Detective: Open your eyes, I am handcuffed in the interrogation room

The two came to the door of another house. This house looked a bit old and did not look like a place where young people lived.

There are Spring Festival couplets on the door, which is very new.

Chen Yi knocked on the door. After knocking for a while, there was no movement. I don't know whether it was because he didn't get up or because no one was there.

After pondering for a moment, he tried to push it gently and found that the door was not locked when he pushed it open.

"Hello, is there anyone there?" Chen Yi called.

"Hello, is there anyone?" He increased his volume.

Qin Fei said: "Did you go out early in the morning?"

Chen Yi: "Go in and take a look."

Rural areas are not so particular, and they are not labeled as breaking into private houses. When the two came to the yard, they happened to see an old man sitting at the door rolling a cigarette, very serious.

He didn't seem to hear the knock on the door just now, and he didn't even notice that Chen Yi and Qin Fei were approaching.

"uncle."

"uncle?"

"uncle!!"

Chen Yi found that the old man was deaf and shouted out.

Only then did the old man react. He slowly raised his head and looked at the two young men who suddenly appeared in front of him with some confusion.

"Whose dolls are you from? I don't even know them." The old man's voice was hoarse and weathered, and his cloudy eyes were full of stories.

There is a saying on the Internet that says well: Sitting among the ruins, rolling cigarettes for entertainment, everything you look at is memories, and everything your heart is looking for is the past.

This is the state of the left-behind elderly.

For them, the remaining days pass by in seconds, and the only fun is recalling their youth.

"Uncle! Slap me!"

Chen Yi's voice was still loud. As he spoke, he handed over a cigarette and placed the entire pack of cigarettes on the ground next to Maza.

The old man was having such a hard time rolling cigarettes that he couldn't stand it anymore.

"Heh...hehe."

The old man smiled happily, put the cigarette in his mouth, lit it and started smoking.

"It smells so good. I haven't smoked such a good cigarette in a long time."

The old man's consciousness is still very clear, and he expresses his inner thoughts just like a normal person.

This is easy to handle, we can have a good chat.

Chen Yi looked around and saw no other stools, so he simply sat down on the spot and said, "Uncle! Are you an old smoker?"

Old man: "No, I've been smoking for seventy years."

"Seven..." Chen Yi was surprised and looked at the other person, "Uncle! May you live a long life!"

The old man did not speak, but expressed two numbers with gestures, which were nine and one.

He was ninety-one years old.

It is a bit unscientific to be ninety-one years old and only have deafness, and have been smoking for seventy years.

Of course, this is survivorship bias. Smoking is definitely harmful to health. Elderly people may be healthier if they don’t smoke.

"Ninety-one years old! You are in good health!" Chen Yidao.

The old man smiled and waved his hands: "I can't do it anymore. I can't hear anymore, and I can't walk anymore. I sit down all the time except when I'm cooking and going to the toilet."

Chen Yi: "Where are your children and grandchildren?"

The old man: "They are busy in the city, but they often come back to see me. Last time they said they would take them to the city. I have never been to a big city. No, no, no, it's better to go to the village."

Chen Yi smiled: "Uncle! You are very happy! You have many children and grandchildren! And they are all so filial!"

The old man is in a good mood, and it can be seen that he is very satisfied with the current situation.

Chen Yi got to the point: "Uncle! Let me ask you something! Do you remember the mute woman in the village?"

Old man: "Remember, how can I forget this? I don't have Alzheimer's disease yet."

Chen Yi: "When did she come to the village?"

Old man: "Twenty-three years ago."

Chen Yi: "You remember it so clearly!"

Old man: "No, I have a very good memory. Young man, why are you asking her?"

Chen Yi: "Look into the case!"

The old man was surprised: "Police security? What happened?"

Chen Yi: "It's not a big problem! Don't worry! Master! Has anything big happened to the mute in the past twenty-three years?"

Hearing this, the old man opened his squinted glasses a little and shook his hands: "I don't know!"

Chen Yi: "..."

He looked at the ninety-one-year-old man sitting in front of him suspiciously, feeling that the other person had also lied.

Ninety-one years old with so many thoughts? Might as well be confused.

"Uncle! Can you tell the truth to me?"

Old man: "What I told is the truth, young man, why don't you ask others, my mind is unclear, my memory is very poor, I have forgotten many things."

Chen Yi: "???"

No, you just said that your memory is very good, so you changed it too quickly.

"Uncle! Let me ask something else! How old was the mute when he came to the village?"

The old man's memory recovered: "About ten years old."

Chen Yi: "Have you been bullied for so many years?"

The old man's memory was gone again: "I don't remember."

Chen Yi stroked his forehead. This old man definitely knew a lot of things, but he answered selectively.

Although I didn't get the answer, I was basically sure that there was something going on with the mute girl that no one wanted to talk about.

If you are ten years old...

"Is she a child bride?" Chen Yi asked.

Old man: "No, she came here as a wanderer, and no one knows her origins."

Chen Yi: "Has she always been stupid?"

Old man: "She has always been stupid. We all regard her as a god-given village guardian."

Village guard?

Chen Yi has heard this statement before.

Village guards are a special group in folklore, usually referring to those who are foolish or somewhat crazy in the countryside.

Although he is stupid, he is kind-hearted. He will take the initiative to help the village when there is any public or private matter, and only wants to get a bite of food in return.

Going deeper, the villagers can be said to be superstitious or traditional. The villagers believe that the villagers have done many bad things in their previous lives and need to be punished in this life.

"Do you know the village guard, young man?" the old man asked proactively.

Chen Yi nodded: "I know! It's just a common name among the people!"

The old man smiled, with wrinkles on his face: "We of our generation think that the village guards are ascetics chosen by the City God to eliminate disasters and prevent disasters for the village."

City God?

City God's Temple?

Chen Yi thought thoughtfully. According to this theory, the mute girl was being used. The old people in the village provided her with good food and drink in order to make her ward off disasters for the village.

The behavior is good, but the starting point is very selfish.

Of course Chen Yi would not say these words. He was a ninety-year-old man, and his thoughts were deeply ingrained and could not be changed with just one or two sentences. If he said the wrong thing, there was no guarantee that the other party would not beat him out with a cane.

What the police fear most is that it is very difficult to handle cases involving people over the age of seventy.

Chen Yi communicated with the old man for a long time and gained something, but not much.

The two left the house and closed the door behind them.

Chen Yi didn't plan to go to the next one. If he did, the result would be the same. Everything he needed to know was already known. Asking questions that outsiders shouldn't know was useless.

Even a ninety-year-old man knows how to hide it, and it is difficult to imagine what happened to the mute girl.

"Qin Fei, do you hear something is wrong?"

Standing at the door, Chen Yi lit a cigarette and started chatting with Qin Fei. He was not afraid that the old man inside the door would hear him because the other party's hearing loss was quite serious.

Qin Fei was silent for a while, knowing that Chen Yi was helping him grow up. After thinking about it, he said, "They all lied, about the mute girl."

Chen Yi nodded: "Well, this matter can be confirmed twice. The whole village will give the same answer. How about a deeper analysis?"

Qin Fei shook his head.

Chen Yi smoked a cigarette and said: "The risks are shared equally."

These four words made Qin Fei understand immediately: "Yes, the risks are equally shared. There must be a stake in this, otherwise they would not keep silent, that is... what did the whole village do to the mute girl?"

Chen Yi: "It doesn't have to be the whole village. There are many possibilities. The top priority is to determine the identity of the deceased."

Qin Fei: "Lin Chen should be able to restore the skull."

Chen Yi: "I hope so. There is a certain error in the skull reconstruction. This is different from the portrait. We need the assistance of relevant clues. Do you understand what I mean?"

Qin Fei tried hard to keep up with Chen Yi's thoughts, and suddenly had an idea: "The mute girl has been in Donghua Village for twenty years and has never left. Assuming that her goal is clear, then the person she wants to kill is most likely a nearby villager or Out-of-towners who often appear can visit after getting the restored portrait.”

Chen Yi smiled: "You are good at what you do. You are about to leave the army."

Qin Fei was happy, Chen Yi's affirmation was extremely important to him.

The word "master" is right. Although he did not become a disciple, Chen Yi has been fulfilling the role of a master, turning him from a little-known policeman at the police station into an elite backbone on the front line of the city bureau.

This was the man who changed his life.

The two stopped visiting and came to the village to wait. Occasionally they would ask a few villagers passing by, but they all got the same answer.

The consistent results should have confirmed that the confession was correct, but since there were doubts about the villagers, every sentence needed to be re-implemented. Since the mute woman could not communicate with others normally, it was very difficult.

More than an hour later, Zhuo Yun returned with all the police officers to report the results of the visit.

The clues basically overlapped. Chen Yi focused on asking about the mute girl's past. Zhuo Yun said that several people reacted incorrectly and were suspected of concealing and lying.

Now it is certain that there is definitely a secret in the mute woman.

"Team Chen, what should we do with the suspect?" Zhuo Yun asked.

Chen Yi: "Take it back to the city bureau, pay attention to the methods. If it doesn't work... take it away by force."

Zhuo Yun: "Yes!"

The process was not smooth. The mute woman resisted very strongly and screamed non-stop, attracting many villagers to watch.

Everyone had different expressions, the young were confused, the older frowned and remained silent, but no one stopped or asked.

The police car left Donghua Village.

When they arrived at the city bureau, the mute girl was taken to the detention room. Chen Yilai bought a lunch box on the way there.

The mute girl's mood stabilized instantly after seeing the food, and she wolfed down her food without stopping. Chen Yi was really worried that something was wrong with her, and ordered the two policewomen to keep an eye on her.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the test results of the hammer came out. There were blood stains on it. The blood came from the deceased. The hammer handle was full of the mute woman's fingerprints.

The footprints left in the temple are also consistent with those of the mute woman.

There are eyewitnesses, a murder weapon, and footprints. The evidence is conclusive, and it can be determined that the mute woman killed the victim.

Now the question arises, what is the motive.

If the mute girl doesn't tell her about this, she can only confirm the identity of the victim and conduct a detailed investigation.

"Take her to take a shower and change clothes, and then go to the hospital for a comprehensive physical examination."

“Remember, it must be comprehensive, from the inside out.”

Chen Yi issued the order. He wanted to know what happened to the mute girl and what the villagers wanted to hide.

The marks on the body cannot be faked, and both external and internal injuries can be detected.

After that, Chen Yi went to He Xin, who said that no missing persons who met the requirements had been found yet. He went to Lin Chen, who was relying on modern technology to restore the skull, and then manually intervened based on Chai Wenfang's vague description. Seek the highest accuracy.

The investigation of the case is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Chen Yi came to the forensic room. The corpse was the most important clue in the murder case and could not be ignored.