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"Will the little bamboo raft he made come here as well?"

"No, the river between Bird Island and the town of Jizhou is wide, and the little bamboo is not easy to drive. I just heard that he had a small bamboo raft that went from Bird Island to Goose Ridge Mountain. "

"When did he move?"

"I remember, the day before he moved, there was a murder at the pier by the ferry. A young man killed a young woman."

Ding Wei was startled. How could there be such a coincidence? However, thinking about it, Su Heshan's death was a case of Chen Aichi's report, so perhaps he moved away to avoid some trouble.

Ding Wei asked. "On the day of the murderer's capture, did Chen Aiki ever go to Bird Island?"

"This — this —" The Lady Boss thought for a while. "Did he go there that day? I can't remember. Because it was market day and our business was better than usual, we were too busy to notice what was going on at the docks. "

Ding Wei seemed to feel that something wasn't right. The ship owner, the reporter, the rich man who was suddenly able to buy a commercial house in the city, unbelievably turned over to Chen Ai-cai.

"May I ask, what kind of person is Chen Aiki?" Ding Wei continued to ask.

"People who know him say he is a very honest man. I heard that in the 1990s, Chen Aiki was quite good at driving a car while it was being driven by a company in Xinjiang. He could go uphill without using his hands and only use his feet, and he even made a third grade in the army. How could he have returned to the army if his parents hadn't been sick and needed someone to look after them? "He might have become a small officer in the army by now."

"So he's a demobilized soldier."

"That's right. Everyone in Ji Prefecture knew about him. He was not originally from Ji Zhou, but a farmer from a village below. The family was very poor and could not dig up ten dollars with a hoe. When the soldiers came back, they sent money to the local officials and arranged a job less than a year later. But he didn't want to run away. He stayed at home and worked hard on some of the fields, but no one helped him. Everyone said that he was unwise and deserved to be poor. In fact, he could be considered a fortunate man. There was a great beauty in our town that had taken a fancy to his honesty and good driving skills, but she actually ignored her parents' objections and followed him. "Originally, he had some skill, and his head turned a little, so it wouldn't be hard for him to earn money outside, and it wouldn't get to the point where his parents opposed this marriage."

"That he couldn't turn his head because the local government didn't arrange for him to work?"

"Of course not. You know, when he was driving in the army, he went into the nuclear test area. With this, even if the government didn't arrange a job, they could still go to the hospital to get a history of hypothyroidism or to evaluate the level of disability. After a year, they would receive tens of thousands of state grants for not doing anything. But he didn't. Someone even asked him to go to the hospital for a checkup. "

"But, if there's nothing wrong with my body..."

"Big brother, you are wrong. If you don't take the money allocated by the country, others will take it. If the people below didn't take it, the people above would. Why bother trying to help others? Have you heard? Some veterans who hadn't entered the nuclear testing area spent money in the hospital to get a fake history of hypothyroidism treatment, then spent money in an office to assess their relationship with a first-class or second-class invalid, and each year they could lead the country's tens of thousands of dollars in subsidies. If others could, why couldn't he? Besides, he was a soldier who had entered the nuclear test site before. If we were to compete like this, do you think that his father-in-law and mother-in-law would be angered to death? "

"Well, the country seems to have a preferential policy for veterans who have taken part in nuclear testing." Ding Wei said.

"Yeah, they are all very smart and they think very highly of their own interests, but they don't think so. They think they have the ability to make money by running long distance trucks, but in less than a month, they were fined several times by the traffic police. He was told once that he was overloaded and that he had been detained by the traffic police. He said he had to pay to get the car back. After spending some money to get it back, he stopped by the side of the road and was hit by a passing truck. After calling the traffic police, they said they couldn't find out who hit the car, so they sold the truck out of anger. "Because of this, I lost a lot of money, and borrowed a hundred thousand yuan from a person in our town."

"Borrowed a hundred thousand yuan?" Ding Wei was somewhat surprised.

"That's right, Chen Aiki could also be considered a man. In recent years, her body has been much weaker, so she can only find some work that requires less physical effort." Thanks to his wife, he was willing to live with her in a shabby house without any decent furniture. Speaking of which, his wife's better clothes were all sent over by her rich sisters and older sisters. However, his wife had never disliked the money and never regretted it. There were some men in town who thought they had some money, and they went to seduce his wife time and time again. His wife was still willing to follow Chen's love of money. This kind of woman was also rarely seen. The village chief said that his wife must have seen too many love dramas to brainwash her. If it were any other woman, she would have already run away without a trace. "Say, what is the point of living with such a man?"

At 3 PM in the afternoon, Ding Wei and Shen Yuan met up on Bird Island. Shen Yuan told Ding Wei the secret he discovered in Su Heshan's camera and phone. The two of them analyzed what Su Heshan had done to cause her death.

The two of them thoroughly searched the cave. In the cave, there was a small pile of ashes. Within the ashes, there was a piece of dark brown cloth the size of a soybean, and some of the surrounding grass had already been burnt black. The two carefully observed the trail where the heavy object had been dragged. The trail began on a large rock and disappeared when they arrived at the water's edge. However, brown stripes could still be seen along the trail, and some broken weeds could be seen along the water's edge. The rock looked clean, with barely a leaf and a large patch of dust, and the earth and weeds had been shoveled out of the ground near the boulder. Compared to the other stones in the cave, it was obvious that the stone was too clean. How could a stone that no one had touched for a long time be so clean? Obviously, the boulder must have been cleaned.

Ding Wei sprayed some of his luminescent ammonia on this rock. Sure enough, a clear human figure appeared in front of him.

"So this is the scene of the murder." Shen Yuan said.

"Looking at the marks left by the ground, there is no doubt that the heavy object is a corpse. The body was first placed on a large rock, then moved to the water's edge, presumably carried out of the cave by a bamboo raft. The burned brown strip of cloth was essentially a bloodstained strip, probably something like a bloodstained garment or glove on the murderer, the brown spots on the ground were traces of dried blood from the corpse, the stones had been cleaned and the grass had been shoveled because the body had dripped too much blood when placed on a large stone. All these signs indicate that the culprit does not want to leave evidence of murder here. " Ding Wei said.

"You can be sure that this is the scene of Su Heshan's murder. As long as you can prove that Yang Wen didn't enter the cave during her murder, then he would be able to completely dispel the suspicion of murder." Shen Yuan said.

"But, how did Su Heshan know that there was a cave here?" Ding Wei said, "It should be the culprit that killed Su Heshan outside the cave and placed her inside the cave for a period of time. Afterwards, he found a chance to take the corpse out."

"Well, maybe that's the case."

"What if this isn't the scene of Su Heshan's murder, but some other victim?" Ding Wei said, "Therefore, we still have to prove that Su Heshan was killed here. Furthermore, the time of her death must match the circumstances of the case."

"I understand. The time of Su Heshan's death is very important to rectify the circumstances of the case."