Chapter 3 Chapter 2 Human Flesh Buns

The next morning, the four members of the special case team put on casual clothes and went to the village market to investigate unannounced. The country market is a sandy road, parallel to the national road, and an asphalt road runs through it vertically.Just like the scene picture drawn by Bao Zhan, if the horizontal line of "Feng" is removed, it will be the traffic routes around the crime scene. Most of the markets are street stalls, usually there are only hawkers selling vegetables, fruits and meat. Urban girls love to go shopping, and rural women love to go to the market. Su Mei pushed Professor Liang in the wheelchair, feeling fresh everywhere. There was a mountain wheeler on the side of the road, and the carriage was full of bras and trousers. Several women gathered around to choose. pieces, ten yuan each.

Hualong said: It's so cheap, do you want Xiaomei to buy one? Su Mei rolled her eyes at Hualong. Bao Zhan said: If we don't buy anything, it doesn't look like we are going to the market. Su Mei said: Xiaobao, you are going to die. Professor Liang said: Don't make trouble, let's go eat something. At the intersection of the market, there is a simple shed built with bamboo poles and raincloths. On the bamboo poles, there are a few words written in paint: Baozi, Hu spicy soup.There is some burnt briquette on the ground next to the shed. The door is a concrete platform built of bricks. A wooden box is nailed to the bricks. Inside is an electric switch. A wire is connected from the switch to the pole outside the shed.

The bun shop has closed down, and there are a few bicycles in the shed. Opposite the bun shop is a small restaurant selling haggis soup, which is also a simple rain cloth shed. Four people from the special case team walked in and sat down at a small square table. Su Mei felt unhygienic and lied that she was not hungry. Professor Liang I ordered three bowls of haggis soup and a few pancakes. Professor Liang pointed to the shed and said: Why is the steamed stuffed bun shop on the opposite side closed? The owner of the small restaurant said: You are foreigners, right? The Baozi shop used to sell steamed buns, but it was said that they sold steamed buns made of human flesh. If no one bought them, they quit.

Professor Liang concealed his identity and claimed to be from Taiwan. He came to the mainland to look for relatives. He ordered another plate of lamb head meat and a plate of marinated dried beans. He asked the boss to accompany him for a glass of wine and talk about human meat buns.Because it was morning, the store was not busy and there were no diners, the owner of the restaurant wiped his hands with his apron, sat down at the small table, and began to talk. The owners of the steamed stuffed bun shop are a husband and wife, they are more diligent. Before dawn, the market was empty, so they got up to make the stove and noodles, and first boil a pot of hot and spicy soup.On that day, someone threw human flesh at the market. An old man selling onions first spotted it and thought it was pork that had fallen on the ground.The owner of the steamed stuffed bun shop also picked up a few pieces, thinking they were pork, washed them, threw them into a meat grinder, put onion and ginger, and minced them with pork to make stuffed buns.

After the police arrived, the couple did not dare to talk about it, fearing that the police would confiscate their buns. They claimed to the police who came to investigate that they knew nothing and saw nothing.However, someone ate a small clump of curly hair in the bun. It didn't look like hair or bristles, and it should come from some part of the human body.From that day on, the story of selling human flesh buns gradually spread.This rural market is located in a remote place, and the hawkers and market participants are all nearby villagers, and few outsiders come here.After everyone knew about it, no one dared to eat their buns anymore.

The four members of the special investigation team pretended to be shocked. It is difficult to distinguish the true from the false of such market rumors. The "ten real cases of human flesh buns" circulated on the Internet have also been proved to be hearsay and fabricated. The wire in Baozipu caught Bao Zhan's attention, and he asked: Is there a freezer in Baozipu? The owner of the small restaurant said: There is no freezer, I have never seen it anyway. Hualong said: What are you doing with the wire? The owner of the small restaurant said: He has a meat grinder and a blower, which blows the stove.Besides, he got up early, at four or five o'clock, and had to turn on the lights to work.

Professor Liang asked: Who is that old onion seller you mentioned? Can you call him? I'll treat him to a glass of wine. The owner of the small restaurant said: I will call for you when the old man sells the green onions and closes the stall. Something seemed to have happened in the market, some people looked up at the threshing field by the side of the road, and some children watching the fun ran forward laughingly, Professor Liang signaled Bao Zhan and Su Mei to go and see what was going on. It turned out that on the wheat threshing field next to the market, there was a young man and a woman on a blind date. The young man was smoking a cigarette to hide his inner tension. The individual asked and answered, and the people around the market looked at them, and several children burst out laughing from time to time.

Su Mei looked at it for a while, then she pointed at Bao Zhan and said, "Xiao Bao, come here, let's go on a blind date too." Su Mei imitated the movements and expressions of the girl on a blind date, also twirled the ground with her toes, and said shyly, do you think I'm right? Bao Zhan was a little dull, and said: Ah, sister Xiaomei, what are you doing. Su Mei asked: How many people are there in your family, how many mu of land per person, and how many cows in the field? Bao Zhan understood, and said embarrassingly: Sister Xiaomei, please don't joke. Su Mei pinched Bao Zhan's ear violently, slapped him on the head again, and said: You are so dumb!

Su Mei and Bao Zhan returned to the small restaurant, the old onion seller had closed his stall, and was sitting at the table, talking with Professor Liang and Hualong about their discovery of human flesh while drinking.He added oil and vinegar to make his image glorious and lofty, bragging that the director of the township police station and the county police chief had consulted him on the case, and even said that the public security experts sent by the central government had invited him to dinner. Hualong smiled and said: This, I absolutely believe it. Professor Liang lowered his voice and said: Have you heard what happened to the steamed stuffed bun seller?

The old onion seller whispered: Fake, my colleagues are enemies, they are all made up by the haggis soup seller, and deliberately drove the steamed stuffed bun seller away. After returning to the township police station, Professor Liang arranged for work tasks. The chief of the Public Security Bureau first gave a mobilization speech, asking all the police officers involved in the war to put the interests of the people first, to forge ahead despite difficulties, to overcome all difficulties, and to go all out to solve the case of freezing and dismembering corpses. Su Mei led a team of policewomen to check the missing women in the county, find out the source of the corpse, and confirm the identity of the deceased as soon as possible.

The criminal police brigade searched for all witnesses, especially the owner and couple of the steamed stuffed bun shop in the market, and made detailed notes again. Several witnesses said the body parts were found "cold", suggesting that the place where the bodies were frozen was not far from the bazaar.With the rural market as the center, the surrounding villages are designated as the key areas. Director Dai and the security brigade are responsible for registering and investigating every household with a freezer. The cold storage, meat joint factory, and ice cream factory in the county have refrigeration facilities. The location should also be mooted. Hualong and Bao Zhan each set up a monitoring team, set up two secret observation points at the entrance and exit of the market, and observed and waited for the market 24 hours a day.Although the method of sitting on the sidelines and waiting for rabbits is stupid, if the murderer throws the body again, he may be caught in one fell swoop. Monitoring and waiting for criminal suspects is one of the important tasks of criminal investigation, and the criminal police dubbed this kind of work "squatting in the pit". However, most squat pits are as uncomfortable as constipation. In Shaanxi, there was a wanted criminal who had been on the run for several years. Several policemen took turns squatting in a pigsty. They ate and lived with the pigs. After two weeks, they finally found the wanted criminal. Several rape and robbery cases occurred in a certain place in Heilongjiang. The gangsters followed women who went to the bathroom at night and committed crimes with knives. Two policemen squatted in the men's bathroom for a whole month and finally captured her. Hualong's observation point is set in a well-built house on the side of the market road, and Bao Zhan hides in the haystack of the threshing field.The time of the first two dumpings of the corpses was at night, so they had to keep their spirits up all night, staring at the market without blinking. Professor Liang assigned forensic doctor Qin Ming a very challenging task. Professor Liang said: You are not the only forensic doctor in the Public Security Bureau of your county. They will do the simple work of finding out the age, height, and weight of the deceased.I give you a difficult task, but I don't know if you can do it. Forensic doctor Qin Ming asked curiously: What task? Professor Liang said: Let me see your skills first. At that time, the head of the Public Security Bureau was accompanying Professor Liang for dinner. There were some leftover chicken bones on the table and some chicken in the soup bowl. Professor Liang asked forensic doctor Qin Ming to reassemble the chicken bones into a chicken skeleton.Forensic doctor Qin Ming was busy for two hours, tired and sweating profusely. Using toothpicks, chopsticks, and even needles and threads, he finally assembled the chicken and the leftover chicken bones into a whole chicken. The police chief applauded, but Professor Liang shook his head, very dissatisfied. Forensic doctor Qin Ming said: I understand, you want me to put the body parts back together. Professor Liang said: Yes, but you can't damage the body parts. Toothpicks, chopsticks, needles and threads must not be used. After repeated research, the forensic doctor Qin Ming formulated a plan for collages. He sorted the 357 corpses found so far, stitched them together according to the structure of the human body, and then glued them together using quick-freezing technology. Finally, he found a wooden bracket. , carefully erected the human bone puzzle. This is a standing half corpse, which looks very terrifying. It has no head, palms and soles, and white bone stubbles are exposed at the severed wrists. The arms are also spliced ​​from fragmented corpses. The butt looks like half a watermelon is buckled on it, and the saw cuts on the chest and abdomen are even more shocking. The first time the corpse was sawed, the corpse was kneeling; the second time the corpse was sawed, the corpse was lying flat. The murderer sawed diagonally from the shoulders to the perineum, and then sawed the half body without a butt into pieces.In the middle, the corpse may have been thawed, so the postures of the two sawing the corpse were different. The saw marks on the back were criss-crossed, like a chessboard. Turning to the front, there was a pothole in the lower abdomen of the corpse, and it was obvious that a piece of flesh was missing. Professor Liang asked: Where did this piece of meat go?