Return to 1983 and be a detective

Soon they came to the first factory, which was the Longshui Banlu Jingtang Cannery.

This half-way Jingtang is a place name. In the past, it was named after a rural place without much culture. Some landmark buildings were named after it.

There is a small temple in this place called Midway Sutra Hall, where people chant sutras, so it is called Changchang. It is also on a main road from Longshui to Songnan, so it is called Halfway Chang.

This place is full of red soil mountains, which are suitable for growing fruits. At first, some people planted pear trees here, and later others planted many orange trees.In this era, preservation technology and transportation capacity were both big problems, so the local people built a cannery here according to local conditions.Can those pears and oranges that are not easy to preserve.

It just so happens that supplies are not abundant these days. When visiting patients and giving gifts, it is very respectable to carry a can.

So the business of this cannery was quite popular at first.

Until one day, when a cannery employee was labeling a batch of canned mandarin oranges, he accidentally discovered a black thing in one of the cans, as if something the size of a table tennis ball was floating in the water. It's quite scary to go up there.

There was a foreign object in the can, which was a big deal. She quickly took down the can and looked at it carefully. She didn't know the result, and it scared her to death.

The black sphere contained in this can is nothing else but an eyeball.

The eyeball was floating in the bottle. As she turned the bottle, the eyeball floated up and down, as if looking at the woman.

The woman was so frightened that she fainted and dropped the bottles on the ground. The sound of the bottles attracted other colleagues.

Everyone sent her to the health center and also handed over the eyeballs in the bottle. Later, people in the factory checked the cans one by one and found a lot of human bodies in the bottle. organize.

Finally, they fished out a human body that had been boiled to the point of falling off the bones from the orange boiling pond. It was impossible to tell who the human body was. Anyway, the pond must have been unusable because it had cooked dead people.

Moreover, all the workers who saw the corpse were so frightened that several of them were sick from fear. Among them, the female worker who saw the eyes for the first time even became a little mentally disturbed.

Such a big thing was suppressed by the former director of the cannery.

People who can become the directors of such enterprises these days are usually ruthless people. He may not know the law, but his prestige must be great enough to suppress many things.

This led to the fact that it was not until Tingting went to the cannery to investigate that she learned that a murder had occurred in the factory.

Even if it's not a murder, it's still a human life.

Especially the pond for boiling oranges is the key to this cannery. This pond is abandoned and I want to build another one. Not to mention that the cost is quite high. If word of this gets out, the business of the cannery will definitely be will be greatly affected.

However, in Xu Shan's view, whether the cannery's business is good or not is secondary. The important thing is that he and his eight disciples finally have something to do.

This time, he did not divide the eight people into groups, but brought eight people together to the cannery where the accident occurred.After entering the cannery, they went directly to the pool where the dead people were found to check.

This pool is very large, in fact, it is just a big pot. Put all the fruits to be processed into it and boil it. After it is cooked, add sugar water and put it into cans.

This has the advantage that it is easier to store, but it also has a disadvantage. In fact, this processing method destroys many nutrients.

But these days, it is difficult for ordinary people to even eat enough, and no one deliberately pursues eating well.

I heard from a worker who was guarding the pond that the human bones were quietly buried on the mountain behind the factory by the original factory director. Xu Shan asked Bao Laohei and Ma Qing to dig them out, and they dug them up very quickly. to human bones.It's just that you wouldn't know it if you didn't dig. After digging a sack, a total of two sets of human bones were dug out where the corpses were buried.

These broken bones were put together and identified by Sister Lin, a professional forensic doctor from the Criminal Investigation Building, who found that the two human bones belonged to a man and a woman respectively.The man is about 1.6 meters tall and the woman is about 1.6 meters tall. The man has an old trauma on one leg, and the woman has a history of childbirth.Other than that, there are no other clues.

After all, these bones had been boiled.

Many things were destroyed.In addition, someone deliberately cleaned the meat on these bones, and the remaining bones did not have many biological characteristics. It was almost impossible to find the murderer based on just these few biological characteristics.

The biggest problem right now is to determine the source of the corpse.

However, there is no way to confirm the source of the corpse.

We can only mobilize the masses to carry out investigation and platoon work.

Fortunately, there were a lot of people. With so many people going down to search, news soon came out.

But this is not good news, but because the fruit production in this cannery is seasonal, there are generally no permanent regular workers, and they only recruit temporary workers, and the nature of these temporary workers is quite complicated. , people from nearby villages will come here to work and get paid every day. Anyway, the work of labeling, bottling, and moving bottles does not actually require much skills.

There are very few formal workers. They are all managers or relatives of the former factory director. These people are naturally opposed to these temporary workers and do not know much about them. They are even the last to know that someone has died in the factory.

I learned from the villagers in the following villages that due to the economic revitalization in recent years, many men have gone out to work. After all, in a place like Longshui, where seven mountains and two waters divide the land, you really have to dig in the ground to eat. It is quite difficult to support a family.

In the past, when everyone was living in a big pot, everyone was poor. As the saying goes, we don’t suffer from poverty but from inequality, but everyone had no idea of ​​going out to work.But it’s different now. It’s like two families, the Dong family and the Xi family. They were originally two families with similar conditions. However, the Xi family went out to work and made a lot of money in less than half a year. When they returned home to build a lot of construction projects, they actually had to turn over their heads. house.

This makes it difficult for the owner to sit still, so he will naturally think of going out to work and earning money to go home and build a house.

These days, there are no such advanced communication equipment. Many people go out to work and it will take at least a year and a half to come back. There are not even letters, and their families don't know much about their situation.

Situations like this are not uncommon in the villages below, so just counting the people who go out to work is a very difficult task.

Fortunately, the forensic doctor Lin was able to detect some characteristics. Xu Shan asked the new eight people to go and find out if there were any men with crutches in the village, or if there were any women who had given birth to children and went out to work.

Although these two conditions seem quite broad, there are not many jobs outside these days that are suitable for women.

Especially rural women who have given birth to children generally have only one fate, and that is to work around the stove.

Every day, in addition to serving men and children, I also serve pigs and chickens. There is never a moment to relax all day long.Therefore, women who go out to work should be relatively rare, unless they are temporary workers like the cannery.

As for men with crutches, in the past, due to the limitations of medical conditions, there were no sugar pills developed by the old man, and polio had not been eliminated, so almost many villages had crutches. In addition, some were disabled due to injuries. There are also many disabled people in rural areas.In a small village like Xujiacun, there are three or four kidnappers, as well as mutes and deaf people.

Therefore, Xu Shan used these two criteria to narrow the scope of the survey. His intention was good, but the results he received were quite unsatisfactory.

After several days of investigation, there were basically no useful clues. Instead, they found out a few cases of poaching and poaching in the villages below. These cases were too small to attract any interest from Xu Shan, so they were left to the local township police station to solve on their own. , he and Shinpachi were concentrating on handling major cases.