After ruining Master Gou's good deeds, Zhao Gui was severely beaten by the Zhong family's servants. Master Zhong even said that he would never be allowed to work in the house.
After losing his job at the Zhongfu, his life became even more difficult. Soon his mother passed away. Zhao Gui, who had lost his only relative, felt extremely lonely. The figure of Sister Qianqiao being pinned down by Master Gou was always in his mind.
He couldn't get rid of it. He thought: Sister Qiao must have been forced. One day, he will rescue Sister Qiao from the clutches of Master Zhong and Master Gou.
Now that Li Ziyu asked about it, he didn't want to tell the story. He just walked with his head lowered, his mind filled with the beautiful image of Sister Qiao, and he silently grabbed his crotch again.
The sky is getting dark, and the curfew in Guangzhou has not yet been lifted. In addition, this is a residential area, and there are no pedestrians on the street after dark. Only two people wearing iron-clawed shoes were clicking on the stone road.
The sound echoed monotonously.
Li Ziyu asked Zhao Gui to light a lantern and patrol the streets with a faint light.
Their patrol distance is about 2.5 kilometers and they have to pass through several streets. It takes just over half an hour to circle. Although the street gates are locked at this time, the patrol officers have the keys to all the street gates on the segment and can open them by themselves.
Every time it opens and closes, Li Ziyu has to write the time in his work book. When the patrol officer goes out on patrol, he is given a "Zhong's No. 6 pocket watch" as big as a horseshoe alarm clock in order to strictly control the time, especially when passing by.
The elapsed time must be written at the "check-in point".
Patrolling at night is not only boring, but there are no street lights in Guangzhou. If the moonlight is not good, it will be difficult to walk. The quiet and dark environment will also put a lot of pressure on people's spirit.
"It's so dark, so scary." Zhao Gui was a little worried. Walking on the deserted streets in this pitch-black night was really creepy. "I'm scared...scared...scared..." He kept saying a few words.
He was so "scared" that he didn't dare to say the word "ghost".
"What are you afraid of? There are people living in the houses on both sides." Although Li Ziyu was a little timid, she pretended to be free and easy, "You haven't done anything bad, you're not afraid... you're not afraid... something like that will come knocking you.
Door……"
A pair of green eyes suddenly passed in front of them. Li Ziyu was caught off guard and shivered with fright. When he took a closer look, it turned out to be a cat, and he breathed a sigh of relief. In order to cover up his gaffe, he loudly said, "Besides, we are
Official errands, people with official status, and the batons they carry are all awarded by the emperor of the Senate, and they can suppress all evil..."
While he was talking nonsense, he suddenly tripped. Li Ziyu suddenly somersaulted and fell to the ground. Zhao Gui also staggered and almost fell down.
Li Ziyu was knocked unconscious from the fall, and finally climbed up from the ground, picked up his hat, patted the dust, and cursed: "It's really unlucky..." Before he could finish his words, he saw Zhao Gui trembling all over and the lantern in his hand shaking.
Just as he was about to scold him for not lighting the road properly, he saw a dead body lying on the street through the light of the lantern!
Now it was Li Ziyu's turn to tremble with horror - the body was wrapped in coarse cloth, and only a human figure could be seen roughly, but without a head. There was a large black stain on the white cloth.
Even though Li Ziyu was born in the military and had experienced adventures in Xijiang, he had witnessed murders and arson, but on this dark night, a headless corpse lying in the street... was scary enough.
He forced himself to calm down, and while telling himself to be calm, he took the lantern from Zhao Gui's hand and looked around carefully. This place was the entrance of a branch alley. Li Ziyu looked around and saw that it was dark inside the branch alley.
It was narrow and smelled bad, but there was a flickering light inside.
Li Ziyu took off her baton and asked Zhao Gui to hold a lantern in front of him, planning to go in and take a look.
"Ayu, I think we shouldn't go in..." Zhao Gui suggested weakly.
"If you don't investigate, how can you report it?" Li Ziyu said, "Let's go."
Zhao Gui had no choice but to carry a lantern and walk inside. There was no pavement on the ground in the branch alley, and what they stepped on was either soft mud or broken bricks and tiles that hurt their feet. The two of them walked one foot deep and one foot shallow.
"Mom, this place is really scary..." Zhao Gui muttered, not daring to look back at the headless corpse on the road.
There are very few households in the branch alley. Through the weak light, you can see that they are all poor people. The houses are short and simple, and the walls are peeling off, revealing the broken bricks and broken tiles that were haphazardly put together. However, walking further inside
After a while, the wall on one side of the alley suddenly turned into a continuous brick wall, more than one foot high. Li Ziyu was surprised: This was either the back wall of a wealthy family or a temple. Going forward,
Sure enough, he saw a small door open on the wall. He stepped forward and pushed it. The door was locked.
He had just started his internship, and although the director and team leader of the film took him through it, he was still very unfamiliar with the film, and he couldn't remember where the back door was.
After passing the small gate and walking forward for more than ten steps, I heard the sound of gurgling water in front of me. It turned out that the end of this alley was a river pier. The river water shimmered in the night, so you could see the flickering light at the entrance of the alley.
Li Ziyu looked at the river pier. There were only a few Danhu boats moored on the river. There were no lights or sounds. There were no suspicious clues.
"Let's go back and report quickly." Li Ziyu said.
Zhao Gui was eager for him to say that, so he quickly said: "Okay, okay."
The two people came back from the side alley, but it was not easy to call the police. The police in Guangzhou city did not have telephone numbers. If they wanted to report, they could only go back to the police station, and then the station would send a correspondent to report to the Criminal Division of the General Administration.
Of course, they also carry rockets with them, but these can only be used in times of riots and emergencies.
"Zhao Gui, you watch here, I'll go to the police station..." As soon as Li Ziyu said this, Zhao Gui was stunned and took his arm and said, "Ayu, don't, don't, don't leave me... I
Go back with you."
"What should we do if we all go back to the scene?" Li Ziyu remembered memorizing the standard handling procedures in the "Procedural Regulations for Handling Criminal Cases". It is a basic requirement to send people to guard the scene to prevent clues from being destroyed.
However, Zhao Gui refused to stay alone to guard the body no matter what, and Li Ziyu was not willing to guard him here. While they were in a stalemate, Li Ziyu suddenly thought that this place was not far from the street watcher's house, so he walked over
Just ask the street watcher to come over and help Zhao Gui become braver.
So the two of them turned back together. The watch room was only two or three hundred paces away from here, but drizzle began to fall from the sky. The sky turned dark. Zhao Gui quickly took out the oil paper cover to cover it. The two of them were nervous and panicked. They spent a lot of time.
It took several minutes to get the rain cover in place. The light from the lantern became increasingly dim.
However, when they returned to the street gate, the watchman was not in the watch room - he had gone out to do the watch. The two of them hurriedly looked for it, and it took them a while to find the watchman. Only then did Li Ziyu remember that he had even found the body.
He didn't record the time, so he quickly took out his "pocket watch". He looked at it under the light of a lantern, but it was just after 1 o'clock in the evening, almost early in the morning. Thinking about all the trouble just now, he should have found the body at
Just after 12 o'clock.
The three of them hurried over, but when they arrived at the entrance of the alley, Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui were shocked: the body was missing!
When they left just now, the body was still lying on the ground, but now there was nothing on the ground. Li Ziyu took the lantern and moved closer to the ground, but there was nothing left on the ground.
Zhao Gui's face turned pale and he stammered: "Emperor Bodhisattva! This, this, is a headless corpse..."
When he said this, the watchman also became frightened: "Could it be a fake corpse?"
Li Ziyu stood there blankly, his mind turned into a mess. The headless corpse was indeed in this place just now, but where has it gone in such a short time? He doesn't really believe in such things as corpse fraud. It's obvious that someone will
The corpse was moved away, but they didn't even see a ghost along the way. How could they find anyone?
The three people searched around again, but found nothing. Seeing the rain getting heavier and heavier, Li Ziyu suddenly ran out of ideas: Go back and report, what can you say if there is no body? If you don't report, this headless body will be the same as before.
He and Zhao Gui saw it with their own eyes - he even tripped and his knees still hurt.
When the watchman saw that he couldn't find the body, he breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "If there is no body, then there is no such thing! One less official matter has been saved. How much trouble has been saved."
Zhao Gui stammered: "But, but, it was indeed a corpse just now, without a head."
The watchman glanced at Zhao Gui, with a face full of contempt, and said: "Master Cha, human life lawsuits always involve seeing the person alive and the body after death. If there is no body, then there is no case. Why bother? Don't even mention it here.
There is no one who suffers. Even if there is one who suffers, and his body cannot be found, which official is willing to accept his prosecution? Besides, there are hundreds of thousands of people in Guangzhou. If a hundred or ten people are not killed one day, there will be one more.
Not more, less of him." He smiled and said, "It's dark and it's raining, so maybe the two policemen have misunderstood. The younger one just pretends that he heard nothing and saw nothing." After that,
He lowered his waist again and went to work on his own.
The raindrops became more and more dense, and only Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui were left on the street. They didn’t know what to say. Li Ziyu clenched his fists. He knew that the street watcher was right. But when he was studying in Wanshou Palace, Australia
People have instilled another set of ideas into them: they are the police and have the responsibility to maintain social stability and "guarantee peace in the world" - what is social stability and "peace in the world"? Li Ziyu's feelings are the most vivid.
Just now, a corpse really fell to the ground, with no head - a corpse lying on the road would not cut off its own head, this person must have been killed! The rain hit him in the face, and the uncle's family was killed on the Xijiang River.
The scene of the strongman's massacre came to mind again. He suddenly made up his mind and said to Zhao Gui: "Let's go! We will go back and report immediately!" (~^~)