ebookland Chapter 121 Find the murderer
Chapter 121 Find the murderer
There are patterns on the exposed right hand.
The Tong family is a rare ethnic group in Mingning Country. Starting from the age of three, every child will have their ethnic totem sunflower tattooed on their fingerprints every year, in order from left hand to right hand.
The five fingers of the exposed right hand all have sunflower patterns.
The bailiffs swung the shovels quickly and carefully, and soon the entire body was dug out. The fingers of the left hand were also covered with sunflowers.
Tian Xingjian was wearing gloves and a mask that Tian Xiaoxiao asked Tian Lele to sew for him.
The other yamen runners also put on masks. Shi Fei separated the villagers and thanked them for their help. However, the case needed to be investigated at the moment. The villagers could watch from a distance, but they were not allowed to go to the burial site.
The yamen runners couldn't bear to look at the miserable state of the corpse. It was too tragic. The entire head was smashed flat.
His clothes had been stripped off and he was buried naked in the cornfield. One of his legs was bent, probably because it was broken.
Shopkeeper Tong looked like a dead man, without any life at all.
Tian Xingjian remembered what Tian Xiaoxiao said to him before he left.
Shi Fei took the yamen runners to ask from house to house, and Tian Xingjian asked the people present whether anyone heard the noise or witnessed it with their own eyes.
For a long time, no one could provide any clues.
There was no progress on Shi Fei's side either.
It was already daybreak when a smelly drunk staggered toward the cornfield.
Seeing the yamen runners all over the cornfield and Tian Xingjian in official uniform, he burped and sobered up.
Then he fell to the ground in a panic and said, "I, Wang Damazi, greet you, sir."
"Wang Damazi, do you often come to this cornfield?" Tian Xingjian did not miss any details to dig out the truth.
"Sir, sir, I will stay here tonight. Look, the thatched hut over there is my home." Wang Damazi pointed to a place twenty meters away opposite the burial site.
"Was there any noise in this area last night?" Tian Xingjian asked Wang Damazi in a gentle voice.
"Noise? I didn't hear any, but I saw a few rabbits digging holes." Wang Damazi said mysteriously.
"Rabbit? White rabbit or gray rabbit?"
"It's not that bastard, it's, it's a bastard born from a human." Wang Damazi burped again.
"There are a few big rabbits here too! Oh, I'm so sleepy." After adding this sentence, Wang Damazi was about to fall to the ground.
"Fang Mingyu, take out your good wine and let Wang Damazi have a sip." Tian Xingjian took the wine bag handed over by Fang Mingyu and held it in front of Wang Damazi.
When Wang Damazi saw the wine, his eyes lit up. He took the wine bag and started drinking it down with one gulp.
"Good wine! So refreshing! I haven't had such authentic Shaodaozi for a long time." Wang Damazi wiped his mouth and continued, "Sir, there were three baby rabbits digging holes yesterday, two big rabbits, and one of them was vaguely a female rabbit, speaking with an accent from outside the Great Wall. She called one of the baby rabbits Hui'er."
Wang Damazi drank all the remaining wine in one breath.
"Fang Mingyu, Dai Shijia, examine the body. Shi Fei will take a team to collect evidence near the burial site, and the rest of you will follow me to Leping Town."
The woman with a foreign accent and the little boy named Huier were quickly found by Tian Xingjian.
This family is only two courtyards away from Manager Tong's house, and the house looks a bit dilapidated.
Tian Xingjian knocked on the door, but no one answered.
I knocked three times in a row, with a cup of tea in between, but still no one responded.
Tian Xingjian asked the neighbors and learned that the Mao family usually ran some small business. Because there were many children and elderly people in the family, although they could make some money from the small business, they had too many people to support, so they lived a tight life.
Some people also told Tian Xingjian that the family went out last night and came back very late. After they came back, the family did not go out again.
After waiting for an incense stick of time, Tian Xingjian continued to knock on the door, but still no one came to answer.
Finally, Tian Xingjian broke in.
When he entered the house, the scene he saw almost made Tian Xingjian lose his mind.
This whole family was still lying in bed sleeping.
I don't know if he is really sleeping or just pretending.
Tian Xingjian ordered the bailiffs to tie up all twelve members of his family and bring them back to the county government office.
Afterwards, Tian Xingjian visited various places in the town. A citizen who knew the situation said that there were two other boys with Tong's child yesterday. He saw with his own eyes that the three boys surrounded Tong's child and asked him for money.
The purse of Tong's child should have been filled with New Year's money, but it was snatched away by those boys.
Afterwards he didn't know where the children went.
Based on the confession, Tian Xingjian found the other two boys and tied them up and took them to the government office.
During the interrogation, the three children showed no fear and said that they only talked to Tong Jiaqi for a while yesterday and Tong Jiaqi went home.
The families of the three children also said that they had never seen Tong Jiaqi.
To be honest, the child is still young and doesn’t understand anything. How could he do bad things? He doesn’t even understand a few principles.
Tian Xingjian asked the bailiffs to put everyone in different cells and observe their reactions.
As a result, this group of people ate and drank as usual, and were as calm as if the matter had nothing to do with them.
On the other side, Dai Shijia and his team came up with the autopsy results, and found the small wooden beads that the Mao family often sold at the stall in Tong Jiaqi's stomach.
In the whole Leping Town, only Mao’s stall had these wooden beads made of pine wood for children to play with.
The bailiffs also found Tong Jiaqi's purse at the home of another child named Feng. According to the recollection of shopkeeper Tong, there should have been about one string of silver coins in the purse as New Year's money.
The purse is empty.
Children from Leping Town School also came forward to testify that those three children usually liked to bully Tong Jiaqi.
Tong Jiaqi was an outsider to the family, and her three children were well-off. She often asked Tong Jiaqi for money and food, and would scold and even beat her if she refused.
The case has basically been solved since then.
On the second night of their detention, Tian Xingjian had the three children locked up in three cells, isolating them from their families.
Then he asked the yamen runners to deliver the meal. When delivering the meal, Tian Xingjian had someone deliberately insert chopsticks into the rice, one right side up and one upside down. He personally went to see how the three children ate.
Every child knows how to straighten chopsticks.
Tian Xingjian only said one sentence: "These three guys are all sensible and should be executed immediately!"
On the third day, Tian Xingjian asked the bailiffs to ring the gong to announce the case to the world.
The Shengjing government office was packed with people.
Tian Xiaoxiao was waiting in the court to hear the final verdict.