"Oh my god, how can there be a corpse here?"
Zhao Lusi and Chi Wenhui were shocked and scared, just like Zhang Nong. Wan Yunting held Gu Luotang's phone, turned on the flashlight mode, and squatted on the ground to examine the remains of the female corpse. However, he did not touch anything, knowing the importance of preserving the body's integrity for the police.
The fathers of the two boys and the villagers, seeing that the body Wan Yunting had retrieved was indeed a corpse, were all shocked, their faces turning pale, and they all speculated how there could be a corpse at the bottom of the reservoir...
"Brother Yunting, this corpse wasn't murdered, was it?"
Qi Miaomiao looked at the corpse bound by hemp rope and tied to a square stone. If the deceased had committed suicide, it certainly wouldn't be like this.
Looking at the female corpse in this state, everyone could easily guess that she might have been murdered! And then sunk into this reservoir!
"Yes."
Wan Yunting nodded, then turned to the fathers of the boys and the villagers and asked, "Are there any missing women in the nearby villages?"
"Missing women?"
The fathers of the two boys exchanged glances. Suddenly, a villager seemed to recall something and immediately said, "Yes, a woman from Shangdong Village disappeared five years ago!"
"Third brother, are you talking about Yuan Liang's wife who just got married not long ago?" the boy's father asked, turning his head.
"Yes."
The villager named Third Brother nodded and said, "Yang Yuan Liang's wife from out of town, she disappeared inexplicably just two months after getting married."
"Right, right, I remember this too."
Immediately, those villagers remembered this matter. This surprised Wan Yunting and Gu Luotang, and the boy's father looked at the skeletal remains on the ground, his face suddenly changing color: "Could this corpse be Yuan Liang's wife?"
"It's hard to say..."
Those villagers looked at the corpse on the ground, shaking their heads uncertainly.
"You can call that Yuan Liang and ask him to come and identify it," Huang Jingshan said.
The villagers exchanged glances and said to Wan Yunting and the others, "That wouldn't be good. If this corpse isn't their missing wife, it would be bad luck."
"Exactly..."
Several villagers agreed, thinking that the identity of the corpse had not yet been determined, and it was better not to call anyone over to look.
"Well, let's let the police take a look first," Wan Yunting also nodded.
Not long after, two police cars slowly stopped on the main road of the dam, and five or six police officers with flashlights ran towards Wan Yunting and the others.
The leader was a male police officer in his thirties. "Did you call the police?"
"Yes, officer. We found a corpse."
"Where?"
The police officer named Yang Pengxing held his flashlight, and Wan Yunting immediately pointed to the corpse on the ground, "Here, it's a female corpse."
Yang Pengxing and the other police officers immediately went over and also widened their eyes at the sight of the corpse on the ground. They couldn't help but feel a chill, and immediately surrounded the corpse, shining their flashlights to examine it. Seeing the hemp rope and the square stone binding the corpse, they knew this must be a murder and body-dumping case.
"Who retrieved it?"
Yang Pengxing stood up and asked Wan Yunting, Gu Luotang, and the others, "And how did you discover the body underwater?"
"It's like this..."
So, Wan Yunting explained the entire process to Yang Pengxing and the others in detail, from the two boys going into the water to fish in the middle of the night and then encountering the accident. The fathers of the two boys only then reacted and quickly thanked Wan Yunting, saying, "Thank you so much. If you hadn't saved my son, he would have become a scapegoat now."
Hearing the boy's father's words, Wan Yunting smiled and waved his hand, indicating it was not necessary. He said to Yang Pengxing, "That's the whole story, so I retrieved the corpse."
Yang Pengxing nodded, then asked, "Are you inspection personnel from Huadu City here to support medical work?"
"Yes."
Huang Jingshan nodded.
Yang Pengxing nodded, looked at the corpse, and said, "We will transport the body back to the police station first, and tomorrow we will ask the autopsy staff from the county town to come down for further investigation of the body. However, you should first come to our police station to make a simple record."
"That's no problem."
Wan Yunting and the others cooperated naturally.
"Okay, put the corpse in the bag and transport it back..."
So Yang Pengxing and the others took out a body bag, put the corpse on the ground into it along with the square stone, and then carried it out to the car...
Wan Yunting, along with Gu Luotang and Qi Miaomiao, Huang Jingshan's group, and the fathers of the two children and the villagers, all came out, but they all had to go to the police station to make detailed statements...
In the lobby of the police station, when the villagers mentioned Yang Yuan Liang's missing wife from Shangdong Village, it immediately enlightened Yang Pengxing!
This is because he and Yang Yuan Liang were from the same village and grew up together.
Back then, Yang Yuan Liang married a wife from out of town, and many people were envious!
Because Yang Yuan Liang's wife from out of town was very beautiful, it made many bachelors in the village covetous and envious.
As a result, just two months after they got married, one night, Yang Yuan Liang's wife rode her motorcycle to town to buy something and never returned!
However, Yang Pengxing, who was still a young police officer, naturally tried to find his brother's wife. But due to the poor conditions in the townships at that time, there were no cameras on the road, so Yang Pengxing and the others could not find Yang Yuan Liang's wife no matter how they investigated or searched.
Some people said that his wife from out of town might not have gotten used to the backward rural life and had run away.
Yang Yuan Liang at that time even went back to his wife's home to look for her, but his father-in-law and mother-in-law also said that their daughter had never returned home...
So, after searching for two years, they could not find Yang Yuan Liang's wife, and it was finally classified as a missing person case!
But now Yang Pengxing looked at the corpse. The cloth under the sack was a blue floral print dress!
This immediately made Yang Pengxing's eyes widen, because he was responsible for Yang Yuan Liang's wife's disappearance case back then, and he vaguely remembered Yang Yuan Liang saying that the clothes his wife wore the night she disappeared were a blue floral print dress!
At this point, Yang Pengxing's heart surged with excitement, and he quickly took out his phone to call Yang Yuan Liang.
However, Yang Yuan Liang was working outside at the moment. Yang Pengxing asked in detail about the style of clothes his wife wore the night she disappeared...
At first, Yang Yuan Liang was a little dazed, not understanding why Yang Pengxing suddenly asked about his wife who disappeared back then. But when he heard that a female corpse had been found in Houkeng Reservoir, Yang Yuan Liang's heart suddenly sank, as if he had sensed something, and he quickly said, "She was wearing a blue dress, a thin fabric..."
Yang Pengxing felt the fabric of the clothes on the corpse and suddenly noticed that the corpse still had a golden necklace around its neck. At this, he quickly told Yang Yuan Liang, and Yang Yuan Liang could no longer sit still. He immediately cried out, "It's her, it's Qingfang...!"
"Okay, then come back."
After confirming that the corpse was Yang Yuan Liang's wife, Zhao Qingfang, Yang Pengxing sighed helplessly and asked Yang Yuan Liang to return.
Yang Pengxing walked out and saw Wan Yunting, Gu Luotang, and their group in the lobby, as well as the fathers of the two boys and other villagers. He said, "I just called Yang Yuan Liang to confirm, that female corpse is his wife Zhao Qingfang!"
At this, the fathers of the two boys and the villagers exclaimed, "It really is..."
Wan Yunting and Gu Luotang also exchanged glances, never expecting it to be true.
"Are the statements done?"
Yang Pengxing asked his colleague. Seeing that Wan Yunting and the others had finished their statements, he said, "Alright, you can go back now."
Seeing that they could finally return, Huang Jingshan and Zhao Lusi breathed a sigh of relief. Wan Yunting nodded and said, "If you need our cooperation, feel free to call me anytime."
"Okay."
Yang Pengxing smiled and nodded, then sent them away from the police station.
At the door, the fathers of the two boys kept thanking Wan Yunting and the others and wanted to treat them to a late-night snack, but Wan Yunting declined all their invitations. Then they headed back to their hotel. Qi Miaomiao and the others chatted about the night's events all the way, sighing with emotion...
However, the events of this night were unexpected.
It could only be said that in the mysterious workings of fate, Wan Yunting helped the poor woman retrieve her remains to see the light of day.
As for what she experienced and what kind of harm she suffered before her death, that would depend on Yang Pengxing and the others to investigate and apprehend the murderer...