when the moon whispers

Chapter 454: Accomplice - Entering the Mountain (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
Ninety-two Journeys into the Mountains (Part 2)
"…Is this a water storage pit or a manure pit? Ugh…Why are you holding the evidence bag so far away from me? Are you waiting for me to shoot?!"

Huang Xingjun stood with his legs apart and his back hunched at the edge of a mud puddle that had been rotting for who knows how many days. He held the old brick-shaped mobile phone that was half embedded in the pit and shook it hard to get rid of the black spots of water stuck on it that were not sure whether it was mud or feces. He raised his head and glared at the young man who was standing far away and was disgusted by the strange smell that accumulated in the puddle. Before he could finish his hoarse words of admonition, he took a breath of the stench, which made him choke and cough for a long time with tears streaming down his face. He blinked his eyes for a few seconds, waved his hand to avoid the young policeman who was holding his breath and rushing forward, snatched the evidence bag from his hand and stuffed the phone in. He turned around and carried the bag around the mud puddle, then stood in a position upwind and glanced in the direction of the ambulance sirens.

"The one who rushed over to follow the car... That's Zhou You, right? Where did this girl come from? She ran really fast... What did the doctor say? How is Old Chen?"

Huang Xingjun waved at Lin Yu, who had just been talking to two sweaty village party secretaries for a long time. He tilted his head over his shoulder and watched the ambulance, which had been splashed with dust on the muddy dirt road, turn onto the main road. He wiped his runny nose with the back of his hand and said, "You spent so much time talking to two village party secretaries? These two village cadres look more stupid than the two of us. Are you sure? Hey, go around it a little bit - I see there are footprints. Will it be Fatty or Xiao Luo coming over later?"

"Zhou You rushed to Kangguan Avenue as soon as she heard about her master's letter. She said she had already gone to Song Yike's house. She noticed some noises in Fangwai Village and Fangnei Village, so she waited not far away. She rushed here when she saw the ambulance coming in. She knew more about her master's physical condition. I heard about it. It was mainly due to the recurrence of an old illness, and an accidental injury caused by anger. Now she has a fever and can't wake up. We can find out the specific situation after we go to the hospital. With Zhou You following us, we can put aside the worries. That disciple is better than those stupid guys under our command."

Lin Yu lowered his eyes when he heard that. He half-crouched with a strong flashlight in hand, and looked around the area Huang Xingjun pointed at. "... The two village secretaries were scared. They thought it was just a small matter like road construction, but they didn't expect it to be related to kidnapping - especially the kidnapped person was a policeman. From what they said, there are not many people in the two villages who are willing to gather in that small workshop to trade things. It is reasonable that the uncles and aunts who are honestly farming and living frugally should not cause trouble by not helping the dying and handing a knife to the murderer - the one who will come here to support later is probably Fatty. Forensic Doctor Xiao Luo went to Jiang Mo's side."

Lin Yu paused as he scanned the area with his flashlight, took out his cell phone to confirm the message, turned around and followed a few conspicuous and recent footprints, slowly stood up on his knees, and looked in the direction of a group of people who were summoned by the two village party secretaries for questioning.

"You really are from the village..."

"You've seen the things piled up in that shabby workshop, right? And the footprints all over the floor around Chen Rui's door." Huang Xingjun shrugged his shoulders and shook his head helplessly. "Who's an honest farmer scratching the anti-theft nets and switches on the railway track? The railway has been missing switches for half a year and they haven't found them all. It turns out that they are all hidden here waiting to be sold as scrap metal - maybe a few hundred yuan is enough to buy them off. They probably don't care about the people hiding them since they're not dead. They thought they could just help by making a phone call... Can those two junior cadres do it?"

"It's definitely not possible to interrogate them, but with such a big scene, it will take too long to wait for Fatty to come and collect evidence for examination. I have heard roughly the situation in the village. If an outsider is lurking nearby, no matter how careless he is, it is not impossible that people from both villages have not seen him. But if he is from this village, it is unlikely that he would run away for a few hundred dollars. At this point, he must be feeling guilty. We can only see if he can stop himself from deceiving others..."

Lin Yu raised his eyebrows, stretched his arm to pick up the evidence bag in Huang Xingjun's hand, and waved it twice at the two village party secretaries who turned around. Before the trick was over, the old man pushing the cart who was quietly strolling on the edge of the crowd dragged his hoe and walked away slowly with his hands behind his back. Huang Xingjun raised his eyebrows high, let out a long "whoosh", tilted his head to signal the two confused young men beside him to hurry up and follow. After lowering his eyes and seeing the two clear pairs of eyes, he raised his foot in exasperation and kicked the man behind the old man who couldn't hide and ran a few steps. Then, the young men hurriedly snatched the old man's hoe, and dragged him back to a place not far from him and Lin Yu.

The old man struggled and defended himself for a long time, and his sincerity made the two village party secretaries hesitated, wondering whether the two policemen had made a mistake in judgment. They stood beside the old man pushing the cart in confusion.

However, before the cart pusher could gain the upper hand, the uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters who were still watching the fun behind him began to talk about it. "Hey, I saw him go to the workshop twice yesterday, right?! He went there once when he was tidying up the land during the day, and again at midnight, saying he was going to pee, but he didn't come back for a long time?!"

"Didn't you go there today?"

"That's right. It wasn't long before the police came! He even went a long way to the east end of the puddle, saying he wanted to ask Lao He for a cigarette."

"..."

Lin Yu folded his arms and didn't rush to join in the conversation. However, the village party secretary who was trying to make up a few words next to him blushed and looked at the cart-pushing uncle with an angry look, "Uncle Cao? No... How can you do anything?! Are you short of the three or two hundred cigarettes? What if something goes wrong?"

"I'm not... I didn't—"

Uncle Cao's eyebrows fell, and he innocently swung the handcuffs wrapped in clothes vigorously. Before he could finish his words, Huang Xingjun grabbed his arm in front of his eyes, pinched the black and gray mud on his cuffs and gently twisted it, then put it to his nose and sniffed it: "Uncle, don't waste time. You can't avoid it when we compare fingerprints later. You might as well hurry up and try to get some leniency."

"I really didn't... I didn't take any money from him." Uncle Cao grumbled reluctantly and sighed, "I really didn't know he asked me to help keep an eye on that man and he was a policeman... or to help transfer the phone calls... How could I dare... He just gave me 300 yuan for a pack of cigarettes - the cigarettes were hidden in that scattered haystack."

Lin Yu frowned as he looked at Uncle Cao's face, which showed he refused to repent and only accepted his bad luck. He sighed, fished out a photo of security guard Xiao Song from his pocket, handed it over, and smacked his tongue in a deep voice.

"Identify him, is he the one who asked you for help?"

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"At this moment, I feel like a god without any worries."