Chapter 1499: 1499
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Although she felt that there were some accidental factors hanging the body on the branch structure, Yuan Sasha clearly remembered that she and several school policemen could not separate the body from the branch in any case when they fished the body into the kayak.
Finally, we unified our thinking and broke the branches one by one, which successfully solved the problem.
But Lu Weiwei's hint just now also made yuan Sasha re-examine.
"Xiao Yuan." seeing yuan Sasha's eyes staring at the big tree, Gu Chen reminded, "what's the problem?"
"Elder martial brother Gu." Yuan Sasha thought for a few seconds with a doubt, and then said, "I don't think what elder martial sister Lu said is unreasonable."
"I remember that when I arrived here with some younger students, I really used the strength of the famine and couldn't separate the body."
"Finally, I had to break the branch, but it took a lot of effort, so I felt as if someone had deliberately hung the body here."
Listening to Yuan Shasha's explanation, Gu Chen didn't say much. He just stepped into the water and carefully inspected the roots and branches of the tree.
"What about the broken branch?" Gu Chen turned to Yuan Shasha and asked, "where did you throw those branches?"
"On the bank, elder martial brother Gu, wait." Yuan Shasha knew where the branches were discarded, so she quickly turned around and looked for them on the bank.
Finally, Yuan Shasha came to Gu Chen with three strong branches, threw them at Gu Chen's feet and said, "this body is also lucky to be caught by so many branches, otherwise it may really drift downstream."
"HMM." Gu Chen responded, quickly took out one of the branches of this section, put it on the broken branches of the big tree, and made repeated comparison.
Finally, Gu Chen found a place where the crease was more consistent with the branch in his hand and directly inserted the branch back.
"This branch is in the wrong direction." Gu Chen seems to find something fishy.
Lu Weiwei hurried forward, carefully compared Gu Chen's closing parts, and instantly understood Gu Chen's meaning.
"Younger martial brother Gu, you mean that this branch should face upward, right?"
"That's right." Gu Chen took the broken part and demonstrated it to the crowd. "Obviously, this crease should be combined like this."
"All concave and convex parts are also consistent, which shows that the branch on my hand is obviously broken from this position, but the direction is obviously a little surprised."
"Yes, the branch links the stump, which obviously grows upward, but how can this branch go down into the water?"
Officer Wang, sitting in the kayak, also clearly saw the clue.
After thinking for a few seconds, officer Wang added, "and even if the water rises, it can't rise so high. It's like being bent deliberately and put into the water. Look at the head position of the branches."
Seeing officer Wang pointing to the branch in his hand, Gu Chen directly extended his head to officer Wang.
Officer Wang pointed to several hook positions and said clearly, "this hook structure is very suitable for making hooks."
"But if you hook the body artificially, the branches will inevitably be immersed in water."
"So..." Gu Chen glanced at Yuan Sasha's direction and continued to ask, "so when you found the body, this branch always hung the body and soaked it in water, right?"
"Yes, that's it." Yuan Shasha seemed to be awakened, but she couldn't help saying, "when we were this section of the trunk, we found that the trunk was very curved."
"And it's not just this branch, I remember another one as well."
"Is this one?" Lu Weiwei directly matched another broken trunk to another crease.
The crease is completely consistent with the concave convex position of the trunk.
Yuan Shasha nodded fiercely: "yes, that's it."
"The direction is also wrong." Gu Chen took the trunk in Lu Weiwei's hand and corrected the normal growth direction of the trunk again.
Like the one just now, both trunks grow upward.
All sorts of things seem to verify Gu Chen's same idea as Lu Weiwei just now, that is, if the body needs to hang in the water flow of yesterday, it will not be washed away.
It must be assisted by two strong branches on the big tree with the help of artificial power.
Gu Chen thought of this and continued to ask, "Xiao Yuan, apart from these two branches, are there any other fixed points?"
"And... Tree roots, which extend into the water." Yuan Shasha pointed to one of the positions and said, "but this tree root can only hook the clothes of the corpse at most."
"In addition, the two branches bent at the top can become a stable triangle and fix the body."
"In other words, the body was obviously hung here on purpose." Gu Chen heard yuan Sasha's story. Combined with the scene situation, he suddenly felt that the old man suddenly disappeared yesterday and the time of death was different.
All these things seem to have forced Gu Chen to continue his in-depth investigation.
Standing up, after shooting, Gu Chen climbed directly to the shore and began to patrol along the road on the shore.
As the flood soaked most areas along the bank, the current bank is already muddy.
Many aquatic plants that originally grew on the bank have already become crooked after the flood receded.
Gu Chen is careful and keeps looking directly along the direction of the village.
Police officer Wang also drove the kayak, followed Gu Chen's steps and drove up together.
Two minutes later, Gu Chen stopped at a place and immediately squatted down. It seemed that he was looking for something.
Luweiwei followed in small steps.
Due to the slippery road, Lu Weiwei stumbled and nearly slipped to the ground.
Fortunately, Lu Weiwei had a strong sense of balance. She took a few small steps and immediately stabilized her feet.
"Be careful, elder martial sister Lu." Gu Chen pulled Lu Weiwei's waist belt and grasped her firmly.
Lu Weiwei also held Gu Chen's shoulder, and her feet gradually stabilized.
"The ground is too slippery. I almost fell into the water." take a deep breath. Lu Weiwei also asked Gu Chen: "by the way, younger martial brother Gu, what did you find?"
"Footprints," Gu Chen said.
"Footprints?" Lu Weiwei squatted down and came to Gu Chen.
Yuan Shasha also came from the other side.
The three squatted on the ground like a group of boring people watching ants fight.
Gu Chen gently pushed aside the weeds, pointed to one of the footprints and said, "there are obvious traces of being trampled on in this place."
"Judging from the new and old degree of footprints, they should have been left only recently."
Standing up, looking around, Gu Chen said again: "and this place, usually no one will come."
"Was the old man brought here after his death and deliberately hung on the shore? But I can't understand why. What's the significance of doing so?"
"It's a fake time of death." Gu Chen's eyes were burning, looked ahead, and then turned to the crowd:
"There is something strange about the old man's death. According to my reasoning just now in Xize Central Primary School, the old man's death should be before we find him sitting on the roof."
"But if so, the old man on the roof we saw at the beginning may have been a corpse."
"How could this happen?" Yuan Shasha was terrified by Gu Chen's explanation, and couldn't help saying:
"But from what you saw yesterday, didn't elder martial brother Gu go to the old house to check the situation?"
"Moreover, you team members have searched nearby for a long time and have not found the old man's body."
"Yes." Gu Chen nodded silently and said, "this is also my doubt."
"Although I can only infer that the death time of the old man is wrong, how the old man gradually disappeared from our sight."
"How can it appear in this place and be firmly hung on the shore? It's strange."
"And this footprint," Lu Weiwei reminded, pointing to the ground.
Gu Chen holds his chest in his hands and looks at officer Wang on the kayak.
At the moment, officer Wang also thought: "if this is the case, it shows that the old man's death is really strange."
"The key is that if the old man's body is firmly hung on the branch as Xiao Yuan said, it is likely to be man-made."
"The footprints on the shore may be left by the party who moved the body here."
"Why do you want to do this? Is it to complete a homicide with the help of the flood?" Gu Chen looked at the village with bright eyes.
In Gu Chen's opinion, it fully meets the conditions for killing.
Turning around, Gu Chen was also speechless and said, "the current situation shows at least a few doubts."
"First of all, when we were going to search the village yesterday, the old man who was still sitting on the roof of the old house suddenly disappeared."
"And now, after the old man's body mysteriously disappeared yesterday, it strangely appears in this place and seems to be hung here artificially."
"Moreover, judging from the time of death of the elderly, it is completely beyond the time we found yesterday, which is not in line with common sense."
"So put these doubts together, it seems to be a suspicious event."
"But..."
Lu Weiwei hesitated for a few seconds, but she couldn't help saying, "but brother Gu, it's difficult for us to make a final conclusion based on these alone, including the specific identity of the dead. In addition, if he killed him, the murderer must have a festival with the old man, which we need to master."
"You're right, that's what I'm going to consider at present." Gu Chen took out his mobile phone and photographed the footprints just now. Suspiciously, he bypassed the easy route and walked all the way to the village.
Seeing this, they all followed.
Gu Chen searched for footprints and photographed all the way.
The weeds were washed away by the flood, which also brought a lot of silt to the bank.
So it seems very difficult to search for footprints.
Just beside the big tree, the footprints can be seen clearly.
But after being far away from the big tree, the depth and shape of the footprints can no longer be used as a basis for judgment.
But even so, Gu Chen had to shoot the blurred mark, and was ready to let he Junchao repair it a little through some technical means as a reference.
"Come up." seeing Gu Chen running in the mud along the bank with Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha, officer Wang also said painfully.
But Gu Chen refused directly: "I want to go all the way from here to that village to see if I can find some valuable clues."
After looking at the two people behind him, Gu Chen also reminded and said, "elder martial sister Lu, Xiao Yuan, you go back by kayaking. Give it to me on the shore. I have enough to deal with the problems here. You can only suffer if you follow."
"Yes, you two come up and give Gu Chen the shore." officer Wang also reminded him in the kayak.
Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha looked at each other and felt that Gu Chen's words were also reasonable.
At this time, it's lucky to follow Gu Chen, not to mention finding clues and not adding chaos.
After thinking about it, Lu Weiwei also breathed a sigh of relief: "OK, I'll give it to younger martial brother Gu here."
With the help of officer Wang, Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha climbed directly into the kayak.
Then the three took a kayak and began to maintain a parallel position with Gu Chen.
Gu Chen searched all the way and vaguely found some traces of footprints, so he took photos with him.
Until Gu Chen walked all the way to the entrance of the village, he found that there were almost no obstacles along the way.
"Elder martial brother Wang." Gu Chen went into the water, turned directly into the kayak and said, "let's go back. In addition, inform the technology section of the Municipal Bureau and ask Gao Chuanfeng to take the old man's body back."
"Yes, I've just asked Xiao Yuan to inform me. At this time, I'm probably on my way," officer Wang said.
"Very good." Gu Chen nodded silently and said, "now let's go back to Xize Central Primary School and investigate the situation of the old man."
"OK, then sit down and let's go." officer Wang got the instruction, quickly drove the kayak and began to drive quickly towards Xize Town Central Primary School.
Before long, the canoe joined the other rescue teams.
Gu Chen couldn't care too much. He jumped out of the kayak and rushed to the place where the people were resettled.
At this moment, the old man's body is still covered with plastic cloth and guarded by a student policeman.
And many melon eating people are surrounded.
In small groups, everyone stood by and thought about the broken, discussing the bad things these days.
Gu Chen didn't think much, and directly asked, "who of you is familiar with the old man?"
The voice fell and there was little response at the scene.
Everyone seemed to feel that Gu Chen asked, as if he wanted everyone to help deal with the body.
So several women looked back and didn't answer.
Instead, a seven or eight year old girl raised her hand and said, "I know this grandpa better."
"You?" seeing that the little girl was willing to answer, Gu Chen had to squat in front of her and asked, "tell me, does the old man live alone at home?"
"Well, he lives at home alone," said the little girl.
"Then his family all work in other places, right?" Gu Chen asked again.
The little girl still nodded, "yes."
"Very good." Gu Chen touched the little girl's head and continued to ask, "has he ever quarreled with anyone recently? Or had a conflict?"
"Er..."
This question seemed to embarrass the little girl.
The little girl scratched the back of her head as if to recall, but it seemed difficult to understand these situations.
After a pause, the little girl shook her head helplessly: "I don't know this."
"OK, I still want to thank you." Gu Chen patted the little girl on the shoulder, stood up and continued to ask the people, "who else is familiar with the old man? I want to know about the old man."
"Comrade policeman, I know him better." in the crowd, a middle-aged woman came out.
Gu Chen knows her. This is the middle-aged woman who chatted with herself last night.
Gu Chen also learned from this woman about the old man's good water ability before.
Gu Chen shook hands with her and said, "thank you for your cooperation. I remember you are from the village on the other side."
"Yes, we met and talked last night." the woman also smiled.
Gu Chen nodded silently: "yes, the old man's family is not around, but we still want to know more about the old man."
"After all, when we went to your village to rescue yesterday, we actually found the old man sitting on the roof."
"But later, when we approached the old house and were ready to start rescue, the old man disappeared."
"Finally, the rescue force of our police force found the body on the downstream bank, so we need to know more about the old man."
"What do you want to know?" it can be seen that Gu Chen is basically straight to the point, and the woman also asked.
Gu Chen smiled faintly, opened the law enforcement recorder and said, "the specific information of the old man, such as his name, how old he is this year, and some of his specific identities."
"Well, OK." the woman hesitated for a few seconds before she replied, "his name is Zhao Shuishui. I don't remember his specific age. He may be seventy-five or six years old. He was the former head of our village."
"How is he?" Gu Chen took out his notebook and wrote it quickly.
"Human?" the woman hesitated for two seconds and said, "people are still good, but they have a big temper."
"Before, his son and daughter-in-law were at home and often quarreled with him. Anyway, the relationship with his younger generation was not very good."
"That's why his children want to stay outside and come back for the new year."
"What about his lover?" asked Lu Weiwei.
The woman shook her head and sighed: "earlier years, a car accident died."
"All right." hearing the woman's speech, Gu Chen also regretted and continued to ask, "has he been in conflict with others recently, a very fierce one?"
"This... Let me think." I felt it was difficult to answer the question. The woman also meditated for a few seconds and tried to recall.
But more than ten seconds later, the woman still shook her head and sighed: "I really don't know. Although our old village head has a bad temper, he doesn't have too many contradictions with people."
"And didn't you ask me about him yesterday? Didn't I tell you about him? He's good at water. Many people in the village just learned swimming from him."
"You know, he is actually very willing to help others."
"That is, there is no contradiction with the people in your village?" police officer Wang couldn't help saying that the middle-aged woman praised the dead old man so much.
But at this moment, the middle-aged woman seemed to think of something and said, "it seems a little."
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Although she felt that there were some accidental factors hanging the body on the branch structure, Yuan Sasha clearly remembered that she and several school policemen could not separate the body from the branch in any case when they fished the body into the kayak.
Finally, we unified our thinking and broke the branches one by one, which successfully solved the problem.
But Lu Weiwei's hint just now also made yuan Sasha re-examine.
"Xiao Yuan." seeing yuan Sasha's eyes staring at the big tree, Gu Chen reminded, "what's the problem?"
"Elder martial brother Gu." Yuan Sasha thought for a few seconds with a doubt, and then said, "I don't think what elder martial sister Lu said is unreasonable."
"I remember that when I arrived here with some younger students, I really used the strength of the famine and couldn't separate the body."
"Finally, I had to break the branch, but it took a lot of effort, so I felt as if someone had deliberately hung the body here."
Listening to Yuan Shasha's explanation, Gu Chen didn't say much. He just stepped into the water and carefully inspected the roots and branches of the tree.
"What about the broken branch?" Gu Chen turned to Yuan Shasha and asked, "where did you throw those branches?"
"On the bank, elder martial brother Gu, wait." Yuan Shasha knew where the branches were discarded, so she quickly turned around and looked for them on the bank.
Finally, Yuan Shasha came to Gu Chen with three strong branches, threw them at Gu Chen's feet and said, "this body is also lucky to be caught by so many branches, otherwise it may really drift downstream."
"HMM." Gu Chen responded, quickly took out one of the branches of this section, put it on the broken branches of the big tree, and made repeated comparison.
Finally, Gu Chen found a place where the crease was more consistent with the branch in his hand and directly inserted the branch back.
"This branch is in the wrong direction." Gu Chen seems to find something fishy.
Lu Weiwei hurried forward, carefully compared Gu Chen's closing parts, and instantly understood Gu Chen's meaning.
"Younger martial brother Gu, you mean that this branch should face upward, right?"
"That's right." Gu Chen took the broken part and demonstrated it to the crowd. "Obviously, this crease should be combined like this."
"All concave and convex parts are also consistent, which shows that the branch on my hand is obviously broken from this position, but the direction is obviously a little surprised."
"Yes, the branch links the stump, which obviously grows upward, but how can this branch go down into the water?"
Officer Wang, sitting in the kayak, also clearly saw the clue.
After thinking for a few seconds, officer Wang added, "and even if the water rises, it can't rise so high. It's like being bent deliberately and put into the water. Look at the head position of the branches."
Seeing officer Wang pointing to the branch in his hand, Gu Chen directly extended his head to officer Wang.
Officer Wang pointed to several hook positions and said clearly, "this hook structure is very suitable for making hooks."
"But if you hook the body artificially, the branches will inevitably be immersed in water."
"So..." Gu Chen glanced at Yuan Sasha's direction and continued to ask, "so when you found the body, this branch always hung the body and soaked it in water, right?"
"Yes, that's it." Yuan Shasha seemed to be awakened, but she couldn't help saying, "when we were this section of the trunk, we found that the trunk was very curved."
"And it's not just this branch, I remember another one as well."
"Is this one?" Lu Weiwei directly matched another broken trunk to another crease.
The crease is completely consistent with the concave convex position of the trunk.
Yuan Shasha nodded fiercely: "yes, that's it."
"The direction is also wrong." Gu Chen took the trunk in Lu Weiwei's hand and corrected the normal growth direction of the trunk again.
Like the one just now, both trunks grow upward.
All sorts of things seem to verify Gu Chen's same idea as Lu Weiwei just now, that is, if the body needs to hang in the water flow of yesterday, it will not be washed away.
It must be assisted by two strong branches on the big tree with the help of artificial power.
Gu Chen thought of this and continued to ask, "Xiao Yuan, apart from these two branches, are there any other fixed points?"
"And... Tree roots, which extend into the water." Yuan Shasha pointed to one of the positions and said, "but this tree root can only hook the clothes of the corpse at most."
"In addition, the two branches bent at the top can become a stable triangle and fix the body."
"In other words, the body was obviously hung here on purpose." Gu Chen heard yuan Sasha's story. Combined with the scene situation, he suddenly felt that the old man suddenly disappeared yesterday and the time of death was different.
All these things seem to have forced Gu Chen to continue his in-depth investigation.
Standing up, after shooting, Gu Chen climbed directly to the shore and began to patrol along the road on the shore.
As the flood soaked most areas along the bank, the current bank is already muddy.
Many aquatic plants that originally grew on the bank have already become crooked after the flood receded.
Gu Chen is careful and keeps looking directly along the direction of the village.
Police officer Wang also drove the kayak, followed Gu Chen's steps and drove up together.
Two minutes later, Gu Chen stopped at a place and immediately squatted down. It seemed that he was looking for something.
Luweiwei followed in small steps.
Due to the slippery road, Lu Weiwei stumbled and nearly slipped to the ground.
Fortunately, Lu Weiwei had a strong sense of balance. She took a few small steps and immediately stabilized her feet.
"Be careful, elder martial sister Lu." Gu Chen pulled Lu Weiwei's waist belt and grasped her firmly.
Lu Weiwei also held Gu Chen's shoulder, and her feet gradually stabilized.
"The ground is too slippery. I almost fell into the water." take a deep breath. Lu Weiwei also asked Gu Chen: "by the way, younger martial brother Gu, what did you find?"
"Footprints," Gu Chen said.
"Footprints?" Lu Weiwei squatted down and came to Gu Chen.
Yuan Shasha also came from the other side.
The three squatted on the ground like a group of boring people watching ants fight.
Gu Chen gently pushed aside the weeds, pointed to one of the footprints and said, "there are obvious traces of being trampled on in this place."
"Judging from the new and old degree of footprints, they should have been left only recently."
Standing up, looking around, Gu Chen said again: "and this place, usually no one will come."
"Was the old man brought here after his death and deliberately hung on the shore? But I can't understand why. What's the significance of doing so?"
"It's a fake time of death." Gu Chen's eyes were burning, looked ahead, and then turned to the crowd:
"There is something strange about the old man's death. According to my reasoning just now in Xize Central Primary School, the old man's death should be before we find him sitting on the roof."
"But if so, the old man on the roof we saw at the beginning may have been a corpse."
"How could this happen?" Yuan Shasha was terrified by Gu Chen's explanation, and couldn't help saying:
"But from what you saw yesterday, didn't elder martial brother Gu go to the old house to check the situation?"
"Moreover, you team members have searched nearby for a long time and have not found the old man's body."
"Yes." Gu Chen nodded silently and said, "this is also my doubt."
"Although I can only infer that the death time of the old man is wrong, how the old man gradually disappeared from our sight."
"How can it appear in this place and be firmly hung on the shore? It's strange."
"And this footprint," Lu Weiwei reminded, pointing to the ground.
Gu Chen holds his chest in his hands and looks at officer Wang on the kayak.
At the moment, officer Wang also thought: "if this is the case, it shows that the old man's death is really strange."
"The key is that if the old man's body is firmly hung on the branch as Xiao Yuan said, it is likely to be man-made."
"The footprints on the shore may be left by the party who moved the body here."
"Why do you want to do this? Is it to complete a homicide with the help of the flood?" Gu Chen looked at the village with bright eyes.
In Gu Chen's opinion, it fully meets the conditions for killing.
Turning around, Gu Chen was also speechless and said, "the current situation shows at least a few doubts."
"First of all, when we were going to search the village yesterday, the old man who was still sitting on the roof of the old house suddenly disappeared."
"And now, after the old man's body mysteriously disappeared yesterday, it strangely appears in this place and seems to be hung here artificially."
"Moreover, judging from the time of death of the elderly, it is completely beyond the time we found yesterday, which is not in line with common sense."
"So put these doubts together, it seems to be a suspicious event."
"But..."
Lu Weiwei hesitated for a few seconds, but she couldn't help saying, "but brother Gu, it's difficult for us to make a final conclusion based on these alone, including the specific identity of the dead. In addition, if he killed him, the murderer must have a festival with the old man, which we need to master."
"You're right, that's what I'm going to consider at present." Gu Chen took out his mobile phone and photographed the footprints just now. Suspiciously, he bypassed the easy route and walked all the way to the village.
Seeing this, they all followed.
Gu Chen searched for footprints and photographed all the way.
The weeds were washed away by the flood, which also brought a lot of silt to the bank.
So it seems very difficult to search for footprints.
Just beside the big tree, the footprints can be seen clearly.
But after being far away from the big tree, the depth and shape of the footprints can no longer be used as a basis for judgment.
But even so, Gu Chen had to shoot the blurred mark, and was ready to let he Junchao repair it a little through some technical means as a reference.
"Come up." seeing Gu Chen running in the mud along the bank with Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha, officer Wang also said painfully.
But Gu Chen refused directly: "I want to go all the way from here to that village to see if I can find some valuable clues."
After looking at the two people behind him, Gu Chen also reminded and said, "elder martial sister Lu, Xiao Yuan, you go back by kayaking. Give it to me on the shore. I have enough to deal with the problems here. You can only suffer if you follow."
"Yes, you two come up and give Gu Chen the shore." officer Wang also reminded him in the kayak.
Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha looked at each other and felt that Gu Chen's words were also reasonable.
At this time, it's lucky to follow Gu Chen, not to mention finding clues and not adding chaos.
After thinking about it, Lu Weiwei also breathed a sigh of relief: "OK, I'll give it to younger martial brother Gu here."
With the help of officer Wang, Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha climbed directly into the kayak.
Then the three took a kayak and began to maintain a parallel position with Gu Chen.
Gu Chen searched all the way and vaguely found some traces of footprints, so he took photos with him.
Until Gu Chen walked all the way to the entrance of the village, he found that there were almost no obstacles along the way.
"Elder martial brother Wang." Gu Chen went into the water, turned directly into the kayak and said, "let's go back. In addition, inform the technology section of the Municipal Bureau and ask Gao Chuanfeng to take the old man's body back."
"Yes, I've just asked Xiao Yuan to inform me. At this time, I'm probably on my way," officer Wang said.
"Very good." Gu Chen nodded silently and said, "now let's go back to Xize Central Primary School and investigate the situation of the old man."
"OK, then sit down and let's go." officer Wang got the instruction, quickly drove the kayak and began to drive quickly towards Xize Town Central Primary School.
Before long, the canoe joined the other rescue teams.
Gu Chen couldn't care too much. He jumped out of the kayak and rushed to the place where the people were resettled.
At this moment, the old man's body is still covered with plastic cloth and guarded by a student policeman.
And many melon eating people are surrounded.
In small groups, everyone stood by and thought about the broken, discussing the bad things these days.
Gu Chen didn't think much, and directly asked, "who of you is familiar with the old man?"
The voice fell and there was little response at the scene.
Everyone seemed to feel that Gu Chen asked, as if he wanted everyone to help deal with the body.
So several women looked back and didn't answer.
Instead, a seven or eight year old girl raised her hand and said, "I know this grandpa better."
"You?" seeing that the little girl was willing to answer, Gu Chen had to squat in front of her and asked, "tell me, does the old man live alone at home?"
"Well, he lives at home alone," said the little girl.
"Then his family all work in other places, right?" Gu Chen asked again.
The little girl still nodded, "yes."
"Very good." Gu Chen touched the little girl's head and continued to ask, "has he ever quarreled with anyone recently? Or had a conflict?"
"Er..."
This question seemed to embarrass the little girl.
The little girl scratched the back of her head as if to recall, but it seemed difficult to understand these situations.
After a pause, the little girl shook her head helplessly: "I don't know this."
"OK, I still want to thank you." Gu Chen patted the little girl on the shoulder, stood up and continued to ask the people, "who else is familiar with the old man? I want to know about the old man."
"Comrade policeman, I know him better." in the crowd, a middle-aged woman came out.
Gu Chen knows her. This is the middle-aged woman who chatted with herself last night.
Gu Chen also learned from this woman about the old man's good water ability before.
Gu Chen shook hands with her and said, "thank you for your cooperation. I remember you are from the village on the other side."
"Yes, we met and talked last night." the woman also smiled.
Gu Chen nodded silently: "yes, the old man's family is not around, but we still want to know more about the old man."
"After all, when we went to your village to rescue yesterday, we actually found the old man sitting on the roof."
"But later, when we approached the old house and were ready to start rescue, the old man disappeared."
"Finally, the rescue force of our police force found the body on the downstream bank, so we need to know more about the old man."
"What do you want to know?" it can be seen that Gu Chen is basically straight to the point, and the woman also asked.
Gu Chen smiled faintly, opened the law enforcement recorder and said, "the specific information of the old man, such as his name, how old he is this year, and some of his specific identities."
"Well, OK." the woman hesitated for a few seconds before she replied, "his name is Zhao Shuishui. I don't remember his specific age. He may be seventy-five or six years old. He was the former head of our village."
"How is he?" Gu Chen took out his notebook and wrote it quickly.
"Human?" the woman hesitated for two seconds and said, "people are still good, but they have a big temper."
"Before, his son and daughter-in-law were at home and often quarreled with him. Anyway, the relationship with his younger generation was not very good."
"That's why his children want to stay outside and come back for the new year."
"What about his lover?" asked Lu Weiwei.
The woman shook her head and sighed: "earlier years, a car accident died."
"All right." hearing the woman's speech, Gu Chen also regretted and continued to ask, "has he been in conflict with others recently, a very fierce one?"
"This... Let me think." I felt it was difficult to answer the question. The woman also meditated for a few seconds and tried to recall.
But more than ten seconds later, the woman still shook her head and sighed: "I really don't know. Although our old village head has a bad temper, he doesn't have too many contradictions with people."
"And didn't you ask me about him yesterday? Didn't I tell you about him? He's good at water. Many people in the village just learned swimming from him."
"You know, he is actually very willing to help others."
"That is, there is no contradiction with the people in your village?" police officer Wang couldn't help saying that the middle-aged woman praised the dead old man so much.
But at this moment, the middle-aged woman seemed to think of something and said, "it seems a little."
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Although she felt that there were some accidental factors hanging the body on the branch structure, Yuan Sasha clearly remembered that she and several school policemen could not separate the body from the branch in any case when they fished the body into the kayak.Finally, we unified our thinking and broke the branches one by one, which successfully solved the problem.But Lu Weiwei's hint just now also made yuan Sasha re-examine."Xiao Yuan." seeing yuan Sasha's eyes staring at the big tree, Gu Chen reminded, "what's the problem?""Elder martial brother Gu." Yuan Sasha thought for a few seconds with a doubt, and then said, "I don't think what elder martial sister Lu said is unreasonable.""I remember that when I arrived here with some younger students, I really used the strength of the famine and couldn't separate the body.""Finally, I had to break the branch, but it took a lot of effort, so I felt as if someone had deliberately hung the body here."Listening to Yuan Shasha's explanation, Gu Chen didn't say much. He just stepped into the water and carefully inspected the roots and branches of the tree."What about the broken branch?" Gu Chen turned to Yuan Shasha and asked, "where did you throw those branches?""On the bank, elder martial brother Gu, wait." Yuan Shasha knew where the branches were discarded, so she quickly turned around and looked for them on the bank.Finally, Yuan Shasha came to Gu Chen with three strong branches, threw them at Gu Chen's feet and said, "this body is also lucky to be caught by so many branches, otherwise it may really drift downstream.""HMM." Gu Chen responded, quickly took out one of the branches of this section, put it on the broken branches of the big tree, and made repeated comparison.Finally, Gu Chen found a place where the crease was more consistent with the branch in his hand and directly inserted the branch back."This branch is in the wrong direction." Gu Chen seems to find something fishy.Lu Weiwei hurried forward, carefully compared Gu Chen's closing parts, and instantly understood Gu Chen's meaning."Younger martial brother Gu, you mean that this branch should face upward, right?""That's right." Gu Chen took the broken part and demonstrated it to the crowd. "Obviously, this crease should be combined like this.""All concave and convex parts are also consistent, which shows that the branch on my hand is obviously broken from this position, but the direction is obviously a little surprised.""Yes, the branch links the stump, which obviously grows upward, but how can this branch go down into the water?"Officer Wang, sitting in the kayak, also clearly saw the clue.After thinking for a few seconds, officer Wang added, "and even if the water rises, it can't rise so high. It's like being bent deliberately and put into the water. Look at the head position of the branches."Seeing officer Wang pointing to the branch in his hand, Gu Chen directly extended his head to officer Wang.Officer Wang pointed to several hook positions and said clearly, "this hook structure is very suitable for making hooks.""But if you hook the body artificially, the branches will inevitably be immersed in water.""So..." Gu Chen glanced at Yuan Sasha's direction and continued to ask, "so when you found the body, this branch always hung the body and soaked it in water, right?""Yes, that's it." Yuan Shasha seemed to be awakened, but she couldn't help saying, "when we were this section of the trunk, we found that the trunk was very curved.""And it's not just this branch, I remember another one as well.""Is this one?" Lu Weiwei directly matched another broken trunk to another crease.The crease is completely consistent with the concave convex position of the trunk.Yuan Shasha nodded fiercely: "yes, that's it.""The direction is also wrong." Gu Chen took the trunk in Lu Weiwei's hand and corrected the normal growth direction of the trunk again.Like the one just now, both trunks grow upward.All sorts of things seem to verify Gu Chen's same idea as Lu Weiwei just now, that is, if the body needs to hang in the water flow of yesterday, it will not be washed away.It must be assisted by two strong branches on the big tree with the help of artificial power.Gu Chen thought of this and continued to ask, "Xiao Yuan, apart from these two branches, are there any other fixed points?""And... Tree roots, which extend into the water." Yuan Shasha pointed to one of the positions and said, "but this tree root can only hook the clothes of the corpse at most.""In addition, the two branches bent at the top can become a stable triangle and fix the body.""In other words, the body was obviously hung here on purpose." Gu Chen heard yuan Sasha's story. Combined with the scene situation, he suddenly felt that the old man suddenly disappeared yesterday and the time of death was different.All these things seem to have forced Gu Chen to continue his in-depth investigation.Standing up, after shooting, Gu Chen climbed directly to the shore and began to patrol along the road on the shore.As the flood soaked most areas along the bank, the current bank is already muddy.Many aquatic plants that originally grew on the bank have already become crooked after the flood receded.Gu Chen is careful and keeps looking directly along the direction of the village.Police officer Wang also drove the kayak, followed Gu Chen's steps and drove up together.Two minutes later, Gu Chen stopped at a place and immediately squatted down. It seemed that he was looking for something.Luweiwei followed in small steps.Due to the slippery road, Lu Weiwei stumbled and nearly slipped to the ground.Fortunately, Lu Weiwei had a strong sense of balance. She took a few small steps and immediately stabilized her feet."Be careful, elder martial sister Lu." Gu Chen pulled Lu Weiwei's waist belt and grasped her firmly.Lu Weiwei also held Gu Chen's shoulder, and her feet gradually stabilized."The ground is too slippery. I almost fell into the water." take a deep breath. Lu Weiwei also asked Gu Chen: "by the way, younger martial brother Gu, what did you find?""Footprints," Gu Chen said."Footprints?" Lu Weiwei squatted down and came to Gu Chen.Yuan Shasha also came from the other side.The three squatted on the ground like a group of boring people watching ants fight.Gu Chen gently pushed aside the weeds, pointed to one of the footprints and said, "there are obvious traces of being trampled on in this place.""Judging from the new and old degree of footprints, they should have been left only recently."Standing up, looking around, Gu Chen said again: "and this place, usually no one will come.""Was the old man brought here after his death and deliberately hung on the shore? But I can't understand why. What's the significance of doing so?""It's a fake time of death." Gu Chen's eyes were burning, looked ahead, and then turned to the crowd:"There is something strange about the old man's death. According to my reasoning just now in Xize Central Primary School, the old man's death should be before we find him sitting on the roof.""But if so, the old man on the roof we saw at the beginning may have been a corpse.""How could this happen?" Yuan Shasha was terrified by Gu Chen's explanation, and couldn't help saying:"But from what you saw yesterday, didn't elder martial brother Gu go to the old house to check the situation?""Moreover, you team members have searched nearby for a long time and have not found the old man's body.""Yes." Gu Chen nodded silently and said, "this is also my doubt.""Although I can only infer that the death time of the old man is wrong, how the old man gradually disappeared from our sight.""How can it appear in this place and be firmly hung on the shore? It's strange.""And this footprint," Lu Weiwei reminded, pointing to the ground.Gu Chen holds his chest in his hands and looks at officer Wang on the kayak.At the moment, officer Wang also thought: "if this is the case, it shows that the old man's death is really strange.""The key is that if the old man's body is firmly hung on the branch as Xiao Yuan said, it is likely to be man-made.""The footprints on the shore may be left by the party who moved the body here.""Why do you want to do this? Is it to complete a homicide with the help of the flood?" Gu Chen looked at the village with bright eyes.In Gu Chen's opinion, it fully meets the conditions for killing.Turning around, Gu Chen was also speechless and said, "the current situation shows at least a few doubts.""First of all, when we were going to search the village yesterday, the old man who was still sitting on the roof of the old house suddenly disappeared.""And now, after the old man's body mysteriously disappeared yesterday, it strangely appears in this place and seems to be hung here artificially.""Moreover, judging from the time of death of the elderly, it is completely beyond the time we found yesterday, which is not in line with common sense.""So put these doubts together, it seems to be a suspicious event.""But..."Lu Weiwei hesitated for a few seconds, but she couldn't help saying, "but brother Gu, it's difficult for us to make a final conclusion based on these alone, including the specific identity of the dead. In addition, if he killed him, the murderer must have a festival with the old man, which we need to master.""You're right, that's what I'm going to consider at present." Gu Chen took out his mobile phone and photographed the footprints just now. Suspiciously, he bypassed the easy route and walked all the way to the village.Seeing this, they all followed.Gu Chen searched for footprints and photographed all the way.The weeds were washed away by the flood, which also brought a lot of silt to the bank.So it seems very difficult to search for footprints.Just beside the big tree, the footprints can be seen clearly.But after being far away from the big tree, the depth and shape of the footprints can no longer be used as a basis for judgment.But even so, Gu Chen had to shoot the blurred mark, and was ready to let he Junchao repair it a little through some technical means as a reference."Come up." seeing Gu Chen running in the mud along the bank with Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha, officer Wang also said painfully.But Gu Chen refused directly: "I want to go all the way from here to that village to see if I can find some valuable clues."After looking at the two people behind him, Gu Chen also reminded and said, "elder martial sister Lu, Xiao Yuan, you go back by kayaking. Give it to me on the shore. I have enough to deal with the problems here. You can only suffer if you follow.""Yes, you two come up and give Gu Chen the shore." officer Wang also reminded him in the kayak.Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha looked at each other and felt that Gu Chen's words were also reasonable.At this time, it's lucky to follow Gu Chen, not to mention finding clues and not adding chaos.After thinking about it, Lu Weiwei also breathed a sigh of relief: "OK, I'll give it to younger martial brother Gu here."With the help of officer Wang, Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha climbed directly into the kayak.Then the three took a kayak and began to maintain a parallel position with Gu Chen.Gu Chen searched all the way and vaguely found some traces of footprints, so he took photos with him.Until Gu Chen walked all the way to the entrance of the village, he found that there were almost no obstacles along the way."Elder martial brother Wang." Gu Chen went into the water, turned directly into the kayak and said, "let's go back. In addition, inform the technology section of the Municipal Bureau and ask Gao Chuanfeng to take the old man's body back.""Yes, I've just asked Xiao Yuan to inform me. At this time, I'm probably on my way," officer Wang said."Very good." Gu Chen nodded silently and said, "now let's go back to Xize Central Primary School and investigate the situation of the old man.""OK, then sit down and let's go." officer Wang got the instruction, quickly drove the kayak and began to drive quickly towards Xize Town Central Primary School.Before long, the canoe joined the other rescue teams.Gu Chen couldn't care too much. He jumped out of the kayak and rushed to the place where the people were resettled.At this moment, the old man's body is still covered with plastic cloth and guarded by a student policeman.And many melon eating people are surrounded.In small groups, everyone stood by and thought about the broken, discussing the bad things these days.Gu Chen didn't think much, and directly asked, "who of you is familiar with the old man?"The voice fell and there was little response at the scene.Everyone seemed to feel that Gu Chen asked, as if he wanted everyone to help deal with the body.So several women looked back and didn't answer.Instead, a seven or eight year old girl raised her hand and said, "I know this grandpa better.""You?" seeing that the little girl was willing to answer, Gu Chen had to squat in front of her and asked, "tell me, does the old man live alone at home?""Well, he lives at home alone," said the little girl."Then his family all work in other places, right?" Gu Chen asked again.The little girl still nodded, "yes.""Very good." Gu Chen touched the little girl's head and continued to ask, "has he ever quarreled with anyone recently? Or had a conflict?""Er..."This question seemed to embarrass the little girl.The little girl scratched the back of her head as if to recall, but it seemed difficult to understand these situations.After a pause, the little girl shook her head helplessly: "I don't know this.""OK, I still want to thank you." Gu Chen patted the little girl on the shoulder, stood up and continued to ask the people, "who else is familiar with the old man? I want to know about the old man.""Comrade policeman, I know him better." in the crowd, a middle-aged woman came out.Gu Chen knows her. This is the middle-aged woman who chatted with herself last night.Gu Chen also learned from this woman about the old man's good water ability before.Gu Chen shook hands with her and said, "thank you for your cooperation. I remember you are from the village on the other side.""Yes, we met and talked last night." the woman also smiled.Gu Chen nodded silently: "yes, the old man's family is not around, but we still want to know more about the old man.""After all, when we went to your village to rescue yesterday, we actually found the old man sitting on the roof.""But later, when we approached the old house and were ready to start rescue, the old man disappeared.""Finally, the rescue force of our police force found the body on the downstream bank, so we need to know more about the old man.""What do you want to know?" it can be seen that Gu Chen is basically straight to the point, and the woman also asked.Gu Chen smiled faintly, opened the law enforcement recorder and said, "the specific information of the old man, such as his name, how old he is this year, and some of his specific identities.""Well, OK." the woman hesitated for a few seconds before she replied, "his name is Zhao Shuishui. I don't remember his specific age. He may be seventy-five or six years old. He was the former head of our village.""How is he?" Gu Chen took out his notebook and wrote it quickly."Human?" the woman hesitated for two seconds and said, "people are still good, but they have a big temper.""Before, his son and daughter-in-law were at home and often quarreled with him. Anyway, the relationship with his younger generation was not very good.""That's why his children want to stay outside and come back for the new year.""What about his lover?" asked Lu Weiwei.The woman shook her head and sighed: "earlier years, a car accident died.""All right." hearing the woman's speech, Gu Chen also regretted and continued to ask, "has he been in conflict with others recently, a very fierce one?""This... Let me think." I felt it was difficult to answer the question. The woman also meditated for a few seconds and tried to recall.But more than ten seconds later, the woman still shook her head and sighed: "I really don't know. Although our old village head has a bad temper, he doesn't have too many contradictions with people.""And didn't you ask me about him yesterday? Didn't I tell you about him? He's good at water. Many people in the village just learned swimming from him.""You know, he is actually very willing to help others.""That is, there is no contradiction with the people in your village?" police officer Wang couldn't help saying that the middle-aged woman praised the dead old man so much.But at this moment, the middle-aged woman seemed to think of something and said, "it seems a little."www.mylovenovel.com, the fastest update of the webnovel!
