The daily life of a double-faced rookie and an awkward old detective

Ke Ran said thoughtfully as if nothing happened:

"Looking at the footprints, there are at least two or three people who came here."

These words don't match the expression that just appeared, as if the person standing beside him just now is not the same person who is speaking now.

When Ke Ran raised his head, he met Yuan Che's scrutinizing gaze.Yuan Che's eyes seemed to want to find out from Ke Ran's face, but in the end he became more and more confused.

Ke Ran did not appear panicked after being caught, but was at a loss as to where he had offended Yuan Che, with an innocent look on his face.

Yuan Che withdrew his spying eyes, and looked around for a week. There were more than a dozen people in this area, and now it was the scene again, not the time to talk about micro-expressions.

But now he was also unable to find what words to respond to, and he was afraid that he would not be able to help asking questions, so he simply didn't say anything.

Seeing that the people in the trace inspection department were done, Yuan Che entered the scene. He felt that the people behind him paused for a while and then followed quickly.

The body was on the edge of the entire enclosure, very close to the weeds.His head was facing the weeds, and there were still a few weeds attached to the roots in his hands.His head was tilted to one side, his completely clouded eyes stared blankly straight ahead, his mouth was open as if he was still calling for help, and half of his face was buried in the mud.

Yuan Che looked at the ashes in the center of the field. When he arrived here, his eyes were attracted by the pile of ashes. He went straight to the pile of charred objects and looked at the ashes buried in the ground. Some of the ashes had not yet The burnt old and dry branches with their blackened and fragile bark are looming.

The clearing appeared to be in a good position and was often used as a picnic spot, so the area was free of weeds.

This area has already been trampled out. If it hadn't been because it had rained not long ago, it is estimated that footprints would not be so easy to leave on the ground at this moment.

At first glance, it seems that this place has also experienced a picnic. On the ground around the ashes, there are a few chicken bones and ribs that have been gnawed, which look quite fresh. Some beverage bottles and cigarette butts are scattered around, as if they were prepared in advance. All meals are brought here to eat.

Yuan Che looked at the large and obvious sign of prohibiting bonfires next to the open space. It was obvious that the people who came here either came too late and did not see it, or committed crimes knowingly.

From the shoe prints on the ground, it can be seen that they belonged to at least three people, one of whom was a woman, and the stiletto heels of her high-heeled shoes were deeply stepped into the ground.

On the night when the mosquitoes are the most, I go to the woods for a picnic and wear stiletto high heels.

All of this is as incongruous as if the jigsaw puzzles that were not a set were put together abruptly.

Gu Huayu and the others came back soon, and Gu Huayu began to report the situation of the inquiry:

"These people are bicycle enthusiasts, and they made an appointment to ride today. They wanted to take a shortcut to enter the woods, but they saw a yellow-green thing through the gaps in the branches of the forest. Saw the dead."

Yuan Che walked around the corpse, looked back at Gu Huayu's report while slapping the mosquitoes, and felt that his body was itching:

"Where are they from? Where are they going?"

Gu Huayu fought hard to slap a mosquito to death before he was able to reply: "It's from City F, and I just rode here from there. We were together all the way, and it took three days of riding to get here."

Yuan Che looked at the chicken bones on the ground: "How did they know to take a shortcut here?"

Gu Huayu looked at the records in the notebook: "They said that there is a WeChat group called 'I love to travel by bike', and there is a suggestion from a cycling friend."

Yuan Che nodded: "Send them away. Leave your contact information, and you must be there whenever you pass."

Gu Huayu went to inform those people that the preliminary examination of the corpse was over.

Ling Xiaoyu took off her gloves, stood up and walked to Yuan Che's side.Her figure is already petite, standing with Yuan Che who is 1.8 meters five can only raise her head to speak, but her speaking momentum has not become shorter because of her height:

"The deceased was fifteen to 16 years old, male, and the estimated time of death was around 08:30 last night. The deceased had no obvious scars on the outside, but there were traces of vomiting at the corners of his lips. In addition, there was excrement in his pants, which should be diarrhea As a result, the excrement showed a sample of rice swill. The preliminary judgment was that he died of arsenic poisoning. The deceased’s body was relatively close to the grass, and he was in a very painful stage for a long time before his death. It seemed that he wanted to ask for life from there. The one who crawled this way died here after he had crawled some distance, scratched by his fingers all the way."

Liu Lingling, who was always by her side, asked, "Poisoned by arsenic? Arsenic. Frost?"

Ling Xiaoyu nodded: "As poisoned by arsenic, most of them are arsenic. But what it is depends on the test results."

Gu Huayu, who had just returned from sending off his friends, couldn't help asking in surprise:

"In this day and age, does anyone still use arsenic? Where did they get it?"

Yuan Che followed the footprints of the largest pair of footprints around the field:

"Where we got it is what we need to find out. From the footprints at the scene, there are at least three people. Where did the other two go? The four of you centered on this and started a wide-ranging search."

After arranging, Yuan Che squatted down and carefully looked at the attire of the deceased. This was the latest Nike sportswear this year.

Yuan Che asked Ling Xiaoyu next to him: "The deceased didn't have anything to prove his identity?"

Ling Xiaoyu knelt down and shook her head: "No, I don't have anything on me, not even my phone."

"It's a mobile phone again." Yuan Che whispered to himself.

The mobile phone was taken away, and there is nothing valuable besides a brand-name clothes. Is it really a purposeful robbery?But will Jiecai use the trick of poisoning?From the perspective of the method of committing the crime, the possibility of robbery is not very high, but it cannot be ruled out that the motive of seeing the money after the murder cannot be ruled out.

After smoothing it out, Yuan Che continued, "Check the source of the corpse. Teenagers who haven't returned overnight and didn't go to class today should be able to report the crime at home or at school."

Ling Xiaoyu hesitated for a moment and said:

"When I heard the police said it was a child, I sent the information to the police stations. No one has reported the case so far. If it is a resident student, is it possible that the disappearance has not been found yet?"

Yuan Che finally raised his eyes to look at Ling Xiaoyu, secretly applauding her efficient way of doing things, and then saw Gu Huayu still standing there looking around, frowning without moving his place.

Gu Huayu hurriedly explained before being bombarded:

"You said four people, where did Ke Ran go?"

Only then did Yuan Che realize that Ke Ran had disappeared, and his anger escalated instantly:

"You don't know what to do without Ke Ran? Is he your master?"

Gu Huayu shrank his head and called a few people to walk to the woods on the west side where there was no one.

As soon as they dispersed, they saw Ke Ran trotting out of the woods, running straight towards Yuan Che:

"Team leader, I found a tire print on a car."

Yuan Che treated it as if he hadn't seen it, and responded without seeing it: "Where is it?"

Ke Ran, who was ignored, answered cautiously: "About 100 meters away."

Yuan Che still didn't look at him, but seemed to be staring intently at a chicken bone on the ground: "How do you know that tire marks are related to this case?"

Ke Ran's voice became lower and lower, and he pointed in the direction of the corpse: "I just followed the set of footprints in front of the corpse to find it."

Yuan Che pointed to the chicken bone on the ground: "If I follow the chicken bone, can I find the weasel?"

"Ah?" Ke Ran was a little confused, the bones on the ground were concentrated, and there were no chicken bones around.

Yuan Che stood up and walked towards the path: "What? Take me to have a look. Did you tell the trace inspection department?"

"Tell me." Ke Ran followed closely behind Yuan Che who was walking away quickly.

Ling Xiaoyu looked at Yuan Che who was walking away, and remembered the joke-like episode yesterday, and couldn't help laughing.It seems that Yuan Che is still brooding over what happened yesterday. According to this situation, Ke Ran will be given special care for a period of time.As a newcomer to the city bureau, she couldn't help but sympathize with Ke Ran's situation.

If Yuan Che knew that Ling Xiaoyu had seen his various behaviors just now, and that he had been labeled as a stingy man invisibly, he would definitely feel wronged.

At this moment, he didn't mean to turn over the old score. He wasn't pretending to be generous, but he really let go.What he cares more about now is what happened to Ke Ran.

It can be said that this question has been lingering in his mind since the morning, and until now there is no answer that can convince him.Coupled with Ke Ran's expression just seen, Yuan Che felt that either there was something wrong with his eyes, he saw wrongly, or there was something wrong with Ke Ran.

What is he trying to win by pretending to be so timid?pity?focus on?Or should they let their guard down on him?

After walking 20 meters with his head in a mess, Yuan Che suddenly stopped and looked at a pair of footprints on the ground.

The footprints look very large, probably size 42 shoes. This is the same shoe as the footprints on the open space just now, but the shoes look newer. The stride length of the footprints is smaller than the previous footprints. It looks like this person has The big feet are matched with a pair of short legs.

Yuan Che measured the footprints, squatted down again, looked at the depth of the footprints with his head sideways, and found that there was an arc trace behind the footprints:

"Look, how did this trace stay?"

Ke Ran hurriedly came over and squatted down, and looked at the several sets of shoe prints before and after, all of which had traces like this:

"This man's walking habits? Scuffing?"

"Or, he wore a pair of big shoes. You can see that the stride of the footprints should belong to someone with short legs, but the size of these shoes is very big. What does that mean?"

Ke Ran suddenly realized, he hurriedly ran back to the open space just now, turned around in the open space and then ran back:

"There are many footprints of these shoes in the open space, but the footprints are very neat, without drag marks, and the strides are large. The person wearing the shoes should be a heavy fat person. Similar to this group of footprints only appeared in one place, and then Just walked straight here. Judging by the depth of this set of footprints, the person who left these footprints should be very light."

"And then?" Yuan Che asked.

"Then?" Ke Ran stared at the footprints carefully again.

Yuan Che looked at Ke Ran with his head down, and felt the urge to slap him up and make him eat a mouthful of mud.But he knew he couldn't be so naive, so he said:

"You said that you saw footprints coming. There were tall weeds in front of the corpse. How did you find the footprints?"

"I saw it through the grass." Ke Ran replied.

Yuan Che snorted, as if he didn't ask the question just now, but suddenly crossed the line:

"According to the scene, there are at least two other people besides the deceased, a man and a woman. Now the question is what is the relationship between them. That kind of high-heeled shoes should be worn by adult women, and most of the current student parties are full of energy. It is more suitable for crazy people. Playing shoes. What is this minor and a grown woman doing here?"

Ke Ran turned his head and thought for a while: "Is it possible that that woman is his family?"

Yuan Che asked again: "If it's a family, they were together when the crime happened. Why did his family leave without him? Moreover, this footprint seems to be only the footprint of a man. The woman's footprint has reached Where did it go?"

Ke Ran frowned: "Could it be a man walking with a woman in his arms?"

Yuan Che retorted: "This footprint is so shallow, it doesn't seem like walking with a heavy load."

Ke Ran replied a little helplessly, "That's what women walk with bare feet."

Yuan Che continued to ask: "It just rained a few days ago, the light here is not so strong, and the soil is still a little wet and soft, even if you are barefoot, there should be some marks."

Ke Ran: "I just saw that the woman's footprints in the open space were basically around the corpse. The shoe prints only came in, not out."

Yuan Che: "There is also a possibility that the woman walked first, and the man left behind. The woman is barefoot, and the man walked over in the footsteps of the woman."

Ke Ran: "But if the crime happened at night, how can we see the footprints on the ground clearly?"

Yuan Che didn't respond, walked to the side of the rut, saw that the trace inspection department had finished taking photos, and asked:

"How? What did you find?"

Qiu Chen from the Track Inspection Division handed a bag of physical evidence to the person next to him, took off his gloves and said, "There is nothing new to be found around the car marks, and the rut marks are Toyota off-road models, which are very expensive in the market."

Yuan Che nodded: "The boy's clothes are also casual clothes of the same brand, which should be thousands of sets, so his family conditions should be good. Can you find this car based on the wheel marks, such a big car, Such an obvious clue cannot be wasted."

"When did I ever waste it?" Qiu Chen smiled and patted the soil imprinted on his knees because of kneeling on the ground: "The evidence collection here is done, we will go back first, and call you if there is a result."

"Thank you!" Yuan Che raised his hand and slapped Qiu Chen, as if making an agreement.

Watching Qiu Chen and the others leave, they walked back to the clearing, Yuan Che was still staring at the strange set of footprints, he looked at the clearing and the path repeatedly and said: "Ke Ran, don't you think the ground here and that over there are Is the ground in the clearing a little different?"

Ke Ran followed Yuan Che obediently and was beaten up twice by Yuan Che, so now he dare not say a word.Hearing Yuan Che's question, he hurriedly checked carefully:

"It seems that the ground here is very flat."

Yuan Che said: "Yes, the ground where it has just rained has puddles and puddles, so the ground must be uneven. But this section of the road seems to be too smooth."

Liu Lingling, who came back from the grass, took off the barbs on her body, looked at it, and then looked at Ke Ran: "You mean someone deliberately removed the footprints on the ground, leaving only one line of footprints. Hiding your tracks?"

Afterwards, Gu Huayu quickly retorted: "But he still walked towards the direction of the car. If you really want to hide it, why not do it thoroughly so that we can't find the ruts, so we won't connect the tire marks of the car with this place." stand up?"

Ke Ran frowned and shook his head puzzled, feeling that these explanations were not satisfactory.

Yuan Che squatted on the ground and watched for a while, Liu Hecheng and the others also came back from the weeds:

"Head, I looked around a thousand and one hundred meters, but I didn't find anything useful except grass roots."

Rubbing his chin with his fingers, Yuan Che asked:

"You said that there used to be three people here, and now at least one of them can be determined to be an adult woman. Assuming they are a family, why did they leave a child. If they are not a family, who are those two people?"

Liu Hecheng, who was busy pulling out the thorn, had a sudden thought: "Head, could it be kidnapping? The kidnapper took the money and just tore up the ticket? Otherwise, why didn't he just call for help?"

Yuan Che pondered: "If it's just tearing up tickets, it would be fine to eliminate the traces, but here it seems that the people leaving here deliberately hide their whereabouts, but leave a set of shoe prints, why?"

Ke Ran naturally followed his train of thought and said:

"If the boy came by car, why didn't he climb towards the direction of the car when he was dying? Instead, he climbed towards the weeds?"

Liu Hecheng said:

"Is it dark and looking in the wrong direction?"

"Their car was parked 100 meters away. I don't know why they didn't drive in. 100 meters is not far away. They can turn on the lights."

Yuan Che slapped a mosquito lying on his arm to death: "It's getting dark, let's go back and find out the victim's identity."

Several people ran in the direction they came as if they had received an amnesty, but Ke Ran didn't move.He first stood at the place where the corpse was lying on his stomach and paused for two seconds, then walked into the grass in the direction where the corpse's head was facing.

"What are you doing? There are a lot of mosquitoes in the grass." Liu Hecheng waved his hand to drive away the mosquitoes, reminding him friendly.When they went to investigate just now, the legs and arms were almost hilly.

Ke Ran stood in the grass and did not respond. Just when people thought he had discovered something and was about to follow, Ke Ran turned around and stared at the outline of the corpse drawn on the ground, his eyes were blank, using ghost stories said in a gloomy tone:

"I'm waiting for him to die!"