“Officer Liu, last night I took the villagers to sweep the surrounding mountains and forests within a radius of more than ten kilometers, but we didn’t find Liu Laosan. What do you think…” Wang Jianguo asked politely.

Officer Liu did not rush to talk, but instead stroked the stubble on his chin and pondered for more than ten seconds.

He looked at the first scene again and again, and then asked, “Did the Liu Laosan you mentioned bring the clothes he usually wears?”

“I brought it. I went to his house early in the morning and asked for an unwashed sweatshirt!”

“Xiao Tao, let Hu Zi smell it and see if he can track him down!”

Soon, another colleague nearby took a police dog and sniffed the sweatshirt, then gave the command to track and search.

Seeing the police dog chasing and working, Yue Feng and his brothers became interested.

Everyone knows that this police dog has an excellent sense of smell, even better than that of ordinary hunting dogs. I don’t know if it can make any new discoveries.

Under the gaze of everyone, the police dog sniffed around, took a few steps towards the bushes not far away, walked up to it and sniffed, and soon returned to the location of the bear’s body.

Officer Liu motioned his companions to check the bushes nearby, and soon found a small tuft of blue cotton fibers hanging on the thorns.

“There is a little cotton fiber here, it should be from the missing person!” Officer Tao immediately collected and recorded the new traces.

“Keep looking to see if there are any other traces! There are only bushes and thorns here. If there are traces, it’s possible that they fought hand-to-hand with the blind bear here!”

The police dog continued to search. It circled around the area of ​​several dozen meters and seemed to react, but it did not come forward.

“There is no other smell left! There is a mountain stream next to it, and the smell of people will be greatly diluted by the stream water!
Unless there is a hound with an extremely sensitive sense of smell, it is possible to distinguish the smell left in the air! And the time cannot be too long, otherwise everything will be in vain! “

The situation was at a stalemate. They wanted to use police dogs to find the missing person, but at the first scene, there was no information.

After Officer Liu conducted another detailed inspection on the spot, he and his colleagues took the dog away.

There is currently no evidence to prove that the missing person has been killed, it can only be said that there is a strong suspicion.

In that era, it was normal to see someone missing in the mountains.

Hunters who often go up the mountain might be attacked by wild boars or licked by blind bears if they are not careful. If they are lucky, they can find the body intact, but if they are unlucky, they may not even find the body.

As for Uncle Hat, all the necessary records have been made. Until there are no new discoveries, he will probably not invest police resources to follow up on this case that has no beginning or end.

After the on-site investigation was completed, Officer Liu had a final communication with Wang Jianguo, and then the two of them went down the mountain with the police dog.

As the village secretary, Wang Jianguo did everything he should have done, but to no avail. He felt somewhat disappointed at the moment.

It was the first time that Yue Feng saw his father-in-law in such a state. He whispered to him, “Uncle, let’s go down the mountain too! This blind bear stinks, let’s not go down!
Liu Laosan might have been delayed by other things and might go home in two days!”

“Alas! Fibers of his clothes are hanging on the thorn bushes. At such a close distance, there is a high probability that he will not be able to avoid the blind bear’s attack!

The third brother is not in good condition!!!”

After all, Wang Jianguo has experience in military service. Although he is not as professional as Uncle Hat, he still has basic combat skills and situation assessment skills.

Although Liu Laosan’s body has not been found yet, the current situation is not optimistic.

“We have done what we should do. There is no point in worrying about it. Let’s think of a way to solve the problem of lost guns!” Yue Feng advised.

“Don’t worry about that. I’ve already reported it according to the regulations. With today’s police dispatch record and the on-site investigation of the bear’s body being shot, the village can only be considered secondary responsible for the gun incident!

You are tired on the mountain, go back and rest! ! “

“Okay! I just happened to have shot a roe deer this morning. I’ll send one home!”

……

The incident of Liu Laosan taking the village’s gun and going up the mountain and disappearing just happened in the village, and as time went by, it gradually subsided.

Liu Laosan’s family and his wife’s relatives also organized people to go up the mountain to look for him several times, but looking for a person in such a vast forest was like looking for a needle in a haystack, and they found no useful information at all.

After this lesson, the village has tightened regulations on the use of guns. When the farm protection team goes to the tree house to guard the farmers at night, they need to go to the village office to collect guns and ammunition, and return the guns when they return to the village in the morning.

For several days in a row, the entire Xing’an Village was peaceful and tranquil. Even the farm protection team on night duty at the tree nest only killed a few wild boars, badgers and other mountain animals that were stealing food at the feeding point. Nothing else major happened.

Before I knew it, a week had passed.

During the day, Yue Feng either takes a nap at home, or collects the captured birds to deliver in the evening. When he has nothing to do, he relaxes at the doorstep and catches a few sparrows, or rides his motorcycle to the breeding farm on the mountain to stay with Uncle Zhao. His life is quite fulfilling.

On this day, Yue Feng, as usual, was riding a motorcycle with a gun on his back, taking Xiao Tao to his tree cave to stand guard at night. When they were still a few hundred meters away from the tree cave, they were stopped by Xiao Qin, who had been waiting for a long time on the side of the road.

At this moment, Xiao Qin looked ugly, like a gambler who had stayed up all night for several nights. His face was sallow, his hair was messy, and he had dark circles under his eyes.

“Brother Xueming, what are you doing?” Yue Feng was somewhat surprised to see Qin Xueming suddenly coming out from the roadside. This was neither the village nor the usual production road, so there was no reason for them to meet here by chance.

“Xiao Feng, I have something I want to tell you!!”

Qin Xueming glanced at Xiao Tao who was sitting next to him and spoke hesitantly.

“Hmm? Xiao Tao is my brother, just tell me if you have anything to say! There are no secrets between us brothers!”

Yue Feng was a little confused as to why Qin Xueming was still acting weird.

“This matter has nothing to do with Xiao Tao. I only want to talk to you! I’m waiting for you here on purpose. If you don’t want to listen, then forget it!” Qin Xueming’s attitude was quite stubborn.

Hearing that the other party was waiting for him here on purpose, Yue Feng nodded and jumped off the motorcycle: “Xiao Tao, you ride to the tree nest first, I will chat with Brother Xue Ming for a while!”

Xiao Tao responded and rode away on his motorcycle.

Qin Xueming looked around and then leaned close to Yue Feng’s ear and whispered, “I know a little more about the third brother, but I haven’t told anyone yet!

It’s been so long and there’s still no news from the Third Brother. I have to tell you something!”

“Huh? What’s going on?” Yue Feng immediately became alert when he heard about Liu Laosan’s story.

After all, he was a member of his farm protection team. It had been a week and no one had seen him alive or dead. Now there was a new development, and Yue Feng’s curiosity was immediately aroused.

“That day you asked me whether the third brother had gone up the mountain to find someone else. I was afraid that he would offend the secretary, so I covered up for him and didn’t tell the truth!” Qin Xueming said in a low voice with a trembling voice.

“Huh? Didn’t he go up the mountain by himself? Who did he go with?”

Yue Feng immediately realized what was going on after hearing it. There was a 100% chance that something was going on here.

“Zhou Yuanchao!

The third brother said that he would take the village’s gun to find Zhou Yuanchao. Yuanchao was a good shooter and had a good relationship with the third brother!
He thought that if he was lucky enough to kill the bear, he could make a fortune! “

When Yue Feng heard the three words “Zhou Yuanchao”, his heart skipped a beat, as if he had caught the live wire of an electric wire. The mystery that had been lingering in his head for a long time suddenly revealed a corner of the truth.

“I have been unable to sleep for the past week. Whenever I close my eyes, I dream that the third brother is standing in front of me with blood all over his body, saying that he died unjustly!!

I’ve been paying attention to Zhou Yuanchao’s house. He hasn’t been home since the incident! Did he…”

Yue Feng didn’t even listen to what Qin Xueming said later.

Yue Feng knew Zhou Yuanchao much better than ordinary villagers.

Don’t be fooled by this guy’s seemingly harmless appearance. At most, he has a bit of a bad temper and has never done anything out of the ordinary.

But when Qiao Muzhou was shot last time, Yue Feng judged in his heart that it was most likely him who did it.

This time Liu Laosan went up the mountain with him to hunt a bear. The bear died, and both the man and the gun were lost.

However, from beginning to end, no one had ever seen Zhou Yuanchao go up the mountain with him, let alone mentioned it.

If Qin Xueming had not been unable to bear the torment of conscience during this period, this matter would probably have been left unresolved.

“Brother Xueming, don’t panic! Who have you told about this? Why don’t you go talk to my uncle?” Yue Feng grabbed the other person’s hand and forced him to calm down.

“Zhou Yuanchao had a dispute with the secretary over the issue of protecting farmers, and I couldn’t talk to him about it.

You are the captain of our farmers’ protection team. I tell you, you have done your best for the third brother!
But you can’t spread this matter around. If Zhou Yuanchao finds out that it was me who said it, my life will be in jeopardy…”

In just a few words, Yue Feng was able to discern many layers of meaning.

Although Qin Xueming has neither courage nor determination, he still thinks a lot about things.

At first, he wanted to cover up the fact that Liu Laosan took the village gun into the mountains to seek personal gain. Later, he found that Liu Laosan had disappeared after a long time, and then he became scared.

He stayed in this remote place waiting for Yue Feng to talk, and sent Xiao Tao away, so as to ensure that Yue Feng was the only one who knew the news.

In this case, if Yue Feng reported the information or told the secretary, and Uncle Hat found other evidence to arrest Zhou Yuanchao, everyone would be happy, and it would be considered revenge for the Third Brother.

If there was no evidence to convict Zhou Yuanchao, he could deny it without hesitation when other people came to Qin Xueming to verify.

In short, within a certain range, the risk of “informing” has been reduced to a minimum.

I have to say this, Qin Xueming is really calculating! (End of this chapter)