Hu Pingtao squatted lower.

The weather is very good today, the sun is shining brightly. The water quality in the pond is good and crystal clear. You can clearly see that it is an old rusty iron nail. Judging from the marks around the nail, it is not newly nailed recently.

After taking a few photos with his mobile phone, Hu Pingtao stood up and asked Zhang Qingwei: "Were the clothes or pants of the deceased that were hung up at that time?"

"Pants." Zhang Qingwei remembered clearly.

"Which specific position?" Hu Pingtao asked: "Please give me a hint."

"Here." Zhang Qingjia turned around, turned his waist, lowered his upper body, turned his right hand behind his back, and pointed up his calf leg, about five centimeters near the bend of the knee: "It's hanging right here, and the pants are all scratched.

.You will know when you go to the health center later."

Hu Pingtao narrowed his eyes slightly.

Why are you in this position?

Zhang Qingwei came closer and said in a low voice: "I find it strange too. If you enter the water at a normal angle, the possibility of getting hung up is very small."

Hu Pingtao smiled: "You are still modest with me, saying that you are not familiar with criminal investigation. Just what you said is already quite professional... Third child, just pretend!"

Zhang Qingwei smiled nonchalantly and said: "After all, I have been trained in the police academy and have taken several criminal investigation classes. But this is all I have in my stomach, and I really can't afford more!"

Hu Pingtao put away his smile and began to analyze: "The angle of entry into the water you mentioned is indeed a problem. The nail is right on the edge of the pool, and the protruding part is very short. If the deceased jumped by himself, there would be no gap between the body and the wall of the pool.

There must be a jump difference. Even if there is resistance after entering the water, the body will still move forward under the action of inertial force. The chance of being hung up by a nail is very small and can almost be ignored."

"You just said that the deceased's pants were "hung" rather than "hanged". This involves a strength issue. If the deceased struggled after falling into the water, the force generated would be enough to tear the cloth. If he was in a

If it's static and the body is floating, it can only be hung."

Zhang Qingwei quickly added: "The institute has done a preliminary autopsy on Yanzai. The alcohol content in his body is very high."

Hu Pingtao pointed to the pond with a serious look on his face: "This pond is not deep. I walked over it just now. The average value is only one meter and two meters. Even a child can stand up at this depth, let alone drowning.

...Of course, if he accidentally fell into the water while drunk, there are two different circumstances. It would be a static drowning, but in this case, the trouser legs were torn by nails, which makes no sense."

Zhang Qingwei's eyes were solemn: "You mean, this is a murder?"

Hu Pingtao squatted down again and made a push forward motion with his hands on the edge of the pool: "Based on what you said and the environment at the scene, I think the deceased was brought here by the murderer in a drunken state.

It's placed horizontally and then pushed down."

Zhang Qingwei was a little confused: "Why?"

"Before, you told me that Yanzai's death time was around one o'clock at night. This is the public pond for the entire village. The water is taken from Longquan on the mountain with bamboo. There is an outlet at the end of the pond over there. When it is full,

Flow down the ditch. Although the water flow is slow, it is living water."

"This pond has a flat bottom, and there is a sloping slope near the tail. This is done to facilitate cleaning of the pond bottom and to facilitate the maintenance of various equipment near the dam. So if you want to drown a person, you can only

Choose both sides of the pond.”

"The murderer probably invited the victim out under some pretext and got him drunk, then helped him to the pond. Throwing him down directly made too much noise and made a loud noise... Have you ever seen the diving event in the Olympics?

In high platform diving, the fewer contact points between the body and the water surface, the smaller the splash will be. 1

Of course, a drunkard couldn't do that, so he could only put him on the ground and push him forward slowly. In this way, when he rolled down the steps, the distance between the deceased's body and the side wall of the pond was very short.

That explains why his trousers were torn by the nails instead of hanging on."

Zhang Qingwei's face was full of admiration: "You are so amazing! I only watched it for a few minutes, and you can tell so much with just one nail. No wonder even Ran Ting said that as long as you are here, you can get to the bottom of this case."

.”

Hu Pingtao waved his hand quickly: "I'm really not that good. I just analyzed it based on the clues you provided and the on-site environment."

"That's enough!" Zhang Qingwei said confidently: "With you here, I won't be afraid... Ping Tao, if you need any help, just ask, I will fully cooperate."

Hu Pingtao nodded and said seriously: "Let's do a survey in the village first! Ask door to door to see who was outside last night and check them one by one."

…

The death of someone in the village is a big deal at any time.

The village chief, Yan Xiang, is a retired veteran who is almost 70 years old. He fought in self-defense and counterattack, and half of the sole of his right foot was blown off by a landmine. He used crutches and led Hu Pingtao and others from house to house in the village.

House-to-house visits.

I visited a dozen houses and found nothing.

Looking at Li Xiang, who was walking at the same speed, Hu Pingtao admired his physical ability and strength, and praised him repeatedly: "Old village chief, your strength is incredible, not many young people can match it!"

Walking with crutches requires far more effort than normal people. Especially the coordination between the hands and the body, which is a habit formed over many years, requires long-term exercise.

Yan Xiang smiled as he walked and said: "I had no choice but to force myself out. When I was just discharged from the army, I received a military disability certificate. When I arrived at the local government, I was assigned to guard the feed mill. At that time, the county still raised cows and dairy cows.

, a large piece of land was designated specifically for planting grass.”

Hu Pingtao smiled and asked: "State-owned ranch?"

Yan Xiang nodded: "Yes, it is state-owned. There was no silage at that time, and it was all hay collected from farmers' homes. It was difficult for me to walk, so I guarded the warehouse and was responsible for distributing fodder every day."

Hu Pingtao asked: "Since it is a state-owned ranch, you should have a staff, right?"

There was an expression of reminiscing about the past on Li Xiang's face: "It is said to be a pasture, but in fact there are only fifty or so cows, and they are all old breeds. Think about it, what can you do with this little milk production? And there were very few people at that time.

The consciousness of drinking milk. Because it is milked directly and then sold, many people don’t like the smell... Anyway, the milk was boiling over and over, and the ranch collapsed within a few years."

Hu Pingtao continued to ask: "What is your current pension?"

"There is no pension!" Yan Xiang sighed: "I was young at that time and didn't know anything. My colleagues in the workplace were very cunning. They bullied me because I was from outside and didn't tell me anything. The workplace

It's all about to be disbanded. No one has the time to go to work. Everyone has to be responsible.

The clock hit the clock, and I was the only one who foolishly counted the inventory every day, and even went to the director's office to ask when the new materials would arrive... When the program was cancelled, I only received a few hundred yuan in severance pay, while those who had known the news for a long time,

Everyone who works will find a good place to go."

Hu Pingtao nodded slightly: "Yes! After all, it is a state-owned ranch with a well-established system."

Yan Xiang waved his hand: "It's all in the past, and I've let it go. Anyway, I have land at home. As long as I have strength and don't be lazy, God will never starve a hard-working person. When I was at the ranch, I had a good relationship with the technician.

, he introduced me to friends from the Agricultural Science Station. After I came back, I switched to growing pineapples and bananas, and I made some money."

Hu Pingtao recalled that Zhang Qingwei had said before that "Mengsuo Village mainly produces rice" and asked with a smile: "I remember that the paddy fields in this area are all planted with rice, but there are no bananas or pineapples?"

"That happened later." Yan Xiang walked with a cane, and the muscles on his arms swelled and bulged, full of strength. As he walked, he explained: "In the early years, bananas and pineapples were really easy to sell. It was really easy to sell them.

There is no need to wait until it is fully mature and still green, someone will come to negotiate the price, and transportation and other services are free. When the harvest is at its best, one year of growing pineapples is worth more than two years of food."

Hu Pingtao understood: "You mean, many people followed the trend and grew fruits?"

"Yes!" Yan Xiang said with a wry smile: "No one knew what market rules were before. They only knew that growing bananas and pineapples could make money, so we all went together. Mengsuo is a very remote place, but it is in a good location and is a dam.

You can grow anything you grow...but think about it, how many villages are there in the entire Banna? There are also specially designated fruit growing areas. Pineapples and bananas are easy to grow and grow well. The more you harvest in a year, the cheaper the price will be.

.”

"Later, it was the idea of ​​the superiors to plant rice instead. The rice was made from improved seeds. There are people in the state who harvest it. All you have to do is cultivate according to their technical requirements."

Hu Pingtao asked: "How will the income be after this year?"

Yan Xiang thought for a while: "I can only say that it's not bad. Anyway, if you don't get rich, you won't get much poorer if you are poor. Of course, in addition to having a full stomach, you can also save tens of thousands of dollars throughout the year."

Hu Pingtao couldn't help but smile and said: "Old village chief, your demands are too high. According to national standards, you are not only getting rid of poverty, but also becoming well-off."

Yan Xiang also laughed: "You have to have some ideas. After you have five hundred, you want one thousand. After you have one thousand, you want ten thousand. After you have ten thousand, you still want more... It's normal."

…

Yanhan is the twenty-ninth villager household visited.

He is in his forties, and his elderly mother and wife have been taking care of the housework all year round. He has a son and a daughter, the daughter is very young, less than three years old.

Like the previous interviewees, Yanhan knew nothing about what happened last night.

"After dinner yesterday, I went to Yan Wenlong's house at the east end of the village to play cards. I didn't leave until after two o'clock at night."

Dai men do not do housework, and almost all the work is done by women. There are two situations for "playing cards". One is the health bureau, which is a normal card game that does not involve gambling. Most of the time, "double pick" is played.

", those who are more sophisticated will play bridge.

The other is gambling, mainly "Golden Flower". Influenced by foreign movies and TV shows, especially Hong Kong movies, I started playing "stud" and later also played Texas Hold'em.

Yan Wenlong is a relatively wealthy man in the village, and he often invites friends to play cards at home. During the previous investigation, someone mentioned that Yan Wenlong had an appointment with someone to play cards last night. Yan Han mentioned a few people who were present at the time, and

All previous data can be matched.

Zhang Qingwei asked seriously while taking notes: "Who was with you when you came out of Yan Wenlong's house?"

Yanhan named three names, all of which were subjects he had visited before, proving that he was not lying.

Zhang Qingwei asked a few more programmed questions. After getting answers from Yan Han, he turned to Hu Pingtao who was sitting next to him, his eyes and expression a little tired.

Still nothing.

Just when they were about to get up and leave, a short figure ran up the stairs.

It was a young monk wearing a yellow robe.

Yanhan smiled and introduced: "This is my son, Yanpa."

Although the country has a policy of nine-year compulsory education, for ethnic minorities, especially the Dai people, they are more accustomed to sending boys to local Buddhist temples to become monks.
To be continued...