Section 28

  Thirty

  Many people often think that the downstream of this river is very deep, but there are exceptions, such as this secluded river, where no children come to swim, and not many women come to wash clothes on the bluestone by the riverbank. The bustling ones are the city rivers and moats, while this poor little river is sometimes mistaken for a stream in summer and often dries up. It's just that very few people have tried it.

  The fisherman suddenly poked his head out and shouted with a mouthful of white air, "My god, there's a dead body down there."

  Everyone burst into discussion, and Captain Ma was overjoyed. His grandmother's, it was really worth the effort to find something in a place where iron shoes had been worn out. Meanwhile, he ordered someone to spread oilcloth and wait for the body to be transported up.

  "The smelly old woman threw the iron claw over to me." The fisherman shouted while floating on the water surface towards a big-bellied woman on the shore.

  The so-called iron claw is a tool used for dredging, with an adjustable switch to adjust the size. It's similar to those modern arcade machines that grab stuffed animals, where once you've grabbed something, it can be fixed in place and then lifted up, but at the time, people used their own strength to pull it ashore.

  With everyone's expectations, he continued to dig down.

  Groping, the icy river water froze the body a bit stiff, but before getting in the water, the whole body had been smeared with white wine, although it was very cheap white wine.

  "Alright, pull outwards!" The fisherman shouted loudly, the helpers on the shore pulled hard on the ropes, shouting "One, two, three!"

  The three words had just been shouted when the corpse was dragged up by iron claws.

  The clothes were torn open, with a stone tied to the body, laid on an oilcloth, and the flesh was immediately scattered. Red worms crawled quickly on the belly, and the internal organs had been soaked white and washed away by the water. The large and small intestines were pulled out for several meters, and the surface of the water also floated with a few roots. The face was a blurred white paste, and upon closer inspection, there was a faint blue color. There was also a shrimp arched its back to absorb on the rotten flesh. Some timid ones closed their eyes and dared not look, fearing that they would vomit if they looked. Most of them were the wives of these helpers, who came to watch the excitement.

  The fisherman felt a wave of nausea, he had salvaged corpses before, but never seen a face rotting like this, if it wasn't for the tattered clothes on her body, you couldn't even tell she was a woman.

  Green cotton-padded jacket.

  Vivian Chow

  Who could have laid such a heavy hand and killed him, but also made the corpse look like this.

  The captain of the horse team took a deep breath, shook his hand, lit a pipe and calmed down. He wrapped the oilcloth around him and asked several assistants to carry it back for autopsy. The fisherman followed behind him asking for money, he replied impatiently, "Go to the police station, wait until the case is solved."

  The fisherman's lips moved slightly, and his face was also pale with cold. The woman covered him with a quilt and asked, "When the case is solved, we'll come to collect the money."

  The young lady's assistant raised her voice and waved her hand, "Hurry up, the bodies have all been found, can't you give us the money? Come back after the festival to collect it, you poor devils."

  The captain of the horse team turned his head and said to Niangniangqiang, "You, come with me to school for a trip."

  It seems that the clue provided by that letter is indeed accurate, and it's a good omen. Captain Ma thought to himself with satisfaction. When they arrived at the school gate, Zhang Xiaoping led them to the girls' dormitory, taking out keys one by one to open each room, searching each dormitory without finding anything unusual. When they reached Shen Shuxian's dormitory door, Zhang Xiaoping suddenly asked, "Captain Ma, have you eaten? Do you want to take a break? I'll go get something to eat and we can continue the search in the afternoon?"

  Ma Quezhang rubbed his belly, indeed he was hungry, but thinking of the corpse from earlier, it seemed like he was full again. For now, he still hadn't told Zhou Huijuan's family, fearing they would go crazy if they saw it.

  "Never mind, investigating the case is urgent, we can eat afterwards, open the door."

  Zhang Xiaoping's heart skipped a beat, hoping that these girls wouldn't leave any clues behind, otherwise, if they followed the trail, it might involve many people, or even the entire school.

  Worries sometimes become reality.

  The girl found a book, "Alarm Bell", while rummaging through Kang Yu's drawer. It was actually borrowed by Shen Shuxian from Ning Xingguo and left in Kang Yu's closet when she was packing up her things before leaving school, thinking she could pick it up later after the new semester started. The book itself wasn't anything special, but the girl had also read it and been moved to indignation by it, so it seemed that the owner of this closet shared similar interests with her.

  Captain Ma misunderstood his meaning, he now trusted this little detective and thought there was a new discovery, so he hurried over to follow him.

  He found something important in the corner of the wardrobe with three words "Kang Xiao Xiao". A fiber from a scarf, about two fingers wide, the pattern on this scarf was all too familiar to Ma Que Long, it was the fiber that tied Zhou Huijuan's stone.

  Zhang Xiaoping's face suddenly turned pale. Why was he so careless? But he couldn't show it, and pretended to be calm, saying "Captain Ma, what's the matter?"

  The girl took an empty glass paper bag, tied it up, and ignored Zhang Xiaoping's question. She pointed to the three words written on the wardrobe with white chalk and said, "Give me this student's address immediately."