The Sheriff's efficiency was still very high. Before Zhuo Datong rushed home, the Sheriff who received the notice had already arrived outside the yard of Zhuo Datong's old house.
Because they had received the request from the reporter, the three police officers who came here did not wear uniforms, but went out in plainclothes to handle the case. They looked as if they were acquaintances who came to visit.
Zhuo Datong welcomed the three people into his home and recounted the ins and outs of the strange things he encountered in the past two days. Because he had already had the experience of telling it to Old Man Ye before, he almost missed every word during the whole process in Jiangsu.
After telling the story, Zhuo Datong took out the photos taken with his mobile phone.
He only took two photos. One was taken when his wife Jiang Guirong appeared for the first time, after wrapping her body and waiting for Old Man Ye to bring his apprentice over.
The second picture shows Jiang Guirong's body appearing for the second time. At Old Man Ye's request, after he took the photo, the two apprentices wrapped Jiang Guirong's body in torn cotton wool.
So the second photo captured Jiang Guirong's entire body. Even her sitting posture was exactly the same as when Zhuo Datong saw her.
The three police officers looked at each other and found it incredible. One of them said: "Do you want to notify the special..."
Before he finished speaking, the other person shook his head: "Let's say goodbye for now. Last time we couldn't investigate clearly, but an ordinary case brought them here. Later, I was scolded by the captain. I heard that the captain was also assigned to the branch. The director scolded me bloody."
"Well, I also think we should investigate clearly before speaking." The third person agreed.
Then one of the three sheriffs talked to Zhuo Datong and made a recording, asking about the key points that needed to be understood, while the other two sheriffs surveyed the yard together.
According to Zhuo Datong, the two of them checked the wooden chair in the middle of the yard and the surroundings of the chair, and then the corners and walls of the yard. One of them also went to the side of the outer wall next to a path to check.
It took an hour and a half, and it can be said that the inspection was very careful.
Then the three constables met and one of the constables who inspected the scene said: "There is indeed a corpse smell in the yard, and the strongest place is the wooden chair and the ground nearby."
Another police officer continued: "There are traces of footsteps on the outer wall, but the shoe prints left are only the upper part of the soles of the feet, and they do not seem to have been left recently. As for the wall in the yard, there is no obvious mark. There are shoe prints, but it does not rule out that someone from outside climbed over the wall with a ladder and opened the door to the yard."
The sheriff who took the record for Zhuo Datong shook his head, "It's impossible to tell whether it's man-made or there are other special circumstances. You need to collect some evidence, whether it's footprints, fingerprints, or the soil on the ground dripping with corpse water. . It’s best to bring that wooden chair back for inspection later.”
Having said this, he turned back to Zhuo Datong and said: "This wooden chair is soaked in corpse water and will always emit a smell that cannot be removed. You won't want it anyway. We will take it back as evidence for identification."
"Okay, okay, you take it." Zhuo Datong nodded quickly.
Ever since Jiang Guirong's body came back for the second time, even though Old Man Ye's two apprentices took her back to the grave again, Zhuo Datong has always felt an indescribable smell in the yard.
Because the floor had been cleaned and treated, and the wooden chair had been rinsed with soap foam, he thought it was just the floor that had not been cleaned, so the smell was coming out, but he did not expect that the corpse water had soaked into the surface of the wooden chair, penetrated deep into the inner layer, and spread for a long time. There is an unpleasant odor.
Ordinary people have no clear concept of corpse odor and can only use words such as "stinky" and "disgusting" to describe it.
In fact, this smell is like what is said in a book, the stink of death. It actually has the taste of licorice as the top note, mixed with a strong citrus smell, but this is not a fresh orange, but that kind of smell. A citrus-scented industrial cleaner that you spray directly into your nose.
Its middle note is wine that has been left open for a day in the summer. The sourness is enough to attract a swarm of flies. The base note is a bucket of salted fish after being exposed to the sun.
Just like a perfume, the description of the top, middle and base notes is enough to show how strong and profound this scent is.
The three sheriffs, wearing gloves, worked for a while and took away the evidence, including the smelly wooden chair.
It is said that they will go to the location of Jiang Guirong's grave again tomorrow morning to conduct a survey.
Zhuo Datong felt relieved after seeing off the Sheriff.
The depression he felt earlier seemed to be released at this moment. He exhaled a breath and turned to look at the quiet old house, the not-so-large yard, and the empty and silent back room.
The photo frame of my wife's portrait was placed neatly in the middle of the table in the back room, as if she was watching her calmly.
Zhuo Datong felt very tired. He had not had a good rest during this period. He was even more tired than when he took care of his wife who was seriously ill in bed.
He yawned heavily, took a shower, took off his clothes and threw them into the washing machine, turned on the automatic cleaning and went to the bedroom.
He slept until six o'clock in the morning the next day. Because of the long-term biological clock, he would wake up by himself at this point.
I went to bed after seven o'clock last night, and I was too tired, so I slept for almost eleven hours. My stomach started to growl while I was still lying on the bed.
Zhuo Datong slowly sat up, got out of bed, went to the living room in the back room, stood at the door, and subconsciously glanced at the yard through the window.
There was nothing outside the yard, no one, nothing suspicious.
"It seems that it won't happen again."
He let out a long breath.
At this moment, he firmly believed that the wooden carving of the mask that Shen Xing sold to him made the appearance of his wife's body in the early morning the biggest suspicion.
But now that the mask is gone, the body has indeed not appeared again.
I went to the toilet, washed up, went to the kitchen to boil five eggs, made a large cup of strong tea, and quickly ate three eggs.
Zhuo Datong then put the other two eggs into his pocket, went out and waited on the roadside leading to Beifeng Canyon at the entrance of the town.
He made an appointment with the Sheriff to check on his wife's grave site. The Sheriff's car arrived on time according to the time. In the car were the same three Sheriffs from yesterday, still wearing plain clothes.
The four people quickly came to Jiang Guirong's grave. Zhuo Datong took a serious look. The tomb was untouched, and it seemed that nothing had happened.
In fact, after burying Jiang Guirong for the second time, Old Man Ye took out four coffin nails and asked two apprentices to nail the four corners of the coffin respectively. He muttered something and sprinkled a lot of evil-proof water on the coffin board.
The Sheriff looked at it for a long time, and it was consistent with what Zhuo Datong said. The tomb had obviously been tampered with, but it had been completely re-stacked and there were no other abnormalities.
After nothing was found, the sheriff did not plan to open the coffin for an autopsy. He just left a phone number for Zhuo Datong to contact them at any time, and told him to contact them directly 24 hours a day if anything happened.
The stone in my heart was completely relieved, and Zhuo Datong seemed to be much more energetic when he returned.
After returning home, I cleaned the house thoroughly, then went out to buy some daily necessities. I watched TV, ate melon seeds, and drank tea at home alone.
The nervous and fearful mood was slowly disappearing. Except for the scene of Jiang Guirong sitting on the chair in the yard that popped up in his mind from time to time, the faint feeling of worry in Zhuo Datong's heart had been almost controlled by himself.
The day passed quickly.
When going to bed at night, Zhuo Datong always felt like someone was in the room or standing by the bed looking at him at first, but after tossing and turning for a while, he still fell asleep.
When he woke up the next day, Zhuo Datong immediately ran to the window of the living room in the back room and took a closer look at the yard outside.
Everything is business as usual.
His heart was completely relieved at this moment, and he began to think about when to ask Shen Xing to get back half of the money he spent to buy the mask and wood carving.
There are no more worries and abnormalities. For Zhuo Datong, this day's life seems to have become much easier and more fulfilling.
He went to visit Old Man Ye for a while, thanked the owner of the coffin shop, and then returned home to pickle some pickles, preparing to send two jars to Old Man Ye.
After dinner, I went to bed after nine o'clock, preparing to go to bed early and get up early to take good care of my body and regain my energy and energy.
After lying down that night, he didn't think about anything. He was no longer suspicious or afraid, and he fell asleep quickly.
When he woke up, Zhuo Datong opened his eyes in a daze, and then he was in a daze for a moment.
He found that it was still dark, so he took the mobile phone on the bedside table and looked at it, and found that it was only a quarter past five.
In a daze, Zhuo Datong was surprised that his biological clock was not accurate, but soon he noticed something was wrong. A smell that was very familiar to him in the past few days was filling the room.
This is a... strong stench!
Zhuo Datong suddenly woke up a lot. He turned on the bedside lamp and felt that the stench seemed too obvious, as if it was in the house and not coming from the yard at all.
In horror, she turned around and saw that on the big bed where she was lying, on the side where Jiang Guirong had slept before, her wife was lying on her side again in the same position.
The familiar colorful shroud, one-third of the face and exposed palms were rotted, the smell of corpses permeated everywhere, and the sheets had been soaked in black and red corpse water.
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