no one expected another murder to occur, so they didn't bring a forensic doctor.

Forensic doctors have to come from Changshi, which takes a long time.

So Su Miaoyi first performed some external examinations on the body.

Lu Zhishen, Chu Xingrou, and the people from the branch bureau and the police station searched the surrounding area and questioned the villagers on the mountain.

Many villagers were gathered around not far away.

Some people were still crying and shouting.

Su Miaoyi and Duan Wenrui examined the body.

"The time of death was around twelve hours ago," Su Miaoyi said.

Duan Wenrui looked at her, then quickly made a note of it.

Su Miaoyi touched the deceased's neck, then pried open her mouth to look: "The tongue is gone."

Duan Wenrui was shocked: "The same as Gao Hui's case?"

Su Miaoyi did not speak.

The deceased's mouth was not sewn shut.

It cannot be ruled out that someone copied the crime or that the method of the crime was a coincidence.

"The preliminary assessment is that the cause of death was strangulation," Su Miaoyi said. "Further details require a post-mortem examination."

"No! No autopsy! No autopsy!" a man suddenly shouted.

Su Miaoyi and Duan Wenrui both looked at him.

The man sat on the ground: "I don't agree to an autopsy, I don't agree!"

Duan Wenrui and Su Miaoyi exchanged a glance, then walked towards the man.

While he was away, Su Miaoyi touched the deceased's neck again, but saw nothing.

She touched other parts of the body, but saw nothing.

"Sister Miaomiao, look." Chu Xingrou called out to her.

Su Miaoyi walked to the tree trunk and looked at the spot where Chu Xingrou's flashlight was shining.

A number "4" was written in blood above it. "Four?" Lu Zhishen stared at it for a while.

"What about three?" Chu Xingrou asked.

Su Miaoyi looked at Duan Wenrui.

Duan Wenrui was asking the man from earlier a question.

The man was the deceased's husband.

It's not uncommon for family members to disagree with an autopsy. After all, they've suffered a sudden tragedy, and even if they want to catch the murderer, they can't bear to do it for their family.

After understanding the situation, Duan Wenrui instructed the other police officers to investigate further.

"Team Leader Duan," Su Miaoyi called out to him, pointing to the numbers on the tree.

Duan Wenrui was shocked again: "The same murderer as in the case three years ago?"

"It's hard to say yet," Lu Zhishen said.

"Four? What about three?" Duan Wenrui asked, puzzled. "There haven't been any murders in this village in the past three years."

"What about the other villages? Or a larger area?" Su Miaoyi asked.

Duan Wenrui paused for a moment: "We'll have to investigate that. But if there are any cases related to '3,' they should be reported. Three years ago, this case caused quite a stir, and the scope of the investigation was quite broad."

So if this case is related to numbers, it's most likely the case involving "3" that hasn't been discovered yet.

Su Miaoyi thought of this: "Have there been any missing persons in recent years?"

"The branch office hasn't received any missing persons reports from this town," Duan Wenrui said, calling over the police station to inquire.

"There's a missing person who hasn't been found yet," said a police officer at the local police station. "It's been over a year."

"Get the information out for me," Duan Wenrui said.

"it is good."

Su Miaoyi went to look at the body again, and she looked at the back of the body.

She shone a flashlight through the collar of the deceased, who was dressed lightly in the season.

Then I looked around.

The surrounding area is covered with branches and weeds.

There was a small pool of blood below where the body was hanging.

There is a number on the tree.

There weren't many other discoveries.

Footprints are being extracted.

The ground has been stepped on by many people.

There were many weeds on the ground, and a lot of them had been trampled down.

Footprint extraction is very difficult.

"Who discovered the body?" Su Miaoyi asked.

No one spoke.

Duan Wenrui also obtained a lot of information: "It's him."

Su Miaoyi looked at the man sitting on the ground.

The deceased's husband.

“His name was Tian Wu, and he was sixty years old,” Duan Wenrui said. “The deceased was named Wan Shuang, and he was fifty-eight years old.”

"Wan Shuang goes up the mountain to work in the morning, and Tian Wu goes to work at the construction site in the morning. Both of them leave home before dawn."

"So early?" Su Miaoyi asked.

"The temperature is lower here in the morning and evening. It gets too hot after the sun comes up, so everyone comes out early in the morning to work on the mountain to stay cool," Duan Wenrui said.

Su Miaoyi nodded.

Duan Wenrui continued, "Tian Wu got home around 5 p.m. and found that Wan Shuang wasn't home, so he called her. But no one answered. He waited at home until after 6 p.m., and when Wan Shuang still hadn't returned, he went to ask around at the houses she usually visited."

"Everyone said that Wan Shuang hadn't gone over today. Tian Wu got worried, so he went to the brigade and had the loudspeaker call out to Wan Shuang so she could hear it and come home, but Wan Shuang still didn't return. So Tian Wu went up the mountain to look for her, and the villagers, worried that something might have happened, also went up the mountain to help him shortly after he did."

"When the villagers mentioned the mountain, Tian Wu was so frightened that he sat down on the ground and couldn't speak."

Su Miaoyi glanced at Tian Wu.

Tian Wu sat on the ground, looking dazed.

“The villagers called the police, and we arrived here around the same time as the police station.” Duan Wenrui looked around. “There were quite a few villagers. At first, some people wanted to put the body down first, but others said they wanted to protect the scene, so they called the police first. But the scene wasn’t protected well; there were footprints everywhere.”

Su Miaoyi paused for a moment and said, "I just looked at the livor mortis on the body. The body was moved after death. The cause of death still needs to be determined by an autopsy. It may not be strangulation."

　Goodnight everybody.

　　(End of this chapter)