The aunt felt a chill in her heart and immediately looked back without looking at who was speaking. Guo saw that Xian Dan'er was smiling and waving after saying something to the old man.
The aunt's expression changed, she turned around and hurried over, guarding Xian Dan'er home while staring at the old man fiercely. His eyes warned the other person not to come near the children in his village again.
The old man hunched his waist and walked away.
After night falls.
The scorching sun in June made it difficult for the villagers to sleep at night, so they all opened their courtyard doors and slept on straw mats, chairs or couches in the courtyard.
While sleeping, don't forget to shake the cattail leaf fan in your hand to help yourself or the children drive away mosquitoes.
The great-grandmother of the Xian family is doing the same thing.
She lay on the couch and fell asleep with her eyes closed. The cattail leaf fan in her hand was gently patted on the belly of her great-grandson and Xian Dan'er.
Because the little belly was covered with a thin blanket, it made a slight "pop, pop" sound, with a rhythm that the great-grandma maintained unconsciously.
A dark shadow followed the slight cool breeze at night and skillfully touched into the village and outside the Xian family yard.
He leaned against the wall and glanced quickly in, then shook a soft pillow in his hand. Then he ducked his waist and slid in close to the courtyard door.
He quietly slipped to the little boy's couch, squatted down, and covered his face with a piece of cloth that smelled like sweat medicine.
After his neck was slightly crooked, he put his hand on the small blanket on his belly and let the cattail leaf fan continue to beat. Then he took the boy out, placed it on the ground, and stuffed the pillow inside.
Let the slight "puff" sound continue to keep the rhythm.
Then, the black shadow hugged the child and slipped out of the village quietly.
Early the next morning, Suo Dong, the director of Youzhou and Prefectural Government Offices, received the report.
Not only was there the disappearance of the six-year-old boy, Xiandan'er, but also the murder of a boy found in the sorghum field outside Tiehe Village, the village where Xiedan'er was located.
The disappearance case was received first, but before the investigation could be carried out, the murder case was received.
Suodong took along Xian Dan'er's father, who had come to report the disappearance, and went to the scene of the murder together.
Before they could get closer, they heard heart-wrenching cries from that area in the distance.
"Son, my salty egg..."
Father Xian rolled his eyes and fainted.
Suodong also wanted to faint, but couldn't. After sighing, he had no choice but to let the government officials hold Xian's father in his arms, shout away the crowd watching the excitement, and enter the scene.
The sorghum was trampled all over the ground, which was a complete waste of food.
And in the middle of the accident scene...the little salty egg was face down, naked, and lying on the ground.
From the buttocks to the two thighs... there was blood.
Suodong covered his face with one hand.
It’s not that I don’t dare to look at it, it’s that this is another serial case.
In more than three years, is this the first case of a boy being molested and murdered?
Including this one, there are six cases in total.
Six boys aged five to eight from various villages in Qingfan County have been brutally murdered in this way.
There were no signs of abuse on the victim, except...
Still no clues, still just as blind and clueless.
Although Suodong had no hope of solving the case, he still managed to hold on, went to comfort the family members of the deceased, and then promised to catch the murderer as much as possible.
The next step is to follow the entire process.
The corpse was sent back to the state government mortuary, where the widower went to do an autopsy, write autopsy records, etc.
Suodong sat in his office, in a daze.
Be prepared to wait until all procedures are completed before shelving the case.
It wasn't that he was negligent, but that he tracked down one by one and found out everything that could be found, but in the end he eliminated each suspect.
In the end, a lot of manpower, material resources, and energy were spent, but to no avail.
Suodong was numb.
But the county captain of Qingfan County, Liang Feng, came to provoke him again.
Liang Feng relentlessly pursued these cases for more than three years. From the first year, when the first case occurred, Liang Feng had a clear target of suspicion. But there has always been a lack of evidence.
Liang Feng kept an eye on the person, but the case continued to happen, so he came to the government office again and again to urge Suodong to arrest the person.
Suodong felt that he and Liang Feng were already at loggerheads, and even had the idea of dismissing him and letting him go home to farm.
It's just that Liang Feng is a very upright and diligent person, but Suo Dong is reluctant to let him go.
"Master Suo, how many times are you going to tell me? Those cases were committed by that bastard Shen Chengyue. You just don't believe it, you just won't arrest him. Look, it's going to be endless, isn't it? Are you going to let him go? when?"
Liang Feng ignored Suodong's ugly expression and kept asking questions, almost slapping the table.
Suodong supported his face with one hand and looked at him sideways. He repeated what he said nonchalantly and numbly.
"Evidence is needed to arrest people and impose punishments. But you have no evidence at all. I want this officer to arrest and behead people based on your words.
Liang Feng, what grudge do you have with that Shen Chengyue? Did you spend enough time keeping an eye on him to find out who the real murderer is?
As long as you find evidence, I will take the person and punish him. If you can't find it, don't bother me again. "
Liang Feng became a little angry when he heard the superior officer perfunctory him like this, and said: "Why don't I have any evidence? After the first case happened, wasn't the corner of the bloody clothes I gave you the evidence?"
After the second case, why are the footprints Shen Chengyue left at the scene given to you by your subordinate not evidence?
After the third case, how come the prescription for buying medicinal materials given to you by Shen Chengyue is not evidence?
In the fourth case, what your subordinate submitted to you is not evidence that some villagers have seen Shen Chengyue coming in and out of that village?
Before the fifth case occurred, some villagers also saw it. Isn't it evidence that Shen Chengyue talked to the deceased?
How could it be such a coincidence? There are five piles, and traces of Shen Chengyue have been found in them. Are these not enough to explain the problem?
Sir, you clearly know that Shen Chengyue likes to touch boys. The people of Qingfan County all know this, so why is it not evidence?
What's more, Shen Chengyue himself is a person with a history of molestation. That's why he was exiled to us. It's just that he didn't leave when his exile date expired.
But he has a criminal record. Before his exile period expired, there was no such case in our county, so why couldn't he be the focus of investigation? Just because someone can prove that he didn't have time to commit the crime when it happened? "
