It didn't take long before me, Cao Kui and the villagers arrived at the location we had been to before in the back mountain.
I marked out an area with branches and talked to the villagers.
"Everyone just needs to dig hard within this range. Dig as deep as possible. If you encounter any abnormal situation, you must stop and notify me in time."
"After we confirm that we have found what we want, your work will be completed and I will settle your wages immediately."
"Okay, it's getting late now. Let's start working quickly. If we finish our work early, we can go back early."
After I said this, the villagers each raised their tools and agreed, and then started working enthusiastically.
With the help of these villagers, Cao Kui and I naturally believe that we can find what we want this time.
Of course, the two of us didn't have to work, so we stayed aside as supervisors and chatted to pass the time.
During the journey, women from the village brought some food to our work place to replenish energy for the men.
The village chief warmly invited us to have a meal together, but Cao Kui and I originally wanted to refuse.
But we thought it would be early morning when the two of us went back, so we didn't refuse.
To my surprise, the food delivered from this village was surprisingly delicious, and Cao Kui was also quite satisfied with the meals.
Time kept passing by, and villagers kept digging things for us to check out.
But unfortunately, none of them are what we want to see. Most of them are stones or garbage buried inside from an unknown age.
I even found something made of bronze.
It wasn't until ten o'clock tonight that we finally made an important discovery.
"Boss Lin, Boss Cao, you two come over quickly and take a look. I seem to have dug up something special. It's soft and different from anything I've found before."
As soon as we heard the soft thing, Cao Kui and I looked at each other, then stood up at the same time and rushed in the direction of the talking villager.
At this time, many villagers gathered around, and there was already a large pit five or six meters deep.
When they saw me coming here, the villagers pointed to a location at the bottom of the pit with a shovel and said.
"This is Boss Lin, look..."
At this time, I was overjoyed and immediately gave the order.
"Keep digging, but be careful to avoid the middle area and dig from both sides, otherwise we will destroy what we want."
After listening to my order, although these villagers were very confused and didn't know what I was looking for, they naturally had to obey my order after taking our money.
Soon after, the soft thing wrapped in mud in the middle was exposed alone.
I went up and carefully pushed aside the surrounding soil layer, revealing a human-shaped object that seemed to be wrapped in a sheet or something.
My heart was already in my throat and my hands were trembling slightly.
I secretly thought I was offended, and then reached out and untied the sheet.
As the sheets slid to both sides, a woman's body appeared in front of all of us.
Seeing that what they dug out turned out to be a corpse, all the surrounding villagers were frightened. Their faces turned pale and they couldn't even hold the shovel in their hands.
There were some commotions around, and some villagers began to question the purpose of Cao Kui and me, thinking that we were asking them to do something that was unacceptable to nature.
I don't have time to explain, and I can't say a complete sentence right now.
Because as the sheets were lifted off, not only the body appeared, but also an extremely strong stench, the smell of rotting corpses.
I was almost suffocated by this smell, so I climbed out of the pit with Cao Kui and the villagers, came upwind and took two deep breaths, and then I had time to explain to them what was going on. thing.
"Boss Lin, you must explain this matter to me clearly, otherwise we will not do this job."
"Yes, Boss Lin, are you instructing us to dig graves? This is something that will cost you your life, you are really at a loss!"
"We don't want the two hundred dollars anymore. You have to tell us who the corpse is. We don't want ghosts knocking on the door!"
At this time, the village chief suddenly said very solemnly.
"Stop it all, I don't think Boss Lin is that kind of person. He must have his reasons for doing this. Everyone, please be patient and give Boss Lin a chance to explain."
I glanced at the village chief gratefully, and then immediately told the villagers the whole story.
I finally told them that Cao Kui and I came here to track down a murder case, and that the woman was buried in the ground and her body was dumped in the wilderness.
He is the victim!
"Folks, we found the victim's body just to give her justice and to bring the perpetrator to justice. This can also be regarded as an explanation for the victim, allowing her to close her eyes."
"I am very grateful for everyone's help today, and I hope everyone will stay here for the time being. My friend and I have to go to the police first."
"I'll leave you to guard this body here."
After the matter is explained clearly, these kind villagers will naturally stop making things difficult for me and Cao Kui.
They returned to the enthusiastic attitude they had at the beginning and stayed to protect the corpse.
Some people are even willing to do some simple cleaning and maintenance of the body first, so that the investigation can start faster when the police arrive.
I expressed my gratitude to everyone, and then quickly called the police. At the same time, I notified Wang Lulu and his daughter, asking them to rush to this mountain village overnight to identify whether the body was Wang Lulu’s mother.
After that, Cao Kui and I were invited back to the village by the village chief, and we temporarily stayed at the village chief's house to wait for the arrival of the police, Wang Lulu and others.
I was a little worried about the corpses, but in the end I chose to believe in those simple villagers.
Not long after, the police and Wang Lulu and the woman arrived.
We went to the back mountain together and began to identify the body, because the body had been buried in the back mountain for too long, resulting in a high degree of decay.
The face of the corpse was beyond recognition, and it was impossible to see clearly what it looked like in life.
Under this circumstance, Wang Lulu and her father were still trying hard to identify the corpse, and they endured the stench of the corpse and rummaged through the corpse with their hands to find the relics.
The two of them were rummaging around with tears in their eyes, obviously in great pain.
Finally, Wang Lulu found a sachet embroidered with a peace charm from the corpse's tattered coat pocket.
The moment she saw the sachet, she recognized the body in front of her as her mother.
Then he started to cry loudly.
