Chapter 49: The God of Agriculture Eats His Son
Chapter 49: The God of Agriculture Eats His Son
Du Yu took off his police hat and said in a sad and sympathetic tone, "Unfortunately, Miss Zou, your husband is confirmed dead. His body was found last night."
Zou Yi felt like the sky was falling, his legs went weak and he almost collapsed to the ground.
Lin Sheng was quick-witted and took a step forward to help Zou Yi, even faster than Du Yu.
"You...you are here..."
Zou Yi's voice trembled slightly. Under the huge impact, he couldn't even utter a clear sentence.
"We are here to inform you of this news." Du Yu continued, "Also, because the missing case has now become a homicide case, I have some questions for you... Please understand."
Zou Yi nodded, closed her eyes, tears streaming down her eyes: "Come in and tell me, don't tell my child yet. When can I see my husband?"
Du Yu said, "If you want, you can do it in the afternoon. But... I think it's better for you not to see me."
He Yunke's body was dug out from the concrete base by him and his men on a rainy night. The tragic scene made even a criminal policeman like him frown, let alone the family member who was now in an extremely unstable mood.
Moreover, He Yunke's body parts were dissected throughout the night. Dissection is not a surgery. In order to find out the cause of death, forensic doctors will perform many irreversible operations on the body, such as boiling the bones, testing the internal organs and grinding the wounds into thin slices.
Zou Yi also realized that her husband's body might be unsightly, but she still insisted on collecting his body. Du Yu promised to take her to the Forensic Department to claim the body after taking the statement.
"You first went to the police station to report your husband missing at the end of June last year. Did you have an argument with your husband before he disappeared?"
"No."
Zou Yi shook her head firmly: "I never quarrel with my husband."
Zhou Shi watched Zou Yi's expression from the side, as if he was thinking about something.
Du Yu asked again: "Did he behave in any abnormal way before he disappeared?"
He sat on the sofa and tapped the notepad in his hand.
In fact, these problems should have been recorded by the police who received the call when Zou Yi reported his disappearance last year, but they did not take it seriously at the time and did not regard the disappearance as a homicide case. This minor case would not be handled by the serious crime team, so he was completely unaware of it.
Du Yu secretly decided in his heart that after learning from this incident, he must strengthen the internal training of Jiangcheng Public Security Bureau and take future missing cases seriously.
If He Yunke had been found earlier, perhaps he could have been saved.
Zou Yi thought about it carefully, and then said, "Yes, my husband was very anxious a few days before he disappeared."
Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard this, and Du Yu asked hurriedly: "What are the specific performances?"
Zou Yi was a little shy and hesitated, and finally whispered: "When we did that at night, he got tired after a while and couldn't do it."
Everyone present had seen strong storms and waves before, except the young man Lin Sheng, who turned his head away and pretended not to hear anything.
Zou Yi continued to rack her brains to recall her husband's abnormal behavior before he disappeared.
"And during that time, he often smoked on the balcony, smoking for half an hour at a time. He also had night sweats at night. When I touched his back, he was covered in sweat. He wouldn't say anything when I asked him anything. He would stop eating after just a few bites. He would always go home early at night. He used to work overtime until very late."
A lot was said in one breath. Anyone with a discerning eye could hear from the details how meticulous Zou Yi, a full-time housewife, is. She observes everything from her appetite to her husband's behavior.
Zhou Shi and Xu Yiqing walked around the living room, investigating more openly than last time when they had only looked around secretly.
She walked to the most conspicuous cabinet and reached out to pick up the graduation certificate framed with glass. There were some small cracks on it. "Ms. Zou, what are the bumps on these things?"
Zou Yi looked over, thought for a moment and said, "Ah, it was when I was living in another province that there was a small earthquake and everything fell down."
Zhou Shi nodded, then smiled and said, "Capital University School of Arts Performance Department? So we are alumni."
She pointed at herself and Xu Yiqing next to her: "School of Psychology, School of Medicine." Zou Yi's eyes dimmed: "My husband and I went to the same high school. My husband liked art very much back then, but his family didn't support him studying art. In the end, he was admitted to the medical major of another university in the capital. Occasionally, he would come to visit me, and I would take him to visit our art academy. But...but now he..."
When talking about sad things, Zou Yi couldn't control his emotions. Du Yu hurriedly comforted him and signaled Xu Yiqing with his eyes to check what he wanted to check.
Du Yu said, "Ms. Zou, for the sake of investigating the case, we need to investigate your home... Please understand."
Zou Yi said, "Please go ahead. I understand."
Xu Yiqing said: "Please forgive me for making the house dirty."
Zou Yi just nodded and said nothing more.
So he took Lin Sheng and Zhou Shi to the bedroom of He Yunke and his wife, leaving Du Yu alone to continue taking Zou Yi's statement.
Lin Sheng asked: "Brother Xu, is it really necessary to use luminol? Even if there is a very small probability that Zou Yi killed He Yunke in this room, I will definitely change the bed sheets with blood stains on them."
Xu Yiqing pointed at Zhou Shi who was following behind him, holding a photo frame in her hand.
Zhou Shi explained: "He Yunke has a nostalgic habit, and he has kept many photos of his past life in the cupboard, including photos of He Yunke and his wife before they moved to another place."
Lin Sheng took the photo and looked at it carefully, and found that the layout of He Yunke's bedroom in the photo was almost exactly the same as it is now. It can be seen that he was trying his best to restore the environment he was familiar with.
The sheets of the double bed in the photo are exactly the same as the sheets in front of us. After He Yunke disappeared, Zou Yi moved to the children's bedroom to sleep, and this bedroom has been preserved intact.
Despite this, Xu Yiqing actually didn't hold any hope.
Sure enough, after the luminol reagent was splashed on the bed sheet, only some tiny block-like reactions were found at the end of the bed.
Mr. Lin asked: "Is this blood?"
But Xu Yiqing shook his head: "Zou Yi is a woman, this little bit of blood can't prove anything. And if it's true as our autopsy analysis, there should be a lot of spurted blood on the bed at the first crime scene."
Xu Yiqing pointed at the pillow at the head of the bed and drew an area in the air with his finger: "Here, He Yunke's neck was chopped by a kitchen knife. The pressure of the carotid artery will cause blood to splash onto the opposite wall."
Nothing was found in the bedroom, so they walked around the villa again.
Zhou Shi found a locked room at the end of the corridor.
"What is this room used for?"
Zou Yi, who rushed to the scene after hearing the news, said: "Some of my husband's things were in there. It was his storage room. After he disappeared, I locked the door and rarely went in because I was afraid I would miss him."
Zhou Shi asked: "Can we take a look? Maybe it will help solve the case."
Zou Yi found the key and whispered as she opened the door: "Don't be scared. My husband is passionate about art, so he likes to collect statues and paintings. Some of them are... quite scary. Another reason I locked the door was because I didn't want to scare the children."
After her reminder, everyone was mentally prepared, but they were still shocked after opening the door.
Not to mention the various statues with broken arms and limbs that filled the room, just the oil painting hanging on the wall opposite the door was somewhat horrifying.
Du Yu frowned: "What is this? It makes me feel a little nauseous."
Lin Sheng said: "I remember that the person in the painting was a god in Greek mythology, Zeus' father."
Zhou Shi said: "It is "The God of Agriculture Eats His Son."
Don't go to Baidu at night out of curiosity
(End of this chapter)