One of the managers stood up and said, "That’s ! I am the manager of the original stone carving site."
"Very well! I want to ask you, was this place ever a cetery? Have any locals buried their family mbers here?" Bai Ye first wanted to confirm the identity of the body.
"No!" the manager said, "I can assure you, if anyone here has a family mber to bury, they would consult a feng shui master beforehand and they wouldn’t just bury them haphazardly. Random burial would prevent the deceased from finding their way ho! They would be led away by other demons and ghosts..."
"That’s good to hear." Bai Ye cut off the manager, these superstitious talks have always existed in the countryside, "Is anyone from around here missing?"
The manager still shook his head: "No one here is missing."
"Very well, thank you for your cooperation. If we need to ask you again later, please cooperate with our police force," Bai Ye said officially.
Qiao Xiaoyan had already ordered the body to be exhud, and as she inspected it, she said, "This might be a female body, about 160 centiters tall, the most distinct feature being her pelvic bone. This is a characteristic of a woman. She must have been very young when she died, not more than 20 years old..."
"Another woman?" Su Tianqing muttered, what on earth is going on with this town? He must keep Song Ziyu under close watch!
Su Tianqing saw Gan Zi deep in thought and silent; he looked at Gan Zi, "Professor Gan, what do you think the psychological profile would look like?"
Song Ziyu gave him a look. As the skeleton was just unearthed, asking Gan Zi now seed like a provocation from Su Tianqing.
"You first!" Song Ziyu snorted.
Su Tianqing shrugged, "I don’t do psychological profiles!"
"Then shut up!" Song Ziyu glared at him irritably.
Gan Zi, faced with Su Tianqing’s provocation, did not respond at all.
It was like ancient armies facing each other; he was always calm and composed, unaffected by his opponent’s challenges, sticking to his own strategic arrangents and not wavering due to provocations!
If one wants to maintain command and control, they must be more patient and enduring than anyone.
At this mont, Gan Zi turned to the manager: "May I ask you a few questions?"
The manager looked at Bai Ye, and Bai Ye nodded, "This is Professor Gan, please speak freely and thoroughly!"
"Please go ahead," the manager promptly said.
The night breeze blew, slightly displacing Gan Zi’s hair to one side, which beca slightly disheveled on his forehead; he was always a ticulous man.
He casually adjusted his hair, his voice deep, "What has this Quarry been used for over the past twenty years?"
"Because it’s surrounded by mountains, this Quarry is barren, only having large rocks, and we all thought the rocks were useless, hardly anyone ever went there," the manager said.
The manager looked into Gan Zi’s eyes, which were profound and demanded a fully convincing and persuasive answer.
Therefore, the manager imdiately added, "Whether other people have been here, I don’t know, but from my father’s generation, none of my family have been!"
The manager, about thirty years old, said he hadn’t been there, and few others had—thus this place was indeed an excellent site for dumping bodies.
Moreover, since the Quarry is usually deserted, even if soone dumped a body here, it wouldn’t be discovered.
If it weren’t for the town needing these unique stones to craft unparalleled artifacts, perhaps this dead woman would never have been discovered.
Song Ziyu looked at the surroundings, "The person who dumped the body here must be very familiar with the local customs and would not likely be soone from another place. Could it be sothing done by soone very familiar with this area?"
"Let’s wait until Xiaoyan conducts the autopsy," Gan Zi said, taking another careful look at the skeleton, feeling even more heavy-hearted.
Bai Ye instructed the people to load the skeletal remains into the vehicle; Qiao Xiaoyan was headed to the city morgue.
Bai Ye continued to investigate here.
Su Tianqing told Song Ziyu to go back and rest, "You’ve been busy all day, go back and rest first!"
Song Ziyu’s mood today was indeed not good; was the murder case of Chen Hui in the small village just concluded like this?
But again, a long-hidden murder case resurfaced at the craft site, what’s going on here?
One event after another made the residents of the whole town unable to feel happy.
Originally, when Song Ziyu brought people and funds to build the town, the whole town was bustling.
But now, the voices of doubt had slowly begun to erge.
After returning ho, Song Ziyu stood in front of the window, looking at this ancient town.
Su Tianqing passed her a cup of milk, Song Ziyu took it in her hand, "Is it warm? You know how to heat milk?"
"What’s so strange about that?" Su Tianqing said, "Coming to this godforsaken town, I’ve learned to do a lot of things! Let tell you, Song Ziyu, feeling lost isn’t your style, the more ancient and impoverished the place, the more serious the superstition. You really don’t need to mind what the villagers discuss!"
Song Ziyu glanced at him, Su Tianqing tall and majestic, always indifferent and arrogant, yet it’s rare for him to speak such words.
"I can’t help worrying about the impact of these two incidents!" Song Ziyu sipped the milk, "It’s precisely because of their ignorance and superstition that it’s necessary to make them understand the importance of scientific developnt."
Shortly, news ca from Qiao Xiaoyan.
Victim: female, ti of death, ten years ago, age at the ti of murder: between 15 and 17 years old, skull fracture was the fatal injury, suspected to be caused by a blunt instrunt, the victim’s facial features can be reconstructed, but it will take a little more ti.
At that mont, Gan Zi handed a portrait of a woman he had drawn to Qiao Xiaoyan, "If there is any similarity, call imdiately!"
Despite her confusion, Qiao Xiaoyan followed through.
As ti continued to pass, and the craft site temporarily ceased operation, which greatly annoyed David, "Why are these people so superstitious? A place where soone has died can’t extract raw stones for handicrafts?"
Su Tianqing looked at him, "Just consider it a few days of rest!"
"Don’t talk nonsense here!" David was irritated upon seeing him.
Su Tianqing was standing under a big tree, the tree branches of spring starting to bud, and tender shoots were sprouting.
David felt even more furious seeing his composed deanor.
Su Tianqing reached out and touched the tender green shoots, looking at David, who had a face full of incomprehension.
"David, business is business, what inappropriate remarks do I have to make?" Su Tianqing’s gaze was stern, "It’s not who will suffer the losses if your products can’t be finished on ti! However, you after all are a foreigner, and no matter how much you understand about our culture in China, it’s rely superficial!"
David was left speechless, feeling a bit humiliated.
Su Tianqing did not spare anyone’s feelings, "But my loss is not important, the key is Ziyu, she is currently shouldering the heaviest burden. The case in the small village weighs on her, and now the Quarry brings up a decade-old female corpse case, villagers are superstitious, rumors are not stopping."
"Alright, I’ll listen to you, let’s take a break first!" David didn’t wish to make it harder for Song Ziyu.
Su Tianqing patted David’s shoulder, "There you go, that’s better!"
David is straightforward, "Aren’t you Ziyu’s ex-husband? Weren’t you supposed to doom Ziyu to an abyss of despair? How co suddenly you are considering what’s best for Ziyu?"
Su Tianqing: "..."
David got one over Su Tianqing, then said, "You n from your country, not that I want to say, if you like soone, just boldly tell them, ’I like you, I want to be with you,’ wouldn’t that suffice? If you can be together, then be together; if not, still stay friends. Why must you use such roundabout thods?"
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