In the next few days, the neighbor didn’t see the deceased show up or go out again. Because he was a little worried, he went to the courtyard door and shouted twice, and found that the big lock outside the courtyard was locked.

When he shouted, several long-tongued villagers in the village heard him, and they looked teasing: “Hey, why are you calling her? You two are quite familiar with each other.”

To avoid suspicion, the neighbor did not ask any more questions.

After the police found the door of the deceased’s house, they broke the lock from the outside and went in. They found that there was a faint smell of detergent in the yard.

After a trace inspection, the police discovered some traces of dried blood remaining in the gaps between the floor tiles.

From then on, they were able to confirm that Liu Mouxin had been killed.

According to the testimony provided by the neighbor, the police once again went to the house of the gangster who had sneakily run out of the deceased’s yard, only to learn that the other person had already run away.

During the arrest process, they contacted the husband of the deceased who was still working at a construction site in the city, informed him of the incident, and continued to ask the salvage fleet on the lake to help recover Liu Mouxin’s body.

According to word of mouth from neighbors in the village, they had seen the escaped bastard following the deceased many times. He was very attentive, and the gossip had long spread throughout the village.

Many people felt that the deceased had an affair with this gangster, and after the case happened, they spoke with certainty, as if they had seen it with their own eyes.

Three days later, the police caught the escaped Gangster Zhao in Lin City. He had been hiding in an Internet café to try to evade search.

After being caught, Gangster Zhao confessed to what he had done and admitted that he had killed the deceased Liu Mouxin.

Gangster Zhao, with messy hair and a disheveled face, said: “I am in a relationship with that woman. Her husband stays away from home every day. When he drinks, he has a temper like a dog and beats her. Just go to the village and ask. No one likes to associate with her family! Although I, Old Zhao, have no money and no job, I am good-looking and can coax people. The widows and wives from all over the country say that I am a sharp-tongued person, but one way or another, we get close to each other over time.”

The police asked: “Then why did you kill her?”

Gangster Zhao said: “She keeps asking me for money, asking me to buy her gifts and jewelry. I am not bad at gambling, but the money I earn from playing mahjong is all used to buy her fucking things. But she is still not satisfied and wants to drive to death!”

“She said she couldn’t stand her bad-tempered husband anymore, and she didn’t want to stay alone in an empty house and be a widow anymore. She insisted on exposing our affairs and wanted to divorce her man. Officers, do you think I can agree to this? Won’t her man beat me to death if he finds out?”

The Police asked: “Then what happened next?”

Gangster Zhao said with a grimace: “Then I realized that this bitch had been plotting against me! She secretly made a recording of us doing that thing and kept the evidence. She said that if I didn’t give her money and help her get a divorce, she would use the recording to sue me for forcing her!”

“Police officer, you know, we were really in love with each other in the beginning. If she hadn’t been lonely and insisted on hooking up with me and forcing me to death, I wouldn’t have lost my mind and gotten angry…’

Finally, Gangster Zhao admitted that when he met with Liu Mouxin that night, he was once again threatened by the other party with this matter.

He had drunk some wine at the time and was so angry that he hit the other party on the head with something and accidentally killed the other party.

To escape the sanctions of the law, he thought that there was a “Goddess Lake” nearby. The center of the lake was very deep, and he could dump the corpses there and destroy the traces of the corpses.

After Gangster Zhao cleaned up the bloodstains in Liu Mouxin’s home, he took away the other party’s body in the early morning.

Because Gangster Zhao’s family was originally a fisherman, his parents left him a boat. His only stable income now was renting out the boat, so he also had the key to the boat.

He found two large rocks in a nearby pile of rocks, tied them tightly to the body of the deceased with a rope, drove the boat to the middle of the lake, and pushed them down together with the body and the rocks.

Pulled by the boulders, Liu Mouxin’s body finally sank into the water and to the bottom of the lake.

This was also the reason why her body hadn’t been recovered by the salvage fleet so far.

The police asked him to identify the location where the body was dumped and the approximate size of the stone, and finally determined that the place where the body was dumped was in the deep water area near the lake. Gangster Zhao used two stones weighing more than two or three kilograms to tie Liu Mouxin’s body!

The police indeed recovered Liu Mouxin’s blood stains and hair and also found some gold and silver jewelry in Liu Mouxin’s home.

According to Liu Mouxin’s husband, he did not buy this jewelry.

In addition, the police also saw some candid videos on Gangster Zhao’s mobile phone. The footage showed that the person who started and ended the filming was indeed the deceased herself.

Gangster Zhao said that the video was sent to him by the deceased as a threat.

The deceased’s mobile phone was also thrown into the bottom of the lake when he dumped the body.

At this stage of the murder case, the final step of recovering the body was just short of the last step. Because of the suspicion of rape, murder, corpse dumping, and other bloody factors, it spread widely in Xinquan Village and became the villagers’ after-dinner chat.

Many villagers said that although Liu Mouxin’s man was indeed a bit withdrawn and fierce, at least he was still making money to support his family. It was wrong for Liu Mouxin to cheat with others.

She had only herself to blame for her death.

At the same time, the water quality of the “Goddess Lake” was getting worse and worse, and the fish and shrimp caught were extremely smelly and could not be sold.

The anxious fishermen had no choice but to invite a prestigious spiritual medium from a nearby village, hoping that he could solve the problem.

As soon as the medium arrived at the lake, he bluntly said that the cause of these problems was the body of Liu Mouxin that sank to the bottom of the lake!

The spiritual medium said: “This woman was murdered and had a lot of grievances to begin with. The body was thrown into the lake, and she endured the pain of suffocation and watering and fish and crabs eating her heart day and night. The grievances turn her into a fierce ghost!”

“The fish and shrimps in the lake became like this because they ate her rotten flesh filled with resentment.”

“Her body must be brought up as soon as possible, otherwise there is nothing I can do.”

Now the nearby villagers and people complained even more. Privately, they felt that Liu Mouxin had gone too far. She died in disgrace and the people in the city were in trouble.

The police were also discussing with the members of the salvage fleet, hoping that members who were familiar with water could bring diving equipment into the water to retrieve the body.

But the people on the team were also afraid.

It was said that Liu Mouxin had turned into a fierce ghost, and she was very resentful. If something happens under such deep water, even heaven can’t save them!

When the stalemate continued, a traveling mystic master passed by and heard about Liu Mouxin’s case.

As soon as he came, he said that he could solve the matter, but all arrangements must be made according to his wishes.

Master Yunyou held a ritual ceremony in the lake. After some operations, Liu Mouxin’s body floated up. The body was swollen, rotten, and smelly.

The gaping hole at the back of the head had been eaten away by fish and shrimp, and most of the face was strangely pale and purple. A rope was tied to the waist and abdomen, and a boulder was hanging down from it, leaving deep marks on the flesh and blood around the body.

After it was salvaged, Master Yunyou said that the body’s anger and resentment were too deep to be suppressed by ordinary burial.

Its corpse energy and resentment will spread along the land and affect the environment of the entire city, just like it spreads in the lake. A “soul-suppressing nail” must be put into the corpse and a talisman on the coffin within three days.

Hearing what he said, the villagers panicked, and Liu Mouxin’s husband also agreed.

In the end, Master Yunyou did this for three consecutive days before Liu Mouxin’s body was placed in the coffin and buried.

The master said that the resentment in the corpse had spread into the water and must be purified, so he asked people to transplant soil around the lake pavilion and arrange many plants like duckweed, lotus flowers, etc.

According to Master Yunyou, this was because the stems of these plants were hollow and can absorb the resentment in the lake.

Sure enough, not long after the plants were planted, the odor in the lake gradually disappeared, and the fish and shrimp caught no longer smelled so bad.

Everything returned to normal and the incident was gradually forgotten.

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