Recap Chinese Drama "Talking Bones 2" Episode 4

May 20, 2022

A bizarre case happened on the red-brick construction site. When Shang Jie arrived, he was stopped by a woman, babbling about the strangeness of the construction site. The local policeman Lin Feitong took Shang Jie to the body and informed him of the clues he had obtained so far. The deceased was named Wang Hai, a 43-year-old male who went out to work with his father. The police received a call from his father half an hour ago. According to Lin Feitong, this murder is already the third case at the construction site. Two people died here two days ago, both by accident, one was electrocuted and the other fell.

After Xia Ying's preliminary examination, the time of death of the deceased was about six to eight hours, that is, more than two o'clock in the morning last night. The deceased suffered numerous blunt force injuries to the head and ruptured skulls, but none were fatal. The cause of his death was excessive blood loss. Li Xuekai found a dull kitchen knife at the scene and brought it back to the bureau for further testing.

According to Lin Feitong, this is a construction site that has just been approved this year. The people who contracted the project were all from the same village, so they were all familiar with each other. The work area is very large, but there are few workers and few people move around. And everyone was resting at the time of the incident, and they had never heard of Wang Hai having a grudge with anyone. Wang Hai's main source of income is to earn money by working here. And his father went outside to buy goods two days ago. He didn't come back until seven or eight this morning. When he found that there was no one at home, he came out to look for it. When found, the person was already dead. Wang Hai's workers said that Wang Hai didn't go to work at noon yesterday, and he didn't see him go out after noon, and he didn't see anyone else. However, some workers who woke up in the middle of the night said that there was a sound of cutting things at 2:00 in the morning, but they didn't pay much attention at that time.

Only Wang Hai's fingerprints were detected on the handle of the kitchen knife. The footprints on the bloodstain were also Wang Hai's own, as well as his father Wang Jianxin's. The blood on the wall and at home all came from Wang Hai. After further testing, Xia Ying said that Wang Hai's head and face had been hit repeatedly, and the slashes left on the surface of the skull tissue matched the edge of the kitchen knife left at the scene. But the strange thing is that Wang Hai does not have any resistance wounds, nor other people's DNA, and there is no trace of binding on his body. According to the clues currently available, Xia Ying believes that Wang Hai is very likely to suffer from mental illness and self-harm.

Wang Jianxin said frankly that Wang Hai does suffer from bipolar disorder. He fell ill three years ago and took medicine. Xia Ying investigated the clues and found that Wang Hai had not taken related drugs for a long time. One wave after another, the clues to Wang Hai's case have not yet been found out, and there is another police report from the construction site. The dead were a couple, the man was Liu Datian, 45 years old; the woman was Xie Ping, 43 years old. They also have a daughter, Liu Xiaohui, who has been taken to the hospital.

According to an aunt at the construction site, everyone was working normally that day, but Liu Xiaohui suddenly rushed out of the building and ignored her when she talked. Everyone kindly sent her home, and then found that Xie Ping and his wife died at home. According to forensic tests, it was initially believed that Xie Ping and his wife died from toadstools, a poisonous mushroom. After integrating the clues currently available, the more Xia Ying thought about it, the more wrong it became, so she hurriedly applied for a second autopsy on Wang Hai. The result was as Xia Ying expected, Wang Hai's blood also found the ingredients of toadstools. As for the two accidental deaths before the construction site, the deceased were Qin Liang and Zhao Fan. They also had symptoms of madness and hallucinations before they died.

The police found that the deceased were in contact with Zhang Jin and Zhou Rui, but they did not find any traces of toadstools in their homes, and they all had alibi. From the wives of Qin Liang and Zhao Fan, the police found a new clue - He Juan, who was cooking in the canteen of the construction site, but she suddenly disappeared. It is gratifying that the case has finally progressed. Colleagues from the technical department found the ingredients of toadstools in He Juan's blender. But with further investigation, the police unexpectedly discovered that He Juan was not her real name, but Xie Yuanyuan. Xie Yuanyuan lost both her parents when she was a child, and it was her aunt Xie Ping who raised her. In 2006 her aunt called the police that she was missing, and in 2007 she was dealt with for theft.