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

Chapter 289 Incomplete Information
"Do you make money doing this?" Zhao Yongliang asked Tian Liu. "You're giving things away for free."

"Of course I made money, otherwise I wouldn't have been willing to give up those two or ten yuan." After Tian Liu finished speaking, she looked at them and asked, "Leaders, do you think this person will come again tonight?"

Su Miaoyi and the others remained silent.

Generally speaking, given how big the incident was last night, it's unlikely that anything like this will happen again today.

But there's always a chance of something going wrong.

Especially since the other party is a criminal.

“Let me make this clear first, I’m a good person. I haven’t done anything wrong in the past thirty years,” Tian Liu said. “So if it really is the ram horn god manifesting, I’m not afraid. But right now, someone is using the ram horn god. Won’t that person kill everyone they see?”

Su Miaoyi looked at her.

Tian Liu said, "I'm so close, right next door. What if he gets desperate and kills me too? It's okay during the day because there are lots of people, but I'm really scared at night."

“We will increase police patrols at night, just like last night, with officers taking turns patrolling the village,” Zhao Yongliang said.

"Okay, okay," Tian Liu replied.

After leaving the convenience store, Su Miaoyi asked Zhao Yongliang, "Was that Xiaomin mentioned in Tian Dajiang's case?"

"Yes."

"Can't she speak?" Lu Zhishen asked.

“Yes,” Zhao Yongliang said. “He used to be able to talk, but after what happened with Tian Dajiang, he was traumatized and hasn’t been able to talk since.”

"Why isn't this matter mentioned in the files on Tian Dajiang's case?" Chu Xingrou asked him.

"This..." Zhao Yongliang couldn't say anything.

Chu Xingrou didn't ask any more questions.

"Has she always been in the village?" Su Miaoyi felt that Tian Min's clothes and the condition of her skin didn't seem like she had always been in the village.

“She has an aunt in Changshi, and she goes to her aunt’s place every month,” Zhao Yongliang said. “Her aunt has a small supermarket in Changshi that sells dried fruit, and she often goes there to help out. Her aunt pays her.”

Su Miaoyi nodded.

Several people went to Tian Dajiang's house.

Tian Dajiang's parents didn't seem very welcoming to them.

“Come, come, keep coming, every year you come, every year you ask, it’s been three years and you still can’t find the murderer, what’s the use of asking?” said Tian’s father.

"This is a leader from Jinghai who helped us solve the case," Zhao Yongliang whispered to Tian's father. "Be polite in your speech."

“So what if they’re from Jinghai? Where’s the murderer? We want the murderer. What does it matter to us where these leaders come from?” said Tian’s father.

Tian's mother punched him lightly: "Stop talking."

The old man took a puff of his pipe and fell silent.

"Come, sit down," said Mother Tian.

Lu Zhishen nodded and asked, "Has Tian Dajiang always lived with you?"

“Yes,” said Tian Dajiang’s mother.

“Didn’t we already ask that? Why keep asking again and again? Asking doesn’t solve anything. It’s all just going through the motions, not doing anything of substance.” Father Tian said with his back to them.

"Ignore him, he talks too much nonsense all day long," said Tian Dajiang's mother.

Lu Zhishen looked at her: "Does Tian Dajiang usually have a place to stay by himself?"

"What do you mean?" Tian Dajiang didn't understand his question.

Lu Zhishen repeated, "Besides home, where does he go most often?"

Tian Dajiang's mother thought for a while: "There used to be a small shed next to the orchard on our mountain. He often went there during that time. Occasionally, he would stay there until very late before going home."

"A small shed?" Lu Zhishen asked.

As he asked the question, Su Miaoyi and Chu Xingrou looked around his house.

“Yes, our orchard is next to the neighboring village on the east side, and the road is not far to the west. Sometimes fruit gets stolen, so we built a shed next to the orchard. During the day, Dajiang goes to watch over the fruit trees.” “He goes there often?” Lu Zhishen looked at the old lady.

“Yes. Sometimes he stays there all day, comes back for a meal, and then goes back again,” said Tian’s mother. “Sometimes he comes back very late at night. At first, we would ask him why he came back so late. But he got annoyed when we asked, so we stopped asking.”

“He’s often over there. Have you gone to see him? It’s very cold here at night. Don’t you think it’s strange that he always comes back so late?” Lu Zhishen asked.

“He went to see him.” Mother Tian glanced at Father Tian.

The farmer smoked his cigarette without saying a word.

Mother Tian continued, "Dajiang fixed up that little shed, making it shelter from the rain and wind, and even set up a bed, so it's not cold. He went to check it out, but couldn't figure out what was wrong. Dajiang is often playing on his phone by himself there, probably because he's too lazy to stay with us."

She sighed as she spoke.

Lu Zhishen was silent for a moment.

There is no information about this shed in Tian Dajiang's case file.

Tian Dajiang sometimes came home late, especially the night he was thrown into the well; he didn't come home all night.

After the incident, police investigations revealed that his parents would likely mention the shed.

For example, if he occasionally came back late, we would assume he was looking after the fruit trees on the mountain.

However, the shed was not mentioned in the information.

That place is very likely where Tian Dajiang used drugs.

Lu Zhishen looked at Zhao Yongliang.

Zhao Yongliang was at the police station and didn't know what was going on at the branch office. When he saw Zhao Yongliang looking over, he was taken aback.

“That shed,” Lu Zhishen asked.

“Oh,” Zhao Yongliang said. “We went to the mountain to see that shed three years ago, but it had already collapsed when we arrived.”

Lu Zhishen was surprised.

“It rained heavily that night, and there were almost no traces left,” Zhao Yongliang said. “The shed was only covered with a layer of plastic sheeting to keep out the wind and rain; the wooden planks weren’t very sturdy. It rained heavily and the wind was strong that night, so it didn’t seem like the murderer destroyed it; it seemed like it collapsed because of the rain.”

“We cleaned up the shed but didn’t find anything,” Zhao Yongliang said. “It was raining that day, so we couldn’t collect any footprints.”

Lu Zhishen nodded.

yard.

Seeing that Su Miaoyi was standing motionless in front of the pile of branches in the corner of the yard, Chu Xingrou assumed that Su Miaoyi had seen something. After approaching her, she tentatively asked, "Sister Miaomiao, what's wrong?"

Su Miaoyi put on gloves and took a small piece of black cloth from the tree branch. The edges were very uneven, as if it had been torn from a piece of clothing.

There was a lot of tree branches piled up in the corner of the yard, probably for firewood.

The branches were piled high, and the bottom of the side closest to the wall was openwork.

It looks like a hole made of tree branches.

Su Miaoyi put the small piece of cloth into the evidence bag.

Chu Xingrou also put on gloves, and then tugged at the branch with the fabric hanging on it.

It couldn't be moved.

There were too many piles, and they were packed too tightly, so they couldn't be moved at all.

So it's very likely that someone was here, and their clothes got caught and the fabric was pulled down.

"The hole under this branch looks like someone has been there, and the ground looks like it's been stepped on." Chu Xingrou looked at the ground, where there were many branches, some of which were broken and looked like they had just been broken, probably from being stepped on.

The yard is paved with patterned tiles, so footprints cannot be left on them.

"It's so narrow here, the elderly couple wouldn't have crawled into this spot to get or put down branches. Could someone have been hiding here? Judging from the broken branches, it seems like someone was here recently."

“Go ask them,” Su Miaoyi said.

(End of this chapter)