Chapter 35 Chapter 29 Bottled Eyeballs

The vicious dog bared its teeth and let out a low, threatening growl. It brought back a human bone from the outside, with half of its muddy heel still attached.Bao Zhan bravely went to pick up the bones, the vicious dog rushed over and bit Bao Zhan's trousers, turning his head and biting non-stop, Su Mei screamed in fright, Hualong looked at the right time, kicked him in the air, On the dog's head, the dog barked in pain and ran out of the courtyard gate. Su Mei asked with concern: Baozi, are you okay, do you want to get an injection? Bao Zhan was not injured, but his trouser leg was torn by the dog, so he waved his hand and said no.

Everyone checked the human bones on the ground together. The grumpy old man Li calmed down and muttered: Unlucky, the dead bones were dug out from which grave by the dog's paw. Cremation has been practiced in the local area for many years. When someone dies, the ashes are usually placed in the coffin, and the remains are rarely buried in the ground.The human bones brought back by the dog were still connected to the undecomposed flesh, which indicated that the date of death was not too long. Combined with a series of recent disappearances of teenagers, the two are likely to be related. Hualong and others took old man Li back to the police station. Several police officers searched old man Li's house, but found nothing.

The old man Li has a stubborn temper. Police officer Mao used lynching during the interrogation. The old man suddenly suffered a stroke. Hualong asked Officer Mao: Why did you beat him, the old man is so old. Officer Mao handed over a cigarette fawningly, and said: Even if he is not a criminal suspect, his dog still bit Comrade Bao Zhan. Old man Li couldn't tell where his dog got the human bones from, and the police found nothing suspicious in his home.The old man confessed that he "changed sons and ate" with his neighbor Zhang Tian several decades ago. At the end, he burst into tears.

Because of hunger, their children starved to death, and they couldn't bear to eat their own children, so they exchanged food with each other. Professor Liang ordered a DNA comparison between the human bones and the family members of the missing person, and the case soon had a major breakthrough. The identification results showed that the bone brought back by Old Man Li's dog came from the missing person Wei Guan! The vicious dog has disappeared since Hualong kicked it. Professor Liang mobilized the police force to search for the burial site in the surrounding area with Zhanghe Village as the center.

Nearly a hundred public security officers conducted extensive searches in the fields and by the river under the bridge, and four members of the special case team also joined the team.Professor Liang instructed: Everyone should focus on looking for recent landfill traces, and also look for places that have been dug by dogs, and there may be corpses buried underneath. Both Hualong and Su Mei were holding sticks, chatting and laughing while searching in the vegetable field. Hualong said: There are snakes! Su Mei said: "What's the matter? I hate it. You're scaring people, but I'm holding a weapon."

Hualong said: Xiao Mian, I won’t cry if I beat you up, you still wear high heels and walk in the vegetable field, you are not afraid of spraining your feet. Su Mei said: I didn't have time to change my shoes. Besides, high-heeled shoes can test the hardness of the soil layer, which is convenient for finding the place of burial. Hualong said: Xiaomei, you stepped on shit. Su Mei looked down, there was a piece of black shit on the heel of her shoe, she poked it with a stick in disgust.The two of them suddenly thought that if they stepped on dog feces, it meant that there were dogs infested. Old man Li's dog might be the bones dug out from near the vegetable field.They reported to Professor Liang, and Bao Zhan brought a few police officers over.

Bao Zhan was the first to find the place where the corpse was buried. He was standing in front of a tall weed by the side of the vegetable field. It is very rare to grow such a tall grass. The grass is as tall as a person. The leaves are as big as a cattail fan and the roots are thick. There are some similar weeds growing around, but they are very low, not as good as This grass is tall and scary.He looked at the ground and said: dig it. This grass grows on the corpse, its fibrous roots go in from the eye sockets and come out from the mouth, its lateral roots go through the ribs and go deep into the ground, and the white roots are densely wrapped around a corpse.

The dead body becomes the nutrient of this grass, so it grows thick and tall. It took a long time for several police officers to finally dig out the bones together with the grass above them. People found that there was a pair of blue long johns under the bones. Professor Liang felt that this pair of long johns looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before, but he couldn't remember it at the moment. Officer Mao asked: Whose family owns the vegetable field? The village director said: This is the vegetable field of Zhang Youmin in the village. Professor Liang remembered that he had chatted with several old people at the entrance of Zhanghe Village, and one of them was Zhang Youmin.At that time, Zhang Youmin was wearing a long-sleeved top with a pattern of pigeons flying around the tree on the front chest.The jacket and long johns found under the bones were the same color, both blue.

Officer Mao asked: How old is Zhang Youmin? The village director thought for a while and said: He was born in 1955 and is almost 60 years old. Officer Mao said: Could someone else have buried the body by the side of the vegetable field?He is almost 60 years old, is he capable of killing young people? According to the village director, Zhang Youmin had killed people when he was young. In 1978, Zhang Youmin worked in the Wayao factory and played very well with a teenage child from another village. The child lived with him at home.He killed someone in the middle of the night, broke his limbs, and threw the body on the river bank.Zhang Youmin was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve. He served 19 years in prison and was released back to the village in 1997. It is still unclear what his motive for the murder was.

Zhang Youmin had no children, and his parents died when he was in prison. When he returned to the village, his old house had collapsed long ago, so he built a house out of wood to live in. Professor Liang immediately made three deployments: 1. Zhang Youmin is suspected of committing a crime, and the plainclothes criminal police secretly monitored Zhang Youmin. 2. Confirm the identity of the bones unearthed in the vegetable field as soon as possible, and let the family members of the missing person identify the blue long johns. 3. Expand the scope of the search and find other burial sites.

The unearthed corpses have been bone-battered, and some family members can no longer remember what the children were wearing when they disappeared because of the long time lapse. The father of the missing boy Yang Zhe provided a clue to the special case team, which is also related to Zhang Youmin. Yang Zhe's father was the first to suspect Zhang Youmin. In 2007, his son disappeared from Zhang Youmin's hut.He has been searching hard for three years, but his son's whereabouts are still unknown. One night in December 2010, when a boy came home from his study the next night, Zhang Youmin strangled the boy's neck with a belt from behind.The boy broke free and fought with Zhang Youmin. Another child heard the sound and ran out to help. The two pushed Zhang Youmin to the ground together.After calling the police, Zhang Youmin argued that he was playing with the child, and he was not dealt with since then.When Yang Zhe's father heard about it, he went to the public security organ again to report the situation, and the answer he got was: this old man is a bit crazy and drunk. This clue attracted the attention of the special case team, and Professor Liang immediately sent Bao Zhan, Hua Long, and Su Mei to Zhang Youmin's house to investigate.At the same time, the police found some corpses, clothing and belongings of several victims in a dry well and a circular puddle near Zhanghe Village. The case was extremely shocking, and local villagers ran out of their homes to watch. In order to prevent the masses from taking pictures, the police had to pull up a cordon and cover the excavation site with cloth. Zhang Youmin was not in the village, but was playing chess in the gazebo of the cultural park in the town. The plainclothes criminal police in charge of monitoring noticed that his expression was abnormal. Zhang Youmin's house is a black shed built of broken wood, covered with asbestos tiles, leaking everywhere, and hanging with a few rags, which contrasts sharply with the beautiful buildings of the surrounding neighbors. A police car stopped in front of the door, and the village director, Hua Long, Bao Zhan, and Su Mei got out of the car. Everyone had been busy all day, and they didn't have time to eat. The case was urgent, so the village director had no choice but to buy a few cups of hot soybean milk. Bao Zhan said: "There is no one at home, we don't have a search warrant, how do we get in?" Hualong kicked open the crumbling wooden door and said: Why are there so many things. Su Mei said to the village director: You can be a witness. There is a cart in the yard, the earthy ground is full of potholes, an adobe hut is the kitchen, the mud skin is peeling off on the ground, there is an empty kennel between the kitchen and the main room, and there are some beer bottles in the corner of the courtyard wall behind the kennel , Some bottles have accumulated water and green moss.Through the cracks in the wall, one can see a plank bed in the main room. The quilt on it is dirty and unrecognizable in color, and some tattered clothes are also piled on the bed. The most valuable thing in the room is a dilapidated TV set. Everyone first went to the kitchen to check. The light inside was very dark and the smell was unpleasant. Su Mei frowned and put the soya-bean milk cup on the wooden chopping board. The village director said that Zhang Youmin often pushed a cart from the old house to the vegetable field. He usually likes to raise puppies. Sometimes in the middle of the night, he would turn up the volume of the TV very loudly, and the sound of the dog barking would spread. , maybe trying to cover up something.Some villagers found that one night, Zhang Youmin was sitting quietly at the entrance of the village, not saying a word, looking creepy. Su Mei picked up the soy milk and continued to drink it. She felt that the taste was a bit weird. As she drank it, the straw became blocked. When she opened the lid of the cup, she saw a round object inserted into the straw, which was a little shriveled by her. up. Hualong said: Strange, why do you have glutinous rice balls in your soybean milk? Su Mei glanced at it, and vomited with a wow, that round thing was a human eyeball! After searching, there was a wine jar on the window sill in the kitchen. Goji berries, small yellow snakes and grass ginseng were soaked in wine, and a dozen eyeballs were found in the jar.When Su Mei put down the soy milk, the lid of the cup slipped off, so she held the lid and the straw in her hands and turned it around. It might be that the mouse caught the eyeballs in the wine jar on the beam, and it just happened to fall into the soy milk cup... In these years, no one has ever been to Zhang Youmin's house, and the villagers have no contact with him. The eye-catching jar of medicinal wine was placed on the window sill majesticly, and a pickled and dried human leg was hung on the wall of the cupboard.