◎Chapter 19    Tao Zhiyao

Almost every city has had horror cases such as dismemberment, but it is just unknown. The famous human skin cases in history are the human skin diary made by the Countess of France, which she used to record her longing for her husband; and the Spanish killer Grenóye killed many girls and made perfume with the wonderful body fragrance of female skin.

The special case team's office is located in Taoyuan Village Primary School.

The leaders of the county party committee and the public security bureau went to Taoyuan Village Primary School in person. They apologized to the special case team, and there were shortcomings in their honest work and conservative thinking. The special case team suggested releasing the villagers arrested for petitions and ease the relationship between cadres and the masses, so as to facilitate the work. The local government accepted the suggestion and drew elite troops from the public security bureau to fully assist the special case team in solving the case.

Professor Liang immediately divided the work. Su Mei led the forensic doctor to conduct an autopsy on the deceased. Bao Zhan and technicians conducted an investigation on the crime scene. Hualong went to the county TV station to retrieve the shooting scene the day before the incident. After the news from all parties were summarized, the special case team held a press conference at Taoyuan Village Primary School.

Su Mei projected the photo on the classroom wall. She sat behind her, shaking the crank handle of an old viewing machine, and playing the microfilm one by one.

Terrifying scenes flashed across the walls, Professor Liang shouted to stop, pointing at the image of the human fur man and said, "This is a common method of intimidation in war."

The publicity officer asked: "Common, is it normal to peel?

Professor Liang said: "Of course, the skinder can no longer be called the murderer or criminal now. It is a war for him!"

The propaganda officer said: "Oh, he probably has been a soldier."

Professor Liang enlarged the image of the fatal wound in the throat. He explained: "The weapon that formed this kind of wound was initially judged as a military dagger. The weapon has all the characteristics of a military dagger. It cuts the trachea with one knife, and starts fiercely. When peeling, calmly and calmly cuts the deceased's back, cuts a crack down from the back of the spine to the tail vertebra, then peels the skin on both sides like a butterfly spreads its wings, and finally puts straw on it. The psychological quality of the crime is surprising, and he may have experienced war!"

Bao Zhan reported the results of the on-site investigation. The two dead, Section Chief Yang and the developer were killed by the same person. The developer died in the luxurious suite of Taohua Villa, which was also the site of peeling and making scarecrows. A headless body was left in the room, and the upper body was peeled. Because the villa had just been completed, there was no surveillance, and there was not enough safety measures. The windows were not even installed with guardrails. There were not many clues obtained on the scene. Some blue and white porcelain fragments were scattered in the room. The developer had a hobby of collecting antiques. However, no fingerprints of the criminal were found on the porcelain fragments, and the criminal might be wearing gloves...

Professor Liang added: "There is another possibility that the criminal forces the developer to break his beloved antique and then kill it."

Bao Zhan continued: "According to the investigation of the township police station, Section Chief Yang played chess with the criminal when he was killed. The photos on the scene showed that the criminal was not proficient in chess skills and had no rules, but he beat Section Chief Yang. This shows that the criminal wanted to mentally attack and destroy the dead."

Professor Liang said: "Let the deceased experience the pain of losing his beloved thing, which is also the pain of the criminal."

Bao Zhan said: "Yes, the criminal killed Section Chief Yang in Lanketing, then dragged him to Taoyuan Village Primary School, hung him on a tree, peeled him and made a fur man, and placed him in Taoyuan Garden on the roadside. The purpose of this is to deter the demolition personnel. The criminal should be related to the demolition in Taoyuan Village."

The propaganda officer asked: "Later, how could Chief Yang's body be hung onto the tree at the entrance of the village?"

Professor Liang said: "This question will probably be known soon."

Hualong accompanied Professor Liang to the village to investigate and was warmly welcomed by the villagers. The villagers killed chickens and cooked wine and rushed to invite each other. In their eyes, Hualong, who prevented the demolition, was like a hero. Professor Liang couldn't help but think of the Wuling man in "The Book of Peach Blossoms". He happened to enter the Peach Blossomsland, and the villagers were so enthusiastic, "Everyone went to their homes again, and they all had wine and food."

During the visit, the villagers knew nothing about the corpses on the tree at the entrance of the village, and they claimed that they had not seen suspicious figures enter and exit the village.

The white-haired old woman, the family of the anti-Japanese martyrs, was highly respected in the village. She put a pig's head with rosin and stewed it on a low heat, then took out the Pu'er tea bricks that had been stored for twenty years and entertained Professor Hualong and Liang. Pu'er tea is known as "an antique that can be drunk" and has huge collection value and value-added space. Pu'er tea cakes that had been stored for fifty years are even more expensive than a Honda sedan.

The old woman said in a scattered manner that the Hong Kong developer offered a high price to buy her tea, but she didn't sell it. She originally wanted to keep it for her grandson to use it when she married a wife, but now there is a distinguished guest at home and she wants to take it out and treat it well.

Hualong couldn't taste any smell, Professor Liang tasted a sip of tea, which was rich in fragrance and refreshing.

Professor Liang was interested in the process of boiling rosin and kept interrogating. The old woman said that the rosin was given to her by the forest ranger, and the forest ranger often came to the village to sell Chinese herbs and wild game.

Professor Liang asked: "Is the forest ranger very tall, a foreigner?"

The old woman replied, "Yes, tall and strong, has been a soldier and a firefighter. He loves to drink, and even curse people when he gets drunk."

After returning, Professor Liang checked the scene taken by the TV station the day before the incident. The man who made rosin was wearing a hat and a mask on the picture. He said to the camera, "If anyone demolished my house, I will peel him." Su Mei went to the county armed forces department to retrieve the retirement and transfer documents of the local forest ranger. After identification by the leaders of the Forestry Bureau, he finally confirmed that the person wearing a mask and a hat on the camera was a local forest ranger.

This person is a major suspect in the crime, which is also in line with the description of the criminal by the special case team.

The forest ranger is the guardian of the forest. His work is mainly to prevent fire and theft, patrol the mountain routinely, and also to take on some measurement work. Many forest rangers cannot withstand the loneliness and loneliness on the mountain. The Forestry Bureau will change the forest ranger every few years, and the latest one is a retired firefighter.

Although it was late, the case was serious and there was no delay. The guide of Hualong and Forestry Bureau led a team of officers and soldiers to the mountain to search for forest rangers. There were many work points for forest rangers in the forest, and forest rangers usually lived here. Not far from the hillside behind Taoyuan Village Primary School, there was an old house work point made of stone and yellow mud. Soon, the police surrounded the house. From the window lattice, you could see potatoes piled up in the corner of the wall, and oil tanks were placed on the window sill. There was no electricity, and an oil lamp was on, and there was an empty wine bottle next to it. The forest ranger was lying on the earthen kang and sleeping soundly.

When Hualong kicked in the door and arrested the forest ranger, the sleepy man saw the police in front of him and cursed: "It's what I did. I've been waiting for you for a long time, you beasts."

This sentence made the police officers present excited. The forest ranger did not tell themselves. It seemed that the police had arrested the right person. However, the interrogation result was disappointing. The forest ranger confessed to the fact that he hung the body onto the tree at the entrance of the village, but claimed that he did not kill. However, he did not hide his idea of ​​wanting to kill and expressed his respect to the murderer.

In his words: "Become a scarecrow and be creative. If I know who did it, I will invite him to drink."

The special case team and the county public security bureau interrogated twice, and the forest ranger's confessions were consistent, which did not look like a lie.

According to the forest ranger, he was very disgusted with his work. He fished for three days and dried the net for two days. He stayed at his relative's house in the county town for a few days. In the morning, he returned to the work site on the mountain and found a headless corpse on the ground. He recognized it from his clothes that Chief Yang of the Tourism Bureau. Out of a venting anger, he pulled the body with a rope. While the thick fog in the morning had not dissipated, he hung the body on the willow tree at the entrance of Taoyuan Village, and then returned to the work site to drink and sleep.

Professor Liang asked: "Why do you tell the TV reporter that you will peel anyone who wants to demolish your house?"

Hualong also asked, "Yes, you are a foreigner, and the demolition has nothing to do with you. Why do you hate it so much?"

The ranger's handcuffed one of his hands on the table legs, and he patted his chest with the other hand and said, "I can't stand it, I'm sorry."

The forest ranger asked Hualong: "If someone demolishes your house and you don't agree, they insist on demolishing it, what will you do?"

Hualong was speechless. After the interrogation, it was already 8 o'clock in the evening. The township chief asked Teacher Qin to buy a lot of wine and food to entertain the special case team and the police officers. The township chief advised Hualong to drink with shamelessness, and Teacher Qin was also accompanying him. However, everyone was depressed and the case was originally bright and bright, but it was deadlocked again.

Bao Zhan has always suspected Teacher Qin, but on the night when Section Chief Yang was killed, Teacher Qin was at the city railway station; on the day the developer was killed, Teacher Qin and the special case team were at Taoyuan Village Primary School. In the two murder cases, Teacher Qin had evidence that he was not at the scene. Bao Zhan had to exclude Teacher Qin from the suspect, but he always felt something was wrong, but he had no idea.

Bao Zhan asked Hualong for a cigarette, walked to the yard, and thought while smoking.

The bright moon was in the sky, the fragrance of osmanthus flowers was floating, and a sound of flute came from a distance. Su Mei pushed Professor Liang on the wheelchair to the yard.

Bao Zhan listened to the sound of the flute and suddenly said, "Why is this song so familiar?"

Su Mei said: "What I'm hyping is Liang Zhu."

Professor Liang nodded and said, "That's right, Teacher Qin also played this song last night, which sounded very sad."

The three of them discussed with their eyes, and Su Mei went to the car to take out two pillows. Last night, Professor Liang and Su Mei were sleeping in the car, and Teacher Qin took two pillows from their room for them. Su Mei wanted to go to Teacher Qin's dormitory to quietly check it out.

Teacher Qin’s door was not locked. It was a patched wooden door, which had been in the wind and rain for many years.
Chapter completed!