Chapter 16
Song Xinghe was stunned for a while as he looked at the direction where Li Fujian's finger was pointing at . He lowered his voice and said, "Lao Li, why don't we discuss with the management to 'settle' the case?
"The international tourism festival is happening soon, I don't believe that the leaders in the county would want such a serious murder case to happen .
"The old saying is simply accurate—the higher authorities have policies, while the localities have their countermeasures . Although the government fixed the regulation that we must report to the state council when there's a criminal case with more than three deaths, in reality, there are many flexible ways to circumvent this rule .
"For instance, let's say a wounded person who didn't die on the spot . As long as he made it into the ambulance, it wouldn't be included in the number of deaths .
"Or when there are too little witnesses on site and the situation has no major effect toward the society, we can secretly split the case and list it as two separate criminal cases so we can reduce the number of deaths in one single case and so on . "
What Song Xinghe meant by 'settling it' was no doubt suppressing it and closing one eye on the Guawo Village case . They would then discuss the case within the management and reduce it into a small one, and eventually, the whole incident would become nothing .
Unfortunately, Li Fujian was not as optimistic as his superior . He sighed and said, "Director Song, things are different from a few years back . We can see from here that there are many foreigners standing on the hillside . I think this case has already been posted online .
"I'm afraid we won't be able to suppress it .
"We should get to the crime scene right now and see what we can do about the current situation . "
"Lao Li, you're the wise one in our station . We'll follow whatever you say," Song Xinghe said as he adjusted his police cap and walked up the village path toward Zhang family's old house .
S the police officers were not used to walking on mountain paths, it took them about ten minutes before they finally arrived at the crime scene .
As they looked into the old house's courtyard after making their way through the crowd, Song Xinghe almost vomited his breakfast .
He frowned and pouted in disgust . His held back his emotions and said loudly, "Which one of you is Tao Lielin, the one who made the report?"
"I am . "
"Comrades, we've met before when I brought the villagers into county town to 'bring back' a man a couple of days ago . We've passed through the town…"
"Don't try to cotton up to me . This is a crime scene, we'll do the cottoning up in the future .
"Let me ask you, you're a leader, how are you doing your job protecting the crime scene? There're so many people who don't matter, they would've damaged all of the clues that might have been able to solve the case . "
"Comrade, I'm just a deputy village chief . No tourist would listen to me, they would only leave if you guys who are wearing 'tiger skin' chase them away . "
"What tiger skin, this is our police uniform, the symbol of the country's enforcement authority . Democratic centralism, the centralism is presented in our uniform .
"Zhihe, Huizi, please clear the scene . Get these people who are unrelated to the case out of here .
"Lao Li and I will report the site situation to the county council leader right now . "
Hearing their leader's instruction, officer Sun Zhihe and Geguan Huizi began to clear the site .
As soon as the police showed up, the western tourists automatically walked away while whispering among themselves . They lived in a country where one might be shot on site at the smallest violation of the police's lawful order .
After the western tourists left, the Chinese tourists left the crime scene one by one . Soon, the stone road in front of the old house became quiet .
At the same time, Song Xinghe was done describing the basic information of the crime scene to the county police station director Sun Xiangguo . He hung up the phone and looked at the victims . As he gazed upon the incomplete limbs, and the abdomen that was ripped apart, he felt numbness on his scalp .
He had never seen such a gory scene before throughout his twenty years as a police officer . To distract his focus as he did not want to be seen like he was neglecting his job, Song Xinghe began to question Tao Lielin about the case details .
After hearing there was only one surviving witness when the murder took place, he immediately switched his focus to Zhang Lisheng .
If the young man before him was taller and stronger, Song Xinghe would have definitely handcuffed him and given him the treatment befitting a criminal suspect . However, it was definitely impossible for this underage person who was less than a 160 centimeters tall and weighing less than 100 catties to murder four people, in addition to ripping someone's abdomen up and chopping off a person's arm .
Song Xinghe then wore a serious face while he was trying to figure out how to get the most accurate account from Zhang Lisheng .
Little did he know that Zhang Lisheng was the murderer himself, and therefore unable to give him any useful clues . Although he had now set his mind on accomplishing an outstanding job, which was a far cry from when he initially had his mind set on pushing his responsibility away, he was destined to be disappointed .
As he heard police sirens wailing in the mountain village again, Song Xinghe stopped talking unwillingly . Zhang Lisheng had not given him a single thing, and he had wasted his time for nothing .
"Director Song, I figured that the new exchange to our county criminal police force, Chief Yang, would come here personally for such a major case . Should we bring him in together?"
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