Li Ziyu didn't know whether Lao Gao's "faming" was a sincere congratulation or a joke, so he had to keep silent. Zhao Gui giggled a few times with "hehe".
Since it was confirmed that there was indeed a corpse, it was natural to confirm whether this was the scene of the crime. Both Gao Chongjiu and Li Zhenguo thought it was not. Their reasons all come from bloodstains. Li Zhenguo determined this based on the area and depth of blood penetration. Chief Mu said: There are arteries and veins in the human neck. Once beheaded, a large amount of blood will be lost. The blood that penetrates into the soil cannot be so small. And Gao Chongjiu has seen many decapitated prisoners on the execution ground for many years: the head is the head of the six Yangs, with strong blood, and when the head is chopped off, it will instantly form a spray-like splash mark. But there are none on the surrounding walls and ground.
The deceased had been beheaded elsewhere and then moved here. The question is, why go to all the trouble to move here?
Gao Chongjiu thinks this is not difficult to explain, because the seventh alley of the east branch of Jianzi Lane is a river after all, and throwing the corpse into the river is an easy and simple way to dispose of the corpse. Even if the body floats up in a few days, it is unknown where it has gone. Even if the police tried to find the location of the incident, they would still be looking for a needle in a haystack. What's more, most of the rivers in the city are connected to the Liumai Canal. If it floats into the culvert and is left to rot, even a god wouldn't know.
After straightening out the thoughts, the matter was very simple: after discovering that Li Ziyu and the others left the body and turned back, the murderer who was hiding nearby quickly returned to the scene, transported the body to the river port at the bottom of the alley, and threw it directly into the river.
So when Li Ziyu and the street watcher came back, the body had disappeared, and the body must still be in the river.
"Not only is the body still in the river, but the murderer who dumped the body is also still on this street." Li Zhenguo said with a little regret, "It's a pity that we don't have dogs here!"
He heard from Wu Xiang and other naturalized policemen from Lingao that Australian police stations had dogs that could smell and identify people and were specially used to catch prisoners. As long as you take the dog to the scene and smell it, you can track and chase the fugitive. It is very magical.
But this kind of dog is not deployed in the police station - the Australians have brought many kinds of dogs to Guangzhou that they have never seen before, but they are more often accompanied by the security patrols in the streets and alleys. Patrolling the surrounding countryside, baring his teeth and roaring in a low voice. Li Zhenguo only heard that there would be a "police dog team". Even Mu Min didn't know when it would be established.
Although there is no legendary Australian police dog, they still have a street gate.
Because the Jianzi Alley is nearly five miles long, in order to facilitate gate management, the government used to divide it into two main east-west roads and divide it into South Jianzi Alley, Zhongjianzi Alley and North Jianzi Alley. Each section has north and south street gates, and "street watchers" are responsible for opening and closing them.
The crime scene was at the southern end of Nanjianzi Lane. When Gao Chongjiu arrived just now, he had an idea and asked the street watchers not to open the street gates - they were about to open the street gates when it was already dark. Now, the entire Nanjianzi Lane is still blocked. Outsiders can't get in, and people inside can't get out. Unless the murderer who dumped the body was a thief who could sneak through walls and walls, he must still be somewhere in this street. And the murder scene must be somewhere on this street.
Gao Chongjiu's affirmation is justified. The street gate system is actually a resurrection of the past "lifang" system. It's just that the city is no longer a "checkerboard", so the street gate system is adopted. After the gate is opened at night, ordinary people, except doctors and midwives, cannot pass through. Even powerful families will not just ask people to open the street gate at night if they have nothing to do.
In this way, although it is somewhat inconvenient for the citizens, it is indeed of great use in terms of public security. Except for snitches who can fly up and down, it is difficult for thieves to move around at night. When Gao Chongjiu was working in the Yamen, every time he encountered a major case that was handled strictly by the Shangguan, as long as he roughly knew which street the prisoner was on, the quick shift leader would mostly close the street gates, and then the Yamen guards would be led by the Chief Baojia to go door to door. In the search, unless the information is inaccurate, it is almost certain that the criminal will be apprehended.
This method has been tried and tested repeatedly, but it disturbs the people too much. But it is a good opportunity for the government officials to make a fortune: whether it is door-to-door interrogation or search, shops and homes must pay tribute with money. If anyone is blind, turning the house and shop upside down and then taking advantage of them is too light. , directly suspected of being a "trafficker" and dragged into the squad room to entertain him for a few days. That is not something that can be solved with a few hundred copper coins.
Li Zhenguo also knew this method. To be fair, it was the simplest and fastest method at the moment. Once the criminal was found, the body would naturally be found. Agree immediately. The two immediately returned to the police station and told the director that the director would send people to block all the street gates leading to everywhere in Nanjianzi Lane to prevent people from sneaking through the street gates. At the same time, he summoned the security guard and team leader of the film to the police station. Have a meeting to check if there are any suspicious persons recently.
As for Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui, since they are the patrol police in this film, they have to work hard. The director originally wanted to ask them to guard the street gate, but Li Zhenguo said that since they were the first discoverers, it was better to stay at the station so that they could ask questions immediately if they thought of anything else. At the same time, people were sent to the city bureau to request that gangsters be sent to recover bodies from the river.
The policemen on duty at the station were dispatched separately. It was just getting light now and every household had not gone out yet. When the police station called out, except for one who was sick in bed and could not come, all the security guards in Nanjianzi Lane came to their aid within a short time. All here.
Li Zhenguo first asked if there had been any suspicious outsiders in the local area in the past few days and if there had been anything suspicious recently.
According to the new household registration management system, all outsiders who stay in residents' shops in this area for more than 24 hours must come to the police station to apply for temporary household registration. This is not an invention of modern society. There were similar regulations when Wang Shouren implemented the Baojia system. However, the household registration system at that time had not yet been clearly institutionalized, and the efficiency of implementation also depended on the intentions of the bureaucrats and the Baojia chief.
The Senate established a household registration system in Guangzhou that was naturally much more effective than the simple Baojia system. The Baojia chiefs had dedicated "officers" - household registration police - on their heads. Naturally, the work efficiency has improved a lot. In particular, the current household registration police officers in each police station are actually naturalized civilian cadres sent by Lingao. Have your own way of doing things. The system was quickly established.
However, the security guards couldn't explain why. Everyone said that there were no suspicious people recently. There haven't been many new immigrants arriving in the city recently: because of the Northern Expedition of the Senate's army, most people can't go out without going out. During the war, the war is chaotic, and long-distance travel is risky. Therefore, in the past three days, only a dozen or so foreigners have registered for temporary residence registration. Gao Chongjiu knew that generally speaking, the people who served as chief guards on the street were not ordinary people. They were at least people who had seen some of the world, were eloquent, and could deal with people in all aspects. The way I look at people is a bit more "venomous" than ordinary people. If they said there were no suspicious people, then of course there wouldn't be any. This somewhat disappointed Gao Chongjiu.
As for the suspicious things, the security guards came up with a few, but most of them were trivial. At least on the surface, it doesn't seem to be related to the murder case.
Li Zhenguo said that since there were no available clues, he asked the security guards to lead the way and went door-to-door with the police in the station.
Naturally, Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui had to go along for the investigation.
Just as they began to check door to door, two gangsters who were responsible for salvaging corpses also arrived in a small boat. They are specifically responsible for salvaging corpses from rivers in the city. The slave laborers had a low status and no remuneration at all. They all relied on the owner of the corpse and the government to reward them with some money. The water is bone-chilling in winter, and the stench is so bad in summer that no one except beggars wants to do this work.
Two men who were retrieving bodies were rowing a small boat. One person stayed at the bow of the boat to push the boat forward slowly, and the other person sat at the stern of the boat and lowered a series of giant rolling hooks tied with thick hemp ropes into the river, all the way to the bottom of the river. In this way, we searched back and forth for a distance of fifty meters upstream and downstream of the river port.
The river had not been dredged for many years, and there was a lot of debris and garbage under the water. As they searched it section by section, they found a lot of heavy objects pulled up by the rolling hook, but they were all filled with all kinds of garbage. . The two men fished in the river for a long time and found nothing, let alone a headless body.
The news reached the two criminal policemen who were interrogating the residents, and Gao Chongjiu and Li Zhenguo couldn't hold their breath. The absence of a body meant that their previous inference was untenable. In addition to instructing the widowers to expand the search scope, Gao Chongjiu and Li Zhenguo decided to divide their forces into two groups. Gao Chongjiu continued to check the residents, and Li Zhenguo returned to the scene to see if he could find any more clues.
Since they have to return to the site for exploration, Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui naturally have to accompany them. Li Zhenguo returned to the scene. The police cordoned off the place. Although there was nothing at the scene, word of a murder had occurred on the street. The street gates on both sides were closed tightly, and the heads of Group A of each brand were busy. Questioning people from door to door also proved that the legend was true. So as soon as Li Zhenguo returned here, there were already many people watching the excitement.
Li Zhenguo first came to the eleventh alley of the West Branch. This alley is quite long. You can walk along the alley to another north-south street. The street gate here is still locked. It is obvious that criminals can neither enter nor exit here after nightfall. Either he just hid in the alley while dumping the body, or the crime scene is right here!
Li Zhenguo tried hard to recall what he saw, heard and learned when he went on a mission with Wu Xiang. It is obvious that a body is very heavy and a person cannot carry it very far on his back. Therefore, the place where the crime occurred will not be far from the place where the body was dumped. (To be continued.).
