Special Case Investigation Team VI

"Is her cell phone still on?" Cheng Jin asked.

Ye Lai shook his head: "It's turned off. I suspect that Xiao Niu took her away. Captain Gan went to the village chief and said that he would call Qing Zhuang to the mountain to find someone."

"Running up the mountain?" Cheng Jin asked, "Walking or riding a donkey?"

"I don't know yet."

Later, Ye Lai told Cheng Jin that she had asked about how many donkeys the Mavericks had raised, but now they found that two were missing, and they should have been taken away by Mavericks.

The original job of those donkeys was to deliver goods.

Mavericks opened a supply store on the way into Snow Deer Valley on foot. The store’s business is good, and they have to replenish the goods every day. They can’t go in the car, so they can only use donkeys. Sometimes Mavericks himself drives the donkey to deliver the goods. Sometimes it was Geng Tiancai who sent them off.

Although Geng Tiancai was a bit stupid, he was very obedient, he would do whatever the Mavericks asked him to do, he never questioned him, and he was able to keep a secret.

But that was all in the past, and now the situation has changed, Maverick has lost control over Geng Tiancai, and this power is now in the hands of Geng's mother.

From yesterday to today, Geng's mother repeatedly "brainwashed" her son that Maverick is a bad boss who has been teaching him to do bad things and is harming him. Only her own mother is really for his own good, so he can't No matter how much you listen to others, you can only listen to her alone.

Geng Tiancai: "You were the one who made me listen to him before."

Mother Geng said angrily: "That's because I thought he was an honest man before, but now I know he is a villain, so of course I can't let you listen to him anymore."

Cheng Jin knocked on the door of the classroom, and Geng Tiancai looked up with his mother Geng and the police guarding them.

Cheng Jin walked into the classroom and asked Geng Tiancai, "Have you ever seen your boss and Zuo Feiyan together?"

Before Geng Tiancai could speak, his mother said first, "I saw that the two of them went to the mountains to play together. I don't know if they are talking about friends."

"The two of them are gone now, do you know where they might have gone?" Cheng Jin asked.

Geng's mother: "Where is the old farm? It's deserted, but the house is still there, so you can rest for a while."

"Shouldn't go to a place that everyone knows."

Geng's mother looked at Geng Tiancai: "Do you know any places where everyone seldom goes but Xiaoniu has been?"

Geng Tiancai scratched his head, and mentioned a few places, but his mother rejected them all, and finally he thought of a place: "Where is Huatangzi?"

"Well, it's very remote there." Geng's mother explained to Cheng Jin and the others, "Huatangzi is the place where hunters used to hunt. Now hunting is not allowed. It should have been a long time since no one has been to that place."

Speaking of which, she glared at Geng Tiancai: "When did you go there?"

"The boss took me there before."

Mother Geng: "Don't call him the boss, you won't do anything with him in the future."

"Then what will I do next?"

Mother Geng: "I will find you a better job."

"What job?"

Cheng Jin interjected: "Geng Tiancai, what is Maverick taking you to Huatangzi for? Hunting?"

Geng's mother shook her head: "Just go over there to play, you can't hunt now, everyone's shotguns have been taken away."

When his mother answered on his behalf, Geng Tiancai looked around as if nothing had happened. He seemed to have hyperactivity, and he didn't know where to go to have fun. Anyway, he was not on the talking people at all.

Afterwards, Cheng Jin went to see Lao Niu again. The middle-aged man who was nearly 50 years old was very silent. He would answer any questions he asked, but the answers were always "I don't know" and "I don't know".

Cheng Jin called Gan Zhiliang and told him where Geng Tiancai's mother and son guessed that Maverick might go.

Gan Zhiliang said: "The village head and the others basically have the same opinion. They mean that there is not enough time today. First, go to some nearby places to check and see if they can find any traces of hoofprints and footprints. The calf took the woman , maybe not far away, in short, if you find their traces, then continue to track them down, if you don’t find them, then go to a farther place tomorrow.”

Later, because of Zuo Feiyan's disappearance, Wan Cheng, the housekeeper of Jinmeng Villa, came to the school to find out the situation. Seeing Cheng Jin and Yang Simi here, he didn't show any strange expression.

Knowing that Lao Niu was being detained here, he didn't ask them to "release" Lao Niu, and he offered to leave after asking about Zuo Feiyan's current situation.

Cheng Jin didn't keep him. The excavation of human bones was still going on at Jianshigou, and the DNA test results would not come out until tomorrow, so there was no rush to talk to him.

However, he was particularly enthusiastic about Wan Cheng, and took the initiative to take him to meet Lao Niu through the window, and then personally sent him to the school gate when he was about to leave.

Yang Simi: "Are you provoking him and Lao Niu?"

"Try it." Cheng Jin asked, "Do you think it will be useful?"

He just asked casually, but Yang Simi looked at him and said, "Yes."

Cheng Jin smiled, he had a subtle feeling of being "coaxed".

In the afternoon, Gan Zhiliang and the village chief went into the mountains to find someone.

Miao Hao and the forensic doctor excavated human bones in Jianshigou. They dug all afternoon and harvested some new human bones.

Cheng Jin and Yang Simi took a look. According to Yang Simi's judgment, the new bones still belonged to the two previous deceased, and there was no third deceased.

Cheng Jin picked up the two broken ribs and looked at them carefully, then asked Yang Simi, "How did the ribs get broken?"

Yang Simi looked at his hand for a while: "I was hit, I don't know exactly what happened."

"Yeah." Cheng Jin put down his ribs and looked at the other bones. Some of the bones were damaged and incomplete, as if they had been gnawed by wild animals. He shook his head and waited for the forensic examination to see what they said.

Miao Hao: "Tell me, how did the murderer hide the corpse in the cave?"

It is very troublesome for them to go down with professional equipment. 30 years ago, without such good equipment as now, it should be even more difficult to go down.

Cheng Jin thought about this problem, and said: "In a hurry, the thrower may have just thrown the corpse into the deep ditch, and then it rained and flooded, and the water rushed the corpse into the hole like a rising tide. After the 'tide' receded, , the body ran aground behind the rock, and then gradually decomposed, leaving only the bones."

Miao Hao nodded: "So that's the case."

Cheng Jin: "It's just my guess. It may also be that the corpse thrower hid the corpse in the cave specially. After you find the corpse thrower, ask him and you'll know what's going on."

Miao Hao nodded again.

Cheng Jin: "Go to your bureau and ask for the case file of the case where Sun Youwei's father and uncle disappeared, and send me a copy when you come."

Miao Hao responded, "Okay."

In the evening, the forensic doctors took the human bones back to the county.

Later, Miao Hao got the electronically scanned version of Sun Youwei's father and uncle's case files, and he forwarded a copy to Cheng Jin.

The case was actually quite simple.

Back then, Sun Youwei's father and uncle were actually in the Road Hog business, and they had to take their car from Lan County to Yunchuan and Xuelu Valley, and those who took their car had to have a meal at the restaurant they designated—— This meal has to be paid for. This is a forced buying and selling business. The relevant departments don't know whether it has been taken care of or what. Regardless of this matter, the ordinary people can only swallow their anger.

At that time, Zhu Meng's father had just passed away, and she had just taken over the family's business. She had returned from studying abroad and stayed outside for a long time. She didn't know the situation in her hometown.

Something went wrong with this tube, Zhu Meng's father should be fine if he is still there, but now she is left as a young and beautiful woman, and those men don't take her seriously, so they talk dirty, and the two sides decide There was a conflict, and then the conflict gradually intensified, and finally Zhu Meng was tied up by the other party and violated...

Cheng Jin's eyelids twitched.

Yang Simi leaned over to take a look, flicked the screen, and turned the page.

The follow-up was that Zhu Meng was rescued, and Sun Youwei's father and others chased after him. At that time, the road from Yunchuan to Xuelu Valley was still the old road, and the road conditions were very bad. Chasing battles on it was very easy to cause accidents. Sun Youwei's father There were several cars, all of which broke down on the road. Only Sun Youwei's father's car was still running fast. There were only two people in this car: Sun Youwei's father and uncle.

After catching up with Jinmeng Shanzhuang's car, Sun Youwei's father directly rammed and stopped their car. The people in the two cars got out of the car and fought, and accidentally killed one. Seeing that the person was dead, everyone was frightened, so they stopped .

Sun Youwei's father and uncle quickly fled the scene, because the car was damaged, they left by mountain road.

After that day, they did not appear in front of acquaintances again.

Cheng Jin: "One died on one side, and two died on the other. At that time, people who were killed were shot, so the people in Jinmeng Villa secretly disposed of the corpses of Sun Youwei's father and uncle. Said they had escaped."

"It seems that these brothers deserve it." Yang Simi said, "However, 'history' is written by the victors, and what is recorded in this file may not necessarily be the truth."

Cheng Jin thought for a while: "In general, it should be true. It can be found out that Sun Youwei's father and uncle are road tyrants. It can also be found out that they kidnapped Zhu Meng, and that Zhu Meng was violated. It must be true."

Yang Simi: "Assaulted a woman and killed someone, which makes their absconding believable. But it is also possible that Zhu Meng's assault was not real, but a fake?"

Cheng Jin was stunned: "Ah? Not so much?"

"Some people are very good at others as well as themselves."

Cheng Jin sighed: "I'm not saying she can't do it, I just don't want things to develop like that."

At 9 o'clock in the evening, Gan Zhiliang and the others came down from the mountain.

Gan Zhiliang called Cheng Jin and told them where they went to find someone today and where they would go tomorrow.

Huatangzi is also on their itinerary for tomorrow, that place is far away, they plan to leave before dawn tomorrow, so that they can come back in the evening.

Cheng Jin thought to himself, it would be great if Bu Huan was here, and he could follow him up the mountain tomorrow. Now, Xiao An and Yang Simi can ignore it if he can't walk away. One of them is not physically strong, and the other is unstable. Let Ye Lai go alone. It's not suitable either, forget it, he won't interfere in this matter, let Gan Zhiliang and the others do it.

The next morning, Cheng Jin was woken up by Miao Hao's phone call. The other party said that the DNA test results came out, and the two human bones were indeed those of Sun Youwei's father and uncle.

As for other aspects of detection, there are no special findings for the time being.

Cheng Jin: "Okay, let's go meet the parties in that case together."

He contacted "Zhu Yong" and said that he wanted to see Zhu Meng and the housekeeper.

Later, Cheng Jin, Yang Simi, Miao Hao and other local policemen came to Zhu's house together.

Sun Youwei came out to pick them up and asked about the results of the DNA test.

Cheng Jin: "Don't worry, I'll talk to you later."

Cheng Jin went to meet Zhu Meng first, and his first impression was that the other party was an elegant and beautiful lady, who looked quite slender, not the kind of strong woman who was tough at first sight.

"Ms. Zhu knows me," Cheng Jin changed his words when it came to this, "Do you know why the police are looking for you?"

"Is it because of Feiyan? Is she okay?" Zhu Meng asked worriedly.

"It's not because of her, but because of Jianshigou."

"What?" Zhu Meng was puzzled.

Cheng Jin looked at her and said, "The case 30 years ago, the one where you were kidnapped."

"..." Zhu Meng was stunned for a moment, then said, "Did you find those two fugitives in that case?"

"Yes." Cheng Jin didn't give any more information, he was waiting for Zhu Meng to speak first.

Zhu Meng: "How are they doing now?"

"Which aspect are you asking?"

Zhu Meng: "How are you doing? Are you living an ordinary life like ordinary people, or have you committed more crimes?"

Cheng Jin was surprised, and Yang Simi also looked at Zhu Meng.

"No, they died, they didn't flee, they were killed and dumped in Jianshigou, and their bones were not found until now." Cheng Jin said, "You don't know they died?"

Zhu Meng shook his head: "I really don't know..."

Cheng Jin and the others went to see the housekeeper Wan Cheng later, but he didn't say that he didn't know that the two "fugitives" were dead.

He argued that they were acting in self-defense at that time, and they had to fight back when they had to, and that someone died on their end.

"How did you kill them?" Cheng Jin asked.

"Brother Zuo beat them to death with an earthen gun." The Brother Zuo mentioned by Wan Cheng here refers to Zuo Feiyan's grandfather, who passed away due to serious injuries that year.

Earth gun?Cheng Jin thought of the broken ribs that were salvaged, as well as those broken and broken bones. He had previously suspected that it was caused by the gnawing of wild animals, but now he understood that it was broken by the iron pellets shot by the earthen gun.

——Later, he asked Miao Hao to convey the situation to the forensic doctor and let the forensic doctor verify it.

However, it is not necessarily true that Brother Zuo fired the shot. It is just that Brother Zuo is dead, and it is convenient to push the matter to him. Anyway, there is no proof of death.

"Ms. Zhu Meng was there at the time, right?" Cheng Jin asked.

Wan Cheng: "She was in the car, she was unconscious at the time, and she didn't wake up until the next day."

"So she didn't know that the two brothers were dead?"

"Yes, she didn't know, she thought they had escaped."

Zhu Meng later offered a reward to the two brothers, but Wan Cheng and the others didn't stop them, and they were worried for a while, but luckily no one found them lying under Jianshigou in the end.

Cheng Jin: "Did you go down and look at the corpse after throwing it in Jianshigou?"

"I went down once, but we didn't see the body, and we didn't dare to go into the cave to check it out. We thought the body had been washed away and gone to another place, and we were very worried that someday the police would suddenly come to the door... …Unexpectedly, 30 years have passed, and you are still here."

Afterwards, Wan Cheng was taken to the elementary school and temporarily detained.

Cheng Jin went to see Lao Niu who was detained by the police yesterday.

Lao Niu, like Wan Cheng, also admitted that he knew about Jianshigou, and also said that Brother Zuo shot and killed the two brothers in self-defense.

Cheng Jin estimated that Lao Niu and Wan Cheng should have discussed how they should deal with this matter if it came to light.

After seeing the old cow, Cheng Jin went to the playground to relax. There was a big tree on the playground, and it was quite cool below.

Yang Simi sat down on the root of a big tree protruding from the ground, and said, "I thought it would be interesting, but it turned out that it wasn't, right?"

Cheng Jin: "No. I just feel that the old cases are difficult to investigate, the evidence has disappeared, and it is difficult to overturn or verify what the parties said."

"Isn't there someone who hasn't been caught yet?" Yang Simi pointed to Mavericks, "When he is caught, we will get more information."

Cheng Jin: "I hope."

At this time, his mobile phone rang, and it was Ye Lai who sent a message, saying that Sun Youwei wanted to see him very much—Sun Youwei wanted to know about his father and uncle.

Ye Lai and Xiaoan are still staying at the Zhu family's side. The case is currently in a state of half-opening, and there are several people involved in the case at the Zhu family's side, so Cheng Jin left someone to watch them, so as to In case you can't find them when you want to find them.

Cheng Jinhui: Tell him it will take a few hours.

There is nothing to chat with Sun Youwei now, or in other words, he has no way to dig out information from Sun Youwei now, so he decided to postpone the meeting with the other party.

In the afternoon, Cheng Jin received a call from Miao Hao, saying that Gan Zhiliang had found Mavericks, but someone on our side was injured, and he wanted to take someone up the mountain to help.

"Was someone injured in a fight with Mavericks?" Cheng Jin asked.

"No, he was wounded by a gun. The Maverick has an earthen gun in his hand."

Cheng Jin was stunned for a moment, and said, "What's the situation now? Is Maverick subdued? Is Zuo Feiyan by Maverick's side?"

"The Maverick has not been subdued yet, Zuo Feiyan is by his side." Miao Hao said, "The injured are being sent back, the mountain road is difficult to walk, we need several people to send him, so there are not enough people left on the mountain, we need to replenish manpower."

"Yeah." Cheng Jin thought for a while, then looked at Yang Simi, "Simi, let's go up the mountain to have a look."

Yang Simi didn't object, so Cheng Jin said to Miao Hao on the other end of the phone: "Let's go up the mountain with you too."

The two went to the entrance of the village to meet Miao Hao.

On the way up the mountain, Cheng Jin called Gan Zhiliang to learn about the frontline situation.

Gan Zhiliang was still on the mountain, near the Huatangzi mentioned by Geng Tiancai yesterday, he said: "It is probably because of a woman, he was not walking fast, and we chased him, but we didn't expect that there would be something in his hand." Earth gun..."

"What about the wounded?"

"He was hit in the calf. Someone sent him down the mountain, but the mountain road is difficult to walk, and it is estimated that he will not be able to get down the mountain until very late. Fortunately, he was not hit at a critical point." Or it may be too late to rescue him.

"What's the situation with the Mavericks now?"

"He hid in the wooden house and couldn't come out."

"He should be able to hear you shouting? The few cases he has committed so far are just attempted murder, and the situation is not particularly serious. You can use this to persuade him to surrender and tell him that he can be given a lighter punishment. Make good reforms in the prison and try to get out as soon as possible.”

Gan Zhiliang: "What if he just doesn't want to go to jail?"

"Then he can't escape now." Cheng Jin said, "Is he reluctant to part with Zuo Feiyan? Zuo Feiyan can visit his prison, he reforms well, maybe after he comes out, he can be with Zuo Feiyan again Keep going."

Yang Simi, who was listening, said, "You can also mention his parents."

"That's right." Cheng Jin relayed to Gan Zhiliang, "His parents definitely want him to live well no matter what, and his family has a bit of property. He won't have nothing when he comes back from prison, and the hardships are just for a while. Good days It's still behind."

Beside Cheng Jin, Miao Hao and others who were traveling with him wondered why Cheng Jin's persuasive words sounded weird?

Gan Zhiliang on the other end was also stunned for a while.

Cheng Jin: "Anyway, try to put it in the best possible light, coax him first—persuade him first, and ask Zuo Feiyan to help persuade him as well."

"Okay, I'll try." Gan Zhiliang said.

Half an hour later, Gan Zhiliang called and said that he had successfully persuaded Mavericks, and now he was going to take him and Zuo Feiyan down the mountain.

Cheng Jin, Miao Hao and others who were climbing the mountain looked at each other and stopped.

Cheng Jin said to Gan Zhiliang, "Take some pictures of the calf's soil gun for me."

"...Oh, good." Although Gan Zhiliang was puzzled, he did as he did.

While waiting for the photos to come over, Cheng Jin said to Miao Hao, "Call the people who brought the wounded down the mountain and ask where they are."

"it is good."

After asking, they said that it was still far away from them, and it was estimated that it would take about 3 hours to arrive.

At this time, Gan Zhiliang sent the photo of the soil gun. Cheng Jin looked at it, thought for a moment, and then said to Miao Hao: "Then you go on up the mountain to meet them. I'll go back to the village first. I found new clues and I want to go as soon as possible." Making sure."

Although Miao Hao was curious about what the new clue was, he didn't ask, because it would be useless to know now, so he just replied, "Okay."

Cheng Jin said goodbye to them: "Be careful on the road and pay attention to safety."

Cheng Jin and Yang Simi turned around and went down the mountain.

In the forest and on the mountain road, the dappled sunlight moved from in front of them to behind them.

Yang Simi: "What new clues have you found?"

"The Maverick's earthen gun is old."

Back at the village primary school, Cheng Jin went to see Lao Niu.

The old cow has gray hair, a slightly fat body, dark skin, and the corners of his mouth are sunken. He looks very depressed.

Cheng Jin: "I caught your son. He injured a policeman. He attacked Qu Zhe on the mountain, Mr. Zhu and others on the snowy mountain, and now he is attacking the police again. Your son is very powerful."

Lao Niu stared at the desk without speaking.

"Your son wounded the policeman with a gun, an earthen gun." Cheng Jin said, "Thirty years ago, it was also an earthen gun that killed the two brothers. The two guns are the same. Niu Zhensheng, you still don't admit it Well, it wasn’t Zuo Shan who shot them to death at all, but you.”

Yang Simi: "Wan Cheng has confessed to you."

This sentence was improvised by himself without any prior discussion with Cheng Jin.

Cheng Jin was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that he had tried to provoke the relationship between Lao Niu and Wan Cheng earlier, he made a "bad head", and Yang Simi was just carrying forward his strategy at the moment.

Alas, I will have to work harder to be a good example in the future.

There are insects chirping outside the window, one after another.

Finally, Lao Niu spoke up: "It was me, but I was acting in self-defense. I also thought I was late in shooting. If I had shot earlier, brother Zuo would not have died."

"Why did you leave that gun?"

I can understand why the other party didn't turn in the gun when the government confiscated the gun. After all, it was a gun that had been used in crimes, but I don't understand why the other party didn't destroy it.

"..." Lao Niu sighed, "I've always wanted to get rid of it, but it's just a fluke, and it must be a coincidence."

"Wan Cheng said that Zhu Yong was also killed by you." Yang Simi said, "You dragged him out of the car, pushed him into the turbulent muddy river, and watched him being swept away by the river. He was the one you watched growing up. My child, how can you get rid of such a cruel hand?"

"..." Cheng Jin didn't expect that he would continue to play freely.

But he didn't show anything strange on his face, he just looked at the old cow calmly to see how he would react.

The old cow was both surprised and angry, and immediately denied: "It's not me!"

"It was you. After you killed Zhu Yong, you later killed Lao Yu in order to silence you. But what you didn't expect was that Zhu Yong didn't die, and he came back. Last year you failed to kill Zhu Yong, but this year your son succeeded you." Will, and then kill him. You father and son are really father and son."

"That's not the case!" Lao Niu became anxious, "It was Lao Wan who pushed Zhu Zong into the river, not me! My son was also provoked, and he definitely didn't want to do something to Zhu Zong!"

Yang Simi: "Wan Cheng said it was you, and you said it was him, are you bullying Zhu Yong and haven't recovered your memory?"

Lao Niu was stunned for a moment, and then said: "That's right, the truth will come to light after Mr. Zhu recovers his memory. It was him who pushed people, not me."