Chapter 334

Song Song Jinyou suddenly realized that he had encountered a good opportunity.

Jiang Yuan's strength is beyond doubt; from the fact that he has his own team and that young people from the Changyang City Criminal Police Detachment are willing to join, one can see a glimpse of it.

How difficult is it to pass the civil service exam in Changyang City? Since they passed the exam and are still willing to take the initiative to follow Jiang Yuan to Ningtai County, when this trust is based on ability, how strong must this ability be?

Song Song Jinyou originally hadn't thought about being able to use Jiang Yuan's strength. Song Song Jinyou had also heard about how high the price was when Jiang Yuan sold his services to Changyang City.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Yuan is now taking the initiative to propose doing a case; roughly speaking, this is equivalent to using a wishing bottle for free once.

Why be polite? A case flashed through Song Song Jinyou's mind first, and he said: "In terms of complex and bizarre cases, our township really has one. Do you want to do a poisoning case?"

Judging from Song Song Jinyou's expectations, he was more like inviting someone to do a poisoning case together.

Jiang Yuan nodded and said: "Let's take a look."

A police station won't have homicide cases; theoretically, larger cases will all be handed over to the criminal police team to handle. Therefore, the police station mostly handles fights, petty theft, and similar cases. Of course, the cases in township police stations are more complex, especially when the criminal police team is busy, some cases are handled by the police station itself.

Song Song Jinyou coughed twice and said: "This case is a case in Lanzhu Village, and it hasn't been filed yet."

Having reports but no case filing is a pain point in the current police-civilian relationship. The police have their pain points, and the public has their pain points.

Organs at all levels have actually set up multiple auxiliary means for this problem. Usually, when ordinary people report a case, if they encounter a situation where the police do not file a case, the simplest way is to request the police officer involved to issue a notice of non-filing.

In the situation of making this request and persisting, the police officer involved will usually reconsider the issue of whether to file the case and give a solemn reply.

If it's in a big city, unless encountering situations where filing is prohibited by regulations, such as certain civil disputes, one can usually get a relatively ideal reply.

Lanzhu Village, mentioned by Song Song Jinyou, obviously doesn't know much about these techniques.

Jiang Yuan was instead a bit curious and said: "Without filing a case, you still keep this case in your heart?"

No need to be self-deprecating; Jiang Yuan, a criminal police officer who has worked on more than a dozen cold homicide cases, is considered first-class nationwide, and his reputation has gradually risen within Shannan Province. Song Song Jinyou handed him this case at the first opportunity, yet it hadn't been filed, so there were obviously some special circumstances.

Song Song Jinyou sighed and said: "This poisoning case in Lanzhu Village is a bit special; it can even be called bizarre. The first report was last year, saying that the livestock in their village, including chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle, and sheep, had been dying frequently in recent years. The time they reported it this time was because the fish in the pond died, worth about ten thousand yuan, so they came to report it."

"In other words, the poisoning has been going on for several years?" Jiang Yuan said.

"It should be. The problem is, we haven't verified this poisoning yet." Song Song Jinyou said helplessly: "Lanzhu Village is the most remote and distant village in our township, deep in the mountains. The road is not good, and it used to take more than ten hours to go there once. They actually weren't willing to come out to report it either. It was only in the last two years, when the road was repaired a bit better, that more people from their village went out to work, and they had the consciousness of being poisoned."

Jiang Yuan nodded.

"They reported it at the time, and we also called the township agricultural technology station to go and look together, but too much time had passed. They only came out on the third day after the fish died, and reported it on the fourth day. By the time we went over, a week had passed, and no poison was detected in the water brought back, so this matter just passed."

Song Song Jinyou scratched his head as he spoke, and added: "A few months later, two pigs died in their village. We went quickly this time, but it was the same; no poison was detected. Then it was this year, and a donkey died. We arrived on the third day this time, but it was the same; no poison was detected."

"This is not to mention that in a year or two, it happened three times, and there were other situations of chickens, ducks, and geese dying, but no one reported it."

"There is another problem. Part of the villagers in Lanzhu Village don't support our investigation work too much. They feel it's evil spirits, or that they offended the mountain god, or something. In short, they are more willing to jump around and perform rituals to solve the problem. If it weren't for a few young people from the village who went out, they might not even be willing to report the case."

【Continuation of 334-25】

Tang Jia, listening to Song Song Jinyou's story, had a greatly changed impression of Song Song Jinyou and couldn't help but say: "Director Song, you have been keeping them in mind? This kind of case is indeed very troublesome if the victims don't want to solve the case..."

"Not all victims are unwilling to report the case." Song Song Jinyou said a bit embarrassedly: "This year, it was the family whose pigs died. Although no more large livestock died in their family, chickens, ducks, and geese still died. The son of this family ran to our station to find me several times. I also went to Lanzhu Village twice, but to be honest, I really have no clue about this case."

Poisoning cases are very difficult to solve, especially non-targeted poisoning cases. In an urban environment, it basically relies on surveillance.

Occasionally, one can solve the case through the source of the poison, but the difficulty of this method is actually very high, requiring very accurate identification of the poison, which basically can only be done by a provincial-level laboratory.

And in the countryside, both of these means are very limited.

No need to mention surveillance; there is basically none in the countryside, and if there is, it definitely can't be used. As for relying on the source of the poison, unless it is a very special poison, otherwise, the pesticides and insecticides in the countryside are themselves excellent sources of poison, and they are often of similar types and batches, so there is nowhere to check.

However, Jiang Yuan doesn't rely much on surveillance and physics/chemistry to solve cases anyway, so he asked Song Song Jinyou directly: "What evidence does Director Song currently have?"

"For the three times the fish, pigs, and donkey died in the pond, we took photos. I have already asked someone to go and get them. In addition, we also recorded some statements. I think this case must be committed by someone in the village, but there are hundreds of people in the whole village..." Song Song Jinyou shook his head.

"Is this village so far away, and are there still hundreds of people now?"

"Locally, they rely on the mountains to eat from the mountains, and the income is actually quite good. More than half of the people run back and forth between the village and the outside. When it's the season to get things from the mountains, they come back to do some work, dig bamboo shoots, catch bamboo rats, pick mushrooms, and dig medicinal herbs. They also plant medicinal herbs in the village. And there's this pig and chicken raising... Raising things hasn't been good in the last two years..." Song Song Jinyou seemed to have truly studied this case, and he spoke quite logically.

"How did you consider it before?" Jiang Yuan continued to ask; he had to know which roads were dead ends walked by predecessors.

Song Song Jinyou opened up and didn't avoid it, saying: "I initially made a table for the case, thinking about whether to find clues from the time of absence, because the locals go out to work at roughly fixed times, and the time they return also has a rhythm. As a result, there were no discoveries..."

"In terms of victims, they are also spread throughout the village. I wanted to find the common points of the victims, but didn't find any."

"The main thing is this poison. Originally, my idea was to wait for a period of time to see if there would be a breakthrough when the next case came out. But the donkey death case last time didn't find an opportunity either."

Just as he was speaking, the photos were brought over, and Jiang Yuan began to look at them one by one.

Judging from the photos alone, Song Song Jinyou was indeed diligent. Thinking about it, he must have thought about it seriously to propose this case at the first opportunity.

But it could also be seen from the photos that Song Song Jinyou's ability to solve cases was really not strong. He just took as many photos as possible.

Thus, the photos contained not only the carcasses of dead fish and pigs, but also photos of the crime scene, as well as photos of the onlookers.