The Seventh Story: The Black-Haired Pig Murder Case in the Well of Fools

  Wang Yong exclaimed: "Didn't we come because of a fool's death?"

  Yes, listening to him say that made the hairs on my back stand up. The man had already climbed onto the windshield and was sticking his face against the glass as if he wanted to squeeze in through it, revealing a mouthful of black teeth that seemed to be grinning at us menacingly. Was this some kind of zombie? A viral infection? A reanimated corpse? Had the apocalypse finally arrived?...

  I opened the autopsy box and tightly grasped the dissecting knife...

  Fortunately, we didn't have much time to scare ourselves. Soon there were voices outside and someone shone a flashlight on the person. Someone shouted: "Second fool! Come down!"

  The local police have arrived.

  A chubby forensic doctor knocked on the car window: "Sorry! Sorry! This is our village's Second Fool, scaring all of you leaders! We told him to wait at home, but somehow he ran out."

  Who says a village can only have one fool?

  The driver slammed the thermos cup shut!

  I breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "Really gave me a fright, it's okay, he is the deceased's... relative?"

  "Right! The one who died was his brother, our village's big fool."

  My eyes lit up: "Wasn't the deceased suffering from the same illness as him?"

  "What a fool? Yes, yes, ah, two brothers with similar miserable lives."

  My eyes sparkled with electricity: "Where is the corpse? Where is the corpse? Take me to the autopsy!" I've never dissected a malnourished idiot's corpse with an eating disorder before!

  Plump forensic medicine self-introduction surname Pang, looks plump, known as "Little Fatty".

  Xiao Pang looked at me strangely, then ignored me and shook hands with Wang Yong who was getting off the car, nodding and bowing, "We didn't treat you well and let our leader be startled."

  Wang Yong's face turned awkward, and after coughing several times, he said loudly: "Hehe, we're not afraid of heaven or earth, but you scared my sister to death." He suddenly turned his head and looked at me very seriously, saying: "From now on, no matter what happens, I will definitely protect you! Believe me!"

  "A man's face is hard to hurt, I glanced at the hand that had been grasping my arm: 'Then, please let go of your hand.'"

  Unfortunately, the day before we arrived, a child in the village was kidnapped and most of the police force was busy with that case within 24 hours. The ones who received us were Little Fatty forensic doctor and a young policeman.

  They thought the hospitality was not good and kept apologizing, but I think it's already very good. We're not here to invest, we don't need a warm welcome. I'm here for an autopsy, give me the body and I'll be most satisfied.

  I won't be of much help in kidnapping, but a very special corpse is mine, and I'm really looking forward to it.

  I originally wanted to autopsy overnight, but Xiao Pang forensic doctor insisted on treating us to the local famous black pork, and in the middle of the night, he dragged us to eat a whole roasted pig (the taste was still good), and said that after the case is settled, we will have another meal together.

  The next day, they treated us to a sumptuous black pork feast, insisting that we try the local specialties of braised vermicelli with black pork, sour soup black pork and steamed black pork with preserved mustard greens.

  I kept urging them to autopsy the body, but they kept saying there was no rush, and instead said things like "Let's wait until our leader has eaten well and drunk well! Come taste our village's black-haired pig, this pig isn't something we're bragging about..." Then they went on and on boasting about their village's black-haired pig, which was imported from Holland, raised in the wild, naturally pollution-free, and sold for 100 yuan per kilogram.

  After lunch, Dr. Xiao Pang finally led us in front of a freezer.

  The freezer in front of me is obviously not long enough to hold the corpse, and it's strange that the corpse has been folded into what shape!! My eyes are shining...

  All I saw was Little Fatty and Xiaomin Police taking out a body bag from the ice cabinet, opening it up... what's presented in front of me is... I looked left and right, these aren't human skeletons, I looked up and down, how could they all be pig skeletons?!

  I don't understand: "Is Big Fool a pig?"

  "Not, not," Little Fatty forensic doctor waved his hand repeatedly. "Big Dumb is Second Dumb's older brother, Big Dumb died unexpectedly and doesn't need to be investigated, but our village's black pig was brutally murdered! This isn't the first one! We can't find out who did it, let's ask Leader Wang for help."

  At this moment, all my confusion has turned into one word:

  "Huh??"

  "The leader doesn't know, it's really not what we want," said Little Fatty, the forensic doctor. "The black pigs in our village were introduced from Holland at a high price, and it cost over 300,000 yuan to introduce them. After bringing them back, they are raised in the wild on the mountain, and every day, people have to search all over the mountain to count them, vaccinate each one... Each one is precious! They're relying on growing fat enough to sell for money, not just our village, but also several nearby villages that have become rich because of this. But some heartless person has been sneaking into the mountain every few months to kill and steal one, and if we can't find out who it is, everyone in the village will go crazy..."

  "Huh?"

  I'm getting more and more confused, Wang Yong pulled me to one side and whispered: "Don't you understand? The pigs in the village were killed, using the excuse of a fool's death to get the authorities to send forensic doctors to examine the pigs. You can autopsy the pig corpses for them, each kilogram can be sold for over 100 yuan, and a whole pig is worth around 20,000 yuan. Even if you were sold by the kilogram, you wouldn't be worth that much money."

  I stared at the forensic doctor Xiao Pang with a puzzled expression: "Since it was a pig that was killed, why didn't you just report that a pig was killed? Why did you deceive people into thinking someone had died abnormally?"

  "Didn't cheat, didn't cheat! Wouldn't dare to cheat the provincial leaders even if I had a hundred guts! Big Fool really drowned in the well, but we can't have forensic doctors sent over just because pigs were killed!"

  Wang Yong sneered at me with a wicked smile: "Let's take a look, after all, you're one of them."

  I... I'm going to throw up...

  Rural people look silly, but they are actually very cunning. This matter is related to the "Black Pig Murder Case". They couldn't find out who did it, and coincidentally, there was an abnormal death in the village, so they reported it and requested forensic support.

  After the forensic doctor arrived, they cooked and ate the good pork and vermicelli. After eating the pork and vermicelli, they asked the forensic doctor to autopsy the pig!

  It was their deliberate plan all along!

  I said why does it feel strange always talking about pigs!

  This matter may cause some forensic doctors to turn against me. It doesn't sound good for a provincial department's forensic doctor to "examine pigs". I'm not particularly disgusted, after all it's just a corpse, as long as it's a corpse, I won't be picky.

  I just couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time, saying: "Since I've come to examine the corpse of a big fool, I must do an autopsy. Unnatural death must be determined by a forensic doctor to determine the cause of death, this is the regulation... Let's investigate the pig too."

  Xiao Pang forensic doctor asked Wang Yong: "Director Wang, you see..."

  Wang Yong waved his hand with a commanding tone: "This small matter can be handled by Little Qin, you all cooperate with her!"

  The pig's corpse was probably killed about a day ago and was gnawed to pieces by small wild beasts in the mountains, with one large pig leg also gone.

  The pig's ears are gone, its eyes and nose are still there, a piece of intact skin is hanging from one side of its belly, a large piece of rib bone is missing, and the tendon meat on its legs has been gnawed away. It seems that the little wild beasts in the mountains are also very cunning, only gnawing at the good meat.

  The fallen rib bones and the cross-section of the pig's leg are smooth, indicating that they were cut off.

  "Look here, leader Wang, this is where the weasel bit him; but here, on his belly, this is where he was hacked with a knife. Especially the fracture surface of the neck vertebrae, which were severed all at once, the cut marks are long, and the bones show signs of being severed instantly. I've checked a lot of data and finally confirmed that the murder weapon had a blade and was extremely sharp, definitely very heavy, possibly over 5 kg and more than 30 cm in length, otherwise it wouldn't have caused such injuries. We conclude that this wound was absolutely caused by a slaughter knife!"

  What he said was a pig-killing knife, actually a cleaver for chopping bones, which can chop both large and small bones. It's usually used to sell pork, fan-shaped, with an arc length of about 30 cm on the blade, and the thickest part of the back is about 2-3 cm thick. The ones made in rural areas are really solid, weighing at least 3 or 4 kilograms, which can't be lifted without effort.

  One of the villagers who was hosting us continued: "But we've gathered all the axes from several villages, and after a lot of effort, nothing has been found!"

  "Could it be that a half-grown kid is making money by playing games?" I pondered. Killing a pig but only cutting off a few pieces of meat, this really seems like something a half-grown kid who lacks 10 yuan to play all night would do.

  "Looked! Looked! These two years, every few months a pig goes missing, every few months a pig goes missing, not a single clue! We've investigated all the villages within ten miles, checked all the internet cafes and game rooms in town four or five times a month, even checked the pants of half-grown kids in the village. You can forget about motives and murder weapons, if we could find them, we would have found them already. Whatever you can think of, whatever you can't think of, we've investigated. It's all useless! (dialect, meaning 'no use')!"

  The little police officer got excited and his dialect came out, Little Fatty the forensic doctor pulled him several times but he didn't stop.

  Xiao Pang forensic doctor also sighed: "This case has been investigated for more than two years..."

  I interrupted Xiao Pang's forensic examination of the bone fracture and said, "This doesn't feel right, this fracture looks familiar. Let's go back to that farmhouse restaurant where we had lunch."

  Xiao Pang forensic took out a magnifying glass and looked at the rib fracture surface I had just seen for over a minute, shaking his head in confusion: "Familiar? Return to Nongjiale?" He asked Wang Yong, "Director Wang, what medicine is she selling in her gourd?"

  Actually, I'm also not very confident.