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Chapter 140 Rescuing People and Solving the Case

"Su Yang! Have you found him?"

Wang Xue's anxious voice came from the wellhead.

"Found her, let me tie the rope around her... Okay, you can pull now! Slow down!"

As he spoke, Su Yang quickly untied the rope, tied it back up for Li Xiaoya, and shouted upwards.

"good!"

After a response, Li Xiaoya began to rise slowly.

After Li Xiaoya was pulled out of the well, Wang Xue and Xiaobai worked together to pull Su Yang up as well.

After Su Yang left, he pushed away Xiao Bai, who was licking him with her tongue, and asked Wang Xue, "How is it? Is there any hope for this girl?"

Wang Xue touched Li Xiaoya's neck and checked her pulse, then said with a serious expression, "Let me try!"

After saying that, she first made Li Xiaoya lie face down on the ground with her belly down, her head turned to one side, one arm bent under her forehead, and the other arm straight.

Wang Xue then placed her palms flat on either side of Li Xiaoya's back, below her ribs, with her thumbs close to her spine and her four fingers naturally spread apart.

Lean forward and slowly press down, then slowly relax when you reach a certain point. Repeat this several times.

Su Yang, growing anxious, couldn't help but ask, "Sister Wang, why aren't you using chest compressions and artificial respiration?"

"What are you talking about?" Wang Xue was sweating profusely, her eyes full of confusion as she looked at Su Yang.

Su Yang suddenly realized that at this time, emergency first aid methods such as chest compressions and artificial respiration were not yet widely used in China.

Thinking of this, he pushed Wang Xue aside and said in a deep voice, "I'll do it!"

He ignored Wang Xue, made Li Xiaoya lie flat on the ground, and knelt down beside the little girl.

One hand was pressed against the lower half of her sternum, while the other hand was placed on top of it, with the fingers interlaced and curled up.

The little girl was so thin that Su Yang could clearly feel the bones under his palm.

Su Yang took a deep breath, straightened his arms, controlled his strength, and began to press down.

"28....29.....30!"

He silently counted, and then, to Wang Xue's astonishment, pressed Li Xiaoya's forehead back and lifted her chin to open her airway. He then pinched her nose and began to blow air into her mouth.

"Su Yang...you...."

"6

Wang Xue was stunned and couldn't help but want to reach out and stop her.

But Su Yang only blew on it twice before continuing to press on the girl's chest as before.

She immediately realized that Su Yang was saving someone, and she forced herself to remain silent.

Su Yang performed chest compressions and artificial respiration in a cycle, and every now and then he would lean down to listen to the little girl's heartbeat.

at last!

"Cough cough cough!"

Li Xiaoya, who had been lying motionless on the ground, suddenly started coughing, and water began to spray from her mouth and nose.

"My God! She's really alive!" Wang Xue was overjoyed, her face full of disbelief.

"Woof woof!"

"quack!"

Xiaoyu and Xiaobai cheered.

Su Yang breathed a sigh of relief, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

"What...what's wrong with me?" Li Xiaoya opened her eyes in a daze, her face pale. Then, as if she had thought of something, she started crying again, but she couldn't make a sound. Only tears rolled down her face like beads from a broken string.

Su Yang glanced at her, then looked towards the main room, and whispered, "Sister Wang, take her to the threshing ground first. I'll take care of things here."

Wang Xue knew that Li's sister-in-law's body was still in the main room. Upon hearing this, she nodded, got up, picked up the little girl, and left the Li family's house.

After she left, Su Yang led Xiao Bai and Xiao Yu into the main room of the Li family.

The Li family was well-off, with plenty of furniture in the main room, but all the cabinets and drawers were open, and things were scattered all over the floor.

Su Yang watched for a while, then went into the inner room.

The inner room was just as messy, and Sister-in-law Li was lying on her back on the bed.

Su Yang approached to observe and saw that her face was pale and her lips were purplish-black, which were indeed the characteristics of someone who had been smothered to death.

"Was this murder for money? Was it done by outsiders or villagers from Mushroom Village?"

He was pondering this in his heart.

Then, as if remembering something, he said to Xiaoyu, "Go fly around the area within dozens of miles of Mushroom Village and see if there are any suspicious people."

"Gurgle!"

Xiaoyu responded and flew out of the house.

Su Yang squatted down in front of the bed and began to carefully examine Li's sister-in-law's body.

The pillow under her head fell to the ground. Su Yang picked it up and looked at it, and saw a large amount of drool stains on it.

The murderer must have smothered Li's sister-in-law with a pillow.

"Huh? What's this?"

Su Yang noticed bloodstains under the fingernails of Li's sister-in-law's right hand. After examining it closely for a while, he determined that the blood probably didn't belong to Li's sister-in-law.

"Was this a scratch inflicted on the assailant during the struggle?"

He glanced at Little White, who was quietly squatting beside him, and immediately made up his mind.

Su Yang then went to the Li family's side room and found signs of ransacking. There were two large grain jars in the room, filled with sorghum and corn, weighing about three or four hundred catties in total.

He touched his smooth chin, thinking to himself, "The killer only wanted money? He didn't take any food?"

Or perhaps the murderer acted on impulse, not premeditatedly. Otherwise, coming at night would have been the best option, since the Li family's house was located at the easternmost edge of Mushroom Village, with no neighbors nearby.

If the murderer had planned ahead, he could have committed the crime at night and then transported the precious grain away under cover of darkness.

"Su Yang! Su Yang!"

First came a flurry of footsteps, followed by Wu Xinxue's hurried voice from outside.

Su Yang made a mental note of these clues and strolled outside.

It was observed that most of the members of the art troupe, including Wu Xinxue and Wang Xue, had arrived, except for Guo Ran.

Su Yang didn't see Li Xiaoya; Wang Xue must have left the little girl with Guo Ran to look after.

Besides them, there were a large group of people, all from Mushroom Village, led by Old Yang and a few other farmers' association cadres.

Many villagers were holding bowls, some of which still contained tofu and vegetables.

"Deputy Captain Su! I heard that Sister-in-law Li is dead?" Old Yang asked anxiously.

"Has a thief broken in?"

"The little girl was thrown into a well by bad guys?"

"Come on! Let's go inside and take a look!"

A group of people asked all sorts of questions at once, and even tried to rush into the main room.

"Stop right there!"

Su Yang shouted angrily, "Someone is dead inside! No one is allowed to go in and disturb the scene!"

The crowd was stunned by his imposing presence and involuntarily stopped in their tracks.

Wu Xinxue moved closer to Su Yang, first glancing at his soaking wet clothes, then whispering, "Sister Wang said that Sister Li was murdered, is that true?"

"Um.

Su Yang then looked at Old Yang and asked, "Chairman Yang, have you called the police?"

Old Yang nodded hurriedly and said, "The militia in the village have already set off, but the town is far away, so it will probably take the police two hours to arrive."

Su Yang nodded and said, "Chairman Yang, have your militia maintain order and prevent unauthorized personnel from entering."

"good!"

Old Yang responded and shouted a few times. A dozen or so militiamen emerged from the crowd and began to drive the onlookers away.

Su Yang looked at Wu Xinxue, "Sister Xinxue, why don't you take our people out too!"

Wu Xinxue knew this wasn't the time to cause trouble, so she nodded and led the female members of the art troupe out of the courtyard.

In the end, only Su Yang, Xiao Bai, the peasant association cadres, and a dozen or so militiamen remained.

Su Yang works in the security department of Limin Flour Factory.

In those days, the security department wielded considerable power and was authorized to assist the police in handling cases.

Even though Su Yang wasn't from Mushroom Village, in this era, government agencies emphasized initiative and didn't distinguish between work that was within one's job description and that that was outside one's job description.

These are special circumstances now, and no one dares to criticize Su Yang for handling cases together.

After seeing that the bystanders had left, the peasant association cadres and militiamen rushed into the main room to begin surveying the scene.

A dozen or so of them squeezed in, and many of them even knocked over the tables and chairs in the main room.

Su Yang couldn't help but roll his eyes.

He was just worried that the villagers of Mushroom Village would destroy the scene, but he didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, these people would destroy it completely.

After examining Li's body, the group determined that she had been smothered to death.

Seeing that the house had been ransacked, everyone deduced that it was a case of murder for money.

Everyone worked together to search the Li family's house from top to bottom, but they couldn't even find 100 yuan.

This further confirms their judgment that the murderer was after money.

Seeing that they had finally destroyed the entire scene, Su Yang finally gave up.

Just then, Xiaoyu returned from outside, flew directly into the main room, and landed on Su Yang's shoulder.

"Gurgle!"

Su Yang nodded knowingly.

Xiaoyu has completed her reconnaissance and found no suspicious persons.

Mushroom Village is the only village within a 20-mile radius.

A little over an hour ago, a female member of the art troupe came to ask several elderly women living alone to help wash vegetables, and they called Li Xiaoya along with them.

At that time, Li's sister-in-law was still perfectly fine.

The murderer committed the crime at the Li family's house within the past hour or so.

In those days, transportation in the countryside was underdeveloped; a murderer couldn't get more than twenty miles away in an hour.

There's a high probability that the killer is still in Mushroom Village, or even someone from Mushroom Village.

"Who on earth dared to harm the Li family?!"

Upon hearing the militiamen's conclusion, Old Yang and the others launched into a tirade of curses.

You should know that the Li family are the families of martyrs!

As a widow, Sister-in-law Li was often looked down upon in the village, but no one dared to openly bully her.

Furthermore, if Li Xiaoya hadn't been rescued, the Li family would have been wiped out!

The martyr's widow was murdered along with her entire family?

Even a fool like the farmers' association and militia knows that the higher-ups won't give them a good time!

"Old Yang, this was probably done by people from our village," the militia squad leader said after a moment's thought.

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Old Yang's expression changed, and he scolded.

The others remained silent.

No one present was stupid. Seeing the state of the Li family, they all had their own guesses, and some even suspected it was those notorious people from Mushroom Village.

However, people in the countryside value interpersonal relationships, and everyone present had at least ten or eight relatives in Mushroom Village. No one wanted to be the first to stick their neck out and offend others.

"Let's wait for the police to arrive before we talk about it," the militia squad leader said after hesitating for a while.

Su Yang was so angry he laughed.

In Shenzhou, whether he met factory cadres or workers, they all rushed into action when things got tough.

Why are all rural cadres like this these days?

"What are we waiting for? Now is the time to investigate. The longer we delay, the slimmer the chances of finding the killer become. If you're too scared to step forward, then I will!"