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Lian Ge also glanced at the young man, smiled and shook his head,
"pretty good."
"...Grandpa, what are you talking about?" The young man paused for a moment, looking at his grandfather and Lian Ge with some doubts.
"Grandpa, you can eat too. Come on, you can eat a piece of meat."
As he spoke, the young man picked up the bacon with chopsticks and put it in his grandfather's bowl.
Seeing this, the old man couldn't help but smiled and started eating too.
……
"Dong dong, dong dong dong..."
Just then there was a knock on the door,
Hearing the sound, the four people at the dinner table stopped their movements one after another. On the ground, the little white mice who were fighting around the rice bowl also chewed quickly and turned their heads.
"Uncle Wu, are you eating?"
Beside the half-open door of the hall, two figures in raincoats appeared in front of them, and greeted them kindly,
"Yes, I just started eating. Have you eaten yet? Officer Cheng, why don't we eat together?"
While talking, the old man stood up from the dining table and walked towards the door of the main room.
"No need, Uncle Wu, you can eat first, we just stand under the eaves. We are all wet, and it will dirty your hall in a while, and it will be troublesome for you to clean up."
The policeman surnamed Cheng waved his hand and said,
"By the way, you can bring this up."
While talking, the policeman surnamed Cheng took a bag of rice from another policeman next to him and handed it to the old man.
"It just so happened that a bag of rice was distributed in the bureau. I haven't finished eating the rice I bought last time, so I thought of bringing it for you."
"How can I do that?" The old man waved his hand and refused.
"Uncle Wu, I've brought it all up. You don't want me to bring it back again. I'll put it here for you."
As he spoke, the policeman surnamed Cheng stretched out his hand and put the bag he was carrying by the door.
Seeing this, the old man shook his head and didn't say anything more.
"Then you guys come in first..."
With that said, the old man turned around again, and shouted to the old lady at the dinner table,
"Old lady, do you still have any dry towels? Bring them to Officer Cheng and the others to wipe off the rain."
"Uncle Wu, let's not bother you..."
"Then you take the rice back." The old man said something, then turned around,
Hearing this, Police Officer Cheng hesitated, took off his raincoat, shook off the rainwater, hung it by the door, and wiped the muddy water from his shoes on the ground by the eaves before stepping into the building with another policeman. In the main room.
"...Didn't it say that the rain stopped coming over? Why is it still raining here, so I came here despite the rain."
Seeing the two policemen stepping into the main room, the old man continued to walk towards the dining table and asked at the same time,
"Isn't it because I think the rain is a little weaker, and because I'm anxious, I brought my colleagues here..." Officer Cheng replied with a smile,
"Then I'll take you to see the corpse."
"Uncle Wu, eat first, don't spoil your appetite for a while." Officer Cheng shook his head, then turned his gaze to the hall,
"It's nothing bad or bad appetite. After so many years, I've gotten used to it." The old man shook his head.
"...Uncle Wu, do you still have guests here?" Officer Cheng said with a smile before answering.
Hearing this, Uncle Wu nodded without further explanation.
……
Lian Ge turned his gaze and glanced at the two policemen. Although they were wearing raincoats when they came, the shoes and trouser legs on their faces were still inevitably stained with muddy water. Wet from the rain.
"...Come and wipe off the rain on your body."
"Thank you, Mrs. Chen."
Aunt Chen, who had entered the back room, came out again and handed two dry towels to the two policemen.
"Officer Cheng, come with me, the body is still the same as before, placed in the coffin under the eaves."
"Uncle Wu, didn't you agree to wait for you to finish your meal?"
Hearing this, the old man shook his head, turned around and walked towards the outside of the hall.
After the two police officers wiped off the rainwater, they thanked the old lady again, and then walked outside the main room, beside the eaves.
……
Then, under the eaves outside the house, voices mixed with the sound of rain clearly rang in my ears.
"Help me with your hands and open this coffin."
"Wow..."
The sound of coffin boards rubbing against the coffin sounded, followed by a moment of silence under the eaves.
"Hey, what a crime."
The old man's voice sounded again,
"...This is the corpse, take a look."
Chapter 205 Drowning
Outside the eaves, the hazy rain and fog mixed with the smoke from cooking in the village filled the air, covering the distant mountains and forests.
The breeze with water vapor blows from time to time, disturbing the still dense and rapid rain.
Under the eaves, two policemen and an old man stood beside the coffin. After the coffin panels were lifted, they looked at the corpse in the coffin, and they fell silent one after another.
The policeman surnamed Cheng took out two pairs of gloves from his pocket, handed a pair to the colleague next to him, and they put them on one after another.
Stretching out his hand, he gently removed the raincoat covering the corpse, and the policeman surnamed Cheng gently turned the corpse,
Soon, he noticed the extra length of hemp rope that bound the corpse's wrist.
Holding the end of the hemp rope, the policeman surnamed Cheng paused slightly.
On the side, another policeman took out a mirrorless camera from his arms and took pictures of the corpse's wrist, nose and mouth.
"...Uncle Wu, thank you for supporting our work. The signs on this corpse are indeed similar to the last corpse. We may need to bring it back to the bureau for some detailed inspection."
The policeman surnamed Cheng put down the end of the hemp rope, turned around, and said politely to the old man.
Hearing this, the old man waved his hand,
"If it's helpful, you can take it back."
Saying that, the old man shook his head,
"...It's just such a big girl, just... doing something wrong."
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While the two policemen were inspecting the body, Lian Ge also stepped out of the main room after imposing an invisibility on himself, and walked under the eaves.
Standing aside, Lian Ge quietly watched the three people beside the coffin.
……
"...By the way, Officer Cheng, did you find out anything about the corpse last time?" The old man stood beside the coffin and said aloud.
Hearing this, the policeman surnamed Cheng paused, then shook his head,
"The last time we brought the corpse back to the Bureau from you, Uncle Wu, we conducted a detailed examination of the corpse. What we can confirm is that the deceased died of forced drowning and struggled violently before death, but..." The policeman surnamed Cheng said, turning his eyes to look at the extra length of hemp rope,
"...At the same time, the corpse is highly corrupted, without any documents on it, and its identity has yet to be confirmed. We visited many villages along the Yellow River, and there is no record of missing persons similar to the deceased.
Moreover, Uncle Wu, you also know that there are too many branches along the Yellow River, and there are more villages and towns passing through the upper reaches. Up to now, we have been visiting and investigating..."
With that said, the policeman surnamed Cheng paused, then turned to look at the old man,
"Uncle Wu, you have been on the Yellow River for so many years, and you have seen more corpses on the Yellow River than us. You are an expert. Can I ask you, from what distance should corpses like this usually come from?"
Hearing the words, the old man bowed his head and nodded, his eyes turned slightly, looking at the rainwater flowing under the eaves, he seemed to be lost in thought,
"...a corpse that rotted like this, if it is normal, it may have floated from the water for a day or two. According to the weather in these two days, it will go far."
Saying that, the old man paused again,
"If, like the corpse last time, such a big rock fell on the rope behind the wrist, then it depends on when she floated up. If she didn't float up until me, then She didn't go very far, the farthest was no more than a hundred miles..."
Hearing this, the police officer surnamed Cheng nodded,
"Thank you, Uncle Wu."
The old man waved his hand upon hearing this,
"Not much help either."
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While talking, another policeman also took some key samples.
"...Uncle Wu, the rain has lightened up a bit, so let's take this corpse back to the bureau first."
The policeman surnamed Cheng glanced at his colleague, then at the rain and fog outside the eaves, and said aloud.
"Let's go after the rain stops. The road is not easy to walk in this weather."
"No, Uncle Wu, the bureau is still waiting, so we won't delay." The policeman surnamed Cheng replied with a smile, and at the same time took out a folded body bag from his arms,
Hearing this, the old man nodded and did not persuade him any more.
The policeman surnamed Cheng put the body bag aside, and together with his colleagues, stretched out his hands from the coffin, carefully lifted the female corpse out, and put it in a dry place under the eaves.
Carefully moving the body into the body bag, the policeman surnamed Cheng stood up again,
"Uncle Wu, can you lend us this stretcher?"
"It's just two wooden sticks. If it's useful, just take it." The old man waved his hand.
"Then thank you, Uncle Wu." After the policeman surnamed Cheng finished speaking, he squatted down again, and put the corpse in the body bag on the simple stretcher again.
Turning around, the two will hang under the eaves, take off the raincoat by the door again, shake off the rain, and put it on again,
"Then Uncle Wu, let's go back to the police station first." The policeman surnamed Cheng squatted down, and together with his colleagues, together with a simple shelf, lifted the female corpse,
"I'll send it to you."
"No, Uncle Wu, you go to dinner, I've delayed you."
As they spoke, the policeman surnamed Cheng and another policeman carried a stretcher and left in the rain, stepping on the ground mixed with mud and water.
Standing under the eaves, the old man watched the two policemen walk away. After a pause, he stretched out his hand to wash off the rainwater flowing down from the eaves, and then stepped into the main room again.
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On the side, under the eaves, looking at the leaving policeman and old man, Lian Ge looked away, moved away, and returned to the dining table before the old man, and at the same time withdrew the invisibility spell.
in the main room,
At the dining table, the old man's grandson and the old lady stopped when they saw the old man walking back to the main room, and turned their eyes to look.
"Are you done?" The old lady got up and said, "The rice in the bowl is cold, let me fill you another bowl."
Hearing this, the old man nodded.
"Where is Police Officer Cheng here today?" The old lady asked while picking up the bowl.
"He came here to bring the corpse back. It's the same as the corpse whose hands were tied some time ago. Today, my grandfather and I fished out another corpse from the river."
Before the old man could answer, the young man rushed to answer the grandson of the old man beside him.
"Is it the body whose hands were tied and a stone was tied under the rope?" The old lady obviously also had some impressions.
"Yes. That's the one." The young man nodded heavily.
The old man also nodded, then turned his head to look at Lian Ge at the dinner table,