Chapter 636 - 580 Tanhou Village
"Someone go to their... what’s it, Tanhou Village, right? See if there’s a lion statue like the one in front of the Jin Family’s house, and take a photo to bring back," Jiang Yuan looked at the footprints in the photo and could feel an air of relaxed ease.
He casually flipped through the photos from the scene, and although it was just a minor case picked up by the local station, now that digital photos didn’t cost a thing, many of the cops had girlfriends, and the sheer volume of snapshots taken was not inconsiderable, the quality was also quite passable.
Jiang Yuan wasn’t concerned about the conditions in the room or the courtyard, the scene was merely the area in front of the door. With his eyes closed, he tried to reconstruct the scene... He could almost see a Wuling Hongguang van passing the vermilion gate, then suddenly stopping, a passenger getting off with a chuckle and brazenly pointing at the stone lion, saying something or other.
Next, the passenger shouted for the others to get out, they might even have taken photos with the lion, with someone’s foot even propped against the white wall, leaving a conspicuous checkmark behind––Nike could be considered the beginner’s tutor for every trace evidence technician when it came to footprint identification.
After that came the much-anticipated transport part. Someone cleared out the back of the van, leaving behind a pile of trash composed of plastic bags and beer bottles––what are now called evidence.
Chatting away, probably not bothering to keep it down, they just casually carted off the stone lion. Because of its weight, two people’s feet sank into the makeshift flowerbed by the wall, leaving deep imprints.
If they were a group of young rock singers, and this had been a scene in a movie, it might have been quite a funny sight. Imagining the four of them, years later, reminiscing about today’s events, they might find it rather amusing, orange-red hues coloring their memories if there were perhaps first loves or secret lovers involved.
Unfortunately, they were just four shameless bumpkins from the countryside. Ugly ones at that.
After waiting for twenty or thirty minutes, several photos from Tanhou Village finally made their way to Wang Chuanxing’s hands.
"Huh, they put the stone lion in front of a small restaurant." Wang Chuanxing displayed the photos on the large screen with some surprise.