After breaking Master Gou's good deeds, Zhao Gui was severely beaten by the Zhong family's servants. Master Zhong also said that he would never be allowed to work in the house.
After losing his job at the Zhong Mansion, his life became even more difficult. Soon his mother passed away, and Zhao Gui, who had lost his only relative, felt extremely lonely. The figure of Sister Qianqiao being pinned down by Master Gou still lingered in his mind. He thought: Sister Qiao must have been forced. One day, he will rescue Sister Qiao from the clutches of Master Zhong and Master Gou.
Now that Li Ziyu asked about it, he didn't want to talk about the past. He just walked with his head down, his mind filled with the beautiful image of Sister Qiao, and silently grabbed another handful of his crotch.
The sky is getting darker, Guangzhou's curfew has not yet been lifted, and this is a residential area. After dark, there are no pedestrians on the streets. Only the two people's shoes with iron soles echoed monotonously on the stone road.
Li Ziyu asked Zhao Gui to light a lantern and patrol the streets with a faint light.
Their patrol range is about 2.5 kilometers and passes through several streets. It takes exactly over half an hour to complete one circle. Although the street gates were locked at this time, the patrol officers had the keys to all the street gates on the segment and could open and close them by themselves. Every time it opens and closes, Li Ziyu has to write the time in his work book. When the patrol officer goes out on patrol, he is given a "Zhong's No. 6 pocket watch" as big as a horseshoe alarm clock in order to strictly control the time, especially after "signing in". You must write the elapsed time when you click ".
Patrolling at night is not only boring, but there are no street lights in Guangzhou. If the moonlight is not good, it will be difficult to walk. The quiet and dark environment also puts a lot of pressure on people's spirits.
"It's pitch black. It's really scary." Zhao Gui was a little worried. Walking on the deserted streets in this pitch dark night was really creepy. "I'm scared...scared...scared..." He kept saying several words. He was so "afraid" that he didn't dare to say the word "ghost".
"What are you afraid of? There are people living in the houses on both sides." Although Li Ziyu was a little timid, she pretended to be free and easy, "You haven't done anything bad, you're not afraid... you're not afraid... something like that will come knocking you. Door……"
A pair of green eyes suddenly passed in front of them. Li Ziyu was caught off guard and trembled with fright. When he took a closer look, it turned out to be a cat, and he breathed a sigh of relief. In order to cover up his gaffe, he said loudly, "Besides, we are on official business, we are official people, and the batons we carry are all awarded by the Senate Emperor, so we can suppress all evil..."
While he was talking nonsense, he suddenly tripped. Li Ziyu suddenly somersaulted and fell to the ground. Zhao Gui also staggered and almost fell down.
Li Ziyu was knocked unconscious from the fall, and finally climbed up from the ground, picked up his hat, patted the dust, and cursed: "It's really unlucky..." Before he could finish his words, he saw Zhao Gui trembling all over and the lantern in his hand shaking wildly. Just as he was about to scold him for not lighting the road properly, he saw a dead body lying on the street through the light of the lantern!
Now it was Li Ziyu's turn to tremble with horror - the body was wrapped in coarse cloth, and only a human figure could be seen, but without a head. There was a large black stain on the white cloth.
Even though Li Ziyu was born in the military and had experienced adventures in Xijiang, he had seen murders and arson, but in this dark night, a headless corpse lying in the street... was scary enough.
He forced himself to calm down, and while telling himself to calm down, he took the lantern from Zhao Gui's hand and looked around carefully. This place is the entrance of a branch alley. Li Ziyu looked around and saw that the branch alley was dark and narrow, and exuded a stench, but there was a flickering light in the innermost part.
Li Ziyu took off his baton and asked Zhao Gui to hold a lantern in front of him, planning to go in and take a look.
"Ayu, I think we shouldn't go in..." Zhao Gui suggested weakly.
"If you don't investigate, how can you report it?" Li Ziyu said, "Let's go."
Zhao Gui had no choice but to carry a lantern and walk inside. There was no pavement on the ground in the branch alley, and what he stepped on was either soft mud or broken bricks and tiles that hurt his feet. The two of them walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
"Mom, this place is really scary..." Zhao Gui muttered, not daring to look back at the headless corpse on the road.
There are very few households in the branch alley. Through the weak light, you can see that they are all poor people. The houses are short and simple, and the walls are peeling off, revealing the broken bricks and tiles that have been put together haphazardly inside. However, not long after walking inside, the wall on one side of the alley suddenly turned into a continuous brick wall, more than a foot high. Li Ziyu was surprised: this was either the back wall of a wealthy family or a temple. Walking further, I saw a small door on the wall. He stepped forward and pushed it. The door was locked.
He had just started his internship, and although the director and team leader of the film took him through it, he was still very unfamiliar with the film, and he couldn't remember where the back door was.
After passing the small gate and walking forward for more than ten steps, I heard the sound of gurgling water in front of me. It turned out that the end of this alley was a river port. The river water shimmers in the night, so you can see the flashing lights at the entrance of the alley.
Li Ziyu looked at the river pier. There were only a few Danhu boats moored on the river, with no lights and no sound. There are no suspicious clues.
"Let's go back and report quickly." Li Ziyu said.
Zhao Gui was eager for him to say that, so he quickly said: "Okay, okay."
The two came back from the side alley, but it was not easy to call the police. The police in Guangzhou city do not have telephones. If they want to report, they can only go back to the police station, and then the station will send a correspondent to report to the Criminal Division of the General Administration.
Of course, they also carry rockets with them, but these can only be used in times of riots and emergencies.
"Zhao Gui, you watch here, I'll go to the police station..." As soon as Li Ziyu said this, Zhao Gui was stunned and took his arm and said, "Ayu, don't, don't, don't leave me... I Go back with you."
"What should we do if we all go back to the scene?" Li Ziyu remembered memorizing the standard handling procedures in the "Procedural Regulations for Handling Criminal Cases". It is a basic requirement to send people to guard the scene to prevent clues from being destroyed.
However, Zhao Gui refused to stay alone to guard the body no matter what, and Li Ziyu would not be willing to guard him here. While he was in a stalemate with no choice, Li Ziyu suddenly thought that this place was not far from the house where the street watcher lived, so he just walked over and asked the street watcher to come over and help Zhao Gui to be brave.
So the two of them turned back together. The watch room was only two or three hundred steps away, but drizzle began to fall from the sky. The sky turned dark. Zhao Gui quickly took out the oil paper cover to cover it. The two of them were nervous and panicked. They spent a lot of time. It took several minutes to put the rain cover in place. The light of the lantern grew dimmer.
However, when they returned to the street gate, the watchman was not in the watch room - he had gone out to do the watch. The two of them hurriedly looked for it, and it took them a while to find the watchman. Li Ziyu then remembered that he didn't even record the time when he found the body, and he quickly took out his "pocket watch." I took a look by the lantern light, but it was just after 1 o'clock in the evening, almost early in the morning. He thought about what he had gone through just now, and the time when he found the body should have been just after 12 o'clock.
The three of them hurried over, but when they arrived at the entrance of the alley, Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui were shocked: the body was missing!
When they left just now, the body was still lying on the ground, but now there was nothing on the ground. Li Ziyu took the lantern with his hand and moved it close to the ground. There was nothing left on the ground.
Zhao Gui's face turned pale and he stammered: "Emperor Bodhisattva! This, this, is a headless corpse..."
When he said this, the watcher also became frightened: "Could it be that it's a fake corpse?"
Li Ziyu stood there blankly, his mind a mess. The headless corpse was indeed in this place just now. Where did it go after such a while? He didn't really believe in corpse fraud. It was obvious that someone had moved the corpse away, but they walked all the way without even seeing a ghost. How could they get anyone?
The three people searched around again, but found nothing. Seeing the rain getting heavier and heavier, Li Ziyu suddenly ran out of ideas: Go back and report, what can you say if there is no body? If he didn't report it, he and Zhao Gui would have seen this headless corpse with their own eyes just now - he also tripped and somersaulted, and his knees are still aching.
When the watchman saw that he could not find the body, he breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "If there is no body, then there is no such thing! One less official matter has been saved. How much trouble has been saved."
Zhao Gui stammered: "But, but, it was indeed a corpse just now, without a head."
The watchman glanced at Zhao Gui, with contempt on his face, and said: "Master Cha, human life lawsuits always involve seeing the person alive and the body before death. If there is no body, then there is no case. Why bother? Don't say that there are no cases here. There is no one who suffers. Even if there is one who suffers, no body can be found. How can any official be willing to accept his prosecution? Besides, there are hundreds of thousands of people in Guangzhou. If a hundred or ten people are not killed one day, he will be one more. Not more, one less of him is not enough." He smiled and said, "It's dark and it's raining. Maybe the two police officers have misunderstood. The younger one just pretends that he heard nothing and saw nothing." After that, He lowered his waist again and went to work on his own.
The raindrops were getting thicker and denser, and only Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui were left on the street. They didn't know what to say. Li Ziyu clenched his fists, and he knew that the watcher on the street was right. But when they were studying at Wanshou Palace, the Australians instilled another set of ideas into them: they are policemen and have the responsibility to maintain social stability and "guarantee peace in the world" - what is social stability and "peace in the world"? Li Ziyu's feelings are the most real.
Just now, a corpse really fell to the ground, with no head - a corpse lying on the road would not cut off its own head, this person must have been killed! Raindrops hit his face, and the scene of the uncle's family being slaughtered by strongmen on the Xijiang River came to mind again. He suddenly made up his mind and said to Zhao Gui: "Let's go! We will go back and report immediately!" (To be continued.)
